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COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES

ACADEMIC JOURNALS

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences supports 11 academic journals edited by CLAS faculty. These journals reflect not only the exemplary scholarship of the College's internationally recognized faculty but also its commitment to collaboration and scholarly dialog within and across disciplines.

American Catholic Studies: The Journal of the American Catholic Historical Society | Brett Grainger, ThD, Theology and Religious Studies, associate editor

Augustinian Studies | Ian Clausen, PhD, Augustine and Culture Seminar, editor 

Concept: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Graduate Studies | John Kurtz, PhD, Psychological and Brain Sciences, faculty editor

Digest of Middle East Studies | Catherine Warrick, PhD, Political Science, editor

Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society | Gerald Beyer, PhD, Theology and Religious Studies, associate editor and Anthony Godzieba, PhD, Theology and Religious Studies, chair of editorial board

Journal of Peace and Justice Studies | Eugene McCarraher, PhD, Humanities, editor

Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | Rev. Kail C. Ellis, PhD, OSA, editor

Negotiation and Conflict Management Research | Qi Wang, PhD, Communication, editor-in-chief

Political Theology | Vincent Lloyd, PhD, Theology and Religious Studies, co-editor

Social Epistemology | Georg Theiner, PhD, Philosophy, editor

Journal for Religion, Film and Media | Stefanie Knauss, ThD, Theology and Religious Studies, co-editor

  

FACULTY RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

EQUAL EDUCATION

With her research focused on urban education, youth activism, education policy and school reform, Education professor Jerusha Conner, PhD, has been named a co-principal investigator on a two-year, $884,077 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project will build evidence of the value of student voice practices in improving student outcomes and creating more equitable learning environments. MORE...

STUDYING SUBWAY AIR QUALITY

A team of scientists in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has received a three-year, $346,692 grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine the health effects of human exposure to subway particles—with the hope that the findings can lead to how to remediate and improve subway air quality for workers and commuters. MORE...

REVIVING LITERARY CRITICISM PRACTICES

In a radical break from the interpretive practices that have dominated literary criticism for the past several decades, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" by English professor Alice Dailey, PhD, offers a fresh study of Shakespeare’s English history plays, expanding their context beyond the conditions of Shakespeare’s England. MORE...