Dean's Message

Welcome back! The requisition for longer summers will receive a response around October 1, coming together with any allocations of new resources. We have, of course, not much hope for the former and considerable positive anticipation for the latter. So, since we are all back, let’s start “cruisin’”!

Quick recap of spring and summer ’05 now. In spring, we made considerable progress on our deficit, received salary increases and an increased rate for promotions (now 10%), took no budget reductions beyond our internal balancing adjustments, delivered a highly effective message concerning the ten-year history of increased instruction and its associated costs comparing our college with other colleges, drafted and reported on benchmarks, and initiated efforts toward a “CLA Season” and structured planning for our fund raising. In summer, we received supplemental funding to ensure section availability for Freshman Focus, saw distribution of the reports of the Committee on Academic Structure (realignment), received agreement from our Dean’s Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (DACRA) to work through 2005–06 on issues of budget/administration/reshaping in the college, increased energy and time commitments to fund raising, restructured associate dean positions for interim appointments, and selected events for the CLA Season ’05–’06 in continued work toward making this a highly visible representation of what our college is and does. Oh, yes, and we removed the word “interim” from my title.

So what’s up for fall? In early October, we will learn if we receive any new resources. Our top priorities are permanent funding for TAs and a leadership position and other support for Theatre. We may also receive help toward our deficit. While we have not yet made a specific request, we will move toward requesting a leadership position promoting equity and diversity in the college. The university Strategic Plan is for 2002–2007. While benchmarks took the forefront last year, this year we will begin revisions to our unit and college strategic plans. At the college level, this will foster coalescing the pillars of our strategic plan with those of our fund raising plans, employing the CLA Season as a signature representation of the global issues whose consideration we lead in improving people’s lives, and the capacity of the college to deliver engaged and high-quality class and individual preparation for students who encounter these current issues and will need creative abilities to address those of the future.

We are part of a very large enterprise, as individuals and as part of our university. We will hear much about “economic development” and “outreach” this coming year. The central administration is already restructuring to advance our collective causes effectively. As I have said before, the primary roles of administration (in my view) are to make process thorough, transparent, and facile to allow important work to be done, and to creatively synthesize the very best of that work in ways that increase contributions to positive change locally, statewide, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Essential to our success is the generosity of our faculty, staff, and students in giving your best. In advance, please accept my gratitude for all that you will do this coming year! It is a privilege to serve as your dean.

Erich Lear, Dean
College of Liberal Arts

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Worthy of Note

Welcome to the new interim associate deans of the College of Liberal Arts. Paul Whitney (psychology) has assumed John E. Kicza’s (history) position as associate dean for research; after five and a half years in the dean’s office, Dr. Kicza will serve as interim chair of the Department of History this year. In new associate dean positions are Susan Ross (communication), associate dean for corporate and foundation relations, and T.V. Reed (American studies), associate dean for interdisciplinary studies. A renewed and more permanent welcome goes to Erich Lear, who has agreed to serve as dean of the college for an additional two-year appointment.

Virginia Hyde, a longtime faculty member in the Department of English, received the Harry T. Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement June 30 at the tenth International D. H. Lawrence Conference, held in Santa Fe. She is one of only fifteen international scholars who have received the Harry T. Moore Award. The conference was held in Santa Fe in order to recognize a successful nomination that placed the Lawrence ranch, the Kiowa Ranch at San Cristobal near Taos, New Mexico, on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Hyde and Christine (Tina) Ferris authored the nomination, a five-year effort sponsored by the North American Lawrence Society and the University of New Mexico. Hyde, the conference director, also gave a plenary presentation June 28 at the conference; she led the panel “Women Scholars around the World.” She retired this year after teaching at WSU for 34 years.

Andrew Duff (anthropology) was awarded $160,076 from the National Science Foundation to further support his archaeological research in west-central New Mexico. The project is examining the organization of several local communities and the nature of their contacts with, or connections to, Chaco Canyon during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies) participated in the Curt C. and Else Silberman Summer Seminar for Social Scientists at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C., June 8–17.

Clay Mosher (sociology, WSU Vancouver) received the 2005 Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence at the Vancouver regional campus. The award was presented during the commencement ceremony on May 14.

Eight WSU faculty members will share $150,000 awarded through the 2005 WSU Foundation New Faculty Seed Grant Program, including three liberal arts faculty: Melissa Goodman-Elgar (anthropology), “Cajamarca: People and Landscapes at the Crossroads of Peruvian Prehistory”; Heidi A. Hamann (psychology), “The Impact of Genetic Causal Information on Perceptions of Lung Cancer”; and John M. Ruiz (psychology), “Personality, Social Vigilance, and Inflammation Markers for Cardiovascular Disease Risk: The SHAPE Study.” Their proposals were selected from among forty-eight submissions university-wide.

John Irby, associate professor and associate director of undergraduate studies in the Murrow School of Communication, presented a poster of an interactive classroom session titled “The Power of Words: How to Stop Painting Stereotypical Pictures by Avoiding Racial Identifiers.” The presentation was made at the August 2005 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual convention in San Antonio. He was one of twenty-five professors from across the country selected for the “Great Ideas for Teachers” (GIFT) session. He also served as an expert witness in arbitration between the Hawaii Tribune Herald and Hawaii Newspaper Guild, testifying about community newspaper workload expectations. The hearing was held in June 2005 in Hilo.

Frances K. McSweeney (psychology, vice provost for faculty affairs) has been named president of the Association for Behavioral Analysis (ABA). She assumed her new responsibilities as the elected head of the internationally recognized organization of behavioral scientists in May at the group’s thirty-first annual convention in Chicago. The event was attended by about 4,000 ABA members and associates representing some twenty nations.

Ella Inglebret (speech and hearing sciences) was an invited speaker at the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education held in Phoenix, Arizona, in August. Her presentation focused on a research framework for identifying factors associated with Native American student success in higher education.

