Alum Authors 2026
The 2026 Alum Authors Celebration will take place on Saturday, May 30, at 3:00 pm in the Park Science Atrium. Featured books by our alums are listed below.
Shirley Chisholm
$25.00
| by Anastasia C. Curwood - BMC '96 |
Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Chisholm spent her formative years moving between Barbados and Brooklyn, and the development of her political orientation did not follow the standard narratives of the civil rights or feminist establishments. Rather, Chisholm arrived at her Black feminism on her own path, making signature contributions to U.S. politics as an inventor and practitioner of Black feminist power--the vantage point centering Black girls and women in the movement that sought to transform political power into a broadly democratic force.
Anastasia C. Curwood interweaves Chisholm's public image, political commitments, and private experiences to create a definitive account of a consequential life. In so doing, Curwood suggests new truths for understanding the social movements of Chisholm's time and the opportunities she forged for herself through multicultural, multigenerational, and cross-gender coalition building.
ISBN/SKU:
9781469683157
Publication Date:
April 23, 2024
Publisher:
Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages
$72.95
| by Jill Caskey - BMC '86 |
Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages is a panoramic survey that focuses on the arts of medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamicate world. From majestic monuments to exquisite tableware, Jill Caskey, Adam S. Cohen, and Linda Safran deftly guide readers over twelve centuries of art and architecture created by the diverse peoples and religious groups of western Eurasia and North Africa.
This textbook, intended for a wide range of courses in the history of medieval art and architecture, uniquely features:
- More than 450 color illustrations of fascinating works produced between ca. 250 CE and ca. 1450 CE
- Coverage of secular and religious arts, including polytheistic, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions
- Informational text boxes on key issues and a glossary of terms
- Diverse cultures interwoven in a single chronological framework
- Five broad interpretive themes--artistic production, status and identity, connection to the past, ideology, and access to the sacred
Complemented by a website (artofthemiddleages.com) with additional works, dynamic maps and timelines, podcasts, new primary-source translations, and more, Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages brilliantly expands and recalibrates the story of medieval art history.
ISBN/SKU:
9781501702822
Publication Date:
January 15, 2023
Publisher:
How to Be a Woman Online
$17.95
by Nina Jankowicz - BMC '11
Finalist: PROSE Awards 2023 - Media and Cultural Studies
"Blisteringly witty." Kirkus
"An essential guide." Publisher's Weekly
"Timely." Booklist
When Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was profiled in The New Yorker, she expected attention but not an avalanche of abuse and harassment, predominantly from men, online.
ISBN/SKU:
9781350267572
Publication Date:
April 21, 2022
Publisher:
How to Lose the Information War
$20.95
| by Nina Jankowicz - BMC '11 |
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information to fuel fake narratives and make the case for illegal warfare. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it?
Central and Eastern European states, including Ukraine and Poland, however, have been aware of the threat for years. Nina Jankowicz has advised these governments on the front lines of the information war. The lessons she learnt from that fight, and from her attempts to get US congress to act, make for essential reading. How to Lose the Information War takes the reader on a journey through five Western governments' responses to Russian information warfare tactics - all of which have failed. She journeys into the campaigns the Russian operatives run, and shows how we can better understand the motivations behind these attacks and how to beat them. Above all, this book shows what is at stake: the future of civil discourse and democracy, and the value of truth itself.ISBN/SKU:
9780755642083
Publication Date:
September 23, 2021
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