The Office of Undergraduate Education (OUE) celebrated
the excellence of faculty, staff and students at its
2008-9 awards ceremony April 9 at the Lewis Alumni
Centre.
Pamela Lee, an
instructor in fine arts and the Honors College, received
the Harold and Jeanne Rounds Olsen Award for Exemplary
Writing in the Major Course for her Modern Theories of
Art course. Lee incorporated an impressive variety of
inventive assignments into her fine arts course, and her
syllabus demonstrated well-articulated evaluation
criteria and incorporated e-learning.
The Harold and Jeanne Rounds Olsen Writing
in the Disciplines Faculty Service Awards are given to
faculty members who had the highest number of students
submit papers for their Junior Writing Portfolios.
Faculty members who received this award included
Kendall Campbell (instructor,
anthropology) and Jeff Sellen
(instructor, general education).
Marie Glynn (assistant
professor, general education and French) received the
World Civilizations Faculty Excellence Award for her
extraordinary service in instruction and devotion to
student needs and to furthering their academic
progress.
The Eric W. Bell Learning Community
Excellence Award was presented to Freshman Focus faculty
for engaging extensively with freshmen beyond their
classrooms: Toria Johnson (teaching
assistant, English), Julie Meloni
(teaching assistant, English), and Jack
McNassar (teaching assistant,
anthropology).
Frank Hill
(instructor, general education) received a Common Reading
Excellence Award for taking creative and exceptional
measures to make WSU's annual fall Common Reading Program
a success.
Nominated by their Honors students,
Judy Meuth (clinical associate
professor, women's studies) and Rebecca
Craft (professor, psychology) earned Honors
College Faculty Thesis Advisor of the Year Awards.
Margo Tamez (teaching
assistant, American studies) received a Faculty Teaching,
Learning, and Assessment Innovation Award for faculty
members who "stand out for their eagerness to try new
methods and to inspire others to do the same."
Colin Grier (assistant
professor, anthropology) was awarded a WSU Undergraduate
Research Excellence Mentor Award, given to faculty who
partner in research with undergraduate students who have
published their work to a regional or national
audience.
The new WSU Distinguished Teaching
Award presented by the WSU Teaching Academy recognizes
non-tenure-track instructors at WSU who have displayed
exceptional commitment to teaching. Sheila
Converse (clinical assistant professor, music)
was one of the two first recipients of this award.
The College of Liberal Arts congratulates the following on their tenure and promotion. All promotions are effective August 16, 2009.
Promoted to Regents Professor
Lance T. LeLoup (political science)
Victor Villanueva (English)Promoted to Professor
C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies)
Karen D. Lupo (anthropology)Granted Tenure and Promoted to Associate Professor
Leana A. Bouffard (criminal justice)
Todd W. Butler (English)
Patricia F. Ericsson (English)
Scott Frickel (sociology)
Elizabeth Fussell (sociology)
Ryan M. Hare (music)
L. Harrison Higgs (fine arts, WSU Vancouver)
Ella R. Inglebret (speech and hearing sciences)
Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo (comparative ethnic studies)
Vilma Navarro-Daniels (foreign languages and cultures)
Robert J. Quinlan (anthropology)
Travis N. Ridout (political science)Promoted to Clinical Associate Professor (non-tenure-track)
Weiguo Cao (foreign languages and cultures)
Lynn T. Levy (English)
Samantha Swindell (psychology)Promoted to Senior Instructor (non-tenure-track)
Rebecca M. Goodrich (English)
Barry Hewlett (professor, anthropology), Aug. 16-May 15, to travel to Central African Republic, France, and Japan and write four peer-reviewed journal articles and one book. The book will be the first holistic ethnography of African forest foragers since Turnbull's 1961 classic The Forest People.
Karen Lupo (associate professor, anthropology), Aug. 16-May 15, to write a monograph based on comparative analysis of animal bone assemblages. Data will be collected from assemblages located at the University of Utah Natural History Museum, Arizona State Museum, and Stanford University and from historic materials borrowed from public agencies in Alaska.
Carmen Lugo-Lugo (assistant professor, comparative ethnic studies), Jan. 1-May 15, to work in Pullman on a manuscript on the War on Terror, coauthored with Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo, and a manuscript on Puerto Rico–U.S. relations and finish articles on Puerto Rico–U.S. relations and place them for review in journals.
