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Barbara S. Isgur Endowment Fund in Public Affairs

Established in 2006 by the late community volunteer and philanthropist Barbara S. Isgur, this Endowment Fund supports books that explore civic life in all its complexity.

34 Results

Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation

by Abigail Leslie Andrews (Author)
Jul 2024
Open Access
Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order

by Alexander K. Davis (Author)
Jan 2020
Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice

by Victoria Sanford (Author)
May 2023
Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade

by Sara Matthiesen (Author)
Oct 2021
Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States

by Chiara Galli (Author)
Feb 2023
Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times

by Jessica Halliday Hardie (Author)
Sep 2022
Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice

by Ruben J. Garcia (Author)
Jul 2024
Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World

by Gautam Mukunda (Author)
Oct 2022
Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond

by Ana Muñiz (Author)
Jun 2022
Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

by Stuart Schrader (Author)
Oct 2019
American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics

by Martin Halliwell (Author)
May 2021
Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System

by James M. Binnall (Author)
Feb 2021
We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America

by Blair Sackett (Author), Annette Lareau (Author)
Aug 2023
Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays

by Alaina Lemon (Author)
Nov 2017
Hurt: Chronicles of the Drug War Generation

by Miriam Boeri (Author)
Nov 2017
Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

by Kimberly Sue (Author)
Sep 2019
The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City

by Ranita Ray (Author)
Oct 2017
The Public Insult Playbook: How Abusers in Power Undermine Civil Rights Reform

by Ruth Colker (Author)
Oct 2021
Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class

by Noelle Stout (Author)
Jun 2019
Opting Back In: What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work

by Pamela Stone (Author), Meg Lovejoy (Author)
Feb 2021

Barbara S. Isgur Endowment Fund in Public Affairs

Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation

Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order

Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice

Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade

Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States

Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times

Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice

Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World

Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics

Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in Our Jury System

We Thought It Would Be Heaven: Refugees in an Unequal America

Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays

Hurt: Chronicles of the Drug War Generation

Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis

The Making of a Teenage Service Class: Poverty and Mobility in an American City

The Public Insult Playbook: How Abusers in Power Undermine Civil Rights Reform

Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class

Opting Back In: What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work