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faculty and staff within ILS

Integrated Liberal Studies attracts some of the best instructors at the University of Wisconsin. Our professors work hard to create exciting courses in their area of expertise. Many of our faculty are at the forefront of their fields; in previous years our professors have received Distinguished Teaching Awards and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Tim Allen
Professor, Botany
Professor Allen started out as a general biologist with a focus on ecology. He quickly found a joy in teaching and the particularly thoughtful and appreciative students in ILS brought him into the program during its Renaissance in the early 1980s. He remains certain that it was one of the best moves he ever made. He won the Emil Stiger Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987. His research is in the new science of complexity, which involves hierarchy theory, artificial intelligence, issues of scale, organization and far from equilibrium thermodynamics as they apply to ecology and natural resources. His coauthored books include "Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity"; "A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems"; "Toward a Unified Ecology"; and with his wife Valerie Ahl, "Hierarchy Theory: A Vision Vocabulary and Epistemology". His latest moves are into ecological economics and the coming global crisis. His teaching style and content is influenced by his being a systems analyst, giving a stark contrast to the conventional atomistic approach that prevails in biology.

William Aylward
Associate Professor, Classics

Klaus Berghahn
Professor, German

Aaron Brower
Professor, Social Work
Professor Brower's interests include social cognitive models of behavior, direct practice theory and evaluation, group work, social work theory, and developmental life transitions. He's currently researching differences among American subcultural groups in their educational attainment and on life-course decision-making, developing and evaluating educational innovations in higher education, and alcohol use on college campuses. He's served as the Faculty Director for the Bradley Learning Community since 2001 and received a Distinguished Teaching Award the same year. Some of his co-authored publications include "What works and how we found out: An assessment of the Bradley Learning Community" in Talking Stick; "What is a learning community? Towards a comprehensive model" in About Campus; "Supporting female undergraduate science and engineering majors with a residential program" in Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering; and "Change in Groups" in Social Work for the 21st Century.

Joe Elder
Professor, Sociology; Languages & Cultures of Asia
Professor Elder's interests include sociological theory and philosophy of science, sociology of economic change, international conflict and conflict resolution, sociology of religion (especially Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam), lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies, and dynamics of contemporary change in South Asia (especially India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka).

Booth Fowler
Professor Emeritus, Political Science
Booth Fowler teaches in the ILS Program and the Department of Political Science. His special interests are literature and political thought, religion and politics, and the history of voting behavior in the U.S.

Adam Gamoran
Professor, Sociology; Educational Policy Studies
Professor Gamoran has been interested in interdisciplinary studies since his days as a college student at the University of Chicago, where he received a B.A. in Near Eastern Studies, an M.A. in an interdisciplinary social sciences program, and a Ph.D. in education with an emphasis on sociology. He has been at UW-Madison since 1984. In addition to his appointments in Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, he is a principal investigator at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and he is affiliated with the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Jewish Studies along with ILS. His research focuses on inequality in education. Recent articles include "Algebra for Everyone? Benefits of College Preparatory Mathematics for Students with Diverse Abilities in Early Secondary School" in press at Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (with Eileen Hannigan).

Michael Hinden
Emeritus Professor, English

Florence Hsia
Assistant Professor, History of Science
Professor Hsia teaches in the ILS program and in the Department of History of Science. Her teaching and research interests include Jesuit science,the historical relations between science and religion, science and European expansion before 1800, cross-cultural scientific exchange, scientific biography, and forms of scientific writing. Her recent publications include "Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667)," in Athanasius Kircher: the last man who knew everything (New York: Routledge, 2003), and "Mathematical martyrs," in Institutional culture in early modern society (Leiden: Brill, 2004).

Kristin Hunt
Lecturer, ILS
A lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Drama as well as ILS, Dr. Kristin Hunt teaches ILS 200: Critical Thought and Expression for ILS, along with a series of seminars related to interdisciplinary explorations of art and culture, including "Comedy and Political Thought" and "The Art of War." Kristin’s scholarly interests range from 5th century Athenian drama to contemporary graphic novels, with a special interest in the way gendered notions of space and place work in modern and postmodern adaptations of Greek drama. A Louisiana native, Kristin is interested in the role that our understanding of our classical heritage plays in conceptions of morality, self-hood, and state-hood in the United States, particularly in the South. Kristin is also a scenic and lighting designer, and continues to design for new and experimental productions in and around Madison and beyond. Her most recent design credit was the world premiere of the new opera Iphigenia at Aulis.

