Worthy of Note

Robert McCoy (assistant professor, history) has been awarded the Donald J. Sterling Jr. Senior Research Fellowship in Pacific Northwest History for 2007. As a fellow, McCoy will spend a total of 4 weeks in residence at the Oregon Historical Society's research library, give a public lecture on his research, and submit an article for possible publication in the Oregon Historical Quarterly.

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson's (associate professor, sociology) 2005 paper "Family Roles and Work Values: Processes of Selection and Change," published in the Journal of Marriage and Family 67, was selected as one of 5 finalists for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. The award is given by the Center for Families at Purdue University and the Boston College Center for Work and Family. The review process had more than 40 leading scholars from 7 countries examine more than 2,000 articles published in 74 leading English-language journals in North America and Europe during 2005.

David Johnson (Ph.D. '06, anthropology), Jason Cowan (M.A. '06, anthropology), and archaeologist Tim Kohler's (regents professor, anthropology) article "Modeling Historical Ecology, Thinking about Contemporary Systems," which appeared in American Anthropologist 107, received the 2006 General Anthropology Division Award for Exemplary Cross Sub-Field Research. The General Anthropology Division is part of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), and the award was bestowed at the November 2006 AAA meeting in San José.
In addition, Kohler has been invited to speak at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History on February 9. He will also participate in a workshop to initiate a community alliance to support agent-based modeling of social-ecological systems, March 1-3 at the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity at Arizona State University.

Rebecca Craft (associate professor, psychology) has been award a one-year, $24,558 grant from the Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust for her project "Does Opioid Activation Contribute to Cannabinoid Dependence?"

O. Gene Clanton (professor emeritus, history) has begun consulting with Public Affairs Television on a 4-hour documentary narrated and directed by Bill Moyers. The program, which will air on PBS stations nationwide, will focus on the Gilded Age, Populism, and Progressivism.

Aaron Bunch (assistant professor, philosophy) presented a paper at the Northwest Philosophy Conference entitled "Has Kant Really Proven the 'Actuality' of Transcendental Freedom in the Second Critique?" The conference was held November 4-5 at the University of Portland.

John Irby's (clinical associate professor, communication) credibility roundtable project at WSU is discussed in a new book titled Building Trust in the News: 101+ Good Ideas for Editors from Editors, by Carol Nunnelley and Peggy Kuhr. The book was published by the Associated Press Managing Editors National Credibility Roundtables Project and made possible by support from the Ford Foundation.

Don Dillman (regents professor, sociology) has been appointed to a 3-year term on the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee. It is a joint advisory committee for work done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Bureau of the Census, which are the main federal agencies involved in collecting and reporting economic statistics.
On November 29, Dillman presented the keynote address to the European Society of Opinion and Marketing Research 2006 conference on Web panel research in Barcelona, Spain.

David H. Stratton's (professor emeritus, history) book Spokane and the Inland Empire: An Interior Pacific Northwest Anthology (WSU Press, 2004) was reviewed in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly's "Recent Books in Review."

Brigit Farley (associate professor, history, WSU Tri-Cities) presented a paper, "'We're Approaching Communism and People Have Nowhere to Live!' Restorers and the Contradictions of the Khrushchev Era, 1960-64," at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 16, 2006. Her panel was titled "To Preserve, Protect, and Defend: Renewal of the Fight in Defense of History and Culture in the Postwar USSR."

Clare Wilkinson-Weber (instructor, anthropology, WSU Vancouver) traveled to India in October 2006 to do research on the use of film images in public culture.

In December, Todd Butler (assistant professor, English) presented an invited lecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Entitled "The Narrative of Isabell Billington: Researching Women, Law, and Murder in Early Modern England," the lecture centered on a manuscript Butler discovered at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. The manuscript, a copy of a legal deposition, recounts the 1662 appearance of a ghost to a young woman in Yorkshire. According to the text, the ghost proceeded not only to describe his own murderous death, but also warned of a plot against the newly restored monarch, Charles II. With the assistance of an Edward R. Meyer Project grant from the College of Liberal Arts, Butler also spent time in British archives tracking down the principals involved in the case.
Butler recently presented an invited lecture at the Newberry Library's Seminar on Courts, Households, and Lineages. His lecture, entitled "Political Discourse in the Courtier Milton," was drawn from his forthcoming book Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Ashgate, in press).

