Members of the Lawrence faculty were active in scholarly endeavors and creative
projects throughout the academic year. Space does not permit listing their
many accomplishments as teachers, scholars, artists, musicians, and speakers
on campus, but some of their significant off-campus achievements are summarized
here.
Matthew Ansfield, associate professor of psychology
Janet Anthony, cellist and professor of music, had several
performances as a conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique Ste. Trinite in
Haiti and also
performed in France and Bosnia during a tour in March.
Marcos Balter, predoctoral fellow in music theory, completed a commissioned
work, Descarga.
Faith Barrett, assistant professor of English, co-edited a
volume of poems, “Words
for the Hour”: A New Anthology of American Civil War Poetry, for
which she wrote the introductory essay. She also published “‘Drums
Off the Phantom Battlements’: Dickinson’s War Poems in Discursive
Context” in Emily Dickinson Companion, as well as “Addresses to a Divided
Nation: Images of War in Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman” in Arizona
Quarterly. She also read papers at several professional meetings.
David Becker, professor of music
Richard Bjella, professor of music, received the 2006 Hanns
Kretzschmar Award for Excellence in the Arts, conferred at the ninth annual
Celebrating Our Volunteers
event, for his 20 years of service as artistic director of Appleton’s White Heron Chorale.
Marcia Bjørnerud, professor of geology, co-authored
the paper ”Hot
fluids or rock in eclogite metamorphism?” in the journal Nature. Her
book, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth, has been
issued in paperback and also has been translated into French. Two papers, “Petrologic,
hydrologic, and rheological implications of a hotter Archean Earth” and “Using
image analysis to document the evolution of a crustal-scale fault that helped
to close the Mid-Continent Rift” were published in Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs, the latter co-authored
with Chris McFarlane ’06.
Peter Blitstein, assistant professor of history, published “Cultural
Diversity and the Interwar Conjuncture: Soviet Nationality Policy in its Comparative
Context” in Slavic Review and “Nation and Empire in Soviet History,
1917-1953” in Ab Imperio.
Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald, associate professor of philosophy,
had his paper “Gratitude
and Justice” reprinted in Personal Virtues: Introductory Essays. He
is co-author of a paper in press: “Rhetoric and Anger,” to be
published in Philosophy and Rhetoric.
Garth Bond, instructor in English,” had two online
publications: “John
Donne’s ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’ As an Open Source” and “Sequence
and Design in Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus” in A
Manuscript Miscellany, Folger Shakespeare Library.
Kenneth Bozeman, the Frank C. Shattuck Professor of Music,
chaired the editorial board of Journal of Singing, published by
the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
John Brandenberger, the Alice G. Chapman Professor of Physics,
co-authored “Hyperfine
Structure in the 4p55d States of 83Kr” in Phys.
Rev. A.
Deanna Byrnes, Lawrence Postdoctoral
Fellow in Biology, was co-author of “Home
Range, Territoriality, and Flight Time Budgets in the Black-Bellied Fruit
Bat, Melonyceris melanops (Pteropodidae)” in the Journal
of Mammalogy and
presented “The Historical Biography of Dobsonia (Chiroptera,
Pteroposdidae) in Australasia” at the 35th Annual North American Symposium
on Bat Research.
Karen Carr, professor of religious studies, presented “Kierkegaard, Freud,
and the Psychology of Conversion” at the American Academy of Religion.
Jeffrey Clark, associate professor of geology, received
two grants for his work: “The Effects of Sediment Transport and Periphyton
Growth on Hyporheic Exchange” from the National Center for Earth-Surface
Dynamics and “Application of Hydrologic
Modeling and Stormwater Management to Evaluate Changes in Channel Morphology” from
the Associated Colleges of the Midwest.
David Cook, professor of physics and the Philetus E. Sawyer
Professor of Science, gave a poster presentation, “Introducing Finite Element Methods in Undergraduate
Physics,” at the meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers.
