
September 2006

Dean's Message

Beginnings. Commencement. Happy New Year. These are three times that frame our academic year—so different in the months of their appearance, yet so similar in meaning outside the context of that year. So what? Thinking of them together can help us see a larger context, help us suspend time as it flies by, help us see the goal while the process is upon us. The words can help us see through our linear progressions to the wholeness of our experience and collaboration.

Beginnings! Our new faculty joined us for college orientation August 15. Wow! Congratulations to everyone who assisted in the searches, and thank you to the wonderful folks who have chosen to join us. There was a focus in our conversation on “what to do first” and on how to connect with others in teaching, research and creative activity, and service, as well as in family and community. And—no surprise—our new faculty are very interested in working across boundaries. Our College Leadership Retreat August 16 also included a long discussion of interdisciplinary work and how to facilitate its successes. By the time you see this message, we will have put in your hands a draft of the new College Plan that will provide specific paths to important action on issues that cross unit lines within and outside our college. We will also place it on our college Web site. We eagerly seek your input on the draft.

Commencement! Our most recent graduates now represent us in the world. Let us not lose touch with them. And the new students, who have so recently “commenced” from their previous schools, are seeking our help as they build their lives and prepare for their futures. Students! We call them “our students” or, even more personally, “my students.” Following through is paramount, for them and for us in leading them. Thank you, to each staff and faculty member and to each graduate assistant, for all that you do to ensure that our students receive the best that WSU has to offer.

This “new year” sees several of our colleagues in new roles. As you have the opportunity, please congratulate Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo, Debbie Brudie, Susan Cunnington, John Hinson, Erica Austin, Rich King, Laurilyn Harris, Barbara Aston, and Silva Bedoyan. Others, also to be congratulated, have accepted new terms in continuing roles: Susan Ross, Greg Hooks, Paul Whitney, Steven Stehr, and David Shier. A number of others are assisting in new ways as well. On behalf of the college, and personally, I offer my gratitude for their contributions.

This year, the University will seek a new president, will propose a new biennial budget, and will update its strategic plan. While there may be emphasis on science, technology, and agriculture, it is people who create and discover. It is people who choose the directions and uses for what is created and discovered. And it is all the people, not just those who appear to have power. My dear friends and colleagues, we will achieve more together if we act upon matters of equity, diversity, and cultural competence—here and everywhere—with the goal of improving the world, every day.

With affection for the task before us, recognition of its magnitude, and belief that we can make a difference,

Erich Lear, Dean
College of Liberal Arts

Worthy of Note

The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded Sue Armitage’s (history) proposal “Remembering Celilo: Ancient Heart of the Pacific Northwest,” which she wrote for the Center for Columbia River History. The grant will fund a public conference next March in The Dalles, Oregon, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the inundation of Celilo Falls by the rising waters of The Dalles Dam on the Columbia River. Indian and non-Indian scholars and speakers will explore the historical significance of Celilo, the major regional fishery and meeting place for at least 9,000 years before European contact.

Clay Mosher (sociology, WSU Vancouver) received a $33,000 contract from the Washington State Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development to conduct research on Community Methamphetamine Action Teams in Washington state.

Susan Ross (communication, associate dean of liberal arts) and Jolanta Drzewiecka (communication) received a 2006 WSU Internationalization Mini Grant for Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs. They will offer “South Africa: Culture and Communication in Post Apartheid Cape Town,” an intercultural immersion course designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, in Cape Town, South Africa, May 17 to June 14, 2007.

Otwin Marenin (political science, criminal justice) has been appointed by the United Nations to a newly established International Policing Advisory Council. The twenty-four members of the council will meet twice a year and will advise the Division of Peace-Keeping Operations of the U.N. on strategic and operational policies concerning the involvement and utilization of police forces in peace-keeping and peace-building operations conducted under U.N. auspices. The first meeting of the council took place in England in August; the next meeting is scheduled for early February 2007 in Australia.

C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies) has been elected president of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport.

John Irby (communication) has been named Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Irby also received a fellowship to attend the 2006 Institute for Journalism Excellence in Reston, Virginia. The institute is promoted as an opportunity for educators who have not worked in a newsroom for several years to sharpen their journalism skills and a chance for newsrooms to learn more about journalism education.

Pavithra Narayanan (English, WSU Vancouver) gave a talk on April 7 at Antioch College titled “Remembering Manorama Devi: Gender, Violence, and Militarism in Manipur,” part of a series of lectures organized by the Antioch Women’s Studies Committee focusing on women’s issues in the U.S. and around the world.

Michael Delahoyde (English) presented “Edward de Vere’s Antony and Cleopatra” at the tenth annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference, held in Portland, Oregon, in April. He is currently working on an edition of the play for an Oxfordian paperback series.

The Department of Psychology was well-represented at the 2006 meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis (ABA), held May 27–30 in Atlanta. Fran McSweeney presided over the convention as this year’s ABA president. McSweeney and Tom Brigham were elevated to fellowship status in the organization. Because the fellows program began only last year, McSweeney and Brigham are among the first thirty-five people selected for this status. There are 5,000 members. Graduates of the psychology department also received two of the five awards given by the organization to recognize the contributions of individual members. The award for the International Dissemination of Behavior Analysis was given to Joseph Morrow, who received his Ph.D. from WSU, and the award for Public Service in Behavior Analysis was given to Robert Horner, who received his master’s degree from WSU.

