Four emergency management faculty contributed chapters to a recently published book, “Integrating Emergency Management Studies into Higher Education: Ideas, Programs and Strategies,” by the Public Entity Risk Institute in Fairfax, Va. Faculty members Jessica Jensen, Carol Cwiak, Daniel J. Klenow and George A. Youngs wrote the chapters.

Jensen's article, "Emergency Management Theory: Unrecognized, Underused, and Underdeveloped," provides an analysis of the state of theory in emergency management and reviews the importance of theory content in emergency management graduate programs.

The chapter by Klenow and Youngs, "Developing and Enhancing Emergency Management Programs at the Undergraduate Level," details the evolution of undergraduate emergency management curriculum at NDSU and addresses student recruitment and program management processes.

Cwiak's chapter, "Emergency Management Higher Education: A Snapshot of the Community," presents data from an annual survey of emergency management programs across the nation.

Karen P. Peirce, graduate writing coordinator in the Graduate School, recently had a book chapter, “Teaching English at West Point: A Dialogic Narrative,” published in “Military Culture and Education.” Her co-author was Maj. David C. Wood of the U.S. Army. The chapter reflects on the challenges, tensions and opportunities faced by the authors in teaching English composition to West Point cadets. The book in which it appears investigates how teachers and researchers at the intersections of academia and the military straddle both cultures.

Tom Isern, professor of history and university distinguished professor, presented the paper, "Learning from the Lindis: Toward a New Regional History in the New Zealand High Country," at the Rural History 2010 conference in Brighton, U.K., on Sept. 13. Rural History 2010, convened by the British Agricultural History Society, was the founding conference for a new association, the European Society for the Promotion of Rural History, devoted to the history of agriculture and rural life on a global scale.

Tracy Barrett, assistant professor of history, recently had a chapter titled “A Bulwark Never Failing: The Evolution of Overseas Chinese Education in French Indochina, 1900 - 1954” published in the book, “China on the Margins.”