Major Book Publications

The Annual Valente Center Annual Book Party

Next party - April 30, 2013, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Faculty Staff Dining Room, LaCava, third floor

Past Parties
May 1, 2012, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Faculty/Staff Dining Room, LaCava, third floor

Faculty who published a single author, joint author or edited volume 2011/12. 
Authors and works that were honored: 

• Susan Adams, “Preparing Better Consultants: The Role of Academia"
• Anthony Buono, “The Changing Paradigm of Consulting: Adjusting to the Fast-Paced World”
• Beverley Earle, “International Business Law and Its Environment”
• Daniel Everett, “Language: The Cultural Tool”
• Jane Griffin, “The Place of the Other”
• Dominique Haughton,“Living Standards Analytics: Development through the Lens of Household Survey Data”
• Angma Dey Jhala, “Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India”
• Gesa E. Kirsch, “Feminist Rhetorical Practice: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies”
• Fred Ledley, “Sputnik’s Child”
• Sean McDonald, “The Borderlands of Southeast Asia: Geopolitics, Terrorism, and Globalization”
• Linda McJannet, “Early Modern England and Islamic Worlds”
• Paul Montesino, “The Sixth Linden Tree:  A Bilingual Cuban Story English-Spanish”
• Aaron Nurick, “The Good Enough Manager: The Making of a Gem”
• Clifford Putney, “The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization’s Missionary Work, 1810 – 2010”
• Anna Siomopoulos, “Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal”
• Rajendra S. Sisodia, “The 4A’s of Marketing: Creating Value for Customers, Companies and Society”
   

More Past Book Publications below

Rick Oches [right] and P. Thompson Davis (Natural and Applied Sciences) Receive National Science Foundation Grant

For 2010-2013, the National Science Foundation awarded a $130,347 grant to Bentley University for the project titled "Integrating Earth and Environmental Science Education into a Business Curriculum Using Technology Enhanced Learning." The architects of the program, Eric (Rick) Oches, associate professor of Natural and Applied Sciences, and P. Thompson (Thom) Davis, professor of Natural and Applied Sciences, are focused on improving the scientific literacy of future business and civic leaders by further integrating Earth, Environment and Global Sustainability courses into the business curriculum. Their project will develop new multi-disciplinary active-learning course modules through a series of summer workshops for science and business faculty.

Anne Rawls, Professor of Sociology, Recognized Internationally for Her Scholarship

Sociology professor Anne Warfield Rawls was named Marie de Paris Senior Research Laureate for the City of Paris’s international research competition in 2010. During the six-month tenure of the fellowship, Rawls was in residence at the renowned École des hautes études en sciences sociales (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, or EHESS) in Paris. There she gave lectures and facilitated collaborative work. She spoke at the Sorbonne and EHESS, as well as in Germany, Moscow, and London. As a result of her work there, Rawls has developed a number of collaborative international publication projects, some of which focus on the French sociologist Emile Durkheim. Also in 2010, Rawls received the Charles Horton Cooley Distinguished Scholarship Award (Michigan Sociological Association), which honors lifetime scholarly achievements.  

David Szymanski (Natural and Applied Sciences) Receives Major National Geology Appointment

Beginning in July 2011, Natural and Applied Sciences Professor David Szymanski will serve as Chair of the Geological Society of America's Geology and Public Policy Committee. Szymanski is currently the chair-elect for 2010-11. The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a global professional society of earth scientists with a growing membership of more than 22,000 individuals in 97 countries. The Geology and Public Policy Committee of GSA oversees development of GSA’s Position Statements, which serve as the foundation for public policy actions by the society. In addition to setting the agenda for all committee work and meetings, Szymanski will be responsible for facilitating the development of new public policy position statements on behalf of the society, the revision of outdated and expired statements, as well as interviewing and selecting candidates for the GSA-U.S. Geological Survey congressional science fellowship.

Joni Seager (Chair, Global Studies) Advises Government of Mozambique on Impact of Climate Change

In 2010, the government of Mozambique consulted Global Studies Chair and Professor Joni Seager in its effort to develop a national strategic plan on gender, environment and climate change. During the year, Seager traveled to Mozambique several times to work with the Environmental Ministry on the project. She is one of a small group of scholars working on analytical and theoretical explorations of the social--and gendered--nature of climate change. Seager is a scholar and activist in feminist geography, international women's studies, and global environmental policy. In the environmental field, she is a pioneer in bringing feminist perspectives to bear on global environmental policy and analysis. Seager’s recent research includes a project with the nongovernmental organization AIDS-Free World to explore global policies and the social dimensions of the HIV-AIDS epidemic. She has also studied gender and sustainable water management in Mongolia, and consulted for the United Nations on various gender and environmental policy projects.

