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Faculty Publications

LaTrese Adkins-Weathersby

  • Adkins, L. (forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press, Blacks in Diaspora Series) “Who Has the Body?” Death and Identity in African American History.
  • Martin, P. & Adkins, L. (2007). Ethnic diversity in religious practices: The call of community psychology for exploring the intersections of faith and race. Pamela Martin (Ed.) for the Committee on Racial and Cultural Affairs Submission. The Community Psychologist, 40 (1), 15-16.
  • Adkins, L. (2007). “Death in the Family: Historical Description and Funerary Display—An Example of African American Family Conceptualization,” in Black Families, Fourth Edition. Harriette Pipes McAdoo, editor (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications).
  • Adkins, L. (2005). “Jacket, Barbara.”; “Hunter-Gault, Charlayne.”; “Kennedy, Florynce.”; “Waters, Maxine.” Four biographical essays for Black Women in America, Second Edition. Darlene Clark Hine, senior editor (New York: Oxford University Press).
  • Martin, P. Leach, M., Bowles, T., Manesh, A. Adkins-Weathersby, L. & Barnes-Butler, S. (in-press). Underachievement and success of African American males in school settings: Integrating critical race and ecological perspectives. Journal of Minority Issues and Economic Development.
  • Martin, P., Adkins-Weathersby, L., Bowles, T., Robinson, S., & Butler-Barnes, S. (in-press). “Does heaven have a ghetto?”: The Gospel and the gangsta in the religious socialization of African American adolescents. In Lee Jones (Ed.), Revolutionary Rhetoric: Consciousness & Contemporary Hip-Hop.
  • Adkins-Weathersby, L., Hamilton, N., Martin, P., Butler-Barnes, S., Henderson, D. et al. (under-review). When They “Have a Talk with God:” African American Adolescents and Communication with God—Empirical Implications of Moving Beyond Religiosity in Studies of African American Racial Identity Development. Review of Religious Research.
  • Martin, P., Adkins-Weathersby, L., White, R., Dixon, S., Nyguen, H. et al. (under review).Theological Orientations and Spirituality: A Person-Centered Approach to Understanding Racial Identity and Depressive Symptomatology among African American Adults. Journal of Black Psychology.
  • Adkins-Weathersby, L. (under review). “Michigan Men: Dealing in Death with Dignity and Deference—A Community Clients Conceptualization of Mortuary Businesses in Black Detroit, 1919-1999.”

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Mamadou Badiane

  • The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and Negritude. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming.
  • “Diálogo Rítmico: El Son y La Redifinición de las Culturas Identitarias Afrocaribeñas enLa Poesía del Negrismo" Instituto de Estudios Caribeños. Edited by Darío Tejeda and Rafael Eilio Yunén, 533-539. Santo Domingo, 2008.
  • “Negrismo and Negritude in the Afro-Caribbean Cultural Labyrinth.” Negritud: Journal of Afro-Latinoamericanos. Volume 2, Issue 1: 166-181, 2008.
  • “Religiones Afrocubanas: Sincretismo o Desafricanización.” Afro-Hispanic Review. Volume 29, Issue 1: 49-58, 2007.

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Robert Baum

  • Shrines of the Slave Trade: Diola Religion and Society in Precolonial Senegambia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Eric Brown

  • “The Black Professional Middle Class and the Black Community.” In "African American Urban History: The Dynamics of Race, Class, and Gender Since World War II. Edited by Joe Trotter and Kenneth Kusmer. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
  • Blau, R. Judith and Brown, S. Eric. "Du Bois and Diasporic Identity: The Veil and the Unveiling Project." In Hybrid Identities: Theoretical and Empirical Examinations, edited by Keri E. Ivall Smith and Patricia Leavy, 219-233. Boston, MA: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., 2008.
  • "Black Ghetto Formation in Oakland, 1852-1965: Social Closure and African American Community Development." In Research in Community Sociology: American Community Issues and Patterns of Development edited by Dan A. Chekki, 255-274. Stamford, CN: Jai Press, 1998.

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Larry Brown

  • The Middle East: Prospects for Peace?; Monsoon Asia: East Timor Seeks to Become the World’s Newest State; Kashmir: India and Pakistan’s Point of Contention; A Shift in Taiwan?; Africa: Africa’s World War; Russian and the Near Abroad: A Newly Revised Russia. In Update 2000, Essentials of World Regional Geography 3rd ed., edited by Christopher L. Salter and Joseph J. Hobbs. New York, NY: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000.
  • "Landscapes of Fear." The North American Geographer. Volume 1, Issue 2: 149-163, 1999.
  • "Youth and Global Awareness." Small Church Newsletter. Missouri School of Religion, 1993.
  • "Songs From Nicaragua." In When Christians Meet Across North-South Barriers, edited by Dick Junkin and Julie Ann Junkin. Costa Rica: CELEP, 1989.

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David Brunsma

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Juanamaria Cordones-Cook

  • Más Allá del Héroe: Antología Crítica de Teatro Biográfico Hispanoamericano. Medellín, Colombia: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 2008
  • “Narcisismo Poético en Nancy Morejón." Actas, X Conferencia Internacional de Cultura Africana. Centro Cultural Africano, Santiago de Cuba, 2008.
  • “Liturgias: Máscaras de Identidad Sefardita” in Claves en el Teatro de Nora Glickman. Edited by Mónica Baussset, 88-99. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Nueva Generación, 2007.
  • “Odebí, el Cazador: Entre el Tabú y la Transgresión.” Latin American Theatre Review. Volume 39, issue 2: 53-66, 2006.
  • Mujeres en Las Tablas: Antología Crítica de Teatro Biográfico Hispanoamericano. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Nueva Generación, 2005.
  • “Una Sublimación del Exilio: Pierrot y la Luna.” In Pierrot y la Luna. Edited by Nancy Morejón, 11-37. Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2005.
  • “Emelina Cundeamor: Entre la Máscara y la Autenticidad.” Caribe: Revista de Cultura y Literatura. Volume 8, Issue 1:7-18, 2005.
  • “Genealogía Matrilineal en la Obra de Nancy Morejón.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Volume 38: 509-32, 2004.
  • “Umbrales de Exilio en la Obra de Nancy Morejón.“ La Revista del Vigía. Volume 27: 139-149, 2004.
  • “El Mimetismo del Colonizado … La Tragedia del Rey Christophe.” Anales del Caribe. Special Issue: 247-264, 2004.
  • Nancy Morejón. Looking Within / Mirar Adentro: Selected Poems / Poemas Escogidos, 1954 / 2000. Edition and Introduction by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
  • “Liturgias: Máscaras de Identidad Sefardita.” Latin American Theater Review. Volume 37, Issue 1: 105-16, 2003.
  • “Casi un Francés …La Tragedia del Rey Christophe, de Enrique Buenaventura“ in “Chambacú, la historia la escribes tú". In Ensayos sobre cultura afrocolombiana, edited by Lucía Ortiz, 371-388. Madrid: Iberoamericana,Vervuert, 2007.
  • “ Recuperación de una Genealogía Matrilineal: ‘Si Esto es la Vida, Yo soy Caperucita Roja’.” Casa de las Américas. Volume 226: 96-101, 2002.
  • “Drama de Victimización y Redención: El Negrito del Pastoreo.” In Teatro Latinoamericano Para Niños, edited by María Mercedes, 447-452. Medellín, Colombia: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia, 2002.
  • "’Cambio de Armas’: Hacia el Umbral del Secreto.” In Luisa Valenzuela sin Mascara, edited by Gwendolyn Díaz, 57-67. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Feminaria, 2002.
  • “Tres Miradas al Teatro Uruguayo Actual.” Conjunto. Volume 124: 70-81, 2002.
  • “Conversando con Jorge Luis Borges,” Revista Iberoamericana. Volume LXVII: 238-287, 2001.
  • “Luisa Valenzuela ... Diciendo lo que no Se Dice.” Letras Femeninas. Volume XXVII, Issue 1: 9-15, 2001.
  • “’Si Esto es la Vida Yo Soy Caperucita Roja,’ Modelo Cultural Femenino de Separación e Identificación.” Hispanófila. Volume 132: 83-105, 2001.
  • “Cola de Lagartija: La Hibridez Cultural Como Contradiscurso y Resistencia.” Letras Femeninas. Volume XXVII, Issue 1: 83-106, 2001.
  • “Nancy Morejón: Rescate de Voces Silenciadas.” Alaluz. Volume XXXII, Issues ½: 48-61, 2000.
  • “’El Cuerpo de Adelaida’ o la Significación del Phallus Según Brianda Domecq.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. Volume 11: 70-75, 1999.

