Welcome to the Humanities Initiative

Our Faculty and Graduate Student Research Fellows have weighed in on their favorite academic reads. Discover (or rediscover!) these great works. Check back often; the list will continue to grow!

Bourdieu, Pierre
     1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Ghosh, Amitav
     1992. In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler’s Tale. London: Ganta Books.

Max, D. T.
     2007. The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery. New York: Random House.

Mazower, Mark
     2004. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950. New York: Vintage Books.

Orsi, Robert A.
     2002. The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem. New Haven: Yale University Press.