Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Submissions from 2013
Hindu-Christian Conflict in India: Globalization, Conversion, and the Coterminal Castes and Tribes, Chad M. Bauman
Trials of the urban ecologist, Rebecca W. Dolan
Submissions from 2012
Christianity and Hinduism: An Annotated Bibliography, Chad M. Bauman, Arun Jones, Brian Pennington, Joseph Prabhakar Dayam, and Michelie Voss Roberts
King Alfonso XI in Lope’s Amor, pleito y desafío: A Practical and Just Model of Kingship in a Time of Moral Ambiguity, Terri Carney
Luis Goytisolo's Teoría del Conocimiento As Postmodern Autobiography, Terri Carney
Defying Borders: Transforming Learning Through Collaborative Feminist Organizing and Interdisciplinary, Transnational Pedagogy, Terri Carney, Margaretha Geertsema Sligh, Ann M. Savage, and Ageeth Sluis
Review of "An Introduction to Christian Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "What’s Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation", Brent A. R. Hege
The U.S. No Longer Makes the Grade: Economic Inequality Put an End to the 'American Century', David S. Mason
Review of The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios, James F. McGrath
Barack Obama as Just War Theorist: The Libyan Intervention, Harry van der Linden
On the Violence of Systemic Violence: A Critique of Slavoj Žižek, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2011
Indian Christian Historiography from Below, from Above, and in Between., Chad M. Bauman
Review of Missionaries and their Medicine, Chad M. Bauman
Still Hungover: Todd Phillips and Rape Culture, Terri Carney
Living More Than Just Enough for the City: Persistence of High-Quality Vegetation in Natural Areas in an Urban Setting, Rebecca W. Dolan, Jessica D. Stephens, and Marcia E. Moore
IDK LOL: Text Messaging During Class Impairs Comprehension of Lecture Material, Amanda C. Gingerich
Multi-Tasking = Epic Fail: Students Who Text Message During Class Show Impaired Comprehension of Lecture Material, Amanda C. Gingerich
Singular and General Causal Relations: A Mechanist Perspective, Stuart Glennan
Review of Introduction to Modern Theology: Trajectories in the German Tradition, Brent Hege
Political Theology in a Postsecularist Key, Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Robots, Rights and Religion, James F. McGrath
On Hearing (Rather Than Reading) Intertextual Echoes: Christology and Monotheistic Scriptures in an Oral Context, James F. McGrath
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2010
"Del infierno al cuerpo: La otredad en la narrativa y en el cine español contemporáneo," Katarzyna Olga Beoñom, Terri Carney
Must Be Nice, Bryan Furuness
Bryan Furuness is Writing an Essay on Facebook Status Updates, Bryan M. Furuness
Excerpts From Two Lists, Bryan M. Furuness
Feeling of Knowing and Retrieval Failure: Tip-of-the-Tongue State is Not the Only Option, Amanda C. Gingerich
How Sweet It Is: Candy-Based Demonstrations in Introductory Psychology, Amanda C. Gingerich
Mechanisms, Causes, and the Layered Model of the World, Stuart Glennan
Mechanisms (Oxford), Stuart Glennan
How Teachers Need to Deal with the Seen, the Unseen, the Improbable, and the Nearly Imponderable, Marshall W. Gregory
Review of Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction, by Don Schweitzer., Brent Hege
A Reforming Tradition Struggles with Change: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Historic Vote on LGBT Ordination, One Year Later, Brent A. R. Hege
Stories the Religious Left Must Tell Itself, Brent A. R. Hege
The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education, Brent A. R. Hege
The Suffering of God? The Divine Love and the Problem of Suffering in Classical and Process-Relational Theisms., Brent A. R. Hege
Study Smarter, Not Harder, T. Lineweaver and Amanda C. Gingerich
The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship, James F. McGrath
Reading the Story of Miriai on Two Levels: Evidence from Mandaean Anti-Jewish Polemic about the Origins and Setting of Early Mandaeism, James F. McGrath
Genetic Variation in Past and Current Landscapes: Conservation Implications Based on Six Endemic Florida Scrub Plants, Eric S. Menges, Rebecca W. Dolan, Robert Pickert, Rebecca Yahr, and Doria R. Gordon
A Randomized Sublinear Time Parallel GCD Algorithm for the EREW PRAM, Jonathan P. Sorenson
Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark as a Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative, Ania Spyra
Self-Indulgence is the American Word for Flair, Ania Spyra
Book Review: "Hocus bogus," Gary, Romain., Sylvie Vanbaelen
Book Review: "Ousmane Sembène: the making of a militant artist," Gadjigo, Samba., Sylvie Vanbaelen
From Combat Boots to Civilian Shoes: Reflections on The Chickenhawk Syndrome, Harry van der Linden
