Books

In addition to editing and co-editing numerous journal issues and books, President Roth has authored seven scholarly books:

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    The Student: A Short History

    Yale University Press, 2023

    President Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students in , exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present.

    The Student: A Short History was published September 12, 2023.

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    Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses

    Yale University Press, 2019

    President Michael S. Roth's seventh book,   addresses some of the most contentious issues in American higher education, including affirmative action, safe spaces, and questions of free speech.

    Read more information and media coverage about Safe Enough Spaces.

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    Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters

    Yale University Press, 2014

    In January 2016, President Michael S. Roth's sixth book, , won the Association of American Colleges & Universities' Frederick W. Ness award for a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education.

    Read more information and media coverage about Beyond the University.

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    Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past

    Columbia University Press, 2011

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    Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed, with Clare Lyons and Charles Merewether

    Getty Research Institute, 1997

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    The Ironist鈥檚 Cage: Trauma, Memory and the Construction of History

    Columbia University Press, 1995

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    Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth Century France

    NCROL, 1988

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    Psycho-Analysis as History: Negation and Freedom in Freud

    Cornell University Press, 1987, 1995

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