Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, co-edited with Jordana Mendelson (State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010). Expands purview of visual culture to encompass postcards. Examines real photo postcards, topographical postcards, fantasy postcards, photomontage postcards, wartime poem postcards, banal postcards, atomic bomb postcards, art postcards, and museum reproduction postcards. Includes essays by Naomi Schor. Andres Mario Zervigon, Ellen Handy, Cary Nelson, and John O’Brian, plus Walker Evans and Paul Eluard. Jordana Mendelson is an art historian and author of Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation 1929-1939 (2006).

Genealogies of Orientalism: History, Theory, Politics, co-edited with Edmund Burke, III (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008). Moves beyond the usual focus of postcolonial theory on the Middle East and India to other Asian societies. Delineates the overlapping of orientalism and nationalism. Explores orientalism in literary and artistic representations of colonial subjects to illuminate how modern cultures have drawn on orientalist images and indigenous self-representations. Includes essays by Zeynep Celik and Leila Kinney, Julia Clancy-Smith, Bernard Cohn, Fanny Colonna, Nicholas Dirks, Arif Dirlik, David Ludden, Jenny Sharpe, and Ella Shohat. Terry Burke is a historian and author of, among other works, The Ethnographic State: France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam (2014).

Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists, co-authored with David O’Brien (Urbana: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois and Seattle: University ofWashington Press, 2004).  Coming from the region stretching from Egypt to Pakistan, these seven transnational artists have lived much of their lives in Europe or the United States. Their work addresses diaspora and exile, political violence and terrorism, and gender, issues that only increase in importance and urgency. They include Jananne al-Ani, Ghada Amer, Mona Hatoum, Walid Raad, and Shazia Sikander. Sikander won a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” in 2006. David O’Brien is an art historian and author of After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting, and Propaganda under Napoleon (2006).

Renoir in Algeria, Roger Benjamin with an essay by Prochaska, “The Other Algeria: Renoir’s Algiers”) (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). An exhibition catalogue, this is the first study to focus on the paintings and sketches by Impressionist Auguste Renoir of orientalist themes based on his 1881 and 1882 visits to Algeria. Australian art historian Roger Benjamin is an art historian and also author of Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 (2003).

Making Algeria French:  Colonialism in Bône, 1870-1920 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 2004). Settler colonialism and colonial urbanism theorized and historicized. Applied to Annaba (former Bône), the Hippo of St. Augustine (who was born 45 miles south). Early study that argued settlers played  preponderant role in colonial Algeria. First study based on local Algerian archives since the Algerian war 1954-1962.