Timothy A. Kohler (regents professor, anthropology) and Sander van der Leeuw, editors, have published The Model-Based Archaeology of Socionatural Systems with SAR Press, Santa Fe.
Diane King (adjunct researcher and Ph.D. '00, anthropology) has published an editorial on patriliny and rape in Iraq and a letter to the editor on partitioning Iraq, both in the International Herald Tribune. King is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted multi-sited research with Iraqi Kurds since 1995.
Karen Lupo (associate professor, anthropology) has published "Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis: Recent Applications and Future Challenges" in the Journal of Archaeological Research 15.
Hampton Press has published History and Future of Mass Media: An Integrated Perspective by David Demers (associate professor, communication). University of Washington journalism professor Doug Underwood writes that "Demers offers here a refreshing counterpoint to the tide of scholarly opinion that blames the growth and power of media corporations for all that is wrong with mass media content today. Although Demers takes issue with the conclusions of many media scholars—including some of my own—I find his arguments to be important in the way they challenge the 'group think' that often dominates scholarly discussion of the...way the news is covered and portrayed." Douglas Blanks Hindman (associate professor, communication) writes that "Demers shows how a consistent application of a theoretical perspective can lead to a richer and more comprehensive understanding of media history and can produce surprising predictions about the future." History and Future of Mass Media is Demers' 10th academic book.
Rick Busselle (associate professor, communication) and his family spent the summer readjusting to life in Pullman. Busselle, his spouse, Dawn Shinew (associate professor, education), and their kids, Luther and Lucinda, spent their sabbatical year working with colleagues in Germany. The first of several projects Busselle authored with colleague Helena Bilandzic will appear in the May 2008 issue of Communication Theory. The article, "Fictionality and Perceived Realism in Experience Stories: A Model of Narrative Comprehension and Engagement," explores how we think about books and films as we consume them, and how they influence our understanding of the world after we're done with them.
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Peter Chilson (associate professor, English) has just released a book titled Disturbance-Loving Species. The collection explores the experiences of Americans struggling to cope with life in Africa, and of Africans acclimating to life in the United States. In a novella and 4 short stories, Chilson uses a phrase borrowed from biology to point out how our "disturbance-loving species" thrives in the most chaotic, seemingly uninhabitable situations. The book was featured in the August 18 weekend edition of the Moscow–Pullman Daily News.
Virginia Hyde (professor emeritus, English) has published an introductory essay, "Self and 'Other'—and a Colossus," in a collection of essays she guest-edited for the D. H. Lawrence Studies 15(2) (July 2007) from Seoul National University. Most of the essays came from the 10th International Lawrence Conference, which Hyde directed. Other editors and contributors include international scholars Michael Bell, University of Warwick; Nak-chung Paik and Chong-wha Chung, Seoul National University; and Weldon Thornton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is also editing a book collection of essays along with Earl Ingersoll, SUNY-Rochester.
Carol Siegel (professor, English and American studies, WSU Vancouver) published 2 book chapters this spring: "That Obscure Object of Desire: Poppy Z. Brite and the Goth Hero as Masochist" in Goth: Undead Subculture, eds. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad (Durham: Duke UP, 2007); and "Female Heterosexual Sadism, the Last Feminist Taboo in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Series" in Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts It in a Box, ed. Merri Lisa Johnson (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007). The special issue of the journal Rhizomes edited by Siegel was posted on the journal's Web site August 1. The issue, "Feminism's Others," includes an introduction and a review essay written by Siegel.
Leonard Orr (professor, English; academic director of liberal arts, WSU Tri-Cities) has published "Transgression and Victim: Mnemic Traces in Conrad's Fiction" in Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts 8(2). He has published a poem, "Completely," in Poetry East 58/59.
David Pietz (associate professor, history; director, Asia Program) had a chapter entitled "Huabei pingyuan shang de guojia yu ziran, 1949–1979" [State and Nature on the North China Plain, 1949–1979] published in Zhongguo lishi shang de huanjing yu shehui [Society and Environment in Chinese History] (Beijing Sanlian Publishing House, 2007).
Greg Yasinitsky (professor, music) has had his original compositions "Livin' Large" for jazz band, "Chant Noir" for jazz band, and "A Greater Power" for jazz band published by Kendor Music. "For All That Has Been Given" for clarinet and piano has been published by Advance Music (Germany), and Yasinitsky's arrangement of "You Stepped Out of a Dream" for jazz band has been published by Belwin Jazz.
Nicholas Lovrich (professor, political science; director, Division of Governmental Studies and Services) was honored by the selection of an article on participative management practices in the public sector published in the Review of Public Personnel Administration in 1985 for inclusion in a "classics volume" by the American Society for Public Administration. The volume, edited by Norma Riccucci, is entitled Public Personnel Administration and Labor Relations (New York and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2007). Lovrich served as editor-in-chief of the Review of Public Personnel Administration from 1990 to 2000.
Paul Kwon (associate professor, psychology) and Megan L. Olson (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) have published "Rumination and Depressive Symptoms: Moderating Role of Defense Style Immaturity" in Personality and Individual Differences 43(4).
Michael Pavel (associate professor, educational leadership and counseling psychology) and Ella Inglebret (assistant professor, speech and hearing sciences) coauthored the recently published book The American Indian and Alaska Native Student's Guide to College Success (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007).
The Chronicle, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University