Fall 2020: Jill Lepore
The CLAS Reads selection in the fall of 2020 was This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore, a Professor of American History at Harvard University. She has published several books on American history and politics, including the New York Times bestseller, These Truths. She is a staff writer and regular contributor to The New Yorker.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer, indigenous woman and environmentalist author and professor, visited Lesley in the fall of 2019 to discuss her book, the CLAS Reads selection for that year, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants."
Suzy Hansen
Author and foreign correspondent Suzy Hansen presented at Lesley in the fall of 2018 on her book, "Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World.”
- This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore, Fall 2020
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Fall 2019
- Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen, Fall 2018
- Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice by Bell Hooks, Fall 2017
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Fall 2016
- Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill, Fall 2015
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Fall 2014