Cultural Studies graduate student Marielle Barrow founded and produced a journal with a team from around the Hispanophone, Francophone, Anglophone and Dutch Caribbean. Caribbean InTransit is the only open access arts journal focused on the Caribbean arts. This inaugural issue features articles in French and English.

Cultural Studies professor Roger N. Lancaster's new book Sex Panic and the Punitive State is now available.

Cultural Studies graduate Molly Dragiewicz, now an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, has just published a new book: "Equality with a Vengeance: Men's Rights Groups, Battered Women, and Antifeminist Backlash"

George Mason was named the nation's number one university to watch on U.S. News and World Report's 2008 list of "Up-and-Coming Schools." Celebrating its 37th anniversary in 2009, Mason combines strong academic and research programs with a reputation for forward-thinking academic offerings. The Cultural Studies PhD program is the first of its kind in the US.

Cultural Studies Director Roger Lancaster wrote the preface for and contributed an essay to New Landscapes of Inequality, a volume that grew out of a School for Advanced Research seminar. Contributors to this volume map the connections among neoliberalism, social inequality, and punitive governance.

Cultural Studies student Vicki Watts and Cultural Studies alumni Robert Gehl have edited a book The Politics of Cultural Programming in Public Spaces, which interrogates cultural programs in public spaces in order to discover - and recover - the ways in which they affect subjectivity.

Student Mike Goebel has published a chapter entitled "'Embraced' by Consumption: Twilight and the Modern Construction of Gender" in Bringing Light to Twilight: Perspectives on a Pop Culture Phenomenon

Professor Hugh Gusterson coedited The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It. Contributors to this volume map the impact of the new economy, the "war on terror," the "war on drugs," racial resentments, a fraying safety net, undocumented immigration, a health care system in crisis, and much more.

Professors Hugh Gusterson and Andy Bickford contributed chapters to the Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual. Written by the founders of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, the Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System; argues that there are flaws in the Counterinsurgency Field Manual; identifies the next frontiers for the Pentagon's culture warriors; and suggests strategies for resisting the deformation and exploitation of anthropological knowledge by the military.

Two Cultural Studies students, Elaine Cardenas and Ellen Gorman, have published a new book, The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture.

Cultural Studies professor Paul Smith's new book, The Renewal of Cultural Studies, is now available. The Renewal of Cultural Studies offers a panoramic view of the field, its assumptions, and its methodologies. Editor Paul Smith and thirty contributors map out new directions that will redefine and sustain the field of cultural studies. In twenty-seven original essays, cultural studies is examined in relation to other disciplinesohistory, anthropology, literature, media, and American studies. The discipline is reviewed in the context of globalization, in relation to topics such as war, public policy, and labour, its pedagogy and politics, and in Marxist, feminist, and environmentalist contexts.

Student Pia Moller has published a chapter in The Politics, Economics and Culture of Mexican-U.S. Migration: Both Sides of the Border. Her chapter, "From the Margin to the Middle?: The Origin, Transformation, and Direction of the Minutemen" examines the American "nativist" mobilization, primarily the Minutemen and their influence in established conservative circles.

Student David Arditi's new book, Criminalizing Independent Music- The Recording Industry Association of America's Advancement of Dominant Ideology, is now available

Student Randa Kayyali has published the award-winning book, The Arab Americans.

Student Cecelia Uy-Tioco has published an article, 'Overseas Filipino Workers and Text Messaging: Reinventing Transnational Mothering' in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (21.2, pp. 253-265). This essay is now available as a chapter in Mobile Phone Cultures, Routledge, 2008.

Cultural Studies graduate Bob Shepherd's latest book, When Culture Goes to Market, is now available.

Cultural Studies graduate Wendy Burns-Ardolino's new book, Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women, is now available.

Cultural studies student Adila Laidi-Haneih's book Palestine, Rien ne nous manque ici will appear soon in France and Belgium. It gathers commissioned texts and images (essays, memoirs, diaries, interviews, poems, photographs, installations, etc.) from both confirmed as well as emerging artists, critics, philosophers, poets and visual artists from Palestine and elsewhere.

Cultural Studies graduate Cynthia Lee Patterson's new book Art for the Middle Classes: America's Illustrated Magazines of the 1840s, is now available.