Dr. Michael Yoder, associate professor of geography, has had an essay included in a book published by El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Mexico. The essay, titled “La infraestructura del transporte y la planeación urbana en la zona fronterixa México y Texas: el caso del desarrollo de tres puentes internacionales” appears in the book El noreste de México y Texas: asimetrías y convergencias territoriales en las releciones transfronterizas(pp. 89 – 119), edited by Roberto García Ortega and José Antonio Trujeque Díaz. The essay addresses the binational planning process that the US and Mexico undertake to bring about the road and bridge infrastructure necessary for trade between the two countries.
Dr. Gordon Shepherd, professor in the Department of Sociology, had a book published in June by the University of Illinois Press entitled Talking with the Children of God: Prophecy and Transformation in a Radical Religious Group. The book was co-authored with Gary Shepherd of Oakland University, Michigan. The book draws on face-to-face interviews with leaders and administrative staff of the radical religious movement now known as The Family International.Shepherd appeared July 28 on Milt Rosenberg’s WGN radio program “Extension 720” to discuss his book.