Members of the Lawrence University faculty are active contributors to their professional communities, as well as outstanding teachers. In addition to their many presentations and performances on campus, here are some of their other achievements in 2000-2001.
Minoo Adenwalla, professor of government and Mary Mortimer Professor of Liberal Studies, published "A Courageous Ruling -- The U. S. Presidential Election" in Freedom First: A Liberal Quarterly.
Cellist Janet Anthony, professor of music, performed the Brahms Clarinet Trio on a CD recently released on the IBW label. She continued her affiliation with the Holy Trinity Summer Music School in Port-au-Prince and Leoganne, Haiti, joined in the summer of 2000 by five Lawrence students and colleague Robert Levy.
Elia J. Armacanqui-Tipacti, assistant professor of Spanish, presented the paper "Elementes culturales de la Colonia en Vida de Sor Maria Manuela" at the 2000 Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature and the paper "Es el convento un lugar propio de la mujer?" at a conference on Women Writers from Early Modern Times in Mexico City.
Marcia Bjørnerud, associate professor of geology, published the abstract "Metamorphism as a heterogeneous, discontinuous, nonequilibrium process: A model for the partially eclogitized granulites of the Bergen Arcs" in the Norsk Geologisk Forenings Vintermøte. During her stay in Norway as a Fulbright Scholar, she delivered talks at the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, the Geological Museum, and a Fulbright seminar.
Mary F. Blackwell, associate professor of chemistry, received the 2001 Freshman Studies Teaching Prize.
In profile: Kenneth Bozeman, Frank C. Shattuck Professor of Music
John R. Brandenberger, Alice B. Chapman Professor of Physics, received a 2001 Distinguished Achievement Award from his alma mater, Carleton College.
Karen L. Carr, professor of religious studies, published "After Paganism: Kierkegaard, Socrates, and the Christian Tradition" in Kierkegaard after MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue. She also presented the paper "Disciplinary Anxiety and the Academic Study of Religion" at Indiana University.
Jeffrey J. Clark, assistant professor of geology, was the 2001 recipient of Lawrence's Young Teacher Award. Together with P. W. Wilcock, '00, he published "Effects of Land Use Change on Channel Morphology and Hydraulic Geometry in Northeastern Puerto Rico" in the GSA Bulletin, and together with Anthony R. Hoch, assistant professor of geology, he published "Using the Minutes of Meetings to Monitor Service-Learning Projects" in the Journal of Geoscience Education.
Paul M. Cohen, professor of history, presented the paper "The Priest, the Wife, and the Experts: A Parable of Modern France as Told by Michelet and Foucault" at the Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium at the University of Illinois.
In profile: Jeffrey Collett, associate professor of physics
David M. Cook, professor of physics and Philetus E. Sawyer Professor of Science, presented "Strengthening Computation in Upper-Level Undergraduate Physics Programs" at the summer meetings and "Preparing Sophomores to Use Computation Independently as Juniors and Seniors" at the winter meetings of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Other presentations included "The Physics Behind the Musical Scale" at Vassar College, "Strengthening Undergraduate Physics at Lawrence University" at the meetings of the American Physical Society, and "Computation in Undergraduate Physics: The Lawrence Approach" at the 2001 International Conference on Computer Science.
Bart T. De Stasio, Jr., '82, associate professor of biology, published "Evaluations of phytoplankton communities using varied techniques: A multi-media comparison of lakes in northern Wisconsin, USA" in Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie. Among his co-authors were Gretchen A. Gerrish, '98, and James M. Hood, '97. He presented "Genetic diversity in Daphnia: Comparisons of egg bank and planktonic populations" and "Assessing the impact of the invertebrate predator, Leptodora kindti, on Daphnia pulicaria population dynamics in Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
Elizabeth A. De Stasio, '83, associate professor of biology and Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science, presented "Novel alleles of sup-9, which encode a putative K+ channel, reveal defects in male mating" at the 13th International C. elegans meeting, along with Jason Tennessen, '01.
In profile: Franklin Doeringer, professor of history and Nathan M. Pusey Professor of East Asian Studies
James S. Evans, professor of chemistry and computer science and director of information technology planning, co-authored the paper "Cytoplasmic interactions between phospholamban residues 1-20 and the calcium-activated ATPase of the sarcoplasmic reticulum," published in the Biochemical Journal. He was also co-author of the paper "Phosphorylation of the Minimal Inhibitory Region at the C-terminal of Caldesmon Alters its Structural and Actin-Binding Properties," presented at the European Muscle Conference, and the paper "Map Kinase Phosphorylation at Serine 702 Alters Structural and Actin Binding Properties of Caldesmon," presented at the annual meeting of the Biochemical Society.
