Visiting the library? Explore Haverford faculty-authored scholarship and books on display in the Morley Alcove on Level 2 of Lutnick Library (map).
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Drawing on Religion: Reading and the Moral Imagination in Comics and Graphic Novels
Ken Koltun-Fromm
Comics traffic in stereotypes, which can translate into real danger, as was the case when, in 2015, two Muslim gunmen opened fire at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which had published depictions of Islam and Muhammad perceived by many to be blasphemous. As a response to that tragedy, Ken Koltun-Fromm ... Read More
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Genetic Analysis: Genes, Genomes, and Networks in Eukaryotes (3rd. ed.)
Philip Meneely
Genetic Analysis applies the combined power of molecular biology, genetics, and genomics to explore how the principles of genetics can be used as analytical tools to solve biological problems. Opening with a brief overview of key genetic principles, model organisms, and epigenetics, the book goes on to explore the use ... Read More
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Sugar, Smoke, Song: A Novel
Reema Rajbanshi
Sugar, Smoke, Song is a collection of nine linked stories set in the Bronx, California, India, and Brazil. Following the secrets and passions of young women, these stories and their narrators cross genres and rules to arrive at unforeseen lives. A subway rider remembers enacting the gods with her estranged ... Read More
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Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature
Lindsay V. Reckson
Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American realism, Realist Ecstasy travels from camp meetings to Native American ghost dances to storefront church revivals to explore realism’s relationship to spiritual experience. In her approach to realism as both an unruly archive of performance and a ... Read More
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Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
Zainab Saleh
With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin tells the human story of this exile in the context of decades of U.S. imperial interests in Iraq—from the U.S. backing of the 1963 Ba'th coup and ... Read More
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Experimental Physics: Principles and Practice for the Laboratory
Walter Fox Smith
This textbook provides the knowledge and skills needed for thorough understanding of the most important methods and ways of thinking in experimental physics. The reader learns to design, assemble, and debug apparatus, to use it to take meaningful data, and to think carefully about the story told by the data.
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Entre fuegos, memoria y violencia de Estado: Los textos literarios y testimoniales del movimiento armado en México
Aurelia Gómez Unamuno
A partir de los ejes centrales, memoria y violencia, el libro traza un recorrido por los textos literarios y testimoniales publicados por exmilitantes del movimiento armado socialista en México, desde fines de la década de los setenta hasta nuestros días. Pese a la amplia producción escrituraria y prácticas de memoria, ... Read More
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Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora
Gina Velasco
Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of ... Read More
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Party Pictures
William Earle Williams
Party Pictures is a fascinating record of the time, touching on the history ofphotography, the legacy of Philadelphia and the societal changes of the late 20th C.Williams’ stunning photographs present the intersections of widely divergent communities,bound by their aspirations and foibles.
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The Archive of Fear: White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois
Christina L. Zwarg
Not about Haiti but about the haunting power of its revolution, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect U.S. discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War, sometimes with surprising intensity and endurance. Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath ... Read More
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Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers
Anne Balay
Even as substantial legal and social victories are being celebrated within the gay rights movement, much of working-class America still exists outside the current narratives of gay liberation. In Steel Closets, Anne Balay draws on oral history interviews with forty gay, lesbian, and transgender steelworkers, mostly living in northwestern Indiana, ... Read More
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Trickster Theatre: The Poetics of Freedom in Urban Africa (African Expressive Cultures)
Jesse Weaver Shipley
Trickster Theatre traces the changing social significance of national theatre in Ghana from its rise as an idealistic state project from the time of independence to its reinvention in recent electronic, market-oriented genres. Jesse Weaver Shipley presents portraits of many key figures in Ghanaian theatre and examines how Akan trickster ... Read More
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Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music
Jesse Weaver Shipley
Hiplife is a popular music genre in Ghana that mixes hip-hop beatmaking and rap with highlife music, proverbial speech, and Akan storytelling. In the 1990s, young Ghanaian musicians were drawn to hip-hop's dual ethos of black masculine empowerment and capitalist success. They made their underground sound mainstream by infusing carefree ... Read More
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Creating Spiritual & Psychological Resilience: Integrating Care in Disaster Relief Work
Grant H. Brenner, Daniel H. Bush, and Joshua Moses
Creating Spiritual and Psychological Resilience explores the interface between spiritual and psychological care in the context of disaster recovery work, drawing upon recent disasters including but not limited to, the experiences of September 11, 2001. Each of the three sections that make up the book are structured around the cycle ... Read More
