'American Purgatory' by Benjamin Weber tells the story of American incarceration, from its roots in racial slavery and colonialism to the present day, through the stories of the people who built resistance and freedom movements from within its confines. In the book, stories of survival and resistance take many forms. These stories show how criminal law and imprisonment have been used as tools to control and subdue groups who stand in political opposition.
Chinese Marriages in Transition documents the complex, nuanced, and multidirectional nature of these cultural transformations. Using complex and large-scale historical national data as well as comprehensive data from multiple countries, Xiaoling Shu and Jingjing Chen demonstrate that, while the second demographic transition is unfolding in many advanced Western societies, it is not necessarily a normative form of societal transition.
Kathy Stuart, associate professor of history, delights in crime and deviance — her research specialty. The book, Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany deals with a practice common during two centuries in Western Europe, whereby suicidal people, predominantly women, would murder children, primarily. The heinous act originated, ironically, as a way to avoid hell.
Amid a recent surge in arguments that the global economy has begun to "de-globalize," a question has emerged: will globalization survive? In One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850, Christopher M. Meissner argues that based on the long-run of history, globalization will not be easily vanquished.
Social Network Analysis in Second Language Research by Robert Bayley and Kristen Kennedy Terry is the first holistic research overview and practical methodological guide for social network analysis in second language acquisition, examining how to study learner social networks and how to use network data to predict language learner behavior and identity.
In The End of Engagement, David M. McCourt traces the intense personal, professional, and policy struggles over China and Russia in U.S. foreign policy since 1989. Drawing on 200 original interviews with America's China and Russia experts—from former policymakers and diplomats to prominent think tankers and academics—McCourt chronicles the rise and recent fall of "engagement" with Beijing and Moscow.
A mixed media textile artist and musician, April Camlin brings her experience of grief, pleasure and pain into her work. She is a recent graduate from the M.F.A. in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program at UC Davis and the recipient of the graduate fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. Her work is in the university's permanent collection.
Two new exhibitions opening Sept. 19 at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, shed new light on artistic traditions, ideas and mediums.
By creating a board game designed to simulate a wildfire evacuation, UC Davis Associate Professor Thomas Maiorana and his team hope to help communities at-risk for wildfires think-through evacuation strategies in a low-stress environment, long before their lives are in danger. The prototype, "Tomales Resilience," was recently tested in the community that inspired it.
As an associate professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at UC Davis, Gerardo Con Diaz investigates how law and policy shape the digital world.
