Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Submissions from 2019
A Contemporary View of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Biology and Strain-Specific Di erences, Mansi C. Pandya, Sean Callahan, Kyryll G. Savchenko, and Christopher C. Stobart
Medical Rhetoric and the Sympathetic “Inebriet”: 1870–1930, Carol Reeves
Actitudes de los guatemaltecos hacia el sistema tripartito de tú, vos y usted en la publicidad escrita, Juan Rodríguez Prieto
The impact of college students’ motivational orientations and the social dimension of emotional intelligence in their willingness to study abroad, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto
The long-term impact of a study trip abroad on the acquisition of regional Spanish vocabulary incidentally, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto
Diet of Trachemys scripta (Red-eared Slider) and Graptemys geographica (Common Map Turtle) in an Urban Landscape, Travis Ryan
Fourteen polymorphic microsatellite markers for the widespread Labrador tea (Rhododendron groenlandicum), Matthew L. Sheik, Kitty L. LaBounty, Erika Mitchell, and Emily L. Gillespie
Frontierwhorlroamer: Eugene Jolas’s Cosmopoetics, Ania Spyra
"Of Acculturative Stress and Integration Distress: The Resettlement Challenges of Bhutanese Refugees in Metro Atlanta", Shyam Sriram
Climate Change Mitigation and the U.N. Security Council: A Just War Analysis, Harry van der Linden
2019 Innovation Issue: Many questions, fewer answers at intersection of AI, ethics, Lesley Weidenbener
Submissions from 2018
Book Review: *Jesus in Asia,* by R. S. Sugirtharajah, Chad Bauman
Words Taken for Wonders: Conversion and Religious Authority among the Dalits of Colonial Chhattisgarh, Chad Bauman
Study Abroad in the Neoliberal Academy: Shifting Geographies, Terri Carney
Being With Friends and the Potential for Binge Drinking During the First College Semester, Lizabeth A. Crawford and Katherine B. Novak
Individual and Society: Sociological Social Psychology, Lizabeth A. Crawford and Katherine B. Novak
Routine Activities and Delinquency: The Significance of Bonds to Society and Peer Context, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak, and Amia K. Foston
Migration and Laws of Contagion: Cultivating Talent in Japanese Women’s Soccer, Elise Edwards
Celebration of Mind Puzzle-Game, Jeremiah Farrell
Magic Cubes, Jeremiah Farrell and Karen Farrell
The Sociology Literacy Framework and Students’ Views of Learning in Introductory Sociology:, Jay Howard and Jess Butler
The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, a White Slave Trader Married to a Free Woman of Color by Hank Trent (review), Antwain Hunter
Masculinity and Men’s Bodies in Fairy Tales: Youth, Violence, and Transformation, Jeana Jorgensen
(Pre)historiography and Periegesis: Pausanias’ Description of Mycenae for a Roman Audience, Lynne Kvapil
Among the ancestors at Aidonia: accessing the past in Mycenaean mortuary contexts, Lynne Kvapil and Kim Shelton
Decisions, decisions, decisions. Examining the role of choice in pottery production at Petsas House, Mycenae, Lynne Kvapil, Kim Shelton, and Debra Trusty
Review of The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More, James McGrath
Review of The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion From Antiquity to Today, James McGrath
Review of Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels, James F. McGrath
The Gospel of John as Jewish Messianism: Formative Influences and Neglected Avenues in the History of Scholarship, James F. McGrath
