Recent Faculty Research Activity

Alozie, N. and C. McNamara. (2008). Anglo and Latino Differences in Willingness to Pay for Urban Public Services. Social Science Quarterly. In press.

Alozie, N., and C. McNamara. (2008). Poverty Status and Willingness to Pay for Urban Public Services. Public Administration Quarterly. In press.

Alozie, N., and C. Moore. (2007). Blacks and Latinos in City Management: Prospects and Challenges in Council-Manager Governments. International Journal of Public Administration, 30:47-63.

Alozie, N. and C. McNamara. (2007). Anglo and Latino Differences in Willingness to Pay for Urban Public Services. Presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting,albuquerque, New Mexico.

Akpan, P., and M.J. Parmentier. (2007). Information Communications Technologies and Regional Integration: The Cases of Africa and South America. Presented at the International Federation for Information Processing Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Akpan-Obong, Patience and William Foster. (2007). Africa’s Telecommunications Giant Awakes. Computing and Communications Africa. (April/June) Volume 3, Number 2.

Akpan-Obong, Patience. (2007). Unintended Outcomes in Information and Communication Technology Adoption: A Micro-level Analysis of Usage in Context. Presented at the Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy organized by Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) in Arlington, Virginia.

Akpan-Obong, Patience. (2007). Information and Communication Technologies in Development: Contextuality and Promise. Peer-reviewed and presented at the International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries in São Paulo, Brazil.

Akpan, P., and M.J. Parmentier. (2007). Information Communications Technologies and Regional Integration: The Cases of Africa and South America. Presented at the International Federation for Information Processing Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Barfoot, Charles. (2007). From Miracle Valley to Death Valley:  The Story of A. A.allen and the Search for the Fabulous in the Southwest. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Historical Society of New Mexico and Arizona.

Barfoot, Charles . (2007). Through the Lens of Modernity:  Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in the American West. Presented at the Meeting of the American Society of Church History.

Foster, W. (2007). "China's Innovation Leadership in the World: A tale of two protocols." keynote address at the NBR Conference in Beijing on China and Hi-Tech Standards.

Gesell, L. and Sobotta, R. (2007). The Administration of Public Airports (5 th ed.). Coast Aire Publications.

Gesell, L. (2007). Airport Privatization and the Reluctance of U.S. Airports to Adapt. Presented at the Aviation Safety, Security & Environment conference.also Panel Chair: Emerging Issues for Airports.

Gesell, L. (Co-PI). Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Research & Curriculum (UAV-ARC) Development Partnership Project. $200,000 grant funded by the Aero Institute. Final Report 2007).

Grossman, G., and Sands, M. (2008). Restructuring Reforms in Turkish Teacher Education: Modernization and Development in a Dynamic Environment. International Journal of Education Development. In Press.

Grossman, G ., etal. (2007) Curriculum Reform in Turkish Teacher Education: Attitudes of Teacher Educators Towards Change in an EU Candidate Nation". International Journal of Education Development 27:138-150.

Grossman, G. (2007). Review of The Pedagogical State: Education and the Politics of National Culture in Post-1980 Turkey by Sam Kaplan. Contemporary Education Review 51:521-523. 

Grossman, G., etal .  (2007). Teacher Accreditation Reform in Turkey: Syntheses of European and American models.  Presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for Learning and Instruction, Budapest, Hungary.

Kraemer, K., J. Dedrick, W. Foster, and Z. Cheng (2008).  "Information and communications technologies and inter-corporate production networks: global information technology and local guanxi in the Taiwanese personal computer industry." in Multinational Corporations and the Emerging Network Economy in Asia and the Pacific. Palacios ed., (New York, Routledge:).

Larsen, L., M. Kasunic. J. Knaut, and T. Olson. (2007). The Impact of Senior Center Programs in Arizona on the physical and Mental Health of Seniors. (Approximately $250,000 funded by the Administration on Aging).

Loftus, Charles A. and Matthew A. Goldstein. (2007). Critical Infrastructure Protection: Are you a chemical facility but don’t know it? Homeland Defense Journal. (November) Volume 5, Issue 11.

Parmentier, M.J., and S. Huyer. (2007). Female Empowerment and Development in Latin America: Use Versus Production of Information and Communications Technology. In UNESCO: Information Technologies and InternationalDevelopment, MIT Press. In Press.

Parmentier, M.J. (2007). The Digital Divide in Ecuador. In Technology and Society:Issuesforthe 21 st Century and Beyond (3 rd Ed.). Prentice Hall. (Hjorth, L., etal., editors.).

Parmentier, M.J. (2007). Louisa Hanoune. I n Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Thomson Gale Publishers. (Fischbach, M., editor).

Parmentier, M.J. (2007). Abassi Madani. In Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Thomson Gale Publishers. (Fischbach, M., editor).

Poling, M.K, T. Olson, J. Yeo, and F. Agnone. (2007). Mental Health and Substances Services for Youth Ages 18-21 at HomeBase Youth Services . (Approximately $600,000 funded by two anonymous foundations).

Olson, T. (2007). Ethical Issues in Healthcare. In Fundamentals of Nursing. Delmar Publishers. (Daniels, R., editor)

Olson, T.(2007). Healthcare of the Older Adults. In Fundamentals of Nursing. Delmar Publishers. (Daniels, R., editor)

Samake, Kibily D., Patience Akpan-Obong and Victor W. A. Mbarika. (2007). the Internet in Mali: A Socio-Economic Change Engine. Peer-reviewed and presented at the International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries in São Paulo, Brazil.

Turkan, S., and Grossman, G. (2007). Preparing Teachers for Lifelong Learning in Europe:  Attitudes of Turkish Teacher Educators.  To be presented to the annual meeting of the Balkan Pedagogical Society (November).