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Worthy
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 Amy S. Wharton (sociology, WSU Vancouver) was recently selected to become the next editor of the journal Social Problems. Wharton is only the third woman to serve as editor in the journal’s fifty-year history. Sociology faculty Clay Mosher (WSU Vancouver), Lisa Catanzarite (WSU Pullman), and Nella Van Dyke (WSU Pullman) will serve as associate editors. Social Problems will move to Washington State University in June. Wharton is also the 2004–2005 chair of the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), the largest section in the ASA with over 1,000 members.
Laurie Mercier’s (history, WSU Vancouver) book Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana’s Smelter City has been selected for the Mining History Association’s Clark C. Spence Award for the best mining history book published during 2001–2002.
José Alamillo (comparative ethnic studies) presented a paper, “A State Divided: The Racialization of Latino/a Students in Washington State,” at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Pacific Northwest Regional Mini-Conference, held at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, October 9–10. He also chaired a panel titled “Stories about Identity and Culture in Mexican and Mexican American Communities in the Pacific Northwest” at the Oral History Association conference in Portland, Oregon, on September 30.
John Weiss (music) presented and demonstrated his research findings at the second International Physiology and Acoustics of Singing Conference, October 7–9 in Denver. His presentation, “Vocal Health in the Choral Rehearsal: Common Ground for Operatically Trained Singers, Studio Voice Teachers, and Choral Conductors,” showed how recent findings in voice physiology and function can be applied in the graduate-level choral rehearsal so that operatically trained singers can participate without experiencing vocal fatigue, compromising vocal development, or risking vocal injury. He received one of five $500 travel grants from the National Association of Teachers of Singing to attend this conference.
Paula Coomer (English) was a featured speaker at the Washington State Council of Teachers of English annual conference in Seattle on October 23. Her presentation was titled “Writing Memoir in the Classroom.”
Michael Delahoyde (English) presented “Some Chaucer Gimmicks” for the “Practical Approaches to Teaching Literature” session at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) conference held in Boulder, Colorado, September 30–October 2. He also headed a workshop there on cover letters and résumés. Patricia Ericsson (English) and graduate students Kris Kellejian (Ph.D. candidate) and Trent Mills (M.A. candidate) also presented at the RMMLA conference. Their presentation “Technology and Agency Theory in the Preparation of Technical and Professional Communication Teachers” grew from a spring 2004 graduate course and the subsequent English 402 (Technical and Professional Writing) courses they have taught.
Mary Anderson (Ph.D. candidate, English) presented her paper “A Tale of Service Learning in an African-American Literature Class.” Though scheduled for 8:30 a.m., the session on practical teaching methods for English teachers was moderately well attended, especially by WSU graduate students and alumni. Also spotted at the conference were many former WSU English luminaries, including Ingrid Ranum (Ph.D. candidate), Mike Pringle (Ph.D. ’00), Greg Grewell, Michael Kramp (Ph.D. ’00), Rita Jones (Ph.D. ’01), Ryan Simmons (Ph.D. ’99), Bethany Blankenship, and Melissa Baty (B.A. ’04). Next October, the RMMLA will hold its convention in Coeur d’Alene.
Maria Gartstein (psychology) has been invited to assist with NIH review of grant applications, and she will be traveling to Washington, D.C., November 7–9 to participate in the Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities Study Section of the Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes Integrated Review Group.
Jim Short (professor emeritus, sociology) will be speaking to a workshop on urban social structure at the University of Chicago on November 15, on the topic “Street Gangs: Macro and Micro Perspectives.”
Andrew Duff (anthropology) presented a paper, “On the Fringe: Community Dynamics at Cox Ranch Pueblo,” at the thirteenth Mogollon Archaeology Conference held in Silver City, New Mexico.
Otwin Marenin (political science, criminal justice) participated, as an invited guest of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, in the International Security Forum (ISF) held in the first week of October in Montreux, Switzerland. The ISF, which is held every two years and is organized and supported by the Swiss Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, brings about 400 experts from across the world to Switzerland to discuss the changing structure and dynamics of security threats and needed policy responses to the changing security field. While there, he also participated in a workshop on assessing lessons learned from comparative studies of “Post-Conflict Reconstruction of the Security Sector.”
