During the 1999-2000 academic year, members of the Lawrence University faculty contributed many fine examples of scholarship, writing, artistic work, and musical performance to the literature of their respective disciplines, to the wider academic world, and to audiences near and far. In addition to their many contributions to the on-campus Lawrence community, here are some of their significant off-campus or publishing achievements.
Janet Anthony, associate professor of music, was a guest clinician at "Cellobration" and also performed in the Alumni Artist Series at the University of Arizona. The Lawrence Cello Ensemble, under her direction, performed in the Wisconsin Cello Society Inaugural Concert.
A book by Elia Armacanqui-Tipacti, assistant professor of Spanish, Sor María Manuela de Santa Ana: Una Teresina Peruana, was published by Centro Bartolomé de las Casas in Cuzco, Peru. She presented a paper, "Intertextualidad do Sor María Manuela y Santa Teresa de Jesús," at the Fourth Annual Conference on Women Writers of Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America, at the University of Arizona, and another, "La mujer en Este ojo que me mira," at the Interconsortial Conference "Teaching Latin America in a Liberal Arts College," at Wabash College.
Associate Professor of Music Gene Biringer hosted the annual meeting of Music Theory Midwest on the Lawrence campus in May.
Richard Bjella, associate professor of music and director of choral studies, was guest conductor for the Wisconsin and Missouri All-State Choirs, the Big Sky Festival in Billings, Montana, and the Heritage Music Festival in San Francisco. He presented lectures at the Allerton Retreat for Choral Music Education and NextDirectioN, a national conference for high school students considering careers in choral music.
Marcia Bjornerud, associate professor of geology, was awarded a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation to support her research and teaching in Norway during the current [2000-01] academic year. Her essay "Natural Science, Natural Resources, and the Nature of Nature" appeared in The Earth Around Us: Maintaining a Livable Planet, edited by J. Schneiderman. Her paper, "Volcanic Petrographic Textures in Ceramic-Glaze Interfaces," co-authored with Jenee Rowe, '00, appeared in The Journal of Geoscience Education.
Philippe Bodin, assistant professor of music, had three new pieces performed during the 1999-2000 academic year. Consilience, for violin and viola, was presented at Banff, accompanied by projection of a video by Japanese artist Tadasu Takamine. The Lawrence Wind Ensemble premiered Talaria in May, and Peal, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, was performed by the Da Capo Players Chamber Players in New York City in June.
John R. Brandenberger, the Alice G. Chapman Professor of Physics, was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society and delivered an invited address at the Project Kaleidoscope anniversary meeting in Washington, D.C.
The Sense of Antirationalism: The Religious Thought of Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard, co-authored by Karen L. Carr, associate professor of religious studies, and Philip J. Ivanhoe, was published by the Seven Bridges Press.
In Profile: Jeffrey J. Clark, assistant professor of geology
David M. Cook, professor of physics and the Philetus E. Sawyer Professor of Science, was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support his project on "Strengthening Computation in Upper-Level Undergraduate Physics Programs." He delivered a paper titled "Adding Laboratories to a Course in Physics of Music" at the summer meetings of the American Association of Physics Teachers in San Antonio, Texas.
James DeCorsey, associate professor of music, performed the Brahms Horn Trio with the Lawrence Chamber Players on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Live from the Elvejhem" series in January. He is a founding member of the Tetracor Horn Quartet, which presented its premiere concert in April at the Paine Art Center in Oshkosh.
Bart T. De Stasio, Jr., '82, associate professor of biology, was awarded a Semester in Environmental Science Faculty Exchange Fellowship from the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He co-authored a paper titled "Effects of food availability and predation on a marine zoöplankton community -- a study on copepods in the Baltic Sea," published in The International Review of Hydrobiology. His published abstracts included "Role of cyanobacterial slime in affecting Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin, water quality," in the proceedings of the American Society for Microbiology North Central Branch Annual Meeting and "The impact of the invertebrate predator, Leptodora kindti, on the crustacean zoöplankton community of Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin," with Rebecca Doyle, '00, in the proceedings of the Pew Conference on Undergraduate Research in the Biological Sciences.
Elizabeth A. De Stasio, '83, associate professor of biology and Raymond H. Herzog Professor of Science, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support her project, "Myosin heads and muscle assembly in C. elegans." Her abstract, "A new class of sup-9 mutations," co-authored with Jason Tennessen, '01, Catherine Lephoto, '97, and Joseph Donohoe, '98, was presented at the Midwest Worm Meeting at the University of Minnesota.
Katherine L. Dudley, assistant professor of theatre and drama, presented a paper titled "Lawrence University's 2.5%: Establishing Community and Preserving Identity" at the Mid-America Theatre Conference in St. Louis.
Fan Lei, associate professor of music, has been appointed guest principal clarinet of the Shanghai Radio Symphony Orchestra and was a jury member for the Xian National Wind Ensemble Competition. He presented a guest lecture and appeared on several chamber music concerts at the Banff Center for the Arts this past summer.
Merton D. Finkler, professor of economics, published "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Competitive Managed Care" in The Managed Care Quarterly.
Peter Fritzell, professor of English and the Patricia Hamar Boldt Professor of Liberal Studies, published "Letter to a Breeder" in Gun Dog: The Magazine of Upland Bird and Waterfowl Dogs.
Richmond C. Frielund, associate professor of theatre and drama, designed the set and lights for the Attic Theatre production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever and the set for the Miss Wisconsin Pageant.
Peter S. Glick, professor of psychology, co-authored articles including "Feminized management and backlash toward agentic women," in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; "Respect versus liking: Status and interdependence underlie ambivalent stereotypes," in The Journal of Social Issues; and "From combative children to ambivalent adults: The development of gender prejudice," with Lori Hilt, '97, in Developmental Social Psychology of Gender. He presented papers at the Society for Experimental Social Psychology Conference in St. Louis and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Conference in Minneapolis.
Joseph Gregg, associate professor of mathematics, released version 1.4 of his Leibniz software for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems.
Bruce E. Hetzler, professor of psychology, presented a poster titled "Naltrexone does not alter the acute effects of alcohol on flash-evoked potentials of rats," co-authored with Ewa Bednarek, '98, at the Tenth Congress of the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism in Yokohama, Japan.
Anthony R. Hoch, assistant professor of geology, co-authored the articles "Calcite crystal growth inhibition by Humic substances, with emphasis on hydrophobic acids from the Florida Everglades," published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, and "The importance of mechanical disaggregation in chemical weathering in a cold alpine environment, San Juan Mountains, Colorado," published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin.
Eilene Hoft-March, associate professor of French, published "Clytemnestra's Desire: Marie Cardinal and the Mythical Maternal" in Dalhousie French Studies and a review of Assia Djebar's Les Nuits de Strasbourg in the French Review. At the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in Minneapolis she presented the paper "Giving Up the Story for Dead: Georges Perec as Holocaust Witness."
Eugénie Hunsicker, assistant professor of mathematics, received the 2000 Mortarboard Honorary Award for Faculty Excellence. She gave invited presentations at the Association for Women in Mathematics Workshop in Washington, D.C., and at a topology seminar held at the City University of New York.
In Profile: Joy Jordan, assistant professor of statistics
Steven Jordheim, associate professor of music, completed a compact disc recording of the saxophone music of David Maslanka that was released this summer on the Albany Records label. Performance highlights for the year included recitals at the Birch Creek Music Festival and the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Tucson and a summer 2000 tour in Italy. He was sound designer/composer for Lawrence Theatre's production of Brian Friel's Translations, which was produced in Appleton and at the Pabst Theatre in Milwaukee, and he composed an original score for The Woolgatherer by David Mastrosimone, which was staged at the Boulevard Ensemble Theatre in Milwaukee.
Catherine Kautsky, associate professor of music, presented solo piano recitals at the Levine School of Music, Washington, D.C.; La Maison Française, Washington, D.C.; and the Peninsula Music Festival in Door County. Her article, "Story-Telling at the Piano," was published in the December/ January 1999/2000 issue of American Music Teacher.
Nicholas Keelan, associate professor of music, appeared as trombone soloist with the Appleton City Band at the Wisconsin Bandmasters State Convention and with the Rocky Mountain Brassworks brass band at the American School Band Directors Association national convention in Aspen. He also was guest artist and soloist at Mars Hill College in North Carolina and an adjudicator for the Mile High Jazz Festival in Denver.
Edmund M. Kern, associate professor of history, published "An End to Witch-Trials in Austria: Reconsidering the Enlightened State" in The Austrian History Yearbook and a review of The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna, by Howard Louthan, in Renaissance Quarterly. He participated in sessions at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference.
Assistant Professor of Music Michael Kim performed this past year with the symphonies of Central Ohio, Green Bay, Milwaukee, and Timmins, as well as the Toronto Sinfonia and the Fox Valley Youth Orchestra. He performed solo recitals at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the University of South Carolina at Columbia, and for the Nelson Overture Concerts Society and the Pacific Northwest Festival, both in British Columbia.
In Profile: Kathryn Kueny, assistant professor of religious studies
Carol L. Lawton, associate professor of art history, reviewed A. Stoll's Die attischen Bildfeldstelen des 4. Jhs. V. Chr.: Untersuchungen zu den kleinformatigen Grabreliefs im spatklassischen Athen for The American Journal of Archaeology. She also delivered a lecture entitled "Votive Reliefs and Popular Religion in Ancient Athens" at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.
Karen Leigh-Post, C '79, assistant professor of music, appeared in the role of Maria Callas in Attic Theatre's production of Terrence McNally's Master Class this past summer. She was elected to the Wisconsin state board of directors for the National Association of Teachers of Singing for the 1999-2002 term.
Robert Levy, professor of music, was guest trumpet soloist for the Jazz Dialogue Northwest Festival at Eastern Washington University, with the Columbia Basin College Jazz Ensemble, and the Kennewick and Richland (Washington) High School jazz ensembles. He also was guest conductor for the wind ensemble at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.
Lawrence D. Longley, professor of government, co-authored The Electoral College Primer, published by Yale University Press, and co-edited The Uneasy Relationships between Parliamentary Members and Leaders, published by Frank Cass Publishers. He published articles and chapters in journals and books including The Journal of Legislative Studies and Working Papers on Comparative Legislative Studies and delivered papers in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Cairo, Egypt. He was honored with a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturing Award to serve this year as the Thomas Jefferson Chair in Political Science in The Netherlands.
Rebecca Epstein Matveyev, assistant professor of Russian, published reviews of The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel, in The Slavic and East European Journal, and The Society Tale in Russian Literature: From Odoevskii to Tolstoi, in Canadian-American Slavic Studies.
Gerald L. Metalsky, associate professor of psychology, co-authored articles including "Depression and excessive reassurance-seeking," in Psychological Inquiry; "Be re(assured): Excessive reassurance-seeking has (at least) some explanatory power regarding depression," in Psychological Inquiry; "Factorial construct validity of the Extended Attributional Style Questionnaire," in Cognitive Therapy and Research; "Testing the causal mediation component of Beck's theory of depression," in Cognitive Therapy and Research; and -- with Associate Professor of Psychology Beth Haines and Aimee Cardamone Briles, '95, "Interpersonal and cognitive pathways into the origins of attributional style: a developmental perspective" in The Interactional Nature of Depression: Advances in Interpersonal Approaches.
Matthew Michelic, associate professor of music, taught and performed at two summer music programs, the International School for Musical Arts in Ontario and the CREDO Chamber Music Program in Woodstock, Illinois. With colleagues Michael Kim and Patrice Michaels, he performed a recital on WFMT's (Chicago) studio broadcast "Live from Studio One." His review of a Chicago Viola Society concert appeared in the June 1999 Journal of the American Viola Society.
Brigetta Miller, C '89, assistant professor of music, who received Lawrence's 2000 Young Teacher Award, completed the Master of Music degree at Silver Lake College last spring. Her thesis topic was "Teaching Music in Relation to History and Culture through the Use of Tribally Specific Native American Lullabies." She also presented a session titled "Teaching Music from Diverse Cultures: Issues from Philosophy to Practice" at the Wisconsin Music Educators Association convention.
Kathleen Murray, associate professor of music and acting dean of the conservatory, has been named an associate editor for Keyboard Companion magazine. In May she became president of the East-Central Division of the Music Teachers National Association.
Introduction to Computer Science with C++ (second edition), co-authored by Associate Professor of Mathematics Thomas L. Naps, Kenneth Lambert, and Douglas Nance, was published by Brooks-Cole Publishing Company. An abstract co-authored by Professor Naps, James R. Eagan, '00, and Laura L. Norton, '01, titled "JHAVE -- An Environment to Actively Engage Students in Web-based Algorithm Visualizations," was published in the proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Technical Session.
Howard Niblock, professor of music and acting assistant dean of the conservatory, was a featured guest soloist with the Appleton Boychoir during their June 2000 tour in the Czech Republic. He also continued as principal oboe with the Pamiro Opera Orchestra and performed as guest soloist with the Green Bay Symphony.
An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, co-authored by Associate Professor of Art History Michael T. Orr, was published by Harvey Miller Press.
In Profile: Anthony Padilla, assistant professor of music
Archaeological Research: A Brief Introduction, by Peter N. Peregrine, associate professor of anthropology, was published by Prentice Hall. His article titled "World-Systems Theory in Archaeology" appeared in A World Systems Reader, edited by Thomas Hall, and many of his reviews appeared in the journal Ethnohistory. Professor Peregrine also co-edited the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volumes 1 and 2, published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Jerald E. Podair, assistant professor of history, authored the entry on "New York" for the historical encyclopedia Civil Rights in the United States, published by Macmillan Reference. He served as historical consultant for, and was featured on, a radio documentary entitled "New York in Black and White: The Sixties, Civil Rights, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis," broadcast on New York City's public radio station, WNYC.
Bruce Pourciau, professor of mathematics, received Lawrence's Excellence in Teaching Award for 2000. His essay "The Education of a Pure Mathematician" appeared in The American Mathematical Monthly.
Stewart C. Purkey, associate professor of education and Bee Connell Mielke Professor of Education, co-authored the article "Small-Town College to Big-City School," published in Teaching and Teacher Education. Among the co-authors was Karin Sconzert, '87.
Birgit Tautz Ramsey, assistant professor of German, published the article "Texturen und Farben. China und Afrika im Blick des deutschen Idealismus" in Das Fremde Reiseerfahrunfen, Schreibformen und kulturelles Wissen and a review essay entitled "'Coming out' ist 'in': Neuste amerikanische Forschungen zu sexuellen Identitaten im achtzehnten Jahrundert" in Das achtzehnte Jahrhundert. She also published reviews in Colloquia Germanica, German Studies Review, and The German Quarterly and participated in sessions at the German Studies Association meeting in Atlanta.
Bridget-Michaele Reischl, associate professor of music, Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music, and director of orchestral studies, had guest-conducting engagements this past year with the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the Woodstock Mozart Festival. She also conducted the Illinois All-State Honors Orchestra.
In Profile: Brad Rence, professor of biology
In Profile: Terry Rew-Gottfried, professor of psychology
Susan Richards, director of the Seeley G. Mudd Library and associate professor, published "Fraternal, Clubs, and Service Organizations" in Magazines for Libraries and contributed to On Account of Sex: An Annotated Bibliography on the Status of Women in Librarianship, published by Scarecrow Press. She received a grant from the California Council for the Humanities to support her project titled "A Most Worthy Enterprise: The California Architecture of Allison and Allison."
In Profile: Dane Maxim Richeson, associate professor of music
Brian C. Rosenberg, dean of the faculty and professor of English, was elected to the board of trustees of the Dickens Society. His review of Homes and Homelessness in the Victorian Imagination, edited by Murray Baumgarten and H. M. Daleski, was published by the Dickens Quarterly.
In Profile: Yumi Janairo Roth, assistant professor of studio art
In Profile: Judith Holland Sarnecki, associate professor of French
George R. Saunders, professor of anthropology and Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of Social Science, published a review of The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, by David I. Kertzer, in Anthropological Quarterly.
The Lawrence University Jazz Ensemble (LUJE), under the direction of Kenneth Schaphorst, associate professor of music and director of jazz studies, was named Best College Big Band in the 23rd Annual Downbeat Student Music Awards. Professor Schaphorst had arrangements of Alfie and Summertime published by University of Northern Colorado Press, and his composition, When the Moon Jumps, was published by Nichols Music.
Rico Serbo, assistant professor of music, toured Spain in December for a series of concerts with The New York Opera to Broadway Quartet. He spent his fifth summer as artist-in-residence at the Bay View Music Festival.
Claudena M. Skran, associate professor of government, presented a paper titled "Paradigm Shift in Refugee Assistance: The Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention for the UNHCR" at the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System in Oslo, Norway. She also served as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Timothy A. Spurgin, associate professor of English, delivered a paper titled "Enquiring Minds and Tattooed Bodies: The Marking and Erasure of the Celebrity Body" at the Midwest Modern Language Association Meeting.
Matthew R. Stoneking, assistant professor of physics, presented a paper on "Toroidal Magnetic Confinement of a Pure Electron Plasma," co-authored with Angela Kopp, '01, at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society.
Richard G. Summers, assistant professor of chemistry, received an Academic Research Enhancement Award from the National Institutes of Health to fund his work on the stereochemical determinants of erythromycin biosynthesis.
In Profile: Kuo-Ming Sung, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures
Daniel J. Taylor, '63, Hiram A. Jones Professor of Classics, authored the article on "Varro" for the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Ancient Roman Writers. His review of Derivation: Greek and Roman Views on Word Formation appeared in Historiographia Linguistica.
Timothy X. Troy, '85, assistant professor of theatre and drama, whose position is supported by the J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professorship in Theatre and Drama, directed Betrayal by Harold Pinter and The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone at the Boulevard Ensemble Theatre in Milwaukee. He also directed Plays on History, by Professor of Theatre and Drama Emeritus Frederick Gaines, at the Outagamie County Historical Society and authored the libretto/conceptual protocol for a Wild Space Dance Company program entitled Dancing Aloud.
Lifongo Vetinde, assistant professor of French, published a review of Gaston-Paul Effa's novel Ma in The French Review.
Dirck Vorenkamp, assistant professor of religious studies, was the 2000 winner of the Freshman Studies Teaching Award. He organized a panel on East Asian Buddhism for the American Academy of Religion meeting and presented a paper titled "A-series Temporal Order in Dogen's Theory of Time."
Ernestine Whitman, associate professor of music, continued as principal flute with the Pamiro Opera Orchestra and also appeared as soloist with the Appleton Boychoir and the White Heron Chorale. Her article, "The Learning Pendulum," appeared in Flute Talk magazine in November 1999.
Jane Parish Yang, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures, was nominated for the vice-presidency of the Chinese Language Teachers Association. Her translation of "A Place of One's Own," by Yuen Chiung-chiung was included in A Place of One's Own: Stories of Self in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, published by Oxford University Press.
Richard L. Yatzeck, professor of Russian, published the poem "Crosscut Saw" in The Madison Review.
EMERITI FACULTY
Suite for Organ, by Robert Below, professor emeritus of music, has been published by the Augsburg Fortress publishing house. The work was commissioned by the Lawrence chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia for the Brombaugh organ in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel and was given its first performance in February 1996.
J. Bruce Brackenridge, professor emeritus of physics, wrote "The Diagram as a Diagnostic Device," a chapter in The Foundations of Newtonian Scholarship, published by World Scientific Press, and "Newton's Mature Dynamics: A Crooked Path Made Straight," a chapter in Isaac Newton's Natural Philosophy, published by the MIT Press. He also organized and chaired a session on the new translation of Newton's Principia at the Fourth British-North American Joint Meeting of BSHS and HSS (the British and American societies for the history of science) in August.
The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England, originally published by Professor of History Emeritus William A. Chaney in 1970, was reprinted this year by Manchester University Press.
Two articles by John Koopman, professor emeritus of music, "A Brief History of Singing: Tracing the Evolution of Western Solo Singing from Antiquity to the Present" and "Unsung Songs: An In-Depth Guide to Some Unjustly Neglected Art Songs," are published on the World Wide Web at www.lawrence.edu/fac/koopmajo.
John M. Stanley, professor emeritus of religious studies, is one of seven ethicists asked to serve on the Hospice Access and Values Project, a national collaborative effort between the Hastings Center and the National Hospice Work Group with the goal of redesigning the hospice system to better meet end-of-life care needs for patients and caregivers.