Liberal Arts In Print - Spring 2026
If Colors Could Be Heard: Narratives about Racial Identity in Music Education
Co-edited by Christopher Cayari, Associate Professor of Music (Intellect Books)
A collection of firsthand accounts by music educators, artists, and students from the Global Majority that explores how race and ethnicity impact music as a cultural practice. Authors often marginalized in academia take an autoethnographic approach in recalling their lived experiences, revealing patterns in the way music is learned, made, and taught through a lens of identity and belonging.
Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience
Co-edited by Tom Robson, Assistant Teaching Professor in the Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program (Palgrave Macmillian)
“Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience” (2nd ed.) refocuses the park experience around its most important asset: the tourist. Using performance theory, this collection of essays argues that the agency tourists have to shape their own experiences is far greater than scholars typically acknowledge.
Purdue’s Female Founders: The Untold History of Trailblazing Women Faculty
Edited by Jennifer L. Bay, Professor of English (Purdue University Press)
“Purdue’s Female Founders: The Untold History of Trailblazing Women Faculty,” chronicles and celebrates the fortitude and achievements of the foremothers of Purdue University. It is a collection of profiles of women faculty who, despite profound roadblocks because of their gender, shaped the institution from its beginning in the late 1800s through the latter half of the twentieth century.
Somebody Should Do Something
Co-authored by Daniel Kelly, Professor of Philosophy (The MIT Press)
“Somebody Should Do Something” shows how individual choices meaningfully connect to larger societal structures like laws, the economy, cultural norms, and historical patterns. The book offers a fresh framework for understanding how social change occurs and argues that everyday decisions are among the most powerful drivers of collective transformation.