Category: Books & Publications
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Issue 06 | August 2020: Faculty Spotlight Dr. Kendra Greene
August 23, 2020 -
Dr. Kendra Greene, visiting assistant professor of literature, recently had two essays published that promoted her new book, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland’s Most Unusual Museums. One, in the Wall Street Journal, discusses Iceland’s love of books. A second essay appeared in the Guardian.
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Issue 02 | May 2020: Ashley Barnes Book Launch
May 23, 2020 -
Ashley Barnes, Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, has recently published her first book. Love and Depth in the American Novel, which offers a new approach to literary theory that encompasses both New Historicism and the ethical turn in literary studies.
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Whitney Stewart, “Fashioning Frenchness: Gens de Couleur Libres and the Cultural Struggle for Power in Antebellum New Orleans,” Journal of Social History 51, no. 3 (February 2018), 526–56
February 1, 2018 -
While travelers to antebellum New Orleans consistently commented on a pervasive French aura in the city, exactly what and who defined this Frenchness was in flux over the first half of the nineteenth century. From the city’s earliest days, residents constructed myriad and often conflicting definitions of Frenchness, but most versions associated the Frenchness of […]
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Siddhayatan Tirth, “Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking” (2017). Featuring Ben Wright
January 9, 2018 -
A powerful documentary that features heroes of the anti-sex-trafficking movement in order to raise awareness, expand the movement, and present practical solutions to eradicate it. Every soul matters. Dr. Wright’s research on slavery has created the unique opportunity for him to be involved in the movement to end modern slavery, firmly believing that if we […]
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Peter Park, “Why It Makes Sense to Talk of Decolonizing the Philosophy Department” (2017), Author Meets Readers. Journal of World Philosophies, 2(2)
December 15, 2017 -
The exchange between Peter Park, Dan Flory and Leah Kalmanson on Park’s book Africa, Asia and the History of Philosophy: Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon (Albany: SUNY Press, 2013) took place during the APA’s 2016 Central Division meeting (Chicago, Illinois) on a panel sponsored by the Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers […]
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David Channell, “A History of Technoscience: Erasing the Boundaries between Science and Technology” (London: Routledge, 2017)
June 1, 2017 -
Are science and technology independent of one another? Is technology dependent upon science, and if so, how is it dependent? Is science dependent upon technology, and if so how is it dependent? Or, are science and technology becoming so interdependent that the line dividing them has become totally erased? This book charts the history of […]
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Kimberly Hill, “Maria Fearing: Domestic Adventurer,” in Alabama Women: Their Lives and Times, edited by Susan Youngblood Ashmore and Lisa Lindquist Dorr (U. Georgia Press, 2017)
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Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, […]
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Kimberly Hill, “Anti-Slavery Work by the American Women of the Presbyterian Congo Mission,” in Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora, edited by William Harrison Taylor and Peter C. Messer (Lehigh University Press, 2016)
March 16, 2016 -
Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how Presbyterians’ reactions to slavery—which ranged from abolitionism, to […]
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Daniel Wickberg, “The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America” (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015)
June 18, 2015 -
Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of […]
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Eric R. Schlereth, “An Age of Infidels: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States” (Philadelphia: U. Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
March 12, 2013 -
Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity’s staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing so, he casts new light on the ways Americans reconciled their varied religious beliefs with […]
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