Diana Pulido (foreign languages) presented two papers in October, “Investigating the Interaction between Higher- and Lower-level Processes in Bilingual Reading and Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition” at the Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and “Web-based Chatting to Promote Communication and Fluency in Foreign Language Classrooms,” with Marthe Schroeder-Russell (M.A. candidate, foreign languages), at the Washington Association of Foreign Language Teachers conference in Portland, Oregon.
Gail Chermak (speech and hearing sciences) presented a two-day workshop on the neurobiology, diagnosis, and treatment of central auditory processing disorder at the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute in Edison, New Jersey, October 14–15.
Noël Sturgeon (women’s studies) just completed a year of sabbatical, during which she worked on her new book, The Politics of the Natural: Race, Gender, and Nature in U.S. Culture and Environmental Movements. While on sabbatical, she was invited to give a keynote address at a conference on cultural studies at Emporia State University in Kansas in April 2004, and to give three lectures as a visiting scholar in the Ecocriticism Lecture Series hosted by the English department at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan, in May 2004.
Bill Condon (Writing Programs) and Paula Webb (Ph.D. candidate, English) joined Mike Garcia (M.A. ’04, English) in a panel, “Re-visioning ‘Nontraditional’: The Sourcebook as an Argumentative Genre,” at the tenth Biennial Composition Studies Conference, held October 15–16 at the University of New Hampshire. The panel was based on a book proposal developed in Condon’s spring 2004 seminar, Teaching Writing to Non-Traditional Students.
From over 16,000 abstracts submitted for the 2004 Society for Neuroscience meeting, the abstract submitted by Rebecca Craft (psychology), Jean Sumner (M.S. candidate, psychology), and Catherine Ulibarri (VCAPP), entitled “Hormonal Modulation of Morphine Antinociception in F344 Rats,” was among 600 lay-language summaries requested for inclusion in the Press Book. National and international media use the lay-language summaries to formulate story ideas and to set up interviews with scientists whose work they find intriguing. Ninety investigators, including Craft, were interviewed by the press at the annual meeting in San Diego Oct. 24–27.
John Streamas (comparative ethnic studies) accepted an invitation to participate in a plenary session of the Western Literature Association annual conference, September 29–October 2 in Big Sky, Montana. He spoke on “Racial Geography in Children’s Books about Japanese American Incarceration.”
Andrea Mason (English) has an article about the WSU summer science camp appearing in the November issue of Washington State Magazine.
Gene Rosa (sociology) has been appointed to the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, a standing committee of the academy since 1989. The three-year appointment is based upon Rosa’s research contributions to the further understanding of the human factors in global environmental impacts and his contributions to environmental science policy. The committee’s charge is to guide research in the United States on the interactions between human activity and global environmental change. Among its many activities is the committee’s advisement to the National Science Foundation’s policy science program on global change issues and its input to the International Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Programme.
Steven Stehr (political science) gave a presentation on October 5 to the Joint Spokane City/County Disaster Committee. The presentation was titled “Coordination, Homeland Security, and the Problem of Organizational Design: Some Lessons from the Social Science Literature.” On October 14 Stehr participated in an interactive workshop in Portland, Oregon, sponsored by the Radio–Television News Directors Foundation, the National Academies, and the Department of Homeland Security on “News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis.” Douglas Blanks Hindman (communication) attended the same workshop.
Chuck Madison (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane) and coauthors Barbara Guy and Melissa Koch (former graduate students of the cooperative WSU/EWU graduate program in speech-language pathology) have received an Editor’s Award for their article “Pursuit of the Speech-Language Pathology Doctorate: Who, Why, and Why Not,” which appeared in 2004 in Contemporary Issues in Communication Sciences and Disorders, a journal of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). The award will be presented at the ASHA awards ceremony during the ASHA convention on November 19 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Zheng-min Dong (foreign languages) has proposed to compile a new Russian–English dictionary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean words in the contemporary Russian language, which will fill a gap in the Russian lexicography and promote diversity in the U.S. and Russia. He will collaborate with Dr. Proshina at Far Eastern National University and Dr. Coats at the University of Washington. His proposal has been nominated by the Office of Grant and Research Development for the 2005 NEH Summer Stipends program.
Rachel Halverson (foreign languages) gave a paper entitled “A Young German Author Hits the Multi-Media Road: Tobias Hülswitt’s Saga” and also served as a commentator for a session entitled “Reviving Typologies Past: Situating German National Character in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries” at the German Studies Association conference on October 9 in Washington, D.C.
