• Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots: The Social History of a Community of Handicraft Papermakers in Rural Sichuan, 1920–2000. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

• Editor. How China Works: Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Industrial Workplace. Routledge 2006.

• Coedited with Peter Ho and Eduard Vermeer. Rural Development in Transitional China. Frank Cass 2004.

• "Women's Work and the Politics of Homespun in Socialist China, 1948–1980." International Review of Social History 55, no. 4 (December 2012): 1–27.

• "Technology as Source and Stream: Trade Gods, Ancestors, and the Transmission of Knowledge among Papermakers in Jiajiang, Sichuan." The Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology 1 (2011).

• "Craft Knowledge at the Interface of Written and Oral Cultures." East Asian Science and Technology Studies 4, no. 2 (2010): 185–205.

• "De-Industrialization in the Chinese Countryside: Handicrafts and Development in Jiajiang (Sichuan), 1935–1978." China Quarterly 173 (March 2003).

• "How Not to Industrialize: Observations from a Village in Sichuan." The Journal of Peasant Studies 30, no. 3–4 (April/July 2003): 75–92.

• Delivers talk on "Papermaking and the Politics of Skill in Modern China" at the John Carter Brown Library [video, 71 minutes]

• The Origins of the Korean War, 2 vols. Princton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981, 1990.
• War and Television. London and New York: Verso, 1993.
• Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History. New York: Norton, 1997.
• Parallax Visions: Making Sense of American–East Asian Relations. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, paperback 2002.
• North Korea: Another Country. New York: New Press, 2004.
• Coauthor with Ervand Abrahamian and Moshe Ma'oz. Inventing the Axis of Evil. New York: New Press, 2005.

• "The Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Policy." Modern China (October 1979): 411–461.
• "Chinatown: Foreign Policy and Elite Realignment." In The Hidden Election, edited by Thomas Ferguson and Joel Rogers, 196–231. Pantheon Books, 1981.
• "Corporatism in North Korea." Journal of Korean Studies 4 (1983): 1–32.
• "The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asian Political Economy: Industrial Sectors, Product Cycles, and Political Consequences." International Organization (Winter 1984): 1–40.
• "Power and Plenty in Northeast Asia." World Policy Journal (Winter l987-88): 79–106.
• "The Abortive Abertura: Korean Democratization in the Light of the Latin American Experience." New Left Review 174 (March-April 1989).
• "Illusion, Critique, Responsibility: The Revolution of '89 in West and East." In The Revolution of '89, edited by Daniel Chirot. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.
• "The Seventy Years' Crisis and the Logic of a Trilateral 'New World Order'." World Policy Journal (Spring 1991).
• "Silent But Deadly: Sexual Subordination in the U.S.-Korean Relationship." In Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia, edited by Saundra Pollock Sturdevant and Brenda Stoltzfus. New York: New Press, 1992.
• "'Revising Postrevisionism': Or, The Poverty of Theory in Diplomatic History." Diplomatic History 17, no. 4 (Fall 1993): 539–70.
• "Global Realm With No Limit, Global Realm With No Name." Radical History Review (Fall 1993).
• "Japan's Position in the World System." In Postwar Japan as History, edited by in Andrew Gordon, 34–63. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994.
• "Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: Japan in American Hegemony, 1900–1950." In Japan in the World, edited by H.D. Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.
• "The World Shakes China." The National Interest 43 (Spring 1996): 28–41.
• "Pikyojôk simin sahoe wa minjujuûi" [Civil Society and Democracy: A Comparative Inquiry]. Ch'angjak kwa Pip'yông [Creation and Criticism] (May 1996)
• "Nichibei Senso, Hajimari to Owari" [The U.S.-Japan War, Beginning and End]. In Jinrui wa senso wo Husegeruka [Can Humankind Prevent War?], edited by Kojima Noboru. Tokyo: Bungei Shunju, 1996.
• "Time to End the Korean War." Atlantic Monthly (February 1997): 71–79.
• "CNN's Cold War." Nation (October 19, 1998): 25–31.
• "Still the American Century." British Journal of International Studies (Winter 1999): 271–299.
• "The Asian Crisis, Democracy, and the End of 'Late' Development." In The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis, edited by in T. J. Pempel, 1744. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
• "Web with No Spider, Spider with No Web: The Genealogy of the Developmental State." In The Developmental State. Edited by Meredith Woo-Cumings. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
• "Occurrence at Nogun-ri Bridge: An Inquiry into the History and Memory of a Civil War." Critical Asian Studies 33, no. 4 (2001): 509–526.
• "Black September, Adolescent Nihilism, and National Security." In Understanding September 11, edited by Craig Calhoun, Paul Price, and Ashley Timmer. New York: New Press, 2002.
• "Wrong Again: The U.S. and North Korea." London Review of Books 25, no. 3 (December 2003): 9–12.
• "Time of Illusion: Post-Cold War Visions of the World." In Cold War Triumphalism: The Misuse of History After the Fall of Communism, edited by Ellen Schrecker, 71–102. New York: New Press, 2004.