Daniel Kleinman
Professor, Rural Sociology
Professor Kleinman has a long standing connection to liberal and progressive education. He attended an alternative progressive junior high/high school in Santa Monica, CA, before attending Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, he taught in the School of History, Technology and Society at Georgia Tech. Kleinman teaches courses that explore science, technology, and knowledge production from an interdisciplinary perspective. He is also the Director of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies on Campus. His most recent book is entitled "Science and Technology in Society: From Biotechnology to the Internet" (2005).

Laura McClure
Professor, Classics
Professor McClure's research and teaching interests include ancient Greek drama (Greek tragedy and Attic Old comedy), women in antiquity, and the classical tradition. She is author of Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama (Princeton, 1999) and Courtesans at Table: Gender and Literary Culture in Athenaeus (Routledge, 2003). She also co-edited Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature (Princeton, 2001) and Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (Wisconsin, 2006). Her current work focuses on mothers and sons in Greek tragedy. Laura won the Emil Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999. For ILS, she teaches ILS 203: Western Culture: Literature and the Arts I.

Cathy Middlecamp
Distinguished Faculty Associate, Chemistry
Professor Middlecamp's interests include teaching science in real-world contexts, especially those relating to radioactivity and nuclear fission. She writes for the American Chemical Society's project Chemistry in Context, and is the lead author for the chapters on air quality, nuclear energy, polymers, and acid rain. She grew up in New York and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1972. Cathy came to UW-Madison as a Danforth Fellow to earn her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1976. For ILS, she teaches contemporary physical science (ILS 251), a course that weaves together science and culture. She has served as a Bradley Faculty Fellow since 2001. She also practices and teaches the martial art aikido.

Steve Nadler
Professor, Philosophy
Professor Nadler specializes in early modern philosophy (especially 17th century), Jewish philosophy, and medieval philosophy. He authored "Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas" (Princeton, 1989), "Malebranche and Ideas" (Oxford, 1992), and "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge, 1999). Steve is editor of "Causation in Early Modern Philosophy" (Penn State, 1993), "Malebranche: Philosophical Selections" (Hackett, 1992), and the forthcoming "The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche". He is also the former editor, for North America, of the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. Steve serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Philosophy and the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Carole Newlands
Professor, Classics

Lynn Nyhart
Associate Professor, History of Science
Professor Nyhart's interests include: history of biology, especially natural history, genetics, and evolution; biology and society; feminist approaches to science, technology, and gender. Her recent publications are "Biology Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the German Universities, 1800-1900" (University of Chicago Press, 1995); "Economic and Civic Zoology in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The 'Living Communities' of Karl Moebius," (Isis, 1998, 89: 605-630). She is also co-editor (with Tom Broman) of "Science and Civil Society," Osiris vol. 17.

Howard Schweber
Associate Professor, Political Science
Along with being an Associate Professor in Political Science, Professor Schweber is an affiliate faculty at the Law School, Legal Studies, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education. He is the author of The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism (Cambridge 2007), The Creation of American Common Law, 1850-1880 (Cambridge 2005), and Speech, Conduct and the First Amendment (Peter Lang 2004). His interests focus on questions at the intersection of law and political theory.

Kathleen Sell
Senior Lecturer, ILS
Dr. Sell's interests are political and social philosophy; communitarian political theory; ethics, leadership and the professions. Kathi is a former member of the UW System President's Cabinet and was the chief budget officer for the 26-campus UW System from 1987-2002, overseeing operating and capital budget development. She teaches the senior capstone seminar ILS 400 and seminars on special topics such as: Just War Theory & Terrorism; Classical Thinkers Grapple with Contemporary Concerns; and What is Happiness? She offers weekend alumni seminars on "The Great Books and Midlife Transitions" for the Wisconsin Alumni Association in Wisconsin and California. She is co-author of the book, The True Genius of America at Risk: The de Facto Privatization of Public Higher Education (Praeger/Greenwood, December 2005) and an affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE).

Mike Shank
Professor, History of Science
Professor Shank's special interests and recent research span broad interests in the physical sciences (and their analogues and contexts) from antiquity to 1700. Primary research interests focus on late medieval natural philosophy and astronomy, with special attention to the Viennese tradition and most specifically, of late, the work of the astronomer Johannes Regiomontanus (d. 1476). Additional related areas of interest for Mike: science and the medieval university, science and early printing, and Piero della Francesca.

