BSOS Faculty Books 2006-2008

Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement
Edited by Paul A. Shackel, Director of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies and Professor of Anthropology, and Barbara J. Little
Published by a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement challenges archaeologists to think beyond cultural resource management and develop an ethical public archaeology that encompasses social justice and civic responsibility. The authors actively engage in discussions about preservation and community planning, while also pursuing the creation of effective models for interpretive and educational programming, as well as for active engagement in community life. Grounded in case studies from different regions within the United States, Guatemala, Vietnam, Canada and Eastern Europe, this collection of essays is an essential resource for archaeologists, historians, community planners and museum professionals.

“There is a new kind of Public Archaeology emerging, one that takes seriously archaeology’s potential to understand the past to give a sense of meaning for our future. This work has the familiar goals of inventorying significant sites and doing better archaeology. It also aims to build better communities. Archaeology as a Tool of Civic Engagement provides us with lessons, sometimes painful and sometimes exhilarating, from some of our most accomplished colleagues whose research has explored the ways in which we tell the truth about the past and thereby offers a source of hope for the future.”
-Robert Paynter, University of Massachusetts.

Chesapeake Perspectives
Chesapeake Environmentalism: Rethinking Culture to Strengthen Restoration and Resource Management
Michael Paolisso, professor of anthropology
Published by Maryland Sea Grant, 2006

We have in the Chesapeake region a broad academic community with a keen interest in—and often a personal connection to—the Bay’s ecosystem and the human communities that give the region its unique character. Many academics have spent long careers working to understand, conserve, and restore this national resource. As we chart a course toward a more sustainable future, their perspectives challenge us to think deeply about fundamental, and at times controversial, issues.

In this inaugural issue, cultural anthropologist Dr. Michael Paolisso provides his perspectives on environmentalism and the Chesapeake. Building on his studies of diverse communities—from waterman to farmers to scientists—he presents a unique view of how we can shape our commitment to this Bay. He encourages us to think beyond the confines of our interaction with the natural world to the deeper cultural basis understanding of our varying cultural views of the Bay if we are to find common ground that can serve as a solid foundation for restoration and stewardship.

Chesapeake Perspectives
Heritage Matters: Heritage, Culture, History, and Chesapeake Bay
Erve Chambers, Chair, Department of Anthropology
Published by Maryland Sea Grant, 2006

Those who have spent time on or around the Chesapeake Bay have a sense of its wildness, its history, its heritage. Anthropologist Erve Chambers argues that while the attraction of the Bay and our affection for it are genuine, we run the risk of locking the real inhabitants of Bay country into a rigid mold trapped by the very past we celebrate.

As an anthropologist, Chambers is interested in the vibrant reality of communities as they experience (and cope with) life. He is also fascinated by the tension between this dynamic reality and the celebrated past, what we often refer to as “heritage.” What is heritage really? And who decides what we, as a country or a culture, will celebrate as our treasured past? These are the questions Chambers takes on in this Chesapeake Perspectives monograph. He approaches the issue with rigor and a toughness of mind that may at times startle us, as he forces us to think more deeply about what heritage means, and about our own views of the Bay, its past, and its people.

Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington
Paul Herrnson, Director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship and Professor of Government and Politics
Published by CQ Press, 2007

Praised for combining solid empirical research with real-world politics, Paul Herrnson provides a thorough and balanced assessment of congressional campaigns and elections. Arguing that successful candidates actually run two campaigns— one for votes, the other for resources—Congressional Elections shows how this dual strategy affects not only who wins individual races, but who impacts representation in Congress more broadly, and ultimately the entire electoral system. Using campaign data, original survey research, and hundreds of interviews with candidates and political insiders, Herrnson systematically analyzes candidate, party, and PAC strategies to give students a feel for how these crucial avenues of political influence converge. Case studies of individual campaigns are woven throughout to paint vivid portraits of real people raising money, giving speeches, serving constituents, and tackling important policy issues. New coverage and analysis include:

Countertransference and the Therapist’s Inner Experience: Perils and Possibilities
Charles J. Gelso, professor of psychology, and Jeffrey A. Hayes
Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007

This book is about the inner world of the psychotherapist, and how that world comes into play and is enacted within the psychology relationship. This inner world (variously labeled subjectivity and experimental world) is a vital part of the therapeutic relationship that develops between psychotherapist and patient, a relationship that has been repeatedly shown to be a major part of whether psychotherapy works or not, how it works, and how well it works with a given patient and patients in general. Within the therapeutic relationship, the construct to which our greatest attention is devoted in this book is called countertransference.

“Gelso and Hayes have done an outstanding job of creatively synthesizing the voluminous literature on countertransference. This is an extremely well-written, well-organized, and accessible book, replete with multiple case examples and well-selected quotes. It includes multiple theoretical viewpoints (including an excellent piece on the role of culture) and is nicely balanced between empirical and clinical perspectives. Perhaps the best feature though is how ‘experience-near’ it feels; this is a book not only for those interested in the topic of countertransference per se, but for all of us interested in improving our clinical skills. It will surely prove helpful to a wide range of practitioners, from those just beginning their graduate work to those who are experienced clinicians. Very useful and timely; very highly recommended.”

–Barry A. Farber; PhD, Teachers College, Columbia University

Current Issues in Stuttering Research and Practice
Nan Bernstein Ratner (ed.), Chair, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, and John A. Tetnowski (ed.)
Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2006

This state-of-the art volume is a follow-up to the 1999 publication, Stuttering Research and Practice: Bridging the Gap, edited by Nan Ratner and E. Charles Healey. Like its predecessor, the current book is an edited collection of the presentations from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Associations Annual Leadership Conference in Fluency and Fluency Disorders.

Among the topics covered are evidence-based practice, impact of the self-help and support groups, meta-analyses of selected assessment and intervention programs, current theories of stuttering, and the predicted path of stuttering intervention in the future. The authoritative representation of contributors offers the reader the most up to date presentation of fluency issues, with a special emphasis placed on the practical clinical implications of fluency assessment, treatment, and evolving theories of the disorder.

The book is written for fluency specialists and graduate students in programs of fluency disorders. It will also be valuable for the clinicians who wish to upgrade their skills in treating fluency disorders.

The Development of Language
Nan Bernstein Ratner, Chair, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, and Jean Berko-Gleason
Allyn & Bacon, 2008

This authoritative text is ideal for courses that take a developmental approach to language acquisition across the full life span. The text thoroughly explores syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. It examines atypical development with attention to the most common disorders affecting language acquisition, presents strong coverage of individual differences in language acquisition and learning, describes how and why they occur, and provides contemporary references and the most recent research findings. The panel of expert authors provides students with cutting-edge, up-to-date research knowledge in an interesting and highly readable format.

The Essential Gibran
Compiled by Suheil Bushrui, director of the Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace Project, Center for Heritage Resource Studies
Oneworld Publications, 2007

Known and loved throughout the world as the author of The Prophet, the twentieth century’s best-selling book after the Bible, the great Lebanese-American poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran is widely regarded as one of the most gifted writers history has ever seen. With an immediate ability to connect with his audience, his profound words have transcended barriers of culture and creed to touch the hearts of millions.

The first modern collection to exhibit the full breadth of the great man’s work, The Essential Gibran is a masterful achievement. Compiled by the distinguished Gibran scholar, Professor Suheil Bushrui, the world’s foremost authority on his work, it draws on a wide-ranging collection of exquisite prose poems, dramatic sketches, parables, letters, essays, and even national and international addresses to capture the essence of Gibran’s style and thought. With an excellent introduction to the man and his work, this impressive new edition will add a fresh dimension to our understanding of one of the greatest wordsmiths of the last century.

" And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
-Kahlil Gibran

The Forests of the Congo Basin: State of the Forest 2006
Publication coordinated by Didier Devers, faculty research assistant in the Department of Geography, and Jean Pierre Vande weghe
Published by the Congo Basin Forest Partnership, 2006

The Forests of the Congo Basin is the first State of the Forest report on the conditions and resources of the world’s second largest rainforest, and is in response to the Congo Basin Forest Partnership’s (CBFP) call to conserve the biodiversity of the region. This analysis provides objective information for those making decisions about conservation efforts in Central Africa, and allows the CBFP to measure their efforts effectiveness. The report is divided into three main parts: an overview of the Congo Basin Forests, cross-cutting themes and description of landscapes.

A Handbook on Stuttering
Oliver Bloodstein and Nan Bernstein Ratner, Chair, Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Published by Cengage Delmar Learning, 2007

Rarely does a textbook transcend the ordinary to be universally considered a “classic." The esteemed A Handbook on Stuttering, now in its 6th edition, continues to be the only existing work that offers a comprehensive review of evidence-based knowledge about the etiology, nature, and treatment of stuttering. Since the last edition was published there have been numerous important advances in research on stuttering, particularly with regard to brain research and language development. This edition captures these new developments, without losing the historical information that makes it so unique.