Tim Kohler (anthropology) presented a paper coauthored with David Johnson (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology), “Dynamic Deterministic Resource-Based Models for Puebloan Settlement,” at an international workshop organized by Kohler and Sander van der Leeuw, held at the Santa Fe Institute in October. The paper was one of four at this workshop reporting on Kohler’s “Village” project, funded by an NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment grant.
Nada Elia (women’s studies) has been invited by noted Egyptian writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi to present at the seventh international conference of the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association (AWSA) in Cairo, Egypt, in May 2005. Elia was also invited to present on “Memory and Truth: Palestine, Algeria, and Contemporary Exile” at a conference entitled “Mending the Past: Memory and the Politics of Forgiveness,” held at the Université du Québec á Montreal October 13–15.
During her professional leave last spring, Birgitta Ingemanson (foreign languages) worked during April and May at the Institut Européen du Film et de l’Audiovisuel in the city of Nancy, France. She attended classes and discussed film with colleagues, watched lots of movies, and was asked to evaluate one of the films the students produced. She also studied the administrative structure of the institute. On September 21, Ingemanson presented a paper at the Dattan Symposium in Vladivostok, Russia, organized there by Far-Eastern State Technical University. Dattan was one of the prominent merchants in pre-Revolutionary Vladivostok, and her paper discussed “Mrs. Dattan’s Tea Circle: Social and Political Aspects (1890s–1920s).” The local TV news program interviewed her about this research, and she was also asked to read the paper again, three days later, at the fall season’s first meeting of the “Book Lovers’” culture club. Altogether about 150 people attended the two occasions.
Connie Rodeen (administrative manager, speech and hearing sciences) has been appointed to a two-year term on the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and she also was elected to fill the office of historian for the 2004–2005 academic year.
Douglas Blanks Hindman (communication) will become president of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research during the chapter’s November meeting in Chicago. In August, he presented a paper entitled “Social Capital in a Community Context: Community Structural Pluralism, Media Use, and Conflict versus Non-conflict Forms of Social Participation” at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Toronto.
Kevin Haas (fine arts) was a visiting artist at the Cranbrook Academy of Fine Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as well as at the University of Toledo, where he currently has a solo exhibit titled Momentary Shifts and Other Traces of the City.
Melissa Hussain (Ph.D. candidate, English), Azfar Hussain (comparative ethnic studies), and Siskanna Naynaha (Ph.D. candidate, English) presented a panel entitled “Combatting Capital: The Poetics, Politics, and Praxis of Chicana/o and Latina/o Resistance” at the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies regional FOCO conference at Whitman College on October 9. M. Hussain presented a study entitled “Labor Gendered and Gender Raced: Towards a Feminist Political Economy of Immigrant Latina Service Work”; A. Hussain presented a paper entitled “Towards a Political Economy of El Movimiento: From Che to Chavez”; and Naynaha presented her study “Chicana Lesbian Feminist Writers Queer(y)ing Capital: Recuperating the Political Economic Critique of the Foremothers.” Naynaha‘s paper has now been solicited for publication in the forthcoming issue of Panini, an international journal of language and literature.
Carla Jones (speech and hearing sciences) presented a workshop, titled “APD: The Basics and What to Do If You Suspect It,” to the Washington Association of School Social Workers in Chelan, Washington, October 22.
On October 7, Collin Hughes (English), Lisa Johnson, Diane Kelly-Riley, Jason Johnstone-Yellin, and Karen Weathermon (all Writing Programs) presented at the Inland Northwest Council of Teachers of English/Northwest Inland Writing Project ninth annual fall conference, “Poetry in Motion: The Art of Teaching.” Their session, “You Can Lead Kids to School, but You Can’t Make ’em Think: Approaches to Engaging Students in Critical Inquiry,” represents not only a commitment to cross-campus collaboration between the WSU Writing Programs, General Education, the Department of English, and the WSU Critical Thinking Project, but also underscores the University’s participation in the development of a K–20 articulation of critical thinking.
Debbie Lee (English) recently attended the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder, September 9–12, where she presented the paper “Woman’s Love Is Sin: William Blake, Lost Children, and the Sexual Silencing of Women.”
Laurie Drapela (political science, criminal justice, WSU Vancouver) will present two papers at the upcoming American Society of Criminology meetings in Memphis, “Investigating the Effects of Family, Peer, and School Domains on Post-dropout Drug Use” and “The Conditional Effect of Parental Drug Use on Parental Attachment and Adolescent Drug Use: Social Control and Social Development Model Perspectives.” She also serves as the session chair for the “Impact of Parenting across the Life Course” panel.
Drapela has also been named as the evaluator for a Byrne Grant–sponsored program focusing on delinquent youth attending Pasco High School. She is coordinating her research with criminal justice practitioners at the Benton/Franklin Counties Juvenile Justice Center to study both academic and legal outcomes for these students.
Jon Hasbrouck, Jeff Nye (both speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane) and graduate student Maya Hawkins (M.A. candidate, speech and hearing sciences) presented “Auditory Processing Disorders: Evaluation, Treatment and Outcome Assessment Procedures” at the Washington Speech-Language and Hearing Association annual convention in Spokane on October 9.
During the first two weeks of October, Ana M. Rodríguez-Vivaldi (foreign languages) led two special sessions on Latin American film and literature at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference in Boulder, Colorado, and a session on “Growing Old in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Views of (F)Acts, Effects, and Responses to Aging” at the Latin American Studies Association international conference in Las Vegas, where she also presented a study, “Estragos y estrategias: representaciones fílmicas de la tercera edad.”
Last May, Greg Yasinitsky (music) was a featured saxophone soloist and arranger for a special pops concert with the Spokane Symphony. Also featured on the concert was vocalist Horace-Alexander Young (music) in a tribute to Frank Sinatra. During the summer, Yasinitsky performed with vocalist Lou Rawls and with the Gene Krupa band. In August, he was a featured guest artist at the Park City Jazz Festival in Utah. Other featured artists include saxophone David Sanborn and the Count Basie Orchestra. Yasinitsky was featured with the Crescent Super Band on the premiere of his new composition, “Park City Express,” which was commissioned by the Park City Jazz Festival.
Yasinitsky received a 2003–2004 ASCAP award for music composition. The awards are intended to assist and encourage writers of serious music. They are granted by an independent panel and are based on the unique prestige value of each writer’s catalog as well as recent performance activity.
Yasinitsky has been selected by the Commission Project of New York to continue as composer-in-residence with the Lincoln Middle School Jazz Band in Pullman.
Diane Gillespie (professor emeritus, English) presented a paper in London last summer at the fourteenth annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Its title was “‘To look upon nakedness with the eye of an artist’: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and the Body.” Gillespie will be a keynote speaker at the next Virginia Woolf conference, to be held next June in Portland, Oregon.
Robert McCoy, Marina Tolmacheva, and Richard Williams (all history) attended the annual meeting of the Association of Washington Historians. The meeting took place at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, Washington, on October 23.
Carol Ivory (fine arts) has been invited to serve as a juror for the College Art Association’s Alfred H. Barr Book Award for museum scholarship. The award is given to the most distinguished catalogue in art history published in the past year.
Linda Kittell’s (English) article “Vet Check” will appear in the November issue of Horse & Rider magazine.
The Natural Resources Leadership Academy (NRLA) held “A Collaborative Problem-Solving and Organizational Change Workshop” for Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife managers October 20–22 in Olympia. The workshop was jointly sponsored by the Division of Governmental Studies and Services (DGSS) and Conferences and Professional Programs (CAPPS), Washington State University. Approximately forty managers of the Executive Management Team, Wildlife, Fish, Enforcement, and Habitat divisions participated. Speakers for the workshop were Michael Gaffney, acting director of DGSS and NRLA project coordinator; John Thielbahr, CAPPS director; Kelsey Gray and Kay Haaland, WSU Extension; Dayna Matthews, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement; Mimi Welch, Transition Dynamics; and Gregg Walker, Oregon State University. Representative Bill Hinkle, R-13th Legislative District, spoke to the necessity of managers of regulatory agencies working hand-in-hand with the legislature and local government leaders to ensure a positive outcome for the people of the state of Washington.
The academy was created by DGSS and WSU Extension through a series of research grants and contractual agreements with the United States Department of Commerce, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop a comprehensive, collaborative, leadership-based training program for state and federal natural resource professionals. The goal of the academy is to ensure the sustainable management of natural resources within the region and to enhance sustainable community development by emphasizing community oriented resource protection strategies.
