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Trans Men in the South: Becoming Men
Baker A. Rogers, Georgia Southern University
1-2020
Through the voices of 51 trans men, Baker A. Rogers analyzes what it means to be a trans man in the southeastern United States. Rogers argues that the common themes that pervade trans men’s experiences in the South are complicated by other intersecting identities, such as sexuality, religion, race, class, and place. This study explores the intersectionalities of a group of people who are often invisible, by choice or necessity, in broader culture. Rogers engages with debates about trans experiences of masculinity, ‘passing,’ and discrimination within LGTBQ spaces in order to provide a comprehensive study of trans men’s experiences.
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Congressional Constraint and Judicial Responses: Examining Judiciary Committee Court Curbing and Court Structuring Bills
Henry Christian Tecklenburg IV, Georgia Southern University
2020
Georgia Souther University faculty member Henry Chrisitan Tecklenburg authored Congressional Constraint and Judicial Responses: Examining Judiciary Committee Court Curbing and Court Structuring Bills.
This book examines the relationship between Congress and the Federal Judiciary over time. Several aspects of this separation of power dynamics are examined, including court curbing legislation, court structuring legislation, justiciability, and judicial review. Unlike prior works, this book examines this relationship from a bicameral perspective, as it is argued that there are different motivations and reasons as to why and how each chamber of Congress approaches its relationship with the federal judiciary. In addition, this book ... Read more
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Research Handbook on Community Development
Eric Trevan, Evergreen State University; Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University; and Patsy B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
4-24-2020
"This timely Research Handbook offers new ways in which to navigate the diverse terrain of community development research. Contributions from leading experts unpack the foundations and history of community development research and look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. Chapters consider the trajectories and impact of global community development research, offering critical insight into the methods and frameworks that are currently being used in the field. Covering varied topics, from housing and food availability, to revitalization and faith-based regeneration, this Research Handbook provides a broad and in-depth exploration of the state of the field today. Comprehensive ... Read more
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Teaching Introduction to Criminal Justice
Laura E. Agnich, Georgia Southern University
2019
Teaching Introduction to Criminal Justice provides instructors with evidence-based and innovative strategies for teaching introductory criminal justice courses. The text emphasizes the importance of introductory criminal justice courses in providing a strong educational foundation for criminal justice and criminology majors. It offers instructors teaching tools and strategies to engage students and help them learn a wide range of content efficiently and effectively.
The book begins with discussions about curriculum planning, student-centered pedagogy, and selecting effective course materials. Subsequent chapters address creating a course syllabus that clearly states course goals, learning objectives, and course policies, as well as how to approach the ... Read more -
Encyclopedia of Hate Groups in America
Barry J. Balleck, Georgia Southern University
2019
Georgia Southern University faculty member Barry J. Balleck authored Encyclopedia of Hate Groups in America.
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Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American City
Lisa L. Denmark, Georgia Southern University
2019
Savannah's Midnight Hour argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative, in which the politics of slavery, secession, Civil War, and Reconstruction dominate the analysis of economic development. Denmark shows us that Savannah's fiscal experience in the antebellum and postbellum years, while exhibiting some distinctively southern characteristics, also echoes a larger national experience. Her broad account of municipal decision making about improvement investment throughout the nineteenth century offers ... Read more
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Some kind of mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe
Amanda Konkle
2-4-2019
Georgia Southern University faculty member Amanda Konkle wrote Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe.
Book Summary:
Although she remains one of the all-time most recognizable Hollywood icons, Marilyn Monroe has seldom been ranked among the greatest actors of her generation. Critics have typically viewed her film roles as mere extensions of her sexpot star persona. Yet this ignores both the subtle variations between these roles and the acting skill that went into the creation of Monroe’s public persona.
Some Kind of Mirror offers the first extended scholarly analysis of Marilyn Monroe’s film performances, examining how they united the contradictory ... Read more -
Internet and Health in Brazil: Challenges and Trends
Andre Pereira Neto, Escola Nacional De Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca and Matthew B. Flynn, Georgia Southern University
2019
The popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil.
