ACADEMIC JOURNALS

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences supports 12 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, Augustinian Institute and Augustine and Culture Seminar, editor

Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum | Margaret Grubiak, PhD, Humanities, co-editor

Communication and Democracy | Billie Murray, PhD, Communication, 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-in-chief

Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society | Timothy Brunk, PhD, Theology and Religious Studies, associate editor; Stefanie Knauss, ThD, Theology and Religious Studies, editorial board member

Journal of Peace and Justice Studies | Joseph Evans, Theology, co-editor

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

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

INTERCULTURAL MATHEMATICS

Alexander Diaz-Lopez, PhD, associate professor, Mathematics and Statistics, has been named principal investigator on a two-year, $249,937 National Sciences Foundation grant. The grant will support his study of permutations from a combinatorial and geometric point of view, and create the Villanova-Puerto Rico Research Retreat, a collaborative summer program between students at Villanova University and the University of Puerto Rico. MORE...

EXPLORING CUBAN WOMEN'S NARRATIVES

In her new book, translated in English as "Cuba: emotions and political fictions: emotional cultures in a literary, feminine and sexological key within the Special Period," Laura Sández, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Spanish, explores a new approach to narratives produced by Cuban women during the Special Period. MORE...

FINDING FAMILY AFTER SLAVERY

Judith Giesberg, PhD, Robert M. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History, received a 2022 National Endowment Public Scholars Fellowship, including $60,000 in funding for one year. The fellowship will support her project “Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery,” which offers access to thousands of “Information Wanted” newspaper advertisements by formerly enslaved people in the US looking for family members. MORE...

SMALL PARTICLES WITH BIG IMPACT

For advanced science students, biopharmaceutical researchers, and even patients at the doctor’s office, nanoscience is an important yet unseen part of everyday life. Physics professor Georgia Papaefthymiou, PhD, explores how nanomagnetism, a developing field of nanoscience, can be applied across disciplines to dramatically shape the world in her new book "Nanomagnetism: An Interdisciplinary Approach." MORE...