Cynthia Frisby

  • Unleashing the Beauty: Decomposing and Understanding the Dove Campaign Backlash. American Academy of Advertising Annual Conference Proceedings, March 2006, pp. 125-126, 2006.
  • “Shades of Beauty: Examining the Relationship of Skin Color on Perceptions of Physical Attractiveness.” Facial Plastic Surgery. Volume 22, Issue 3: 127-129, 2006.
  • “Always a Bridesmaid and Never a Bride: Portrayals of Women of Color as Brides in Bridal Magazines.” Media Report to Women. Fall Issue: 10, 2006).
  • “A Matter of Life and Death: Effects of Emotional Message Strategies on Black Women’s Attitudes about Preventative Breast Cancer Screenings.” Journal of Black Studies. Volume 37, Issue 1:103-126, 2006.
  • “America’s Top Model Meets The Bachelor on an Un-Real World: Examining Viewer Fascination with Reality TV.” USA Today Magazine. September Issue, 2004.
  • “Does Race Matter?: Effects of Idealized Images on African American Women’s Perceptions of Body Esteem.” Journal of Black Studies. Volume 34, Issue 3: 323-347, 2004.

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Rangira Gallimore

  • Le renouveau de l'écriture féminine dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Calixthe Beyala. L'afrique francophone sub-saharienne. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1997.
  • L'oeuvre romanesque de Jean-Marie Adiaffi. Le mariage du mythe et de l'histoire: fondement d'un récit pluriel. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996.

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Sheri-Marie Harrison

  • “The Caribbean.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Volume 43, Issue 4: 63-73, 2008.
  • “The Caribbean.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Volume 42, Issue 4: 53-63, 2007.

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Joan Hermsen

  • Evertsson, Marie, Paula England, Joan Hermsen, and David Cotter. “How Does Gender Inequality in Employment and Earnings Vary by Educational Stratum in Sweden and the United States?" International Journal of Sociology. Volume 37, Issue 2: 9-28, 2007.
  • Cotter, David A., Joan M. Hermsen, and Reeve Vanneman. Placing Family Poverty in Area Contexts: The Use of Multilevel Models in Spatial Research. In The Sociology of Spatial Inequality, edited by Linda M. Lobao, Gregory Hooks, and Ann R.Tickamyer, 163-188. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.
  • Cotter, David A., Paula England, and Joan Hermsen. “Moms and Jobs: Trends in Mothers’ Employment and Which Mothers Stay Home.” A Fact Sheet from the Council on Contemporary Families. May, 2007.
  • Cotter, David A., Joan M. Hermsen, and Reeve Vanneman. “Systems of Gender, Race, and Class Inequality: Multilevel Analyses.” Social Forces. Volume 78: 433-461, 1999.
  • Cotter, David A., JoAnn DeFiore, Joan M. Hermsen, Brenda M. Kowalewski, and Reeve Vanneman. “The Demand for Female Labor.” American Journal of Sociology. Volume 103, Issue 6: 1673-1712, 1998.
  • Cotter, David A., JoAnn DeFiore, Joan M. Hermsen, Brenda M. Kowalewski, and Reeve Vanneman. “All Women Benefit: The Macro Effect of Occupational Integration on Gender Earnings Equality.” American Sociological Review. Volume 62, Issue 5: 714-734, 1997.
  • Cotter, David A., JoAnn DeFiore, Joan M. Hermsen, Brenda M. Kowalewski, and Reeve Vanneman. “Same Data, Different Conclusions: Comment on Bernhardt et al.” American Journal of Sociology. Volume 102, Issue 4: 1143-62, 1997.

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Adrienne Walker Hoard

Publications

  • A Review of Vive Haïti! Contemporary Art of the Haitian Diaspora by Francine Farr. Journal of Haitian Studies. Volume 11, Issue 2: 165-170, 2005.
  • “A Great Leader’s Spirit Never Sleeps.” Be My Guest. Volume 231: 16, 2005.
  • “An Inyanga for the Ndzundza Ndebele.” Be My Guest. Volume 230: 16, 2005.
  • “Writing about Africa, in Africa for Africans, as an American.” Be My Guest. Volume 229: 14, 2005.
  • “I Walk with Ndzundza Ndebele: A Photo-Documentary of Transformation in a South African Society.” ARISE. Volume 2, Issue 6: 37-40, 2002.
  • Cover Photograph. Journal of Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Research in Art Education. Volume 18, 2001.
  • “The Commodification of Art: Ndebele Women in the Stream of Change.” Cultural Survival Quarterly. Volume 24, Issue 4: 37-40, 2001.
  • “A Review of the Woman with the Artistic Brush: A Life History of Yoruba Batik.” By Artist Nike Davies. Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association. Volume 2: 103-107, 1998.
  • “The Role of ‘Self and Other’ in Developing a Theoretical Base for the Concept of Infusion in a Multicultural Mode.” With Frye and Kanter. In USSEA Symposium Proceedings: Beyond the Traditional in Art - Facing a Pluralistic Society, edited by R. Saunders, 77-83. Reston, VA: National Art Education Association, 1998.

Juried Exhibitions (selected)

Invitational Exhibitions (selected)

  • Celiers-Hext Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa, New Life for New Women: Initiation Photography. One Person Invitational Show, 2007.
  • Capital Branch Lobby Gallery, United Missouri Bank Building, Jefferson City, Shape of Things to Come: Shaped Canvas Paintings. One Person Invitational Show, 2006.
  • George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, Columbia, Threads of Life: Photography and Painting. One Person Invitational Show, 2004.
  • Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, American Eyes: Art Professors of the USA, Group International Invitational Show, 2004.
  • 1910 Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Cultural Guardians of the Ndebele. One Person Invitational Show of Photography, 2003.
  • Université of Caen, Caen, France, Death: A Cosmic Life Event. One Person Invitational Show of Paintings, 2002.
  • University of California at Santa Cruz, Women Warriors: Cultural Guardians of the Ndebele. One Person Invitational Show of Photography, 2001.
  • Missouri Mid-Rivers Regional Library Gallery, Jefferson City, MO, Women Warriors: Cultural Guardians of the Ndebele. One Person Invitational Show, 2001.

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Wilma King

  • “‘Mad” enough to kill’: Enslaved Women, Murder and Southern Courts.” Journal of African American History. Volume 92: 37-56, 2007.
  • The Essence of Liberty: Free African American Women before Emancipation. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
  • African American Childhoods: Historical Perspective from Slavery to Civil Rights. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  • Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia 2nd Ed. Senior Editor. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • “‘Out of Bounds’: Emancipated and Enslaved Women in Antebellum America.” In Free Women of Color in Slave Societies of the Americas, edited by David Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine, 127-144. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
  • “Eliza Johnson Potter: Traveler, Entrepreneur, and Social Critic.” In The Human Tradition Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: Women in American History, edited by Kriste Lindenmeyer, 91-104. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2000.
  • "Within the Professional Household: Slave Children in the Antebellum South." The Historian. Volume 59: 523-40, 1997.
  • "’Suffer with them till death’: Slave Women and Their Children in Nineteenth-Century America." In More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and David Barry Gaspar, 147-168. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
  • "The Mistress and her Maids: White and Black Women in a Louisiana Household, 1858-1868." In Discovering the Women in Slavery: Emancipating Perspectives on the American Past, edited by Patricia Morton, 82-106. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
  • Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History. Co-Editor with Darlene Clark Hine and Linda Reed. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publishing, 1995.
  • "’Raise your children up rite’: Parental Guidance and Child Rearing Practices among Slaves in the Nineteenth-Century South." In Working Toward Freedom, edited by Larry E. Hudson, Jr., 143-62. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1994.
  • A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876. Editor. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.

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April Langley

  • "The Eighteenth-Century Black Wor(l)d and Early Writers' Biblical Literacy." In Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African-American Literature, edited by Michael J. Drexler and Ed White, 55-69. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2008.
  • “Early American Slave Narratives.” In Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature. Edited by Kevin Hayes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of and Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007.

