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The Quality & Quantity was established in 1967 and in 2017 it completed its half century. The journal is interdisciplinary in nature and it mainly discusses methodological application of mathematics and statistics in the social sciences, particularly sociology, economics, and social psychology. It was created with the idea of advancing methodology of the various social studies. This study looks back journey of the journal from 1967 to 2017 aims to develop a bibliometric analysis of all the publications of the journal. Web of Science Core Collection database is used to collect data. The present study discovered the significant contributions of the journal in terms of impact, topics, authors, universities and countries. Utrecht University of Netherlands is the most productive university. Asian Universities are emerging and growing quickly in the recent years. Although USA leads among the countries but Europe leads among the six supranational regions. Finally, the visualization of similarities viewer software is used to present network visualization of the bibliographic coupling, co-citation, citation, co-authorship and co-occurrence of keywords. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New and complex problems are developing at the public-private interface. There exist few effective mechanisms for their analysis and solution. The author proposes an interdisciplinary systems approach transcending traditional boundaries placed on studies in both government and business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article sums up the tradition and evolution of studies of American character, updating it with twenty-first-century examples. Particular attention applies to the surge of studies from the 1950s-1980s, when ideas of change were introduced, as well as developments and opportunities in more recent work. Primary goals are maintaining and embellishing an interesting interdisciplinary tradition; dealing with the ongoing tension between continuity and change and urging some attention to national character patterns (and their complexities) in orienting further projects in contemporary historical research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from qualitative analyses of interviews, ethnographic data, and a review of interdisciplinary literature, this manuscript puts forth a theory of moral life course narratives among U.S. evangelical and mainline Protestants. This theory delineates the relationship between religious worldviews and conceptions of moral behaviors, and the manner in which these worldviews and attendant moral conceptions change across the life course for community members. Grounded theory analyses of 32 participants’ divinity-based moral discourses were interpreted in conjunction with their worldviews, as well as church, home, and school contexts. Analyses indicated that evangelical children highlighted their moral transgressions because they regarded themselves as still quite close to a sinful birth. Evangelical adults, who had been saved and were moving toward God, temporally and spiritually distanced themselves from the morally wrong deeds of their youth. Meanwhile, mainline children and adolescents rarely reasoned about their moral experiences in terms of divinity. This finding is understood in light of their church’s emphasis on developing an individualized relationship with God over time. The study and resultant theory elaborate cultural constructions and transmissions of moral life course narratives that, in turn, provide a framework for understanding when, why, and how divinity enters into moral meaning making for cultural community members. We conclude by advocating for theoretical, methodological, and analytical approaches that expose the cultural nature of developmentally dynamic moral selves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the American historian Donna R. Gabaccia's scholarship on the history of mobility, immigration to the U.S. from a global perspective and transnationalism. An overview of Gabaccia's work on the history of Italian immigrants to the U.S. is provided. The interdisciplinary approach of Gabaccia to migrant history writing is discussed.

The article discusses the historian Donna R. Gabaccia's scholarship on the history immigration to the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including through commenting on her book co-authored by sociologist Katharine Donato, "Gender and International Migration." An overview of Gabaccia's interdisciplinary approach to historical knowledge is provided. Topics of Gabaccia's history writing, including immigrant families, women immigrants and Italian immigrants to the U.S., are discussed.

