Category Archives: Boston College Authors
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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“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
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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The liberal arts & China
Woods College of Advancing Studies Assistant Dean You Guo Jiang, SJ, is the author of Liberal Arts Education in a Changing Society: A New Perspective on Chinese Higher Education (Brill Academic Publishers, 2014). This work provides a unique focus on the re-emergence … Continue reading
Mass. Book Award
Alumnus Paul Reynolds, a part-time faculty member in the Communication Department, has been recognized by the Massachusetts Center for the Book with a 2015 Massachusetts Book Award for his picture book, Going Places (Simon & Schuster, 2014). The Massachusetts Book Awards recognize … Continue reading
Grief and gratitude at Thanksgiving
“It is ok to grieve on Thanksgiving, because when we grieve we feel how much the love is between ourselves and those whom we lost,” writes Canisius Professor James Keenan, SJ, in an essay for Commonweal magazine’s blog. “When we … Continue reading
An unfinished council
In spite of its impact, Vatican II was, in many ways, an unfinished council, according to Joseph Chair of Catholic Systematic Theology Richard R. Gaillardetz. He says the council bishops were able to establish key pillars in the construction of a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Theology Department, Vatican II
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