Dr. Karen Bosch, Batten Professor of Education, has recently written her third book. Her latest book, Planning Classroom Management: A Five-Step Process to Creating a Positive Learning Environment was published by Corwin Press. The book describes the development of a personal classroom management plan. Questions, activities, and examples throughout the text help teachers further explore and understand classroom management as a process.
Bosch's other books include, The First Year Teacher (1994, 2000) and Planning Classroom Management for Change (1999).
Dr. Terrence Lindvall, C.S. Lewis Chair of Communication and Christian Thought, released Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film, published by New York University Press. The book seeks to connect film history and church history, trying to understand ways the two worlds have intersected and cross-fertilized one another. The church has not always been hostile to moving picture, but actually tried to incorporate it into its preaching, teaching, missions, and concern for children, immigrants and illiterate people to show them the Gospel.
Lindvall is also the author of The Mother of All Laughter: Sarah and the Genesis of Comedy and The Silents of God: Selected Issues and Documents in Silent American Film and Religion, 1908-1926.
Dr. Daniel Margolies, Batten Professor of History, published his first book Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade and Globalization. Published by the University Press of Kentucky, the book explores Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal from the 1860s through WWI, as one of the most widely read newspaper editors in U.S. history and his influence on the development of a prosperous New South. Margolies describes Watterson's unique approach to minimizing bipartisan tensions surrounding globalization and his desire to achieve a "prosperous and independent south" in the midst of an expanding American Empire made him a prominent actor in America's unprecedented world power.
Dr. Kathy Stolley, assistant professor of sociology, recently co-edited The Praeger Handbook of Adoption, a comprehensive resource that provides both historical and current information on all aspects of adoption, from many countries and religions, highlighting cultural, ethical, financial, legal, medical, psychological and social implications of adoption. The book, published by the Greenwood Publishing Group, also contains contributions from Dr. Angela Fournier, assistant professor of psychology, and Dr. Carol Johnson, associate professor of English.
Stolley is also the author of The Basics of Sociology, a text book providing an introduction to core concepts in sociology, and is the editor of the journal Social Insight: Knowledge at Work.
Dr. Susannah Walker, assistant professor of history, has written Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, published by the University Press of Kentucky. The book examines the relationship between beauty standards, consumer culture and racial politics in the middle decades of the Twentieth Century. In the book, Walker analyzes an often overlooked facet of twentieth-century consumer society as she explores the political, social and racial implications of the business devoted to producing and marketing beauty products for African American women.