Dr. Maulana Karenga is a professor in the Department of Africana Studies. On January 6th, 2011, he presented his paper “Reaffirmation and Renewal in Black Studies: Framework for an Ongoing Initiative” at the State of African American and Diaspora Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy and Research Conference. In addition, Dr. Karenga gave a Martin Luther King, Jr. [...]
Dr. John Jung is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Psychology. He presented talks to the Honors Program at the University of Memphis on his book Southern Fried Rice, to a general audience on the “History of Chinese in the South During the Jim Crow Era,” and to the fifth-grade students of the Campus [...]
Boak Ferris is a professor in the Departments of English and Comparative World Literature and Classics. He authored and published a textbook, Write Well, Write Fast: 20 Techniques of Professional Writing, which is suitable for graduate students, pre-professionals, and entry-level white-collar workers.
Dr. Brett Mizelle of the Department of History recently published his book Pig. The following is the “Product Description” on Amazon.com: “Known as much for their pink curly tails and pudgy snouts as their low-brow choice of diet and habitat, pigs are prevalent in popular culture—from the Three Little Pigs to Miss Piggy to Babe. Today there [...]
Professor Tim Keirn of the Department of History and Dr. Norbert Schürer of the Department of English recently published the book British Encounters with India, 1750-1830: A Sourcebook. Professor Keirn is a full-time lecturer in the Departments of History and Liberal Studies. His research, scholarship, and teaching efforts focus upon history education (with an emphasis in world [...]
