Members of the Lawrence faculty were active in scholarly endeavors and creative projects during the 2002-03 academic year. Although space does not permit a full listing of their accomplishments as teachers, musicians, artists, and speakers on campus, some of their major off-campus and public accomplishments can be mentioned here.
Minoo Adenwalla, professor emeritus of government, had his review of Dinesh D’Souza’s What’s So Great About America published in Freedom First — A Liberal Quarterly in Bombay, India. His article, “After Saddam — The U.S. and the Near East,” appeared in The Executive Times in Dhakka, Bangladesh.
Matthew Ansfield, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored “Serious Lies” in Basic and Applied Social Psychology.
Cellist Janet Anthony, professor of music, performed concerts in England and Arizona with Duo Kléber. She also conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique Ste. Trinétee in December 2002 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Professor of Geology Marcia Bjørnerud was
elected a Fellow of the Geological
Society of America in May. She co-authored “Processes
leading to densification (eclogitization) of tectonically buried crust,” which
was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
Peter Blitstein, assistant professor of history, delivered a paper at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies titled “Soviet Nationality in Comparative Perspective.”
Assistant Professor of English Gina Bloom presented “Take Heed How You Hear: Agency and Audience” during the session “Re-Imagining Acoustics: Shakespeare, Sound, Audience” at the Shakespeare Association of America conference. As a member of a panel for the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations at the Modern Languages Association conference, she delivered a paper titled “‘Ope Thine Ear’: Aural-Sexual Receptivity and the Early Modern Audience.”
In profile: Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald, assistant professor of philosophy
Alexis Boylan, assistant professor of art history, presented a paper for the College Art Association in New York City titled “A Mother’s Touch: Sculpting the Career of Abastenia St. Leger Eberle.” She also presented a paper on “From Sea to Shining Sea: The Manufacturing of Regionalism in Frontier House” to the Film and History Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.
In profile: John Brandenberger, Alice B. Chapman Professor of Physics
Professor of Religious Studies Karen Carr was invited to participate in a workshop on nihilism at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her second book, The Sense of Antirationalism: The Religious Thought of Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard (co-authored with Philip J. Ivanhoe), was the featured review in Philosophy East and West.
Jeff Clark, assistant professor of geology, was co-author of a paper on “Depositional History and Physical Evolution of the Paso del Indio Site, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico” that was published in Geoarchaeology: An International Journal.
In profile: Paul Cohen, professor of history and Patricia Hamar Boldt Professor of Liberal Studies
The
Theory of the Electromagnetic Field by David Cook, professor
of physics and the Philetus E. Sawyer Professor of Science, is now available
in reprint from the Dover Mathematics and Science Catalog.
John Daniel, associate professor of music, continues as a trumpet artist and clinician for the Bach-Selmer Musical Instrument Company. He is repiano cornetist with the Brass Band of Battle Creek and has also been featured as soloist, conductor, flugelhornist, and arranger with that group.
In profile: Elizabeth De Stasio, ’83, associate professor of biology and Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science
Joseph D’Uva, assistant professor of art, received an invitation to “The Big Square” Print Portfolio Exchange and Exhibition, curated by Joel Peck, at Cornell University. He also was invited to exhibit work in “The Toy Show” at 1300 Gallery in Cleveland.
Itanium Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles by James Evans, professor of computer science and chemistry, and Gregory Trimper, ’92, was published by Prentice Hall PTR in their series of Hewlett-Packard Professional Books.
Clarinetist Fan Lei, associate professor of music, performed the Copland Clarinet Concerto with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra during the Taiwan International Clarinet Festival in August. He presented a masterclass at Yale University in April and continued as artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre of the Arts during the summer.
Gustavo Fares, associate professor of Spanish, delivered
a talk on “Construction
of a National Identity in Latin America” at the Midwest Modern Language
Association Conference. He continues as a member of the AP Spanish Test Development
Committee. His visual
art was
exhibited at the Grace Chosy Gallery in Madison and the Bergstrom-Mahler
Museum in Neenah.
Merton Finkler, professor of economics, reviewed a paper on prescription drug coverage and health care costs among seniors with chronic conditions for the Annals of Internal Medicine. He presented a paper at the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management titled “Healthcare Cost Differences in the 1990s: The Influence of Metropolitan Area Marketplace Dynamics.”
