19 Nov 2019
Posted by Rachel White 
Photos by Robert Lemon Much like the government, the railroads, farmland and cities, the United States food truck industry was built on the backs of immigrants. “The Mexican food truck changed how we looked at our cities,” argues Robert Lemon, an expert in urban geography with a bachelor’s...
Read more → 21 Oct 2019
Posted by Tori Miller 
The rapid growth of America came as a shock to some, as it was the only country whose expansion occurred with such little government supervision. In Dreams of El Dorado, author H.W. Brands recounts the rich history of the American West. Beginning with the purchase of the Louisiana territory,...
Read more → 07 Oct 2019
Posted by Tori Miller 
In The Lost Books of Jane Austen, Janine Barchas explores the burgeoning popularity of Jane Austen's novels beginning in the nineteenth-century. Through photographs and unique historical perspectives, Barchas shares some of the earliest and cheapest reprints of Austen's work that brought the author...
Read more → 30 Aug 2019
Posted by Alex Reshanov 
Edward Carey’s office is filled with fanciful artwork, including several large drawings of the gloomy-eyed characters who inhabit his books. But the item that immediately catches my eye is a bowl of small, cylindrical objects that at first glance appears to be an ashtray overflowing with cigarette...
Read more → 02 Aug 2019
Posted by Tori Miller 
In Bring Your Brain to Work, Art Markman shares what you need to know to succeed at work. He highlights research from cognitive science that supports strategies to help readers get a job, to succeed at that job once they get it, and to best enhance their career by getting the next job. You’ve...
Read more → 09 Jul 2019
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Air: Pollution, Climate Change, and India’s Choice Between Policy and PretenceHarperCollins, June 2019By Dean Spears, assistant professor, Department of Economics A million people in India are killed each year by the world’s worst air pollution. This...
Read more → 06 Jun 2019
Posted by Tori Miller 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in AsiaWiley (Antipode Book Series), March 2019Edited by Jason Cons, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology; and Michael Eilenberg Frontier Assemblages offers...
Read more → 06 Jun 2019
Posted by Tori Miller 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place Cornell University Press, Dec. 2018 By Youjeong Oh, assistant professor, Department of Asian Studies Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music...
Read more → 04 Jun 2019
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: Vasari’s Words: The “Lives of the Artists” as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance Cambridge University Press, Sept. 2018 By Douglas Biow, professor, Departments of French and Italian, and History Vasari’s...
Read more → 16 Apr 2019
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
Over a period of five years (2013-18) a Faculty Committee on Influential Books discussed, debated and finally compiled a list of intellectually and culturally significant books to encourage reading by undergraduates and provide inspiration for continued reading by college alumni. The committee benefited...
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Continued Resistance: A Q&A with Professor Madeline Hsu about Hong Kong
Only When it is Dark Enough, Can You See the Stars
Season’s Readings
No Stopping Her: A Q&A with Marshall Scholar Margaret Siu
Not Even Past Blog