Dene Grigar (associate professor, digital technology and culture, WSU Vancouver) has coedited, with Sue Thomas (De Montfort University, U.K.), the double special issue "Wild Nature and the Digital Life" for Leonardo Electronic Almanac: Art, Science, and Technology. Grigar's specific issue focuses on "The Emergent and Generative in Nature, the Digital, and Art"-that is, "new ways of thinking about our physical environment and the systems that shape and emanate from it" as well as "new ways of creating and envisioning art within these systems." She has also curated the art found in the "Gallery" for that issue.

The Conference on Basic Writing (CBW) has selected WSU's "Peer Facilitated Small-Group Writing Tutorials: Mainstreaming Basic Writers" as one of the recipients of its 2007 Award for Innovation. A plaque will be presented to representatives of WSU's Writing Programs March 22 at the CBW Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, where they have also been invited to make a brief presentation about their proposal to the SIG members.

Buddy Levy's (clinical assistant professor, English) newly released paperback, American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett (Berkley Books, 2006), was the lead feature in the "New in Paperback" section of the December 17, 2006, Sunday edition of the Washington Post. On November 27, Levy was interviewed by a reporter from the Investor's Business Daily for an article in their December 2006 "Leaders & Success" section. The article profiles the life of frontiersman David Crockett and uses quotes from Levy and a discussion of American Legend.

Kathryn Meyer (senior instructor, history) was named Outstanding Honors Thesis Advisor at the Honors College graduation ceremony on December 8.

Ella Inglebret (assistant professor, speech and hearing sciences) gave an invited presentation on her interinstitutional, collaborative research project designed to identify factors associated with Native American student success in higher education to the WSU Native American Advisory Board to the President (November 8, 2006), as well as to the University of Washington Native American Advisory Board (December 15, 2006).

Speech and hearing sciences faculty Ella Inglebret, Carla Jones, Nancy Potter, and Gail Chermak, clinical fellow Michele Fredrickson, and undergraduate and graduate students Linsey Baker, Tiffany Broaddus, A. Noelle Phillips, Abigail Sudbery, and Elizabeth Wilson presented 4 papers and one seminar at the annual convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, held in Miami in November 2006. Papers covered the integration of evidence-based practice into undergraduate student learning; Native American professional preparation; tongue strength of preschool children; speech, prosody, and voice characteristics of children with Galactosemia; and (central) auditory processing disorder.

Barbara Monroe (associate professor, English) gave a multimedia presentation entitled "Complicating the Hero's Journey: Challenging Universal Truths" at the National Council of Teachers of English November 23 in Nashville. She also chaired the session on "Civil Liberties and the New Technologies" and served on the nominating committee for the Conference on English Education.

Andrew K. Jorgenson (assistant professor, sociology) has been invited to present his research on the environmental impacts of foreign investment as part of the sociology department colloquium series at North Carolina State University in late February, and at the Institute for Research on World-Systems at the University of California, Riverside, in early March.

Donna Campbell (associate professor, English) presented an invited paper, "A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick's Out of Bohemia and the Artists' Novel of the 1890s," at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) conference in Philadelphia November 8-12, 2006. She also hosted a breakfast roundtable on "Teaching Women Realist and Naturalist Writers." Campbell serves on the advisory board of SSAWW and has served on the program committee for the 2003 and 2006 conferences.

"Sao Paulo," composed by Greg Yasinitsky (professor, music), was featured at the California Music Educators Association San Francisco Bay Section Newly Published Jazz Band Music Reading Session. The piece was performed by the DeAnza College Daddios.

Amy Meredith (assistant professor, speech and hearing sciences) was awarded an Edward R. Meyer Project grant from the College of Liberal Arts to support her pilot study evaluating the efficacy of electropalatography and dynamic tactile and temporal cueing in treatment of childhood apraxia of speech.

On November 13, Pavithra Narayanan (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver) attended a screening of her film, India and Free Trade: A Closer Look at Bhopal, organized by the University of Oregon's International Law Society (ILS). Immediately following the film, Narayanan led a discussion entitled "Examining the Wordsmith: Supreme Courts, Legislation, and Bhopal," and that evening the ILS hosted a Bier Summit with Narayanan.

Peter Chilson's (associate professor, English) nonfiction book Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa was chosen as the December read for the Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper's monthly book club.

Luz María Gordillo (assistant professor, women's studies, WSU Vancouver) had 2 of her short stories aired on KBOO Community Radio, one on December 4 and the second on January 8, for the Old Mole Variety Hour. Both stories fall in line with her research on Mexican immigration to the U.S. Gordillo provided a gendered analysis on the immigrant experience through intersections of sexuality, nationality, citizenship, race, and class. The stories are the beginning of a collection of stories she plans to assemble for publication, which will focus on constructions and formulations of transnational sexualities while emphasizing the everyday volatile circumstances that surround the immigrant experience. Women take center stage in this investigation as they narrate how constructions of femininity and understandings of womanhood are surrounded by violence and vicissitudes, but also empowerment and resistance within the immigrant experience.

