-
Join 167 other subscribers
Categories
Author Archives: Bookworm
The rise and influence of teachers unions
Despite being all but nonexistent until the 1960s, teachers unions are maintaining members, assets—and political influence while other American labor organizations struggle for survival and relevance in the 21st century. In the new book, How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, … Continue reading
Posted in Boston College Authors
Tagged American politics, Political Science department, teachers, unions
Leave a comment
The descendant
Fourteen-year-old Taína just learned that she is a descendant of a long line of strong Taíno women, but will knowing this help her bring peace and justice to her family and community? This question is at the heart of a … Continue reading
Women in revolutionary America
Women’s rights and agency during the era of the American Revolution were restricted by laws and social custom. Yet, according to In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America (New York University Press, 2023)—a new book from Boston … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni Authors
Tagged American history, American Revolution, History Department, legal, women
Leave a comment
How to write a travel memoir
If you ever wanted to write a travel memoir or capture a few stories from your vacations, Boston College graduate Jillian Schedneck has written a guide book to help you accomplish your goal. Write Your Travel Memoir: A Step-by-Step Guide … Continue reading
A social justice schema for educators
BC Lynch School of Education and Human Development Associate Professor Martin Scanlan has written a book that provides educators and school leaders in both the private and public sectors a highly accessible and easily adaptable framework that can help them … Continue reading
‘Kantika’ by Elizabeth Graver
Kantika, the latest novel by Boston College Professor of English Elizabeth Graver, is a multi-generational saga of one family’s displacement across four different countries. Kantika is a genre-defying mix of personal family history and fiction, drawn from interviews Graver conducted … Continue reading
Posted in Boston College Authors
Tagged English Department, family saga, Jewish, novel
Leave a comment
‘To Carry Wonder’
Boston College graduate Emese Parker is author of To Carry Wonder: A Memoir and Guide to Adventures in Pregnancy and Beyond, a new type of pregnancy book that aims to nurture, inspire, and equip mothers-to-be and postpartum mothers. Drawing from … Continue reading
Posted in Alumni Authors
Tagged Connell School of Nursing, health care, motherhood, pregnancy
Leave a comment
Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions
Rhonda Frederick, an associate professor of English and African and African Diaspora studies at BC, has written a literature-based interdisciplinary study of blackness in the Americas. Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions (Rutgers University Press, 2022) … Continue reading
Poetry collections from BC Law student
Billie Bioku, who will graduate this month from Boston College Law School, has published two books of poetry. We Ponder: Unsettled Minds (Archway Publishing, 2023), Bioku’s debut poetry collection, is a reflection of classic poetry with abstract concepts that touches … Continue reading
How Königsberg Became Kaliningrad
German Blood, Slavic Soil (Cornell University Press, 2023), a new book by Boston College Associate Professor of History Nicole Eaton, reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, 20th-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and … Continue reading
BC Bookmarks 