The College of Humanities and Public Affairs (CHPA) helps students to understand social, political and legal structures, ethical principles, religious systems, and economic institutions and practices within a global, historical, and contemporary context. CHPA presents the concepts contained in the university’s Public Affairs mission and applies them to real-world problems and situations so that our students will be better prepared to become citizens and leaders.

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Submissions from 2019

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Demanding or deferring? An experimental analysis of the economic value of communication with attitude, Siyu Wang and Daniel Houser

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Dunefield geoarchaeology at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA: Site formation, resource use, and dunefield dynamics, F. Scott Worman, Alexander Kurota, and Patrick Hogan

Submissions from 2018

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Politics and historical imprisonment, 1930-2010, Ethan Amidon

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Politics and the Death Penalty: 1930-2010, Ethan Amidon

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Decoloniality and decolonizing Critical Theory, Jake M. Bartholomew

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Relationships between Agency-Specific Contact, Victimization Type, and Trust and Confidence in the Police and Courts, Emily R. Berthelot, Brittani A. McNeal, and Julie Marie Baldwin

Reconstruction in the Ozarks: Simpson Mason, William Monks, and the war that refused to end, Brooks Blevins

Maternal investments and child cognitive achievement, Jeremy A. Cook and John Stuart Rabon

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A new methodology for surveys and its application to forced response, Timothy Flannery

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The use of non-monotonic contracts in a single period game: An experimental investigation, Timothy Flannery and Stephen Roberts

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College Student Perceptions of Notification About Sex Offenders on Campus, Brett Garland, Brian Calfano, and Eric Wodahl

Communicating solutions to the great western schism in 1380s France, Magda Hayton and Robert L. J. Shaw

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Expressive Versus Instrumental Partisanship in Multiparty European Systems, Leonie Huddy, Alexa Bankert, and Caitlin Davies

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The Social Determinants of Health in a Community Context: Lessons for Sociological Practice, Tim Knapp and Lisa Hall

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Marketing missions: Material culture, theological convictions, and empire in 18th-century christian philanthropy, Philippa R. Koch

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Cannabis Prevalence and National Drug Policy in 27 Countries: An Analysis of Adolescent Substance Use, Marijana M. Kotlaja and Jennifer V. Carson

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Neighborhood Parks and Playgrounds: Risky or Protective Contexts for Youth Substance Use?, Marijana Kotlaja, Emily M. Wright, and Abigail A. Fagan

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Heterosexual College Students Who Hookup with Same-Sex Partners, Arielle Kuperberg and Alicia M. Walker

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Embezzlement, whistleblowing, and organizational architecture: An experimental investigation, Michael D. Makowsky and Siyu Wang

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Did the RIAA's Prosecution of Music Piracy Impact Music Sales?, David M. Mitchell, Charles Patrick Scott, and Kenneth H. Brown

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Sustainability university-community partnerships: Lessons for practitioners and scholars from highly sustainable communities, Samantha Mosier and Megan Ruxton

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The Role of Sanctions and Incentives in Promoting Successful Reentry: Evidence From the SVORI Data, Thomas J. Mowen, Eric Wodahl, John J. Brent, and Brett Garland

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The diversity of the modern in amazonia, Suzanne Oakdale and Marnie Watson

Chipped-Stone Artifacts in the Gregoire Collection from Rattlesnake Basket Rockshelter (3NW79) in Newton County, Arkansas, Jack H. Ray

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Ear spools, ceramics, and burial mounds from southwest Missouri: Caddoan and Spiro connections on the Northern Frontier, Jack H. Ray

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Effect of Health on Retirement of Older Americans: a Competing Risks Study, Subhasree Basu Roy

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Performance-Enhancing Drugs and Moral Line Drawing, Pam R. Sailors

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Derrida on truth, Ralph Shain

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”It tells all of our history!” the boi-bumbá festival of manaus, Marnie K. Watson

Submissions from 2017

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On the frontiers of empire: Culture and power in early modern "Iranian" Kurdistan, Djene Rhys Bajalan

Investigating the programmatic attack: A national survey of veterans treatment courts, Julie Marie Baldwin

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Close only counts in alcohol and violence: Controlling violence near late-night alcohol establishments using a routine activities approach, Kyle A. Burgason, Grant Drawve, Timothy C. Brown, and John Eassey