Fan Lei, associate professor of music, has been appointed artistic director of the Xian International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival to be held in Xian, China, in August 2002. He also has been named a permanent visiting professor of the Xian Conservatory of Music. During the past year he presented recitals and master classes in China, Taiwan, and Canada.
In profile: Gustavo Fares, associate professor of Spanish
Merton Finkler, professor of economics, was appointed to the executive committee for the Wisconsin Turning Point Initiative -- Implementation Planning, which is developing strategies to address 16 previously identified public and administrative-system priorities outlined in the state health plan, "Wisconsin 2010 Plan to Improve the Health of the Public."
Paul Fontana, visiting assistant professor of physics and director of laboratories, published "Spectroscopic Observation of Fluctuation-Induced Dynamo in the Edge of the Reversed-Field Pinch" in Physical Review Letters and co-authored "Modifications to the Edge Current Profile with Auxiliary Edge Current Drive and Improved Confinement in a Reversed-Field Pinch," published in Physics of Plasmas. He was one of several authors of a talk entitled "Nonlinear Dynamics of the Reversed-Field Pinch: Torques, Dynamo, and Reconnection," delivered at the Fusion Energy Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Italy.
Peter A. Fritzell, professor of English and Patricia Hamar Boldt Professor of Liberal Studies, authored the entry "Nature Writing" in The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia, published by Garland Press.
Peter S. Glick, professor of psychology, published several articles during the past year: "An Ambivalent Alliance: Hostile and Benevolent Sexism as Complementary Justifications of Gender Inequality" appeared in American Psychologist, "Ambivalent Sexism" appeared in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, and "Beyond Prejudice as Simple Antipathy: Hostile and Benevolent Sexism across Cultures" appeared in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His chapter titled "Ambivalent Stereotypes as Legitimizing Ideologies: Differentiating Paternalistic and Envious Prejudice" appeared in The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations, published by Cambridge University Press. Finally, he delivered invited talks at locales including the University of Kentucky, DePaul University, the Universidad de Vigo in Spain, and the Congress of the Interamerican Society of Psychology in Santiago, Chile.
Bertrand A. Goldgar, professor of English and John N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities, published "Imitation and Plagiarism: The Lauder Affair and Its Critical Aftermath" in Studies in the Literary Imagination. He also delivered the paper "Fielding and Concepts of Plagiarism" at the annual meeting of the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Natasha Gray, assistant professor of history, presented the paper "Witchcraft Litigation in Colonial Ghana: Findings from the Akyem Abuakwa Native Tribunal, 1913-1936" at the African Studies Association Annual Convention.
Beth A. Haines, associate professor of psychology, published "The Children's Attributional Style Interview: Developmental Tests of Cognitive Diathesis-Stress Theories of Depression" in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Among her co-authors were Associate Professor of Psychology Gerald Metalsky and Lawrence alumnae Colleen S. Conley, '97, and Lori M. Hilt, '97. Her essay on "Gender Variations in Children's Behavior and Learning Styles?" appeared in The Mommy Guide to Kindergarten, published by Contemporary Books.
In profile: Anthony Hoch, assistant professor of geology
Karen A. Hoffmann, '87, assistant professor of English, presented "Willa Cather's Implicit Commentary on the Autobiographical Act in My Antonia" at the Midwestern Conference on Film, Language, and Literature.
Eilene Hoft-March, associate professor of French, published "Still Breathing: Sarah Kofman's Memoirs of Holocaust Survival" in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association and a review of Hilda, by Marie Ndiaye, in the French Review.
Joy Jordan, assistant professor of statistics, presented a paper titled "A Test of Marginal Homogeneity Versus Stochastic Ordering in Contingency Tables" at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
Steven Jordheim, professor of music, was visiting professor of saxophone at Indiana University-Bloomington during September 2000. He spent July 2001 as professor of saxophone at the International Saxophone Chamber Music Festival in Faenza, Italy. He received the 2001 University Award for Excellence in Teaching.
