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SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTER | Issue #4 3 Hot Off The Press! New Books by OSU Sociologists In January 2019, Dr. Heather McLaughlin released an edited book, Engaging Helen Hacker: Collected Works and Reflec- tions of a Feminist Pioneer . Co-edited with Kyle Green and Christopher Uggen, the book brings together fifty years of scholarship by Helen Hacker, a foundational feminist scholar and tireless social activist. The collection also includes personal interviews with Hacker and several unpublished manuscripts that showcase her “intellectual curiosity, personal grit, and commitment to marginalized groups.” Dr. Jonathan Coley’s new book, Gay on God’s Campus: Mobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities was the 2018 winner of the Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award from the Mid-South Sociological Association, which recognizes books that advance knowledge and include perspectives that have often not been heard. The book exam- ines how and why student activists mobilize for greater inclu- sion at Christian colleges and universities, and how these stu- dents “apply their skills and values after graduation in subse- quent political campaigns, careers, and family lives.” “Serving as change agents in their faith communities for years to come.” Dr. Tamara Mix recently published a new book with Dr. F. Bailey Norwood called Meet the Food Radicals . The book features interviews with 27 farmers, activists, and oth- ers who are creating or proposing radical changes in how food is produced and distributed. The food radicals include molecular biologists, undercover animal rights investigators, and those who are “changing how we farm, how the food system operates, and how we eat.” “No two are the same, but all are far from ordinary.” “Never do in private what can’t be shouted from the rooftops.”

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