During the 2004-05 academic year, members of the Lawrence University faculty
contributed many fine examples of scholarship, writing, artistic work, and
performance to their respective disciplines, to the wider academic world, and
to audiences near and far. Space does not permit listing their contributions
to the on-campus Lawrence community, but some of their significant off-campus
publishing, performance, or professional achievements are reported here.
Minoo Adenwalla, professor emeritus of government, gave a talk, “Affirmative
Action in the United States,” to the Indian Liberal Group, Bombay, India,
in July 2004. He also has published a book review of The Future of Freedom, by Fareed Zakaria and two op-ed pieces in Executive
Times, Dhaka, Bangladesh, “The
Electoral College and U.S. Democracy” and “Iraq in Retrospect.”
Matthew Ansfield, assistant professor of psychology, has continued
his work on how humor can help people deal with negative emotions, in addition
to his
research project on deception. He has had a paper accepted for publication
in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and another in Basic and
Applied Psychology.
Janet Anthony, cellist and professor of music, served as conductor
of the Orchestre Symphonique de L’Ecole de Musique Dessaix
Baptiste, in Haiti. She also conducted and performed at “Cellobration” at
the University of Arizona, had several performances in Italy and Bosnia, and
taught in Curacao and Venezuela.
Faith Barrett, assistant professor of English, co-edited and wrote the introduction
for an anthology of poetry titled “Words for the Hour”: A New Anthology
of American Civil War Poetry. Her article “Addresses to a Divided Nation:
Images of War in Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman” will be published
in the Winter 2005 issue of Arizona Quarterly. She also has written a review
of From School to Salon: Reading 19th-Century American Women’s Poetry, by Mary Loeffelholz, that will be published in Legacy: A Journal of Women Writers.
Richard Bjella, professor of music, appeared as conductor and lecturer for
the Korean National Choral Directors Convention in Seoul, Korea, and will make
his Carnegie Hall debut in June 2006. He is listed in the World Concert Artist
Directory of Conductors.
Marcia Bjørnerud, professor of geology
Peter Blitstein, assistant
professor of history, gave an invited paper at the Colloquium of the Institut
für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde,
Universität Tübingen, titled “Stalin’s Nationality Policy
in its Comparative Context.” The paper will be published in the Summer
2006 issue of Slavic Review. He also published two book reviews, one forthcoming
in The Russian Review and the other in Slavic Review.
Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald, associate
professor of philosophy, was awarded a Wisconsin Federation of Independent
Colleges Business Ethics Grant to develop
a course in business ethics that utilizes service learning. His paper “Gratitude
and Justice” will be reprinted in Introductory Essays, edited by Clifford
Williams.
Kenneth Bozeman, the Frank C. Shattuck Professor of Music, is chair of the
editorial board of Journal of Singing, the publication of the National Association
of Teachers of Singing.
Paul Cohen, professor of history and the Patricia Hamar Boldt Professor of
Liberal Studies, published a letter in The New York Review of Books titled “Bush’s
Victory: Second Thoughts” and an article on the Annapolis
Group website, “How
Democrats Should Challenge Republican Manhood.”
Carla Daughtry, assistant
professor of anthropology, presented two papers at conferences, “African Fictions: Teaching Ethnography from
Literature and Film” at the Associated Colleges of the
Midwest Conference on African Studies and “On Hostile/Hospitable Grounds:
Southern Sudanese Refugees Navigate Cairo” at the meetings of the American
Anthropological Association.
Bart De Stasio, ’82, associate professor of biology,
is co-recipient with David Hall, assistant professor of
chemistry, of a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project
titled “Acquisition
of Real-Time Thermocycler and Digital Imager for Interdisciplinary Research
in Northeast Wisconsin.” He
also has presented a paper describing his work on plankton communities in Lake
Winnebago and Green Bay at the international meeting of the American Society
for Limnology and Oceanography. His paper “Diapause in Calanoid Copepods:
Within Clutch Hatching Patterns” was published in the Journal
of Limnology, and his co-authored paper “Midsummer decline of a Daphnia population attributed in part
to cyanobacterial capsule production” appeared in the Journal of Plankton Research.
Beth De Stasio, ’83, associate professor of biology
and the Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science, was awarded a three-year
grant from the National
Institutes of Health to fund student/faculty collaborative research. Her
co-authored paper “Isolation of C. elegans genomic DNA and detection of deletions
in the unc-93 gene using PCR” was published in Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology Education.
Joseph D’Uva, assistant professor of art, had his work published and
exhibited at Centro de Formacion, Produccion e Invesigacion Grafica, Museograbado,
Zacatecas, Mexico. He will have a solo museum exhibition at Museo Goitia in
Mexico this coming May.
