On the occasion of Dr. Jenny Linnea Crowley's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
This book was influential early in my graduate studies. The book is organized as a series of short essays, and his style of writing was so accessible that I began to believe I could write for a living too.
Department - Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies
On the occasion of Dr. Scott Crouter's promotion to Professor
First book I read to my daughter Lana in the hospital after she was born. Reading this with her many many times after kept me grounded and reminded me there was more to life than just work. Without her, this academic journey would not be the same.
On the occasion of Dr. Courtney Cronley's promotion to Professor
This book provides a clear empirical argument and example of what I've said throughout my career - homelessness is a housing problem - and it is not an inevitability. The authors offer city-based comparisons showing relationships between increased housing stock, lower housing/rent prices, and lower rates of homelessness. All communities can reduce homelessness if they make investments in housing. We can do this in Knoxville, also.
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
On the occasion of Dr. Jennifer Collins-Elliott's promotion to Senior Lecturer
Dr. Cahill's book represents an important turning point for feminist scholarship on rape and sexual violence in the early 2000s. It is a book that fundamentally shifted my own thinking about rape and how to apply modern theories about sexual violence to antiquity, enhancing our ability to understand this phenomenon in the early Christian world and imagination. I have returned to this book many times over the years, and I hope that it will remain a touch point for others seeking to challenge their thinking about rape and sexual violence.
On the occasion of Dr. Christina Ergas's tenure and promotion to Associate Professor
Reading this book is the reason I got into environmental sociology. Merchant's compelling argument illustrates the historically rooted interconnectedness of social inequalities and environmental harms.
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
On the occasion of Dr. Shawn A. Carson's promotion to Senior Lecturer
Disruptive Innovation is perhaps the biggest threat to long standing firms as the timelines for innovation are being compressed by new technologies. Solutions to the dilemma should be forefront in any strategic plan.
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
