Each semester all Scholars read a book confronting a specific issue as it relates to media. They then meet on a Saturday and discuss how the topic relates to their day to day lives, their community and the world around them. Below is the list of previous reads:
Fall 2020: Equity in Education, Part 2: Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be An Antiracist
Fall 2019: Equity in Education, Part 1: Bettina Love, We Want To Do More Than Survive
Fall 2018: Environmentalism and Immigration, Part 1: Todd Miller, Storming the Wall
Fall 2017: Environmentalism and Sustainability, Part 1: Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything
Spring 2018: Environmentalism and Sustainability, Part 2: Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream
Fall 2016: Gender and Sexuality, Part 1: Andi Zeisler, We Were All Feminists Once
Spring 2017: Gender and Sexuality, Part 2: Janet Mock, Redefining Realness
Fall 2015: Race and Culture, Part 1: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Spring 2016: Race and Culture, Part 2: Te-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Fall 2014: Visual Culture, Part 1: Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Spring 2015: Visual Culture, Part 2 Stefan Sagmeister, Ten Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far
Fall 2013: Humanitarianism, Part 1: Linda Polman, The Crisis Caravan: What’s Wrong With Humanitarian Aid?
Spring 2014: Humanitarianism, Part 2: Wangari Maathai, The Challenge for Africa
Fall 2012: Technology and Political Change, Part 1: Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
Spring 2013: Technology and Political Change, Part 2: Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Fall 2011: Gender and Gendered Narratives: Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America.
Spring 2012: Gender and Political Landscapes: Anne Kornblut, Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win
Fall 2010: Visual Culture and the Representation of Trauma, Part 1: Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
Spring 2011: Visual Culture and the Representation of Trauma, Part 2: Emmanuel Guibert, The Photographer: Into War-torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Fall 2009: Disaster Capitalism, Part 1: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Spring 2010: Disaster Capitalism, Part 2: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Fall 2008: Media and Marketing: Benjamin Barber, Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
Spring 2009: Media and Organizing: Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations
Fall 2007: Education and the Public Good: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time
Spring 2008: Media and the Public Good: Anna Politkovskaya, A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin’s Russia
Fall 2006: Human Rights and Healthcare: Paul Farmer, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Spring 2007: Human Rights and Gender: Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
Fall 2005: Globalization: Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Spring 2006: Multiculturalism: Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The Last Discovery of America