Andrea Mason (English) has been awarded a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico to work on her collection of essays, Tourists on the Left.

Benedict J. Colombi (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) and William Willard (professor emeritus, anthropology) presented invited papers at the Robert K. Thomas Symposium, hosted by the Lummi Nation and the Center for Indian Scholars and held at the Northwest Indian College in Bellingham July 21–23. Colombi’s paper was titled “The Nez Perce Tribe vs. Elite-Directed Development in the Lower Snake River Watershed: The Struggle to Breach the Dams and Save the Salmon,” and Willard’s paper was titled “Archie Phinney and the Indian Claims Commission.”

The American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) and the Goethe-Institute New York will present their annual Certificate of Merit Award to Rachel Halverson (foreign languages). She is one of seven recipients of the 2005 award for outstanding achievement in furthering the teaching of German in schools of the United States. The presentation ceremony will take place November 19, during the AATG’s annual meeting in Baltimore, and will be attended by approximately 500 AATG members.

Stanton Linden (professor emeritus, English) presented an invited paper, “Recent Scholarship on Alchemy and Hermeticism,” at the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, held at Cambridge University, April 7–10. The paper was part of a section sponsored by the journal Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism, formerly edited by Linden and now published at the University of Texas. In January and February, he was appointed visiting scholar by the University of Washington Department of English, while working on an essay on Sir Thomas Browne at the Suzzallo Library.

Patricia Ericsson (English) presented at the twenty-first annual Computers and Writing Conference held at Stanford University in June. Her presentation, “Exploring Hypertext, Multimedia Arguments,” grew out of her research and teaching in the digital technology and culture program and was part of a conference session concerning “Rhetoric, Writing, and Hypertext.”

Gene Rosa (sociology) served on the Scientific Committee of the conference “Environment, Knowledge, and Democracy,” sponsored by Research Committee 24 of the International Sociological Association, in Marseille, France. He was also recently appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Industrial Ecology.

Carol Ivory (fine arts) cohosted and presided over the Pacific Arts Association’s (PAA) VIIIth International Symposium held at Peabody Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, during the week of July 18. She was re-elected PAA president for a second two-year term.

Jennifer Schwartz (sociology) was awarded a grant from the Alcohol Beverage Medical Research Foundation to research her project “Identifying and Explaining Trends in Drunk Driving among Women and Men.”

Diane Gillespie (professor emeritus, English) was the featured speaker who inaugurated the fifteenth annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held June 9–12 at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. Her illustrated presentation was entitled “Godiva Still Rides: Virginia Woolf and Divestiture.”

In April Maria Cuevas (sociology, WSU Tri-Cities) was co-coordinator and panel presenter for the University of Washington Harry Bridges Labor Center’s “The History of the UFW in Washington State,” at the University of Washington, WSU Pullman, and Yakima Valley Community College. She also gave the workshop presentation “As Close to God as One Can Get: One Woman’s Account of Farm Worker Organizing” at the ELLA (Empowered Latinas Leading America) Conference, sponsored by Mujeres Unidas, WSU Pullman. In March, she participated in the panel presentation “Viva La Campesina” at Western Washington University’s International Women’s Month Celebration.

Marina Tolmacheva (associate dean of liberal arts, history) has been awarded an International Scholar Fellowship by the Open Society Institute’s (OSI) Academic Fellowship Program for 2005–06. The nonresident appointment is part of the Higher Education Support Program sponsored by OSI with the support of the Soros Foundation. The fellowship will involve Tolmacheva in teaching and curriculum development at the history department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine. In May Tolmacheva traveled to Almaty, Kazakhstan, to participate in the selection of OSI fellows from Central Asia under the Faculty Development Program that brings visiting Eurasian scholars to U.S. universities for up to three semesters over a period of three years.

Cornell W. Clayton and J. Mitchell Pickerill (both political science) have been invited to participate in a Georgetown University Law Center symposium this fall entitled “The Rehnquist Court’s Reversal of Direction in Criminal Justice.” Other participants include Ken Starr, Erwin Chemerinsky, and David Cole.

Two of Paul Brians’ (English) photographs from Turkey were used in a History Channel documentary on the history of sewers. The program aired July 27 in the series “Modern Marvels.” An audio version of Brians’ Common Errors in English is being created at the California State University, Long Beach, for use by disabled students. An interview with Brians was the subject of the Voice of America (VOA) program in August on the short feature “Wordmaster.” The transcript and audio are available at http://www.voanews.com/wordmaster/.
     Brians’ translation of Leo Africanus’ “Description of Timbuktu” has been selected for use by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture Humanities Project for Central Asia in Tajikistan. It will be used as one of the readings for a new curriculum at several Central Asian universities. On June 25, Brians gave a ninety-minute multimedia presentation called “The Roots of ‘Star Wars,’ or Why Princess Leia Fights like a Girl” at the annual meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association in Las Vegas. He also led a discussion of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds in the WSU Summer Recreation reading group program on June 30 at the Bookie.

Brigit Farley (history, WSU Tri-Cities) participated in a panel entitled “Pioneers of Restoration” at the British Association of Slavic and East European Studies’ annual meeting at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, on April 2. Her paper was titled “Oleg Zhurin’s Red Square Projects, 1990–95.”

Don Dillman (sociology) gave an invited presentation, “Design Effects in Web Surveys,” at the 2005 eHealth Conference sponsored by NIH and the National Cancer Institute June 9 in Bethesda, Maryland. Dillman also presented an invited short course on “Visual Design Effects in Self-Administered Surveys” at the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Journal of Official Statistics at Statistics Sweden in Stockholm, August 24–25.

