Wayne State University Faculty Authors

Klein: InterdisciplinarityInterdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice

Julie T. Klein

A comprehensive study of the modern concept of interdisciplinarity, spanning the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, and professions.

Lasker: Happenings and HearsayHappenings and Hearsay: Experiences of a Biological Anthropologist

Gabriel W. Lasker

The late Gabriel W. Lasker was professor emeritus of anatomy at Wayne State University and longtime editor of the journal Human Biology. More than a memoir, Happenings and Hearsay documents the rapid changes in the field of anthropology in the second half of the twentieth-century.

Marotti: Reading with a DifferenceReading with a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity

Edited by Arthur F. Marotti, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman, Jo Dulan, and Suchritra Mathur

A collection of eighteen essays from Criticism that examines how issues of gender, race, and cultural identity inform texts from the seventeenth century to the present.

Mars: Caribbean Labor and PoliticsCaribbean Labor and Politics: Legacies of Cheddi Jagan and Michael Manley

Edited by Perry Mars and Alma H. Young

A pioneering collection of studies linking the political and labor backgrounds of two distinguished and dynamic leaders of the Caribbean and the Third World.

Mars: Ideology and ChangeIdeology and Change: The Transformation of the Caribbean Left

Perry Mars

Leftist political movements, organizations, and trends in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Mason: Rumrunning and the Roaring TwentiesRumrunning and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario Waterway

Philip P. Mason

A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan.