Faculty Scholarship at University of Puget Sound
Blacksheep Leadership: a strategy that applies to more than just business people
Jeffrey Matthews has taken an unusual approach in writing his new book Blacksheep Leadership. He starts with a fictional story of three siblings competing for an inheritance. Then he spells out what defines today’s “Blacksheep leader”. And finally he relates two dramatic, real-life stories of leaders who instinctively took this unconventional path.
More InformationThe vitality of the intellectual life at Puget Sound is an expression of a dynamic faculty with a national reputation for outstanding teaching and groundbreaking scholarship across the breadth of human knowledge.
We invite you to review the most recent version of Advancing Knowledge, Building Understanding, a compilation of faculty books, articles, exhibits, performances, lectures, professional presentations, and awards during the 2010–12 academic years, and to explore the features and links on this site to learn more about the accomplishments of our distinguished faculty.
Featured Faculty
A. Susan Owen, Communication Studies
Professor Owen’s scholarly interests center on the rhetorical influence of American mass-mediated culture in structuring public consciousness, moral sensibilities, and social conduct. Her research concerns the manner in which the texts of popular culture sustain and/or transform social constructions of gender, race, and race relations. Professor Owen studies the implications of these constructions upon the dynamic field of our cultural memory - the meaning of our nation’s stories and our collective sense of identity as a national people. Her most recent book collaboration is Bad Girls: Cultural Politics and Media Representations of Transgressive Women. Learn more about research interests of faculty in communication studies.
Featured Department
Art
The Art Department offers degrees in Studio Art and Art History. The two majors are distinct, but students in either major are required to take supporting courses in the other area to insure breadth and depth in their knowledge of art. The department occupies three buildings with Kittredge Hall and its galleries as the nucleus. Approximately six exhibitions are held each academic year in the galleries. View upcoming exhibitions in Kittredge Gallery.
