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Faculty Publications

Anthropology

Twinning Faith and Development: Catholic Parish Partnering in the US and Haiti
Bridging the Gaps: Faith-based Organizations, Neoliberalism, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Not by Faith Alone: Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-based Organizations in the United States
Katun: A Twenty-Year Journey with the Maya
Missionary Impositions: Conversion, Resistance, and other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography
A Sacred Vertigo : Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France

Dr. Tara Hefferan
Senior Affiliate Professor

Dr. Tara Hefferan
Senior Affiliate Professor

Dr. Tara Hefferan
Senior Affiliate Professor

Dr. Cindy Hull
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Deana Weibel
Professor

Dr. Deana Weibel
Professor

Biomedical Sciences

Conditions Influencing Aggression
Concerted Electron/Proton Transfer: A Concerted Electron/Proton Transfer Mechanism For The Oxidation of Ascorbic Acid

Dr. Dan Bergman
Professor and CLAS Associate Dean

Dr. Brian Kipp
Professor

Chemistry

Chemical Property Estimation: Theory and Application
Chemistry in the National Science Education Standards: Models for Meaningful Learning in High School Chemistry Classrooms
Experimental Physical Chemistry: A Laboratory Textbook
Application of Two-Parameter Item Response Theory for Determining Form-Dependent Items on Exams Using Different Item Orders
Preparing for your ACS Examination in General Chemistry Second Edition

Dr. Edward J. Baum
Professor & Director of the Center for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education

Dr. Deborah Herrington
Professor & Director of CLAS Center for Experiential Learning

Dr. George McBane
Professor & Assistant Dean for Research, Facilities, and Analytics

Dr. Thomas Pentecost
Professor

Dr. Thomas Pentecost
Professor

Classics

Homeric Hymns: A Translation, with Introduction and Notes
Latin lyric and Elegiac poetry
Euripides' Medea: A New Translation
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation
Seneca: Selected Dialogues and Consolations

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Dr. Peter Anderson
Professor

Communications, School of

Selfhood and Authenticity
Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws
Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology
Taking Up McLuhan's Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality
How Non-Being Haunts Being
A.Eye Candy: A Museum of Imaginary Robots and Other Digital Delights

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse
Who Got the Camera?: A History of Rap and Reality
Comrade King
International Communication: Essential Readings
Thoughts on Thursday
Corporate Communications Writing

Dr. Richard Besel
Professor & Director

Dr. Eric Harvey
Associate Professor

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein
Associate Professor

Dr. Vandana Pednekar-Magal
Former Professor

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Public Relations: A Management Function
Dining in T-Shirts: Commentary of Casual Sophistication
Media Relations Writing: A Guide for PR Pros and Those Who Just Want Publicity
Sex, Ethics, and Communication: A Humanistic Approach to Conversations on Intimacy
Social Media and Society: An Introduction to the Mass Media Landscape
Digital Strategies: Data-Driven Public Relations, Marketing, and Advertising

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Dr. Valerie Peterson
Professor

Dr. Adrienne Wallace
Associate Professor

Dr. Adrienne Wallace
Associate Professor

English

Life Journey Literature & Search For Meaning In Stages Of Life
Pauline Style and Renaissance Literary Culture
The Canon of Croatian Poetry, 1450-2000: Over 200 Croatian Poems With Facing English Translation
Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition
Hardy's Early Poetry
Modern British Poetry 1900-1939 (Critical History of Poetry Series)

Dr. Milton E. Ford
Former Professor

Dr. Daniel Knapper
Visiting Professor

Dr. Ivo Soljan
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Mack Smith
Former Professor

Dr. James Persoon
Professor Emeritus

Dr. James Persoon
Professor Emeritus

The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present
Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest)
Early Career English Teachers in Action: Learning from Experience, Developing Expertise
Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies
Seeing the Spectrum: Teaching English language arts to adolescents with autism
Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature

Dr. James Persoon
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Kathryn Remlinger
Professor

Dr. Lindsay Ellis & Dr. Robert Rozema
Professors

Dr. Robert Rozema
Professor

Dr. Robert Rozema
Professor

Dr. Lois Tyson
Professor Emeritus

Critical Theory Today: A User Friendly Guide
A New Century Chinese-English Dictionary

Dr. Lois Tyson
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Shinian Wu [Editor]
Professor

Geography and Sustainability Planning

Survey of Subsaharan Africa: A Regional Geography
America's Addiction to Automobiles: Why Cities Need to Kick the Habit and How