Faith Lutze (associate professor, criminal justice), Aug. 16-May 15, to review interdisciplinary literature on interagency collaboration in the fields of public administration, public health, and education, design the drug court interagency collaboration pilot survey, travel to various sites in Washington and Idaho to administer the survey, and analyze the data.
Jana Argersinger (publications editor, English), Aug. 1-Jan. 31, to complete the first stage of an annotated and contextualized scholarly edition of the 800-plus-page, three-volume Cuba Journal by Sophia Peabody, an accomplished artist and writer who was vitally involved in the cultural life of antebellum New England, both before and after she became Nathaniel Hawthorne's collaborator and wife, with colleague Cheryl Fish at CUNY.
Joan Burbick (professor, English), Aug. 16-May 15, to complete a draft of Gather at the River and begin the process of finding an appropriate publisher. Will consult collections at WSU, the University of Washington, the Newberry Library in Chicago, and regional historical societies.
Donna Campbell (associate professor, English), Aug. 16-Dec. 31, to complete a cultural history of Edith Wharton's world under contract to Greenwood Press and begin research on a scholarly monograph on 19th- and early 20th-century American women novelists, technology, and film.
Patricia Ericsson (assistant professor, English), Jan. 1-May 15, to expand research into digital communication technologies and develop into a book-length text.
Alex Kuo (professor, English), Aug. 16-Dec. 31, to write the novel Shanghai, Shanghai, Shanghai, the last in the Ge trilogy; make contact with the University of Hong Kong, Lingnan University, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Susan Ross (professor, English), Aug. 16-Aug. 15, to assess freedom of speech and press in Quito, Ecuador, as a UNESCO/Fulbright senior specialist; edit/write Images that Injure; conduct collaborative media research in Turkey; and develop English courses for new teaching assignment.
Carol Siegel (professor, English, WSU Vancouver), Aug. 16-Dec. 31, to work on a book on differences between radicalism and liberalism in film depictions of sexuality, gender, and race.
Ann Christenson (professor, fine arts), Aug. 16-Dec. 31, to create a new body of ceramic and mixed media artworks and conduct hands-on research into the effects of soda kiln firings.
Robert Bauman (associate professor, history, WSU Tri-Cities), Aug. 16-Dec. 31, to examine the role various religious groups played in the development and activism of grassroots community organizations involved in the War on Poverty and investigate fundamental questions about the role of religion in American society.
Gregory Yasinitsky (regents professor, music), Jan. 1-May 15, to write the book Scoring for Jazz Band reflecting 40 years in the field.
Carolyn Long (associate professor, political science, WSU Vancouver), Aug. 16-May 15, to visit the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia to broaden understanding of American constitutionalism through a comparative analysis of U.S. and European political institutions and complete the book manuscript, The (Un)reasonableness Standard: Lowering the Bar on the Fourth Amendment.
Thomas Preston (professor, political science), Aug. 16-May 15, to write a new book, Pandora's Trap: Protracted Conflicts and Presidential Decision Making; consult for the CIA at Langley, Virginia; and to serve as a Fulbright Senior Scholar to New Zealand.
Maria Gartstein (associate professor, psychology), Aug. 16-May 15, to travel to Bowdoin College, Maine, and University of Murcia, Spain, to expand the cross-cultural study of temperament development research.
Craig Parks (professor, psychology), Aug. 16-Dec. 31, to study the interaction between individual difference and situational factors in the performance of cooperative behaviors.
Gregory Hooks (professor, sociology), Aug. 16-May 15, to research multiple sources of contamination in the Detroit–Windsor area to identify causal mechanisms and link environmental inequality to the larger social inequality literature.
Christine Horne (associate professor, sociology), Aug. 16-May 15, to develop theoretical propositions about the connections between race, status/trustworthiness, and norm enforcement and design a series of experiments to test those theoretical propositions.
Clayton Mosher (associate professor, sociology, WSU Vancouver), Aug. 16-May 15, to complete two book manuscripts and reports for funded research projects and submit several papers for publication.
Thomas Rotolo (associate professor, sociology), Jan. 1-May 15, to conduct research on the impact of social context on volunteering at the U.S. state and city levels and combine sociology of sport and social network theory to develop and test novel social network measures of competitive balance in sports leagues.
Congratulations to those who have received internal
College of Liberal Arts grants this spring. The Edward R.
Meyer Project awards support the scholarly and
instructional efforts of the College of Liberal Arts.
This spring's recipients are Chris Lupke
(associate professor, Chinese) and Io
Palmer (assistant professor, fine arts).
