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

Concept: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Graduate Studies | John Kurtz, PhD, Psychological and Brain Sciences, faculty 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 Catholic Social Thought | Barbara Wall, PhD, Philosophy, and Robert DeFina, PhD, Sociology and Criminology, executive editors

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

FAITH AND FINANCES

Mary Hirschfeld, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Humanities, explores the intersection of economics and faith in her book "Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy." She received the Centesimus Annus – Pro Pontifice Foundation’s “Economy and Society” International Prize, given every two years to individuals who are making significant contributions to implementing the social doctrine of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, and Cardinal Reinhard Marx, of Munich and Freising, presented her with the award. MORE...

FINDINGS FOR ANTIFUNGALS

The National Science Foundation awarded a $560,959 grant to Dennis Wykoff, PhD, the Dennis M. Cook ’90 Gregor Mendel Chair in Genetics in the Department of Biology. The project, “RUI: Characterization of thiamine signal transduction pathway in Candida glabrata and other Ascomycetes,” investigates how closely related fungal species have changes in their genome specific to nutrient starvation, and how those subtle genomic differences allow for changes in each species' behavior. MORE...

LAST SEEN: FINDING FAMILY AFTER SLAVERY

American slavery tore apart families—separating wives from husbands, children from parents, siblings from siblings. After the Civil War, emancipated slaves searched for these lost loved ones by placing hopeful and often-heartbreaking newspaper ads. History professor Judith Giesberg, PhD, and archivist and genealogists from Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia are uncovering and digitizing these ads in an online database. The "Last Seen" project has become a critically important tool for researchers, students and individuals looking to piece together their own family history. MORE...

RED THUMBS

Growing food on Mars is not just a plotline in the 2015 film "The Martian." Edward Guinan, PhD and Scott Engle, PhD, professors in the department of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, began the “Red Thumbs Mars Garden Project” to research the feasibility of growing sustainable food sources in sheltered greenhouses on the Red Planet. MORE...