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Productivity
Debbie Lee’s (English) article “Java, Insincerity, and Imposture: The Stories of Stamford Raffles and Mary Baker” was published in European Romantic Review 15(2). She has been told that her article “The Jenneration of a Disease: Vaccination, Romanticism, and Revolution,” which originally appeared in Studies in Romanticism 39(1), will be reprinted in two places: Romanticism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Michael O’Neill and Mark Sandy, Routledge, 2005; and Robert Bloomfield: The Forgotten Romantic, ed. Bridget Keegan and John Goodridge, Bucknell University Press, 2005.
Travis Pratt (political science, criminal justice) coauthored an article, titled “The School Context as a Source of Self-Control,” that has been accepted for publication in a 2005 issue of the Journal of Criminal Justice.
Mark Konty (sociology), Blythe Duell (M.S. candidate, psychology), and Jeff Joireman’s (psychology) article “Scared Selfish: The Culture of Fear and Values in the Age of Terrorism” is being published in the American Sociologist. It will come out in a special issue on terrorism in early 2005.
Linda Heidenreich (women’s studies) has been offered a book contract for her manuscript History and Forgetfulness in an “American County”: Local Stories, National Identities in Napa, California by the University of Texas Press in their series Chicana Matters, edited by Deena Gonzales and Antonia Castañeda.
Maria Gartstein (psychology) has coauthored an article, “Cross-cultural Differences in the Structure of Infant Temperament: United States of America (U.S.) and Russia,” in press with Infant Behavior and Development.
Douglas Blanks Hindman’s (communication) paper “Applications of Q Methodology to In-class Advertising Research Projects” was published earlier in the year in the Journal of Advertising Education, and an article he coauthored with Beverly Martinson, entitled “Building a Health Promotion Agenda in Local Newspapers,” will be published in the February 2005 issue of Health Education Research.
Bernadette H. Hyner’s (foreign languages) manuscript titled “‘Und bist du nicht willig,...’: Coercion and Confinement in Eleonore Thon’s Adelheit von Rastenberg” will be published in the upcoming edition of the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature.
Laurie Drapela (political science, criminal justice, WSU Vancouver) has published “Conducting Social Science Research with the National Longitudinal Education Survey of 1988” in The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. Kimberly Kempf Leonard edits this anthology, and James Heckman, Gary King, and Paul Tracy serve on the executive editorial board. The encyclopedia will be published in November. Drapela also has a forthcoming article in Deviant Behavior entitled “Does Dropping Out of High School Cause Deviant Behavior? An Analysis of the National Education Longitudinal Study.”
Camille Roman’s (English, American studies, women’s studies) book Elizabeth Bishop’s World War II–Cold War View will be published in paperback by Palgrave Macmillan of St. Martin’s Press in November 2004. Roman was honored at an Authors’ Recognition Ceremony when the book was published in hardback in 2001 and featured in WSU Week. For more details, visit Palgrave Macmillan.
José Alamillo (comparative ethnic studies) has published “Parading Ethnic Identities” in the Journal of American Ethnic History 23(3).
Diana Pulido (foreign languages) recently published two empirical studies, “The Relationship between Text Comprehension and Second Language Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition: A Matter of Topic Familiarity?” in Language Learning 54(3) and “The Effect of Cultural Familiarity on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading” in The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal 4(2).
Greg Yasinitsky (music) is featured as a saxophone soloist and composer on the recently released CD It’s About Time, recorded by the Spokane Jazz Orchestra. Yasinitsky’s composition “Inside Passage” is included on the disc. Also featured on the recording is an arrangement by Charles Argersinger (music) of Clifford Brown’s classic jazz composition “Joy Spring.”
Noël Sturgeon’s (women’s studies) book chapter “‘The Power Is Yours, Planeteers!’ Naturalizing Inequalities in U.S. Children’s Environmentalist Popular Culture” appeared in Rachel Stein, ed., New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism (Rutgers, 2004).
Rebecca Goodrich (English) has had an environmental/personal essay titled “Time to Release” and three photographs published in the August issue of Idaho Magazine.
Stanton Linden (English) has published three commissioned articles on seventeenth-century scientific, medical, and occult authors and translators (William Cooper, Robert Turner, and Richard Russell) in the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004). Successor to the famous DNB edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, the new ODNB appeared on September 23 in a sixty-volume printed edition and also online.
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