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The framily plan: Characteristics of ties described as both friend and family in personal networks, Amy N. Bush, Alicia M. Walker, and Brea L. Perry

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Focusing Respect on Creatures, Elizabeth Foreman

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Overcoming Public Opposition to Transitional Housing, Brett Garland and Eric Wodahl

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What Influences Public Support of Transitional Housing Facilities for Offenders During Reentry?, Brett Garland, Eric Wodahl, and Caryn Saxon

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Secrecy, transparency and government whistleblowing, William H. Harwood

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In their words: A qualitative analysis of the overlap in victimization and offending, Aida Y. Hass and Christine Hannis

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Taiwan in 2016: A new era?, Dennis V. Hickey and Emerson M.S. Niou

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Job status of women head clergy: Findings from the national congregations study, 1998, 2006, and 2012, Catherine Hoegeman

The medical-legal construction of child sexual violence in the United States of America: Theories, practices and strategies of control, Rodrigues Hrodrigues@missouristate.edu

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Where the wild things are: animal victimization in federal environmental crime cases, Melissa Jarrell, Joshua Ozymy, and William L. Sandel

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History of Ardalanids (1590-1810) by Sharaf al-Din bin Shams al-Din, Sara Zandi Karimr

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On Writing the History of So Much Grief: Cotton Mather's Decennium Luctuosum and the Trauma of Colonial History, Kathleen Kennedy

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Perceptions of Campus Safety Policies: Contrasting the Views of Students with Faculty and Staff, Michael Kyle, Joseph A. Schafer, George W. Burruss, and Matthew J. Giblin

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The impact of law enforcement officer perceptions of organizational justice on their attitudes regarding body-worn cameras, Michael Kyle and David R. White

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Why I am here matters: The effects of continuance and affective commitment on the organizational citizenship of private prison staff, Eric Lambert, Bitna Kim, Nancy Hogan, Thomas Kelley, and Brett E. Garland

Active-shooter events in the workplace: Findings and policy implications, M. Martaindale, William L. Sandel, and J. Pete Blair

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The Art of Lying in King David's Court, Victor H. Matthews

An Examination of the Impact That Classroom Based Experiments Have on Learning Economic Concepts, David M. Mitchell

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Estimating the Willingness to Pay for Dark Skies, David M. Mitchell, Terrel Gallaway, and Reed Olsen

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The Power of Preferences: Economic Elites and Light Taxation in Mexico, Gabriel Ondetti

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Ear spools, ceramics, and burial mounds from southwest missouri: Caddoan and spiro connections on the Northern Frontier, Jack H. Ray

500 Years of Reformations, Austra Reinis

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When Policy Comes to Town: Discourses and Dilemmas of Implementation of a Statewide Reentry Policy in Kansas, Andres F. Rengifo, Don Stemen, and Ethan Amidon

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Is all police academy training created equally? Comparing natural resource officer and general police academy training, Michael T. Rossler and Michael J. Suttmoeller

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Foucault and the Glamazon: The Autonomy of Ronda Rousey, Pamela R. Sailors and Charlene Weaving

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Cheating, lying, and trying in recreational sports and leisure practices, Pam R. Sailors, Sarah Teetzel, and Charlene Weaving

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The ‘Triple R Approach on the Restoration of Archaeological Dry Stone City Walls: Procedures and Application to a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Oman, Mauro Sassu, Juris Zarins, Linda Giresini, and Lynne Newton

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Monetary policy deviations: A Bayesian state-space analysis, C. Patrick Scott and Mahua Barari

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Factors Influencing Healthcare Choices by the Elderly in India: Role of Social Interactions, Sharmistha Self and Subhasree Basu Roy

Impact of Ethanol Mandates on Corn Prices in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, Sharmistha Self and Suhina Deol

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Is More Violent Better? The Impact of Group Participation in Violence on Group Longevity for Far-Right Extremist Groups, Michael J. Suttmoeller, Steven M. Chermak, and Joshua D. Freilich

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Ceramic Production and Interaction in the Northern Range of Trinidad, Marcie L. Venter, Neal H. Lopinot, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, and Michael D. Glascock

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”We've got to keep meeting like this”: A pilot study comparing academic performance in shifting-membership cooperative groups versus stable-membership cooperative groups in an introductory-level lab, Alicia Walker, Amy Bush, Ken Sanchagrin, and Jonathon Holland

