Dean's Message

Dear Colleagues,

As graduation nears, many of us may find ourselves counting the days until summer arrives. But during the rush of preparing final lectures, grading, advising, and processing seemingly endless paperwork, we need to take a little time to “stop and smell the roses,” as they say. Many departments have recently held award ceremonies celebrating the accomplishments of our students, faculty, and staff. Our college awards were distributed the last week in April. Please join me in congratulating Alex Tan, winner of the Distinguished Faculty Award; Christine Oakley and Melissa Alles, co-winners of the Outstanding Staff Award; and Heather Streets, winner of the Mullen Teaching Award. These recipients and names of other honorees are listed in this issue of the Chronicle. You will also find listed in this issue the recipients of the college “Outstanding Senior” awards for each of our departments; these winners will be honored at a brunch on May 7. I hope to see many of you at graduation on May 8. Students from the College of Liberal Arts will walk at 3 p.m. We are delighted to welcome Ed Tingstad, orthopaedic surgeon and distinguished graduate of our history program, as our commencement speaker.

As you prepare your summer plans for research, teaching, or just “squaring away” those administrative details that the flurry of the academic year prevents you from managing, your colleagues in the dean’s office will be working to make the next academic year a better one for you. I will be joining my fellow deans in a retreat with Provost Bates in late May to continue discussion of the university academic plan, shaping what will become a blueprint for faculty and staff development and for curricular and capital planning over the next several years. Open discussion of this planning process will continue next year—a process that will succeed only with your participation.

In late spring, I will meet with our Dean’s Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation to review our department plans and set allocation priorities for next year; this process is most directly related to our college faculty hiring plan, which will be submitted to Provost Bates in mid-summer. Also during the summer months, our dean’s office staff and I will spend time in retreat to devise ways that we can serve you better. A top priority will be to plan more efficient and effective processes to handle student recruiting, advising, and scholarship activities—ways that we hope will make better use of faculty and staff time spent to advance these activities.

In closing, I wish you the best as you close this busy semester and prepare for commencement.

Barbara Couture, Dean
College of Liberal Arts

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Worthy of Note

 The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce that Joshua Knudson has accepted our offer to join the college as director of development, effective June 1, 2004. Joshua comes to us with many years of development experience; currently he holds the position of development director for the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University. Just married in April, he and his bride Brianne look forward to joining the Pullman community.

 Ella Inglebret (speech and hearing sciences) was given special recognition at the Washington State Indian Education Association conference in April for her many contributions toward better meeting the speech and language needs of Native children in the schools.

 Leonard Orr (English, WSU Tri-Cities) has had poems published in the current issues of Black Warrior Review, Poetica, and Writing on the Edge. He has also served as a judge for the student competition of the Washington Poets Association. On April 24 he led a writing workshop at the Burning Word Poetry Festival on Whidbey Island.

 Susan Dente Ross (communication) has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to conduct research and teach in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece, at the University of the Aegean for the spring term 2005.

 Robert Bauman (history, WSU Tri-Cities) presented a paper titled “Transforming ‘The Birmingham of Washington’: Racial Segregation and the Civil Rights Movement in a Northwest Community” at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting in Boston in March. He organized and participated in the roundtable panel “Teaching Public History to Undergraduates: Opportunities and Challenges” at the joint conference of the National Council on Public History and the American Society for Environmental History in Victoria, B.C., in April. Bauman also chaired a session on “American Landscapes in 1970s Documentary Photography” at the conference.

 Robert Patterson (psychology) will be presenting at the Society for Information Display, to be held in Seattle on May 25. The presentation is entitled “Terrain texture and 3D object cues in the control of heading in simulated flight.” He also received funding for an Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship in Mesa, Arizona, for this summer. He will investigate visual cueing in high-performance flight simulators as well as visual problems in head-mounted visual displays. In addition, Patterson was recently elected chair of the WSU Academic Affairs Committee for the 2004–05 academic year.

 Several sociology department faculty members presented their research at the annual meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association in San Francisco in April. Irenee Beattie presented her research on teen motherhood, titled “What Are Teen Girls Expecting? Unrealistic Future Expectations and Early Adolescent Motherhood.” Julie Kmec’s presentation focused on her research “Linking Adolescent Cumulative Risk, Parental Management Strategies, and Early Adult Outcomes.” Jennifer Schwartz’s presentation described her research on parenting and violence, titled “Trends in Female and Male Violence: The Role of Father Absence in Community Violence Rates, 1970–2000.” Nella Van Dyke’s talk described her study of “Gender Salience and Collective Identity in Gay and Lesbian Movement Organizations, 1970–2000.”

 Michael Delahoyde (English) installed an exhibit on the Shakespeare authorship controversy in the Holland Library atrium.

 Rebecca Craft (psychology) will present a poster, coauthored with Michael Morgan (psychology, WSU Vancouver) and Diane Lane (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) and titled “Estradiol alters on- and off-cell activity in the rostral ventromedial medulla,” at a joint meeting of the American Pain Society and the Canadian Pain Society, May 6–9 in Vancouver, B.C.
     At the same meeting, two papers coauthored by Morgan, J.P. Garofalo (psychology), Cobi Evans, and Tawni Kenworthy (both B.S. ’03, psychology), “Psychological factors that predict pain sensitivity” and “Behavioral, physiological, and perceptual response to noxious cutaneous stimuli,” will be presented.

 In February, Marina Tolmacheva (associate dean of liberal arts, history) served as field reader for the U.S. Department of Education INS University Partnership grants program. In March, she attended the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego, where she participated in the symposium “Museum Resources and Teaching about Asia” and served as paper discussant on the panel “Contesting Imperial Succession: Comparative Perspectives from Pre-Modern Asia.”

 Roberta Kelly (communication) has been invited to be a judge for the 2004 Clarion Awards, a national competition that recognizes excellence in all communications fields. It is sponsored by the Association for Women in Communications, a national organization that promotes the advancement of women in all fields of communications, works for free expression and free flow of information and for First Amendment rights and responsibilities of communicators, recognizes professional achievements, and promotes high professional standards of business practices and ethics throughout the communications industry. This will be the thirty-second annual Clarion competition.

