26 Jun 2017
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A SAMPLING OF NEW AND FORTHCOMING TITLES FROM OUR COLLEGE COMMUNITY: The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2017 By Cary Cordova, assistant professor, Department of American Studies Cordova combines urban, political and art history...
Read more → 02 May 2017
Posted by David Ochsner 
If you search “women in the 1920s” in Google Images, what you get are a few photos of women working or protesting, but many more photos of sexually liberated flappers — at the beach, on the town, or dancing the night away at some speakeasy. The 1920s look like one big party. But the decade wasn’t...
Read more → 28 Apr 2017
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A sampling of new and forthcoming titles from our college community: The Subject of Experience Oxford Unversity Press, March 2017 By Galen Strawson, professor, Department of Philosophy What is a person? How should we think of our death? Is there really such a thing as the “self”?...
Read more → 09 Dec 2016
Posted by Fatma Tarlaci 
Foucault's Critical Ethics Fordham University Press, September 2016 By Richard A. Lynch, DePauw University Plan II Honors Alumnus (1991) Tracing the evolution of Foucault’s analysis of power from his early articulations of disciplinary power to his theorizations of biopower and governmentality,...
Read more → 18 Nov 2016
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
Despite crime rates being at a historic low, the United States is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to achieve an 80 percent recidivism rate. We’ve spent $1 trillion during the past 40 years on criminal justice, not including $1 trillion more on the war on drugs. William Kelly, a professor...
Read more → 11 Aug 2016
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A History of American Civil War Literature Cambridge University Press, Dec. 2015 Edited by Coleman Hutchison, associate professor, Department of English The first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, A History of American Civil War Literature examines the way in which the war has been...
Read more → 13 May 2016
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
Since Janet Davis’ early childhood in Honolulu, Hawaii, she says she remembers a life surrounded by animals: chickens running around the yard, horse rides, caring for her pet dogs and cats. “It was a world saturated with animals, the formation of my moral consciousness, if you will,” says Davis,...
Read more → 02 Nov 2015
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
What it Means to be an Adult Chances are at some point in your life, you have been told to “grow up” or “start acting your age.” Faced with the pressures of paying bills, holding down a steady job and frequenting home improvement stores, it’s easy to see why adulthood may have lost some of its luster. Steven...
Read more → 27 Aug 2015
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
A look at new titles from the College of Liberal Arts: Family Secrets: Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico New York University Press, Sept. 2015 By Gloria González-López, associate professor, Department of Sociology In Family Secrets, Gloria González-López tells the life stories...
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Longhorn Lightens the Load for Incoming Students
The “Unfreakingbelievable” World of College Football
Predators Turned Prey
Books: Summer 2017
Rebhorn Translation Wins Prestigious PEN Award
Teaching Teens That Bullies Can Change Reduces Aggression
Middle Eastern Studies Announces Fall 2013 Scholar...
Trouble in Paradise or Domestic Bliss?
Supernatural Explanations More Accepted as We Age
Not Even Past Blog ShelfLife@Texas WordWatchers
Architecture of Coexistence
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Stephennie Mulder, an associate professor in the Departments of Art and Art History and Middle Eastern Studies, was invited to Tehran, Iran, in February 2016 to receive the country’s World Award for Book of the Year from the Iranian Ministry of Culture, which was to be awarded in a ceremony by Iranian...
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