Dean's Message

Dear Colleagues,

I want to share with you details of the College of Liberal Arts budget request I recently presented to President Rawlins, Provost Bates, and other university administrators. The proposal focuses upon building and sustaining our strengths and sets new courses to address areas where we could do better. I wish to review for you here some of our accomplishments as they drive our budget priorities.

During my first year as dean, we generated 36% (87,616 SCH) of WSU’s total student credit hours; in AY2002–2003, we captured 38% (96,219 SCH) of all SCHs produced; and we are projected to produce 99,000 student credit hours this year. Our student majors have also grown by 400+ in that same period. Meanwhile, we have suffered significant losses in faculty (28.18 FTE) and graduate assistants (11.18 FTE). Our first two budget requests this year are to restore our $528,000 budget cut and convert $500,000 in annual temporary funds to permanent funding. If granted, this will build faculty in key departments, identified through our strategic planning process. This funding will also help us complete our commitment to permanently fund the operations of the Thomas S. Foley Institute, a three-year goal detailed in our 2001 area plan. Additionally, it will fund opportunities for faculty to assume alternative assignments, at their initiative, to meet special needs in teaching, advising, grant development, and other areas.

We continue to build upon the success of the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication, working to support its 600+ majors and newly approved Ph.D. program with the new building addition, to be opened in 2004, and through continued efforts to fund equipment. Our budget request also includes funding for an equipment engineer for the integrated media laboratories to be housed in the Murrow Addition.

Anticipating our future Plateau Center for American Indian Studies, we also requested funding for a director, assistant director, and clerical staff for the next budget cycle. This request builds upon our receipt of a $100,000 federal appropriation to plan the center and continue work on the Northwest Regional Native American Project (NRNAP), conducted with three other land-grant universities. Together we are working to serve Native American students and better educate all students about American Indian culture, history, and governance. In late September, I presented a progress report to the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians at their fiftieth anniversary conference; the ATNI, representing 50+ tribes and organizations, has supported our Plateau Center and NRNAP projects with two resolutions, formally passed in assembly. Our collaborative work with ATNI and our WSU Native American Advisory Board has maximized the impact of these important projects.

Finally, we asked for funding to stabilize our Theatre Program through support for facility management and set design and acquiring consultants to advise us on rebuilding the program through interdisciplinary collaboration.

While making progress on these objectives, our college continues to excel through the good work of our faculty and students, whose achievements are detailed on these pages. I invite you to learn more about the work of your colleagues by attending the Authors’ Recognition Reception scheduled for October 29. Please note details in this issue.

As always, best wishes for success in your teaching, scholarship, and scholarly work.

Barbara Couture, Dean
College of Liberal Arts

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Worthy of Note

 Craig Parks (psychology) has accepted the position of associate editor of the APA journal Group Dynamics.

 On November 1, Gary Huckleberry (anthropology) will lead an international group of scholars on a field trip to geoarchaeological sites along the middle Columbia River as part of the 2003 Geological Society of America (GSA) annual meeting in Seattle. A field guide for the trip, titled “Recent Geoarchaeological Discoveries in Central Washington,” will be published by GSA for the annual meeting.

 David Pietz (history) has been invited to moderate a session, “Chinese Cinema: A Student Roundtable,” at the Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Phoenix October 9–11. Participating in the roundtable are two WSU students, Kimberly Larsen and Paul DeDonato (both seniors, history).

 Jeanne Johnson (speech and hearing sciences) presented a one-day invited seminar titled “Augmenting Communication: Students with Significant, Multiple Disabilities” to the Cheney School District Special Services staff on August 26. In attendance were special education teachers, paraprofessionals, school psychologists, speech-language pathologists, and administrators.

 Work by Samantha Stengel-Göetz (fine arts) will be included in an exhibition entitled “Women, Trauma, and Visual Expression” at WomanMade Gallery in Chicago this October. Stengel-Göetz’s installation “Containing Lightness” has also been included in an October exhibition entitled “Tension and Release” at Salisbury, Maryland’s Art Institute and Gallery.

 Jim Short (professor emeritus, sociology) moderated a panel discussion titled “What’s Missing, Undervalued, and Forgotten in Criminology” at the recent American Sociological Association meetings in Atlanta.

 Virginia Hyde (English) reports that the nomination of the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos, New Mexico, to the National Register of Historic Places succeeded in August after five years of work and negotiation. As president of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America, an MLA-allied organization, Hyde co-authored the 100-page nomination package (with California writer Tina Ferris). As a result of the same nomination, the property has been recommended as a U.S. National Historic Landmark (along with only ten percent of NR properties). The Lawrences called the place Kiowa Ranch because it was near a campsite the Kiowa Indians had used through the nineteenth century on their way to the Taos Pueblo Trade Fairs. It was the only property the Lawrences ever owned and was a gathering place for writers and artists during the English writer’s American period and during Frieda’s later residence there after his death. Frieda willed it in 1955 to the present owner, the University of New Mexico, which has cooperated in the NR process.