• Discusses Korea's past and future with the Nation
• Discusses Korean DMZ meeting with WBEZ and Chicago Tonight
• Writes about the crisis with North Korea for the Guardian
• Discusses Trumps 2017 Asian tour, Democracy Now!
• Masato Watanabe's Japanese translation of Bruce Cumings's Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (Yale, 2009) wins the annual award of the Japan Society of Translators in 2014. The Atlantic selected it as one of the Best Books of the Year in 2009.
• Talks on "Apocalypse, Absence, Amnesia—and Kim Jong II: Why the Korean War is 'Forgotten'," at the University of Michican [video, 52 minutes]

• "Renaissance Humanism: The Pursuit of Eloquence." Journal of the History of Ideas 24, no. 4 (1963): 497–514.
• "Valla’s Encomium of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Humanist Conception of Christian Antiquity." In Essays in History and Literature, edited by H. Bluhm, 37–52. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
• "Machiavelli: The Art of Politics and the Paradox of Power." In The Responsibility of Power: Historical Essays in Honor of Hajo Holborn, edited by L. Krieger and F.  Stern, 34–53. New York: Doubleday, 1967.
• "Aims of Education." In The Aims of Education, edited by J. W. Boyer. Chicago: The College, 1987.
• "Some Reflections on the Commonwealth of Learning." In AAAS Science and Technology Yearbook 1992. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C., 1993.
• "The Research University: Public Roles and Public Perceptions." In Legacies of Woodrow Wilson, edited by J. M. Morris, 23–44. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 1995.
• "The Leaning Tower of Academe." Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 49, no. 7 (Apr. 1996): 34–54.
• "Prospects for the Humanities." In The American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species? edited by R.G. Ehrenberg, 115–27. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
• "On the History of Giants." In Universities and their Leadership, edited by W. G. Bowen and H. T. Shapiro, 101–115. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,1998.
• "One Hundred Years of the Renaissance." In Useful Knowledge, edited by A. G. Bearn, 247–54. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999.
• "The Challenge of Leadership and Governance in the University." In Knowledge Matters: Essays in Honour of Bernard J. Shapiro, edited by P. Axelrod, 93–100. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.
• "Western Civilization and Its Discontents." Historically Speaking 7, no. 1 (Sept./Oct. 2005): 41–42.
• Searching for Utopia: Universities and Their Histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
• "Forward,"More Than Lore: Reminiscences of Marion Talbot. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
• An Academic Life: A Memoir. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
• Discussion with Chicago Tonight, WTTW, April 18, 2018
• Q&A with Inside Higher Ed, March 20, 2018

The Antislavery Ethic and the Spirit of Commerce: An American History of Human Rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.

From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

• Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, 1999. (For the best first book in US History, awarded by the Organization of American Historians.)
• Morris D. Forkosch Award, 1999. (For the best book in intellectual history.)
• Avery O. Craven Award, 1999. (For the best book on the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, awarded by the Organization of American Historians.)
• Frederick Douglass Prize, 1999, honorable mention. (For the best book on the history of slavery.)