John Daniel, associate professor of music, recorded a CD
of trumpet music by Karel Husa, on which he is featured as trumpet soloist
on Concerto for
Trumpet and Orchestra, the first recording of that work.
Carla Daughtry, assistant professor of anthropology, wrote “Women, Gender,
Migration Policies, and Laws: Egypt” in the Encyclopedia of Women and
Islamic Cultures.
Bart De Stasio ’82, associate professor of biology,
is co-author of a grant received from the National Science Foundation: “Acquisition of
Real-Time Thermocycler and Digital Imager for Interdisciplinary Research in
Northeast Wisconsin.” At the State of the Lake Annual Meeting: Lake Michigan,
he presented “Green Bay zoöplankton communities: changes in abundance
and community structure following invasion by the zebra mussel Dreissena
polymorpha,” “Trophic
status of southern Green Bay: Persistence of a trophic gradient and recent
changes in relative abundance of cyanobacteria,” and a poster presentation, “The
Bay Data Acquisition Project,” all with Travis Haas ’07, William
Daniels ’07, and Michael Schrimpf ’06.
Elizabeth De Stasio ’83, associate professor of biology
and the Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science, gave three conference presentations
of papers
co-authored with Lawrence students: “Characterization of a male mating
defect in C. elegans,” with Patrick McEachern ’06 and “Effect
of kairomone on protein expression in Daphnia pulex,” with
Christopher Meyer ’06 at the Pew Midstates Science and Mathematics Consortium Undergraduate
Research Symposium, and “Mutations of the sup-9/unc-93 potassium
channel affect male mating behavior,” with Patrick McEachern and Andrew
J. Ow ’06
at the C. Elegans Meeting on Neural Development, Synaptic Function,
and Behavior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Gustavo Fares, professor of Spanish, authored “La identidad
cultural en el arte de América Latina y de Macau” in Macau:
Puente entre China y América Latina and “Borges’ Women
in Film” in “Bridging
Continents: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American
Themes,” Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana. He
presented “Border
Literatures in the United States” in the Graduate Seminar Lecture Series
at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina; “Argentina Then
and Now” for the Noon Hour Philosophers of Appleton; “El cine hispano
como sitio de historia, memoria, e identidad” to the Midwest Modern Language
Association conference on “History, Memory, Exile”; and “Hispanic,
Latino, and Latin American Identities in the United States” at Ripon
College. Art exhibitions by Professor Fares have included “Landscapes” at
the Grace Chosy Gallery in Madison, “Door County Landscapes” at
Fine Line Designs Art Gallery in Ephraim; and “Landscapes” at
the Katie Gingrass Gallery in Madison.
Merton Finkler, professor of economics, gave a presentation
titled “Health
Care Economics” to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit
Plans Conference on Health Care Management.
Mark Frazier, associate professor of government, published
several articles and book chapters in the past year, including “Pensions, Public Opinion,
and the Graying of China” in Asia Policy; “State Sector Shrinkage
and Workforce Reduction in 1990s China” in the European Journal of
Political Economy; and “Commanding Heights Industrialization and Wage Determination
in the Chinese Factory, 1950-1957” in How China Works: Perspectives
on the 20th Century Industrial Workplace. In January, he presented “China’s
Welfare State: Emerging or Collapsing?” on the panel “Hard Times:
The Current Labor Situation in China” at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars and briefed House and Senate committee staff members
on developments in social security in China.
Peter Glick, professor of psychology, received Honorable
Mention for the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for a paper accepted
at the Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology. He also published three papers during the past
year: “Ambivalent
sexism, power distance, and gender inequality across cultures” in Social
comparison processes and levels of analysis; “Evaluations of sexy women
in high and low status jobs” (published
with several Lawrence students) in Psychology of Women Quarterly; and “Sexisme,
Masculinite-Feminite et Facteurs Culturels” (with co-authors) in Revue
Internationale de Psychologie Sociale. He also gave invited talks and
conference presentations at the American Psychological Association, the University
of
Wisconsin, Yale University, Stanford University, the University of Minnesota,
and the Association of Psychological Science. Another paper was reprinted
in the book Questions of Gender: Perspectives and Paradoxes.
