December 4, 2025 — The Clements Department of History is pleased to share the most recent publications of its faculty and graduate students. Over the course of the 2025 year we published the following:
Books and Edited Books and Journals Issues
- Kate Carté, ed., Revolutionary Turns: Religion and America’s Founding Era (University of Virginia Press: forthcoming 2026).
- Andrew Graybill, The Indian Wars of America: A Very Short Introduction, co-authored with Ari Kelman (Oxford University Press, under contract)
- Andrew Graybill, Jeffrey Engel and Cecily Zander, eds., Executive Power on the American Frontier (University of North Carolina Press, under contract)
- Andrew Graybill, The Longhorn: A Photographic Journey from Spain to the Plains, co-authored with Joel Salcido (University of Texas Press, under contract)
- Carina Johnson, Macabe Keliher, and Kaya Sahin, guest eds., “Political Ceremonies and Rituals in the Early Modern World,” Journal of Early Modern History, 29.1-2 (March 2025).
- Alexis McCrossen, American Life During the Industrial Age: A Social and Cultural History in Essays and Documents (Routledge, 2025).
- Pablo Mijangos, selection of texts and introduction of Andrés Lira, Derecho e instituciones en la historia de México (México: Tirant lo Blanch, 2025).
Articles, Book Chapters, and Book Contributions
UNITED STATES
- Kate Carté, “Religion and the American Revolution: A Historiographical Reassessment” in Carté, ed., Revolutionary Turns: Religion and America’s Founding Era (forthcoming Fall 2026, University of Virginia Press).
- Kate Carté, “National Wars: Public Religion in the First Years of the Revolution,” selection from Religion and the American Revolution: An Imperial History, included in Omohundro Institute/University of North Carolina Press volume commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, forthcoming Feb 2026
- Kate Carté, “The American Revolution and Churches,” in Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, et al., eds, Révolution américaine et naissance des États-Unis, 1763-1800 (Paris: Armand Colin, 2026).
- Kate Carté, “The Presence and Absence of Religion in National Unity,” in Frank Cogliano, ed., Revolution at 250, University of Virginia Press, forthcoming Spring 2026.
- Andrew Graybill, “Sandoz, Webb, and the Environment as Actor in Slogum House,” in Renee M. Laegreid, ed., Dark Sides of the Sandhills: Confronting Fascism in Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming).
- Ariel Ron and Sofia Valeonti, “Central Monetary Services Without Centralization: Stephen Colwell and the Political Economy of Nineteenth-Century US Monetary Architecture,” History of Political Economy 57 (August 2025): 571–605.
- Ariel Ron, “Structure and Contingency in Richard Bensel’s Sectional Materialism,” Reviews in American History 53 (December 2025).
- Ariel Ron, “Looking Backward: Introduction to a Forum on The Political Economy of American Industrialization,” Reviews in American History 53 (December 2025).
- Jordan Villegas-Verrone, “‘For the Girls’: Organizing Mexican American Girlhood in Depression-era Texas,” The Journal of American History 111, no. 4 (March 2025): 663-685.
- Jordan Villegas-Verrone, “The Long-Haired Gang Murder Trial: Mexican American Gender Deviance and WWII Youth Gang Panic in Houston, Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 128, no. 4 (April 2025): 362-385.
EUROPE
- Bianca Lopez, “Devotion to the Virgin Mary, 1300-1550,” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World. Edited by Kristen Poole and Suzanne Sutherland (15 April 2025)
- Bianca Lopez, “Migrant Charity, Collective Life, and the Poor in the March of Ancona, 1400-1460,” in “Communities in Solidarity: Social Welfare, Charity, and Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern Southern Europe,” ed. Sama Mammadova, special issue, Cromohs no. 28 (forthcoming, 2025).
- Kathleen Wellman, “Medicine: physicians use their history to promote enlightenment.” In Cultural transmission and the French Enlightenment: Repurposing the Past. Edited by Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee, 67-88. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Studies in the Enlightenment Series, 2025.
- Kathleen Wellman, “Teaching about France: From Fundamentalism to Christian Nationalism.” Contemporary French Culture, forthcoming, 2026.
AFRICA/ASIA/LATIN AMERICA
- Sabri Ates, “The Transformation of the Ottoman–Iranian Frontiers,” in The Idea of Iran: Qajar Iran on the Cusp of Modernity (London: Bloomsbury Publishers, forthcoming, 2026).