Martin Erickson, lecturer in music, was a guest jazz soloist and faculty member
for the Deutsches Tuba Forum International Tuba-Euphonium Bayerische Musikakademie
in Hammelburg, Germany, where he taught basic jazz improvisation and performed
a three-hour jazz concert and a solo recital. He also taught and performed
as a soloist and faculty member at the Music in Estenfeld, Germany music course
and toured Western Europe performing concerts and recording a CD as a member
of the Millennium Brass Quintet.
James Evans, professor of computer science and chemistry,
has co-authored a paper, “The Regulatory Effects of Tropomyosin and Troponin-I on the Interaction
of Myosin Loop Regions with F-actin,” in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Fan Lei, associate professor of music, was artistic director
at the 2005 Xi’an
International Clarinet and Saxophone Festival and also was artist-in-residence
at the Banff Centre of the Arts, where he conducted master classes and was
the soloist with the Banff Festival Orchestra. In addition, he served as
a jury member at the Taiwan International Woodwind Competition and was a
soloist
with the Quingdao Symphony Orchestra.
Gustavo Fares, professor of Spanish, has published several
articles, including “Borges’ Women
in Film” in Chasqui, “Painting in the Expanded Field” in Janus Head, “José María Heredia ‘En una tempestda’” and “Alfonsina
Storni: ‘Tú me quieres blanca’” on AP
Central, The
College Board’s Online Home for AP Professionals, and two book reviews
in Chasqui. He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to teach a graduate seminar
in Argentina in September 2004.
Merton Finkler, professor of economics
Mark Frazier, assistant
professor of government and Henry Luce Assistant Professor of East Asian
Political Economy, has received two grants. The first, a Fulbright
grant, has enabled him to do research on pension reform in China. The second,
from the Ford Foundation, supported his research on public attitudes towards
pensions in Beijing. He also was a co-recipient of a grant from the Lynde
and Harry Bradley Foundation. In addition, he has had three works accepted
to be
published as articles or book chapters: “State Sector Shrinkage and Workforce
Reduction in China” in the European Journal of Political Economy, “What’s
in a Law? China’s Pension Reform and Its Discontents” in Engaging
the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice, and “Commanding
Heights: Industrialization and Wage Determination in the Chinese Factory, 1950-1957” in Workplaces and Work Experiences in the People’s Republic of China. Finally,
he has been selected to participate in the Public Intellectuals Program organized
by the National Committee on U.S.-China relations.
Peter Gilbert, director of the Seeley
G. Mudd Library and associate professor,
gave a presentation, “The Reference Interview — the Art of Consultation.” at
a conference on Instructional Technologists at Liberal Arts Colleges, sponsored
by the Midwest Instructional Technology Center.
Peter Glick, professor of psychology, is co-editor of a
new book, On
the Nature of Prejudice: 50 Years after Allport, and is author or co-author
of two chapters in it. He also is co-author of “When professionals become mothers, warmth
doesn’t cut the ice” in Journal of Social Issues and
has three papers in press: “Evaluations of sexy women in low and high status jobs,” co-authored
with Sadie Weber, ’05, Heather Branstiter, ’06, and Cathryn
Johnson, ’06, in the December 2005 issue of Psychology
of Women Quarterly; “Ambivalent
sexism and power distance across cultures,” to appear in Social Comparison
Processes and Levels of Analysis; and “When Neighbors Blame Neighbors:
Scapegoating and the Breakdown of Ethnic Relations,” to appear in Why
Neighbors Kill: Explaining the Breakdown of Ethnic Relations. He continues
to serve on the editorial boards of several journals: Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychology
of Women Quarterly, and Psychological Inquiry.
Bertrand Goldgar, professor
of English and the John N. Bergstrom Professor of Humanities, has several
essays in press: “Periodical Journalism,” to appear in The
Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding; “Fielding, Politics, and ‘Men
of Genius,’” from
a conference on Fielding, forthcoming in a collection from the University
of Delaware Press; and “The Grub-street Journal: Construction and Control
of its Readership” in Literature, History, and Culture: Essays
in Commemoration of the Life and Work of Simon Varey.
Terry Gottfried, professor of psychology, presented a poster
co-authored with a Lawrence student, titled “Relation of musical training to the production
of Mandarin tone contrasts,” at the Acoustical Society of America First
Workshop on Second Language Speech Learning. He also co-presented, with Beth
Haines, associate professor of psychology, and Martha Hemwall, dean
of student academic services and adjunct associate professor of anthropology,
a workshop
titled “Infusing (natural and social) sciences into gender studies: A
practicum-based approach” at the University of Wisconsin System 29th
Annual Women’s Studies Conference, InterACTIONS.
