Books by Caroline Maun
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Virtual Identities: The Construction of Selves in Cyberspace
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Katrina
By Caroline Maun All these hundreds of years of denial
We think we are in an enlightened age
We think we are beyond the trial
We never even left this stage
So many people in a middle passage
Fanned out to all points on the map
Between us all this insistent wedge
Up to our chins in rivers of crap
Nature sent a storm to uncover
What we didn't want to ever see
We are forced now to rediscover
What it might mean if we ALL were free.
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Dr. Caroline Maun
Assistant Professor / Interdisciplinary Studies /
Wayne State University
5700 Cass Ave. / Detroit, MI 48202 / 313-577-6580
email:
caroline.maun@wayne.edu EDUCATION
· Ph. D. in English, 1998.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville. <http://www.utk.edu>
· M.A. in English, 1992. North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, North Carolina. <http://www.ncsu.edu>
· B.A. in English with high honors, 1990.Eckerd
College, St. Petersburg, Florida.
EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATION
· PIER Certificate in African Studies, Yale
University, 2001.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Assistant Professor of Literacy and Critical Thought,
8/04 to present. Teaching interdisciplinary courses in
writing and oral communication.
Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland
· Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition,
7/99 to 5/04. http://jewel.morgan.edu/~english/english.htm>
Teaching Freshman Composition sections face-to-face and
online. Co-Coordinator of the Freshman English Program.
Member of the Honors Program faculty (three-year
appointment from 2002-2005).
· Director, English Resource Writing Center,
11/98 to 5/04. http://jewel.morgan.edu/~english/english.htm>
Supervising student employees, managing grant monies,
faculty liaison with computer support services.
· HUD-EDI Special Projects Grant Co-Recipient,
with Dr. Wendell Jackson, 11/98 to 9/99 (period of
grant). Funds in excess of $79,000 earmarked to improve
the English Resource Writing Center at Morgan State
University: designing lab, training tutors,
instructional technologist, and curriculum design.
Internal Morgan State University grant of $50,000 was
also implemented for equipment.
· Lecturer, 8/98 to 5/99. Teaching Freshman
Studies English composition. posted 13 June 2006
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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