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African-American studies and religion: reaching out to the post-civil rights generation: Eddie Glaude Jr. Title: The William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Princeton University Education: Ph.D., Religion, Princeton University; M.A., Religion, Princeton University; M.A., African-American Studies, Temple University; B.A., Political Science, Morehouse College Age:39 The decade of the 1990s saw the emergence of...; Tags: CAREER, Princeton University, scholar, Temple University; Research articles 2008-01-10
Islamic letters, books to be posted online: PRINCETON, N.J. -- In a marriage of new technology and old documents, a vast treasure trove of information about life in the early Islamic world is about to go online, enabling Muslims, scholars and the merely curious to peer into a window on the faith's rich history. Numbering...; Tags: INTERNET, Princeton University, scholar; Research articles 2005-12-10
Keeping it real with juveniles: KEEPING IT REAL WITH JUVENILES: Dr. Cornel West, Princeton University religion professor, leaves the Valentine Residential Community Home, a facility operated by the state Juvenile Justice Commission, after he spoke to the residents in Bordentown, NJ. The noted scholar and best-selling author of Race Matters told a group of teens...; Tags: Princeton University, scholar, Strategy, TVs; Research articles 2005-05-09
James Hadley Billington: James Hadley Billington The American scholar and author James Hadley Billington (born 1929) was a student of Russian history who became director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and later the Librarian of Congress. James Hadley Billington was born June 1, 1929, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the son...; Tags: Leadership, Princeton University, scholar, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2005-01-01
Cornel West: pens powerful new book, 'Democracy Matters': You can always count on outspoken scholar Dr. Cornel West to speak his mind and tell it as he sees it. Such is the case with his latest book, the bold, hard-hitting and thought-provoking, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (Penguin Press, $24.95). The book is reshaping...; Tags: America, Dr., Government, Harvard University, Princeton University, scholar, Strategy; Research articles 2004-12-13

Discussing disgust: Many conservative scholars argue that shame and disgust should play central roles in public life. But in her new book Hiding From Humanity Princeton University Press, Martha C. Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, argues that these sentiments tend to distort public discussion in...; Tags: Christianity, Leadership, liberty, Princeton University, scholar, University of Chicago; Research articles 2004-07-01
Eggheads, take a crack at this mystery: The Rule of Four By Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason Dial Press, 372 pp., $24 --- With summer just beginning, readers are combing bookstores for the next The Da Vinci Code . The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason might just fit...; Tags: Princeton University, scholar; Research articles 2004-06-03
Managing Egypt's Poor and The Politics of Benevolence: 1800-1952: Domes 04-30-2004 Mine Ener Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. 144p. $35. ISBN: 0-6911-1378-5. Most people live seemingly and totally subject to the constraints imposed on their lives and are thus normally absent from most historical ...; Tags: Egypt, HEALTHCARE, Princeton University, scholar; Research articles 2004-04-30
Hutchings, Vincent L. Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn About Politics.(Book Review): Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 192 pp, $35.00, ISBN 0-691-11416-1 Publication Date: October 2003 Vincent L. Hutchings begins where most scholars of representation in American politics do--with the paradox of an inattentive public being represented by a responsive set of political elites....; Tags: accountability, FINANCE, MARKETING, media, paradox, Princeton University, scholar; Research articles 2004-01-01
Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning: Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in LearningThomas Neville Bonner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Thomas Bonner brings Abraham Flexner, Louisville's "old schoolmaster" turned national reformer, to life in a new biography, Iconoclast. Drawing heavily on Flexner's autobiography as well as on voluminous correspondence, archival documents, and interviews, Bonner depicts...; Tags: education, philanthropy, Princeton University, scholar; Research articles 2003-07-01
