Charles Ratton, Louis Carre, and the Legendary Auctions of 1931 by John Monroe View the article here: http://www.tribalartmagazine.com/issue-93-sample-8
Restitution and the Logic of the Post-Colonial Nation-State by John Monroe Full article available here: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/afar_a_00474
Harvey A. DeWeerd and the Dawn of Academic Military History in the United States by Tim Wolters
Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art by John Monroe From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa … Continue reading John Monroe: Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art
Olga Mesropova, an associate professor of Russian, recently published her book “Faces of Contemporary Russia: Advanced Russian Language and Culture” through Georgetown University Press. “Faces of Contemporary Russia“ is a one-semester textbook for high-intermediate to advanced level Russian students that aims to develop students’ linguistic proficiency by examining significant personalities in current Russian culture. In addition … Continue reading Mesropova book published by Georgetown University Press
Mastering the Hard Stuff: The History of College Concrete-Canoe Races and the Growth of Engineering Competition Culture This article details the history of college engineering competitions, originating with student concrete-canoe racing in the 1970s, through today’s multi-million-dollar international multiplicity of challenges. Despite initial differences between engineering educators and industry supporters over the ultimate purpose of … Continue reading Bix work published by Cornell University Press
Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers’ idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation … Continue reading Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance
Daniel Butler, assistant professor of sociology, is the sole author of a study titled, “An Examination of Inmate Adjustment Stratified by Time Served in Prison,” published in the Sept. 5 online edition of the Journal of Criminal Justice. In the study, Butler uses the Differential Coercion and Social Support (DCSS) Theory to examine whether coercion … Continue reading Daniel Butler published in Journal of Criminal Justice
Susan Stewart, professor of sociology, is an editor and contributing writer of “Multicultural Stepfamilies,” a book published by Cognella that provides students and researchers in the fields of sociology, social work and family studies with new theories, data and insight into the composition and diversity of modern stepfamilies. Specifically, Stewart wrote and contributed her research … Continue reading Susan Stewart is editor, writer for sociology book about stepfamilies