Julia Lee (English) is the author of Our Gang: A Racial History of The Little Rascals (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). A forward for the book was penned by historian and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. The book received a favorable review in the Dec. 15 issue of The Atlantic.

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) brought her intersex expertise, both professional and personal, to the CBS daytime audience as a special expert guest on the Dr. Phil television show Nov. 30. In addition to publishing numerous articles on intersex in both scholarly and popular press outlets, she is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) delivered the 2015 George Herbert Mead Lecture during the annual convention of National Communication Association (NCA) at the Rio Conference Center in November. Borer’s lecture was titled, “Sensuous Knowledge and the Rise of Aesthetic Urbanism.” In the lecture, he noted that cities are chock full of…

Barb Brents (Sociology)  participated in the panel on California Prostitution Law at Stanford University on Nov 11. Other panelists were Casey Bates, deputy district attorney for California's  Alameda County; Maxine Doogan, president of the Erotic Sex Providers Legal, Education and Research Project; and Shelby Quast, policy director for…

Peter Gray and Shelly Volsche (both Anthropology), along with colleagues at Indiana and Rutgers universities, will have a paper published in Anthrozoos concerning the role of pet dogs and cats in human courtship and dating. A leading human-animal interaction scholar, Hal Herzog, has crafted a blog post based on the study that provides a flavor of…

John Bowers (English) had his chapter "Speaking Images? Iconographic Criticism and Chaucerian Ekphrasis" published in the collection The Art of Vision: Ekphrasis in Medieval Literature and Culture in the series New Studies in Medieval Culture from Ohio State University Press. The study grew out of a seminar at the Max Planck Institute in…

Tracy Johnson (College of Liberal Arts), Ed Ronca (College of Education), and John Starkey (School of Business) presented at the 2015 National Academic Advising Association National Conference. Titled, "Numbers Don't Lie: A Framework for Recognizing and Supporting Nontraditional Learners," their presentation focused …

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is the author of a new book, Inter-face-work: Symbolic Interaction in the Digital Age, which has been published by Kurumuny Edizioni. The rapid colonization of everyday life and consciousness by technologies of computer-mediated communication both multiplies the risks of miscommunication and compromises the…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was honored with the Early-in-Career Award by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). This newly designated award is given to “scholars who have made significant contributions within the first 10 years since the completion of their PhDs.” In that time period, Borer has published a solo-authored book…

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) collaborated with three authors on an article discussing social innovation — its meanings, manifestations, and impacts on sustainability. The article was published in the 14th  issue of  Salute e Societa, an Italian scholarly publication in the field of health and society. He also is co-organizing an…

Simon Gottschalk and Mark Salvaggio (both Sociology) co-authored the article "Stuck Inside of Mobile: Ethnography in Non-Places,"  which appeared in the February issue of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.  

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) is the author of the book  Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis, which was published this year by NYU Press. This book and Davis' other work on intersex issues, has led to additional media and scholarly attention, including an article in Buzzfeed and a guest piece in Contexts, as well as an invitation to…