The College of Liberal Arts congratulates the following on their tenure and promotion. Unless noted, all promotions are effective August 16, 2008.
Promoted to Regents Professor
Gregory W. Yasinitsky (music)Promoted to Professor
Joan Grenier-Winther (foreign languages and cultures)
Birgitta M. Ingemanson (foreign languages and cultures)
David E. Jarvis (music)
Debbie J. Lee (English)
Laurie K. Mercier (history, WSU Vancouver)
Robert Patterson (psychology)
J. Thomas Preston (political science)
Susan D. Ross (communication)Granted Tenure and Promoted to Associate Professor
Robert A. Bauman (history, WSU Tri-Cities)
Jeffrey Bouffard (political science)
Michelle Forsyth (fine arts)
John P. Garofalo (psychology, WSU Vancouver)
Maria Gartstein (psychology)
Jon R. Hegglund (English)
Julie A. Kmec (sociology)
David Leonard (comparative ethnic studies)
John Streamas (comparative ethnic studies)Promoted to Clinical Professor (non-tenure-track)
Jon Hasbrouck (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane) – effective July 1
Carla A. Jones (speech and hearing sciences)
Leslie Power (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane)Promoted to Clinical Associate Professor (non-tenure-track)
Roberta Kelly (communication)
Marvin V. Marcelo (communication)
Kandy S. Robertson (English, WSU Vancouver)Promoted to Senior Instructor (non-tenure-track)
Lesa R. Luders (English)
Congratulations to those who have received internal College of Liberal Arts grants this spring. The Edward R. Meyer Grant Development Awards provide support for a faculty member to develop a substantial grant proposal for submission to an extramural agency or foundation. Awardees are Martha Cottam (professor, political science), Julie Kmec (assistant professor, sociology), Courtney Meehan (assistant professor, anthropology), and Jennifer Schwartz (assistant professor, sociology). The Edward R. Meyer Project awards support the scholarly and instructional efforts of the College of Liberal Arts; proposals in areas matching the interests and wishes of the donor receive special consideration. These areas include preservation of Meyer's Point; the promotion of the arts, history, government, and the general education mission of Washington State University; and support for studies of world civilization and international affairs, broadly construed, and studies designed to promote mental or physiological health. This spring's recipients are Iolanda Palmer (assistant professor, fine arts) and Jeffrey Sanders (assistant professor, history).
William Andrefsky (professor and chair, anthropology) received the Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Said SAA president Dean Snow, "William Andrefsky's significant contributions to the development of lithic studies makes him an obvious choice for the Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis. Over the past 30 years, he has combined replication with carefully operationalized research designs on several major field projects in order to examine critical aspects of procurement, production trajectory, curation, exchange, and utilization. He has consistently demonstrated that research conducted using CRM funding can produce data that are relevant to the evaluation of methodological and theoretical issues which go beyond the regional context. Moreover, he has played an important mentoring role in the development of stone tool analysis, best expressed in the numerous articles which he has coauthored with students as well as his publication of major textbooks on the subject."
Archaeologist Tim Kohler (regents professor, anthropology) will deliver an invited paper on "Agent-Based Modeling and Its Application to Prehispanic Settlement Ecodynamics in the Central Mesa Verde Region" in June at the conference "7 Millennia of Territorial Dynamics: Settlement Pattern, Production, and Trade from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages" in Dijon, France. He will also deliver a paper coauthored with Michael Spitzer (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) on the topic "Evaluating Models for Links between Demographic and Cultural changes against the Archaeological Record of the Northern U.S. Southwest" in a conference on "Demographic Processes and Cultural Change" at the AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, University College London, in September 2008.
