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��SUNY Fredonia��hosted a book reception for recently published faculty members:��

• Dr. Linda Dorsten, associate professor of sociology, who is the author of “Research Methods and Society” (Prentice Hall, 2005).�� The book is “designed to help students acquire basic skills in the methods of social science research,” according to the publisher.��

• Dr. Robert Marzec, associate professor of English, who is the editor of “American Regional Cultures: The Mid-Atlantic Region” ( Greenwood Publishing, 2004).�� The book is described as an exhaustively-researched volume in “The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures” that includes studies of Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.��

• Dr. David Rankin, assistant professor of political science, for co-editing, “Transformed by Crisis: The Presidency of George W. Bush and American Politics” (Palgrave: Macmillan, 2004).�� Other editors were former SUNY Fredonia faculty members Jon Kraus (Professor of Political Science, Emeritus) and Kevin McMahon.�� “This book examines how words and deeds in a time of crisis will define the Bush presidency's place in American politics and history,” the publisher writes.�� Dr. Rankin also contributed to the recently completed “Winning the White House in 2004: Region by Region, Vote by Vote” (Palgrave: Macmillan, 2005), a look at the closely-contested presidential election of 2004. ��

• Dr. Mary Beth Sievens, assistant professor of history, is the author of “Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England” ( New York : NYU Press, 2005).�� Her book is a detailed look at the politics of marriage in the formative years of the .��

• Dr. John Staples, assistant professor of history, co-edited “Nestor Makhno and the Eichenfeld Massacre: A Civil War Tragedy in a Ukrainian Mennonite Village .”�� The book is an investigation into the 1919 murder of 136 Ukrainian Mennonites during a tumultuous period in Russian history.��
  

• Dr. Ted Steinberg, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, “Twentieth-Century Epic Novels” (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005).�� ��A consideration of recent epic novels, including works by Sholem Asch, Olivia Manning and others.

• Dr. James Thomas Stevens, assistant professor of English, who wrote the narrative poem, “(dis)Orient” ( Ithaca : Palm Press, 2005).�� The poem studies man’s need to chart the unknown.�� Mr. Stevens also completed “Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations” ( Oakland, Calif. : SubPress, 2005), a collaboration with Samoan poet Caroline Sinavaiana.

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