Christopher Lupke (foreign languages and cultures) has received a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship to continue work on his manuscript Lilacs from the Dead Land: Modernity, Postcoloniality, and Diaspora in Chinese Literature from Taiwan, 1942–1995. Lupke will be conducting his research at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, Lingnan College in Hong Kong, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.

Michelle Forsyth (fine arts) created a site-specific installation entitled Florescence 2 (Flowers for Iraq) at Truck Contemporary Art in Calgary, Alberta. The piece is part of a series of installation pieces that examine images from the war in Iraq available on Internet sites. It was installed for Spitting Images, an exhibition that ran July 7 through August 5. Forsyth’s third installation in this series will be included in a group exhibition at Hogar Collection Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, opening September 9. During the summer Forsyth also completed a residency at Centrum in Port Townsend. More information and images of her work can be found at http://www
.michelleforsyth.com/.

Paul Brians’ (English) Common Errors in English Web site made the Writer’s Digest 2006 list of “The 101 Best Websites for Writers.” It’s listed along with nine other sites in the “General Resources” category, which includes such notables as Google, Dictionary.com, and Bartleby. The Common Errors in English Usage 2007 daily boxed calendar has been published by William, James & Co. Barnes & Noble has also created an edition to be sold exclusively in its stores under the Barnes & Noble imprint. The 2007 calendar contains many new entries not in the original book. Besides illustrative cartoons like those contained in last year’s calendar, the 2007 version provides relevant quotations from famous works of literature. In August, Brians’ international collection of Disney comics in various foreign languages was displayed at Neill Public Library in Pullman.

Archaeologist Tim Kohler (anthropology) will be at Mesa Verde National Park September 14 and 15 to participate in a film shoot on early villages. The film will be used in a new exhibit, “Ancient Americas,” being put in place by the Field Museum in Chicago.

Augusta Rohrbach (English) received a Travel-to-Collections award from the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College in support of her project “Ar’n’t I a Writer? Re-examining the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Female Authorship.” Rohrbach’s special session, “Specula: Astronomy and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America,” has been approved for the 2006 MLA convention in Philadelphia. The object of this session is to step across the great divide between the sciences and the humanities and to explore the worlds of human knowledge with a touch of the boldly curious spirit that prevailed in America before the Civil War. To that end, this session will present the work of three scholars—Renee Bergland, Laura Saltz, and Rohrbach herself—who are focusing on the connections between literature, science, and gender.

In April, Greg Yasinitsky and Horace-Alexander Young (both music) were featured as guest artists, clinicians, and adjudicators at the British Columbia Interior Jazz Festival in Canada. Later in the month, Yasinitsky and David Jarvis (music) were featured as guest artists, clinicians, and adjudicators at the West Coast Jazz Festival in British Columbia. In June, Yasinitsky was the guest composer for a program featuring his music at California State University, Bakersfield.

Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson (sociology) has accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of Social Psychology Quarterly. She was also elected to the council of the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association.

Jon Hegglund (English) was awarded a Short-Term Fellowship in the History of Cartography for one month’s work in residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.

Samantha DiRosa (fine arts) received a fellowship to Anderson Art Ranch this August to participate in Camille Utterback’s course “Responding to Gesture and Bodies: Design for Physically Based Interactive Art.” She also has a solo exhibit in September at Focal Point Gallery at Minnesota State University, Moorhead.

Don Dillman (sociology) received the 2006 Helen Dinerman Award for career contributions to innovative research and research methodology from the World Association for Public Opinion Research at its annual meeting in Montreal, Canada, on May 17. On July 13, Dillman presented an invited paper at the Methodology for Longitudinal Surveys International Conference at Essex University in Colchester, England.

This summer, Roberta Kelly (communication) judged the nonfiction, nontechnical book category for the Clarion Awards, a hallmark of communication achievement sponsored by the Association for Women in Communications. She also led a seminar on “Science Communication” as part of a $1.86 million National Science Foundation grant.

Andrew Duff (anthropology) received an $8,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates program to have two anthropology majors work with him and a group of graduate students doing archaeological field work in New Mexico this summer. Following the field work, the students completed three weeks of laboratory work back in Pullman. Duff also was recently awarded $10,000 from the New Mexico Bureau of Land Management in support of his continuing archaeological field research in west-central New Mexico.

Leonard Orr (English, WSU Tri-Cities) was in Jerusalem, Israel, June 20 to July 20 at the invitation of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, museum, and research center. He participated in a conference on “Teaching the Holocaust to Future Generations,” where he led a workshop on “The Value of Using Experimental Fiction to Teach the Holocaust,” and he participated in an intensive seminar on “Teaching about the Shoah and Anti-Semitism.”

Diane E. King (anthropology) received the 2006–2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship. King received her Ph.D. in anthropology from WSU in 2000 and has been conducting research in the Middle East and teaching at the American University of Beirut. Her research is focused on the history of Kurdish migration, and she applied for the $25,000 fellowship to allow her time and support to write a book called “Kurdish Migration Histories.”

Debbie Lee (English) gave the invited lecture “The Voices of Black Single Mothers in the Romantic Period” at the Black Romanticism Symposium at Penn State University last October. She gave two more invited lectures this spring, the first a slide-show lecture at Loyola University in Chicago on May 2 titled “Beggars, Street People, and Ballad Singers in Romantic Art and Literature,” and the second, titled “Engaged and Communal Romanticism,” at the symposium “Romanticism: The Future of the Field” at the University of Colorado at Boulder May 22–23. The symposium was cohosted by UC’s Center for British and Irish Studies and by the Center for Humanities and the Arts’ workshop “1650–1850: Beyond Synchronicity.” Lee’s paper “Technology, Virgins, and Whores: Engraving Blake’s Thel and Hogarth’s Moll” was accepted at the 2006 joint conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the North American Victorian Studies Association, held August 31 through September 3 at Purdue University. Lee is also recipient of a Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship, which will fund travel, accommodation, and research in Britain for her current project, “Single Mothers, British Art, and Visual Culture, 1740–1830.”

Jon Hasbrouck (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane) presented his fluency management program at the Educational Services Speech-Language Pathology Spring Colloquium, Cherry Creek School District, Greenwood Village, Colorado.

John Weiss (music) helped Longwood Opera Company in Boston celebrate its twentieth consecutive season by performing in two summer voice recitals, “An Evening of Opera Arias” and “An Evening of Broadway Melodies,” on July 11 and 18, respectively.

Eugene Rosa (sociology) was appointed to the U.S. National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences panel on NOAA’s New Sectors Applications Program. He has also been appointed co-editor for the field of “Environmental Sociology” for Encyclopedia of Earth, the first peer-reviewed scientific electronic encyclopedia, and will author “The Risk Society” entry in that encyclopedia.

Leslie Power (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane) was invited to participate in the Fall Forum on “Solving Shortages in Speech-Language Pathology,” sponsored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Focused Initiative on Personnel Issues in Health Care and Education, Washington, D.C.

Edward Weber (political science, director of the Foley Institute) was selected in April to serve as a science advisor and program evaluator for the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation of Harvard University’s JFK School of Government. The work focused on the Ash Institute’s national 2006–2007 “Innovations in American Government” awards program. In October, he will be a visiting Japan ICU Foundation scholar at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. As a visiting scholar, he will give a series of lectures and interact with ICU faculty and students in his principal areas of expertise, public administration and public policy.

Joseph Keim Campbell (philosophy) presented an invited paper, “Farewell to Source Incompatibilism,” at the Bled (Slovenia) Philosophy Conference in May/June 2006. He also commented on a paper at the Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference in July/August.

In July Meredith Arksey and Nick Wallin (both music) directed the first Cougar String Camp, with thirty string students enrolling for the weeklong event. The students, grades seven through twelve from Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, participated in orchestra, chamber music, jazz, fiddling and string techniques, and recreational activities. The classes were taught by ten WSU faculty members and advanced WSU students. The Cougar String Camp will be an annual event and was run in conjunction with the Summer Keyboard Explorations, a camp led by School of Music and Theatre Arts director Gerald Berthiaume that has served pianists and organists for many years.

Diane Kelly-Riley (Writing Programs) received one of the three 2006–2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Initiative Grants ($7,544) for her project “An Expanded Validity Inquiry into Minority Students’ Experiences with a Large-Scale Writing Portfolio Assessment.”

Sue Peabody (history, WSU Vancouver) assumed presidency of the French Colonial Historical Society at the annual meeting held in Dakar, Senegal, in June.

Noriko Kawamura and David Pietz (history) hosted the annual conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) at the WSU Pullman campus June 16–18. ASPAC is a regional conference of the national Association for Asian Studies. Four Asia Program faculty members—Carol Ivory (fine arts), Alice Spitzer (libraries), Ian Wendt, and Roger Chan (both history)—served on the steering committee for the conference. More than one hundred participants from thirty-four universities presented papers in the conference, including seven WSU faculty members and ten WSU graduate students in the College of Liberal Arts.

In late April, William Lipe (professor emeritus, anthropology) received the first McGimsey-Davis Award from the Register of Professional Archaeologists at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The award recognized Lipe’s “career dedicated to professionalism in public archaeology.” In the 1970s, Lipe helped found the Society for Professional Archaeology, and in the 1990s he oversaw its transformation into the Register of Professional Archaeologists while he was serving as president of the SAA. Earlier this year, Lipe received the Conservation and Heritage Management Award from the Archaeological Institute of America at its annual meeting in Montreal.

Camille Roman (English, American studies, women’s studies) is listed in the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Who’s Who of American Women.

Nicholas Wallin (music) attended the International Academy of Advanced Conducting in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 23 through August 6.