Beth Haines, associate professor of psychology, has co-authored
a paper with Joy Jordan, associate professor of statistics,
titled “Lawrence
University: Quantitative Reasoning Across the Curriculum,” to appear
in Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy, a publication of the Mathematical
Association of
America. She also co-presented a paper, “Parents’ attributions
as contributors to children’s attributional style, depressive symptoms,
and future expectations,” at the meetings of the Society for Research
in Child Development. As noted above, she presented, with Terry Gottfried and Martha
Hemwall, a workshop at the InterACTIONS conference.
David
Hall, assistant
professor of chemistry, is principal investigator for a National Science
Foundation grant awarded to him and Bart
De Stasio for a
project titled “Acquisition of Real-Time Thermocycler and Digital Imager
for Interdisciplinary Research in Northeast Wisconsin.” He is co-recipient,
along with Karen Nordell, associate professor of chemistry, Andrew
Knudsen, assistant professor of geology, David Thompson, assistant
professor of chemistry, and Jeffrey Collett, associate professor
of physics, of a second National Science Foundation grant for “Expanding
the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Program at Lawrence University,” and
he is co-recipient, along with Todd Sandrin of the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh,
of a third grant, also from the National Science Foundation, for “Undergraduate
Research in Proteomics and Functional Genomics.” Along with several
students, including Mark Cronan, ’03, he is author
of "The
Role of p38 MAPK in Rhinovirus-Induced Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1
Production by Monocyte-Lineage Cells” in the Journal of Immunology.
He also is author, with Katherine Chapman, ’04, of “Detection
of activated Ras by precipitation assay” in Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology Education, and he is co-author with students of five separate
posters presented at scientific
meetings. He
received the Freshman Studies Teaching Award for 2005.
Martha Hemwall, dean of student academic services and
adjunct associate professor of anthropology, has a co-authored paper in
press at
the National Academic
Advisory Association Journal titled “The Learning Paradigm and
Academic Advising: Ten Organizing Principles.” She also collaborated
with Beth
Haines and Terry Gottfried on the workshop mentioned
above, at the
InterACTIONS conference.
Bruce Hetzler, professor of psychology, presented a poster,
co-authored by Elizabeth Martin, ’03, titled “Nicotine-alcohol interactions in
the rat visual system” at the 12th World Congress on Biomedical
Alcohol Research in Mannheim, Germany. He also has been quoted in several
places
in the popular press on the physiological effects of alcohol and tobacco
use.
William Hixon, assistant professor of government, presented
a paper at the meeting of Midwest Political Science Association titled “Nixon’s
Heresthetics and the Rehnquist Nomination.”
Karen Hoffmann, ’87, associate professor of English,
presented a paper titled “Questioning Boundaries of Genre and Race: Experimental Novels
of the Harlem Renaissance” at the Modernist Studies Association
conference.
Eilene Hoft-March, professor of French, published an
article, “For-giving
Death: Cixous’s Osnabruck and Le Jour où je n’étais
pas là,” in Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century
Literature. She also received a grant through the Center
for European Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
to pursue her research on Sartre and Beauvoir, and she published two
book reviews.
Eugénie Hunsicker, associate professor of mathematics,
has completed two papers, “Hodge cohomology for edge metrics” and “Hodge
and Signature theorems for a family of manifolds with fibration boundary.” She
also presented three papers, “Ideal boundary conditions, intersection
cohomology, and Leray spectral sequences” at the AMS Western regional
meeting; “Harmonic
Forms, Leray spectral sequences, and Intersection Cohomology” at
the University of Kansas; and “Ideal Boundary Conditions and Intersection
Cohomology” at the AMS Midwest Sectional Meeting.
John Paul Ito, assistant professor of music, gave a
paper, “A Theory
of Motor Coordination in Performers of Common-Practice Music,” at
the Eighth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.
Brenda Jenike, assistant
professor of anthropology, published a paper, “Alone
in the Family: Great-grandparenthood in Urban Japan,” in Filial
Piety: Practices and Discourse in Contemporary East Asia (Stanford
University Press). She also gave a conference paper at the annual meeting
of the Association for
Anthropology and Gerontology titled “From Welfare to Entitlement:
Social and Cultural Meanings of Long-Term Care in Japan.”
Mark Jenike, associate professsor of anthropology
Steven Jordheim, professor of music, gave a master class
and conducted the Lawrence University Saxophone Ensemble at the University
of Wisconsin–Waukesha.
