Established in 2022, the College of Integrative Studies is SMU’s seventh School and plays a pivotal role in helping students traverse the disciplinary areas associated with the other SMU Schools – Accountancy, Business, Economics, Computing, Law and Social Sciences. The CIS is different in that it emphasises the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across disciplines to derive new solutions in areas related to SMU’s Strategic Priorities. Its faculty members research on topics such as Computer Science, Economics, Environmental History, Geography, Law, and Urban Climate, amongst others. The College seeks to cultivate an environment conducive to intellectual exploration across academic disciplines and to bring their distinct disciplinary perspectives together to address modern challenges in today’s complex world.

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Submissions from 2017

Structural equation modeling, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Estimating and decomposing changes in the White-Black homeownership gap from 2005 to 2011, Kiat Ying SEAH, Eric FESSELMEYER, and Kien LE

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"The computer does not believe in tears": Soviet programming, professionalization, and the gendering of authority, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Indigenous community preferences for electricity services: Evidence from a choice experiment in Sarawak, Malaysia, Terry VAN GEVELT, C. Canales HOLZEIS, F. GEORGE, and T. ZAMAN

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Mediating intimacies through mobile communication: Chinese migrant mothers’ digital ‘bridge of magpies’, Yang WANG and Sun Sun LIM

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Towards new weather and climate baselines for assessing weather and climate extremes, impacts, and risks, Fiona WILLIAMSON, Rob ALLAN, and Roseanne D'Arrigo

Submissions from 2016

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Expectancies and motivations to attend an informal science lecture series, Niveen AbiGhannam, LeeAnn KAHLOR, Anthony DUDO, Ming-Ching LIANG, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Jay L. BANNER

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Towards integrated historical climate research: The example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth, R. ALLAN, G. ENDFIELD, V. DAMODARAN, G. ADAMSON, M. HANNAFORD, F. CARROLL, N. MACDONALD, N. GROOM, J. JONES, Fiona WILLIAMSON, E. HENDY, P. HOLPER, J. PABLO, L. HUGHES, L. ARROYO-MORA, R. BICKERS, and A.-M. BLIUC

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Stranded assets: A climate risk, Ben CALDECOTT, Elizabeth HARNETT, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Irem KOK, and Alexander PFEIFFER

Book review: Robert Campany, A Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Review of Barry Allen, Vanishing into things: Knowledge in Chinese tradition, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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The essential meaning of the Way and Virtue: Yan Zun and “Laozi learning” in early Han China, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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The flourishing of the Dao in Confucian and Daoist learning: Introduction, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Audience segmentation for campaign design: Addressing climate change in Singapore, Benjamin H. DETENBER, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Youqing LIAO, and Shirley S. HO

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Strategic interactions in a one-sector growth model, Eric FESSELMEYER, Leonard J. MIRMAN, and Marc SANTUGINI

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Precolonial institutions and deforestation in Africa, S. LARCOM, Terry VAN GEVELT, and A. ZABALA

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At home in the watershed: Environmental imaginaries and spatial politics in Los Angeles, Sayd RANDLE

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The effluent society, Sayd RANDLE

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Insights from an energy poor Rwandan village, Terry VAN GEVELT, C. Canales HOLZEIS, B. JONES, and M.T. SAFDAR

Sheila Sweetinburgh, ed., Negotiating the political in Northern European urban society, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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The “great flood” of 1926: Environmental change and post-disaster management in British Malaya, Fiona WILLIAMSON

The uses of space in early modern history, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Submissions from 2015

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Expropriation risk and competition within the military, Madhav S. ANEY and Giovanni KO Journal Article

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Energy for development: The concept, HOLMES J. and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Applying the theory of planned behavior and media dependency theory: Predictors of public pro-environmental behavioral intentions in Singapore, Shirley S. HO, Youqing LIAO, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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The federalist provenance of the principle of privacy, Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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Seeing California’s water future(s) at Orange County’s Groundwater Replenishment System, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE

Resilient life: the art of living dangerously by Brad Evans and Julian Reid, Sayd RANDLE

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Alexander C. T. Geppert, Fleeting cities: Imperial expositions in fin-de-siècle Europe, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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History and climate science: A collaborative relationship for the twenty-first century, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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Luxury and gender in European towns, 1700–1914. Deborah Simonton, Marjo Kaartinen, and Anne Montenach (eds), Fiona WILLIAMSON

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Public engagement, historians and higher education: A retrospective UK case study, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Submissions from 2014

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Signaling the green sell: The influence of eco-label source, argument specificity, and product involvement on consumer trust, Lucy ATKINSON and Sonny ROSENTHAL

Embodying nothingness and the ideal of the affectless sage in Daoist philosophy, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

The art of hearing and the promise of harmony in Confucian self-cultivation, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Changing views on media ethics and societal functions among students in Singapore, Benjamin Hill DETENBER and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Dynamic pricing in the Singapore condominium market, Eric FESSELMEYER and Haoming LIU

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Risk sharing in an asymmetric environment, Eric FESSELMEYER, Leonard J. MIRMAN, and Marc SANTUGINI

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"Those stubborn principles": From stoicism to sociability in Joseph Addison’s Cato, Christine Dunn HENDERSON and Mark YELLIN Journal Article

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Poverty and politics in Tocqueville’s Memoir on Pauperism, Christine Rodman HENDERSON Magazine Article

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Seeking information about climate change: effects of media use in an extended PRISM, Shirley S. HO, Benjamin H. DETENBER, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Edmund W. J. LEE

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Political thought, political development, and America’s two foundings, Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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The lovers' quarrel: The two foundings and American political development, Elvin T. LIM Book

