Members of the Lawrence faculty were active in scholarly endeavors and creative projects throughout the 2001-02 academic year. Space does not permit listing their many accomplishments as teachers, scholars, musicians, artists, and speakers on campus, but some of their significant off-campus or public achievements are summarized here.
Minoo Adenwalla, professor emeritus of government, published "We Shall Not Sleep -- Terror in the U.S.A." in Freedom First -- A Liberal Quarterly.
Matthew E. Ansfield, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored "The development of deception detection skills: A longitudinal study of same sex friends," which appeared in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
In profile: Richard Bjella, associate professor of music
Marcia Bjørnerud, professor of geology, published "Comment on 'Evidence for shear heating, Musgrave Block, central Australia'" in the Journal of Structural Geology. She presented the papers "Fluid-triggered, rheologically buffered eclogite metamorphism, Bergen Arcs, western Norway" and "Strain heterogeneity in an early Proterozoic metavolcanic complex, central Wisconsin" at the meeting of the Geological Society of America, the latter with co-author Emily Schultz, '02.
Peter A. Blitstein, assistant professor of history, published "Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-1953" in A State of Nations: The Soviet State and Its Peoples in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford University Press).
Gina Bloom, assistant professor of English, published "Locating Disembodied Voice in Sandys' Translation of 'Narcissus and Echo'" in Ovid and the Renaissance (Toronto University Press). She also presented the paper "Turning a Deaf Side to the Devil: Defensive Female Hearing in the English Protestant Church and Theatre" at the meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies.
"Gratitude and Justice," an essay by Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald, assistant professor of philosophy, was re-printed in the collection Ethics for Everyday (McGraw Hill).
John R. Brandenberger, Alice B. Chapman Professor of Physics, published the paper "Fine-structure Splittings in 2F states of Rubidium via Three-Step Laser Spectroscopy" in Physical Review A. His co-authors included Cynthia A. Regal, '01, Ryan Jung, '02, and Michael Yakes, '01. He also delivered a talk on "Attracting and Holding Physics Majors" at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Physicists.
In profile: David M. Cook, professor of physics and the Philetus E. Sawyer Professor of Science
Bart T. De Stasio, Jr., '82, associate professor of biology, published "Ecological genetics of Daphnia in permanent lakes in northeastern Wisconsin, USA" in Verhandlugen Internationale Vereinigung Limnologie and "Ratio-dependent functional responses -- tests with the zooplanktivore Mysis mixta" in the Marine Ecology Progress Series. Among his co-authors were Elizabeth M. Hillebrand '96, Bambi Radecki Weyers, '96, and M. Ali Mohammadian, '94. He also was principal investigator on a successful application to the Merck Foundation for a grant to support a project entitled "Characterization and activity of chemical messengers in biological systems." The grant will provide support to the biology and chemistry departments over the next three years.
Elizabeth A. De Stasio, '83, associate professor of biology and Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science, published "Optimization of ENU mutagenesis of C. elegans" in Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis. Her co-author was Sara Dorman, '98.
Franklin M. Doeringer, Nathan M. Pusey Professor of East Asian Studies and professor of history, was appointed co-leader of the history editorial panel of MERLOT, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, an Internet project established and overseen by a consortium of 30 major universities.
John P. Dreher, Lee Claflin-Robert S. Ingraham Professor of Philosophy, was the recipient of the 2002 Freshman Studies Teaching Award.
Fan Lei, associate professor of music, received one of the highest honors given by the Chinese Music Institution when he was appointed visiting professor of clarinet at the Central Conservatory of Music. His interview on Shang Dong National Television last May was broadcast throughout Southeast Asia and China.
Gustavo Fares, associate professor of Spanish, delivered a paper on "Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo como metáfora antropológica" at the Midwest Conference on Latin American Studies and a talk titled "Making Art in America: A Personal Visual Journey" at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. His visual art was exhibited at galleries in Neenah, Rhinelander, Madison, and Door County.
Merton D. Finkler, professor of economics, received a research grant from the Cobalt Corporation to investigate the variation in health care cost trends in six metropolitan areas in the north central United States.
In profile: Mark Frazier, assistant professor of government
Peter A. Fritzell, professor of English and Patricia Hamar Boldt Professor of Liberal Studies, published "Homeland Sharptails: An Old Hunter's Reflections" in North Dakota Outdoors and "Maternal Legacy -- On the Pass, 1946," a poem, in Sporting Tales.
