Bridging Silos: Collaborating for Environmental Health and Justice in Urban Communities
By Katrina Smith Korfmacher
MIT Press, 2019
Korfmacher, an associate professor of environmental medicine at Rochester, demonstrates how community institutions can collaborate more effectively to overcome the disproportionate exposure of low-income residents to environmental hazards. The book includes case studies from Rochester as well as from Duluth, Minnesota, and Southern California.
Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long 20th Century
By Brianna Theobald
University of North Carolina Press, 2019
Through a study of the pregnancy and childbirth practices of indigenous women on reservations, Theobald sheds light on a century of federal policies to control indigenous women’s reproduction, as well as the women’s efforts to resist them. Theobald is an assistant professor of history at Rochester.
Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States
By Kathryn Mariner
University of California Press, 2019
Mariner explores the dynamics of transracial adoption, with a focus on the role of adoption agency workers in negotiating relationships between expectant mothers and prospective adopters. Mariner, who carried out the research at a Chicago agency specializing in transracial adoption, holds the title of Wilmot Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies at Rochester.
Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
By Christopher Heuer
Zone Books, 2019
In a study of 16th-century European attitudes toward the Arctic, Heuer, an associate professor of art history at Rochester, examines the ways in which the region presented “a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination.”
Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?
By Brock Clarke ’98 (PhD)
Algonquin Books, 2019
Clarke’s comic sci-fi novel tells a story of the ordinary, 49-year-old Calvin and his adventures with “antiquities thieves, secret agents, religious fanatics, and an ex-wife who’s stalking him.”
The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump
By Alan Abramowitz ’69
Yale University Press, 2018
Abramowitz, the Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University, explores the roots of present-day political division in the United States, arguing that “our current political divide is not confined to a small group of elites and activists, but a key feature of the American social and cultural landscape.”
Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care: Behavioral Health in the Medical Setting
By Robert Smith ’80M (Flw) et al
McGraw-Hill, 2019
Smith, a professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, coauthors a textbook on behavioral health aimed at primary care professionals and a fourth edition of Smith’s Patient-Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method.
Hands-On Embedded Programming with Qt
By John Werner ’89
Packt Publishing, 2019
Werner, a senior software engineer at Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics, shows how to develop high-performance applications for embedded systems with Qt 5.
Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring: Pathophysiology and Practice Textbook (Third Edition)
By James Woods et al
periFACTS OB/GYN Academy, 2019
A new textbook by faculty from the University’s obstetrics and gynecology department’s maternal and fetal medicine program offers the latest information on fetal heart rate monitoring for OB/GYN professionals.
The Martin Luther King Mitzvah
By Mathew Tekulsky ’75
Fitzroy Books, 2018
Set in the 1960s, Tekulsky’s novel tells a story of a Jewish boy and a Catholic girl who work together to overcome the racial and religious divisions in their town in the suburbs of New York.
Achieving Your Personal Health Goals: A Patient’s Guide
By James Mold ’77M (Res)
Full Court Press, 2017
In a guide for consumers, Mold, a primary care physician, explains what patient-centered care is, the flaws he sees in disease-focused models of health care, and other advice on how to achieve your personal health goals.
Old McHandel and His Musical Farm
By John Nothaft ’18E (MM)/illustrated by Bienvenido Castillo ’95M (MS)
Greenfield Communications, 2018
Classical organist Nothaft introduces the story of Robert and Clara Sheepman, and friends Béla Bardog, Goosetav Mahler, and others who compose music to celebrate the arrival of the Sheepman’s new baby lamb. The book is illustrated by Castillo, a pediatric ophthalmologist and music lover.
The Stories of Survivors
By C. Daniela Shapiro ’20
Teaming Sure Entertainment, 2019
Shapiro, a senior at Rochester studying philosophy, writes and illustrates a graphic novel that tells the stories of six Holocaust survivors. The book draws from survivor testimony and Shapiro’s own observations on visits to the sites of Nazi concentration camps.
The Law of Higher Education (Sixth Edition)
By William Kaplin ’64 et al
Wiley, 2019
Kaplin, a professor of law at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law, presents a new edition of the classic guide on higher education law for college administrators, legal counsel, and researchers. The up-to-date edition includes new developments in areas such as Title IX, intellectual property, free expression, and protections for transgender students and employees.
Extenuating Circumstances
By Charles Halsted ’62M (MD)
Finishing Line Press, 2019
Physician-turned-poet Halsted offers an autobiography in verse, with poems inspired by his connections to place, vocation, and history.
Sensor and Data Fusion for Intelligent Transportation Systems
By Lawrence Klein ’66 (MS)
SPIE Press, 2019
Klein, an adjunct professor of engineering and technology at UCLA Extension and Harbin Institute of Technology, introduces the roles of the data fusion processes, algorithms, and applications to Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Hope and Destiny: The Adult Patient and Parent’s Guide to Sickle Cell Disease and Sickle Cell Trait (Fifth Edition)
By Lewis Hsu ’88M (MD/PhD) et al
Hilton Publishing, 2019
Hsu coauthors an updated edition of the guide for adult patients and parents on sickle cell disease. He is also the coauthor of 2019 editions of Hope and Destiny Jr., for teens, and Hope and Destiny Jr. Learning Guide and Workbook, for kids.
Escapes
By Vic DiMartino
Covenant Books, 2019
Yves Sammartano ’85S (MBA), writing under the pen name Vic DiMartino, offers his debut novel, a story inspired by his paternal grandfather, whose long political career under Mussolini ended when he fell out of favor with the fascist regime and escaped by fishing boat to Casablanca.
The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness
By Kelli Harding ’02M (MD)
Simon & Schuster, 2019
Harding, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, offers an overview of research showing “that love, friendship, community, life’s purpose, and our environment can have a greater impact on our health than anything that happens in the doctor’s office.”
Ode to America
By Odetta Fraser ’03
Austin Macauley Publishers, 2019
Fraser, an immigrant who arrived in the United States as a 12 year old, offers her impressions of her new country in poetic form.
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
By Louis Siegel ’76M (MD)
Kindle Direct Publishing, 2019
Siegel tells the story of an unstable hacker and a virtuous physician, in “a fictional account of what happens when a town’s unsecured digitized healthcare network is hacked by a sociopath with malicious intent.”
Recordings
The Music of March: A Civil Rights Carillon Collection
Edited by Tiffany Ng ’08E (MM)
American Carillon Music Editions, 2019
Ng, an assistant professor of carillon and university carillonist at the University of Michigan, brings together 13 carillon arrangements, including one of her own, of songs highlighted in the autobiographical trilogy March (Top Shelf Productions, 2016) by John Lewis, a civil rights leader and congressman from Georgia.
Alternate Futures/Past Realities
By Jeff Pifher ’07E and Socrates’ Trial
Jeff Pifher Music, 2019
With his band Socrates’ Trial, saxophonist Pifher performs six original compositions mixed by Grammy award winner Elliot Scheiner
Christmas Ayres & Dances
By J. William Greene ’85E (DMA)
Zarex/Pro Organo, 2018
Greene, organist-choirmaster at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, performs his arrangements of familiar carols on chamber organ and harpsichord.
Books & Recordings is a compilation of recent work by University alumni, faculty, and staff. For inclusion in an upcoming issue, send the work’s title, publisher, author, or performer, a brief description, and a high-resolution cover image, to Books & Recordings, Rochester Review, 22 Wallis Hall, Box 270044, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0044; or by email to rochrev@rochester.edu.
Rochester Review
Fall 2019
Vol. 82, No. 1
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