Shifra Sharlin
Lecturer, ILS

Richard Staley
Associate Professor, History of Science
Professor Staley's interests center around research and teaching in the history of science (especially physics) since Newton. His recent research has been on the history of relativity; interferometry; and C.T.R. Wilson's cloud chamber. See especially his chapter "Fog, Dust and Rising Air," in J.R. Fleming, et al. (eds.) Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Meteorology; and two studies that examine at the same
time both the formation of modern physics and the origins of the historical perspective in which we usually describe it: "On the Histories of Relativity," Isis 89 (1998), 263-299 and "On the Co-Creation of Classical and Modern Physics," Isis 96 (2005), 530-558. His book
Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution is coming out with the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2008, and his present project concerns the relations between physics and anthropology.

Basil Tikoff
Professor, Geology

Mike Vanden Heuvel
Professor and Chair, Theatre and Drama
Professor Vanden Heuvel specializes in European and American avant-garde and experimental theatre; literary and cultural theory; interdisciplinary studies between theatre, science and history of ideas. His publications include "Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance: Alternative Theatre and the Dramatic Text"; "Elmer Rice: A Research and Production Sourcebook"; and articles in New Theatre Quarterly, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Topics, Contemporary Literature, Theatre Journal, among others.

Lee Palmer Wandel
Professor, History

Craig Werner
Professor, Afro-American Studies
Craig Werner chairs both the Integrated Liberal Studies Program and the Department of Afro-American Studies. A member of the ILS faculty since 1995, he teaches courses on "Science and Literature," "Shakespeare and the Modern World," "Idea of Time in Philosophy, Literature and Science," "Vietnam: Music, Media and Mayhem" and "The Book as World/The World as Book: Cervantes, Melville and Pynchon." He has won teaching awards on the
Department, University and national levels, and is a member of the Nominating Committee of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A literary critic and cultural historian, his books include A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America (Uncut magazine's book of the year for 1998); Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse; Paradoxical
Resolutions: American Fiction since James Joyce; Higher Ground: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield & the Rise and Fall of American Soul; Adrienne Rich: The Poet and Her Critics; Gold- bugs and the Power of Blackness: Re-reading Edgar Alan Poe; and Up Around the Bend: An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. He is currently collaborating with Doug Bradley on We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Music and the Experience of Vietnam Veterans; and with Rhonda Lee on Love & Happiness: Eros According to Dante, Shakespeare, Jane Austen and the Reverend Al Green.


