Academic Journals

Journal of Prisoners on Prison (interdisciplinary)
Landscapes of Violence (interdisciplinary)

American History/Studies

Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right (2014)
Lisa Arellano, Vigilantes and Lynch Mobs (2012)
Tiya Miles, The House on Diamond Hill (2012)
John Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice (2012)
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, This Violent Empire (2011)
Rebecca Hill, Men, Mobs & Law (2009)
Peter Silver, Our Savage Neighbors (2009)
Thaviola Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage (2008)
Ruth Gilmore, Golden Gulag (2007)
Dylan Rodriguez, Forced Passages (2005)
Christopher Waldrep, The Many Faces of Judge Lynch (2004)
Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches (1996)
Richard Drinnon, Keeper of the Concentration Camps (1989)
Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence (1973) 

Anthropology

Cabeiri Robinson, Body of Victim/Body of Warrior (2013)
Deborah Thomas, Exceptional Violence (2011)
Grace Cho, Haunting the Korean Diaspora (2008)
Veena Das, Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2006)
Leslie Gill, The School of the Americas (2004)
Catherine Lutz, Homefront (2003)

Communication & Journalism

 Anna Politkovskaya, Is Journalism Worth Dying For? (2011)
Mark Masse, Trauma Journalism (2011)
Roger Simpson et al, Covering Violence (2006)
Tim Allen, The Media of Conflict (1999)

Environmental Studies

Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011)
Robert Bullard, Dumping in Dixie (2000)

Ethnic Studies 

Lisa Marie Cacho, Social Death (2012)

Gender & Women's Studies

Neda Atanasoski, Humanitarian Violence (2013)
Beth Ritchie, Arrested Justice (2012)
Nadje Al-Ali & Nicola Pratt, What Kind of Liberation? (2010)
Rosalinda Fregoso et al, Terrorizing Women (2010)
Danielle McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street (2010)
Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom (2009)
Kristin Bumiller, In an Abusive State (2008)
Joanna Bourke, Rape: Sex, Violence, History (2007)
Melissa Wright, Disposable Women (2006)
Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire (2003)

History

Tiya Miles, The House on Diamond Hill (2012)
Joanna Bourke, An Intimate History of Killing (2000)
Michel Rolph-Trouillot, Silencing the Past (1997)

Latin American Studies

Rosalinda Fregoso et al, Terrorizing Women (2010)
Richard Turits, Foundations of Despotism (2002)
Jose Rabasa, Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier (2000)

Legal Studies

Beth Ritchie, Arrested Justice (2012)
Austin Sarat et al, When Governments Break the Law (2010)
Martha Minow, Between Vengeance & Forgiveness (1998)
Kimberle Crenshaw, Words that Wound (1995)
Robert Cover, Violence & the Word (1986)

Literary Studies

Salamishah Tillet, Sites of Slavery (2012)
Gillian Harkins, Everybody's Family Romance (2009)
Jacqueline Goldsby, A Spectacular Secret (2006)
Ann Rice, Witnessing Lynching (2003)
Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection (1997)

Native American & Indigenous Studies

Sarah Deer, The Beginning and End of Rape (2015)
Glen Coulthard, Red Skin/White Masks (2014)
Audra Simpson et al, Theorizing Native Studies (2014)
Mishuana Goeman, Mark My Words (2013)
Joanna Barker, Native Acts (2011)
Jodi Byrd, Transit of Empire (2011)
Scott Lyons, X-Marks (2010)
Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn (2009)
Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land (2008)
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Hawaiian Blood (2008) 
Andrea Smith, Conquest (2005)
Phil Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places (2004)
Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism (1998)
Luana Ross, Inventing the Savage (1998)
Haunani-Kay Trask, From a Native Daughter (1993)

Post/Colonial Studies

Nadje Al-Ali & Nicola Pratt, What Kind of Liberation? (2010)
Paul Kramer, The Blood of Government (2006)
Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire (2005)
Nasser Hussain, The Jurisprudence of Emergency (2003)
Vicente Rafael, White Love (2000)
Laura Wexler, Tender Violence (2000)
Lisa Yoneyama, Hiroshima Traces (1999)
Edward Said, The Question of Palestine (1992)
Gayatri Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988)
Edward Said, Orientalism (1979)
Simone DeBeauvoir, Djamila Boupacha (1962)
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

Trauma Studies & Affect Theory

Gert Buelens et al, The Future of Trauma Theory (2013)
Judith Butler, Precarious Life (2006)
Ann Kaplan, Trauma Culture (2005)
Susan Brison, Aftermath (2003)
Jenny Edkins, Trauma and the Memory of Politics (2003)
David Eng & David Kazanjian (eds), Loss: The Politics of Mourning (2002)
Ruth Leys, Trauma: A Genealogy (2000)
Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience (1996)
Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (1992)
Shoshana Felman & Dori Laub, Testimony (1991)
Sigmund Freud, Mourning and Melancholia (1920)

