Rutgers University Press: 415 books
The Instruction Myth
Why Higher Education is Hard to Change, and How to Change It
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Higher education is broken, and we haven’t been able to fix it. Even in the face of great and growing dysfunction, it seems resistant to fundamental change. At this point, can anything be done to save it?
The Instruction Myth argues that yes, higher education can be reformed and reinvigorated,...
Mothering by Degrees
Single Mothers and the Pursuit of Postsecondary Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In Mothering by Degrees, Jillian Duquaine-Watson shows how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single moms, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think a...
The Forgotten Men
Serving a Life without Parole Sentence
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Today there are approximately fifty thousand prisoners in American prisons serving life without parole, having been found guilty of crimes ranging from murder and rape to burglary, carjacking, and drug offences. In The Forgotten Men, criminologist Margaret E. Leigey provides an insightful account...
Judaism
The Genealogy of a Modern Notion
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Judaism makes the bold argument that the very concept of a religion of ‘Judaism’ is an invention of the Christian church. The intellectual journey of world-renowned Talmud scholar Daniel Boyarin, this book will change the study of “Judaism”—an essential key word in Jewish Studies—as we...
Shades of White Flight
Evangelical Congregations and Urban Departure
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Since World War II, historians have analyzed a phenomenon of “white flight” plaguing the urban areas of the northern United States. One of the most interesting cases of “white flight” occurred in the Chicago neighborhoods of Englewood and Roseland, where seven entire church congregations from...
Electronic Iran
The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2013
Electronic Iran introduces the concept of the Iranian Internet, a framework that captures interlinked, transnational networks of virtual and offline spaces.
Taking her cues from early Internet ethnographies that stress the importance of treating the Internet as both a site and product of cultural...
Forever Suspect
Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The declaration of a “War on Terror” in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks brought sweeping changes to the American criminal justice and national security systems, as well as a massive shift in the American public opinion of both individual Muslims and the Islamic religion...
by Naydene De Lange, Karren Eppley, Wendy Ewald
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods brings together visual studies and childhood studies to explore images of childhood in the study of rurality and rural life. The volume highlights how the voices of children themselves remain central to investigations of rural childhoods. Contributions...
Home Safe Home
Housing Solutions for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Housing matters for everyone, as it provides shelter, security, privacy, and stability. For survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), housing takes on an additional meaning; it is the key to establishing a new life, free from abuse. IPV survivors often face such inadequate housing options, however,...
by Teresa A Allison, Karen Berger, Kathleen A. Bledsoe
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
The field of research related to neurocritical care has grown significantly in recent years, and the clinical demands for current and dependable expertise has followed suit. It can be a challenge for the neurocritical practitioner to keep up with cutting-edge evidence-based research and best practices,...
Making Sense of the College Curriculum
Faculty Stories of Change, Conflict, and Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Readers of Making Sense of the College Curriculum expecting a traditional academic publication full of numeric and related data will likely be disappointed with this volume, which is based on stories rather than numbers. The contributors include over 185 faculty members from eleven colleges and universities,...
Poison in the Ivy
Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The world of elite campuses is one of rarified social circles, as well as prestigious educational opportunities. W. Carson Byrd studied twenty-eight of the most selective colleges and universities in the United States to see whether elite students’ social interactions with each other might influence...
Running Dry
Essays on Energy, Water, and Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The world’s water is under siege. A combination of corporate greed, the elite pursuit of political power, and our unrelenting reliance on carbon-based energy is accerlating a broad range of environmental and political crises. Potentially catastrophic climate change, driven primarily by the consumption...
Adventures in Shondaland
Identity Politics and the Power of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit series Grey’s Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, The Catch, For The People, and Station 19. Rhimes’s work...