Kate McCormick and Jacob Hall
Kate McCormick and Jacob Hall, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, co-authored an article published in October in the journal Education and Information Technologies titled “Computational thinking learning experiences, outcomes, and research in preschool settings: A scoping review of literature.” This scoping review maps existing computational thinking studies with preschool-age participants.
Brian Williams
Brian Williams, Political Science Department, had an article accepted for publication in The Social Science Journal. His article, “Early Voting, Direct Democracy, and Voter Mobilization,” shows that direct democracy campaign contact increases voter turnout.
Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, had her ethnography titled Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Postsocialist China, published in July by Bloomsbury Publishing. Also, she co-authored a refereed journal article titled “Fanzuixue he Faxue de Tianye Jianghu” (Fieldwork in Criminology and Legal Studies). It was published in August by Jingxue Yanjiu (Police Science Research).
Laura Davies
Laura Davies, English Department, co-authored an article, “Polymorphic Frames of Pre-Tenure WPAs: Seven Accounts of Hybridity and Pronoia,” which was published in the Fall 2016 issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Memorial Library, published his article, “‘To Give Myself to Be Carried Immediatly into Hell’: Weather, Witchcraft, and Two Late Seventeenth-Century Contracts between a Magician and a Student.” in the latest issue of Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural. He also gave three presentations: “‘A fitter spot for a tale of darkness’: The Appropriation and Marketing of Early Modern Spirit Summoning, Folklore, and Local Landscape in Robert Cross Smith’s Tales of the Horrible,” at the International Congress for Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan; “Winds, Witches, and Wicked Spirits: The Association of Witches with Other Dangers in a Late Seventeenth Century British Manuscript.” at the Witchcraft and Magic Conference, Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York in the United Kingdom; and "'Thou Shalt Have Humanity’: Reciprocity, Reformation, and Conceptions of Spirit-Human Relations in a Ghost Summoning Incantation from Early Modern Britain.” during Ghosts in Britain and Ireland 1500-1950 History Conference at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
Kristine Newhall
Kristine Newhall, Kinesiology Department, had an article titled "'Mostly what we do is ride bikes': A case study of cycling, subculture, and transgender policy" published in the most recent issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had a public press article on the recent Rutgers University faculty strike published in Spectre Journal. The article is titled “Lessons from the Rutgers Strike: Lessons Six Months Later.”
Maton also was interviewed on the History of Education Quarterly podcast. On the podcast, she discusses recent co-authored research on a radical and experimental alternative school in Philadelphia in the 1970s. The original published article on which this podcast is based is titled, “Opposing Innovations: Race and Reform in the West Philadelphia Community Free School, 1969-1978.”
Ute Ritz-Deutch
Ute Ritz-Deutch, History Department, recently had two chapters published, one each in very different books. Both will be available this summer. “German Colonists in Southern Brazil: Navigating Multiple Identities on the Brazilian Frontier” will be published in Tales of Transit: Narrative Migrant Spaces in Atlantic Perspective 1850-1950 by Amsterdam University Press, 2013. “Imprisoning Foreign Nationals” will appear in The End of Prisons by Value Inquiry Books, 2013.
Katherine M. Polasek
Katherine M. Polasek, Kinesiology Department, co-authored a chapter in the APA Handbook of Sport and Exercise Psychology. The chapter, “Girls and Women in Sport” utilizes a critical feminist perspective to introduce and discuss the intersection of sport and gender.
Kathleen Lawrence
Kathleen Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had 12 poems accepted for publication. Eight poems were published during the summer. “Alice Abbreviated” and “Dorothy Delivered” both appeared in Altered Reality Magazine in August. “Intoxicated” and “A Sexual Assault in the Woods” were published in Crow Hollow 19 in July. Two more poems, “How to Write a Poem” and “How to Break Up with Your Dinosaur,” were published in the Muses’ Gallery of Highland Park Poetry in June. Her poem “Pure Prince” appeared in Delirious: A Poetic Tribute to Prince (NightBallet Press), also in June. “Requiem” appeared in A Prince Tribute (Yellow Chair Review) in May 2016. Also, Lawrence has four more poems currently forthcoming. “‘King," an elegy for B.B. King, will be published in October in an introduction to poetry textbook by Kendall Hunt. “Detecting Nancy Drew” will appear in the Nancy Drew Anthology forthcoming from Silver Birch Press. Two poems, “Breastfeeding Bliss” and “Milk and Honey,” will appear in the journal Breastfeeding Medicine.