Faculty travel grants have been awarded
to Kim Christen (assistant professor,
comparative ethnic studies), Brendan
Walker (assistant professor, psychology),
Susan Ross (professor, English;
associate dean, liberal arts), Melissa
Goodman-Elgar (assistant professor,
anthropology), Nancy Potter (assistant
professor, speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane),
Travis Ridout (assistant professor,
political science), Kevin Haas
(associate professor, fine arts), Pamela
Thoma (assistant professor, women's studies),
and Rachel Halverson (associate
professor, German).
The team of Beth
Fussell (assistant professor, sociology),
Paul Kwon (associate professor,
psychology), and Marsha Quinlan
(assistant professor, anthropology) received CLA Support
for Major Extramural Grant Development, for the
development of a significant extramural grant that will
promote world-class scholarship and creative activity and
expand the grants infrastructure of the college. Last
fall, two separate awards were given to Rebecca
Craft (professor, psychology) and Debbie
Lee (professor, English).
Eight CLA faculty members from six disciplines and all tenure-track ranks responded to the call for proposals with strong applications. Three representatives of the college's Graduate Education and Research Committee served as volunteer reviewers, providing numerical rankings and detailed comments on the applications. Reviewers paid specific attention to each proposal's connection to the CLA themes, its contribution to scholarly development, and its transformative potential. Proposals generally fell into two categories: new class development proposals and research proposals. The selected applications for Berry Fellowships demonstrate a unique ability to infuse the two activities to simultaneously propel the individual faculty member's research career, innovate classroom teaching, and engage students in scholarly activities outside the classroom.
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Matthew Sutton (assistant professor, history) will use his award to conduct the research and writing of a book for Harvard University Press titled American Evangelicals and the Politics of the Apocalypse. This book will be a cornerstone of a new upper-division undergraduate course in History, Religion, and American Culture, to be offered beginning in 2010. In addition to its contribution to the undergraduate curriculum, the project enhances Sutton's ability to partner with graduate students conducting research in American cultural history and lays a foundation for his own long-term scholarship in this field. Reviewers commended the proposal, noting its strong interdisciplinarity and "tie-ins to both CLA themes and their manifestation via a new class." One reviewer said the research and resulting book will "help students and historians understand the ways in which millions of Americans from the grassroots to the White House see the world."
Julie Kmec (associate professor, sociology) will use her award to conduct research on the actual impact of anti-discrimination policies and practices in U.S. workplaces. This project involves a colleague from Cornell University as well as both graduate and undergraduate students in a study that illuminates the real outcomes of policies that promote equity. Students at WSU will assist in the research, participate in a related course, and help disseminate research results to the public and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission via a Web page.
Melissa Goodman-Elgar (assistant professor, anthropology) presented "Agriculture, Landscape Architecture, and Path Dependence" at the Theoretical Archaeological Group meeting, Stanford Archaeology Center, Palo Alto, CA, in May. In April, she was first session organizer and chair of the Geoarchaeology Interest Group sponsored poster session, "Geoarchaeology and Interpretation," at the annual Society for American Archaeology meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, with Kelly Derr (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) and Patrick Dolan (M.A. '09, anthropology), both of whom also presented. She presented "Geoarchaeological Assessment of Floor Variability in a Formative Sunken Court Complex, Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia" at the same meeting, with Louis Fortin (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology).
Archaeologist Tim Kohler (regents professor, anthropology) attended a small, two-day workshop in April in Reims, France, that was jointly organized by the National Science Foundation and its French counterpart, ANR, to discuss future research directions on "Dynamics in the Human Sciences: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Socioenvironmental Complexity." He will also give a public address in Paris in November 2009 at the invitation of the Cité des Sciences, INRAP, and Météo France to speak on ancient societies and climate in the U.S. Southwest.
The newly developed psychological and medical anthropology branch of the Department of Anthropology took part in their first panel, "Well-Being in Crisis," at the annual meetings for the Society for Psychological Anthropology, held in Pacific Grove, California, in March. Contributers included Jeannette Mageo (professor), chair; Melissa Artstein (Ph.D. candidate), cochair; Ethan McGaffey (Ph.D. candidate), organizer; Stacy Rasmus (assistant professor); and Joy Scott (Ph.D. candidate, interdisciplinary).
