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Colin Grier (anthropology) Courtney Meehan (anthropology) Marsha Quinlan (anthropology) Brian Kemp (anthropology, biological sciences) Edward Hagen (anthropology, WSU Vancouver) Nancy Bell (English) Aaron Oforlea (English) Anne Stiles (English) Jason Farman (English, WSU Tri-Cities) Thabiti Lewis (English, WSU Vancouver) Iolanda Palmer (fine arts) Jeffrey Sanders (history) Jesse Spohnholz (history) Tim Robblee (music) Bill Kabasenche (philosophy) Matt Stichter (philosophy) Claire Metelits (political science) Darryl Wood (criminal justice, WSU Vancouver) John Roll (psychology) Michael Steele (psychology) Sarah Tragesser (psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) Elizabeth Fussell (sociology) Scott Frickel (sociology) Pamela Thoma (women's studies) |
Kendall Campbell
(anthropology) Mark Mansperger (anthropology, WSU Tri-Cities) Amina Ben Ezzeddine (English) Lawrence Mayer (English) Kelly Erickson (English, WSU Tri-Cities) Jennifer Mouat (English, WSU Tri-Cities) Susan Pramschufer (English, WSU Tri-Cities) Mark Anderson (fine arts) Christopher Ireland (fine arts) Reza Safavi (fine arts) Saad Alshahrani (foreign languages and cultures) Demetrio Anzaldo (foreign languages and cultures) Robin Bond (foreign languages and cultures) Inigo Serna (foreign languages and cultures) Yumi Soeshima (foreign languages and cultures) Elena Smith (foreign languages and cultures) Brent Edwards (music) Richard Kriehn (music) Carolyn Merva (music) Shannon Scott (music) William Gordon (political science) John Taylor III (political science) Michael Pieracci (psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) Kelly Sebold (speech and hearing sciences) |
The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to welcome Yolanda Flores Niemann (professor, comparative ethnic studies) back from her ACE fellowship. At the college level, she will be serving as special assistant to the dean this academic year in a part-time appointment. The duties of this appointment include: 1) coordinating the budget aspects, payroll, course revision, and a few other aspects of Distance Degree Programs for liberal arts and working with the team developing the on-line M.L.S. degree in CLA; and (2) assembling and leading the college's response(s) in preparation for the Northwest reaccreditation process involving assessment reports, unit-level self studies, and the college's summary of unit-level reports. The college appreciates Niemann's willingness to help the college make significant progress in these 2 areas of our work.
WSU is one of 5 universities with scientists working on a system to store and share archaeological data so the information isn't lost and all scientists have access to it. Timothy A. Kohler (regents professor, anthropology) is a collaborator on the project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to develop new software tools and strategies to link together previously isolated data in archaeology. Details of the project may be viewed at archaeoinformatics.org.
In July, William Lipe (professor emeritus, anthropology) cochaired a weeklong seminar at the School of Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe on the topic "Archaeology and Public Policy: A Vision for the Future." Ten invited papers on various aspects of this topic were intensively discussed, including Lipe's contribution "Archaeological Resource Management in Social Context." The session focused on ways to improve the delivery of broad public benefits from archaeological surveys and excavations done in advance of economic development, as mandated by federal historic preservation and environmental laws. This type of investigation now comprises a significant majority of the archaeology done in the United States. Participants in the seminar included archaeologists from federal and state agencies, foundations, consulting firms, and academic institutions. The papers will be published as a book by the SAR Press.
In May, Karen Lupo (associate professor, anthropology) met with the Faustin Archange Touadera, recteur of research at the University of Bangui, Central African Republic, to discuss future collaborative research projects between WSU and the Universite of Bangui. In spring 2007, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) spearheaded by Barry Hewlett (professor, anthropology, WSU Vancouver) was signed between the Department of Anthropology, WSU, and the University of Bangui. The MOU solidifies an ongoing collaborative relationship between these 2 institutions that began some 30 years ago. The University of Bangui and affiliated entities including the CURDHACA (Centre Universitaire de Recherche et de Documentation en Histoire et Archeologie Centrafricaines) and the Boganda Museum (Bangui, Central African Republic) recently collaborated with researchers from WSU in a project aimed at reconstructing the paleoecological history of the Central African rainforest. These same entities have also agreed to facilitate and collaborate with student researchers who travel to the Central African Republic as part of the IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (IPEM). WSU has 2 active research field sites located in the Central African Republic.
