As a celebration of our alumni, each month we will highlight a new book written by one of
Oxford's North American-based alumni.
Our April 2022 book is "The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist"
by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke (Brasenose, 1995).
Donna T. Haverty-Stacke is a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she teaches courses in U.S. cultural, urban, labor, and legal history. Haverty-Stacke is the author of The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist (NYU Press, 2020), Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR (NYU Press, 2015), America’s Forgotten Holiday: May Day and Nationalism, 1867 – 1960 (NYU Press, 2009) and co-editor with Daniel J. Walkowitz of Rethinking U.S. Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756 - 2009 (Continuum, 2010). She received her MLitt in Modern History from Oxford University and her PhD in History from Cornell University.
You can purchase The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist here.
Are you an alumni author?
If you have written a book which was published within the last three years, or is due to be released soon, please email us the following information.
Your full name
A high-quality headshot
A short bio
Alumni number (or college/year of matriculation)
Title of book
Date of publication
ISBN
Link to purchase the book online
We thank you for sharing your books with us, and will let you know if you are selected for a feature in the coming months.
Please visit our archive page to look back at previous Alumni Authors