Recent works of scholarship from members of the Trinity University faculty, including faculty authored books.

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Submissions from 2024

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Book 6: Odysseus Meets the Maiden, Erwin F. Cook

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Remembering Change: Interdependence between Change Awareness and Meaningful Connection in Achieving Proactive Facilitation, Paula T. Hertel, Christopher N. Wahlheim, Grant M. Kramer, and Faith L. Padgett

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On Fiction and Being a Good Animal, David P. Rando

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Fabrication and Characterization of Quad-Component Bioinspired Hydrogels to Model Elevated Fibrin Levels in Central Nervous Tissue Scaffolds, Jennifer Steele and Dany J. Munoz-Pinto

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Emerson among the Methodists, Claudia Stokes

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Mercury’s Shadow: The Pharmaceutical Sources of Hysteria, Claudia Stokes

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Effects of Wall and Freespace Damping Levels on Virtual Wall Stiffness Classification, Emma Treadway, Kristian Journet, Andrew Deering, Cora Lewis, and Noelle Poqiz

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Students with Vision and Hearing Loss, Karen A. Waldron, Michael Steer, and Dolly Bhargava

Books from 2023

Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives, Victoria Aarons

Third-Generation Holocaust Inheritance in Two Graphic Narratives: A Layering of Histories and Legacies, Victoria Aarons

Archivos: Antonio Fernandez Spencer, Carlos X. Ardavín Trabanco

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Amy Reed-Sandoval and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, eds. Latin American Immigration Ethics [Review of the book Latin American Immigration Ethics, by A. Reed-Sandoval & L. R. Díaz Cepeda, Eds.], John Francis Burke

Chicana Portraits: Critical Biographies of Twelve Chicana Writers, Norma E. Cantu

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Attitudes, Clinical Practices, and Perceived Advocacy Needs of Professionals With Interests in Personality Disorders, William D. Ellison, S. Huprich, A. Behn, M. Goodman, S. Kerr, K. N. Levy, S. M. Nelson, C. Sharp, and The Board of Directors of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders

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MMS Observations of Dayside Warm (Several eV to 100 eV) Ions in the Middle and Outer Magnetosphere, J. Goldstein, J. L. Burch, S. A. Fuselier, R. Gomez, C. A. Gonzalez, M. J. Kim, J. Mukherjee, Niescja E. Turner, and M. E. Wilson

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The Importance of Recruitment and Retention in Heliophysics: It's Not Just a Pipeline Problem, A. J. Halford, C. M. Bard, A. G. Burrell, R. M. McGranaghan, L. B. Wilson III, M. Jones Jr, C. Dong, L. Wang, T. I. Pulkkinen, Niescja E. Turner, M. W. Liemohn, and J. Klenzing

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Cultivating a Culture of Inclusivity in Heliophysics, A. J. Halford, A. G. Burrell, M. W. Liemohn, M. Jones Jr, A. Maute, T. I. Pulkkinen, C. M. Bard, R. M. McGranaghan, L. B. Wilson III, R. C. Allen, C. Dong, S. K. Vines, L. Wang, Niescja E. Turner, K. Garcia-Sage, K. Mandt, and J. Klenzing

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Stuck in the Past? Rumination-Related Memory Integration, Paula T. Hertel, C. Wahlheim, William A. Price, Emily M. Crusius, and Christina L. Patino

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A Bioinspired Astrocyte-Derived Coating Promotes the In Vitro Proliferation of Human Neural Stem Cells While Maintaining Their Stemness, Andrea C. Jimenez-Vergara, Jacob Avina, Travis Jackson Block, Anne Sheldrake, Carson Koch, Anna Gonzalez, Jennifer Steele, Ana M. Díaz-Lasprilla, and Dany J. Munoz-Pinto

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Does This Look Relevant to You? Using Insights from Information Retrieval Studies to Facilitate Student Source Selection, Reading, and Use, Anne Jumonville Graf

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Surfacing Assumptions in Source Selection: Situating Critical Reading in First-Year Information Literacy Instruction, Anne Jumonville Graf

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Topological Comparison of Some Dimension Reduction Methods Using Persistent Homology on EEG Data, Eddy Kwessi

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Homonuclear Ultracold Elastic s-wave Collisions of Alkali-Metal Atoms via Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory, Alyson T. Laskowski and Nirav P. Mehta

Mythological Landscapes in Roman Painting, Timothy M. O'Sullivan

The Disappeared: Stories, Andrew Porter

Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction, David P. Rando

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Nonhuman Animals and Hope: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, David P. Rando

