Faculty Publications

Anthropology

Twinning Faith and Development: Catholic Parish Partnering in the US and Haiti

Dr. Tara Hefferan
Senior Affiliate Professor 

Bridging the Gaps:  Faith-based Organizations, Neoliberalism, and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Dr. Tara Hefferan
Senior Affiliate Professor 

Not by Faith Alone:  Social Services, Social Justice, and Faith-based Organizations in the United States

Dr. Tara Hefferan
Senior Affiliate Professor 

Dr. Cindy Hull
Professor Emeritus

Missionary Impositions: Conversion, Resistance, and other Challenges to Objectivity in Religious Ethnography

Dr. Deana Weibel
Professor

A Sacred Vertigo : Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France

Dr. Deana Weibel
Professor

Biomedical Sciences

Conditions Influencing Aggression

Dr. Dan Bergman
Professor and CLAS Associate Dean

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

Dr. Brian Kipp
Professor

Chemistry

Chemical Property Estimation: Theory and Application

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

Chemistry in the National Science Education Standards: Models for Meaningful Learning in High School Chemistry Classrooms

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

Experimental Physical Chemistry: A Laboratory Textbook

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

Dr. Thomas Pentecost
Professor

Preparing for your ACS Examination in General Chemistry Second Edition

Dr. Thomas Pentecost
Professor

Classics

Dr. William Levitan 
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Latin lyric and Elegiac poetry

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Euripides' Medea: A New Translation

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Sophocles' Antigone: A New Translation

Dr. Diane Rayor
Professor Emerita

Seneca: Selected Dialogues and Consolations

Dr. Peter Anderson
Professor

Communications, School of

Selfhood and Authenticity

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Valuation and Media Ecology: Ethics, Morals, and Laws

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Taking Up McLuhan's Cause: Perspectives on Media and Formal Causality

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

How Non-Being Haunts Being

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

A.Eye Candy: A Museum of Imaginary Robots and Other Digital Delights

Dr. Corey Anton
Professor

Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse

Dr. Richard Besel
Professor & Director

Who Got the Camera?: A History of Rap and Reality

Dr. Eric Harvey
Associate Professor

Comrade King

Jeff Kelly Lowenstein
Associate Professor

International Communication: Essential Readings

Dr. Vandana Pednekar-Magal
Former Professor

Thoughts on Thursday

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Corporate Communications Writing

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Public Relations: A Management Function

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Dining in T-Shirts: Commentary of Casual Sophistication

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Media Relations Writing: A Guide for PR Pros and Those Who Just Want Publicity

Dr. Timothy S. Penning
Professor

Sex, Ethics, and Communication: A Humanistic Approach to Conversations on Intimacy

Dr. Valerie Peterson
Professor

Social Media and Society: An Introduction to the Mass Media Landscape

Dr. Adrienne Wallace
Associate Professor 

Digital Strategies: Data-Driven Public Relations, Marketing, and Advertising

Dr. Adrienne Wallace
Associate Professor 

English

Dr. Milton E. Ford
Former Professor

Pauline Style and Renaissance Literary Culture

Dr. Daniel Knapper
Visiting Professor

The Canon of Croatian Poetry, 1450-2000: Over 200 Croatian Poems With Facing English Translation

Dr. Ivo Soljan
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Mack Smith
Former Professor

Hardy's Early Poetry

Dr. James Persoon
Professor Emeritus 

Modern British Poetry 1900-1939 (Critical History of Poetry Series)

Dr. James Persoon
Professor Emeritus 

The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present

Dr. James Persoon
Professor Emeritus 

Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest)

Dr. Kathryn Remlinger
Professor

Early Career English Teachers in Action: Learning from Experience, Developing Expertise

Dr. Lindsay Ellis
Professor

Dr. Robert Rozema
Professor

Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies

Dr. Robert Rozema
Professor

Seeing the Spectrum: Teaching English language arts to adolescents with autism

Dr. Robert Rozema
Professor

Dr. Lois Tyson
Professor Emeritus 

Dr. Lois Tyson
Professor Emeritus 

A New Century Chinese-English Dictionary

Dr. Shinian Wu [Editor]
Professor

Geography and Sustainability Planning

Survey of Subsaharan Africa: A Regional Geography

Dr. Roy Cole
Former Professor

America's Addiction to Automobiles: Why Cities Need to Kick the Habit and How

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

Dr. Gordon Andrews
Associate Professor

Collaboration and the Future of Education: Preserving the Right to Think and Teach Historically

