Lexington Books publishes both standalone titles and titles in a broad array of series that span the social sciences and humanities. Our series, listed by discipline below, are edited by established scholars who work with in-house editors to shape their series and contribute to the discourse within their fields. Many of our series are recognized as premier outlets for publication within their respective subfields. Click the links below to learn more about a series or to see the list of titles published within each series. Scholars interested in submitting a book proposal for a series should contact the series editor(s) directly via the contact information provided on the series page.
African and Africana Studies
The Africana Experience and Critical Leadership Studies
Africa: Past, Present & Prospects
African Governance and Development
African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
Afrofuturist Studies & the Speculative Arts
The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Critical Africana Studies: African, African American, and Caribbean Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Studies
Distinguished African and Africana Studies Scholars: Intellectual Contributions and Critical Engagement
Migration, Displacement, and Development
Understanding Marronage: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Engagements
Anthropology
Anthropology of Kinship and the Family
Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life
Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Displacement, Anthropology to Migration, and Social Change
Issues in Southwest Archaeology
Language and Race in Global Perspective
Studies in Folklore and Ethnology
Asian Studies
AsiaWorld
Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia
Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation
Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
Korean Communities across the World
Lexington Studies on Korea's Place in International Relations
Modern Southeast Asia
New Studies in Modern Japan
Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
Classics
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Communication
Cine-Aesthetics: New Directions in Film and Philosophy
Communicating Gender
Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
Critical Communication Pedagogy
Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors
Critical Studies in Television
Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
Integrated Marketing Communication
Lexington Studies in Communication and Storytelling
Lexington Studies in Contemporary Rhetoric
Lexington Studies in Critical Futures
Lexington Studies in Health Communication
Lexington Studies in Political Communication
Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
Scripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power
Studies in New Media
Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages and Cultures
Transnational Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Criminology
Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice
Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the 21st Century
Cultural Studies
After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Afrofuturist Studies & the Speculative Arts
Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
Children and Youth in Popular Culture
Communicating Gender
Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
Contemporary Perspectives on Social Inequalities in the United States
Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors
Critical Plant Studies
Cross-Cultural Studies in Gender-Based Violence
Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
Disability in Popular Culture
Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Education and Popular Culture
Environment and Society
Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
Extremity in Society and Culture
For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music
Gender and Activism
Generation X: Studies in Culture, Demographics, and Media Representation
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
Lexington Books Horror Studies
Marxism and Religion
Music and Migration: Sounds of Movement
Native American Literary Studies
New Critical Humanities
Philosophy and Cultural Identity
Philosophy of Popular Culture
Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political, and Cultural Interventions
Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures
Radical Cultural Studies
Reading Trauma and Memory
Religion and Borders
Remakes, Reboots, and Adaptations
Social Justice and Equity in Contemporary Sport
Studies in Disney and Culture
Studies in Folklore and Ethnology
Studies in Metamodernism: Theory and Criticism across the Disciplines
Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture
Superhero Studies
Transforming Literary Studies
Villains and Creatures: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Tropes
Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century
Economics
Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Economy, Polity, and Society
Heterodox Studies in the Critique of Political Economy
Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance
Revisiting Communism: Collectivist Economic Thought in Historical Perspective
Education
The Borderlands of Theological Education
Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Clinical, Educational, Social and Cultural Inquiry
Critical Communication Pedagogy
Critical Education Policy and Politics
Critical Issues in Disabilities and Education
Education and Popular Culture
Emerging Perspectives on Education in China
Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
Explorations of Collegiate Athletics
Foundations of Multicultural Education
Generational Differences in Higher Education and the Workplace: Leading and Teaching Millennials and Generation Z
Mindfulness in Education
Philosophy of Childhood
Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
Social Class in Education
Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the 21st Century
Environmental Studies
Critical Plant Studies
Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives
Environment and Society
Environmental Communication and Nature: Conflict and Ecoculture in the Anthropocene
Environmental Justice and Power: Studies in Knowledge, Health, Sustainability, and Inequality
Key Issues in Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethics, Politics, and Policy
Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures
Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges
Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
Gender Studies
Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities
Communicating Gender
Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices
Gender and Activism
Innovation and Activism in American Women’s Writing
Jewish Women in the Americas
Queer and Trans Approaches to Religion and Theology
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Arab World
Geography
Culture, Humanity, and Urban Life
Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
History
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World
Byzantium: A European Empire and Its Legacy
Empires and Entanglements in the Early Modern World
Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
New Studies in Southern History
Religion in American History
Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Sport, Identity, and Culture
Studies in Medieval Literature
The Peoples of "Latin" America and the Caribbean
War and Society in Modern American History
Women in American Political History
Jewish Studies
New Directions in Applied Jewish Ethics
Dispatches from the New Diaspora
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy
Jewish Women in the Americas
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
Lexington Studies in Modern Jewish History, Historiography, and Memory
Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies
Latin American Studies
Critical Approaches to Latin American Literature and Culture
Latin American Gender and Sexualities
Lexington Studies on Cuba
Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America
Social Movements in the Americas
The Black Atlantic Cultural Series: Revisioning Artistic, Historical, Literary, Psychological, and Sociological Perspectives