- Macabe Keliher, Dictionnaire de la Chine impériale tardive, François Gipouloux, ed. (forthcoming 2026), “Hong Taiji,” “Huidian,” “Imperial Relatives,” “Imperial Dress,” “Li,” “State Ritual.”
- Macabe Keliher, “A Visit to Taiwan, 1697,” in Environmental History of China, edited by Brian Lander and Peter Lavelle (Columbia University Press: forthcoming 2026).
- Macabe Keliher, “Taiwan on the Chinese Map: The Origins of Taiwan and the Global Construction of Geographical Knowledge in Nationalist Historiography, 1874-1920.” Journal of Chinese History (forthcoming 2026).
- Macabe Keliher, “Administrative Involution and the Fate of Premodern Empires: Bureaucracy, Paperwork, and Rebellion in Late Imperial China.” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (forthcoming 2026).
- Macabe Keliher, “Law, Ritual, and the Meanings of Li,” in Weiting Guo and Thomas Buoye eds., Routledge Companion to Chinese Legal History (Routledge: forthcoming 2026).
- Macabe Keliher, “Taiwan Machinery Manufacturing Corporation and the Role of State Firms in Economic Development,” Enterprise & Society 26.2 (June 2025): 735-767.
- Macabe Keliher, “Legitimate Domination in the Early Modern World: Temple, Ritual, and Symbolic Power in Late Imperial China,” Journal of Early Modern History, 29.1-2 (March 2025): 136-155.
- Jill Kelly, “Les récits de la terre spoliée : Quand la mémoire des conflits locaux façonne la fin de l’apartheid,” 20&21e siècle: Revue d’Histoire. Special Issue on Transitions (April-June 2025): 119-132.
- Faeeza Ballim and Jill Kelly. “Compromise, Conflict, and Promise in the Making of a Democratic South Africa. In Daniel Magaziner (ed). Oxford Handbook of South African History (online 2025, print 2026).
- Pablo Mijangos, “The Spanish American Concordats (1821-1875),” in Alejandro Chehtman, Alexandra Huneeus, and Sergio Puig, eds., Latin American International Law in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2025), 3-19.
Essays and Commentaries
- Jeffrey A. Engel, “Dick Cheney, Architect of the War on Terrorism, Dies,” Foreign Policy, Nov 4, 2025.
- Jeffrey A. Engel, “I May Be the Last American Fulbright Scholar in Vienna,” The Dallas Morning News, July 19, 2025.
- Andrew Graybill, “The Story of Texas in More Than 100 Maps,” review of State of Texas, Texas Takes Shape: A History in Maps from the General Land Office (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2025), Texas Monthly online, August 2025.
- Andrew Graybill, “The Jews of Galveston,” review of Rachel Cockerell, Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land (New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2025.
- Andrew Graybill, “For Chinese-Americans, a Hard Road to a New Home,” review of Michael Luo, Strangers inthe Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America (New York: Doubleday, 2025), Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2025.
- Andrew Graybill, “‘Harrowing’ Doesn’t Begin to Describe This Teenage Immigrant’s Memoir,” review of D. Esperanza, Detained: A Boy’s Journal of Survival and Resistance (New York: Atria Books, 2025), Texas Monthly online, May 2025.
- Andrew Graybill, “El Paso Is a Singular City. But It Didn’t Change the World,” review of Richard Parker, The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story (New York: Mariner, 2025), Texas Monthly, vol. 53, no. 3, 67-70
- Macabe Keliher, “Tariffs aren’t enough: America needs a semiconductor revolution,” The Hill, April 7, 2025.
- Macabe Keliher, “Tariffs won’t bring back American manufacturing,” The Hill, February 7, 2025.
- Ariel Ron, “It’s Costly to Stifle Learning,” Letters to the Editor, Dallas Morning News, November 12, 2025.
- Ariel Ron, “How Eli Whitney Single-Handedly Started the Civil War . . . and Why That’s Not True,” Commonplace, 2025.
Graduate Student Publications
- James R. Gulley, Sr., “Greenfield Farm.” In Mississippi Encyclopedia. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, October 29, 2024.
- James R. Gulley, Sr., “Greenfield Farm: Faulkner, Mules, and Time.” Journal of Mississippi History LXXXVII, nos. 1 and 2, Spring/Summer (2025): 25–50.
- Christopher Walton, “Hartford South Association records, 1743-1822.” NEHH@20 Online Exhibit. Congregational Library and Archives. October 29, 2025.
