Faculty Accomplishments

Townsley, E. The Sociology of Intellectual Life by Steve Fuller. Review. Contemporary Sociology 39(6):708-704. (2010)

Kenneth Tucker published the article, “A New Kind of Personal Politics: On the Populism of Trump and Sanders,” Journal of Political Ideologies. Published online December 22, 2022.

Tucker, K. "The Political is Personal, Expressive, Aesthetic, and Networked:  Contemporary American Languages of the Self from Trump to Black Lives Matter."  American Journal of Cultural Sociology. ( June 2017).

Tucker, K. "(S)he Conquers Who Endures":  Theodora DeWolf Colt and the Birth of a New American Elite," American Nineteenth Century History 18 (2017):  63-85 (with Barbara Tucker).

Tucker, K. "Politics and Aesthetics," Sociology Compass 5 (August 2011): 712-20.

Tucker, K. Workers of the World Enjoy!  Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement (Temple University Press, 2010)

Awarded the 2012 Meribeth E. Cameron Prize for Scholarship for his stunning achievement as a scholar of cultural and social theory and his ability to open students’ minds.

Served as the stage director for the World Premiere of Mystery of the Missing Music: A Musicological Whodunit with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, which performed on April 8 and 10, 2021.

Directed and starred as Derryberry in the Trembling Stage production of “The Day the Bird Flu Came - A Radio Play” by Jonathan Yukich. The recording is available at tremblingstage.com through December 20, 2020.

Awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse, the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, on April 26, 2007. The German government recognized Van Handle for her achievements in promoting German language and culture in the United States.