Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa (PDF)

evolving impact in these areas.

Her first book, This is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio in Mandate Palestine, will be published by the University of Texas Press in 2013.

At DU, Professor Stanton serves as the Religious Studies Department's Undergraduate Adviser, on the Advisory Committee for the Intercultural Global Studies Minor, and on the Honor Code Advisory Council's Faculty and Staff Education and Training Subcommittee.

Religious Studies faculty are often contacted by journalists to provide expert commentary on contemporary issues and news events. Professor Stanton most recently provided analysis and background information for the Des Moines Register in a September 2012 story about the 2012 Presidential election. You can read the article here.

In October 2012, Professor Stanton was awarded a Regional Development Grant by the American Academy of Religion. The grant will underwrite a one-day conference, to be held at the University of Denver in early 2013, on "Religion in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains".

Edward Ramsamy, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and member of the graduate faculty of Geography, and the graduate faculty of Urban Planning and Policy Development at the Bloustein School. He is the author of the book The World Bank and Urban Development: From Projects to Policy (Routledge, 2006). In addition to his research in international development planning and geographies of globalization, Dr. Ramsamy’s fields of study include the political economy of transition and nation-building in post-colonial/developing societies, as well as the comparative politics of identity and race relations in South Africa and the United States. He has edited Science, Culture and the Politics of Knowledge: Contexts and Conversations (forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars Press), and The Black Experience in America (with Gayle T. Tate, 2006, Kendall Hunt). He has published numerous articles on regional integration in southern Africa, as well as racial, ethnic, and national identity in post-apartheid South Africa. Dr. Ramsamy is Secretary and a Founding Trustee of the Global Literary Project, Inc. He is also the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, and the Institute for Research on Women.