Author Archives: Bookworm
Madison’s Hand named a “book of the year”
The Legal Theory Blog, by Georgetown Law Professor Lawrence Solum, has named Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention by BC Law Professor Mary Sarah Bilder one of its “books of the year,” calling it one of the ten most interesting books … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston College Law School, constitution, history
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Becoming Washington
In his new book Becoming George Washington (Wise Ink Creative Publishing, 2015), BC alumnus Steve Yoch tells the story of how an insecure, fatherless boy rises to become one of the country’s founding fathers. Becoming George Washington follows Washington through the French & Indian … Continue reading
The Abbey from Fr. Martin
James Martin, SJ, a Jesuit priest and best-selling author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, has published his first novel, The Abbey (HarperOne, 2015). The story is about three people (a divorced woman dealing with the death of her … Continue reading
Way Down in Louisiana
Way Down in Louisiana: Clifton Chenier, Cajun, Zydeco, and Swamp Pop Music (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2015) is a collection of profiles of musicians from Cajun and Creole country, a place where tradition and innovation rub against one another from the kitchen to … Continue reading
“The medium is the message”
James C. Morrison, a faculty member in the Communication Department, has contributed a chapter to the book, Baby Boomers and Popular Culture: An Inquiry into America’s Most Powerful Generation (Praeger). His chapter is titled “Marshall McLuhan and the Making of … Continue reading
Shakespeare
The Australian, Australia’s largest-selling national paper, has named Shakespeare, Not Stirred as one of the best books of 2015. The book is co-authored by BC Associate Professor of English Caroline Bicks and Michelle Ephraim. The book has generated buzz as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death … Continue reading
Franck Salameh
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies Franck Salameh gave a book talk at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University’s Fletcher School on his latest work, Charles Corm: An Intellectual Biography of a Twentieth-Century Lebanese “Young Phoenician” (Lexington Books, 2015). Present at the book … Continue reading
Lykes named co-editor of journal
Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice Associate Director M. Brinton Lykes, a professor of community-cultural psychology in the Lynch School of Education, has been named co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. The journal publishes high quality … Continue reading
Jesuit authors
Books written by two Jesuit authors have recently been reviewed in leading Catholic magazines. University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics by Canisius Professor James F. Keenan, SJ was reviewed in US Catholic magazine. Fr. Keenan … Continue reading
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Tagged Argentina, ethics, Jesuit author, Jesuit Institute, politics, Sociology Dept
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