MSU Authors Collection

The MSU Authors Collection is an important part of the University Archives' holdings because the works in this collection document the intellectual heritage of the university and the contributions of MSU faculty, staff, students, and alumni to contemporary scholarship.

Beginning in 2008, the University Archives has hosted a biennial reception honoring MSU faculty, staff and emeriti faculty authors who had written and/or edited monographs, musical scores or recordings, films or videos. This digital collection showcases the books, scores, recordings, films or videos created by faculty and staff at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Where appropriate and where copyright allows, full-text versions are made available of certain MSU Authors' works.

For more information about the MSU Authors Collection, visit https://library.mnsu.edu/archives/collections/university-archives/msu-authors/ .

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Contemporary Perspectives on Ethnic Studies

Kebba Darboe, Wayne E. Allen, Mary C. Dowd, Hamdi Elnuzahi, Megan R. Heutmaker, Kelly S. Meier, and Lu (Lu Wendy) Yan

A collection of articles that introduces students to the substance, relevance, and practice of contemporary ethnic studies.
General, Organic, and Biochemistry

Katherine Denniston, Joesph Topping, Danae Quirk Dorr, and Robert Caret
Making the DEC Recommended Practices "Come to Life": Using Case Method of Instruction in Early Childhood Special Education

Aaron R. Deris and Cynthia F. DiCarlo

Presents the use of case method instruction and realistic cases that align with current recommended practices (RP) from the Division of Early Childhood (DEC) for children from birth to age 5. The benefits, debates, usage, barriers, framework, recommended practice, and case study rubrics of Case Method Instruction (CMI) are explored, creating guidelines for analysis and the implementation of plans. An appendix contains research support for the interventions outlined in the case studies.

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Behind the Bullet Points: The Surprising Secrets of Powerful Presentations

Don E. Descy

This is not your regular "how to' presentation book. And if you have read some of them or taken a speech class, Don Descy will challenge many of the ideas and concepts you have learned. If you have never read or taken a class, you are in luck. This is your one stop shop. Written by someone who would do whatever he could to avoid talking in front of a group to someone who enjoys
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A.S.P.I.R.E. to Ethics: An Analytical Approach to Solving Ethical Dilemmas

Jon Gallop

While no book can magically turn a morally bankrupt individual into a paragon of ethical virtue, this text provides the tools to improve decision-making and formulate the best ethical responses to issues that will arise throughout an individual’s career.

The acronym ASPIRE encompasses a step by step guide to ensure a thorough examination of issues. It is impossible to cover every scenario that will arise in the course of a career, but understanding the elements
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Academic Labor Beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values

Holly Hassel and Kirsti Cole

Academic Labor beyond the College Classroom initiates a scholarly and professional conversation, calling upon faculty to participate in, reimagine, and transform their institutional and professional work to look beyond just teaching and research. Chapters in this contributed volume offer case studies, strategies, and exemplars of how faculty can re-engage in institutional service, mentoring, governance, and administrative duties to advance equity efforts at all levels of the university, calling for what Dr. Nancy Chick names in
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Critical Social Justice Education and the Assault on Truth in White Public Pedagogy: The US-Dakota War Re-Examined

Rick Lybeck

This book explores tensions between critical social justice and what the author terms white justice as fairness in public commemoration of Minnesota’s US-Dakota War of 1862. First, the book examines a regional white public pedagogy demanding “objectivity” and “balance” in teaching-and-learning activities on 1862 with the purpose of promoting fairness toward white settlers and the extermination campaign they once carried out against Dakota people. The book then explores dilemmas this public pedagogy created for a
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The Gimmicks

Chris McCormick

"Set in the waning years of the Cold War, a stunning debut novel about a trio of young Armenians that moves from the Soviet Union, across Europe, to Southern California, and at its center, one of the most tragic cataclysms in twentieth-century history - the Armenian Genocide - whose traumatic reverberations will have unexpected consequences on all three lives. This exuberant, wholly original novel begins in Kirovakan, Armenia, in 1971. Ruben Petrosian is a serious,
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Geraldine Chaplin: The Gift of Film Performance

Steven Rybin
Explores the film performances of Geraldine Chaplin across various transnational and historical contexts
- Examines the distinctive screen performances of Geraldine Chaplin, a unique and underappreciated international star
- Offers new readings of Chaplin’s presence in important films by key film directors across various international cinemas, including Carlos Saura (Spain), Jacques Rivette (France), David Lean (Britain), Robert Altman (America), Alain Resnais (France)
- Offers a unique approach to film performance studies, showing how performative moments created by
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Beyond Accommodation: Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Disabled Library Workers

Jessica Schomberg and Wendy Highby

Accommodating disabled people in the library workplace is just the start. Truly creative changes that make the workplace more genuinely democratic and healthful for disabled individuals have the potential to increase the well-being of all workers. Increasingly corporatized institutions, the widening wealth gap, and reactionary neoliberal policies of austerity present daunting challenges. In solidarity, we can find the collective strength to survive, to resist, and to change the system. Library workers’ experiences of disability are
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Race and the Senses: The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment

Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown

In Race and the Senses, Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown explore the sensorial and phenomenological materiality of race as it is felt and sensed by the racialized subjects. Situating the lived body as an active, affective, and sensing participant in racialized realities, they argue that race is not simply marked on our bodies, but rather felt and registered through our senses. They illuminate the sensorial landscape of racialized world by combining the scholarship in sensory
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Second Language Writing Instruction in Global Contexts: English Language Teacher Preparation and Development.