Alex Tan (professor, communication)
visited Kuwait this summer as a Fulbright Senior
Specialist, teaching a course at the American University
of Kuwait on intercultural communication while also
consulting with the Communications and Media Program
there.
Read
media coverage of his visit
Stacey Hust (associate professor, communication) received approval from the Washington State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program for her research on "The Role of Media Advocacy Editorials in Framing Adolescent Marijuana Use as a Societal Problem." Her proposal, funded at more than $25,000, will provide support for a graduate student and will help the Murrow School of Communication continue to grow its graduate program. In addition, Hust received funding from the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse to run a study this summer regarding alcohol marketing practices across the state.
This summer, as part of a $1.86 million National Science Foundation grant, Roberta Kelly (clinical assistant professor, communication) taught a graduate seminar at the University of Idaho on communicating science. She also conducted a workshop on communicating science for the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) in Idaho.
Susan Ross on CNN Turkey
Susan Ross (associate professor, communication; associate dean of liberal arts) was featured on a CNN morning news show in Turkey in May, discussing her peace-journalism training initiatives in Istanbul and the role of media in peace and war more generally.
Scott Vik, a long-time adjunct instructor for the Murrow School, was named WSU Greek Outstanding Faculty Member. The award is given by the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils, and he was nominated by Alpha Phi.
John Streamas (assistant professor, comparative ethnic studies) presented a paper, "Closure and 'Colored People's Time'" at the International Society for the Study of Time triennial conference at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, on July 30. He will present "The Left-Leaning Loner in Discourses of the Greening West" at the annual meeting of the Western Literature Association in Tacoma, Washington, October 17–21. He is also coordinating a panel presentation, "A Poetics of Geographies of the West," with Erik Carter (Ph.D. '06, American studies) and Hilary Hawley (Ph.D. '06, English) for the same conference.
A research team from the Division of Governmental Studies and Services in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice Program completed work on a fourth phase of a multi-year study of racial profiling in the state of Washington. The members of the team—Clay Mosher (associate professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver), Travis Pratt (associate professor, political science; director, criminal justice), Mitch Pickerill (assistant professor, political science), Michael Erp (director, WSICOP), Michael Gaffney (associate director, DGSS), and Nicholas Lovrich (professor, political science; director, DGSS)—investigated the detailed records of traffic stops maintained by the Washington State Patrol (WSP) to determine the extent to which biased policing may be present with respect to the stopping of drivers, the issuance of citations, the conducting of searches, and the use of physical force. This phase of their research also involved a survey of drivers who had been in contact with the WSP within the past year. The year-long study was underwritten by a combination of state and federal funds, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration providing the bulk of the funding under the auspices of its initiative to prevent racial profiling in state and local law enforcement efforts to promote traffic safety across the nation.
Researchers Steven Stehr (associate professor and chair, political science) and Nicholas Lovrich (director, DGSS) completed work on one more year of a multi-year, ongoing monitoring study (since 2001) being conducted by the Division of Governmental Studies and Services for the Washington Traffic Safety Commission on the use of child safety restraints across the state. Stehr and Lovrich have documented, with the use of systematic field observations (1,900+ each year) carried out by a team of certified child safety restraint technicians and experienced observers, that the rate of use of infant car seats and booster seats grew for a period, but over time hit a troublesome plateau level state and has witnessed a subsequent decline over the course of the last 2 years. Stehr and Lovrich are working with Dr. Beth Ebel and her associates at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Washington to determine the degree to which vigorous enforcement and prosecution of existing seatbelt and child restraint laws at the county level affects the frequency of observed safety restraint use. Preliminary findings indicate that law enforcement effort and likelihood of prosecution (data attained from the Administrative Office for the Courts) are indeed important predictors of rates of child protective actions on the part of Washington's drivers who are transporting children.
Researchers Clay Mosher (associate professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver) and Dana Lee Baker (assistant professor, political science) recently completed work on a DGSS project funded by the Washington State Legislature regarding the problem of tax evasion in Clark County and other boundary-area counties where vehicle registration and licensing in Oregon by residents of Washington continues to be a revenue loss problem for the state. Mosher and Baker, with the able assistance of Nick Parsons (Ph.D. candidate, sociology), conducted field research with agency staff and citizen volunteers from the Washington State Patrol, the Department of Revenue, Department of Licensing, and Department of Transportation. Lovrich and Michael Gaffney (associate director, DGSS) designed the project on the model of previous work done for the Washington State Patrol on various types of tax evasion on goods in commerce. They provided administrative and fiscal assistance over the course of the project and provided report preparation support upon the conclusion of field research activities.
