COAS Faculty Research News

Dr. Carrie Teresa, assistant professor of communication and media studies, published Looking at the Stars: Black Celebrity Journalism in Jim Crow America for University of Nebraska Press.The book explores the meaning of celebrity as expressed by black journalists writing against the backdrop of Jim... read on →

Dr. Joseph Sirianni, assistant professor of communication studies, published "Nostalgic Things: Stranger Things and the Pervasiveness of Nostalgic Television" in Netflix Nostalgia: Streaming the Past on Demand.  read on →

Dr. Stefanie Wichhart, associate professor of history, published The Formation of the Arab League and the United Nations, 1944–5 in Journal of Contemporary History. read on →

Dr. Michael Barg, associate professor of mathematics, and Dr. Amanda Mangum, assistant professor of mathematics, co-authored A Phase Separation Problem and Geodesic Disks on Cassinian Oval Surfaces in Applied Mathematics & Computation.  read on →

Dr. Carrie Teresa, assistant professor of communication studies, published the review essay Twentieth-Century Black Press Scholarship: New Analytical Approaches, Growing Momentum in American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism. read on →

Dr. Bradley Kaye, senior lecturer of sociology, published the book, The Philosophy of Lao Tzu: The Text and Commentary on the Tae Te Ching, for The Edwin Mellen Press.    read on →

Dr. Esteban Mayorga, assistant professor of Spanish, is the author of the forthcoming book, Galápagos Origin: Imaginarios y evolución textual en las islas encantadas. Its publication is scheduled for November 2019, and it is now available for pre-order on the Purdue University Press web site.  read on →

Dr. Michael Cassidy, assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology, co-authored two articles with colleagues from other institutions:Examining Sentencing Patterns and Outcomes for White-Collar and Property Crime Offenders in Victims & Offenders Punishing the Wicked: Examining the... read on →

Dr. Burt Thompson, professor of psychology, published Alpha Is Not the False Alarm Rate: An Activity to Dispel a Common Statistical Misconception in Teaching of Psychology.  read on →

Dr. Michael Barg, associate professor of mathematics, published Find, Process, and Share: An Optimal Control in the Vidale-Wolfe Marketing Mode in CODEE Journal.  read on →

Dr. Cassandra Marnocha, assistant professor of biology, published Insights into the Mineralogy and Surface Chemistry of Extracellular Biogenic S(0) Globules Produced by Chlorobaculum Tepidum in Frontiers in Microbiology with colleagues from other institutions.  read on →

Dr. Maritza Branker, associate professor of mathematics, and Dr. Caitlin Riegel, adjunct professor of education and mathematics, published Reaching Deep Conceptual Understanding Through Technology in The Mathematics Teacher.  read on →

Dr. Chad Mangum, assistant professor of mathematics, published Fermionic Realization of Twisted Toroidal Lie Algebras in arXiv. read on →

Dr. Doug Tewksbury, associate professor of communication studies, published "Digital Solidarity, Analog Mobilization: An Ethnography of the Technology-Embedded Protest Networks of the Québec Student Strike" in Canadian Journal of Communication.Here is the abstract:"This article presents the results... read on →

Dr. Diane Halm, faculty fellow in the department of English, published Writing Success and Self Efficacy: The Student Perspective in Journal of Education and Social Development. read on →