 Jeff Nye (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane) presented on the WSU clinical faculty professional track at the annual convention of the American Academy of Audiology in Salt Lake City on March 30.

 In April, the WSU Jazz Big Band, under the direction of Greg Yasinitsky (music), toured western Washington with performances at Music Works Northwest (a music academy in Bellevue), Marysville-Pilchuck High School, Shoreline Community College, and Auburn High School. Featured on the tour as guest soloist was David Jarvis, WSU percussion professor.

 Lance T. LeLoup (political science), visiting professor at the Institute for the Study of Politics at the University of Bordeaux, France, for the spring 2004 semester, on March 30 presented his recent research on “Partisanship and Divided Government in U.S. Budgeting” at a bilingual conference sponsored by CERVL Pouvoir Action Publique Territorial.

 Don Dillman (sociology) has been invited to give a plenary session address, “The Challenges to Survey Methodology from Our Changing Times,” at the forty-fourth annual forum of the Association for Institutional Research in Boston June 1.

 In June Diane Gillespie (professor emeritus, English) will present a paper entitled “‘To look upon nakedness with the eye of an artist’: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and the Body” at the fourteenth annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf in London.

 At the sixty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Montreal in early April, four anthropology faculty and students organized or chaired symposia, and twenty-nine faculty and students presented papers, posters, or served as discussants. Tim Kohler (anthropology) stepped down after four years of editing American Antiquity, the society’s largest journal. In addition, a special symposium was held in honor of Susan Kent (Ph.D. ‘80, anthropology), an eminent anthropologist at Old Dominion University who specialized in contemporary foragers, gender, anemia, and spatial patterning in the archaeological record; Sue passed away one year ago.
     Also at SAA, Brenda Bowser (anthropology) presented a paper entitled “Pottery Style and Social Boundaries in the Ecuadorian Amazon” in the session “Theorizing Culture in Ethnoarchaeology.”
     Two papers related to Andrew Duff’s (anthropology) archaeological field work in New Mexico were presented as well. A poster presentation by Duff, Gary Huckleberry (anthropology), Alissa Nauman, Jennifer Mueller, Stephanie VanBuskirk, Hugh Robinson, and Matthew Landt (all M.A. candidates, anthropology), titled “Recent Research in the Cox Ranch Pueblo Community, a Chaco Era Settlement on the System’s Southern Frontier,” highlighted results from last season’s field work. A paper delivered by Nauman and Duff, “The Founding, Growth, and Decline of the Cox Ranch Community: A Chaco-Period Settlement on the System’s Southern Frontier,” reported on the chronological history of the Cox Ranch Pueblo, site of the WSU summer archaeological field school. On a related note, the New Mexico Bureau of Land Management has awarded Duff $7,500 of continuing support for the Cox Ranch Pueblo Community Research Project.

 In April Jim Short (professor emeritus, sociology) appeared on two panels at the seventy-fifth meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association in San Francisco, a panel of past presidents and a panel on sociological contributions to justice systems in the United States over the past seventy-five years. He also delivered a public address at Case Western Reserve University April 19 on the topic “Gangs, Poverty, and Politics.”

 Rachel J. Halverson (foreign languages) presented a paper entitled “Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen’s Lena and Judith Kuckart’s Lenas Liebe” at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, on April 16.

 Paula Coomer (English) was a featured writer at Word Jam in Kooskia, Idaho, on April 17. Word Jam is an annual event organized by the Upper Clearwater Valley District Library to foster creative writing and offer literature-based fine arts entertainment to the public.

 Carol Ivory (fine arts) attended the annual executive committee meeting of the Pacific Arts Association (PAA), held during the PAA-Europe chapter’s annual meeting in Hamburg, Germany, at the end of March. Ivory is president of PAA.

 Edward P. Weber (political science), director of the Foley Institute, has been appointed to a national panel of scientific experts to review and report on the federal Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative. The panel is chaired by William Ruckelshaus, former administrator for the EPA for Presidents Nixon and Reagan. The panel produced its report, the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative: Five-Year Evaluation Report, in April 2004 for the Joint Policy Consensus Center of the University of Washington and Washington State University.
     Weber also presented an invited paper at the eighth annual International Research Symposium on Public Management in Budapest, Hungary, March 31 that was coauthored by Nicholas Lovrich (political science) and Michael Gaffney (Ph.D. candidate, political science; assoc. director, Foley Institute). The paper was titled “Constructing and Applying a Collaborative Capacity Assessment Framework in a Vertical-Horizontal Administrative World.” He presented a second paper, “Living in a ‘Wicked’ Vertical-Horizontal World: Endangered Species and Collaborative Problem Solving Capacity as an Outcome,” also coauthored with Lovrich and Gaffney, at the sixty-second annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago April 15–18.

 The Solstice Wind Quintet completed a successful concert tour in western Washington during early March, presenting concerts in Seattle, Auburn, and Olympia. Gerald Berthiaume, director of the School of Music and Theatre Arts, joined the quintet for performances of the Poulenc Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet. Members of the Solstice Wind Quintet are music faculty Ann Yasinitsky, flute; Amari Barash, oboe; James Schoepflin, clarinet; Roger Logan, horn; and Ryan Hare, bassoon.

 Sally Johnston (speech and hearing sciences) gave a presentation on speech and language development to the Moscow (Idaho) Kiwanis.

 Susan Swan (general education) is among the five percent of the nation’s teachers selected to be in the eighth (2004) edition of Who’s Who among American Teachers. Educators selected for this directory must be nominated by college students cited in the National Dean’s List, who are invited to nominate one teacher from their entire academic experience for the honor.

 Brigit Farley (history, WSU Tri-Cities) gave a paper in the workshop “Orthodoxy and the Construction of Civil Society and Democracy in Russia,” which was jointly sponsored by Boston and Baylor Universities in conjunction with the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies and the Woodrow Wilson Center and held March 25–26 in Washington, D.C. Her topic was the resurrection of the Kazan cathedral on Red Square, Moscow, and its implications for the development of civil society in post-Communist Russia.

