Assumption College Faculty
Books: 2003-2004
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Barbara Apelian Beall, Chair, Department of Art and Music and Assistant
Professor of Art History
Dr. Beall is currently completing work for publication of a book, A Guide
to the Study of Manuscripts, which will be published with Cambridge University
Press. This book, co-authored by Ralph E. Doty (Classics Department, University
of Oklahoma, Norman) meets the critical need for an integrated, comprehensive
text devoted to the study of all aspects of manuscripts, including codicology,
palaeography, philology and the art.
Prior study of manuscripts has been hindered by rigid specialization: each scholar
studied only a single aspect of a manuscript. The content and the authorship
of our text, A Guide to the Study of Manuscripts, parallels the recent
interdisciplinary approach to manuscript study and the integration of manuscripts
studies in classics, history, art history, literature and other disciplines,
and the increasing importance of manuscripts as primary sources of knowledge.
Chris Beyers, Assistant Professor of English
Currently working on two books, the sub-titles of which are as follows:
1) Ebenezer Cooke's World: Writing in History as if Pain Matters
Focus is on putting writing from the colonies around the Chesapeake in economic,
social, and political context.
2) A Reading Gnidaer A: An antidote to linearity that won't make your
head hurt
Again, an extension to a number of published articles, this one reads Louis
Zukofsky's epic poem, 'A,' while entertaining an ongoing discussion about writing,
history, literary theory, and, most importantly, the reader's will.
Stuart Borsch, Assistant Professor of History
He has a book entitled The Black Death in World History: The Case of England
and Egypt . University of Texas Press.
Bonnie Catto, Professor of Classics
Dr. Catto just completed a book tentatively entitled Latina Mythica
which retells the central stories of Graeco-Roman mythology. It is a Latin reader
for intermediate level Latin students as they continue to study grammar. The
chapters gradually increase in grammatical complexity. The book starts with
a description of the Olympian gods, continues to the myths of creation, Prometheus,
Deucalion and Pyrrha, and the great heroes Theseus, Hercules, and Jason. The
first volume concludes with the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the abduction
of Helen, and the sacrifice of Iphigenia, all of which act as prelude to the
Trojan war. The second volume will include the Trojan war and its aftermath.
The publisher Bolchazy-Carducci is interested in the book, and it is expected
to be published next fall.
Ken Moynihan, Professor of History
Assumption College-A Centennial History 1904-2004 was published in
the Spring. It is available through the Assumption College Bookstore
.
Prior to taking on this project, Dr. Moynihan spent around 10 years working on a history of Worcester. He is seeking a publisher for a volume covering the first 200 years of the Town and City of Worcester, 1670 to 1870.
Anita Danker, Assistant Professor of Education
Anita is working on a book due out in the summer of 2005 the tentative title
of which is Multicultural Social Studies: The Local History Connection (Teachers
College Press). The target audience is teacher educators, preservice teachers,
curriculum planners, and teachers of K-12 social studies. The book argues that
multicultural themes and goals are in danger of being neglected due to the present
emphasis on standards and "teaching to the test" and will present
methods on how to address the problem through the study of local history.
Steven Farough, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Currently writing a book on the identity formation of white men. The title
of the book will probably be Vocabularies of Privilege: Contemporary White Masculinities
in the post-Civil Rights Era. A feature article on his research was just
recently posted on our website at http://www.assumption.edu/news/newshp/presarchiv/acadnews/farough.html
and a story was also published in the Telegram and Gazette.
Carol Harvey, Associate Professor of Management
Besides working with colleague Dr. McNett, she is also working with another
local author, M. June Allard, the chair of the Psychology Department at Worcester
State College. They are currently preparing the 3rd edition of the Understanding
and Managing Diversity, a textbook for Prentice-Hall. It is interesting
because it is currently used in over 400 colleges and universities and is interdisciplinary
in nature, drawing heavily on the social sciences as well as business. It is
available at the Assumption College
Bookstore .
