University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Selected Faculty Publications
Arbelaez, Maria. 2002. "Good Friday in Omaha, Nebraska: A Mexican Celebration." Great Plains Research 12(1): 12-26. Cuban Energy Policy: Economic Considerations, Technological Choices and Sustainability (under contract with the University Press of Florida) forthcoming 2006. “Commentary on ‘ Cuba’s Energy Challenge: Fueling the Engine of Future Economic Growth’ by Jorge Piñón Cervera.” In Cuba in Transition, Volume 15 ( Washington, DC: ASCE, forthcoming 2006). The Development of Mexican Nonproliferation Export Controls – CITS Research Report. (Center for International Trade and Development), forthcoming 2006. “The Problems and Prospects of a Sustainable Energy Future in Cuba” Cuba In Transition? Pathways to Renewal, Long-Term Development and Global Reintegration. Mauricio Font, editor (Forthcoming 2006, CUNY Press). Latino Political Participation in Nebraska: The Challenge of Enhancing Voter Mobilization and Representation. (2006) OLLAS Special Report No. 3. Omaha, NE: Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS), University of Nebraska at Omaha. “Reconsidering the Scope and Trajectory of Cuban Studies,” International Third World Studies Journal and Review, Volume XVI (Fall 2005). “Cuba and the Nonproliferation Regime: A Small State Response to Global Instability” The Nonproliferation Review. (Volume 10, Number 3) 2003. pp. 24-34. “Kubas Atompolitik,” Berliner Debatte Initial (in German) (3). ( June 14, 2003), pp. 106-116. “Energy Policy Sustainability and Future Good Governance in Cuba.” Florida Coastal Law Review Volume 2, Number 2. (Spring 2001) pp. 423-434. Power to the People: Energy and the Cuban Nuclear Program. ( New York and London: Routledge, Inc., 2000) 200 pgs. “Dealing with Cuban Demons” Yaderni Control (in Russian) No. 2, March/April 2000. pp 71-78. “Investment and International Cooperation in Cuba’s Energy Sector ” Cuba in Transition, Volume 8 (Washington, DC: ASCE, 1999). Pp. 171-186 “Export Controls in the Republic of Cuba: Status Report” in Global Evaluation of Nonproliferation Export Controls: 1999 Report (Athens, Georgia: CITS, 1999), pp. 197-208. “Cuba’s Nuclear Energy Program” Cuba Briefing Paper No. 19, The Caribbean Project, Georgetown University, October 1998. 8 pp. “Non-Issue: Cuba’s Mothballed Nuclear Power Plant,” An International Policy Report, No. 17, Center for International Policy, Washington, D.C. (July 1998), 10 pp. “The Quest for Power: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cuba’s Nuclear Policy,” Cuba in Transition, Volume 6, (Miami, ASCE, 1997), 431-438. "Proliferation Risks and Nonproliferation Opportunities in Cuba: An Assessment of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons Capabilities" in The Military and Transition in Cuba: Reference Guide for Policy and Crisis Management (Washington: International Research 2000, 1995), Sec. III.2, 1-8. "Cuba’s Nuclear Power Program and Post-Cold War Pressures," with Alexander Belkin, The Nonproliferation Review, (Winter 1994), Volume 1, Number 2, 18-26. “El Programa Nuclear Cubano y Las Presiones del Periodo Posterior a la Guerra Fria,” Revista Occidental (in Spanish) 11:4 (1994), 169-188. Kelly-Vance, L., Nero, C., Casas, J.F., Ryan, C.S., Ryalls, B.O., Kurien, S., & Ferguson, A. (in press). Parental involvement in education: A comparison of English and Spanish speaking parents. New Mexico Review. Casas, J.F., Ryan, C.S., Kelly-Vance, L., Ryalls, B.O., Ferguson, A., & Nero, C. (2005). Examining the impact of parental involvement in a dual language program: Implications for children and schools. OLLAS Special Report No. 2. Omaha, NE: Office of Latino/Latin American Studies (OLLAS) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. 2007 “Second-Generation Latinos in Nebraska: A First Look.” Migration Policy Institute. January. (with Mary Ann Powell). 2006 “Nebraska's Responses to Immigration.” Pp. 143-198 in “Immigration's New Frontiers: Experiences from the Emerging Gateway States.” edited by Greg Anrig Jr. and Tova Wang. new York: The Century Foundation Press. 2005 “Latinos in Rural America: From Historic Pioneers to Newcomers.” Vol. 1, Special Issue On “Rural Latinos”of the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies. April 2005. 2005 “The Great Plains Migration: Mexicanos and Latinos in Nebraska.” In Victor Zuñiga and Ruben Hernandez León (Eds.). New Destinations of Mexican Immigration in the United States: Community Formation, Local Responses and Inter-Group Relations. Russell Sage. (With Miguel Carranza and Jasney Cogua). 2005 Educational Achievement and the Successful Integration of Latinosin Nebraska. Research Report. Funded by the Mexican American Commission. Published by the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies. Special Research Report #1. (with Mary Ann Powell). 2004 “Chapter 6: Incorporation of Latino/Immigrants in Rural Nebraska Comunities: Grand Island and Schuyler.” Pp. 1-24 in “Latinos in the Rural Midwest: Community Development Implications.” by Ann V. Millard, Jorge Chapa, Rogelio Saenz, Refugio I. Rochín. Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (with Thomas Sanchez, Jackie Gabriel and Lucy Garza). 2004. “Chapter 8: Demographic and Economic Trends” Pp. 1-19 in “Latinos in the Rural Midwest: Community Development Implications.” by Ann V. Millard, Jorge Chapa, Rogelio Saenz, Refugio I. Rochín. Report submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (with Rogelio Saenz and Thomas Sanchez). 