In profile: Derek Katz, assistant professor of music
Pianist Catherine Kautsky, professor of music, presented a lecture recital, "Words, Pianos, and the French Imagination," at the College Music Society National Convention in Toronto and another lecture recital, "Debussy's Poets: A Look at the Preludes and the Artists that Inspired Them," at the Music Teachers National Association Convention in Washington, D.C. She also presented concerts and master classes in Beijing, Xian, and Nanjing, China.
Edmund M. Kern, associate professor of history, wrote the entries on "Giordano Bruno," "Nicolaus Copernicus," "Galilei Galileo," "Johann Kepler," and "Paracelsus" for Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary, published by Greenwood Press.
Michael Kim, assistant professor of music, performed piano concerti with Orchestra Toronto, Milwaukee Festival City Symphony, the Vancouver Symphony, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Solo recital venues included the International Concert Alliance of New York City, the MacPhail Centre for the Arts in Minneapolis, Live from the Elvejhem on Wisconsin Public Radio, Live from Studio One on WFMT Radio-Chicago, and the Newmarket Three for the Show recital series in Toronto.
Kathryn M. Kueny, assistant professor of religious studies, published the book The Rhetoric of Sobriety: Wine in Early Islam. She also published "Uncrossing the Boundaries: Studying Islam in the Field" in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion and a review of The Shaping of an American Islamic Discourse: A Memorial to Fazlur Rahman in the Journal of Religion. At the meeting of the American Academy of Religion, she presented a paper titled "Jewish and Islamic Prohibitions."
In profile: Carol Lawton, professor of art history
Mezzo soprano Karen Leigh-Post, C'79, assistant professor of music, organized the 2001 Spring Workshop of the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing held at Lawrence. Clinicians included her teacher and mentor Shirlee Emmons, C'44, D.F.A '00.
Robert Levy, professor of music, conducted the Lawrence Wind Ensemble on its newest CD, "Premieres 2000," released on the Mark Custom label. He performed solo trumpet and chamber music concerts at the conservatories in Beijing and Xian, China.
Rebecca Epstein Matveyev, assistant professor of Russian, published a review of The Life of Musorgsky in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association.
In profile: Randall McNeill, assistant professor of classics
Gerald I. Metalsky, associate professor of psychology, published the following articles during the past academic year: "Attributional Style, Self-Esteem, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Test of the Hopelessness and Self-Esteem Theories of Depression" in the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment; "Hopelessness Depression as a Distinct Dimension of Depressive Symptoms among Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples" in Behavior Research and Therapy; "Hopelessness Mediates the Association between Social Support and Depressive Symptoms among Men with Human Immunodeficiency Virus" in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; "The Relative Specificity of Excessive Reassurance-Seeking to Depressive Symptoms and Diagnoses among Clinical Samples of Adults and Youth" in the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment; and "The Children's Attributional Style Interview: Developmental Tests of Cognitive Diathesis-Stress Theories of Depression" in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. Among the co-authors of the last article are Beth Haines, associate professor of psychology, Colleen S. Conley, '97, and Lori M. Hilt, '97.
Matthew Michelic, associate professor of music, taught viola at the CREDO Chamber Music Program in Illinois and at the International School of Musical Arts in Canada during the summer. Last year he presented master classes for the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the Peabody Preparatory Program.
Violinist Anton Miller, assistant professor of music, served on the faculty for several summer music festivals, including the Silver Bay Summer Music Festival, the Killington Music Festival, and the Aria International Music Academy.
Brigetta Miller, C'89, assistant professor of music, participated in the first-ever music education cultural exchange in Havana, Cuba, with the People to People Ambassador Program. She also served on the Wisconsin Arts Board's Community Development Project grant panel.
Rex C. Myers, lecturer in history and freshman studies, published "Railroads, Stone Quarries, and the Colorado State Capitol" in the Journal of the West and a review of Charles Russell Roundup: Essays on America's Favorite Cowboy Artist, edited by Brian W. Dippie, in South Dakota History.
Howard Niblock, professor of music, served as principal oboe for the Green Lake Festival Orchestra, the Pamiro Opera Orchestra, the Central Wisconsin Symphony, and the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra. He performed on the world premiere performance of his own composition, "Six Little Variations" for oboe, clarinet, and cello, at the People's University of China in Beijing.