Dr. Roy Cole
Former Professor

Dr. Chad Frederick
Associate Professor

Geology

Learning through Inquiry: Weaving Science and Thinking with Literature

Dr. Stephen Mattox
Professor

History

Undoing Plessy Charles Hamilton Houston, Race, Labor, and the Law, 1895-1950
Collaboration and the Future of Education: Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically
The Language of Dress Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1760-1890
African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class, and Gender
Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain
Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family

Dr. Gordon Andrews
Associate Professor

Dr. Gordon Andrews
Associate Professor

Dr. Steeve O. Buckridge
Professor

Dr. Steeve O. Buckridge
Professor

Dr. Grace Coolidge
Professor

Dr. Grace Coolidge
Professor

Sacred Authoirty and Temporal Power in the Writings of Bernard of Clarivaux
The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914-1945
An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War
Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War
World History through Case Studies: Historical Skills in Practice
A History of the Syrian Community of Grand Rapids, 1890-1945 (hardback) From the Beqaa to the Grand

Dr. Alice Chapman
Professor

Dr. Jason Crouthamel
Professor

Dr. Jason Crouthamel
Professor

Dr. Jason Crouthamel
Professor

Dr. David Eaton
Associate Professor

Dr. James Goode
Retired Professor

United States And Iran 1946-51 The Diplomacy Of Neglect
Politics, Poetry, and Sufism in Medieval Iran
Ethnic China: Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance
The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought
The New Era: American Thought and Culture in the 1920s
Ideas and Movements That Shaped America: From the Bill of Rights to 'Occupy Wall Street'

Dr. James Goode
Retired Professor

Dr. Chad Lingwood
Professor

Dr. Patrick Shan
Professor

Dr. Paul V. Murphy
Professor

Dr. Paul V. Murphy
Professor

Dr. Scott Stabler
Professor

Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico
Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 (Monographs in German History, 25)
Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood
Yankee Town, Southern City Race and Class Relations in Civil War Lynchburg
Taming China's Wilderness Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900-1931
Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal

Dr. David Stark
Professor

Dr. Gary Stark
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Steve Tripp
Professor

Dr. Steve Tripp
Professor

Dr. Patrick Shan
Professor

Dr. Patrick Shan
Professor

Place-Based Social Studies Education: Learning From Flint, Michigan (Research and Practice in Social Studies Series)

Dr. Annie Whitlock
Associate Professor

Mathematics

Linear Algebra: An Inquiry-Based Approach
Understanding Linear Algebra
Differential Equations with Linear Algebra
Active Calculus 2018: Single Variable
Linear and Nonlinear Programming with Maple: An Interactive, Applications-Based Approach
Abstract Algebra: An Inquiry Based Approach (Textbooks in Mathematics)

Dr. Feryâl Alayont
Professor

Dr. David Austin
Professor

Dr. Matthew Boelkins
Professor

Dr. Matthew Boelkins
Professor

Dr. Paul Fishback
Professor

Dr. Jonathan Hodge
Former Professor

Dr. Steven Schlicker, Dr. Ted Sundstrom
Professor Emeriti

The Mathematics of Voting and Elections: A Hands-On Approach: Second Edition
Active Calculus Multivariable 2018
Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof Version 2.1
Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty
Grading for Growth

Dr. Jonathan Hodge
Former Professor

Dr. Steven Schlicker
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Ted Sundstrom
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Robert Talbert
Professor

Dr. Robert Talbert
Professor

Modern Languages and Literatures

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers
In the Shadows of the Master: Al-Mutanabbi's Legacy and the Quest for the Center in Fatimid and Andalusian Poetry
Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Terror over the Vatican
The Customer's Victory: From Corporation to Cooperation
Reading Beyond the Curriculum: Fostering Communities of L2 Chinese and Japanese learners

Dr. Majd Al-Mallah
Professor

Dr. Majd Al-Mallah
Professor

Dr. Elizabeth Gansen
Associate Professor

Dr. Dan Golembeski [translator]
Former Associate Professor

Dr. Dan Golembeski [translator]
Former Associate Professor

Dr. Jason Herlands
Associate Professor

Translation of La mujer moderna y sus derechos/On Modern Women and Their Rights, by Carmen de Burgos

Dr. Keith Watts [translator]
Professor

Movement Science

Technology for Physical Educators, Health Educators, and Coaches: Enhancing Instruction, Assessment, Management, Professional Development, and Advocacy
ACSM's Metabolic Calculations Handbook (American College of Sports Medicine)
Kinesiology For Dummies

