The reign of Shah Jahan (1628–58) is widely regarded as the golden age of the Mughal empire, yet it is one of the least studied periods of Mughal history. In this volume, edited by Ebba Koch in collaboration with UC Davis history professor Ali Anooshahr, 14 eminent scholars present for the first time a multidisciplinary analysis of Shah Jahan and his predecessor Jahangir.

Deep Creek is English professor Pam Houston's collection of essays about living and learning on the Colorado ranch she purchased in 1993. There she learns to care for the land and the creatures living on it and discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her. Deep Creek won the 2019 Colorado Book Award, the High Plains Book Award and the Reading The West Advocacy Award.

Digital Uncanny by Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, professor of cinema and digital media, looks at a new kind of uncanny experience — how surveillance technologies, algorithms, feedback and data flows anticipate human gestures, emotions, actions and interactions. Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a film and media scholar whose work focuses on representations and theorizations of violence in film, media, and social media.

Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire by Jeffrey Kahn, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, offers a new interpretation of the transformation of U.S. borders during the late 20th century and its implications for our understanding of the nation-state as a legal and political form.

Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design by Department of Design Professor Christina Cogdell is the first book to make a critical study of the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus with computation, biology, and complexity. She evaluates its scientific rhetoric and disjunction from actual scientific theory and practice.

In Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River history professor Sudipta Sen tells the sweeping history of the world’s third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora. His research area focuses on Late Mughal and British India, British Empire; Environment and Ecology.

In Respawn, ​​​Colin Milburn, Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities, examines the connections between video games, hacking, and science fiction that galvanize technological activism and technological communities. Colin Milburn's research focuses on the relations of literature, science, and technology.

Winter War by Eric Rauchway, Professor of History, shows how Franklin Roosevelt laid out plans for the New Deal in the months before his inauguration and President Herbert Hoover became a critic of the policy — a battle over ideas that shaped the divisive politics of the 20th century.

In Upstream: Trust Land and Power on the Feather River (University of Arizona Press, September 2018) Beth Rose Middleton Manning, associate professor of Native American Studies, examines how native land allotments in California were taken over for various hydroelectric power projects with a focus on the Feather River and Native American resistance to such projects.

In her second poetry collection, For Hunger associate professor of English Margaret Ronda offers a fierce look at the interiors of motherhood, examining what it means to become a mother and lose a mother. Margaret Ronda joined the UC-Davis faculty in 2014 after teaching in the Department of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She specializes in American poetry from the nineteenth century to the present.