Category Archives: Alumni Authors
Boston’s Black athletes
Boston College Associate Professor of the Practice Susan Michalczyk has contributed a chapter to the new book, Boston’s Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). The book, edited by Robert Cvornyek and Douglas Stark, interprets Boston’s contested … Continue reading
Colorful journey
The newly released Max’s Life in Blue is the debut children’s book by Boston College alumna Caysie Carter Harvey. Illustrated by Valerie Imparato, Max’s Life in Blue is a captivating tale of a young boy living in a world painted entirely in blue. The … Continue reading
Sand dunes and salty air
Secret, Hidden, and Forgotten Cape Cod (Omni Publishing, 2024) is a new book that unveils the lesser-known treasures of the iconic peninsula, from secluded shores and enchanting trails to secret places to watch the sun rise and set. The authors … Continue reading
Pickwick Club
On the night of July 4, 1925, the Pickwick Club, a five-story speakeasy in Boston, collapsed, killing 44 people and seriously injuring dozens more. In his book, Deathtrap: Boston’s Pickwick Club Disaster, 1961 Boston College graduate John Keefe, a retired … Continue reading
Asian American is Not A Color
Educator and race scholar OiYan Poon’s new book Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family (Beacon Press, 2024) is inspired by her daughter’s questions about race and racism. Poon conducted interviews with Asian Americans … Continue reading
A culture of readiness
Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Building an Unconquerable Organization (Routledge, 2022) challenges the notion that corporate crisis teams can be expected to swoop in and “save the day.” The book’s author, Brendan Monahan, says the role of the crisis team should … Continue reading
An Innkeeper’s Memoir
It sounds like the premise of a movie or a novel: A couple ditches corporate life and buys and restores an inn on the coast of Maine. In actuality, it’s the real life story of 1986 Boston College grad Teri … Continue reading
Afghanistan and a disillusioned veteran
Final Engagement: A Marine’s Last Mission and the Surrender of Afghanistan (Diversion Books, 2024) is 2010 Boston College graduate Christopher Izant’s reckoning with America’s longest war, told through his team’s deadly last showdown fighting alongside Afghan forces against the Taliban. It … Continue reading
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The Big Squeeze
A new picture book from 2010 Boston College graduate Molly Harris shares a lesson about the importance of asking for help before burning out. The Big Squeeze (HarperCollins Children’s, 2024), illustrated by Alison Hawkins, tells the story of an eager … Continue reading
How gender politics broke a party and a nation
Lauren Haumesser, a 2010 Boston College graduate, conducts a fresh examination of antebellum politics by examining the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in her book The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke … Continue reading
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Tagged American history, Civil War, gender, History Department
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