Paul Archambault, d'Alzon
visiting professor of Foundations, presents his book, Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945.

November, 2004—Assumption College celebrated the writing of faculty and administrators at the first Faculty Authors’ Reception on November 9, 2004 in the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library.

Dawn Thistle, director of Library Services, welcomed the 20 authors to the event, congratulating them for their publishing accomplishments. She announced that more than one-third of Assumption’s full-time faculty had published books, articles, papers, or submissions to a scholarly journal in the past two years.

The authors present were then asked to share short explanations of their works. Some highlights include:

Dana Aspinall, associate professor of English, edited Amey Hayward, a text about 17th-century women writers—novelists, dramatists, and poets. Explained Aspinall, “Very few women writers from this time period are discussed; it’s simply because they were women, and they were left behind.”

Cheryl Amantea, assistant professor of Marketing and Management, published several papers and articles about sports marketing and professional athletics, gleaning from her experience as a professional sports agent. In May 2004, she also co-authored a journal submission with Jennifer Niece, assistant professor of Accounting, called “Documenting Abilities and Achievements: The Use of Professional Portfolios for Accounting Students and Young Accounting Professionals” in the Journal of College Teaching and Learning.

David Siddle, associate professor of Social and Rehabilitation Services, co-authored A Caregiver's Guide to Working with Combative Residents, a book for Certified Nursing Assistants to learn proper techniques for recognizing and dealing with elderly patients’ aggressive behavior. He also authored an article in Nursing Home/Long Term Care Management titled "Understanding and Dealing with Resident Aggression" in March 2004.

Daniel Mahoney, associate professor of Politics, has published several times in the past two years; his latest being "Humanitarian Democracy and the Postpolitical Temptation," in Orbis, Fall 2004, and "Traducing Solzhenitsyn," in First Things, August/September 2004.

Carol Harvey, associate professor of Management, co-authored Understanding and Managing Diversity: Readings, Cases and Exercises, a diversity-management textbook that is now being published in its third edition. She explained that about 1,000 colleges and universities in the United States are now teaching diversity-related courses, and that her textbook is being used at 400 of those schools. The third edition will also be published internationally for the first time.

For a full list of faculty publications, please visit the d’Alzon Library’s site at http://www.assumption.edu/dept/Library/faculty/facpubs.htm