Joy Jordan, associate professor of statistics, has co-authored
a paper with Beth Haines, associate professor of psychology,
titled “Lawrence University:
Quantitative Reasoning Across the Curriculum,” to appear in Current
Practices in Quantitative Literacy, a publication of the Mathematical
Association of America. She also organized and chaired a panel at the
Joint Statistical Meetings on “Nuts and Bolts of Classroom Assessment.”
Nicholas Keelan, associate professor of music, served
as principal trombone of the Fox Valley Symphony and played bass trombone
with the Green Bay Symphony.
Michael Kim, associate professor of music, appeared
as concerto soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra
London Canada. He also appeared in recital for the Wausau Conservatory,
Wisconsin
Public Radio’s “Sunday Afternoon Live,” the
Sarnia Concert Association, and the Searl Pickett Recital Series at the
Windhover
Centre for the Arts.
Andrew Knudsen, assistant professor of geology, received
a grant, along with Jeff Clark, associate professor
of geology, from the Wisconsin Foundation of Independent Colleges to
study contaminated soils
along the Milwaukee
River.
In collaboration with Andrew York, ’05, he presented
some findings at the Geological Society of America North Central Section
Regional Meeting in
a poster titled “Heavy metal contamination of sediments in an urban
environment: the legacy of the North Avenue dam impoundment, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.” He
is a co-recipient, along with David Hall, assistant
professor of chemistry, Karen Nordell, associate professor
of chemistry, David
Thompson, assistant
professor of chemistry, and Jeffrey Collett, associate
professor of physics, of a National Science Foundation grant for “Expanding the Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology Program at Lawrence University.” He also presented
a poster, “Rethinking the Traditional
Mineralogy Curriculum,” at the Goldschmidt Conference in Idaho.
Bonnie Koestner, C’72, assistant
professor of music, served as chorus master, pianist, and coach with
the Glimmerglass Opera,
Cooperstown, New York,
this past summer. She prepared the chorus for productions of Death
in Venice, Lucia de Lammermoor, Cosi Fan Tutte, and Portrait de
Manon, each of which will
later be aired on National Public Radio’s “World of Opera.” She
also performed art song recitals with members of the Young American Artists
Program and provided opera pre-performance lectures. In March she worked
with Palm Beach Opera as rehearsal pianist for La Bohème and
will return there twice this year.
Kurt Krebsbach, ’85, associate
professor of computer science, presented two papers, along with co-authors,
at the American Association
for Artificial
Intelligence Spring Symposium at Stanford University. The papers were “Projection
and Reaction for Decision Support in Refineries: Combining Multiple Theories” and “Deliberation
Scheduling for Planning in Real-Time.” The first paper led to his
recruitment for a panel on “Challenges
Posed by the Changing World.”
Ruth Lanouette, associate professor of German, presented
a paper titled “A
Linguistic Analysis of a Pro Se Defense” at the Seventh
Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law.
Carol Lawton, professor of art history and the Ottilia
Buerger Professor of Classical Studies, has completed a new book, Marble Workers
in the Athenian Agora, and has published a review of The Poetics
of Appearance in the Attic Korai, by M. Stieber, in the American Journal
of Archaeology.
Karen Leigh-Post, ’79, assistant professor of
music, published an anthology of songs, with an accompanying CD, that
fills a
void in the vocal repertory,
contemporary art music for the sacred service, and focuses on universal
themes of human spirituality. The CD was recorded with organist and pianist David Heller, ’81. Lawrence
composers include Halvor Benson and Allen Gimbel.
Julie Lindemann and John Shimon, assistant
professors of art, have published a book of photographs and essays, Season’s Gleamings: The Art of the
Aluminum Christmas Tree (Melcher Media, 2004). The first edition
has sold out, and the second edition was released in September. They
also had two solo exhibitions, “One
Million Years Is Three Seconds” at the Caestecker Gallery, in Ripon,
and “Deep, Dark, and Around” at the Wendy Cooper Gallery
in Chicago. In addition, they have given visiting-artist lectures at
the Cranbrook
Academy
of Art, Ripon College, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Nicholas Maravolo, professor of biology, published
three papers, “The Influence of Spermine on the In situ Expression
of a Protein Kinase Associated with Senescence in Marchantia polymorpha Thalli,” with Matthew Smith, ’02, and “DNA
Fragmentation in Marchantia
polymorpha Thalli in Response to Spermine Treatment,” with Dustin
Pagoria, ’02, both in the International Journal
of Plant Science, and “The Expression
of Cytosolic Protein Kinase C Activity in Marchantia polymorpha Thalli
and Its Relationship to Spermine During Programmed Cell Death,” with Ross
Mueller, ’01, Justin Seaman, ’02, and Travis
Orth, ’03, in The Bryologist.
