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 2016

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Core Workout: A Feminist Critique of Definitions, Hyperfemininity, and the Medicalization of Fitness, Pamela R. Sailors, Sarah Teetzel, and Charlene Weaving

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Deception and drug acquisition: Correlates of “Success” among drug-seeking patients, Amber N. Sanders, John M. Eassey, John M. Stogner, and Bryan Lee Miller

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Social Networks and Civic Participation and Efficacy in Two Evangelical Protestant Churches, Philip Schwadel, Jacob E. Cheadle, Sarah E. Malone, and Michael Stout

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Asymmetric Preferences and Monetary Policy Deviations, C. Patrick Scott

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The Meeting of Elite and Popular Minds at Cambridge, New England, 1638-1645, George Selement

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Benjamin and collecting, Ralph Shain

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Derrida, Husserl, and the problem of prior sense, Ralph Shain

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The implications of chinese strategic culture and counter-intervention upon department of defense space deterrence operations, Christopher Stone

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Not So Black and White: Race and Promotion in Major League Baseball, 1951-1955, D Surdam, Kenneth Brown, and P Gabriel

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Visitor as Researcher: Making Archaeology More Accessible with Broken Unproveninced Objects, Jen Thum and Julia Troche

Submissions from 2015

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Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part II, Scott F. Anfinson, Constance Arzigian, Mark J. Dudzik, Guy E. Gibbon, Lynne Goldstein, Neal Lopinot, Robert J. Jeske, Rochelle Lurie, Mark R. Schurr, and James L. Theler

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Whom Do They Serve? A National Examination of Veterans Treatment Court Participants and Their Challenges, Julie Baldwin

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Healing the Wounds: An Examination of Veterans Treatment Courts in the Context of Restorative Justice, Julie Baldwin and Joseph Rukus

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Textbook Buddhism: introductory books on the Buddhist religion, Stephen C. Berkwitz

The Morrison Site: Evidence for Terminal Late Woodland Mound Construction in the American Bottom, Alleen Betzenhauser, Timothy R. Pauketat, Elizabeth Watts Malouchos, Neal H. Lopinot, and Daniel Marovitch

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Favorites or pariahs? the fate of the right-wing militia men in interwar Hungary, Béla Bodó

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Sticks with Stones: An Experimental Test of the Effects of the Atlatl Weight on Atlatl Mechanics, David I. Cain and Elizabeth A. Sobel

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Autonomy and the Politics of Food Choice: From Individuals to Communities, Tony Chackal

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Cadet and Civilian Undergraduate Attitudes toward Transgender People, Morten G. Ender, David E. Rohall, and Michael D. Matthews

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Intersecting Identities: Race, Military Affiliation, and Youth Attitudes towards War, Morten G. Ender, David E. Rohall, and Michael D. Matthews

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The Center for Ozark Studies: Regional Public History, Robert B. Flanders

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The Object of Respect, Elizabeth Foreman

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Religious Beliefs and Public Support for Prisoner Reentry, Brett Garland, Eric Wodahl, and Rebecca Gretchen Smith

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The Consequences of Competition: Federal Boarding Schools, Competing Institutions, Pueblo Communities, and the Fight to Control the Flow of Pueblo Students, 1881--1928, John Gram

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A Mixed-Method Analysis of Fatal Attacks on Police by Far-Right Extremists, Jeff Gruenewald, Kiefer Michael D. Dooley, Michael J. Suttmoeller, Steven M. Chermak, and Joshua D. Freilich

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Effects of Urban Expansion and Cultural Hierarchies on Labor Strategies within Thailand's Rural-Urban InterfaceÂ, Gregory S. Gullette and Sayamon Singto

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W. Waters Butler and the Making of a Progressive Brewer in Britain, 1890-1922, David W. Gutzke

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Continuity or Change: US Policy & Taiwan, Dennis V. Hickey

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Parallel Progress: US-Taiwan Relations During an Era of Cross-Strait Rapprochement, Dennis V. Hickey

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Ethics in a Mountain State County Jail, Brian Iannacchione, Peter A. Collins, Marianne Hudson, Mary K. Stohr, Craig Hemmens, Jamie Thayer, and Katelyn Brady

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On Writing the History of the Body in Pain, Kathleen Kennedy

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Bayesian Chronological Analyses Consistent with Synchronous Age of 12,835-12,735 cal B.P. for Younger Dryas Boundary on Four Continents, James P. Kennett; Douglas J. Kennett; Brendan J. Culleton; J. Emil Aura Tortosa; James L. Bischoff; James L. Bischoff; Randolph Daniel; Neal H. Lopinot; Jack H. Ray; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.