In profile: Peter Gilbert, associate professor and reference and instructional technology librarian
Peter S. Glick, professor of psychology, published "A model of (often mixed) stereotype content: Competence and warmth respectively follow from perceived status and competition" in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and "Prescriptive gender stereotypes and backlash toward agentic women" in the Journal of Social Issues. His article titled "Sacrificial lambs dressed in wolves' clothing: Envious prejudice, ideology, and the scapegoating of Jews" was included in Understanding Genocide: The Social Psychology of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press), and another entitled "Emotions up and down: Intergroup emotions result from perceived status and competition" was included in From Prejudice to Intergroup Emotions: Differentiated Reactions to Social Groups (Psychology Press). He also was named to the editorial boards of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Psychological Inquiry.
Bertrand A. Goldgar, professor of English and John N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities, delivered a paper titled "The Grub-Street Journal: Construction and Control of its Readership" at the annual meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Natasha Gray, assistant professor of history, published "Witches, Oracles, and Colonial Law: Evolving Anti-Witchcraft Practices in Colonial Ghana" in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.
Joseph N. Gregg, Jr., associate professor of mathematics, released version 1.6.1 of his Liebniz software for Windows and Macintosh computers. His article, "Leibniz: Implementing a Drag-and-Drop Calculator," appeared in The Mathematica Journal.
Beth A. Haines, associate professor of psychology, published "Integrating Themes from Cognitive and Social Cognitive Development into the Study of Judgment and Decision Making" in Emerging Perspectives on Judgment and Decision Research (Cambridge University Press).
Martha Hemwall, '73, dean of student academic services and adjunct associate professor of anthropology, was selected to receive the Commission Award for Service to the Commission on Small Colleges and Universities by the National Academic Advising Association.
Bruce E. Hetzler, professor of psychology, published "Effects of ethanol on flash-evoked potential of rats: Lack of antagonism by naltrexone" in the journal Alcohol. His co-author was Ewa M. Bednarek, '98.
Karen A. Hoffmann, '87, assistant professor of English, presented "Anxiety, Revision, and Imperial Practices in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier" at the International Narrative Conference.
Eilene Hoft-March, associate professor of French, published reviews of Une chaise, by Roch Carrier, and Charité, by Frédéric-Yves Jeannet, in The French Review.
Catherine W. Hollis, assistant professor of English, delivered the papers "Modernist Collaborations and 'Little Women,'" at the Modernist Studies Association meeting, and "Virginia Woolf's History of the Book," at the Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. She also was awarded a fellowship by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
In profile: Eugénie Hunsicker, assistant professor of mathematics
Joy Jordan, assistant professor of statistics, was the 2002 recipient of Lawrence's Young Teacher Award. She presented a paper titled "Orally Recorded Exam Feedback: A New Method of Communicating with Students" at the Joint Statistical Meetings.
Saxophonist Steven Jordheim, professor of music, returned to France in June to study with composer Lucie Robert. He will perform the premiere of Robert's concerto for saxophone and chamber orchestra at Lawrence in May 2003. He also served as sound designer for two productions of the Lawrence University Theatre, Anna Karenina and The Learned Ladies.
Jerzy Jura, assistant professor of Spanish, published "Complicating Complexity: Reflections on Writing about Pictures" in Postmodern Culture. He delivered a paper titled "Textual Excursions: The Use of Visual Elements in Contemporary Spanish Narrative" at the Cincinnati Romance Languages Conference and directed a workshop on "Incorporating Hispanic Art into the Beginning and Intermediate Spanish Curriculum" at the Conference of the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
Musicologist Derek Katz, assistant professor of music, was a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Visiting Fellow in the Department of Music at Princeton University during June and July. In addition, he had an article published in The New York Times, provided program notes for a Carnegie Hall concert by the Talich String Quartet and a program essay for the San Francisco Opera Performing Arts magazine, and presented a conference paper at the Czech Cultural Studies Workshop at Columbia University.