In the fall of 2014, the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) launched a new interdisciplinary graduate program in the Department of Civil Engineering. The mission of the Construction Engineering and Management (CEM) master's program is to provide the skills necessary to prepare the next generation of construction engineers to be effective leaders and managers in the ever-evolving construction industry. Developing a new program provided unique opportunities. However, developing a truly interdisciplinary program in engineering meant that few models or templates existed. This research documents the preliminary curriculum outcomes and assessment, as well as lessons learned during program development. Specifically, after completion of the program's first year, the faculty assessed student learning in the core curriculum, surveyed industry experts, and interviewed students to gather feedback on the program. A team of faculty and assessment experts met monthly to develop the program's vision, learning objectives, curriculum, and assessment plan. This mixed-method research documents and presents implementation and preliminary outcomes. The primary take-aways include the following: academic preparation of students for professional practice in construction requires diverse, customizable, and interdisciplinary curricula; to accomplish such an objective, it is best to develop curriculum and assessment in parallel; faculty buy-in and commitment is critical; and program- and course-level coordination and iteration are essential. Although the opportunity to develop a new and original program is rare, today many universities are looking to develop innovative interdisciplinary programs. As a result, findings from this research are relevant and informative to engineering departments seeking to improve existing or develop innovative and interdisciplinary programs or curricula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the role of language departments at U.S. universities and colleges in innovation through interdisciplinary collaboration, noting the author's work at Mount Holyoke College and Drexel University. Topics include the notion of a crisis in the humanities in U.S. higher education, the facilitation of innovation and advocacy by language departments, and public engagement. Collaboration with higher education administrators is addressed.