Donna Campbell, Debbie Lee, Buddy Levy, Larry Mayer, Jessica McCarthy, Barbara Monroe, Paul Muhlhauser, Leslie Jo Sena, Victor Villanueva, and Karen Weathermon were all nominated for the 14th annual Women and Leadership Forum Outstanding Mentor Awards. The English department was the best represented department in nominations across the University, followed by the Murrow College of Communication with seven nominees.
Jana Argersinger (publications editor, English) will present a paper on Sophia Peabody's Cuba Journal at the Modern Language Association convention in December.
Chris Arigo (assistant professor, English) has been invited to Berlin by lyrikline.org to read from his poetry and to talk about ecopoetics in October.
Nancy Bell (assistant professor, English) has received a WSU New Faculty Seed Grant of $13,000. This funding will allow her to hire a research assistant (M.A. student Becky Robinson) to aid in collection of data that will help answer the question of whether playing with/in a second language facilitates its learning. She has also been awarded a Language Learning Research Grant of $5,718 for a project titled "Development and Developmental Effects of Language Play." She will be presenting a paper, "Participant Identities and Reactions to Humor in Second Language Learning," at the 2009 conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, to be held in Long Beach, California, June 17–20.
Boyd Benson (instructor, English) has received a 2009 Jeanne Lohmann Prize for his poem "Leaves." One of three Washington state recipients, he will give a reading and receive the prize on June 17 in Olympia.
On December 28, 2008, Paul Brians (professor emeritus, English) was interviewed briefly about Common Errors in English Usage on "The Lionel Show" on Air America.
Kim Burwick (instructor, English) was awarded a 2009 writing residency at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington.
At the recent Pacific Northwest American Studies Association conference, three members of the English department in Pullman presented papers: Donna Campbell (associate professor, English), "Land, Revenge, and Redemption in the Western Stories of Mary Hallock Foote and Rose Wilder Lane"; Ben Bunting (Ph.D. candidate, English), "Bring Your Own Mythology: Complicating Ideas of the American Frontier"; and Julie Meloni (Ph.D. candidate, English), "Art for Whose Sake? Owen Wister's Negotiation of Literary Borders in The Virginian."
At the April 2–5 MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) conference in Spokane, three members of the English department presented papers: Katie Arosteguy (Ph.D. '09, English), "'Not Latina Enough': The Politics of Race and Culture in Contemporary American Chica Lit"; Sheri Rysdam (Ph.D. candidate, English), "Communities of Difference: Exploring the Political Economy of Communal Utopia in Multicultural Feminist Literature and Theory"; and Donna Campbell (associate professor, English), "'It could have been any street': Ann Petry's The Street and Alice Dunbar-Nelson's In 'Steenth Street Stories."
Donna Campbell (associate professor, English) has won the Edith Wharton Collection Research Award for her project "Wharton and the Transnational Body: Gabrielle Landormy, Citizenship, and Modernity in the Late Works of Edith Wharton." The award provides funding for research in the Edith Wharton Collection at the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Paula Coomer's (instructor, English) unpublished novel Dove Creek has been recorded for serialized broadcast over Moscow, Idaho, radio station KRFP. All 12 episodes are available online. She was a featured presenter at the Write on the River Writers' Conference in Wenatchee, Washington, May 15–16; her presentation was titled "Why We Love Memoir." She will present the book Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence at the Prairie River Library District's Kamiah Branch on May 19 as part of the Idaho Library Commission's, "Let's Talk About It" series.
Peter Chilson (associate professor, English) was a keynote speaker February 19 at the Forum on International Education Abroad conference in Portland, Oregon, speaking on Africa's troubled borderlands and the problem of doing research in difficult places.
Bill Condon (professor, English) was a featured speaker at the University of Minnesota's "Writing-Enriched Curriculum: A Symposium Exploring New Directions for Undergraduate Writing." Condon serves Minnesota's Writing-Enriched Curriculum Project as outside consultant/evaluator; in that role, he joined leading faculty and administrators as a panelist at this May 13 event. He also conducted a workshop on writing assessment May 11–12 at Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU). The workshop is part of an ongoing consultancy at IWU, under the auspices of a Mellon Foundation grant to improve writing across the curriculum at the university.
Michael Delahoyde (clinical associate professor, English), speaking about Shakespeare, was featured in a short edition of "Experience WSU" that ran on KWSU-TV last fall. He was also named the 2010 award winner for scholarship at the recent Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference in Portland, Oregon, where he presented "Lyrical Poetry from Chaucer to Shakespeare."