Carol Mason, adjunct professor of anthropology, has
continued her research on Jesuit Rings, an important chronological
marker in historic archaeological sites in New France. A publication
resulting
from this
work is now in press. Additional work has led to the acceptance of
a paper titled “Iconographic
(‘Jesuit’) Rings: A Case Study in Chronological Placement” and
a paper titled “Jesuit Rings of Metals Other than Brass” published
this year in the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. Her
book, The
Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia, was published
this year by the
University of Alabama Press.
Ronald Mason, professor emeritus of anthropology,
has had his book, Inconstant
Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions, accepted
for publication by the University of Alabama Press. Royalties from
sales of this book will be donated,
as already are those from the reprinting of his Great Lakes Archaeology, to
the Helen
McDermott Jurack and Ronald J. Mason Scholarship Fund for minority
students attending Lawrence.
Randall McNeill, associate professor of classics,
presented a paper, “Silence
and Male Relationships in the Poetry of Catullus,” at the annual meeting
of the American Philological Association and published an article, “Notes
on the Subject of the Ilissos Temple Frieze,” in Periklean
Athens and Its Legacy: Problems and Perspectives. Reviews of his
book, Horace:
Image,
Identity, and Audience, appeared in Classical Philology and
in the Journal
of Roman Studies.
Gerald Metalsky, associate professor of psychology,
was elected to the board of directors of the Wisconsin Psychological
Association, which represents the interests of Wisconsin psychologists
at the American Psychological Association (APA). He also accepted an
invitation to serve as a consulting editor to APA’s
flagship journal on psychopathology research, the Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, and also
was inducted into the 2005-06 edition of Who’s Who.
He published a co-authored article, “Negative cognitive styles,
dysfunctional attitudes, and the remitted depression paradigm: A search
for the elusive cognitive
vulnerability to depression factor among remitted depressives,” in
the journal Emotion and co-authored a poster titled “Ruminative
negative attributional style: Risk for dysphoria and hopelessness depression,” presented
at the American Psychological Association convention.
Assistant Professor of Music Joanne Metcalf’s composition Il
nome del bel fior was released on CD on the Oehms Classics label,
recently received the 2005 Echo Klassik Preis from the German Recording
Academy (the German “Grammy”), and has
been performed nearly 100 times worldwide. Her composition Le metamorfosi was
given its world premiere at the Cheltenham (UK) International Festival
of Music by the Hilliard Ensemble, and her songbook project in honor
of United States
Poet Laureate William Meredith, which includes the song “Tempus
Fugit,” has also been performed
in the United States and abroad.
Matthew Michelic, associate professor of music, continued
to serve as principal violist of the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra.
He also appeared
on Wisconsin
Public Radio’s “Sunday Afternoon Live” series and
performed as a faculty member at the Credo Chamber Music Program in
Oberlin, Ohio.
Brigetta Miller, C’89, associate professor of music
Yoko Nagase, assistant
professor of economics, presented two conference papers, co-authored
with Stephen Rogness, ’04, and Tasneem
Mirza, ’05, at the meeting of the United States Society
of Ecological Economics, “An
Economic Discussion of Climate Change for Environmentalists” and “Substitutability
of Resource Use in Production and Consumption.” She also presented an
invited talk in the visiting-lecturer series in East Asian studies and environmental
studies sponsored by the Luce Foundation at Skidmore College, titled “Environmental
Issues in Japan and China.”
Rob Neilson, assistant professor of art
The premier performance of Professor of Music Howard Niblock’s composition “Trill
Ride” for two oboes occurred in April; the work was written for
and performed by his students Elissa Harbert, ’05, and Anna
Schmidt, ’06, on
Elissa’s senior recital. He also played in several recitals during
the year and performed the Prokofiev Quintet on public radio.
Karen Nordell, associate professor of chemistry, is
the principal investigator on a grant from the National Science Foundation, “Expanding the Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology Program at Lawrence University.” Co-recipients
are David Hall, assistant professor of chemistry, Andrew
Knudsen, assistant professor
of geology, David Thompson, assistant professor of
chemistry, and Jeffrey
Collett, associate professor of physics. Her paper “A Safer, Easier, Faster Synthesis
for CdSe Quantum Dot Nanocrystals” appeared in the November 2005
issue of the Journal of Chemical Education. Her work on nanotechnology
includes
a total of 23 workshops and presentations and numerous joint presentations
with
student authors.
Dmitri Novgorodsky, assistant professor of music,
performed on the “Sunday
Afternoon Live” recital series on Wisconsin Public Radio. He
was a concerto soloist with The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
in New Britain.
