Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies

Spring 2008
Vol. XIII, No. 2

Table of Contents

Editor’s Notes

FICTION

• JOSHUA H. BOND, Duke University
  You Can’t Be Mine

• STEPHANIE EVANS, Rice University
  Wondrous Burns

NONFICTION

• TIM DUNLOP
  If You Build It They Will Come: Blogging and the New Citizenship

• BLAKE L. WHITE, Stanford University
  The Requirements of Justice Arising from the “Digital Divide”

• CINDY J. ROGERS, Hamline University
  The End of an Era

• JOHN S. McCLENAHEN, Georgetown University
  Text and Context: Jefferson, Bryan, Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Urbanization

• ERIC B. WALLMAN, Rollins College
  Genetically Modified Foods and the Pitfalls of the Scientific Method

• ELIZABETH RAVER, Excelsior College
  Nineteenth Century Utopian Theory of the Oneida Community: Was It Realistic?

• ALEXANDRA GODFREY, Wayne State University
  Mortal Poetics

• IAN A. ISHERWOOD, Dartmouth College
  Monumental Fallacy: Memorials to the Lost Cause at Gettysburg

• MICHAEL BERTRAND, Tennessee State University
  Why History Matters

• JULIE M. DAVIS, University of Oklahoma
  Story Matters:  Listening, Reading, and Teaching to Heal

• THOMAS D. COX, University of Memphis
  Students Who Persist in a MALS Program

• MIKE KEEN and KEN SMITH, Indiana University South Bend
  The Future of Graduate Liberal Studies: Beyond Disciplinary Lite and the Generic University

AGLSP NATIONAL FACULTY AWARD

• ROBERT SMITHER, Rollins College
  Introductory remarks

• J. THOMAS COOK, Rollins College
  Remarks on Teaching the Great Conversation

AGLSP OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD

• LINDA PAULSON, Stanford University
  Introductory remarks

• BARRY LEVIS, Rollins College
  Reflections as They Put the Old Editor Out to Pasture

CONTRIBUTORS