Bertrand Goldgar, professor of English and the John N. Bergstrom
Professor of Humanities, contributed an article, “The Grub-street Journal: Construction
and Control of Its Readership” to Literature, History, and Culture:
Essays in Commemoration of the Life and Work of Simon Varey, published
by Bucknell University Press.
Terry Gottfried, professor of psychology, had two publications
resulting from his work: “Music and language learning: Effect of musical training on
learning L2 speech contrasts” in Second-language speech learning:
the role of language experience in speech perception and production: A Festschrift
in honor of James Emil Flege and “Production of Mandarin tone contrasts
by musicians and non-musicians” in the Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America. He received a Marshall Fund Research Grant for research
at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway,
to study
Norwegian and American speech perception and production.
Beth Haines, associate professor of psychology, had several
scholarly publications, including The Children’s Attributional Style
Interview: Paper-and-pencil versions, Procedural Manual, in collaboration
with Robin Wells ’04, Colleen
Conley ’97, Beth Louie ’04, Anneli Lukk ’05, and Adam Miner ’05
and “The role of statistical educators in the quantitative literacy
movement” in
the Journal of Statistics Education and “Lawrence University:
Quantitative reasoning across the curriculum” in Current Practices
in Quantitative Literacy, both
with Joy Jordan, associate professor of statistics.
David Hall, assistant professor of chemistry, received a
major grant from the National Institutes of Health: “Leukocyte signaling in virus-induced
asthma exacerbation.” He is author or co-author of several other successful
grant proposals, two from the National Science Foundation and one from the
European Molecular Biology Organization.
Kathrine Handford, lecturer in music and university organist, performed
the inaugural concert in the Robert and Irma Korbitz Recital Series at
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Monona, performing works by Buxtehude, Bach,
Stephen Paulus, Duruflé, Widor, and Guilmant on a new Rosales pipe
organ.
Martha Hemwall ’73, adjunct associate professor of anthropology
and dean of student academic services, was first author on an article about
the theory
of advising titled “The Learning Paradigm and Academic Advising: Ten
Organizing Principles” in the National Academic Advising Journal.
Bruce Hetzler, professor of psychology, in collaboration
with Elizabeth Martin ’03,
published “Nicotine-ethanol interactions in flash-evoked potentials and
behavior of Long-Evans rats” in Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior.
William Hixon, assistant professor of government
Karen Hoffmann ’87, associate professor of English,
presented a paper, “On
the Margins of Modernism?: Making It New in the Harlem Renaissance” at
the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.
Eilene Hoft-March, professor of French, presented a conference
paper, “Marie
Nimier at the Wheel: Memory and the Narrative Drive,” at the Midwestern
Modern Language Association and published a book review, “Annie Saumont’s Nabiroga and Un Soir, à la maison,” in
the French
Review. She
received a grant from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest for a project
on life writing.
John Paul Ito, assistant professor of music, had an article, “‘The
Harmony of the Spheres’ — A New Spin on an Old Story,” accepted
to appear in the book Musical Theology. He gave an invited colloquium
at Northwestern University titled “Elegant Mathematics, Cognition,
and Scientific Investigations of Tonality.”
Mark Jenike, associate professor of anthropology, has received
several grants for his work with the Appleton Collaborative Nutrition Project.
He also organized
and led an Associated Colleges of the Midwest Conference on “Biological
Anthropology and Liberal Arts Colleges.”
Joy Jordan, associate professor of statistics
Steven Jordheim, professor of music, gave several saxophone
performances in 2005-06, including a concerto performance at the conference
of the North American
Saxophone Alliance and a recital in Taiwan, where he served as an adjudicator
for the Taiwan National Performance Competition.
Nicholas Keelan, associate professor of music, gave trombone
performances and clinics, including Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with
the Green Bay Symphony.
Bonnie Koestner ’72, associate professor of music,
continued her work as chorus master, pianist, and coach at the Glimmerglass
Opera, Cooperstown,
N.Y., and as pianist with the Palm Beach Opera.
Kurt Krebsbach ’85, associate professor of computer
science, gave two peer-reviewed paper presentations on his work: “Stochastic Deliberation
Scheduling using GSMDPs” for the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research
Society and “Other Agents’ Actions as Asynchronous Events” at
the American Association for Artificial Intelligence spring symposium on “Distributed
Plan and Schedule Management.”
Ruth Lanouette, associate professor of German, gave a presentation
titled “Questioning
Style of Pro-Se Defendants” at the annual conference of the
Law and Society Association.
Carol Lawton, professor of art history and the Ottilia Buerger
Professor of Classical Studies, published her book, Marbleworkers in the
Athenian Agora, with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
She is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation Fellowship for the 2006-07
year, in support of her work on votive reliefs from the Agora excavations
in Athens.
Nicholas Maravolo, professor of biology, co-authored two
papers, “The
Expression of Cytosolic Protein Kinase C Activity in Marchantia polymorpha Thalli
and Its Relationship to Spermine During Programmed Cell Death,” with
Matt Koeberl ’04, in The Bryologist and “DNA Fragmentation
in Marchantia
polymorpha Thalli in Response to Spermine Treatment,” with Dustin
Pagoria ’02,
in Int. J. Plant Sci. A third paper, “The Influence of Spermine
and 6-benzylaminopurine on Putative Caspase Activity During Senescence in Marchantia
polymorpha Thalli,” co-authored by Justin Seaman ’02, Travis
Orth ’03,
and Ross Mueller ’01, is in press at the International Journal of
Plant Science.
Ronald Mason, professor emeritus of anthropology, has a
new book, Inconstant
Companions: Archaeology and North American Indian Oral Traditions, published
by the University of Alabama Press.
Andrew Mast, assistant professor of music
Randall McNeill, associate professor of classics, contributed
an article on Catullus and Horace to the forthcoming Blackwell’s Companion to Catullus. Reviews
of his book, Horace: Image, Identity, and Audience, have appeared in three
European journals: Gnomon, Latomus, and Les Études
Classiques.
Joanne Metcalf, assistant professor of music, has completed
two compositions, La Serenissima (Act II of Orphans of the Heavenly
City) and Light. She also
received an ASCAP Plus Award. Her compositions Il nome del bel fior and Kyria christifera were
performed at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence,
Italy. Other performances of her works were
heard in New
York, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Germany, and Estonia. She was selected as
the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Fellow for her fall residency at the MacDowell
Colony.
Patrice Michaels, associate professor of music, performed “Divas
of Mozart’s Day” for the VII International Symposium
of Voice in honor of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. She also
released a CD, “American Songs,” featuring music of living American
composers, toured Mexico in concert, and had a residency at Tel Aviv University.
Matthew Michelic, associate professor of music, gave three
performances as principal violist of the Green Bay Symphony and, as a member
of the Lawrence
Chamber Players, was heard twice on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Sunday
Afternoon Live from the Chazen.” In July 2005, he performed in
a chamber music recital at Oberlin College with violinist Stephen Clapp,
dean of the
Juilliard School of Music.
Yoko Nagase, assistant professor of economics, co-authored “Optimal Control
of Acid Rain in Japan and China: A Game-Theoretic Analysis,” which
will appear in Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Rob Neilson, assistant professor of studio art, presented
his work in a group show, Artooning, at a gallery in New York; did permanent
public art projects
in Nebraska and North Carolina; and recently completed a commission for St.
Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton. In addition, he serves as artist-in-residence
in the Kohler Arts/Industry program.
Dmitri Novgorodsky, assistant professor of music, was invited
to perform solo piano recitals and to conduct master classes at the Jerusalem
Rubin Academy
of Music in Israel; Dusseldorf’s Anton Rubinstein Academy of Music,
in Germany; and the National Conservatory of Music, in Kazakhstan. He has
appeared
as a concerto soloist, as well as in solo and collaborative recitals, and
has completed a CD project of music for oboe and piano written by 20th-century
Russian composers.
Michael Orr, professor of art history, published “Tradition and Innovation
in the Cycles of Miniatures Accompanying the Hours of the Virgin in Early 15th-Century
English Books of Hours” in Manuscripts in Transition: Recycling Manuscripts,
Texts, and Images. He also gave an invited lecture titled “The
Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction?”
Anthony Padilla, associate professor of music, as a member
of the Arcos Piano Trio, recorded a CD of chamber works by American women
composers Amy Beach,
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Joan Tower. He also gave several recitals, solo
programs, and master classes, including two concerts in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Karen Nordell Pearson, associate professor of chemistry,
co-authored “A
Safer, Easier, Faster Synthesis for CdSe Quantum Dot Nanocrystals,” published
in the Journal of Chemical Education. She gave a number of presentations
and invited lectures, including “Nanowhat?” and “The Big Promise
of Small Science: An Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.” She
and a colleague presented a workshop titled “The ABCs of Nanotechnology,” at
an All-Africa conference in Marrakech, Morocco. Her Lawrence student collaborators
Cherisse Hall ’07, Benjamin Glover ’08, and Richard Amankawah ’06
presented “Fox River Water Quality Monitoring PCB Analyses and Nutrient
Testing.” Much of her work is funded by a National Science Foundation
grant, “Strengthening and Enhancing Lawrence’s Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology Program.”
Peter Peregrine, professor of anthropology, published two
journal articles: “Synchrony in the New World: An Example of Ethnoarcheology” in Cross-Cultural Research and “Cross-Cultural Research as a ‘Rosetta
Stone’ for Discovering the Original Homelands of Proto-Language” with
three co-authors, in Cross-Cultural Research. He also co-authored
a book chapter, “Southeast-Southwest-Mexico:
Continental Perspectives on Mississippian Politics,” in Leadership
and Polity in Mississippian Society and published a book review and
an encyclopedia article, “Trade.”
Brent Peterson, professor of German, published his second
book, History,
Fiction, and Germany: Writing the 19th-Century Nation, and also produced
several book reviews. His upcoming presentation at the Modern Language Association
is titled “Theodor
Fontane’s Monumental Ambiguity.” During the spring recess he
accompanied nine students to Berlin as part of the course Berlin: Experiencing a Great
City.
Jerald Podair, associate professor of history and the Robert
S. French Professor of American Studies, has contracts for three books, including Bayard
Rustin: American Dreamer, The Operator: The Life and Times of Walter O’Malley, and The
American Conversation. He delivered lectures and papers titled “Space
Wars: Urban Space and the Resegregation of the American City,” “Like
Strangers: Blacks, Jews, and New York City’s Ocean Hill-Brownsville
Crisis,” and “American
Metaphor: Race and Baseball in the United States.” His entry on “The
Ocean Hill-Brownsville Strike” was published in the Encyclopedia
of U.S. Labor and Working-Class History. He also wrote several book
reviews and encyclopedia entries.
Bruce Pourciau, professor of mathematics, has several articles
that are to appear shortly or have recently appeared, including “From
Centripedal Forces to Conic Orbits: A Path through the Early Sections of Newton’s
Principia” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; “Force,
Deflection, and Time: Proposition 6 of Newton’s Principia” in Historia
Mathematica; “The Importance
of Being Equivalent: Newton’s Two Models for One-Body Motion,” reprinted
in Infinitesimals, and “Newton’s
Interpretation of Newton’s Second Law” in Archive for History of
Exact Sciences.
Katherine Privatt, associate professor of theatre arts
Stewart Purkey, associate professor of education and the
Bee Connell Mielke Professor of Education, received a grant from the Mielke
Family
Foundation,
Inc., in support of the Mielke Summer Institute and
a study of the Institute’s
effect on its participants, who are teachers from the Appleton and Shawano
school districts.