DGSS welcomes 2 new staff members to their team. Julie Lusby has joined the DGSS office as finance/budget coordinator, replacing Jane Estocin-Klaiber, who was promoted to administrative manager for the Center to Bridge the Digital Divide. Lusby comes to DGSS from Business Affairs in the WSU Controller's Office. Heidi Lee (B.A. '04, accounting) is the new program assistant for DGSS, replacing Patty Bireley, who retired earlier this year. Lee will be responsible for all travel arrangements as well as a long list of other duties that are essential for the division's success. This is Lee's first position at WSU, and she has already become a valuable asset.
Carol Siegel (professor, English and American studies, WSU Vancouver) was the keynote speaker for the Sexuality and Violence Conference, sponsored by the Ethnohistory Group at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, this spring. She gave her presentation "Enlightening Darkness: Reading Consensual Sexual Violence through Goth Cultures" on March 24.
Leonard Orr (professor, English; academic director of liberal arts, WSU Tri-Cities) has a solo art exhibition, Fluent Borders: 50 Paintings, August 27 through September 24 in the art gallery of the WSU Tri-Cities campus (CIC 102).
Carol Ivory (professor and chair, fine arts) presided over the Pacific Arts Association’s IXth International Symposium, held at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France, in July. She stepped down as PAA president after a second 2-year term, but remains on the association's executive committee for the next 3 years as past-president. She also presented a paper, "Contemporary Artists and Markets in Te Henua ‘Enana / Te Fenua ‘Enata (the Marquesas Islands): Challenges and Choices." In late July and early August, she was the invited guest lecturer on board the Aranui 3, the freighter/cruise ship that sails from Tahiti to and around the Marquesas Islands.
Stephen Chalmers (assistant professor, fine arts) will be curating a group exhibition of landscape work at the Pingyao International Photography Exhibition in China in September, has work on display at the Williamsburg Art Center (Brooklyn) through October, in July won a Grant for Artist Projects through the Washington State Artist Trust (Seattle), and has a monthlong residency at the prestigious Lightwork Artist Residency (Syracuse) starting in mid-October.
The recent work of Michelle Forsyth (assistant professor, fine arts) will be featured in a solo exhibition entitled Paperwork at Hogar Collection in Brooklyn, New York. The exhibition opens on Friday, September 7, and will run until October 15, 2007. She recently received a GAP grant from Artist Trust in Seattle to fund this event. Forsyth's work is also included in a 5-person exhibition at the Jundt Museum in Spokane. The biannual exhibition, Drawn to the Wall III, opens on September 13 and will run through October 6, 2007. More information on these exhibitions and images of her work can be found at www.michelleforsyth.com.
David Pietz
David Pietz (associate professor, history; director, Asia Program) is president-elect of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC); he was elected at the organization's annual conference at the University of Hawaii in June. He also presented a paper, "Building the State on the North China Plain," at that conference.
The School of Music had an active summer with many events
taking place on campus. Two conferences were hosted: the
Washington State Music Teachers Association state
convention and the Northwest Saxophone Alliance
Conference. The 5-day WSMTA convention featured numerous
presentations by visiting guest artists as well as
presentations and a formal concert by WSU School of Music
faculty. The convention was chaired by Karen
Savage and Michelle Mielke
(music). The Region One Conference of the North American
Saxophone Alliance in May featured presentations and
performances by top saxophonists from throughout the
Pacific Northwest, including an invited lecture recital
by Meyer Distinguished Professor Greg
Yasinitsky (music), who presented a performance
of his saxophone compositions, assisted by pianist
Gerald Berthiaume (professor and
director, School of Music and Theatre Arts).
Several summer concerts were presented
by faculty and students on campus, supported by the WSU
Student Entertainment Board, Summer Session, and the
School of Music. Concerts by the Solstice Quintet and
Jazz Northwest were given to appreciative audiences in
the Museum of Art, while the summer musical production of
Nunsensations was presented in Bryan Hall
Theatre and was a great success. This student production
was directed by Julie Ann Wieck
(associate professor, music). Summer Keyboard
Explorations, now in its 18th consecutive year, featured
a duo-piano concert by music professors from Whitman
College in Walla Walla.
Summer music camps included the Summer
Keyboard Explorations and Cougar String Camp. Both
weeklong camps were very successful, and they brought to
campus 67 students for a week of study in piano, organ,
strings, electronic music, theory, and other subjects.
