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Senior Associate Faculty member Norman Minnick recently published the edited volume, The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight with ‎ Kinchafoonee Creek Press About This book contains over 200 poems — many previously unpublished — by the late poet Etheridge Knight Norman L. Minnick is a Senior Associate Faculty member in the Department of …

Dr. Elizabth Thill recently published the chapter titled, “Public Sculpture and Social Practice in the Roman Empire,” in the book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Imagery and Iconography published by Oxford University Press. Description This volume focuses primarily on visual imagery in the Roman world, examined by context and period, and the evolving scholarly traditions …

Dr. Karen Kovacik recently published a collection of translated poems by Polish writer Krystyna Dąbrowska with Zephyr Press titled Tideline. The book includes work from Dąbrowska’s first four books in Poland. About Exquisitely-crafted poems from Poland that explore how stories, and history, lie beneath the surface: of a neighbor’s face, city streets, ancient ruins, even …

Dr. Estela Ene will publish a new co-edited volume this month with the University of Michigan Press titled, Building Internationalized Space: Second Language Perspectives on Developing Language and Cultural Exchange Programs in Higher Education. Get 30% off with the promotion code: UMS22 Description This book provides case studies from several higher education contexts to represent …

Dr. Devon Hensel recently published the article, “Sexual Modesty in Sexual Expression and Experience: A Scoping Review, 2000 – 2021” in The Journal of Sex Research. ABSTRACT Sexual modesty is the social, cultural, interpersonal, and psychological systems – defined by the tenets of Script Theory – that regulate individuals’ sexual expression and experience at the …

Dr. Sumedha Gupta recently published an article titled, “Vaccinations Against COVID-19 May Have Averted Up To 140,000 Deaths In The United States” in the journal Health Affairs. Abstract COVID-19 vaccination campaigns continue in the United States, with the expectation that vaccines will slow transmission of the virus, save lives, and enable a return to normal …

Professor Chris Lamb’s Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and the Long Campaign to Desegregate Baseball, originally published in 2012, released in paperback this month. About: The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream …

Dr. Rebecca K. Shrum recently published a review of Edward S. Cooke’s book Inventing Boston: Design, Production, and Consumption, 1680–1720, in the Journal of American History. From the review: This lavishly illustrated history of material culture in colonial Boston from 1680 to 1720 explores objects and buildings constructed with brick (houses), slate (slate-topped tables and …

Dr. Maria Brann, Dr. Jennifer J. Bute, and Dr. Sandra Petronio recently published the chapter titled, “Interpersonal Health Communication Theories,” in the book Health Communication Theory. Description Assembles the most important theories in the field of health communication in one comprehensive volume, designed for students and practitioners alike Health Communication Theory is the first book …

by John McCormick All of us who have been through college – as students or professors – are familiar with textbooks: those sometimes long and often expensive tomes designed to summarize everything an instructor wants to cover in a course. We’re also familiar with the differences between the good, the bad, and the ugly ones. …