Jeff Joireman (psychology) has been invited to join the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.
     A paper by Joireman, Dishan Kamdar, Denise Daniels, and Blythe Duell (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), “Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: How Empathy, Concern with Future Consequences, and Employee Time Horizon Impact Organizational Citizenship Behaviors,” was presented at the annual Academy of Management conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, in August. Joireman, Kamdar, Daniels, and Celestina Barbosa-Leiker (M.S. candidate, psychology) coauthored the paper “Willingness to Share Knowledge in Organizations as a Function of Empathy, Future Orientation, Time Horizon, and Social Identity: A Social Dilemma Analysis,” presented at the eleventh International Conference on Social Dilemmas in Krakow, Poland, in July; a poster by Duell, Joireman, Craig Parks (psychology), and Mark Konty (sociology), “The Effect of Mortality Salience on Cooperation in a Public Goods Dilemma,” was presented at the same conference.

Victor Villanueva (English) delivered the keynote address for the University of Delaware McNair Scholars Awards Dinner on August 11.

Stephen Lakatos (psychology, WSU Vancouver) has been awarded a $32,135 contract by the Centers for Disease Control to evaluate a new class of vehicle backup alarms for possible adaptation in the U.S.

Mimi Salamat (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane), with colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Brigham Young University, presented a paper titled “ALR and P300 Brainmaps Variations in Adults Due to Age” at the XIX Biennial Symposium in Havana, Cuba, in June.

Tahira M. Probst (psychology, WSU Vancouver) was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Business and Psychology. She was also reappointed for a three-year term to the editorial board of the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. Probst concluded her 2004–2005 sabbatical leave with the United Nations’ International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Probst and ILO researchers submitted a $1.8 million grant application to the NIH, the first such collaboration for the ILO with a U.S.-based researcher. She was also asked to contribute a chapter on economic stress for a book on managing health-related problems at work, to be published by the ILO in 2006. Her leave was partially supported by a $1,000 International Programs Internationalization Professional Development Grant. Probst also gave an invited talk to the business school at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain, entitled “Unemployment, Underemployment, and Job Insecurity: Implications for Spain.”

Helen Burgess’ (English, WSU Vancouver) DVD-ROM project, Reimagining Biocommerce, coauthored with Rob Mitchell (Duke University) and Phillip Thurtle (University of Washington), was awarded a grant from the North Carolina Biotech Consortium for $38,000 for continued development.

Gail Chermak (speech and hearing sciences) presented two invited lectures, in May on neuroplasticity and treatment of auditory processing disorders at Boys Town National Research Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, and in July at the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus.

John Streamas (comparative ethnic studies) has been named to a three-year term on the Minority Scholars Committee of the American Studies Association (ASA). The committee’s function, according to the ASA constitution, is to keep “the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting minority scholars in the profession” and to undertake “special tasks involving minority scholars in the membership.”

Joseph Keim Campbell (philosophy) was recently selected to serve a three-year term on the Program Committee for the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.

Bill Condon (English) delivered the keynote address to the Faculty Institute at Nicholls State University on August 16. His topic was “Identifying, Assigning, Evaluating, and Assessing What We Value: Writing and Critical Thinking across the Curriculum.” He also led two breakout sessions, one dealing with program assessment and accreditation issues and the other with designing writing assignments that promote critical thinking.

David Pietz (history, Asia Program) delivered a paper, “State and Nature on the North China Plain, 1949–1999” at the International Symposium on Environment and Society in Chinese History at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) in August. Pietz has also been awarded a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Studies Program for 2005–2006 to support his project “Engineering a State of Nature: Hydraulic Transformations on the North China Plain, 1949–1999.”

Susan Swan (general education) has completed a commission from the law offices of Aitken, Schauble, Patrick, Neill, & Ruff to paint a watercolor portrait of the firm’s founding partner. The painting will be hung in the office entry area.

Kim M. Lloyd (sociology) was awarded the spring 2005 Edward R. Meyer Grant Development Award by the College of Liberal Arts. She will receive release time from teaching and a monetary award to facilitate her efforts to procure an extramural grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to examine “Latino Family Formation in the United States.”

The Self-Control Lab, under the direction of Thomas A. Brigham (psychology), presented the following posters at the thirty-first annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis: “Chewing Gum: A Hard Behavior to Swallow,” by Raymond Sacchi (M.S. candidate), Ryan Sain (Ph.D. ’05), Brigham, Jennifer McDonald (Ph.D. candidate), and Sean Greene; “Peer Review of Teaching: Increasing Instruction Skills,” by Sacchi, Brigham, Sain, and McDonald; “Increasing Condom Use in College Students: A Modification to the Psychology 106 Program,” by Sain, Sacchi, Julie Carrier (B.S. ’04), and Brigham; and “Listserv Discussions: Effects on In-Class Discussions and Student Performance,” by Sain, Samantha Swindell (psychology), and Brigham.
     In addition to the posters, Brigham was chair of an invited symposium entitled “Behavior Analysts Should Be the Best Teachers in the Academy. Are We?” with Daniel Bernstein and Richard Malott. His presentation was entitled “‘You Can’t Shape an Egg’: The Lecture-Discussion-Practice Course.”

Michael Delahoyde (English) in early August visited the Seattle Oxford Society in Kirkland as an invited speaker on Shakespeare’s Lucrece. Also, a New York book publisher has taken an interest in his monsters and dinosaur films Web sites and is negotiating a book deal.

Yolanda Flores Niemann (comparative ethnic studies) was invited to lecture at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, this past summer. She presented a key address on “Black-Brown Relations” as well as short seminars on stereotypes and stereotyping.

