Publishing Industry Trends

At the Association of American University Presses Annual Meeting on June 18, 2016, I will facilitate an industry mastermind discussion on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) in scholarly publishing from a start-up business...

Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920

Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies "Berman presents a comprehensive monograph that synthesizes the work of other historians and adds to it with ample archival research all with the Intermountain West. . . . Few historians have given Mountain...

Maximizing Student Agency in Placement Decisions

In Decisions, Agency, and Advising: Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses, I investigate how multilingual writers—including international students and residents or US citizens who are non-native users...

Why Each Side of the Partisan Divide Thinks the Other Is Living in an Alternate Reality

To some liberals, Donald Trump’s inauguration portends doom for the republic; to many conservatives, it’s a crowning moment for the nation that will usher in an era of growth and optimism. It’s as if each side is living in a different country—and a...

The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution in a Maya Community

Risk Communication and Miscommunication

Case Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Government, and Community Organizations “This book is truly a gem. . . . A superb text.” —George Hayhoe, Director of the MS in Technical Communication Management program, Mercer University “This book is...

Persistence and Patience in Developing Collaborative Partnerships in the Disciplines

Learning to communicate across disciplinary cultures takes time, and thus persistence and patience—on the part of all those collaborating. The history of writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) and writing-in-the-disciplines (WID), both highly...

Reflecting on Disciplines: ePortfolios and Writing Studies

How and why do fields become disciplines? A distinguished scholar in writing studies explores the field of ePortfolios in relationship to the evolution of rhetoric and composition. I’m returning from a conference focused on ePortfolios, and it’s given...

How Poorly Written E-mails Cause Disasters and Cost Lives: Five Questions for Carolyn Boiarsky

Carolyn Boiarsky talks to The Huffington Post about her new book, Risk Communication and Miscommunication. Tim Ward spoke with Carolyn Boiarsky about her new book, Risk Communication and Miscommunication, for his blog on The Huffington Post. As a...

Feminist Technical Communication

Apparent Feminisms, Slow Crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster 2025 CCCC Outstanding Book Award, Monograph 2025 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award "Thought provoking, educational, theoretical, and applicable for many readers. This...

Rituals and Sisterhoods

Single Women’s Households in Mexico, 1560–1750 “This book is a tour-de-force . . . a major contribution to the history of gender, sexuality, the castas, and seventeenth-century studies.” —Linda Curcio-Nagy, University of Nevada, Reno "[Megged] builds...

The Lisu

Far from the Ruler "A real triumph. The Lisu should be proud to have Michele Zack, a keen observer with an unfailing eye for the revelatory image or event, to chronicle their amazing history and culture. The Lisu reputation for independence, equality,...

Reflections on a Career in Japanese American History

One of the most gratifying aspects of working on Japanese American history, and especially of focusing on individual biographies, is getting to know various people with whom my work brings me in contact, and taking advantage of our connection to deepen...

An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru

by Titu Cusi Yupanqui Supported in part by the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities "This unique document, which provides a rare indigenous vision of the Spanish conquest of Peru and its aftermath, is now available in English thanks to the scholarly...