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Research and creative activity in the College of Liberal Arts covers a wide spectrum from art to psychology. Our faculty receive support for their work from the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation, and many other external agencies.

The College's Research Center for Urban Cultural History brings together faculty from the humanities, social sciences and the arts in interdisciplinary projects that address the complex histories of cities past and present.

›› PUBLISHED IN 2009

Professor Vincent Cannato
History Department

American Passage

	Professor Jean Rhodes Psychology Department Becoming Manny Scribner

	Professor Jennifer Radden Philosophy Department Moody Minds Distempered Oxford University Press

	Assistant Professor Jorge Capetillo-Ponce Sociology Department A Foucault for the 21st Century Cambridge Scholars Publishing

	Assistant Professor Ananya Vajpeyi History Department Beyond Counter-Insurgency Oxford University Press

	Professor Ed Tronick Psychology Department Regolazione Emotiva Raffaello Cortina Editore

	Professor David Hunt History Department Vietnam's Southern Revolution University of Massachusetts Press

	Professor Randy Albelda Economics Department Fits & Starts Critenton Women's Union

	Assistant Professor Ananya Vajpeyi History Department Shared Histories of Modernity Taylor and Francis

	Associate Professor Cheryl Nixon English Department Novel Definitions Broadview Press

	Associate Professor Mary Oleskiewicz Performing Arts Department C.P.E. Bach - Solo Sonatas, Series III, Vol. 1 The Packard Humanities Institute

	Associate Professor Stephen Silliman Anthropology Department Collaborating at the Trowels Edge Amerind

	Assistant Professor Jalal Alamgir Political Science Department India's Open-Economy Policy Routledge

	Professor Estelle Disch Sociology Department Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology McGraw-Hill

	Assistant Professor Sari Kawana Modern Languages Department Murder Most Modern Univ. Of Minnesota Press

	Professor Vivian Zamel English Department Language Lessons University of Michigan Press/ESL

	Associate Professor Askold Melnyczuk English Department Das Witwen Haus

	Assistant Professor Ruth Miller History Department The Erotics of Corruption State University of New York Press

	Assistant Professor Erin O'Brien Political Science Department Diversity in Contemporary American Politics and Government Longman

	Associate Professor Lizabeth Roemer Psychology Department Mindfulness- & Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapies in Practice The Guilford Press

	Russell Schutt Sociology Department Investigating the Social World Pine Forge Press; 6 edition

	Professor Lloyd Schwartz English Department Bishop Library of America

	Professor Lloyd Schwartz English Department Cairo Traffic University of Chicago Press

	Professor Lloyd Schwartz English Department Greatest Hits Pudding House Publications

›› PUBLISHED IN 2008

	Professor Paul Watanabe Department of Political Science Interest and Action Institute for Asian American Studies

	Professor James Green Department of History Death in the Haymarket Pantheon Books

	Assistant Professor Philip Kretsedemas Department of Sociology Keeping Out the Other Columbia University Press

	Assistant Professor Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi Department of Sociology Microcosms of Hope: Celebrating Student Scholars Okcir Press

	Lecturer Peter Janson Department of Performing Arts Winter GIfts EWM Records

	Professor Erin E. O'Brien Department of Political Science The Politics of Identity State University of New York Press

	Professor Russell K. Schutt Department of Sociology The Practice of Research in Crimology and Criminal Justice Sage Publication

	Assistant Professor Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi Department of Sociology Sociological Imaginations from the Classroom Okcir Press

	Assistant Professor Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi Department of Sociology Teaching Transformation Okcir Press

	Professor Askold Melnyczuk Department of Sociology The House of Widows Graywolf Press

	Assistant Professor Mohammad H. (Behrooz) Tamdgidi Department of Sociology Thich Nhat Hanh's Sociological Imagination Okcir Press

	Professor Mary Stevenson Department of Economics The Urban Experience Oxford University Press

›› PUBLISHED IN 2007

Professor Paul Atwood

Department of American Studies

Sticks And Stones: Living With Uncertain Wars

Published in Association with the John W. Mccormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston

	Professor Patrick Barron Department of English the selected poetry and prose of Andrea Zanzotto a bilingual edition University of Chicago Press

	Professor Lilia Bartolome Department of Applied Linguistics Ideologies in Education Unmasking the Trap of Teacher Neutrality Peter Lang Publishing

	Barry Brodsky Director, Veterans Upward Bound All Other Nights JAC Publishing & Promotions

	Associate Professor Alexander Des Forges Department of Modern Languages Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production University of Hawaii Press

	Professor Spencer Di Scala Department of History Filippo Turati: Le origini della Democrazia in Italia GliEssay Critica Sociale

	Assistant Professor John Fulton Department of English The Animal Girl: Two Novellas and Three Stories Louisiana State University Press

	Lecturer Daniel Gidron Department of Performing Arts Dying City The Lyric Stage Company of Boston

	Department Chair Donaldo Macedo Department of Applied Linguistics Media Literacy: A Reader Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated

	Department Chair Donaldo Macedo Department of Applied Linguistics A Hegemonia da Lingua Inglesa edicoes padago

	Department Chair Donaldo Macedo Department of Applied Linguistics Poder Democracia e Educacao edicoes padago

	Professor Jon Ceander Mitchell Department of Performing Arts Philharmonia Bulgarica Centaur

	Department of English Crooks, Rogues & Maids Less Than Virtuous An Exhibition of Rare Books Boston Public Library

	Lecturer Catherine Parnell Department of English The Kingdom of His Will Arrowsmith Press

	Professor David Patterson Department of Performing Arts Music from Six Continents, 2006 Series Vienna Modern Masters

	Assistant Professor Pratima Prasad Department of Modern Languages Novel Stages University of Delaware Press

	Associate Professor Marc Prou Department of Africana Studies Haitian Creole for Health Care Educa Vision

	Professor Rachel Rubin Department of American Studies Radicalism in the South since Resconstruction Palgrave Macmillan

	Professor Rachel Rubin Department of American Studies A House Is Not a Home University of Massachusetts Press

	Professor Rachel Rubin Department of American Studies Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction NYU Press

	Professor Taylor Stoehr Department of English I Hear My Gate Slam: Chinese Poets Meeting and Parting Pressed Wafer Press

	Assistant Professor Mohammad H. Tamdgidi Department of Sociology Advancing Utopistics: The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism Paradigm Publishers

	Assistant Professor Mohammad H. Tamdgidi Department of Sociology Reflections on Fanon Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge

	Professor Brian Thompson Department of Modern Languages Ca ira: Le chanson revolutionnaire en 1789... et depuis University of Massachusetts Boston

	Professor Ed Tronick Department of Psychology The Neurobehavioral and Social Emotional Development of Infants and Children W. W. Norton

	Assistant Professor Ananya Vajpeyi Department of History Prolegomena to the Study of People and Places in Violent India Wiscomp