Publications

Chante Baker – book review of Athena Mutua’s Progressive Black Masculinities (2006), a book review written during an independent study with Professor Byrd, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Men’s Studies; a book review of Riche' Richardson's book, Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (2007) has been accepted for publication and will appear in a forthcoming issue of African-American Review; a book review of Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education (2005), written by William Bowen, Martin Kurzweil, and Eugene Tobin has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Center for Research on African-American Women.

Brent Campney – publication in the December issue of the journal American Studies, a book review on Michael J. Pfeifer’s Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947.

Rhea Combs – published an essay, “A Powerful Passage: A Black Girl’s Journey to Loving Her Body” in the anthology, What Your Mama Never Told You: True Stories about Sex and Love. ed. Tara Roberts. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. “Catwalking Through Culture: Notes on (Re) Presenting Fashion at the 2002 Smithsonian Silk Road Festival,” Journal of American Folklife, Special Issues Publication, forthcoming 2008.

Brittney Cooper – an essay entitled “Excavating the Love Below: The State as Patron of the Baby Mama Drama” appeared in an anthology on contemporary feminism entitled Home Girls Make Some Noise: A Hip Hop Feminist Anthology.

Kwesi DeGraft Hanson - Journal Articles: "The Cultural Landscape of Slavery at Kormantsin, Ghana." Landscape Research, Vol. 30. No. 4: 459-481. October, 2005; Bulletins/reports: "Celebrating and Commemorating the lives of African and African-American Slaves in Georgia". The Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries Newsletter, Vol. 22, Issue 2, Summer 2001, p.5.; "Celebrating and Commemorating the lives and work of African-American Slaves in Georgia: Proposing Butler Island Memorial Park". The Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries Newsletter, Vol. 22, Issue 3, Autumn 2001, p.5.

Elizabeth Milewicz - (in publication). Origin and development of the Information Commons in academic libraries. In M. Halbert and C. Forrest (eds.) A Field Guide to the InfoCommons. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press; (2006, August). Moving towards shareable metadata. First Monday; 11(8). (2006, May). Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer project. D-Lib Magazine 12(5).

Matthew Miller – published a non-scholarly article in the record collector-oriented magazine Wax Poetics

Charles Ngugi – published a book chapter entitled “Memory, Traditionalism and Constitutionalism: Overcoming the Problem of Nation Formation in Kenya” in Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo, J & Benjamin Jesse, Forthcoming 2008: Re-Thinking and Re-Imagining Nationalism in 21 st Century Africa: Ideology, Epistemoly and Philosophy.

Veerle Poupeye - “Mauvaise Race, Mauvaise Couleur, Mauvaise Classe” (2007) in Artheme 18 ( Martinique), p. 13-21. (Special issue on commemorative art); "'Wrong Race, Wrong Colour, Wrong Class': The Controversy about Laura Facey's Emancipation Monument in Jamaica" (2006) In Challenges of Representation, edited by Erika Grigoraviciene and Laima Kreivyte, 35-46. Vilnius: International Association of Art Critics ( Lithuania Chapter). (Publication on public art controversies, in Lithuanian and English). ( Note: the two publications above are abridged translations of my earlier article A Monument in the Public Sphere: The Controversy about Laura Facey’s Redemption Song (2004) which appeared in Jamaica Journal, 28/2&3, p. 36-47. Both were requested by the publishers.) “Review of Laura Facey’s ‘The Everything Doors’ exhibition” in Jamaica Journal (in publication for Summer 2007); “Intuitive Art as a Concept and a Canon” in Small Axe (in publication for Fall 2007)

Shlomit Ritz Finkelstein – “Othering Science”, book review of The Dream of the Perfect Child, was published in History and Technology, 3

Meheli Sen - submitted an essay for publication in the South Asian Review’s (SAR) special issue on Empire and Racial Hybridity entitled “ Obscure Objects/Defiant Subjects: Anglo-Indian Women in Hindi Cinema.” This article is just now being published. Also, last Spring, submitted an abstract for consideration in the edited volume Bollywood, Nation and Diaspora: Indian Cinema in the Age of Globalization, ed. by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari Pandharipande. They accepted the abstract, and have now written this article “‘It’s All About Loving Your Parents’: Hindutva, Liberalization and Bollywood’s New Patriarch” and am awaiting instructions from the editors.

Anne Sinkey - essay “Between Liberalism and Critical Theory: Reading the Rights of the Other” was published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Twentieth-Century Studies in August 2006

Stewart Varner - "Youth claiming space : the case of Pittsburgh's Mr. Roboto Project."  Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes.  Ed. Paul Hodkinson and Wolfgang Deicke.  London: Routledge. 161-174.

Betty Woodman - “Imagining a Dialectic of Generosity” was published in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in April 2007, and another paper, “Understanding Sartrean Desire: Men, Women, and Authentic Relationship,” is forthcoming (Summer 2007) as a chapter in a Value Inquiry Book Series collection of essays edited by the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love of the American Philosophical Association.