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A Test of Sprinzak's Split Delegitimization's Theory of the Life Course of Far-right Organizational Behavior, Ashmini Kerodal, Joshua Frelich, Steven Chermak, and Michael Suttmoeller

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Slavery, mission, and the perils of providence in eighteenth-century christianity: The writings of whitefield and the halle pietists, Philippa Koch

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Caste: Religion and Society in India, John Llewellyn

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Implications of Plant Remains from the East Face of Monks Mound, Neal Lopinot, Timothy Schilling, Gayle J. Fritz, and John E. Kelly

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Does the Gown Help the Town? Examining Town-Gown Relationship Influence on Local Environmental Sustainability in the United States, Samantha Mosier

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A Political Anthropologist's Journey from the Local to the Global: An Interview with Irène Bellier (CNRS-EHESS), Susana Narotsky and Margaret L. Buckner

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The Roots of Brazil's Heavy Taxation, Gabriel Ondetti

US nuclear weapons and deterrence: Realist versus utopian thinking, Keith B. Payne

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Nuclear Force Adaptability for Deterrence and Assurance: A Prudent Alternative to Minimum Deterrence, Keith B. Payne and John S. Foster

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Voter initiatives and their impact on states budget balance, Yuhua Qiao

Procurement and use of chert from localized sources in Trinidad, Jack H. Ray

The Morgan Cache: A Middle Woodland Deposit In Benton County, Arkansas, Jack H. Ray

Alley Mill Revisited: A Reevaluation of the Dalton Midden Deposits, Jack H. Ray and Rolfe D. Mandel

Luther, Linck, and Later Lutherans on Pastoral Care to the Sick and Dying, Austra Reinis

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"Such defiant, obstinate disobedience": Martin Luther's Jonah and Michael Helding's Recatholization Effort in Merseburg, Austra Reinis

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Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey: Temporary Marriage?, David Romano

The Arab Spring's Effect on Kurdish Political Fortunes, David Romano

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Successful and Less Successful Interventions: Stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan, David Romano, Brian Calfano, and Robert Phelps

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Off the beaten path: should women compete against men?, Pamela Sailors

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Personal Foul: an evaluation of the moral status of football, Pamela Sailors

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Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: A Critical Analysis of Pacing, Pamela Sailors and Doug Hochstetler

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Lentius, inferius, debilius: the ethics of "˜not trying'on the olympic stage, Pamela R. Sailors, Sarah Teetzel, and Charlene Weaving

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Are central bank preferences asymmetric when policy targets vary over time?, Patrick C. Scott

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Boys' versus Girls' Schooling in Nepal: Does It Vary by the Extent of Mothers' Autonomy?, Sharmistha Self

Spousal-Differences in Perception of Female Autonomy in Household Decision-Making in Nepal, Sharmistha Self

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The focal concerns of sentencing and mandatory sentencing laws: Circumvention in the context of mandatory probation and treatment, Don Stemen, Andres F. Rengifo, and Ethan Amidon

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Perceptions of powdered alcohol and intentions to use: An exploratory qualitative assessment of potential palcohol use by young adults, John Stogner, Julie Baldwin, Timothy Brown, and Taylor Chick

Influence of Critical Infrastructure on Enterprise Economic Security, Stanislava Strelcova, David Rehak, and David E. A. Johnson

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The influence of external and internal correlates on the organizational death of domestic far-right extremist groups, Michael Suttmoeller, Steven Chermak, and Joshua Frelich

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Only the Bad Die Young: The Correlates of Organizational Death for Far-Right Extremist Groups, Michael J. Suttmoeller, Steven M. Chermak, and Joshua D. Freilich

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The U.S. Health Production Function: Evidence from 2001 to 2009, Hui-Kuan Tseng and Reed N. Olsen

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Demanding or Deferring? The Economic Value of Communication with Attitude, Siyu Wang

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The Effect of Digitalization on Penalty Payments: An Experimental Investigation, Siyu Wang and Xiangdong Qin

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Responding to probation and parole violations: Are jail sanctions more effective than community-based graduated sanctions?, Eric Wodahl, John Boman, and Brett E. Garland

Submissions from 2014

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Congregational Political Activity and Same-Sex Marriage: Social Movement Theory and Evidence for Contextual Influence, Gary J. Adler, Catherine Hoegeman, and A. Joseph West