Patricia Ericsson (assistant professor, English), Paul Muhlhauser (Ph.D. '09, English), and Kris Kellejian (Ph.D. candidate, English) presented a panel, "Invisible Classrooms Revealed: Digital Technologies as Hidden Teachers," at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kristin Arola (assistant professor, English), Ericsson, and Muhlhauser were presenters and facilitators at a pre-conference workshop, "Assigning and Assessing: Multimodal Composition and Classroom Practice." Ericsson organized and facilitated the second annual WSU grad student "Happening" at the same conference. Guest scholars at this event were the founders of Computers and Composition, Gail Hawisher and Cynthia Selfe.
Diane Gillespie (professor emeritus, English) presented a paper, "A City in the Archives: Virginia Woolf and the Statues of London," at the nineteenth annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held June 4–7 at Fordham University, Lincoln Center, in New York City.
Michael Hanly (professor, English) has been invited to take part in an international symposium this summer. The conference is entitled "The Age of Philippe de Mézières." Mézières was a central figure in 14th-century international and interfaith politics, a prolific writer and propagandist who served as chancellor of Cyprus in his early career and as advisor to the king of France in later years. The symposium features 14 scholars from the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, and will take place in Nicosia, Cyprus, in June. He also presented a paper on Crusade and Muslim–Christian conflict in the late Middle Ages at the conference of the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP), held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He has also been elected a member of the MAP council.
Crag Hill (assistant professor, English) will present a classroom demonstration entitled "Reading Classical Chinese Poetry to Write New Poems" at the 2009 annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English in Philadelphia on November 20, 2009. The focus for the conference is "Once and Future Classics: Reading Between the Lines."
Multi-genre responses to "Women and Methamphetamine: Portraits of Addiction and Recovery" were presented at the Qualitative Health Research 14th International Interdisciplinary Conference in Banff, Alberta, in October 2008 and in April 2009 at the American Educational Research Association Conference in San Diego. In addition, the research team, which includes Roxanne Vandermause (assistant professor, nursing), Sheila Kearney-Converse (clinical assistant professor, music), Laurilyn Harris (professor and chair, theatre and dance), Linda Kittell (clinical associate professor, English), and Pauline Sameshima (assistant professor, teaching and learning), has been awarded a grant from the American Nurses Foundation for $3,500 for continued research and exploration on the topic.
Debbie Lee (professor, English), Andrea Mason (instructor, English), and Peter Chilson (associate professor, English) joined novelist Jill Widner for a group reading event called "Personal Regions" on January 30 at the Center for Arts and History in Lewiston, Idaho. The event also showcased the work of world traveler Craig Whitcomb, whose exhibit Room with a View featured watercolors of China, Japan, Vietnam, and Korea.
Debbie Lee (professor, English) will give an invited guest lecture at the University of Montreal on June 12. Her lecture is titled "'Cries coming from the mountain-head': Wordsworth's Single Mothers in London and the Lakes."
On December 23, 2008, Buddy Levy
(clinical assistant professor, English) was an invited
guest on the "Dennis Prager Radio Show," a
nationally-broadcast talk radio show. Prager, who is a
frequent guest on CNN, interviewed Levy live for a full
hour about his book Conquistador, which was
recently shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest
Booksellers Awards. A
podcast of the interview is available. Levy was also
invited to participate in the 2009 Get Lit! Literary
Festival in Spokane April 10–19, where he sat on
two panels, give a reading connected to his inclusion in
the new anthology Borne On Air, and participated
in a writing workshop. He was also asked to be a Get Lit!
guest blogger; his
entry concerns participating in and maintaining a
successful writer's group. On May 1, Levy gave a talk,
reading, Q&A, and book signing to the Gulf Shores
Literary Society at the Naples Beach Resort in Naples,
Florida. It was his second invitation to be a featured
speaker at the Gulf Shores Speaker's Series. He read from
and discussed his book Conquistador as well as
his latest project, River of Darkness: Francisco
Orellana's Historic Descent of the Amazon (Bantam
Dell, 2010).
On March 22 and 23, Levy was flown to
Los Angeles to film a screen test "sizzle reel" for a
History Channel Reality Program called "Decoded." The
team of adventure-historians he proposed to the
production company was selected by the History Channel
and is being considered for a pilot for the series, which
would set out to contemplate, uncover, and debunk
historical myths and conspiracy theories in American
history.