Karen J. Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry, co-authored the articles "LEDs: New Lamps for Old -- a Paradigm for Ongoing Curricular Modernization" in the Journal of Chemical Education and "It's a Small World" in Muse. She conducted an invited workshop on "Semiconductors and Metals" at the NSF Solid State Chemistry Program for Undergraduates and College Faculty at Clemson University and presented several papers at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Diego.
Michael T. Orr, associate professor of art history, authored the book An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. The Bodleian Library, Oxford. Fascicle II: Doesworth-Marshall, published by Harvey Miller Press. He delivered a paper on "The Making of the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript" at the annual meeting of Early Music Now in Milwaukee.
Peter N. Peregrine, associate professor of anthropology, co-edited and wrote many entries for East Asia and Oceania, volume three in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum. He also authored the Outline of Archaeological Traditions, published by HRAF Press. His articles included "Matrilocality, Corporate Strategy, and the Organization of Production in the Chacoan World" in American Antiquity, "Cross-Cultural Comparative Approaches in Archaeology" in the Annual Review of Anthropology, and a "Comment on Ratnagar 'The Bronze Age: Unique Instance of a Preindustrial World System?'" in Current Anthropology.
Bruce Pourciau, professor of mathematics, published "The Integrability of Ovals: Newton's Lemma 28 and its Counterexamples" in the Archive for History of Exact Sciences, "Newton and the Notion of Limit" in Historia Mathematica, and "Intuitionism as a Kuhnian Revolution in Mathematics" in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. He reviewed "A New Translation of and Guide to Newton's Principia" for the Annals of Science and Reading the Principia: The Debate on Newton's Mathematical Philosophy from 1687 to 1736, by Niccolò Guicciardini, for ISIS: The Journal of the History of Science Society.
Jerald E. Podair, assistant professor of history, published "Blacks and Latinos: The Next Racial Divide" in Insight and presented a paper titled "'Making Our Own Rules for Our Own Schools': Racial Identity and the Battle for New York City's Education Market, 1960-1980" at the annual meeting of the Society of American Historians in Los Angeles. His comments on the historical significance of the 2000 presidential election were published in newspapers including the Boston Herald, the Charlotte Observer, and the Miami Herald.
Katherine L. Privatt, assistant professor of theatre and drama, co-chaired a session on "Teaching with Technology" at the national conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She directed a production of A View from the Bridge, by Arthur Miller, for the Attic Theatre in Appleton.
Bridget-Michaele Reischl, associate professor of music and Kimberly Clark Professor of Music, has been named music director of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. During the 2000-2001 season, she served as guest conductor with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Gretchen M. Revie, assistant professor and reference librarian in the Seeley G. Mudd Library, published "Integrating Information Technology into Teaching at Grinnell College" in Research Strategies. She also was admitted to and attended the Association of College and Research Libraries' Institute for Information Literacy.
Terry L. Rew-Gottfried, professor of psychology, received a Fulbright grant to serve as visiting lecturer and research scholar at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He published the abstracts "Duration and Rate Effects on English Vowel Identification by Native Spanish Listeners" and "Relation of Pitch Glide Perception and Mandarin Tone Identification" in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
In profile: Susan Richards, associate professor and director of the Seeley G. Mudd Library
Percussionist Dane Richeson, associate professor of music, toured China last November with the Jackie Allen Group, performing at the Beijing Music Festival and jazz clubs in Hong Kong. He also performed at the Faenza Estate Musica 2000 Festival del Sassophono in Italy, at the Big Top Chautauqua in Wisconsin, at the Seven Springs Jazz Festival in Pennsylvania, and the Isthmus Jazz Festival in Wisconsin. He collaborated with artists including Gene Bertoncini, Terry Gibbs, Howard Levy, Lynette Margulies, Randy Sabien, and Ben Sidran.
Nancy Rogers, assistant professor of music, has been appointed to the Committee for the Status of Women of the Society for Music Theory and elected treasurer of Music Theory Midwest. She presented a paper on "Evidence of Verbal Encoding in Memory for Timbre" at the annual conference of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition in Toronto.
Yumi Janairo Roth, assistant professor of art, presented her work in a solo exhibition titled Parts and Labor at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. She also exhibited her work in group shows in locations including Milwaukee, Miami, Boston, Madison, and New York City.
