Tim Kohler (regents professor, anthropology) is one of 4 authors on an article, "Mesa Verde Migrations: New Archaeological Research and Computer Simulation Suggest Why Ancestral Puebloans Deserted the Northern Southwest United States," in the March/April 2008 issue of American Scientist, the magazine of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society. The third author on the article is Aaron Wright (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology).
Melissa Goodman-Elgar (assistant professor, anthropology) has an article, "The Devolution of Mudbrick: Ethnoarchaeology of Abandoned Earthen Dwellings in the Bolivian Andes," in press with the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Stacey Hust (assistant professor, communication) published a book chapter titled "Alcohol Advertising: The Effectiveness and Future of Self Regulation" in Issues in American Advertising: Media, Society, and a Changing World, edited by Tom Reichert.
C. Richard King (associate professor and interim chair, comparative ethnic studies) published "Envisioning Justice: Racial Metaphors, Political Movements, and Critical Pedagogy" in Writing the Visual: A Practical Guide for Teachers of Composition and Communication (Parlor Press, 2008), edited by Carol David and Anne R. Richards.
Boyd W. Benson's prose poem "The Woman in the Mirror" will be published in the next issue of Ascent.
Peter Chilson's (associate professor, English) essay "The Border: In Africa, Lines Are Often Blurry" has been selected for publication in Best American Travel Writing, published annually by Houghton Mifflin. The essay was published on TheSmartSet.com, Drexel University's new online literary journal of culture, ideas, reportage, and journeys.
Virginia Hyde (professor emeritus, English) is publishing a book of essays, along with co-editor Earl Ingersoll of SUNY, called A Window to the Sun: D. H. Lawrence's 'Thought Adventures'" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2008). Hyde's introduction is called "A Window to the Sun." The book includes essays by international scholars such as Keith Sagar, John Worthen, Kumiko Hoshi, Jamie Jung Min Woo, and Christopher Pollnitz.
Todd Butler's (assistant professor, English) article "Swearing Justice in The Witch of Edmonton" has been accepted for publication in Studies in English Literature.
Jana Argersinger (publications editor, English) will co-curate and contribute to a multi-essay feature on the profession of journal editing, scheduled for the 2009 issue of Profession, a Modern Language Association publication. Her coedited essay collection titled Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship has been published by the University of Georgia Press. The essays in this volume draw on a range of new interpretive tools to offer the first extensive reassessment of this multilayered friendship in almost 2 decades.
Buddy Levy's (clinical assistant
professor, English) book Conquistador: Hernán
Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the
Aztecs is due out in June from Bantam Dell/Random
House and received a strong positive review in the April
15 issue of Kirkus Reviews. The review concluded
with this: "[A] Lively account of the Spanish conquest of
Mexico....[Levy] conveys with ghastly power the
relentlessness of Cortés, the tragedy of
Montezuma, the brutality of battle, and the utter
bewilderment of one culture in the face of the
other."
Levy's essays "Defending Dry Fly Ranch"
and "The Setting of Wings" have recently been accepted
for publication in Elsewhere: A Journal for the
Literature of Place (November/December 2008); the
latter essay was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Levy has also agreed to a book deal with his editor John
Flicker at Bantam Dell/Random House to write River of
Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Historic First Descent of
the Amazon. The book will be delivered in May 2009
for spring/summer 2010 publication. The book will use
modern cultural anthropology and archaeology to chronicle
the extraordinary navigation of the world's largest
river, from its origins in the Andes foothills to its
mouth at the Atlantic Ocean, considered among the
greatest expeditions of exploration, adventure, and
discovery in history. Levy was recently sent to Eagle,
Idaho, on assignment for Via Magazine. His
destination feature on Eagle will appear in the
magazine's "Neighborhood" department in their May/June
issue. Via has a circulation of 3.5 million
readers.
Aethlon: A Journal of Sport Literature has accepted another poem from Linda Kittell's (clinical associate professor, English) Love Reports to Spring Training manuscript, "Love Comes In In Relief." "Ars Poetica" is forthcoming in Visions International.
Anne Stiles' (assistant professor, English) essay "Victorian Psychology and the Novel" has been published by Literature Compass Online.
Debbie Lee's (associate professor, English) article "Lost Girls, Lost Women: Foundling Hospital Art and Poetry in the Work of William Blake" has been published in Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism.
Todd Butler's (assistant professor, English) book Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England has been published by Ashgate Press. The book examines how early modern understandings of human cognition, particularly the imagination, provided the period with a means of understanding the links between individual thought and corporate political action. The theories also help link modern scholarly interests in the representational nature of early modern politics—its images, rituals, and entertainment—with a language early moderns themselves used. Butler's review essay "Recent Studies in Law and Literature" will appeared in Early Modern Literary Studies.
Robert Eddy (associate professor, English) has had a long essay (50 pages in typescript) accepted by College Composition and Communication, titled "Toward a New Critical Framework: Color-Conscious Political Morality and Pedagogy at Historically Black and Historically White Colleges and Universities." It is coauthored with Carmen Kynard of Rutgers University and defines hostage negotiation work as the construction of democratic alternatives to white supremacy in classrooms and communities through coalition work with racially/economically subordinated groups.
Stanton Linden (professor emeritus, English) has published "Mystical Metal of Gold": Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture (AMS Press, 2007). This edited collection features 16 interdisciplinary essays by an international group of scholars, including art historians, historians of science and medicine, and specialists in Renaissance literature, philosophy, and religion. The book includes Linden's general introduction and his essay "Smatterings of the Philosopher's Stone: Sir Thomas Browne and Alchemy."
Andrea Mason's (instructor, English) essay "Swiftwater Safety" will be published in the May/June issue of Permafrost, the literary journal of University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her book reviews of Joni Tevis' The Wet Collection and Don Waters' Desert Gothic will be published in the summer issue of Western American Literature.
Victor Villanueva (professor, English) and Damián Baca are co-editing a special edition of College English. The theme will be "Writing, Rhetoric, and Latinidad." They will be also be editing A Brief History of Rhetoric in the Americas: 3113 BCE to 2012 CE, looking mainly to Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. Wendy Olson (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver), Siskanna Naynaha (Ph.D. '06, English), and Villanueva are collaborating on an edited collection titled Economies of Writing: On Language and Value in Composition Studies. The collection focuses on economies of writing instruction in U.S. American higher education, interrogating intersections among political and economic structures and how these structures affect composition policies, practices, and pedagogies.
Reza Safavi (assistant professor, fine arts) participated in BYOTV, a "6-week season of special reports" held March 19 to April 27 at the New American Art Union in Portland, Ore. Low-wattage transmissions emanated from an array of re-configured electronic detritus distributed around the gallery. Telecommunication, and the distance implicit in its operation, was countered by a physical proximity prescribed by the limited range of the BYOTV transmissions. Visitors were encouraged to "bring their own TV," or borrow one from the gallery, intercepting transmissions from their immediate airspace.
Candice Goucher (professor, history, WSU Vancouver) is coauthor of World History: Journeys from Past to Present (London: Routledge, 2008). The book has been called "a cutting-edge rethinking of world history" by one reviewer and praised by another as "a history of the world fit for today's global citizens." Goucher has also been named to the editorial board for the new Cambridge History of the World, a 9-volume project being published by Cambridge University Press.
Selections from Roger Schlesinger's (professor emeritus, history) book Andre Thevet's North America (1986) will appear in The Peoples of Canada (Oxford University Press) and Going to the Source: The Bedford Reader (Bedford/St. Martin's).
Joseph Keim Campbell (associate professor, philosophy) has had 2 articles accepted for publication: "Reply to Brueckner" was accepted by Analysis and "New Essays on the Metaphysics of Moral Responsibility" was accepted by the Journal of Ethics. Both articles are scheduled to be published before the end of the year.
Travis Pratt (associate professor and
director, criminal justice) had 4 articles appear in
print recently: "Local Life Circumstances and Offending
Specialization/Diversity: Comparing Opportunity and
Propensity Models,” coauthored with Jean McGloin,
Chris Sullivan, and Alex Piquero, appeared in the
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
"Rational Choice Theory, Crime Control Policy, and
Criminological Relevance" appeared in Criminology and
Public Policy. "The Importance of Context in
Understanding Biased Policing: State Patrol Traffic
Citations in Washington State," coauthored with
Clay Mosher (associate professor,
sociology, WSU Vancouver), Mitch
Pickerill (associate professor, political
science), and Nick Lovrich (professor,
political science), appeared in Police Practice and
Research: An International Journal. "Low
Self-Control, Routine Activities, and Fraud
Victimization," coauthored with Kristy Holtfreter and
Michael D. Reisig (Ph.D. '96, political
science), appeared in Criminology.
Pratt had 4 additional articles
accepted for publication during this time. "Broken
Windows or Window Dressing? Citizens' (In)ability to Tell
the Difference between Disorder and Crime," coauthored
with Jacinta Gau (Ph.D. '08, criminal
justice), will appear in Criminology and Public
Policy. "Examining Offending
Specialization/Diversity in a Sample of Male Homicide
Offenders,” coauthored with Kevin
Wright (Ph.D. candidate, criminal justice) and
Matt DeLisi, will appear in Homicide Studies.
