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Selected publications

“Reflections on student journals and teaching about inequality” Journal of Poetry Therapy, Vol. 23, No. 2 (June 2010)

"GLBT engineers make progress," Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology (December 2008/January 2009)

"Advanced IT degrees lead to top jobs for women and minorities." Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology Minority College Issue (Winter 2007/Spring 2008)

"Parent self-reflection: journaling and family life education." CFLE Network, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Summer 2006)

"Natural family care for the distressed cat." Organic Family Magazine, Number 7 (2006)

"Women make IT their own." Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology (December 2005/January 2006)

"Women stay the course in EE." Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology Minority College Issue (Winter 2005/Spring 2006)

"Native Americans find their niche in engineering." Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology Minority College Issue (Summer 2005/Fall 2005)

"Breast Cancer and the Environment: Resources from the Cornell Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors." Pathways Provider (Spring 2004)

"Telling Kids the Hard Truth: Helping children grow by sharing serious subjects." Indianapolis Woman (October 2003)

Discussion Guides (1 to 11) for The Polis Center’s award-winning 11-episode video Faith and Community: The Public Role of Religion (2003). Discussion Guide booklets include:

  1. The Religious Landscape
  2. Religion in Black and White
  3. Faith-Based Partnerships
  4. The Role of Religion in Public Crisis
  5. Religion's Contribution to Social Leadership
  6. Models of Metropolitan Ministry
  7. Religion and Immigration
  8. Religion's Role in Health Care
  9. The Public Role of Clergy
  10. Sacred Spaces
  11. The Vitality of Religion

Book Reviews

Review of Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone, by Penelope Leach. CFLE Network 
(Winter 2010)

Review of Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children, by Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker. CFLE Network (Fall 2009)

Review of Mindfulness and the Art of Choice: Transform Your Life, by Karen H. Sherman. CFLE Network (Winter 2009)

Review of We Aren’t Who We Are and this world isn’t either, by Christine Korfhage.   NAPT Museletter (March 2008)
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Review of ScreamFree Parenting: Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool, by Hal Edward Runkel. CFLE Network (Winter 2006)

Review of The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother? by Miriam Peskowitz. CFLE Network (Fall 2006)

Review of Birthing Fathers: The Transformation of Men in American Rites of Birth, by Richard K. Reed. CFLE Network (Fall 2005)

Review of Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice, by Ann Hulbert. CFLE Network Volume 16, Number 4 (Fall 2004)

Review of Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood, by Sandra Steingraber. CFLE Network Volume 16, Number 3 (Summer 2004)

Review of The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America’s Beleaguered Moms and Dads, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West. The Dayton Voice (December 3-9, 1998)

Review of On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School, by Christina Rathbone. The Dayton Voice (September 24-30, 1998)
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Review of Life on the Line, by Faye Wattleton. The Dayton Voice (June 11-17, 1998)

Review of The Cancer Journals: Special Edition, by Audre Lorde. The Dayton Voice (March 26-April 1, 1998)
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Review of Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb, by Bernard Lefkowitz. The Dayton Voice (January 8-14, 1998). Reprinted in WireTap Magazine, Story ID 3947
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Review of Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change, by Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, and Jane Balin. The Dayton Voice (November 13-17, 1997). Reprinted in WireTap Magazine, Story ID 4350
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Review of Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness, by Laurie Lisle. The Dayton Voice (October 1-7, 1997)
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Review of Feminist Family Values Forum, by Angela Davis, Maria Jimenez, Gloria Steinem, Mililani Trask. The Dayton Voice (September 17-23, 1997)

Review of Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers: Double-Dutched Readings, by Valerie Lee. The Dayton Voice (August 27-September 2, 1997)
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Review of The Price You Pay: The Hidden Cost of Women's Relationship to Money, by Margaret Randall. The Dayton Voice (June 25-July 1, 1997)

Review of Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture, by Joy James. The Dayton Voice (May 7-13, 1997)

Review of Spirit, Space and Survival: African American Women in (White) Academe, edited by Joy James and Ruth Farmer. Feminist Teacher (Spring/Summer 1997)


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