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Mcnair News, Volume 3, Number 2, Spring 2009

McNair News: Newsletter of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln McNair Scholars Program

Recognition Reception: Achievements and Awards
McNair Recruitment Video Created
Community Outreach, Volunteerism & Leadership
Spotlight on Dr. Laura Damuth: UCARE & Fellowships
McNair Research Projects Funded by UCARE for 2008-09 & 2009-10
Alumni News
How to Be a Successful Graduate Student Panel
Kudos to McNair Scholars
McNair Scholars Headed for Graduate School
Dean’s List: It’s Academic
Once a McNair Scholar - Always a McNair Scholar by Carol Boehler

Celebration Of Faculty Creative Works, 2007-2008, University Of Texas At Arlington Library, Ut Arlington Office Of The Provost

Faculty Creative Works-Archive

The UT Arlington Library and the Office of the Provost are pleased to host the first exhibition of books, creative works, and patents created by UT Arlington faculty and staff in 2007-2008. We plan to make this signature event an annual celebration at UT Arlington. The idea of the exhibition started with Tommie Wingfield, assistant to the dean of the library for marketing and external relations, and the fact that the exhibit is taking place is testament to her tenacity and hard work.

Editors' Introduction, Robert K. Hitchcock, Samuel Totten

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

Indigenous peoples—those people who consider themselves, or are considered by others, to be Aboriginal, ‘‘First Nations,’’ native peoples, Fourth World peoples, or ‘‘original occupants’’ of specific places on the planet—have faced genocide, cultural destruction, and forced removal from their ancestral areas for thousands of years. Over the centuries, colonization—the expansion of populations into new areas and the exploitation of natural and human resources there—has led to significant declines in the populations of indigenous groups. As Patrick Brantlinger notes, ‘‘One of the main causes for these declines is not mysterious: violence, warfare, genocide.’’1

Hiding In Full View: The “Forgotten” Bushman Genocides Of Namibia, Robert J. Gordon

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article examines the Bushman genocide of 1912–1915 which, despite overwhelming evidence of its having occurred, has been largely ignored by both scholars and the local population. It invokes the Durkheimian distinction between necessary and sufficient conditions. Necessary conditions are akin to Marxian notions of ‘‘primitive accumulation’’ or Weberian ‘‘booty capitalism,’’ but in addition, the author emphasizes the demographics of the settlers, largely (aspiring) middle-class single men, and suggests that notions of the Rechtsstaat—code-based rather than case-based rule of law—represented an important, if not distinctive, sufficient condition in facilitating genocide, especially in tandem with the legitimation activities of turn-of-the-century scholars. …

Ontological Destruction: Genocide And Canadian Aboriginal Peoples, Andrew Woolford

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

The impact of colonialism on Aboriginal groups in Canada is often described as ‘‘cultural genocide’’ or ‘‘ethnocide.’’ In contrast, this article offers a re-reading of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) that is sensitive to Aboriginal understandings and experiences of group life and group destruction. Through this re-reading, it is argued that genocide must be understood in a culturally contextualized manner so as to avoid modernist and Eurocentric biases. Only by opening up the conception of genocide will we be able to contend adequately with Canadian Aboriginal experiences of colonialism.

Review Of "Dress, Undress, And Difference: Critical Perspectives On The Body's Surface" Edited By A. Masquelier, Timothy Burke

History Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Sociology Discipline Assessment Report 2008/2009, Sociology Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

Sociology Discipline Goals & Methods Assessment Report 2009, Sociology Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

Latin America Area Studies Discipline Assessment Report 2008/2009, Latin America Area Studies Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

Design Research Quarterly Volume 4 Issue 2, Peter Storkerson

Design Research Quarterly (2006 - 2009)

Design Research Quarterly (2006-9) was a hybrid journal-newsletter of the Design Research Society. It contained news of the society, its members and regions and its sister societies, as well as peer-reviewed articles about issues of importance to design research, theory and knowledge.

Issue 54, Spring 2009, Society Of Bead Researchers

The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

Glass Beads from the Colonel George Davenport Trading Post and Residence, Illinois, by William T. Billeck.

Victims, “Closure,” And The Sociology Of Emotion, Susan A. Bandes

Law and Contemporary Problems

Bandes discusses the polarizing function of victim impact statements used in the context of the death penalty. The use of victim impact statements is justified in order to promote closure for the victim, but it's unclear what psychological closure can be accomplished from the formal litigation process. Even if victim impact statements do help their authors, in the context of the death penalty the authors are family members of the victim, not the direct victim, and Bandes questions whether it's important to further their interests at the expense of the interests of the defendant. The only recourse for the jury …

Gender Matters, Volume 14, Issue 4, April/May 2009, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Gender Matters (2006-2011)

A bulletin of the Illinois State University Women’s and Gender Studies program, Volume 14, Issue 4, April/May 2009.

Sac Outreach Bulletin 2009, The South Asia Center

Newsletters from the South Asia Center

No abstract provided.

