We featured nine amazing books by College faculty and alumni across different disciplines in 2024. “Bookmark This” is a feature that highlights these books; a Q&A with the author(s) is published each month. Enjoy this wrap-up, where we collected all of the “Bookmark This” interviews from the past year. Add some of these books to your new year reading list. We look forward to showcasing more great books in 2025!
January 2024: A wrap-up of 2023 books.
February 2024: Sarah E. Dempsey, communication, Organizing Eating: Communicating for Equity Across U.S. Food Systems
March 2024: Shakirah Hudani, African, African American and diaspora studies/city and regional planning, Master Plans and Minor Acts: Repairing the City in Post-Genocide Rwanda
April 2024: Jeff Spinner-Halev, political science, Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization and the Undermining of Equality
May 2024: Kathleen DuVal, history, Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
June 2024: Inger Brodey, English and comparative literature, Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
July/August 2024: summer hiatus
September 2024: Bland Simpson, English and comparative literature/creative writing, Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir
October 2024: Kelly Alexander, American studies, Truffles and Trash: Recirculating Food in a Social Welfare State
November 2024: Benjamin C. Waterhouse, history, One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America
December 2024: Gabrielle Anna Berlinger, American studies, and Ruth von Bernuth, Germanic and Slavic languages and literatures , The Lives of Jewish Things: Collecting and Curating Material Culture
Nominate a book we should feature by emailing college-news@unc.edu. Find previous “Bookmark This” features by searching those terms on our website. Find more books by checking out our Carolina Arts & Sciences magazine books list.