 LeRoy Ashby (history) joined Eric Foner from Columbia University as lead historians at a weeklong National Council for History Education Institute in July at Madeline Island, Wisconsin. On October 2, he will be on a panel at a forum on “Freedom and Secrecy: Trading Liberty for Security” at the Andrus Center for Public Policy in Boise, Idaho. Other participants include former vice president Walter Mondale, former senator Slade Gorton, Washington Post columnist David Broder, and NBC terrorism analyst Steve Emerson.

 David Leonard (comparative ethnic studies) presented “‘Live in Your World, Play in Ours’: Race, Gender, and Virtual Cross-Dressing” at the national meeting of the Popular Culture Association in New Orleans, spring 2003; “Teaching History, Teaching Transformation” at the national meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Memphis, spring 2003; and “‘The Little Fuehrer Invades Los Angeles’: Coalitions, White Supremacy, and World War II” at American Jewish Studies in Los Angeles, fall 2002.

 Debbie Lee (English) recently received the Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, a $76,000 award funded jointly by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to complete research on her book (contracted with Palgrave/St. Martins) Female Impostors in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England. The fellowship is designed to support advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well designed and carefully developed plans for new research. She just returned from a year in London and Chicago, where she was conducting research for the project.
     Lee’s book Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (UPenn Press, 2002) received the 2003 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, which includes a $1,000 award. To qualify for consideration a book must make an outstanding contribution to the humanities that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. As a result of the prize, UPenn Press will reissue the book in paperback in spring 2004.

 Tim Kohler (anthropology) will be one of the featured speakers at UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology November 7–8 when the Complex Society Group hosts its biennial meeting with the theme “Pathways to Complexity.” On November 20, he and fellow anthropologist John Patton are organizing a Presidential Session at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Chicago entitled “Cooperation and Conflict: Current Studies in Evolutionary Anthropology.” Patton and Kohler are both presenting papers in the session.

 Don Dillman (sociology) will present keynote addresses at the Southern American Association for Public Opinion Research annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, on October 2 and the American Evaluation Association annual meeting in Reno, Nevada, on November 6.

 Michael Delahoyde (English) served as invited lecturer at Lincoln Middle School in Pullman for two rounds of his shows on Shakespeare and on dinosaur films September 10.

 Lin Xu’s (fine arts) ceramic piece “Dreams” was in the Hong Kong Pottery Workshop exhibition entitled “To Dream the Impossible: Contemporary Ceramic Pillows” during September and October. In Santa Barbara, California, Lin is exhibiting “Three Cups,” “Henri Michaux Study,” and “Clearly Black & White” at Tierra Solida: A Clay Art Gallery. The exhibition runs October 2–31.

 Camille Roman (English) will chair the poetry and poetics division meeting at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference at Scripps College, Claremont, California, November 6–9. She also has organized a panel on “Nineteenth-Century American Women Poets and Cultures” for the division and will co-host its dinner.

 Gene Rosa (sociology) has been appointed to the National Science Foundation Advisory Panel to select National Centers for Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU). The panel evaluates proposals submitted in response to NSF’s Human and Social Dynamics special competition on centers for DMUU. Rosa was also an invited speaker at the workshop on “Atoms for Peace after 50 Years,” Center for Global Security, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Saclay, France.

 Greg Yasinitsky (music) has been named composer-in-residence for the Lincoln Middle School jazz band in Pullman. This residency is funded by the Commission Project of New York, an organization that places composers in the public schools. Yasinitsky will compose pieces especially for the LMS jazz band and will work with music director Joe Covill and with the students at LMS. Yasinitsky recently completed a three-year TCP residency with Clarkston High School. Yasinitsky completed eleven new pieces. All were premiered, many have received additional performances nationwide, and several have been selected for publication.
     Yasinitsky’s composition “New Wave” was performed by saxophonist Rhett Bender last July in Minneapolis at the World Saxophone Congress, the largest international conference for professional saxophonists. Bender, a professor at Southern Oregon University, is one of the country’s leading classical saxophonists.

 Michael Hanly (English) conducted research on medieval manuscripts in Paris last summer (2002) after teaching a graduate seminar and giving a public lecture at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He was an invited participant in a colloquium on “The Cultures of Papal Avignon, 1309–1378” at the University of Minnesota in April and a panelist in a session on “Technology and Teaching Medieval Culture” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May.

 Carol Ivory (fine arts) presented a lecture September 18 for the Friends of Ethnic Art at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park of San Francisco. Her lecture was on the “Art of the Marquesas Islands: Tradition and Change in French Polynesia.”

 Jon Hasbrouck and Jeff Nye (speech and hearing sciences) presented an invited workshop on auditory processing disorder to the Kent School District on September 12.

 Ann Christenson (fine arts) presented her cultural exchange experiences with China and the resultant influences on her ceramics as part of the WSU President’s Associates event held in Portland, Oregon, on September 26 in the Portland Classical Chinese Garden.

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Professional Productivity

 Paula Coomer (English) has published her poem “Chance Divination” in Voices on the Wind, June 2003; her essay “Empty Nest” in MaryJanesFarm Magazine, July 2003; and her poems “How to Hang a Wet Paint Sign” and “On the Occasion of Reetika Having Cut Herself” in Voices on the Wind, August 2003. Her short story “Cherries” has been included in the anthology Northwest Edge II: Fictions of Mass Destruction (San Diego: Two Girls Press, due out this month), and “The Good Red Road,” a memoir excerpt that originally appeared in the winter 2003 Ascent, will be reprinted in the anthology Burning Bright (Mary Clearman Blew, ed., University of Idaho Press, due out in December).

 Monica Johnson (sociology) has two papers that were recently accepted for publication. “Intergenerational Bonding in School: The Behavioral and Contextual Correlates of Student-Teacher Relationships” will appear in Sociology of Education, and “School Size and the Interpersonal Side of Education: An Examination of Race/Ethnicity and Organizational Context” will appear in Social Science Quarterly.

 Amy Mazur (political science) was co-editor of a special issue for Review of Policy Research (fall 2003), entitled “Comparing Feminist Policy in Politics and at Work in France and Germany.” She also contributed an article to the special issue “Drawing Comparative Lessons from France and Germany.”

 Victor Villanueva’s (English) Cross-Talk in Comp Theory, a standard for graduate writing programs across the nation, was released in a second edition last spring. Also last spring saw his collection with Shelli Fowler (comparative ethnic studies, English), Included in English Studies: Learning Climates that Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity. Late October will see the release of Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice, with Geneva Smitherman. December is the expected release date for Latino/a Discourses and Teaching Composition as Social Action, and for early 2004, watch for a retrospective on rhetorical theory, 1983–2003, co-written with C. Jan Swearingen. His special edition on “Rhetorics of Color” in College English will be out summer 2004.

 C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies) has published “Arguing over Images: Native American Mascots and Race” in Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity across Audiences, Content, and Producers; “The Good, the Bad, and the Mad: Making Up (Abnormal) People in Indian Country, 1900–1930” in the European Journal of American Culture; and “‘Playing Indian’: Why Mascots Must End” in the second edition of Exploring Literature: Reading and Thinking about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay (co-authored with Charles Fruehling Springwood).

 Brigit Farley (history, WSU Tri-Cities) has published The Rule of Catherine the Great: War with Turkey, Polish Partition, 1771–1772 (Academic Internal Press). This is volume 47 of the English translation of S.M. Soloviev’s History of Russia.

 Buddy Levy (English) traveled to Truckee, California, in mid-September to cover and write about the World Ride and Tie Championships, an endurance running and equestrian event. His feature article on the event will appear in the November issue of Trailrunner magazine.

 Michael Hanly (English) recently published a chapter entitled “France” in A Companion to Chaucer (Blackwell, 2000) and an article examining “Marriage, War, and Good Government in Late-14th-Century Europe” in Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism (Peter Lang, 2003).

 Jose Alamillo (comparative ethnic studies) recently published “Peloteros in Paradise: Mexican American Baseball and Oppositional Politics in Southern California, 1930–1950” in Western Historical Quarterly (summer 2003); “More than a Fiesta: Ethnic Identity, Cultural Politics, and Cinco de Mayo Festivals in Corona, California, 1930–1950” in Aztlán Journal (fall 2003); and recently presented at “Memoria, vos, y patrimonio: The First Conference on Latino/Hispanic Film, Print, and Sound Archives” at the University of California, Los Angeles.

 Yolanda Flores Niemann’s (comparative ethnic studies) chapter entitled “The Psychology of Tokenism: Psychosocial Realities of Faculty of Color” has been recently published in The Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Sage Publications. Her article “Affirmative Action and Job Satisfaction: Understanding Underlying Processes” has recently been accepted for publication in the Journal of Social Issues special issue, “Inequities in Higher Education: Issues and Promising Practices in a World Ambivalent about Affirmative Action.”

 Stanton Linden’s (professor emeritus, English) The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton was published in September by the Cambridge University Press. It is an edited collection of primary source readings drawn from works of important ancient, medieval, and early modern alchemical authors. With help from a Wellcome Trust travel grant, Linden will spend October in London researching a new book on the Ripley Scrolls, a family of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century alchemical manuscripts.