Dr. Gordon Andrews
Associate Professor

Dr. Steeve O. Buckridge
Professor 

African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class, and Gender

Dr. Steeve O. Buckridge
Professor 

Guardianship, Gender, and the Nobility in Early Modern Spain

Dr. Grace Coolidge
Professor

Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family

Dr. Grace Coolidge
Professor

Sacred Authoirty and Temporal Power in the Writings of Bernard of Clarivaux

Dr. Alice Chapman
Professor

The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma, 1914–1945

Dr. Jason Crouthamel
Professor

An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality, and German Soldiers in the First World War

Dr. Jason Crouthamel
Professor

Trauma, Religion and Spirituality in Germany during the First World War

Dr. Jason Crouthamel
Professor

World History through Case Studies: Historical Skills in Practice

Dr. David Eaton
Associate Professor

A History of the Syrian Community of Grand Rapids, 1890-1945 (hardback) From the Beqaa to the Grand

Dr. James Goode
Retired Professor

United States And Iran 1946-51 The Diplomacy Of Neglect

Dr. James Goode
Retired Professor

Politics, Poetry, and Sufism in Medieval Iran

Dr. Chad Lingwood
Professor

Ethnic China: Identity, Assimilation, and Resistance

Dr. Patrick Shan
 Professor

I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915 (Sport and Society)

Dr. Louis Moore
Professor

We Will Win the Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality

Dr. Louis Moore
Professor

The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback

Dr. Louis Moore
Professor

Dr. Paul V. Murphy
Professor

The New Era: American Thought and Culture in the 1920s

Dr. Paul V. Murphy
Professor

Ideas and Movements That Shaped America: From the Bill of Rights to 'Occupy Wall Street'

Dr. Scott Stabler
Professor

Slave Families and the Hato Economy in Puerto Rico

Dr. David Stark
Professor

Banned in Berlin: Literary Censorship in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 (Monographs in German History, 25)

Dr. Gary Stark
Professor Emeritus 

Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood

Dr. Steve Tripp
Professor

Dr. Steve Tripp
Professor

Taming China's Wilderness Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900-1931

Dr. Patrick Shan
Professor

Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal

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

Dr. Feryâl Alayont
Professor

Understanding Linear Algebra

Dr. David Austin
Professor

Differential Equations with Linear Algebra

Dr. Matthew Boelkins
Professor

Active Calculus 2018: Single Variable

Dr. Matthew Boelkins
Professor

Linear and Nonlinear Programming with Maple:  An Interactive, Applications-Based Approach

Dr. Paul Fishback
Professor

Abstract Algebra: An Inquiry Based Approach (Textbooks in Mathematics)

Dr. Jonathan Hodge
Former Professor

Dr. Steven Schlicker
Professor Emeritus 

Dr. Ted Sundstrom
Professor Emeritus 

Dr. Jonathan Hodge
Former Professor

Active Calculus Multivariable 2018

Dr. Steven Schlicker
Professor Emeritus 

Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof Version 2.1

Dr. Ted Sundstrom
Professor Emeritus 

Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty

Dr. Robert Talbert
Professor

Grading for Growth

Dr. Robert Talbert
Professor

Modern Languages and Literatures

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Arab Writers

Dr. Majd Al-Mallah
Professor

In the Shadows of the Master: Al-Mutanabbi’s Legacy and the Quest for the Center in Fatimid and Andalusian Poetry

Dr. Majd Al-Mallah
Professor

Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature

Dr. Elizabeth Gansen
Associate Professor

Terror over the Vatican

Dr. Dan Golembeski [translator]
Former Associate Professor

The Customer’s Victory: From Corporation to Cooperation

Dr. Dan Golembeski [translator]
Former Associate Professor

Reading Beyond the Curriculum: Fostering Communities of L2 Chinese and Japanese learners