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Understanding the Perceived Value of Incentives in Community Supervision, Eric J. Wodahl, Brett E. Garland, and Thomas Mowen

Submissions from 2016

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Reimagining Buddhist kingship in a Sinhala praśasti, Stephen C. Berkwitz

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Sinhala Buddhist Appropriations of Indic Cultural Forms: Literary Imitations and Conquests, Stephen C. Berkwitz

Life on the margins: The diaries of minnie atteberry, Brooks Blevins

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Where everything new is old again: Southern gospel singing schools, Brooks Blevins

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Region, Religion, and Competing Visions of Mountain Mission Education in the Ozarks, Brooks R. Blevins

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Mapping Culture: Battle Array Schemas (Zhentu) in Middle Period China, M. A. Butler

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I does not mean infallible: Pushing back against institutional review board overreach, Brian R. Calfano

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Muslim Mistrust: The Resilience of Negative Public Attitudes after Complimentary Information, Brian Robert Calfano, Paul A. Djupe, Daniel Cox, and Robert Jones

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Beyond Surveillance: The Effects of Issue Ad Vividness and Anxiety on Information Use, Brian Robert Calfano and Aaron Kruse

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Remembering to ask the boss: Priming and the dynamics of priest reliance on bishop cues, Brian R. Calfano and Elizabeth A. Oldmixon

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Of Materiality and Meaning: The Illegality Condition in Street Art, Tony Chackal

The Power of Self-Promotion: Twitter Followers and Guaranteed Purses in Professional Boxing, David Chaplin, Kenneth Brown, and John Harris

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Conditional Motivated Reasoning: How the Local Economy Moderates Partisan Motivations in Economic Perceptions, Bradley T. Dickerson and Heather Ondercin

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Juvenile Evening Reporting Centers: A Research Note on an Emerging Practice, Brett E. Garland, Sara Moore, Mary K. Stohr, and Michael Kyle

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Preparing Community Supervision Officers through Undergraduate Education: A Study of Academic and Practitioner Expectations, Brett Garland and Adam K. Matz

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Measuring Public Support for Prisoner Reentry Options, Brett Garland, Eric Wodahl, and Lisa Cota

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Staple food price instability and structural change: Indonesian experience, Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self

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In the eye of the typhoon: Taiwan and the growing dispute in the South China Sea, Dennis Hickey

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Taiwan in 2015: A Turning Point?, Dennis V. Hickey and Emerson Niou

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Acting Out Assimilation: Playing Indian and Becoming American in the Federal Indian Boarding Schools, R. Gram John

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Experience and the Soul in Eighteenth-Century Medicine, Philippa Koch

Madaba Plains Project Tall Hisban, 1998, Øystein S. LaBianca, Paul J. Ray Jr., and Bethany Walker

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Predictors of Support for Women in Military Roles: Military Status, Gender, and Political Ideology, Janice H. Laurence, Briana L. Milavec, David E. Rohall, Morten G. Ender, and Michael D. Matthews

A Shipwreck Magnetometer Survey on Jameson Island, Saline County, and Cora Island, St. Charles County, Missouri, Neal Lopinot and Dustin Thompson

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An honor long overdue: The 2013 congressional gold and silver medal ceremonies in honor of native American code Talkers, William C. Meadows

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New Data on Kiowa Protohistoric Origins, William C. Meadows

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Diffusion of food policy in the U.S.: The case of organic certification, Samantha L. Mosier and Dawn Thilmany

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The U.S. health care expenditure: evidence from 2001 to 2009, Reed N. Olsen and Hui-Kwan Tseng

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The social function of property, land rights and social welfare in Brazil, Gabriel Ondetti

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The power-transition crisis of the 240s BCE and the creation of the Parthian State, Nikolaus L. Overtoom

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Internal Movement Transformation and the Diffusion of Student Protest in Chile, Indira Palacios-Valladares

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With or Without Them: Contemporary Student Movements and Parties in the Southern Cone, Indira Palacios-Valladares

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Working Through Work Release: An Analysis of Factors Associated with the Successful Completion of Work Release, J Rukus, John M. Eassey, and Julie Baldwin

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Not Forgetting Sex: Simon on Gender Equality, Pamela R. Sailors