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December 5, 2005 Volume 30, Issue 16 |
Four faculty members busy editing books
Four Mississippi State faculty members have published—or will publish—books on subjects ranging from counseling research to innovation to a Union spy.
University archivist Michael B. Ballard co-edited “Chickasaw, A Mississippi Scout for the Union—The Civil War Memoir of Levi H. Naron”; Dr. Franz W. Kellermanns, assistant professor of management, is one of the editors of “Innovating Strategy Processes”; and Dr. Carl Sheperis, assistant professor in counseling education, and Dr. Scott Young, associate professor in couseling education, will co-edit “Research in Counseling: An Introduction to Quantitative, Qualitative and Single Subject Designs.”
Ballard’s book is a newly edited version of Levi Naron’s dictated memories. Naron was a planter and slave owner who lived in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, and served as a spy for the Union where he was known as “Chickasaw.”
Naron’s story was published by the Louisiana State University Press and is co-edited by Dr. Thomas D. Cockrell, a history professor at Blue Mountain College. Ballard and Cockrell also collaborated as editors on “A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt.”
Kellermanns edited “Innovating Strategy Processes” along with Steven W. Floyd of the University of Connecticut, and Johan Roos and Claus D. Jacobs, both with Imagination Lab Foundation in Lausanne, Switzerland, for Blackwell Publishing. The book presents a series of reflective essays by established and emerging scholars on the subject of innovation, considering it both as an outcome of strategy and as a process in itself.
Sheperis’ and Young’s book, also edited by Dr. M. Daniels of the University of Florida, will be published by Prentice Hall in fall 2006. “Research in Counseling” is an introductory textbook for graduate-level students on the various research methods related to counseling. Divided into five sections, it will cover everything from the multi-cultural aspects of research to data analysis.