History of Russia & Eastern Europe
- Putin’s Russia: ‘The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep’
- Russia Beyond the Russians: Peoples and Languages of Russia
- History of Russia: from St. Vladimir to Vladimir Putin
- Life in the Soviet Union: An Insider View
- People & Ideas that Shaped Russia
- Ukraine: Past & Present
- St. Petersburg: The City of History, Art & Power
- Experiencing Russia Through Film
- 100 Years of the Russian Revolution
- Vanished Kingdoms of Eastern Europe
- The Baltic Countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
Languages & Linguistics
- Languages of the World
- Unique Languages of Europe
- The Glamour of Grammar
- The Story of English: Past, Present, and Future
- Adam’s Tongue: How Human Language Evolved
- Why English Sounds Like It Does: A Study of the Colorful World of English Accents
- Why Do Languages Change?
- Language and Identity in Geopolitical Hotspots
- Language as the Mirror of the Mind
- Language, Thought, Culture: A Reassessment
- The Story of Human Language
- Discovering Language
- History and Geography of Language Families (co-taught with Martin W. Lewis)
- Language, Geography and Geopolitics (co-taught with Martin W. Lewis)
- The Global Geography of Language and Religion (co-taught with Martin Lewis)
- The Science of the Deep Human Past: Linguistics, Genetics and Archeology (course organizer & primary instructor on a team-taught course)
- Lost in Translation: The Art and Science of Translating Between Languages