 Congratulations to Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe (psychology), who is the winner of the Adams Endowment Award for Excellence in Graduate Training. This award is intended for the faculty member who has demonstrated excellence in instructing his/her graduate students on the experimental method, as evidenced through both letters of nomination and scholarly products with student collaborators.
     Several papers coauthored by Schmitter-Edgecombe will be presented at the eleventh annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in San Francisco this month: “Memory self-awareness and memory self-monitoring after severe closed-head injury,” coauthored with Michelle Kayne and Ellen Woo (both M.S. candidates); “Event-based prospective memory following severe closed-head injury,” with Matthew Wright (M.S. candidate); and “Understanding text: on-line inferences and memory operations after severe closed-head injury,” with Carissa Ames (B.S. ‘03, psychology), James Bales (senior, psychology and neuroscience) and Chantell Ramirez (junior, psychology).

 Randy Kleinhesselink (psychology, WSU Vancouver) presented a paper entitled “Evaluation of a Domestic Violence Court: Process and Outcome” at the annual convention of the Western Psychological Association in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 23. He also chaired a paper session on social issues the same day.

 Chris Watts (fine arts) and Ross Coates (professor emeritus, fine arts) continue to exhibit their art at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington. The exhibit, entitled “Mark My Word,” runs through July 11.

 John Irby (communication) has been invited by Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida, to be a visiting faculty member at the “Diversity Across the Curriculum” seminar May 24–28. A limited number of college journalism educators who teach reporting, editing, copyediting, producing, photojournalism, ethics, media management, and design are invited as participants. Irby was selected as one of fifteen participants in the program in 2002 and asked to join the faculty this year. The program’s description reads in part, “As newsrooms grapple with the challenges of covering increasingly diverse communities, journalists will need greater skill at finding and framing stories that resonate with this dynamic audience. Educators can help aspiring journalists increase their competence by moving diversity from the back pages of textbooks and into every lesson plan.”
     Irby was also asked to return as a blue-ribbon judge of the California Newspaper Publishers Association “Best of the West” newspaper awards competition. Judging took place April 24–27 in San Francisco.

 In February, Gerald Berthiaume (music) performed Lothar Kreck’s work for solo piano entitled “Nimbus Moments” for the New Music Festival at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. The festival of music featured works by selected composers from around the world, performed in four different concerts.

 Alex Hammond (English) and Jana Argersinger (publications editor, English), coeditors of the journal Poes Studies/Dark Romanticism, will sponsor a roundtable session on Poe and Hawthorne at the Hawthorne Bicentennial Conference in Salem this July. (Conference registration takes place in, yes, the House of the Seven Gables itself.) They anticipate the roundtable talks will develop into a special feature for publication in the journal.

 Susan Chan (music) will present “A Multimedia Performance of Chopin Preludes, Op. 28: Inspired by Alfred Cortot” at the Women’s University Club in Seattle in June, which involves a performance of the piano work accompanied by a PowerPoint slide show of twenty-four works of art from the nineteenth century. She has been invited back following her well received performance there last October. She also presented the performance in Nikko, Japan, last November, followed by a favorable press review, and recorded some of the Chopin pieces and other works in a studio recording with Radio Television Hong Kong. In March she performed a house concert with cellist Eugene Zenzen (music) in Hayden, Idaho.

 David Pietz (history) gave a presentation entitled “Chinese Families and Little Emperors” at the Washington State Council for the Social Sciences’ Social Studies Leadership Retreat at Lake Chelan in March. He also presented a paper, “The Mega-Project in China: The Huai River and the State in the People’s Republic,” at the American Society of Environmental History’s annual meeting in Victoria, B.C., in April.

 David Drake (fine arts) exhibited his art in the University Center Gallery at the University of Montana, Missoula, from March 22 through April 16. The show was titled “Some Approximate Language.”

 John Streamas (comparative ethnic studies) presented a paper called “Tokyo Rose and American Musical Exotica” at the Pacific Northwest American Studies Association conference in Oregon April 16.

 In April, Greg Yasinitsky (music) was featured at the Park City Jazz Festival in Utah and as the guest artist (composer and saxophonist) at Louisiana State University with the LSU Jazz Band. The latter performance included a number of his compositions, including “Full Blown,” a new piece commissioned by LSU. In May, Yasinitsky will guest conduct the All Montana Jazz Band.

 Jay Wright (psychology), Mikel Olson (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), and Joseph W. Harding (VCAPP) authored a poster, “AT4 Receptor Activation Alleviates Mecamylamine-Induced Spatial Memory Deficits,” presented at the 2003 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting.

 Carmen Lugo‘s (comparative ethnic studies) paper “‘The War on Terror’ and the Queer Body: Same-Sex Marriage, AIDS, and the Shaping of U.S. Popular Opinion,” coauthored with Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (women’s studies, philosophy), has been accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy in Memphis in October.

 Paul Strand (psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) was selected as one of the first cohorts of the President’s Teaching Academy.

 Researchers in the Division of Governmental Studies and Services (DGSS) of the Department of Political Science conducted a nationwide study on backlogs and system capacity with regard to the analysis of DNA forensic evidence. That study, supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, was presented to Congress and, in good measure due to the evidence collected, resulted in the enactment of an allocation of $100 million to address the “DNA backlog” at the state and local government level. The key personnel involved in the study were Michael Gaffney (assoc. director, DGSS), Travis Pratt (criminal justice), Nicholas Lovrich (political science), and Charles Johnson (Ph.D. candidate, political science). The publication of the study made front-page news in USA Today April 2. The DGSS research team worked in close partnership with WSU alum Tim Schellberg of the law firm Smith Alling Lane of Tacoma.

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Professional Productivity

 An excerpt from Peter Chilson’s book, Riding the Demon, will be anthologized in Writing the Journey: Essays, Stories, and Poems on Travel, which will be published by Longman this summer. Chilson’s work will appear alongside dozens of works by authors such as Beryl Markham, Ted Conover, Elizabeth Bision, V.S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie.

