Two Carroll Faculty Published in Recently Released Books

October 22, 2009


Two members of Carroll's faculty recently announced their work has been published in newly released books.

Spanish Professor Tomas Graman is a contributing author in a newly published book, "The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion," released this fall by The University of Chicago Press. This single volume encyclopedia features the best contemporary scholarship on children and childhood from a variety of disciplines. Dr. Graman's authored the encyclopedia article on foreign language education. In his article, Dr. Graman discusses the issues surrounding foreign language acquisision, including its benefits to childhood development and learning across disciplines, and the controversy between bilingual education and the "English-only movement." Read more about this book, including sample chapters, at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/TheChild/

Some of Theology Professor Jim Cross's research on Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen has been recently published in "Catholic Identity and the Laity" (Orbis Books 2009).  As Carroll's Hunthausen Center for Peace and Social Justice is inaugurated, Dr. Cross explains how this Center can be guided especially by one of the Archbishop's pastoral letters. Cross's research included interviews of Archbishop Hunthausen and of Bishop George L. Thomas. This is Cross's second scholarly publication in the area of Catholic social thought in as many years.