We featured 12 amazing books by College faculty and alumni across different disciplines in 2021. “Bookmark This” is a feature that highlights these books; the Q&A with the author(s) is published on the first week of each month. Enjoy this wrap-up, where we collect all of the “Bookmark This” interviews from the past year. Add some of these books to your new year reading list.
January 2021: Pat Parker: Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social Justice
February: B. Brian Foster: I Don’t Like the Blues: Race, Place and the Backbeat of Black Life
March: Karen Hagemann: The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World Since 1600
April: Bill Ferris: I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970
May: Nichola Lowe: Putting Skill to Work: How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times
June: Karen Tucker: Bewilderness: A Novel
July: Dan Gitterman: The Intersector: How the Public, Non-profit and Private Sectors Can Address America’s Challenges
August: Bobbi Owen and Adam Versenyi: PlayMakers Repertory Company: A History
September: Gabriel Bump: Everywhere You Don’t Belong: A Novel
October: Mark Crescenzi and Stephen Gent: Market Power Politics: War, Institutions and Strategic Delay in World Politics
November: Michele Tracy Berger: Black Women’s Health: Paths to Wellness for Mothers and Daughters
December: Bland Simpson: North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky
Nominate a book we should feature (published in about the last six months) by emailing college-news@unc.edu. Find more books by checking out our College books page, updated each semester, on our magazine website.