Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Submissions from 2015
Explicit and Implicit Religion in Doctor Who and Star Trek, James F. McGrath
Forward to The Son of God: Three Views of the Identity of Jesus, James F. McGrath
How Jesus Became God: One Scholar’s View, James F. McGrath
Mythicism and the Making of Mark, James F. McGrath
Religion’s Future and the Future’s Religions Through the Lens of Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium, Nermeen Mouftah
Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence Before and After 2011, Nermeen Mouftah
Universal Electric Current of Interacting Resonant-Level Models with Asymmetric Interactions: An Extension of the Landauer Formula, Akinori Nishino, Naomichi Hatano, and Gonzalo Ordonez
Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, One Year Later, Su-Mei Ooi and Megan Day
China’s New Silk Road and Its Impact on Xinjiang, Su-Mei Ooi and Kate Trinkle
Searching for Their Real Home: Dependent Black Children in Indianapolis, 1910-1940, John D. Ramsbottom
Of Frogs & Rhetoric: The Atrazine Wars, Carol Reeves
Building Bodies: Creating Urban Landscapes of Athletic Aesthetics in Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis
Two Compact Incremental Prime Sieves, Jonathan P. Sorenson
Near-Optimal Online Multiselection in Internal and External Memory, Jonathan P. Sorenson, Jérémy Barbay, Ankur Gupta, and S. Srinivasa Rao
"Innovative Ideas in Civic Engagement across Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges", Shyam Sriram
The Mother of Mary (Saxby) Clarke, Gradmother of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Island, Scott G. Swanson
Peace-building without Western Saviors? An Approach to Teaching African Gender and Sexuality Politics to American students., Robin L. Turner
Drone Warfare and Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
Review: Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, edited by Bradley Jay Strawser, Harry van der Linden
Hamlet Reinvents Himself, William Walsh
Photometric Study of the Short-Period Eclipsing Binary V441 Lac, Daimei Wang, Liyun Zhang, Xianming Han, Franz Agerer, Qingfeng Pi, and Shuai Wang
Comunicación no verbal: La banda sonora de Arroz y Tartana, Linda M. Willem
Realidad, Doña Perfecta and Tormento in Dialogue with the 21st century: Fernando Méndez-Leite’s Galdosiana, Linda M. Willem
The First Multi-Color Photometric Study of the Short-Period Contact Eclipsing Binary GK Aqr, Liyun Zhang, Qingfeng Pi, Xianming Han, TongAn Li, Xiliang Zhang, Hongyan Sang, Daimei Wang, and Shuai Wang
Submissions from 2014
Professor McGrath Offers a Scholarly Take On Religion and Doctor Who, Marc Allen and James F. McGrath
A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers, Myla F.J. Aronson, Frank A. La Sorte, Charles H. Nilon, Madhusudan Katti, Mark A. Goddard, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Paige S. Warren, Nicholas S.G. Williams, Sarel Cilliers, Bruce Clarkson, Cynnamon Dobbs, Rebecca W. Dolan, Marcus Hedblom, Stefan Klotz, Jip Louwe Kooijmans, Ingolf Kühn, Ian MacGregor-Fors, Mark McDonnell, Ulla Mörtberg, Petr Pyšek, Stefan Siebert, Jessica Sushinsky, Peter Werner, and Marten Winter
Introduction, Chad Bauman
"Modi's Victory and the Future of Religious Freedom in India", Chad Bauman
The Inter-Religious Riot as a Cultural System: Globalization, Geertz, and Hindu-Christian Conflict, Chad Bauman
Constructing Indian Christianities: Culture, Conversion and Caste, Chad Bauman and Richard Young
Waterless Condensers for the Teaching Laboratory: An Adaptation of Traditional Glassware, Erich W. Baum, John Esteb, and Anne M. Wilson
Making E.T. Perfectly Queer: The Alien Other and the Science Fiction of Sexual Difference, Brooke M. Beloso
Nitrogen Fertilization Has a Stronger Effect on Soil Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterial Communities than Elevated Atmospheric CO2, Sean T. Berthrong, Chris M. Yeager, Laverne Gallegos-Graves, Blaire Steven, Stephanie A. Eichorst, Robert B. Jackson, and Cheryl R. Kuske
Optically Tunable Bound States in the Continuum, Yingyue Boretz, Gonzalo Ordonez, Satoshi Tanaka, and Tomio Petrosky
A Blast from the Ancient Past: Using Digital Storytelling in ‘Roman Perspectives’, Christopher Bungard
To Script Or Not To Script: Rethinking Pseudolus as Playwright, Christopher Bungard
Edge-connectivities for spanning trails with prescribed edges, Wei-Guo Chen, Zhi-Hong Chen, and Weiqi Luo
Jeff Rasley, Author and Coach, Tekneshia Day and Jeff Rasley
Civilizando el carnaval: la retórica del progreso en las obras de Lola Rodríguez de Tío, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Bacon's Swamp- Ghost of a Central Indiana Natural Area Past, Rebecca W. Dolan
Fields of Individuals and Neoliberal Logics: Japanese Soccer Ideals and the 1990s Economic Crisis, Elise M. Edwards
John Horton Conway: A Puzzle Game, Jeremiah Farrell and Karen Farrell
The Most-Perfect 4*4 Puzzle Game, Jeremiah Farrell and Karen Farrell
Notes on Narrative, Bryan M. Furuness
Second Coming, Bryan M. Furuness
OMG! Texting in Class = U Fail :( Empirical Evidence that Text Messaging During Class Disrupts Comprehension, Amanda C. Gingerich and Tara T. Lineweaver
Aspects of Human Historiographic Explanation: A View from the Philosophy of Science, Stuart Glennan
Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden: In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across the Life Sciences, Stuart Glennan
Time-Reversal Symmetric Resolution of Unity without Background Integrals in Open Quantum Systems, Naomichi Hatano and Gonzalo Ordonez
Contesting Faith, Truth, and Religious Language at the Creation Museum: A Historical-Theological Reflection, Brent A. R. Hege
Another Nibble at the Core: Student Learning in a Thematically-focused Introductory Sociology Course, Jay R. Howard, Katherine B. Novak, Krista M.C. Cline, and Marvin B. Scott
Bacchilega, Cristina, Fairy Tales Transformed? Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder, Jeana Jorgensen
Modern Views of Ancient Goddesses in Tarot, Jeana Jorgensen
Normalized Weekend Work: It Is Basically Like Homework, Right?, Jeana Jorgensen
Quantifying the Grimm Corpus: Transgressive and Transformative Bodies in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen
Strategic Silences: Voiceless Heroes in Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen
Molding Messages: Analyzing the Reworking of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ in Grimm’s Fairy Tale Classics and Dollhouse, Jeana Jorgensen and Brittany Warman
Did Androgen-Binding Protein Paralogs Undergo Neo- and/or Subfunctionalization as the Abp Gene Region Expanded in the Mouse Genome?, Robert C. Karn, Amanda G. Chung, and Christina M. Laukaitis
On the Relation between Quantum Mechanical and Neo-Mechanistic Ontologies and Explanatory Strategies, Meinard Kuhlmann and Stuart Glennan
Review of In Search of Agamemnon: Early Travellers to Mycenae, Lynne Kvapil
Between the Lines speaks with Jeff Rasley, Corine La Font and Jeff Rasley
Beta diversity of urban floras among European and non-European cities, Frank A. La Sorte, Myla F. J. Aronson, Nicholas S. G. Williams, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Sarel Cilliers, Bruce D. Clarkson, Rebecca W. Dolan, Andrew Hipp, Stefan Klotz, Ingolf Kühn, Petr Pyšek, Stefan Siebert, and Marten Winter
Beta diversity of urban floras among European and non-European cities, Frank A. La Sorte, Myla F.J. Aronson, Nicholas S.G. Williams, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Sarel Cilliers, Bruce D. Clarkson, Rebecca W. Dolan, Andrew Hipp, Stefan Klotz, Ingolf Kühn, Pter Pyšek, Stefan Siebert, and Marten Winter
On the Dimension of Narrative: Zhang Ailing’s Self Translation of Her Novel, Spring-Sprout Song, Xiaoqing Liu
Monotheism, James F. McGrath
“Did Jesus Die in Outer Space? Evaluating a Key Claim in Richard Carrier’s On the Historicity of Jesus, James F. McGrath
Jesus and the Money Changers (John 2:13-16), James F. McGrath
Mythicism and the Mainstream: The Rhetoric and Realities of Academic Freedom, James F. McGrath
Which John? The Elder, the Seer, and the Apostle, James F. McGrath
Woman at the Well, James F. McGrath
Diversity in Times of Austerity: Documenting Resistance in the Academy, David Moscowitz, Terri Jett, Terri Carney, Tamara Leech, and Ann M. Savage
The transnational protection regime and democratic breakthrough in Taiwan and South Korea, Su-Mei Ooi
Xi Jinping and Social Media: Harnessing the People’s Voice, Su-Mei Ooi and Brittanie Redd
Scientific Method in Meteorology, Triberiu Popa
My Second Home, Basa Village, Jeff Rasley
The Phoenix Rises at the University of Chicago, Jeff Rasley
Ejemplos de jejeo salvadoreño en Cuentos de Barro de Salarrué., Juan Rodríguez Prieto
The use of clickers to assess knowledge in foreign language classes and their failure to increase reading compliance, Juan P. Rodríguez Prieto
El voseo en la publicidad de Costa Rica: Un análisis de las actitudes dde los hablantes, Juan Rodríguez Prieto and José Quintanilla
Life's Issues Cultivate More Meaningful and Authentic Lives, Lloyd Rosen, Jeff Rasley, Dolphin Kasper, and Susan Kasper
A Good Graduate IO Education Begins in Undergraduate Classrooms., Nicholas P. Salter and Allison L. O'Malley
A Re-examination of Some of the South Stoa Wells at Corinth, Guy D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, and Lynne. Kvapil
Life Changing Insights with Award Winning Celebrities, Alan Simberg, Jeff Rasley, and Letitia Wright
Michelle Woods, Kafka Translated: How Translators Have Shaped Our Reading of Kafka, Ania Spyra
Richard Bailey of Newport, Thode Island, and Samuel Bailey of Westerly, Rhode Island, Father and Son, Scott G. Swanson
Traditional, Democratic, Accountable? Navigating Citizen-Subjection in Rural South Africa, Robin L. Turner
Iris Young, Radical Responsibility, and War, Harry van der Linden
Revolutionizing La Regenta: Parodic Transformation and Cinematic Innovation in Oviedo Express, Linda M. Willem
Spanning trails in essentially 4-edge-connected graphs, Jinquan Xu, Zhi-Hong Chen, Hong-Jian Lai, and Meng Zhang
Submissions from 2013
An Interview with Bryan Furuness
It’s the Act of Storytelling that Redeems: An Interview with Bryan Furuness
To Draw a Curtain Around a Mental Space
Adding Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Data to a Melting Point and Thin-Layer Chromatography Laboratory, Adam M. Azman, Julie A. Barrett, Megan Darragh, and John J. Esteb
Approximately Counting Semismooth Integers, Eric Bach and Jonathan Sorenson
Theory and Implementation of Online Multiselection Algorithms, Jérémy Barbay, Ankur Gupta, Seungbum Jo, Srinivasa Satti, and Jonathan Sorenson