• “The Free Sea: An Antislavery Idea of Human Rights,” in Cambridge History of Human Rights, edited by Jennifer Pitts and  Daniel Edelstein, 2025.
• "The Sovereign Market and Sex Difference: Human Rights in America." In American Capitalism: New Histories, edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.
• "Histories of Capitalism and Sex Difference." Journal of the Early Republic 36, no. 2 (Sum. 2016).
• "Slave Emancipation and the Revolutionizing of Human Rights." In The World the Civil War Made, edited by Greg Downs and Kate Masur. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
• “Contract.” In Keywords for American Cultural Studies, 2nd ed., edited by B. Burgett and G. Hendler. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
• "Slave Breeding and Free Love: An Antebellum Argument over Slavery, Capitalism, and Personhood." In Capitalism Takes Command, edited by Michael Zakim and Gary Kornblith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
• "Instead of Waiting for the Thirteenth Amendment: The War Power, Slave Marriage, and Inviolate Human Rights." American Historical Review 115, no. 3 (June 2010).
• "When We Were Young." In Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942–1958, edited by Stephen Daiter. Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, 2008.
• "Wages, Sin, and Slavery: Some Thoughts on Free Will and Commodity Relations." Journal of the Early Republic 24 (Sum. 2004).
• "Dominion and Dependence in the Law of Freedom and Slavery." Law & Social Inquiry 28, no. 3 (Aut. 2003).
• "Marriage, Property, and Ideals of Class." In Blackwell's Companion to American Women's History, edited by Nancy Hewitt. Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2002.
• "The Right to Possess All the Faculties that God Has Given: Possessive Individualism, Slave Women, and Abolitionist Thought." In Moral Problems in American Life, edited by Lewis Perry and Karen Halttunnen. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
• "'We Did Not Separate Man and Wife, But All Had to Work': Freedom and Dependence in the Aftermath of Slave Emancipation"  in Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor, edited by Stanley Engerman, Stanford University Press, 1999.
• "Home Life and the Morality of the Marketplace: Slavery and Freedom, Women and Men." In The Market Revolution in America, edited by Melvyn Stokes. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996.
• "Beggars Can't Be Choosers: Compulsion and Contract in Postbellum America." Journal of American History 78, no. 4 (Mar. 1992).
• "Conjugal Bonds and Wage Labor: Rights of Contract in the Age of Emancipation." Journal of American History 75, no. 2 (Sept. 1988).

• Writes "Freedom for Sale" for Dissent Magazine on academic freedom and American history teaching
• Quoted in the Globe and Mail article, "Donald Trump has taken aim at what he calls the ‘woke’ view of American history"
• Quoted in the NYT article, "Juneteenth Reminds Us to Think About Economic Freedom, Not Just Legal Liberty"
• Quoted in the Washington Post on polarization, the history of race in the US, and the GOP
• Comments on the Florida Board of Education's guidelines on teaching Black history in Newsweek
• Co-writes with Craig Becker for the New York Times on Amazon's opposition to mail-in ballot unionization votes
• Writes for the Washington Post on the Commerce Clause and pandemic liability protection for businesses
• Quoted in the Burlington Free Press on the history of the Confederate Flag
• Quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the meaning of Chicago 1968
• Chairs 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History Jury
• Writes for Slate on the abolition of slavery, theatergoing, and the right to happiness
• Named an OAH Distinguished Lecturer
• Kyle Volk, PhD'08, Praises Stanley's Scholarship on the Oxford University Press blog
• Participates on Yale Panel on the 14th Amendment
• Amy Dru Stanley and Jonathan Levy Embark on New Study of the Economy
• Coorganizes "Human Trafficking, Labor Migration, and Migration Control in Comparative Historical Perspective" conference, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
• Writes for the New York Times Opinionator blog on the Civil War Enlistment Act

• Utopia’s Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s, Oxford University Press, 2021. Awarded the 2022 Wayne S. Vucinich Prize.
• "'The Franco-Russian Marseillaise': International Exchange and the Making of Anti-Liberal Politics in Fin-de-Siècle France." Journal of Modern History 89, no. 1 (Mar. 2017): 39–78.
• "Children of Rus’: Nationalist Imaginations in Right-Bank Ukraine." In The Future of the Past: New Perspectives in Ukrainian History, edited by Serhii Plokhy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016.
• "Making and Breaking the Russian Empire: The Case of Kiev’s Shul’gin Family." In Imperiale Biographien: Elitekarrieren im Habsburger, Russischen und Osmanischen Vielvölkerreich (1850–1918), edited by Malte Rolf and Tim Buchen, 178–98. Munich: Oldenbourg-Verlag, 2015.
• "Intimacy and Antipathy: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective." Kritika 16, no. 1 (Win. 2015): 121–28.
• Children of Rus': Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
• "Modernist Visions and Political Conflict in Late Imperial Kiev." In Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890–1940, edited by Jan C. Behrends and Martin Kolrausch. New York: Central European Press, 2014.
• "Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia's Southwestern Borderlands." Kritika 13, no. 2 (Spr. 2012): 301–26.
• "Migration, Mobility, and Political Conflict in Late Imperial Kiev." In Russia on the Move: Essays on the Politics, Society and Culture of Human Mobility, 1850–Present, edited by John Randolph and Eugene Avrutin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Studies of World Migrations Series, 2011.