African American Studies

Kidada Williams, They Left Great Marks on Me (2012)
Salamishah Tillet, Sites of Slavery (2012)
Danielle McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street (2010)
Hannah Rosen, Terror in the Heart of Freedom (2009)
Christopher Waldrep, African Americans Confront Lynching (2009)
Stephanie Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery (2008)
Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul (2001)
Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body (1998)

Anthologies & Readers 

Blaine et al, Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence (2016)
Shawn Alexander, Reconstruction & the KKK Hearings (2015)
Burgett et al, Keywords for American Cultural Studies (2014)
Jenna Loyd et al, Beyond Walls and Cages (2012)
Robert Pallitto, Torture and State Violence in the U.S. (2011)
Austin Sarat et al, States of Violence (2009)
Bruce Lawrence & Aisha Karim, On Violence: A Reader (2007)
Nancy Hughes & Philippe Bourgois, Violence in War and Peace (2003)
Violence & Redemption: Special Issue of Public Culture (2003)
Takashi Fujitani et al, Perilous Memories (2001)

Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies

Takashi Fujitani, Race for Empire (2011)
Sylvia Shin & Huey Chong, The Oriental Obscene (2011)
Dylan Rodriguez, Suspended Apocalypse (2009)
Candace Fujikane, Asian Settler Colonialism (2008)
Moon-Ho Jung, Coolies and Cane (2008)
Grace Cho, Haunting the Korean Diaspora (2008)
Charles Henry et al, The Bridge at No Gun Ri (2002)

Epistemology 

Linda Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies (2012)
Ann Stoler, Along the Archival Grain (2010)
Saidiya Hartman, Venus in Two Acts (2008)
Emma Perez, Queering the Borderlands (2003)
Chela Sandoval, Methodology of the Oppressed (2000)

Geography

Stuart Elden, Terror and Territory (2009)
Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers (2006)

Government & Politics

Sonali Chakravarti, Sing the Rage (2014)
Megan Francis, Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State (2014)
Kristin Bumiller, In an Abusive State (2008)
Leigh Payne, Unsettling Accounts (2008)
John Keane, Violence and Democracy (2004)
Charles Tilly, The Politics of Collective Violence (2003)
James Scott, Seeing Like a State (1999)
Joy James, Resisting State Violence (1996)
Wendy Brown, States of Injury (1995)
Peter Evans et. al., Bringing the State Back In (1985)

Latin@ & Borderland Studies 

William Carrigan, Forgotten Dead (2013)
Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez, Unspeakable Violence (2011)
Emma Perez, Queering the Borderlands (2003)

LGBTQ & Sexuality Studies

Christina Harnhardt, Safe Space (2013)
Joey Mogul, Andrea Ritchie & Kay Whitlock, Queer (In)Justice (2011)
Chandan Reddy, Freedom With Violence (2011)
Eric Stanley & Nat Smith, Captive Genders (2011)
Jasbir Puar, Terrorist Assemblages (2007)
Jose Munoz, Disidentifications (1999)

Literature & Creative Works

Claudia Rankine, Citizen (2014)
Emma Perez, Forgetting the Alamo, or Blood Memory (2009)
Sherman Alexie, Indian Killer (2008)
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, A Human Being Died That Night (2004)
Assata Shakur, Assata, (2001)
Antjie Krog, Country of My Skull (2000)
Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (1993)
Gayl Jones, Corregidora (1987)
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)

Philosophy

Brad Evans, Disposable Futures (2015)
Joseph Pugliese, State Violence and the Execution of Law (2013)
Lisa Guenther, Solitary Confinement (2012)
Denise DaSilva, Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007)
Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (2005)
Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Empire (2001)
Manuel DeLanda, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991)
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain (1987)
Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (1985)
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975)
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Walter Benjamin, Critique of Violence (1921)

Religious Studies & Theology

Karen Armstrong, Fields of Blood (2015)

Sociology

Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters (2008)
Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy (2004)
Stewart Tolnay & EM Beck, A Festival of Violence (1995)
Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence (1985)

Visual Culture 

Gil Hochberg, Visual Occupations (2015)
Liam Kennedy & Caitlin Patrick (eds), The Violence of the Image (2014)
Wendy Kozol, Distant Wars Visible (2014)
Valerie Hartouni, Visualizing Atrocity (2012)
Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance (2012)
Jodi Melamed, Represent and Destroy (2011)
Amy Wood, Lynching and Spectacle (2011)
Dora Apel, Lynching Photographs (2008)
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003)
Barbie Zelizer, Remembering to Forget (2000)
WJT Mitchell, The Violence of Public Art (1990)