Archive: Books
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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
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Sabat Flips the Script on Alzheimer's, Dementia
Steven Sabat, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology, has published Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: What Everyone Needs to Know, the latest in an Oxford…
February 2, 2018
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Celenza Publishes Two New Books on Italian Renaissance
Celenza published his sixth book, Petrarch: Everywhere A Wanderer in December 2017; his seventh, The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the…
January 19, 2018
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Lifshey Receives Distinguished Research Award
Professor Adam Lifshey has traveled around the world to research Spanish-language literature far beyond what’s traditionally considered the Spanish-speaking world. His…
December 19, 2017