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Worthy
of Note
 The American
Sociological Association Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance
has inaugurated an “outstanding article” award from
the section, to be given out every other year. The award is named
after our distinguished colleague as the James F. Short, Jr.
Award. Congratulations to Jim for this recognition.
Carol
Scally (History graduate student) received a Margaret Storrs
Grierson Travel-to-Collections grant from the Smith College Archive
to support research in their holdings for her dissertation project
on a American Protestant missionaries’ project to educate
Spanish women, 1871-1936.
Don
Dillman (Sociology) is the 2000 recipient of the Roger Herriot
Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics of the American Statistical
Association.
Paintings
and drawings by Chris Watts (Fine Arts) make up a one-person
show which runs at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia,
all of October. Chris will present an opening lecture on October
2.
Emily
Blair and Phuong Nguyen (Fine Arts) participated in
a CEPA Gallery project titled Unlimited Partnerships Collaborations
in Contemporary Art which ran through the summer in Buffalo,
New York,.
Noël
Sturgeon (Women’s Studies) was visiting professor at
the JFK Institute for North American Studies at the Frei Universitat
in Berlin, where she gave a talk entitled “The Anti-Globalization
Protest in Seattle and the American Tradition of Direct Action.”
She also participated in the American Studies/USIA grant in the
Ukraine, and while there, gave a talk on “American Women:
Successes and Struggles” to the Women’s Business Incubator
of the Ternopil Region at Ternopil State Technical University.
She will be presenting at the upcoming American Studies Association
meeting in Detroit in October on a roundtable entitled: “Local
Activism, Academia and Global Politics: Environmental Justice
in the World.”
In June
the WSU Regents approved the elevation of the Women’s Studies
Program to Department status. The effective date was August 1,
2000.
Erica
Austin and Bruce Pinkleton (Communication) have received
a grant for a media evaluation project from the American Legacy
Foundation.
Shelli
Fowler (Comparative American Cultures/English) was one of
three 1999-2000 Sahlin Faculty Excellence Awards winners named
at spring commencement. The award is one of WSU’s most prestigious
faculty awards.
LeRoy
Ashby (History) presented a lecture, “From Easy Rider
to Apocalypse Now: Hollywood’s Brief Moment of Doubt,”
in July at the Tacoma Art Museum. He examined a flood of movies
in the 60s and 70s that “exuded pessimism, cynicism and
doubts about the United States.”
Delia
Aguilar (Women’s Studies/CAC) will present a paper this
month on “Globalization and Women” at a conference
in Malaysia on Globalization and Labor, sponsored by the Dept.
of Political Science of the National University of Malaysia and
the Malaysian Trades Union Council.
Carmen
Lugo (Sociology), Mary Bloodsworth (Women’s Studies/Philosophy),
Shelli Fowler (CAC/English), and Kendal Broad (Sociology
Ph.D. ‘98) were on a panel for the National Women’s
Studies Association. The title of the roundtable was “50%
+ 50% =200%: Subverting the ‘Double Duty’ of Women’s
Studies/Ethnic Studies Joint Appointments.“
John
Kicza traveled to Mexico City in August to participate in
the first meeting of the Organizing Committee of the XI Reunion
of the North American and Mexican Historians. In September he
will travel to Lima, Peru, to teach a two-week graduate seminar
on colonial urban social history at the Catholic University of
Peru and to present a paper on colonial history.
The National
Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic for UNESCO invited Marina
Tolmacheva to attend the international celebration “Osh-3000”
and the international symposium, “Osh-3000 in the context
of Eastern cultural genesis.” The 3000-year anniversary
of Osh, an ancient city in southern Kyrgyzstan, is being celebrated
on October 4, with the participation of the government, foreign
guests, public offices, the arts community and the National Academy
of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Fourteen
History department faculty, graduate students and recent doctoral
recipients participated on the program at the American Historical
Associa-tion’s Pacific Coast Branch meeting in Park City,
Utah, in August. They presented research papers and served as
panel chairs and commentators.
Paul
Brians’ (English) Web site, Common Errors in English,
was featured on CNN’s “Online” show on August
17. You can find their links at <http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/weblinks/hln/>.
Paul’s link is under 8/17.
Marcel
Wingate (Speech and Hearing Sciences) is the invited main
speaker on the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association annual
convention program, “Stuttering and the Domain of Language:
Theory, Research and Clinical Implications,” to be held
in Washington, DC, this November. He was also invited to serve
as analyst of six papers to be presented on a panel on “The
Evolution of Stuttering Treatment: Theory and Practice”
at the same convention.
May
Takeuchi (Sociology graduate student) was awarded the Jim
and Leona Elder Peace Action Endowment for 2000-2001 by the College
of Liberal Arts. She will use the endowment for small group research
with Louis Gray (Sociology) and Alex Takeuchi (University
of North Alabama).
Richard
York (Sociology graduate student) presented a paper titled
“Modeling the Anthropogenic Factors of Sustainability”
at the 10th World Congress of the International Rural Sociological
Association in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Co-authors on the paper
were Eugene Rosa (Sociology) and Thomas Dietz (George
Mason University).
Don
Dillman (Sociology) was named the 2000 recipient of the Roger
Herriot Award for Innovation in Federal Statistics. He is the
seventh recipient of this award and the first outside the federal
government. His innovations have had a major impact on federal
statistics, notably the 2000 census, as well as in other data
collection settings.
Anthropology
doctoral student Diane Curewitz has received the Evelyn
W. Hacker Scholarship from the Eliza Hart Spalding Chapter of
The Daughter’s of the American Revolution, one from the
Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation, as well as Dr. Edward R. Meyer
and Jim and Loelle Kassebaum Scholarships, for this year.
Paul
Lee (Fine Arts) has been elected to the position of first
vice chair for the Washington State Arts Commission.
In July,
Kim Andersen (Foreign Languages) toured Scandinavia with
14 WSU students. “We started out in Copenhagen visiting
the National Museum, the Town Hall, and the Round Tower from
1643. Then to the Danish town of Roskilde where we saw the Cathedral
housing the tombs of 38 Danish kings and queens. We saw Frederiks-borg
and Kronborg Castles before leaving for Oslo, Norway. There we
visited the Cathedral, the Norwegian Folk Museum, the Edward
Munch Museum, and the Akershus Fortress. Then to the little town
of Voss in the mountains famous for its Viking cross, erected
in 1021. Then on to Bergen and the Museum of Modern Art. Back
in Oslo, we caught the train to Stockholm, Sweden, for tours
of the Historical Museum, the Vasa Ship Museum and “Skansen,”
Stock-holm’s outdoor historical museum and zoo. We traveled
lightly with backpacks and Scan Rail train tickets and stayed
in affordable hotels and hostels. We had a great time learning
a lot, shopping and enjoying the nightlife. A similar tour is
being planned for summer 2001.”
E. San
Juan, Jr. (Comparative American Cultures) served as chair-professor
of English at the Graduate School of Western Languages and Literatures,
Tamkang University, Taiwan, for five weeks (July-August), and
was consultant to the Academia Sinica.
Clay
Mosher (Sociology, Vancouver) and Tom Rotolo (Sociology)
have been awarded a $20,000 grant by the Washington State Department
of Social and Health Services, Division of Alcohol and Substance
Abuse to study the within-household effects on alcohol and drug
use.
Don
Dillman (Sociology) has been elected the 2000-2001 vice president
and president-elect of the American Association for Public Opinion
Research.
Mary
Blair-Loy (Sociology) and Amy Wharton (Sociology)
have been awarded a $227,000 grant by Citicorp to study how work-family
policies, once adopted by an organization, are perceived and
used by employees in a “family-friendly” workplace
environment.
John
Irby (Communication) is now writing a twice-a-month column
for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
Two news
items from the Asia Program: a new scholarship, the Indian Scholarship
and Research Fund, has been established with the goal of developing
an endowment, and has already brought in the first donations.
The Indian Scholarship Fund Committee includes Prem Kumar
(a 1978 Ph.D. English alumnus), who initiated the fund; Marina
Tolmacheva, director of Asia Program; and Jeff Puckett,
CLA development director.
The second item is that Fritz Blackwell has been invited
to join the Board of Directors of the non-profit Indian American
Education Foundation founded by Kumar, who will be its executive
director. Kumar is located in the Seattle area, but the foundation
will have an international scope.
Fine Arts
students who received MFA’s last spring have already found
good positions: Carolyn Ford is ceramics instructor at
the University of North Carolina, Asheville; Michelle Melancon
is museum coordinator for production at the California Center
for the Arts in Escondido; and Dane Webster is director
of photographic services at Kansas State University, Manhattan.
Ann
Christenson’s sculpture is being featured in a one-person
show of ceramics, “Slack Tide,” at the Contemporary
Craft Gallery in Portland, Oregon, through September. This summer,
Ann spent six weeks in China, teaching at the National Academy
of Fine Arts in Hangzhou as an invited artist-in-residence and
exhibitor during the International Wood Firing Conference in
Foshan, and participating in the “Spirit of Porcelain”
Conference and Exhibition held in Jingdezhen. Upon her return
to the states she was artist-in-residence at the Center for Ceramic
Arts in New Castle, Maine.