He also presented a series of master classes at conservatories of music
in Israel.
Michael Orr, professor of art history, published a
paper, “Tradition
and Innovation in the Cycles of Miniatures Accompanying the Hours of the Virgin
in Early Fifteenth-Century English Books of Hours,” in Manuscripts
in Transition: Recycling Manuscripts, Texts, and Images (Leuven,
2005). He also presented a paper at the Tenth York Manuscripts Conference
titled “Hierarchies
of Illustration in Early Fifteenth-Century Books of Hours.” His
paper presentation was supported by a British Academy Travel Grant.
Peter Peregrine, professor
of anthropology, presented two papers at the annual meeting of the
Society for Cross-Cultural Research, “Synchrony in the
New World: An Example of Ethnoarchaeology” and “Cross-Cultural
Research as a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for Discovering the Original Homelands
of Proto-Language.” He has been asked to continue his affiliation with
the Santa Fe Institute’s Evolution of Human Languages project.
Brent Peterson, associate professor of German
Jerald Podair, associate professor of history and the Robert S. French Professor of American Studies
Bruce
Pourciau, professor of mathematics, has two
published articles that are scheduled to be reprinted in the edited
book, Infinitesimals: “The Importance
of Being Equivalent: Newton’s Two Models for One-Body Motion” and “Newton’s
Argument for Proposition 1 of The Principia.” He has another
article, “Newton’s
Interpretation of Newton’s Second Law,” in press in the
journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences.
Kathy Privatt, associate professor of theatre arts,
has published, “The
New Theatre of Chicago: Democracy 1, Aristocracy 0” in Theatre
History Studies. She presented her paper “Modern Medicis:
The Disney Corporation” at
the Mid-America Theatre Conference and delivered two papers at the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, “Dialoguing the Process:
Production Assessment in Practice” and “History by the
Numbers.”
Gretchen Revie, reference librarian and assistant
professor, participated in a panel on “Rethinking Information Literacy Instruction
for First Year Students” at the 12th National Conference of the
Association of College and Research Libraries. She also helped plan and
conduct a workshop titled “Curricular
Design with Information Literacy in Psychology II,” sponsored
by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
Dane Richeson, associate professor of music, has released
two performance CD’s, “LUPE
2. Lawrence University Percussion Ensembles,” the second disc released
by LUPE, and “Love is Blue” by the Jackie Allen Group, released
by A440 Records. He also performed with the Jackie Allen Group at the Blue
Note, New York City; Catalinas, Los Angeles; Yoshie’s, San Francisco;
The Vic, Santa Monica; Green Mill, Chicago; and the Jazz Factory, Louisville.
Other performances were at the Zeltsman International Marimba Festival
at the Boston Conservatory and on WFMT radio, with the contemporary
chamber group,
Cube.
Monica Rico, assistant professor of history, has made
five paper presentations at conferences, including “Anglo-Saxonism, Conservation, and Hunting
Across the Atlantic, 1870-1920” in a panel, “Race and Nature Across
National Boundaries,” which she also organized, at the meetings of the
Organization of American Historians; “The Great West in Greater Britain:
Charles Dilke’s Frontier Narratives” at The Voyage Out: Fourth
Biennial Conference of the International Society for Travel Writing; “‘A
Question of Manhood’: Constructing Masculinity with Sir William Drummond
Stewart and Alfred Jacob Miller, 1837-1843” at the Western Historical
Association; “Encountering the Great West: Transatlantic Frontier Narratives
in the Late Nineteenth Century” at a conference, Creating Identity and
Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492-1888; and “‘The fashion of the
day is in ranches’: Masculinity, Anglo-Saxonism, and the Ranching Frontier” at
a conference, Crosstown Traffic: Anglo-American Cultural Exchange since
1865, co-sponsored by the British Association for American Studies,
the North American
Conference on British Studies, and the Royal Historical Society.
Thomas Ryckman, professor of philosophy, has been
commissioned to write an essay on “Descriptions” for the
forthcoming Encyclopedia
of British Philosophy.
Judith Sarnecki, professor of French, has an article
forthcoming in a special issue of Women in French titled “Double Take: Louis Malle’s Competing
Versions of France Under Nazi Occupation.” She presented two conference
papers, “Aryan Attraction: The Strange Case of Jean Cocteau” at
the International Narrative Conference and “Guilty Pleasures: Jean Renoir’s La regle du jeu and
Vichy’s New Moral.” She also has authored
several book reviews and was elected to the Midwest Modern Language
Association executive
committee last year for a three-year term.
