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BENSON, KRISTA REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE, ADOPTION, AND FOSTER CARE 2024 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
BRUNI, JOHN SCIENTIFIC AMERICANS: THE MAKING OF POPULAR SCIENCE AND EVOLUTION IN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE 2014 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
BURNS-ARDOLINO, WENDY TV FEMALE FOURSOMES AND THEIR FANS 2016 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
CATALDO, JEREMIAH BIBLICAL TERROR: WHY LAW AND RESTORATION IN THE BIBLE DEPEND UPON FEAR 2016 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
CATALDO, JEREMIAH DISEMBODYING NARRATIVE: A POSTCOLONIAL SUBVERSION OF GENESIS 2023 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
CATALDO, JEREMIAH IMAGINED WORLDS AND CONSTRUCTED DIFFERENCES IN THE HEBREW BIBLE 2019 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
CATALDO, JEREMIAH A THEOCRATIC YEHUD? ISSUES OF GOVERNMENT IN A PERSIAN PROVINCE 2009 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
CATALDO, JEREMIAH BREAKING MONOTHEISM: YEHUD AND THE MATERIAL FORMATION OF MONOTHEISTIC IDENTITY 2012 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
CATALDO, JEREMIAH WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT SEX: WHY WE READ IT THE WAY WE DO 2022 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
CATALDO, JEREMIAH A SOCIAL-POLITICAL HISTORY OF MONOTHEISM: FROM JUDAH TO THE BYZANTINES 2018 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
COVEY, ERIC AMERICANS AT WAR IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: US MERCENARY FORCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2018 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
EDDENS, AARON SEEDING EMPIRE: AMERICAN PHILANTHROCAPITAL AND THE ROOTS OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA 2024 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
ELLENBERGER, KURT MATERIALS AND CONCEPTS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION 2005 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
GILLES, ROGER WOMEN ON THE MOVE: THE FORGOTTEN ERA OF WOMEN'S BICYCLE RACING 2018 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
GOERISCH, DENISE THE TRUE COSTS OF COLLEGE 2020 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
HUSSAIN, AZFAR CHINHO BHASEY OBOSESHE (SIGNS DRIFT AT LAST) 2023 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
JOHNSON, BRIAN THROUGH BLOOD AND BROTHERHOOD: COMRADES AND ENEMIES IN WWII YUGOSLAVIA 2024 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
JOHNSON, BRIAN SECURITY MANAGEMENT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 2023 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
KEEGAN, CAEL LANA AND LILLY WACHOWSKI 2018 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
MANGALA, JACK NEW SECURITY THREATS AND CRISES IN AFRICA: REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 2010 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
MANGALA, JACK AFRICA AND THE NEW WORLD ERA: FROM HUMANITARIANISM TO A STRATEGIC VIEW 2013 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
MANGALA, JACK AFRICA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP 2013 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
MANGALA, JACK AFRICA AND ITS GLOBAL DIASPORA: THE POLICY AND POLITICS OF EMIGRATION 2017 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
MANGALA, JACK THE POLITICS OF CHALLENGING PRESIDENTIAL TERM LIMITS IN AFRICA 2020 VIEW BOOK DETAILS
MCKEE, KIMBERLY DISRUPTING KINSHIP: TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS OF KOREAN ADOPTION IN THE UNITED STATES 2019 VIEW BOOK DETAILS

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Krista L. Benson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS) 

Reproductive Justice, Adoption, and Foster Care

Publisher: Routledge, February 2024

Co-Author Tanya Saroj Bakhru

In this book, the authors situate the colonial legacies of family separation, what it means to center the right parent, and Reproductive Justice and transnational feminist frameworks in conversation with one another in order to elucidate a more nuanced and comprehensive approach to recognizing the significance of contemporary examples of family separation.

In doing so, the book showcases the connections between adoption and foster care within the intellectual and activist frameworks of human rights, Critical Adoption Studies, Reproductive Justice, and transnational feminisms. 

Krista Benson book

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John Bruni, Ph.D.

Adjunct professor in Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

Scientific Americans: The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2014

Demonstrating the timely relevance of Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Jack London and Henry Adams, this book shows how debates about evolution, identity, and a shifting world picture have uncanny parallels with the emerging global systems that shape our own lives. Tracing these systems' take-off point in the early twentieth century through the lens of popular science journalism, John Bruni makes a valuable contribution to the study of how biopolitical control over life created boundaries among races, classes, genders and species. Rather than accept that these writers get their scientific ideas about evolution second-hand, filtered through a social Darwinist ideology, this study argues that they actively determine what evolution means. Furthermore, the book, examines the ecological concerns that naturalist narratives reflect - such as land and water use, waste management, and environmental pollution.

Book cover for Scientific Americans: The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

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Jeremiah W. Cataldo, Ph.D.

Professor in Frederik Meijer Honors College

Disembodying Narrative: A Postcolonial Subversion of Genesis 

Publisher: Lexington Books / Fortress Academic, November 2023

Long believed to bear witness to the beginning of all life, the Bible's first book, Genesis, has been plumbed by a cornucopia of theologies and philosophies for ideas about social organization, human relationships, class, gender and gender roles, marriage, land rights, private property, and so much more. For many readers, assumptions about a divine creator, whose eye is cast upon a favored community, are at the heart of Western societies and politics and reside at the core of many national foundation myths. Yet despite all this, Genesis is not a frequent subject of postcolonial analyses seeking to expose the rootedness of inequalities within dominant social, political, and economic institutions. At times provocative, at others conciliatory, Jeremiah Cataldo explores how postcolonialism's rudeness, anger, and subversiveness are challenges to dominant traditions of interpreting Genesis and how those traditions influence who we are, how we relate to each other, how we read the Bible, and why, despite an increasingly globalized and interconnected world, we passionately cling to what divides us.

Jeremiah Cataldo has previously published additional books. Books by Jeremiah Cataldo

 

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Eric Covey, Ph.D.

Affiliate Faculty, Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire: US Mercenary Force in the Middle East

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2018

Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire examines the role of mercenary figures in negotiating relations between the United States and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. Mercenaries are often treated as historical footnotes, yet their encounters with the Ottoman world contributed to US culture and the impressions they left behind continue to influence US approaches to Africa and the Middle East. The book's analysis of these mercenary encounters and their legacies begins with the Battle of Derna in 1805-in which the US flag was raised above a battlefield for the first time outside of North America with the help of a mercenary army-and concludes with the British occupation of Egypt in 1882-which was witnessed and criticized by many of the US Civil War veterans who worked for the Egyptian government in the 1870s and 1880s. By focusing these mercenary encounters through the lenses of memory, sovereignty, literature, geography, and diplomacy, Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire reveals the ways in which mercenary force, while marginal in terms of its frequency and scope, produced important knowledge about the Ottoman world and helped to establish the complicated relationship of intimacy and mastery that exists between Americans in the United States and people in Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, South Sudan, and Turkey.

Book cover for Americans at War in the Ottoman Empire: US Mercenary Force in the Middle East by Eric Covey

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Aaron Eddens, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa

Publisher: University of California Press, 2024

In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of American projects that introduced capitalist agriculture across the Global South. Expansive in scope, this book draws on archival records of the earliest Green Revolution projects in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as interviews at development institutions and agribusinesses working to deliver genetically modified crops to millions of small-scale farmers across Africa. From the offices of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the halls of the world's largest agricultural biotechnology companies to field trials of hybrid maize in Kenya, Eddens shows how the Green Revolution fails to address global inequalities. Seeding Empire insists that eradicating hunger in a world of climate crisis demands thinking beyond the Green Revolution.

Books by Aaron Eddens

Book cover for Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa by Aaron Eddens

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Kurt Ellenberger, DMA

Professor in Frederik Meijer Honors College

Materials and Concepts in Jazz Improvisation

Publisher: Assayer Publishing, 2005

This concise jazz theory book presents and explains all of the main theoretical concepts found in jazz improvisation.

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Roger Gilles, Ph.D.

Director of the Frederik Meijer Honors College

Women on the Move: The Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 2018

The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women’s mastery over their lives.

By 1900 many cities began to ban the men’s six-day races, and it became more difficult to ensure competitive women’s races and attract large enough crowds. In 1902 two racers died, and the sport’s seven-year run was finished—and it has been almost entirely ignored in sports history, women’s history, and even bicycling history. Women on the Move tells the full story of America’s most popular arena sport during the 1890s, giving these pioneering athletes the place they deserve in history.

Books by Roger Gilles

Book cover for Women on the Move by Roger Gilles

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Denise Goerisch, Ph.D.

Director of Integrative Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Studies

The True Costs of College

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book examines the true costs of attendance faced by low- and moderate-income students on four public college campuses, and the consequences of these costs on students academic pathways and their social, financial, health, and emotional well-being. The authors exploration of the true costs of academics, living expenses, and student services leads them to conclude that current college policies and practices do not support low-income and otherwise marginalized students' well-being or success. To counter this, they suggest that reform efforts should begin by asking value-based questions about the goals of public higher education, and end by crafting class-responsive policies. They propose three tools that policymakers can use to do this work, and steps that every person can take to revitalize public support for public education, equity-producing policies, and democratic participation in the public arena.

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Azfar Hussain, Ph.D.

Director of the Graduate Program in Social Innovation

Associate Professor in Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

Chinho Bhasey Oboseshe (Signs Drift At last)

Publisher: Poondra Publications, Dhaka, December, 2023.

Chinho Bhashe Oboseshe is Azfar Hussain’s third book written in the Bengali language. It is an experimental, interdisciplinary, intersectional, and mixed-genre work in which the elements of travelogue, docufiction, and critifiction are interspliced to make theoretical and critical points about time and space, music and dance, and, of course, about politics and philosophy and poetry.

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Brian R. Johnson, Ph.D.

Human Rights Program Coordinator

Through Blood and Brotherhood: Comrades and Enemies in WWII Yugoslavia

Publisher: Casemate, 2024

On April 6, 1941, German troops along with Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian military units invaded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In less than two weeks the Kingdom would be defeated, setting the stage for a bloody civil war that the occupying Axis forces desperately triedýand neededýto control. Based on years of research, this book provides a distinctive account of what happened in the relatively unknown and under-researched Yugoslavian theater of conflict in World War II.

Brian Johnson previously published additional books. Books by Brian Johnson

 

Book cover for Through Blood and Brotherhood: Comrades and Enemies in WWII Yugoslavia by Brian Johnson

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Jack Mangala, Ph.D.

Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

The Politics of Challenging Presidential Term Limits in Africa

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, 2020

This book takes stock of the debate surrounding the institution of presidential term limits in Africa, against the backdrop of global trends toward authoritarianism and the rise of strong men. Widely adopted three decades ago, term limits for the office of the president are now being challenged by many African leaders. The power alternation debate in Africa raises important questions concerning the future of democracy and development on the continent. Using a case study approach, this book explores in detail six situations in which leaders have either succeeded or failed in altering term limits. It thoroughly dissects the arguments, tactics and strategies on both sides of the issue, and draws key lessons for strengthening constitutionalism in Africa.

Jack Mangala previously published additional books. Books by Jack Mangala

Book cover for The Politics of Challenging Presidential Term Limits in Africa by Jack Mangala

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Kimberly D. McKee, Ph.D.

Associate professor in Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

Adoption Fantasies: Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

Publisher: The Ohio State University Press, November 2023

In Adoption Fantasies, Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopted Asian women and girls are situated at a nexus of objectifications—as adoptees and as Asian American women—and how they negotiate competing expectations based on sensationalist and fictional portrayals of adoption found in US popular culture. McKee traces the life cycle of the adopted Asian woman, from the rendering of infant adoptee bodies in the white US imaginary, to Asian American fantasies of adoption, to encounters with the hypersexualization of Asian and Asian American women and girls in US popular culture. 

Dr. Kimberly D. McKee previously published additional books. Books by Dr. Kimberly D. McKee

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Anthony R. Meyer, Ph.D.

