Here you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Submissions from 2023
New Members, James F. McGrath
Climate Activism and the Working Class, Harry van der Linden
War Emissions, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2022
Saving the Campus Farm: One Approach to Leveraging Institutional Support for a Campus Farm Space, Julia L. Angstmann
A Food-Themed Cross-Disciplinary Faculty-Staff Learning Community Enriches Place-Based Experiential Learning Curricula - (Instructor Resource), Julia L. Angstmann, Grant A. Fore, Francesca A. Williamson, and Brandon H. Sorge
Global Megachurch Studies: The State, Evolution, and Maturation of a Field, Chad Bauman
Mammals adjust diel activity across gradients of urbanization, Travis Gallo, Mason Fidino, Brian Gerber, Adam A. Ahlers, Julia L. Angstmann, Max Amaya, Amy L. Concilio, David Drake, Danielle Gray, Elizabeth W. Lehrer, Maureen H. Murray, Travis J. Ryan, Colleen Cassady St. Clair, Carmen M. Salsbury, Heather A. Sanders, Theodore Stankowich, Jacque Williamson, J. Amy Belaire, Kelly Simon, and Seth B. Mangle
P/A Forum Symposia Animal Labour A New Frontier of Interspecies Justice?, Jishnu Guha-Majumdar, Diego Rossello, Angie Pepper, Peter Niesen, Will Kymlicka, and Charlotte E. Blattner
Desire, Disgust, and the Perils of Strange Queenship in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, Mira Assaf Kafantaris
Bing Xin as the Most Renowned Chinese Translator of Rabindranath Tagore: A Sociological Perspective, Xiaoqing Liu
72 Wisdoms: A practical guide to make life more meaningfu, Jeff Rasley
The Role of Place Attachment and Situated Sustainability Meaning-Making in Enhancing Student Civic-Mindedness: A Campus Farm Example, Brandon H. Sorge, Francesca A. Williamson, Grant A. Fore, and Julia L. Angstmann
Adapting Spanish Classics for the New Millennium: The Nineteenth-Century Novel Remediated, Linda Willem
The Monster Within: Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley (2021), Linda Willem
Building Capacity for Socio-Ecological Change through the Campus Farm: A Mixed-Methods Study, Francesca A. Williamson, Amber J. Rollings, Grant A. Fore, Julia L. Angstmann, and Brandon H. Sorge
Physical Properties of Radio Stars Based on LAMOST Spectral Survey, Liyun Zhang, Yao Cheng, Xianming Han, Qingfeng Pi, Prabhakar Misra, Baoda Li, and Zhongzhong Zhu
Submissions from 2021
Litigating the Limits of Religion: Minority and Majority Concerns about Institutional Religious Liberty in India, Chad Bauman
FORIS Policy Report | America’s International Religious Freedom Policy Must Account for Competing Local Definitions of Religion and the Common Good, Chad Bauman, Robert Hefner, Timur Kuran, and Thomas Berg
The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations, Chad Bauman and Michelle Vossroberts
Medea Barbarosa?: Marriage, Betrayal, Alterity and the Woman from Colchis, Christopher Bungard and Vivian Deno
Practising Intimate Labour: Birth Doulas Respond during COVID-19, Angela N. Castañeda and Julie Searcy
Constitutive relevance & mutual manipulability revisited, Carl Craver, Stuart Glennan, and Mark Povich
First Report of Yellow-Flowered Teasel, Dipsacus Strigosus Willd. Ex Roem. & Schult. (Dipsacaceae) In Indiana, A North American Record, Rebecca W. Dolan
CoM Apr 2021 - Puzzles and Games for the Blind - Jeremiah Farrell, Jeremiah Farrell
Find Your Own, Bryan Furuness
A Viewer’s Guide to the John W Sweezy Archives, George W. Geib
A Tale of Two Trans Men: Transmasculine Identity and Trauma in Two Fairy-Tale Retellings, Jeana Jorgensen
The Thorns of Trauma: Torture, Aftermath, and Healing in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Literature, Jeana Jorgensen
Androgen-Binding Protein (Abp) Evolutionary History: Has Positive Selection Caused Fixation of Different Paralogs in Different Taxa of the Genus Mus?, Robert C. Karn, Golbahar Yazdanifar, Željka Pezer, Pierre Boursot, and Christina M. Laukaitis
Models of the Sociology Minor at Institutions of Higher Education in the United States, Melinda Messineo and Jay R. Howard
Structure-guided microbial targeting of antistaphylococcal prodrugs, Justin J. Miller, Ishaan T. Shah, Jayda Hatten, Yasaman Barekatain, Elizabeth A. Mueller, Ahmed M. Moustafa, Rachel L. Edwards, Cynthia S. Dowd, Geoffrey C. Hoops, and R Jeremy Johnson
Love-Hate Relationships: The Divergent US Perceptions of Japan and China, Su-Mei Ooi
Elemental Varieties in the Presocratics and Beyond, Tiberiu Popa
America’s Existential Crisis: Our Inherited Obligation to Native Nations, Jeff Rasley
An Experience of Wounded Knee Goshen Redskins and Peace Times, Jeff Rasley
Open Door to Heal America’s Heart, Jeff Rasley
Return to Wounded Knee, Jeff Rasley
Return to Wounded Knee, Jeff Rasley and Jeff Rasley
Writing Climate Change Assessments: Scientific Author Challenges and Rhetorical Negotiations, Carol Reeves and Maura Ross
Submissions from 2020
Anti-Christian Violence in India, Chad Bauman
Critiques of Christianity from Savarkar to Malhotra, Chad Bauman
Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India. By Laura Dudley Jenkins, Chad Bauman
Comparative analysis of the human serine hydrolase OVCA2 to the model serine hydrolase homolog FSH1 from S. cerevisiae, Jessica S. Bun, Michael D. Slack, Daniel E. Schemenauer, and R. Jeremy Johnson
COVID-19 and the Birth of the Virtual Doula, Angela Castañeda and Julie Searcy
Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America, Irune del Rio Gabiola
Landscape-scale differences among cities alter common species’ responses to urbanization, Mason Fidino, Travis Gallo, Elizabeth W. Lehrer, Maureen H. Murray, Cria Kay, Heather A. Sander, Brandon MacDougall, Carmen M. Salsbury, Travis J. Ryan, Julia L. Angstmann, J. Amy Belaire, Barbara Dugelby, Chris Schell, Theodore Stankowich, Max Amaya, David Drake, Sheryl H. Hursh, Adam A. Ahlers, Jacque Williamson, Laurel M. Hartley, Amanda J. Zellmer, and Kelly Simon
An Indiana Christmas, Bryan Furuness
Berta vive": Solidaridades transnacionales y luchas interseccionales en Honduras, Irune del Río Gabiola
Corporeal composition, Stuart Glennan
Faith, Doubt, and Reason - Conclusion and Epilogue, Brent Hege
UBC-9 Acts in GABA Neurons to Control Neuromuscular Signaling in C. elegans, Victoria A. Kreyden, Elly B. Mawi, and Jennifer Kowalski
Beyond City and Country at Mycenae: urban and rural practices in a subsistence landscape, Lynne Kvapil, Jacqueline Meier, Gypsy Price, and Kim Shelton
Working Memory in Collegiate Athletes and Non-Athletes: A Comparison of Team-Sports Athletes, Solo-Sports Athletes, Frequent Exercisers and Infrequent Exercisers, Tara T. Lineweaver, Suneeta Kercood, Elyse B. Morgan, Shelby L. Rampone, Colleen C. Frank, and Scott A. McLuckie
A Palimpsestuous Writing: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Xiaoqing Liu
Small herbaria contribute unique biogeographic records to county, locality, and temporal scales, Travis D. Marsico, Erica R. Krimmel, J. Richard Carter, Emily L. Gillespie, Phillip D. Lowe, Ross McCauley, Ashley B. Morris, Gil Nelson, Michelle Smith, Diana L. Soteropoulos, and Anna K. Monfils
The Mandaean Book of John: Text and Translation, James F. McGrath and Charles G. Häberl
“I Want to Love Islam, I Really Do, But . . . ”: Islamophilic Classrooms in Islamophobic Times, Nermeen Mouftah
On Poetry and Music, Susan Neville
Reviewed Work(s): Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country by Hollars, Susan Neville
Aristotle on the Powers of Thermic Equilibrium, Tiberiu Popa
Analytic gradients for state-averaged multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory, Thais R. Scott, Matthew R. Hermes, Andrew M. Sand, Meagan S. Oakley, Donald G. Truhlar, and Laura Gagliardi
Making Space for Mothering: Collaboration as Feminist Practice, Julie Searcy and Angela N. Castañeda