Interdisciplinary scholarship on the era of the American Civil War has invigorated a well-trodden field. This essay addresses recent scholarship on the history of emotions, medicine, and the environment in the Civil War era, analyzing key themes and suggesting areas for future research. Together, these fields have added nuance to the “dark turn” in Civil War studies, historicized concepts often treated ahistorically, and allowed Civil War historians to engage in meaningful conversations with scholars in other fields and disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article, based exclusively on examples that the author has recorded from the oral tradition of the Sephardic Jews, presents the three main genres of the Sephardic traditional repertoire, romancero, copias and cancionero. These three poetic and musical genres show the vitality, the richness and the variety of the Judeo-Spanish repertoire and have received focused attention by literary scholars and musicologists, through intensive fieldwork, recordings, analysis and interviews. This article presents a system of classification of the repertoire according to interdisciplinary parameters. All the examples belong to those the author has collected in work at the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The recordings from her own fieldwork (1974-2014), together with those of other scholars, resulted in the world's richest collection of the Judeo-Spanish repertoire, and is stored and catalogued at the National Sound Archives of the Israel National Library, open to scholars, singers and lovers of the Judeo-Spanish tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As studies of the history of social science since 1945 have multiplied over the past decade and a half, it has not been unusual for commentators to present cross-disciplinary ventures as a byproduct of the disciplinary system and to contrast the stability of disciplines with the highs and lows of interdisciplinary relationships. In contrast, this special issue takes the view that cross-disciplinary ventures should be considered not so much as efforts to loosen up the disciplinary yoke, but as an alternative form of production and dissemination of social scientific knowledge. Paradoxically, the relationship between cross-disciplinary ventures and the disciplinary system appears as one of complementarity and not of dependence. The essays in the special issue provide examples of ways to reconsider what can be called the interdisciplinary chaos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historians argue that in the early Cold War an interdisciplinary research culture defined the RAND Corporation. However, a significant epistemological gap divided the members of RAND's Social Science Division (SSD) from the rest of the organization. While the social scientists used qualitative methods, most RAND researchers embraced quantified approaches and derided the social sciences as unscientific. This encouraged RAND's social scientists to develop a political-military simulation that embraced everything-politics, culture, and psychology-that RAND's other analysts largely ignored. Yet the fact that the SSD embraced gaming, a heuristic practiced throughout RAND, suggests that the political simulation was nonetheless inspired by social scientists' engagement with their colleagues. This indicates that the concept of interdisciplinarity should move beyond its implication of collaboration to incorporate instances in which research agendas are defined against but also shaped by colleagues in other disciplines. Such a rethinking of the term may make it possible to trace how varieties of interdisciplinary interaction historically informed knowledge production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Interdisciplinarity' is widely praised in modern academe for its apparent ability to generate important research results and contribute to scholarly innovation. This essay examines a crucial case of interdisciplinary work in the humanities and social sciences: the area studies complex that emerged in the United States after World War II. Examining both celebrations and critiques of area studies, this essay concludes that the enterprise made a major contribution to national life not through the production of scholarship (the usual focus of historians of higher education) but through the innovative model of undergraduate teaching and graduate training that expanded the geographic and linguistic horizons of American undergraduate and graduate life. A final section of the essay suggests the relevance of this pedagogical focus for contemporary debates about the future of area studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relevant economic and legal research relating to police use of stop-and-frisk has largely been distinct. There is much to be gained by taking an interdisciplinary approach. This Essay emphasizes some of the challenges faced by those seeking to evaluate the efficacy and legality of stop-and-frisk, and suggests some ways forward and areas of exploration for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The idea of interdisciplinarity can be articulated in different ways. The aim of the article is to criticise the view that interdisciplinarity is to be treated as a quality of the historian's approach to his subject-matter, and to argue for a constructivist interpretation of that notion. A constructivist account of interdisciplinarity relies on the thesis that the latter is one of the manifold ways in which it is possible to give sense to the historical records of which the historian wants to gain knowledge. In the paper it is maintained that the function of the notion of interdisciplinarity is to account for the clash of languages that can be found when disciplines converge. This new paradigm is highlighted by taking into consideration the history of American pragmatism. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The year 2013 marked the sesquicentennial of the birth of Ellen Churchill Semple, at one time a towering figure in American geography. Like almost all of her geographer contemporaries in the first decade of the twentieth century, she was a stout defender of 'geographic influences' in history. This article examines a failed attempt by professional historians to give geographers a hearing at the American Historical Association in a critical 'Conference' on the relevance of geography to history, in 1907. Organized by Frederick Jackson Turner, it was the first time professional historians in America had given Miss Semple a public opportunity in which to defend her views. How and why it turned out to be an intellectual disaster, and how its major participants changed their views later, is the subject of this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an interdisciplinary attempt to theorize how racism functions in the most recent wave of nativist discourse to produce whiteness and the nation. First, I begin with a review of the current scholarship on the nativist debate about immigration. Second, I show how ‘racist dirt fixations’ work in a new colour-blind racist manner with the geographic scales to make sense of the wide range of dissimilar images in nativist discourse. Finally, I argue that nativist discourse creates a naturalized portrait of a white national body in danger from the criminal immigrant who represents dirt, disgust, abjection and disorder and produces racial tensions, anxieties and nightmares about borders and crossings at each scale. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Chicana history has come a long way since its inception in the 1960s and 1970s. While initially a neglected area of study limited to issues of labor and class, today scholars in history, literature, anthropology, and sociology, among others, study topics of gender, culture, and sexuality, as well as youth culture, reproductive rights, migration, and immigration. In the process, these scholars contribute to the collective project of Mexican and Mexican American women's history in the United States, making it diverse in its analytical themes, methodologies, and sources. Indeed, Chicana history is not confined by disciplinary boundaries. Rather, its cross-disciplinary nature gives it life. This article charts that interdisciplinarity and demonstrates its significance in expanding and recasting Chicano history more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the abstracts of women's studies doctoral dissertations produced in the United States between 1995 and 2010 in order to develop an understanding of the nature of new scholarship produced in women's studies, and the potential of this knowledge to move the field forward. It examines 116 abstracts in an attempt to take the pulse of the field, to explore how the interdisciplinary field of women's studies is both widening and specializing in terms of scope and scale, and to illuminate some of the challenges that arise when writing research abstracts for a nonconventional field. The article discusses how these difficulties reflect the contestations and contradictions in the field of women's studies, testifying to the epistemic processes that envision social transformation and gender justice. In addition to considering the topic and methodological trends that these abstracts embody and how they relate to the future directions of women's studies, it examines the abstract as an independent genre of academic writing, evaluating its limitations and possibilities as a tool for facilitating knowledge production and dissemination in a burgeoning interdisciplinary field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information is provided regarding the 2013 interdisciplinary conference entitled "What happened to the nuclear family in the 20th century? Empirical and epistemological findings in comparative perspective" held at the University of Münster, in Münster, Germany. Topics include 19th century ideas regarding incest, the 20th century rise in the role of experts in German family life, and the history of American family values. Presenters included scholars Elisabeth Timm, David W. Sabean, and Maren Klotz.

