APPENDIX VII | 221 APPENDIX VII: ASSIGNMENTS, 2007/2008 – 2017/2018 Abilene Christian University (TX) 2008/2009, 2010/2011 2008/2009: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Delaer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together (2006) / Ron Hall 2010/2011: Follow Me to Freedom: Leading and Following as an Ordinary Radical (2009) / Shane Claiborne and John M. Perkins Adams State University (CO) 2008/2009–present 2008/2009: Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (2007) / Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 2009/2010: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) / Ishmael Beah 2010/2011: Sky Bridge (2007) / Laura Pritchett 2011/2012: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) / Sherman Alexie 2012/2013: Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother (2006) / Sonia Nazario 2013/2014: Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World (2003) / Christine Mathieu 2014/2015: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (2010) / Wes Moore 2015/2016: Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future (2010) / Robert B. Reich 2016/2017: Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) / J. M. Coetzee 2017/2018: Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (2015) / Jon Krakauer 222 | ASSIGNMENTS, 2007/2008 – 2017/2018 Adelphi University (NY) 2011/2012–present 2011/2012: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) / Rebecca Skloot 2012/2013: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) / Michael Pollan 2013/2014: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2012) / Katherine Boo 2014/2015: Thank You for Your Service (2013) / David Finkel 2015/2016: The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother (1995) / James McBride 2016/2017: Between the World and Me (2015) / Ta-Nehisi Coates 2017/2018: No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process (2009) / Colin Beavan Agnes Scott College (GA) 1960/1961–1988/1989, 1997/1998–2015/2016 2007/2008: American Woman (2003) / Susan Choi 2008/2009: The Complete Persepolis (2007) / Marjane Satrapi 2009/2010: Einstein’s Dreams (1992) / Alan Lightman 2010/2011: Sky Bridge (2007) / Laura Pritchett 2011/2012: Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman’s Quest to Make a Difference (2009) / Warren St. John 2012/2013: How to Breathe Underwater (2003) / Julie Orringer 2013/2014: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) / Rebecca Skloot 2014/2015: The Starboard Sea (2012) / Amber Dermont 2015/2016: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2009) / Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Alabama State University (AL) 2016/2017–present 2016/2017: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) / Bryan Stevenson 2017/2018: Salvage the Bones (2011) / Jesmyn Ward APPENDIX VII | 223 Alaska Pacific University (AK) 2006/2007–2016/2017 2007/2008: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) / Margaret Atwood The Swallows of Kabul (2002) / Yasmina Khadra 2008/2009: Growing Up Native in Alaska: Finding the Path to Identity (2000) / ed. Alexandra J. McClanahan Yuryaraq: The Way of the Human Being (1996) / Harold Napolean Do Alaska Native People Get Free Medical Care? (2008) ed. Libby Roderick 2009/2010: Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska (2008) / Seth Kantner The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (2004) / Charles P. Wohlforth 2010/2011: This is Not Civilization (2004) / Robert Rosenberg Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World (2003) / Tracy Kidder 2011/2012: The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004) / David Shipler The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010) / Michael Lewis 2012/2013: The Working Poor: Invisible in America (2004) / David Shipler The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010) / Michael Lewis 2013/2014: Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (2012) / Blaine Harden The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media(2011) / Brooke Gladstone 2014/2015: Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (2012) / Blaine Harden The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media(2011) / Brooke Gladstone 2015/2016: The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother (1995) / James McBride Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009) / Jamie Ford 2016/2017: The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother (1995) / James McBride Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009) / Jamie Ford 224 | ASSIGNMENTS, 2007/2008 – 2017/2018 Albion College (MI) 1991/1992–present 2007/2008: Darfur Diaries: Stories of Surival (2006) / Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain, and Adam Shapiro 2008/2009: Thank You for Smoking (1994) / Christopher Buckley 2009/2010: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) / Barack Obama 2010/2011: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) / Michael Pollan 2011/2012: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) / Rebecca Skloot 2012/2013: A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka (2010) / Twesigye Jackson Kaguri 2013/2014: The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities (2012) / Will Allen 2014/2015: Here, Bullet (2005) / Brian Turner 2015/2016: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (2013) / Kiese Laymon 2016/2017: High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society (2013) / Carl Hart 2017/2018: Make Your Home Among Strangers (2015) / Jennine Capó Crucet Allegheny College (PA) 2010/2011, 2017/2018 2010/2011: Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother (2006) / Sonia Nazario 2017/2018: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) / Rebecca Skloot APPENDIX VII | 225 Alvernia University (PA) 2011/2012–2016/2017 2011/2012: Strength in What Remains (2009) / Tracy Kidder 2012/2013: Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation (1995) / Jonathan Kozol 2013/2014: Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation (2007) / Eboo Patel 2014/2015: Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream (2008) / Adam W. Shepard 2015/2016: The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (2010) / Wes Moore 2016/2017: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (2009) / Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn 2017/2018: Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island (2013) / Regina Calcaterra Amarillo College (TX) 2008/2009–present 2008/2009: All Over but the Shoutin’ (1991) / Rick Bragg 2009/2010: Flags of Our Fathers (2000) / James Bradley and Ron Powers 2010/2011: Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (2006 ) / Nando Parrado and Vince Rause 2011/2012: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) / Jonathan Safran Foer 2012/2013: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2005) / Timothy Egan 2013/2014: Wine to Water: A Bartender’s Quest to Bring Clean Water to the World (2012) / Doc Hendley 2014/2015: Blue Hole Back Home (2008) / Joy Jordan-Lake 2015/2016: Between Shades of Gray (2011) / Sepetys Ruta 2016/2017: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (2009) / Jamie Ford 2017/2018: The Things They Carried (1990) / Tim O’Brien 226 | ASSIGNMENTS, 2007/2008 – 2017/2018 American University (DC) 1998/1999–present 2007/2008: The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn (1990) / Mike Tidwell 2008/2009: The Devil’s Highway: A True Story (2004) / Luis Alberto Urrea 2009/2010: True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (2008) / Farhad Manjoo 2010/2011: The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy (2009) / Lisa Dodson 2011/2012: The Good Soldiers (2009) / David Finkel 2012/2013: The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone (2011) / Seamus McGraw 2013/2014: Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays (2009) / Eula Biss 2014/2015: The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media(2009) / Brooke Gladstone 2015/2016: Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid (2013) / Jessica Alexander 2016/2017: S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in DC (2014) / Ruben Castaneda 2017/2018: We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation (2016) / Jeff Chang Amherst College (MA) 2011/2012, 2014/2015–2015/2016 2011/2012: Race and Class Matters at an Elite College [Chapter 3] (2008) / Elizabeth Aries 2014/2015: Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (2010) / Claude Steele 2015/2016: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) / Naomi Klein APPENDIX VII | 227 Appalachian State University (NC) 1997/1998–present 2007/2008: A Home on the Field: How One Championship Soccer Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of Small Town America (2006) / Paul Cuadros 2008/2009: The Glass Castle (2005) / Jeannette Walls 2009/2010: Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (2007) / Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 2010/2011: Mudbound (2008) / Hillary Jordan 2011/2012: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (2009) / Christopher McDougal 2012/2013: Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer (2009) / Novella Carpenter 2013/2014: American Dervish (2012) / Ayad Akhtar 2014/2015: Clapton’s Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument (2005) / Allen St. John 2015/2016: A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007) / Ishmael Beah 2016/2017: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed (2015) / Jon Ronson 2017/2018: One Amazing Thing (2010) / Chitra Banerjee Divakarun Aquinas College (MI) 2008/2009–2016/2017 2008/2009: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr.