Providence College Faculty Bookshelf – Academic Affairs at Providence College

2025

Newport Gardner’s Anthem

A Story of Slavery, Struggle, and Survival in Early America

Edward Andrews
Professor of History

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A Year of Faith and Philosophy

Exploring Spiritual Growth Through the Liturgical Cycle

Vance Morgan
Professor of Philosophy

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Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions

Summa Theologiae 1a2ae 22-48

Translated and edited by Robert Miner
Professor of Philosophy

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Westminster West

Poems

Chard deNiord
Professor Emeritus of English

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In Imago Dei: Theology of the Human Person

Creation to Eschaton

Rev. Joseph Torchia, O.P.
Professor of Philosophy

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Universal Health Coverage

Foundations and Horizons

Tuba Agartan
Professor of Health Sciences

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Research Handbook on Health Care Policy

Elgar Handbooks in Social Policy and Welfare series

Tuba Agartan
Professor of Health Sciences

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Leadership Giants

Lessons from My Life in Educational Leadership

Guy Alba
Graduate Instructor

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Journal of a French Quartermaster on the March to Yorktown June 16—October 6, 1781

Translated by Norman Desmarais
Professor Emeritus (Library)

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Creation through Evolution

New Perspectives from Thomistic Philosophy and Theology

Chapters written by
Robert Barry
Associate Professor of Theology

Rev. Isaac Morales, O.P.
Associate Professor of Theology

Daria Spezzano
Professor of Theology

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Bartolomé

Las Casas in the New World

Rev. Kenneth Gumbert, O.P.
Professor of Film

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Mending the Nation

Reclaiming “We the People” in a Populist Age

Michael Illuzzi
Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Aristotle’s Organon in Old and New Logic

1800–1950

Co-edited by Colin Guthrie King
Associate Professor of Philosophy

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The Future of Catholic Biblical Interpretation

Marie-Joseph Lagrange and Beyond

Co-edited by Rev. Isaac Morales, O.P.
Associate Professor of Theology

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Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England

From Henry II to Edward I

Christopher Berard
Adjunct Professor of Humanities

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Extraction

The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

Thea Riofrancos
Associate Professor of Political Sciences

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The Borders of Privilege

1.5-Generation Brazilian Migrants Navigating Power Without Papers

Kara Cebulko
Professor of Sociology

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With a Pure Conscience

Christian Liberty before the Reformation

Ian Levy
Professor of Theology

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Reel Freedom

Black Film Culture in Early Twentieth-Century New York City

Alyssa Lopez
Assistant Professor of History

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2024

Western Corporations and Covert Operations in the Early Cold War

Re-examining the Vogeler/Sanders Case

Margaret Manchester
Associate Professor of History

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Peggy Webling and the Story Behind Frankenstein

The Making of a Hollywood Monster

Bruce Graver
Professor of English

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Celebrity Rhetoric and Sexual Misconduct Cases

Discursive Self-Cleaving

Andrea McDonnell
Associate Professor of Communications

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Regression Basics

A Student’s Guide to Quantitative Methods and Statistical Analysis

Leo Kahane
Professor of Economics

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The Dominicans in the Americas and the Philippines

Devotional Life, Catholic Literary Culture, and Models of Holiness

David Orique, O.P.
Professor of History

Rady Roldán-Figueroa
Robert Randall Distinguished Professor in Christian Culture

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General Lafayette’s Journey to the United States of America in 1824 and 1825

Translated by Norman Desmarais
Emeritus Professor, Phillips Memorial Library

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2023

Banking on Slavery

Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

Sharon Ann Murphy
Professor of History

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A Gossip Politic

Andrea McDonnell
Associate Professor of Political Science

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The Quality Lever

The Art and Science of Building a Product You Can Be Proud Of

John Zilch
Adjunct Professor of Management

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The Wedding People

Alison Espach
Associate Professor of English

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While the Undertaker Sleeps

Peter Johnson
Professor Emeritus of English

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The Transatlantic Las Casas

Historical Trajectories, Indigenous Cultures, Scholastic Thought, and Reception in History