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Protecting Her Image: Kathryn Kuhlman and the Manipulation of Negation, Amy Collier Artman

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The Kurds and their History: New Perspectives, Djene Bajalan and Sara Zandi Karimi

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It's five o'clock somewhere: An examination of the association between happy hour drinking and negative consequences, Julie Marie Baldwin, John M. Stogner, and Bryan Lee Miller

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Forecasting House Prices in the United States with Multiple Structural Breaks, Mahua Barari, Nityananda Sarkar, Srikanta Kundu, and Kushal Banik Chowdhury

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Heat Treatment, Ozarks Cherts, and Prehistoric Toolstone Use in Southwest Missouri, David A. Byers, Craig Picka, and Jack H. Ray

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Who and What Affects the First Estate? An Analysis of Clergy Attitudes on Cultural and Economic Issues, Brian Calfano, Elizabeth Oldmixon, and Jane Suiter

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Strategically prophetic priests: An analysis of competing principal influence on clergy political action, Brian Robert Calfano, Elizabeth A. Oldmixon, and Mark Gray

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Waiting for the Flu: Cognitive Inertia and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918--19, Thomas S. Dicke

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Using a Group-Based Trajectory Approach to Assess Risk and Protective Factors of Marijuana Use, John M. Eassey, Chris L. Gibson, and Marvin D. Krohn

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An Agent-Centered Account of Rightness: The Importance of a Good Attitude, Elizabeth Foreman

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On Light Pollution, Passive Pleasures, and the Instrumental Value of Beauty, Terrel A. Gallaway

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Decarceration and its possible effects on inmates, staff, and communities, Brett E. Garland, Nancy Hogan, Eric Wodahl, Aida Hass, and Mary K. Stohr

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The Relationship of Affective and Continuance Organizational Commitment with Correctional Staff Occupational Burnout A Partial Replication and Expansion Study, Brett E. Garland, Eric Lambert, Nancy Hogan, Bitna Kim, Thomas Kelley, and Thomas Kelley

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Some preliminary evidence of the impact of the 2008--2009 financial crisis on women, Richard Grabowski and Sharmistha Self

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Field experimental designs for the study of media effects, Donald Green, Brian Calfano, and Peter Aronow

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Tocqueville and the Challenge of Historicism, Sara Henary

The Artesian Branch Site: Late Woodland Occupations in the Mississippi Floodplain of Northeastern Missouri, Richard L. Herndon, Andrew P. Bradbury, Neal H. Lopinot, Brian G. DelCastello, and Gina S. Powell

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Taiwan and the Rising Tensions in the East China Sea, Dennis V. Hickey

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Study Abroad and Moral Development, Andrew B. Johnson and Danielle Hathcock

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The Roots and Achievements of the Early Proto-Sunni Movement: A Profile and Interpretation, Matthew J. Kuiper

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When Domains Spill Over: The Relationships of Affective and Continuance Commitment With Work-Family Conflict Among Correctional Staff, Eric G. Lambert, Nancy L. Hogan, Thomas M. Kelley, Bitna Kim, and Brett Garland

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Choreographing Embedded Dialogue in Biblical Narratives, Victor H. Matthews

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Americanizing the Teachers: Identity, Citizenship, and the Teaching Corps in Hawaii, 1900--1941, Michelle Morgan

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A field of great promise: Teachers' migration to the Urban Far West, 1890-1930, Michelle M. K. Morgan

Remembering the martyrdom of Saint Francis of Paola: History, Memory and minim identity in seventeenth-century France, Eric Nelson

A possible Indian quarter at al-Baleed in the fourteenth-seventeenth centuries AD?, Lynne S. Newton and Juris Zarins

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Assessing clergy attitudes: Ideology and institutional superiors, Elizabeth Oldmixon, Jane Suiter, and Brian Calfano

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One Voice, Multiple Tongues: Dialoguing with Boko Haram, Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi

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Besir Fuad (1852-1887) and the Introduction of Philosophical Materialism into the Ottoman Intellectual Life, Serdar Poyraz

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Gender and Reinforcing Associations between Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Body Mass over the Life Course, Tetyana Pudrovska, Eric N. Reither, Ellis S. Logan, and Kyler J. Sherman-Wilkins

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Iraq's Descent into Civil War: A Constitutional Explanation, David Romano

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Racers, Pacers, Gender and Records: On the Meaning of Sport Competition and Competitors, Danny Rosenberg and Pam Sailors

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Mixed competition and mixed messages, Pamela Sailors