The College of Letters and Science at Montana State University will celebrate six faculty authors who have recently published books at a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, in the MSU Alumni Foundation Great Room. The reception is free and open to the public.

The event will feature a discussion with Yves Idzerda, dean of the College of Letters and Science, and James Meyer, associate professor in the college’s Department of History and Philosophy. They will talk about Meyer’s new book, “Red Star Over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation.” Hikmet is best known as a poet and communist whose daring flight by motorboat from Turkey to the Eastern Bloc captured international headlines in 1951.

Additional faculty authors to be featured at the event include:

• Joseph Atwood, professor, and Gary Brester, emeritus professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics, “Equilibrium Displacement Models: Theory, Applications and Policy Analysis.”
• Bill Wyckoff, emeritus professor, Department of Earth Sciences, “Mac McCloud’s Five Points: Photographing Black Denver, 1938-1975.”
• Scott Parker, Department of English, “Time Again: An Essay on Zhuangzi, Fatherhood and Other Matters of Life and Death as they Concerned the Author on a Visit to Northeastern Oregon.”
• Brook Bocast, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, “If Books Fail, Try Beauty: An Ethnography of Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa.”
• Susan Kollin, American Studies, “Thelma and Louise.”

For more information, contact Kala Radovich at kala.radovich@montana.edu or 406-994-5187.