Lori Wiest (associate professor, music) has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of an invitational choral festival on campus and a performance tour throughout Washington state by WSU Concert Choir promoting American choral music. The festival will take place in Pullman on Saturday, February 9, 2008, in Bryan Hall.
Keri E. McCarthy, assistant professor of oboe and music history, served as instructor of oboe and chamber music this summer at the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival in Oneonta, New York. While there, McCarthy performed as a soloist (English horn) with the festival orchestra on Aaron Copland's Quiet City, as well as giving several other solo and chamber music performances.
The WSU faculty wind ensemble Solstice Quintet—Ann Yasinitsky (clinical assistant professor), flute; Keri McCarthy (assistant professor), oboe; Anthony Taylor (instructor), clarinet; Jennifer Scriggins Brummett (instructor), horn; and Ryan Hare (associate professor), bassoon—presented a concert in June at the Orcas Center on Orcas Island, Washington.
Ryan Hare (associate professor, music) presented the premiere of "Godfather of Soul," a new work by Meyer Distinguished Professor Greg Yasinitsky (music), at the Conference of the International Double Reed Society held in June at Ithaca College in New York. Keri McCarthy (assistant professor, music) also presented an invited performance at the conference.
Meyer Distinguished Professor of Music Greg
Yasinitsky's "Jazz Mass" was featured in an
Evensong Concert at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Salem,
Oregon, in June. Yasinitsky was featured as a guest
soloist in the performance. The director of music
ministries at St. Paul's is Paul Klemme, former director
of choral activities at WSU.
Yasinitsky was featured at the
Midsummer Musical Retreat (MMR) held at Whitman College
in Walla Walla. He conducted the MMR Jazz Big Band and
Saxophone Ensemble. Both groups programmed a number of
Yasinitsky compositions and arrangements. MMR, a music
camp for adults, celebrated its 25th year this
summer.
"Terry's Song," a new work for jazz
band composed by Yasinitsky, was premiered at the
Cazadero Music Camp in California. The piece was
commissioned by the Cazadero Camp in commemoration of its
50th year. "Terry's Song" is dedicated to Terry Summa,
saxophonist and music educator, Foothill College
professor emeritus.
Coconvened by Amy Mazur (professor,
political science), the Research Network on Gender
Politics and the State (RNGS) announces the release of
its data set. The result of a 10-year study funded by the
National Science Foundation, the RNGS data set contains
quantitative and qualitative data about 130 policy
debates/observations in 13 countries coded on 28 concepts
and over 110 variables. It provides extensive information
on women's movements, feminism and gender politics,
women's policy offices, policymaking processes, and
policy debates that occurred between the late 1960s and
the early 2000s in 13 post-industrial democracies
(Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany,
Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain,
Sweden, and the U.S.).
The RNGS team of international
scholars designed and carried out this large-scale
comparative research project to examine if, how, and why
women's policy offices, through their relations with
women's movements, make post-industrial democracies more
democratic and the state more feminist. The network's
study encompasses the momentous years of women's
movements from the emergence of autonomous protests in
Europe and North America for the liberation of women in
the 1960s and 1970s through the successful integration of
movement activists into conventional politics in the
1990s and 2000s.
The unit of analysis in the study and
the data set is a policy debate that takes place in a
political/government arena and ends with an official
decision or non-decision. Information in the data set
comes from the 2 phases of the project, qualitative and
quantitative. The data set suite includes a PDF
codebook/user's guide and 2 data files—one of the
numerically-based data set in SPSS and a second file with
text appendices of supplemental descriptive information
for 22 variables in PDF.
The data set will be presented
initially at a short course at the American Political
Science Association annual meetings in Chicago August 29.
After October 1, the RNGS data set will become part of
the ICPSR
(Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research) data archive and also available to download
from the RNGS Web site.
The RNGS Web site also has documents that provide detail
on all aspects of the project.
Mitch Pickerill (assistant professor, political science) and Cornell Clayton (professor, political science) have won the 2007 American Judicature Society Award for their paper "The Supreme Court and the Political Regime: The New Right Regime and Religious Freedom," which was presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The annual award is given by the Law and Courts Section of the APSA for the best conference paper presented at one of 6 major political science conferences in the previous calendar year. This is the 2nd time in 4 years that Clayton and Pickerill have won this award.
Cornell Clayton (professor, political science) served as a Senior Fulbright Specialist at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia during the spring semester of 2007. Clayton taught a series of special graduate seminars on American politics. While in Slovenia he also was invited to present a distinguished lecture, entitled "The Tides of Political History and the Role of Constitutional Courts," at the University of Maribor School of Law. Clayton has been invited to deliver a distinguished lecture at the University of Bordeaux School of Law in September; his topic will be "Politics, Personality, and Changing Norms of Opinion Writing on Collegial Courts."
