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152 Articles Categorized Under Humanities & Social Sciences

Humanities & Social Sciences History Gender and Sexuality Studies Philosophy Psychology Sociology
February 28 2022

Confessions of the Flesh, the fourth volume in Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality

By Caitlin Landuyt, Editor, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group   I am being haunted by the ghost of Michel Foucault. Each time I think I’ve read or studied him for the last time, something conspires to bring him back into my life. My last foray into his philosophy was in grad school, where I was getting

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Confessions of the Flesh, the fourth volume in Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality

Humanities & Social Sciences History Gender and Sexuality Studies Philosophy Psychology Sociology
February 28 2022
Humanities & Social Sciences Human Rights
December 2 2021

Universal Human Rights Month

December is Universal Human Rights Month. This month is a reminder that the United Nations General Assembly codified the basic human rights of every person. It’s also a time to reflect on the way we treat others, and to do what we can in the fight for equality.   We have provided a book list

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Universal Human Rights Month

Humanities & Social Sciences Human Rights
December 2 2021
Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Literature Political Science History
November 16 2021

NOW AVAILABLE: Books from The 1619 Project

The 1619 Project is The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. The project, which was initially launched in August of 2019, offered a revealing new origin story for the United States, one that helped explain not only the persistence of

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NOW AVAILABLE: Books from The 1619 Project

Common Reads Humanities & Social Sciences Literature Political Science History
November 16 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences History
October 11 2021

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Read an Exerpt from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s New Book Not “A Nation of Immigrants”

Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler

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On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Read an Exerpt from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s New Book Not “A Nation of Immigrants”

Humanities & Social Sciences History
October 11 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences
September 8 2021

Cathy Park Hong Is Awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings

Cathy Park Hong will be awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings, a ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness. With sly humor and a poet’s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and

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Cathy Park Hong Is Awarded the American Book Award for Minor Feelings

Humanities & Social Sciences
September 8 2021
General Humanities & Social Sciences
August 18 2021

Higher Education Must Be Decolonized Through Study and Struggle: A Q&A With Leigh Patel, author of No Study Without Struggle

  An inconvenient truth lies beneath the promises of opportunity and prestige that higher education degrees offer. US academic institutions are built upon legacies of stolen labor on stolen land. Through history, this settler-colonial foundation has trapped us in history and perpetuated race, class, and gender inequalities on campus. Social protests, often led by youth,

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Higher Education Must Be Decolonized Through Study and Struggle: A Q&A With Leigh Patel, author of No Study Without Struggle

General Humanities & Social Sciences
August 18 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
August 17 2021

Columbia University Psychologist Lisa Miller on Cultivating Students’ Academic and Inner Lives

Contributed by Lisa Miller, PhD, author of The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life As an undergraduate psychology major at Yale, I always sat in the front row so that I might study not only the material but my professor as well. Like many students who sign

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Columbia University Psychologist Lisa Miller on Cultivating Students’ Academic and Inner Lives

Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
August 17 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 30 2021

Books for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month, and we are sharing books from AAPI creators to be read and celebrated by students all year long.   Minor Feelings Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. A

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Books for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 30 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 26 2021

Books for Lesbian Visibility Day

We are Celebrating Lesbian Visibility Day by sharing books that delve into lesbian and LGBTQ+ experiences, including fiction, biography, and history.   Cantoras  Winner of the Stonewall Book Award, Cantoras is a revolutionary novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately,

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Books for Lesbian Visibility Day

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 26 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 12 2021

Books for Autism Acceptance Month

For Autism Acceptance Month, we are sharing books that give the history of understanding autism and the personal stories of those who are autistic.   Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8: A Young Man’s Voice from the Silence of Autism In short, powerful chapters, Naoki Higashida explores school memories, family relationships, the exhilaration of

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Books for Autism Acceptance Month

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 12 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
March 23 2021

Neuroscientist Lisa Genova on the Intricacies of Memory

Lisa Genova is a Harvard-trained neuroscientist and the acclaimed author of novels such as Still Alice. She travels worldwide speaking about neurological diseases and has appeared on Today, PBS NewsHour, CNN, and NPR. Her new book, Remember, is a deep dive into the science of human memory and the intricacies of the brain that help us

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Neuroscientist Lisa Genova on the Intricacies of Memory

Humanities & Social Sciences Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
March 23 2021
General Humanities & Social Sciences Literature
March 8 2021

International Women’s Day

Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day by talking about books that center the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.   Becoming In her memoir, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her time spent at the

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International Women’s Day

General Humanities & Social Sciences Literature
March 8 2021
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