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Book Author Honorees

List of Faculty

The CELEBRATE U Task Force has contacted all academic department administrative assistants for a list of faculty who authored a first edition or original book that was published—using a traditional or new media format—in 2017.


  • Shima Baradaran Baughman for The Bail Book: A comprehensive look at Bail in America's Criminal Justice System
  • Jorge Contreras for Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law
  • Ann Darling for Effective Difficult Conversations: a step-by-step guide
  • Nathan Devir for New Children of Israel: Emerging Jewish Communities in an Era of Globalization
  • Craig Dworkin for Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact
  • Christine Everaert for Essential Hindi Grammar: With Examples from Modern Hindi Literature
  • Elena Garcia-Martin for Rural Revisions of Golden Age Drama
  • David P. Goldenberg for Principles of NMR Spectroscopy: An Illustrated Guide
  • Sam Handlin for Fragile Democracies: Polarization and Political Regimes in South America
  • Louisa Heiny for Judicial Process: Cases and Materials
  • Eric Hinderaker for Boston's Massacre
  • Patricia Kerig for Posttraumatic stress disorder in childhood and adolescence: A developmental psychopathology perspective
  • Wayne McCormack for Judicial Process: Cases and Materials
  • Brandon R. Peterson for Being Salvation: Atonement and Soteriology in the Theology of Karl Rahner
  • Paisley Rekdal for The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam
  • Jerry Root for The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image
  • Christopher A. Simon for Public Policy: Preferences and Outcomes, Third edition
  • Catherine Soehner for Effective Difficult Conversations: a step-by-step guide 
  • Steve Tatum for Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West
  • Sylvia Torti for Cages: a novel