Seventh Annual Professors’ Picks Program

Sponsored By Residence Life and the UVA Bookstore

Professor

Department

Professor’s Book Pick

and Author

Meeting Date, Time and Venue

/ Facilitator

 

 

 

 

Gustavo Pellon

 

Department for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

The Underdogs: Pictures and Scenes from the Present Revolution: a Translation of Mariano Azuela's Los De Abajo With Related Texts

 

Mariano Azuela

 

1/22, Thursday, 6:00 pm

Tuttle Lounge

Kiki Armengol cma9b@virginia.edu

 

 

Karen Ryan

 

Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Moscow to the End of the Line

 

Venedikt Erofeev

1/29, Thursday, 6:00 pm

Tuttle Lounge

Adam Reitelbach adam.reitelbach@gmail.com

 

 

Justin Holcomb

 

Department of Sociology

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky

 

Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng, Judy Bernstein

1/21, Wednesday, 6:30 pm

Tuttle Lounge

James Anderson jta5d@virginia.edu

 

 

Angela Davis

 

Special Assistant to the Vice President for Student Affairs and Chief Student Affairs Officer and Department of English

The Color Purple

 

Alice Walker

1/28, Wednesday, 6:00 pm

Page Lounge

Veronica Rivera veronica.iris.rivera@gmail.com

 

 

John Portmann

 

Department of Religious Studies

On Chesil Beach

 

Ian McEwan

1/22, Thursday, 6:00 pm

Kellogg 112

Ryan Early rfe2x@virginia.edu

 

 

Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor

 

Department of Religious Studies

Unaccustomed Earth

 

Jhumpa Lahiri

1/20, Tuesday, 6:00 pm

Kellogg 112

Katie Vorhis kpv3b@virginia.edu

 

 

Paul Freedman

 

Department of Politics

Breakfast of Champions

 

Kurt Vonnegut

1/20, Tuesday, 6:00 pm

Echols Lounge     

Nazia Chowdhury  nc6m@virginia.edu

 

 

 

Sarah Wilcox-Elliott

 

Office of the Dean of Students

Smart Women Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams

 

David Bach

1/27, Tuesday, 6:00 pm

Tuttle Lounge

Emily Kusiak ejk9j@virginia.edu

 

 

Archie Holmes

 

Charles L. Brown Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

What We Believe but Cannot Prove:  Today’s Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty

 

John Brockman

1/21, Wednesday, 6:00 pm

Webb Lounge

To be Determined

 

 

 

Mircea Stan

 

Charles L. Brown Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Omnivore's Dilemma

 

Michael Pollan

1/19, M, 6:00 pm  Kellogg 112
Ben Chrisinger

chrisinger@virginia.edu

 

 

 

Stephanie Guerlain

 

Department of Systems and Information Engineering

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

 

Barack Obama

1/22, Th, 6:00 pm

Webb Lounge

RJ Jones rlj5h@virginia.edu

 

 

Gordon Stewart

 

Department of German

My Century

 

Gunther Grass

To be determined

Christina Connor   christina@virginia.edu

 

 

William (Bill) Harvey

 

Department of
Education, Leadership, and Policy, and Chief Diversity Offier

Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage

 

Leslie Houts Picca and Joe R. Feagan

1/29, Thursday, 6:00 pm

Kellogg 112

Bilal Noor  abn5n@virginia.edu

 

**Facilitator will email out exact meeting details (room number, time and dates) for each discussion session soon**