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Campaigns That Matter: The Importance of Campaign Visits in Presidential Nominating Contests
Jay Wendland
Every four years Americans are inundated with campaign activities from candidates attempting to become the next president of the United States. An under-researched area of these campaign activities are campaign visits—rallies, town hall meetings, and candidate meet-and-greets for example. Almost all candidates conduct visits, yet we do not have a good understanding of how they affect voters. Wendland tackles four big questions throughout Campaigns That Matter: 1) Do campaigns matter? 2) Are campaign visits strategic? 3) Do visits help mobilize voters? 4) Do visits impact candidate preference? Using a unique set of data that includes all visits conducted throughout the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential nominating contests, Wendland explores how these visits affected voters compared to traditional measures of advertisements, campaign spending, and momentum. In doing so, Wendland has provided us with a more comprehensive picture of how voters make decisions in the voting booth.
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Training and Conditioning Techniques
Nicole Chimera
Chapter in Introduction to Athletic Training and Emergency Care in Sports, 3rd ed., edited by Deborah L. Craig.
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Realism (other)
Hamish Dalley
Entry in The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, by Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz (Eds.).
Book Description: The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies brings together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial condition, covering the period from 1492 to the present.
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Genocide, the Bible, and Biblical Scholarship
Shawn Kelley
Scholarship is currently engaged in a rich debate around the historical, hermeneutical and theological problems posed by the Bible's occasional yet enthusiastic endorsement of mass extermination. The article engages this ongoing scholarly conversation by way of a dialogue with the emerging field of genocide studies. Part I analyzes the scholarly debates that swirl around definitional and theoretical issues. Far from being an atavistic or irrational irruption into the ordered world of civilization, scholarship sees genocide as woven into the very structure of modern civilization. Part II and III look closely at specific biblical examples of mass extermination. Attention is paid to both ancient extermination campaigns and to textual moments where the Bible appears to endorse mass violence. The article concludes by challenging the widely held view that genocide arises out of ancient hatred and briefly sketches the wide range of ideological elements that inform genocidal thinking and practice.
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Everyone is Now a ‘Teacher of the Core’-Even Higher Education is Converged in This Reform Movement
Susan Krickovich and D. Phillips
Chapter in Confronting Oppressive Assessments: How Parents, Educators, and Policymakers are Rethinking Current Educational Reforms, edited by Walter S. Polka and John McKenna.
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Voicing the Unspeakable: Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad
Shirley Peterson
Chapter in The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel, edited by Elizabeth Mannion.
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New Directions in Philosophy of Medicine
Jacob Stegenga, Ashley Graham Kennedy, Şerife Tekin, Saana Jukola, and Robyn Bluhm
Chapter in The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine, edited by James A. Marcum.
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Temporal Disjunction in the Postcolonial Historical Novel: Re-Reading Time with Achebe and Rushdie
Hamish Dalley
Readings of the historical novel, both scholarly and popular, usually focus on the genre’s epistemological ambiguity – the combination of invention and documentation that makes it frequently an object of intellectual anxiety. Other genres have been accused of corrupting morality, or of leading their readers from ethical and religious truth. Yet the historical novel is unique in the extent to which its mixing of imagined and recorded events has been seen as threatening knowledge itself. As Richard Maxwell observes, “No one ever worried reflexively about the corrupting influence of novels obsessed with or pervaded by geography; the historical novel, by contrast, has often been thought an offense against reason and truth” (Maxwell 2009, 12). Such anxieties might be expected at times when a new genre is emerging, but recent cases in which authors have touched on issues of public concern demonstrate that epistemological paranoia continues to shape readings of the historical novel. For example, when the Australian writer Kate Grenville published The Secret River in 2005 she presented her novel as a contribution to popular knowledge of the violence that attended the foundation of Australia-a claim rejected by some professional historians, who denied that fiction could be a medium for historical understanding (Clendinnen 2006; Grenville and Koval 2005; McKenna 2006). Conversely, when Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offered her bestselling Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) as an attempt to “make Nigerians [ … ] aware of their history” (Adichie 2008, 53), she won acknowledgement for the value of her contribution not only to literature, but also to popular knowledge of the Biafran war (Arana 2010; Gurnah 2007; Hawley 2008). What these examples demonstrate is that whether it is being feted as a unique window into earlier times, or disparaged as corrupting “real” understanding, it is the frisson produced by the genre’s mixing of real and imaginary things that makes it interesting for both scholarly and public audiences. This essay offers a different perspective, not in the hope of dislodging episte-mological interpretations but in order to demonstrate a different approach to the genre’s hybridity. In the first part of this paper I suggest that we can indeed understand the historical novel as disjunctive – not only in terms of its epistemology, but also its ontology. I argue that the historical novel is characterised by a disjunction in the qualities of the objects that constitute its subject matter.
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Temporal Systems in Representations of the Past: Distance, Freedom and Irony in Historical Fiction
Hamish Dalley
Chapter in Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past, edited by Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons.
Abstract: A common response to the historical novel’s blurring of the boundary between history and fiction is to search for something that distinguishes the two. A concept sometimes invoked is the idea of ‘distance’ — a spatial metaphor that names the conceptual separation between past and present assumed to be a precondition of historical understanding. Disciplinary history, the argument goes, depends on respecting the distance between the current-day researcher and his or her objects of inquiry. Fiction, by contrast, breaks that distance down, creating a seductive but disabling illusion of immersion in a past world. As a way of defining the difference between modes of representation, temporal distance affirms the superiority of professional history and dismisses the historical novel as entertaining, but epistemologically misguided. Yet the idea that history and fiction can be distinguished like this occludes the ways that temporality is constructed textually. As Mikhail Bakhtin argues, time is not an abstract medium within which stories happen, but is produced in the course of narrative, and can take forms substantially more complex — and with more significant aesthetic and ideological implications — than the binary between distance and proximity allows (1981, 84–5). This essay examines the construction of temporal distance in historical novels.
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Methods for Sampling and Analyzing Wetland Algae
Steven Francoeur, Steven Rier, and Sarah Whorley
Book chapter in Wetland Techniques: Volume 2: Organisms, edited by James T. Anderson and Craig A. Davis.
Chapter Abstract: Algae are a biologically diverse group of aquatic photosynthetic organisms, and are often common in wetlands. Algal species vary in their optimal environmental conditions, thus the taxonomic identity of algae present in a wetland can be used to make inferences about the environmental characteristics (e.g., water quality) of the wetland in which they are found. Algae also play important roles in the ecology of wetlands. They can be highly abundant and productive, thereby supporting wetland food webs and affecting wetland biogeochemical cycles. It is hoped that this chapter will provide a useful reference for wetland scientists and managers, and also serve to introduce students to appropriate methods for the sampling and analysis of wetland algae.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, Allegorical Aesthetics and Georg Lukács' Theory of Realism
Hamish Dalley
Chapter in Narrative is the Essence of History: Essays on the Historical Novel, edited by John Cameron.
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The Bible Tells Them So: The Discourse of Protestant Fundamentalism
Kathleen Boone
Exploring its vigorous hold on believers and its influence on American public life, Boone approaches the authority of fundamentalism through its discourse. She uses literary theory to explain how the Bible actually functions in sermons and other discourse. Emphasizing the critical problem of any appeal to the "text itself," the book demonstrates that the authority of fundamentalism is ultimately an authority of the text and of the interpreter, equally. Without the Bible, the preacher is powerless, but without the preacher's interpretations, the text loses its binding authority.
The book examines principles of interpretation with extensive reference to such literary theorists as E. D. Hirsch, Stanley Fish, and Edward Said. The sensitive juxtaposition of fundamentalism and literary criticism not only opens a new window on fundamentalists, but also provides insights that will unsettle partisans of other persuasions.
This is a select list of books and book chapters in which Daemen College faculty or staff have authored, edited, or made other scholarly or creative contributions.
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