 Travis Pratt (political science, criminal justice) co-authored two articles that appeared in print this month: “Comparing the Cost and Quality of Public versus Private Prisons: What We Know, Why We Don’t Know More, and Where to Go from Here” in the September issue of The Prison Journal, and “Parental Management, ADHD, and Delinquent Involvement: Reassessing Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory” in the September issue of Justice Quarterly.

 Tahira Probst (psychology, WSU Vancouver) has published “Exploring employee outcomes of organizational restructuring: A Solomon four-group study” in Group and Organization Management, “Changing attitudes over time: Assessing the effectiveness of a workplace diversity course” in Teaching of Psychology, and “Development and validation of the Job Security Index and the Job Security Satisfaction Scale: A classical test theory and IRT approach” in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

 John Streamas’ (comparative ethnic studies) essay “‘Patriotic Drunk’: To Be Yellow, Brave, and Disappeared in Bad Day at Black Rock” will be published in the next issue of the journal American Studies.

 Composer Greg Yasinitsky’s (music) recent publications for jazz band include “Packin’ Heat,” “Puerto Nuevo,” “Session C,” and “Dizzy Atmosphere” (arrangement).

 G. Leonard Burns (psychology) has co-authored “Convergent and discriminant validity of trait and source effects in ADHD-Inattention and Hyperactivity/Impulsivity measures across a 3-month interval” in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

 Michelle Kibby’s (psychology) co-authored article “The relationship between perisylvian morphology and verbal short-term memory functioning in children with neurodevelopmental disorders” appears in Brain and Language. “Specific impairments in developmental reading disabilities: A working memory approach” appears in the Journal of Learning Disabilities.

 David Leonard’s (comparative ethnic studies) book with C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies), A Comparative Approach to Race, Culture, and Power in the United States, will be published by McGraw-Hill in 2004. Leonard’s Contemporary African American Cinema (working title) will be published by Praeger Publishers in 2004.
      Leonard and King also contributed “Is Neo White? Reading Race, Watching the Matrix Trilogy” in Wake Up, Neo!: The Cultural Reception and Interpretation of The Matrix Trilogy (Continuum Books, 2004) and “Popular Culture and Ethnic Studies: Curricular and Pedagogic Reflections” in Popular Culture across the Disciplines.
     Recent journal articles by Leonard include “‘The Little Fuehrer Invades Los Angeles’: Coalitions, White Supremacy, and World War II,” forthcoming in American Jewish History, and “‘Live in Your World, Play in Ours’: Race, Gender, and Virtual Cross-Dressing,” forthcoming in Simile. Popular articles include “Racing Sports” and “‘Playmakers’: Boring, Racist, and Sexist, A Lethal Combination” in PopMatters.com, September 2003, as well as two articles in Colorlines, “Yo: Yao” (summer 2003) and “Live in Your World, Play in Ours” (winter 2003).

 John W. Wright (psychology) has published Consulting: Part-time and Full-time Career Options for Scholars and Researchers, a guide for academicians concerning the process of getting a part-time or full-time consulting practice started, with Academica Press LLC.

 Paul Whitney, John Hinson (both psychology), and Tina Jameson (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) have an article, “Impulsiveness and Executive Control of Working Memory,” in press with Personality and Individual Differences.

 Paula Williams’ (psychology) co-authored article “The effects of neuroticism and extraversion on self-assessed health and health-relevant cognition” is in press with Personality and Individual Differences.

 Diane Gillespie’s (professor emeritus, English) article “Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck” is forthcoming in Woolf Studies Annual, vol. 10. She is a contributing editor (i.e., author of introduction and selector of writings and paintings) for a section entitled “The Gender of Modernist Painting” for The Gender Complex of Modernism, forthcoming from Illinois University Press in 2004. She also wrote the introduction to the published (versus on-line) version of the Short Title Catalogue of the Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, due out later this year from Washington State University Press.

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Student Activities and Awards

 Stacy Kowtko (Ph.D. candidate, history) was recently hired at Spokane Community College in a full-time, tenure-track position.

 Laurie Whitcomb-Norden and Michael Russell, doctoral candidates in modern German history, attended the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Holocaust for Jewish Studies Scholars sponsored by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., August 25–28. The workshop brought together seventeen scholars from the United States and Canada for intensive study under the guidance of leading figures in Jewish studies, Holocaust studies, and the humanities. Whitcomb and Russell are researching their dissertations under the mentorship of Raymond Sun (history).

 Phillip Vannini (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) has published three articles, titled “Toward an Interpretive Analytics of the Sign: Interactionism, Power, and Semiosis,” “Interpreting George W. Bush: A Socio-Semiotic Illustration and a Performative Extension,” and “The Meanings of a Star: Interpreting Music Fans’ Reviews,” in Symbolic Interaction.