Dr. Tess Armstrong
Assistant Professor

Dr. Stephen Glass
Professor

Dr. Stephen Glass & Dr. Brian Hatzel
Professors

Dr. Rick Albrecht
Professor Emeritus

Music, Theatre, and Dance

Schubert's Lieder and the Philosophy of Early German Romanticism
Schubert's 1817 Sonatas
Vintage Soundscapes & More
Mountain Song Album Cover
Audition Monologs for Student Actors: Selections from Contemporary Plays
New Audition Scenes and Monologs from Contemporary Playwrights

Dr. Lisa Feurzeig
Professor

Dr. Sookkyung Cho
Associate Professor of Piano & Artist-Performer

Dr. Arthur Campbell
Professor of Clarinet

Dr. Paul Carlson
Associate Professor of Tuba/Euphonium

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

Scenes & Monologs from the Best New Plays
International Plays for Young Audiences: Contemporary Works from Leading Playwrights
The Complete Audition Book for Young Actors: A Comprehensive Guide to Winning Enhancing Acting Skills
Chops: 221 Full Range Fundamentals and Technical Exercises for the 21st Century Saxophonist
CHOPS 2: New Systems of Scale Patterns for the Advanced Saxophonist
CHOPS 3: The Sinta Quartet Method

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Dan Graser
Professor of Saxophone & Associate Chair

Dr. Dan Graser
Professor of Saxophone & Associate Chair

Dr. Dan Graser
Professor of Saxophone & Associate Chair

The Saxophone Manual
Under Western Skies / GVSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Etudes with Technique, Book 1
Energize Your Fingers Every Day, Book 1
Write, Play, and Hear Your Theory Every Day, Book 1
MODERN EXPRESSIONS FOR PIANO MUSIC

Dr. Dan Graser
Professor of Saxophone & Associate Chair

Grand Valley State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Dr. Kevin Tutt
Professor & Chair

Dr. Helen Marlais
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy

Dr. Helen Marlais
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy

Dr. Helen Marlais
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy

Dr. Helen Marlais
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Billband

Dr. Bill Ryan
Professor & Director of New Music Ensemble

Dr. Bill Ryan
Professor & Director of New Music Ensemble

Philosophy

Gaston Bachelard et les études critiques de la science (French Edition)
Returning to Irigaray
Mind Ecologies Body, Brain, and World
Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency: Wilfrid Sellars's Practical Philosophy
Brandom (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
On Reid (Wadsworth Philosophers Series)

Dr. Teresa Castelão-Lawless
Professor

Dr. Maria Cimitile
Professor

Dr. Matthew Crippen
Former Visiting Professor

Dr. Ronald Loeffler
Associate Professor

Dr. Ronald Loeffler
Associate Professor

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Confucius: The Man and the Way of Gongfu
Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations (Chinese Philosophy Culture)
Confucius Making the Way Great, Rediscovering China Series
Wandering: Brush and Pen in Philosophical Reflection
The Continuity of Peirce's Thought
Moral Virtue or Mental Health?

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Dr. Peimin Ni & Dr. Steven Rowe
Professors

Dr. Kelly Parker
Professor

Dr. Mark Pestana
Professor

Living Philosophy: Remaining Awake and Moving Toward Maturity in Complicated Times
Overcoming America / America Overcoming Can We Survive Modernity?
Rediscovering the West: An Inquiry Into Nothingness and Relatedness
Old Hopes for a New Place: The Legacy of Arend D. Lubbers at Grand Valley State University
Yes, But Not Quite: Encountering Josiah Royce's Ethico-Religious Insight
Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

Dr. Dwayne A. Tunstall
Professor & Associate Dean

Dr. Dwayne A. Tunstall
Professor & Associate Dean

Physics

Glimpses of Our Universe : A Curious Little Astron

Dr. Doug Furton
Professor

Political Science

Human Dignity and the Promise of Human Rights
Africa and the European Union: A Strategic Partnership
The Power of a Promise: Education and Economic Renewal in Kalamazoo
Promise Nation: Transforming Communities through Place-Based Scholarships
The Politics of Freedom of Expression: The Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States
The Invention of Religion

Dr. Richard Hiskes
Professor

Dr. Jack Mangala
Professor

Dr. Michelle Miller-Adams
Professor

Dr. Michelle Miller-Adams
Professor

Dr. Mark Richards
Professor

Dr. Darren Walhof
Professor

Democratic Theory of Gadamer
America's First Wartime Election: James Madison, DeWitt Clinton, and the War of 1812

Dr. Darren Walhof
Professor

Dr. Donald Zinman
Professor

Psychology

Cultural Psychology of Recursive Processes (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development)
The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies
A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion “Why God Thinks Like You"
Learning as we Grow: Enriching Education for Students with Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Book cover of "The Fear Knot"

