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new Books from Faculty
r. iset Anuakan, adjunct faculty in
the Graduates Humanities External
Education Program (HUX),
examines how African Americans
reshaped stereotypical images of
themselves into preferred desirable
ones in her recently published book,
We Real Cool: Beauty, Image, and Style
in African American History (Lambert
Academic Publishing, 2010).
Jim Cooper, professor in the Division
of Graduate Education, and pamela
robinson, assistant chair of the
Department of Liberal Studies, had
a chapter on small group instruction,
“The Interactive Lecture in a Research
Methods and Statistics Class”
published in Cooperative Learning in
Higher Education: Across the Disciplines,
Across the Academy (National Teaching
and Learning Forum, 2010). In addition,
a second edition was published
of their 2003 book Small Group
Instruction in Higher Education: Lessons
from the Past, Visions of the Future
(New Forums Press, 2009, 2nd ed.),
and a new volume on research based
teaching, also published by New
Forums, is scheduled to be published
in early 2011.
giacomo Jack Bono, adjunct faculty
in the Departments of Psychology
and Child Development, co-authored
“Being Grateful is Beyond Good
Manners: Gratitude and Motivation
to Contribute to Society among Early
Adolescents” in the June 2010 issue
of Motivation and Emotion. It was one
of a number of articles related to
forgiveness and gratitude that Bono
has had published or has in press in
professional psychology journals.
Keith Myatt, adjunct faculty in the
Division of Graduate Education, coauthored
Culturally Proficient Education:
An Asset-Based Response to Conditions of
Poverty (Corwin, 2010), which examines
equity and social issues through
the lens of cultural proficiency and
serves as a resource for educators on
how to maximize educational opportunities
for all students independent
of their socioeconomic status.
Susan Johnston, professor in the
Division of Teacher Education, and
Matthew Jones, associate professor
in the Department of Mathematics,
co-authored an article titled “Using
Lesson Design as a Vehicle for Faculty
Professional Development” in
the October issue of PRIMUS: Problems,
Resources, and Issues in Mathematics
Undergraduate Studies.
Carole Casten, professor in the
Division of Kinesiology and Recreation,
had the seventh edition of her
lesson plan textbook, Lesson Plans for
Dynamic Physical Education for Secondary
Students (Benjamin-Cummings, 2011,
7th ed.), published in January 2011.
Emeritus professor in the Department
of Accounting, Finance and
Economics Franklin Strier contributed
a chapter on “Reform Proposals”
to The Handbook of Trial Consulting
(Springer Press, 2010). In addition,
two of his articles on executive compensation
were published over the
summer: “Runaway CEO Pay? Blame
the Boards” in IUP Journal of Corporate
Governance, and “What the Private
Sector Can Do to Corral Runaway
CEO Pay” in Southern Business Review.
Michael Desrochers, adjunct professor
in the Department of History,
contributed a chapter, “Traditions
of the Ancient World,” to World
Religions: Western Traditions (Oxford
University Press, 2010, 3rd ed.),
a book that features a number of
scholars exploring the development
of religious traditions.
Master of Social Work assistant
professor Susan D. Einbinder had
her article, “A Qualitative Study of
Exodus Graduates: Family-Focused
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment
as an Option for Mothers to Retain or
Regain Custody and Sobriety in Los
Archeology Bridges Divide between Two nations
Despite many parallels in village life
in southern Ecuador and Peru circa
3,500–1,000 B.C., there has been little
collaboration among archeologists
of the two countries due to tensions
between their nations for most
of the 20th century. Jerry Moore,
professor in the Department of
Anthropology, is working to bridge
Angeles, California,” published in
the November/December issue of
Child Welfare League of America’s Child
Welfare Journal. The article is based on
her study at the Shields for Families
social service agency.
nancy Erbe, chair and associate professor
of the Negotiation, Conflict
Resolution and Peacebulding program,
contributed chapters to two
books released in 2010: “Advancing
the Potential of Diversity for Innovation”
in Innovation in Business and
Enterprise: Technologies and Frameworks
(IGI Global, 2010), and “Mediating
and Negotiating Peace in Africa” in
Jerry moore, professor of
anthropology (far left) with
international colleagues in Rio
Alto, a principal site of the
valdivia culture in ecuador.
that divide and help advance archeology
study in the region, and this past
summer co-organized a series of
mobile workshops that took place at
four locations in the South American
countries. With funding from
Wenner-Gren Foundation and support
from the Institut de Recherche
pour le Développement, the “Diver-
Seeds Bearing Fruit: Pan-African Peace
Action in the Twenty-First Century (African
World Press, 2010).
The fourth edition of Japanese Americans
and World War II: Mass Removal,
Imprisonment, and Redress (Harlan
Davidson, 2011, 4th ed.), originally
written in 1974 by Don Hata, emeritus
professor in the Department of
History, and his late wife Nadine
Hata, emeritus professor of history
at El Camino College, was published
in January 2011. The new edition was
expanded to 84 pages and contains a
selected bibliography, key documents,
and photographs. n
gent Trajectories to Prehistoric Social
Complexity in the Equatorial Andes”
workshops attracted approximately
300 people over the course of the
summer. With participation of 15
archeologists from Peru and Ecuador,
as well as the United Kingdom
and the United States, the workshops
were a first step in facilitating scholarly
exchanges between the region’s
archeologists. Archeological study of
the region is believed to be significant
for what it can reveal about the
transition of ancient indigenous societies
and from hunting and gathering
to an early agricultural subsistence,
and the beginnings of village governance
and social strata. n
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