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Student Research and Publications

Student research and writing is one of the components of the Human Sciences Program that most reflects the ways in which we are finding common ground between the humanities and social sciences. Even as they are located partially within humanities fields such as literary studies, Philosophy, or American Studies, a large number of the projects underway or recently completed by Human Sciences students draw heavily on historical, sociological, psychological, and/or anthropological modes of inquiry. Student projects within the Human Sciences explore such diverse topics or issues as Islamic philosophical traditions; Muslim gender activists in Java; the figure of the nanny in contemporary popular U.S. culture; political prisoners during the Stalinist era in Czechoslovakia; the ways in which biomedical practices, discourses, and institutions shape our understanding and experience of the body; Latin American women’s relationship with their bodies; the impact of cultural studies on medicine and medical humanities; gay/lesbian/queer travel writing; "spectrality" in philosophy and psychoanalysis; and postcolonial readings of American frontier fiction.

Human Sciences students have published selections from many of these projects and/or articles in a range of humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary journals and anthologies. The following is a representative selection of student research and writing:

Coates, Karen. "Underwriting the Uncanny: The Role of Children’s Literature in the Economy of the Subject." Para-doxa. 1997.

Eder, Elena Garcés de. "Dante y la Razón." La Cabala. January 1984.

Eder, Elena Garcés de. "Recopilación Sobre los Pasos Perdidos de Alejo Carpentier." La Cabala. April 1982.

El-Ansarym Waleed. "The Spiritual Significance of Jihad in Economics." The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. 1997.

Kalin, Ibrahim. "Scientific and Religious Instrumentalism: Some Considerations on the Science-Religion Controversy." Iqbal Review. April 1997.

Kaminow, Beth. "X, Lies and Social Signs: Defining Generation X." Problems and Issues of Diversity in the United States. Ed. Larry Naylor. Bergin and Garvey: Westport, Conn. and London, 1999.

Lewis, Bradley. "Running Foucault Forward–the Ethics and Politics of Medical Knowledge Production." Journal of Medical Humanities. In press.

Lewis, Bradley. "Canaries in the Coal Mine or Ostriches in the Sand: a Cultural Studies of Transplant Ethics." Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. In press.

Lewis, Bradley. "Psychiatry and Postmodern Theory." Journal of Medical Humanities. In press.

Lewis, Bradley. "Reading Cultural Studies of Medicine." Journal of Medical Humanities. Spring 1998.

Lewis, Bradley. "Commentary on the Social Relocation of Personal Identity." Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology. September 1995.

Lewis, Bradley. "Psychotherapy, Neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind." American Journal of Psychotherapy. Winter 1994.

McLeer, Anne. "Saving the Victim: Recuperating the Language of the Victim and Reassessing Global Feminism." Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Spring 1998.

McLeer, Anne. "What the Wise Men Say: Moral Modernization and Cultural Contradictions in ‘The Snapper.’" Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Ed. Roberta Rosenberg. New York: Peter Lang, in press.

Polsky, Allyson. "Passionate Attachments: Organ Transplantation and Gender Melancholia." Journal of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. In press.

Ramlow, Todd. "Sculpted Muscles/Public Sex." Journal of Homosexuality. In press.

Riedner, Rachel. "Reading Gayatri Spivak’s Critique of Postcolonial Reason." The American Studies Quarterly. In press.

Riedner, Rachel. "Activism and the Academy." the minnesota review. Summer 1999.

Riedner, Rachel. "Introduction: Cultural Violences." College Literature. Winter 1999.

Riedner, Rachel. "Canon wars and Marxist Cultural Studies: The Work of Lillian S. Robinson." the minnesota review. Winter 1998.

Serra, Ana. "Las desobedientes. Mujeres de nuestra América." Revista de Estudious Colombianos. 1999.

Terzieva, Rossitsa. "The Family in the Short Stories of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Bobbie Ann Mason." American Studies International. In press.

Terzieva, Rossitsa. "The Touch of the Black Hand/the Early Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks." Proglas (Bulgaria).

Terzieva, Rossitsa. "The Dream Works of Anais Nin." The Feedback (Hungary). December 1997.

Ulfe, Maria. CD: Traditional Music of Ayacucho. AMTA & Smithsonian Folkways.

Ulfe, Maria. "Expresiones Alternativas de la Religiosidad Peruana." Revista Caminos. May 1998.

Ulfe, Maria. "Pampapu Wamani." IV Coloquio Interdisciplinario de Humanidades. In press.

Ulfe, Maria. "Una Breve Reflexion sobre la Est‚ tica en el Arte Popular Peruano." Papeles de Artesanja Iberoamericana. January 1998.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. "Mars Attacks! Wells, Welles, and Radio Panic or: The Story of the Century." Ordinary Reactions to Extraordinary Events. Ed. Ray Browne. Bowling Green: Bowling Green UP, in press.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. "Circumcising Dracula: The Vampire as Anti-Semitic Trope." Dracula Centennial Celebration. Ed. Gordon Melton. In press.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. "Freaks in Space: ‘Extraterrestrialism’ and ‘Deep-Space Multiculturalism.’" Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Ed. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: New York UP, 1996.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. "Zombie TV." Post-Identity. November 1999.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. "Virus Culture." Studies in Popular Culture. October 1997.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. "The Disappointed Bridge." Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts. 1997.

Human Sciences students have also published columns or book reviews in journals such as American Journal of Psychotherapy, American Studies International, Anthropological Forum, Journal of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Society, Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Museum Anthropology. They have served as guest editors for College Literature and minnesota review; Allyson Polsky is currently associate editor of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter.