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Faculty and Alumni Works
Engaged Research in a Hurry: The Case for and Complications of Immediate Anthropology
By Krista Billingsley and Dillon Mahoney (Journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vol. 80, Issue 2).
Billingsley and Mahoney argue for what they have termed “immediate anthropology,” or innovative ways to provide solutions that are immediately applicable to the communities with which researchers work. They describe how they applied their anthropological research methods to address the stated needs of Congo War refugees facing harassment and discrimination in Florida.
Administrative Records for Survey Methodology
Edited by Michael Larsen, Asaph Young Chun, Gabriele Durrant, and Jerome P. Reiter (John Wiley and Sons)
This book addresses issues involved in utilizing administrative and other data sources for improving surveys. It addresses population coverage, data quality, statistical estimation, record linkage, and confidentiality, among other topics, and applies methods to studying problems in demography, economics, agriculture, education, and health.
Theory of Computation
By Jim Hefferon
Hefferon’s latest version of his undergraduate text covers Turing Machines, the Halting problem, and P versus NP, which addresses what computers can and cannot do. The text also makes many connections with other things a student will learn—emphasizing the underlying ideas, while not sacrificing the technical material that students need for mastery.
Available Free at https://hefferon.net.
FACULTY AND ALUMNI
Apathy is Out
By Seán Ó Ríordáin Translated by Greg Delanty (Bloodaxe Books)
Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-77), the most important and most influential Irish-language poet of modern times, renewed poetry in Irish by writing out of the modernist sense of isolation, fragmentation, and identity, but he also saw beyond Modernism’s confines to the connective matrix of our world. Delanty’s translation captures the poetry’s verve, playfulness, and range.
No More Time
Delanty offers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. By stressing the deep underlying connections within and between the natural world and humankind, No More Time presents a vital view of what remains at stake in the 21st century.
Our Basin of Relations: The Art & Science of Living with Water!
By M E Sipe & Trevien Stanger (Louisiana State University Press)
Water does not lie. Here in the Champlain Basin— a flowing landscape of mountains and rivers, forests and farms, towns and cities—it is the water that whispers difficult truths. From erosion, pollution, and habitat loss, to the toxic algae blooms that close Champlain’s beaches every summer, this once vital ecosystem is coming undone. Featuring the fine art photography of M.E. Sipe, the curating vision of Trevien Stanger, and over a dozen essays written by thinkers, academics, poets, farmers, and activists who call this region home. They provide ways to see, hear, feel, and understand what the water is telling us.
