Creighton University Faculty Bibliography 2012

Abstract

Usually we speak of professors in the plural, but what is at stake is more than the sum of so many individual commitments and efforts. It is a sustained interdisciplinary dialogue of research and reflection, a continuous pooling of expertise. The purpose is to assimilate experiences and insights according to their different disciplines in "a vision of knowledge which, well aware of its limitations, is not satisfied with fragments but tries to integrate them into a true and wise synthesis" about the real world. [Peter Hans-Kolvenbach, SJ, from “The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education, 2000]

Former Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Peter Hans-Kolvenbach, challenges Jesuit higher education to engage in sustained interdisciplinary dialogue of research and reflection to extend our intellectual resources towards solving real world problems. We believe that Creighton University as a complex institution with strong liberal arts and science along with several professional schools in a relatively small university community provides the perfect environment for rich interdisciplinary work. The scholarly work done by faculty at Creighton represents the evidence of this kind of meaningful collaboration across our campus. This is the twenty-first Faculty Bibliography produced annually by Creighton University’s Graduate School under the guidance of the University Research Council (URC). The bibliography documents the scholarly accomplishments of the University community for the calendar year 2012. The bibliography includes reports from various units on campus (departments, centers, or offices) that highlight the broad range of research and scholarly activity across the campus. These reports are followed by a listing of the scholarly accomplishments of Creighton faculty, including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and books; funded grants; creative works; and student dissertations and theses.

The contributions in this bibliography demonstrate the rich diversity and broad application of scholarship across the Creighton campus from the traditional scholarship of discovery to scholarly work of application, integration, engagement, teaching and learning and creative work. There is strong evidence that Creighton faculty are committed teacher-scholars and true stewards of their disciplines. As stewards, Creighton faculty have a sense of purpose beyond themselves, focusing on who students become and what they will do in building a better world with “the least and with all.”