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

NEW ANTIBIOTIC APPROACHES

Matthew O’Reilly, PhD, assistant professor of Chemistry, received a $340,871 grant from the National Institutes of Health to support his project, “Development of allosteric dihydrofolate inhibitors: exploration of a novel inhibitory mechanism for a validated antibiotic target.” Dr. O’Reilly studies the intersection of chemistry and biology and is specifically interested in discovery efforts toward new antibacterial compounds. MORE...

ANT ADHESION

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $480,927 grant to Alyssa Stark, PhD, assistant professor of Biology, to support her research on how environmental factors affect the performance, behavior and morphology of biological organisms. The project, will seek to quantify the functional morphology of ant adhesion and relate it to the ecology and behavior of tropical arboreal (tree-dwelling) ants. MORE...

SPEAKING THROUGH MASKS

Joseph Toscano, PhD, and Cheyenne Toscano, PhD, from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, published research showing how various types of masks affect speech recognition in different levels of background noise. They found that a speaker wearing a surgical mask over their mouth has virtually the same chance of being understood as a speaker without a mask and published an article in the February 2021 issue of the journal "PLOS ONE." MORE...

BOOK SMASHES STEREOTYPES

Throughout history, temperance and prohibition have often been viewed as a largely American movement. In a new book, "Smashing the Liquor Machine," Mark Lawrence Schrad, PhD, associate professor of Political Science, offers an international history of alcohol prohibition—redefining it as a progressive, global, pro-justice movement that affected virtually every significant world leader from the 18th through the early 20th centuries. MORE...