Dean's Message

To all, a hearty “Welcome Back” for spring 2005! When teaching, I would always try to reinforce for students my own hopes by emphasizing—despite weather to the contrary—that this is SPRING semester. Already the sun rises earlier and sets later.

In place of our usual pre-semester College Leadership Retreat, we met with the college’s external Advisory Council in Seattle on January 7. The agenda was full of all the things we have discussed at length this year: the Academic Plan, development proposals, possible college realignment, enrollment increases and budget decreases, signature initiatives, and tracking our successes. Attendance was the best it has been in some time, and the focus of the council members throughout the daylong schedule was intense. Many thanks to Kay Glaser (development coordinator) for preparing the logistic details for the meeting!

The council includes alumni, major donors, business leaders, former faculty—people deeply interested in the future of the college and eager to exceed simply being a little better informed. But they are not involved daily in higher education—they are close to us, but they represent a public not always convinced by the importance or effectiveness of our sometimes long conversations about academia. Thus, it was gratifying to hear their reassurance that we are asking the right questions. They confessed to being overwhelmed and tired at the end. But after many questions, they offered insight and empathy, suggestions and confirmation of value.

As we move toward the March 1 date—and our units’ submissions of so many things (budgets, revised plans, annual review, data on productivity and assessment, development proposals)—please take heart in knowing that the quality of what we do is noticed and that the number of our current controversies is viewed externally as confirmation of our improving. We could only have such discussions in an atmosphere in which we are already good enough not to feel unduly threatened.

Please accept my gratitude for all of your support and creative efforts in responding to the request for expenditure reductions of 5%. In light of state revenue predictions and our need to spend only what we have while addressing needs for graduate assistants and permanent faculty, I must say that the exercise seems very likely to become reality. Our continued conversations leading to March 1, and to the later April central budget hearings, will focus on your best and most central themes. These—with our efforts in the Dean’s Office—will hopefully be synthesized in ways that enthuse us, engage our best energy despite problems, and elicit the strongest support possible internally and externally. You have my personal commitment to doing my best on these major fronts and to helping to solve the many more-limited-scope-but-personally-important matters that affect our lives and community.

Good luck in the coming semester! I look forward to our work together!

Erich Lear, Interim Dean
College of Liberal Arts

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Worthy of Note

Welcome to Helen Leguis, who in November began working afternoons in the College of Liberal Arts as office assistant/receptionist. She joined us after almost eighteen years of full-time work in the College of Education.

Kevin Haas (fine arts) was recently awarded one of the distinguished 2004 Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowships. Each of the twenty-one fellowship recipients will receive an unrestricted cash award of $6,000 to recognize their creative excellence and accomplishment, professional achievement, and continuing dedication to their artistic discipline. In November of 2004 Haas was a visiting artist at Columbia College, Chicago, where he presented a lecture on his work titled “Articulations: Photography, Digital Media, and the Printed Image.” He is currently featured in a two-person exhibit with the artist Scott Kolbo, titled Things Briefly Seen, at the Lorinda Knight Gallery in Spokane through January 29.

Camille Roman (English, American studies, women’s studies) presented an invited public lecture at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, entitled “Elizabeth Bishop and the Cold (Hot) War” on December 6. Roman’s book Elizabeth Bishop’s World War II–Cold War View was published recently in paperback by Palgrave Macmillan of St. Martin’s Press.

Gene Rosa (sociology) gave the invited presentation “Tracking the Human Sources of the Ecological Footprint: The STIRPAT Research Program” at Stanford University. The presentation featured empirical results from the decade-old STIRPAT research program, a cumulative program of research on the anthropogenic (human-based) causes of global environmental change developed by Rosa and his colleagues.

Boyd W. Benson’s (English) poem “Chaplinesque,” published in the spring 2004 issue of Free Lunch, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

In November, the WSU Jazz Big Band, under the direction of Greg Yasinitsky (music), performed at the Jazz Dialogue Festival held at Eastern Washington University in Cheney. WSU received two top honors: the WSU trumpet section was selected as Best Trumpet Section, and trumpeter Matt Reid (senior, communication) was selected as Best Jazz Soloist of the festival. The festival included a performance by the Best Sections Big Band, directed by Yasinitsky. The group performed Yasinitsky’s composition “Jackknife.”

Romana Hillebrand (English) has been accepted to present a workshop at the Inland Northwest Council of Teachers of English conference in Lewiston, Idaho, which is scheduled during WSU’s spring break week in March. Her workshop description is “Imitation: A Good Method for Learning Sentence Patterns and Correct Punctuation; Fun Explanations: A Good Method for Usage Corrections.”

Gerald Berthiaume (music) presented all-Chopin solo piano recitals last semester for Pacific Regents retirement community in Bellevue, for the Washington State Music Teachers Association chapter in Spokane, for the Blue Ridge Community College Concert Series in North Carolina, and on the WSU campus. In October, Berthiaume performed the solo piano composition by Lothar Kreck “Nimbus Moments” for the New Music Festival in Munich and in November performed the same work for the Society of Composers, Inc., conference at Winthrop University in South Carolina.

Rebecca Craft (psychology) has been awarded a two-year grant with the National Institute of Mental Health, entitled “Post-partum Steroid Withdrawal-induced Depression,” with $100,000 in direct costs.

Jon Hegglund (English) presented two papers, co-organized a panel, and chaired another panel at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, this past fall. One paper, “The Enchantment of Lines: Modernism and Partition in The Shadow Lines,” was presented on a panel titled “Modernist Cartographies,” which Hegglund co-organized with Eve Sorum of the University of Michigan. Another paper, “Becoming Geographic: Nature, Nation, and Regional Description in Howards End,” was presented in a seminar on “The (Other) Natures of Modernism.” He also chaired a panel titled “Victorian Legacies, Modernist Identities.”

John Streamas (comparative ethnic studies) presented a paper at this year’s annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Atlanta in November. The paper was titled “Racial History in Books for Children: The Example of Japanese American Internment.”

Erich Lear (interim dean of liberal arts) and Marina Tolmacheva (associate dean of liberal arts, history) attended the November 10–13 annual meeting of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences in San Antonio, Texas. Tolmacheva also attended the conference on undergraduate research convened by the ReInvention Center in Washington, D.C.

On December 2, Don Dillman (sociology) presented an invited short course on “Visual Design and Layout of Self-Administered Questionnaires” to the Pacific chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research in San Francisco.

Last semester, Kathryn E. Meyer (history, general education) received the Shared Course Faculty Award for the Freshman Seminar program. The seminar that nominated her was attached to her fall GenEd 110 course. Meyer received this same award for fall 2003.

Lori Wiest (music) was the guest conductor of the 2004 Spokane Festival of the Arts, November 22 and 23, conducting the Honor Choir, which consisted of 175 high school students from six high schools: North Central, Rogers, Ferris, Lewis and Clark, Shadle Park, and Havermale. The festival culminated in a concert on November 23 at the Spokane Opera House.

Robert Bauman (history, WSU Tri-Cities) presented a paper, titled “The Black Power and Chicano Movements and the Community Union Model in the Poverty Wars in Los Angeles,” at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Seattle in January.

Andrea Mason (English) was awarded a three-week residency at Centrum Center for the Creative Arts in Port Townsend, Washington. The residency is scheduled to take place in May 2005.

In January, Greg Yasinitsky (music) presented his invited paper “The Use of Common Tones and Symmetry in Selected Jazz Harmonic Substitutions” at the conference of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE). Also, his composition “Baja” was programmed by the IAJE New Music Reading Band, a group of nationally renowned professionals that performs newly published compositions. Additionally, Yasinitsky was recently appointed Northwest Regional Coordinator for IAJE (covering Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska), and in October he was featured as a saxophone soloist performing movements of the Maurice Tableaux de Provence with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra.

Carol Ivory (fine arts) served in November as a consultant to the Grand Rapids Public Museum as part of an NEH documentation grant to recatalog their collections. In February she will attend the annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania on Kauai and the College Art Association in Atlanta.

Christopher Lupke (foreign languages) has been elevated to the position of chair of the executive committee of the East Asian Languages and Literatures (Post-1900) Division of the Modern Language Association. In November, Lupke was invited by the Taipei city government to give a lecture entitled “Taibei Xiangxiang Jingse de Kaogu” (An Archaeology of Imaginary Landscape in Taipei) in Tapei, Taiwan. Also in November, he was invited to present a paper entitled “The Natural Nation: Political and Aesthetic Dimensions of Huang Chunming’s Xiangtu Imagery” at Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany.

Tahira Probst (psychology, WSU Vancouver) has been reappointed for a three-year term to the editorial board of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. She also has been awarded a WSU Internationalization Professional Development Grant to support her sabbatical leave in Geneva, Switzerland, working with researchers at the International Labor Organization.

Melissa Goodman-Elgar (anthropology) presented a paper in December entitled “Eulogy to Lost Nations: Spanish Chroniclers of Andes” at the annual Theoretical Archaeology Group meeting held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. In January, she chaired a session on mortuary remains and human sacrifice at the forty-fifth annual Institute of Andean Studies meeting held at the University of California, Berkeley.

Organized by WSU Extension, WSU Film Studies, and the Spokane Community Colleges, the popular foreign film series in Colville continued for the third time this fall. All the presenters were from the College of Liberal Arts: Marina Tolmacheva (associate dean of liberal arts, history) on Children of Heaven (Iran), October 1; Birgitta Ingemanson (foreign languages) on Secrets and Lies (U.K.), October 8; Vilma Navarro-Daniels (foreign languages) on Talk to Her (Spain), October 15; Jeremy Krug (recording engineer, music) on 12 Monkeys, October 22; and Rachel Halverson (foreign languages) on Good Bye Lenin! (Germany), October 29. All these “Film Fridays” were very well attended and have become a cultural staple in the community.