Rebecca Craft (psychology) and Jean Sumner (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) attended the College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) annual scientific meeting in Orlando, Florida, June 18–23. Sumner presented her M.S. research in a poster entitled “Time Course of the Modulatory Effects of Gonadal Hormones on Nociception, Morphine Antinociception, and Reproductive Indices in Rats.” Craft presented a poster entitled “Effects of Handling on Nociception and Morphine Antinociception in Female vs. Male Rats” and chaired a symposium, “Glutamatergic Modulation of Drug Reinforcement, Tolerance, and Dependence.” Sumner was awarded a CPDD Women and Gender Junior Investigator Travel Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse ($750) to attend the conference.

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Professional Productivity

Gene Rosa’s (sociology) recent publications include “Societal Processes and Carbon Dioxide (CO₂) Emissions,” with Richard York (Ph.D. ’02, sociology), in the journal Social Forces, and “Celebrating a Citation Classic—and More: Symposium on Charles Perrow’s Normal Accidents” in the journal Organization and Environment. He was also a committee coauthor on the report “Thinking Strategically: The Appropriate Use of Metrics for the Climate Change Science Program,” published by the National Academy of Sciences.

Jennifer Schwartz (sociology), with coauthors Darrell Steffensmeier, Sara Zhong, and Jeff Ackerman, published an article titled “An Assessment of Recent Trends in Girls’ Violence Using Diverse Longitudinal Sources: Is the Gender Gap Closing?” in Criminology.

Maria Cuevas (sociology, WSU Tri-Cities) has a book chapter in Memory, Community, and Activism: Mexican Identity and Labor in the Pacific Northwest, edited by Jerry Garcia and Gilberto Garcia and forthcoming from Julian Samora Institute, Michigan. She also contributed two entries, on Rosalinda Guillen, farmworker organizer, and Luz Bazan Gutierrez, cofounder of La Raza Unida Party, to a Latina encyclopedia project in press with CUNY Press and edited by Virginia Sanchez Korrol and Vicki Ruiz.

Jon Hegglund (English) has published a book chapter, “Modernism, Africa, and the Myth of Continents,” in the edited collection Geographies of Modernism: Literatures, Cultures, Spaces, just out with Routledge. An image from Hegglund’s essay—a section of a 1916 map of the West African kingdom of Bamum—was chosen to be on the cover of the collection.

Cornell W. Clayton and J. Mitchell Pickerill (both political science) published their article “Guess What Happened on the Way to the Revolution? Precursors to the Supreme Court’s Federalism Revolution” in the latest issue of Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Pickerill also published a chapter entitled “Congressional Responses to Judicial Review” in Congress and the Constitution (Neal Devins and Keith Whittington, eds., Duke University Press).

An article by Don A. Dillman (sociology), Arina Gertseva, and Taj Mahon-Haft (both Ph.D. candidates, sociology), “Achieving Usability in Establishment Surveys through Application of Visual Design Principles,” appeared in the Journal of Official Statistics 21(2).

C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies) has published two articles coauthored with Charles Fruehling Springwood: “Body and Soul: Physicality, Disciplinarity, and the Overdetermination of Blackness,” in Channeling Blackness: Studies of Television and Race in America, Darnell M. Hunt, ed. (Oxford University Press), and “Playing Indian: Why Native American Mascots Must End,” in Race and Ethnicity in Society, Elizabeth Higginbotham and Margaret Andersen, eds. (Thomson Higher Education). King coauthored with David Leonard (comparative ethnic studies) “Popular Culture and Ethnic Studies: Curricular and Pedagogic Reflections,” appearing in Popular Culture Across the Disciplines, Ray Browne, ed. (McFarland).

Carol Siegel’s (English, WSU Vancouver) latest book, Goth’s Dark Empire, has just been released by Indiana University Press.

Rebecca Craft (psychology) has an article, “Sex Differences in Behavioral Effects of Cannabinoids,” in press with Life Sciences.

Jeff Joireman (psychology) is coauthor of “Organizational Citizenship Behaviors as a Function of Empathy, Consideration of Future Consequences, and Employee Time Horizon: An Initial Exploration Using an In-basket Simulation of OCBs,” in press with the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Joireman, David Sprott (marketing), and Eric Spangenberg (dean of business and economics) have an article, “Fiscal Responsibility and the Consideration of Future Consequences,” in press with Personality and Individual Differences.

Barry Hewlett (anthropology) published an edited book with Michael Lamb (University of Cambridge) entitled Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Cultural Perspectives (2005, Transaction/Aldine).

Michiyo Hirai (psychology) and George Clum have coauthored two articles: “A Meta-analytic Study of Self-help Interventions for Anxiety Disorders,” in press with Behavior Therapy, and “An Internet-based Self-help Program for Trauma Sequelae,” in press with the Journal of Traumatic Stress. Hirai has a third article, with Melinda Stanley and Diane Novy, in press with the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment titled “Generalized Anxiety Disorder in Hispanics: Symptom Characteristics and Prediction of Severity.”

Ella Inglebret (speech and hearing sciences) and Joanne Harrison (B.A. ’01, speech and hearing sciences) published an article entitled “Determining Directions for Speech-Language Intervention in Native Communities” for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s 2005 “Perspectives on Language Learning and Education.”

Joseph Keim Campbell’s (philosophy) paper “Compatibilist Alternatives” will be published in the September issue of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy 35(3).

Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (philosophy) and Carmen Lugo-Lugo’s (comparative ethnic studies) article “‘The War on Terror’ and Same-Sex Marriage: Narratives of Containment and the Shaping of U.S. Public Opinion” was recently published in Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research. Their article “‘The War on Terror’ and Domestic ‘Terrorism’: Same-Sex Marriage and U.S. State Discourse in the 2004 Election Year” is forthcoming in International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, and their article “‘Look Out New World, Here We Come?’: Race, Racialization, and Sexuality in Four Children’s Animated Films by Disney, Pixar, and Dreamworks,” was accepted for publication in Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies.

Will Hamlin’s (English) new book, Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare’s England, was published in June by Palgrave Macmillan in the U.K.

