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Drawing on more than a decade and a half of ethnographic research, Rebecca Dirksen presents an in-depth consideration of politically and socially engaged music and what these expressions mean for the Haitian population in the face of challenging political and economic circumstances. After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy centers the voices of Haitian musicians and regular citizens in this study of carnival, politics, and musical engagement.
RAFT OF STARS Andrew Graff ’̓09
Released to great critical acclaim and anticipation, Raft of Stars tells the story of two 10-year-old boys in northern Wisconsin in the mid-1990s, who flee the scene of a shooting and embark on a wild adventure through forests and along rivers while being pursued by law enforcement and family, all with varying motivations and conflicted histories. Read more on page 36.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND MASS CONVERSION IN INDIA Laura Dudley Jenkins ’̓91
Laura Dudley Jenkins’ Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India highlights critical questions about individual agency, spiritual sincerity, and human rights as it focuses in on three mass conversion movements in India. The book carefully examines opposing arguments and illuminates the ways in which underlying tactics immobilize potential converts, reinforce damaging assumptions about women, lower castes, and religious minorities, and continue to restrict religious freedom in India today.
A FAR DIFFERENT PATH Michael Stone ’̓86
Based on the true story of Michael Stone’s grandmother, A Far Different Path transports and inspires readers as it explores one woman’s brave journey through a life that veers off course in unexpected ways. This detailed and shocking account of the 1918 influenza epidemic, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide, will linger long after Lucile’s own story ends.
VIKING VOICES
The Post-Crescent
The Chronicle of Higher Education
“From my perspective, a good leader really takes the DNA of a place and can transform it, but transform it in ways that honor Spectrum News 1 its mission, its goals, its values and its tradition. In “We looked at parts of our operations that order to do that well, you have to spend time listening “I think it’s awesome to make might have been unintentionally supporting and talking with folks and really getting opportunities happen. It’s kind of what we do institutional racism. We asked what we could do a sense of the culture and heart of a place.” at Lawrence for our students. And this is just another to dismantle structural barriers to make this already difficult process easier.” —LAURIE CARTER, Incoming President means that we can take something that seems so distant, which is chemistry or biochemistry, people think it’s only in the periodic tables that this exists and you can only do it —KEN ANSELMENT, in a lab. But for students to see and touch the science they’re Vice President for Admissions learning in a textbook is happening in and Communication a glass of beer, has been really cool.”
—ALLISON FLESHMAN, Associate Professor of Chemistry