Azfar Hussain (comparative ethnic studies) has been specially invited to speak at the Ninth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, which will take place in Orlando, Florida, July 10–13. In addition, the College of Liberal Arts at WSU has offered Hussain an appointment as affiliate faculty in disability studies, beginning this semester, in recognition of his “outstanding contributions to both the undergraduate experience and to diversity at Washington State University.”

On November 3, the School of Music hosted the twelfth annual WSU Jazz Festival. Twenty-three school bands from throughout the Pacific Northwest attended the festival and presented adjudicated performances. Close to 600 attended the gala concert featuring guest trumpeter Tim Acosta, Jazz Northwest (the WSU faculty ensemble), and the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band under the direction of Greg Yasinitsky (music).

Leonard Burns (psychology) was recently elected a fellow in the American Psychological Society in recognition of his “sustained outstanding contributions to the advancement of psychological science.” Earlier in the year, Burns was also elected a fellow in the American Psychological Association.

Paula Coomer (English) will conduct a weekend workshop on the personal essay known as “The Joy of Writing” at Antioch University, Seattle, in January and February.

This past summer, Bob Patterson (psychology) successfully negotiated an Educational Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the Warfighter Training Division of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Mesa, Arizona, which has just become formal. The EPA, between the WSU Department of Psychology and the AFRL in Arizona, involves a major state-of-the-art equipment loan to Patterson’s lab in order to continue the research here in Pullman that he has been doing in the AFRL over the past three summers (research on visual cueing in high-performance flight simulators as well as research on head-mounted visual displays). The EPA also involves the sharing of expertise between the department and the AFRL and allows for an expansion of research opportunities for faculty and students who conduct both basic and applied research that is of interest to the Air Force.
     Patterson, Marc Winterbottom, and Byron Pierce have just had a paper accepted for presentation. The paper is titled “The Influence of Depth of Focus on Visibility of Monocular Head-mounted Display Symbology in Simulation and Training Applications.” The paper will be presented on March 29 in Orlando, Florida, at the conference on “Helmet- and Head-Mounted Displays X: Technologies and Applications,” part of the Society for Photo-electronic Instrumentation Engineering’s Defense and Security Symposium.

Nada Elia (women’s studies) has been elected to the editorial board of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, a new peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Indiana University Press. The first issue is scheduled for publication in January 2005.

In 2004, Michael Morgan (psychology, WSU Vancouver) was awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence.

The 2005 WSU/UI Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award recipients include Kristal Moore (M.A. candidate, American studies) and E. Lincoln James (communication). Moore is a teaching assistant in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, recognized for her dedication and quality instruction within the department. Additionally, she is working to establish a community-based summer school for youth in Seattle. James, a communication professor and editor for the Western Journal of Black Studies, has been responsible for distributing diversity education literature globally. He has served as an advisor to the president of WSU on diversity issues and is currently working with a women’s multicultural Ph.D. student group to help members complete their doctoral process and publish their work.

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Professional Productivity

Will Hamlin (English) has completed final revisions on a monograph dealing with skepticism and tragedy in Renaissance England. The book will be published in June 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan in the United Kingdom.

Greg Yasinitsky (music) has had “Masterclass: Sixth Sense,” a CD and article, published internationally in the Saxophone Journal magazine. The disc includes a recording by Yasinitsky with Gerald Berthiaume (music) performing Yasinitsky’s composition “Sixth Sense” along with demonstrations and performance advice. Kendor Music has published Yasinitsky’s compositions for jazz band “Charlie’s Tune,” “West Valley,” and “Baja.” His arrangement of “Honeysuckle Rose” for jazz band has been published by Warner Brothers.

An article by Mark Konty (sociology) entitled “Microanomie: The Cognitive Foundations of the Relationship between Anomie and Deviance” is being published in the journal Criminology.

Jason Miller’s (English) essay on Langston Hughes and the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” has been accepted for publication by the Langston Hughes Review. The essay is part of his dissertation, chaired by Camille Roman (English), on environmental justice in the poetry of lynching by Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop. Miller presented an earlier version of the essay in a paper entitled “Finding Reassurance: Langston Hughes’s ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’” at the 2004 Modern Language Association convention for the Langston Hughes Society. He is the current Blackburn Fellow in the Department of English.

Gene Rosa (sociology) published, with coauthors Richard York (Ph.D. ’02, sociology) and Thomas Dietz, an article titled “Tracking the Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecological Footprints” in AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment (Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences).

Marina Tolmacheva’s (associate dean of liberal arts, history) review of Adeline Masquelier’s book Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2001) has appeared in Religious Studies Review 30(2–3).

Travis Pratt (criminal justice) coauthored two articles that have been accepted for publication in Criminal Justice Policy Review. The first is titled “Supermax Prisons: Myths, Realities, and the Politics of Punishment in American Society,” and the other, coauthored with Mike Gaffney (political science, DGSS), Nick Lovrich (political science, DGSS), and Charles Johnson (Ph.D. candidate, criminal justice), is titled “This Isn’t ‘CSI’: The National Backlog of Forensic DNA Cases and the Barriers Associated with Case Processing.”

