Additional Faculty Publications

Tim Liao, Adam Rule, Ryanne Ardisana, Alexandra Knicker, Amanda Mayo, and Corey Sarcu. 2012. "Social Behavior in Public Spaces in a College Town." Sociology & Space 50(1): 3-26.

Liao, Tim F., and Hua Qin. 2012. “Population Growth, Available Resources, and Quality of Life: China’s Post-Reform Economic Development.” Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment 10(2): 67-77.

Forthcoming from Graduate Student Courtney Cuthbertson. "Misery in Modern Times: Depression in Post-Dictatorial Chile." Transgressive Culture.

Rebecca L. Sandefur has published “Money Isn’t Everything: Understanding Moderate Income Households’ Use of Lawyers’ Services.” In Middle Income Access to Justice, edited by Anthony Duggan, Lorne Sossin and Michael Trebilcock. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press

Berghahn Books is pleased to announce the recent publication of a paperback edition of Post-Communist Nostalgia, edited by Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille.

Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.