Dr. Mike Davison, Professor of Music, discusses his documentary film, Cuba: Rhythm in Motion. This dynamic film captures the joy of making music in Cuba, an island that Dr. Davison has visited numerous times with his students. The contrasting yet intertwined histories of Cuban and American music are traced and illustrated with extensive performance footage. A DVD of Cuba: Rhythm in Motion is available in Parsons Music Library.
Dr. Joe Hoyle, Associate Professor of Accounting in the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, discusses Introduction to Financial Accounting, a unique online textbook that incorporates many different learning and media techniques. By offering introductory videos, embedded multiple-choice questions and real-life interviews with an investment manager, Hoyle and his co-author include something for every student. The book will be published by Flat World Knowledge in early 2010.
Dr. Craig Kinsley, Professor of Psychology, co-author of Clinical Neuroscience, discusses this unique textbook that integrates neurobiological mechanisms of general health into the coverage of mental disorders. By using this resource, instructors can easily integrate principles of neuroscience into clinical, developmental, behavioral, cognitive, and social psychology. The second edition of Clinical Neuroscience will be published in early 2010.
Dr. Jan French, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, discusses her new book, Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast, which shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity.
Dr. Del McWhorter, Professor of Philosophy and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, discusses her new book, Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy. The premise of this book suggests that racism, sexual oppression, and discrimination against the disabled, the feeble, and the poor are intertwined, and that when the civil rights of one group are challenged, so are the rights of all.