Gretchen Revie, assistant professor, library, coordinated
a panel discussion on “Libraries and the USA-PATRIOT Act” for
the Fox Valley Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin.
Dane Richeson, associate professor of music, recorded works
on two CDs: Jackie Allen’s “Tangled” (Blue Note Records) and John Moulder’s “Trinity” (Origin
Records). He also gave performances in two cities in Taiwan, as well as New
York City and Los Angeles.
Monica Rico, assistant professor of history, contributed “New Harmony” and “Nashoba” to
the Encyclopedia of British-American Relations. She also presented
a paper, “Lost
Boys: Elite British Big Game Hunters in the American West, 1870-1914,” at
the Association for the Study of Play.
Thomas C. Ryckman, professor of philosophy, published an
article titled “Descriptions” in
the Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy.
Judith Sarnecki, professor of French, had her paper “Double-Take: Louis
Malle’s Competing Versions of France under Nazi Occupation” published
as the lead article in Women in French Studies on French/Francophone Culture
and Literature through Film. She also published a book review, “Sophie
Simon’s ‘Un Sujet de Conversation,’” in The French
Review; organized a panel on “Romancieres for a New Millennium” at
the Midwest Modern Language Association; and authored three conference papers, “The
Queer War of Jean Cocteau,” “Bertrand Tavernier’s Laissez-passer: An
Introduction to the Cinema of the Occupation,” and “Beyond Collaboration
and Resistance: The Cinema of Occupied France, 1940-1944.”
Jodi Sedlock, assistant professor of biology, received a
grant from Chicago’s
Field Museum to continue her research on biodiversity, using bats as a model
system.
John Shimon and Julie Lindemann, assistant professors of art
Steven Paul Spears, assistant professor of music, performed
in the opera Giasone with the Aspen Music Festival, sang at the
Greenwich Music Festival, and gave a voice master class for the Academy of
Music at St. Francis in the Fields.
Matthew Stoneking, associate professor of physics, wrote
two papers in collaboration with Lawrence students: “Update on the design
and construction of an ultra high vacuum, kilogauss scale toroidal electron
plasma experiment” and “Assessing
confinement limitations and scaling for toroidal electron plasma using the
m=1 dicotron frequency,” with Bao Ha ’07 and Duncan Ryan ’06,
were given at the 2005 meeting of the American Physical Society, Division
of Plasma Physics and abstracts of both papers were published in the Bulletin
of the American Physics Society. He is co-author, with Joan Marler, Lawrence
Postgraduate Fellow in Physics, of a forthcoming article, “A Kilogauss-scale,
High-vacuum Toroidal Electron Plasma Experiment, to be published in an issue
of the American
Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings.
Fred Sturm ’73, the Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music,
composed “Forever
Spring” for The Baseball Music Project in New York City, with performances
featuring Baseball Hall of Fame star Dave Winfield and symphony orchestras
in Seattle, Houston, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Detroit, Miami, and Chicago.
He conducted
six high school all-state
jazz ensembles and served as musical director for performances of his jazz
works in Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Norway.
Kuo-ming Sung, associate professor of Chinese, had his book, Colloquial
Amdo Tibetan – A Complete Course for Adult English Speakers, published
by China Tibetology Publishing House. He also presented three papers at professional
meetings: “Teaching Xuci (Functional Categories) at Study Abroad Programs
in China” at the First International Conference on Chinese Language
Education, “Subjectivity
in Chinese and Tibetan” at the North American Conference on Chinese
Linguistics, and “A Four-Tone Autosegmental Analysis on the Tone Sandhi
of Lhasa Tibetan” at the International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages
and Linguistics. He received a grant from the Associated Colleges of the
Midwest to study the Tone Sandhi phenomenon of Lhasa Tibetan.
Rosa Tapia, assistant professor of Spanish, had an article
accepted for publication in Hispanic Review: “Mía o de
naiden: La reescritura de la violencia en “Pasión de historia” de
Ana Lydia Vega.” She presented a paper at the Midwestern Modern Language
Association: “Dictadores y travestís: Transexualidad, memoria
e identidad nacional en Una mala noche la tiene cualquiera de Eduardo
Mendicutti (España, 1982) y Tengo miedo torero de Pedro Lemebel (Chile,
2001).”