Cultural orientation and the spiral of silence, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Benjamin H. DETENBER

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Community-based management of Tricholoma matsutake: A case study of South Korean mountain villages, Terry VAN GEVELT

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Rural electrification and development in South Korea, Terry VAN GEVELT

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The role of state institutions in non-timber forest product commercialisation: A case study of Tricholoma matsutake in South Korea, Terry VAN GEVELT

Cities, texts and social networks 400–1500, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Contested spaces of nobility in early modern Europe, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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Eleanor Hubbard, City women: Money, sex, and the social order in early modern London, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Gender and the city before modernity, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Space and self in early modern European cultures, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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The spatial turn of social and cultural history: A review of the current field, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Submissions from 2013

A Chinese reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi’s commentary on the Laozi with critical text and translation by Rudolf G. Wagner, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

Wang Bi and the Laozi: Richard John Lynn, trans., The classic of the Way and Virtue: A new translation of the Tao-te ching of Laozi as interpreted by Wang Bi; Rudolf G. Wagner, The craft of a Chinese commentator: Wang Bi on the Laozi, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects: Assessing the relationship between landscape characteristics and land surface temperature in Phoenix, Arizona, John Patrick CONNORS, Christopher S. GALLETTI, and Winston T. L. CHOW Journal Article

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Changes in the white-black house value distribution gap from 1997 to 2005, Eric FESSELMEYER, Kien T. LE, and Kiat Ying SEAH

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Strategic exploitation of a common resource under environmental risk, Eric FESSELMEYER and Marc SANTUGINI

Modernity of this century: Four ethnographic perspectives, Erik HARMS, Ryan JOBSON, Caroline MERRIFIELD, and Sarah Priscilla RANDLE

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The anti-federalist strand in progressive politics and political thought, Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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Are tournaments optimal over piece rates under limited liability for the principal?, Kosmas MARINAKIS and Theofanis TSOULOUHAS Journal Article

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Measuring differentials in communication research: Issues with multicollinearity in three methods, Sonny ROSENTHAL

The economic contribution of non-timber forest products to South Korean mountain villager livelihoods, Terry VAN GEVELT

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Domestic institutional interiors in early modern Europe. Edited by Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Submissions from 2012

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Clustered subsampling for clinically informed diagnostic brain mapping, Malin Björnsdotter, Diego SONA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Justin DAUWELS

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Vulnerability to extreme heat in Metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, temporal, and demographic dimensions, Winston T. L. CHOW, Wen-Ching CHUANG, and Patricia GOBER Journal Article

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A household-level decomposition of the white-black homeownership gap, Eric FESSELMEYER, Kien T. LE, and Kiat Ying SEAH

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A comparison of cardinal tournaments and piece rate contracts with liquidity constrained agents, Kosmas MARINAKIS and Theofanis TSOULOUHAS Journal Article

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Glenn Clark, Judith Owens, and Greg T. Smith, eds., City limits: Perspectives on the historical European city, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Submissions from 2011

Harmony as a contested metaphor and conceptions of rightness (yi) in early Confucian ethics, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Interpretations of virtue (de) in early China, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Globalization, modernity, and migration: The changing visage of social imagination, Darlene Machell ESPENA Journal Article

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Tracking the language of time and space, 1945-2008, Roderick P. HART and Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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"Now my eyes have seen you": A comparative study of Secret Sunshine and the Book of Job, Teng-kuan NG

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Measuring knowledge of indoor environmental hazards, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Peter Clark, European cities and towns 400-2000, F. WILLIAMSON

Submissions from 2010

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Affectivity and the nature of the sage: Gleanings from a Tang Daoist master, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

Sage nature and the logic of namelessness: Reconstructing he Yan's explication of Dao, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

Sage nature and the logic of namelessness: Reconstructing He Yan’s explication of Dao, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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The Chinese classic of family reverence: A philosophical translation of the Xiaojing. By Henry Rosemont, Jr., and Roger T. Ames, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

無情與猖狂──論《莊子》中「情」的兩種詮釋, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

Interpretation and literature in early medieval China, Alan Kam Leung CHAN and Yuet-Keung LO

Philosophy and religion in early medieval China, Alan Kam Leung CHAN and Yuet-Keung LO

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Urban-biased policies and the increasing rural-urban expenditure gap in Vietnam in the 1990s, Eric FESSELMEYER and Kien T. LE

Radon-resistant new construction, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Cold War origins of the International Federation for Information Processing, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Cissie Fairchilds, Women in early modern Europe, 1500—1700, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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Masculinity in the Reformation era, edited by Scott H. Hendrix and Susan C. Karant-Nunn, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Submissions from 2009

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Mencius: Contexts and interpretations, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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The talent of Shu: Qiao Ami and the intellectual world of early medieval Sichuan, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

鍾會《老子注》與魏初才性之辯, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Plus ça Change: Innovation and the spirit of enterprise in Tocqueville’s America, Christine Dunn HENDERSON Journal Article

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Traditions of philanthropic order, Christine Dunn HENDERSON Journal Article

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If we seek, do we learn?: Predicting knowledge of global warming, LeeAnn KAHLOR and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Proclaiming trade policy: 'Delegated Unilateral Powers' and the limits on Presidential Unilateral Enactment of Trade Policy, Brandon ROTTINGHAUS and Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

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The family in early modern England. Edited by Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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The middle sort of people in provincial England, 1600-1750, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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Women and portraits in early modern Europe: Gender, agency and identity, Fiona WILLIAMSON

Submissions from 2008

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Does xiao come before ren?, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Do sages have emotions?, Alan Kam Leung CHAN