The article discusses the relation of the discipline of industrial relations (IR) to U.S. labor policy and scholarship. It is said that IR has developed coping strategies for the decline of the field in light of the transformation of labor policy involving a move toward financial capitalism. Other topics include the development of the organization Industry Studies Association (ISA), the reforming of the organization Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA) as the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), and the promotion of interdisciplinary IR work.

The article discusses the relationship between the interdisciplinary fields of American studies and comparative literature. The author explains that a divide exists between the two fields, largely based on the Eurocentric view of comparative literature expounded by mid-20th century adherents, along with the discipline's lack of focus on social and historical matters. Conversely, the author notes that American studies is grounded in such fields as history, sociology, and political science as a means to examine U.S. culture. The field's support of an exceptionalist view of U.S. culture and literature is also detailed. It is argued that comparativists can utilize an non-exceptionalist American studies model in such areas as postcolonial studies and African American literature.

Purpose |!|#8211; The purpose of this research is to provide an in-depth analysis of the labor market for apprentice training in the US construction industry. Also, the paper analyzes the learning process of apprentices and discusses the role of apprenticeships as a pathway to higher education. Design/methodology/approach |!|#8211; The interdisciplinary approach of this research integrates both the economic, institutional and educational aspects of apprenticeship training to show the process of developing the construction labor force in the USA. Findings |!|#8211; The major finding of this research is to highlight the importance of apprenticeship programs in the US construction industry and how these programs can be used as a way to help rebalance the labor market. By increasing the number of workers with intermediate skills, we can insure the distribution of skills more closely matches the distribution of available jobs. Research limitations/implications |!|#8211; Because of space constraints, the research limitations are that little is said about the factors that affect apprenticeship program completion rates. Practical implications |!|#8211; The practical implications of this research are to provide policy makers some recommendations that can be used to foster the growth and development of apprenticeship programs in the US construction industry. Social implications |!|#8211; The major social implications are that apprenticeship programs should viewed as an alternative pathway to higher education. They can ultimately improve career mobility and earnings. This can lead to a more equal distribution of income while expanding the tax base. Originality/value |!|#8211; This paper provides a unique analysis of an important segment of the US labor force by focusing on the economics and learning process of apprentices in the US construction industry. Understanding the learning styles of many apprentices helps explain the importance of the dual nature of their training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers how Marvelous Realism, a predecessor of Magical Realism formulated by the Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, contributes to an understanding of the United States as part of America. Past efforts to maintain a separation of the United States from the rest of America have distorted cultural studies and impeded useful political projects. Although sound political concerns, along with disciplinary boundaries, exist for moving cautiously while revising current views of the United States as an entity necessarily opposed to Latin America, scholars need not always uphold invasive or hegemonic forces as they discover links between these seemingly disparate American places. Developing ideas found in the writings of José Martí and other American philosophers, Carpentier found powerful connections between Latin America and the rest of America – whatever one calls it – even as he engaged in excoriations of Washington's misuse of power and the undue influence of Hollywood. In addition to defining Marvelous Realism, Carpentier's Prologue to El reino de este mundo shows how it applies to literature, painting, and music in ways that have the power to transform our understanding of how fusions of the three populated continents on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean brought about a profusion of American cultures. Reading Carpentier's 1948 explanation of Magical Realism in the context of his earlier articles serialized in Carteles in 1941 demonstrates the utility as well as the logic of – sometimes – bringing America together. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

More collaborative work in the humanities could be instrumental in helping to break down the traditional rigid boundaries between academic divisions and disciplines in modern universities. The value of the traditional model of the solitary humanities scholar or the collaborative science paradigm should not be discounted. However, increasing the use of collaborative and interdisciplinary research models in the humanities would promote new forms of scholarship and also help to create a better, more integral and inclusive world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on the interdisciplinary approach towards solving the problem of diminished capacity of the senior citizens that poses as threat to the attorney-client relationship. The correlation of dementia with old age is projected by the Department of Health and Human Services of the U.S. Strategies and policies should be adopted by lawyers for reducing the risk of malpractice liability and for preserving the autonomy and privacy of the client. Information on the interdisciplinary services with respect to the elder law is also presented.