Azfar Hussain’s (comparative ethnic studies) essay “Lalon Fakir: The Politics of Anti-colonial Peasant Songs and Social Justice” has been solicited for publication in a South Asian journal of culture called Padma, while Hussain has been invited again to edit a special issue of Meghbarta—an international journal of theory and activism—on peasant, working-class, and anti-imperialist movements in Latin America.

Carol Ivory’s (fine arts) article “Images of the Marquesas from the Krusenstern Expedition, 1804” has been published in the Rapa Nui Journal 18(2).

Clay Mosher (sociology, WSU Vancouver) has had several articles published recently: “Minority Adolescents and Substance Use Risk/Protective Factors: A Focus on Inhalants,” with Thomas Rotolo (sociology), Dretha Phillips (SESRC), Antoinette Krupski, and Kenneth Stark, in Adolescence; “Correctional Facilities and Known Offenders,” with Scott Akins (Ph.D. ’02, sociology), and “Criminal Justice Records” in Encyclopedia of Social Measurement; and “Don’t Build It Here: The Hype versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment,” with Gregory Hooks (sociology) and Peter Wood, in Prison Legal News.

Brigit Farley’s (history, WSU Tri-Cities) article done with Professor Ann Kleimola of the University of Nebraska, “The Church of the Icon of the Kazan’ Mother of God on Red Square: A Symbol of Unity for Russian Society,” recently appeared in Christopher Marsh’s (ed.) Burden or Blessing: Russian Orthodoxy and the Construction of Civil Society and Democracy. The book was published by Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs.

Michelle Kendrick (English, WSU Vancouver) has been asked to participate in a special edition of Rhetoric Review on “Whiteness.” Her essay is titled “Celebrate Diversity? Questioning the Rhetoric of Diversity within the Frame of ‘Whiteness Studies.’”

Tahira Probst (psychology, WSU Vancouver) has coauthored a chapter, “Multiple Minority Individuals: Multiplying the Risk of Workplace Harassment and Discrimination,” in Jean Lau Chin’s (ed.) The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination (Praeger Publishers, 2004). She has also coauthored “The psychometrics of adaptation: Evaluating measurement equivalence across languages and cultures” in Adapting Educational and Psychological Tests for Cross-cultural Assessment (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004).

Boyd W. Benson’s (English) poem “Saving One’s Self a Lot of Grief” will appear in the April issue of the Iowa Review.

Michelle Forsyth (fine arts) will have a solo exhibition of her work at the Grand Forks Art Gallery in Grand Forks, B.C. This show will open on January 29 and run until March 5. Concurrently, she has also curated an exhibition for the Grand Forks Art Gallery that will feature the work of eight artists from eastern Washington. Forsyth’s work was recently published in Die Anthologie der Kunst (The Anthology of Art) by Jochen Gerz. To coincide with this publication, she also participated in an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, November 18 through January 9. Her work is also included in the exhibition MAC Collects: Art for the New Millennium at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, October 23, 2004, through September 4, 2005.

Joseph Keim Campbell’s (philosophy) paper “Compatabilist Alternatives” has been accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

Joddy Murray’s (English, WSU Tri-Cities) two poems “Gripped Sun Fasting on Darkness” and “Breaking, Pieces” were recently published by Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art 33(2) and Oregon East Magazine 35, respectively. A third poem, “All the Shapes Death Makes,” was published in West Wind Review: Poetry and Fiction Anthology 23.

Buddy Levy’s (English) essay “The Setting of Wings” was recently published as a feature article in the fall 2004 issue of Big Sky Journal, a Bozeman, Montana, bimonthly journal. Book People of Moscow carries the magazine. His essay “The River Is Enough” has been accepted for publication in Big Sky Journal and will appear in its Fly Fishing ’05 issue, which comes out in early spring.

Andrea Mason (English) has a forthcoming article profiling the University of Idaho’s landscape architecture summer program in Italy in the winter issue of Here We Have Idaho, the University of Idaho’s alumni magazine.

Tamara Helm’s (fine arts) “Three Women” is showing in the Chase Gallery All Media Juried Show through February 11, 2005, in Spokane. Three hundred and twelve works were considered from over one hundred artists. Forty works of forty artists were selected by juror.

Rebecca Craft (psychology) and Erin Stoffel (Ph.D. ’04, psychology) have coauthored an article, with Catherine Ulibarri (VCAPP) and others, in press with the Journal of Pain titled “Gonadal Hormone Modulation of Mu, Delta, and Kappa Opioid Antinociception in Male and Female Rats.”

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Student Activities and Awards

Tiffany Tuttle (M.A. candidate, anthropology) has had a paper accepted to the 2005 SOYUZ post-socialist studies conference. The paper is titled “Women, Tourist Art, and Production Innovations in Kyrgyzstan” and will be presented at the beginning of March.

Zach Mazur’s (M.F.A. candidate) work entitled “Farmscapes” won best of show in the national juried exhibit Barns and Farms at the Barnsite Art Studio and Gallery in Kewaunee, Wisconsin, last summer. His photo “Heaven’s Gate” took second place in the 2004 Outdoor Photography Contest and Exhibit sponsored by the WSU Outdoor Recreation Center and the CUB Gallery, and he exhibited several images at the Loft Gallery in Clarkston, Washington, for their special holiday show December 3 through January 5.
     In addition, Mazur’s photo of Palouse Falls will appear in the new Palouse Visitor’s Brochure. His images are also being used by Rapid Impressions, an award-winning printing company, for a promotional piece exhibiting their high-quality printing processes. A calendar of Mazur’s images is planned.

Marta Maldonado (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) was awarded a $2,000 John C. and Loella Kay Kassebaum Scholarship in recognition of her academic work and career goals.

Eydie Fernández’s (M.A. candidate, foreign languages) article on feminism in the poetry of Delmira Agustini has been accepted for publication in the journal Re-Visions, published by WSU’s Department of Women Studies. She was also elected as the graduate student representative to the executive committee of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association.

On November 6, Rosemary Briseño (Ph.D. candidate, English) conducted two workshops entitled “Short-Term Sacrifices for Life-Long Benefits: Real World Challenges Facing Latinas in Higher Education” during the eighth annual Children of Aztlan Sharing Higher Education (CASHE) Conference November 5–7. The conference is sponsored by the WSU chapter of MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlan) and accommodated approximately 200 students from Washington in 2004.

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Alumni News

Jeff Johnson (Ph.D. ’04, history) has accepted a tenure-track appointment to teach American history at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, beginning fall 2005.

Mike Russell defended his dissertation, “A Tale of Two Emigrations: The Flight to Argentina by Spanish Basques and German Jews to Escape European Fascism, 1933–1955,” and was awarded his Ph.D. in history from WSU in December 2004. He will be giving an invited presentation at “A Week of Remembrance: The 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Concentration Camps” this spring semester. Russell continues to work as an adjunct lecturer in history at Eastern Washington University, Gonzaga University, Whitworth College, Spokane Community College, and Distance Degree Programs at WSU.

Drew Piper (B.A. ’03, English) has learned that his Honors College thesis on Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, which received the award of “distinction” in 2003, is listed now on a variety of popular music Web sites, including sites on both Dylan and Simon. Piper’s thesis, directed by Camille Roman (English), was the first paper written by an English major to earn a “pass with distinction” in the Honors College.

Jennifer Ross-Nazzal (Ph.D. ’04, history) has been promoted to the position of historian for NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

Megan Martens (M.F.A. ’00) has an exhibit of paintings at the Huneke Gallery in Spokane through February 4.

Stephanie Travis (M.A. ’99, speech and hearing sciences) and Cindy Weber (M.A. ’01, speech and hearing sciences) have been named cochairs for the Native American Caucus of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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Representing the Department of Anthropology at the upcoming Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah | March 30–April 3, 2005

Tim Kohler is first author, with David Johnson (Ph.D. candidate), on the paper “‘Village’: Ecodynamics of Prehispanic Northern San Juan Region Cultures,” to be presented at the symposium “Theoretical and Methodological Requirements for Archaeological Simulation.” Johnson will present a poster, coauthored with Kohler, entitled “Modeling Long-term Human Ecology: Simulating Prehistoric Settlement in the Upland Southwest,” scheduled for the Southwest II poster session. Kohler is also giving a paper entitled “Time of Deer and Piñon, Turkey and Corn, Cotton and Obsidian” in a session on “The Peopling of Bandelier,” as part of the Spring Archaeology Lecture Series: Prehistoric Peoples of the Southwest and Great Basin, sponsored by the Salt Lake City Public Library, the SAA Public Education Committee, the School of American Research, and the National Park Service.

Bill Andrefsky will be chairing the General Session on Method and Theory and presenting a paper.

Karen Lupo has organized a symposium sponsored by the SAA committee, “Linking the Present to the Past: Recent Studies in Forager and Farmer Ethnoarchaeology.” She is also giving a paper in this session, as are two of her graduate students, Jason Fancher (Ph.D. candidate), with “Identifying Communal Small Mammal Procurement in the Archaeological Record: An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis of Duiker Element Representation among Contemporary Aka Foragers,” and Chris Nicholson (M.A. candidate). Lupo is also serving as a member of the SAA meeting organizer committee.

Andrew Duff will present an invited paper, “Chacoan Community Organization in the Southern Zuni Region,” and has coauthored another invited paper with Deborah Huntley, “Scales of Interaction and Identity in the Zuni and Upper Little Colorado Regions.” Duff will also have a poster with Matthew J. Landt and Fumiyasu Arakawa (both Ph.D. candidates), “Results from the Cox Ranch Pueblo Community Research Project.”

Alissa Nauman (M.A. candidate) is the lead author, with Andrew Duff, of a paper in an invited symposium entitled “Engendering Households in the Prehistoric Southwest.” The paper is titled “Engendering the Landscape: Resource Acquisition, Artifact Manufacture, and Household Organization in a Chacoan Great House Community.”

Jenn Mueller (M.A. candidate) has been invited to participate in a symposium on prehistoric Zuni. She will be presenting a paper and participating in the discussion afterward.

Diane Curewitz (Ph.D. candidate) will be presenting a paper, “Maximizing the Value of Older Collections: Excavations in the Stacks at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, New Mexico.”

Karisa Terry and Ian Buvit (both Ph.D. candidates) will be presenting a poster titled “Environmental and Archaeological Assessment of Middle Upper Paleolithic Sites in the Transbaikal Region, Russia.”

Mark Hill (Ph.D. candidate) will present “Late Archaic Copper Procurement and Production in the Southern Lake Superior Basin: An Example from the Duck Lake Site” in the General Session on Midwest and Great Lakes Archaeology.

Colin Quinn (M.A. candidate) will present a poster in the Historical Archaeology poster session entitled “Use-Wear Under Fire: An Experimental Reexamination of Gunflint Technology.” He is also presenting a paper in the Neolithic in Southwest Asia and Europe General Session entitled “Early Neolithic Bead Production: Technology and Visibility during the Forager–Farmer Transition.”

Nathan Goodale (Ph.D. candidate) is presenting and moderating in a symposium titled “Lithic Reduction Analysis and Problems of Prehistory.” His paper is titled “Knapping the Path to Specialization: Epi-Paleolithic to Neolithic Core Reduction Strategies in the Near East.”

Beth Horton (Ph.D. candidate) will give a paper, “Style, Technology, and Ceramic Variation: Late Prehistoric Pottery Manufacture in Central New York.”

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Presentations from the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | November 18–21, 2004

“Evidence-Based Practice Application: Intensive Case Examinations: A Non-Thesis Option,” Jane Pimentel (Eastern Washington University), Ella Inglebret, Carrie Murphy (Central Valley School District)

“The Role of Mental Imagery in Facilitation of Idiom Comprehension,” Ella Inglebret, Sarah Deckman (M.A. ’04)

“Classroom Accommodations Recommended for Students with LD and ADHD,” Ella Inglebret, Angela Gates (M.A. ’03)

“Improving Successful AAC Outcomes: Consumer Opinions,” Jeanne Johnson, Andrea Brown (M.A. ’04)

“Core versus Fringe Vocabulary Used by Third Graders,” Jeanne Johnson, Stacy Deffner (M.A. ’03)

“WSU Spokane Auditory Processing Disorders Clinic: An Audiology/Speech-Language Pathology Cooperative Venture,” Jon Hasbrouck, Jeffrey Nye, and Leslie Power (all WSU Spokane)

“Student Perceptions of Graduate Level Clinical Experiences,” Leslie Power, Teresa Paslawski (University of Saskatchewan)

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Interim Director of Plateau Center Named

The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of Ron Pond (Ph.D. ’04) as interim director of the Plateau Center for American Indian Studies at Washington State University.

Pond, an Umatilla elder, came to WSU as a graduate student in the interdisciplinary doctoral program, completing his dissertation last year on “A Jefferson Peace Medal among the Walla Walla Indians.” He received a bachelor of science from Eastern Oregon State College in anthropology/sociology, and he earned his teacher certification and later an interdisciplinary master’s degree from Oregon State University.

Pond has taught at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon, and during his studies at WSU he taught the cross-listed music/comparative ethnic studies course on Native American music. He has worked for the U.S. Forest Service’s Cultural Resource Management Program and served as council chairman of the Umatilla tribal government.

As interim director, Pond will lead the efforts of the Plateau Center, including coordination with other Native American offices at WSU; communication with the tribes on matters related to the center; participation in Plateau Center planning, including development of the position description for the director; travel to facilitate communication with the tribes; and coordination with the college and other partners on federal funding and other proposals.

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Crimes of the Heart Production Selected

Crimes of the Heart, which opened WSU’s current theatre season, has been chosen as one of the five plays to be performed at the 2005 Northwest Drama Conference, to be held in Ashland, Oregon, February 15–19. From there, one show will be chosen to go on to Washington, D.C., to represent Region VII at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival finals. Region VII encompasses drama programs from seven western states. Stan Brown (theatre arts) directed the production.

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Festival of Contemporary Art Music
February 10–12, 2005

Composer and University of Oregon faculty member David Crumb has accepted the invitation of the School of Music and Theatre Arts to be the honored composer at the 2005 Festival of Contemporary Art Music.

“David Crumb’s music is always dramatic, intense, and eclectic,” said Charles Argersinger (music), professor of composition at WSU and creator of the festival. “Crumb’s compositions draw upon various musical materials, from the raw driving rhythms and dissonances of Stravinsky to the elegant romanticism of the music of Chopin. It will bathe you in a splash of orchestral colors and leave you in a spiritual peace of mind,” Argersinger said.

The Festival of Contemporary Art Music was established sixteen years ago to bring world-class contemporary music composers to campus to broaden the exposure of the music and to deepen the understanding and appreciation of the genre.

“Our guest composers have been uniformly impressed with the quality of performances their music receives,” said Erich Lear, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and former director of the School of Music and Theatre Arts. “They are inspired to coach us in the finest of points about their music. Our faculty and students receive confirmation of their work through the composers’ regard for the initial rehearsals and through the additional praise when adjustments are made in the best positive spirit and with quick improvement.”