Mark Frazier, assistant professor of government and the
Henry Luce Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of East Asia, presented
three papers during
the last year: “State Sector Shrinkage and Workforce Reduction in 1990s
China” at “The Political Economy of Transition: Job Creation
and Job Destruction” for the Center for European Integration Studies
in Bonn, Germany; “There Ought to Be a Law: Evading Fees, Diverting
Funds, and Resolving Disputes over Pension Administration in China” at “Law
and Society in Contemporary China” for the University of California-Berkeley
School of Law; and “The Unfunded Mandate of Heaven: The Center, the
Cities, and the Politics of Pension Reform in China” as part of a panel
on “Governing
from the Center: Structural Reforms and Recentralization in China, Russia,
and Eastern Europe” at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association.
“Reading the Man of Sand County: An Essay on A Sand County Almanac” by Peter Fritzell, professor emeritus of English, was published in the June 2003 issue of Thresholds.
In profile: Peter Glick, professor of psychology
Bertrand Goldgar, professor of English and the John N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities, edited The Grub-street Journal, 1730-1733, a facsimile edition in four volumes with introduction and annotation. He also contributed the “Afterword” to Plagiarism in Early Modern England, edited by Paulina Kewes.
Natasha Gray, assistant professor of history, presented a paper on “Independent Spirits: Religious Repression and Popular Resistance in Colonial Ghana, 1900-1927” as part of a panel “Culture and Popular Resistance to Colonialism” at the 2002 annual meeting of the African Studies Association.
Christian Grose, assistant professor of government, co-authored an article titled “The Electoral Consequences of Party Switching by Incumbent Members of Congress, 1947-2000” that was published in Legislative Studies Quarterly. He presented talks at the University of Rochester, the University of Wisconsin Law School, the 2003 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, the 2002 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, and the 2003 meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association.
Associate
Professor of Psychology Beth Haines co-authored “Integrating
themes from cognitive and social cognitive development into the study of
judgment and decisionmaking” in Emerging Perspectives on Judgment
and Decision Research, edited
by S. L. Schneider & J. Shanteau. With Joy Jordan, assistant
professor of statistics, she published “Fostering
Quantitative Literacy: Clarifying Goals, Assessing Student Progress” in
Peer Review. She gave presentations for the Association of American
Colleges and Universities conference, the Society for Research in Child Development,
and the Midwestern Psychological Association.
David Hall, assistant professor of chemistry, co-authored a manuscript titled “Using Liquid Crystals to Amplify Protein-Receptor Interactions: Design of Surfaces with Nanometer-Scale Topography that Present Histidine-Tagged Protein Receptors” in Langmuir.
“Identity Crossings and the Autobiographical Act in Willa Cather’s My Antonia” by Karen Hoffmann, ’87, assistant professor of English, was published in Arizona Quarterly. She presented “Genre Passing: Biracial Identity and the Question of Form in James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man” at the 17th annual conference sponsored by the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
In profile: Eilene Hoft-March, associate professor of French
In profile: Catherine Hollis, assistant professor of English
Eugénie Hunsicker, assistant professor of mathematics, was awarded the Trevor Evans Award for an expository article in Math Horizons magazine, for co-authoring the article “Simplicity is not Simple.” She and Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry, were awarded a grant from the Women’s Fund of the Community Foundation of the Fox Valley to fund PRYSM (Partners Reaching Youth in Science and Math), an outreach program matching women science and math students at Lawrence with eighth-grade girls at Appleton’s Roosevelt Middle School.
Joy Jordan, assistant professor of statistics, organized
and was a member of a panel on “Improving Statistical Understanding:
Using Writing in the Statistics Classroom” at the Joint Statistical
Meetings in August in San Francisco. She also led a roundtable discussion
titled “Quantitative
Literacy across the Curriculum: Implementation, Assessment, and the Role
of Statistics Educators.” With Beth Haines, associate
professor of psychology, she presented “Quantitative Literacy in
Higher Education: Setting Goals and Assessing Progress” at the Association
of American Colleges and Universities Network for Academic Renewal Conference
on “General
Education Goals, Strategies, and Assessments for Powerful Learning.” Their
article based on that presentation was published in the summer issue of
Peer Review.
Saxophonist Steven Jordheim, professor of music, performed
at the 2002 Ravenna Festival in Italy and in China at the Xiao Shang People’s
Concert Hall in Hangzhou, the International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival
in Xi’an,
and the Sunshine Pavilion in Qingdao. He offered the world premiere of
Lucie Robert-Diessel’s Dialogue symphonique for alto saxophone
and 12 instruments at Lawrence in May, with the composer in attendance.
Jerzy Jura, assistant professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled “All Is True: the Real and the Fictional in the Narratives by Carmen Martín Gaite, Javier Marías, and Cristina Fernández Cubas” at the 2003 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference.
Pianist Michael Kim, associate professor of music, released Michael Kim plays Franz Liszt on the Orpheum Masters label in May.
Associate Professor of Computer Science Kurt Krebsbach, ’85, co-authored four articles: “Managing Online Self-Adaptation in Real-Time Environments” for Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes on Computer Science; “Plant + Control System + Human: Three’s a Crowd (Extended Abstract)” for Working Notes of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments at Stanford University; “Deliberation Scheduling Strategies for Adaptive Mission Planning in Real-Time Environments” for the International Workshop of Self-Adaptive Software 2003; and “Building Coordinated Real-Time Control Plans” for the Proceedings of the Third International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space.
Bonnie Koestner, ’72, assistant professor of music, served as rehearsal pianist for Palm Beach Opera’s production of The Merry Widow. She also continued as chorus master, pianist, and coach for Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, New York.
Associate Professor of Russian Rebecca Epstein Matveyev presented a paper on “Constructing Identity in A. K. Tolstoi’s Dramatic Trilogy” at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies conference.
Randall McNeill, assistant professor of classics, was the 2003 recipient of Lawrence’s Young Teacher Award. He has been appointed as a visiting scholar in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago for the autumn quarter of 2003. He presented a paper titled “New in Town: Urbanity and Provincialism in Catullus 12 and 39” at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. A review of his book, Horace: Image, Identity, and Audience, by A. D. Morrison of the University of Manchester appeared in Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
Gerald Metalsky, associate professor of psychology, continues to serve as a reviewer of grant applications for the National Institute of Mental Health. His article, “Cognitive vulnerability to depression and lifetime history of Axis I psychopathology: A comparison of negative cognitive styles (CSQ) and dysfunctional attitudes (DAS),” appeared in Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy: An International Quarterly. Co-authors of the article included Gerald Haeffel, ’97.
In profile: Joanne Metcalf, assistant professor of music
Soprano Patrice Michaels, associate professor of music, released her CD Divas of Mozart’s Day on the Cedille label to rave reviews. She was a featured performer at the Cervantino International Festival of the Performing Arts and sang Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Omaha Symphony.
Matthew Michelic, associate professor of music, continues as principal violist with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra and was a concerto soloist with the Green Bay Civic Orchestra. He was a faculty member for two summer music programs — Credo Chamber Music in Oberlin, Ohio, and Spectacular Strings in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin — and a guest clinician for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Violinist Anton Miller, assistant professor of music,
continues an active performance schedule, including serving as guest
concertmaster for three
orchestras — Lincoln
Symphony in Nebraska and Westfield Symphony and Plainfield Symphony in
New Jersey. He presented a masterclass at Sam Houston State University
and served
on the faculties of the Deep Creek Maryland Summer Music Festival and
Aria International Music Academy.
Yoko Nagase, assistant professor of economics, presented “Optimal Control of Acid Rain in Japan and China: A Game Theoretic Analysis” at the annual conference of the Southern Economic Association. She delivered a paper titled “Is More Output and Less Waste Necessarily Sub-optimal?” at the University of Colorado-Boulder Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop.
Howard Niblock, professor of music, received the 2003 Freshman Studies Teaching Award.
Karen Nordell, assistant professor of chemistry,
along with colleagues David Hall and Jeff Collett, was
awarded a $100,000 grant from the National
Science
Foundation under the Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education program to
establish a nanoscience and nanotechnology program at Lawrence. She co-authored
a manuscript
detailing a result from summer research on coordination polymers by Khadine
Higgins, ’04, that was published in Acta Cryst. E. In
collaboration with several labs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
she also co-authored an educational kit featuring
LEDs that was published by the Institute for Chemical Education in Madison.