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Introduction to Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman, Michael Schreyach

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Totality: Abstraction and Meaning in the Art of Barnett Newman, Michael Schreyach

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Design and Synthesis of New Acyl Urea Analogs as Potential σ1R Selective Ligands, R. Thapa, R. Flores, Kwan H. Cheng, Bereket Mochona, and Donald Sikazwe

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Supporting Neurodivergent Talent: ADHD, Autism, and Dyslexia in Physics and Space Sciences, Niescja E. Turner and Heather Haynes Smith

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A Woman's Journey: Not Done Yet, Karen A. Waldron

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Oxytocin Attenuates Yohimbine-Induced Reinstatement of Alcohol-Seeking in Female Rats via the Central Amygdala, Samantha M. Wilfur, Elizabeth C. McNeely, Aliya A. Lackan, Cassie P. Bowers, and Kah-Chung Leong

Books from 2022

Slaying is Hell: Essays on Trauma and Memory in the Whedonverse, Alyson R. Buckman, Juliette C. Kitchens, and Katherine A. Troyer

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Exploring Membrane Binding Targets of Disordered Human Tau Aggregates on Lipid Rafts Using Multiscale Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Kwan H. Cheng, Angela Graf, Amber Lewis, Thuong Pham, and Aakriti Acharya

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Preschool Children’s Processing of Events during Verb Learning: Is the Focus on People (Faces) or Their Actions (Hands)?, Jane B. Childers, Emily Grace Warkentin, Blaire M. Porter, Marissa Young, Sneh Lalani, and Akila Gopalkrishnan

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Growth Factor Binding Peptides in Poly (Ethylene Glycol) Diacrylate (PEGDA)-Based Hydrogels for an Improved Healing Response of Human Dermal Fibroblasts, Abigail J. Clevenger, Andrea C. Jimenez-Vergara, Erin H. Tsai, Gabriel de Barros Righes, Ana M. Díaz-Lasprilla, Gustavo E. Ramirez-Caballero, and Dany J. Munoz-Pinto

Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation, Gregory M. Clines

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Four in One: Cryptic Diversity in Geoffroy’s Side-Necked Turtle Phrynops geoffroanus (Schweigger 1812) (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) in Brazil, V. T. de Carvalho, R. C. Vogt, R. R. Rojas, M. d. S. Nunes, R. de Fraga, R. W. Ávila, A. G J Rhodin, R. A. Mittermeier, Tomas Hrbek, and I. P. Farias

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Diversity, Biogeography, and Reproductive Evolution in the Genus Pipa (Amphibia: Anura: Pipidae), A. Fouquet, J. Cornuault, M. T. Rodrigues, F. P. Werneck, Tomas Hrbek, A. R. Acosta-Galvis, D. Massemin, P. J R Kok, and R. Ernst

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Challenging Depressive Beliefs: Habitual and Recollective Components of Stability or Change, Paula T. Hertel, M. C. Acuff, J. Hernandez, and E. Poppe

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Mental Health and Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Women as a Function of Retrospective Menopause Symptom Severity, S. C. Hooper, V. B. Marshall, Carolyn Black Becker, A. Z. LaCroix, P. K. Keel, and L. S. Kilpela

Humitious: The Power of Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership, Amer Kaissi

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Home to Roost: Some Problems for the Nested-Types Theory of Musical Works, Versions, and Authentic Performance, Andrew Kania

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The Heart of Classical Work-Performance, Andrew Kania

To Be Honest: Voices on Donald Trump's Muslim Ban, Sarah Beth Kaufman, William G. Christ, and Habiba Noor

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Artificial Neural Networks with a Signed-Rank Objective Function and Applications, Eddy Kwessi and L. J. Edwards

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Paired Housing or a Socially-Paired Context Decreases Ethanol Conditioned Place Preference in Male Rats, Eva Lorenz, Chase Moye, and Kah-Chung Leong

Mortal Objects: Identity and Persistence Through Life and Death, Steven Luper

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Self-Powered Microgravity Resistance Exercise with Soft Pneumatic Exoskeletons, Aislinn Marcee and Emma Treadway

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Out of the Shadows: Multilocus Systematics and Biogeography of Night Monkeys Suggest a Central Amazonian Origin and a Very Recent Widespread Southeastward Expansion in South America, A. M G Martins-Junior, I. Sampaio, A. Silva, J. Boubli, Tomas Hrbek, I. P. Farias, M. Ruiz-García, and H. Schneider