 Diane Gillespie (professor emeritus, English) has contributed the introduction to The Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: A Short-title Catalog, recently published by the WSU Press (2003). Her article “Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck” has just appeared in the Woolf Studies Annual (2004).

 Susan Dente Ross’ (communication) book, Deciding Communication Law: Key Cases in Context, was published by Erlbaum in January 2004. The University of Idaho College of Law recently published her article “Secrecy’s Assault on the Constitutional Right to Open Trials,” and she presented this work at the “First Amendment and the Media” symposium in Boise in April.

 Barbara Monroe’s (English) book Crossing the Digital Divide: Race, Writing, and Technology is out now from Teachers College Press, Columbia University.

 Marina Tolmacheva (associate dean of liberal arts, history) published “Zagadka Vak-Vaka v arabskoi geografii” (“The Puzzle of Waq-Waq in Arab Geography,” in Russian), in Orta Esrler Sherq Tarixi: qaynaqlar ve arashdirmalar; Akademik Z.M. Buniyadovun 80 illiyine hesr olunmush meqleler toplusu (Baku: Nurlan, 2003), and “The Year of Africa in Leningrad: A Personal Homage to D.A. Olderogge,” in D.A. Ol’derogge v pis’makh i vospominaniyakh, edited by S.B. Chernetsov, St. Petersburg (Russia).

 Bill Condon and Diane Kelly-Riley of WSU Writing Programs have the featured article in the latest issue of the international journal Assessing Writing. The article, entitled “Assessing and Teaching What We Value: The Relationship (?) between College-Level Writing and Critical Thinking Abilities,” grows out of WSU’s Critical Thinking Project.

 Brenda Bowser (anthropology) is publishing two special issues of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, entitled “Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Place,” Part I (March 2004) and Part II (June 2004), for which she is editor. Part II includes an article by Bowser and John Q. Patton (anthropology), “Domestic Spaces as Public Places: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study of Houses, Gender, and Politics.” Another article by Bowser, “Transactional Politics and the Local and Regional Exchange of Pottery Resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon,” was accepted for 2004 publication by British Archaeological Reports (Oxford University) in a volume, “Pottery Manufacturing Processes: Reconstruction and Interpretation,” edited by A. Livingstone Smith, D. Bosquet, and R. Martineau. Her special issue of Expedition Magazine (University of Pennsylvania Press), entitled “The Archaeology of Meaningful Places,” will appear as the summer 2004 issue and will include Bowser’s feature article “The Amazonian House.”

 Victor Villanueva (English), with Michelle Hall Kells and Valerie Balester, released Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education (Portsmouth, NH: Heinneman). In addition, Villanueva’s special edition of College English on the “Rhetorics of Color” is now completed and in process, due out this June.

 Washington State Government and Politics, a book edited by Cornell W. Clayton, Lance T. LeLoup, and Nicholas P. Lovrich (all political science), has been published by WSU Press. The Thomas S. Foley Institute of Washington State University was the primary sponsor of a fall 2002 conference on Washington state politics on which this book is based. It is also the first research project sponsored by the Foley Institute.

 Jim Short’s (professor emeritus, sociology) review of Risk Management, Vol. I: Theories, Cases, Policies, and Politics and Vol. II: Management and Control, edited by Gerald Mars and David Weir (Ashgate Publishing Co.), appeared in the March 2004 issue of the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.

 Sally Johnston (speech and hearing sciences) published an article, titled “Vocal Hygiene: Tips for Professional Voice Users,” last month in the Latah Eagle and Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

 Marcel Wingate’s (professor emeritus, speech and hearing sciences) commentary, “Favorite theories might not be right,” appeared in the spring 2004 issue of Speaking Out, the journal of the British Stammering Association.

 Doug Blanks Hindman’s (communication) article entitled “Media Systems Dependency Theory and Support for the Press and President” is in the spring 2004 issue of Mass Communication & Society.

 Travis Pratt (political science, criminal justice) coauthored an article that will be published in the August issue of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency titled “Parental Socialization and Community Context: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Structural Sources of Low Self-Control.”

 The following articles and chapter from members of Jay Wright’s (psychology) laboratory will be published this year.
     Wright, Wendy Wilson (M.S. candidate, psychology), and Joseph Harding’s (VCAPP) chapter “Physiological importance of brain angiotensins II, III and IV, and aminopeptidases A and N” will appear in Aminopeptidases, edited by S. Mizutani.
     Mikel Olson (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), Jacob Qualls (senior, psychology), and Wright have also coauthored “Norleucine1-Angiotensin IV alleviates mecamylamine-induced spatial memory deficits” in the journal Peptides 25(2).
     Wright coauthored “Differences in spatial learning comparing transgenic p75 knockout, New Zealand Black, C57BL/6, and Swiss Webster mice,” in Behavioral Brain Research; “Reversal of scopolamine-induced memory deficits by LVV-hemorphin7 in rats in the passive avoidance and Morris water Maze paradigms,” also in Behavioral Brain Research; and “The brain angiotensin system and extracelluar matrix molecules in neural plasticity, learning, and memory,” in Progress in Neurobiology. This last review article is a comprehensive examination of the potential role played by brain angiotensins in learning and memory.

 Diana Pulido (foreign languages) recently had two articles accepted to appear in the scholarly journals Language Learning and The Reading Matrix in fall 2004. Each article reports findings from two empirical studies on second language acquisition, in the areas of individual differences in narrative reading, lexical processing, and lexical acquisition.

 Zheng-min Dong’s (foreign languages) article entitled “Elliptical Sentences” has been published in Language and Culture Contacts 6 at the Far Eastern National University in Vladivostok, Russia. In this article he describes the structure of the elliptical sentence as well as the differences between the elliptical sentence and the sentence with gap.