Professor of Art History Michael Orr presented a lecture on “The Making of the Medieval Illuminated Manuscript” at Clement Manor as part of the Wisconsin Humanities Council Speakers Bureau Program. He also delivered “Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and Hans Memling’s Gdansk Last Judgment Altarpiece: Masterpieces at the Milwaukee Art Museum” at the Milwaukee Art Museum. His article “Tradition and Innovation in the Cycles of Miniatures Accompanying the Hours of the Virgin in Early 15th-century English Books of Hours” was published in Manuscripts in Transition.
World Prehistory: Two Million Years
of Human Life by Peter Peregrine, associate professor
of anthropology, was published by Prentice Hall. Professor Peregrine
also completed the editing of the final three volumes of a nine-volume
work,
Encyclopedia of Prehistory, published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers. He was invited
to be an evening plenary speaker at the Center for Archaeological Investigations
conference on “Mississippian Leadership and Polity” in Carbondale,
Illinois, and to be a participant in the Santa Fe Institute Working Group
on Language and Prehistory, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation.
Associate Professor of German Brent Peterson presented a paper titled “Small is Beautiful: Curriculum Development in Small German Programs” at the American Association of Teachers of German annual conference. His review of Walter Pape, Hellmut Thomke, and Silvia Serena Tschopp, eds., Erzåhlkunst und Volkserziehung: das literarische Werk des Jeremias Gotthelf appeared in Colloquia Germanica, and his review of Wiebke Strehl’s Theodorm Storm’s Immensee: A Critical Overview was published in The German Studies Review.
The
Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville
Crisis, by Jerald Podair, associate professor of
history, was published by Yale University Press and was a finalist for
the 2003 Liberty Legacy
Foundation
Award, sponsored by the Organization of American Historians, for the
best book on any aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United
States.
He delivered
a paper titled “New Currencies: Racial Identity and the Redefinition
of the New York City Public Education Market, 1960-1980” at “The
Limits and Liberties of Markets: Race, Commerce, and the Making of Modern
Identities,” a
conference sponsored by the UCLA Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies.
Katherine Privatt, assistant professor of theatre arts, has been elected to a two-year term as communications coordinator for the Theatre as a Liberal Art focus group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
In profile: Bridget-Michaele Reischl, associate professor of music and Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music
Terry Rew-Gottfried, professor of psychology, co-authored an article on “Duran and rate effects on American English vowel identification by native Danish listeners” that was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Susan Richards, director of the Seeley G. Mudd Library and associate professor, presented the keynote address “No Statues on Main Street: Working Women in Barre, 1880-1920” to the Vermont Labor History Society in August. She delivered “White Dust/Black Dust: Women’s Paid Labor in a Granite Quarry Community and a Coal Mining Community, 1880-1918,” to the Mining History Association.
Percussionist Dane Richeson, associate professor
of music, was a panelist for the Percussive Arts Society International
Convention, speaking on
teaching drum set in the percussion methods class curriculum. Performance
venues
during the 2002-03 season included the Birch Creek Music Camp, the Green
Lake Concert
Series, the Isthmus Jazz Festival in Madison, Live from Studio 1-WFMT/Chicago,
the Regatta Club in Boston, the Chicago Cultural Center Concert Series,
the Swarthmore College Concert Series, the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center,
and the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee.
Richard Sanerib, associate professor of mathematics, received Lawrence’s 2003 Excellence in Teaching Award.
Associate Professor of French Judith Sarnecki presented “The Ethics of Narrative Excess or The Trouble with Tall Tales” for a panel she organized and moderated on “Narrative Excess” at the International Narrative Conference at the University of California, Berkeley. She also presented “The Play’s The Thing: Performance and Artifice in Carne’s Les enfants du paradis and Truffaut’s Le dernier metro” for the Pacific Modern Language Association Conference in Bellingham, Washington. Her book review of Daniel Picouly’s Paulette et Roger appeared in The French Review. Professor Sarnecki was awarded an Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award by Knox College.