• Writes op-ed on seizing Russian oligarchs' wealth for The Atlantic
• Interviewed for Meduza on Putin's presentation of Ukrainian and Soviet history
• Quoted in USA Today article on how historians see the invasion of Ukraine
• Quoted in Politifact on the history of Russian imperialism
• Interviewed for The World on the entangled histories of Russia and Ukraine
• Writes op-ed on immigration for The Washington Post
• Quoted in Chicago Tribune article on the meaning of "concentration camp"
• Named a 2018–19 Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library
• Review of AHA session on "History and Historians in the Ukraine Crisis" by Sarah Fenton
• Quoted in National Geographic article on Ukrainian-Russian conflict
• Children of Rus' reviewed in the Moscow Times

• New Mexico’s Moses: Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, University of New Mexico Press, 2022.

• Cuando Jesús llegó, las madres del maíz se fueron:  Matrimonio, sexualidad y poder en Nuevo México, 1500-1846. México City: Fondo de la Cultura Económica, 1993.

• When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 1991.

• Guest editor. "Race and Immigration in the American City: New Perspectives on 21st-Century Intergroup Relations." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 9, no. 2 (2013).

• Guest editor. "Asian American Sexualities." Ameriasia Journal 37, no. 2 (2011).

• Guest editor. "Islam and Sexuality." Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 18, no. 2 (March 2012).

• Guest editor. "Race and Sexuality in American History." Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, no. 3 (September 2011).

• Cowritten with Elliott Young. "Transnationalizing Borderlands History." The Western Historical Quarterly 41, no. 1 (2010): 26–53.

• Coeditor with Patricia Zavella. Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

• Guest editor. “Latin American Sexualities.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 16, no. 3 (September 2007).

• Coeditor with Richard Orsi. Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

• Editor. Mexican Home Altars. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

• Coeditor with Geneviève Fabre. Festivals and Celebrations in American Ethnic Communities. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

• Committee on Graduate Education of the American Historical Association. The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

• The Drama of Diversity and Democracy:  Higher Education and American Commitments. Washington, D.C.:  Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1995; new “Introduction,” 2012.

• American Pluralism and the College Curriculum:  Higher Education in a Diverse Democracy. Washington, D.C.:  Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1995.

• Liberal Learning and the Arts of Connection for the New Academy. Washington, D.C.:  Association of American Colleges and Universities, 1995.

• "The Spell of New Mexico: The Witches and Sorcerers of Colonial New Mexico." In The Forked Juniper: Essays on Rudolfo Anaya and the Narratives of the U.S. Southwest, edited by Roberto Cantú. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, accept in press.

• "Exploring the Colonial History of New Mexico Through Artifacts." In Studying Material Culture. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, accept in press.

• "Panethnicity and Reactive Identities: The Creation of Latinos in the United States." In Fissures, Fences, and Frontiers: Reconceptualizing Borders in the Americas, edited by Joseph Rabb and María Herrera-Sobek. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, accepted in press.

• "Internal Colonialism." In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, accepted in press.

• "The Missions of North and South America." In The Cambridge History of Religion in Latin America, edited by Virginia Burnett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.

• "Una historia de las sexualidedes latinas." In Poder, Pasión y Práctica: Las sexualidades latinas, edited by Marysol Asencio. Madrid: Psimática, accepted in press.

• "A History of Ethnic Mexicans in the United States." In The Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, edited by Suzanne Obler and Deena González. New York: Oxford University Press, accepted in press.

• "The Religious Origins of Reies López Tijerina's Land Grant Activism in the Southwest." In A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement in Its Time, edited by Howard Brick, 289–300. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015.

• "Doña Teresa de Aguilera y Roche before the Inquisition: The Travails of a Seventeenth-Century Aristocratic Women in New Mexico." In Women in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, 7–42. New York: New York University Press, 2015.