 William Willard (professor emeritus, anthropology) and Benedict J. Colombi (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) have several articles appearing in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Northwest Anthropology memorial edition on Archie M. Phinney, edited by Willard and J. Diane Pearson, entitled “Remembrances of Archie M. Phinney.” The articles are “The Nez Perce Anthropologist” and “The Struggle for a Constitution,” by Willard; “Letters from Russia,” “The Howard-Wheeler Act,” “Memos on the Evolution of the National Congress of American Indians,” and “An Annotated Bibliography of Phinney’s Writings,” edited by Willard; “Revisiting Phinney: Sixty-Five Years after ‘Numipu among the White Settlers,’” by Colombi; and “A Phinney Research Bibliography,” by Willard and Pearson.

 Tahira Probst (psychology, WSU Vancouver) coauthored “A managerial and personal control model: Predictions of alienation and organizational commitment in Hungary,” accepted for publication in the Journal of International Management.

 Gail Chermak (speech and hearing sciences) published an invited article, “Neurobiological connections are key to APD,” in the April 2004 issue of the Hearing Journal.

 At the invitation of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (University of Liverpool, England), Vilma Navarro-Daniels (foreign languages) wrote a review of Metaficción española en la postmodernidad, written by Antonio Sobejano-Morán. This review will be published in the upcoming issue of the BHS.

 John Irby’s (communication) new book, Kill the Editor, published by American Book Publishers, has been given a July 1 release date. A compilation of abusive and bizarre communication from newspaper readers through their letters to the editor, the book is about Irby’s stories during his twenty-five-year stint as a newspaper editor, told through letters to the editor and “funny” newsroom happenings.

 Jana Argersinger (publications editor, English) has an essay on Susan B. Warner in Writers of the American Renaissance, a resource volume just out from Greenwood Press.

 Jose Alamillo’s (comparative ethnic studies) book, Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, has been recommended by reviewers for publication by the University of Illinois Press, pending a few minor revisions. Final revisions are due this summer, so the book should appear in print fairly soon.

 The latest volume of Social Forces (March 2004), one of the most prestigious journals in the field of sociology, contains articles by four members of the Department of Sociology at Washington State University. Michael Allen and Anne Lincoln (Ph.D. candidate) lead off the issue with their study of the cultural consecration of American films in their article titled “Critical Discourse and the Cultural Consecration of American Films.” In “What Happened to the ‘Long Civic Generation’? Explaining Cohort Differences in Volunteerism,” Thomas Rotolo and John Wilson (Duke University) explore the volunteer behavior of two successive generations of women at the same age. Monica Johnson, with Sabrina Oesterle (University of Washington) and Jeylan Mortimer (University of Minnesota), examines volunteerism among adolescents as they become adults in the article titled “Volunteerism during the Transition to Adulthood: A Life Course Perspective.” Rarely do so many members from the same department appear in a single issue of a major journal.

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Student Activities and Awards

 Jason Miller (Ph.D. candidate, English) will present “Finding Reassurance: Langston Hughes’s ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’” at this year’s Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia December 27–30. Because this panel is sponsored by the Langston Hughes Society, it is assured of appearing on the final program. The presentation is an excerpt from the first chapter of Miller’s dissertation, “Environmental Justice, Lynching, and American Riverscapes: Langston Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop,” which is being directed by Camille Roman (English).

 Katherine Johnson’s (Ph.D. candidate, history) book Buried Dreams: The Rise and Fall of a Clam Cannery of the Katmai Coast was reviewed by Michael J. Chiarappa in the Public Historian 26 (winter 2004).

 The following English majors had papers accepted for Gonzaga University’s Inland Empire Undergraduate English Conference, held April 3: Melissa Baty, “(De)Constructing Race and Empire: Heathcliff as Symbolic Colonial Figure in Wuthering Heights”; Prima Gonzales, “Chaucer and Manet: Women through the Eyes of Male Artists”; Deborah Green, “The Ideal Victorian Woman”; Erin Kirk, “Challenging the Definition of Manhood in ‘On Baile’s Strand’ and ‘Riders to the Sea’”; Erika Anne Kroll, “The Feminine Philosophy of Science in Margaret Cavendish’s ‘New Blazing World’”; Catherine Parkay, “Anatomical Hell”; Jamie Swenson, “Eyes: A Jungian Analysis of the Heterotopic Figure in Hildegard von Bingen’s ‘Emptying: The True Spirit of Poverty’”; and Sarah Viveiros, “Ban My Books, Threaten My Freedom.”

 Bryan Penttila’s (M.A. candidate, history) book Columbia River: The Astoria Odyssey was published by Frank Amato Publications Inc. in 2003.

 Jeff Johnson (Ph.D. candidate, history) published a review of Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth Century West (Indiana, 2003), by Carlos Schwantes, in Montana, the Magazine of Western History (spring 2004). He was recently named a fellow to the 2004 Summer Seminar in Military History at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. The seminar will be held June 1–24 and includes guided tours of the Gettysburg, Bull Run, and Antietam battle sites.

 The students chosen to participate in next year’s Irene Ryan acting competition from WSU’s February production of Six Degrees of Separation are John Hanus (sophomore) and Hillary Wardwell (senior, theatre and public relations).

 Michael Egan (Ph.D. candidate, history) presented “‘A Copout of the Worst Kind’: Population Control as a Political Position” and commented on a session on environmental justice and memory at the American Society for Environmental History annual meeting in Victoria, B.C. He hopes to defend his dissertation this summer, and he has accepted a research fellowship for the next academic year at the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Chemical Heritage Foundation.

 Laurie Anne Whitcomb-Norden (Ph.D. candidate, history) has received a three-month fellowship (September–December) from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She will be a “Life Reborn” fellow and study displaced persons. She also received a 2004 Graduate and Professional Student Association T.A. Excellence Award, as did Michael Hazel (Ph.D. candidate, interdisciplinary/communication) and Yoko Konomi (M.A. candidate, communication).

 Anne Lincoln (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) has accepted a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Sociology at Rice University.

