Providence College Faculty Bookshelf

Explore an array of books authored and edited by Providence College faculty. They can also be found at Phillips Memorial Library.

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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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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Practicing Democracy: A Toolkit for Educating Civic Professionals

Nicholas Longo
Professor of Global Studies

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Jewish Temple Theology and the Mystery of the Cross

Richard Barry
Assistant Professor of Theology

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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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Plotinus and Augustine on the Mid-Rank of Soul

Navigating Two Worlds

Joseph Torchia, O.P.
Professor of Philosophy

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A Constitutional Culture

New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire

Adrian Chastain Weimer
Professor of History

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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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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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Epic Ambition

Hercules and the Politics of Emulation in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica

Jessica Blum-Sorensen
Assistant 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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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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Literary Drowning

Postcolonial Memory in Irish and Caribbean Writing

Stephanie Pocock Boeninger
Associate Professor of English

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Philosophical Children in Literary Situations

Toward a Phenomenology of Childhood

Peter Costello
Professor of Philosophy

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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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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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