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Carol Lazzaro-Weis

  • “Gender as an Analytical category in Post-Unification Italian Literature.” In Gendering Italian Literature. Edited by Virginia Cox and Chiara Ferrari. Bologna: Il Mulino, forthcoming.
  • Voyages aux Prairies Osages de Victor Tixier (1844). Ed. Shreveport: Editions Tintemarre, forthcoming.
  • “New Literary Spaces in the Italian Canon.” Journal of Romance Studies. Forthcoming.
  • “Calvino’s Women,” In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Italo Calvino. Edited by Franco Ricci. Modern Language Publications, forthcoming.
  • “ Women‘s History, Women’s Stories: The Italian case.” In Gender and Generations in European Women Writers, edited by Adalgisa Giorgio, 312-32. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
  • “Women at the Pool” and “A Voyage North.” Translations. In After the War: A Collection of Short Fiction by Postwar Italian Women, edited by Martha King, 185-195; 81-91. New York, NY: Italica Press, 2004.
  • “The Concept of Difference in Italian Feminist Thought: Mothers, Daughters, Heretics.” Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference, edited by Graziella Parati and Rebecca West, 31-49. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.
  • La Signorina e Altri Racconti. Ed. New York: MLA texts and Translation Series, 2001.
  • La Signorina and Other Stories by Anna Banti. Translated by C. Lazzaro-Weis and Martha King. New York, NY: MLA Texts and Translations Series, 2001.
  • “Stranger than Life? Autobiography and Historical Fiction.” In Gendering Italian Fiction: Feminist Revisions of Italian History, edited by Gabriella Brooke and Maria Marotti, 31-49. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson Press, 1999.
  • From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writings (1969-1992). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
  • Confused Epiphanies: L’abbé Prévost and the Romance Tradition. London: Peter Lang, 1991.

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Jackie Litt

  • Medicalized Motherhood: Perspectives from the Lives of African-American and Jewish Women. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2000.
  • Mary K. Zimmerman, Jacquelyn S. Litt, and Christine E. Bose. Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework. Stanford, MA: Stanford University Press, 2006.

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Michael Middleton

  • “Panel Remarks Civil Rights Division Association Symposium: The Civil Rights Division at Forty (et.al.). McGeorge Law Review. Volume 30: 973-77, 1999.
  • “Remark: Brown v. Board: Revisited.” Southern Illinois Law Journal. Volume 20: 19-40, 1995.
  • “Small Numbers, Black Men, Precipitous Responses, Big Problems.” Capital University Law Review. Volume 23: 267-77, 1994.
  • “After We're Gone? A Commentary.” Saint Louis University Law Journal. Volume 34: 443-50, 1990.
  • “Challenging Discriminatory Guesswork: Does Impact Analysis Apply.” Oklahoma Law Review. Volume 42: 187-241, 1988.

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Eryca Neville

  • Ford, J. & Neville, E. "Living democracy: Moving to a Noun from a Verb". Social Studies and the Young Learner. Volume 19 Issue 1: 12-15, 2006.

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Charles Nilon

  • Broun, C. N., C. H. Nilon, and R. A. Pierce, II. “An Evaluation of the Missouri Master Naturalist Program and Implications for Program Expansion.” Journal of Extension. In press.
  • Nilon, C. H., P. S. Warren, and J. Wolf. “Baltimore Birdscape Study: Identifying Habitat and Land Cover Variables for an Urban Bird Monitoring Project.” Urban Habitats. In press.
  • Nilon, C. H. “Approaches to Comparative Studies of Urban Fauna.” In Ecology of Cities and Towns: A Comparative Approach, edited by M. J. McDonnell, A. Hahs and J. Breuste 177-84. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  • Parker, T. S. and C. H. Nilon. “Gray Squirrel Density, Habitat Suitability, and Behavior in Urban Parks.” Urban Ecosystems. Volume 11: 243–55, 2008.
  • Pickett, S. T. A., M. L. Cadenasso, J. M. Grove, L. E. Band, C. G. Boone, W. R. Burch, Jr, C. S. B. Grimmond, J. Hom, J. C. Jenkins, N. L. Law, C. H. Nilon, R.V. Pouyat, K. Szlavecz, P. S. Warren, and M. A. Wilson. “Beyond Urban Legends: New, Unexpected, or Complex Results from the Baltimore Ecosystem Study.” BioScience. Volume 58: 139-50, 2008.
  • Van Velsor, S. M. and C. H. Nilon. “A Qualitative Investigation of the Urban African-American and Latino Adolescent Experience with Wildlife.” Human Dimensions of Wildlife. Volume 11: 359–70, 2006.
  • Azerrad, J. M, and C. H. Nilon. “An Evaluation of Agency Conservation Guidelines to Better Address Planning Efforts by Local Government.” Landscape and Urban Planning. Volume 77: 255-62, 2006.
  • Middendorf, G. and C. Nilon. 2005. “A Cross-town Walk to Assess Environmental Changes Along an Urban Socioeconomic Gradient.” Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology 3: Experiment 3. http://tiee.ecoed.net/vol/v3/experiments/crosstown/abstract.html
  • Middendorf, G., B. Grant, J. Cubit, G. Love, C. Nilon, G. Peterson, L. M. Jablonski, T. C. Poling. “The Challenge of Environmental Justice.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Volume 1: 154-60, 2003.
  • Berkowitz, A. R., K. S. Hollweg, and C. H. Nilon. “Urban Ecosystem Education in the Coming Decade: What is Possible and How Can We Get There?” In Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education, edited by A. R. Berkowitz, C. H. Nilon, and K. S. Hollweg, 476-501. New York, NY: Springer, 2003.
  • Nilon, C. H., A. R. Berkowitz, and K. S. Hollweg. “Ecosystem Understanding is a Key to Understanding Cities.” In Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education, edited by A.R. Berkowitz, C.H. Nilon, and K.S. Hollweg, 1-13. New York, NY: Springer, 2003.
  • Berkowitz, A.R., C.H. Nilon, and K.S. Hollweg. Eds. Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Science and Education. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2003.
  • Azerrad, J. M. and C. H. Nilon. “Avian Community Characteristics of Urban Greenspaces in St. Louis, Missouri.” In Avian ecology and conservation in an urbanizing world, edited by J. M. Marzluff, R. Bowman, and R. E. Donnelly, 476-501. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic, 2001.
  • Pickett, S. T. A., M. L. Cadenasso, J. M. Grove, C. H. Nilon, R. V. Pouyat, W. C. Zipperer, and R. Costanza. “Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecology, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas.” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. Volume 32: 127-57, 2001.
  • Raedeke, A. H., J. S. Rikoon, and C. H. Nilon. “Ecosystem Management and Land Owner Concern about Regulations: A Case Study in the Missouri Ozarks.” Society and Natural Resources. Volume 14: 741-59, 2001.
  • Raedeke, A.H., C.H. Nilon, and J.S. Rikoon. “Factors Affecting Landowner Participation in Ecosystem Management: A Case Study in South-central Missouri.” Wildlife Society Bulletin. Volume 29: 195-206, 2001.