Edmund M. Kern, associate professor of history, published "Confessional Identity and Magic in the Late Sixteenth Century: Jakob Bithner and Witchcraft in Styria" in The Witchcraft Reader (Routledge) and a review of Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria: Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry, and Reason of State in Early Modern Europe in The Journal of Religion. His article on "Harry Potter, Stoic Boy Wonder" appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Michael Kim, associate professor of music, performed piano concerti with the Florida Orchestra in Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater; the Florence Symphony (South Carolina); the Fox Valley Symphony; the Edmonton and Regina Symphonies in Canada; and the Trujillo Symphony in Peru. Recital appearances included the Heifetz Institute and Summer Music Festival in Annapolis and "Live From Studio One" on WFMT radio in Chicago. He had two new CDs released on the Orpheum Masters label.
Bonnie Koestner, '72, assistant professor of music, continued her affiliation with Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York, as chorus master, pianist, and coach for the Summer 2002 season.
Kathryn M. Kueny, associate professor of religious studies, presented a paper on "Islamic Visions of Male Circumcision" at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion conference.
In profile: Ruth Lanouette, associate professor of German
Carol L. Lawton, professor of art history, received a Kress Agora Publications Fellowship to support her work on votive reliefs in Athens.
Rebecca Epstein Matveyev, associate professor of Russian, published a review of The Literary Lorgnette: Attending Opera in Imperial Russia in the Slavic and East European Journal. She also presented a paper titled "Recent Russian TV Game Shows: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Horace: Image, Identity, and Audience, written by Randall L. B. McNeill, assistant professor of classics, was published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Professor McNeill also published the article "So How Was Dinner? The Anxiety of Exclusion in Horace Satires 2.8" in Essays in Honor of Gordon Williams (Henry R. Schwab) and delivered the paper "Varus Stands By: Silence and Complicity in Catullus 10 and 22" at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Gerald I. Metalsky, associate professor of psychology, published "Excessive reassurance seeking: Delineating a risk factor involved in the development of depressive symptoms" in Psychological Science and "Hopelessness as a mediator of the association between social support and depressive symptoms: Findings of a study of men with HIV" in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
Soprano Patrice Michaels, associate professor of music, released two new recordings: The Virtuoso Handel and Vorisek Symphony in D/Mass in B-flat. She was an invited performer for "Music at the Supreme Court" in Washington, D.C., and the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Havana, Cuba. She presented a concert titled "The Divas of Mozart's Day" as part of the Northwestern University Concert Series.
In profile: Anton Miller, assistant professor of music
In profile: Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry
An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. The Bodleian Library, Oxford. Fascicle III: MSS e. Musaeo-Wood, co-authored by Michael Orr, associate professor of art history, was published by Harvey Miller Press. Professor Orr also delivered a lecture titled "Limners, Textwriters, Stationers: Recent Approaches to Understanding the Production of Illustrated Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century England" at the New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies and gave several talks throughout the state as part of the Wisconsin Humanities Council Speakers Bureau Program.
Pianist Anthony Padilla, associate professor of music, presented solo recitals on the 2002 Composers Centennial Series at Trinity Church in New York City, at the Estate Whim Plantation Museum on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Live from the Elvehjem" series, and at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music and Qingdao Music Festival in China.
Alan Parks, associate professor of mathematics, published "Mildly Non-Linear Codes" in the IMA Volumes on Mathematics.
Peter N. Peregrine, associate professor of anthropology, co-edited and wrote many entries for volumes four through six, on Europe, Middle America, and North America, of the Encyclopedia of Prehistory (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers). He also co-edited Archaeology: Original Readings in Method and Practice (Prentice Hall) and Physical Anthropology: Original Readings in Method and Practice (Prentice Hall). His other publications included "Reply to Schillachi and Stojanowski" in American Antiquity and book reviews in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Geoarchaeology.
Jerald E. Podair, assistant professor of history, published "The Strike That Changed New York: Race, Culture, and Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1960-1975" in Afro-Americans in New York Life and History. He presented a paper titled "Free Labor and Its Paradoxes: Edward Daniels and the Gunston Hall Experiment" at the Southern Labor Studies Conference and another titled "The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis of 1968: New York's Antigone" at the Conference on New York City History.
Bradford G. Rence, professor of biology, received Lawrence's 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award and the Mortar Board Honorary Award.
Terry L. Rew-Gottfried, professor of psychology, delivered guest lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norway, while in Denmark through the support of a Fulbright award.
Percussionist Dane Richeson, associate professor of music, spent a Term II sabbatical in Ghana, Africa, studying the music of the Ewe people. Highlights of his performance season included concerts with clarinetist Eddie Daniels with the Waukesha Symphony and at Ball State University, a performance on the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (Pittsburgh) Jazz Concert Series, and concerts in Chicago with CUBE contemporary chamber ensemble and in Madison on the Bach, Dancing, and Dynamite Chamber Music Series.
Brian Rosenberg, dean of the faculty and professor of English, published a review of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit, by John Bowen, in the Dickens Quarterly.
Judith Holland Sarnecki, associate professor of French, published "Trauma and Tattoo" in Anthropology of Consciousness. She also reviewed Cherche-Midi, by Catherine Clément, and Le petit voisin, by Jérôme Tonnere, for The French Review and wrote the entries on Marguerite Duras and Marguerite Yourcenar for Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Her presented papers included "Le tatoulage: memorial dans la peau" at the University of Toulouse and "Seeing Stars" at the meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
Tenor Rico Serbo, assistant professor of music, sang three performances as Alfredo in the Gold Coast Opera Company (Pompano Beach, Florida) production of Verdi's La Traviata. He continued his affiliation with the Bay View Music Festival, where he serves as artist-in-residence.
John Shimon and Julie Lindemann, instructors in art, exhibited their photographs at the Wendy Cooper Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin. Their photographs were also included in two books, Wisconsin Then and Now, by Nicolette Bromberg (University of Wisconsin Press) and Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes, by Lyle Rexer (Harry N. Abrams).
Claudena M. Skran, associate professor of government, reviewed "Bosnian Refugees in Austria and the United States: A Comparison of Temporary Protection Status and the Refugee Resettlement Program" for International Migration Review and organized and chaired a panel on "NGOs, UNHCR, and Humanitarian Assistance" at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association.
Timothy A. Spurgin, associate professor of English, published "The Times Magazine and Academic Megastars" in the minnesota review and reviews of American Episodes Involving Charles Dickens, by Sidney and Carolyn Moss, and Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens's Readings, by Kate Field, in the Dickens Quarterly. He also co-chaired a session on academic celebrity at the meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
Matthew R. Stoneking, assistant professor of physics, published "Electron Plasma Confinement in a Partially Toroidal Trap" in Non-neutral Plasmas IV and "Electron Plasmas in a 'Partial' Torus" in Physics of Plasmas. His co-authors included Robin L. Sampson, '02, and Derek J. Thuecks, '02.
Stéphane Tran Ngoc, assistant professor of music, has been added to the roster of Corbett Arts Management as a violin soloist. He will be a jury member in the 2002 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition in Paris.
In profile: Timothy X. Troy, '85, assistant professor of theatre and drama
Lifongo Vetinde, associate professor of French, published "Inscriptions of Exile in Jean-Marie Adiaffi's La Carte d'identité," along with a review of Angèle Ingué's Pour que ton ombre murmure encore, in The French Review. He also published a review of The Orient of the Boulevards: Exoticism, Empire, and Nineteenth Century French Theater, by Angela Pao, in Comparative Drama and presented a paper titled "The Dynamics of Agency in Ousmane Sembèné's Xala and Gaston Kaboré's Zan Boko" at the annual convention of the Northwest Modern Language Association.
Patricia Vilches, associate professor of Spanish and Italian, published a review of The World of Savonarola: Italian Élites and Perceptions of Crisis, by Stella Fletcher and Christine Shaw, in The Sixteenth Century Journal.
In profile: Nancy Wall, associate professor of biology
Jane Parish Yang, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures, presented "The Dao of Dialogue: Polyphonic Voicing in Tripmaster Monkey" at the International Conference on Chinese Transnationalism in the Age of Migration and Immigration and "Internships in China" at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association.
Richard L. Yatzeck, professor of Russian, published "Late Hunt with an Old Friend" in Gray's Sporting Journal, "The Last of the 80" in the Wisconsin Outdoor Journal, "The Knobbly Buck" in Deer and Deer Hunting, and "Georgia: A Memoir" in Sport Literate. His translations of "Motherland," by M. Yu, "Echo," by A. S. Pushkin, and "End-Piece," by R. M. Rilke appeared in Oasis: A Literary Journal.