The article presents an interview with U.S. sociologist Howard S. Becker. When asked about his book "Telling About Society," Becker comments on deprivileging academic sociology. Becker discusses the interdisciplinary nature of modern sociology, particularly noting its connection to economics and art. He considers his labeling theory and the process of assuming an identity.

When thinking about human evolution across the disciplines, terms such as "anthropological genetics" or "genetic anthropology" that brazenly defy the existence of the two-cultures divide seem to promise important insights. They refer to the application of genetic techniques to the past of humankind and human groups, a fact emphasized most strongly by the expression "genetic history." Such daring linguistic alliances have been forming since 1962 when the name "molecular anthropology" was introduced in the American context. This was an opportune moment for biochemists and physical chemists to enter anthropology, because in the U.S. a rapprochement between the fields was aimed for. However, a belief in and a discourse of a hierarchy of disciplines structured along the lines of methodology and epistemic object worked as an obstacle to the achievement of transdisciplinarity. Especially the DNA-sequence, initially approached through the proxy of the protein, was regarded as the most informative historical document due to its distance from the environment and its amenability to rigorous scientific techniques. These notions had a particular power at a time when anthropology was confronted with its legacy of race science. For some, the perceived objectivity of the new molecular approaches and the neutrality of molecules would render anthropology more natural-scientific and by inference less culturally contaminated. Others, to the contrary, believed that this legacy demanded a holistic and ethically reflexive anthropology. The different perceptions thus went along with different understandings of such crucial terms as "anthropology" and "history." In the paper, I revisit interfaces between different anthropological fields in the U.S. context and suggest that the beliefs in a hierarchy of approaches as well as in a nature free from culture embodied in the DNA-sequence has worked as one of the primary obstacles to an integration of these fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many physical anthropologists and nearly all of those studying primatology today can trace their academic genealogy to Sherwood Lamed Washburn. His New Physical Anthropology, fully articulated in a 1951 paper, proposed that the study of hominid evolution must link understandings of form, function, and behavior along with the environment in order most accurately to reconstruct the evolution of our ancestors. This shift of concentration from strictly analyzing fossil remains to what Washburn termed adaptive complexes challenged not only Washburn's predecessors, but also led Washburn to critique the very system of academia within which he worked. Collaboration across multiple disciplines, linking the four fields of anthropology in order to understand humans and application of our understandings of human evolution to the betterment of society, are the hallmarks of Washburnian anthropology. In this paper I will explore how Washburn's New Physical Anthropology led him to not only change the research direction in physical anthropology, but also to challenge the academia within which he worked. I will conclude by reflecting on the prospects of continuing to practice Washburnian Anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

American Studies is an academic discipline whose object of study is the United States of America and everything associated with it, and American sociologists largely ignore it. American Studies largely ignores American sociology. What causes this mutual exclusion? An outline of the disciplinary history of American Studies and journal article citation data show that the relationship between sociology and American Studies is weak and asymmetrical; American Studies cites sociology more often, but very little and not by much. I argue that mutual exclusion is due to mutual distrust in methods: sociology sees itself as a science, while American Studies, with roots in history and literature, does not. This article serves as a case study in the limits of interdisciplinarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the historic development of the New York State Historical Association (NYSHA) and its mission to connect citizens to state history, called the "Cooperstown Idea." The author documents many professional and public historians' involvement with the Association throughout its history. The organization's finances are explored, as is the development of its art and artifacts collections. The various historical museums run by the NYSHA are discussed as well. It is noted that the Association is largely interdisciplinary in its approach to public history education and supports the American studies discipline.

