April 23, 2008
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(From left to right) Assistant Professor of Political Science Dexter Boniface, Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Jewish Studies Program Yudit Greenberg, Dean of Faculty Laurie Joyner and Petters Professor of International Business and Executive Director of Rollins China Center Ilan Alon
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Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost Roger Casey and Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty Laurie Joyner hosted an Afternoon Celebrating the 2007-08 Arts & Sciences Faculty Authors on Friday, April 18.
The Arts & Sciences faculty honoree’s are Petters Professor of International Business and Executive Director of Rollins China Center Ilan Alon, Assistant Professor of Political Science Dexter Boniface and Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Jewish Studies Program Yudit Greenberg.
When discussing the significance of having three faculty members edit or co-edit publications this academic year Laurie commented that “faculty at Rollins are deeply passionate about teaching, learning, and student success. While teaching is a top priority, Rollins is also a community of scholars that recognizes the importance of maintaining an active research agenda to promote professional development, enhance instructional effectiveness, contribute to disciplinary knowledge, and improve our institutional reputation.”
The topics of the three publications range from China, to the Americas, to love in world religions.
Globalization of Chinese Enterprise (Palgrave Macmillan), edited by Ilan Alon and John R. McIntyre, is a unique contribution to a growing literature. The 21st century has been dubbed the Chinese century. This book analyzes, through a series of unique contributions by Chinese and Western experts, the rapid evolution of Chinese enterprises in global markets, outside of the Asian-Pacific area and provides a roadmap to understand its evolution of Dragon multinationals and their impacts.
Promoting Democracy in the Americas (The Johns Hopkins University Press), edited by Thomas Legler, Sharon F. Lean and Dexter Boniface. This volume provides a critical analysis of the role of international and transnational actors in contemporary democratization processes in the Americas. It covers recent challenges to democracy in Venezuela, Haiti, and Ecuador along with current debates about election monitoring and democracy promotion within the Organization of American States. The book provides up-to-date case studies—not available in any other text—of the major actors involved in recent democracy promotion activities in the Americas.
Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (ABC-CLIO), edited by Yudit Greenberg, is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive portrait of love in the context of the classic and contemporary literature of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as other cultures and philosophies. Like no volume published to date, it reveals the full richness of religious teachings on love in all its many forms, exploring an extensive range of topics that offer philosophical, psychological, and religious perspectives to guide the quest for the meaning of love.
The program honoring the Arts & Sciences faculty authors included an interactive dialogue with the faculty members on their 2007 and 2008 book publications.