The Peoples of "Latin" America and the Caribbean
Lexington Studies on Cuba
Legal Studies
Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South
Linguistics
Language and Race in Global Perspective
Names and Naming in the Social Sciences and Humanities
Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives
Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages and Cultures
Literary Studies
After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Anglophone Lyric Poetry and Poetics
Children and Youth in Popular Culture
Critical Approaches to Latin American Literature and Culture
Critical Studies in Korean Literature and Culture in Translation
Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Innovation and Activism in American Women’s Writing
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
Native American Literary Studies
Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures
Reading Trauma and Memory
Studies in Medieval Literature
TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
Transforming Literary Studies
Media Studies
Critical Media Studies
Emerging Insights into Esports and Video Games
Global Perspectives on Music and Sound in Visual Media
Media, Culture, and the Arts
Politics and Contemporary Television
Superhero Studies
Middle Eastern Studies
The Levant and Near East: A Multidisciplinary Book Series
The Gulf States in International Affairs
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Arab World
Music
Contextual Bach Studies
Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
Extreme Sounds Studies: Global Socio-Cultural Explorations
For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music
Global Perspectives on Music and Sound in Visual Media
The Lexington Series in Historical Ethnomusicology: Deep Soundings
Popular Musics Matter: Social, Political, and Cultural Interventions
Music and Migration: Sounds of Movement
Music, Culture, and Identity in Latin America
Philosophy
African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
American Philosophy Series
Behavioral Applied Ethics
Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
Contemporary Studies in Idealism
Contemporary Whitehead Studies
Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South
Dialog-on-Freud
Directions in Applied Jewish Ethics
Edith Stein Studies
Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices
Graven Images
Moral Psychology of the Emotions
New Critical Humanities
New Kierkegaard Research
Phenomenologies of Religious Experience
Philosophy of Childhood
Philosophy of Popular Culture
Philosophy and Cultural Identity
Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives
Philosophy of Race
Philosophical Practice
Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse
Revolutionary Bioethics
Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
Studies in Philosophy of Sport
Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space<
Political Science & International Relations
African Governance and Development
Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
Challenging Migration Studies
Comparative International Development
Conflict and Security in the Developing World
Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in Asia
Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South
Democratic Dilemmas and Policy Responsiveness
Ethics, Corruption, and Governance
Europe and the World
Expansion and Internationalization of Higher Education in Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East
Faith and Politics: Political Theology in a New Key
Foreign Policies of the Middle Powers
The Frankfurt School in New Times
Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
Globalization and Its Costs
Honor and Obligation in Liberal Society: Problems and Prospects
Kurdish Societies, Politics, and International Relations
Latinos and American Politics
Lexington Studies on Korea's Place in International Relations
Lexington Research in Sports, Politics, and International Relations
Lexington Studies in Political Communication
Peace and Conflict Studies
Politics and Comedy: Critical Encounters
Politics, Literature, & Film
Political Theory for Today
Politics and Contemporary Television
Race, Representation, and American Political Institutions
Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics
Security in the Americas in the 21st Century
Social Movements in the Americas
Studies in Marxism and Humanism
The Gulf States in International Affairs
The Levant and Near East: A Multidisciplinary Book Series
Voting, Elections, and the Political Process
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies
Women in American Political History
Psychology
Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society
Behavioral Applied Ethics
Critical Childhood & Youth Studies: Clinical, Educational, Social and Cultural Inquiry
Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
Dialog-on-Freud
Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Mindfulness in Education
Moral Psychology of the Emotions
Religion
Anglican Readings of Scripture
Anglican Studies
The Borderlands of Theological Education
Coniectanea Biblica
Contemporary Whitehead Studies
Decolonizing Theology
Dispatches from the New Diaspora
Edith Stein Studies
Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives
Ethnographies of Religion
Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical, and Philosophical
Faith and Politics: Political Theology in a New Key
Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
Graven Images
Horror and Scripture
Interpreting Johannine Literature
Interreligious Reflections
Lexington Studies in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought
Marxism and Religion
New Directions in Gospel Research
Phenomenologies of Religious Experience
Paul in Critical Contexts
Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Assessment in the Twenty-first Century
Queer and Trans Approaches to Religion and Theology
Religion and Borders
Religion and Race
Religion and Science as a Critical Discourse
Religion in American History
Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges
Renewal
Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
Scripturalization: Discourse, Formation, Power
Studies in Body and Religion
Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
Studies in Dialectical Theology
Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur
Theology and Pop Culture
Womanist Readings of Scripture
Slavic Studies
Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
Crosscurrents: Russia's Literature in Context
Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
Interdisciplinary Studies on Spatial Dynamics and Marginalization in Central and Eastern Europe
Sociology
Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities
Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
Challenging Migration Studies
Comparative Urban Studies
Contemporary Perspectives on Social Inequalities in the United States
Critical Africana Studies: African, African American, and Caribbean Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Studies
Critical Animal Studies and Theory
Critical Issues in Disabilities and Education
Critical Perspectives on Music and Society
Critical Perspectives on Race, Crime, and Justice
Critical Perspectives on the Psychology of Sexuality, Gender, and Queer Studies
Decolonial Options for the Social Sciences
Discourse, Power, and Society
Environmental Justice and Power: Studies in Knowledge, Health, Sustainability, and Inequality
Ethnographies of Religion
Extremity in Society and Culture
Feminist Strategies: Flexible Theories and Resilient Practices
The Frankfurt School in New Times
Generational Differences in Higher Education and the Workplace: Leading and Teaching Millennials and Generation Z
Generation X: Studies in Culture, Demographics, and Media Representation
Health and Aging in the Margins
Korean Communities across the World
Language and Race in Global Perspective
Latin American Gender and Sexualities
Latinos and American Politics
New Directions in Culture and Governance
Philosophy of Race
Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
Religion and Race
Social Class in Education
Social Justice and Equity in Contemporary Sport
Sport, Identity, and Culture
Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics