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Submissions from 2022
Searching the Shadows: Thoughts on the West’s Political History An Extended Field Note, Daniel J. Herman
An Ethical Case for Medical Scribes, David Schwan
Music at Central Washington University, Norman D. Wallen
Submissions from 2021
A consequentialist argument for considering age in triage decisions during the coronavirus pandemic, Matthew C. Altman
Punishment Theory, Mass Incarceration, and the Overdetermination of Racialized Justice, Matthew C. Altman and Cynthia D. Coe
Children, credibility, and testimonial injustice, Gary Bartlett
Problems for Problematizing the Philosophical Canon: A Modest Proposal, Jill Hernandez
Telling It Like It Is: A Narrative Account of Designing a Race and Ethnicity Requirement at a PWI in the Middle of Black Lives Matter, Michel O'Brien and Cynthia Pengilly
Beneficent dehumanization: Employing artificial intelligence and carebots to mitigate shame-induced barriers to medical care, Amitabha Palmer and David Schwan
Our Suffering Brethren: Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States by David J. Dzurec III, Sarah Sillin
The Cuban Question and the Ignorant American: Empire's Tropes and Jokes in Yankee Notions, Sarah Sillin
Submissions from 2020
Can Suicide Preserve One’s Dignity? Kant and Kantians on the Moral Response to Cognitive Loss, Matthew C. Altman
Nishida Among the Idealists, Matthew C. Altman
Dear Mr. Calles: U.S. Protestant Interpretations of the Cristero War and the Moral Art of History, Jason H. Dormady
God, Cleanliness, and the City: Local Uses of Hygiene and Anticlerical Language in Religious Conflict-Guadalajara, Mexico 1939–1942, Jason H. Dormady
Real Madrid and public relations: applying the circuit of culture to organizational values, César García
“Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen, Lila Marz Harper
Laughing at “Young Bull”: American Authority in Civil War Cartoons, Sarah Sillin
Submissions from 2019
Adapting to Students From Different Family Backgrounds on Campus, Seokhoon Ahn
Delighting, Compelling, Challenging: PQ 2019 exhibits explore artist, viewer, and space, Christina Barrigan
“These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866), Lila Marz Harper
Trajectories, institutions, and re-locations: a conversation on Inter-Asia outside Asia, Christopher Lee, Kuan-Hsing Chen, Sneja Gunew, Michel O'Brien, Audrey Yue, and Rusaba Alam
Leninist Legacies and Revolutionary Life Histories in the Chinese Communist Party: A Plutarchian Case Study of Cai Hesen and Zhao Shiyan, Marilyn Levine
Illegible and Unacceptable Representation: The Liminality of Spock in Star Trek (2009), Natashia Lindsey
Reanimating Vietnamese Australian Diasporas through Digital Autographics: The Work of Lê Văn Tài, Michel O'Brien
Transpacific Resonances and Affiliations in Leanne Dunic’s to Love the Coming End and Ruth Ozeki’s the Tale for the Time Being, Michel O'Brien
Below Zero, Joseph Powell
Seduction's Offspring: Resisting Sentimental Violence from Wilson to Wells, Sarah Sillin
News stories framed episodically offer more diversified portrayals of immigrants, Francesco Somaini
Submissions from 2018
Animal Suffering and Moral Salience: A Defense of Kant’s Indirect View, Matthew C. Altman
Children and Testimonial Injustice: A Response to Burroughs and Tollefsen, Gary Bartlett
Functionalism and the Problem of Occurrent States, Gary Bartlett
Fostering Inclusion: Unpacking Choral Dress Codes, Gayla Blaisdell
The “pumpgate” incident: Stigma against lactating mothers in the U.S. workplace, Mary Bresnahan, Jie Zhuang, Jennifer Anderson, Yi Zhu, Joshua Nelson-Ichido, and Xiaodi Yan
Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility: The Ethical Significance of Time, Cynthia D. Coe
Achievements and limits of strategic communication for nation-building: The case of Spain’s Catalan region (1979-2017), César García
The Power of Myths and Storytelling in Nation Building: The Campaign for the Independence of Catalonia from Spain (2012-2015), César García
The euphoric film: Ivan Vyrypaev’s Euphoria, metacinema and affect, Volha Isakava
Racial Enfleshment and Transpacific Modalities of Relation, Michel O'Brien
Gotta Catch ’Em All! Communicating Entomology with Pokémon, Rebecca Ann Schmidt-Jeffris and Joshua Charles Nelson-Ichido
Should physicians be empathetic? Rethinking clinical empathy, David Schwan
The Status of Strings and Orchestra Programs in U.S. Schools, Bret P. Smith, James P. Mick, and Michael L. Alexander
Who wrote this? The role of bylines in news coverage of immigrants and refugees, Francesco Somaini
CWU Music Building History, Norman D. Wallen
Submissions from 2017
Surviving the Second World War in Manchukuo: memories of Korean experiences of the war in Manchurian farming villages, Chong Eun Ahn
Series Editor’s Preface to "The Palgrave Schopenhauer Handbook", Matthew C. Altman