 Several recent or soon-to-be sociology Ph.D. recipients have accepted tenure-track positions: Scott Akins (Ph.D. ’02) at Oregon State University, Yahya Ali (Ph.D. ’03) at the Hashemite University in Jordan, June Ellestad (Ph.D. ’03) and Dusten Hollist (Ph.D. ’03) at the University of Montana, Marta Maldonado (Ph.D. candidate) and Teresa Tsushima (Ph.D. candidate) at Iowa State University, Chad Smith (Ph.D. candidate) at Southwest Texas State University, and Chenyang Xiao (Ph.D. candidate) at Albright College.

 Gabriele Sperling (M.A. candidate, history) presented a paper entitled “Zentrum Gegen Vertreibungen: The Art of the Politics of Commemoration” at the Germanics conference “Trading in the Past: Imagining Identity across Time,” held at the University of Washington April 3.

 The cultural wing of the Department of Anthropology had four presenters at the Northwest Anthropology Conference in March in Eugene, Oregon: Troy Wilson (M.A. candidate), Kerensa DeFord (Ph.D. candidate), Kim-Trieu Nguyen (M.A. candidate), and Xianghong Feng (Ph.D. candidate).

 Ryan Jesperson (senior, music composition and English) received a 2004 Award for Undergraduate Scholarship presented by the Faculty Association for Scholarship and Research (FASR). It is unusual for a student in the arts to receive one of these awards—they are typically presented to candidates in the sciences—yet this is the third FASR award for Jesperson.

 Myiah Hutchens (senior, communication) has received an undergraduate research fellowship from the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program for this summer. Hutchens is interested in studying health communication and has been accepted to WSU’s communication M.A. program for the fall.

 Brian Gatheridge’s (M.S. candidate, psychology) master’s thesis was just accepted for publication in Pediatrics. Entitled “A Comparison of Two Programs to Teach Firearm Injury Prevention Skills to 6 and 7 Year-Old Children,” it is his second publication in this journal. In Boston this month, several papers coauthored by Gatheridge will be presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA) symposium entitled “Recent Research in Safety Skills Training for Children,” including “Teaching Safety Skills to Children to Prevent Gun Play: An Evaluation of In-Situ Training,” “A Comparison of Two Procedures to Teach Firearm Injury Prevention Skills to Children,” and “An Evaluation of In-Situ Training to Teach Abduction Prevention Skills to Children.” Gatheridge has also coauthored “An Evaluation of the Social Support Component of Simplified Habit Reversal,” to be presented at another ABA symposium, “Behavior Analytic Research on Tics, Trichotillomania, and Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors.”

 Laurie Carlson (Ph.D. candidate, history) has been selected as the alumna to be featured by Eastern Washington University’s Center of Excellence Academy during the 2004–05 academic year. EWU students in the humanities and fine arts will create artistic and literary programs based upon themes from her books, including original music compositions by music students.

 Elizabeth Horton (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) presented a paper, “Archaeology at the Bailey Site in Central New York,” coauthored with Christina Reith, at the annual meeting of the Middle Atlantic Archaeology Conference, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. She also presented “Archaeological Evidence for Iroquoian Subsistence in Central New York,” also coauthored with Reith, at the sixty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Montreal. Horton has published “Faunal Analysis Report for Fort Montgomery: The Main Barracks, Officer’s Commissary, and Guard House” in An Archaeological Study of “The Most Advantageous Situation in the Highlands,” Fort Montgomery, Orange County, New York, edited by Charles L. Fisher (Cultural Resource Survey Program No 2. New York State Museum, Albany).

 Ten Washington State University students were named 2004 “Big Ten Seniors” April 16 in a ceremony at the Lewis Alumni Centre; half are liberal arts majors. Awards were given to a male and female senior in each of five categories. The winners are Beth Welander and Cameron Chesnut (both biology) in academics; Mariette Boyce (psychology) and Hajime Fuchida (biochemistry), athletics; Ericka Morales (anthropology and sociology) and Brock Howell (agricultural economics), campus involvement; Erika Kroll (English/teaching) and Eduardo Moran (MIS), community service; and Sophia Tegart (music performance and history) and Ryan Jesperson (music composition and English), visual and performing arts.

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Alumni News

 Peter Utgaard (Ph.D. ’97, history) published Remembering and Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria (Berghahn Books: Oxford, 2003). Utgaard is currently chair of history and social sciences at Cuyamaca College in San Diego, where he was awarded the college’s Excellence in Teaching Award.

 Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, 1805–1902 by Laura Woodworth-Ney (M.A. ‘91, Ph.D. ’96, history) is forthcoming this month.

 Alex Lindsay, a recent graduate of WSU with an M.B.A. and a minor in Chinese, has won a Fulbright fellowship for the coming year to study Chinese and conduct research in China and Taiwan.

 Michael Serizawa Brown (Ph.D. ’03, history) has accepted an offer to write a series of entries in a new encyclopedia on Asian Americans, The Encyclopedia of Asian America, scheduled for publication in the summer of 2005 by one of the main American presses on Asian and Asian American topics, M.E. Sharpe, based in New York. The topics he will be writing on are: Filipino American Entrepreneurship, Filipino American Labor, Filipino American Literature, Filipino American Press, Filipino American Professionals, and Filipina American Women.

 Cary C. Collins (Ph.D. ’01, history) has edited and written the introduction for Edwin L. Chalcraft’s Assimilation’s Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System, scheduled for release this fall by the University of Nebraska Press.

 Nickolus Meisel (M.F.A. ‘02) continues his solo mixed-media show entitled “Squelch” through May 3 at Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art in Cheney.

