Books by Faculty
Judith Glyde, in the fall of 1999, spent three months in the Khumbu region of the Himalayas. Following in the footsteps of the Buddhist teacher who enters contemplative isolation to study, she experienced these months in a secluded village, Sengma, re-exploring the six suites for solo cello by Bach.
Camping Grounds聽rediscovers unexpected and interwoven histories of sleeping outside.
During a difficult time, Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. What she found was a community.
In Nan Goodman鈥檚 book, 鈥淭he Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American Imagination,鈥 she traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England.
Brian A. Catlos鈥 book, Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (2018, Basic Books), explores the history of Islamic Spain and displays a complex portrait of how Muslims, Christians and Jews built a sophisticated civilization that transformed the Western world.
Craig Jones's book The Mountains That Remade America (2017, University of California Press)聽reflects on the Sierra Nevada range and how the mountains have changed the way Americans live.