Amy Mazur (professor, political science) and Gary Goertz have been awarded a contract with Cambridge University Press for an edited volume titled Politics, Gender, and Concepts. They went with Cambridge following a spirited competition between CUP and Oxford University Press.
Carolyn Long's (associate professor, political science, WSU Vancouver) book Mapp v. Ohio: Guarding Against Unreasonable Searches and Seizures (University of Kansas Press, 2006) has won honorable mention in the Langum Project for Historical Literature's legal history competition.
Jim Wise (clinical associate professor,
psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) gave 3 invited presentations
at 3 conferences in 3 weeks this summer. At EDRA
(Environmental Design Research Association) 38 in
Sacramento on June 2 in a Space Syntax Symposium, he
presented results of his recent DARPA study on "Space
Syntax and Interiors Inference," which reported the
results of inferring the interior layouts of unknown
foreign buildings using limited external views of the
structure and its location. That study had resulted in
the creation of a new Space Syntax Analysis engine, named
'PySSis,' now in use at WSU Tri-Cities.
At the
Psychology-Ecology-Sustainability Conference held at
Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, on June 8,
Wise gave a presentation on "The Biological Bases of
Biophilic Design and Green Building Benefits," which
provided an overview of diverse research results on
'occupant benefits' and 'restorativeness' of nature views
and 'nature nearby,' integrated by his own research on
structural coupling of perceptual and environmental
structures using fractal modeling.
At the Design Plus Science Symposium
at Kingston University, U.K., held at historic Dorich
House on June 12, Wise delivered the keynote address on
"The Use of Fractals and Space Syntax in Designing
Restorative Environments." He also served as visiting
professor in the Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture
for the week, helping critique students' final projects
and working with doctoral students starting their
dissertation investigations.
Wise recovered by teaching Psych 306,
Industrial/Organizational Psychology, in WSU Tri-Cities'
second intensive 6-week summer session, and has finally
come to the realization that he is "not as young as [he]
used to be..."
The following posters from Paul Kwon's (associate professor, psychology) lab were presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association (Division 8) in San Francisco in August:
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Gene Rosa
Gene Rosa (professor, sociology) was
interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
(CBC) for a national TV news special on the relationship
between consumption and climate change. Rosa, who has,
with his collaborators, been researching the social and
economic forces of climate change for a decade, was the
only sociologist to serve on 2 recent National Academy of
Sciences/National Research Council Committees evaluating
the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, and he has been
appointed to a FACA (Federal Advisory Committee Act)
committee of the Environmental Protection Agency to
evaluate the agency's progress in addressing its climate
change research responsibilities.
Rosa is the only academic speaker at the
Howard Baker Jr. Center Conference on nuclear power in
Washington, D.C., October 3–4. The conference, by
invitation only, includes U.S. policymakers, including
congressional members and staff along with selected state
officials, foreign policymakers, and key regulators.
Among the speakers are Senators Howard Baker Jr., Peter
Domenici, Lamar Alexander, Jeff Bingaman, the secretary
of the Department of Energy, and the chair of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission. Rosa will provide an assessment of
the public mood for commercial nuclear power in the
context of global climate change.
Gene Rosa (professor, sociology) and Richard York (Ph.D. '02, sociology) of the University of Oregon gave the invited plenary address, "China and the Growth of Global Ecological Footprint, 1961–2002: A Tale of Three Trends," at the Beijing International Conference on Environmental Sociology at Renmin University.
Amy S. Wharton (director of liberal arts, WSU Vancouver; professor, sociology) has been selected a Page Legacy Scholar for the 2007–08 academic year. With funding from the Arthur W. Page Center (College of Communications, Pennsylvania State University), Wharton and colleague Jerry Goodstein (business, WSU Vancouver) will be conducting research on the role of corporate mission and values in firms' decisions regarding pension fund changes.
Gail Chermak (professor, speech and hearing sciences) will deliver the opening plenary address for "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder: Evidence and Practice," the annual online audiology conference sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in September 2007.
Ella Inglebret (assistant professor, speech and hearing sciences) organized a workshop for speech-language pathologists serving Native communities, held on the Spokane Reservation August 10. Presenters included SHS alumni Trina Branch and Jacqueline Lopez, in addition to Spokane Tribal College President Martina Whelshula and Spokane Language Program Manager Marsha Wynecoop.
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