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2004 College of Liberal Arts Award Recipients

William F. Mullen Excellence in Teaching Award
Heather Streets (history)

Outstanding Staff Award
Melissa Alles (Web coordinator, liberal arts)
Christine Oakley (undergraduate advisor, sociology)

Distinguished Faculty Award
Alex Tan (communication)

Distinguished Friends and Alumni Award
Martha Mullen

College Fellows Award
Thomas Rotolo (sociology)

Dean’s Distinguished Contribution Award
Lori Wiest (music)

Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professorship
Victor Villanueva (English)

Service as Chair/Director
Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (women’s studies)
Alex Kuo (comparative ethnic studies)
Victor Villanueva (English)

25 Years of Service
Diane Berger (program support supervisor, political science)
George Kennedy (English)
Alex Kuo (comparative ethnic studies, English)
Glenn Johnson (communication)
Lisa McMullen (administrative manager, foreign languages)
Isabel Miller (sociology)
Sharon Wells (program support supervisor, fine arts)

30 Years of Service
Cynthia Avery (administrative manager, political science)
Laurilyn Harris (theatre arts)
Frances McSweeney (psychology)
Richard Williams (history)

35 Years of Service
Fritz Blackwell (history)
Jerry Gough (history)

40 Years of Service
J. Richard Franks (speech and hearing sciences)

Retirees
Fritz Blackwell (history)
Francis Ho (fine arts)
Douglas Hughes (English)
Christopher von Baeyer (music)
Sharon Wells (program support supervisor, fine arts)

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School of Music Suffers Loss

Dr. L. Keating Johnson, associate professor of music, died April 6 in his home, a year and a half after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. He was 53. Dr. Johnson taught tuba and baritone and conducted Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra for the School of Music and Theatre Arts for almost 20 years. A memorial was held in Bryan Hall Theatre on the Pullman campus April 18. Dr. Johnson is survived by his wife, Janet, his mother, and two brothers. His family has requested that any memorials be made to the Washington-Idaho Symphony or the Mu Phi Scholarship Fund.

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1944, 1954 Grads Remember When...

Golden and Diamond Graduates of Washington State University met on the Pullman campus April 21–22 to relive memories of their college days. Golden Grads graduated from Washington State University (then Washington State College) in 1954, Diamond Grads in 1944.

“Alumni who were students in the early ‘40s generally share memories of war,” said Kay Glaser, development coordinator for the College of Liberal Arts. “Our letters to the alumni have a sentence which begins ‘I remember when…’ and the individuals complete the thought. Many in the Diamond group mention the war.”

Elwood Shemwell is a case in point. “I remember when a touch football game at Phi Sigma Kappa house was interrupted with a radio report of the attack on Pearl Harbor,” Shemwell wrote on his Diamond Grad response form. Shemwell spent 30 years of active duty as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, including service in France and Germany in World War II.

“I remember when I was on the Cougar special train returning after the football game with Texas A&M at the Stadium Bowl in Tacoma,” said John Carver in his letter to the reunion organizers. “Early December 7 someone came through the train announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.”

Many other memories are shared at the reunion. Jennie (Thomas) Harold remembers taking a place in WSC history. “I remember a very exciting event that took place 1943–44 when I was elected the first woman president of the student body with the very capable help of friends in the Independent Party,” she said.

Joan (Littell) Strafford also remembers an historical event at WSC. “I remember,” said Strafford, “my first snowfall in 1952—after living all my life in southern California. I had to run out in it even though I was told I wouldn’t be so excited in April when it was still snowing!”

Virginia (Kostenbader) Wagner has a weather related memory too. “It was very cold when we returned to school in January, way below zero for a couple of weeks. There were strict dress codes. We girls didn’t wear slacks to class. Dean Holmes took pity on us and let us wear ski pants with stirrups for warmth. How times have changed!” Wagner said. Patricia (Krause) McGlashan also remembers not being allowed to wear slacks unless there was a snowstorm. “Or shorts,” she said, “unless we carried a tennis racket. But most of all,” said McGlashan, “I remember the great instructors!”

Golden Grad David Lowery, pictured here with his wife Mary Kay (Johnston) Lowery, also a 1954 graduate, reminds us that a sense of humor is timeless. “I remember when I was in college,” Lowery said, “the Golden Grads who visited from the classes of 1901–1904 were ‘really old’ folks. I‘m sure glad that has changed.”

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Highlight Students Selected for Liberal Arts Commencement Ceremony

The students who will be highlighted at the spring 2004 College of Liberal Arts commencement ceremony in Pullman on May 8 are Elene Flores Davidson (communication), Tracy Mueller Behler (speech and hearing sciences), and Ryan Jesperson (music composition). Kristine Enkerud, a psychology major, has been selected to carry the liberal arts banner.

Elene Flores Davidson is a 2000 graduate of Henry M. Jackson High School in Mill Creek, Washington. She attended both the University of Washington and New York University before deciding the best communication program was at Washington State University.

“I can’t say enough about how hands-on this university is,” Davidson said. “This institution allows students to lead. I have confidence in what I’ve learned. The faculty in the Murrow School is excellent. The experience they’ve given me will help me tremendously.”

Davidson received national recognition in February in the eighth annual Most Promising Minority Students program, sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF). Davidson made the AAF top ten list and was featured in a full-page AAF ad in USA Today. Davidson believes she will definitely attend graduate school but is considering an internship with a top ad agency first.

Tracy Mueller Behler has been a nontraditional student for seventeen years. A 1980 graduate of Timberline High School in Weippe, Idaho, Tracy finished her degree at Washington State University while helping her husband farm about 2,000 acres, raising three children, and driving 135 miles roundtrip each day to come to school. “All the while,” says Gail Chermak, chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, “she maintained a 4.0 grade point average and was a wonderful role model for her fellow students.”

Behler was a 2004 President’s Award recipient (see pg. 12). She serves as commissioner for the local highway district and as chairman of the Lewis County Transportation Planning Council. She is also vice president and treasurer of the Cragmont Library Board and involved with the SOS (Save Our Schools) program.

“I couldn’t have done this without the support of my husband and my kids,” Behler said. The first in her family to graduate from college, Behler plans to attend graduate school to become a speech pathologist.

Ryan Jesperson graduated from Selah High School in 1999. He has won several awards for his musical compositions and arrangements, including being selected from over 125 applicants by the Society of Composers Incorporated (SCI) for a performance at the National Student Convention in Miami and the SCI Region VII Conference at Cal State University, Northridge. In addition to six published compositions, he recently did a complete arrangement of the Broadway musical West Side Story for WSU’s Crimson Revue while maintaining a 3.82 cumulative GPA. Jesperson was also the recipient of a 2004 Award for Undergraduate Scholarship presented by the Faculty Association for Scholarship and Research. Ryan will begin graduate studies at the Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, in the fall.

