Mintz's books have set the standards and the terms for the academic discussion in his principal fields. This relatively young scholar's unusual influence stems from his interdisciplinary approach. He operates deftly in the realms in sociology, social psychology, constitutional law, pedagogical theory, among others. A Documentary History of American from Colonization Through the Civil War , published this year by Oxford University Press, is a particularly good example of Steve's interdisciplinary reach. The book is a lead selection for the History Book Club, and more impressive yet, this year's nominee by Oxford University Press for a Pulitzer Prize.
Stack is an internationally recognized visual artist.
Her recent selection as Texas Artist of the Year, and now a Moores University Scholar at the University of Houston, begins to signal what will surely be the lasting importance and influence of her painting. Her canvases sometimes seem more built than painted, with their many layers of color and barely visible figures. Their textural density evokes the hidden depths of human experience, memory and desire.