Laurie Drapela (political science, criminal justice, WSU Vancouver) and Clayton Mosher (sociology, WSU Vancouver) have had an article, “The Conditional Effect of Parental Drug Use on Parental Attachment and Adolescent Drug Use: Social Control and Social Development Model Perspectives,” accepted for publication in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse.

An article by Robert Reff (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), Paul Kwon (psychology), and Duncan Campbell (Ph.D. ’03, psychology), “Dysphoric Responses to a Naturalistic Stressor: Interactive Effects of Hope and Defense Style,” appears in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 24. A paper coauthored by Megan Olson (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), Daniela Hugelshofer (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), Kwon, and Reff, entitled “Rumination and Dysphoria: The Buffering Role of Adaptive Forms of Humor,” has been accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences.

Victor Villanueva (English) completed, with C. Jan Swearingen and Susan McDowall, a twenty-year retrospective on rhetoric, which will appear this year in Research on Composition: Multiple Perspectives on Two Decades of Change (Teachers College Press), and a foreword to Compositions of Whiteness: Writing, Reading, and Rhetorics of Race, edited by Ian Marshall and Wendy Ryden (University of Pittsburgh Press), also to appear this year. He has also had “Toward a Political Economy of Rhetoric (or A Rhetoric of Political Economy)” appear in print in Radical Relevance: Toward a “Whole Left”, edited by Laura Gray-Rosendale and Steven Rosendale (SUNY Press). This summer he posted a review of Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies (http://www.ncte.org/pubs/books/selects/college/121401.htm), and with Bob Eddy (English) has completed and submitted a revised manuscript of Alternatives: Writing the Academy/Writing Culture (McGraw-Hill).

Dana J. Lindemann (psychology, WSU Vancouver), Thomas A. Brigham (psychology), Colin R. Harbke (Ph.D. candidate, psychology), and Teresa Alexander have an article, “Toward Errorless Condom Use: A Comparison of Two Courses to Improve Students’ Condom Use Skills,” in press with AIDS and Behavior.

John Streamas (comparative ethnic studies) published an essay, titled “Toyo Suyemoto, Ansel Adams, and the Landscape of Justice,” in the book Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature, edited by Keith Lawrence and Floyd Cheung. It is published by Temple University Press, the leading publisher in Asian American studies.

Robert Patterson (psychology) coauthored “Active Heading Control in Simulated Flight Based on Vertically Extended Contours,” in press with Perception & Psychophysics. Patterson, Lisa Fournier (psychology), Matt Wiediger (M.S. candidate, psychology), Greg Vavrek (B.S. ’02, psychology), Cheryl Becker-Dippman, and Ivan Bickler (B.S. ’04, psychology) have published “Selective Attention and Cyclopean Motion Processing” in Vision Research 45(20). Patterson, Marc Winterbottom, and Byron Pierce’s review paper “Perceptual Issues in the Use of Head-mounted Visual Displays” is in press with Human Factors.

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Student Activities and Awards

Isaac Powell (M.F.A. candidate) is this year’s recipient of the grand prize award of $20,000 for Shifting Gears, a national juried exhibit for young artists with disabilities opening September 26 at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center. The jury was impressed with his entire collection, choosing his piece Growthplate as the selected art work. The awards reception will be held in Washington, D.C., September 21.

Melissa Hussain’s (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) article “Seas, Slaves, and Cents: Reading Political Economy in Wide Sargasso Sea and A Small Place” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. In addition, Hussain is under contract to write a bibliographic entry on the early twentieth-century Indian feminist writer Rokeya Hossain, which will be included in the Compendium of Twentieth Century Novelists and Novels (Facts on File, 2006). Also, Hussain’s book review of Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire will appear in the next issue of In-Between: Essays and Studies in Literary Criticism.

An article by Benedict J. Colombi (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology), titled “Dammed in Region Six: The Nez Perce Tribe, Agricultural Development, and the Inequality of Scale,” is being published in the journal American Indian Quarterly 29(4).

Tracy Behler (M.A. candidate, speech and hearing sciences) received the WSU Spokane Leadership Award for spring 2005.

Erin Mae Clark (M.A. candidate, English) gave a paper, “‘Shut in Reservations’ and Cultural Tourism: D.H. Lawrence’s Hopi Snake Dance and Resistance to American Cultural Imperialism,” at the tenth International D.H. Lawrence Conference, held this year in Santa Fe, June 26 to July 1. The conference was in the Hotel Santa Fe, owned by the Picurus Pueblo of New Mexico, and several of the opening sessions concerned the English writer’s American work in a Native American context. Clark was in one of these special sessions called “Mexico and the Southwest.”
     Pamela Kaye Wright (Ph.D. candidate, English) presented a paper at the same conference entitled “Living Outside-In: The Role of Beauty and Disfigurement in The Ladybird.” Her presentation, which employed disability theory, was part of a session entitled “Philosophies of the Body.” She has also presented two related papers at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference at the University of Louisville and is scheduled to present another at the national convention of the MLA in Washington, D.C. She is teaching literature at Texas A&M, Kingsville, while completing her dissertation here.

Desirae Bear Eagle and Alison Howe, new graduate students in speech and hearing sciences, each received a Creighton Scholarship for Native American Students in Allied Health Professions.

Diane Curewitz (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) was selected as the 2005–2006 Robert H. Lister Fellow. The Lister Fellowship was established at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, to commemorate the life and work of the late Dr. Lister. The $5,000 award, given every other year, is intended to support the final stages of dissertation research and actual writing of the dissertation. Curewitz is exploring the changing relationship between ceramic economy and social organization at the transition between the Coalition (A.D. 1150–1325) to Classic (A.D.1325–1600) periods in the northern Rio Grande of New Mexico, focusing on ceramics produced and exchanged at Bandelier National Monument.