Melissa Goodman-Elgar (assistant professor, anthropology) was invited to present "Geoarchaeological Investigations of Contemporary and Prehistoric Settlement at Kala Uyuni, Bolivia" at the annual meetings of the Society for American archaeology in March and "A Closer Look at Adobe Melt: High-resolution Geoarchaeology of Formative Settlement in Bolivia" at the annual Institute of Andean Archaeology meeting in January. This summer, she will participate in the Sixth World Archaeological Congress, to be held in Dublin, Ireland, June 29 through July 4. Goodman-Elgar is co-organizer of the theme "Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG)" with more than 90 contributors in 7 sessions; she is co-organizer of 2 sessions within this theme, "Land-use and Landscape" (13 papers) and "Geoarchaeology of Houses and Beyond: Towards a Social Archaeology" (10 papers). She will also present 2 papers (2 different themes/sessions): "Niche Building or Costly Signaling? Assessing the Role of Terraces in an Andean Highland Valley," Landscape Legacies: Archaeological Approaches to Domestication in the Landscape Session, Land and Archaeology Theme, and "Sediments in Social Context: Group Memory and Visual Culture in Dwellings of the Bolivian Formative," Geoarchaeology of Houses Session, DIG Theme.
John G. Jones (assistant professor, anthropology) has been invited to present the opening talk in a major symposium at the annual meeting for the American Society for Plant Biology, to be held in Merida, Mexico, in June. The symposium is entitled "Maize: From Its Origins to the Genome," and Jones' presentation will cover the archaeological evidence for the cultivation and domestication of what is arguably the world's most important food.
WSU anthropologists played a leading role in a week-long seminar recently held at the Amerind Foundation in southern Arizona. The seminar, titled "New Light on the Thirteenth Century Depopulation of the Northern Southwest," was organized by Tim Kohler (regents professor, anthropology) and Aaron Wright (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology). William Lipe (professor emeritus, anthropology) also participated, as did 12 other leading researchers in Southwestern archaeology and paleoenvironments. The seminar was featured in the lead article "Vanished: A Pueblo Mystery" published in the New York Times science section on April 8. Kohler and Lipe were quoted several times in the story.
Six members of the WSU community were recognized as outstanding mentors at WSU's annual Women & Leadership Forum in March, including Mary Meares (assistant professor, communication) for the teaching faculty award and Yevgeniya Solodovnikova (M.A. candidate, communication) for the student award. Meares was nominated by graduate students as an engaging, effective, committed, and student-centered teacher who has taught them to be better researchers and teachers themselves. Solodovnikova was nominated for her work as a leader and mentor to hundreds of students as an academic advisor and also as a volunteer overseer of a broadcasting club and program.
C. Richard King (associate professor and interim chair, comparative ethnic studies) presented "Me and Bonnie Blair: Shani Davis, Racial Myths, and the Reiteration of the Facts of Blackness" at the annual meetings of the Popular Culture Association, San Francisco. He will present "ZOG, Armageddon, and the New World Order: Dis/Articulations of New Racism and New Anti-Semitism on the New Right" at the workshop "Studying Antisemitism in the 21st Century: Manifestations, Implications, Consequences" organized by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C., July 14–25.
In 2007 DGSS continued working with the WSU Office of Business and Finance to complete data collection on hazard identification and risk assessment for this FEMA-funded planning effort. December saw a series of public meetings in all 9 Homeland Security regions of the state to solicit feedback on this project. This effort will result in a 2008 draft of a system-wide plan to reduce the impact of more than 20 natural and man-caused hazards on WSU facilities and operations. The plan will be submitted to FEMA for final approval. Michael Gaffney, Christina Sanders, and Teddy Linley have led this effort.
At the Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference in Boise, Idaho, April 11–12, Anne Ritter (co-director, Undergraduate Writing Center) presented "Complicating Views of the Writing Center as Sanctuary." Also, Patrick Johnson (M.A. '02, English; co-director, Undergraduate Writing Center), Donna Evans (Ph.D. candidate, English), and Kristine Kellejian (Ph.D. candidate, English) will present the panel “Digital Oasis – Graduate Oasis” in which they discuss the expansion of WSU's writing center services to include eTutoring and the Graduate and Professional Writing Center.