Jodi Sedlock, assistant professor of biology
Donnie Sendelbach, director of humanities computing
and lecturer in Russian, received a grant from the Midwest Instructional
Technology
Center
for her work on “Animated Russian Verbs of Motion.” She
also presented two papers, “Utilizing Flash to Illuminate Language” at
the New Media Consortium Annual Conference and “Teaching Grammar
Through Animation” at the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction
Consortium Annual Conference.
Claudena Skran, professor of government, received
a Fulbright Fellowship to study the role of Non-Governmental Organizations
(NGOs) in
refugee
resettlement in Sierra Leone. She is the first person to visit Sierra
Leone as part
of the
Fulbright program in over 15 years. She also published two papers, “Paradigm
Shift in International Refugee Assistance” in The Politics
of Forced Migration: A Conceptual, Operational, and Legal Analysis and “Fridtjof
Nansen and the Nansen Passport” in Immigration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present.
Steven Paul Spears, tenor and assistant professor
of music, has engaged in several performances, including Carmina Burana at
Avery Fischer Hall, Lincoln
Center and at the University of Guelph; Stravinsky’s Renard at
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center; Der Kaiser von Atlantis with both
the Los Angeles
Philharmonic and the New World Symphony; and cantatas with the New
England Bach Festival. His recording of Renard, the first
utilizing Stravinsky’s
own English translation, is soon to be released.
Timothy Spurgin, associate
professor of English and the Bonnie Glidden Buchanan Professor of English
Literature, published an article, “My Students Love
Derrida” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He also
delivered a paper, “‘All
I have is a voice’: Poetry after 9/11,” at the Midwest Modern Language
Association conference and gave an invited talk, “Memorable Birthdays,” at
the Dickens Society of Madison.
Matthew Stoneking, associate professor of physics,
has published three papers, “Poloidal
ExB drifts used as an effective rotational transform to achieve long
confinement times in a toroidal electron plasma” in Physics
Review Letters and “Millisecond
Confinement and Observation of the m=1 Diocotron Mode in a Toroidal Electron
Plasma” in Non-Neutral Plasma Physics, both co-authored
with Mark A. Growdon, ’04, Michelle L. Milne, ’04, and Ryan
T. Peterson, ’03, and “Large area avalanche photodiode
detector array upgrade for a ruby-laser Thomson scattering system” in Review
of Scientific Instrumentation. He also delivered two invited talks: “Confining
Electron Plasmas in a Toroidal Magnetic Field” at Carleton College
and “Feedback
Suppression of the m=1 Diocotron Mode in a Toroidal Electron Plasma” at
the University of California, San Diego. In addition, he was an author
or co-author on three papers at the meetings of the American Physical
Society–Division
of Plasma Physics, “Millisecond Confinement and Observation of
the m=1 Diocotron Mode in a Toroidal Electron Plasma” and “Characteristics
of the m=1 Diocotron Mode in a Trapped Toroidal Electron Plasma,” both
co-authored with Mark Growdon and Michelle Milne, and “Plans
to Observe Magnetic Pumping Transport in a Toroidal Electron Plasma.”
Fred Sturm, C’73, Kimberly-Clark
Professor of Music, created several new compositions and arrangements.
His work as
composer/arranger for The
Baseball Music Project included: “A Place Where It Would Always Be Spring,” “Heavy
Hitters Medley” (Babe Ruth, Always, They All Know Cobb, Joltin’ Joe
DiMaggio, Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?, Say Hey, Willie
Mays, and I Love Mickey); “Let’s Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn”; “Van
Lingle Mungo”; “Nolan Ryan’s Fastball”; “A
Musical Tribute to the National Baseball Hall of Fame (Field of Dreams,
The Natural)”;
and “Heart.” Other works were Aim High for jazz ensemble
and Mt. Rainier: The Mountain that Was God for wind ensemble. He received
the
2005
Excellence in Teaching Award at Lawrence.
Kuo-Ming Sung, associate professor of Chinese, has
a new book, Colloquial
Amdo Tibetan: A Complete Course for Adult English Speakers, co-authored
with Lha
Byams Rgyal and published by the National Press for Tibetan Studies,
Beijing, China. The second and revised edition of his linguistics book, Jufa Lilun
Gaiyao (Introduction to Syntatic Theories) is in press at the
Publishing House of
the Chinese Social Sciences in Beijing. He also gave a paper at the
16th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics titled “Necessitating
Le3.”
Rosa Tapia, assistant
professor of Spanish, was selected for the 2005 Young Teacher Award
at Lawrence. She presented a paper, “La construcción
narrativa de la indentidad individual y cultural en El amante bilingüe
(1990) de Juan Marsé,” at the Kentucky Foreign Language
Conference.
