A brief look at what Arts and Science people are reading now.
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Junior Vivien G. Haupt (pictured), psychology, is reading Brain Sex by Anne Moir and David Jessel for her neuroscience class.
Other recent reads:
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer (as part of a reading group with her mom)
The State Of The Earth by Paul Conkin, professor of history, emeritus (makes me want to meet the author)
Papers on the synchronous discharge of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex
The Bourne Betrayal by Robert Ludlum (airport reading)
—Ford Ebner, professor of psychology and professor of cell and developmental biology
The New Yorker
The New York Times (online)
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
The Republic in Print by Trish Loughran
The Postal Age by David M. Henkin
—Teresa A. Goddu,
director of American studies and associate professor of English
Ghost Riders by Sharyn McCrumb
Spider Woman’s Web: Traditional Native American Tales about Women’s Power by Susan Hazen-Hammond
Traditions of the Arapaho by George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber
— Anne Hill, administrative assistant, history of art
Rethinking Expertise by Harry Collins and Robert Evans
Why Posterity Matters by Avner de-Shalit
New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis
by Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner
Worst-Case Scenarios by Cass Sunstein
Climate Change 2007, Vol II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
by IPCC Working Group 2
Experience and Nature by John Dewey
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by Lawrence Sterne
Judge Fogg by Randy O’Brien
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (bedtime reading to my daughter) by J.K. Rowling
Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
—Jonathan Gilligan, senior lecturer in earth and environmental science and public policy
Linda Tressel by Anthony Trollope
Miss Majoribanks by Margaret Oliphant
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
—Jo Ann Staples, senior lecturer in mathematics and director of teaching
The New Yorker
Now a Major Motion Picture by Christine Geraghty
Scripts by a very talented Russian script writer of the 1970s, Iurii Klepikov
— Irina Makoveeva, Mellon Assistant Professor of Russian
Blogs: Hot Air, Protein Wisdom, The Next Right and American Thinker
Defending Identity by Natan Sharansky
— Mike Warren, junior, economics
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
Back issues of The New York Times and various books on the Vietnam War
Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History by John Reader (reading it was more fun than it sounds)
—Peter Brush, librarian and East Asian studies bibliographer
photo credit: Steve Green