Peter Chilson (associate professor, English) was the featured speaker February 27 at the African Studies Library at Indiana University, Bloomington. His presentation, "Romancing the Archivist: A Cautionary Dispatch from West Africa," was part of a program titled "Field Notes in African Research." He also participated in a panel discussion and gave a paper at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in New York. The paper was titled "The J in Literary Journalism: Research and Reporting Skills in the Context of Creative Writing Programs."
Pavithra Narayanan (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver) presented a paper on "South Asian Literature, Language, and the New Economy" at the 17th annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, sponsored by the Georgia Southern University Department of Literature and Philosophy at Savannah, Georgia, February 16. She gave an invited presentation, "From Burma to Myanmar: The East India Company and Beyond," at the Camas Public Library on April 3.
Carol Siegel (professor, English, WSU Vancouver) presented her paper "Metaphoric Interiors: Architectures of Race in Panic Room and The People Under the Stairs" at the Society for Media and Cinema Studies Conference, held March 6 in Philadelphia.
Camille Roman (associate professor, English, American studies, women's studies) hosted 5 events as president of the international Robert Frost Society at the 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) conference in Chicago. With the Ernest Hemingway Society and Foundation, she organized, wrote, and moderated a roundtable on Frost and Hemingway composed of 4 major literary biographers, including Scott Donaldson, the most prolific literary biographer today. The roundtable was the first scholarly event to consider both Frost and Hemingway together. In addition, it was the first event at MLA to be cosponsored by 2 author societies. The transcription of this historic roundtable is being acquired by the John F. Kennedy Library and will be made available to the public and scholars later in 2008 at the library and on its Web site. Roman was honored, along with other roundtable participants, at a reception at MLA at the Intercontinental Hotel. In her role as president of the Frost Society, Roman organized and hosted a supper in honor of 2 foreign Fulbright scholars from Taiwan and Poland invited by her to speak at the conference, organized and chaired a panel on Frost, and then hosted a coffee hour for the society. For the American Literature Association conference in May in San Francisco, Roman is chairing 2 panels on Frost as well as a business meeting for the society. Panels will feature such major scholars as Scott Donaldson as well as Patricia Willis, curator of the Beinecke Library, Yale University. She has contributed articles that have been published in The Langston Hughes Newsletter as well as in The Robert Frost Society News and on the Frost Society Web site. She also has codeveloped a Web site with the Ernest Hemingway Society and Foundation for the MLA 2007 Frost/Hemingway roundtable. Her photo-essay on the Frost/Hemingway roundtable and reception will be published in The Ernest Hemingway Newsletter and on its Web site as well as on the roundtable's Web site. The Robert Frost Review will publish her essay about her discovery of an unpublished speech manuscript strongly critical of U.S. Cold War policy given by Frost in Brazil during his State Department–sponsored visit in 1954.
Thabiti Lewis (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver) delivered the following invited lectures: "Hip-Hop and Hope for a New Black Masculinity," a public lecture at Northern Arizona University February 12; "The State of Black Youth in America," a presentation at the University of Virginia in February; "Diversity in Academe: Still Climbing the Mountain?" a keynote address at Evergreen State College March 3; "Ralph Ellison's 20th Century Conundrum" at Willamette University March 11; and "Black History through Sport: Where Have We Come, Where Do We Go?" a Black History Month keynote at the invitation of Portland General Electric (Oregon) in February.
Buddy Levy (clinical assistant
professor, English) participated in a clinic in Sun
Valley, Idaho, January 18–20 with blind mountaineer
(and author and noted speaker) Erik Weihenmayer. Levy was
invited to participate in a clinic devoted to teaching
ski instructors how to guide blind or visually impaired
skiers. As part of the clinic, he was blindfolded and
skied for over 2 hours, following his guide and being
filmed by Serac Films (who are also filming the next IMAX
Everest film). Levy's experience and research is part of
a story he is writing about Erik for Discover
Magazine.
