Influential Books: 2011  

In Spring 2011, Professor and Librarian William Keogan asked eighteen faculty members to share with the St. John’s University community the title of a book that had a significant influence on their life and teaching.  These books are listed below with a link to a discussion of the books and their influence.

Dohra Ahmad, Department of English: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver - PS3561.I496 A86

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=221689

Dolores Augustine, Department of History: The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm - HQ33 .F77

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=221884

Christopher Bazinet, Department of Biological Sciences: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature by Geoffrey Miller

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=221910

Raymond Bulman, Department of Theology and Religious Studies: How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God

by Larry Hurtado

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=221918

Roderick Bush, Department of Sociology and Anthropology: Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois - E668 .D83 1976

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=221927

Frank Cantelmo, Department of Biological Sciences: Listening to Nature by Joseph Cornell

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=221956

Charles Clark, Department of Economic and Finance: The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith - HC106.5 .G32 1998

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=221963

Tracey-Anne Cooper, Department of History: The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien - PR6039.O32 L6 1965

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=221976

Robert Forman, Professor English and Classics: The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222024

Diane Paravazian, Discover New York: Essays by Montaigne - PQ1642.E5 F6 1933

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222160

Herbert Pierson, Department of Languages and Literatures: The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene - PR6013.R44 H4

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222164

Andre McKenzie, Division of Academic Support Services: The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann - E185.6 .L36

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222171

William Over, College of Professional Studies: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - PG3326 .P713

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222176

Fiorentina Russo, Department of Languages and Literatures: Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - PQ4315 .S5

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222180

Benjamin Silliman, Department of Accounting: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote  - HV6533.K3 C3

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222185

Laura Snyder, Department of Philosophy: Middlemarch by George Eliot - PR4662.A2 M34

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222286

Glen Statile, Department of Philosophy: Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton - PR6031.A757 C7

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222295

Igor Tomic, Department of Economics and Finance: Economic Consequences of the Peace         by John Maynard Keynes - HC57 .K4

http://stjohns.campusguides.com/content.php?pid=222306