Christine Turner Jackson, GSEHD BA ’88, has published her first novel, “Pitch Black.” The book is based on based on the life of her father, a phenomenal high school baseball player for Cardozo High School in Washington, DC. Since graduating from GW, Turner Jackson has nurtured an educational career that spans more than 25 years at both […]
Jayne Morris-Crowther, GSEHD BA ’74, authored a book entitled The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s that has been published by Wayne State University Press. The book details the political activism of women in the early 20th century to affect change in areas like public works, child labor regulation, and education reform. Morris-Crowther […]
Matt Braynard, GWSB BBA ’00, has published his first collection of literary fiction, Shorter Stories. The book features twenty-six works that travel from foreign worlds to downtown Manhattan to Bangkok to a small room in a hospice. The book is available in hard copy from Amazon and from most other retailers, and is also available […]
Eileen Gale Kugler, CCAS BA ’72, published her second book, Innovative Voices in Education: What It Takes to Engage Diverse Communities. She served as executive editor of the book, which highlights insights and strategies from 17 leading-edge educators and community leaders that Kugler identified around the world. Kugler is a global speaker and consultant on […]
Keith Shovlin, GWSB MBA ’11, published his second book, the novella Life’s Penance, on November 27, 2012. Life’s Penance is the first novella of the Millennial Row series, a collection of 10 stories about life in the 21st Century. The second novella, Andy 4 President, is slated for release this year.
Lindsay Krasnoff, ESIA BA ’99, has published a new book, The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010. The Making of Les Bleus traces the Fifth Republic’s quest to create elite athletes, a tale that serves as a prism through which to investigate the larger history of France, the evolution of society, the impacts […]
Pam Jenoff, ESIA BA ’92, has a new novel coming out in Jan. 2013. The Ambassador’s Daughter can be pre-ordered here. Jenoff is the author of several novels, including The Diplomat’s Wife, Almost Home, A Hidden Affair, The Things We Cherished, and The Kommandant’s Girl, which was nominated for the Quill Awards and became an […]
J. Grigsby Crawford, CCAS BA ’08, has published his first book, The Gringo: A Memoir, which chronicles his life as a Peace Corps volunteer in South America. Shortly after arriving in Ecuador, Crawford narrowly escaped an abduction attempt orchestrated by the people he was sent there to help. Chevy Chase has called The Gringo a […]
Stephanie Leigh Batiste, CCAS MPhil ’99, PhD ’03 will receive the Modern Language Association of America’s (MLA) eleventh annual William Sanders Scarborough Prize. Batiste, who teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is recognized for her book Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance, published by Duke University Press. The prize is […]
Cynthia Jacobs Carter, GSEHD MA ’94, EdD ’98, is the new chief development officer at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. She leads the Center’s unrestricted fundraising efforts, which include major gifts, campaigns, planned giving, events, direct mail, social media fund raising, cause marketing, and the growing of the endowment. In addition, […]