Daniel Taylor, ’63, Hiram A. Jones Professor
of Classics, has been selected by the Speakers Bureau of the Wisconsin
Humanities
Council to lecture on “The Ancient Olympics.” He also
serves as president of the North American Association for the History
of the Language Sciences. He delivered welcoming remarks, chaired a session
of papers,
and read a paper titled “Prician’s Pedagogy: A Critique of
the Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo” at the Tenth
International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences.
David Thompson, assistant
professor of chemistry, co-authored a paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry titled “Frequency
and Time-Resolved Triply Vibrationally Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy.”
Lee Tomboulian, instructor in music, co-produced,
arranged for, and played and sang on Every Day, a CD of music
by contemporary Jewish singer-songwriter Susan Colin.
Stéphane Tran Ngoc, assistant
professor of music, gave over 35 concerts as a violinist with the DaPonte
String Quartet
and participated as a soloist in three music festivals in France.
Timothy Troy, ’85, associate professor of theatre
arts and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and
Drama, directed Hedda
Gabler for Cornerstone Theatre in Milwaukee, La Traviata for
DuPage Opera Theatre in Chicago, and Bloodlines for the Milwaukee
Repertory Theatre.
Mark Urness, bassist and instructor in music, played
the following works in concerts and recitals: Shubert’s “Trout” Quintet,
Hoffmeister’s Solo Quartet No. 2, IV, and O’Connor’s “Appalachian
Waltz.” He appeared with both the Green Bay and Oshkosh
Symphony Orchestras.
Lifongo Vetinde, associate professor of French, presented
a paper, “La
fracophonie africaine au Canada: Les immigrés africains résidant à Montréal
parlent,” at the 58th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. He
published a review of Fatou Díome’s “Le ventre de l’Atlantique” in The French Review.
Patricia Vilches, associate professor of Spanish and
Italian, published her novel, Bailemos cuando den las diez. She
also had three articles accepted for publication, “El paraíso perdido: La
ausencia, el destierro, y la memoria en la poética de Pedro Lastra”; “Rocín-Antes: “La
vestimenta, el lujo, y lo material como referentes de ascendencia social y
espacio económico en la nobleza espiritual de Don Quijote y Martín
Rivas”; and “Un problema de dinero: Ideología político-socio-económica
y nociones de nacioanalismo en Don Quijote y en Don Catrín de
la fachenda de Lizardi.”
Fa-tsang’s Commentary on the Awakening of Faith, a book
by Dirck Vorenkamp, associate professor of religious
studies, published this year, is the result of seven years’ work.
He also published an article, “Reconsidering
the Whiteheadian Critique of Huayan Temporal Symmetry in Light of Fazang’s
Views,” in
the Journal of Chinese Philosophy.
Nancy Wall, associate professor of biology, gave two
presentations on her research, “Functional
Analysis of zic2 and zic5 in zebrafish” at the Sixth Annual Conference
on Zebrafish Development and Genetics and “Zic gene function during zebrafish
brain development: upstream and downstream of the zic2/5 gene pair” at
the Society for Developmental Biology Midwest Regional Meeting.
Ernestine Whitman, professor of music
Jere Wickens, adjunct assistant professor of anthropology,
presented two papers, “A
Village-Farm-Kiln Complex in the Classical Karystia,” given at the International
Archaeological Conference “Euboia in Antiquity: Views of Public and Private
Life” in Chalkis, Greece, and “The Archaeological Investigations
of the Canadian Archaeological Institute in Southern Euboia,” given at
a symposium on “Antiquities of Karystos” at the Yiokaleion
Culture Center in Karystos, Greece.
Robert F. Williams, assistant professor of education,
published a paper, “Hemispheric
asymmetries and joke comprehension,” in Neuropsychologia. He
also gave several presentations at conferences, including “Material
anchors for conceptual blends in instructional discourse” at
the International Pragmatics Conference; “Gesture as a conceptual
mapping tool” at the annual
meeting of the American Educational Research Association; and “Building
anchored blends: gesture and co-gesture speech in instructional discourse” at
the Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language conference at the
University of
Alberta.
Steven J. Wulf, assistant
professor of government and pre-law advisor, presented a paper at the
annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science
Association
titled “Individuality and Rebellion in Early Modern Thought.” He
also was a discussant for a panel, “The American Founding,” at
the same conference.
Jane Parish Yang, associate professor of Chinese
Richard Yatzeck, professor of Russian, has published three works, “Losing My Inheritance” and “You’re Going to Shoot a Turkey” in the Wisconsin Outdoor Journal and “Borrowed Decoy” in Gray’s Sporting Journal.