Writing a Moral Code: Algorithms for Ethical Reasoning by Humans and Machines, James F. McGrath and Ankur Gupta
History and Fiction in Secular Time, Nermeen Mouftah
"Racial Exclusion and Death Penalty Juries: Can Death Penalty Juries Ever Be Representative?", Noelle Nasif, Shyam Sriram, and Eric Smith
Framing China: Discourses of Othering in US News and Political Rhetoric, Su-Mei Ooi and Gwen D'Arcangelis
Sriram (2018) - Final Dissertation.pdf, Shyam Sriram
Repeat associated mechanisms of genome evolution and function revealed by the Mus caroli and Mus pahari genomes, David Thybert, Maša Roller, Fábio C.P. Navarro, Ian Fiddes, Ian Streeter, Christine Feig, David Martin-Galvez, Mikhail Kolmogorov, Václav Janoušek, Wasiu Akanni, Bronwen Aken, Sarah Aldridge, Varshith Chakrapani, William Chow, Laura Clarke, Carla Cummins, Anthony Doran, Matthew Dunn, Leo Goodstadt, Kerstin Howe, Matthew Howell, Ambre-Aurore Josselin, Robert C. Karn, Christina M. Laukaitis, Lilue Jingtao, Fergal Martin, Matthieu Muffato, Stefanie Nachtweide, Michael A. Quail, Cristina Sisu, Mario Stanke, Klara Stefflova, Cock Van Oosterhout, Frederic Veyrunes, Ben Ward, Fengtang Yang, Golbahar Yazdanifar, Amonida Zadissa, David J. Adams, Alvis Brazma, Mark Gerstein, Benedict Paten, Son Pham, Thomas M. Keane, Duncan T. Odom, and Paul Flicek
Climate Change and Our Political Future, Harry van der Linden
Drone Warfare and Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, Harry van der Linden
Questioning Combatant’s Privilege in Unjust Wars, Harry van der Linden
oxi-1 and fshr-1 are required for neuromuscular signaling under normal and oxidative stress conditions in C. elegans., Barry Wei and Jennifer Kowalski
Submissions from 2017
Pentecostals and Interreligious Conflict in India: Proselytization, Marginalization, and Anti-Christian Violence, Chad Bauman
How Metamorphosis Is Different in Plethodontids: Larval Life History Perspectives on Life-Cycle Evolution, Christopher K. Beachy, Travis Ryan, and Ronald M. Bonett
Queer Theory, Sex Work, and Foucault's Unreason, Brooke M. Beloso
Martin Gardner Puzzle-Games, Stephen Bloom, Lacey Echols, Jeremiah Farrell, and Shannon Lieb
The Tea Party, Stephen Bloom and Jeremiah Farrell
Navigating Tricky Topics: The Benefits of Performance Pedagogy, Christopher Bungard
Circumferences of 3-connected claw-free graphs, II, Zhi-Hong Chen
Degree and neighborhood conditions for hamiltonicity of claw-free graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen
Hamiltonicity and Degrees of Adjacent Vertices in Claw‐Free Graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen
Minimum degree conditions for the Hamiltonicity of 3-connected claw-free graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen, Hong-Jian Lai, and Liming Xiong
Spanning trails with variations of Chvátal–Erdős conditions, Zhi-Hong Chen, Hong-Jian Lai, and Meng Zhang
Exploring Caenorhabditis elegans Behavior: An Inquiry-Based Laboratory Module for Middle or High School Students, Sarah Deffit, Cori Neff, and Jennifer Kowalski
Featured Herbarium: BUT—The Friesner Herbarium of Butler University, Rebecca W. Dolan
Floristic Inventory of Woollen’s Gardens Nature Preserve, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA, With Quantitative Vegetation Sampling of Permanent Plots in 2003 and 2016, Rebecca W. Dolan and Marcia E. Moore
In vivo delivery and activation of masked fluorogenic hydrolase substrates by endogenous hydrolases in C. elegans, Shataakshi Dube, Hitesh Dube, Nicole Green, Erik Larsen, Alex White, R. Johnson, and Jennifer Kowalski
