Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article titled “Towards a realist sociology of education: A polyphonic review essay” published in the Educational Theory, Volume 67, Issue 2. The article was co-authored with Michael Grenfell from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, Susan Hood from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and Dan Schubert from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
Christopher Gascón
Christopher Gascón, Modern Languages Department, guest-edited a special issue of the scholarly journal Symposium focusing on current critical approaches to 17th century Spanish and Latin American theater. In Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures: Special Issue: Twenty-First Century Approaches to Hispanic Golden Age Drama, Gascón brings together the work of six leading scholars to demonstrate how diversity and inclusivity guide current analyses of baroque drama in Spanish. His introduction shares the same title as the special issue.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, received a book contract from Duke University Press for Queer Kinship: Erotic Affinities and the Politics of Belonging, which he is co-editing with Elizabeth Freeman from University of California, Davis. The book examines queer conceptions and practices of family, reproduction and belonging, and it features contributions from foundational scholars of LGBTQ+ kinship, including Judith Butler, Kath Weston and Mark Rifkin.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his article published in the Journal of Social Studies Education Research. “Race, Language, and the Passive Voice: Hardship narratives in U.S. Social Studies Textbooks from 1860 to the present” analyzes 150 years of racial bias in U.S. textbook hardship narratives. The abstract is available here.
Catherine Porter Lewis
Catherine Porter Lewis, professor emerita of French, received the Albertine Translation Prize honoring the best contemporary French and Francophone literature in English translation. The award recognized her translation of Philippe Descola’s nonfiction book Les formes du visible. Une anthropologie de la figuration. The Albertine Prize, co-presented by Van Cleef & Arpels and the French Embassy, recognizes American readers’ favorite French-language titles recently translated into English. The ceremony was held Jan. 25 at the cultural services of the French Embassy in New York City.
Brian Barrett
Brian Barrett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had his book, Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum: International Studies in Social Realism, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The book was edited with Elizabeth Rata, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, presented on the topic of "Promoting Global Awareness through a Unit on Immigration” at the International Assembly of the 93rd Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies on Nov. 22 in St. Louis, Mo.
Earlier this summer, Lin wrote a chapter, “Overcoming Roadblocks on My Cross-Cultural Journey,” that was included in a newly published book titled Seeking the Common Dreams between the Worlds: Stories of Chinese Immigrant Faculty in North American Higher Education. The book is edited by Yan Wang, Macao University, and Yali Zhao, Georgia State University. This is the first book that probes the lived experiences of Chinese immigrant faculty in North American higher education institutions: their struggles, challenges and successes. The book explores how Chinese immigrant faculty’s past experiences in pre/post China’s economic reform have shaped who they are now, what they do and how they pursue their teaching, research, service and daily life that inevitably intertwines with their present and past diverse cultural backgrounds and unique experiences.
Tiantian Zheng, a professor in the College’s Sociology/Anthropology Department, contributed a chapter in this book.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her article, “From neoliberalism to structural racism: Problem framing in a teacher activist organization,” published in Curriculum Inquiry journal.
Brittany Adams
Brittany Adams, Literacy Department, had an article titled “Beyond Perpetrators, Victims, and Survivors: Young Adult Literature as Bystander Intervention Education” published in Volume 49, Issue 3 of The ALAN Review.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, “The Bush Presidency and the Unitary Executive” at a conference on the presidency of the George W. Bush administration held at Hofstra University from March 24-26. The conference brought together presidency scholars, journalists and former members of the administration to analyze the second Bush presidency.