Richard Cleary (Chair, Mathematical Sciences) Receives National Appointment

In February 2010, Mathematical Sciences chair and professor Richard Cleary was appointed to a two-year term as chair of the Joint Data Committee of five mathematical organizations: Mathematical Association of America; American Mathematical Society; American Statistical Association; the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; and Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The committee helps monitor the profession in many aspects, among them employment trends for new PhDs; enrollments in graduate and undergraduate programs; diversity issues; and faculty salaries.

Major Book Publications

Kristin Sorensen (Global Studies) publishes Media, Memory, and Human Rights in Chile

Sorensen’s book investigates the manner in which Chilean media and public culture discuss human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) as well as human rights problems which still exist. Through an intricate interplay of censorship, remembrance, and protest, the media and surrounding culture have played a key role in structuring how Chileans interpret their present and past. The books looks particularly at the media’s role in alternately silencing and re-presenting trauma during times of social upheaval and flux, as well as with how audiences respond to these re-presentations.

Clifford Putney (History) publishes Missionaries in Hawai'i: The Lives of Peter and Fanny Gulick, 1797-1883

Ever since Protestant missionaries from the United States reached Hawai'i in 1820, they have inspired conflicting passions. In evangelical circles, the missionaries are praised for Christianizing Hawai'i, transforming Hawaiian into a written language, and inoculating the islanders against smallpox. But this celebratory assessment is rejected by modern-day Hawaiian nationalists, who excoriate the missionaries as advance agents of U.S. imperialism. Based primarily on letters, journals, and other archival materials, Prof. Putney offers a detailed and balanced portrait of their contributions. He says the nationalists are right to credit the missionaries with drawing Hawai'i into America's political orbit, but argues that the missionary enterprise helped in some ways to preserve key elements of Hawaiian culture.

2011

Below are faculty who published a single author, joint author or edited volume. 
Authors and works that were honored:

• Chris Beneke “The First Prejudice”
• Anthony Buono “Consultation for Organizational Change”
• Kate Davy “Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers”
• Patrick Duparcq “Internet Marketing”
• Bonnie Field “Spain’s ‘Second Transition’?”
• Juliet F. Gainsborough “Scandalous Politics”
• Robert Galliers “The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems”
• Jennifer Gillan “Television and New Media”
• Paul Montesino “Recycling . . . The Novel”
• Clifford Putney “Missionaries in Hawai’i"
• Heikki Topi “Modern Database Management”
• Leslie Waguespack “Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling”

2010

From faculty who have recently published a single author, joint author or edited volume. 
Authors and works that were honored:

• William Albert, “Beyond the Usability Lab”
• Paul Berger, “Statistics for Managers”
• Anthony F. Buono, “Client, Consultant, Collaborations”
• Anthony F. Buono, “Emerging Trends & Issues in Management Consulting”
• Nathan Carter, “Visual Group Theory”
• P. Thompson Davis, “Holocene and Latest Pleistocene Alpine Glacier"
• "Fluctuations: A Global Perspective”
• Mark Frydenberg, “Web 2.0, Concepts and Application”
• Alicia Nitecki and Gerald Speca, “The Old Guard”
• Sue Newell, “Managing Knowledge Work and Innovation”
• Dean Simpson, “Cataratas”
• Kristin Sorensen, “Media Memory and Human Rights in Chile”
• Janet Thomas, “Environmental Economics and Management"
• "Theory, Policy and Applications”
• Cyrus Veeser, “Great Leaps Forward”
• Chauncey Wilson, “User Experience Re-mastered”
• Beth Anne Wolfson, “The Law of Sex Discrimination"

2009

From faculty who have recently published a single author, joint author or edited volume. 
Authors and works that were honored:

• Jeff Aresty "The ABA guide to International Business Negotiations"
• Helen Meldrum "Characteristics of Compassion"
• Leeann Simons "At Peace with Food"
• Ruth Nemzoff "Don't Bite your Tongue"
• Bonnie Field "Democracy and Instituional Development"
• Robert Galliers "Strategic Information Management"
• Mark Frydenberg "Creating Popfly Mashups"
• Nadejda Marques "Born Subversive: a Memoir of Survival"
• Ruth Spack "Language Lessons"
• Paul Berger "101 Plus Special Pracice Problems in Probability and Statistics"
• Anne Warfield Rawls "Toward a Social Theory of Information"
• Ivan Marquez "Contemporary Latin American Social and Political Thought"
• Beverley Earle "International Business Law and Its Environment"
• Angma Jhala "Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India"
• Rajendra Sisodia "Managerial Marketing: Current Thought"
• Irv Englander "The Architecture of Computer Hardware, Systems Software and Networking"
• Cynthia Clark Williams "Trust Diffusion: How Creating Climates of Trust can Influence Organizational Effectiveness"