“Publication” Class Notes
Justin Humphreys (Col ’01)
Justin Humphreys (Col ’01) is publishing a new book, The Dr. Phibes Companion (Bearmanor Media) this fall.
David Williams (Engr ’76)
David Williams (Engr ’76) self-published two e-books. Philly Math: A Teacher’s Daily Stress provides a glimpse at the field of education through the lens of one day in which Williams commuted from the suburbs to teach high school math to inner city kids in Philadelphia. A Liberal’s Search for Truth, Justice and the American Way details his political consciousness through book reviews, analysis and letters to the editor.
Susan Schmidt (Grad ’73)
Susan Schmidt (Grad ’72, ’80) will publish her book, Let Go or Hold Fast, Beaufort Poems (Library Partners), this fall. Her poems celebrate shorebirds and mourn their decline. Schmidt works as a developmental editor, revising books for publication. This is her fourth book. Learn more about her here.
Rich Tarbell (Arch ’89)
Rich Tarbell (Col ’89) published Regarding Charlottesville Music (Richie Heart Publishing). The 300-plus page book of portrait photography covers more than 100 Charlottesville musicians alongside a supplemental oral history compiled from interviews. The timeline begins with The Casuals and Skip Castro and goes through 2018 with chapters on venues such as The Mineshaft and Trax as well as unexpected musical centers of influence like the Corner parking lot. Find out more here.
Robert Hauhart (Grad ’82)
Robert C. Hauhart (Grad ’81), a professor in the department of society and social justice at Saint Martin’s University, has published his fifth book, a co-edited volume of literary essays titled European Writers in Exile (Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield). His monograph, The Lonely Quest, an analysis of the relation of self and society in the twenty-first century United States, will appear later this year from Routledge/Taylor and Francis.
Gregory Ashe (Col ’88, Law ’95 CM)
Gregory Ashe (Col ’88, Law ’95 L/M) published his first collection of poetry, a chapbook titled Explorations (Finishing Line). The poems are reflections and observations on nature and life. Bookended by the poems Rotunda Dreams and Appalachian Dawn, the poem Western Explorations is a series of poemettes in which the author’s journey through several National Parks in the American West parallels a spiritual journey of the soul.
David Schein (Darden ’75, Educ ’05 CM)
David D. Schein (Darden ’75, Educ ’05 L/M) published The Decline of America: 100 Years of Leadership Failures.
Jason Zeitler (Col ’96)
Jason Zeitler (Col ’96) will publish his novella Like Flesh to the Scalpel (Running Wild Press) in November 2018. It will be sold as part of an anthology through Amazon and Powell’s. His short stories and narrative essays have previously appeared in Midwestern Gothic and other print and online magazines.
Susan Brownell (Col ’82)
Susan Brownell (Col ’82), professor of anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, co-authored The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (University of California). The book explores how sport both shapes and is shaped by the social, cultural, political and historical contexts in which we live.
Elliott Light (Engr ’70, Law ’73)
Elliott Light (Engr ’70, Law ’73) published The Gene Police in May 2018. The novel follows lawyer Shep Harrington after the DNA of a man long thought dead appears on the scene of a brutal murder. His quest leads down a slippery slope that leads to the subject of eugenics and a confrontation with ‘the gene police.’
John Attanasio (Col ’76 CM)
John Attanasio (Col ’76 L/M) published Politics and Capital: Auctioning the American Dream (Oxford) in May 2018. The book explores five ideas the author considers to be critical to addressing problems besetting the American political and economic systems.
Hibberd Kline (Law ’75)
Hibberd V. B. Kline III (Law ’75) has published For Arms, the second book in his Navy Gray series of the Civil War at sea. Filled with historically accurate characters and events in Liverpool, London and Ireland, the story brings to life the challenges faced by Britons and Americans as they tried to understand and respond to the cataclysm of the American Civil War.
Alison Hillhouse (Com ’99 CM)
Alison Hillhouse (Com ’99 L/M) created Virtual Grandma, a how-to guide on virtually connecting with little ones up to age 5 using FaceTime, Skype and other apps. The guide includes tips on how to construct a virtual cooking lesson, take your little one on house tours and make simple narrated videos. Go here for more information.
Fritz Franke (Com ’83 CM)
Fritz R. Franke (Com ’83 L/M) published his second novel from The Savior Project series, Terlokya. The novel charts the covertly trained existence of Chris Gates from his planned birth in 1966 to childhood to baseball star to U.S. senator, his life unfolds on Earth, guided, shaped, and rescued by “those who have watched over us” — before he is extracted by our protectors to be trained to lead Earth.
Scott Horton (Col ’02, Law ’05)
Scott Horton (Col ’02, Law ’05) published his first book, New York Management Law:The Practical Guide to Employment Law for Business Owners and Managers (Modern Legal Media). He also recently celebrated the first anniversary of his law firm, Horton Law.
Maria Olsen (Law ’88)
Maria Leonard Olsen (Law ’88) published 50 After 50–Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life (Rowman & Littlefield) in June 2018. The book follows 50 new things Olsen tried after turning 50, from physical challenges to lifestyle changes, and shows readers how to make their own action lists in such a new chapter of life. Olsen practices law in the D.C. area, where she is a WPFW radio show host, writing retreat leader and mentor to women in recovery.
Don Zillman (Law ’73)
Don Zillman (Law ’73) published two books. He co-wrote Living the World War, Vol. Two (Vandeplas Publishers), which is a week by week study of America’s participation in World War I using sources like The New York Times and the Congressional Record. He was also an editor of Innovation in Energy Law and Technology (Oxford University Press), in which 37 legal scholars examine the technological and legal changes that are driving the world economy.
Jillian Thomadsen (Com ’99)
Jillian Adler Thomadsen (Com ’99) published her first book All the Hidden Pieces on April 21, 2018. The book is a suspense novel about a family that receives a mysterious phone call and suddenly disappears. Thomadsen has written for Sophisticated Living St. Louis, ADDitude Magazine, The Today Show Parenting, Bloomberg BusinessWeek and ScaryMommy, but it was her ten-year-old son’s dyslexia that compelled her to write this novel.
Heather Curtis (Col ’91 CM)
Heather D. Curtis (Col ’91 L/M) published Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals & Global Aid (Harvard University Press, 2018). The book examines the crucial role popular religious media played in the extension of US philanthropy at home and abroad from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Curtis is an Associate Professor of Religion at Tufts University. She is also the director of the American Studies Program and an affiliated faculty in history, international religions and the Tisch College of Civic Life.
Neva Bryan (Col ’89 CM)
Neva Bryan (Col ’89 L/M) is among the poets, essayists and fiction writers published in the 2018 volume of the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, for which New York Times bestselling author Wiley Cash served as editorial adviser. This year’s volume includes the work of two state poet laureates. Bryan is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories and poems.
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