HUNTINGDON COLLEGE
News Release
November 27, 2023
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Dr. Anthony Leigh, aleigh@hawks.huntingdon.edu
Winter Break Reading Suggestions
Montgomery, Ala. – As a celebration of life-long learning, several members of the Huntingdon College faculty and administration have offered their winter break suggested readings to encourage all members of the College community to grow in wisdom during the holiday season.
Dr. Blake Ball, Associate Professor of History: American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin.
Dr. Kent Bodily, Assistant Professor of Psychology: The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris.
Dr. Erin Chandler, Assistant Professor of English: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.
Dr. Lane Davis, Assistant Professor of Religion: Ink Black Heart and The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith.
Mr. Daniel Dubei, Assistant Professor / Systems and Electronic Resources Librarian: The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky) by N.K. Jemisin.
Dr. Jennifer Fremlin, Professor of English: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, and American Happiness and How to Survive the Apocalypse by Jacqueline Allen Trimble.
Dr. William Hayter, Assistant Professor of Music, Theory and Woodwinds: Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music by Jan Swafford, and The Abridged History of Rainfall by Jay Hopler.
Mr. Eric Kidwell, Professor / Director of the Library; Title IX Coordinator: The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper, and Shakespeare’s White Others by David Sterling Brown.
Dr. Anthony Leigh, Senior Vice President for Student and Institutional Development and Dean of Students: The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham, and Connections are Everything: A College Student’s Guide to Relationship-Rich Education by Peter Felten, Leo Lambert, et al.
Dr. Deanna McKinley, Instructor of Teacher Education and Teacher Education Support Specialist: More Than A Bird by Liz Huntley.
Dr. Maureen Murphy, Dean, W. James Samford, Jr. School of Graduate and Professional Studies: Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel by Bonnie Garmus, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Mark Tegmark, Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, On Death & Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy & Their Own Families by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust, and The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter by Michael D. Watkins.
Dr. William Palmer, Instructor of Language and Literature: Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward.
Rev. Dr. Hunter Pugh, Adjunct Professor of Religion: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.
Mrs. Bria Rochelle-Stephens, Vice President for Strategic Academic Initiatives and Director of the Presidential Scholars Program; Instructor of Religion: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Dr. Sara Shoffner, Associate Dean of Faculty; Chair, Department of Sport Science and Physical Education; Associate Professor of Sport Management; Faculty Athletic Representative: Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human by John Mark Comer.
Dr. Sarah Sours, Vice President for Academic Affairs; Dean of the Faculty; Professor of Theological Ethics: Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream by Carl Elliott.
Dr. Anneliese Spaeth, Vice President for Technology and Professor of Mathematics: The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity by Amir D. Aczel.
Rev. Dr. J. Cameron West, President of the College: The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War by Michael Gorra, and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 by Richard Hofstadter.
Dr. Marcus Witcher, Assistant Professor of History: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World and Why Things are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling.
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