NEW BOOK BY ALUMNI FRANCES CHAPUT WAKSLER
Frances Chaput Waksler (PhD, Sociology, 1973) announces her forthcoming book The New Orleans Sniper: A Phenomenological Case Study of Constituting the Other (University Press of America, 2010) which traces the events of a 1973 attack in New Orleans. Many believed the attack be the work of multiple snipers when it was really only one. Waksler dives into the questions of ‘how did the idea of multiple snipers emerge?’ and, more broadly, ‘how does one come to a decision about the existence or nonexistence of another person?’
Frances is a phenomenological sociologist and Professor Emerita from Wheelock College. She dedicates the book to Sociology Department Professors Emeriti George Psathas, Julius Roth, and John Mogey, as well as Erazim Kohak of the Philosophy Department.
More Information on Professor Waksler and her new book can be found below: