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Gail Ghetia Bellamy, Ph.D. 2000 Cleveland Food Memories: (Gray & Co. Publishers, 2003) The managing editor of Restaurant Hospitality Magazine, Bellamy interviewed more than 60 native Clevelanders about their food memories for this food nostalgia/social history of eating in Cleveland. The book was a companion project for an hour-long documentary, "And Then We Ate," which aired numerous times on WVIZ-TV (PBS) in Cleveland and included on-screen commentary from Bellamy. Included are more than 200 photos, snippets of local food history, and fun food facts. |
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Celia Brickman, B.A. 1987, ADP, Vermont College Aboriginal Populations in the Mind: (Columbia University Press, 2003) This book explores how the colonialist and racist discourse of late-nineteenth-century anthropology found its way into the work of Sigmund Freud, influencing the model of racial difference implicit in his notions of subjectivity. Brickman concludes that, in its very origins, the body of work that forms the foundation of Freudian psychology — not only Freud's speculative cultural texts but his metapsychological texts and his clinical approach as well — was inhabited by the taint of colonial and imperialist racial preoccupations. Brickman earned her Ph.D. in religion and the human sciences from the University of Chicago Divinity School and is a clinical, faculty, and research member of the Center for Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago. |
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Shimon Camiel, Ph.D. 1977 The Outhouse War (Writer’s Showcase Press, 2001) Camiel, who holds dual U.S. and Israeli citizenship, was stationed with his Israeli military unit on the Golan Heights shortly after the Six Day War of 1967. Taking off from the title, which refers to an artillery barrage on a convoy of trucks pulling outhouses, Camiel observes how ordinary Israelis go about their day-to-day lives and shares the feelings and insights of “kibbutzniks” who raise grapes and apples while fighting wars — among themselves, with their surrounding enemies, and with their memories of lost worlds and families. Camiel lived for two decades between the late 1950s and late 1970s at Kibbutz Naot Mordechai, located in the thumb of Israel, near Kiryat Shemona, and now divides his time between the kibbutz and his home in San Diego. |
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Mark Cox, M.F.A. in Writing 1985, Vermont College Natural Causes (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004) Inspired by changes in Cox’s life during the past few years — including becoming a father, and the loss of a grandmother — this new collection of verse in the Pitt Poetry Series celebrates human complexity and connectedness, despite its heavy emphasis on death. Cox uses a wide range of styles and subjects, and his penchants for metaphor and the resonant turn of phrase, to dispel the gloom associated with death, such as in his poem, “Fatherhood.” While making his nightly rounds, he tells his sleeping son, “Once my dirt is turned, your gardening begins,” marking each step of the mundane but important domestic rituals that his son someday will perform. A professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Cox has received numerous awards for his writing and poetry. |
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Rose M. Duhon-Sells, Ph.D. Graduate College Core Faculty, Educators Leading the Challenge to Alleviate School Violence (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003) Duhon-Sells is founder and first president of the National Association for Multicultural Education, past president of the Association of Teacher Educators, and dean of the College of Education at Southern University at New Orleans. This is her eighth book published by Mellen. Contributors to this multi-disciplinary work, which proposes a new model embracing positive thinking and attitudes as the path to academic success, include Graduate College core faculty members Halloway C. Sells, Ph.D. and Bethe Hagens, Ph.D., and UI&U doctoral alumnae Gwendolyn Duhon, Ph.D. 1995 and Susan H. Horwitz, Ph.D. 2002. |
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Mary Elmendorf, Ph.D. 1972, Contributor; Rights, Resources, Culture, and Conservation in the Land of the Maya (Praeger, 2004) This collection of papers was inspired by the work of 1997 American Anthropological Association honoree Mary Elmendorf, a pioneer in applied anthropology and community development who spent much of her career studying the roles of women in Maya communities, as well as problems of health, community development, human rights and the environment. The readings will interest cultural and biological anthropologists, development planners, international agencies and NGOs, and anyone concerned about the problems of integrating development, biodiversity, and traditional lifeways in rapidly changing rural and small-town situations. Elmendorf contributes two chapters, “The Many Worlds of Mayan Women” (based on her 1972 Union Project Demonstration Excellence dissertation, The Mayan Woman and Change, published by the Centro Intercultural de Documentación) and “Conclusions: Reflections on Rights, Resources, and Responsibilities in Participatory Research.” Union alumna Susannah Glusker, Ph.D. 1995 contributed a chapter on “Women's Human Rights Issues among the Maya.” |
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Gladys Gossett Hankins, Ph.D. 1994 By Any Other Name (Leathers Publishing, 2004) In her foreword, Cincinnati-raised poet Nikki Giovanni calls By Any Other Name “a tantalizing mystery” by a “wonderfully inventive writer” with “questions of identity [that are] as much of place as person.” Under the pen name, GiGi Gossett, Hankins’ first mystery novel introduces detective Lynn Davis, who must solve questions of family and racial identity within a case of inheritance and blackmail, touched off by a Cincinnati billionaire’s deathbed confession about an interracial affair. An international diversity and management consultant whose clients include the federal government, major corporations, small businesses, and other organizations, Hankins retired after a 40-year career at Procter & Gamble, where she was the first African-American woman promoted to management. Hankins designed the diversity training programs used by P&G on every continent, and is the author of Diversity Blues, How to Shake 'Em (Telvic Press, 2000) which evolved from her UI&U Project Demonstrating Excellence dissertation, “Cultured Renaissance: A Resource for Institutionalizing Diversity in Organizations.” |
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Lyndall Hare, Ph.D. 2001 In the Belly of the Beast: (CPCC Services Corporation, 2004) Hare weaves key historical events with the stories of seven white, four black, and one mixed-race woman who left South Africa during the height of apartheid, only to discover lives of aging and exile in the United States. Now at mid-life or older and still living in the United States, their narrative interviews create a rich tapestry of human existence. Based on Hare’s personal experience as a native South African and drawn from her doctoral Project Demonstrating Excellence, “Re-Pronounced Women: South African Women's Lives of Activism, Exile and Aging,” the Belly of the Beast is a reflexive analysis from the perspectives of humanistic gerontology, women’s studies, and cultural studies. |
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Cynthia L. Jackson, Ph.D., Graduate College Core Faculty Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Reference Handbook (ABC-Clio Inc., 2003) Part of the Contemporary Education Issues Series (www.abc-clio.com) edited by UI&U doctoral alumnus Danny Weil, Ph.D. 1993, this one-of-a-kind reference includes essential resources about all 103 public and private historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), discusses their influence on African American lives and communities since 1837, and examines their contemporary circumstances and evolving future role in higher education. Jackson was the architect of Union’s HBCU Doctoral Initiative, launched in 1995 to help HBCUs retain outstanding African American faculty and administrators by providing access to a doctoral degree program without disrupting their work and home life. Nunn earned her UI&U doctorate as a learner in the Initiative and is director of education and training for the Biomedical-Biotechnology Research Institute at North Carolina Central University, an HBCU. |
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Claudia Rachel Johnsen, Ph.D. 2002 Moms, Babies, and Breastfeeding: (1st Books Library, 2003) Through her original research, Johnsen examines the lives of 14 women who overcame far more breastfeeding difficulties than most women will ever experience, only to become empowered women and breastfeeding advocates. A pediatric nutritionist specializing in the first year of life, Johnsen is a lactation consultant and former senior nutritionist and breastfeeding coordinator for a Massachusetts Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. |
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Ada P. Kahn, Ph.D. 1997 Encyclopedia of Work-Related Illnesses, Injuries, and Health Issues (Facts on File, Inc., 2004) The World Health Organization reports that nearly 1.1 million people are killed each year by work-related injuries and illnesses. Kahn provides approximately 350 A-Z entries related to individual health and the workplace, including issues in high-risk industries as well as everyday hazards in a wide range of job categories. Coverage ranges from asbestos, carpal tunnel syndrome, health insurance, sick building syndrome, and sports medicine to yoga and zoonoses (diseases contractible by workers from animals). Kahn has written several Facts on File books that have won awards from the American Medical Writers Association.
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Phobias (Life Balance) (coauthor) (Franklin Watts, Inc., 2003) In her 15th book, and her first for children age 10-13, Kahn and coauthor Ronald M. Doctor examine what phobias are, how they differ from ordinary fears, how to cope with normal anxieties, and how to identify when and from whom to seek help. |
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Michael T. Klare, Ph.D. 1976 Blood and Oil: (Metropolitan/Henry Holt and Co., 2004) This follow-up to Resource Wars, Klare’s 2001 landmark assessment of the critical role of resources in post-Cold War conflicts, was selected as a Critics’ Pick by USA Today (September 9, 2004) and featured by the Christian Science Monitor, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR’s Fresh Air. A professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, Klare traces oil’s impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Carter doctrines. Since most of the world's remaining oil resources lie in deeply unstable regions — over 65 percent in the Persian Gulf alone — Klare says the U.S. must change its energy policies, reduce reliance on imported oil, and prepare for the “inevitable transition to a post petroleum economy.” Read more about Michael Klare at www.tui.edu/news/network/NETWORK_Mar02.pdf . |
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James Lewis Jr., Ph.D. 1972 with E. Roy Berger, M.D. Updated Guide for Surviving Prostate Cancer (Health Education Literary Publisher, 2004) A former superintendent of schools and past Alfred North Whitehead Fellow recipient at Harvard University, Lewis is executive director of the Education Center for Prostate Cancer Patients (www.ecpcp.org), which he founded in 1996 after successfully fighting prostate cancer himself. Lewis believes that patients can conquer the disease if given valid, objective information and if they act on that knowledge in a timely manner. Co-authored with a top medical oncologist who specializes in prostate cancer, this fact-filled, updated sequel to their 1996 book uses the dual perspectives of both patient and doctor to empower patients, families, and health providers in matters of diagnosis, progression, survival, and quality of life. |
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Shaun McNiff, Ph.D. 1977 Creating With Others: The Practice of Imagination in Life, Art and the Workplace (Shambhala, 2003) After researching and writing about the creative process for more than 30 years, McNiff’s latest book examines how to make the workplace more creative, productive, and fulfilling. Creativity can help when working collaboratively with groups to produce something larger than oneself, while still concentrating on what is uniquely our own, McNiff explains, the net outcome being reduced stress and higher overall satisfaction with the time spent at work. Internationally recognized in the area of creativity enhancement and past president of the American Art Therapy Association, McNiff is the University Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he established an advanced graduate studies certificate program in creativity, imagination, and leadership to help individuals become more creative leaders within their chosen professions. |
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Helena Meyer-Knapp, Ph.D. 1990 Dangerous Peace-Making (Peace-Maker Press, 2003) For all its perils, it is simpler to make war than to make peace. Through seven stories about peace-making, ranging from Bosnia to South Africa, this book portrays a complex mixture of welcome surprises, disastrous mistakes, and the chaotic interplay of honor and injury, foresight and power. Other themes include the courage to be merciful and peace-makers who engage with their enemies. A former fellow at the Bunting Institute at Harvard and the Carnegie Institute for Ethics in International Affairs, Meyer-Knapp served for several years in the national leadership of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and is a faculty member at Evergreen State College. |
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John Douglas Miller, Ph.D. 1993 The Greek Summer (iUniverse, 2003) Miller’s first work of fiction is loosely based on his experiences as a lifeguard at Miramar Naval Station, San Diego, in the summer of 1960. Centered on three young Navy men assigned to help run a swimming pool on base, The Greek Summer sets Socrates, Plato, Nietzsche, and Sartre against a backdrop of swimming pools, blue skies, and beaches in pre-Vietnam Southern California. An “editor’s choice” of the publisher, Miller’s novel portrays a moving and humorous learning experience of responsibility, loyalty, dealing with the opposite sex, and the need for intellectual challenges. |
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Christopher Nemeth, Ph.D. 2003 Human Factors Methods for Design: (Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, 2003) A guide for both professionals and students, the text describes the nature, procedures, and methods of human factors research in the software, product, and system development process. Nemeth is using these methods as part of his post-doctoral work in patient safety at the University of Chicago. |
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Kate Niles, M.F.A. in Writing 2001, Vermont College The Basket Maker (GreyCore Press, 2004) In her first novel, Niles writes about a little girl who is being sexually abused, following the girl's struggles and how she and other people around her confront the problem. The book deals delicately and intelligently with the subject of sexual abuse and celebrates the process of healing. A visiting instructor of writing at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, Niles also holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology and master's in anthropology with a concentration in archeology. She received a 2003 Colorado Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for her memoir piece, "The Return of the Birds," which explains how her love for the Southwest and archeology helped her overcome the abuses she faced as a child. Her book of poems, Geographies of the Heart, was published by Blue Heron Press in 1997. |
