Elizabeth Blanks Hindman's (associate professor, communication) manuscript about Dan Rather has been accepted to the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. The editor's acceptance letter was especially enthusiastic, noting that this manuscript was "well written," "significant," and "excellent."
In early 2008, Stacey J. T. Hust (assistant professor, communication), with coauthors Jane D. Brown and Kelly L'Engle, published the manuscript "Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Better Be Prepared: An Analysis of the Rare Sexual Health Messages in Young Adolescents' Media" in Mass Communication & Society. She also will have an article, titled "Sexual Objectification, Sports Programming, and Music Television: The Association between Frequency of Viewing and Support for Sexually Objectifying Others" and written with Ming Lei (M.A. candidate, communication), published in the February 2008 issue of the Media Report to Women.
C. Richard King (associate professor and
chair, comparative ethnic studies) has just published a
new edited collection in the Sport in the Global Society
Series titled Native Americans and Sport in North
America: Other People's Games (Routledge,
2008).
Leonard Orr (professor, English; academic director of liberal arts, WSU Tri-Cities) has published "Hermeneutic Resistance: Four Test Cases for the Notion of Literary Uninterpretability" in the Journal of Literary Semantics 36(2).
Anne Stiles' (assistant professor, English) edited collection of essays, Neurology and Literature, 1860–1920, just came off Palgrave Macmillan's presses in late September. In the early 1860s, neurology and the study of language collided dramatically when French neurologist Paul Broca linked the 3rd frontal convolution of the left brain hemisphere to linguistic ability. The 6 decades that followed witnessed unprecedented collaboration between neuroscience and the arts. While literary-minded neurologists like Silas Weir Mitchell and Santiago Ramón y Cajal wove contemporary theories of brain function into their novels, authors such as Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H.G. Wells used fiction to probe the philosophical ramifications of these neurological findings, some of which proved extremely controversial. By suggesting that certain parts of the brain controlled certain physical and mental functions, Victorian mental science undermined the widespread lay perception that human behaviour was controlled by free will or an immortal soul. In this volume, renowned historians and literary scholars including Mark Micale, Laura Otis, and Jill Matus explain how late 19th and early 20th-century fiction incorporated neurological concepts as a means of coming to grips with late-Victorian biological determinism.
Buddy Levy's (clinical assistant professor, English) article "Triple Play" appeared in a recent issue of Horizon Air Magazine.
Jason Farman (assistant professor, English, WSU Tri-Cities) contributed a chapter to the recently published anthology TechKnowledgies: New Imaginaries in the Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences. His chapter, "The Virtual Artaud: Computer Virus as Performance Art," studies the simultaneous emergence of the computer virus and HIV/AIDS in the United States—and how they are connected to the historic relationship between viruses, globalization, and the categories of self/other.
Nancy Bell's (assistant professor, English) paper "Learning About and Through Humor in the L2 Classroom" has been accepted for publication in Language Teaching Research.
Peter Chilson's (associate professor, English) essay "In Large and Sunlit Lands" appeared in the October 29 essay issue of High Country News. The essay uses the career of Henry Morton Stanley to explore relationships between the colonial conquests of the American West and Africa.
Barbara Monroe's (associate professor, English) 50-page article "Plateau Indian Ways with Words" will be published by College Composition and Communication, the premier journal in rhetoric/composition (acceptance rate: less than 10%), in 2008.
Andrea Mason's (instructor, English) essay "Off the Grid" is forthcoming in Weber Studies, a journal about contemporary viewpoints in the West.
Todd Butler's (assistant professor, English) essay "Bedeviling Spectacle: Law, Literature, and Early Modern Witchcraft" was recently accepted by the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. It uses a failed classroom simulation of a 17th-century witchcraft trial (a student disrupted the exercise by literally expelling pins from her mouth) as a means to consider the nexus between law and theater and the roots of current law and literature debates in classical antiquity.
Larry N. Mayer's (instructor, English) short story "Love For Miss Dottie or Some Crazy Pain" was chosen by guest editor Mary Gaitskill for publication in the prestigious anthology Best New American Voices 2009 (Harcourt).
Robert Bauman's (assistant professor, history, Tri-Cities) conference paper "Opal Jones and Francisca Flores: Gender, Civil Rights Activism, and the War on Poverty in Los Angeles" will be published in the forthcoming book The War on Poverty and Grassroots Struggles for Racial and Economic Justice, to be published by the University of Georgia Press. He has published a book chapter, "Economic Changes Affecting the Public's Need for City Services," in The Development of Los Angeles City Government: An Institutional History 1850–2000, a 2-volume history of the city of Los Angeles. His article "Teaching Hanford History in the Classroom and in the Field" was published in the fall 2007 issue of The Public Historian.
Greg Yasinitsky (professor, music) has published "Muscle Car," "Room 806," and "Terry's Song"—all compositions for jazz band—with Kendor Music.
Donald Bishop (professor emeritus, philosophy) has had an article, "Wars Begin in the Minds of Men," published in the journal Anasakti, published by the International Center for Gandhian Studies in New Delhi, India.
