Faculty who have written or edited books in 2006–2007 were celebrated on April 19 at a reception at the Metropolitan Campus. This is the second year the event was held.

James Marcum, left, University librarian (Metro/Flor), and Willard Gingerich, right, University provost and senior vice president for academic affairs (Metro/Flor) spoke at the faculty authors event at the Metropolitan Campus.

Twenty-three books were featured. Willard Gingerich, University provost and senior vice president for academic affairs (Metro/Flor), co-hosted the event with the University libraries. “These books are the reward and evidence of our very significant academic and scholarly gifts, the permanent record of the best we have felt and thought as teachers, investigators, thinkers,” he said in the event’s brochure.

The honored authors and their books are:

Renée Ashley, creative writing (Flor): The Museum of Lost Wings, Hill-Stead Museum, 2006.

Nicholas Baldwin, dean, Wroxton College: Executive Leadership and Legislative Assemblies, Routledge, 2005.

Peter Benson, English (Metro): Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race and Murder in the 1920s, University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

Richard Bronson, mathematics/computer science, senior executive assistant to the president and director, government and community affairs (Metro), and Gabriel Costa: Linear Algebra: An Introduction, AP/Elsevier, 2007.

Vicki Cohen, education; director, education; and program coordinator, instructional technology certificate (Metro), and John Cowen, elementary education/reading and coordinator, MAT elementary education/literacy reading specialist certification (Metro): Literacy for Children in an Information Age: Teaching Reading, Writing and Thinking, Thomson Wadsworth, 2007.

Jane Cooper, psychology (Flor), and Robert Chell, emeritus, psychology (Flor): Decoding the Enigma: His Guide to Her Menopause, iUniverse, 2006.

Theodore David, taxation (Metro): Dealing with the IRS: Law, Forms and Practice — 2006–07, American Law Institute, 2006.

First row, from left, are: Renée Ashley, creative writing (Flor); Vicki Cohen, education; director, education; and program coordinator, instructional technology certificate (Metro); John Cowen, elementary education/reading and coordinator, MAT elementary education/literacy reading specialist certification (Metro); William Roberts, social sciences and director, Public Administration Institute (Metro), who also presented during the event; and, second row, from left, Lois Gordon, English (Metro); Roger Koppl, economics/finance and director, Institute for Forensic Science and Administration (Flor); Eamon Doherty, administrative science and director, Cyber Crime Training Lab (Metro); Kenneth Bruno, BS’04, MS’05 (Metro); Thomas Swanzey, English and associate dean, Anthony J. Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies (Metro); and Theodore David, taxation (Metro).

Bernard Dick, English/communications and coordinator, MA in media/professional communication (Metro): Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell, University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

Eamon Doherty, administrative science and director, Cyber Crime Training Lab (Metro), Gary Stephenson, Joel Liebesfeld and Kenneth Bruno, BS’04, MS’05 (Metro): eForensics and Signal Intelligence for Everyone, Author House, 2006.

Lois Gordon, English (Metro): Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist, Columbia University Press, 2007.

Francis Ingledew, English/comparative literature (Flor): Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.

Krista Jenkins, political science (Flor), co-editor: A New Engagement?: Political Participation, Civic Life and the Changing American Citizen, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Khyati Joshi, education (Metro): New Roots in America’s Sacred Ground: Religion, Race and Ethnicity in Indian America, Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Roger Koppl, economics/finance and director, Institute for Forensic Science and Administration (Flor), and Elisabeth and Carine Krecke: Cognition and Economics, Elsevier, 2006.

James Marcum, University librarian (Metro/Flor): After the Information Age: A Dynamic Learning Manifesto, Peter Lang, 2006.

Charles Schaefer, psychology (Metro), and Heidi Kaduson, eds.: Short-term Therapy for Children, Second Edition,, Guilford Publications, 2006; and Contemporary Play Therapy: Theory, Research and Practice, Guilford Publications, 2006.

Thomas Swanzey, English and associate dean, Anthony J. Petrocelli College of Continuing Studies (Metro), et.al.: The Example of Science: An Anthology for College Edition, Revised Third Edition, Pearson, 2006.

Peter Woolley, political science and director, PublicMind (Flor): Geography and Japan’s Strategic Choices: From Seclusion to Internationalization, Potomac Books, 2005.

Vladimir Zwass, computer science/management information systems and deputy director, computer science/management information systems/e-commerce/mathematics (Metro), series editor: Advances in Management Information Systems (E-Commerce and Digital Economy volume; Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations volume, Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems Applications volume; and The Internet and Workplace Transformation volume), M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

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