The article discusses problems associated with Originalism, or the scholarly search for the original meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The author is critical of the New Originalist school of interpretation, which emphasizes the importance of the document's public meaning, for its lack of solid historical methods and poor understanding of Founding-era legal developments. He cites the importance of understanding how both common people and lawyers viewed the Constitution. These views were characterized by conflict between the elite legal culture of Federalists and the relatively populist Anti-Federalists. The author concludes by calling on Originalists to embrace an interdisciplinary approach to Constitutional interpretation.

The article discusses the interdisciplinary studies curriculum and the application of professional development (PD) program on interdisciplinary mathematics in the U.S. It presents a learning program wherein students introduced to rubric produce higher-quality work samples as they already know the scoring process of rubric descriptors. It points out that interdisciplinary approach can be applied to all academic fields.

The article discusses the collaborative effort in higher education, between the University of Detroit Mercy's College of Health Professions (CHP) and its College of Engineering (ME), to improve the lives of the physically disabled. Particular focus is given to the techniques, goals and objectives of this interdisciplinary approach to education and social services. An overview which includes the health product's design by ME students and an examination of its health-related impact by CHP students is presented.

The article discusses the history of economic public choice theory, which became an interdisciplinary analyses useful to studies of public finance, public policy, and economics. The theory arose in the creative community led by James Buchanan and Warren Nutter at the Thomas Jefferson Center for Studies in Political Economy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) in the 1960s and 1970s, which later became known as the Virginia school of political economy. Other scholars associated with the Virginia school included Rutledge Vining, Ronald Coase, Andrew Whinston, and Gordon Tullock. A historiography of economics and public choice theory is also presented.

This article explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for current efforts to bring the fields more closely together. Drawing on historical documents and feminist studies of science, it investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of the disciplines in definition, method, and degree of engagement with social problems. The recently developed field of economic sociology and other efforts to bridge the disciplinary gap have the potential to heal this disciplinary split, if they are broadened, deepened, and made wiser and more self-reflective through the use of feminist analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article utilized survey research to examine where interdisciplinary collaboration is occurring and being taught in social work programs in three countries. Findings indicate that social work programs participate in high levels of interdisciplinary collaboration at the university-community level and the interdepartmental level and teach it through an array of courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although many manuals attribute part of the origins of the history of sociology in the Chicago School to Mead, Dewey, Thomas, etc., few include the names, portraits and works of the University of Chicago women who combined theory, investigation and activism, thus contributing to the reinforcement of social sciences both inside and outside the academy. This article analyzes the collective work of the Chicago Women's School from interdisciplinary positions and the science-reform confusion in the context of early 20th century United States. For this purpose we analyze their works published in the American Journal of Sociology from its inaugural issue until 1920, and by so doing we aim to reflect on the politics of gender and recognition within the social sciences and the supposed neutrality of their history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal reflection on the life and philosophy of the late Laurence S. Moss (former editor of the AJES) by his son, Joshua Louis Moss. Mixing personal anecdote with a general academic analysis, Moss informally examines his father's intellectual beginnings in the 1960s drawn from the lectures of Ludwig Von Mises, and traces this through his father's development of innovative teaching techniques like the incorporation of stage magic. Moss examines his father's intellectual contrarianism and canonical skepticism as key developmental foundations used to build his father's academic and pedagogical approach. Moss examines his father's interest in expanding economics through a cross-disciplinary approach utilizing philosophy, history, sociology, and performance studies through his father's innovative examination of points of contact between the principles of stage magic and the principles of economic theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an exploration into the social science theories of the mid 20th-century American interdisciplinary economist Kenneth E. Boulding. Introductory details are provided discussing the scholastic trend towards cross-disciplinary social science research during the period following World War II in the U.S. An overview of Boulding's career and views is then given, highlighting his thesis of the "social triangle" comprising socio-psychological negotiation between the forces of exchange, threat and love. Accounts are also given relating how Boulding's efforts towards interdisciplinary cooperation led to intellectual conflict rather than stability.

