 Roger J.R. Levesque, professor and chair of Criminal Justice, published Child Maltreatment and the Law: Returning to First Principles (Springer, 2008).
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 Darlene J. Sadlier, Spanish and Portuguese, published Brazil imagined; 1500 to the present (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008).
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 César Félix-Brasdefer, Spanish and Portuguese, published a book that addresses topics in pragmatics and discourse analysis, Politeness in Mexico and the United States: A Contrastive Study of the Realization and Perception of Refusals (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008).
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 Tim O’Connor, chair of Philosophy, published Theism and the Ultimate Explanation: The Necessary Shape of Contingency (Blackwell, 2008).
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 Sander Gliboff, History and Philosophy of Science, recently published H.G. Bronn, Ernst Haeckel, and the Origins of German Darwinism (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008).
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 Colin Allen, professor of History & Philosophy of Science and of Cognitive Science, published Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong (Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen, Oxford University Press, 2008).
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 Audrey Thomas McCluskey, professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, has a new book: Richard Pryor: The Life and Legacy of a “Crazy” Black Man (Indiana University Press, 2008).
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 John McCluskey, Jr., professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, has just published a new and expanded edition of The City of Refuge: Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher (2008, University of Missouri Press).
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 History professor Jim Madison’s book, Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II, is now out in paperback (Indiana University Press).
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 Patrick McNaughton, professor of Art History, published A Bird Dance Near Saturday City: Sidi Ballo and the Art of West African Masquerade (Indiana University Press, 2008). |
  Sumit Ganguly, director of India Studies, has two books published this fall: Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Crisis Behaviour and the Bomb. Co-editor with Paul Kapur (London: Routledge, 2008) and Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces, Co-editor with Christine Fair (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Dr. Ganguly is also joining the editorial team of International Studies Quarterly.
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 A new book, Optimality Theory, Phonological Acquisition & Disorders, by Chancellor’s Professor Daniel Dinnsen (Linguistics) and Professor Judith Gierut (Speech & Hearing Sciences) was published earlier this year by Equinox in its new series, Advances in Optimality Theory. The book reports some of the most recent descriptive and experimental findings from their interdisciplinary work on the sound systems and learning patterns of young children with speech disorders. With funding from the National Institutes of Health over the last 23 years, their research team has provided free diagnostic and clinical services to hundreds of children in Monroe County and surrounding communities.
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 David Ransel’s new monograph, A Russian Merchant’s Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchenov, Based on his Diary, has just been published, in hard copy and paperback (Indiana University Press, 2008). Ransel is a professor of History and is director of the Russian and East European Institute.
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 Mark Kaplan, professor of Philosophy, published “Austin’s Way with Skepticism,” in The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism (editor: John Greco, Oxford University Press, 2008).
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 Ron Osgood, Telecommunications, published a textbook in January 2008, Visual Storytelling: Videography and Post Production in the Digital Age (Wadsworth/Cengage). The companion DVD won first place in the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival in the interactive category. Ron’s co-author, M. Joseph Hinshaw of James Madison University, is a former graduate student in Telecommunications at IU. |
 Pravina Shukla's recent book, The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India was recognized as the Honorable Mention for the annual Elli Kongas-Maranada Prize for outstanding work in women's folklore, a prize awarded annually by the American Folklore Society. |
 Jeff Veidlinger published “Yiddish Constructivism: The Art of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater” in Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater (Yale University Press). The book is the catalog for an exhibit he helped organize on Russian Jewish Theater currently on view at the Jewish Museum of New York.
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Colin Johnson, Gender Studies, published two new pieces this month. The first, an essay entitled “Camp Life: The Queer History of ‘Manhood’ in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1937” appears in a special issue of the journal American Studies alongside essays by fellow IU Americanists Mary Gray (CMCL) and Scott Herring (English). Colin also authored the introduction for the issue, which is titled “Homosexuals in Unexpected Places?” The second essay, “Casual Sex: Towards a Prehistory of Gay Life in Bohemian America,” will appear in the November 2008 issue of Interventions: The International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. |
Editorial UCA in Nicaragua just published History professor Jeff Gould’s book Aqui Mandamos Iguales: Lucha Campesina y Conciencia Política en Chinandega, Nicaragua 1950-1979. |
Hasan M. El-Shamy, professor of Folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the African Studies Program, has a new book due to come out at the end of November, Religion among the Folk in Egypt (Praeger Publishers). |
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