Zach Mazur’s (M.F.A. candidate) current work can be seen in Moscow Artwalk 2005 through September 10. In June he participated in the Artsource Gallery National Juried Show in Boise, Idaho, and the Allied Arts Association (AAA) Scholarship Show in Richland, Washington. The AAA had selected Mazur to receive its M.F.A. scholarship, awarded to a fine arts graduate student in residence at a university in Washington, Oregon, or Idaho. In July Mazur participated in the third annual Barns & Farms exhibition at the Barnsite Art Studio and Gallery in Kewaunee, Wisconsin.

Kazumi Kondoh (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) and Raymond A. Jussaume’s (community and rural sociology) article “Contextualizing Farmers’ Attitudes towards Genetically Modified Crops” is in press with Agriculture and Human Values.

Rosemary Briseño (Ph.D. candidate, English) presented a paper, “Negotiating Space and Place in Sandra Cisneros‚ The House on Mango Street,” during the tenth annual Latina Letters Conference July 15 at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The conference (previously known as Hijas del Quinto Sol) has been called by critics “one of the nation’s most important gatherings about literature by Hispanic women.” Briseño has also been commissioned to contribute an introduction on international author and critic Carlos Fuentes (Where the Air Is Clear), winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as the Latin Literary Prize, in the forthcoming Compendium of 20th Century Novelists and Novels. The novelists included in the collection are identified as those who wrote during the twentieth century and in a language other than English. The collection is published by Facts on File, a leading New York publishing firm.

Jean Sumner (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) coauthored an article in press with Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior titled “Naloxone Increases Ketamine-Induced Hyperactivity in the Open Field in Female Rats.” She also received a Registration Grant from GPSA ($100) and a Graduate Student Travel Award ($450), and was awarded the Sigma Delta Epsilon Fellowship from Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science ($500) for the year 2004–2005.

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Alumni News

Brenda Jackson’s (Ph.D. ’02, history) dissertation will be published by the University of Nebraska Press this November, with the title Domesticating the West: The Re-Creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class. Following the post-Civil War careers of Thomas and Elizabeth Tannatt, Jackson argues that middle-class couples like the Tannatts, faced with uncertain prospects in the East, found opportunities for leadership in the West (and in the Tannatts’ case, in Whitman County). As the dustjacket describes, “While many studies of westward expansion focus exclusively on the earliest pioneers, Jackson adroitly shows how later arrivals shaped the social, economic, and cultural growth of the nation.”

Michael Brown (Ph.D. ’03, history) has accepted a contract to publish his Ph.D. dissertation, “Victorio Acosta Velasco: Asian American Activist.” The publisher is Hamilton Books, a new imprint of University Press of America and Rowman & Littlefield of New York. Brown is also completing an article, “Tort Law,” for Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History (M.E. Sharpe, anticipated fall 2005). He is establishing his private practice as an attorney in Seattle, with a particular emphasis upon race discrimination issues in both western and eastern Washington.

A solo exhibition of large-scale, abstract-surrealist paintings by Brian Sims (B.A. ’98, fine arts), Painting Unrestrained, will run through September 30 at the Tribe Theatre and Art Gallery, 510 NW Glisan St., in Portland, Oregon. There will be an opening reception 4:00–8:00 p.m. on September 1 featuring a silent auction of the artist’s painting Maternal Earth; all proceeds from the auction will benefit the Portland Rescue Mission.

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WSU Research Key to Metropolitan Exhibit

“It was an amazing experience in every way,” said Carol Ivory (fine arts) about the May 10 opening of Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ivory, president of the Pacific Arts Association and the first art historian in the world to focus on the Marquesas Islands, was asked to consult on the exhibit with Eric Kjellgren, the museum’s assistant curator of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. She played a key role in choosing objects for the exhibit and helping to write and edit the exhibit catalog. She was also invited to present lectures on Marquesan art at the Bard Graduate Center and at the Metropolitan Museum.

“There are so many aspects of my trip and the exhibit that were memorable,” said Ivory. “I would say one of the best moments was opening night. Fifteen Marquesans representing five of the six islands made the trip especially for that night. They were dressed in and performed traditional songs and dances. It was wonderful to see them in the museum celebrating their culture.

“Keep in mind,” Ivory said, “most of the things in the museum are not on the islands anymore. Marquesans have seen some of these pieces only in photographs; for them to be there and see them in person was a magical moment. And, the 200 people who attended the opening were able to see that the culture of the Marquesas Islands is still alive.”

Ivory makes annual trips to the Marquesas and knew many of the island representatives, which she said made sharing the experience especially meaningful.

Raised in the Bronx, Ivory completed her B.A. in history at Fordham and her master’s in American civilization at New York University before teaching high school for ten years in the Bronx and on Long Island. It was a yearlong trip around the world that sparked her interest in the art of the Pacific and prompted a return to school. Ivory completed a master’s and Ph.D. in art history at the University of Washington. Hers is the only art history dissertation that focuses on Marquesan art; she is one of about a dozen scholars in the world, in a variety of fields (ethnohistory, archaeology, linguistics), whose research centers on the Marquesas. Ivory joined the faculty at WSU in 1992.

Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands runs through January 15, 2006. The catalog is available at Amazon.com. Exhibition information and images may be found at http://www.metmuseum.org/special/.

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New Liberal Arts Faculty

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American Historical Association Presentations

WSU graduate students and faculty were well represented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, in Corvallis, Oregon, August 4–7, 2005.