The authors establish a critical and creative debate with international scholarship on the subject. This book is written in a direct and comprehensible way for professionals, researchers, students of communication and health, as well as for stakeholders ... Read more
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Defense Policies of East-Central European Countries after 1989: Creating Stability in a Time of Uncertainty
James Peterson, Valdosta State University and Jacek Lubecki, Georgia Southern University
1-2-2019
Georgia Southern University faculty member Jacek Lubecki co-authored this book.
Book Summary: The 2014 Ukrainian-Crimean crisis has raised serious questions in the West about Russian motivations and future policy directions. Now more than ever, it is imperative to explore the defensive perceptions, reactions, and preparations of neighbouring countries, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. Is there a convergence of their approaches along similar paths, or do their different cultures and historical experiences prefigure a divergence of their defense policies? While Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic all seem to have little concern about Russia's policies in Ukraine, the Polish response ... Read more
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Prejudice in the Press? Investigating Bias in Coverage of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Religion
George Yancey, Baylor University and Alicia Brunson, Georgia Southern University
11-13-2019
Charges of “fake news” tend to be politically motivated whether made by Republicans or Democrats. Yet the potential for media bias is real and deserves an honest assessment.
Using an audit technique—providing journalists with similar scenarios but altering key details—the authors evaluate whether reporters and editors write different narratives depending on the characteristics of the principle issues in the story. The results indicate that race, gender, sexuality and religion have little effect on whether a story will be covered, but do color the story that is written.
Data suggest that news personnel may be operating in ways that promote progressive political leanings. ... Read more -
Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups
Barry J. Balleck, Georgia Southern University
2018
Georgia Southern University faculty member Barry J. Balleck authored Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist Groups.
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A history of the Muslim world since 1260
Vernon O. Egger, Georgia Southern
2018
A History of the Muslim World since 1260 continues the narrative begun by A History of the Muslim World to 1750 by tracing the development of Muslim societies, institutions, and doctrines from the time of the Mongol conquests through to the present day. It offers students a balanced coverage of Muslim societies that extend from Western Europe to Southeast Asia. Whereas it presents a multifaceted examination of Muslim cultures, it focuses on analysing the interaction between the expression of faith and contemporary social conditions.
This extensively updated second edition is now in full colour, and the chronology of the book ... Read more
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Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction
Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University; Adam Bossler, Georgia Southern University; and Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, The University of Alabama
2018
Georgia Southern University faculty member Adam M. Bossler and non faculty members Thomas J. Holt and Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar co-authored Cybercrime and Digital Forensics: An Introduction.
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U.S. Attorneys, Political Control, and Career Ambition
Banks Miller, University of Texas at Dallas and Brett W. Curry, Georgia Southern University
12-2018
United States Attorneys (USAs), the chief federal prosecutors in each judicial district, are key in determining how the federal government uses coercive force against its citizens. How much control do national political actors exert over the prosecutorial decisions of USAs? In this book, the authors investigate this question using a unique data set of federal criminal prosecutions between 1986 and 2015 that captures both decisions by USAs to file cases as well as the sentences that result. Utilizing intuitions from principal-agent theory, work on the career ambition of bureaucrats and politicians, and selected case studies, they develop and advance a ... Read more
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Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol. 2
Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
2018
Work was co-authored by Georgia Southern faculty member Prof. Patsy Kraeger.
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Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol. 3
Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
2018
Work was co-authored by Georgia Southern faculty member Prof. Patsy Kraeger.
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Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment, Vol 4
Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patricia B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
2018
Work was co-authored by Georgia Southern faculty member Prof. Patsy Kraeger.
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Community Planning and Development: Critical Concepts in Built Environment Vol. 1
Rhonda Phillips, Purdue University and Patsy B. Kraeger, Georgia Southern University
2018
Work was co-authored by Georgia Southern Faculty member Prof. Patsy Kraeger.
