Social Change and Development Authors Continue to Reach International Audiences via Translation

• Recently Andrew Austin has reached German speaking audiences with "Kriegsfalken und der Hässliche Amerikaner" (War Hawks and the Ugly American: The Origins of Bush's Central Asia and Middle East Policy) in Bernd Hamm (ed) Gesellschaft Zerstören–Der Neoliberale Anschlag auf Demokratie und Gerechtigkeit (Berlin: Homilius Verlag, 2004), also published in England as Devastating Society: The Neo-conservative Assault on Democracy and Justice (Pluto Press, 2005). In the same volume he has also contributed with Laurel Phoenix "Der Politische Aufstieg der Umweltgegner" (Beyond the Texas Oil Patch: The Rise of Anti-Environmentalism).

• Harvey Kaye’s book The Powers of the Past (1991) has been translated and published in South Korea (Samin Books, 2004) and is the latest among several of his works that have been translated into foreign languages. 

• Kim Nielson's The Radical Lives of Helen Keller has been translated into Japanese and can now be obtained in that country. Nelson will also visit Japan this summer. 

• Lynn Walter has published “Rødstrømpebevægelsen. Sex, kærlighed og politik i 1968,” in 1968, Dengang og Nu (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Københavns Universitet, 2004). For non Danish speakers that is: The Redstocking Movement: Sex, Love and Politics in 1968

New Book Out from Harvey Kaye

Harvey Kaye's new book Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (FSG/Hill & Wang) has been published. Already it has received a "starred review" from Publishers Weekly, indicating a book of "outstanding quality. Kaye has been widely interviewed in the broadcast media, and received a warm review in the New York Times Book Review. 

Jordanian Visiting Scholar to Join Social Change and Development for 2005-06

For the 2005-2006 academic year, Dr. Ibtesam Al-Atiyat will be joining the UWGB campus as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence. She will be teaching four courses over the academic year. A citizen of Jordan, Dr. At-Atiyat has a Ph.D. in political sociology. Her 2003 dissertation was entitled "The Women's Movement in Jordan: Activism, Discourses and Strategies." She currently serves as a program officer for the Jordanian National Commission for Women and lectures at Balqa Applied University. Dr. Al-Atiyat's visit is the result of the efforts of Professor Kim Nielson.  Please join us in welcoming Dr. Al-Atiyat in the fall. 

Former Social Change and Development Major Jillian Duquaine Receives Ph.D. at the University of Iowa

Jillian Duquaine, excellent former Social Change and Development and Women’s Studies undergraduate student, defended her Ph.D. dissertation in Women's Studies with a concentration in Feminist Anthropology and received her doctoral degree at Spring commencement at the University of Iowa. Her thesis is entitled Negotiating Need: Single Mother College Students in Post-Welfare Reform America. (Click here for the abstract.) She will be teaching part-time in the Department for the Study of Culture and Society at Drake University, where her husband has a position, while she looks for more permanent employment and begins to write for publication.