Dr. Ben Kracht, Associate Professor of Sociology has been published many times. The following is a list of what he’s done over the last year, and what is forthcoming:
Most recent publications:
“Kiowas.” Pp. 580-81 in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, David J. Wishart, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.
“Kiowa.” Dictionary of American History, 3d edition, 4:532-34. Stanley I. Kutler, ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
“Powwow.” Dictionary of American History, 3d edition, 6:444. Stanley I. Kutler, ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
Book Reviews: Telling Stories the Kiowa Way. Gus Palmer, Jr. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 27(4):178-81, 2004
Telling Stories the Kiowa Way. Gus Palmer, Jr. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Great Plains Research 14(1):156, 2004.
The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns. Luke E. Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Great Plains Quarterly 23(4):267, 2003.
Medicine Ways. Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans. Clifton E. Trafzer and Diane Wiener, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press. Great Plains Research 13(2):340-42, 2003.
In Press: Kracht has four encyclopedia articles coming out in December in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of American Indian Religious Traditions.
Kracht has also completed Chapter 12 of  his upcoming book Kiowa Belief and Ritual: An Ethnohistory, 1832-2005. It is a work Kracht has been working on for four and a half years and has more than 600 manuscript pages. It is a collaborative project. Kracht’s mentor, Raymond J. DeMallie, and Douglas R. Parks will edit it and publish it through a series they produce for University of Nebraska Press.
DeMallie is very ill and needs to have the book finished this year so he can publish it. Fieldwork with students in July 2003 and June 2004 will be included in Chapter 13. The latest two students, Joseph Castro and Rachel Whitaker presented their fieldwork (sponsored by the NSF REU grant) through poster displays at the UCO Research Day on October 29.
Meanwhile, during the May intersession, Kracht is teaching Maya Archaeology in conjunction with Erik Terdal’s Tropical Ecology class at the Broken Arrow campus. In July or August, Kracht plans a two-week field trip to Belize with students to climb pyramids, check out the rainforest, and visit with contemporary Maya peoples.
e-mail Ben Kracht at kracht@nsuok.edu.
Three NSU history and social studies majors have prepared  articles for the Oklahoma Encyclopedia of History and Culture.  
Amanda Carney, a senior social studies  major from Locust Grove, Bryan Harding, a junior history major from Muskogee, and Rachel Whitaker, a senior history major from Rose, wrote narrative histories of three northeastern Oklahoma counties.  Carney prepared an article about Mayes County, Harding wrote about Muskogee County, and Whitaker  completed an entry about Adair County. A statehood centennial project  developed by the Oklahoma Historical Society, the  two volume Encyclopedia will be published in 2006.
These students prepared their articles under the direction of Dr. Bill Corbett, Professor of History,  who is a consulting editor  for the project.