Masha Gartstein (assistant professor, psychology) will take the following accepted posters, authored with WSU graduate and undergraduate students, to the biannual convention of the Society for Research in Child Development, to be held in Boston in March:

Joan Burbick (professor, English) gave a talk January 10 on "Gun Culture and American Democracy" at Town Hall, a community cultural center in downtown Seattle. Burbick recently published her book Gun Show Nation (New Press, 2006), a socio-historical introduction to American gun culture.

Mercedes LaVoy (M.S. candidate, psychology) and Michiyo Hirai's (assistant professor, psychology) poster "Exposure to Disgust and Fear-Evoking Stimuli and Emotional Processing in Specific Phobia" was presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, held in Chicago in November 2006.

The Plateau Center for American Indian Studies is partnering with WSU Libraries to gather information about resources at WSU that might be of interest to Native Americans and others working in areas related to Native Americans. The information will be assembled and presented on a Web site hosted by WSU Libraries. Librarians Cheryl Gunselman (Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections) and Erica Carlson (Humanities and Social Sciences) and Mary Collins (grant coordinator, Plateau Center; director, Museum of Anthropology) are collecting information about a wide range of collections, projects, and people. They do not anticipate all of the resources will be identified in this first attempt, so the system will allow for continued updating and expansion. After some preliminary information has been assembled, a group of tribal librarians will be invited to campus to help make the Web site culturally appropriate, interesting, and useful to tribal users. The range of potential topics is broad, for example baskets in the Museum of Anthropology, portraits of local tribal members in the Museum of Art collections, native plant germ plasm that USDA labs maintain for genetic integrity and diversity in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, and much more. The work is made possible by a Congressionally Directed Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Bryan Vila (professor, criminal justice, WSU Spokane) lent his expertise for Carole Moore's article "All in a Good Day's Sleep: Police and Rotating Shifts" in the November 2006 issue of Law Enforcement Technology. Vila is author of the book Tired Cops: The Importance of Managing Police Fatigue.

John Roll (director, Washington Institute for Mental Illness Research and Training) was quoted in an article in the January 1, 2007, issue of the New York Times. The article, "Study: Reward System Helps Addicts" by Maggie Rauch, cites Roll's study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry last fall, which demonstrated the effectiveness of using incentives to treat methamphetamine addiction.

Murrow School of Communication research is heavily featured in a policy statement released in December by the American Academy of Pediatrics on "Children, Adolescents, and Advertising." The authors of research cited in the statement include Stacey J.T. Hust (assistant professor), Bruce Pinkleton (professor), Erica Weintraub Austin (professor and interim school director), and several former Murrow graduate students.

Zach Mazur's (instructor, fine arts) 3-year photographic project "A Recent History" is in an exhibition at the Photography Gallery at Riley Hall at the University of Notre Dame from January 22 to February 16. The project addresses cultural and historical landmarks of the rural Palouse. Part of this exhibition, along with the work of other WSU fine arts faculty members, can also be seen at the Chase Gallery in Spokane through February 23; an artist reception will be held Friday, February 2, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

In March, flutist Ann Marie Yasinitsky (clinical assistant professor, music) will be heard as soloist with the Coeur d'Alene Symphony, conducted by David Demand (M.A. '85, music), in a performance of Concertino for Flute and Orchestra composed by Ann's husband, Greg Yasinitsky (professor, music).

Kenji Kitatani, Lester Smith Distinguished Professor of Media Management, has executive produced Terje, a $3 million digital media event commemorating the hundredth year of passing of Henric Ibsen, for the Kingdom of Norway in Yokohama, Japan, during the month of November.

Proposing to leverage his research into a Distance Degree Programs (DDP) course helped David Pietz (assistant professor, history; director of the Asia Program) land competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) funding. "It gave me a unique selling point, especially since DDP students represent a new audience for NSF research," he said. Pietz received funding from NSF and the National Endowment for the Humanities for his proposal "Engineering a State of Nature: Hydraulic Transformations on the North China Plain, 1949-1999." This semester Pietz is teaching History 494: Global Environmental History, the DDP course that will help disseminate his research. The course explores the historical relationship between human communities and their environmental settings and uses Pietz's research on the environmental history of water management on the North China Plain.

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