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Molecular Approaches for the Validation of the Baboon as a Nonhuman Primate Model for the Study of Zika Virus Infection, Emma Mask, V. L. Hodara, Jessica E. Callery, L. M. Parodi, V. Obregon-Perko, S. Yagi, J. Glenn, P. Frost, E. Clemmons, J. L. Patterson, L. A. Cox, and Luis D. Giavedoni

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"Mi estilo lo confirma letra por letra": La literatura criminal en "El Niño Proletario" de Osvaldo Lamborghini, Ana María Mutis

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Effects of Dual-Frequency Environment Exploration on Stiffness Discrimination Thresholds, Julia Nania, Nicholas Younkins, and Emma Treadway

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Persistent Mapping of Sensor Data for Medium-Term Autonomy, Kevin Nickels, Jason Gassaway, Matthew Bries, David Anthony, and Graham W. Fiorani

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Pushing Back: Reading The World as Will and Representation as a Woman, Judith Norman

Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation: A Critical Guide, Judith Norman and A Welchman

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Inferences Training Affects Memory, Rumination, and Mood, B. Perlman, N. Mor, Y. Wisney Jacobinski, A. Doron Zakon, N. Avirbach, and Paula T. Hertel

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Mennonites, Andrew Porter

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Ahead of His Time: Joseph Grinnell, Natural History, and Inclusion and Equity in STEM, David O. Ribble

Seeing Shakespeare: Narco narratives and neocolonial appropriations of Macbeth in the US–Mexico Borderlands, Kathryn Vomero Santos

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Visual Documentation for Barnett Newman’s Curatorial Projects, 1944-1946 PART II: Commentary and Assessment, Michael Schreyach

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Best Practices for Building and Curating Databases for Comparative Analyses, L. E. Schwanz, A. Gunderson, M. Iglesias-Carrasco, Michele A. Johnson, J. D. Kong, J. Riley, and N. C. Wu

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Reconceptualizing Measures of Black–White Disparity in Infant Mortality in U.S. Counties, Benjamin Sosnaud

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Bachelor Sketches Invisible Women in Irving’s Domestic Writings, Claudia Stokes

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Pseudonymous Was a Woman Pen Names, Louisa May Alcott, and Feme Covert, Claudia Stokes

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Sentimentalism and the Feeling Body, Claudia Stokes

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Making an Inclusive Collective Party or Building LGBTQ+ Community? Tensions in LGBTQ Festival Events in American Mardi Gras, Amy L. Stone

Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South, Amy L. Stone

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Recently Integrated Alu Elements in Capuchin Monkeys: A Resource for Cebus/Sapajus Genomics, J. M. Storer, J. A. Walker, C. E. Rockwell, G. Mores, T. O. Beckstrom, J. D. Orkin, A. D. Melin, Kimberley A. Phillips, C. Roos, and M. A. Batzer

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Seven Years of SN 2014C: A Multiwavelength Synthesis of an Extraordinary Supernova, B. P. Thomas, J. C. Wheeler, V. V. Dwarkadas, C. Stockdale, J. Vinkó, David Pooley, Y. Xu, G. Zeimann, and P. MacQueen

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No Genetic Evidence for Parent-Offspring Relatedness in Post-Breeding Social Groups of Black-Crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus), M. van der Velde, Mirjam J. Borger, Lauren E. Johnson, Troy G. Murphy, and J. Komdeur

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Cingulin Binds to the ZU5 Domain of Scaffolding Protein ZO-1 to Promote Its Extended Conformation, Stabilization, and Tight Junction Accumulation, E. Vasileva, D. Spadaro, F. Rouaud, Jonathan M. King, A. Flinois, J. Shah, S. Sluysmans, I. Méan, L. Jond, J. R. Turner, and S. Citi

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Perception of Narcissism in College Professors, Harry M. Wallace, A. Carrillo, and Jack Kelley

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Myelin Characteristics of the Corpus Callosum in Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus [Cebus] apella) Across the Lifespan, Chase M. Watson, Chet C. Sherwood, and Kimberley A. Phillips

Submissions from 2021

Reinventing Philip Roth in the Fiction of Others, Victoria Aarons

The Burden of the Third Generation in Germany: Nora Krug’s Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, Victoria Aarons

The Late Novellas, Victoria Aarons

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A Continuous-Time Mathematical Model and Discrete Approximations for the Aggregation of β-Amyloid, A. S. Ackleh, Saber Elaydi, G. Livadiotis, and A. Veprauskas

