Archive: Books
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Spanish and Portuguese Professor Publishes Book on Noted Sociologist Orlando Fals Borda
Joanne Rappaport, a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, published Cowards Don’t Make History in October of this year. The book follows the research-activist…
November 16, 2020
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A Dog-Eared Book: Georgetown Professor Publishes Collection of Poems About Humanity’s Best Friend
The adage dogs are a man’s best friend is hardly a new sentiment. Duncan Wu, a professor in the Department of English, curated, edited and published Dog-Eared, a collection of…
October 26, 2020
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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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New Book by Professor Eli McCarthy Provides Framework for Just Peace
Eli McCarthy published his most recent book A Just Peace Ethic Primer, which comprised of a collection of essays by a diverse group of scholars, that outlines the ethical,…
May 4, 2020
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Book by Georgetown Professor Made into TV Mini Series
It’s not every day that your book is published, and it is an even more rare occurrence when it is adapted for the screen. For Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies professor…
February 26, 2020
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Golden Arches: New Book Explores McDonald’s, Civil Rights and Politics
Department of History professor Marcia Chatelain, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor and author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration (2015),…
January 10, 2020
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Animals in Heaven? Jesuit Professor’s New Book Claims Catholic Theology Says Yes
Professor Christopher Steck of the Department of Theology published his book All God’s Animals: A Catholic Theological Framework for Animal Ethics, the first of its kind to…
November 12, 2019
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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