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Publications

Dr. Megan Bever


At War with King Alcohol: Debating Drinking and Masculinity in the Civil War. University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 

American Discord: The Republic and Its People in the Civil War Era, co-edited with Lesley J. Gordon and Laura Mammina. Louisiana State University Press, 2020. 

The Historian behind the History: Conversations with Southern Historians, edited with Scott A. Suarez. University of Alabama Press, 2014. 

“Reflection on the Groceries to Graduate Scholarship Program at Midwestern Southern State University”, co-authored with A. Carr, A. Cullers, K. Colburn, and J. Rutledge, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (September 2023). 

“Prohibition, Sacrifice, and Morality in the Confederacy, 1861-1865,” Journal of Southern History 55 (May 2019): 251-284. 

“Paths to Reconciliation: Intersectional Romances in Northern Civil War Fiction,”Civil War History 60.1 (March 2014): 32-57. 

“Fuzzy Memories: College Mascots and the Struggle to Find Appropriate Legacies of the Civil War,” Journal of Sport History 38.3 (Fall 2011): 447-463. 

 

Dr. william fischer


“Shamanism as a Strategy of Domination: Brujería in the Ecuadorian Amazon in the Middle of the 20th Century” The Latin Americanist Vol. 65, No. 3, September 2021. 

“Constructing and Celebrating a National Object of Desire: The Amazonian Oriente Frontier and Ecuadorian Society, 1900-1946.” In Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin American Since 1800, eds. Jaime Moreno Tejada and Bradley Tatar. Routledge, 2017. 

 

dr. jill greer


“More Jiwere-Baxoje fantastic creatures from the Dark Side,” Proceedings of the 39th Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference

“Hook-swinging giants and other fantastic themes in Jiwere-Baxoje folktales,” Proceedings of the 38th Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference

“Baxoje-Jiwere grammar sketch.” In Catherine Rudin & Bryan J. Gordon (eds.), Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics, 183–229. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2016. 

“The Otoe-Missouria Flag Song,” Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 30 (2008), pp. 98-105. 

“Reflections on Linguistic Fieldwork in Two Native American Communities” (as Jill Davidson), Practicing Anthropology, 21(2) (Spring 1999), pp. 28-33. 

“Indirectness in the Interview” Jill D. Hopkins and Louanna Furbee, co-authors, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1(1) (June 1991), pp. 63-77. 

“Spatial Deixis in Chiwere” (as Jill D. Hopkins) 1990 Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 15(2), Studies in Native American Languages VI, p. 60-72. 

 

Dr. David Locher


2017. “Fads.” in Lynn Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke. The

          Writer’s World: Sentences and Paragraphs, 5th Edition. New York: Pearson.

          (international)

2016. “Types of Rioters.” In Lee Brandon and Kelly Brandon Paragraphs and

           Essays with Integrated Readings, 13th Edition. New York: Cengage Learning.

2015. “Types of Rioters.” In Lynn Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke (eds.) The

2011. “Types of Rioters.” In Lynn Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke (eds.) The

           Writer’s World: The Essays, 2nd Edition. New York: Allyn & Bacon. (international)

2007. “Types of Rioters.” In Lynn Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke (eds.) The

           Writer’s World: The Essays. New York: Allyn & Bacon. (international)

2006. “Fads.” In Lynn Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke (eds.) The Writer’s World:

          Reading Strategies and Suggestions. New York: Allyn & Bacon. (international)

2005. “Chapter Essays as a Teaching Tool.” The Teaching Professor. 19(9):1

          (national)

2005. “Leaving Cuba: Pay your $25 ransom.” The Joplin Globe. 109(239):11A. (regional)

2005. “How Oppression Works.” The Joplin Globe. 109(231):9A. (regional)

2004 “When Teaching Less is More” The Teaching Professor. 18(9):2. (national)

2002. “Teaching Swimming or Coaching Swimmers?” The Teaching

          Professor. 16(9):8. (national)

2002. Collective Behavior. Prentice-Hall: New York. (international)

2001. “‘Poor Quality Students’ Reveal Teaching Skill.” The Teaching

          Professor. 15(7):1-3 (national)

1999. “Unacknowledged Roots and Blatant Imitation: Postmodernism and the

          Dada Movement.” Electronic Journal of Sociology. 4(1). (international)

1998. "The Industrial Identity Crisis: The Failure of an Emerging Subculture

          to Identify Itself." Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World. Jonathan S. Epstein.

          Malden: Blackwell. (international)

1997. "Art, Obscenity, and Interpretation: Sexual Beliefs in the United States." Focaal: The                  Journal for Anthropology. 1997(29): 67-80. (international)

1996. "The Industrial Identity Crisis: The Failure of an Emerging Subculture to Identify Itself."                Subdivisions: Youth, Youth Culture, and Identity. Jonathan S. Epstein (ed.). NY: Garland.            (international)

 

dr. rebecca shriver


“Le genre et l’Union paneuropéenne entre les deux guerres.” In L’Europe, Une Chance Pour Les Femmes? Le Genre de la Construction Européene, edited by Anne-Laure Briatte, Éliane Gubin, et Françoise Thébaud. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2019. 

"Féministe et pacifiste à l’époque de Weimar: la remise en question du pouvoir politique dans la nouvelle République” Parlement(s). revue d'histoire politique, no. 26 (2017). 

“Women, Pacifism, and the Pan-European Union: Searching for Support in Weimar Political Culture.” In Pela Paz! Pour la Paix! For Peace! Brussels: Peter Lang, 2014. 

 

dr. steven wagner


Eisenhower for Our Time. Northern Illinois University Press, 2024. 

Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way. University of Northern Illinois Press, 2006. 

“Eisenhower Republicanism,” in A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Chester J. Pach, ed. Wiley, 2017, 152-168.