BOOKSHELF
PRIZE-WINNING PRIVACY: The recently published two-volume "Encyclopedia of Privacy," edited by
William G.Staples, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology, was selected by Choice magazine in its January 2008 review of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007. Only about 10 percent of the 7,000 or more academic works reviewed in Choice each year are selected for what was once known as Choice’s annual Outstanding Academic Books list. In 2000 the list was renamed to include electronic products and Internet sites. A first of its kind, the “Encyclopedia of privacy” is a comprehensive catalog of various aspects of privacy in the United States covering historical and current practices and legal, political, social and economic issues. Entries by more than 100 leading scholars and experts focus on topics ranging from abortion to wiretapping, and from automatic tellers to workplace privacy.
NOTABLE ALUMS
Roseann Runte, a French scholar who earned her doctorate at KU, is the new president - and first woman executive - of Carleton University, Canada's "capital university" in Ottawa. A dual resident of the U.S. and Canada, she was previously president of Old Dominion University. She also is president of the American Council of Education's Commission on International Education and a member of the International Parliament of Cultures.
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