Daniel J. Taylor ’63, the Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics
David Thompson, assistant professor of chemistry, was an
author on a publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry titled “Mixed frequency/time domain
optical analogues of heteronuclear multidimensional NMR.” He also gave
two invited talks, “Developing and investigating noble metal infused
porous silicas as multilayered substrates for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy” for
Ford Motors and “A laser spectroscopist’s guided tour of the colorful,
tiny, and ultra-fast world of moving molecules” at the Linda Hall Library.
Annette Thornton, Lawrence Postdoctoral
Fellow in Theatre
Arts, has two edited books under contract: Mimespeak and Mime
Bibliography; published
an article, “Laughing
at Anger: Lotte Goslar’s ‘The Disgruntled’” in The
Physical Actor; and has published a book review, “Andrew Lloyd
Webber,” in Theatre Journal. She presented two papers, “Taps are
Talking and They Ask: ‘Where are the Women?’” at the University
of Wisconsin Women’s Studies Conference and “Praxis of Collaboration
in the Rehearsal Process: Fuel for the Creative Fire” with Katherine
Privatt, associate professor of theatre arts.
Stéphane Tran Ngoc, assistant professor of music,
has performed in several concerts, including Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Sunday Afternoon
Live from the Chazen,” the Merit
School of Music in Chicago, the AMELI
music festival in France, and the International Music Festival of Provence,
at which he participated in the world premiere of “Arcangelo Red” by
Lynn Job.
Timothy Troy ’85, associate professor of theatre arts
and the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama, produced
the premiere
of The Care Package by Sherry Williams-Panell. His production of Hedda
Gabler was named one of the top-ten professional productions in Milwaukee
by the Milwaukee
Journal-Sentinel.
Mark Urness, assistant professor of music, performed with
internationally known jazz artists Kenny Wheeler, Benny Golson, Bill Carrothers,
Joe Locke, Anthony
Cox, and Robin Eubanks at such places as the Green Mill, one of Chicago’s
premiere jazz clubs. He also performed several classical recitals, including, “Failing:
a very difficult piece for string bass” on “Sunday
Afternoon Live from the Chazen.”
Lifongo Vetinde, associate professor of French, delivered
the papers, “L’Appel
de l’ailleurs: Espaces, histoire et mémoire dans Le Ventre
de L’Atlantique de Fatou Diome” at the 47th Annual Convention
of the Midwest Modern Language Association and “Panafricanist Consciousness
in the Novels of Sembène
Ousmane” at the African Literature Association 32nd Annual Conference,
held in Accra, Ghana.
Patricia Vilches, associate professor of Spanish and Italian
Nancy Wall, associate professor of biology and associate
dean of the faculty, was co-author of a presentation at the Pew Midstates
Science
and Mathematics Consortium Undergraduate Research Symposium
in the Biological Sciences: “PCR mutagenesis of mGDF1 (a Vg1 ortholog?)
for functional analysis in zebrafish.”
Jere Wickens, adjunct assistant professor of anthropology,
received a Publications Grant from the Archaeological Institute of America
to support
his work on ancient sites in Greece.
Robert F. Williams, assistant professor of education
Steven Wulf, assistant professor of government, presented
a paper at the Midwestern Political Science Association titled “A Public
Philosophy for Skeptics.”
Jane Parish Yang, associate professor of Chinese, published
a book, Tall
One and Short One, a collection of 30 short stories translated from
Chinese into English. She also had an article, “‘The Tao is Up’ – Intertextuality
and Cultural Dialogue in Tripmaster Monkey” in Reading Chinese Transnationalisms:
Society, Literature, Film.
Richard Yatzeck, professor of Russian, published “Deer Creek Spirit” in Wisconsin Outdoor Journal.