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A favorable review of Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang’s book Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema, 1951-1979 recently appeared on Viewfinder, the journal of British Universities Film & Video Council. The book was published in July by Palgrave Macmillan.

“Mummy Jum: The Shaker-Pilgrim Encounter of 1817-1818,” an article by Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie was published in Communal Societies. He also co-edited a three-volume set that is part of a series on communal societies.

Visiting Professor of Art History Scott MacDonald recently published a book titled Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema.

How College Works, a book co-authored by Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Daniel Chambliss and his former student Chris Takacs ’05, has been featured by The Chronicle of Higher Education as one of its book club selections for the last six weeks. In closing the book discussion on the Chronicle site and in social media via #ChronBooks, the publication is featuring a video of Chambliss.

Assistant Professor of Psychology José Causadias was the co-editor of La teoría del apego: Investigación y aplicaciones clínicas, the first edited handbook of parent-child attachment in Spanish.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa, currently on sabbatical in India, recently led two seminars on his book Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky: Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India.

A review of Professor of Government Robert Martin’s book Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic recently appeared on Common-Place, the online journal of early American life and culture. The book was published in 2013 by NYU Press.

Revolutionary Cycles in Chinese Cinema by Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.

This summer InsideHigherEd published two opinion pieces by Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Daniel F. Chambliss, both related to his research and resulting book How College Works. “Learn Your Students’ Names” appeared on August 26 and was preceded by “Beauty in Ugly Dorms” on June 25.

Jonathan Vaughan, the James L. Ferguson Professor of Psychology, co-authored a revised computer programming text for behavioral scientists titled MATLAB for Behavioral Scientists, Second Edition. The book, written with David Rosenbaum and Brad Wyble of Penn State University, was recently published by Taylor & Paul/Routledge.