Thabiti Lewis (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver), Wendy Olson (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver), and Sky Wilson (Ph.D. candidate, American studies, WSU Vancouver) presented at the annual Pacific Northwest American Studies Association conference. Their panel, "Rhetorical Moves in Popular Culture: Rhetorics in, of, and on Race in Contemporary American Culture," focused on how race is constructed, performed, and reappropriated in television, sports culture, and political activism.
Lesa Luders (instructor, English) presented a discussion of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years as part of the Idaho Commission for Libraries and the Idaho Humanities Council's "Let's Talk About It" series, which brings together humanities scholars and adult readers in public libraries, mainly in rural communities where adults have fewer resources and opportunities for adult education, to read and discuss literature that explores American values, history, and culture. The discussion was held in Kamiah, Idaho, on February 17.
Kirk McAuley (assistant professor, English) is scheduled to deliver a paper titled "'Art Transforms the Savage Face of Things': Scottish Identity and the '45 Jacobite Rebellion in James Grainger's West-Indian Georgic, The Sugar Cane" at the 2009 Symbiosis Conference, "Boston and the New Atlantic World," at Suffolk University in Boston June 25–27.
David Menchaca (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver) presented at the 2009 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association conference in February. The title of his presentation was "'If We Only Had the Manual': Portraits of Technical Writers and Writing in TV and Film versus the Profession."
Pavithra Narayanan (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver) presented a paper, "Speaking in Tongues: Transnation and Transnationalism," at the ICLALS (Indian Association for Commonwealth Studies) Annual Conference on Translation and Postcolonialities on February 17 at Dharward, India. Her paper was shortlisted for the C.D. Narasimhaiah Prize. She was also interviewed by The Columbian (Vancouver, Washington) about Bond films and Valentine's Day film suggestions, and by US Weekly about Slum Dog Millionaire.
Aaron Oforlea (assistant professor, English) was invited to present "James Baldwin: Influences and Nuances" at the James Baldwin Conference March 19–21 at Suffolk University, "Black Masculinity in a White World" at the American Men's Studies Association on April 3 at Machill and Concordia Universities in Montreal, Canada, and "Mapping Male Subjectivity in James Baldwin, Ernest Gaines, and Nathan McCall" at the College Language Association March 25–28 in Baltimore.
Wendy Olson (assistant professor, English, WSU Vancouver) presented her paper "Theorizing Place in WPA Work" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication annual convention in San Francisco in March.
Camille Roman (professor emeritus, English, American studies, and women's studies) reports that Kindle electronic book editions of her coedited The Women and Language Debate: A Sourcebook and volume one of her coedited The New Anthology of American Poetry are now available. She also has signed a letter of agreement to consult on a public television film project about Hawaii.
Susan Ross (professor, English; associate dean, liberal arts) presented her paper "Limning Terror: The Limits to the Power of 'Terrorism' Discourse" at the International Conference on Conflict, Terrorism, and Society held at Kadir Has University in Istanbul in April. Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey, help to support her participation. Ross has also received a week-long writer's residency at Wild Acres Retreat in New Switzerland, North Carolina, during September 2009. The Wild Acres Residency Program began in 1999 and hosts about two dozen writers, artists, and musicians each year. She has also been awarded a one-month writer's residency at the Lillian E. Smith Center for the Creative Arts in Clayton, Georgia, for this summer.
Linda Russo (clinical assistant professor, English) has been awarded an Artist Residency at Centrum (http://www.centrum.org/) in Port Townsend, Washington. She'll travel there in August.
Carol Siegel (professor, English, WSU Vancouver) presented her paper "Oh, So American: Kathy Acker's Spiritualization of the Erotic" at the American Literature Association conference in Boston in May.
Anne Stiles (assistant professor, English) presented a paper entitled "Photographic Memory in Grant Allen's Recalled to Life" at the sixth annual North American Victorian Studies Association conference at Yale University in November. She was recently named coeditor of the Victorian section of Literature Compass Online, an online journal published by Blackwell.
Victor Villanueva (professor, English) has been named the 2009 Exemplar of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He will be the 19th recipient within this 60-year-old organization.
Brenna Helm (B.F.A. '97) and Tamara Helm (instructor, fine arts and women's studies) were accepted for the Expressions West 2009 Juried Exhibition at Coos Museum, Coos Bay, Oregon, April 24 to June 27. Painters from Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington were invited to submit. Out of 404 submissions by 165 artists, 67 works by 64 artists were accepted.
Carol Ivory (professor, fine arts) has been invited to deliver the commencement address for the University of Washington School of Art on June 11.
