Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Submissions from 2016
Does the Center Hold? Reflections on a Sociological Core., Jeanne Ballantine, Nancy Greenwood, Jay Howard, Edward Kain, Diane Pike, Michael Schwartz, R. Smith, and John Zipp
"'Americans Hate Muslims, Too' (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)", Chad Bauman
Book Review: *Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959-2009,* by John B. Carman and Chilkuri Vasantha Rao, Chad Bauman
Book Review: *Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa,* by Alexander Henn, Chad Bauman
The Temple Makers (PBS/WFYI documentary with input from Chad Bauman), Chad Bauman
Faith and Foreign Policy in India: Legal Ambiguity, Selective Xenophobia, and Anti-minority Violence, Chad M. Bauman
The “Make Your Own Religion” Project, Chad M. Bauman and Brent A. R. Hege
Christianity and Freedom in India: Colonialism, Communalism, Caste, and Violence, Chad M. Bauman and James Ponniah
Spanning Eulerian subgraphs and Catlin’s reduced graphs, Wei-Guo Chen and Zhi-Hong Chen
A Twelve Vertex Theorem for 3-Connected Claw-Free Graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen
Chvátal-Erdös Type Conditions for Hamiltonicity of Claw-Free Graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen
Circumferences of 3-connected claw-free graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen
Snarks, Hypohamiltonian Graphs and Non-Supereulerian Graphs, Zhi-Hong Chen
Routine Activities and Delinquency: The Significance of Bonds to Society and Peer Context, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak, and Amia K. Foston
Invasive Species in an Urban Flora: History and Current Status in Indianapolis, Indiana, Rebecca W. Dolan
Indiana Plant Atlas, Rebecca W. Dolan and Marcia E. Moore
A New 12-Puzzle, Todd Estroff and Jeremiah Farrell
The Unusual Substrate Specificity of a Virulence Associated Serine Hydrolase from the Highly Toxic Bacterium, Francisella tularensis, Alexander M. Farberg, Whitney K. Hart, and R. Jeremy Johnson
A Special Tribute to Martin Gardner, Jeremiah Farrell
Paul Swinford – a Tribute, Jeremiah Farrell
Photo of Euler Semimagic Square With Exercises., Jeremiah Farrell
You Like Japan, Jeremiah Farrell and Kate Jones
Kate Jones – a Tribute, Karen Farrell and Jeremiah Farrell
Determination of Additives in Cigarettes Utilizing Evolved Gas Analysis (EGA), Karissa Ferguson, Michael J. Samide, Cierra Schmicker, Tyler Schenk, and Anne Wilson
Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity, Irune Gabiola
Philanthropic Citizenry? Environmentalism in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Nancy Germano
Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy, Stuart Glennan
Digital Storytelling, Megan Grady
The first multi-color photometric study of the short-period contact eclipsing binary DE Lyn, Amanda Hashimoto, Liyun Zhang, Xianming L. Han, Hongpeng Lu, and Daimei Wang
What is Religious Freedom?, Brent Hege
Butler University Baccalaureate Faculty Address, May 6, 2016, Brent A. R. Hege
Improving the Short-Term Affect of Grieving Children Through Art, Kaylin E. Hill and Tara T. Lineweaver
The Role of Retrotransposons in Gene Family Expansions in the Human and Mouse Genomes, Václav Janoušek, Christina M. Laukaitis, Alexey Yanchukov, and Robert C. Karn
Ada Estelle Schweitzer, Jason Lantzer
Oscar Carleton McCulloch, Jason Lantzer
The Jin and Jang of Quantum Physics Truth Tables, Shannon Lieb and Jeremiah Farrell
Compared to What? The Effects of a Frame of Reference on Older Adults’ Subjective Memory, Tara T. Lineweaver, Michelle Horhota, Rose Hull, Sarah M. McRoberts, and Megan E. Fishbaugh
Review of Galatians to Philemon according to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation, James McGrath
Review of Reading Koine Greek: An Introduction and Integrated Workbook, James McGrath
Review of The Birth of the Trinity: Jesus, God, and Spirit in New Testament and Early Christian Interpretations of the Old Testament, James McGrath
"Introduction" to Theology and Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
Orality and Intertextuality, James F. McGrath
Theology and Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
What has Coruscant to Do with Jerusalem? A Response and Reflections at the Crossroads of Hebrew Bible and Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
A God Needs Compassion, but Not a Starship: Star Trek's Humanist Theology, James F. McGrath
The White Rabbit 12-Puzzle, Chris Morgan and Jeremiah Farrell
[Talk Gnosis] The Mandaeans, Gnostic Wisdom Network
Rethinking Linkage to the West: What Authoritarian Stability in Singapore Tells Us, Su-Mei Ooi
17. Zoology, Tiberiu Popa
