Pick up books by Regis faculty
Are you searching for a great read? Look no further. Whether you’ve been looking for some fun fiction or compelling non-fiction, members of the Regis faculty have produced impressive work over the past year.
Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination
By Amin Asfari
Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination explores how Jews and Muslims are stigmatized and endangered by the same conspiratorial template.
(Keep an eye out for Amin’s forthcoming book titled: Making Sense of Islamophobia: Institutions, Individuals, and Trickle-Down Hatred.)
Building a Career at a Teaching-Focused Institution
By Mark E. Basham
Veteran professors synthesize their combined 60+ years of expertise at primarily undergraduate, teaching-focused universities into easy‑to‑follow advice for graduate students and current faculty seeking to build thriving careers at similar institutions.
Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy
By Meghan Sobel Cohen
This book provides insights directly from journalists in non-Western nations, through previously unpublished interviews and surveys, presents a specific set of factors to consider when examining media landscapes around the world and features an updated state of press freedom in three understudied media landscapes (Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya).
By Scott Dimovitz
The year is 1993, and art-school dropout Ed Pullman has returned home to work as a janitor in Allentown, Pennsylvania-the enigmatic nexus where goth kids, coffeeshop culture, and sultry drag queens collide with neo-Nazis, the dying textiles industry, and an unsettling commune led by an aspiring cult leader named Tod Griffon. As Ed and his loving cousin Ester struggle to find their place in a bleakly earnest landscape of guerrilla conceptual art, post-NAFTA labor battles, and burning factories, their hometown marches stoically toward a disaster of biblical proportions. With its vivid and original recreation of a place and time that is both utterly real and surprisingly magical, Scott Dimovitz's grittily nostalgic debut novel is a sensitively imagined fable about an unsuspecting world on the cusp of massive change.
Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean
By Erica Ferg
Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterranean.
By Eric Fretz
Set in the small coastal towns of Ohope Beach and Whakatane on New Zealand’s North Island, Groundswell is the story of an American detective, Julian Braxton, and his wife, Parvati, who think they have found the perfect life in a tropical paradise . . . until a series of suspicious deaths take place and Julian starts nosing around. The more he learns the more he realizes: no one can be trusted. As he is pulled deeper into the case, he finds himself embroiled in a vicious, complicated world involving international drug cartels and Maori land rights disputes. And he gradually realizes that there is a target on his own back.
By Jude Fokwang
In Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer, Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner city of the West African nation of Cameroon respond to local and global challenges as they seek to position themselves as social adults.
Mental Patient: Psychiatric Ethics from a Patient’s Perspective
By Abigail Gosselin
In Mental Patient, philosopher Abigail Gosselin uses her personal experiences with psychosis and the process of recovery to explore often overlooked psychiatric ethics. For many people who struggle with psychosis, she argues, psychosis impairs agency and autonomy.
Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific
By Lauren Hirshberg
Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of postwar US imperial expansion, the Cold War nuclear arms race, and the tide of anti-colonial struggles rippling across the world.
By Alyse Knorr
At the intersections of eco-poetics and queer family-building, Ardor moves across the political and natural landscapes of Alaska, Colorado, and the deep American South. These poems meditate on love and motherhood in the context of environmental crisis, foregrounding the domestic in a quest to continually re-imagine a hopeful future.
Radical Empathy in Multicultural Women’s Fiction: From the Library to Liberation
By Lara Narcisi
Fiction provides the possibility for radical empathy by connecting us with strangers and Radical Empathy in Multicultural Women’s Fiction: From the Library to Liberation both analyzes and embodies this phenomenon by putting women novelists of color in conversation with one another. Foregrounding the growing importance of intersectionality studies, this book considers how race, gender, and class interact for each author.
By Kate Partridge
THINE explores shifting iterations of the poetic self, both in body and in perspective, within the context of rapidly changing landscapes in the American West. The book’s observational approach draws together ecopoetics with art and myth, turning a skeptical eye toward predictions of both apocalypse and hope.
By Heider Tun Tun
This book, written in Spanish, recapitulates the testimonios of struggle, resistance, and activism of a group of women belonging to the Committee of Mothers and Relatives of Political Prisoners, Disappeared and Assassinated of El Salvador, Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero—also known as Co-Madres or the Mothers’ Committee—and its motivation for denouncing the violation of human rights in El Salvador since 1975. This work highlights the importance of the activism and struggle of Co-Madres for Central American society and contemporary global discussions of human rights in Latin America from the perspective of local women activists.
By Emily Van Houweling
Analyzing how water development projects unfolded in five rural communities in Mozambique, Emily Van Houweling offers an alternative perspective on water and the politicized nature of water management in the region.
Notable academic publishing by faculty
Suzanne Holm, Associate Professor Occupational Therapy
Smith-Gabai, H., Holm, S. E., & Margetis, J. L. (2023). Safety, infection control, and personal protective equipment. In G. Gillen and C. Brown (Eds.), Willard & Spackman’s Occupational Therapy (14th ed., pp. 522-534). Wolters Kluwer Health.