I will be updating my blog with details from the UNO presidential search later tonight. However, in the meantime, here’s a Christmas post.
I assume that, like me, most doctoral students keep a wish list of books. Well, here’s mine. If only all academic books were available for Kindle…
Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx by Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala
Rethinking admissions for a new millennium: moving past the SAT for social diversity and academic excellence (2011– Forthcoming). Soares, J.A.
Class Dismissed: Why We Cannot Teach or Learn Our Way Out of Inequality by John Marsh
Changing Inequality by Rebecca M. Blank
Police in the Hallways: Discipline in an Urban High School by Kathleen Nolan
House Signs and Collegiate Fun: Sex, Race, and Faith in a College Town by Chaise LaDousa
White Middle-Class Identities and Urban Schooling by Diane Reay, Gill Crozier, and David James
American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection by Laurie Essig
Gender and the Construction of Dominant, Hegemonic, and Oppositional Femininities by Justin Charlebois
The Plantation by Edgar Tristram Thompson, edited by Sidney Mintz and George Baca
Democracy and the Intersection of Religion: The Reading of John Dewey’s Understanding of Democracy and Education by Rosa Bruno-Jofre
Education as Dialogue: Its Prerequisites and Its Enemies by Tasos Kazepides
Cultural Studies in the Future Tense by Lawrence Grossberg
First Nations Education Policy in Canada: Progress or Gridlock? by Jerry Paquette
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
The Demographics of Empire: The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge edited by Karl Ittmann, Dennis D. Cordell, and Gregory H. Maddox
Thatcher and After: Margaret Thatcher and Her Afterlife inContemporary Culture edited by Louisa Hadley and Elizabeth Ho
Sustainable Diplomacies edited by Costas M. Constantinou and James Der Derian
Nine Choices: Johnny Cash and American Culture by Jonathan Silverman
Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady by Maurine H. Beasley
Public Engagement for Public Education: Joining Forces to Revitalize Democracy and Equalize Schools edited by Marion Orr and John Rogers
Gender, Politics, and Institutions: Towards a Feminist Interpretation edited by Mona Lena Krook and Fiona Mackay
Old Assumptions, New Realities: Ensuring Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st Century edited by Robert D. Plotnick
The Still Divided Academy: How Competing Visions of Power, Politics, and Diversity Complicate the Mission of Higher Education, with co-authors Stanley Rothman and Matthew Woessner
Everyone’s a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture by Joel Best
The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium by Michele Elam
The Impact of the Postcolonial Theories of Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, and Homi Bhabha on Western Thought: The Third-World Intellectual in the First-World Academy by Sumit Chakrabarti
Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged by Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien
Why Stories Matter: The Political Grammar of Feminist Theory by Clare Hemmings
More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Imani Perry
Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America edited by Harriet B. Newburger, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter
The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche: Political Physiology in the Age of Nihilism by Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle Class Performances edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Bridget Harris Tsemo
School Choice and School Improvement edited by Mark Berends, Marisa Cannata, and Ellen B. Goldring
Education Reform in New York City: Ambitious Change in the Nation’s Most Complex School System edited by Jennifer A. O’Day, Catherine S. Bitter, and Louis M. Gomez
Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times by John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Restoring Democracy to America: How to Free Markets and Politics From the Corporate Culture of Business and Government by John F.M. McDermott
Kids Don’t Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap by Angel L. Harris
The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu: Critical Essays edited by Simon Susen and Bryan S. Turner
Feminism: Transmissions and Retransmissions by Marta Lamas, translated by John Pluecker
The Fabric of Subcultures: Networks, Ethnic Force Fields, and Peoples Without Power by Mustapha Marrouchi
A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food by Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt
