Dr. Lynne Rich’s, assistant professor of sociology, article entitled, “Marital Instability: A Comparative Analysis of China and Taiwan” was published in December in the Global Studies Journal.
Dr. Gordon Shepherd, professor of sociology, has a book, Talking with the Children of God: Prophecy and Transformation in a Radical Religious Group in press with University of Illinois Press and has a forthcoming book chapter, “Learning the Wrong Lessons: A Comparison of FLDS, Family International, and Branch Davidian Child-Protection Interventions,” in Cardell Jacobson, ed., Polygamous Groups in Modern America, Oxford University Press. Additionally, Dr. Shepherd published four journal articles in 2009, and served as the guest editor for a special issue of Nova Religio on Religion and Community.
Dr. Janet K. Wilson, associate professor of sociology, recently edited The Praeger Handbook of Victimology (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2009), which included almost 200 entries from more than 90 contributors.
Dr. Gizachew Tiruneh’s, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, article entitled “Determinants of Adult HIV/AIDS Prevalence in Africa: Do Cultural Variations Matter?” was recently published by the Midsouth Political Science Review. Tiruneh also presented a paper, “What Causes Social Revolutions,” at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, held Jan. 7- Jan. 9 in Atlanta.
Dr. Jacob Held, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, has had several papers accepted for publication in 2010. They are: “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Pleasure: Obscenity, Pornography, and the Law,” in Porn and Philosophy, edited by Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell (Forthcoming, 2010); “Marx via Feuerbach: Species-Being Revisited,” Idealistic Studies, (Forthcoming, 2010) and a book review “Larry Alexander and Emily Sherman – Demystifying Legal Reasoning,” Philosophy in Review (Forthcoming, 2010).