• "Higher Education and Equity: Historical Narratives, Contemporary Debates." Diversity & Democracy 16, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 4–7.

• "Latinos, Race, and the U.S. Welfare State: Racializing Poverty and Poor Relief." Du Bois Review 10, no. 2 (2013): 541–548.

• "The Latino Crucible: Its Origins in Nineteenth-Century Wars, Revolutions, and Empire." In American Latinos and the Making of the United States: A Theme Study, 1–16. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2013.

• "Introduction—Race and Immigration in the American City: New Perspectives on Twenty-First Century Intergroup Relations." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 9, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 3–7.

• "New Mexico, Mestizaje and the Transnations of North America." In Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States, edited by John Tutino, 257–284. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012.

• "Introduction: Islam and Sexuality." Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 18, no. 2 (March 2012): 155–159.

• "Family and Kinship in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands." In On the Borders of Love and Power: Family and Kinship in the Intercultural American West, edited by David Wallace Adams and Crista De Luzio, 119–140. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.

• "Mexican Masculinities." In Masculinity in Mexico's Past, edited by Victor Macias and Anne Rubenstein, 262–271. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2012.

• "Introduction: Race and Sexuality in American History." Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, no. 3 (September 2011): 439–444.

• "Reactive Ethnic Formations and Panethnic Identities: The Creation of Latinos in the United States." La revue LISA/LISA e-journal, issue on Latinotopia-USA: International Perspectives on the Transforming USA in the 21st century/Latinotopia-USA: Perspective internationales sur les États-Unis en mutation au XXIe siècle, edited by Karin Ikas and Francisco A. Lomelí (2011).

• "Resisting Sexual Identities in Asia," Ameriasia Journal 37, no. 2 (2011): xi–xix.

• "Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: A Response to Horacio R. Ramírez." In Gay Latino/a Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Michael Hams-García and Ernesto Javier Martínez, 198–203. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.

• "Virtual Sex Ed: An Afterword." Sexual Research and Social Policy 8 (2011): 73–76.

• "New Frontiers of Race: Criminalities, Cultures, and Policing in the Global Era: An Afterword." Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 17 (2010): 714–717.

• "Indian Slavery and the Birth of Genízaros." In White Shell Water Place: Native American Reflections on the Santa Fe 400th Commemoration, edited by F. Richard Sánchez, 39–57. Santa Fe, NM: Sandstone Press, 2010.

• "Unraveling America's Hispanic Past: Internal Stratification and Class Boundaries." In The Chicano Studies Reader, 371–387. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010.

• "The History of Latina and Latino Sexualities." In Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices and Policies, edited by Marysol Asencio, 13–37. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2009.

• "Hispanic Identities in the Southwestern United States." In Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America, edited by Ilona Katezw and Susan Deeds, 174–173. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009.

• "Chicano Struggles for Racial Justice: The Movement's Contributions to Social Theory." In Mexicans in California: Emergent Challenges and Transformations, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Patricia Zavella, 94–110. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

• "The Natives Talk Back." In Visions and Voices: American Indian Activism and the Civil Rights Movement, edited by Kurt Peters and Terry Straus, 100–103. Brooklyn: Albatross Press, 2009.

• "George W. Bush and Mexican Immigration Policy." Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines 113 (September 2007): 70–76.

• "Women on Top: The Love Magic of the Indian Witches of New Mexico." Journal of the History of Sexuality 16, no. 3 (September 2007): 373–390.

• "Reflections on 1972." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (Spring 2007): 183–190.

• "Warfare, Homosexuality, and Gender Status among American Indian Men in the Southwest." In Long Before Stonewall, edited by Tom Foster. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

• "Aztlán," "The Chicano Movement," "Race and Color Consciousness," and "Slavery." In Latinas in the United States: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, 71–73, 151–155, 603–607, 684–686. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

• "Mexican-Origin People in the United States." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, vol. 3, edited by Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, 129–39. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

• "From Latin America to Harlem and the Barrios of L.A.: The Impact of Internal Colonialism Theory." In Journey into Otherness: Essays in North American History, Culture, and Literature, edited by Ada Savin, 157–167. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2005.

• "Internal Colonialism: The History of a Theory." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 1, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 281–296.

