FACULTY AUTHORS

Stephen Bittner, History, has seen the book he edited, "The Kremlin's Scholar: A Memoir of Soviet Politics Under Stalin and Khrushchev," given good reviews. Critically acclaimed author Simon Sebag Montefiore named it one of his best ten books of 2007. "The Kremlin's Scholar" details Soviet politics during the 1940s and 1950s and is a memoir of Dimitrii Shepilov, a prominent Soviet leader and member of the Communist Party elite who rose to power under Joseph Stalin in the 1940s and 1950s, then fell into political disgrace after being implicated in a coup attempt against Nikita Khrushchev in 1957.

Michael Ezra, Department Chair of American Multicultural Studies, has completed a book titled "Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon," which will be published by Temple University Press. Ezra was also recently accepted into an NEH Summer Institute on the Civil Rights Movement to be held in July at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. His second book, the edited volume "Civil Rights Movement: People and Perspectives," will be published in early 2009 by ABC-CLIO.

"Wine Marketing and Sales, Success Strategies for a Saturated Market," a book by wine business professors Janeen Olsen and Liz Thach, has won the Gourmand International Prize as the best wine book of the year for professionals. Their book has received widespread critical acclaim and is now used as a wine marketing textbook throughout the world.