Archive: Books

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The International Order Benefits When America Plays Its Part, Georgetown Professor Argues in New Book

Robert Lieber's new book, Indispensable Nation, argues the United States should play a stronger leadership role in the international.…

August 24, 2022

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The Untold Story of the Windy City: Georgetown Professor Paints New History of Mexican Americans in Chicago

Mike Amezcua’s new book, Making Mexican Chicago, tells the story of the Windy City as it was built by its Mexican and Mexican-American population, exploring the ways in which…

February 18, 2022

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Can Dialogue Engender Solidarity? A New Book Invites Conversation and Action Between Blacks and Jews in America

GU Press is publishing Blacks and Jews in America by Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau. The book invites a dialogue and collective action between the Jewish and…

January 31, 2022

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Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism Linked to Climate Crisis: New Book Explores the Connection

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, reimagines what the reparations movements responding to Trans-Atlantic slavery and colonialism…

January 4, 2022

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Library Acquires Rare Logbook That Illustrates Life Aboard a Slave Ship

A recent gift to Georgetown University Library, now digitized and made available online, provides poignant and valuable insight into the Atlantic slave trade. “As historians,…

August 20, 2020

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Major Crises Can Turn Democracies Into Dictatorships, Book Claims

Crisis incidents have the potential to turn a democracy into a dictatorship, even in a country like America, Psychology professor Fathali Moghaddam contends in his latest.…

September 10, 2019

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New Book Examines Relationship Between R&B Culture, Black Aspirations

A new book by Robert Patterson (C’02), chair of the Department of African American Studies, examines how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing…

June 18, 2019

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Benton-Cohen Teaches Immigration History in Japan Residency

Professor Katherine Benton-Cohen visited Japan last summer as part of an academic. …

December 18, 2018

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Summer Reading: David Edelstein's Over the Horizon

Georgetown College government professor and Vice Dean David Edelstein published a book last fall titled Over the Horizon, a historical analysis of the behavior of great powers in…

June 14, 2018

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McNamer Book Wins MLA Award

Georgetown College English and medieval studies professor Sarah McNamer was awarded the 2017 Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a…

March 26, 2018