Marrinan (my mentor) was hard at work on this book. While I was a master’s student in Anthropology at FSU in the 1990s, Dr. This edited volume honors the lives and experiences of pioneering women in Southeastern US Archaeology pre-1960s. I chose Grit-tempered because it has been a part of my personal and professional journey in archaeology since before it was published. Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United StatesĮdited by Nancy Marie White, Lynne P. So the book encapsulates both what I try to do as a scholar and what I try to do as a teacher. And, as Hilton Als says in his introductory essay, this book challenged him as a teenager it told him he could and should be brave and find and tell the truth. It's beautiful, sad, and often jaw-dropping, because you're confronted with the human frailties and legacies that make history. This book is immensely meaningful to me because it's a work by two people trying to use their talents to tell the truth about the United States in their time. Richard Avedon and James Baldwin were high school friends who collaborated on this project of photographs and essays once they were both recognized as great American artists. Nothing Personal by Richard Avedon and James Baldwin Below are the newly tenured faculty and a brief explanation of the books or materials they hand-picked to be purchased and book plated in their honor.
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