On January 18, Levy was an invited
speaker at a luncheon event in Naples, Florida, hosted by
the Gulf Shore Literary Society. Levy kicked off the
society's 2008 winter speaker series by discussing his
research and writing of his 2 latest books, American
Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
(Berkley Books, 2006) and Conquistador: Hernán
Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the
Aztecs (Bantam Dell/Random House, 2008). Levy also
discussed his work as a freelance journalist covering
outdoor adventure and travel.
Stanton Linden (professor emeritus, English) was recently a visiting scholar at the University of Washington, sponsored by the UW English department while doing research at the Suzzallo Library in January and February.
Debbie Lee (associate professor, English) was awarded an Idaho Humanities Council Research Fellowship to complete research and writing on a history of the Selway-Bitterroot and Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness areas. The area comprises the largest tract of wild land in the contiguous 48 states. Lee intends to write an accessible history focusing on 5 individual inhabitants in the region during different eras. Lee was also an invited speaker at the Selway-Bitterroot Foundation Winter Gathering and Fundraiser on March 22 at the Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts and History in Lewiston, Idaho. Her talk was titled "Tracking: Hidden Lives of the Selway." She will be a keynote speaker at the Nez Perce National Forest Centennial Celebration on July 1; her talk is titled "Wilderness Lives."
In December, Bill Condon (professor, English) appeared at the University of Minnesota, where he gave a campus-wide lecture entitled "Think Globally, Act Locally: Exploring Our Enlightened Self-Interest in the National Conversation on Assessment" and a campus-wide workshop, "Critical Thinking in the Classroom: Identifying, Articulating, Assigning, and Assessing What We Value."
Boyd Benson's (instructor, English) poem "After the War" has been nominated by poet/editor Marvin Bell for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. The poem can be found in Volume 1 of Lost Horse Press New Poets Series: New Poets, Short Books.
Buddy Levy (clinical assistant professor, English), Andrea Mason (instructor, English), Peter Chilson (associate professor, English), and Debbie Lee (associate professor, English) participated in "Writing/Now," a literary reading at Cafe Silos in Moscow, Idaho, on April 18. The event, partly sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council, emphasized the stories, experiences, and landscapes of the American West.
Leslie Jo Sena (instructor, English) was given an award for Excellence in the Common Reading at the awards ceremony for the Office of Undergraduate Education on April 8. She was honored for her work spearheading university-wide assessment of WSU's first-year implementation of the Common Reading Program.
Todd Butler (assistant professor, English) recently presented a paper at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Chicago. While in Chicago, he also delivered an invited lecture for the Department of History at Loyola University. Both talks focused on the intersection of law and literature in seventeenth-century England.
Michael Delahoyde (clinical associate professor, English) presented "Edward de Vere's Hand in Titus Andronicus" at the 12th annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Nickolus Meisel (assistant professor, fine arts; M.F.A. '02) participated in the Palm Beach International Sculpture Biennale this spring with his installation Gate, Gate (photo at right), which exists at the entrance of the exhibition in 3 clusters of trees using red yarn.
Carol Ivory (professor and chair, fine arts) attended the College Art Association meeting in Dallas, Texas, in February.
Michelle Forsyth (assistant professor, fine arts) has work in the inaugural exhibition, START, at Zaum Projects Contemporary Art in Lisbon, Portugal, opening May 16.
Fredrick Peterson (professor, leadership and professional studies, WSU Spokane) was nominated for the 2008 Student Choice Award for Academic Excellence in Teaching.
LeRoy Ashby, Claudius O. and Mary Johnson Distinguished Professor of History and regents professor, received the WSU President's Award for Lifetime Service. Ashby’s undergraduate classes on 20th-century American history have been among the most popular electives on campus for the past 30 years. The enthusiasm of his undergraduate students is exceeded only by the appreciation of his many graduate students. The award was presented by President Elson S. Floyd and was a surprise for Ashby, who did not know he had been nominated for the award. "I was indeed surprised—so much so that I was speechless," Ashby said after the ceremony. "I am deeply honored to receive such recognition from colleagues and administrators. It is always rewarding to have one's work valued and appreciated. When I look at the list of previous recipients, I am even more grateful." Said President Floyd, "Ashby's longstanding story of excellence in teaching and research made him an ideal candidate to receive this award. LeRoy Ashby has had a profound influence on the direction and progress of the University throughout his career and has demonstrated great personal and professional commitment to the University and our community."
Susan Armitage, Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History, was named WSU's 2008 Woman of the Year for her career of promoting new and innovative approaches to the study of the history of women in the American West and mentoring generations of students and colleagues in the process. She came to WSU in 1978 as the first director of women studies and as an assistant professor of history and by 1986 was made full professor. She has served as director of the Center for Columbia River History, director of the American Studies Program, and editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.
Kathryn Meyer (senior instructor, history) was named Faculty/Staff Member of the Month for February by the WSU chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary.
Joseph Keim Campbell (associate professor, philosophy) is the guest editor for a special upcoming issue of the Journal of Ethics and will serve as program chair for the 2011 Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association.
Travis Pratt's (associate professor and director, criminal justice) 2000 study coauthored with Frank Cullen, titled "The Empirical Status of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime: A Meta-analysis, published in Criminology, was identified in a recent article published in the Journal of Criminal Justice as one of the most common publications to appear on Ph.D. comprehensive exam reading lists in criminology and criminal justice doctoral programs nationwide.
Cornell Clayton (professor, political science) was named a Distinguished International Scholar by the Research Council of the Slovenian national government. The award carries a grant to conduct collaborative research with junior scholars in Slovenia. Clayton will work with faculty at the University of Maribor School of Law to conduct research on the political functions of the Slovenian Constitutional Court. Clayton was also recently elected president of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association.
Armando Estrada (assistant professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver) has been appointed the next editor of the American Psychological Association's Division 9 journal Military Psychology.
Maja Graso (M.S. candidate, psychology), Tahira Probst (associate professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver), and Armando Estrada (assistant professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver) are coauthors of the poster "Extending the Consideration of Future Consequences to Safety Outcomes," presented to the 2008 Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (CSIOP), held in April in San Francisco. Graso received a Registration Grant and a Travel Grant to attend this conference. Probst and Estrada authored "Accident Under-reporting: The Moderating Effect of Organizational Safety Climate" in the CSIOP symposium "Safety in Organizations: Moderators and Mediators of Safety Climate. Probst authored "Beyond Intro to I/O: Tackling Controversial Workplace Diversity Topics" in the CSIOP symposium "Experiential Learning: Grounding Ourselves in Research."
Tahira Probst (associate professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver), Bruce Wright (director, Health and Wellness Services), Celestina Barbosa-Leiker (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), Virginia Ferent (M.S. candidate, psychology), and C.H. Mielke authored "Preliminary Results from the Spokane Heart Study: Testing Links between Occupational Stress and Coronary Artery Calcification," presented to the 2008 Work, Stress, and Health Conference in Washington, D.C.
John P. Garofalo (assistant professor, psychology, WSU Vancouver) is co-investigator on a $50,000 grant from the WSU Cancer Prevention and Research Program to study "Yoga for Breast Cancer: Role of Cytokines in Immune and QOL Responses."