Crumb joined the music faculty at the University of Oregon in 1997 as an associate professor of composition and theory. In previous years, Crumb served as visiting professor at Duke University, UCLA, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and West Chester University.

Crumb holds degrees in composition and cello from the Eastman School and a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Pennsylvania. He spent one year at the Rubin Academy in Israel studying composition and counterpoint with Russian-born composer Mark Kopytman. During these formative years he also studied composition with Samuel Adler, Chinary Ung, Jay Reise, Richard Wernick, Lukas Foss, Joseph Schwantner, and Stephen Albert.

Crumb has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an L.A. Composers Project 2 Prize, a National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Composition Project prize, two ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers, an ASCAP–Raymond Hubbell Award, two Meet the Composer Fund awards, a Vanguard Arts Associates Award (third prize), and a New England Reed Trio “Composition Competition” Award (third prize). Recently he was selected to participate in Riverside Symphony’s International Composers Readings.

Student work
Thursday, February 10, 2005
11:10 a.m.
Kimbrough Concert Hall

Faculty compositions
Thursday, February 10, 2005
8:00 p.m.
Bryan Hall Theatre

Compositions by David Crumb
Saturday, February 12, 2005
8:00 p.m.
Kimbrough Concert Hall

Festival of Contemporary Art Music Web site

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Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka to Visit Campus

Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, and political activist Wole Soyinka will visit Pullman for the Washington State University Theatre Program’s production of his drama Death and the King’s Horseman. In addition to attending the opening night performance, Soyinka will participate in a series of activities on campus February 3–4, including a public lecture, literary reading, and panel discussions.

The first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1986), Wole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1934 and educated at the universities of Ibadan and Leeds, England, and at London’s Royal Court Theatre. He writes in English, fusing Western and Yoruba traditions. In Nigeria, he founded the Masks amateur theater company and the professional Orisun Repertory, both of which presented plays in English that incorporated the traditions of Nigerian music and dance. He has held faculty appointments at several universities, including Yale, Cornell, Cambridge, Harvard, and the University of Ife, Nigeria. Imprisoned for political activism during Nigeria’s civil war, his powerful prison diary, The Man Died (1972), was published after his release. Since the 1970s, he has lived long periods in exile. Under threat of arrest from the Nigerian government, he fled the country in 1994; in 1997, he was tried in absentia and sentenced to death by the military regime. After the death of Nigeria’s military dictator in 1998, Soyinka was granted amnesty and returned home, where he resumed his political activism.

Soyinka’s works are concerned with the tensions between spiritual and material worlds, with beliefs as the underpinnings of social relations, and with individuals’ dependence on one another. His widely performed plays often highlight the problems of daily life in Africa; best known are Death and the King’s Horseman (1975) and A Play of Giants (1984), a satiric attack on contemporary Africa. His novels include The Interpreters (1965), which considers the plight of young Nigerians in an increasingly corrupt society, and Isara (1988). Ake (1983), an autobiography, offers insights into Nigerian culture during the late colonial period, and his essay collections, including Art, Dialogue, and Outrage (1988, 1994) and The Burden of Memory, The Muse of Forgiveness (1998), discuss a variety of African cultural and political issues.

Based on events that took place in British-occupied Nigeria in 1946, Death and the King’s Horseman is a powerful tragedy of both cultural conflict and personal responsibility. The king of the Yoruba people has died; by tradition, Elesin, the king’s horseman, must “commit death” in order to accompany the king on his journey into the afterlife. Appalled by what they consider a “barbaric custom,” the British colonial authorities rush to prevent his ritual suicide. Hampered by their interference and by his own unabated appetite for life, Elesin fatally delays fulfilling his duties, thereby shaking the religious foundations of his world and providing an occasion for his family’s dishonor. He then must face a series of increasingly intense confrontations with the arrogant British district office, the outraged and betrayed Yoruba people, his own European-educated son, and, ultimately, his own conscience.

Soyinka’s visit and associated events are sponsored by the Visual, Performing, and Literary Arts Committee, the College of Liberal Arts, the Theatre Program, STAGE, the Department of English, and the Office of Campus Involvement, with generous support from Humanities Washington.

February 3, 2005

12:00–3:00 p.m. | CUB Cascade Rooms
Panel discussion focusing on Wole Soyinka’s play The Road. Panelists include Paul Brians (English), who has studied the work of Soyinka extensively; Peter Chilson (English), journalist and fiction writer; and Femi Euba, a Nigerian actor, director, and professor of drama at Louisiana State University and a friend and colleague of Soyinka’s. Also on the panel are Loveday Gbara, a Nigerian graduate student in political science at WSU; Terry Converse (theatre arts), codirector of Death and the King’s Horseman; and finally, Simba Tirima, a Kenyan graduate student at the University of Idaho. Professor Soyinka will join the conference after the panel discussion to talk about his play The Road.