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

Dr. Tess Armstrong
Assistant Professor

ACSM's Metabolic Calculations Handbook (American College of Sports Medicine)

Dr. Stephen Glass
Professor

Kinesiology For Dummies

Dr. Stephen Glass
Professor

Dr. Brian Hatzel
Professor

Dr. Rick Albrecht
Professor Emeritus

Music, Theatre, and Dance

Schubert's Lieder and the Philosophy of Early German Romanticism

Dr. Lisa Feurzeig
Professor

Schubert's 1817 Sonatas

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

Vintage Soundscapes & More

Dr. Arthur Campbell
Professor of Clarinet

Mountain Song Album Cover

Dr. Paul Carlson
Associate Professor of Tuba/Euphonium

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

New Audition Scenes and Monologs from Contemporary Playwrights

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

The Complete Audition Book for Young Actors: A Comprehensive Guide to Winning Enhancing Acting Skills

Dr. Roger Ellis
Professor Emeritus

Chops: 221 Full Range Fundamentals and Technical Exercises for the 21st Century Saxophonist

Dr. Dan Graser
Professor of Saxophone & Associate Chair

CHOPS 2: New Systems of Scale Patterns for the Advanced Saxophonist

Dr. Dan Graser
Professor of Saxophone & Associate Chair

CHOPS 3: The Sinta Quartet Method

Dr. Dan Graser
Professor of Saxophone & Associate Chair

The Saxophone Manual

Dr. Dan Graser
Professor of Saxophone & Associate Chair

Under Western Skies / GVSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Grand Valley State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble

Dr. Kevin Tutt
Professor & Chair

Etudes with Technique, Book 1

Dr. Helen Marlais
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy

Energize Your Fingers Every Day, Book 1

Dr. Helen Marlais
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy

Write, Play, and Hear Your Theory Every Day, Book 1

Dr. Helen Marlais
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy

MODERN EXPRESSIONS FOR PIANO MUSIC

Dr. Helen Marlais
Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy

Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

Dr. Bill Ryan
Professor & Director of New Music Ensemble

Billband

Dr. Bill Ryan
Professor & Director of New Music Ensemble

Philosophy

Gaston Bachelard et les études critiques de la science (French Edition)

Dr. Teresa Castelão-Lawless
Professor

Dr. Maria Cimitile
Professor

Mind Ecologies Body, Brain, and World

Dr. Matthew Crippen
Former Visiting Professor

Ethics, Practical Reasoning, Agency: Wilfrid Sellars’s Practical Philosophy

Dr. Ronald Loeffler
Associate Professor

Brandom (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

Dr. Ronald Loeffler
Associate Professor

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations (Chinese Philosophy Culture)

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Confucius Making the Way Great, Rediscovering China Series

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Dr. Peimin Ni
Professor

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

The Continuity of Peirce's Thought

Dr. Kelly Parker
Professor

Moral Virtue or Mental Health?

Dr. Mark Pestana
Professor

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

Overcoming America / America Overcoming Can We Survive Modernity?

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

Dr. Steven Rowe
Professor

Yes, But Not Quite: Encountering Josiah Royce's Ethico-Religious Insight

Dr. Dwayne A. Tunstall
Professor & Associate Dean

Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism

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

Dr. Richard Hiskes
Professor

Africa and the European Union: A Strategic Partnership

Dr. Jack Mangala
Professor

The Power of a Promise: Education and Economic Renewal in Kalamazoo

Dr. Michelle Miller-Adams
Professor

Promise Nation: Transforming Communities through Place-Based Scholarships

Dr. Michelle Miller-Adams
Professor

The Politics of Freedom of Expression: The Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States

Dr. Mark Richards
Professor

The Invention of Religion

Dr. Darren Walhof
Professor

Democratic Theory of Gadamer

Dr. Darren Walhof
Professor

America’s First Wartime Election: James Madison, DeWitt Clinton, and the War of 1812

Dr. Donald Zinman
Professor

Psychology

Cultural Psychology of Recursive Processes (Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development)

Dr. Zachary Beckstead
Former Professor

The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies

Dr. Luke Galen
Professor

A Social Cognition Perspective of the Psychology of Religion “Why God Thinks Like You"