The following posters were presented at the 66th annual Scientific Conference of the American Psychosomatic Society, held in Baltimore, Maryland, in March:
The following were presented at the annual conference of the International Neuropsychological Society, held in Waikoloa, Hawaii, in February:
The following posters were presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in March:
The following poster was presented at the annual Samuel B. Guze Symposium on Alcoholism, held in St. Louis, Missouri, in February:
Daniel Jaffee's (assistant professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver) book Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (University of California Press, 2007) has won the 2008 C. Wright Mills Award. This prestigious book award was established in 1964 by the Society for the Study of Social Problems to honor Mills' dedication to a search for a sophisticated understanding of the individual and society. The C. Wright Mills Award is given to the best book in the tradition of Mills' scholarship that critically addresses an issue of contemporary public importance; brings to the topic a fresh, imaginative perspective; advances social science understanding of the topic; displays a theoretically informed view and empirical orientation; evinces quality in style of writing; and implicitly or explicitly contains implications for courses of action. Jaffee is the first sociology faculty member at WSU to win this award. He will be honored at the Society for the Study of Social Problems annual meetings in Boston in August.
Gene Rosa (professor, sociology) has recently given invited lectures in France, at the University of Paris for Political Studies (Sciences Po), University of Paris V (Rene Descartes University), and the Institute for the Study of Political Sciences, Montesquieu University, Bordeaux IV, as well as an invited keynote address at the Institute for Social Ecology in Vienna, Austria, and an invited keynote address at the Michigan State University Risk Initiative Series.
Don Dillman (regents professor, sociology) gave the keynote address at FEDCASIC, the annual meeting of federal government and other professionals interested in computer assisted collection of survey data, on March 11 in Washington, D.C. He gave invited seminars on "How Survey Methodology is Changing" and "The Development of Ideas for Research: How Science Progresses" at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, on April 1. He also gave invited seminars on "The Need for Rural Social Science Is Greater Than Ever" and "Issues Facing Survey Methodology" at Utah State University on April 3.
Julie Kmec (assistant professor, sociology) and collaborator Beth Hirsh were awarded a $7,250 grant from Cornell University's Institute for Social Sciences to conduct a multi-industry study of employment discrimination.
Gail Chermak's (professor and chair, speech and hearing sciences) 2-volume Handbook of (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder, coauthored with Frank Musiek, has been named "2007 Speech, Language, and Hearing Book of the Year" by clinical experts and medical librarians polled by the Essential Speech, Language, and Hearing Bookshelf. In February, Chermak presented 2 invited, one-day workshops on the diagnosis and treatment of (central) auditory processing disorder, one at the annual convention of the Texas Speech and Hearing Association and a similar workshop at the Illinois Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual convention.
Ella Inglebret (assistant professor, speech and hearing sciences) is one of several distinguished researchers invited to present at the first research conference organized by ASHA Special Interest Division 14: Communication Sciences and Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations. The conference, titled "State of the Research on CLD Populations: Establishing Our Foundation and Advancing Our Science," will be held in June at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Jeanne Johnson (associate professor, speech and hearing sciences) presented a coauthored poster at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference, held in San Francisco on April 14, titled "ERPs to Place of Articulation Cues in Preschool-Aged Children with Specific Language Impairment." She also presented a coauthored poster at the WSU Academic Showcase on March 28 titled "The Perception of Place of Articulation by Preschool Children with Specific Language Impairment." Both posters stem from work done during her 2007 sabbatical year working in the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Louisville. Johnson was also nominated for WSU's Outstanding Mentor Award.
Nancy Potter (assistant professor, speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane) organized the second annual Forum on ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease), held April 21 at the Riverpoint Campus in Spokane. The forum was hosted by the WSU Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, the Eastern Washington University (EWU) Department of Communication Disorders, and the EWU Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Programs. The forum included a panel discussion with people with ALS (PALS), caregivers for people with ALS (CALS), and survivors of families affected by ALS. This forum provided first-hand insight into the disease process, living with ALS, medical needs, environmental adaptation needs, caregiver rewards, and challenges. The forum is a result of student initiative and involvement in the local ALS support group.
Judy Meuth (clinical associate professor, women's studies) was named a 2008 WSU Woman of Distinction for her efforts to promote gender equity and cultural inclusion, inspiring hundreds of girls and women to pursue careers in science and technology.
The Chronicle, College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University