Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Filming the End of the Holocaust
In his new book, Filming the End of the Holocaust: Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Bloomsbury, 2014), Professor of Fine Arts John Michalczyk tells the story of how the US Government commissioned filmmakers to document the … Continue reading
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Tagged film, Fine Arts Department, Holocaust, law, war, World War II
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Book award for Derber
Capitalism: Should You Buy It? (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) co-written by Boston College Professor of Sociology Charles Derber and Yale Magrass (University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) has been selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 by the editors of Choice magazine, an … Continue reading
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Tagged America, economy, Sociology Dept
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Gasson Chair Frank Brennan, S.J.
Frank Brennan, S.J., who holds an appointment at Boston College Law School as the Gasson Chair, has written a review of Austen Ivereigh’s biography The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope for the Australian Broadcasting Co.’s “Religion and Ethics.” An expert … Continue reading
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A look at trade
Boston College Professor of Political Science David Deese is the editor of Handbook of the International Political Economy of Trade, which brings together leading researchers and writers from different countries to highlight the most important and promising research and policy questions regarding … Continue reading
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Tagged BC Libraries, business, Political Science department, politics
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The notion of the hero
Professor Emerita of English Judith Wilt explores the topic of the hero in her new book, Women Writers and the Hero of Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). In perhaps the most personal book of her long career, Wilt draws from classics like Wuthering Heights … Continue reading
Retirement reality check
Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do About It (Oxford University Press, 2015), a new book by co-authored by retirement experts at Boston College, serves as both a wake-up call to Americans and policymakers about the coming shortfall in retirement savings … Continue reading
Award for Hargreaves
Lynch School of Education Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves and his co-author Michael Fullan have been named recipients of the 2015 Grawemeyer Award in Education from the University of Louisville for the ideas expressed in their book, Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every School (Teachers … Continue reading
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For love of the game
In his new book, Sport: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014), Boston College-Ireland Academic Director Mike Cronin charts the history of sport, from its traditional origins in folk football and cock fighting to its position as a global phenomenon today. Looking … Continue reading
Book prize for Levenson
Congratulations to Professor of History Deborah Levenson who was awarded the New England Council of Latin American Studies’ Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize for her publication Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death (Duke University … Continue reading
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Tagged Guatemala, History Department, Latin America
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Conflict Bodies
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, an assistant professor in the Romance Languages and Literatures Department who also teaches in the African and African Diaspora Studies Program, will talk about her new book Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary (The Ohio … Continue reading
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