Kristine Enkerud has been chosen as Outstanding Graduating Senior for both psychology and women’s studies and will carry the College of Liberal Arts banner at commencement. A 1988 graduate of Aberdeen High School, Enkerud is a nontraditional student who tried college after high school but decided it wasn’t for her. After working retail for a decade, she decided it was time to go back to school.

“I’ve been very challenged and stimulated at WSU,” Enkerud said. “I’ve had lots of support from most of my professors. I chose WSU because it was a welcoming campus and people are friendly, professors were excellent, and that made all the difference.”

While Enkerud attended WSU, her husband, James Neiworth, was also a student, working on his Ph.D. in American studies. The couple is headed to Ohio, where Neiworth has accepted a teaching position and Enkerud will attend graduate school in the clinical and mental health track at the Ohio State University. What would Enkerud say to other older potential students? “Do it! It’s never too late. I say go for it. It’s a lot more fun when you are older,” she said.

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Outstanding Graduating Seniors Honored in College of Liberal Arts

Outstanding Graduating Seniors in the College of Liberal Arts at Washington State University will be honored with a brunch Friday, May 7, on the Pullman campus.

“This is a tradition we began last year,” said Dean Barbara Couture. “The brunch brings together outstanding students with a faculty member who has played an especially important role in that student’s undergraduate career, as well as some of the student’s family members. It really is a marvelous celebration of achievement.”

Outstanding Graduating Seniors are selected by chairs and faculty members based on academic performance and service to the school or department and the university community.

“All of the Outstanding Graduating Seniors this year have tremendous credentials,” said Kay Glaser, development coordinator for the college and creator and organizer of the event. “We have a published composer, a university club organizer, a mother of three, another mother returning to college after a twenty-two-year break, and an aspiring doctor who is also an actress. It’s an amazing group.”

The complete list of 2004 College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Graduating Seniors is as follows:

Holly Campbell (American studies)
Catherine Parkay (anthropology)
Angela Cox (communication)
Eva Marie Navarijo (comparative ethnic studies)
Tommy Olson (criminal justice)
Marie Cochran (digital technology and culture)
Melissa Baty (English)
Kyle Roethle (fine arts)
Hayley Jensen (foreign languages and culture)
Colleen Swanson (general studies)
Kara Blizzard (history)
Ryan Jesperson (music)
Christian Ketelsen (philosophy)
Chappell Henderson (political science)
Kristine Enkerud (psychology)
Katie Ringstad (sociology)
Tracy Behler (speech and hearing sciences)
Emily Rose Ann Squyer (theatre arts)
Kristine Enkerud (women’s studies)

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President’s Leadership Award Recipients

Twenty-seven of the eighty students selected to receive a 2004 President’s Leadership Award are in liberal arts fields. In its tenth year, this award recognizes excellence in leadership and service to the campus and the community. Recipients represent all academic colleges, the three branch campuses, and undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

Christina Castro Alba (senior, social sciences)
Mani Banwait (senior, comparative ethnic studies)
Tracy M. Behler (senior, speech and hearing sciences)
Marlene Berner (senior, music)
Brianne Braun (junior, women’s studies)
Ana Cabrera (senior, communication and Spanish)
Angela S. Cox (senior, communication)
Christopher Haymon (M.A. candidate, political science)
Timothy Hogg (senior, English)
Brady Horenstein (junior, political science)
Nina Kim (sophomore, women’s studies)
Michael Lindberg (senior, history)
Patricia R. Madrigal (sophomore, sociology)
Steven F. McCarron (senior, communication and political science)
Kalin C. McNamara (junior, psychology)
Clint K. Meeds (sophomore, liberal arts)
Holly Menino (senior, communication)
Kevin A. Moe (senior, political science and philosophy)
Kristin Roberts (senior, history)
Megan Rubie (senior, speech and hearing sciences)
Vaddhana Seth (senior, philosophy, English, and political science)
Angela Taniguchi (junior, comparative ethnic studies)
Lyssa L. Thaden (Ph.D. candidate, sociology)
Nary Tith (senior, political science and English)
John Tremper (senior, English)
Megan Whalen (senior, women’s studies)
Lauren N.S. Yamada (senior, psychology and women’s studies)

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WSU Alumnus to Address CLA Graduates

Graduates of the College of Liberal Arts will walk in the 3 p.m. commencement ceremony May 8 in Beasley Coliseum.

Dr. Ed Tingstad (B.A. ‘88, history) will deliver the liberal arts commencement address. Tingstad is the orthopaedic surgeon for both the WSU and University of Idaho men’s and women’s intercollegiate athletic teams. He is a partner in Inland Orthopaedic Surgery & Sports Medicine, which has offices in Pullman and in Moscow, Idaho. Tingstad excelled as a student at WSU and was also a Cougar football running back. A history graduate, he earned his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Washington.

Gov. Gary Locke will speak to education and business and economics graduates at the 8 a.m. ceremony, while biotechnologist and WSU alumnus Stephen Fodor will address graduates from all other colleges at the 11:30 a.m. ceremony. Each ceremony is open to the public.

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Visiting Scholars Enrich Student Experience

In March, Margaret Conkey, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkley, spent three days on the WSU campus as the third annual William D. Lipe Visiting Scholar in Archaeological Method and Theory. Conkey, a leader in Paleolithic rock art studies and feminist approaches in archaeology, gave a public lecture and spoke in two archaeology seminars. The annual Lipe Scholar visit is an opportunity for graduate students to interact with a leader in the discipline and to discuss their own research projects in light of current theoretical trends in the field. “The scholar visit is always a time of heightened social and intellectual activity when students participate directly in debates related to advances in our discipline,” said Mary Collins, associate director of the Museum of Anthropology and one of the event organizers.

Joe Watkins, associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico and author of Indigenous Archaeology, was a guest of the Museum of Anthropology in March. Watkins gave a public lecture and spoke to Brenda Bowser’s (anthropology) seminar in Cultural Resource Management on various aspects of the relationships between American Indians and the field of archaeology.

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