Susan Ross (communication, associate dean of liberal arts) has been named a senior Fulbright specialist to help establish a graduate program in communication and teach a seminar on peace journalism at Netanya University in Israel for the month of November. In August she joined a select group of scholars from North, Central, and South America to participate in the Congress of the Americas on intercultural communication and media in Lima, Peru. Ross presented an initial report on the research from her peace journalism group, which is funded in part by a Canadian studies grant. In July she attended the International Peace Research Association biannual conference in Calgary, Alberta, where Hyeonjin Kang (M.A. ’06, communication) presented their joint research. Ross also took part in the Toda Institute for Peace and Policy Research convention in Vancouver, British Columbia. In June, she participated in the International Communication Association (ICA) conference in Dresden, Germany. Former ICA president Wolfgang Donsbach invited her to serve as a senior Fulbright scholar in peace journalism at Dresden University of Technology in 2007.

Peter Chilson’s (English) book Disturbance-Loving Species: A Novella and Stories has won the Bakeless Fiction Prize, awarded by Middlebury College and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. The book will be published next year by Mariner Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin.

Lori Wiest (music) served as adjudicator for choral festivals in Gig Harbor and Spanaway/Lakewood in May and at Music in the Park in Coeur d’Alene in June. The Spokane Symphony Chorale, directed by Wiest, performed choral works of Verdi at the Spokane Opera House in May.

Douglas Lane (psychology) was awarded a 2006 Judy E. Hall Early Career Psychologist Award by the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.

Craig Parks (psychology) has been named to a five-year term as editor of Group Dynamics. Published by the American Psychological Association, the journal publishes basic research on group processes that can inform the work of practitioners and those working with real groups. The journal covers social psychological aspects of groups, dynamics of organizational groups, and processes within psychotherapeutic groups.

Charles Madison (speech and hearing sciences, WSU Spokane) was elected a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Elwood Hartman (professor emeritus, foreign languages and cultures) has been invited to speak in Tunis and Tangier while retracing the steps of his previous and final sabbatical studying francophone film festivals in North and West Africa (Tunis, Marrakech, Dakar, and Ouagadougou). In November he will talk on the works of Mohamed Habib Hamed, Tunisian satirist, some of whose works he has translated, at the international conference on “Humor, Irony, and Derision” at the University of Manouba in Tunisia. In February he will head a panel celebrating the 125th anniversary of Saint Andrew’s Anglican Church as the icon par excellence of Tangier at the international conference “Performing/Picturing Tangier.” The landmark was built on land given by the sultan, in the form of a mosque, decorated by artisans from Fes, and immortalized by Matisse in his famous “View of the Bay of Tangier.”

A pedagogical piano work by composer Valerie Roth Roubos commissioned by WSU’s Piano Pedagogy Lab School (PPLS) was recently published by the FJH Music Company. The piece, entitled “Oregon Bound!” was published in a collection of piano works, An American Portrait: The Oregon Trail. The piece was premiered in performance by Henry Schneider, a Lincoln Middle School student enrolled in the PPLS, in 2005.

Faculty in Print

Gail Chermak (speech and hearing sciences) and co-editor Frank Musiek’s Handbook of Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Volume 2: Comprehensive Intervention was published in August by Plural Publishing.

Greg Yasinitsky (music) has recently published two works: “Well Seasoned” for jazz, commissioned by the University of Portland Jazz Festival, and “Absolutely Positively” for jazz band, written as part of a residency at Pullman’s Lincoln Middle School funded by the Commission Project of New York.

Dan Plung (English, WSU Tri-Cities) recently published two articles, “The Character Architecture of Ibsen’s A Doll House: Beyond the Fusion of Carpentry and Content” in Ibsen Studies, and “Teaching the Complexity of Purpose: Promoting Complete and Creative Communications” in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.

Erica W. Austin, Bruce E. Pinkleton (both communication), Rebecca Van de Vord, Michelle Arganbright, and Yvonnes Chen (all Ph.D. candidates, communication) published an article titled “How Orientations toward Media Use Affect Media Literacy Outcomes in a Test Focused on Channel One News” in the August issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly. The paper discusses the effects of media literacy lessons on middle-school students viewing Channel One news.

Christopher Lupke’s (foreign languages and cultures) translation of Ye Shitao’s A History of Taiwan Literature has been published by the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Center for Taiwan Studies. The work spans the last 250 years of literary history on Taiwan and comes complete with approximately 500 detailed footnotes. Lupke will deliver the keynote address at a conference at UC Santa Barbara in October featuring Ye’s work. Ye Shitao, now eighty-one years old, will attend the conference as an honored guest.

Rachel J. Halverson’s (foreign languages and cultures) manuscript “Mothers, Memories, and Mnemonics: Hanna Johansen’s Lena and Judith Kuckart’s Lenas Liebe” will be published this month in the anthology Victims and Perpetrators: 1933–1945 and Beyond; (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture, edited by Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner and Laurel Cohen-Pfister.

Mitch Pickerill’s (political science) coauthored article “Changing Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workforce, 1987–94” was published in the summer issue of Law and Policy.

Debbie Lee’s (English) new book, Romantic Liars: Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire, has been released by Palgrave MacMillan, New York.

Travis Pratt (criminal justice) coauthored “The Empirical Status of Deterrence Theory: A Meta-Analysis” in Taking Stock: The Empirical Status of Criminological Theory (Transaction), vol. 15 in the Advances in Criminological Theory series. He also coauthored the article “A Life-Course Analysis of the Criminogenic Effects of Maternal Cigarette Smoking during Pregnancy: A Research Note on the Mediating Impact of Neuropsychological Deficit,” which was accepted for publication in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.

In August, the John Wiley Company released the second, updated edition of Don Dillman’s (sociology) Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method.

Clay Mosher (sociology, WSU Vancouver), Mitch Pickerill (political science), Travis Pratt (criminal justice), Nicholas Lovrich (political science), and Michael Gaffney (Division of Governmental Studies and Services) have had their article, “The Importance of Context in Understanding Biased Policing: State Traffic Patrol Citations in Washington State,” accepted for publication in Police Practice and Research: An International Journal.

Jeanne Johnson, Ella Inglebret, and Carla Jones (all speech and hearing sciences) published their study on the perspectives of speech-language pathologists regarding success versus abandonment of augmentative and alternative communication systems in the June issue of Augmentative and Alternative Communication 22(2).

Ella Inglebret (speech and hearing sciences) and coauthors Susan Banks, Michael Pavel, and Mary Stone (M.A. ’00, speech and hearing sciences) contributed a chapter on multimedia curriculum development based on the oral tradition to Information Technology and Indigenous People, published by the Idea Group.

Susan Ross’ (communication, associate dean of liberal arts) article “(De)Constructing Conflict: A Focused Review of War and Peace Journalism” will appear in the October issue of Conflict and Communication. “Gambling with Identity: Self-representation of Native Americans on Web Sites by Tribes That Have Casinos,” a study led by David Cuillier (Ph.D. ’06, communication) with Ross as coauthor, is in press with the Howard Journal of Communication and may contribute to a special issue on Native Americans.

Marcel Wingate (professor emeritus, speech and hearing sciences) published a review of the book Ethics: A Case Study from Fluency in the July 24 issue of Advance, a newsmagazine for speech-language pathologists and audiologists.

Buddy Levy’s (English) essay “Leaps of Faith” has been accepted for publication in River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction. The piece will also appear in the forthcoming anthology Written on Air, a collection of essays by Idaho-based writers to be published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2007.

An article based on field research conducted in Uzbekistan by a team of WSU scholars led by Ed Weber (political science), titled “The Transfer of Governance Technology: The Case of Water User Associations in Uzbekistan,” has been accepted for publication in the journal Comparative Technology Transfer and Society, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The contributors to this article were John Pierce, Weber, Mark Stephan (political science, WSU Vancouver), Abdulkhakim Salokhiddinov, Madina Khalmirzaeva, and Nicholas Lovrich (political science). Weber is working with Stephan and Tanya Lysak (and others) on additional journal submissions and conference presentations based on the three-year, U.S. Department of State funded project, which entailed several mutual visits, collaborative research, and student-engaged research on the part of WSU scholars in the College of Liberal Arts and Uzbek counterparts at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration in Uzbekistan.

David Shier’s (philosophy) paper with J. Lee Tilson, “The Temporal Stage Fallacy: A Novel Statistical Fallacy in the Medical Literature,” was published by Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy.

Noriko Kawamura’s (history) article “Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s Decision to Go to War with the United States: Reexamined” will be published in Diplomatic History, the journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Jean Sumner (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) and Rebecca Craft (psychology) have an article, “Testosterone Modulation of Reproductive Indices vs. Morphine Antinociception in Adult Male Rats,” in press with Life Sciences.

Leonard Burns (psychology) and colleagues James Walsh, Rapson Gomez, and Nina Hafetz recently had a paper accepted in Psychological Assessment titled “Measurement and Structural Invariance of Parent Ratings of ADHD and ODD Symptoms across Gender for American and Malaysian Children.” Burns and colleagues Ted Taylor, Julie Rusby, and E. Michael Foster had a paper accepted in Psychological Assessment titled “Oppositional Defiant Disorder toward Adults and Oppositional Defiant Disorder toward Peers: Initial Evidence for Two Separate Constructs.” Burns, Gomez, and Walsh’s paper “Parent Ratings of Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms: Item Response Theory Analyses of Cross-National and Cross-Racial Invariance” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment.

Danielle Hugelshofer (Ph.D. ’06, psychology), Paul Kwon (psychology), Robert Reff (Ph.D. ’06, psychology), and Megan Olson’s (Ph.D. candidate, psychology) article “Humour’s Role in the Relation between Attributional Style and Dysphoria” has been published in the European Journal of Personality 20.

Jennifer Schwartz’ (sociology) article “Effects of Diverse Forms of Family Structure on Women’s and Men’s Homicide” is in press with the Journal of Marriage and Family. Results of this paper were presented in August at the American Sociological Association meeting in Montreal. Her article “Family Structure as a Source of Female and Male Homicide in the United States” is forthcoming in the November issue of Homicide Studies. Schwartz also coauthored an op-ed in the Centre Daily Times, with Darrell Steffensmeier (Penn State), titled “Girls Have Not Gone as Wild as Portrayed.” It summarizes original research results on trends in girls’ violence as published in the journal Criminology and questions whether increased formal criminal justice system treatment of girls is the best course of action.

