Assistant Professor of Political Science Alireza Shomali published Politics and the Criteria of Truth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Professor of Religion Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus and Professor of Biology Betsey Dyer presented their paper “Cultures and Cultures: Fermented Foods as Culinary Shibboleths” at the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery in July at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.

Xuesheng Chen, professor of physics, published the paper “Size Reduction and Rare Earth Doping of GaN Powders through Ball-milling,” in III-Nitride Materials for Sensing, Energy Conversion, and Controlled Light-Matter Interactions, in the Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings (2010). [Read more...]

Assistant Professor of Political Science Marcus Allen co-authored the article “Teaching Introduction to American Government/Politics: What We Learn from the Visual Images in Textbooks” in the Journal of Political Science Education (January 2010). He also delivered the keynote address, “From Du Bois to Obama: The Continued Quest for Universal Freedom,” via digital videoconferencing, at the international conference “The Role of African Americans in Bringing Equality and Social Justice to All” held at Moldova State University in February.

Keiter Professor of History Alexander Bloom published the essay “New York: An Age of Lead to an Age of Gold,” in The Great Cities in History (Thames and Hudson, 2009). He also presented the paper “Abraham Lincoln, the 1960s, and Barack Obama: Restoring the Lost Connection” at the conference “Between History and Myth: Politics and Political Uses of Abraham Lincoln,” Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, in November 2009.

Professor of English Samuel Coale published the essay “The Entangled Web: Heaven’s Prisoners in Manichean Prisons” in A Violent Conscience: Essays on the Fiction of James Lee Burke (McFarland, 2010). [Read more...]