Current Publications from Montana State

The MSU Office of Research and Economic Development maintains a searchable archive of publications authored or co-authored by MSU faculty and students in research journals.

Books Authored/Co-Authored or Edited/Co-Edited by College of Letters and Science Faculty

  • Brook Bocast, If Books Fail, Try Beauty: An Ethnography of Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa 

  • Michele Corriel, Montana Modernists: Shifting Perceptions of Western Art
  • Doug Downs, Writing About Writing
  • Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
  • Jennifer Hill, Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains 
  • Katherine Johnston, The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World
  • Scott Parker, Conversations with Dave Eggers
  • James A. Pritchard, Preserving Yellowstone’s Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature
  • Molly Todd, Undergraduate Research in History

  • Nicole Carnegie and Stacey Hancock, Montana State Introductory Statistics with R
  • Elizabeth Burroughs, Mary Alice Carlson, Elizabeth Fulton and Megan Wickstrom, Becoming a Teacher of Mathematical Modeling, Grades K-5
  • Elizabeth Burroughs, Mary Alice Carlson, Elizabeth Fulton and Megan Wickstrom, Becoming a Teacher of Mathematical Modeling, Grades 6-12
  • Diane Debinski, Wings That Make Waves
  • Julie Haggerty, Energy Impacts: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of North American Energy Development
  • Hua Li, Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw 
  • Michael Reidy, The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 8, June 1862-January 1865 
  • Michael Reidy,The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 10, January 1867-December 1868 
  • Michael Reidy, The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 11, January 1869-February 1871 
  • Monica Skewes, Indigenous Relapse Prevention: Sustaining Recovery in Native American Communities
  • Molly Todd, Long Journey to Justice: El Salvador, The United States, and Struggles Against Empire 
  • Megan Wickstrom, Exploring Mathematical Modeling with Young Learners
  • Allison Wynhoff Olsen and Robert Petrone, Teaching English in Rural Communities: Toward a Critical Rural English Pedagogy

  • Kristen Intemann, The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science
  • Leo Killsback, A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation
  • Leo Killsback, A Sovereign People: Indigenous Nationhood, Traditional Law and the Covenants of the Cheyenne Nation
  • Paul LaChapelle, Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America (Community Development Research and Practice Series Book 13)
  • Gretchen Minton, Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country’s Love Affair with the World’s Most Famous Writer
  • Gretchen Minton, Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions
  • Scott Parker, Being on the Oregon Coast: An Essay on Nature, Solitude, the Creation of Value, and the Art of Human Flourishing
  • Sara Rushing,  The Virtues of Vulnerability: Humility, Autonomy, and Citizen-Subjectivity
  • Molly Todd, Memoria Viva: Fotografías y testimonios sobre la vida en los campamentos de refugiados en La Virtud y Mesa Grande, 1980-1992
  • William Wyckoff, Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace: Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape

  • Diane Charlton, The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective
  • Susan Cohen, Movement and Mobility Between Egypt and the Southern Levant in the 2nd Millennium BCE
  • Doug Downs, Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing
  • Maggie Greene, Resisting Spirits, Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People’s Republic of China
  • Bridget Kevane, Stavans Unbound: The Critic Between Two Canons (Lands and Ages of the Jewish People)
  • Paul R. Lachapelle, Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States (Community Development Research and Practice Series)
  • Vincent H. Smith, Agricultural Policy in Disarray, Volume 1
  • Vincent H. Smith, Agricultural Policy in Disarray, Volume 2

  • David Ayala and Ryan E. Grady, Topology and Quantum Theory in Interaction (Contemporary Mathematics)
  • Kristen Intemann, The Fight Against Doubt: How to Bridge the Gap Between Scientists and the Public
  • Dale Martin, Ties, Rails, and Telegraph Wires: Railroads and Communities in Montana and the West
  •  James W. Martin, Banana Cowboys: The United Fruit Company and the Culture of Corporate Colonialism
  • Gretchen E. Minton, The Revenger's Tragedy
  • Scott F. Parker, A Way Home: Oregon Essays
  • Scott F. Parker, Conversations with Joan Didion
  • Robert W. Rydell, Democracy by Degrees: The 125th Anniversary History of Montana State University
  • Monica Skewes, Social Issues in Living Color (Volume III): Challenges and Solutions from the Perspective of Ethnic Minority Psychology
  • Brett L. Walker, A Family History of Illness: Memory as Medicine (1st Edition)

  • Douglas Downs, Writing about Writing: A College Reader (3rd Edition)
  • Greg Francis, College Physics: Putting It All Together
  • Timothy J. LeCain, The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past (Studies in Environment and History)
  • Michelle L. Meade, Collaborative Remembering: Theories, Research, and Applications
  • Gretchen Minton, The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play (Arden Shakespeare The State of Play)
  • Michael P Neeley, Walking Through Jordan: Essays in Honor of Burton Macdonald
  • Robert Petrone, Re-thinking the “Adolescent” in Adolescent Literacy
  • Michael S. Reidy, The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 3: The Correspondence, January 1850-December 1852
  • Monica Skewes, Social Issues in Living Color (Volume III): Challenges and Solutions from the Perspective of Ethnic Minority Psychology
  • Bradley D. Snow, Living with Lead, An Environmental History of Idaho’s Coeur D’Alenes, 1885-2011
  • Peter Tillack, Engaging Banality: Stories of the Salaried Life
  • William Wyckoff, Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (7th Edition)

  • Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay, Belief, Evidence, and Uncertainty: Problems of Epistemic Inference
  • Rick Bass, For a Little While
  • Zack Bean, Man on Fire
  • Galen Brokaw, Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy
  • Glen Chamberlain, All I Want Is What You've Got
  • Susan Cohen, Peripheral Concerns: Urban Development in the Bronze Age Southern Levant (New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology)
  • Mark Fiege, National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on “America’s Best Idea”
  • John W. Fisher Jr., Pisskan: Interpreting First Peoples Bison Kills at Heritage Parks
  • Philip Gaines, From Truth to Technique at Trial: A Discursive History of Advocacy Advice Texts (Oxford Studies in Language and Law)
  • Andrew James Hansen, Climate Change in Wildlands: Pioneering Approaches to Science and Management
  • William Wyckoff, Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World (5th Edition)

  • Catherine Tatiana Dunlop, Cartophilia: Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland
  • Ada Giusti, Integrating Service-Learning and Volunteer Opportunities into French Study Abroad Programs
  • Bridget Kevane, The Dynamics of Jewish Latino Relationships: Hope and Caution
  • Susan Kollin, Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West (Postwestern Horizons)
  • Susan Kollin, A History of Western American Literature
  • Michael Reidy, The Correspondence of John Tyndall: Correspondence 1840-1843 (The Pickering Masters)
  • Michael S Reidy, The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume I (The Pickering Masters)
  • Michael S Reidy, The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume II (The Pickering Masters)
  • Patricia Anne Simpson, Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States
  • Vincent H. Smith, The Economic Welfare and Trade Relations Implications of the 2014 Farm Bill
  • Brett L. Walker, A Concise History of Japan 
  • Philip Williams, Salutations; a Festschrift for Burton Watson
  • Franke Wilmer, Human Rights in International Politics: An Introduction

  • Jean Arthur, Top Trails: Glacier National Park: Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
  • Eric Austin, Organization Theory and Governance for the 21st Century
  • Robert Bennett, Deconstructing Brad Pitt
  • Galen Brokaw, Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives
  • Douglas Downs, Writing about Writing: A College Reader, Second Edition
  • James H. Meyer, Turks Across Empires: Marketing Muslim Identity in the Russian-Ottoman Borderlands, 1856-1914 
  • Gretchen Minton, John Bale's 'The Image of Both Churches' (Studies in Early Modern Religious Tradition, Culture and Society)
  • David Parker, Battle for the Big Sky; Representation and the Politics of Place in the Race for the US Senate
  • Michael S Reidy, The Age of Scientific Naturalism: Tyndall and His Contemporaries
  • Elizabeth A. Shanahan, The Science of Stories: Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework in Public Policy Analysis
  • Colin A. Shaw, Exploring the Northern Rocky Mountains
  • Patricia Anne Simpson, Reimagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration (Studies in European Culture and History)
  • William Wyckoff, Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, Development (6th Edition)
  • William Wyckoff, How to Read the American West: A Field Guide 

  • Conrad Anker, The Call of Everest: The History, Science, and Future of the World's Tallest Peak
  • Susan Cohen, Excavations at Tel Zahara (2006 - 2009): Final Report, the Hellenistic and Roman Strata (British Archaeological Reports International Series)
  • Dan Flory, Race, Philosophy, and Film (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
  • Robert A. Garrott, Yellowstone's Wildlife in Transition
  • Verónica García Moreno, Material De Acarreo
  • Patricia Anne Simpson, Religion, Reason, and Culture in the Age of Goethe (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
  • Billy Smith, Ship of Death: The Voyage That Sparked a Yellow Fever Pandemic and Changed the Course of History
  • Brett L. Walker, Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power
  • William Wyckoff, Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World (4th Edition)
  • Alexander V. Zale, Fisheries Techniques, Third Edition

  • David Clay Large, Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games
  • Wendy A. Stock, Introduction to Economics: Social Issues and Economic Thinking
  • David C.W. Parker, Doing Archival Research in Political Science
  • Philip F. Williams, The Thought Remolding Campaign of the Chinese Communist Party-State

  • Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay, Philosophy of Statistics, Volume 7 (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)
  • Glen Chamberlain, Conjugations of the Verb To Be: Stories
  • Douglas Downs, Writing about Writing: A College Reader
  • Hua Li, Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua
  • Patricia Anne Simpson, Enlightened War: German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
  • Patricia Anne Simpson, Cultures of Violence in the New German Street
  • Jessi L. Smith, Managing Interpersonal Sensitivity: Knowing When-and When Not-To Understand Others
  • Philip F. Williams, Asian Literary Voices: From Marginal to Mainstream

  • Brett Walker, Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease
  • Matthew Herman, Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature: Across Every Border
  • Jerry Johnson, Knowing Yellowstone: Science in America’s First National Park
  • Susanne Monahan, Religion Matters: What Sociology Teaches Us About Religion In Our World
  • Susanne Monahan, Sociology of Religion: A Reader;
  • Michael Reidy, Communicating Science: The Scientific Article from the 17th Century to the Present
  • Robert Rydell, Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s
  • Sara Waller, Serial Killers, Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing
  • William Wyckoff, Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World

  • Joan Hoff, A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrown Wilson to George W. Bush: Drams of Perfectibility
  • David Large, The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present
  • Timothy LeCain, Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired American and Scarred the Planet
  • Mary Murphy, Border to Border: Quilts and Quiltmakers of Montana
  • Harold Picton, Montana’s Wildlife Legacy: Decimation to Restoration
  • Kristin Ruppel, Unearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacies of Allotment
  • John Thompson, As Novelas da Memoria: Trauma e Representación da Memoria na Galiza Contemporánea
  • Fred Whitford, College Teaching Tips

  • Robert Garrott, The Ecology of Large Mammals in Central Yellowstone: Sixteen Years of Integrated Field Studies 
  • Warren Esty, Solutions Manual for Precalculus” Pearson Custom Publishing
  • Dan Flory, Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir
  • Greg Keeler, Trash Fish: A Life
  • John Lund, Matrices, Matrix Subspaces and the Eigenvalue Problem
  • Gretchen Minton, Timon of Athens Arden Shakespeare
  • David Parker, The Power of Money in Congressional Campaigns, 1880-2006
  • Michael Reidy, Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty's Navy
  • Billy Smith, Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World
  • Yanna Yannakakis, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca
  • Lee Whittlesey and Elizabeth Watry, Yellowstone National Park

  • Kirk Branch, Eyes on the Ought to Be: What we Teach About When we Teach About Literacy
  • Robert Campbell, In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage
  • Danell Jones, The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing
  • Bridget Kevane, Profane and Sacred: Latino/a American Writers Reveal the Interplay of the Secular and the Religious
  • David Large, Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936
  • Liza Nicholas, Becoming Western: Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State
  • Patty Simpson, The Erotics of War in German Romanticism

  • Lisa Eckert, How Does It Mean? Engaging Reluctant Readers Through Literary Theory
  • Gwendolyn Morgan, The Invention of False Medieval Authorities as a Literary Device in Popular Fiction: From Tolkien to The DaVinci Code
  • Mary Murphy and Connie Staudohar, Motherlode: Legacies of Women's Lives and Labors in Butte, Montana (Clark City Press)
  • Harold Picton, Buffalo: Natural History and Conservation
  • Bob Rydell, Buffalo Bill in Bologna
  • Randal Rucker, Plowshares and Pork Barrels: The Political Economy of Agriculture
  • Leah Schmalzbauer, Striving and Surviving: A Daily Life Analysis of Honduran Transnational Families
  • Brett Walker, Lost Wolves of Japan
  • Bill Wyckoff, On the Road Again: Montana's Changing Landscape

  • James W. Allard, The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth 
  • Ada Giusti, Mais pour quoi ne retornant-ils pas chez lui? 
  • Bridget Kevane, Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews With Contemporary Women Writers
  • Bridget Kevane, Latino Literature in America (Literature as Windows to World Cultures)
  • Larry Kirkpatrick, Quantoons
  • Rick Stroup, Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity
  • Bill Wyckoff, Diversity Amid Globalization
  • Bill Wyckoff, Globalization and Diversity

Note: Many of these books have co-authors or co-editors. For brevity, only the College of Letters and Science faculty member is listed.