Explore UAB

Faculty Excellence Chris McCauley April 16, 2024

Twenty faculty members across multiple departments in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s College of Arts and Sciences wrote or edited 23 books last year. The scholarship was wide-ranging, include research on the anthropology of drugs, epigenetics, multimodal composition, and more.

The College continued to uphold its long-standing tradition of celebrating all faculty authors—from the previous year—at an event at the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts. This year’s celebration took place on April 15, 2024, with approximately 50 faculty and staff members in attendance.

Congratulations to the following faculty members for writing or editing a book in 2023.


Lisa Gezon

Lisa Gezon, Department of Anthropology

The Anthropology of Drugs

Hyeyoung Lim

Hyeyoung Lim, J. Frank Barefield, Jr., Department of Criminal Justice

A Study on Child Abuse Prevention and Abused Children Protection and Support Policies Based on the Occurrence Structure of Child Abuse: Focusing on Child Abuse Within the Family

Steve McCornack

Steve McCornack, Department of Communication Studies

Choices & Connections: An Introduction to Human Communication, 4th Ed.

Maria Antonia Anderson de la Torre

Maria Antonia Anderson de la Torre, Department of World Languages and Literatures

¿Como lo decimos? Gramática y teoría de la traducción

Frank Amthor

Frank Amthor, Department of Psychology

Discovering the Brain: A Guide to the Most Complex Organ of the Human Body

Trygve Tollefsbol

Trygve Tollefsbol, Department of Biology

Epigenetics in Human Disease, 3rd Ed.

Marshall Abrams

Marshall Abrams, Department of Philosophy

Evolution and the Machinery of Chance: Philosophy, Probability, and Scientific Practice in Biology

John T. Maddox IV

John T. Maddox IV, Department of World Languages and Literatures

Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women

Jeffery Walker

Jeffery Walker, J. Frank Barefield, Jr., Department of Criminal Justice

Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues, 12th Ed.

Lilian Mina

Lilian Mina, Department of English

Multimodal Composition and Writing Transfer

Joshua May

Joshua May, Department of Philosophy

Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science

Frank Amthor

Frank Amthor, Department of Psychology

Neuroscience for Dummies, 3rd Ed.

Shahid Mukhtar

Shahid Mukhtar, Department of Biology

Protein-Protein Interactions: Methods and Protocols

Gary Chapman

Gary Chapman, Department of Art and Art History

Salamandrina: Paintings and Drawings by Gary Chapman

Kevin McCain

Kevin McCain, Department of Philosophy

Seemings: New Arguments, New Angles

Matt King

Matt King, Department of Philosophy

Simply Responsible: Basic Blame, Scant Praise, and Minimal Agency

Adam Vines

Adam Vines, Department of English

The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume X: Alabama

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller, Department of History

State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: A Study in Political Power and Popular Revolution in Languedoc

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller, Department of History

The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France: Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the post-WWII Era

Rebecca Ann Bach

Rebecca Ann Bach, Department of English

Terry Pratchett Could Save the World: 21st Century Perspectives on British Literature and Society

Lilian Mina

Lilian Mina, Department of English

Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration

Emily Jaworski Koriath

Emily Jaworski Koriath, Department of Music

Trauma and the Voice

Shelly McGrath

Shelly McGrath, J. Frank Barefield, Jr., Department of Criminal Justice

Understanding Statistics for Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences


More News

  • New degrees of study available to Blazers this fall
  • Twenty CAS faculty members receive promotions
  • Professor’s new textbook challenges myths about Nazi Germany

Back to Top