Claudena Skran, associate professor of government, presented a paper titled “Refugees and Security in an Age of Terrorism” for the conference “Rethinking Global Security” sponsored by the University of Milwaukee Center for International Education and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her book review of Ingrid Boccardi’s Europe and Refugees: Towards an EU Asylum Policy was published in the Journal of Refugee Studies.
Timothy Spurgin, associate professor of English and the
Bonnie Glidden Buchanan Professor of English Literature, presented “From
Bertrand Russell to Jane Russell: Excess and Decline in Narratives
of Celebrity” for
the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature at the University
of California, Berkeley.
Associate Professor of Physics Matthew Stoneking co-authored “Limitations on Confinement of a Toroidal Electron Plasma Due to Field Asymmetries and the Presence of Neutrals” and “Imaging Electron Plasmas in a Partially Toroidal Trap,” which were presented at the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics meeting and published in the Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
Professor
of Music Fred Sturm, ’73, received the ASCAP/IAJE
Commission
in Honor of Quincy Jones presented by the American Society
of Composers, Authors, and Publishers in collaboration with
the International
Association of Jazz Educators. In addition, he was awarded an American
Composers Forum Encore Program Commission Grant to compose a new
saxophone quartet composition for the 2003 International Saxophone
Congress.
He completed Bodacious Cowboys: Three Decades
of Steely Dan, a
set of ten jazz ensemble arrangements of Steely Dan compositions
commissioned by
the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt, Germany. For his innovative
teaching, Professor Sturm received the Appleton Rotary Club’s
Cutting Edge Award.
Rosa Tapia, instructor in Spanish, delivered “Mujeres al borde: Lengua, identidad y esquizofrenia cultural en La intimidad de Nuria Amat” at the Cincinnati Annual Conference of Romance Languages. For the Carolina Conference of Romance Languages, she presented “Eduardo Mendoza y la contrasaga de la burguesia barcelonesa.”
Professor of German Hans Ternes published “Three Zapotec Tales” in Folklore Forum and “Franz Xaver Kroetz” in Critical Survey of Drama: Second Revised Edition.
David Thompson, assistant professor of chemistry, was co-author of “Structural assignments and dynamics of the A substates of MbCO: Spectrally resolved vibrational echo experiments and molecular dynamics simulations” in Journal of Physical Chemistry B and of “Frequency selected ultrafast infrared vibrational echo studies of liquids, glasses, and proteins” in Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
Violinist Stéphane Tran Ngoc, assistant professor of music, served as a judge in the Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition in Paris. He also was selected as one of the masters for the 2003 Paris International Violin Masterclasses.
Timothy Troy, associate professor of theatre
arts and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama,
served as stage director for Dreaming Blue, the premiere
of Libby Larsen’s new opera with the Fox Valley Symphony
for the gala opening of the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center.
He
also directed Donizetti’s Don Pasquale for Milwaukee Opera Theatre.
His new play, Nobility Hill, was produced by Cornerstone Theater
in Milwaukee
in September.
Lifongo Vetinde, associate professor of French, published reviews of Patrice Nganang’s Temps de chien in The French Review and Allen Carey-Webb’s Making Subject(s): Literature and the Emergence of National Identity in the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.
In profile: Dirck Vorenkamp, associate professor of religious studies
Assistant Professor of Government Steven Wulf serves as a submission reviewer for Political Theory and American Journal of Political Science. He presented “Obligation and the Social Self: Obedience, Service, and Heroism” at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association.
Ayako Yamagata, assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultures, presented “Incorporating Practical Writing into the Curriculum: The Case of Nakama and Genki” during the Association of Teachers of Japanese Seminar at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies. She received a Japan Foundation Library Support Grant of approximately $4,000 for the purchase of books and audio-visual materials on Japanese studies to be added to the permanent library collection.
Jane Yang, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures, was part of a panel presentation on “Reading Stories, Writing Narratives: Modeling Discourse in Beginning Intermediate Chinese” for the Modern Language Association panel “Integrating Language Learning and Literature Learning.”
Richard Yatzeck, professor of Russian, published an article, “Subsistence Farmer,” in Farm and Ranch Living. His short stories appeared in Wisconsin Outdoor Journal, Deer and Deer Hunting, and Gray’s Sporting Journal.