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 2019

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The UK summer heatwave of 2018 and public concern over energy security, Shaun LARCOM, Po-Wen SHE, and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Explicating perceived sustainability-related climate: A situational motivator of pro-environmental behavior, Yan Wah LEUNG and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Tuning networks for prosocial behavior: From senseless swarms to smart mobs [Commentary], Sun Sun LIM and Roland BOUFFANAIS

Comparative global knowledge about the use of digital technologies for learning among young children, Sonia LIVINGSTONE, Sun Sun LIM, Anulekha NANDI, and Becky PHAM

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An urban ecohydrological model to quantify the effect of vegetation on urban climate and hydrology (UT&C v1.0), Naika MEILI, Gabriele MANOLI, Paolo BURLANDO, Elie BOU-ZEID, Winston T. L. CHOW, Andrew M. COUTTS, Edoardo DALY, Kerry A. NICE, Matthias ROTH, Nigel J. TAPPER, Erik VELASCO, Enrique R. VIVONI, and Simone FATICHI Journal Article

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Of faith and faithlessness: Adaptive fidelity in Shusaku Endo's Martin Scorsese's Silence, Teng-kuan NG

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Vietnamese pre-schoolers’ tablet use and early childhood learning: an ecological investigation, Becky PHAM and Sun Sun LIM

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Bare mountaintops and thirsty cities: On California and its snowpack, Sayd RANDLE

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Harvesting Alternative Water Resources (U.S. West), Sayd RANDLE

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Perceived influence of proenvironmental testimonials, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Michael Field DAHLSTROM

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Catching up with the ‘core’: The nature of the agricultural machinery sector and challenges for Chinese manufacturers, M. T. SAFDAR and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Thinking algorithmically: From Cold War computer science to the socialist information culture, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Indigenous perceptions of climate anomalies in Malaysian Borneo, Terry VAN GEVELT, H. ABOK, M. M. BENNETT, S. D. FAM, F. GEORGE, N. KULATHURAMAIYER, C. T. LOW, and T. ZAMANE

Submissions from 2018

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Predictors and outcomes of nurses’ use of smartphones for work purposes, John Robert BAUTISTA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Trisha T.C. LIN, and Yin Leng THENG

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Psychometric evaluation of the smartphone for Clinical Work Scale to measure nurses' use of smartphones for work purposes, John Robert BAUTISTA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Trisha Tsui-Chuan LIN, and Yin Leng THENG

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The two foundings thesis, Sonu BEDI and Elvin T. LIM Journal Article

Chennault, Cynthia L., Knapp, Keith N., Berkowitz, Alan J., & Dien, Albert E. (Eds.). Early medieval Chinese texts: A bibliographical guide, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Laozi in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Climate change and technology: Examining opinion formation of geoengineering, Christopher L. CUMMINGS and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Third-person perception of science narratives: The case of climate change denial, Michael Field DAHLSTROM and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Constructing underachievement: The discursive life of Singapore in US federal education policy, Roberto Santiago DE ROOCK and Darlene Machell ESPENA Journal Article

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Public support for censorship in a highly regulated media environment: The influence of self-construal and third-person perception over time, Benjamin H. DETENBER and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Cosmopolitan cinema: Cross-cultural encounters in East Asian film [Book review], ESPENA Darlene Machell Book Review

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The value of green certification in the Singapore housing market, Eric FESSELMEYER

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How much do users value a network expansion? Evidence from the public transit system in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER and Haoming LIU

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The effect of localized density on housing prices in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER, Kiat Ying Sky SEAH, and Jonathan Ci Yi KWOK

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Faith C. S. Ho, Western medicine for Chinese: How the Hong Kong College of Medicine achieved a breakthrough, Jack GREATREX

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A small entrepreneurial city in action: Policy mobility, urban entrepreneurialism, and politics of scale in Jiyuan, China, Shenjing HE, Lingyue LI, Yong ZHANG, and Jun WANG

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Do voluntary commons associations deliver sustainable grazing outcomes? An empirical study of England, Shaun LARCOM and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Scaling the nexus: Towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food, Scott J. MCGRANE, Michele ACUTO, Francesca ARTIOLI, Po-Yu CHEN, Robert COMBER, Julian COTTEE, Geremy FARR-WHARTON, Nicola GREEN, Ariella HELFGOTT, Shaun LARCOM, Julie A. MCCANN, Patrick O'REILLY, Gloria SALMORAL, Marian SCOTT, Lindsay C. TODMAN, Terry VAN GEVELT, and Xiaoyu YAN

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Pedestrian dharma: slowness and seeing in Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker, Teng-kuan NG

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Reliability analysis of repairable systems with recurrent misuse-induced failures and normal-operation failures, Weiwen PENG, Lijuan SHEN, Yan SHEN, and Qiuzhuang SUN

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Landscapes of power: Politics of energy in the Navajo Nation, Sayd RANDLE

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The meanings and limits of ‘local water’ in Los Angeles, Sayd RANDLE

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Liquid futures: Water management systems and anticipated environments, Sayd RANDLE and Jessica BARNES

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Audience prototypes and asymmetric efficacy beliefs, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Procedural information and behavioral control: Longitudinal analysis of the intention-behavior gap in the context of recycling, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Efficacy beliefs in third-person effects, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Benjamin H. DETENBER, and Hernando ROJAS

Environmental communication among minority populations, Bruno TAKAHASHI and Sonny ROSENTHAL

The Great Soviet calculator hack, Ksenia TATARCHENKO

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Achieving universal energy access and rural development through smart villages, Terry VAN GEVELT, C. Canales HOLZEIS, S. FENNELL, B. HEAP, J. HOLMES, M.Hurley DEPRET, B. JONES, and M.T. SAFDAR

A global overview from a geographical perspective, Dariusz WÓJCIK and Theodor Florian COJOIANU

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Resilience of the US securities industry to the global financial crisis, Dariusz WÓJCIK and Theodor Florian COJOIANU

New perspective on regional inequality: Theory and evidence from Guangdong, China, Yong ZHANG, Tong DE, and Xiongfei LIANG

Submissions from 2017

From uncrowned king to the sage of profound greatness: Confucius and the Analects in early medieval China, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

Supporting smallholders in improving wheat cultivation, Tinashe CHIURUGWI, Simon KERR, Ian MIDGLEY, L. A. BOYD, Johnson KAMWAGA, Peter NJAU, Terry Van GEVELT, Claudia CANALES, and Max MARCHESELLI

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Developing an evidence base for assessing natural capital risks and dependencies in lending to Australian wheat farms, Theodor Florian COJOIANU and Francisco ASCUI

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Remembering 1965: Indonesian cinema and the 'Battle for History', ESPENA Darlene Machell Journal Article

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Neighborhood segregation and black entrepreneurship, Eric FESSELMEYER and Kiat Ying SEAH

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A people of the law: Review of Kevin Butterfield’s "The Making of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: Law and Association in the Early United States", Christine Dunn HENDERSON Book Review

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Level up! Refreshing parental mediation theory for our digital media landscape, Hee Jhee JIOW, Sun Sun LIM, and Julian LIN

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Regulating the water-energy-food nexus: Interdependencies, transaction costs and procedural justice, Shaun LARCOM and Terry VAN GEVELT

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Youth workers' use of Facebook for mediated pastoralism with juvenile delinquents and youths-at-risk, Sun Sun LIM

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Unsustainability in action: An ethnographic examination, Sayd RANDLE, Lauren BAKER, C. Anne CLAUS, Chris HEBDON, Alder KELEMAN, and Michael R. DOVE

Data imputation, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Motivations to seek science videos on YouTube: Free-choice learning in a connected society, Sonny ROSENTHAL

Regression analysis, Linear, Sonny ROSENTHAL

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