Deco Body, Deco City: Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939, Ageeth Sluis
"A Comparative Analysis of Collective Action Frames in Nosamo and the Tea Party", Shyam Sriram
"A Foucauldian Theory of American Islamophobia", Shyam Sriram
"A Tulsi By Any Other Name: Evaluating South Asian American Support for a Hindu Member of Congress", Shyam Sriram
Sriram (2016) - Muslim American Political Behavior. Field Paper .pdf, Shyam Sriram
"The Politics of Deracialization: South Asian American Candidates, Nicknames, and Campaign Strategies", Shyam Sriram and stonegarden grindlife
Lasting Legacies: Contemporary Struggles and Historical Dispossession in South Africa, Robin L. Turner
Arguments against Drone Warfare with a Focus on the Immorality of Remote Control Killing and “Deadly Surveillance”, Harry van der Linden
The Anaphase-Promoting Complex (APC) ubiquitin ligase affects chemosensory behavior in C. elegans, Julia Wang, Alexandra K. Jennings, and Jennifer R. Kowalski
The first orbital parameters and period variation of the short-period eclipsing binary AQ Boo, Shuai Wang, Liyun Zhang, Qinfeng Pi, Xianming L. Han, Xiliang Zhang, Hongpeng Lu, Daimei Wang, and TongAn Li
Submissions from 2015
Horizontal Gene Flow in Managed Ecosystems, Cheryl P. Andam, Sarah M. Carver, and Sean T. Berthrong
Radical-Mediated C-H Bond Activation, Adam M. Azman
"Page 99 Test for Chad Bauman's *Pentecostals, Proselytization, and anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India*", Chad Bauman
Pentecostals, Proselytization, and anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India, Chad Bauman
The Violence of Conversion: Proselytization and Interreligious Controversy in the Work of Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Chad Bauman
Review, Other Dreams of Freedom: Religion, Sex, and Human Trafficking, by Yvonne C. Zimmerman, Brooke M. Beloso
Comedy, Violence, and Undergraduates, Christopher Bungard
Violence in Plautus: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love performance, Christopher Bungard
In Response to Scott Despain’s Model, Terri Carney
Fan-Type Conditions for Spanning Eulerian Subgraphs, Wei-Guo Chen and Zhi-Hong Chen
Lai’s conditions for spanning and dominating closed trails, Wei-Guo Chen, Zhi-Hong Chen, and Mei Lu
Properties of Catlin’s reduced graphs and supereulerian graphs, Wei-Guo Chen, Zhi-Hong Chen, and Mei Lu
Graphs with a 3-Cycle-2-Cover, Zhi-Hong Chen, Miaomiao Han, Hong-Jian Lai, and Mingquan Zhan
Two Hundred Years of Forest Change: Effects of Urbanization on Tree Species Composition and Structure, Rebecca W. Dolan
Urbanization—The Bad, The Good, and The Very Good, Rebecca W. Dolan
Community Involvement to Address a Long-standing Invasive Species Problem: Aspects of Civic Ecology in Practice, Rebecca W. Dolan, Kelly Harris, and Mark Adler
Changes in Plant Species Composition and Structure in Two Peri-urban Nature Preserves over 10 Years, Rebecca W. Dolan, Jessica D. Stepens, and Marcia E. Moore
Scrambled Squares, Jeremiah Farrell and Karen Farrell
Shepherds, Why this Jubilee?, Bryan Furuness
Spoil, Bryan Furuness
The Scorched and the Smoldering, Bryan Furuness
When is it Mental?, Stuart Glennan
Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, 1800, Jason N. Goldsmith
Butler University Baccalaureate Address 2013, Brent Hege
Englightenment in Philosophy and Religion, Brent Hege
North Central Sociological Association 2014 Teaching Address: The John F. Schnabel Lecture—Sociology’s Special Pedagogical Challenge, Jay R. Howard
Discussion in the College Classroom: Getting Your Students Engaged and Participating in Person and Online, Jay R. Howard and Maryellen Weimer
Politics, Labor, and Rebellions Real and Imagined: Slaves, Free People of Color, and Firearms in North Carolina, 1729-1865, Antwain K. Hunter
Comparative Proteomics of Mouse Tears and Saliva: Evidence from Large Protein Families for Functional Adaptation, Robert C. Karn and Christina M. Laukaitis
Rational Maps of CP^2 with No Invariant Foliation, Scott R. Kaschner, Rodrigo A. Perez, and Roland K.W. Roeder
Superstable manifolds of invariant circles and codimension-one Böttcher functions, Scott R. Kaschner and Roland K.W. Roeder
Geometric Limits of Julia Sets of Maps z^n + exp(2πiθ) as n → ∞, Scott R. Kaschner, Reaper Romero, and David Simmons
FOUR COLOR OBSERVATIONS OF 2501 LOHJA, Bin Li, Haibin Zhao, Hao Lu, and Xianming Han
Winesburg, Indiana: Fork River anthology, Michael Martone and Bryan M. Furuness
A Concise History of Modern Europe: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity, David Mason
Review of Jesus: Evidence and Argument or Mythicist Myths?, James McGrath
Monotheism, James F. McGrath