David Orique, O.P.
Professor of History

Rady Roldán-Figueroa
Robert Randall Distinguished Professor in Christian Culture

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Reaching into the Silence

Literary Scholarship in the Tradition of Catholic Humanism

Brian Barbour
Professor Emeritus of English

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Animal, Roadkill, Ashes, Gone

Emily Pittinos
Assistant Professor of English

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Straw Dogs of the Universe

A Novel

Chun Ye
Associate Professor of English

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Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories

Gothic Fantasy

Co-authored by E.C. Osondu
Professor of English

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The Muslim Social

Neoliberalism, Charity, and Poverty in Turkey

Gizem Zencirci
Associate Professor of Political Science

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They Are All Red Out Here

Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest
1895-1925

Jeffrey A. Johnson
Professor of History

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2022

The Bible and Baptism

The Fountain of Salvation

Isaac Morales, O.P.
Associate Professor of Theology

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Disruption

A Salesforce Braves the Storm

Ronald Jelinek
Professor of Business

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Rooted Jazz Dance

Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

Wendy Oliver
Professor of Dance

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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

A Novel

Alison Espach
Associate Professor of English

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Walk the Barrio

The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature

Cristina Rodriguez
Associate Professor of English

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Shared Musical Lives

Philosophy, Disability, and the Power of Sonification

Licia Carlson
Professor of Philosophy

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Rebels with a Cause in Contemporary Spanish Women Playwriting

Anthony Pasero-O’Malley
Assistant Professor of Spanish

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2021

Hao

Stories

Chun Ye
Associate Professor of English

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Today’s Health Care Issues:

Democrats and Republicans

Robert Hackey
Professor of Health Sciences

Todd Olszewski
Associate Professor of Health Sciences

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Essential Biochemistry

Kathleen Cornely
Robert H. Walsh ’39 Endowed Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry

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The Quiet Zone

Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence

Stephen Kurczy
Assistant Professor of English

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Alien Stories

E.C. Osondu
Professor of English

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Washington’s Engineer

Louis Duportail and the Creation of an Army Corps

Norman Desmarais
Professor Emeritus, Phillips Memorial Library

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Opium and Empire

Chinese Translation

Richard Grace
Professor Emeritus of History

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Shot

A Novel in Stories

Peter Johnson
Professor Emeritus of English

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The Road to Yorktown

The French Campaigns in the American Revolution,
1780-1783

Norman Desmarais
Professor Emeritus, Phillips Memorial Library

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Love and Politics

Peristent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation

Jeffery Nicholas
Professor of Philosophy

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The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias

David Orique, O.P.
Professor of History

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The Last Unkillable Thing

Emily Pittinos
Assistant Professor of English

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The Expanse and Philosophy

So far out into the darkness

Jeffery Nicholas
Professor of Philosophy

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Playing with Language

Improving Elementary Reading Through Metalinguistic Awareness

Marcy Zipke
Professor of Education

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A Scribe Trained for the Kingdom of Heaven

Essays on Christology and Ethics in Honor of Richard B. Hays

Co-edited by Rev. Isaac Morales, O.P.
Associate Professor of Theology

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Nietzsche’s Gay Science

Robert Miner
Professor of Philosophy

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2020

Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change

Robert Yawson
Adjunct Professor of Management

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Constitutional Government

The American Experience

Richard Battistoni
Professor of Public and Community Service Studies

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In My Unknowing

Poems

Chard deNiord
Professor Emeritus of English

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Resource Radicals

Thea Riofrancos
Associate Professor of Political Science

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Dress Like a Scientist Day

Think all scientists wear lab coats? Think again.

Rachael Bonoan
Assistant Professor of Biology

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The Media and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963–1972

A Comparative Study

Guolin Yi Assistant Professor of History

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Bury Me in the Sunshine

The Yellow Fever Epidemics of Memphis

John Vidmar, O.P.
Associate Professor of History

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Taste of Control

Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality Under American Rule

R. Alexander Orquiza Jr.
Associate Professor of History

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When the sky wants, the stars appear

E.C. Osondu
Professor of English

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The New Science

Translated by Robert Miner Professor of Philosophy

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