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Faculty books 2020: A year in review

The following is the 2020 annual Wake Forest University faculty book publication report.

January 2020

Anover, Véronique, & Rémi Fournier Lanzoni. (Spanish & Italian). On tourne! French Language and Culture through Film. Georgetown University Press. 2020.

Gengler, Amanda. (Sociology). Save My Kid: How Families of Critically Ill Children Cope, Hope, and Negotiate an Unequal Healthcare System. New York University Press. 2020.

February 2020

Gellar-Goad, T. H. M. (Classics). Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura and Satire. University of Michigan Press. 2020.

Virgil, Steven M. (Law). A Handbook for Transactional and Small Business Clinics. Carolina Academic Press. 2019.

Wood, John H. (Economics). Who Governs?: Legislatures, Bureaucracies, or Markets?. Palgrave Macmillan. 2020.

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Faculty books: May 2020

Gladding, Samuel T. (Counseling). Off the Courthouse Square: A Memoir. Library Partners Press. 2020.

Shapiro, Sidney A., & Joseph P. Tomain. (Law). Regulatory Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, 4th edition. Carolina Academic Press. 2020.

Soares, Joseph A., Ed. (Sociology). The Scandal of Standardized Tests: Why We Need to Drop the SAT & ACT. Teachers College Press. 2020.

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Department Chairs and administrative assistants for 2015-16

Please find below a list of academic department chairs and their administrative assistants for 2015-2016, as of July 1, 2015:

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Sociology department winter highlights

Breckinridge

Breckenridge

Brown

Brown

Soares

Soares

Taplin

Taplin

Yamane

Yamane

 

 

 

 

Saylor Breckenridge is completing his two-year rotation as the director of the National Science Foundation’s sociology program, where he manages the program’s approximately $10 million annual budget. He recently presented on “big data” research at the “The Big (Data) Bang: Prospects and Challenges for the Future” session as part of The Dupont Summit, in Washington D.C.

In March, Hana Brown and her co-researcher from the University of Notre Dame, Jennifer Jones, were awarded $22,954 by the Russell Sage Foundation to research the determinants of state immigration policy in new immigration destinations.

Throughout March, Joseph Soares participated in the discussions of both the first national study of test-optional colleges and the upcoming reforms to the SAT in outlets such as Inside Higher Ed, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News and The New York Times Magazine.

In January, Ian Taplin gave the annual Global Futures Lecture at The Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art, Design & Media, University of Southampton, England. In February, he was one of the keynote speakers at the N.C. Wine Growers annual meeting in Winston-Salem.

In February David Yamane published, “Becoming Catholic: Finding Rome in the American Religious Landscape” (Oxford University Press) — the first book-length study of Roman Catholic converts in contemporary America.

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August 2013 faculty milestones

See a list of employment milestones reached by faculty in August 2013: Read more

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