Just Military Preparedness, U.S. Military Hegemony, and Contingency Planning for Intervention in Sudan: A Reply to Lango and Patterson, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2009
Computing Prime Harmonic Sums, Eric Bach, Dominic Klyve, and Jonathan P. Sorenson
Review of Religious Division and Social Conflict, Chad M. Bauman
The Specter of ‘Spirituality’—On the (In)Utility of an Analytical Category, Chad M. Bauman
Out of India: Immigrant Hindus and South Asian Hinduism in the United States Chad Bauman and Jennifer Saunders, Chad M. Bauman
Fuzzy But Not Warm: On the (Continuing) Descriptive and Analytical Inutility of ‘Spirituality', Chad M. Bauman, Gene Gallagher, and Davina Lopez
Lies, Lyres, and Laughter in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Christopher Bungard
The Hamiltonian index of graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen, Yi Hong, Jian-Liang Lin, and Zhi-Sui Tao
Collapsible graphs and reductions of line graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen, Peter C.B. Lam, and Wai-Chee Shiu
Man of Steel, Bryan M. Furuness
Portrait of Lucifer as a Young Man, Bryan M. Furuness
“Have You Seen The Notebook?” “I Don’t Remember.” Using Popular Cinema to Teach Memory and Amnesia, Amanda C. Gingerich
The Effect of Emotional State on Inadvertent Plagiarism Memory Errors, Amanda C. Gingerich
When Being Sad Improves Memory Accuracy: The Role of Affective State in Inadvertent Plagiarism, Amanda C. Gingerich
Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation, Stuart Glennan
Junk-Yard Ride, Marshall W. Gregory
Shaped by Stories: The Ethical Power of Narratives, Marshall W. Gregory
Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience: The Theology of Georg Wobbermin, Brent A. R. Hege
Jesus Christ as Poetic Symbol: Wilhelm Bousset’s Contribution to the Faith-History Debate, Brent A. R. Hege
Review of The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith, by James F. McGrath, Brent A. R. Hege
Entering a Systemic Revolution, David S. Mason
To increase federal revenue, taxes must go up., David S. Mason
Cultural Wars, Then and Now, Richard McGowan
The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in its Jewish Context, James F. McGrath
Basking behavior of Emydid turtles (Chysemys picta marginata, Graptemys geographica, and Trachemys scripta elegans) in an urban landscape, W. E. Peterman and Travis J. Ryan
Isidore Ducasse précurseur d'Odilon Redon. L'hypotypose en noir et blanc., Eloise Sureau-Hale
Les Chants de maldoror: plaisir de la négation, négation du plaisir, Eloise Sureau-Hale
Barack Obama, Resort to Force, and U.S. Military Hegemony, Harry van der Linden
From Hiroshima to Baghdad: Military Hegemony versus Just Military Preparedness, Harry van der Linden
Questioning the Resort to U.S. Hegemonic Military Force, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2008
Postcolonial Anxiety and Anti-Conversion Sentiment in the Report of the Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, Chad M. Bauman
Review of The Crisis of Secularism, Chad M. Bauman
Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, and Agency in Colonial India, Chad M. Bauman
Genetic change following fire in populations of a seed-banking perennial plant, Rebecca W. Dolan
Capturing Genetic Variation during Ecological Restorations: An Example from Kankakee Sands in Indiana, Rebecca W. Dolan, Deborah L. Marr, and Andrew Schnabel
Productivity, relevance and natural selection, Stuart Glennan
Do We Teach Disciplines or Do We Teach Students?—What Difference Does It Make?, Marshall W. Gregory
Humanities Education Then, Now and Why, Marshall W. Gregory
Practicing mentorship: Graduate-student supervision of undergraduate research assistants, O. K. Lima, Amanda C. Gingerich, and J. P. Seder
History and Fiction in the Acts of Thomas: The State of the Question, James F. McGrath
Review of Kenneth E. Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, James F. McGrath
Movement and habitat use of two aquatic turtles, Travis J. Ryan, C A. Conner, B A. Douthitt, S C. Sterrett, and Carmen M. Salsbury
Spectres, monstres et fantômes. Les Chants Maldoror" et le spectacle de la fantasmagorie, Eloise Sureau-Hale
L'Orlanda de Jacqueline Harpman: Virginia Woolf rencontre Carl Gustav Jung, Sylvie Vanbaelen
From the Streets to the Screen: The Music of Madrid in Saura's Deprisa, deprisa, Linda M. Willem
Submissions from 2007
Modular exponentiation via the explicit Chinese remainder theorem, Daniel J. Bernstein and Jonathan P. Sorenson
An s-Hamiltonian Line Graph Problem, Zhi-Hong Chen, Wai-Chee Shiu, and Deying Li
Whose Science and whose Religion? Reflections on the Relations between Scientific and Religious Worldviews, Stuart Glennan