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Christopher Okonkwo

  • “‘Coming to America’: Ike Oguine’s A Squatter’s Tale and the Nigerian/African Immigrant’s Narrative.” African Literature Today. Forthcoming.
  • A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of Ợgbañje, the Born-to-Die, in African American Literature. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2008
  • “‘It Was Like Meeting an Old Friend’: An Interview with John Edgar Wideman.” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. Volume 29, Issue 2: 346-60, 2006.
  • “Of Caul and Response: Baby of the Family, Ansa’s Neglected Metafiction of the Veil of Blackness.” CLA Journal. Volume 49, Issue 2: 144-67, 2005.
  • "A Critical Divination: Reading Sula as Ogbanje-Abiku." African American Review. Volume 38, Issue 4: 651-658, 2004.

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Ibitola Pearce

  • “At Work, At Home: African Women Negotiating Global Capitalism.” In Black Women in Urban Spaces. Edited by Gayle T. Tate. New York, NY: St Martin's Press, forthcoming.
  • “Synthesis Report on The Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (Beijing+ 10).” The Africa Centre for Gender and Development, United Nations-ECA, 2006.
  • “The Contextual Impact of Development and Globalization on African Women.” UM Peace Studies Review. Volume 1, Issue 2: 49-61, 2005.
  • “Cultural Production and Reproductive Issues: The Significance of the Charismatic Movement in Nigeria.” In Religion and Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective, edited by S. Ellingson and M. Green, 21-50. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002.
  • “Human Rights and Sociology: Some Observations from Africa.” Social Problems. Volume 48, Issue 1: 48-56, 2001.
  • “Keeping Children Healthy: The Challenge of Preventive care Among Women in Southwestern Nigeria.” Journal of Comparative Family Studies 31.2 (2000): 263-79.
  • Gender and Governance: A Conceptual Framework for Research, Policy and Monitoring. UN-ECA Publication, 2000.
  • “Death and Maternity in Nigeria.” In African Women's Health, edited by Meredeth Turshen. Trenton, NJ: African World Press, 2000.
  • "She will not be listened to in public: Perceptions among the Yoruba of Infertility and Childlessness in women." Reproductive Health Matters. Volume 7, Issue13: 69-79, 1999.