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The Development of Criminological Thought
Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University
5-4-2018
This book focuses on the history and development of criminological thought from the pre-Enlightenment period to the present and offers a detailed and chronological overview of competing theoretical perspectives in criminology in their social and political context.
This book covers:
- A discussion of how major theorists came to espouse their ideas and how the social context of the time influenced the development criminological thought;
- An exploration of the scientific method and the way in which theories are tested;
- Details of the origins of each theory as well as their recent ... Read more
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Great Debates in Criminology
Chad Posick, Georgia Southern University and Michael Rocque, Bates College
6-23-2018
This book explores the role of theory and research in criminology. Adopting a unique and refreshing approach to criminological theory, it focuses on the great debates in criminology from its inception as a field to the present day. It explores the debates that have motivated criminological thought, that have represented turning points in theoretical and empirical trajectories, that have offered mini-paradigm shifts, and that have moved the field forward. Coverage includes:
- Classical debates, including the work of Lombroso, Durkheim, and Sutherland;
- Sociological vs. psychological debates in criminology;
- Control theory and cultural deviance theory;
- Criminal career and trait-based theory;
- Theory ... Read more
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The Echo of Odin: Norse Mythology and Human Consciousness
Edward W. L. Smith, Georgia Southern University
2018
Georgia Southern University emeritus professor Edward W. L. Smith authored The Echo of Odin: Norse Mythology and Human Consciousness.
Book Description: The pagan mythology of the Vikings offers a rich metaphor for consciousness. This book presents the cosmography of Norse mythology as a landscape of human inner life. Each of the nine worlds of this cosmography is viewed as a symbol of a distinct type of consciousness that is emblematic of a particular perspective or way of relating to others. Individual gods and goddesses are considered nuanced personifications of their worlds. The philosophy of pagan mythology is explored by comparing ... Read more
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The Dead Still Here
Laura E. Valeri, Georgia Southern University
6-5-2018
Georgia Southern faculty member Laura E. Valeri authored The Dead Still Here.
Book Summary: Mapping stories set in Europe and America, The Dead Still Here skillfully paces through eleven short stories about friends-with-benefits typed relationships, vicious divorces and thievery, the loss of a child, the loss of a mother, and the Coast Guard and the Navy rescuing refugees from a bad storm at sea. Laura Valeri writes one single breathtaking sentence about sex, Dear John emails, and Christmas presents in “Liabilities of a Love Misguided” and displays a sharp sense of paranoia based on everyone looking at the narrator, laughing, ... Read more
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Constructing International Studies
Christopher M. Brown, Georgia Southern University
2017
Georgia Southern University faculty member Christopher M. Brown edited Constructing International Studies.
Constructing International Studies is a collection of writings that explores the most progressive edge of the discipline. Through diverse perspectives and issues, the book gives students a thorough understanding of how the field is developing presently. By incorporating the conceptual thinking that will frame the next generation of international studies, it provides students an understanding of the contemporary discussions and prepares them for meaningful future engagement in the field.
The book opens with a foreword by Nicholas Greenwood Onuf. The first thematic section is devoted to addressing the ... Read more -
From Rome to Zurich, from Ignatius to Vermigli: Essays in Honor of John Patrick Donnelly, S.J.
Kathleen M. Comerford, Georgia Southern University; Gary W. Jenkins, Eastern University; and Torrance Kirby, McGill University
2-20-2017
Georgia Southern University faculty member Kathleen M. Comerford co-edited From Rome to Zurich, between Ignatius and Vermigli: Essays in honor of John Patrick Donnelly, S.J. alongside non-faculty members Gary W. Jenkins and Torrance Kelly.
Book Summary: From Rome to Zurich, between Ignatius and Vermigli brings notable scholars from the fields of Reformation and Early Modern studies to honor their friend, mentor, and colleague, John Patrick Donnelly with essays commensurate with his own broad interests and scholarship. Touching Protestant scholasticism, Reformation era life writing, Reformation polemics – both Protestant and Catholic – and with several on theology proper, inter alia, the ... Read more
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