 Laurie Winn Carlson (Ph.D. candidate, history) traveled to Colorado to participate in filming a documentary with Icon Films, Bristol, England, to be shown this winter as “Holy Cow! Man’s Real Best Friend.” Her book, Seduced by the West: Jefferson’s America and the Lure of the Land beyond the Mississippi, recently garnered a review in The New Yorker magazine.

 Marta Maria Maldonado (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) and Anthony Zaragoza (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) presented their paper “Racializing Historical Materialist Analyses of Environmental Injustice: Toward an Agenda for Praxis” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Maldonado also presented a paper based on her dissertation research at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association in Atlanta.

 Laura Gruber’s (Ph.D. candidate, English) article “‘The Naturalistic Impulse’: Limitations of Gender and Landscape in Mary Hallock Foote’s Idaho Stories” was accepted for publication in the journal Western American Literature in November 2002. In October of that same year, she presented a section of that article at the annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. She also had a paper on Sandra Cisneros’ short story “Remember the Alamo” accepted for presentation at the 2003 National Association for Ethnic Studies conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Most recently, her article titled “Critical Thinking and Basic Writing” was accepted for inclusion in a book of essays being compiled by the WSU Writing Center’s Critical Thinking Project.

 Marcia Gossard (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) and Richard York (Ph.D. ‘02, sociology; now of the University of Oregon) published “Social Structural Influences on Meat Consumption” in Human Ecology Review.

 Michael Egan (Ph.D. candidate, history) and Marina Tolmacheva (history, associate dean of liberal arts) received a Canadian Studies Program Enhancement Grant from the Canadian government to help promote and develop Canadian studies at WSU. The US$3,000 grant will pay for a series of events and activities in spring 2004.
     Egan has also had an article translated into German, “Die technologische Wende und Barry Commoners Gesetze der Oekologie: The Closing Circle neu gelesen” (“The Technological Turn and Barry Commoner’s Laws of Ecology: Revisiting The Closing Circle”), which will appear in the fall 2003 issue of the Austrian journal Natur und Kultur. The article is a part of his dissertation, which examines biologist Barry Commoner’s influences on and contributions to American environmentalism.

 The WSU chapter of the Association for Women in Communications received a national award for Outstanding Fundraiser in 2003. It’s the group’s fourth national award. AWC was recognized nationally in 1999 and 2002 as Outstanding Chapter and in 2002 for Outstanding Fundraiser. This year, under the direction of President Kimberly Smith (senior, broadcasting), the group raised more than $800 for the Relay for Life. Roberta Kelly (communication) is the AWC-WSU chapter advisor.

 Dometa Wiegand’s (Ph.D. candidate, English) paper “Emerson, Humboldt, and Cuvier: Writing the Language of Nature” was accepted for presentation at the 2003 National Association for the Study of Romanticism conference held in Manhattan. In addition, her work as research assistant for Debbie Lee (English) has just been included in the New Riverside Edition of Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, and Others: Early Black British Writing, edited by Lee and Alan Richardson. In July 2002, she presented “Alexander Von Humboldt and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Intersection of Science and Poetry” at the Coleridge Conference held in Somerset, England; in October of that same year, the extended version of the article was published in the Coleridge Bulletin.

 Mary P. Anderson (Ph.D. candidate, English) will present two papers, one in October at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference in Missoula, Montana, titled “Objects of Death: Identity in What Is Left Behind,” and the other in March at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, titled “Beyond Evaluation: The Critical Thinking Rubric as Teaching Tool.” She has also contracted to write two short entries for the forthcoming Twayne Literary Voices: American Literature in Historical Context, 1870–1920, the first on cross-dressing, the second on prisons.

 Bryce Inman, an undergraduate psychology major working in Rebecca Craft’s (psychology) lab, presented a poster entitled “Inflammatory Pain and Opioid Analgesia in Male vs. Female Rats” at the annual Pharmacology/Toxicology Research Day on August 21.

 Jason Blazevic (Ph.D. candidate, history), Hilary Elmendorf (M.A. candidate, American studies), Michael Infranco (Ph.D. candidate, political science), and Asako Stone (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) have been selected to attend the Northeast Asian Security Conference October 22–24 at the International Christian University in Japan. The multi-day conference will bring together graduate students from ICU, WSU, and Korea to engage in in-depth discussions focusing primarily on the nuclear problem involving North Korea, the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, and the rest of the Northeast Asia region.

 Carlos Adams’ (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) article “Machismo and Geographies of Hope” will be published in the journal Rhizomes, issue 7, “Theory’s Others,” this fall.

 C. David Johnson (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) published an article entitled “Mesa Verde Region Towers: A View from Above” in the journal The Kiva. The article reports on the results of thesis research using a combination of GIS, aerial image, and statistical analyses to investigate a primary function of numerous prehistoric stone towers of the American Southwest.

