Description: This book is the first to explore major painters of the 1980s in depth and to analyze the factors that shaped art from the period. Accessible to both novice and specialist, Painting in the 1980s details where and how painting embodied the zeitgeist in original fusions of style and content. Gallerists, curators, and art historians assigned labels such as New Image Painting, Neo-Expressionism, Italian Transavanguardia, Neo-Geo, and the blanket designation of Postmodernism to categorize painting in this era, yet these classifications denote a false sense of homogeneity. This book’s narrative aims to excavate and analyze the art and ideas that shaped each artist’s style and their diverse and often ambiguous content.

Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press

Description: Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as a water engineer, negotiator, and commentator, Mark Zeitoun provides a unique insider’s account of our complex relationship with water. He explains how un-checked assumptions about water mix with political and economic systems to create an insatiable and ruinous thirst for ever more water. He shows how we use water to lethal effect in wars, and demolish drinking-water systems with wanton disregard. He questions why we transform the most majestic of rivers into canals which spark international conflict and challenge our capacity for preventative diplomacy. The answers reflect more about our society than we might care to admit. If we are to restore water’s inner grace, Zeitoun argues, we should worry not so much about ‘saving’ water, but about what we do with it when it's in our hands.

Reflections draws upon the author’s decades of experience teaching and communicating complex water issues, and replaces widely held myths with new concepts from around the globe. He brings attention to the dissonance between how we see and feel about water and what we do with it, calling upon readers to develop an informed ethos of water that reflects the restorative nature of this essential resource.

Oxford University Press

Description: This book tells a compelling story about love, friendship, and the Divine that took over a thousand years to unfold. It argues that mind and feeling are intrinsically connected in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus; that Aristotle developed his theology and physics primarily from Plato’s Symposium (from the “Greater” and “Lesser Mysteries” of Diotima-Socrates’ speech); and that the Beautiful and the Good are not coincident classes, but irreducible Forms, and the loving ascent of the Symposium must be interpreted in the light of the Republic, as the later tradition up to Ficino saw. Against the view that Platonism is an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary experience or opposed to loving individuals for their own sakes, this book argues that Plato dramatizes the ambiguities of ordinary experience, confronts the possibility of failure, and bequeaths erotic models for the loving of individuals to later thought. Finally, it examines the Platonic-Aristotelian heritage on the Divine to discover whether God can love us back, and situates the dramatic development of this legacy in Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, and Dionysius the Areopagite.

Wipf & Stock Cascade Books

Description: How can theatre and Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals?

Employing an integrative approach that draws from science, actor training, therapeutical practices and current research on the senses, this study reveals the work being done by drama practitioners with a range of specialized populations, such as incarcerated people, neurodiverse individuals, those with physical or emotional disabilities, veterans, people experiencing homelessness and many others. With insights drawn from visits to numerous international programs, it argues that these endeavors succeed when they engage multiple human senses and incorporate kinesthetic learning, thereby tapping into the diverse benefits associated with artistic, movement and mindfulness practices.

Neither theatre nor Shakespeare is universally beneficial, but the syncretic practices described in this book offer tools for physical, emotional and collaborative undertakings that assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals. Among the practitioners and companies whose work is examined here are programs from the Shakespeare in Prison Network, the International Opera Theater, Blue Apple Theatre, Flute Theatre, DeCruit and Feast of Crispian programs for veterans, Extant Theatre and prison programs in Kolkata and Mysore, India.

Bloomsbury Publishing

Description: Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, & the Female Form surveys a series of works on paper by James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), the American artist best known for the poignant portrait of his aging mother. These pictures are of a very different order: although Whistler referred to them simply as “draped & nude figures,” scholars and collectors have tended to call them “Tanagras” after the Hellenistic terracotta statuettes unearthed in the early 1870s in the necropolis of the ancient Boeotian city of Tanagra. The figurines, which date to the third and fourth centuries BCE, were brand new to the nineteenth century. As one antiquarian observed in 1879, “Their principal charm consists in the fact that they are completely different from any other antiques we know.” Small in scale and informal in style, they typically represent ordinary mortals rather than gods and heroes, making them easy to understand and appreciate.

Ancient Tanagras depicting elegant young women tightly wrapped in swathes of drapery held the most appeal for nineteenth-century viewers and collectors. The related works by Whistler, mostly lithographs, depict the female model either nude or draped in semitransparent fabric. Despite that salient difference, the modern and ancient works share what Whistler’s biographer described as “the same flawless daintiness, the same purity of pose, the same harmony of line, the same grace of contour.” Recasting Antiquity, by juxtaposing Whistler’s “Tanagras” with the objects of their inspiration, invites consideration of the nineteenth-century taste for the figurines and what it may reveal about changing attitudes toward classical antiquity and conventional Western notions of femininity.

Emory University Michael C. Carlos Museum

Description: Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection presents forty-five works of sculpture, painting, ceramics, printmaking, and photography by twenty-four contemporary artists living and working on the African continent and in the diaspora. The work comprises new acquisitions made possible by a significant five-year gift from the Straus Family Foundation. Insistent Presence examines how artists have reimagined the human figure as a lens to pose questions about social and political histories, contested identities, and the possible future of how we relate to one another. The exhibition title was inspired by renowned African art scholars and curators Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu. These scholars point to the enduring usefulness of depicting the human figure for artists keen on affirming the humanity of Africans and those critical of postcolonial governments. In this exhibition, artists provocatively explore the human body through juxtapositions of those political concerns with emotions and passions of everyday lived experiences.

Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract: Does unethical leader behaviour produce gendered responses? We study follower response to unethical leader behaviours of bribery and workplace harassment. Our findings, based on an experiment, suggest that leader gender, gender congruence, and implicit gender biases influence follower responses to unethical leader behaviour. These findings raise the troubling implication that unethical male leaders will remain entrenched in positions of power.

Public Management Review

Abstract: In order to deter aggressive tax planning, the Australian government mandated public disclosure of three line items from large corporations’ tax returns. However, there is no evidence that the mandated disclosure led public firms to pay more taxes. Instead, I find that firms strategically offset expected reputational costs by voluntarily issuing supplemental information. Specifically, when managers expect new reputational costs from the mandated tax return disclosure (wherein the disclosure reveals an unexpectedly low tax liability) and low proprietary costs from a supplemental voluntary disclosure (wherein the firm discloses its nonaggressive tax planning), firms are likely to voluntarily disclose information that both preempts and supplements the government’s mandatory disclosure. Thus, when mandatory disclosures are incomplete, firms will voluntarily issue additional information to remain in control of their disclosure environments.

The Accounting Review

Abstract: As the resident macrophages of the brain, microglia are crucial immune cells specific to the central nervous system (CNS). They constantly surveil their surroundings and trigger immunological reactions, playing a key role in various neurodegenerative diseases (ND). As illnesses progresses, microglia exhibit multiple phenotypes. Traditionally, microglia have been classified into two main phenotypes upon activation: the pro-inflammatory M1 polarization and the anti-inflammatory M2 polarization. However, this classification is now considered overly simplistic, as it is unable to fully convey the intricacy and diversity of the inflammatory response. Immune regulatory factors, such as chemokines secreted by microglia, are essential for modulating brain development, maintaining the neural milieu, and orchestrating responses to injury, along with the subsequent repair processes. However, in recent years, the significance of metabolic reprogramming in both physiological microglial activity and NDs has also become increasingly recognized. Upon activation—triggered by brain injury, infection, or NDs—microglia typically modify their metabolic processes by transitioning from oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) phosphorylation to glycolysis. This shift facilitates rapid energy production but may also enhance pro-inflammatory responses. This review seeks to summarize metabolic reprogramming and polarization in the function of microglia and their involvement in NDs.

Aging and Disease (under review)

Abstract: A qualitative research study with generic design was used to answer the research question: “How do LPCs (licensed professional counselors) and LMHCs (licensed mental health counselors) describe their experiences with the process of evaluating transgender and gender nonbinary (TGNB) adult clients prior to seeking a prescription for hormone replacement therapy (HRT)?” This study targeted the specific population of LPCs and LMHCs who had experience providing an evaluation and a letter of readiness for at least one TGNB adult client seeking HRT with a final sample size of 13 participants. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with guided questions; analyzed, coded, and organized the data into categories using MAXQDA qualitative analysis software; and then collated into themes. Five themes identified (a) supervision is essential, (b) awareness, (c) trusting the client, (d) lack of education in master’s programs, and (e) Standards of Care. The study results indicate that curriculum updates must include treating TGNB populations in counseling in order to comprehensively educate future counselors, counselor educators, and future supervisors. Future research could focus on other gender affirming medical treatment besides HRT, broaden the geographical diversity of participants, or include participants who don’t identify themselves as experts or experienced with TGNB clients. These directions could generate data to address the baseline of counselors exiting counselor master’s programs across the country by showing LPCs and LMHCs general skill, knowledge, and awareness.

Capella University, ProQuest

Description: Fiercely conflicting urges animate the characters in ‘Family Impromptu’, a provocative, engaging collection of short stories that challenge and entertain as they reveal the peculiar way we both create and resist family life.

In these captivating stories, we encounter the tangle of emotions that accompany close relationships. Marriages expand and contract, love seeks fulfillment in a library, children dream of stalkers and kidnappings, dead dogs reconnect partners, and a cousin gets executed in Texas. Poignant, humorous, and even unsettling at times, this collection takes a frank look at the complicated yet endearing jumble of family ties as characters pursue both intimacy and independence.

The Conrad Press

Abstract: This causal-comparative quantitative study sought to identify whether CACREP accreditation status could predict counselors' readiness to adopt advanced alternative substance use disorder (SUD) treatment practices and counselor self-efficacy with SUD populations. Employing a causal-comparative design, the study sought to identify the differences related to the adoption of advanced alternative evidence-based practices by using the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale and the Addiction Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale. By examining the differences in scores on the EBPAS and the ACSES, counselor educators may gain increased awareness related to addiction education among CACREP and non-CACREP programs to identify the necessary curriculum changes across all graduate counseling programs. Results from independent samples t-tests revealed there was no statistically significant difference on either the EBPAS or the ACSES. These findings suggest that non-CACREP addiction curricula have similar standards to CACREP-accredited programs. Such findings support that graduate counseling programs, whether CACREP or non-CACREP are providing similar education regarding addiction education.

Capella University, ProQuest

Abstract: Gender-based violence affects the lives of large numbers of Indigenous women in North America. Violence against Native women has deep roots in a militarized culture of violence that succeeding waves of European imperialism have sanctioned in the various conquests of Indigenous lands launched since 1492. The connection between empire, violence, and the American constitutional legal order will be demonstrated in a way that reveals why the criminal justice system has failed both to protect NA/AN women from violence and to punish offenders. I will examine how through their political writing and feminist rhetorics, NA/AN women have exposed and challenged the diverse forms through which imperialism operates in their lives, using their lives and narrative voice as a critical theory to undermine prevailing hegemonic viewpoints. I argue that international human rights law can be used by NA/AN women to dismantle the colonial infrastructure of violence against Native women, which includes racism, gender inequality, and the range of socioeconomic factors that impact Native nations.

Emory University School of Law

Abstract: This dissertation aims to study and analyze obstacles facing development in Saudi Arabia from a legal perspective. It focuses on human rights and law-related obstacles affecting the country’s development goals. The motivation for this dissertation arose from Saudi Arabia’s announcement for its development plan, Vision 2030, which includes various programs that aim to promote development in all aspects and diversify the economic resources by shifting from a rentier economy that depends totally on oil to a diversified economy. Accordingly, this dissertation studies, evaluates, and attempts to offer solutions to the legal and human rights issues that may prevent Vision 2030 goals from being achieved. […] This dissertation argues that there is an excellent opportunity to boost development in different aspects, reach goals sought by Vision 2030, and help attract foreign investments, only if Saudi Arabia adopts new reforms on these issues. […] The proposed solutions include bold reform measures through partial codification of some laws to enhance legal certainty and make laws clear, predictable, and accessible, accompanied by judiciary reform.

Emory University School of Law