Professors Share Their New Books

Angela Banks, My Gratitude Journal
This book helps children discover the joy of gratitude, positivity, and mindfulness.

Erin Brigham, Empowering People Through Encounter: Catholic Social Teaching and Community Organizing
This book mobilizes Catholics and other people of faith to enact social change.

Nora Fisher-Onar, Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond
Fisher-Onar challenges a widespread tendency to limit studies of Turkish — and Muslim — politics to “Islamist vs. secularist” or “Islam vs. democracy” debates.

Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, The Majestic Place: The Freedom Possible in Black Women's Leadership
Black women leaders talk about how they serve some of the most vulnerable and chronically disserved people.

Ilaria Giglioli, Unbounding Europe: Bordering and the Politics of Mediterranean Solidarity in Italy and Tunisia
At a time of global border fortification and rising nationalism, this book analyzes how Sicilians and Tunisians negotiate relationships of proximity and difference in multiple arenas of life.

Monika Hudson, Women in Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses
Hudson explores the challenges women face at work, such as gender bias and balancing work with family.

Kathryn Kenworth, Cerrado: Mexico City Off Hours
This book of photographs “captures Mexico City in a state of stillness, where commerce pauses and the everyday becomes unfamiliar and poetic.”

Filip Kovacevic, KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union
The first-ever account of spy fiction written by Soviet intelligence and counterintelligence officers.

Gary Quan, Asian American Chronicles: Tales of Mental Health and Hope
Quan invites readers to join the conversation of what it means to be Asian American.

David Silver, The Farm at Black Mountain College
John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Willem de Kooning, and Buckminster Fuller all taught at Black Mountain College, the small liberal arts school in North Carolina that raised its own food.

Ronald Sundstrom, Just Shelter: Gentrification, Integration, Race, and Reconstruction
If we do not address the history of racism in housing policy, we will never solve today’s housing crisis, Sundstrom writes.

Kelsey Urgo, Search as Learning
Search systems don’t just retrieve facts; they learn. Urgo reviews research on search as learning.

Lisa Wagner, Aging and Diversity: Social and Community Contexts of Aging
Aging and diversity intersect as people from different backgrounds experience aging through distinct lenses shaped by traditions, values, and beliefs.