An algorithm and estimates for the Erdős–Selfridge function, Brianna Sorenson, Jonathan Sorenson, and Jonathan Webster
Two Algorithms to Find Primes in Patterns, Jonathan Sorenson and Jonathan Webster
Sriram (2020) - White Nationalism.pdf, Shyam Sriram
African Women's Movements and Struggles over Land, Robin L. Turner
Black Travel and Presence in the Building of South Africa [Book Review], Robin L. Turner
The Green New Deal: Promise and Limitations, Harry van der Linden
Editors’ Introduction: Radical Philosophy and Politics Amid the Climate Crisis and the Coronavirus Pandemic, Harry van der Linden and Reed M. Kurtz
Aitana y Ana: la actriz y su personaje en la adaptación televisiva de La Regenta, Linda Willem
Submissions from 2019
Suspenseful and Insightful: An Interview with Bryan Furuness
A Pedagogical Framework for the Design and Utilization of Place-Based Experiential Learning Curriculum on a Campus Farm, Julia L. Angstmann, Amber J. Rollings, Grant A. Fore, and Brandon H. Sorge
Book Review: *Living without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos,* by Piers Vitebsky, Chad Bauman
How Sri Lanka's Christians Became a Target, Chad Bauman
Statistical distributions of consonant variants in infant-directed speech: evidence that /t/ may be exceptional, Tonya Bergeson-Dana, Laura Dilley, Jessica Gamache, Yuanyuan Wang, and Derek M. Houston
Photometric and Spectroscopic Studies of V582 Lyr and V1016 Oph, Yao Cheng, Li-yun Zhang, Xianming L. Han, Liu Long, Hongpeng Lu, Qiang Yue, and Linyan Jiang
Hamiltonicity of claw-free graphs and Fan-type conditions, Zhi-Hong Chen
Constructing invariant subspaces as kernels of commuting matrices, Carl C. Cowen, William Johnston, and Rebecca G. Wahl
Volunteerism, Alcohol Beliefs, and First-Year College Students’ Drinking Behaviors: Implications for Prevention, Lizabeth A. Crawford, Katherine B. Novak, and Rasitha R. Jayasekare
Five-Year Response of Spontaneous Vegetation to Removal of Invasive Amur Bush Honeysuckle Along an Urban Creek, Rebecca W. Dolan and Kelly H. Brown
Do Not Go On, Bryan Furuness
Getting Started: Advice from Five Writers, Bryan Furuness
My Name Was Never Frankenstein And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed, Bryan Furuness
"A Flood of Problems" in Michigan: An Urban Environmental History, Nancy M. Germano
Microsatellite markers for the biogeographically enigmatic sandmyrtle (Kalmia buxifolia, Phyllodoceae: Ericaceae), Emily L. Gillespie, Tesa Madsen‐McQueen, Torsten Eriksson, Adam Bailey, and Zack E. Murrell
Byron, Radicals and Reformers, Jason Goldsmith
The Most Beautiful of All: A Quantitative Approach to Fairy-Tale Femininity, Jeana Jorgensen
Review of Mycenaeans up to date: The archaeology of the north-eastern Peloponnese – current concepts and new directions, Lynne Kvapil
Among the ancestors at Aidonia, Lynne Kvapil and Kim Shelton
Imitation and creation: Bing Xin’s Fanxing (A Maze of Stars) 繁星and Chunshui (Spring Water) 春水, Xiaoqing Liu
Spectroscopic and photometric studies of fourW UMa-type eclipsing binaries, Liu Long, Li-Yun Zhang, Xianming L. Han, Hong-Peng Lu, and Qing-feng Pi
Magnetic Activities of M-type Stars Based on LAMOST DR5 and Kepler and K2 Missions, Hong-peng Lu, Li-yun Zhang, Jianrong Shi, Xianming L. Han1, Dongwei Fan, Liu Long, and Qingfeng Pi
Advancing urban wildlife research through a multi-city collaboration, Seth B. Magle, Mason Fidino, Elizabeth W. Lehrer, Travis Gallo, Matthew P. Mulligan, María Jazmín Ríos, Adam A. Ahlers, Julia L. Angstmann, Amy Belaire, Barbara Dugelby, Ashley Gramza, Laurel Hartley, Brandon MacDougall, Travis J. Ryan, Carmen M. Salsbury, Heather Sander, Christopher Schell, Kelly Simon, Sarah St. Onge, and David Drake
Exorcising Mythicism’s Sky-Demons: A Response to Raphael Lataster’s “Questioning Jesus’ Historicity.”, James F. McGrath
Learning from Jesus’ Wife: What Does Forgery Have to Do with the Digital Humanities?, James F. McGrath