Wilde Emerald, Holland Wilde

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

From the Editor's Introduction

Holland Wilde performs a similar intervention in his multi-media work “Wilde Emerald," which simulates the relationship between academic outsiders (graduate students, those who do scholarship in the form of media and anthropology in the form of pranks) and insiders. Wilde’s e-mail based “essay," which inevitably yet surprisingly leads to the introduction of a mash-up film on Nanook of the North featuring Frank Zappa as “Zapook," is more of an assay of what traditional and even “progressive" academic circles will tolerate or recognize as knowledge. Wilde’s amalgamation of modes questions a discourse that separates subject …

Review Of An Alchemist With One Eye On Fire, By Clayton Eshleman, Alan Clinton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

So many volumes of poetry published, so many with the title of a poem becoming the title of the book. It is refreshing then, to see one (not the only one, but the one I happen to be discussing) whose title poem is actually an essay, a manifesto of sorts, a statement of poetics. I say this out not out of a disdain for poetry as nonserious discourse but in response to mainstream poetry’s seemingly tireless ability to render itself irrelevant by claiming the aesthetic as its only territory, by its refusal be anything but a toy of …

Photography And The Pueblo Indians Of New Mexico, 1870–1930, Richard H. Frost

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2009, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editors’ Introduction; Interview with Dr. Rita Raley; Articles: Gibson Got It Wrong, South Park Got It Right: How one animated episode effectively critiques The Passion of the Christ—Sarah Martindell; Wuthering Heights: A Psychoanalytical and Masculine Study—Meghan (Johnson) Boyd; Perseverance through Adversity: The Importance of Unification—Jessica Sheffer; Liquid Influences—Whitney Prose; Revisiting van Inwagen, Lewis, and the Consequence Argument—Larsa Ramsini; Two Worlds Combined: Modernism and Classicism in Stravinsky’s Apollo—Bonnie Shore; Book Reviews: Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl—Will Ferrall; Suite Française—Stephanie Freas; The White Tiger—Zachary Hopper; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao—Christine Horvath; A Mercy—Jessica Ramey; The Wordy …

Caesar's Faith: Limited Government And Freedom Of Religion In Bruker V. Marcovitz, F C. Decoste

Dalhousie Law Journal

The Supreme Court of Canada has long pursued the view that our law is somehow an expression and repository of what it terms "Canada 's fundamental values." In Bruker v. Marcovitz, the Court added to the catalogue of these judicially decreed and enforced values one concerning religion, namely, the protection of Canadians against the arbitrary disadvantages of their religions. This comment argues that the Court's judgment in this regard constitutes a fundamental threat to religious liberty inasmuch as it subordinates religious beliefand practice to state values by making the legal acceptability of the former turn on their conformity to the …

Thinking With Culture In Law And Development, Amy J. Cohen

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Government And Non-Profit Relations, April White

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

No abstract provided.

2009 Friends Of The University Of Montana Herbarium Newsletter, Peter Lesica, David Dyer

Newsletters of the Friends of the University of Montana Herbarium

Flora On-line Project Nears End / Peter Lesica -- Activities -- Notes from the Board / Marilyn Marler -- MONTU People: Albert Finley / Dave Hanna -- MONTU News Briefs -- 2009 Friends of the UM Herbarium Annual Meeting -- Donald E. Brink and Lillian M. Mayer / Joe Elliott -- Meet the Herbarium's Student Employees / Dave Dyer -- Limestone and Plant Geography in Montana / Peter Lesica

Not Properly A Person: The Rational Soul And 'Thomistic Substance Dualism', Christina Van Dyke

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Montanan, Spring 2009, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 26, number 2.

An Opiate Of The Masses: Religious Gerrymandering Of Sacramental Intoxication, Mark A. Levine

North Carolina Central Law Review

No abstract provided.

Focus, 2009, Spring, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

The Nature Of Sheol In The Torah, Eriks Galenieks

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

Flâneurs And Infiltrators (How To Read Cityscapes Via Textscapes), Joe Culpepper

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

“Read your city anew” and “awaken from the spells cast by signs” are the mantras of this article. In Toronto, the radical spirit of revelation present in Walter Benjamin's Passagen-Werk (The Arcades Project) is embodied in an experiential approach to the capitalist city's hidden, forbidden, and inaccessible areas. Infiltration is a multifaceted phenomenon (a zine, a website, and a practice). The project is dedicated to the investigation, exploration, and mapping out of Toronto's abandoned buildings, defunct subway stations, luxury hotels, metropolitan marketplaces (i.e. the Hudson's Bay Company) and more. Circulated to encourage citizens of today's cultural metropolises to …

Describing Tragedy: The Information Access Needs Of Blind People In Emergency-Related Circumstances, Elaine Gerber

Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Audio description is a technique used for "translating" visual material to aural readers/blind people. In this article, exploratory research on audio description (AD) is presented, which raises important questions in the field of applied anthropology and emergency planning: How does one translate visual material for a non-seeing audience? From the point of view of blind consumers, what constitutes "good" description? What specific information access needs do they have in event of emergencies? Selected results are presented from three telephone focus groups on AD, conducted with 39 blind or visually impaired people nationwide in the United States during September/October 2005. This …