Alan Zaremba

March Mad­ness offers col­lege bas­ket­ball fans an onslaught of games that fea­ture epic matchups and dra­matic fin­ishes. Alan Zaremba — asso­ciate pro­fessor of com­mu­ni­ca­tion studies and asso­ciate dean for under­grad­uate cur­riculum and research in the Col­lege of Arts, Media and Design — cap­tured the expe­ri­ence of watching the tour­na­ment in Sin City in his book, “The Mad­ness of March: Bonding and Bet­ting with the Boys in Las Vegas.” We asked him why sports fans make the annual voyage to enjoy the tour­na­ment there.

In the sev­enth edi­tion of recent fac­ulty books, we high­light works about the role of African-​​American music in Amer­ican cul­tural his­tory, the Bib­lical ori­gins of Jewish sexual iden­ti­ties and the char­ac­ter­is­tics of suc­cessful leaders in the public sector.

March Mad­ness? Casino gam­bling? Each has a pas­sionate fol­lowing but when they are com­bined, the expe­ri­ence is an incred­ible whirl­wind of emo­tion. Alan Zaremba, asso­ciate pro­fessor in com­mu­ni­ca­tion studies, has … read more »