Affiliate professor in Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

Naming God in Early Judaism: Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek 

Publisher: Brill, November 2022  

During the Second Temple period (516 BCE-70 CE), Jews became reticent to speak and write the divine name, YHWH, also known by its four letters in Greek as the tetragrammaton. Priestly, pious, and scribal circles limitted the use of God's name, and then it disappeared. The variables are poorly understood and the evidence is scattered. This study brings together all ancient Jewish literary and epigraphic evidence in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek to describe how, when, and in what sources Jews either used or avoided the divine name. Instead of a diachronic contrast from use to avoidance, as is often the scholarly assumption, the evidence suggests diverse and overlapping naming practices that draw specific meaning from linguistic, geographic, and social contexts.

Anthony Meyer book

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Brent Smith, D.Min.

Associate Professor in Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

This book offers a survey of the development of interdisciplinarity in religious studies within academia and offers ways for it to continue to progress in contemporary universities. It examines the use of the term "interdisciplinary" in the context of the academic study of religion and how it shapes the way scholarly work in this field has developed.


The text uses two main elements to discuss religious studies as a field. Firstly, it looks at the history of the development of religious studies in academia, as seen through an interdisciplinary critique of the university as an epistemological project. It then uses the same interdisciplinary critique to develop a foundation for a 21st-century hermeneutic, one which uses the classical concepts reprised by that interdisciplinary critique and retools the field for the 21st century.
Setting out both the objects of religious studies as a subject and the techniques used to employ the study of those objects, this book offers an invaluable perspective on the progress of the field. It will, therefore, be of great use to scholars of research methods within religious studies.

Book cover for Religious Studies and the Goal of Interdisciplinarity by Brent Smith

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Joel P. Stillerman, Ph.D.

Faculty-in-Residence for Frederik Meijer Honors College, Professor of Sociology (CLAS)

Identity Investments: Middle-class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2023

After Pinochet's dictatorship ended in Chile in 1990, the country experienced a rapid decline in poverty along with a quickly growing economy. As a result, Chile's middle class expanded dramatically, echoing trends seen across the Global South as neoliberalism took firm hold in the 1990s and the early 2000s. Identity Investments examines the politics and consumption practices of this vast and varied fraction of the Chilean population, seeking to better understand their value systems and the histories that informed them.

Using participant observation, interviews, and photographs, Joel Stillerman develops a unique typology of the middle class, made up of activists, moderate Catholics, pragmatists, and youngsters. This typology allows him to unearth the cultural, political, and religious roots of middle-class market practices in contrast with other studies focused on social mobility and exclusionary practices. The resultant contrast in backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of these four groups animates this book and extends an emerging body of scholarship focused on the connections between middle-class market choices and politics in the Global South, with important implications for Chile's recent explosive political changes.

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Deana L. Weibel, Ph.D.

Jointly appointed professor in the departments of Anthropology and Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

A Sacred Vertigo: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France

Lexington Books, 2022

Built into a huge cliff in central France, the town of Rocamadour is a visual marvel and a place of contradictions. Pilgrims come to venerate its ancient Black Madonna but are outnumbered by secular tourists. Weibel provides an intimate look at the transformation of Rocamadour from a significant religious center to a tourist attraction; the efforts by clergy to restore Rocamadour’s spiritual character; the supernatural reinterpretations of the shrine by non-Catholics; and the desperate decision by the Diocese to participate in tourism itself, with disastrous results.

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Joel Wendland-Liu

Associate Professor in Brooks College School of Interdisciplinary Studies (SIS)

Mythologies: A Political Economy of U.S. Literature in the Long Nineteenth-Century

Publisher: International Publishers, 2022

Four myths dominated U.S. ideology in the 19th century. Myths of white victimization, capitalist progress, the frontier, and the 3self-made man3 shaped how many Americans thought about themselves. These ideas lay at the heart of ruling class justification for settler colonialism, the expansion of racial slavery, and the development of the capitalist market system. They became the basis for the transition to U.S. global imperialism.

Joel Wendland-Liu previously published an additional book. Books by Joel-Wendland-Liu

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