 Roxann Burger (M.F.A. candidate) has been included in the juried exhibition “No Boundaries” sponsored by the Washington State Arts Commission. This traveling exhibition opens October 25 at the Harrison Street Gallery in Seattle and will tour through Washington, Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana until June 2004. Burger’s painting “Beetle Mistress” was one of thirty selected from a group of 244 entries.

 Three of J.P. Garofalo’s (psychology, WSU Vancouver) undergraduate students had their posters accepted to the Washington State Psychological Association’s annual meeting this November: Geoff Cross (junior, psychology) with “Compromised sense of coherence in adult children of breast cancer patients,” Aaron Frederiksen (B.S. ’03, psychology) with “Written linguistic styles in people at risk for cancer,” and Tawni Kenworthy (B.S. ’03, psychology) with “Intrusive thought patterns in family members of breast cancer patients.”

 Tammy Moroz, a graduate student working with Paula Williams (psychology), was awarded an American Psychological Society Travel Award to attend the annual meeting in Atlanta and to present “Neuroticism, daily hassles, and sleep quality: Moderating and mediating effects on physical and depressive symptoms.”

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Alumni News

 Recognizing the many (and soon to be widely known) advantages of his scholarship, the editorial board of the University of Nebraska Press has voted unanimously to publish John Mann’s (Ph.D. ’01, history) book, Sacajawea’s People: The Story of the Lemhi Shoshone, both in paper and in hardcover simultaneously and with a significant cash advance. The editor expects that, because it is so well written, it will be an academic press bestseller.

 Lana Leishman (M.F.A ’03) has been appointed assistant professor of photography at Minnesota State University, Moorhead.

Dean Barbara Couture presents fine arts alumnus Michael Holloman with the Alumni Achievement Award for the College of Liberal Arts at a lecture he gave September 12 on the Pullman campus entitled “Victim/Victor.” Holloman, a 1993 master of fine arts graduate, is director of the Center for Plateau Cultural Studies at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and was an associate professor of fine arts at Seattle University for nine years.

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Call for Submissions

Gender Research at Washington State University: A Symposium

Sponsored by GRACe
CUB Ballroom
February 13, 2004

Undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty are invited to submit proposals to present their gender research at GRACe’s first annual research symposium. The goal of this symposium is to provide an opportunity for researchers who work on gender to come together, to present, and to discuss their work with each other and the public at large. In hosting this symposium, the faculty research group Gendering Research Across the Campuses (GRACe) aims to showcase gender research, at WSU and in the region, and to provide a space to promote future research collaborations across the disciplines.

The symposium will be held in Compton Union Building Friday, February 13, 2004. Researchers may choose to present their work in two different venues, posters or panels. Research may be in progress, completed, or in the planning stages. Individual presentations will be organized into thematic panels with three to four presenters and a discussant. Poster presenters will be asked to display their research in poster format and to be present for a certain period of time during the day to discuss their work.

Submissions should include a one-page abstract conveying the content of your research poster or presentation and your current contact information—department, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. Be sure to select a poster OR a presentation format. Presentations will be fifteen minutes and should address how your research might connect with other research on the topic, either at WSU or elsewhere. More specifics on poster format will be distributed to participants later in the year.

Submissions are due November 10, 2003. Notification of your participation and conference details will be sent out the first week of December, 2003. Submissions/questions should be addressed to Amy Mazur, Department of Political Science, Box 644880, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4880, mazur@mail.wsu.edu, 509-335-4615.

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Sherman Alexie to Visit Pullman

Award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, and film director Sherman Alexie has been selected to receive Washington State University’s highest honor, the Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Alexie was nominated for the honor by Barbara Couture, dean of liberal arts, and five liberal arts faculty members, including professor and poet Alex Kuo (comparative ethnic studies, English), Alexie’s friend and mentor during his student years at WSU. In nominating Alexie, faculty members detailed not only his achievements, honors, and awards but also the importance of his Native American voice to a broad audience.

Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Indian, grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He received his B.A. in American studies from WSU in 1994.

Alexie’s numerous poetry books include One Stick Song, The Man Who Loves Salmon (1998), and I Would Steal Horses (1992). He is also the author of several novels and collections of short fiction, including Reservation Blues (1994), which won the American Book Award, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993), which received a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and according to Kuo is required reading on many college campuses.

Known as a poet and writer, Alexie made his debut as a screenwriter collaborating on a script for the movie Smoke Signals, based on a story from his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Smoke Signals was honored with two awards at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. The Business of Fancy Dancing, now available on DVD, marks Alexie’s directorial debut; it won awards last year at several film festivals.

The award presentation will be held Friday, October 10, at 12:10 p.m. in Bryan Hall Auditorium on the Pullman campus. Following the award presentation, Alexie will read from his latest book, Ten Little Indians. A book signing will follow in the Bryan Hall foyer at 1 p.m. The events are free of charge and open to the public. The program will also be videostreamed live at cougnet.wsu.edu.