From Grade Schooler to Great Star: Childhood Development and the “Golden Age” in the World of Japanese Soccer, Elise M. Edwards
Two Games Displayed by Butler’s 2017 Celebration of Mind, Jeremiah Farrell
Euler Entertainments, Jeremiah Farrell and Karen Farrell
The French Resolution, Jeremiah Farrell and Karen Farrell
Mathematical Evolution, Jeremiah Farrell and William Johnston
A Gathering For Gardner Puzzle-Game, Jeremiah Farrell and Chris Morgan
Alice in Wonderland for G4G13, Jeremiah Farrell, Emmanuelle Malte Salvatore, and Todd Wilk Estroff
Hawks & Dachshunds: Notes on Revision, Bryan Furuness
Negotiating for the Environment: LBJ’s Contributions to the Environmental Movement, Nancy M. Germano
Review of Emory L. Kemp’s Taming the Muskingum, Nancy M. Germano
Introduction: Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophies, Stuart Glennan and Phyllis Illari
Varieties of Mechanisms, Stuart Glennan and Phyllis Illari
Concept Mapping, Megan Grady-Rutledge
Rudolf Bultmann on Myth, History, and the Resurrection, Brent Hege
Europe at the Time of the Reformation, Brent A. R. Hege
Luther Goes Viral: Mass Communication in the Lutheran Reformation, Brent A. R. Hege
Luther’s Life and Thought, Brent A. R. Hege
Luther, the Flawed Giant, Brent A. R. Hege
Results of the 2016 Indianapolis Biodiversity Survey, Marion County, Indiana, Jeffrey D. Holland, Rebecca W. Dolan, Jeremy J. Sheets, Michael S. Finkler, Brant E. Fisher, Roger L. Hedge, Tom Swinford, Nick Harby, Robert P. Jean, Megan K. Martin, Bill McKnight, Marc Milne, Kirk Roth, Paul Rothrock, and Carl Strang
The Real World of Teaching in Hadrian’s Virtual Villa, Lynne Kvapil
The Danger of Foreignization: Ling Shuhua’s Ancient Melodies, Xiaoqing Liu
Obedient Unto Death: Philippians 2:8, Gethsemane, and the Historical Jesus, James McGrath
Review of Jerusalem: Ein Handbuch und Studienreiseführer zur Heiligen Stadt, James McGrath
Review of Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior, James McGrath
Review of Just Immigration: American Policy in Christian Perspective , James McGrath
Review of Luke’s Christology of Divine Identity, James McGrath
Review of Our Divine Double, James McGrath
Review of Psalms and Music: Influences of the Psalms on Western Music , James McGrath
Review of The Bible Retold by Jewish Artists, Writers, Composers and Filmmakers, James McGrath
Review of The Days of Creation: A History of Christian Interpretation of Genesis 1:1-2:3, James McGrath
Slow Scholarship: Do Bloggers Rush In Where Jesus’ Wife Would Fear To Tread?, James F. McGrath
Faith Development beyond Religion: The NGO as Site of Islamic Reform” in Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs., Nermeen Mouftah
Faith Development beyond Religion: The NGO as Site of Islamic Reform, Nermmen Mouftah
Children of Vienna: Translation, Rewriting, and Robert Neumann’s Legacy, Sarah Painitz
Analysis of Copy Number Variation in the Abp Gene Regions of Two House Mouse Subspecies Suggests Divergence during the Gene Family Expansions, Željka Pezer, Amanda G. Chung, Robert C. Karn, and Christina M. Laukaitis
Mechanisms: Ancient Sources, Tiberiu Popa
Theology and Science Fiction | The James McGrath Interview, Wipf and Stock Publishers
Strong pseudoprimes to twelve bases, Jonathan Sorenson and Jonathan Webster
Trump, Populism, Fascism, and the Road Ahead, Harry van der Linden
From Page to Screen: Teaching Los Pazos de Ulloa and La madre naturaleza Through Adaptation, Linda Willem
Submissions from 2016
A Coin-Flipping Analogy and Web App for Teaching Spin–Spin Splitting in 1H NMR Spectroscopy, Adam M. Azman and John Esteb