On the horizon

Cornell Clayton and Mitch Pickerill (both political science) have received a contract from the University of Chicago Press to publish their book, The Supreme Court in the Political Regime: How Politics Structures the Exercise Judicial Review. They also presented portions of the research from the book at the 2006 annual meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago and the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia.

Buddy Levy’s (English) book proposal "Clash of Empires: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Bloody Conquest of the Aztec Nation" has been picked up by Bantam Dell, a division of Random House, and will be published in late 2007 or early 2008 under the Delacorte imprint. The popular history will chronicle the military campaign of Hernan Cortes from 1519 to 1521 that altered the course of history in the New World, focusing on the unprecedented meeting between the Europeans and the Aztecs.

One of Linda Kittell’s (English) poetry manuscripts, The Helga Pictures, has been accepted for early 2008 publication by Pecan Grove Press of San Antonio.

Student Activities and Awards

On April 29 in Seattle, the WSU Ethics Bowl Team took first place at the fourth annual Northwest Regional Ethics Bowl, a competition similar to the Knowledge Bowl. WSU’s team, the Gadflies, went undefeated in beating Whitworth, Cal Poly, and the University of Washington on their way to the title. The team was composed entirely of philosophy majors—Tristan Bullington (B.A. ’06), Christina Mallory (senior), Waylon Bryson (senior), Laura Nash (senior), and Neil Wilson (junior)—and coached by Daniel Holbrook (philosophy) and Paul Zimmerman (M.A. ’06, philosophy).

Yvonnes Chen (Ph.D. candidate, communication) received the 2006 International Communication Association Graduate Student Teaching Award.

Jessica Crowe (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) won the Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Certificate for her paper “Community Economic Development Strategies in Rural Washington: Toward a Synthesis of Natural and Social Capital.” The award, which includes a $200 cash prize, is conferred by the Environment and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association.

Craig Macmillan (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) has been accepted into the California State University Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program. This program provides financial assistance and guidance for professional development to graduate students. The purpose of the program is to increase the pool of individuals with the qualifications, motivation, and skills to teach the diverse student body in the California State University system by assisting doctoral students who show promise of becoming strong candidates for CSU instructional faculty positions.

Armand Garcia (Ph.D. candidate, history) has received a grant of $2,000 from the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States Universities for a project titled “The Global Dimensions of Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish Empire: The Autonomistas and José Martí’s Spanish Encounters with the East.” He also has an article in the Latin American Literary Review 34(67) titled “Situating Martí in a Global Context: The Bhagavad-Gita’s Wisdom in the Works of Cuba’s Preeminent Patriot and Poet.”

Aaron Wright (M.A. candidate, anthropology) has been awarded the Center for Desert Archaeology’s South Mountain Petroglyph Fellowship for the next four years. This fellowship, equaling $25,000 per year, involves documenting and analyzing the prehistoric Hohokam rock art of South Mountain in the Phoenix area as a Ph.D. dissertation.

Rebecca Van de Vord (Ph.D. candidate, communication) presented a paper titled “Still Much to Learn from Peter Jennings: Newspapers’ Missed Opportunity to Educate the Public” at the International Communication Association conference in Dresden, Germany. The paper was coauthored with Yvonnes Chen (Ph.D. candidate, communication) and Stacey J.T. Hust (communication).

Cynthia Ross (Ph.D. candidate, history) presented “Rescuing Dignity: Motivations for Anti-Japanese Resistance in World War II Burma” at the 2006 Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast conference of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Pullman in June. She also presented “War as a Theme in World History Pedagogy: Concepts, Approaches, and Challenges” at the World History Association’s annual international conference, also in June in Long Beach, California.

Miyuki Vamadevan (Ph.D. candidate, sociology) presented two papers at the American Sociological Association in Montreal in August: “Do Geographical Characteristics Matter for the Development of Relational Ties?” and “The Impact of Alcohol and Drug Use on Crime and Victimization among College Students.”

Mark Moreno’s (Ph.D. candidate, history) essay on Mexican American gangs in the Yakima Valley has been accepted for publication in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly.

Brandon Chapman (Ph.D. candidate, anthropology) presented a paper titled “Shoreline Exchange and Resilient Management in Latin American Artisanal Fisheries” at the Pacific Sociological Association conference in April. The presentation was in his organized session, “Natural Resource Sociology: Problems and Policies,” which included seven other researchers.

Stacey J.T. Hust (communication), Rebecca Van de Vord (Ph.D. candidate, communication), Myiah Hutchens Hively (M.A. ’06, communication), and Yvonnes Chen (Ph.D. candidate, communication) volunteered to recruit graduate students for the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention this August in San Francisco.

Alumni News

In May Christine Winiecki (B.F.A. ’05) had a show at the Brogan Glas Gallery in Seattle.

Trumpeter Matt Reid (B.A. ’06, communication) received an international Student Music Award from Down Beat magazine. The award was announced in the May issue. Reid is also the recipient of an Undergraduate Scholar Award presented by WSU’s Faculty Association for Scholarship and Research.

Michelle Tabit (Ph.D. ’04, history) has accepted a tenure-track position with Defiance College in Ohio.