• Mark Moreno (Ph.D. candidate, history) presented “Ethnic Street Gangs, Migration, and the Formation of an Alternate Culture in the Pacific Northwest: The Yakima Valley, 1944–2004.”
• Cheris Brewer (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) presented “‘This Lot Are the Good Ones’: The Racial Dynamics of Cuban Refugee Acceptance and Resettlement.”
• Armand Garcia (Ph.D. candidate, history) presented “Martí and Montoro on Race and Patria: The Greater Complexities of Cuba’s Late Nineteenth-Century National Debate.”
• Lori Saffin (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) presented “Remembering Our Dead: Transpersons of Color, Economic Exploitation, and Racism within the Queer Community.”
• Tanya Gonzales (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) presented “Disrupting White Representation: A Decolonial Review of Edward Curtis’s Photography of the North American Indian.”
• C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies) served as chair and commentator for the panel “Racial Identities and Indigenous Communities.” He also presented a paper titled “Putting White Power into Play: White Nationalist Interpretations of Sport and History.”
• Linda Heidenreich (women’s studies) served as chair for the panel “Reimagining Mid-Nineteenth-Century California.”
• Susan Armitage (history) served as a panelist in the roundtable “New Approaches to Pacific Northwest History.”
• José Alamillo (comparative ethnic studies) served as chair and commentator for the panel “Borders and Boundaries: Articulating Identity and Citizenship.” He also served as co-chair for the conference program committee.

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History Professor Chosen for Public Intellectuals Program

The National Committee on United States–China Relations (NCUSCR) has selected David Pietz (history, director of Asia Program) for the newly created Public Intellectuals Program. Funded through grants, the program was created to upgrade the quality of American understanding of China by strengthening links among U.S. academics, policymakers, and opinion leaders.

The Public Intellectuals Program consists of twenty unpaid appointments and attracted 126 applications from academics nationwide. During their thirty-month term, participants will attend workshops on U.S.–China relations, organize regional workshops, and may be asked to travel to China. The hope is that scholars will deepen and broaden their knowledge about China’s politics, economics, and society and use this knowledge to inform policy and public opinion.

Pietz has previously published research focused on the history of water management on the North China Plain since 1949. “My ultimate interest,” said Pietz, “is to understand how the development and utilization of resources, in this case water, may condition China’s commitment to international economic and security networks.”

“A critical goal of intellectuals working on China, it seems to me,” said Pietz, “is to recognize and communicate the dynamics of Chinese society, economics, and politics and to articulate to as wide an audience as possible how these realities suggest limitations and opportunities for mutual understanding.”

“The program will offer unique opportunities for professional development, mentoring by senior scholars, networking, and exposure,” said Stephen A. Orlins, NCUSCR president. “Program participants will gain access to senior policymakers and experts in both the United States and China and to individuals and fields they would not typically be exposed to, including, for instance, the emerging business and nonprofit sectors in China, as well as to media representatives.”

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Plateau Center Announces Training

The Plateau Center for American Indian Studies has developed a government-to-government training that can be available on a regular basis to various constituents in the University.

In 1989 the governor of the state of Washington and all of the federally recognized Indian tribes in Washington signed a Centennial Accord to establish a framework for government-to-government relationships between the tribes and the state. The Centennial Accord mandates the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs (GOIA) to provide training. This training was developed for state agencies on an ongoing basis to increase understanding and respect for tribal history, culture, and sovereignty.

In 1997, Washington State University signed a memorandum of understanding with six tribes in the region, and to date a total of nine tribes have signed this MOU. The MOU recognizes the self-governance of the tribes and commits to increasing educational opportunities for Native Americans. A Native American Advisory Board to the President was established; it meets semiannually. The advisory board recommended government-to-government training for WSU administrators, faculty, and professionals. President Rawlins desired to be the first to receive this training, and he and his executive cabinet participated in a training in the summer of 2003 provided through the GOIA.

The next session is open to deans, chairs, and directors, on Tuesday, September 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Food Science and Human Nutrition Building, room T-101. Refreshments and an exhibit entitled “Northwest Treaty Trail: 1854–1856,” provided by the Washington State Historical Society, will be shown during this training session.

For more information, please contact the Plateau Center at 509-335-3936.

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National Science Magazine Highlights Research of Anthropology Professor

The work of anthropology professor Timothy A. Kohler was highlighted in the July 2005 issue of Scientific American magazine. Utilizing grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Kohler is principal investigator of a project that is helping to create new understanding about settlement system changes in the U.S. Southwest between A.D. 600 and 1300.

“I think what is especially interesting to the scientific community,” said Kohler, “is that our research combines traditional archaeological methods with high-tech tools including computer modeling and imaging. We are finding that our simulations, using new agent-based modeling tools, help us to put the results of traditional archaeology into a more meaningful context.” Kohler coauthored the Scientific American article with researchers George J. Gumerman and Robert G. Reynolds.

Kohler’s team, which also includes graduate students and other faculty at WSU and archaeologists at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado, uses agent-based modeling to reconstruct land use by Puebloan peoples in the Central Mesa Verde region in Colorado. Their new research methods allow this team to weigh the importance of multiple factors, such as hunting, availability of fuel wood, water, and changing agricultural production, on regional settlement patterns and on the number of people who can make a living on the landscape.

“Computer models can provide basic insights regarding how individuals, households, and even entire societies may have interacted with their natural environment,” said Thomas Baerwald, NSF program director and administrator of Kohler’s NSF grant. “There may be parallels between what happened in a historical context and what is going on in these regions today.”

Researchers say in the article:

One of the great benefits of computer simulation is that it allows researchers to conduct experiments, a luxury that is otherwise impossible in an historical science such as archaeology. We have found that virtual households often affect their environment in ways that limit the options of their offspring and even limit their long-term survival. In addition to illuminating the distant past, these simulations may point to methods for sustaining natural resources in the future.

Kohler joined the faculty of WSU in 1978. In addition to his work with this NSF-funded biocomplexity project, Kohler has directed excavations in Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. He is an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a research associate at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado.

