Author Archives: Bookworm
Redefining how nonprofits solve problems
School of Social Work Associate Professor and Assistant Dean Stephanie Berzin is the co-author of Innovation from Within: Redefining How Nonprofits Solve Problems (Oxford University Press, 2018), which provides a practical framework for how leaders in the nonprofit sector can foster … Continue reading
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Tagged nonprofit sector, School of Social Work, social innovation
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Book from BC’s Amoris Laetitia conference
The new book, Amoris Laetitia: A New Momentum for Moral Formation and Pastoral Practice (Paulist Press, 2018), is based on presentations and discussions from an October 2017 conference at Boston College where bishops and theologians considered how Pope Francis’ family … Continue reading
Black politics and partisanship in 19th-century Boston
Boston College graduate Millington Bergeson-Lockwood, a historian of race, law, and politics in the 19th century, is the author of Race Over Party: Black Politics and Partisanship in 19th Century Boston (UNC Press, 2018). In this in-depth study, Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party … Continue reading
Alumna with her own book publishing imprint
Christy Ottaviano, who received two master’s degree from Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, is a children’s book editor and publisher with her own imprint at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, where she oversees the entire operation from identifying talent to editing … Continue reading
Irish Nationalists in Boston
Damien Murray, who earned his doctorate in history from Boston College, has published a book based on his dissertation. Titled Irish Nationalists in Boston: Catholicism and Conflict, 1900-1928 (CUA Press, 2018), the book looks at how the intersection of support for Irish freedom … Continue reading
Book award for BC alumnus
Boston College alumnus Hidetaka Hirota has been honored with the First Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for his book Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy (Oxford University Press). The award … Continue reading
Translating Isaac Babel
Tablet magazine has published a new English translation—written by BC Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer—of one of the most celebrated works of Jewish fiction. Shrayer has translated, from the Russian, “Awakening,” a short story by Isaac … Continue reading
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Tagged Jewish, Russian, Slavic and Eastern Languages Dept, translation
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Students contribute to Azadi magazine
Two Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences seniors have recently had articles published in the Boston-based Persian-language cultural magazine Azadi. Austin Bodetti (near left) and Omeed Alidadi (far left), students in Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literature’s “Advanced Readings in Persian” course, translated American … Continue reading
Award-winning BC Law exhibit catalog
The American Association of Law Libraries has awarded its 2018 Law Library Publication Award (Print Division) to the BC Law creators of Robert Morris: Lawyer & Activist, the catalog that accompanied an exhibition of the same name in the Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston College Law School, Law Library, legal history
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Award for Weiskott
The 2018 Beatrice White Prize has been awarded to Associate Professor of English Eric Weiskott for English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History (Cambridge University Press). Presented by the English Association based at the University of Leicester, the Beatrice … Continue reading