• "Hispanics and Latinos in the United States: Geneologies and Lineages." In Blackwell Companion to the History of the American West, edited by William Deverell, 390–411. New York: Blackwell, 2004.

• "Ethnic Mexicans in Historical and Social Science Scholarship." In Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 2003.

• "Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Orientalization of New Mexico." In Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies, and Discourse, edited by Francisco Lomeli, Victor Sorell, and Genaro Padilla, 11–27. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

• "Unraveling America's Hispanic Past: Internal Stratification and Class Boundaries." In The Chicano Studies Reader, 371–387. Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, 2001.

• "What's Love Got to Do With It? A Response to Ann Stoler's 'Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies'." Journal of American History 88 (December 2001): 1–4.

• "Selena Quintanilla Pérez." In The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, vol. 4, edited by Ken Jackson, 503–505. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.

• "The Pueblo Revolt and Its Aftermath." In Colonial America: Essays in Politics and Social Development, 5th ed., edited by Stanley N. Katz, John M. Murrin, and Douglas Greenberg, 419–430. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2001.

• "'Tell Me with Whom You Walk and I Will Tell You Who You Are': Honor and Virtue in Eighteenth-Century Colonial New Mexico." In Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West, edited by Matthew Basso, Laura McCall, and Dee Garceau, 25–44. New York: Routledge, 2001.

• "Mestizaje: Its History, Evolution, and Legacy on the Road to Aztlán." In The Road to Aztlán: Art from the Mythic Homeland, edited by Virginia M. Fields, 290–299. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001.

• "Sacred Retablos: Objects that Conjoin Time and Space." In Art and Faith in Mexico: The Nineteenth-Century Tradition, edited by Elizabeth Netto Calil Zarur and Charles Muir Lovell, 31–37. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

• "Borderlands." In Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History, vol. 2, edited by Mary Kupiec Cayton and Peter W. Williams, 541–540. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001.

• "Culture Knows No Borders." In Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of An Indo-Hispano Homeland, 133–141. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2000.

• "Honor Ideology, Marriage Negotiation, and Class-Gender Domination in New Mexico, 1690–1846." In En Aquel Entonces: Readings in Mexican American History, edited by Manuel G. Gonzales and Cynthia M. Gonzales, 14–21. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

• "Chicano History: Paradigm Shifts and Shifting Boundaries." In Voices of a New Chicana/o History, edited by Refugio I. Rochín and Dennis N. Valdés, 91–114. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000.

• "Franciscans and the Pueblo Revolt." In What Caused the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?, edited by David J. Weber, 41–53. Boston: Bedford, 1999.

• "Hispanic Diaspora and Chicano Identity in the United States of America." The South Atlantic Quarterly, special issue on diaspora and immigration, 98, no. 1–2 (Winter–Spring 1999): 203–216.

• "Crucifixion, Slavery and Death: The Hermanos Penitentes of the Southwest." In Over the Edge: Mapping the American West, edited by Valerie Matsumoto and Blake Allmendinger, 253–271. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

• Forward to Leonard Pitt's The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846–1890. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, vii–xii.

• "Sacred Retablos: Objects that Conjoin Time and Space." In Mexican Home Altars, 37–48. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

• "Response to David Schneider's 'The Power of Culture: Notes on Some Aspects of Gay and Lesbian Kinship in America Today'." Cultural Anthropology 12, no. 2 (May 1997): 270–274.

• Introduction to Elsie Clews Parsons's Pueblo Indian Religion, vol. 2. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

• "The Erotic Zone: Sexual Transgression on the U.S.-Mexican Border." In Mapping Multiculturalism, edited by Avery Gordon and Chris Newfield, 253–263. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

• "Honneur et déshonneur dans les rues du barrio: un code d’ethique moderne." Cahiers Charles V, special issue on Les Cultures de la Rue: Des barrios d’Amérique du Nord, 20 (November 1996): 119–135.

• "The Pueblo Indian World in the Sixteenth Century." In Religion and American Culture, edited by David G. Hackett, 3–25. New York: Routledge, 1995.

• "The Political Legacies of Columbus: Ethnic Identities in the United States." University of Maryland, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Working Papers, no. 16. 1995.

• "Ethnic Studies: Its Evolution in American Colleges and Universities." In Multiculturalism: A Reader, edited by David Theo Goldberg, 157–167. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1995.