"Search and Seizure, Racial Profiling, and Traffic Stops:
A Disparate Impact Framework,” coauthored with
Pickerill and Mosher,
will appear in Law and Policy. "Meta-analysis,
Moderators, and Treatment Effectiveness: The Importance
of Digging Deeper for Evidence of Program
Integrity,” coauthored with Debi Shaffer, will
appear in the Journal of Offender
Rehabilitation.
Finally, Pratt's book Addicted to
Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of
Misinformation in the United States (Sage), is
scheduled for a September 2008 publication date.
Mitch Pickerill (associate professor, political science) published his coauthored article (with Paul Chen, Western Washington University) "Medical Marijuana Policy and the Virtues of Federalism" in the winter issue of Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
Tahira Probst (associate professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver) is lead author of "A Preliminary Evaluation of SOLVE: Addressing Psychosocial Problems at Work" in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 13 and coauthor of "Charting the Course of Self Evaluations and Social Comparisons Over Time" in K.P. Hofmann's edited volume Psychology of Decision Making in Economics, Business, and Finance (Nova Science Publishers, 2008). Probst, Armando Estrada (assistant professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver), and J.W. Brown published "Harassment, Violence, and Hate Crimes in the Workplace" in K. Thomas (Ed.) Diversity Resistance in Organizations: Manifestations and Solutions (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008).
G. Leonard Burns (professor, psychology) is lead author of "Invariance, Convergent and Discriminant Validity between Mothers' and Fathers' Ratings of Oppositional Defiant toward Adults, ADHD-HI, ADHD-IN, and Academic Competence within Brazilian, Thai, and American children," in press with Psychological Assessment and scheduled for publication in June 2008.
Rebecca Craft (professor, psychology) is lead author of "Gonadal Hormone Modulation of the Behavioral Effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol in Male and Female Rats," published in the European Journal of Pharmacology 578, and "Dose- and Time-Dependent Estradiol Modulation of Morphine Antinociception in Adult Female Rats," published in the European Journal of Pain 12.
Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe (professor, psychology) and Alicia Rueda (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) have published "Time Estimation and Episodic Memory following Traumatic Brain Injury" in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 30. Ellen Woo (Ph.D. '06, psychology), Schmitter-Edgecombe, and Jill Fancher (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) have published "Memory Prediction Accuracy in Younger and Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analysis" in Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition 15.
Sarah Tragesser (assistant professor, psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) is coauthor of an article, "Affective Instability: Measuring a Core Feature of Borderline Personality Disorder Using Ecological Momentary Assessment," in press with the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. She is lead author of "Differences in Illicit Drug Use Rates among Oklahoma and Non-Oklahoma Indian Youth," in press with Substance Use & Misuse 44.
Don Dillman (regents professor, sociology) has co-edited (with Edith de Leeuw and Joop Hox) the International Handbook of Survey Methodology, published by Taylor Francis in January 2008.
Christine Horne (associate professor, sociology) has published the edited volume (with Michael Lovaglia) Experiments in Criminology and Law (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). Two of Horne's papers appeared in Rationality and Society: "Explaining Norm Enforcement" (2007) and "Norm Enforcement in Heterogeneous Groups" (2008).
Kim Lloyd's (assistant professor, sociology) article coauthored with Kevin T. Leicht and Teresa A. Sullivan, entitled "Minority College Aspirations, Expectations, and Applications under the Texas Top 10% Law," was published in the March 2008 volume of Social Forces.
Clayton Mosher (associate professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver), Gregory Hooks (professor and chair, sociology), and Peter Wood published "The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment" in Prison Profiteers (The New Press, 2007), edited by in Tara Herivel and Paul Wright. Scott Akins (Ph.D. '02, sociology), Mosher, Chad Smith (Ph.D. '05, sociology), and Jane Florence Gauthier (Ph.D. '04, sociology) published "The Effect of Acculturation on Patterns of Hispanic Substance Use in Washington State" in the Journal of Drug Issues 38. Eric Jensen (Ph.D. '78, Sociology), Nicholas Parsons (Ph.D. candidate, sociology), and Mosher published "Adult Drug Treatment Courts: A Review" in Sociology Compass 1(2). Mosher, J. Mitch Pickerill (associate professor, political science), Travis Pratt (associate professor and director, criminal justice), and Nicholas Lovrich (professor, political science) have published "The Importance of Context in Understanding Biased Policing: State Patrol Traffic Citations in Washington State" in Police Practice and Research 9(1).
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