By the end of 2012, faculty in UNC Charlotte’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences published more than two dozen books that contributed to the University’s research and scholarly mission.
College faculty members wrote and edited books focused on issues in psychology, communications research and public relations, public policy issues, children’s literature, mathematical research, the Holocaust and cinema, the American Civil War and Africana literature and cultural and historical issues.
Of the 26 books, internationally acclaimed poet-scholar Tanure Ojaide, Africana studies, published four books. Also in Africana studies, department chair Akin Ogundiran co-edited two works. Ojaide will be the fourth presenter in the Personally Speaking published authors series on March 26, sponsored by the college and J. Murrey Atkins Library.
Among other books, “The Jesus Discovery: The New Archaeological Find that Reveals the Birth of Christianity,” co-authored by James Tabor, chair of religious studies, was the focus of a Discovery Channel special. Tabor also authored “Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity.”
Leading up to the presidential nominating convention, the Charlotte Observer featured Richard Leeman’s “The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama,” and he provided context in other news accounts during the convention. Leeman, communication studies, was the second speaker in this year’s Personally Speaking series. Also in 2012, he co-edited “The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches.”
The History Department’s Karen Cox edited “Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History.” Cox is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and was the featured speaker in the 2012 annual spring lecture presented by the college’s Center for the Study of the New South and the Levine Museum of the New South.
Eric Heberlig, political science and public administration, co-authored Congressional Parties, Institutional Ambition, and the Financing of Majority Control. Heberlig was co-chair of the University’s 49er Democracy Experience and co-directed numerous student-learning opportunities during the convention. He also acted as an expert commentator for national and international media and was one of local public radio outlet WFAE’s daily convention commentators.
A complete listing of 2012 CLAS faculty authors is online.