Laura Umphrey, associate professor of communication, coauthored the paper, "Coping with the Ultimate Deprivation: Narrative Themes in a Parental Bereavement Support Group," which was published in OMEGA–Journal of Death and Dying.
Lori Poloni-Staudinger, assistant professor for Politics and International Affairs, published "Gendered Political Opportunities? Elite Alliances, Electoral Cleavages, and Activity Choice Among Women's Groups in the UK, France, and Germany," in Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest.
Joel Olson, "Corruption and Class Struggle: What It's Like to Live in Arizona Right Now," Truthout, <http://www.truth-out.org> , January 13, 2011. http://counterpunch.org/olson01132011.html.
Jeffrey Hilmer (2011). "Modern Democratic Thought" in 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook, John Ishiyama and Marijke Breuning, eds., (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications), 605-14.
Amy Horn, instructor in photography, wrote "Digital Gold," published in the January/February 2011 issue of Gold Prospectors. The magazine also published one dozen of her photographs along with the article, including one featured on the front cover of the publication.
Naomi Pinion (2010) Gay Marriage in the US: Challenging the National Security Imaginary, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. Jeffrey Hilmer (2010). "Anarchy: Past and Present." Anarchist Studies, 18:1, 102-07.
Jacqueline Vaughn,
professor of politics and international affairs, has had the sixth edition
of her textbook, Environmental Politics: Domestic and Global Dimensions,
published by Wadsworth Publishing.
Ricardo Guthrie, assistant professor of ethnic studies, published an article, "Runagate, Runagate: Historical Noncompliance, Pre-Emption and Moral Justice," on SB 1070, immigration and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, in the Tidal Basin Review.
Norman J. Medoff, professor in the School of Communication, has published a second edition of his book, Electronic Media: Then, Now, & Later, which connects the traditional world of broadcasting with the contemporary universe of digital electronic media including both mass electronic media and personal electronic communication.
Kimberly Melhus, assistant professor of visual communication, published "Usability Study of the Motorola Razr V3 Cellphone" in the peer-reviewed journal, Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal. The article details how Melhus and a team of designers developed two cell phone design prototypes geared toward tech-savvy baby boomers. The designers took a very popular existing cell phone model and created two prototypes that the project team believed made it easier to use and more accessible for older generations.
Peter Schwepker, photography lecturer, was published in Arizona Highways twice this summer: in the July issue with images that accompanied text by Mary Tolan, assistant professor of journalism, and again in the August issue with his portrait of author Mary Stuever. A picture he took of a citizen photographing the huge plume of smoke on the first day of the Schultz Fire in Flagstaff appeared on the front page of The Arizona Republic on June 20.
Cowboys and Indians magazine published photography by Sam Minkler, associate professor in the School of Communication, in its September 2010 issue. Minkler’s photograph accompanies “Hoop Dancing,” which was written about Cirque du Soliel performer and world champion hoop dancer Nakotah LaRance.The collection Communication Writings: Some Beginnings, edited by Martin D. Sommerness, NAU professor of journalism, has just been released by Kendall Hunt Publishing of Dubuque, Iowa. A number of NAU faculty contributed to the book.
Nicole O'Grady, assistant clinical professor of educational specialties, wrote "The 411 on APA." Richard A. Rogers, professor of speech communication, wrote "Why You Are Not a ‘Communications’ Major and other Terminological Traps, or 'Drop the ‘s,’ will ya?’ An Example of the Importance of Precision in Verbal Expression."
Joseph C. Walters, emeritus professor of mass communication, wrote "Your Grammar wears Combat Boots! Well! My Grammar Can Lick Your Grammar."
Natalie Cawood published “Barriers to the use of evidence-supported programs to address school violence," in the journal Children and Schools.
Patricia Murphey published "Practical Learning in the VisualDESIGNLab: Designing for Clients in an Undergraduate Academic Environment" in Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal.
Michael R. Stevenson, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, published a multi-authored paper titled, “Toward an Affirmative Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Leadership Paradigm.” Published in the American Psychologist, the American Psychological Association’s flagship journal, the article is part of a special issue on diversity and leadership.
Jacqueline Vaughn, professor of politics and international affairs, coauthored with Hanna Cortner "Funding Fire: A Losing Proposition" in the California Journal of Politics and Policy
Stephen Nuño, assistant professor of politics and international affairs, coauthored a brief that was brought into an Indiana State Supreme Court case on March 4. The case is League of Women voters v. Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita, in which the league sued Rokita and sought a declaration that Indiana’s Voter Identification Law violates the Indiana Constitution. Nuño’s coauthored Amici can be found online.
Janna Jones and Mark Neumann from the School of Communication, published "Winslow--A City in Motion" in the Cultures of Alternative Mobilities: Routes Less Traveled, a collection of essays edited by Phillip Vannini.
Eric E. Otenyo, Associate Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs. "Game ON: Video Games and Obama's Race to the White House.” In John Allen Hendricks & Robert E Denton Jr. (Eds). Communicator-In-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House.
Frederic I. Solop, Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs. "’RT @BarackObama We Just Made History’: Twitter and the 2008 Presidential Election." In John Allen Hendricks & Robert E Denton Jr. (Eds). Communicator-In-Chief: How Barack Obama Used New Media Technology to Win the White House.
Peter Friederici, Assistant Professor of Journalism, had an essay, "Working the Stone," published in the new anthology, To Everything on Earth: New Writing on Fate, Community, and Nature.
Sheila Nair, a professor of politics and international affairs, co-edited with Shampa Biswas International Relations and States of Exception: "Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies", published in November by Routledge.
Richard A. "Tony" Parker, a professor of speech communication, published an essay, “Rhetorically Re-visioning the Right of Political Expression: A Critical Analysis of Frazier v. Boomsma,” in Communication Law Review, vol. 9, issue 2, 2009.
Alan A. Lew, Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation. Editor of Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment.
Founded in 1999, this quarterly, peer-reviewed journal provides
interdisciplinary perspectives on spatial, place-based and environmental
research on tourism and tourism-related areas of recreation and leisure
studies. The journal is one of only eight travel and tourism journals
listed in the ISI Citation Index.
Kimberly Melhus, assistant professor in the School of Communication, recently published "Design for Aging Eyes: A Look at Outdoor Fast Food Menu Displays" in the international peer-reviewed journal, Design Principles and Practices.
Kimberly Melhus, assistant professor in the School of Communication, and Jason Mitchell, lecturer in the School of Communication, presented their peer-reviewed paper, "The Importance of Cross-Discipline in an Undergraduate Graphic Design Curriculum," at the National University and College Designers Association Design Education Summit in Alabama last week. The theme of this year's summit was Design for the Common Good.
Raymond Michalowski, Regents’ professor in criminology and criminal justice, published an article in the journal, Crime, Law and Social Change. The article, "Power, Crime and Criminology in the New Imperial Age," explores the emerging world of transnational social injury and offers an alternative framework for criminology of empire.
Geeta Chowdhry, professor of politics and international affairs, co-wrote “The Geographies of Exclusion and the Politics of Inclusion: Race-based Exclusions in the Teaching of International Relations,” published in the February edition of International Studies Perspective.
Michael Costelloe, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice, co-wrote a study, “Punitive Attitudes toward Criminals: Exploring the Relevance of Crime Salience and Economic Insecurity,” published in Punishment and Society: the International Journal of Penology, Volume 11, No. 1.
Luis Fernandez, assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice, is an international editor for "Contemporary Anarchist Studies," a book published by Routledge Press.
Steven Barger and Heidi Wayment, professors of psychology, along with Carrie Donoho, a former graduate student, published a study in the March edition of Quality of Life Research examining racial and ethnic differences in psychological well-being among U.S. adults.
Roddy Brett, assistant professor of politics and international affairs, and Frederic I. Solop, professor of politics and international affairs, wrote "Decir Verdades Acalladasy Rebatir Invisibilidades Subalternas: Investigación Académica Encasos Legales"Nómadas, published out of Universidad Central, Colombia. (Uttering Silenced Truths and Contesting Subaltern Invisibilities: The Role of Academic Research within Legal Cases).
Michelle Miller, associate professor of psychology, wrote “What the Science of Cognition Tells us About Instructional Technology,” for Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.
Peter Friederici, assistant professor of journalism, wrote “Transmutations,” published in the January/February issue of Orion.
Bob Trotter, Regents' professor of anthropology recently co-authored a book with Linda Whiteford, "Ethics in Anthropological Research and Practice."
Martin D. Sommerness, professor of journalism wrote the Indian Country Today entry in the Encyclopedia of United States Indian Policy and Law, recently published by Congressional Quarterly Press.
Richard Rogers, professor of speech communication, had his essay, "'Your guess is as good as any': Indeterminacy, Dialogue, and Dissemination in Interpretations of Native American Rock Art" published in the February issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
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