RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
Our faculty are engaged in fascinating research鈥攆rom studies on water rights in the Mekong riparian region to the historiography of Black Diaspora studies.
FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
Samer Abboud, PhD, is the author of Syria (Polity, 2018), a book that explores the background and trajectory of the Syrian conflict. In this book, Dr. Abboud explores how networks of violence emerged alongside a non-violent protest movement aimed at overthrowing the Syrian regime. The co-existence and tension between violence and non-violence in Syria shaped both the political and military stalemate that defined the conflict until Russian military intervention in late 2015. Dr. Abboud has explored the aftermath of this intervention in a number of recent journal articles including 鈥淩econciling Fights, Settling Civilians: The Making of Post-Conflict Citzienship in Syria,鈥� in Citizenship Studies (February, 2020) and 鈥淢aking peace to sustain war: the Astana Process and Syria鈥檚 illiberal peace鈥� in Peacebuilding (March 2021).
Nathan Badenoch, PhD, published Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area (Brill, 2020), co-edited with Nishaant Choksi, PhD, of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. This volume is the product of collaboration under an international research network convened to explore the class of words called expressives, or ideophones, across Asia. The chapters examine expressives in different languages from four major families of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic and Tibeto-Burman), from the perspectives of semantics, morphosyntax and phonotactics, as well as the performative contexts in which they are used, such as literature and film. The book advances a holistic approach to understanding expressives as part shared areal linguistic culture, local language ideologies and practices, and as an intersection of grammar and poetics. His contributions to this volume include 鈥淚ntroduction鈥� (with Nishaant Choksi), 鈥淪ticky Semantics: Expressive Meaning in Mundari鈥� and 鈥淓xpanding the Model of Expressive Reduplication in Mundari鈥� (with Toshiki Osada and Madhu Purti). As a part of the same project, Dr. Badenoch published, together with Toshiki Osada, PhD, A Dictionary of Mundari Expressives (2019), from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Africa and Asia.
WELCOME NEW FACULTY
Dana Lloyd, PhD, joined 棉花糖直播 University as assistant professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies in fall 2021. A scholar of law, religion, and indigeneity, she has an article, 鈥�,鈥� in the forthcoming issue of Journal of Law and Religion, as well as an article 鈥�,鈥� which serves as an introduction to a symposium she guest-edited, in the forthcoming issue of Political Theology. She also has two chapters in the forthcoming edited volume (Equinix, 2022): 鈥淚s Indigenous Law Religious?鈥� and 鈥淲hat is a Land-Based Religious Tradition?鈥�
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Joseph Lennon, PhD, recently published on the Irish poet, W.B. Yeats, and the Indian writer, Rabindranath Tagore鈥攂oth Nobel Laureates and influential anti-colonial writers in the early twentieth century. His book chapters appear in Yeats and Asia, ed. Sean Golden (Cork UP, 2020) and Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning, eds. Elizabeth Redwine and Amrita Ghosh (forthcoming 2022).
Kayo Shintaku, PhD, had a chapter 鈥淕ame-mediated activities in JFL classrooms: Considerations and issues in learning, teaching, and implementation,鈥� published in the edited volume, Technology-supported Learning In and Out of the Japanese Language Classroom: Advances in Pedagogy, Teaching and Research (Eds. by E. Zimmerman & A. McMeekin, Multilingual Matters, 2019).
Nathan Badenoch, PhD, published Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area (Brill, 2020), co-edited with Nishaant Choksi, PhD, of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar.
Samer Abboud, PhD, published an article, 鈥淩econciling Fights, Settling Civilians: The Making of Post-Conflict Citzienship in Syria,鈥� in Citizenship Studies (February, 2020) and 鈥淢aking peace to sustain war: the Astana Process and Syria鈥檚 illiberal peace鈥� in Peacebuilding (March 2021).
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