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The Dean's Bookshelf

In 2018-2019 College of Arts & Sciences faculty published books in a wide variety of fields.

  • published: 2019/03/01
Kent Blansett

Kent Blansett publishes first book.

Battisti BookWhom We Shall Welcome: Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965

Danielle Battisti
Danielle Battisti is an associate professor of history at UNO, specializing in American immigration and ethnic history. Torrie Hester, St. Louis University, writes of Battisti’s first book, “an outstanding book, making many important and timely interventions in the studies of migration and ethnicity, post-World War II liberalism and conservatism, and immigration policy.”

A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement

Kent Blansett
Kent Blansett is associate professor of history at UNO and his first book, published with Yale University Press, appears in their Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity. This is the first biography of Akwesasne Mohawk activist Richard Oakes, who played a major role in the famed 1969 Alcatraz Takeover by the organization Indians of All Tribes.

Teaching Professional and Technical Communication: a Practicum in a Book

Ed. Tracy Bridgeford
Tracy Bridgeford is professor of English at UNO specializing in technical communication, content management, content strategy, and design. According to Bridgeford. this collection of twelve essays “does not aim to be a compendium of best practices” but “does provide plenty of practical advice and examples” The book grew out of her efforts to create a technical communication pedagogy course.

Teaching Science Thinking: Using Scientific Reasoning in the Classroom

Chris Moore
Chris Moore is associate professor of physics and George Haddix Community Chair of Science at UNO. As with his first book,Creating Scientists: Teaching and Assessing Science Practice for the NGSS, also published by Routledge, Moore’s target audience is K-12 teachers working to incorporate NGSS or Next Generation Science Standards into their science classrooms.

The Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Community Engagement and Outreach

Eds. Joseph Allen and Roni Reiter-Palmon
Roni Reiter-Palmon is Varner Professor of Psychology at UNO and edited the handbook with former UNO colleague Joseph Allen now at University of Utah. According to the Introduction, “contributors who have expertise in community engagement address best practices for impacting communities through partnerships and collaboration.”

Echo of Its Time: the History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867-1933

John Wunder and Mark Scherer
Mark Scherer, professor of history at UNO, specializes in legal, constitutional, Native American legal, Nebraska and Great Plains history. Echo of Its Time, co-authored with UNL professor emeritus of history,John Wunder, explores deliberations over labor disputes and violence, political corruption and Progressive Era reform, conflicts between cattle ranchers and homesteaders, government agents and bootleggers.