Marc
Boone (Fine Arts) was one of fifty alumni invited to exhibit
at the Maryland Institute College of Art to celebrate the 25th
anniversary of their Mt. Royal Graduate School of Art.
The August
5 edition of the Northwest Asian Weekly has a feature
story about Alex Tan (Communication), who is one of eight
recipients of this year’s prestigious “Living Asian
American Pioneers” awards given by the Northwest Asian Weekly
Foundation. The article profiles Alex’s early career as
a writer in the Philippines, his academic achievements at WSU,
and describes his leadership of the Edward R. Murrow School of
Communication. Congratulations, Alex!
In late
July, the History department hosted the fifth Women’s West
conference in Pullman, The conference opened with a performance
of “Sacagawea Speaks” in which WSU history Ph.D. Jeanne
Eder recreated the famous Lemhi woman who was a member of
the Lewis And Clark Expedition. Other special features of the
conference were a plenary panel on gender and race in the Pacific
Northwest, an exhibit by contemporary and traditional women artists,
a quilt exhibit, and a reading by local authors Mary Clearman
Blew and Janet Campbell Hale. Almost 200 people, among them faculty,
graduate students, secondary school teachers and interested local
people attended the conference. Organizers were Sue Armitage
(History) and Brenda Jackson (History graduate student).
All four
of the winners of scholarships awarded this year by the National
Academy of Television Arts and Science, Seattle Chapter, are
WSU students. Congratulations to Communication majors Cindi
deHoog, Destry Henderson, Jolene Peterson,
and Traee Walters. Their scholarships are $2000 each.
Gene
Rosa (Sociology) gave an invited presentation at the London
School of Economics and Political Science on his research on
cross-cultural risk perceptions titled “The Cognitive Architecture
of Risk: Pancultural Unity or Cultural Shaping?” He also
served on an external review panel evaluating the Department
of Biology and its graduate programs in Environmental Science
and Public Policy at George Mason University.
Ann
Marie Yasinitsky (Music) was featured performer at the Society
of Composers, Inc. Region VIII Conference at Marylhurst College,
Oregon. Ann also presented a guest recital and masterclass at
Southern Idaho College, as well as, master classes on the 2000
Arts at Sea Cruise presented by World Projects International.
Charles
Neufeld (Music and Theatre Arts) was tenor soloist in the
University of Idaho performance of Franz Schubert’s Mass
in G in April in Moscow. He also appeared as tenor soloist in
a performance of W. A. Mozart’s Mass in C (Coronation Mass)
with the Idaho Washington Concert Chorale in May in Uniontown,
Wash.
Among the
students serving as officers of GPSA are vice president Victoria
Hansel (Anthropology) and District III representative Amber
Reaume (Communication).
Carol
Ivory (Fine Arts) attended the annual meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Pacific Arts Association held at the Ubersee
Museum, Bremen, Germany. She is PAA’s vice-president representing
North America. Carol also gave a paper on contemporary Marquesan
tapa at the PAA symposium. In June, she lectured for two weeks
on board the freighter/cruise ship, Aranui II in the Marquesas.
Amy
Mazur was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation
to complete the research project, "Comparative Study of
Women's Policy Offices." As co-prinicipal investigator,
Mazur obtained an $84,000 grant for the next three years. The
project examines the role of women's policy agencies to make
democracies more democratic in 16 countries and at the European
Union level.
Trina
Branch (Speech and Hearing Sciences graduate student) has
received two national scholarships, one from the American Indian
Graduate Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and another from
the Native American Scholarship Fund.
Gregory
Yasinitsky (Music) was named the first Commission Project
of New York, Washington state composer-in-resident. His residency
will be hosted by the Clarkston School District. Greg is also
the recipient of an American Society of Composers Authors and
Publishers award. He will appear as guest artist and clinician
at the Vic Lewis Band Festival in November in Alberta, Canada.
He has recently performed with Jack Jones, Maureen McGovern,
Bill Watrous and Sunny Wilkinson, and will go to New York City
in January to perform with the Southern Idaho College Jazz Band
at the 2001 International Association of Jazz Educators Conference.
In a recent
competition, the Solstice Wind Quintet won the opportunity to
play at the Northwest Regional MENC Conference in Spokane in
February. Quintet members are Ann Yasinitsky, Gary
Plowman, James Schoepflin, Susan Hess, and
Roger Logan (all Music).
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“Portraits
of Forgotten Places,” Travis Warren and Ryan Babcock,
CUB Gallery