Dr. Zachary Beckstead
Former Professor

Dr. Luke Galen
Professor

Dr. Luke Galen
Professor

Dr. Courtney Kowalczyk
Affiliate Professor

Natashia Swalve
Associate Professor

Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute (AWRI)

Steinman Jacket
The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future

Dr. Al Steinman [Co-Author on Two Chapters]
Research Professor

Dr. Carl Ruetz [Author on One Chapter]
Professor

Dr. Kevin B. Strychar [Chapter Co-Author]
Professor

Sociology

Saudi Arabia in the Anglo-American Press: Covering the Kingdom during the 20th Century
Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s
Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment
Exploring the Roots of Social Theory and Inquiry: Making Sense of Social Life
God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and its Discontents (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)
White Supremacy and Anti-Supremacy Forces in the United States

Dr. Abdullah F. Alrebh
Associate Professor

Dr. Mary DeYoung
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Mary DeYoung
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Devereaux Kennedy
Professor Emeritus

Dr. George Lundskow
Professor

Dr. George Lundskow
Professor

Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion: The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation
When Good Jobs Go Bad Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry
Caroline Bartlett Crane and Progressive Reform: Social Housekeeping As Sociology
The Sociology of Consumption A Global Approach
Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile
Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism

Dr. Michael R. Ott
Associate Professor Emeritus

Dr. Jeffrey S. Rothstein
Professor

Dr. Linda J. Rynbrandt
Associate Professor Emerita

Dr. Joel Stillerman
Professor

Dr. Joel Stillerman
Professor

Dr. Laurel Westbrook
Professor

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays

Dr. Laurel Westbrook
Professor

Visual and Media Arts

From Artmaking to Identity Making
Introduction to Integrating Music, Art, and Theater in Elementary Education
Envisioning the Bishop - Images and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages
Move Click Move: Animation and Experimental Short Films by Deanna Morse (An Interactive Journey Through the Artist's Cluttered Desktop)
Up From the Bottoms: The Search for the American Dream Film
The Lake Invaders: The Fight For Lake Huron

Dr. Hsiao-ping Chen
Associate Professor

Dr. Hsiao-ping Chen
Associate Professor

Dr. Sigrid Danielson
Associate Professor

Deanna Morse
Professor Emeritus

Jim Schaub
Digital Media Specialist

John Schmit
Professor

Bonds Comic #1
Beautiful Scars Comics
Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process

Durwin Talon
Associate Professor

Durwin Talon
Associate Professor

Renee Zettle-Sterling
Professor

Writing

She Walks Into the Sea
My father on a bicycle
Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars
Sunday Rising
The Canopy
North of Wondering

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twety-First Century
Nesting Habits of Flightless Birds: Stories
Bone Seeker
This is Not Your City
The Vexations
Life Among the Terranauts

Dr. Amy Ferdinandt Stolley
Associate Professor

Dr. Chris Haven
Professor

Dr. Chris Haven
Professor

Caitlin Horrocks
Professor

Caitlin Horrocks
Professor

Caitlin Horrocks
Professor

Ha Ha Ha Thump
Insomniac Circus
A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road
Dad Jokes From Late in the Patriarchy
Slash/Slash
Graphic History: Essays on Graphc Novels And/as History

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

Amorak Huey & W. Todd Kaneko
Associate Professors

Dr. Richard Iadonisi
Senior Affiliate Professor

Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology
This is How the Bone Sings
The Dead Wrestler Elegies
Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be
Teaching U.S.-Educated Multilingual Writers: Pedagogical Practices from and for the Classroom
Generation 1.5 Meets College Composition: Issues in the Teaching of Writing To U.S.-Educated Learners of ESL

W. Todd Kaneko
Associate Professor

W. Todd Kaneko
Associate Professor

W. Todd Kaneko
Associate Professor

Dr. Alisha Karabinus
Assistant Professor

Dr. Kay Losey
Professor

Dr. Kay Losey
Professor

The Dream Builders
Cut River
Dispatches from the End of Ice
Heron/Girlfriend
The End of Rude Handles
Here's the Deal

Dr. Oindrila Mukherjee
Professor

Amy Norkus
Senior Affiliate Professor

Dr. Beth Peterson
Associate Professor

Dr. Jen Tynes
Senior Affiliate Professor

Dr. Jen Tynes
Senior Affiliate Professor

Dr. Jen Tynes
Senior Affiliate Professor

Trick Rider

Dr. Jen Tynes
Senior Affiliate Professor

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