Lisya Seloni and Sarah Henderson Lee

This book revisits second language (L2) writing teacher education by exploring the complex layers of L2 writing instruction in non-English dominant contexts (i.e. English as a foreign language contexts). It pushes the boundaries of teacher education by specifically examining the development of teacher literacy in writing in under-represented L2 writing contexts, and re-envisions L2 writing teacher education that is contextually and culturally situated, moving away from the uncritical embracement of Western-based writing pedagogies. It explores
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Crow's Gambit: A Near Future Techno Thriller

Patrick Tebbe

On Net-Day the alien Sylph surrounded the Earth and destroyed everything in orbit or in the air. Grounding the human race. The world had to adapt and reinvent itself in a new reality that didn’t allow for the planes and satellites people had come to take for granted.

In this world Cassie is one of a new breed of barnstormers. Drone pilots that fly low and fast in violation of human law and alien weapons.
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Crow's Haven: A Near Future Technothriller

Patrick Tebbe

On Net-Day the alien Sylph surrounded the Earth and grounded humanity. Then a maverick drone pilot discovered how to slip past their notice and opened the possibility of humans returning to space.

Fearful of what the Sylph might do and how the United States might use their new capabilities, several nations decide to attack the East Coast. Cassie and the Crow Works team flee before the growing conflict to an abandoned research facility. There they
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Fortunes of the Star Sloth

Patrick Tebbe

Sebastian Rogers is the owner of the civilian vessel, Star Sloth. A loner, possible alcoholic, and someone with serious relationship issues.

Not the person you would normally pick as an explorer or for first contact situations. His A.I. doesn't seem to work quite right either, but then he did program it while he was drunk. When an accident dumps the Sloth beyond human explored space, he discovers they also have a stowaway. A stowaway with
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What Falls Away is Always: Poems and Conversations

Richard Terrill

Here is a new collection of poetic “conversations” with the work and wisdom of Walt Whitman, Diane Arbus, Miles Davis, Groucho Marx, and more. Tai qi, classic movies, environmental angst, and the inexorable passage of time are among the subjects the poems consider—along with Terrill’s signature subject, music, especially the blue nights and blue notes of jazz.

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An Incomplete List of Names

Michael Torres

An astonishing debut collection looking back on a community of Mexican American boys as they grapple with assimilation versus the impulse to create a world of their own. Who do we belong to? This is the question Michael Torres ponders as he explores the roles that names, hometown, language, and others’ perceptions each play on our understanding of ourselves in An Incomplete List of Names. More than a boyhood ballad or a coming-of-age story, this
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A New Journey: Hmong College Student Experiences

Mai Xee Vang and Brian V. Xiong

Collected stories by 24 Hmong undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral college students reflecting the joys, challenges, struggles, and sacrifices of being Hmong students in a new education world.
How Bioscience Meets Buddhism: Biophenomena, Dependent Arising, and Emptiness

Sun Kyeong Yu and Chang-Seong Hong
The Great Reboot: Succeeding in a World of Catastrophic Risk and Opportunity

Bob Zukis, Paul Ferrillo, and Christophe Veltsos

Our world has failed us.

COVID-19 has stopped the world. Every business and system on the planet now needs to reboot.

And a great equalizing in competitive markets is unfolding as powerful forces are creating massive new markets and threatening existing ones as COVID-19 changes how we live, work and play.

THE GREAT REBOOT is a story about the extraordinary business risks and opportunities behind the catastrophic impacts of the global pandemic.

The
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Understanding Communication Research Methods: A Theoretical and Practical Approach

Stephen Michael Croucher and Daniel Cronn-Mills

Using an engaging how-to approach that draws from scholarship, real-life, and popular culture, this textbook offers students practical reasons why they should care about research methods and a guide to actually conducting research themselves. Examining quantitative, qualitative, and critical research methods, this new edition helps undergraduate students better grasp the theoretical and practical uses of method by clearly illustrating practical applications. The book features all the main research traditions within communication including online methods, and
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The CIDER Method: A Human Resource Approach to Handling Employee Complaints

Jon Gallop

"Sexual harassment and discrimination complaints can result in toxic work environments and huge plaintiff verdicts. This book teaches a novel, systematic method for addressing all employee complaints in a style that utilizes humor and case studies to help business students and human resource personnel comprehend the law, recognize issues and respond appropriately. The method employs the acronym CIDER--Communicate, Investigate, Document, Evaluate and Respond--as the cornerstone for properly handling employee complaints. This innovative approach takes a
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Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Literature and Art

Danielle Haque

Interrogating Secularism is a call to rethink binary categories of “religion” and “secularism” in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. While most studies that explore the traffic between literature and issues of secularism emphasize how canonical texts naturalize and reinforce secular values, Interrogating Secularism approaches this nexus through novels written by and about ethnic and religious minorities. Haque juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Rabih
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Cracking the Bell

Geoff Herbach

While recovering from a game-related concussion, football star Isaiah wonders what his life would be like without the game.
Essential Learning Theories: Applications to Authentic Teaching Situations

Andrew P. Johnson

Research-based theories provide the basis for good decision-making in education. As well, teacher effectiveness and student learning are enhanced when research-based theories are used to design curriculum and daily lessons. This book examines human learning in the context of four types of research-based learning theories: neurological learning theories, behavioral learning theories, cognitive learning theories, and transformative learning theories. With each theory, the basic elements are described along with specific classroom applications. The writing style makes
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