	faculty and staff within ILS Integrated Liberal Studies attracts some of the best instructors at the University of Wisconsin. Our professors work hard to create exciting courses in their area of expertise. Many of our faculty are at the forefront of their fields; in previous years our professors have received Distinguished Teaching Awards and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Tim Allen Professor, Botany Professor Allen started out as a general biologist with a focus on ecology. He quickly found a joy in teaching and the particularly thoughtful and appreciative students in ILS brought him into the program during its Renaissance in the early 1980s. He remains certain that it was one of the best moves he ever made. He won the Emil Stiger Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987. His research is in the new science of complexity, which involves hierarchy theory, artificial intelligence, issues of scale, organization and far from equilibrium thermodynamics as they apply to ecology and natural resources. His coauthored books include "Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity"; "A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems"; "Toward a Unified Ecology"; and with his wife Valerie Ahl, "Hierarchy Theory: A Vision Vocabulary and Epistemology". His latest moves are into ecological economics and the coming global crisis. His teaching style and content is influenced by his being a systems analyst, giving a stark contrast to the conventional atomistic approach that prevails in biology. William Aylward Associate Professor, Classics Klaus Berghahn Professor, German Aaron Brower Professor, Social Work Professor Brower's interests include social cognitive models of behavior, direct practice theory and evaluation, group work, social work theory, and developmental life transitions. He's currently researching differences among American subcultural groups in their educational attainment and on life-course decision-making, developing and evaluating educational innovations in higher education, and alcohol use on college campuses. He's served as the Faculty Director for the Bradley Learning Community since 2001 and received a Distinguished Teaching Award the same year. Some of his co-authored publications include "What works and how we found out: An assessment of the Bradley Learning Community" in Talking Stick; "What is a learning community? Towards a comprehensive model" in About Campus; "Supporting female undergraduate science and engineering majors with a residential program" in Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering; and "Change in Groups" in Social Work for the 21st Century. Joe Elder Professor, Sociology; Languages & Cultures of Asia Professor Elder's interests include sociological theory and philosophy of science, sociology of economic change, international conflict and conflict resolution, sociology of religion (especially Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam), lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies, and dynamics of contemporary change in South Asia (especially India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka). Booth Fowler Professor Emeritus, Political Science Booth Fowler teaches in the ILS Program and the Department of Political Science. His special interests are literature and political thought, religion and politics, and the history of voting behavior in the U.S. Adam Gamoran Professor, Sociology; Educational Policy Studies Professor Gamoran has been interested in interdisciplinary studies since his days as a college student at the University of Chicago, where he received a B.A. in Near Eastern Studies, an M.A. in an interdisciplinary social sciences program, and a Ph.D. in education with an emphasis on sociology. He has been at UW-Madison since 1984. In addition to his appointments in Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, he is a principal investigator at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, and he is affiliated with the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Jewish Studies along with ILS. His research focuses on inequality in education. Recent articles include "Algebra for Everyone? Benefits of College Preparatory Mathematics for Students with Diverse Abilities in Early Secondary School" in press at Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (with Eileen Hannigan). Michael Hinden Emeritus Professor, English Florence Hsia Assistant Professor, History of Science Professor Hsia teaches in the ILS program and in the Department of History of Science. Her teaching and research interests include Jesuit science,the historical relations between science and religion, science and European expansion before 1800, cross-cultural scientific exchange, scientific biography, and forms of scientific writing. Her recent publications include "Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667)," in Athanasius Kircher: the last man who knew everything (New York: Routledge, 2003), and "Mathematical martyrs," in Institutional culture in early modern society (Leiden: Brill, 2004). Kristin Hunt Lecturer, ILS A lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Drama as well as ILS, Dr. Kristin Hunt teaches ILS 200: Critical Thought and Expression for ILS, along with a series of seminars related to interdisciplinary explorations of art and culture, including "Comedy and Political Thought" and "The Art of War." Kristin’s scholarly interests range from 5th century Athenian drama to contemporary graphic novels, with a special interest in the way gendered notions of space and place work in modern and postmodern adaptations of Greek drama. A Louisiana native, Kristin is interested in the role that our understanding of our classical heritage plays in conceptions of morality, self-hood, and state-hood in the United States, particularly in the South. Kristin is also a scenic and lighting designer, and continues to design for new and experimental productions in and around Madison and beyond. Her most recent design credit was the world premiere of the new opera Iphigenia at Aulis. Daniel Kleinman Professor, Rural Sociology Professor Kleinman has a long standing connection to liberal and progressive education. He attended an alternative progressive junior high/high school in Santa Monica, CA, before attending Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, he taught in the School of History, Technology and Society at Georgia Tech. Kleinman teaches courses that explore science, technology, and knowledge production from an interdisciplinary perspective. He is also the Director of the Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies on Campus. His most recent book is entitled "Science and Technology in Society: From Biotechnology to the Internet" (2005). Laura McClure Professor, Classics Professor McClure's research and teaching interests include ancient Greek drama (Greek tragedy and Attic Old comedy), women in antiquity, and the classical tradition. She is author of Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama (Princeton, 1999) and Courtesans at Table: Gender and Literary Culture in Athenaeus (Routledge, 2003). She also co-edited Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature (Princeton, 2001) and Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (Wisconsin, 2006). Her current work focuses on mothers and sons in Greek tragedy. Laura won the Emil Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999. For ILS, she teaches ILS 203: Western Culture: Literature and the Arts I. Cathy Middlecamp Distinguished Faculty Associate, Chemistry Professor Middlecamp's interests include teaching science in real-world contexts, especially those relating to radioactivity and nuclear fission. She writes for the American Chemical Society's project Chemistry in Context, and is the lead author for the chapters on air quality, nuclear energy, polymers, and acid rain. She grew up in New York and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1972. Cathy came to UW-Madison as a Danforth Fellow to earn her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1976. For ILS, she teaches contemporary physical science (ILS 251), a course that weaves together science and culture. She has served as a Bradley Faculty Fellow since 2001. She also practices and teaches the martial art aikido. Steve Nadler Professor, Philosophy Professor Nadler specializes in early modern philosophy (especially 17th century), Jewish philosophy, and medieval philosophy. He authored "Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas" (Princeton, 1989), "Malebranche and Ideas" (Oxford, 1992), and "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge, 1999). Steve is editor of "Causation in Early Modern Philosophy" (Penn State, 1993), "Malebranche: Philosophical Selections" (Hackett, 1992), and the forthcoming "The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche". He is also the former editor, for North America, of the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. Steve serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Philosophy and the Journal of the History of Ideas. Carole Newlands Professor, Classics Lynn Nyhart Associate Professor, History of Science Professor Nyhart's interests include: history of biology, especially natural history, genetics, and evolution; biology and society; feminist approaches to science, technology, and gender. Her recent publications are "Biology Takes Form: Animal Morphology and the German Universities, 1800-1900" (University of Chicago Press, 1995); "Economic and Civic Zoology in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The 'Living Communities' of Karl Moebius," (Isis, 1998, 89: 605-630). She is also co-editor (with Tom Broman) of "Science and Civil Society," Osiris vol. 17. Howard Schweber Associate Professor, Political Science Along with being an Associate Professor in Political Science, Professor Schweber is an affiliate faculty at the Law School, Legal Studies, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education. He is the author of The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism (Cambridge 2007), The Creation of American Common Law, 1850-1880 (Cambridge 2005), and Speech, Conduct and the First Amendment (Peter Lang 2004). His interests focus on questions at the intersection of law and political theory. Kathleen Sell Senior Lecturer, ILS Dr. Sell's interests are political and social philosophy; communitarian political theory; ethics, leadership and the professions. Kathi is a former member of the UW System President's Cabinet and was the chief budget officer for the 26-campus UW System from 1987-2002, overseeing operating and capital budget development. She teaches the senior capstone seminar ILS 400 and seminars on special topics such as: Just War Theory & Terrorism; Classical Thinkers Grapple with Contemporary Concerns; and What is Happiness? She offers weekend alumni seminars on "The Great Books and Midlife Transitions" for the Wisconsin Alumni Association in Wisconsin and California. She is co-author of the book, The True Genius of America at Risk: The de Facto Privatization of Public Higher Education (Praeger/Greenwood, December 2005) and an affiliate of the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE). Mike Shank Professor, History of Science Professor Shank's special interests and recent research span broad interests in the physical sciences (and their analogues and contexts) from antiquity to 1700. Primary research interests focus on late medieval natural philosophy and astronomy, with special attention to the Viennese tradition and most specifically, of late, the work of the astronomer Johannes Regiomontanus (d. 1476). Additional related areas of interest for Mike: science and the medieval university, science and early printing, and Piero della Francesca. Shifra Sharlin Lecturer, ILS Richard Staley Associate Professor, History of Science Professor Staley's interests center around research and teaching in the history of science (especially physics) since Newton. His recent research has been on the history of relativity; interferometry; and C.T.R. Wilson's cloud chamber. See especially his chapter "Fog, Dust and Rising Air," in J.R. Fleming, et al. (eds.) Intimate Universality: Local and Global Themes in the History of Meteorology; and two studies that examine at the same time both the formation of modern physics and the origins of the historical perspective in which we usually describe it: "On the Histories of Relativity," Isis 89 (1998), 263-299 and "On the Co-Creation of Classical and Modern Physics," Isis 96 (2005), 530-558. His book Einstein's Generation: The Origins of the Relativity Revolution is coming out with the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2008, and his present project concerns the relations between physics and anthropology. Basil Tikoff Professor, Geology Mike Vanden Heuvel Professor and Chair, Theatre and Drama Professor Vanden Heuvel specializes in European and American avant-garde and experimental theatre; literary and cultural theory; interdisciplinary studies between theatre, science and history of ideas. His publications include "Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance: Alternative Theatre and the Dramatic Text"; "Elmer Rice: A Research and Production Sourcebook"; and articles in New Theatre Quarterly, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Topics, Contemporary Literature, Theatre Journal, among others. Lee Palmer Wandel Professor, History Craig Werner Professor, Afro-American Studies Craig Werner chairs both the Integrated Liberal Studies Program and the Department of Afro-American Studies. A member of the ILS faculty since 1995, he teaches courses on "Science and Literature," "Shakespeare and the Modern World," "Idea of Time in Philosophy, Literature and Science," "Vietnam: Music, Media and Mayhem" and "The Book as World/The World as Book: Cervantes, Melville and Pynchon." He has won teaching awards on the Department, University and national levels, and is a member of the Nominating Committee of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. A literary critic and cultural historian, his books include A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America (Uncut magazine's book of the year for 1998); Playing the Changes: From Afro-Modernism to the Jazz Impulse; Paradoxical Resolutions: American Fiction since James Joyce; Higher Ground: Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield & the Rise and Fall of American Soul; Adrienne Rich: The Poet and Her Critics; Gold- bugs and the Power of Blackness: Re-reading Edgar Alan Poe; and Up Around the Bend: An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival. He is currently collaborating with Doug Bradley on We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Music and the Experience of Vietnam Veterans; and with Rhonda Lee on Love & Happiness: Eros According to Dante, Shakespeare, Jane Austen and the Reverend Al Green.