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Faculty, staff books: 2017

  • Ajami, Riad A., & Jason Goddard. (Business). Global Business: Competitiveness and Sustainability. Routledge. October 2017.
  •  Atchison, R. Jarrod. (Communication). A War of Words: The Rhetorical Leadership of Jefferson Davis. University of Alabama Press. June 2017.
  •  Barnes, Bernadine. (Art). Michelangelo and the Viewer in His Time (Renaissance Lives series). Reaktion Books. June 2017.
  •  Brown, Tommy. (Staff, Communications & External Relations). The Seven Money Types: Discover How God Wired You to Handle Money. Zondervan. March 2017.
  • Cheng, T. J., & Wei-chin Lee, Eds. (Politics & International Affairs). National Security, Public Opinion and Regime Asymmetry: A Six-Country Study. World Scientific. June 2017.
  •  Coates, David, Ed. (Politics & International Affairs). Reflections on the Future of the Left (Building Progressive Alternatives series). Agenda Publishing. November 2017.
  •  Dalton, Mary M. (Communication). The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies, 3rd ed. Peter Lang. January 2017.
  •  Dalton, Mary M., & Laura R. Linder, Eds. (Communication). Screen Lessons: What We Have Learned from Teachers on Television and in the Movies. Peter Lang. January 2017.
  • Eun, Cheol, & Bruce Resnick. (Business). International Financial Management, 8th McGraw-Hill. February 2017.
  •  Fournier-Lanzoni, Rémi. (Italian). Rire de plomb: La comédie à l’italienne des années 70. Presses de l’Harmattan. October 2017.

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Faculty books: August, September, October 2017

Ajami, Riad A., & G. Jason Goddard. (Business). Global Business: Competitiveness and Sustainability. Routledge. October 2017.

Fournier-Lanzoni, Rémi. (French). Rire de plomb: La comédie à l’italienne des années 70. Presses de l’Harmattan. October 2017.

van Doorn-Harder, Nelly, Ed. (Religious Studies). Copts in Context: Negotiating Identity, Tradition, and Modernity. University of South Carolina Press. September 2017.

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Proposals funded: Brubaker, Doorn-Harder, Williams

Peter Brubaker

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Congratulations to Peter Brubaker, professor of health & exercise science, whose proposal entitled “Transition from risk factors to heart failure: Prevalence, pathogenesis, and phenomics” has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number 1R01HL127028-01 and by [subaward/subcontract from] Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFU funding agency).

 

Nelly van Doorn-Harder

Doorn-Harder

Congratulations to Nelly van Doorn-Harder, professor of Islamic studies, whose proposal entitled “Women strengthening pluralist co-existence in contemporary Indonesia: analyzing the role of Komnas Perempuan and the Koalisi Perempuan [Cayuse 16-0079]” has been funded by the University of Notre Dame.

 

 

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Williams

Congratulations to Richard T. Williams, professor of physics, whose proposal entitled “Research on Scintillator Materials and Mechanisms: LaBr3, CeBr3 and NaI with Co-Doping [Cayuse 16-0051]” has been funded by the Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc.

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Religion professor profiled by American Academy of Religion

nelly.vandornharder.300x175Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, professor of Islamic studies, was featured in the American Academy of Religion (AAR)’s “Religious Studies News.”

Van Doorn-Harder served as the chair of the organization’s program committee for the past three years.  The interview outlines the various new policies and initiatives that were put in place during her tenure.

Van Doorn-Harder is the author of several works on Coptic Christianity and Indonesian Islam, including “The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy: The Egyptian Church and Its Leadership from the Ottoman Period to the Present” (AUC Press, 2011)

The AAR is a learned society and professional association of teachers and research scholars with about 9,000 members who teach in some 900 colleges, universities, seminaries and schools in North America and abroad.

Van Doorn-Harder has served in the leadership of a number of program units in the AAR. She served as chair of the Study of Islam Section from 2004–2008. She founded and has chaired the Middle Eastern Christianity Group since 2009, and she served on the AAR’s Governance Task Force, which revamped the AAR’s entire governance structure, from 2008–2010.

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Religion professors have books published

Two professors in the Department of Religion have recently had books published.

Stephen BoydStephen Boyd, the John Allen Easley Professor of Religion, wrote Making Justice Our Business: The Wrongful Conviction of Darryl Hunt and the Work of Faith. Boyd’s book covers the saga of Hunt, who spent 19 years in jail on a wrongful conviction before being freed in 2003. It was published by Cascade Books. Read more »

Read more about Boyd and his book from the Winston-Salem Journal »

Nelly van Doorn-HarderNelly van Doorn-Harder, a professor of Islamic studies, was responsible for seven of nine chapters in The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy (The Popes of Egypt, Volume 3). The book spans the five centuries from the arrival of the Ottomans in 1517 to the present era. It was published by The American University in Cairo Press. Read more »

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