The book “Still Lives: Physical Disability and Late Style in Romantic-era Women’s Writing" will reveal how a set of female authors who experienced chronic illness and physical disability render palpable that experience as stillness, an acute awareness of debility both in time and past the time for a cure.

“A Grammar of 'Onk Akimel O'odham.” The ’Onk Akimel O’odham language, or simply O'odham, is one of the two languages (along with Piipaash/Maricopa) spoken by the Native American people of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC), one of several tribes neighboring ASU. O'odham is an endangered language. The community has undertaken intensive action to revitalize O'odham, with the aim of providing a rich set of learning tools for the next generation of speakers. This book project describes the grammatical structure of the O'odham language.

 “‘We’ve Got Black Power and That’s Gonna Go a Long Way:’ Ruth Jefferson and the National Welfare Rights Organization in Dallas.” This journal article will tell the story of black welfare rights activist Ruth Jefferson of the National Welfare Rights Organization in Dallas, who successfully altered welfare practices in Texas when she filed suit against the Department of Public Welfare for violating federal law when the state lowered welfare benefits for Aid to Families with Dependent Children beneficiaries.

“Apologia and Redemption. Representations of Ordinary Germans in Contemporary Films on World War II and the Holocaust.” A painful aspect of coming to terms with the Nazi past is the realization that ordinary Germans — for many Germans, their parents or grandparents — were complicit in war crimes and genocide. Reaching massive audiences, contemporary German TV productions tackle this uncomfortable truth by featuring protagonists who become murderers. Yet, for today’s viewers to embrace these flawed characters as their kin, these productions wrap their crimes into apologetic narratives.