The Limits of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Practice, and the Crisis in Syria, Matthew C. Altman
The Palgrave Kant Handbook, Matthew C. Altman
Wolves, Dogs, and Moral Geniuses: Anthropocentrism in Schopenhauer and Freud, Matthew C. Altman and Cynthia D. Coe
Metaphors that communicate weight-based stigma in political news: A case study of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Jennifer Anderson, Yi Zhu, Jie Zhuang, Joshua C. Nelson-Ichido, Mary J. Bresnahan, and Xiaodi Yan
Occurrent states, Gary Bartlett
Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other “Other”, Matthieu Chapman
Chicano Signifyin': Appropriating Space and Culture in El Henry, Matthieu Chapman
Creole Policy and Practice in Russian America, Roxanne Easley
Opening Public Space: The Peace Arbitrator and Rural Politicization, 1861-1864, Roxanne Easley
Ethics and strategy: A communication response to Machiavelli’s The Prince in Baltasar Gracián’s A pocket oracle, César García
Moral Practice in Late Stoicism and Biddhist Meditation, Michael Goerger
Value, violence, and the ethics of gaming, Michael Goerger
What Is the Golden Calf?, Michael B. Hundley
Between the public and the private: Svetlana Aleksievich interviews Ales' Adamovich. Translator’s preface, Volha Isakava
Autobiographical Comics, Michael A. Johnson
A Slightly Revolutionary Party:Labour and Parliamentary Politics in the Early Free State, Jason Knirck
The Irish Revolution and World History: Nation, Race, and Civilization in the Rhetoric of the Irish Revolutionary Generation, Jason Knirck
Handbuilt Flower Box, Bonilyn Parker
The Humbug and the Nightingale: P. T. Barnum, Jenny Lind, and the Branding of a Star Singer for American Reception, Mark C. Samples
The Crimson and the Black: The History of the Central Washington University Alma Mater, Norman D. Wallen
Submissions from 2016
Arbitrariness and the California Death Penalty, Matthew C. Altman
Assessment of College-Level Communication Programs, Phil Backlund
The Effect of Military Service on Indian Communities in Southern New England, 1740–1763, Brian D. Carroll
Disembodying Performance: Mind of a Snail's Curious Contagious at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, Matthieu Chapman
Upside down/side up: problematizing teacher communication behaviors and learning outcomes in communication, Deanna P. Dannels, Mary C. Toale, Philip M. Backlund, John G.M. Frederick, and Brad Love
De-Westernizing public relations: A comparative analysis of culture and economics structure in China and Mexico, César García
Differentiating Heritage and Foreign Language Learners of Spanish: Needs, Perceptions, and Expectations, John S. Hedgcock and Natalie Lefkowitz
Humanist Waste, Michael A. Johnson
Study IX of the basic communication course at two- and four-year U.S. Colleges and Universities: a re-examination of our discipline's “front porch”, Sherwyn P. Morreale, Scott A. Myers, Philip M. Backlund, and Cheri J. Simonds
The Glass Wall: Ideology, Cold War History and Post-9/11 Hollywood Reflections of the United Nations, Ian Scott
Ghosts and Angels in the House: Cecilia de Noel and the Search for Faith in the Late Nineteenth Century, Christine Sutphin
Ali, Wendy, Zach VandeZande
Patent Wars and Ecosystems: Metaphor and “Black Boxes”, Joshua Welsh
The Rhetoric of Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory: Conflicting Visions of Innovation in the Smart Phone Patent Wars, Joshua Welsh
Submissions from 2015
Birthing Death: A Reconsideration of the Roles of Power, Politics and the Domestic in Macbeth, Laila Abdalla
"A Mean Business": Wartime Security, Sovereignty, and Southern New England Indians, 1689-1713, Brian D. Carroll
PR, clientelism and economics: a comparison of southern Europe and Latin America, César García
Searching for Benedict de Spinoza in the history of communication: His influence on Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays, César García
Educating for Freedom and Responsibility: Lessons From the First Amendment Schools Project, Cynthia Mitchell
Firefighter's Creed, Vijay Singh and Scott Peterson
Submissions from 2014
Fichte’s Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense, Matthew C. Altman
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism, Matthew C. Altman
Internalism and the snapshot conception of phenomenal experience: A reply to Fisher, Gary Bartlett
Civil religious dissent: patriotism and resistance in a japanese american incarceration camp, Anne M. Blankenship
Religion and the Japanese American Incarceration, Anne M. Blankenship
Myth as a Site of Ecocritical Inquiry: Disrupting Anthropocentrism, Patsy Callaghan
Narration, Bildung, and the Work of Mourning in Hegel’s Philosophy of History, Cynthia D. Coe
Elsewhere in the Belgian Congo ca. 1953: Luc de Heusch Films the Tetela-Hamba, Isabelle de Rezende
Mennonite Colonization in Mexico and the Pendulum of Modernization, 1920-2013, Jason Dormady