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Adapting the Body Project to a Non-Western Culture: A Dissonance-Based Eating Disorders Prevention Program for Saudi Women, M. AlShebali, Carolyn Becker, S. Kellett, A. AlHadi, and Glenn Waller

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Genetic Diversity of New World Crocodilians, P. S. Amavet, R. B. Zucoloto, Tomas Hrbek, and I. P. Farias

Observaciones y Evocaciones de un Letraherido : (Prosa Reunida), Carlos X. Ardavín Trabanco

Autour du Yiddish de Paris à Buenos Aires, Alan Astro

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Confronting Our Own Complicity: Complexities and Tensions of a Critical Race Feminista Praxis in Higher Education During the Movement for Black Lives, S. M. Aviña, S. Morales, D. D. Bernal, and Enrique Alemán Jr.

Progress on Difference Equations and Discrete Dynamical Systems: 25th ICDEA, London, UK, June 24–28, 2019, Steve Baigent, Martin Bohner, and Saber Elaydi

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The Novel, Peter Balbert

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Oxytocin Attenuates the Stress-Induced Reinstatement of Alcohol-Seeking in Male Rats: Role of the Central Amygdala, Hannah S. Ballas, Samantha M. Wilfur, Nicole A. Freker, and Kah-Chung Leong

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Resources for Supporting Mathematics and Data Science Instructors During COVID-19, Eduardo C. Balreira, C. Hawthorne, G. Stadnyk, Z. Teymuroglu, M. Torres, and J. R. Wares

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Geometry and Global Stability of 2D Periodic Monotone Maps, Eduardo C. Balreira and Rafael Luís

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¿Qué es un Código?: Supporting Emerging Multilingual Learners in Digital Literacy, Ellen Barnett, Karina Mèndez Pèrez, and Rocìo Delgado

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The Effect of Body Region on Hair Cortisol Concentration in Common Marmosets (Callithrix jacchus), Evelyn Elizabeth Bartling-John and Kimberley A. Phillips

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An Exploratory Examination of Internalized Weight Stigma in a Sample Living with Food Insecurity, Carolyn Black Becker, Keesha M. Middlemass, Francesca Gomez, and Lisa S. Kilpela

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The Legacy of Hope Summit: A Consensus-Based Initiative and Report on Eating Disorders in the U.S. and Recommendations for the Path Forward, D. Blackwell, Carolyn Black Becker, O. Bermudez, M. E. Berrett, G. E. Brooks, D. W. Bunnell, D. Cabrera, C. Costin, N. Hemendinger, C. Johnson, K. L. Klump, C. A. Levinson, M. Lutter, M. Maine, C. J. McAdams, B. H. McGilley, S. B. Murray, E. Myers, J. D. Ouellette, C. M. Peat, K. Saffran, and S. Setliff

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Dissemination of a Dissonance-Based Body Image Promotion Program in Church Settings: A Preliminary Controlled Pilot Study with Adult Women, K. Blomquist, K. E. Hirsch, E. Lomas, K. Montgomery, and Carolyn Becker

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How Often Were You Traumatized? Reconceptualizing Adverse Childhood Experiences for Sexual and Gender Minorities, M. A. Bond, Amy L. Stone, Robert Salcido Jr., and Phillip W. Schnarrs

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Ancient DNA of the Pygmy Marmoset Type Specimen Cebuella pygmaea (Spix, 1823) Resolves a Taxonomic Conundrum, J. P. Boubli, M. C. Janiak, L. M. Porter, Stella de la Torre, L. Cortés-Ortiz, M. N. F. Da Silva, A. B. Rylands, Stephen Nash, F. Bertuol, H. Byrne, F. E. Silva, F. Rohe, D. de Vries, R. M. D. Beck, I. Ruiz-Gartzia, L. F. K. Kuderna, T. Marques-Bonet, Tomas Hrbek, I. P. Farias, A. H. Van Heteren, and C. Roos

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Recasting Catholicism in the Face of Death: Las Casas, Zavala, and Romero, John Francis Burke

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"Rev." Donald Trump and the Christian Right — A Secular Transformation of the Great Awakening Heritage, John Francis Burke

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[Review of the Book Christianity, Empire, and the Spirit: (Re)Configuring Faith and Culture, by N. Medina], John Francis Burke

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[Review of the Book Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992, by M. Newman], John Francis Burke