Michelle Bryant
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A Look at Our Latest Books
2021 Spring and Summer titles from our college community.
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Biden Administration to Nominate Liberal Arts Alumna to Chair ACHP
President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Sara Bronin, a Plan II Honors and Architecture alumna from The University of Texas at Austin, as Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) chairperson.
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Shake Up Your Winter Reading
Winter 2020-21 books from our college community.
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Ticket to Read
Fall 2020 books from our college community.
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This Summer is One For the Books
Summer 2020 books from our college community.
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Books in Bloom
Spring 2020 books from our college community.
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Season’s Readings
Winter 2019-20 books from our college community.
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Leave No Page Unturned
Fall 2019 books from our college community.
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Soak in Our Summer Reads
Summer 2019 titles from our college community.
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Books: Fall 2018
Fall 2018 titles from our college community.
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What’s in Your Library?
Over a period of five years (2013-18) a Faculty Committee on Influential Books discussed, debated and finally compiled a list of intellectually and culturally significant books to encourage reading by undergraduates and provide inspiration for continued reading by college alumni. The committee benefited from student suggestions and criticism in drawing up the list that mainly…
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Living in a Material World: Philosopher Galen Strawson tackles a few of life’s nagging questions
Writer and actor Stephen Fry says Galen Strawson “opens windows and finds light-switches like no other philosopher writing today,” and novelist Ian McEwan simply dubs Strawson “one of the cleverest men alive.” High praise for this UT professor of philosophy, who discusses his latest book, Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, The Self, Etc. with Life…
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Books: Spring & Summer 2018
Spring and Summer 2018 titles from our college community.
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Books: Fall & Winter 2017-18
Fall 2017 and Winter 2017-2018 titles from our college community.
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Smile, You’re on Camera: Behind the Lens of 24/7 Surveillance
“Even a strutting exhibitionist has something to hide: certain diary entries, genetic predispositions, financial mistakes, medical crises, teenage embarrassments, antisocial compulsions, sexual fantasies, radical dreams,” writes Randolph Lewis. “We all have something that we want to shield from public view. The real question is: Who gets to pull the curtains? And increasingly: How will we…
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Books: Summer 2017
Summer 2017 titles from our college community.
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Books: Spring 2017
Spring 2017 titles from our college community.
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The Cost of Crime
Despite crime rates being at a historic low, the United States is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to achieve an 80 percent recidivism rate. We’ve spent $1 trillion during the past 40 years on criminal justice, not including $1 trillion more on the war on drugs. William Kelly, a professor of sociology at The…
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Books: Spring & Summer 2016
Spring and Summer 2016 titles from our college community.
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Be Kind to Animals
Since Janet Davis’ early childhood in Honolulu, Hawaii, she says she remembers a life surrounded by animals: chickens running around the yard, horse rides, caring for her pet dogs and cats. “It was a world saturated with animals, the formation of my moral consciousness, if you will,” says Davis, associate professor of American studies at The University of Texas at Austin.…
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Remaking ‘Roots’
“This is a historian’s dream,” says Daina Ramey Berry, an associate professor of history at The University of Texas at Austin, who served as a technical adviser for the remaking of the television miniseries “Roots.” It will premiere on Memorial Day, airing over four consecutive nights. The A&E Networks’ HISTORY, A&E and Lifetime channels will…
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All Grown Up
What it Means to be an Adult Chances are at some point in your life, you have been told to “grow up” or “start acting your age.” Faced with the pressures of paying bills, holding down a steady job and frequenting home improvement stores, it’s easy to see why adulthood may have lost some of…
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Books: Fall & Winter 2015-16
Fall and Winter 2015-16 titles from our college community.
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Books: Summer 2015
Summer 2015 titles from our college community.
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Depression: Making Treatment Personal
For the estimated 350 million people worldwide who suffer from depression, the health consequences go far beyond “feeling down.” In fact, it is a leading cause of disability worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people with symptoms of depression will never receive treatment, and for those diagnosed with major…
