The sixth annual NEIU Faculty Authors Reception was held on November 11 to recognize faculty members who have published books in the past academic year. This year 20 NEIU faculty published books, a record number for a single year.

The 2009 authors are:

Kenneth Addison, educational leadership and development - "We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident" An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Roots of Racism and Slavery in America

Howard Bultinck, educational leadership and development - 99 Ways to Lead and Succeed: Strategies and Stories for School Leaders

Lynn Bush, educational leadership and development - 99 Ways to Lead and Succeed: Strategies and Stories for School Leaders

Vicki Bvard, English - Bibliographic Research in Composition Studies

Denise Cloonan Cortez de Andersen, foreign languages and literature - Contornos del hable: Fonologia and fonetica del Espanol

Lesa Davis, anthropology - The Smallest Anthropoids: The Callimico/Marmoset Radiation

Michael Davros, English - Greeks in Chicago

Holly Dunsworth, anthropology - Proconsul Heseloni Feet from Rusinga Island, Kenya: Preservation, anatomy, Ontogeny, and Cross-sectional Geometry of the Metatarsals

Chielo Zona Eze, English - The Trial of Robert Mugabe

Inna Faliks, music - Sound of Verse

Lisa Hollis-Sawyer, psychology - Exercises in Psychological Testing (second edition)

Joan Johnson, history - South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1

Effie Kritikos, special education - Special Education Assessment; Issues and Strategies Affecting Today's Classrooms

Erica Meiners, educational leadership and development - Flaunt It! Queers Organizing for Public Education and Justice

Jaime Mendoza, academic advising - La Chamba; Drawings by Jamie Mendoza

Dragan Milovanovic, justice studies - Revolution in Penology: rethinking the Society of Captives

Richard Neapolitan, computer science - Probabilitic Methods for Bioinformatics

T.Y. Okosun, justice studies - Social Justice and increasing Global Destitution

Beverly Otto, teacher education - Language Development in Early Childhood (third edition)

Marie-Elene Roberge, business and management - When and How Does Diversity Increase Group Performance? A Theoretical Model Followed by an Experimental Study

Brian Torosian, music - J.K. Mertz: Bardenklange, Op. 13, Nos. 1 - 7