Dr. Harvey and Dr. Allard are currently writing all the diversity
cases for Robbins & Decenzo's 5th edition of "Fundamentals of Management."
Deborah Kisatsky, Assistant Professor of History
In July 2004 she published American Foreign Relations: A History (2
vols), 6th ed., with Thomas G. Paterson, J. Garry Clifford, Shane J. Maddock,
and Kenneth Hagan (Houghton Mifflin, 2004). In 2005 she will publish a book
based on her dissertation, Containment, Co-optation, Cooperation: The United
States and the European Right, 1945-1955, with Ohio State University Press.
Michael Land, Assistant Professor English
Currently working on a manuscript, Travel in Dog Years. The manuscript
chronicles a road trip from Massachusetts to Miami to Missouri and back. Land
and his dog, Cal, make stops to explore different roles dogs play in people's
lives, as well as questions such as what happens to regional identity in multi-regional
lives.
James Lang, Assistant Professor of English
1) Learning Sickness: A Year with Crohn's Disease (Capital Books, February
2004). The author confronts a life-long illness while teaching in his first
year at Assumption. The website, which contains a description as well all of
the advanced reviews the book had received is as follows: http://www.learningsickness.com
. It is available at the Assumption
College Bookstore.
2) A memoir (as yet untitled) of the author's first year teaching at Assumption
will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press, October 2004.
Both books are memoirs of the same year in the life of James Lang, from August
2000 to August 2001, his first year here in Worcester.
Matthew Lenoe, Assistant Professor of History
He has authored Closer to the Masses: Soviet Newspapers, Social Revolution
and the Origins of Stalinist Culture (Harvard University Press, Spring
2004). He will edit a collection of primary documents and write the accopmanying
narrative for a volume to be published by Yale University Press. He is also
helping to organize two conferences which are expected t result in a volume
of essays he will co-edit.
Marc LePain, Professor of Theology
He recently translated (from the French) Fr. Ernest Fortin's book on Dante,
Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Dante and His Precursors, and
published an essay on "Dante's Greyhound" in the Fortin Festschrift,
"Gladly To Learn and Gladly to Teach." Both came out a little over
a year ago from Rowman and Littlefield.
He is currently working on a translation (from the French) of a book by Pierre
Manent, Cours familier de philosophie politique, to be published next
year by Princeton University Press.
John McClymer, Professor of History
Mississippi Freedom Summer, a documentary narrative of the summer of
1964 in Mississippi, was just published by Wadsworth.
Jeanne McNett, Associate Professor of Management
Jeanne is one of the editors of the
Blackwell Handbook of Global Management: A Guide to Managing Complexity.
She also has a chapter in this book on international ethics. It is published
by Blackwell Publishing.
Carol Harvey, associate professor of Management (see above, alphabetically),
and Dr. McNett had a research piece published in the Journal of Management
Education (Oct 2003), "Critical Thinking in the Management Classroom:
Bloom's Taxonomy as a
Learning Tool." They are quite proud of this because the JME acceptance
rate is 20% (that is, rejection rate of 80%). This article was recently awarded
BEST ARTICLE OF THE YEAR award by the Journal of Management Education.
Jeanne McNett is also a contributing editor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia
of American Poetry and has written the entry for Robert Service. In addition,
she has other projects that are in their mid or early stages, including the
Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of International Management, and
a book on helping college students who study or sojourn abroad make sense of
and learn from their experiences, The Adventure of Studying Abroad.
McNett's co-author is Joyce Osland, well known for her work in international
organizational behavior. The book uses Joseph Campbell's Hero's adventure as
a framework for understanding the process of spending time in a foreign culture.
Michael True, Professor Emeritus of English
(1) Foreword, Adin Ballou, Christian Nonresistance, Editor: Lynn Gordon
Hughes. Providence: Blackstone Editions, 2003;
(2) The Frontiers of Nonviolence, Editors: Chaiwat Satha-Anand and
Michael True, 2nd ed. Bangkok: International Peace Research Association, 2002).