Academics & Research

Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, presented his documentary "Prisoners of Plenty" to the Popular Culture Association.

Barbara M. Miller, assistant professor in the School of Communications, had an article published in the March 2012 edition of Risk Analysis (Vol. 32, Issue 3) titled “Risk perceptions in a resource community and communication implications: Emotion, stigma, and identity."

Kirsten Doehler, assistant professor of statistics, published an article with Lisa M. Hooper, Peter J. Jankowski, and Sara E. Tomek.

Professor of philosophy Yoram Lubling's recent book in Hebrew, Met Pa-amaim, was chosen to be the topic of this year's meeting of the Center for Culture and History of the Jewish People at Haifa University, Israel.

Lynn R. Huber, associate professor of religious studies, has recently published an annotated bibliographic essay on biblical traditions about Satan.

Geoffrey Claussen, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, was interviewed for the inaugural episode of the podcast "Come and Listen: Jewish Food for Thought" on the subject of "Love and Death." He discussed the Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig's understanding of the biblical teaching that "love is as strong as death" (Song of Songs 8:6).

English Professor Rosemary Haskell presented "Spy Fiction on Television: Spooks / MI5 and the Queer Carnival of British Culture" at the 2012 Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association. The conference was held in Boston, Mass., on April 11-14, 2012.

Communications assistant professor Lucinda Austin co-authored an article about how and where people find information during crises in the Journal of Applied Communication Research.