Judith Holland Sarnecki, associate professor of French, published the essay "Mastering the Master: Aimé Césaire's Creolization of Shakespeare's The Tempest" in The French Review and delivered a paper titled "Make Room for Daddy?" at the Modern Language Association Meeting in Washington, D.C. Her scholarly work on tattoos was featured in an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
George R. Saunders, professor of anthropology and Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of the Social Sciences, published a review of The New Racism in Europe: A Sicilian Ethnography, by Jeffrey Cole, in the Journal of Modern Italian Studies. He organized and chaired a session titled "An Anthropologist in the Family: Papers in Honor of Donald Pitkin" at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco.
Claudena M. Skran, associate professor of government, presented a paper titled "The UNHCR and Ethnic Conflicts: Dealing with the 'Root Causes' of Refugee Movements" at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association in Chicago.
Timothy A. Spurgin, associate professor of English, published reviews of Who's Who in Dickens, by Donald Hawes, and Dickens Studies Annual 28 in Dickens Quarterly and Ballads, Songs, and Snatches, by C. M. Jackson-Houlton, in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association. He organized and chaired a session on "Celebrity Culture" at the meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association in Kansas City.
Matthew R. Stoneking, assistant professor of physics, presented a paper titled "Controlling Toroidal Electron Plasma Equilibrium with a Horizontal Electric Field" at the meeting of the Plasma Physics Division of the American Physical Society in Quebec City. Among his co-authors were Paul Fontana, visiting assistant professor of physics and director of laboratories, and Lawrence students Angela Kopp, '01, Robin L. Sampson, '02, and Derek J. Thuecks, '02.
In profile: Birgit Tautz Ramsey, assistant professor of German
Daniel J. Taylor, '63, the Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics, was awarded the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguistics at the University of Trieste in Italy for the 2002 spring semester.
Timothy X. Troy, '85, assistant professor of theatre and drama, directed productions of Amadeus for the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble in Illinois and Hansel and Gretel for the Milwaukee Opera Theatre.
Lifongo Vetinde, assistant professor of French, published the articles "Utopias, Transgressions, and Hybridity: Amadou Seck's Representation of Postcoloniality in Saaraba" in Ufahamu Journal and "Ousmane Sembèné's Discourse on Nationhood in O pays mon beau people!" in Langues et Littératures. His review of Trop de soleil tue l'amour, by Mongo Beti, was published in The French Review.
Patricia Vilches, visiting associate professor of Spanish and Italian, presented the paper "Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Female Subjectivity and Erudition" at the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures and the paper "La Malattia Dello Stato: Lucrezia's Medicine in Niccolò Michiavelli's La Mandragola² at the Sixteenth- Century Studies Conference in Cleveland.
Dirck Vorenkamp, assistant professor of religious studies, published "Tiantai/T'ien-t'ai: China" in the Encyclopedia of Monasticism. He delivered a paper titled "Asymmetrical Symmetry and Symmetrical Asymmetry: Time in Chinese Buddhism" at the regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Nancy A. Wall, associate professor of biology, published "Mesendoderm Induction and Reversal of Left-Right attern by Mouse Gdf1, a Vg1-related Gene" in Developmental Biology.
President Richard Warch contributed a chapter, "If You Build It They Will Come . . . and Stay," to the volume Academic Excellence: The Role of Research in the Physical Sciences at Undergraduate Institutions, published by Research Corporation of Tucson, Arizona. He also participated in a conference of the same name, sponsored by Research Corporation and four other foundations, held at Fermilab in June.
Ernestine Whitman, associate professor of music, performed as principal flute with the Pamiro Opera in Green Bay and presented a concert and master class at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.
Jere Wickens, adjunct assistant professor of anthropology, presented "The Classical Hamlet and Late Roman Sites of Kourmali near Karystos, Euboea" at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in San Diego.
Jane Parish Yang, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures, published a translation titled "The Chignon" in Ch'i Chun, Proses in Chinese and English. Her review of David and Helen in China: An Intermediate Course in Modern Chinese, Part I and II, by Phyllis Ni Zhang with Yuan-yuan Meng, Donald K. Chang, and Irene C. Liu, was published in the Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association.
Richard L. Yatzeck, professor of Russian, published the stories "Smokey," "Last of Smokey," and "Smokey's Get" in Sport Literate; the stories "The Tallest Story" and "Willard" in Wisconsin Outdoor Journal; the poem "Blood Sport" in Gray's Sporting Journal; the articles "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Writing Space" in The Writer; and "Fall Day," a translation of Rilke's "Herbsttag," in Oasis.