Travis Pratt (associate professor and director, criminal justice) recently had 3 articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The first, coauthored with Jacinta Gau (Ph.D. candidate, criminal justice) and titled "Broken Windows or Window Dressing? Citizens' (In)ability to Tell the Difference between Disorder and Crime," will appear in a forthcoming issue of Criminology and Public Policy. The second, coauthored with Florida State University colleagues Kristy Holtfreter and Michael Reisig (Ph.D. '96, political science) and titled "Routine Activities, Low Self-Control, and Fraud Victimization," will appear in a forthcoming issue of Criminology. The third, "Rational Choice Theory, Crime Control Policy, and Criminological Relevance," will appear in a forthcoming issue of Criminology and Public Policy.
Jeffrey Bouffard (assistant professor, criminal justice) is coauthor of 2 articles due for publication in 2008: "A Comparison of Recidivism Rates for Low-Level Chemical Dependency Offenders Receiving Intermediate Sanctions," originally published in Corrections Compendium, will be reprinted in Correctional Health Today; "The Impact of Re-entry Services on Juvenile Offenders' Recidivism" will be published in Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 6(3). He is sole author of "Beyond the 'Science of Sophomores': Does the Rational Choice Explanation of Crime Generalize from University Students to an Actual Offender Sample?" accepted at the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
Leana Bouffard, Jeffrey Bouffard (both assistant professors, criminal justice), and Kevin Wright (Ph.D. candidate, criminal justice) have just had a manuscript accepted for publication in Justice Quarterly, the flagship journal of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, regarding gender differences in offending specialization in intimate partner violence.
Nicholas Lovrich (professor, political science) and Dennis Daley (Ph.D. '80, political science), Lovrich's very first doctoral student at Washington State University, published a coauthored article in the Public Administration Quarterly 31(3) entitled "Assessing the Performance of Supervisors: Lessons for Practice and Insight into Middle Management Resistance to Change."
Robert Patterson (associate professor, psychology) is lead author of an article, "Binocular Rivalry and Head-worn Displays," recently published in Human Factors 49(6).
Sarah Tragesser (assistant professor, psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) is lead author of "Parental Monitoring, Peer Drug Involvement, and Marijuana Use across Three Ethnicities," published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 38(6), and "The Role of Affective Instability and Impulsivity in Predicting Future BPD Features," published in the Journal of Personality Disorders 21(6). She is lead author of a third article, "Drinking Motives as Mediators in the Relation between Personality Disorder Symptoms and Alcohol Use Disorder," in press with the Journal of Personality Disorders.
Megan Olson (Ph.D. '07, psychology) and Paul Kwon (associate professor, psychology) have published "Brooding Perfectionism: Refining the Roles of Rumination and Perfectionism in the Etiology of Depression" in Cognitive Therapy and Research.
Michiyo Hirai (assistant professor, psychology) is coauthor with George A. Clum of Chapter 5, "Anxiety Disorders," in Handbook of Self-Help Therapies (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007), edited by in Patti Lou Watkins and Clum.
Rebecca Craft (professor, psychology), Catherine Ulibarri (associate professor, VCAPP), Michael D. Leitl (B.A. '05, neuroscience), and Jean Sumner (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) have an article, "Dose- and Time-Dependent Estradiol Modulation of Morphine Antinociception in Adult Female Rats," in press with the European Journal of Pain. Craft and Leitl's article "Gonadal Hormone Modulation of the Behavioral Effects of Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol in Male and Female Rats" in press with the European Journal of Pharmacology. Craft has published "Modulation of Pain by Estrogens" in the journal Pain 132(Supplement), and she is coauthor of "Studying Sex and Gender Differences in Pain and Analgesia: A Consensus Conference Report," published in the same Pain supplement.
Leonard Burns (professor, psychology) has coauthored an article, "Initial Psychometric Properties of a Treatment Planning and Progress Inventory for Adolescents who Sexually Abuse," in press with Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment.
Martina Rodgers (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), Diane Norell (research associate, WIMIRT), John Roll (director, WIMIRT), and Dennis Dyck (vice chancellor for research; professor, psychology, WSU Spokane) published "An Overview of Mental Health Recovery" in Primary Psychiatry 14(12).
Julie Kmec (assistant professor, sociology) has published "Ties that Bind? Race and Networks in Job Turnover" in Social Problems 54 and "We (Have to) Try Harder: Gender and Workers' Assessment of Required Work Effort in Britain and the United States," authored with Elizabeth Gorman, in Gender & Society (December 2007). She has 2 more articles forthcoming in 2008: "The Process of Sex Segregation in a Gender-Typed Field: The Case of Male Nurses" will be published in Sociological Perspectives, and "Organizational Variation in Equal Employment Opportunity Structures," authored with Sheryl L. Skaggs, will be published in Sociological Forum. More about the research in Gender & Society.
Nella Van Dyke (associate professor, sociology) recently published an article in the journal Social Forces with coauthors Marc Dixon and Helen Carlon. The article, titled "Manufacturing Dissent: Labor Revitalization, Union Summer, and Student Protest," demonstrates that the AFL-CIO has successfully mobilized college students for labor activism through its student internship program.
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