The author discusses her teaching methods for an undergraduate interdisciplinary course on the history of African American women from pre-emancipation through to the Harlem Renaissance. Using the short story "The Wife of His Youth" by Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), she considers the effects of Reconstruction of African American families and marriages. Other subjects considered include the North Carolina decision of Justice Thomas Ruffin (1787-1870) in State v. Mann regarding the legal status of slaves, the book "Incidents on the Life of a Slave Girl," by Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897), and state legal archives with marriage certificates of Freedmen issued during Reconstruction.

Over its 30 years of existence, Organization Studies has embodied three enduring themes, namely: a desire and respect for diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches; a concern with the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies; sustaining an interdisciplinary range. These three interrelated themes constitute the core identity of Organization Studies and EGOS–indeed, constituting the idea of a distinctive European identity. The paper traces how these themes have survived as the field of academic scholarship and publishing in organization and management has changed, in particular: the emergence of international business school ranking systems; the development of the US Academy of Management into a more and more international body; and even greater influence or hegemony of the United States in organizational and management scholarship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article concerns "revision in history," which refers to the process by which existing conceptions about what constitutes good history are challenged and replaced by different approaches. Between roughly 1920 and 1975 there were several periods of historical revision in Great Britain and the United States. My article argues that each was brought about by a combination of dissatisfaction on the part of historians with existing approaches, the influence of ideas from other disciplines, and changes going on in the world at the time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Catholic Studies represents arguably the most dynamic and promising curricular development in Catholic higher education in a generation. This article charts the origins of Catholic Studies programs and investigates what their appearance might tell us about the past and future challenges of Catholic higher education in (English-speaking) Canada. First, the history of the institutional and curricular evolution that led to their establishment is traced; after that, and based on the author's recent survey and interviews, reflections on their prospects are offered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chapter 1 of Part II of the book "Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches," Volume 11, edited by Ananya Mukherjea is presented. It states that two case studies were performed to demonstrate the concept of emergence after all cases of emerging disease were not addressed by the definitions adopted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The result emphasizes that importance of interdisciplinary approach in understanding the diseases.

The integration of ideas, methods, and data from diverse disciplines has been a transformative force in science and higher education, attracting policy interventions, program innovations, financial resources, and talented people. Much energy has been invested in producing a new generation of scientists trained to work fluidly across disciplines, sectors, and research problems, yet the success of such investments has been difficult to measure. Using the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) program of the U.S. National Science Foundation as a strategic research site, we conducted an experiment to determine whether and how the process and products of research of IGERT-trained scientists differ from those of scientists trained in disciplinary graduate programs. Among scientists in the early years of graduate study we found substantial and consistent differences suggesting that interdisciplinary training improved the quality and process of research, but this pattern was equally strongly reversed among students in the latter years of graduate study. Using systematic observation and other data we suggest why this might be so, then discuss the implications of these results for the design and conduct of graduate education and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This comment suggests that Cohen's account of the history and present approaches to IPE as divided into an American and a British school is unduly narrow. It excludes not only Europe and the rest of the world but more centrally lines of lines of theorizing that have shaped and can continue to shape IPE (also within the Anglo-Saxon world). It proceeds to argue that embracing a broader view of IPE is important. It ensures for the quality, relevance and vitality of the field. The comment concludes that although a de-coupling of Cohen's version of IPE and the rest would seem tempting and logical it is unlikely to happen for reasons of politics, academic and international. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The idea that candidates undergoing initiation into American fraternal groups were forced to ride goats was ubiquitous in the decades surrounding the beginning of the twentieth century. In this period, Americans presented the lodge goat in literary, visual, and three-dimensional manifestations. This interdisciplinary article charts the development and use of this fraternal symbol between 1845 and 1930. It argues that the goat, originally wielded by the enemies of fraternalism to represent the dangers associated with secret behavior, came to be embraced and celebrated by fraternalists and that the animal's meaning shifted as concepts of American masculinity were transformed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]