About

Andrew Newman is a professor whose research interests include early American studies, the history of education, Native American studies, and media and memory studies. His academic work focuses on these areas, contributing to the understanding of American history and cultural memory through a scholarly lens. As a faculty member at the Department of English, he engages in teaching and research that explore these interdisciplinary fields, enriching the academic community's knowledge of American cultural and historical narratives.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Philosophy
• Aesthetics
• Art
• Applied psychology
• Medicine
• Literature
• Ancient history
• Clinical psychology
• Psychology
• Social psychology
• Epistemology
• Theology
• History

Selected publications

• A Network of Safavid Shiʿi Scholars? The <i>Ijāzāt</i> of Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī

  Bibliothèque de l'école des hautes études. Sciences religieuses · 2025-01-01

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• How an AI-ready National Data Library would help UK science

  ArXiv.org · 2025-01-28

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  In this paper, we provide a technical vision for key enabling elements for the architecture of the UK National Data Library (NDL) with a strong focus on building it as an AI-ready data infrastructure through standardised vocabularies, automated analysis tools, and interoperability services. We follow the ODI Multilayer Interoperability Framework (MIF) for data stewardship, covering central socio-technical aspects for the NDL including user-centric approaches to service design and governance.

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• On the Intersecting Family Process

  The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics · 2024-10-18

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  We study the intersecting family process initially studied in [Electron. J. Comb., 10:#R29 (2003)]. Here $k=k(n)$ and $E_1,E_2,\ldots,E_m$ is a random sequence of $k$-sets from $\binom{[n]}{k}$ where $E_{r+1}$ is uniformly chosen from those $k$-sets that are not already chosen and that meet $E_i,i=1,2,\ldots,r$. We prove some new results for the case where $k=cn^{1/3}$ and for the case where $k\gg n^{1/2}$.

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• Is Literature Still the “Heart” of English?

  The English Journal · 2024-05-01 · 2 citations

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  Drawing on a 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers on the history of literature instruction, the authors reflect on the traditional place of literature at the “heart” of English education, arguing for the continuing importance of centering students’ experiences with texts.

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• Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan. The Teaching Archive: A New History of Literary Study Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 315 pp.

  History of Education Quarterly · 2023-11-01

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• On the intersecting family process

  arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023-02-17

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  We study the intersecting family process initially studied in \cite{BCFMR}. Here $k=k(n)$ and $E_1,E_2,\ldots,E_m$ is a random sequence of $k$-sets from $\binom{[n]}{k}$ where $E_{r+1}$ is uniformly chosen from those $k$-sets that are not already chosen and that meet $E_i,i=1,2,\ldots,r$. We prove some new results for the case where $k=cn^{1/3}$ and for the case where $k\gg n^{1/2}$.

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• A View from the Periphery: The Ijāza as Polemic in Early 10th/16th-Century Twelver Shiʿism

  I.B.Tauris eBooks · 2022

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Philosophy
  • Ancient history
  • History

  In earlier research on the exchanges between Ibrāhīm b.Sulaymān al-Qaṭīfī (d. after 945/1539 1 ) and ʿAlī al-Karakī (d.940/1534) it was concluded that the composition and increasingly forthright and distinctly Akhbārī-style aspects of al-Qaṭīfī's criticisms of al-Karakī were most usefully understood in the context of the changing fortunes of the Safavid polity during the years these exchanges took place. 2 The present paper examines al-Qaṭīfī's ijāzāt as preserved in Biḥār al-anwār of Muḥammad Bāqir al-Majlisī (d.1110/1699), 3 to examine whether such a contextual approach also sheds light on the style and substance of these texts and thereby further contributes to the understanding of the al-Qaṭīfī/al-Karakī 'debates' and to the extant discussions on Twelver Shiʿi ijāzāt more generally.The paper first addresses some of this literature and then discusses each of the extant ijāzāt in turn.Of the five texts in Biḥār, three are 1 The editor of Yūsuf al-Baḥrānī's (d.1186/1772) Luʾluʾa, on which see further below, says al-Qaṭīfī was alive in 951/1544, when he completed al-Firqa al-nājiyya.Āghā Buzurg al-Ṭihrānī says this work was completed in 945/1538.See al-Baḥrānī,

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• Offender personality disorder pathway screening tools evaluation

  Journal of Forensic Practice · 2020 · 3 citations

  • Medicine
  • Clinical psychology
  • Psychology

  Purpose The offender personality disorder (OPD) pathway faces the difficult task of identifying individuals who are eligible for their service from the entire probation caseload. The offender assessment system personality disorder (OASys PD) screen is a national screening tool used by the pathway to help with this task. This paper aims to describe an evaluation of the effectiveness of this plus an additional screening tool currently used to identify eligible individuals for the OPD service in the South of England. Recommendations for improvements were made as necessary. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods design used a quantitative analysis of data on the effectiveness of the OASys PD for correctly identifying individuals and a thematic analysis of a focus-group conducted with clinicians within the service. Findings The analysis revealed a positive predictive value of the OASys PD screen of 72% and a negative predictive value of 91%. Key themes from the focus-group revealed what worked well about the screening process, what was difficult and what needed to be improved. Practical implications The OASys PD performed better than the clinicians had expected. It was recommended that the service continued to use the combination of the screening tool and the interviews with minor adjustments. Originality/value This is the first research study of its kind on the effectiveness of the OASys Personality Disorder Screening tool. Using such a tool with some caution (the addition of consultation) creates a useful and effective process for tackling the very difficult task of identifying people for the community component of the Offender Personality Disorder Service. This research provides some evidence for the validity of such a process that is currently used throughout the National Probation Service in England and Wales.

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• Glimpses into late-Safawid spiritual discourse: An ‘Akhbārī’ critique of Sufism and philosophy

  2020

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  • Sociology
  • Philosophy
  • Epistemology
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• Captivity as Literacy Event

  University of North Carolina Press eBooks · 2019-01-07

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  The introduction uses James Smith’s 1799 narrative of captivity during the French and Indian War to illustrate key concepts adapted from sociolinguistics, academic literacy studies, and narratology. Representations of <italic>literacy events</italic>, or action sequences involving reading and writing, express the captives’ affiliation with their <italic>discourse communities,</italic> which share <italic>literacy practices</italic> and <italic>language ideologies</italic>, including the widespread belief that literacy entails a cultural superiority over native peoples. The analysis distinguishes between conventional textual references, such as allusions, that belong to the author’s <italic>discourse</italic>, and texts that appear as part of the captive’s <italic>story</italic>. It presents the concept of the <italic>reception allegory</italic>, an application of another text to one’s present circumstances, and emphasizes the ethnohistorical context for the captive’s experience, as opposed to the cultural context for the author’s narrative.

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Frequent coauthors

• Anna Goulding

  Northumbria University

  20 shared

• Gill Windle

  Bangor University

  6 shared

• Teri Howson-Griffiths

  5 shared

• Clive Parkinson

  4 shared

• Bruce Davenport

  4 shared

• Dave O’Brien

  4 shared

• Christopher Whitehead

  3 shared

• Michael Murphy

  National Health Service

  3 shared

Education

• PhD, English

  University of California Irvine

  2004

Awards & honors

• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2024-25
• Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2019-…
• Faculty Fellowship, Humanities Institute, Stony Brook Univer…