Bookshelf

David Brubaker, professor and dean of EMU’s School of Social Sciences and Professions, has published When the Center Does Not Hold, a new guidebook for leadership in fraught times (Fortress Press, 2019). Carolyn Yoder, the founding director of the STAR program, and author of Little Book of Trauma Healing (SkyHorse Publishing, 2020), was a contributor.

Listening to the Movement: Essays on New Growth and New Challenges in Restorative Justice (Cascade Books, 2021) is an anthology inspired by a series of dialogues sponsored by the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice. Former CJP professor Carl Stauffer MA ‘02 is one of the book’s editors. Contributors include Kathy Evans, professor of education, and CJP graduates Valerie Luna Serrels MA ‘10 and Barb Toews MA ‘00.

Phoebe Kilby GC ‘04 and Betty Kilby Baldwin are the co-authors of Cousins (Walnut Street Books, 2021), a story of racial reconciliation and the founding of Coming to the Table. Timothy Seidel, professor of international development and director of EMU’s Center for Interfaith Engagement, co-edited Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) along with Alaa Tartir and Tariq Dana. The authors argue that economic and political analysis cannot be separated if we want to understand the situation in occupied Palestine.

Johonna Turner, former professor and co-director of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice, was among the contributors to Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing Our Realities (Living Justice Press, 2020), a collection of 18 essays penned by various authors of color: practitioners and scholars of restorative justice who explore the issues of racism and colonization within the field.

STAR for Sexual Harms is a new free manual developed by co-authors Carolyn Stauffer, Joy Kreider, Rhoda Miller MA ‘20, Rachel Roth Sawatzky, and Ram Bhagat GC ‘19. It is available for download at emu.edu/peacebuilder.

Our alumni are involved in many projects including and beyond those in print. Are you involved in projects that we should know about? Please stay in touch and share your work with us, whether that’s a book, essay, article or a major project - and remember to update your alumni profile page at emu.edu/cjp/alumni

Caitlin Morneau MA ‘19 led Catholic Mobilizing Network in creating a new restorative justice guide for Catholic Communities called Paths of Renewed Encounter. It is available online at

paths-renewed-encounter and will soon be released in hard copy.

Emily E. Stanton MA ‘00 has published Theorising Civil Society Peacebuilding: The Practical Wisdom of Local Peace Practitioners in Northern Ireland, 1965–2015 (Routledge, 2021), an exploration of the value of local knowledge for peacebuilding based on empirical qualitative research.

Restorative Justice: Healing Our Society (Peacebuilding Books, 2020) is a Koreanlanguage book by Jae Young Lee MA ’03, based on his experience introducing restorative justice into a variety of contexts in South Korea. Elena Huegel MA ’07 and Mercedes Margarita Cadena Olguín are co-authors of De Renacuajos a ranas: reencuentros intergeneracionales con la naturaleza para nutrir la resiliencia y la dignidad (Instituto de Estudios e Investigación Intercultural, A.C., 2020), or From Tadpoles to Frogs: Intergenerational gatherings with nature to nourish resilience and dignity. Illustrations in the book are by Marisa Castro Mc.Conegly.

Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: Migration, Education, and Islam (Bloomsbury, 2020) by Sumanto Al Qurtuby MA ‘07 examines the deep intellectual and religious connections that exist between Saudi Arabia and Indonesia due to the presence of Indonesian educational migrants and intellectual travellers in Saudi Arabia.

Drick Boyd, current student and professor emeritus of urban and interdisciplinary studies at Eastern University, has published Disrupting Whiteness: Talking with White People About Racism (Arch Street Press, 2021). Encouraging a conversational rather than combative approach to discussing racism, the book is also an invitation to reflect more fully on our racialized experiences and socialization and how they shape us.