Arabic Grows at Ivy League In Burst of Post-9/11 Interest: Gross, Max Forward 01-24-2003 When Rachel Smith began taking Arabic at Princeton University two years ago, she had no choice about which class to take: Only one was offered. Today there are three sections. Since the attacks of September 11,...; Tags: CAREER, Israel, Princeton University, professor, scholar; Research articles 2003-01-24
James Hadley Billington: James Hadley Billington The American scholar and author James Hadley Billington (born 1929) was a student of Russian history who became director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and later the Librarian of Congress. James Hadley Billington was born June 1, 1929, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the son...; Tags: Leadership, Princeton University, scholar, U.S. Congress; Research articles 2003-01-01
Claudia Tate: in memoriam - Obituary: Claudia Tate, Professor of English at Princeton University and longtime advisory editor to African American Review, succumbed to small-cell lung cancer in Fair Haven, New Jersey, on 29 July 2002. She was fifty-five years old. Tate was a brilliant scholar of American, women's, and African-American literature. An innovative thinker, she...; Tags: Princeton University, scholar, women; Research articles 2002-12-22
Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella, and David Liu, editors. Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing.(Book Review): Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. xxvi, 278 pp. Hardcover $64.95, ISBN 0-7656-0816-2. Paperback $23.95, ISBN 0-7656-0817-0. The book under review is a product of the "Nanking 1937 Conference" held in November 1997 at Princeton University, to which Chinese, Japanese, European, and American scholars were...; Tags: China, Government, Japan, Princeton University, scholar, SOFTWARE; Research articles 2002-09-22
Qi Xiaochun, O Gishi ronko (A Study of Wang Xizhi).(Book Review): Osaka: Toho Shuppan, 2001. 457 pp. [yen] 8,400, ISBN 4-88591-720-4. The graceful art of Wang Xizhi (ca. 303-ca. 361) has been accepted as the foremost example of Chinese calligraphic style for more than thirteen hundred years. Since his output was codified in the Tang ...; Tags: essay, Princeton University, scholar, scholarship, Tao; Research articles 2002-09-22
Bookshelf: Catapults, trebuchets, and gunpowder, according to environmental historian Alfred W. Crosby in Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History Cambridge University Press, can be traced back to our ancestors' aptitude for hurling stones and manipulating fire. Evolutionary psychologist Michael C. Corballis, however, makes the case in From Hand to Mouth: The...; Tags: aptitude, gesture, Government, Princeton University, Regulations, scholar, species, University of Cambridge; Research articles 2002-07-01
Philosophy professor offered Rockefeller fellowship at Princeton.: M2 PRESSWIRE-29 March 2002-Kansas State University: Philosophy professor offered Rockefeller fellowship at Princeton C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29032002 MANHATTAN -- Steven Wall, Kansas State University assistant professor of philosophy, has been offered a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellowship at...; Tags: Leadership, Princeton University, professor, scholar, Wall; Research articles 2002-03-29
Where Continuity Meets Inertia: Anxiety of Influence Weighs Down A Parley on Jewish-American Lit: Sharlet, Jeffrey Forward 11-02-2001 Where Continuity Meets Inertia: Anxiety of Influence Weighs Down A Parley on Jewish-American Lit Jeffrey Sharlet is a former editor of Pakn Treger, the magazine of the National Yiddish Book Center, and a senior writer for...; Tags: Biotechnology, CAREER, conference, inertia, Princeton University, scholar; Research articles 2001-11-02
GREAT CASES IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.(Review) (book review): GREAT CASES IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Edited by ROBERT P. GEORGE. Princeton University Press. 206 pp. $35 cloth, $12.95 paper. In this volume, the distinguished legal philosopher Robert P. George has brought together a group of leading intellectuals and scholars to comment on five critical...; Tags: cloth, essay, Murphy, Princeton University, Robert, scholar; Research articles 2000-08-01
It's About Quality, Not Prestige.(university presses; political science publications)(Brief Article): In their 1983 PS article, "What Do the New Ratings of Political Science Departments Measure?" (15[Summer]: 532-39), Welch and Hibbing asked a question I am tempted to ask about the recent poll conducted by Larry Goodson, Bradford Dillman, and Anil Hira, the results of which appeared...; Tags: Penn State, Princeton University, Quality, scholar; Research articles 1999-12-01