New Books by President Chabotar, Fellow Faculty Focus on Several Topics

New books by President Kent Chabotar and five professors examine strategic finance, diversity in the American power elite, global currency markets, job-seeking strategies of Mexican immigrants and the place of early humanism in the history of philosophy and the church, as well as an award-winning collection of poetry.

President Chabotar, who is also a professor of political science at the college, has authored Strategic Finance: Planning and Budgeting for Boards, Chief Executives and Finance Officers. The fifth book Chabotar has authored or co-authored, this volume engages strategic planning and budgeting topics and marries them to actionable steps that boards, presidents and chief financial officers can take to navigate a course of institutional financial stability.

Chabotar joined Guilford's administration and faculty in 2002 and is a veteran teacher of trustees and presidents at the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, the Getty Research Institute and the Association of Governing Boards National Conference on Trusteeship.

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Dana Professor of Psychology Richie Zweigenhaft has written a second edition of Diversity in the Power Elite, subtitled How it Happened, Why it Matters. It's his fifth book, and all have been coauthored with G. William Domhoff, a research professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Diversity in the Power Elite looks systematically at the extent to which Jews, women, African Americans, Latinos, Asians, gay men and lesbians have entered the higher circles of power in America. The book examines the backgrounds and careers of well-known people to explain how and why the power elite has diversified.

Zweigenhaft, on faculty since 1974, is also the author of Jews in the Protestant Establishment, Blacks in the White Establishment? A Study of Race and Class in America, Diversity in the Power Elite: Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? and Blacks in the White Elite: Will the Progress Continue?

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Robert G. Williams, Voehringer professor of economics, has authored his third book, The Money Changers: A Guided Tour Through Global Currency Markets, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the places, machines, circuitry and people involved in moving the world's money. The Money Changers offers a graphic picture of the geographical and structural organization of global currency markets and the people who run them. The book makes extensive use of ethnographic footage taken in interviews with currency market participants from 1996 to 2005, a period of rapid change in world financial markets.

Williams, on faculty since 1978, has authored Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America, a book that has been used as a text by colleges and universities nationally, and States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America.

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Tim Kircher, associate professor of history, has written his first book, The Poet's Wisdom: The Humanists, the Church, and the Formation of Philosophy in the Early Renaissance, which is part of a series, Brill's Studies in Intellectual History. It explores the philosophical thinking of Petrarch and Boccaccio in contrast to the writings of contemporary mendicants. Examining both Latin and vernacular works, it investigates how these humanists poetically express the temporal, subjective and emotional quality of moral sensibility, in a way that shifts to the reader the weight of discerning the ethical message. Kircher has been on faculty since 1989.

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Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Dana professor of English, has published a new collection of poetry, Vanished. Whitlow, on faculty since 1993, is the reigning winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Award (awarded for excellence in a manuscript by an African American poet). Her first collection of poems, Wild Meat, was published in 1986, and since then, her poems and essays have appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals and been featured on public radio.

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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Maria Amado has written her first book, Mexican Immigrants in the Labor Market: The Strength of Strong Ties. Part of a series entitled The New Americans, the book examines the job-seeking strategies of recent Mexican immigrants in Atlanta, Ga. Amado explores the resources available to job seekers within and outside their immigrant networks and the role of kinship during migration and settlement. A native of Panama, she has been on faculty since 2002.

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June 19, 2006