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Scholarly Research

Our Fisher community is a student-centered educational environment where we embrace critical inquiry as a means to facilitate learning, problem-solving, and skill-building. Through cutting-edge research, we inspire thought leaders to drive their fields forward.

We are proud to showcase recent scholarly research from faculty, staff, or students of the School of Arts and Sciences. Additional scholarly research may be found at Fisher Digital Publications


Nonviolence Before King book cover.

Nonviolence Before King

Fri, Jan 31

In the early 1960s, Black activists used nonviolent direct action to challenge segregation, transforming white supremacy on a massive scale. Anthony C. Siracusa’s book, Nonviolence Before King: The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle, explores nonviolence’s revolutionary force for Black liberation.


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Late Peach Season

Thu, Jan 4

Considered a scholarship of discovery in poetry, Late Peach Season, by Dr. Anastasia Nikolis, appears in the award-winning literary journal Stone Canoe.


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Peace in Post-Dictatorship Honduras

Tue, Jan 10

Dr. Matt Bereza explores the complex tapestry of peace and the challenges that have emerged in Honduras following the era of dictatorship in Hearts of Courage, Faces of Peace: Rebuilding and Resistance in Post-Dictatorship Honduras.