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Anand Prahlad SW

  • The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore. Three Volumes. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
  • “Africana Folklore: History and Challenges.” Journal of American Folklore. Volume 118.469: 253-270, 2005.
  • “Getting Happy: An Ethnographic Memoir.” Journal of American Folklore. Volume 118.467: 21-44, 2005.
  • “The Proverb and Fetishism in American Advertisements.” In What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life, edited by Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick, 127-151. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004.
  • ‘You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth’: Proverbial Expressions, Feminist Perspectives, and the Fetish in the Work of Janet Davidson-Hues.” Journal of American Folklore. Volume 117.463: 22-54, 2004.
  • Reggae Widsom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.

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Jenice Prather-Kinsey

  • Financial Reporting in Developing Countries. London: Routledge, forthcoming.
  • Cost Accounting: Foundations and Evolutions. With Mike Kinney and Cecily Raiborn, Ohio: Thomson South-Western, 2005.
  • DR Scott Memorial Lectures in Accountancy. Co-editors: James Lampe and Kay Poston, Columbia: University of Missouri, 1988.

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Charles Sampson

  • “Emerging Features of Public Administration in Mozambique: Sustainable Democratic Governance Challenges.” International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior. Volume 10, Issue 3: 314-332, 2007.
  • “The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and Minority Success in Graduate Study: An Argument for changing the Access Paradigm.” With Pat Boyer. College Student Journal. Volume 35, Issue 3: 271-279, 2001.
  • “Minority Student Retention: Importance of Ethnicity Based Technical Organizations for Students at Majority Institutions.” With Ingrid St. Omer and Michael Lee. In American Society for Engineering Education 1999 ASEE Conference Proceedings. Spring 1999.
  • “New Manifestations of Open Systems: Can they survive in the Public Sector?” Public Personnel Management. Volume 27: 361, 1997.
  • “Supply, Demand, and Minority Participation in Graduate Public Service Education.” Journal of Public Management and Social Policy. Volume 1, Issue 1: 79-102, 1995.
  • “Professional Roles and Perceptions of the Public Personnel Function.” Public Administration Review. Volume 53, Issue 2: 154-160, 1995.
  • “The Role of the Personnel Manager in Comparable Worth, Job Evaluation, and Compensation Determinations.” In Comparable Worth, Pay Equity and Public Policy, edited by Rita Mae Kelly and Jane Bayes, 127-141. New York, NY: Greenwood Press, 1988.
  • Values, Bureaucracy and Public Policy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983.
  • Frameworks of Local Government. Edited. Pittsburgh, PA: College of General Studies, 1973.

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Juanita Simmons

  • Simmons, J. M., & Johnson, W. Y. “African American Female Superintendents Speaking the Language of Hope: Reconstructing the multi-dimensions of passion.” In Improving Schools: Studies in Leadership and Culture, 223-249. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, forthcoming.
  • Grogan, M., Donaldson, J, & Simmons, J. M. “Disrupting the Status Quo: The action research dissertation as a transformative strategy.” In The handbook of doctoral programs in educational leadership: Issues and challenges, edited by C. A. Mullen, T. Creighton, F. L. Dembowski, and S. Harris, 76-89. Houston, TX: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration Press/Rice University Press, 2007.
  • Grogan, M. & Simmons, J. M. “Taking a Critical Research Stance.” In Research Methods in Educational Leadership and Management, 2nd Edition, edited by A. R. Briggs and M. Coleman, 37-52. London: Paul Chapman Publishing, 2007.
  • Simmons, J. M. “Superintendents of Color: Perspectives on racial and ethnic diversity and implications for professional preparation and practice.” In The Contemporary Superintendent: Preparation, Practice, and Development, edited by L. G. Björk, and T. J. Kowalski, 251-81. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2005.

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Robert Weems Jr.

  • Business in Black and White: American Presidents and Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2009.
  • The African American Experience: An Historiographical and Bibliographical Guide, co-edited with Arvarh E. Strickland. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers, 2001.
  • Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1998.
  • Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.

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LeeAnn Whites

  • Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Making of the New South. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2005.
  • Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence. Edited by LeeAnn Whites, Mary Neth, and Gary Kremer. Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 2004.
  • “'You Can't Change History By Moving a Rock:' The Race and Gender Politics of Confederate Memorialization.” In The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture edited by Alice Fahs and Joan Wahs, 213-36. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  • The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1995, 2000.

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Flore Zephir

  • The Haitian Americans. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2004.
  • Trends in Ethnic Identification Among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants in New York City. Wesport, CT: Bergin and Garvey. 2001.

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