6:30–7:30 p.m. | Jones Theatre, Daggy Hall
Wole Soyinka will present a free public lecture.

8:00 p.m. | Jones Theatre, Daggy Hall
Opening performance of Death and the King’s Horseman. Directed by Phyllis Gooden-Young and Terry Converse, with Laurilyn Harris as dramaturg, the production will be enhanced by Nigerian ritual drumming and dance. Admission will be charged.

A panel discussion follows the performance at 10:15 p.m.

February 4, 2005

3:00 p.m. | Bryan Hall Theatre
Literary reading by Wole Soyinka.

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Liberal Arts Involvement in the Center for Integrated Biotechnology

As reported in the center’s newsletter and Web site, fall 2004

The Center for Integrated Biotechnology (CIB) facilitates and expands training and research programs in biotechnology at WSU. The center works to promote faculty collaborations, develop state-of-the-art core laboratories, enhance industry interactions, facilitate intellectual property development and technology transfer, and assist in economic development in the region.

Tim Kohler (anthropology) is a member of the CIB steering committee. The liberal arts faculty members listed here are participating in the following research areas:

BIOETHICS
Daniel Holbrook (philosophy), Greg Hooks (sociology), Judy Meuth (women’s studies), Harry Silverstein (philosophy), Noël Sturgeon (women’s studies)

BIOINFORMATICS
Tim Kohler (anthropology)

BIOTECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS AND POLITICS
Erica Austin (communication), Greg Hooks (sociology), Michelle Kendrick (English, WSU Vancouver), George Kennedy (English), Lance LeLoup (political science), Nicholas Lovrich (political science), Judy Meuth (women’s studies), Thomas Preston (political science), Gene Rosa (sociology), Steven Stehr (political science), Noël Sturgeon (women’s studies), Ed Weber (political science)

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE/BIOTECHNOLOGY
Gene Rosa (sociology)

HUMAN DISEASE
Rebecca Craft (psychology), Mike Morgan (psychology, WSU Vancouver), Elizabeth Soliday (psychology, WSU Vancouver)

MOLECULAR ANTHROPOLOGY
William Andrefsky (anthropology), Tim Kohler (anthropology)

NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
Rebecca Craft (psychology), Mike Morgan (psychology, WSU Vancouver), Jay Wright (psychology)

NEUROSCIENCES
Rebecca Craft (psychology), John Hinson (psychology), Mike Morgan (psychology, WSU Vancouver), Bob Patterson (psychology), Mimi Salamat (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane), Paul Whitney (psychology), Jay Wright (psychology)

PHARMACOLOGY
Rebecca Craft (psychology), Frances McSweeney (psychology), Jay Wright (psychology)

For more information about any of these faculty members or CIB’s activities, see the Center for Integrated Biotechnology Web site.

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College of Liberal Arts Award Winners, Fall 2004

Initiation and Completion Grants
José Alamillo (comparative ethnic studies)
Charles Argersinger (music)
Amari Barash (music)
Noriko Kawamura (Asian studies)
Jeannette Mageo (anthropology)
Sue Peabody (history, WSU Vancouver)

Edward R. Meyer Projects
José Alamillo (comparative ethnic studies)
Amari Barash (music)

Edward R. Meyer Grant Development Award
G. Leonard Burns (psychology)

Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies
Kerensa Allison (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology)

Departmental Innovation Award
Asia Program, Noriko Kawamura, director

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Department of History Collects Toys for Local Children

Rather than having faculty and staff exchange gifts within the Department of History at the holidays, Patricia Thorsten (administrative manager, history) proposed a combined gift to make a difference in the community and initiated the department’s annual toy and fund drive. Faculty, staff, and students of the department enthusiastically backed the idea, and support continues to grow. In December 2004, they donated four large bags of toys, forty-five pounds of food, and $400 in cash to the Pullman Child Welfare Association.

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Obituaries

George Axel Frykman, 87, retired professor of history and centennial historian for the University, died December 30 at his Pullman home.
Frykman was born April 30, 1917, in South San Francisco. He earned a bachelor’s degree from California State University, San Jose (1940), and a general secondary teaching credential from Stanford University (1941), where he also earned his master’s and doctoral degrees (1947 and 1955, respectively). He served as a private and captain in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942–46. His specialties were as photographic officer and instructor in photography.
     Frykman joined WSU in 1950 as a history instructor before working his way to the ranks of professor in 1966. He also served as assistant to the dean of the graduate school from 1961–64. He retired from WSU in 1987. His teaching and research specialties included American social and intellectual history, American historiography, Washington state and Pacific Northwest history, American studies, and Christianity in America.
     Appointed WSU centennial historian in 1985, Frykman authored Creating the People’s University: Washington State University, 1890–1990, a formal institutional history of WSU.

Joseph Labat, 69, retired professor of French, passed away on or around November 21 in Florida. He was in the company of his family. Labat was born January 4, 1935, in France. He taught at WSU for twenty-seven years, from 1973 until his retirement in 2000. Any cards or messages may be sent to: Dr. Eloy R. González, chair, Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2610.

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