Click here to learn more about We’re Listening: Whiteboard Conversations and find out how you can participate! We want to hear from YOU! The UWT community has spent the last two weeks writing, on our We’re Listening whiteboard at the TLB4 entrance, answers to the question: What mythical creature do you most identify with? To Read More…
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What Books Would the UWT Community Bring to a Deserted Island?
Click here to learn more about We’re Listening: Whiteboard Conversations and find out how you can participate! We want to hear from YOU! The UWT community has spent the last two weeks writing, on our We’re Listening whiteboard at the SNO entrance, answers to the question: What book would you bring to a deserted island? Read More…
Campus Meaningful Reads: “Breaking Trail”
Campus Meaningful Reads is a recommended book series celebrating faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington Tacoma. Everyone is invited to share a book with thoughts on why the book was meaningful to their career, studies, or life. This week, Ellen Bayer and ?? are sharing their meaningful reads. Ellen Bayer’s Recommended Reading: Read More…
Campus Meaningful Reads: “Amusing Ourselves to Death” and “The Commonsense Cookery Book”
Campus Meaningful Reads is a recommended book series celebrating faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington Tacoma. Everyone is invited to share a book with thoughts on why the book was meaningful to their career, studies, or life. This week, Annie Nguyen and Edward Chamberlain are sharing their meaningful reads. Annie Nguyen’s Read More…
Campus Meaningful Reads: “Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims” and “Counting For Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Want”
Campus Meaningful Reads is a recommended book series celebrating faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington Tacoma. Everyone is invited to share a book with thoughts on why the book was meaningful to their career, studies, or life. This week, Dr. Barb Toews (SWCJ) and Dr. Randy Nichols (SIAS/CAC) are sharing their meaningful Read More…
Campus Meaningful Reads: “Foundation” and “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?”
Campus Meaningful Reads is a recommended book series celebrating faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington Tacoma. Everyone is invited to share a book with thoughts on why the book was meaningful to their career, studies, or life. This week, Dr. William Burghart (SIAS/SHS) and Dr. Ellen Moore (SIAS/CAC) are sharing their meaningful Read More…
Campus Meaningful Reads: Daring Greatly and On the Genealogy of Morals
Campus Meaningful Reads is a recommended book series celebrating faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington Tacoma. Everyone is invited to share a book with thoughts on why the book was meaningful to their career, studies, or life. This week, Dr. Sarah Hampson (SIAS/PPPA) and Dr. Benjamin Meiches (SIAS/PPPA) are sharing their meaningful Read More…
Introducing: Campus Meaningful Reads
Meaningful Reads is a celebratory UW Tacoma Library program first envisioned in 2017 and launched with an inaugural blog post in April 2019. Initially modeled after a long-running faculty recognition event at the University of Arkansas, the core of the program focused on inviting newly promoted or tenured faculty to submit a book title along Read More…
Recommended reading: “The crime of punishment”
The book I selected for my Meaningful Read is The Crime of Punishment by Karl Menninger. I picked up this paperback book for $1.95 (new!) several decades ago when I was a college student and considering what shape my career path would take. I experienced the book as a fascinating and eye-opening leap into the Read More…
Recommended reading: “The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction”
When I began studying the sociology of reproduction, I was fascinated by Emily Martin’s “The Woman In The Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction”. Since reading it for the first time as a graduate student, I have returned to it again and again as it has provided the infrastructure for so many of my ideas Read More…