FACULTY AND ALUMNI
BOO KS
AFTER THE DANCE, T H E D R U M S A R E H E AV Y
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND MASS CONVERSION IN INDIA
Rebecca Dirksen ’̓03
Laura Dudley Jenkins ’̓91
Drawing on more than a decade and a half of ethnographic research, Rebecca Dirksen presents an in-depth consideration of politically and socially engaged music and what these expressions mean for the Haitian population in the face of challenging political and economic circumstances. After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy centers the voices of Haitian musicians and regular citizens in this study of carnival, politics, and musical engagement. R A F T O F S TA R S
Laura Dudley Jenkins’ Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India highlights critical questions about individual agency, spiritual sincerity, and human rights as it focuses in on three mass conversion movements in India. The book carefully examines opposing arguments and illuminates the ways in which underlying tactics immobilize potential converts, reinforce damaging assumptions about women, lower castes, and religious minorities, and continue to restrict religious freedom in India today. A FA R D I F F E R E N T P AT H
Andrew Graff ’̓09
Michael Stone ’̓86
Released to great critical acclaim and anticipation, Raft of Stars tells the story of two 10-year-old boys in northern Wisconsin in the mid-1990s, who flee the scene of a shooting and embark on a wild adventure through forests and along rivers while being pursued by law enforcement and family, all with varying motivations and conflicted histories. Read more on page 36.
Based on the true story of Michael Stone’s grandmother, A Far Different Path transports and inspires readers as it explores one woman’s brave journey through a life that veers off course in unexpected ways. This detailed and shocking account of the 1918 influenza epidemic, which killed more than 50 million people worldwide, will linger long after Lucile’s own story ends.
VIKING VOICES
The Post-Crescent “From my perspective, a good leader really takes the DNA of a place and can The Chronicle of transform it, but transform it in ways that honor Spectrum News 1 Higher Education its mission, its goals, its values and its tradition. In “I think it’s awesome to make order to do that well, you have to spend time listening “We looked at parts of our operations that opportunities happen. It’s kind of what we do and talking with folks and really getting might have been unintentionally supporting at Lawrence for our students. And this is just another a sense of the culture and heart of a place.” institutional racism. We asked what we could do means that we can take something that seems so distant, to dismantle structural barriers to make this already —LAURIE CARTER, Incoming President which is chemistry or biochemistry, people think it’s only difficult process easier.” in the periodic tables that this exists and you can only do it in a lab. But for students to see and touch the science they’re —KEN ANSELMENT, learning in a textbook is happening in Vice President for Admissions a glass of beer, has been really cool.” and Communication —ALLISON FLESHMAN, Associate Professor of Chemistry
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