The Making of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: A Devil, Two Rivers, and a Dream
Teresa S. Moyer, research assistant, and Paul A. Shackel, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Heritage Resource Studies
Published by AltaMira Press, 2008

Teresa Moyer and Paul Shackel’s book gives a new perspective on the restoration of Harpers Ferry by examining how the National Park Service (NPS) used history, interpretation, and archeology to shape the physical and cultural landscape. They primarily focus on the management of historic resources (archeological and structural), but recognize the influence of other factors, including public relations and changes in NPS administration. Their case study reveals the difficulties of achieving historical authenticity in the face of our own interpretations and how we want a particular place to be remembered.

“Moyer and Shackel give us rare insight into the process of how a national park gets made. In the process we learn how the conflicting goals and differing perceptions of various stakeholders can cause the past to be changed over time. This is destined to become a standard text in classroom and field, and hopefully also in the halls of power. Those of us concerned about our vanishing cultural heritage need more books like this one”

—Charles E. Orser Jr., distinguished professor, Illinois State University

Peace and Conflict 2008
Joe Hewitt and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, Center for International Development and Conflict Management, and Ted Gurr, Department of Government and Politics
Published by Paradigm Publishers, 2007

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides key data and documents trends in national and international conflicts ranging from isolated acts of terrorism to internal civil strife to full-fledged interstate war. Peace and Conflict is a large format, full-color reference including numerous graphs, tables, maps, and appendices dedicated to the visual presentation of data. Crisp narratives are highlighted with pull-quote extracts that summarize trends and major findings.

Race, Gender, and Class: Theory and Methods of Analysis
Bart Landry, professor of sociology
Published by Pearson Education, Inc., 2007

In the last 30 to 35 years, the study of race, class, gender, and other dimensions of social inequality as simultaneously expressed socially constructed systems of power relationships has grown to a powerful scholarship that has permeated the humanities, the social sciences, and, more recently, the sciences.

This next generation of race, class, gender, and sexuality scholars is ready to move us forward into more complex and nuanced analysis, using new theoretical perspectives and new empirical applications, and developing new activist agendas. These scholars are less likely to rely on a single research method or to view qualitative and quantitative methods as oppositions and are more likely to employ mixed-methods research that draws from multiple disciplinary traditions, examines macro as well as micro levels of analysis, attends to the perspectives of oppressed groups, and integrates sexuality more fully into the race, class, and gender paradigm. This new work provides clear evidence that intersectional scholarship is neither a fad nor a limited perspective but instead is a powerful paradigm for understanding the complexities of life in the twenty-first century.

The Segregated Scholars
Francille Rusan Wilson, Professor of African American Studies
Published by University of Virginia Press, 2006

In this collective biography of 15 black labor historians and social scientists, Francille Rusan Wilson gives an in-depth look of the lives and works of some of the most influential black intellectuals. She covers well known scholars such as W.E.B. Du Bois and scholars who are not as well known, such as Gertrude McDonald and Emma Shields Penn. Wilson gives a very clear and up close portrait of the lives that started and contributed to black intellectual history.

“Many of the segregated scholars died before the civil rights movement of the 1960s, but as Wilson notes, they left behind a twofold legacy -- an objective body of research on black workers and black life that provided a standard by which subsequent scholars, including African American scholars, can measure their own work; and a ‘model of black scholars as activists and reformers committed to creating a society that has racial justice and economic equality.’ It is indeed fitting that this highly readable and absorbing book brings their remarkable accomplishments back to life.”

- from the foreword by William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

Selected Speeches and Articles by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
Edited by David Cadman and Suheil Bushrui, director, Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace Project, Center or Heritage Resource Studies
The Center for Heritage Resource Studies, The University of Maryland, 2006

The interests of the Prince of Wales, as evinced in the pages of this book, are multi-faceted and global, revealing a true Renaissance man: agriculture and the environment; architecture; medicine and health; the multi-racial society, religion and tradition; and education. He bolsters his arguments with quotations ranging from Aristotle, through Arab proverbs, Shakespeare and Wordsworth, to Cole Porter. His speeches and writings reveal the depth with which he has delved into these issues, and he uses erudition leavened with wit to press home his points. The Prince is commended for the cogent, philosophical, often numinous manner that he uses to bring these timely messages to public attention.

The world therefore owes a debt of gratitude to Professors Suheil Bushrui and David Cadman for having the vision to undertake the task of assembling and compiling the Prince’s speeches and articles into book form in English, as well as arranging for their translation into Arabic. In this way the messages of these speeches will not only be brought to the attention of different communities where English is spoken, but also to Arabic-speaking communities across the globe, thereby facilitating the understanding the Prince has long sought.

-University of Maryland President, C.D. Mote, Jr.

They Worked Regular: Craft, Labor, and Family in the Industrial Community of Virginius Island
Matthew M. Paulus and Paul A. Shackel
Published by University of Tennessee Press/ Knoxville, 2006

They Worked Regular explores the memory of Virginius Island's once mighty industrial community, showing the relationship between changes in industrial management techniques and the changes experienced in daily life by workers and their community between 1800 and 1930. Interpreting the results of the switch from strong paternalistic control of manufacturing to absentee form of management, the author is able to analyze the implications for the larger American society.

"This book shows that Virginius Island is a microcosm of the cultural changes that many Americans experienced at home and in the workplace in the nineteenth can twentieth centuries."

- Michael Nassaney, Western Michigan University

Voting Technology: The Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot
Paul Herrnson, Director of the Center for American Politics & Citizenship and Professor of Government & Politics, Michael J. Hanmer, Professor of Government & Politics, Frederick C. Conrad, Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, Benjamin B. Bederson, Michael W. Traugott and Richard G. Niemi
Published by Brookings Institution Press, 2007

Voting Technology is the first book to investigate in a scientific and authoritative manner how voters respond to the new equipment. The authors—an interdisciplinary group of experts in American elections, political behavior, human-computer interaction, and human factors psychology—assess five commercially available voting systems, each one representing a specific class based on shared design principles, as well as a prototype system not currently available. They evaluate the systems against different criteria (including ease of use, speed, and accuracy) using field experiments, laboratory experiments, and expert reviews. The results reveal the good and bad about the new systems, including specific features that contribute to clarity, confusion, or error. Going beyond the concern with spoiled ballots, they determine whether voters actually cast their ballots for the candidates they intended to support. They address fundamental questions of whether voters like and trust the equipment and whether the various systems are equally usable by all voters. Their research also opens up an entirely new line of inquiry by asking about the interaction between ballot format and voter behavior.

The concluding chapter pulls together best practices that will guide manufacturers of voting systems, ballot designers, election officials, political observers, and of course, voters. In a political system based on free exercise of personal choice, the least we can do is make sure our choices are being accurately recorded and counted.

Women’s Labor in the Global Economy: Speaking in Multiple Voices
Edited by Sharon Harley, chair, Department of African American Studies
Published by Rutgers University Press, 2007

Globalization is not a new phenomenon; women throughout the world have been dealing with the circumstances and consequences of an international economy long before the advent of the transnational corporate conglomerate. However, in a mercenary example of the tired cliché “the more things change, the more they stay the same,” women—particularly those of color—continue to be relegated to the lowest rung of the occupational ladder, where their indispensable contributions to global market capitalism are downplayed or invalidated completely through the perpetuation of stereotypes and the denial of access to better job opportunities and resources.
How women of color around the world adapt and challenge the economic, political, and social effects of globalization is the subject of this broad-minded and incisive anthology. From Mexico, Jamaica, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Sri Lanka, to immigrant and non-immigrant communities in the United States—the women documented in these essays are agricultural and factory workers, artists and entrepreneurs, mothers and activists. Their stories bear stark witness to how globalization continues to develop new sites and forms of exploitation, but also to moments of resistance and potential avenues for social change.

“These powerfully written, deeply researched essays ensure that the multiple voices of laboring women resonate long after you have finished reading this invaluable anthology.”

- Darlene Clark Hine, editor, Black Women in America

The World's Favorite Love Poems
By Suheil Bushrui, Professor and Bahá'í Chair for World Peace
Published by Oneworld Publications, 2008

Love and poetry have been intimately entwined since the dawn of language itself. In this charming anthology, Suheil Bushrui, renowned literature professor, presents an unusually varied collection of the world’s favorite love poetry from around the globe and down the ages. The first compilation with a truly international coverage, this inimitable volume contains nearly two hundred works from some of the foremost writers in history, including Goethe, Shakespeare, Ibn Arabi, and Rumi, as well as poetry from the indigenous peoples of Africa, Australia, and the Americas. From Russia to Egypt, India to Germany, this delightful collection of English and translated verse is perfect for any lover of poetry, and will prove a unique gift for someone special.

Professor Suheil Bushrui is a distinguished author, poet, critic, and media personality, who has published critical studies of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. His published work is extensive, and includes the definitive biography of Gibran entitled Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet (2nd edition, Oneworld, 2007).