Category Archives: Boston College Authors
Another award for The Sojourn
The Sojourn, a stirring novel of brotherhood, survival, and coming-of-age during World War I written by Andrew Krivak, a faculty member in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program Boston College, has been awarded the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in … Continue reading
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Tagged A&S Honors Program, family saga, World War I
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Aftermath Book Launch
The Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice will host a book launch for Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora, written by Law Professor Daniel Kanstroom, on Sept. 12 at 5:00 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Commons. Kanstroom will offer commentary … Continue reading
Fighting teacher burnout
Almost half of new teachers leave the profession within their first year. New teachers need support, mentoring, encouragement, and, most importantly, hope in order to survive the challenges of their first years of teaching. Encouragement comes in the form of … Continue reading
A poet’s Magnum Opus
Epitaphs for the Journey, a new collection by award-winning poet and University Professor of English Paul Mariani, offers the best of his long and distinguished career: it brings together new poetry, revisits his extensive body of work which spans four … Continue reading
God and humanity
Theologian Dominic F. Doyle, an associate professor of systematic theology in the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, has published a new book that, according to the publisher, “shows how the Christian virtue of hope breathes new life into … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, God, School of Theology and Ministry
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Transformation of a Jewish curse
A new book by Rabbi Ruth Langer, a professor of theology and associate director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College, has been hailed as “masterful” by Jewish Ideas Daily. Rabbi Langer is an expert in Jewish tradition … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian-Jewish Learning, Jewish, prayer, Theology Dept.
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Vatican II & the Magisterium
Richard R. Gaillardetz, Joseph McCarthy Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College and president-elect of the Catholic Theological Society of America, has co-authored (with Catherine Clifford) a book that offers an accessible take on the vision of the Second … Continue reading
How Effective Is Deportation?
Law Professor Daniel Kanstroom, associate director of Boston College’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice, has written a new book Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora, which questions the effectiveness of deportation as an immigration policy. He … Continue reading
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Tagged deportation, immigration, Law School, politics, US domestic policy
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World History Association Book Prize
Professor of History Prasannan Parthasarathi has won the 2012 World History Association Book Prize for his work, Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850. The WHA, considered the foremost organization for the promotion of world history … Continue reading
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Tagged Asia, Europe, History Department, world history
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Transforming teaching
Lynch School of Education Thomas More Brennan Professor Andy Hargreaves and his co-author Michael Fullan have been selected as education authors of the month by Routledge Press, the British publisher of their new book, Professional Capital: Transforming Teaching in Every … Continue reading
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Tagged education, Lynch School of Education, policymakers
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