Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements
Eds. Susan E. Bell, A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences in Sociology and Anthropology, and Anne E. Figert
February 2015 (Routledge)
Cool fact: The book is a collection of essays that builds on the symposium "Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Technoscience," held in 2013 at Bowdoin.
Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain
By Margaret E. Boyle, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages
February 2014 (University of Toronto Press)
Cool fact: One of Boyle's literature classes curated an exhibition called “How She Should Behave: Women's Archetypes in Early Modern Europe” in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
Eds. Tess Chakkalakal, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, and Kenneth W. Warren.
September 2013 (University of Georgia Press)
Cool fact: Chakkalakal and her students have been examining the Civil War from all angles through “The Civil War Era” course cluster funded by a three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation.
The Happiest People in the World
By Brock Clarke, Professor of English
November 2014 (Algonquin Books)
Cool fact: You can read an excerpt of Clarke's latest novel, which has been reviewed in the New York Times.
Stolen Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change
By David A. Collings, Professor of English
2014 (Open Humanities Press)
Cool fact: Collings’s book, part of a series on climate change at Open Humanities Press, is aimed at general readers. The book is available in printed form and as a free online resource (both through the original publisher and through the Bowdoin Digital Collections).
The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment
By Dallas G. Denery II, Associate Professor of History
January 2015 (Princeton University Press)
Cool fact: Denery and colleagues from across Bowdoin's curriculum offer a Medieval and Early Modern Studies course cluster, supported by a three-year Mellon Foundation grant.
The Antiquarian (English translation)
By Gustavo Faverón Patriau, Associate Professor of Romance Languages
June 2014 (Grove Atlantic)
Cool fact: Faverón's novel has been praised by Mario Vargas Llosa and lauded by the New York Times.
The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe
By Kristen Ghodsee, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies
February 2015 (Duke University Press)
Cool fact: Ghodsee, whose research has been supported by a recent Guggenheim Fellowship, is currently working on a book project at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany.
aka Marcel Duchamp: Meditations on the Identities of an Artist
Eds. Anne Collins Goodyear, co-director of the Bowdoin Museum College of Art, and James W. Mcmanus
November 2014 (Random House)
Cool fact: The Bowdoin College Museum of Art just acquired Marcel Duchamp’s Monte Carlo Bond (1924/1938) and Ai Weiwei’s Wanted (2014), which is based on Duchamp’s infamous Wanted: $2,000 Reward (1923/1963), now on view at the BCMA through February 8th.
The People, Place, and Space Reader
Eds. Jen Jack Gieseking, New Media and Data Visualization Specialist, and William Mangold
May 2014 (Routledge)
Cool fact: As part of the Digital and Computation Studies Initiative, Gieseking has collaborated on an array of faculty and student projects, such as this virtual exhibition at Bowdoin's Museum of Art. Read more about the book here.
Galileo’s Reading
By Crystal Hall, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Digital HumanitiesJanuary 2014 (Cambridge University Press)
Cool fact: Hall spent a decade identifying hundreds of volumes in Galileo Galilei’s library and using digital analysis to create an interactive collection revealing pathways between Galileo’s writing, his life, and the arts and sciences of the time period in which he lived.
Storytelling and Science: Rewriting Oppenheimer in the Nuclear Age
By David Hecht, Assistant Professor of HistoryMay 2015 (University of Massachusetts Press)
Rational Intuition: Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations
Eds. Barbara S. Held, Barry N. Wish Professor of Psychology and Social Studies, and Lisa M. OsbeckAugust 2014 (Cambridge University Press)
Cool fact: Along with professors Nancy Jennings and Paul Schaffner, Held recently taught the final class of her long Bowdoin career.
Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas
By Sarah Montross, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Bowdoin Museum Of ArtMarch 2015 (The MIT Press)
Cool fact: This publication coincides with a major exhibition on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from March 5-June 7, 2015.
North By Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration
Eds. Susan A. Kaplan, Professor of Anthropology, and Robert McCracken PeckNovember 2013 (American Philosophical Society)
Cool fact: Kaplan directs Bowdoin’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center.
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Deities on the Move
By Sree Padma, Research Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
July 2014 (Lexington Books)
Cool fact: Padma also directs the ISLE Program, which enables immersive academic experiences for Bowdoin students in Sri Lanka.
Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slaveryin the United States, 1777-1865
By Patrick Rael, Professor of HistoryAugust 2015 (University of Georgia Press)
Authorizing the Shogunate: Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order
By Vyjayanthi R. Selinger, Associate Professor Asian Studies
August 2013 (Brill)
Cool fact: One of Selinger’s projects is to find innovative ways to give Bowdoin students opportunities to experience Japanese culture.
Berlin Coquette: Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890–1933
By Jill Suzanne Smith, John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of GermanDecember 2013 (Cornell University Press)
Cool fact: Smith was recently appointed to an endowed chair at Bowdoin and is now working on a project called “War Crimes: The Bosnian Crisis in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature and Film.”
Locke’s Metaphysics
By Matthew Stuart, Professor of PhilosophySeptember 2013 (Oxford University Press)
Cool fact: Stuart is also the editor of the upcoming “A Companion to Locke” for Wiley-Blackwell.
Jewish Immigrants in London: 1880-1939
By Susan L. Tananbaum, Associate Professor of History
March 2014 (Pickering and Chatto Publishers)
Cool fact: Tananbaum has also written reviews of works by other authors on the Jewish diaspora.
Gloria Swanson: Ready for Her Close-Up
By Tricia Welsch, Professor of Cinema Studies
August 2013 (University Press of Mississippi)
Cool fact: You can watch a video interview about Welsch’s book on Vimeo.
Monteverde: ecología y conservación de un bosque nuboso tropical (Updated and translated into Spanish)
Eds. Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Natural Sciences, and Nalini M. Nadkarni
December 2014 (Bowdoin Digital Commons)
Cool fact: A guide to the biodiversity of a Costa Rican cloud forest reserve, this translation was created especially for Bowdoin’s Digital Collections, where it is available for public use free of charge (along with the English edition originally published by Oxford University Press).