Steve Bernard (B.A. ’76, political science) was awarded the WSU Alumni Achievement Award in June. He is currently employed by the Central Valley School District, where he instructs a course dedicated to teaching students about the Holocaust. In 2005, Bernard was awarded the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellowship in recognition of his dedication in teaching students about the Holocaust. The fellowship is given to only fifteen teachers throughout the U.S. each year.

An undergraduate research project done by Stuart Davis (B.S. ’06, psychology) in spring 2005 for the Richland, Washington, office of the Department of Energy on design of signage for long-term (i.e., thousands of years) radioactive waste storage sites has been the subject of a story by John Stang for GRIST, the online environmental magazine. James Wise (psychology, WSU Tri-Cities) was the advisor for Davis’ project. The story, “I Saw the Sign: How to Tell Future Generations about Nuclear Waste,” may be read online.

Dwayne Mack (Ph.D. ’02, history) had an article, “Hazel Scott: A Career Curtailed,” published in the Journal of African American History 91(2). Mack holds a tenure-track position at Berea College in Kentucky.

Meet the New CLA Leadership

Barbara Aston Interim Director, Plateau Center for American Indian Studies	Erica Austin Interim Director, Murrow School of Communication	Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo Associate Dean for Curriculum and Students
John Hinson Chair, Department of Psychology	C. Richard King Interim Chair, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies

Registration for 2006 Plateau Conference

Register early for the 2006 Plateau Conference, “The Palúus: Honoring a People and Their Land,” to be held October 4–6, 2006, at the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum. This is the second conference sponsored by the Plateau Center for American Indian Studies and the College of Liberal Arts.

Registration fees are $60 for faculty and staff and $25 for students. Please print the registration form and mail to campus zip 4010 with an IRI, check, or money order. Credit card payments may be called in to 509-335-5790. Registration deadline is September 24.

Registered conference attendees will receive priority seating for the traditional dinner scheduled for the evening of Thursday, October 5, at Ensminger Pavilion.

For more information on the conference, or to submit a presentation proposal (deadline is September 15), please see the Plateau Conference Web site.

Music Professor Wins Prestigious Performance Competition

Pianist Jeffrey Savage (music) was one of four winners named in the annual Ladies Musical Club (LMC) of Seattle music competition. Winners of the competition will tour western Washington and perform three public concerts from September 17 to September 23.

Numerous public school performances will also be scheduled.
“The LMC competition is a very prestigious and well-known event in the Pacific Northwest,” said Erich Lear, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and former director of the School of Music and Theatre Arts. “We are proud of Savage’s accomplishment and pleased that so many in western Washington will have the opportunity to become familiar with his talent through the upcoming LMC concerts.”

Savage describes the level of performance at the competition, which is open to young professionals from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska, as very high. “Many of this year’s competitors hold degrees from top schools in the country, including Eastman, Oberlin, and Juilliard,” said Savage. “The competition also included artists who perform regularly with major ensembles, including the Seattle Symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Seattle Opera.”

Professor Watches History in the Making

Orlan Svingen (history) traveled to San Diego in June to attend the launch of the USNS Sacagawea, a new dry cargo/ammunition ship. He said it is significant that representatives of the Lemhi Shoshone tribe took part in the ceremony. For most of the last decade Svingen has been working with the tribe on issues related to the restoration of federal recognition of the tribe’s sovereignty. “What has been lost or obscured over the years is that Sacagawea...was a Lemhi Shoshone,” said Svingen. “Although it is not the same as winning the restoration of federal recognition, the Lemhis probably heaved a collective and appreciative sigh when the secretary of the Navy asked them to sponsor and attend the launching and christening ceremony of the USNS Sacagawea. It has to feel very good compared to their treatment over the years, by Indians and non-Indians alike.” More information.

WSU Students Win Prestigious Scholarships to Study in Asia

Tamber Hilton (senior, political science and asian studies), Andrew Whitaker (senior, electrical engineering), and Jordan Bush (senior, international business and MIS) were awarded David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships from the National Security Education Program. Each received $10,000 per semester, for up to two semesters, to live in China and study the language, culture, and issues related to global security. After graduation, the students are required to work for a year in a U.S. government agency or an institution of higher education.

This national scholarship program is very competitive, with 700 applicants and only 141 scholarships granted. Students are chosen based on their knowledge and interest in studying a language and culture of a country that is considered critical to United States national security.

“It is a big achievement for WSU and the Chinese program that three students were selected for this opportunity, considering they must compete with hundreds of students nationwide,” said Christopher Lupke (foreign languages and cultures).

Lupke visited Washington, D.C., to gain a better understanding of what the National Security Education Program was looking for in scholarship applicants. He mentored the students and guided them in preparing their applications.

Hilton is a 2001 home school graduate from Renton. She said her dream job is to work for the State Department as a foreign service officer. She said this scholarship will help her gain fluency in Chinese and obtain a career in government.

Hilton has also received a Study Abroad in Asia Scholarship, and she has been recognized as an Outstanding Graduating Senior for the College of Liberal Arts and an Outstanding Political Science Senior. She was secretary of the Chinese Professional Students Association, part of the women’s rowing team, and a fitness instructor at WSU.

Whitaker is a 2003 graduate of Ellensburg High School. Whitaker said this scholarship will allow him to advance his skills in the Chinese language. He also said he knows this opportunity will open a lot of doors for him in the future, especially within the federal government.