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Phillip J. Obermiller, Ph.D. 1982 and Thomas J. Wagner African American Miners and Migrants: (University of Illinois Press, 2004) The lives of Eastern Kentucky Social Club (EKSC) members, a group of black Appalachians who left the eastern Kentucky coalfields and their coal company hometowns in Harlan County, are documented using historical and archival research and extensive personal interviews to explore their reasons for leaving and the ties that still bind them to eastern Kentucky. The authors also examine life in the model coal towns of Benham and Lynch in the context of Progressive Era policies, the practice of welfare capitalism, and the contemporary national trend of building corporate towns and planned communities. |
Barbara Bridgman Perkins, Ph.D. 1989 The Medical Delivery Business: (Rutgers University Press, 2004) An independent scholar, health care consultant, and one of the original contributors to Our Bodies, Ourselves, Perkins uses examples drawn from maternal and infant care to argue that the business approach in medicine is not a new development, and challenges the conventional view that a dose of the market is good for medicine. While sympathetic to the goals of progressive and feminist reformers, she questions their strategies for making medicine more equitable and effective, and proposes that the medical care system itself needs to be fundamentally "re-formed" based on democracy, caring, and social justice as well as economics. |
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Ann Robinson, M.F.A. in Writing 1997, Vermont College Ordinary Perils (Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2002) In her debut collection, Robinson’s middle-aged protagonists confront the perils of daily life in stories that express plain-spoken truths about marriage, motherhood, family trauma, cantankerous aging parents, and exasperated offspring. Robinson read stories from this collection on New Hampshire Public Radio in 2001 and again in 2004. Her short stories have appeared in Yankee, Oxford Magazine, The Nightshade Nightstand Reader, Ellipsis, and in regional anthologies published by the Monadnock Writers' Group. She has written feature articles for newspapers including the Keene Sentinel (New Hampshire), and in recent years, she reviewed fiction for Publishers Weekly. She has also written and produced award-winning radio commercials. |
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Lois Roma-Deeley, Ph.D. 2000 Rules of Hunger (Star Cloud Press, 2004) Three generations of women speak to the working-poor experiences of an Italian-American family in Roma-Deeley’s first collection of works, which poet-scholar Lewis Turco calls poetry that can “conjure up a world in words.” Rules of Hunger earned a National Book Award nomination as well as an Arizona Library Association Author Award nomination. Currently professor of English and poet-in-residence at Paradise Valley Community College in Scottsdale, Arizona, Roma-Deeley’s work has appeared in numerous national literary journals and more than six anthologies, and earned her several awards for outstanding writing (see Network, Spring 2003). |
Nancy Shiffrin, Ph.D. 1994 The Holy Letters (poems) and My Jewish Name (creative prose) (BookSurge Publishing, 2003) In two books derived from her UI&U Project Demonstrating Excellence dissertation, Shiffrin’s poems address the creative process, Jewish identity, sexuality, children, nature, New York, Cambodia, Romania, the writing life, and the range of a woman's experience, while her prose examines the literary situation of Jewish-American women writers through topics such as Jewish women and Jewish learning, multiculturalism, the Jewish teacher in the Jewish classroom, the Holocaust, the Los Angeles riots, and new paradigms for learning. Shiffrin's work has been published in the Los Angeles Times and New York Quarterly. An independent scholar with the Western Jewish Studies Association, she won an honorable mention in the Dora Teitelbaum Contest for Jewish Cultural Writing. |
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John Tallmadge, Ph.D., UI&U Graduate College Core Faculty The Cincinnati Arch: (University of Georgia Press, 2004) A professor of literature and environmental studies, Tallmadge’s latest book is rooted in his unplanned relocation in the 1980s from lush rural Minnesota to urban Ohio and includes a description of life at the old Union headquarters at 7th and Vine in the heart of downtown Cincinnati. Dismayed at first by the city's seeming barrenness, Tallmadge describes how, through mindfulness, attentiveness, and other spiritual practices, his learning experiences in local parks, woods, and neighborhoods brought nature and culture together under the sign of interpretation. The Cincinnati Arch deals not only with urban natural history, but also provides lessons about midlife, parenting, relationships, homesteading, education, and the spiritual life. Tallmadge’s other publications include Reading Under the Sign of Nature: New Essays in Ecocriticism (co-editor, University of Utah Press, 2000) and Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher's Path (University of Utah Press, 1997). |
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Scott Withiam, M.F.A. in Writing 1997 Vermont College Arson & Prophets (Ashland Poetry Press, 2003) Several poems in this first book by Withiam have won awards, including Ploughshares 2003 Cohen Award for “Walk Right In” (published in the Spring 2002 issue). Withiam has taught writing and literature at Vermont College’s Adult Degree Program, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, and Western New England College. His poems have appeared in numerous publications including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Green Mountains Review, Field, Harvard Review, Marlboro Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Notre Dame Review, Puerto del Sol, Sonora Review, Sycamore Review, Third Coast, and The Sun. |