• "Historical and Social Science Research on Mexican Americans." In Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, edited by J. A. Banks and C. McGee Banks, 203–222. New York: Macmillan, 1995.

• "El Santuario de Chimayo: A Syncretic Shrine in New Mexico." In Festivals and Celebrations in American Ethnic Communities, 71–86. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

• Discusses "Utopian and Dystopian Narratives of the Chicana/o Past, Present, and Future" at UCLA [video, 54 minutes]

• Thirty Years Later, a MacArthur Fellow Reflects

• AHA Presidential Address: "Toward an Empirical History of Moral Thinking: The Case of Racial Theory in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France." American Historical Review 120 (2015): 1–27.

• "Neutralizing Freud: The Lycée Philosophy Class and the Problem of the Reception of Psychoanalysis in France." Critical Inquiry 40 (Autumn 2013): 40–82.

• Hysteria Complicated By Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

• The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750–1850. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

• Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; French translation, 1997; 2nd ed. with new afterword, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

• Foucault and the Writing of History. Blackwell, 1994.

• "Of Marx and Marksmanship: Reflections on the Linguistic Construction of Class in Some Recent Historical Scholarship." Modern Intellectual History 2 (2005): 87–107.

• "Bringing the Psyche into Scientific Focus: A Political Account." In The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 7: The Modern Social Sciences, edited by Theodore Porter and Dorothy Ross, 131–153. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

• "The Future of French History in the United States: Unapocalyptic Thoughts for the New Millennium." French Historical Studies 24, no. 2 (Winter 2001): 1–10.

• "Mutations of the Self in Old Regime and Post-Revolutionary France: From Ame to Moi to Le Moi." In Biographies of Scientific Objects, edited by Lorraine Daston, 86–116. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

• "Enthusiasm or Imagination? Eighteenth-Century Smear Words in Comparative National Context." Huntington Library Quarterly 60 (1998): 29–49.

• "Eclectic Subjectivity and the Impossibility of Female Beauty." In Picturing Science, Producing Art, edited by Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison, 360–78. Routledge, 1998.

• "Saying 'I': Victor Cousin, Caroline Angebert, and the Politics of Selfhood in Nineteenth-Century France." In Rediscovering History: Culture, Politics, and the Psyche, edited by  Michael S. Roth, 321–35, 496–99. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

• "The Advent of Psychological Modernism in France: An Alternate Narrative." In Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, edited by Dorothy Ross, 190–209, 342–46. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

• "Foucault and the Post-Revolutionary Self: The Uses of Cousinian Pedagogy in Nineteenth-Century France." In Foucault and the Writing of History, edited by Jan Goldstein, 99–115, 276–80. Blackwell, 1994.

• "Framing Discipline with Law: Problems and Promises of the Liberal State." American Historical Review 98 (Apr. 1993): 364–75.

• "The Uses of Male Hysteria: Medical and Literary Discourse in Late Nineteenth-Century France." Representations (Spring 1991): 134–65.

• "'The Lively Sensibility of the Frenchman': Some Reflections on the Place of France in Foucault's Histoire de la folie." History of the Human Sciences 3 (1990): 333–41.

• "The Wandering Jew and the Problem of Psychiatric Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siècle France." Journal of Contemporary History 20 (1985): 521–52.

• "Foucault Among the Sociologists: The 'Disciplines' and the History of the Professions." History and Theory 23 (1984): 170–92.

• "Discovering Global History through Historical Fiction: The Many Layers of Amitav Ghosh's Trilogy of Novels." Perspectives on History (Nov. 2014).

• "Precocious Professionalism: An Academic Epidemic?" Perspectives on History (Apr. 2014).

• "Hannah Arendt Turns Public Historian: On Margarete von Trotta's film Hannah Arendt." Perspectives on History (Feb. 2014).

• Elected 2014 AHA President

• The God Behind the Marble: The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State  (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

• "The Splendor of Dresden in the United States, 1978-79." In "The Object as Ambassador: Exhibitions in Contemporary History." Special issue, Representations 141, no. 1 (Winter 2018): 20–38.

• "The Honor of the Trophy: A Prussian Bronze in the Napoleonic Era." In Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement, ed. Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018.

• "The Selbst Gewählter Plan: The Schildbach Wood Library in Eighteenth-Century Hessen-Kassel." Representations 128, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 30–59.