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I Surrender
Nickolus Meisel (assistant professor, fine arts) had a solo exhibition, I Surrender, at the Frances Anderson Gallery in Edmonds, Washington, from March 16 to May 1. View more photos >
Io Palmer (assistant professor, fine arts) was a guest lecturer for the Gallen Ceramic Lecture Series at the University of Southern California. Palmer will also be conducting two residencies this summer, at the Santa Fe Art Institute and at the James Washington House in Seattle. Both residencies awarded her a fellowship and stipend, respectively. At each residency she will continue to work on her creative research, where she uses a variety of materials including linen, hair, metal, and paint to create "performative objects." In June 2008, she traveled to China to conduct an artist's residency at Art Channel in Beijing. As a resident artist, she worked with Japanese performance artist Magumi Shimizu to create performances and sculptures. Through WSU, Palmer was awarded a Meyer Travel Grant and a Canada Mini-grant to travel to Concordia University in Montreal. In Canada she delivered a lecture and participated in the exhibition Hair Follies. As part of Reed College's Working History exhibition, Palmer's work was reviewed in the U.K. journal Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture.
Reza Safavi (assistant professor, fine arts) received an Artist Trust GAP grant to purchase six mini LCD screens to be mounted in six red gas cans to help complete an interactive video installation work. As a development from a previous, smaller-scale piece, "Video Tanks" is to be a new work that involves multiple gas tanks networked physically and virtually together. His current interests stand in the examination of how the presence of technology in daily life shapes human experience.
Rachel Halverson (associate professor, German) presented the paper "Von Gomringer zu Goethe: Gedichte mal zwei" at the ACTFL/AATG conference in Orlando, Florida, on November 22. She has received a Goethe-Institut Professional Development Grant to participate in the seminar "Fortbildung im Erwachsenenbereich" in Bonn, Germany, June 28 through July 11, 2009.
In February, Vilma Navarro-Daniels (assistant professor, Spanish) gave a presentation titled "Juana of Castile: Heretic, Iluminada, or Erasmist?" at the first International Conference on Literature, Culture, and Religion in the Hispanic World, held at the University of Texas, San Antonio. The full version of her research paper was published last October as part of the book Juana of Castile: History and Myth of the Mad Queen, published by Bucknell University Press. She was also invited to Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, to give a lecture May 13 on Peninsular Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.
Robert Bauman (associate professor, history, WSU Tri-Cities) participated in a roundtable at the Organization of American Historians' annual meeting in Seattle in March. The panel was titled "The War on Poverty: Grassroots Struggles for Racial and Economic Justice." Bauman recently received research grants from the Cushwa Center for American Catholicism and the Presbyterian Historical Society for his current project, "Religion, Community Organizations, and the Long War on Poverty."
Robert McCoy (assistant professor, history) has accepted the position of historian on the Governor's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The board reviews nominations to the National Register of Historic Places and the Washington Heritage Register. The council also acts in advisory capacity to the governor on policy issues regarding preservation activities in the state and recommends to the state historical preservation Officer placement of properties onto the state and national register.
Matthew Sutton (assistant professor, history) gave an invited lecture, "Sex and God in the City of the Angels: The Kidnapping of Aimee Semple McPherson and American Culture," at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis, on April 1. He was also awarded a College of Liberal Arts Berry Family CLA Faculty Excellence Fellowship, which will help fund research for his current book project, entitled American Evangelicals and the Politics of Apocalypse (under contract with Harvard) and will also help him develop a new interdisciplinary course entitled "Religion and American Culture."
Marina Tolmacheva with Prince Hassan of Jordan
Marina Tolmacheva (professor, history) plans to return to teaching at WSU next spring. She has been on an extended leave, serving as president of American University of Kuwait since 2006.
Music faculty Gerald E. Berthiaume (director), Keri McCarthy (assistant professor), and Shannon Scott (instructor) will present a lecture-recital titled "Music of Vietnam and Saibai (Papua New Guinea) for Oboe, Clarinet, and Piano" at the College Music Society's national conference in October.
Jazz Northwest, a WSU School of Music faculty ensemble, was the featured guest group at the Auburn Jazz Festival in March. The group included Kathleen Hollingsworth, vocals and keyboards; Greg Yasinitsky, saxophone; Brendan McMurphy, trumpet (a graduate student substituting for David Turnbull); Frederick "Dave" Snider, bass; and David Jarvis, drums.
Lori Wiest (associate professor, music) is the new president-elect of the Washington State American Choral Directors Association.
Berthiaume, A. Yasinitsky, G. Yasinitsky
Ann Marie Yasinitsky (clinical assistant professor, music) and Greg Yasinitsky (regents professor, music) gave the invited presentation "Genesis of a Concertino" at the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities in Honolulu in January. Their presentation included a performance with Ann as the flute soloist in Greg's Concertino for Flute, assisted by pianist Gerald Berthiaume (professor and director, music). Ann was also featured as the soloist in Greg's Concertino for Flute and Orchestra at the University of Central Missouri (UCM) International New Music Festival in March, performing with the UCM Symphony Orchestra.
Greg Yasinitsky (regents professor, music) gave a series of invited lectures on the music of Duke Ellington and "Jazz as the Embodiment of American Diversity," and performed as a guest soloist on a gala concert featuring music from the Ellington Sacred Concerts as part of Black History Month celebrations at Willamette College in Salem, Oregon, in February. He performed as a guest soloist with the Jill Townsend Big Band, a group of top Canadian jazz musicians, at the Kiwanis Jazz Festival in Vancouver, B.C., also in February. Yasinitsky was commissioned to compose two new pieces for jazz big band—"Preferred Blend" and "That's How We Roll"—especially for the University of Portland Jazz Festival in April. All of the bands participating in the festival performed Yasinitsky's new works. Yasinitsky will be a featured composer at California State University, Bakersfield, at a upcoming concert in June. The CSUB Concert Band will perform Yasinitsky's composition "First Flight."
In April, Nicholas Lovrich (professor, political science) gave an invited guest lecture at Kansas University, where former dean John C. Pierce is now affiliate faculty in the Department of Public Administration, titled "Social Capital and Local Government Performance." Lovrich has also been reappointed to the advisory board for the Washington State Center for Court Research.
Rebecca Craft (professor, psychology) received a 2009 Honors College Faculty Thesis Advisor of the Year award and also the Women & Leadership Forum 2009 Research Faculty Mentor of the Year award.
Steve Lakatos and co-investigators Tahira Probst, Mike Morgan, and JP Garofalo—all psychology faculty members at WSU Vancouver—have been awarded $145,000 from the National Science Foundation's Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program to develop a problem-based learning laboratory for undergraduate statistics and research methods.
Sarah Tragesser (assistant professor, psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) has been invited to join the editorial board for the Journal of Research in Personality. This journal has the fastest growing impact factor score in the area of personality over the past five years.
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Eugene (Gene) Rosa (professor, sociology) has been elected chair-elect of Section K (Social, Economic, and Political Sciences), one of the 24 sections of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He will assume his role as chair of the section at the annual meetings of the association in 2010. This is his second election to this post (having served as chair-elect and chair in 2000–2002), a very rare occurrence for the association. AAAS is the largest general scientific body in the world, with more than 100,000 members worldwide, and the publisher of the journal Science. Rosa also had his sculpture "Rightedness" reviewed and accepted for the International Museum of Women's latest online project, taking place January through September 2009. The museum, located in San Francisco, is showcasing the talents of its global community in its Exhibiting You project. He was quoted in the March 19 issue of The Economist on the public acceptance of nuclear power in the United States, and he was recently an invited participant at the founding workshop of the Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior team at Stanford University.
Jeanne Johnson (associate professor, speech and hearing sciences) was the honorary speaker for the Guy A. Renzaglia Lecture and Rehabilitation Institute Award Ceremony at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, on April 14. The title of her lecture was "How Neurophysiology Informs Our Practice."
Gail Chermak (professor and chair, speech and hearing sciences) delivered the keynote address via videoconference at the Symposium on Central Auditory Processing Disorder in March, organized by the Audiology Committee of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics in collaboration with the Unit of Audiology and Unit of Phoniatrics of the ENT Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. She also gave two lectures on the diagnosis and treatment of (central) auditory processing disorder.
Noël Sturgeon (professor, women's studies) was asked by the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University in Houston to participate as a seminar leader on January 22 for their Feminist Research Group on the topic of women, environment, and cultures of globalization. She was asked to participate as a visiting scholar on January 29 in a workshop on "Critical Perspectives on Environment and Women's Health" by the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, a Center of Excellence at York University in Toronto, Canada. She also gave an invited talk at the Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Toronto on January 30 titled "Penguin Family Values: The Nature of Environmental Reproductive Justice."
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