[4] Under her directorship, BUCH has hosted forums on “Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age” (2017),[5] “Humanities Approaches to the Opioid Crisis” (2018),[6] and “Can We Talk: Dialogue and Debate in the Contemporary Academy” (2019).
[7] In 2020, the Teagle Foundation awarded BUCH a grant to develop "The One & the Many at BU," a summer residential humanities program for Boston-area high school students.
The book includes readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Henry James' The Wings of the Dove (1902), and Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925).
A feature on the book appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education, noting Mizruchi's standing at the forefront of "a growing number of scholars who approach religion in American life through interdisciplinary study.
"[12] In a review for the American Journal of Sociology, Alan Sica praised the book's "innovative and thickly constructed interdisciplinary writing," labeling it "excellent social theory.
Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, the eight volumes of The Cambridge History of American Literature cover poetry, prose writing, and criticism from 1590 to the end of the twentieth century.
Examining literature, photography, and advertisements produced in the half-century after the American Civil War, Mizruchi's book argues that rapid corporate capitalist development and high immigration rates fostered the idea of multiculturalism.
Mizruchi's book covers an eclectic range of print culture, including the Civil War photography of Alexander Gardner; Albion W. Tourgée's Reconstruction-era writings; the career and writings of the Santee Sioux physician Charles Eastman; the advertisements that framed the serialized publication of Jack London's The Call of the Wild (1903) in the Saturday Evening Post; and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist-utopian novel Herland (1915).
[15] Furthermore, Mizruchi views the 4,000 books that made up Brando’s personal library as evidence of his intellectual curiosity and informed commitment to the civil rights movement.
'"[27] The second, Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), brings together essays that address the evolving roles of librarians and archivists.