Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) has published a book chapter titled "Playing Music" in the edited book Popular Culture as Everyday Life (Routledge, 2015).
Greg Brown (History) has been chosen as the new general editor of 'Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment.' He will continue to broaden the temporal and geographic scope of the series to embrace global Enlightenment culture (including burgeoning areas of research, such as southern and eastern Europe, the Hispanic world, and鈥
Joanne Goodwin (Women's Research Institute and History) gave a presentation on the development of 鈥 and her role as 鈥 co-producer in the television series MAKERS: Women in Nevada History at the National Women's Studies Association annual conference in Milwaukee in November. Also on the panel were representatives from the University of鈥
Julia Lee (English) is the author of Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). A forward for the book was penned by historian and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. The book received a favorable review in the Dec. 15 issue of The Atlantic.
Georgiann Davis (Sociology) brought her intersex expertise, both professional and personal, to the CBS daytime audience as a special expert guest on the Dr. Phil television show Nov. 30.
In addition to publishing numerous articles on intersex in both scholarly and popular press outlets, she is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious鈥
Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) delivered the 2015 George Herbert Mead Lecture during the annual convention of National Communication Association (NCA) at the Rio Conference Center in November.
Borer鈥檚 lecture was titled, 鈥淪ensuous Knowledge and the Rise of Aesthetic Urbanism.鈥 In the lecture, he noted that cities are chock full of鈥
Barb Brents (Sociology) participated in the panel on California Prostitution Law at Stanford University on Nov 11. Other panelists were Casey Bates, deputy district attorney for California's Alameda County; Maxine Doogan, president of the Erotic Sex Providers Legal, Education and Research Project; and Shelby Quast, policy director for鈥
Peter Gray and Shelly Volsche (both Anthropology), along with colleagues at Indiana and Rutgers universities, will have a paper published in Anthrozoos concerning the role of pet dogs and cats in human courtship and dating. A leading human-animal interaction scholar, Hal Herzog, has crafted a blog post based on the study that provides a flavor of鈥
John Bowers (English) had his chapter "Speaking Images? Iconographic Criticism and Chaucerian Ekphrasis" published in the collection The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture in the series New Studies in Medieval Culture from Ohio State University Press. The study grew out of a seminar at the Max Planck Institute in鈥
Tracy Johnson (College of Liberal Arts), Ed Ronca (College of Education), and John Starkey (School of Business) presented at the 2015 National Academic Advising Association National Conference. Titled, "Numbers Don't Lie: A Framework for Recognizing and Supporting Nontraditional Learners," their presentation focused 鈥
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is the author of a new book, Inter-face-work: Symbolic Interaction in the Digital Age, which has been published by Kurumuny Edizioni.
The rapid colonization of everyday life and consciousness by technologies of computer-mediated communication both multiplies the risks of miscommunication and compromises the鈥
Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was honored with the Early-in-Career Award by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). This newly designated award is given to 鈥渟cholars who have made significant contributions within the first 10 years since the completion of their PhDs.鈥 In that time period, Borer has published a solo-authored book鈥