Dr. Luke Galen
Professor

Learning as we Grow: Enriching Education for Students with Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Dr. Courtney Kowalczyk
Affiliate Professor

Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute (AWRI)

Steinman Jacket

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

Dr. Carl Ruetz  [Author on One Chapter]
Professor

The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future

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

Sociology

Saudi Arabia in the Anglo-American Press: Covering the Kingdom during the 20th Century

Dr. Abdullah F. Alrebh
Associate Professor

Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s

Dr. Mary DeYoung
Professor Emeritus
 

Madness: An American History of Mental Illness and Its Treatment

Dr. Mary DeYoung
Professor Emeritus

Exploring the Roots of Social Theory and Inquiry: Making Sense of Social Life

Dr. Devereaux Kennedy
Professor Emeritus

God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and its Discontents (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)

Dr. George Lundskow
Professor

White Supremacy and Anti-Supremacy Forces in the United States

Dr. George Lundskow
Professor

Max Horkheimer's Critical Theory of Religion: The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation

Dr. Michael R. Ott
Associate Professor Emeritus

When Good Jobs Go Bad Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry

Dr. Jeffrey S. Rothstein
Professor

Caroline Bartlett Crane and Progressive Reform: Social Housekeeping As Sociology

Dr. Linda J. Rynbrandt
Associate Professor Emerita

The Sociology of Consumption A Global Approach

Dr. Joel Stillerman
Professor

Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile

Dr. Joel Stillerman
Professor

Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism

Dr. Laurel Westbrook
Professor

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays

Dr. Laurel Westbrook
Professor

Visual and Media Arts

From Artmaking to Identity Making

Dr. Hsiao-ping Chen
Associate Professor

Introduction to Integrating Music, Art, and Theater in Elementary Education

Dr. Hsiao-ping Chen
Associate Professor

Envisioning the Bishop - Images and the Episcopacy in the Middle Ages

Dr. Sigrid Danielson
Associate Professor
 

Deanna Morse
Professor Emeritus

Up From the Bottoms: The Search for the American Dream Film

Jim Schaub
Digital Media Specialist

The Lake Invaders: The Fight For Lake Huron

John Schmit
Professor

Bonds Comic #1

Durwin Talon
Associate Professor

Beautiful Scars Comics

Durwin Talon
Associate Professor

Cast: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformational Process

Renee Zettle-Sterling
Professor

Writing

She Walks Into the Sea

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

My father on a bicycle

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

Sunday Rising

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

The Canopy

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

North of Wondering

Patricia Clark
Former Professor

GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twety-First Century

Dr. Amy Ferdinandt Stolley
Associate Professor

Nesting Habits of Flightless Birds: Stories

Dr. Chris Haven
Professor

Bone Seeker

Dr. Chris Haven
Professor

This is Not Your City

Caitlin Horrocks
Professor

The Vexations

Caitlin Horrocks
Professor

Life Among the Terranauts

Caitlin Horrocks
Professor

Ha Ha Ha Thump

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

Insomniac Circus

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

Dad Jokes From Late in the Patriarchy

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

Slash/Slash

Amorak Huey
Associate Professor

W. Todd Kaneko
Associate Professor

Graphic History: Essays on Graphc Novels And/as History

Dr. Richard Iadonisi
Senior Affiliate Professor 

Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

W. Todd Kaneko
Associate Professor

This is How the Bone Sings

W. Todd Kaneko
Associate Professor

The Dead Wrestler Elegies

W. Todd Kaneko
Associate Professor

Teaching U.S.-Educated Multilingual Writers: Pedagogical Practices from and for the Classroom

Dr. Kay Losey
Professor

Dr. Kay Losey
Professor

The Dream Builders

Dr. Oindrila Mukherjee
Professor

Cut River

Amy Norkus
Senior Affiliate Professor

Dispatches from the End of Ice

Dr. Beth Peterson
Associate Professor

Heron/Girlfriend

Dr. Jen Tynes
Senior Affiliate Professor

The End of Rude Handles

Dr. Jen Tynes
Senior Affiliate Professor

Here's the Deal

Dr. Jen Tynes
Senior Affiliate Professor

Trick Rider

Dr. Jen Tynes
Senior Affiliate Professor



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