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Authors' Recognition Reception Planned

The fall Authors’ Recognition Reception will be held Wednesday, October 29, from 3–5 p.m. in the Honors Hall Lounge. Featured books will be:

• Slavery and the Romantic Imagination, by Debbie Lee (English), with commentary by David Leonard (comparative ethnic studies)
• Theorizing Feminist Policy, by Amy Mazur (political science), with commentary by Heather Streets (history)
• Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-1937, by David Pietz (history), with commentary by Raymond Jussaume (rural and community sociology)

Gregory Yasinitsky (music) will present his new composition for flute and piano entitled “Sleight of Hand,” performed by Ann Yasinitsky (music) on flute and graduate teaching assistant Sheila Zilar on piano. Elwood Hartman (foreign languages) will provide commentary.

Theatre students will perform a scene from Equus, directed by Terry Converse (theatre arts), with commentary by Laurilyn Harris (theatre arts).

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Upcoming College Award Competitions

Departmental Innovation Award
The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce the annual competition for the Departmental Innovation Award. This $5,000 award will be given to the liberal arts department or academic program that submits a promising plan for departmental innovation and for specific use of the award funds. Innovation plans are due by December 5, 2003. For guidelines and criteria, see libarts.wsu.edu (click on For Faculty & Staff, then the circle that reads Grants).

College Fellows Award
The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce the annual College Fellows Award. This award, of $2,000 a year for two years, will be presented to a tenured or tenure track faculty member in the college who submits a successful proposal describing an ongoing academic, scholarly, artistic, or teaching project that he/she plans to complete or make substantial progress on over a two-year period. Proposals are due by January 30, 2004. For guidelines and criteria, see libarts.wsu.edu (click on For Faculty & Staff, then the circle that reads Grants).

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Plateau Center for American Indian Studies Announces 2003–2004 Activities

The fall meeting of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians was the site for the formal announcement of the 2004 Plateau Conference to be held on the Pullman campus September 28–30 next year. Speaking to the general session of the conference, Dean Barbara Couture and Mary Collins, coordinator for the Plateau Center planning committee, presented a brief history of the Plateau Center concept and invited all of the tribes to participate in a yearlong planning effort at shaping the character and role of the Plateau Center and the fall 2004 conference. The meetings, held in Mission, Oregon, also served as listening sessions for a number of liberal arts faculty, including Marina Tolmacheva (associate dean of liberal arts), Lillian Ackerman (anthropology), Ella Inglebret (speech and hearing sciences), Gregory Hooks (sociology), and Orlan Svingen (history), who attended various conference committee sessions to learn about current issues facing the tribes and the efforts they are undertaking to address them. This was the fiftieth anniversary conference of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, which is the largest organization of tribes in the country and represents American Indians from Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, and northern California.

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Recent Research Activities of DGSS

The Division of Governmental Studies and Services (DGSS) submitted a final report to the Office of Law Enforcement, NOAA Fisheries, in which plans for the establishment of a Natural Resource Leadership Academy at Washington State University are set forth in considerable detail. The agency has provided over $200,000 in funding to support a series of three studies of “grassroots ecosystem management” in the Methow, Walla Walla, and Upper Yakima river basins and to determine the optimal curriculum needed to prepare natural resource agency personnel to lead locally-based collaborative processes to promote habitat protection for threatened and endangered fish species such as the Pacific salmon. Michael Gaffney (associate director, DGSS), R. Michael Bireley (DGSS), Ed Weber (director, Foley Institute), and Nicholas Lovrich (director, DGSS) were members of the team that conducted this work.

The Division of Governmental Studies and Services submitted a final report to the Washington State Patrol on research conducted on racial profiling in agency personnel contacts with drivers. The study entailed analyzing data from over two million traffic contacts from every area of the state, looking at rates of citation and search across racial and ethnic categories of citizens. The team that conducted the research and prepared the report included Gaffney, Lovrich, Mitchell Pickerill (political science), and Clay Mosher (sociology, WSU Vancouver).

The Division of Governmental Studies and Services submitted a final report to the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the backlog of untested DNA evidence residing in local police agencies and in state and local crime labs. This work was conducted in concert with Smith Alling Lane (a Tacoma law firm specializing in criminal justice system research) and involved a systematic documentation of evidence backlogs and the identification of barriers to timely analysis. The team that conducted the research and prepared the report included Gaffney, Lovrich, and Travis Pratt (criminal justice, political science).