Illustration by Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation.
Computer simulations help scientists answer questions that archaeological evidence alone cannot. Researchers simulated the settlement and farmable land patterns of the Puebloan people living in Arizona's Long House Valley from 1170 A.D. to 1305 A.D. and then compared the models (upper) with archaeological evidence of actual settlement patterns in the region (lower). The models closely matched the archaeological record until about 1300 A.D. Both show changes that coincide with a drought during the late 1200s. However, the model did not predict what happened around 1300 A.D., when the Puebloans completely abandoned the Long House Valley. Simulations indicate the region could have supported a small number of settlements. Environmental conditions alone cannot explain why the region was abandoned abruptly 700 years ago, leading researchers to conclude that the change was due to social, political, or other factors not included in the model.

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CLA Season Opens with a Full House

L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, M.D., father of “genetic geography and history” and considered by most to be the world’s leading expert on human population genetics, delivered the 2005 Philip C. Holland Lecture at Washington State University August 25. The Kimbrough Concert Hall was filled to capacity for his lecture, “Understanding Human Genetic Diversity by Studying Its History.”

Cavalli-Sforza, creator of Stanford University’s Human Population Genetics Laboratory, is an active professor emeritus in the Department of Genetics at Stanford’s School of Medicine. He is credited with advancing the study of the origin of modern humans and their evolutionary history by using genetic markers along with linguistic and archaeological data. In effect, he used genes and culture to reconstruct the history of humankind.

“It is fitting for a lecture of this high caliber to be the first event of the Liberal Arts Season,” said Erich Lear, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, referring to the CLA Season, a series of academic and interdisciplinary events ranging from lectures to the Edward R. Murrow Symposium and the Festival of Contemporary Art Music. “You know it is going to be an excellent academic year when L.L. Cavalli-Sforza sets the standard at the beginning of the semester,” Lear said.
 

Jazz Northwest Kicks Off WSU Week in Seattle

WSU Week in Seattle kicks off September 14 with Cougar Jazz Night, a performance by faculty jazz ensemble Jazz Northwest at Tula’s Restaurant and Nightclub, one of the top jazz clubs in America (Down Beat magazine).

Admission is $15 per person or $25 per couple. Proceeds from the event will benefit scholarships in the School of Music and Theatre Arts.

Reservations are required. Visit http://libarts.wsu.edu/cougarjazz to download an order form, or for more information call the dean’s office at 509-335-4581.
 

“Saint Paul Sunday” to Tape Faculty Musicians

Northwest Public Radio welcomes Bill McGlaughlin, host of “Saint Paul Sunday,” a nationally distributed public radio program on classical music, to campus September 9 for a live taping of the weekly show. McGlaughlin will be joined by WSU’s Solstice Wind Quintet for music and conversation in a program that will be recorded for regional broadcast on Northwest Public Radio at a later date.

The event is set for 7:30 p.m. in Bryan Hall Theatre. Tickets are $12 for the general public, $10 for WSU faculty and staff, and $8 for WSU students. Tickets are available at all TicketsWest outlets, by phone at 800-325-SEAT, or online at http://beasley.wsu.edu.

Members of the quintet have changed a number of times over the years, and the audience can expect to see new talents this year. The quintet includes music faculty Ryan Hare, bassoon; Jennifer Scriggins, french horn; Anthony Taylor, clarinet; Ann Yasinitsky, flute; and Gary Plowman (Gonzaga University), oboe.

McGlaughlin has entertained “Saint Paul Sunday” listeners for twenty-five years. His knack for presenting performers of the highest level in a down-to-earth, entertaining manner has kept the audience coming back. The program’s combination of outstanding performance and natural conversation provides listeners a glimpse into how music is created at the highest level.

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Meet the New Leadership within CLA

David Pietz, Director, Asia Program
David Pietz was born in Minnesota and earned B.A. degrees in history and English. After completing his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998, Pietz joined the Department of History at WSU as an assistant professor in 2002.
     Pietz’s research examines post-1949 state policies on water resources in the North China Plain and the impact these policies may have had on regional and international economic and security considerations. His publications include The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China (Routledge, 2002) and State and Economy in Republican China (co-editor, Harvard, 2000).
    Dr. Pietz has received research funding from the Pacific Cultural Foundation, the China Times Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Foundation, and the National Science Foundation (current). He held visiting and teaching fellowships at Harvard University from 1992 to 1996 and was a Mellon Fellow at the Needham Center for the History of Chinese Science, Technology, and Medicine at Cambridge University (U.K.) in spring 2005. Prior to coming to WSU, Pietz taught at Assumption College, Clark University, and Tufts University.

Travis C. Pratt, Director, Criminal Justice Program
Travis Pratt was born in Yakima. He received his B.A. in political science and M.A. in criminal justice from Washington State University, and his Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. He joined the WSU faculty in 2002. He has authored over forty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the areas of criminology and criminal justice and has a forthcoming book with Sage titled Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in the United States. He lives in Pullman with his wife, Jodie, and their comfortably chubby basset hound named Lloyd.

The College of Liberal Arts welcomes Gail Chermak, chair of the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences; Bill Andrefsky, chair of the Department of Anthropology; and T.V. Reed, director of the American Studies Program, back from their professional leaves. Welcome also to interim chairs John Hinson, Department of Psychology, and John E. Kicza, Department of History.

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Associate Dean Announces Departure

Marina Tolmacheva, associate dean of liberal arts and professor of history, has accepted a position as dean of arts and sciences at the American University of Kuwait. Her new position begins January 1, 2006. She will be with us through most of the fall semester, leaving to begin her transition in mid-November. Our hearty congratulations go to Dr. Tolmacheva on this significant opportunity.

Dr. Tolmacheva has arranged to be with us through this fall’s promotion and tenure reviews and, we hope, a transitional period in which a new associate dean can gain from her experience. The dean’s office will announce a process for selecting her successor early in the fall and will also schedule an opportunity for appropriate recognition of her accomplishments and her long and distinguished service to Washington State University.

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