2003 “Latinos in the South: A Glimpse of Ongoing Trends and Research.” (With Rogelio Saenz, Katharine M. Donato and Cruz Torres). Southern Rural Sociology. 19(1): 1-19. 2003 “Manufacturing Bacteriological Contamination in Industrialized Meat Production Systems.” 20:3-19. Agriculture and Human Values (Co-Authored with Arunas Juska, Jackie Gabriel and Katheleen Stanley). 2002 “Taming Nature, Taming Workers: The Construction of Meat Consumption and Meat Production,” Sociologia Ruralis. Vol 42(4): 370-390 (with Arunas Juska). 2002 “The Integration of the Hispanic/Latino Immigrant Workforce.” Research Report presented to the Task Force on the Productive Integration of the Immigrant Workforce Population, Nebraska State Legislature/Mexican-American Commission. (Co-authored with Miguel Carranzas). 2000 “Global Forces and Latino Population Growth in the Midwest: A regional and Subregional Analysis.” With Rogelio Saenz, Texas A&M. (Special Issue on “The Latino Experience in the Great Plains,” Great Plains Journal Vol 10(2):305-328. 2000 “Negotiating Bacteriological Meat Contamination Standards in the US: The Case of E.Coli 0157:H7.” Sociologia Ruralis, Vol.40 (2): 249-271. An article examining interaction among global restructuring of meat, labor organization, and hegemonic regimes of safety standards. (With Arunas Juska, Jackie Gabriel and Susan Koneck). “Re-Opening Totalities: Venezuela’s Restructuring and the Globalization Debate,” in Michael Watts and David Goodman, Globalizing Food. Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring, Pp.305-323. London and New York: Routledge. 1997 “Beyond NAFTA: Global-Local Links in the Restructuring of Venezuelan and Colombian Agri-food Sectors.” In C. Kay (ed) Disappearing Peasants? Rural Land and Labour in Latin America, Asia and Africa, Pp 176-191. Wageningen: Wageningen University Press. (With Luis Llambi and E. Arias-Fe de Errata on authorship error on file with publisher and authors). 1997 “Latino Immigrants, Meatpacking, Work, and Rural Communities”. JSRI Research Report No. 26, Michigan: Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University (18 pages and graphs). 1995 "Dances with Cows : Beefpacking's Impact on Garden City, Kansas and Lexington, Nebraska." (with Donald D.Stull) In Broadway etal. Any Way You Cut It. Meatprocessing and Small-Town America, Pp.85-108. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press. 1995 “Talk is Cheap: The Changing Value of Language in the International Economy--Illustrations from the US and Quebec” (with Mark Rousseau). Sociological Inquiry, Spring, Vol. 65: 154-180. 1994 “The Restructuring of the Venezuelan State and State Theory: Implications for Agrarian Policies." International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Vol 4: 64-83 (With Luis Llambi). 1994 “Introduction” in From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food (Co-edited with Alessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch, William Friedland and Enzo Mingione). Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, Pp 1-28. 1993 “Immigrant Labor in the Internationalization of Meat Processing." In Alessandro Bonanno (ed.) The Agricultural and Food Sector in a New Global Era. Pp.93-110 New Delhi: Concept Publishers. 1993 “Creating a Disposable Labor Force” (With R. Hackenberg, David Griffith, and Donald D. Stull) Aspen Institute Quarterly, 5(2): 78-101. “Estado, Municipalidades e Inmigrantes Latinoamericanos en La Internacionalización del Circuito de la Carne.” International Journal of the Sociology of Food and Agriculture , 2(2): 116-131. 1988 “Obstacles to Collectivization Among Indigenous Communities: Two Venezuelan Cases.” MidAmerica Review of Sociology, Winter:41(58): 41-58. Gouveia, Lourdes, Mary Ann Powell, with Esperanza Camargo. 2005. Furman, Rich, Carol Langer and Thomas Wayne Sanchez. “A qualitative Study of Immigration Policy and Practice Dilemmas for Social Work Students.” Journal of Social Work Education. In press. Wahl, Ana-Maria, Eduardo Perez, Mary Jo Deegan, Thomas W. Sanchez and Cheryl Applegate. “Controversial Classroom: Institutional Resources and Pedagogical Strategies for a Race Relations Course.” Teaching Sociology. Vol. 28 No.4(October) Wahl, Ana-Maria, Steven E. Gunkel and Thomas W. Sanchez. “Death and Disability in the Heartland: Corporate (Mis)Conduct, Regulatory Responses, and the Plight of Latino Workers in the Meatpacking Industry.” Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences. Vol. 10 No.2 (Fall). Kelly, Mary E. and Thomas W. Sanchez. “Selected Readings on Ethnicity, Family and Community: A Bibliography.” Ethnic Studies Review Vol. 19, No.1 (February): 101-113. Dr. Joanne Sowell, Project Director for Arts4Learning Nexus Site, editor for University of Nebraska at Omaha page and three teacher lessons. Posted 2004. <http://arts4learning.org/uofnebraska/uofnebraska.aspx> "A Cross-Cultural Survey of Art History: Challenging Assumptions About Art," Multicultural Prism: Voices from the Field. Volume 2. Ed. J. Q. Adams and Janice R. Welsch (Western Illinois University, 1996), pp. 137-150. "Reports on the Art History Survey: A Cross-Cultural Approach " Art Journal , 54, #3 (Fall 1995), 72-75. "The Dating of the Construction of the Monastery of Sacramenia."AthanorV (Tallahassee: Florida State University, 1985), pp. 1-9. "Sacramenia in Spain and Florida: A Preliminary Assessment," Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture, ed. Meredith Lillich (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1982), pp. 71-77. |