The Division of Governmental Studies and Services will serve as a resource for applied social science research for the Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety (WRICOPS) for another year. This will represent the seventh year of funding (approximately $1 million/year) for WRICOPS by the U.S. Department of Justice. WRICOPS was established to promote community oriented policing in the states of Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota, and WSU Spokane serves as the administrative headquarters for the organization. The newest grant entails the development of a homeland security element to WRICOPS assessments done by outside teams of trained local government, business, law enforcement, social service, and university-based persons who provide local police agencies with advice on enhancing their community policing activities. CLA team members involved with WRICOPS as co-principal investigators are Gaffney, Lovrich, Michael Erp (criminal justice, WSU Spokane), and John Goldman (director, WRICOPS).

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Students Explore Germany, Lifestyles of Professional Musicians
by Rachel Halverson and Lori Wiest

On May 12, six music students and three faculty and staff members from Washington State University boarded a flight heading to Frankfurt, Germany, for a sixteen-day tour. Having completed at least one semester of German and one semester of music history at WSU, the group, which included both instrumental and vocal music majors, were on a mission: to learn more about the world of professional musicians in Germany.

Led by faculty members Rachel Halverson (foreign languages) and Lori Wiest (music), the students’ journey began in Frankfurt, where we visited the Goethe-Haus Museum, Kommunikation Museum, and attended a concert presented by the Wiener Akademie at the Alte Oper. The group continued by train to Ludwigshaven, home of the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, to meet our host, Jefferson Schoepflin, son of H. James Schoepflin (music) and a violinist with that orchestra. Following lunch with members of the resident orchestra, which consisted of performers from the U.S., the group attended a rehearsal of the orchestra in the afternoon and one the next morning. The students socialized with other members of the orchestra to get a more in-depth view of the performance schedule and lives of musicians in Germany and to hear stories of how the various performers auditioned for this orchestra. We then attended one of their performances of music composed by Robert Schumann, conducted by guest artist John Storgards of Finland.

Our next stop was Munich, where we attended a concert of a string quartet at the Cuvilliestheatre of the Bayerische Staatsoper. We toured Schloss Nymphenburg, Englisher Garten, Spielzeugmuseum, Viktualien Markt, Rathaus, and various churches before continuing to Nürnberg, where we met host Tim Hamel of the Oper Nürnberg. He arranged a personal backstage tour of the Opera House that included stops in the makeup room, costume shop and storage, prop and set building areas, the orchestra pit, and a walk onto the stage, which was dressed for the opera performance we were about to see, Cosi fan tutte by Mozart. We were again able to meet with musicians and attend a staging rehearsal the following day to observe the professional backstage life as well as ask questions of the performers. We met the music director of the opera and lead performers from the previous evening’s performance, which was a thrill. We also had a visit that evening at our hotel from one of the performers, whose father was a composer. She shared various stories and gave us recordings and copies of her father’s compositions. Other sights that we toured included the Kaiserburg Nürnberg and the Nazi parade grounds.

On our way to Leipzig, we made a stop in Bayreuth to tour the famous Wagner Festspielhaus, an opera house described in almost every general music history textbook. To be able to walk through the house, backstage, and in the orchestra pit, known for its large size open under the stage, was a rare opportunity. Our plan, once we arrived in Leipzig, was to take advantage of the Bach Festival held there every other year. We attended three fabulous concerts, including the Gewandhaus Kammerchor, and sat in on a rehearsal of the Bach Magnificat. We also toured the Bach Museum, Thomaskirche and Nicolaikirche, and the Musikinstrumenten Museum. We concluded our trip with a short visit to Mainz, where we saw the stained glass windows by Marc Chagall in the Pfarrkirche St. Strephan and the cathedral and had our last bite of kuchen before returning to the United States. Obviously, our tour allowed us to indulge in the culinary delights as well.

While there are many wonderful opportunities to travel to other countries, this opportunity was unique in combining faculty from music and German language and specifically involving students in music. We were able to introduce these American students majoring in music at WSU to a more complete view of music in Germany by exposing them to backstage tours, rehearsals, staging, and live performances in a variety of genres, including choral, keyboard, opera, chamber music, and symphony. By preparing them to speak and comprehend the German language at a fundamental level—in order to purchase train and subway tickets and bus passes, to order food, to purchase goods, and to understand tours, signs, and concert programs—the students were able to take full advantage of this opportunity. In addition, their basic knowledge of music history allowed them to more fully appreciate the developments of music, particularly in Germany, from medieval to contemporary. Through this direct observation, the connection between the students’ academic understanding of music and the professional lives of working musicians has been brought to life and integrated into their further studies at WSU.

In addition to our German hosts, Tim Hamel and Jefferson Schoepflin, we would like to thank Candace Chenoweth of Education Abroad and Kim Andersen for their guidance, and we extend our thanks to International Programs for their assistance with the Internationalization Mini-Grant and the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst for their generous grant.

Left to right: Kristine Gibbons, Selina Betts, Gwendolyn Bielski, Jefferson and Inge Schoepflin, Sara Miller, Lori Wiest, Rachel Halverson, Leeann Davis, Kirstin Malm, Denise Mitchell.

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