Bush is a 2002 graduate of West Linn High School in Oregon. He has received study abroad scholarships from the Honors College and the Department of History. He was the information coordinator of the Chinese Professional Students Association.

Another scholarship applicant from Washington State University, Mallory Armstrong (senior, international business), was selected as an alternate for the program.

Call for Proposals, Applications

Edward R. Meyer Grant Development Award
The Grant Development Award provides support for a faculty member to develop a substantial grant proposal for submission to an extramural agency or foundation. The $5,000 award will be transferred to the department of the successful applicant, and the funds can be used to support grant preparation, collection of pilot data, and summer salary or a course release to provide time for grant writing.

Edward R. Meyer Project
Each semester several grants in the amount of $1,000 will be awarded to support the scholarly and instructional efforts of the College of Liberal Arts. These grants are made possible through the Edward R. Meyer Fund, and proposals in areas matching the interests and wishes of the donor will receive special consideration. These areas include preservation of Meyer’s Point, the promotion of the arts, history, government, and the general education mission of Washington State University, and support for studies of world civilization and international affairs, broadly construed, and studies designed to promote mental or physiological health. All tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply. Given equally meritorious applications, preference will be given to the support of junior faculty.

More Information
For full details and proposal forms, see http://libarts.wsu.edu/. Click on For Faculty & Staff, then Grants. Questions about college grant programs and procedures may be directed to Paul Whitney at 509-335-3702 or pwhitney@wsu.edu.

Proposals are due by October 1, 2006.

Boeing Graduate Fellowship in Environmental Studies
The College of Liberal Arts is pleased to announce the availability of one graduate fellowship in environmental studies. The fellowship is made possible by a generous endowment from the Boeing Corporation. This fellowship, carrying a $1,000 stipend, is intended to support the multidisciplinary study of environmental issues, including the sociological, political, historical, cultural, literary, artistic, and scientific bases. Applications are encouraged from students across the broad range of disciplines represented in the College of Liberal Arts. Applications are due October 1, 2006.
Full details and application form

Representing the Edward R. Murrow School of Communication at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, held August 2–5 in San Francisco:

Douglas Blanks Hindman was moderator for the session “Conceptualizing and Measuring Effects of New Technologies.”

David Demers was a panelist for “Playing the Reviewing Game.”

Erica Austin was a panelist for “Media Literacy as Media Criticism.”

Alex Tan was a panelist for “Out of the Comfort Zone.”

Stacey J.T. Hust was a discussant for “Top Student Papers of CSW.”

Papers Presented

Tien-Tsung Lee, Ming Wang (M.A. ’06), and Lingling Zhang (Ph.D. candidate), “A Comparison of Media Usage among Racial Groups in the United States”
Bruce Pinkleton, Erica Austin, Marilyn Cohen, Yvonnes Chen (Ph.D. candidate), and Erin Fitzgerald, “Participants’ Perceived Effectiveness of a Peer-Led Media Literacy Curriculum for Adolescent Sex Education”
Lu Wei (Ph.D. candidate), “A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese and U.S. Newspapers’ Coverage of the 2004 Taiwan Presidential Election”
Kenneth Wiegand (senior) and Douglas Blanks Hindman, “The Big Three’s Prime Time Decline: The Technological and Social Context”
Ming Wang (M.A. ’06), “Personal Contact with Minorities and Satisfaction with Mass Media Coverage of Minorities in Reducing Ethnic Stereotypes”
Erica Austin, Rebecca Van de Vord (Ph.D. candidate), Evan Epstein (M.A. candidate), and Bruce Pinkleton, “Celebrity Endorsements: Can They Motivate Disaffected Youth Voters?”
Yvonnes Chen (Ph.D. candidate), Stacey J.T. Hust, and Rebecca Van de Vord (Ph.D. candidate), “Lung Cancer in Media’s Spotlight: Did Journalists Use Sources to Fulfill a Media Advocacy Role?”
Moon Lee, Jessi Wells, and Shannon Bichard, “College Students’ Body Image Dissatisfaction in Relation to Media Consumption”
Moon Lee and Yunying Zhang (Ph.D. candidate), “The Effects of Anti-Tobacco Messages Based on Source Credibility: Government Agencies versus Tobacco Companies”
David Cuillier (Ph.D. ’06), “Access Attitudes: A Measurement Tool for Gauging Support for Press Access to Government Records”
Masahiro Yamamoto (M.A. ’06), “Weblogs as Agents of Political Participation: Mobilizing Information in Weblogs and Print Newspapers”
Lu Wei (Ph.D. candidate) and Mingxin Zhang, “The Adoption and Use of Mobile Phone in Rural China: Behavioral and Psychological Factors”
Myiah Hively (M.A. ’06), “The Effects of Self-Efficacy Statements in Anti-Tobacco Fear Appeal PSAs”
Stacey J.T. Hust, Yvonnes Chen (Ph.D. candidate), and Erica Austin, “Positive Reinforcement: Portrayals of Alcohol Advertisements in Teen and Young Adult Magazines”
Erica Austin, Ruth Patterson Funabiki, and Bruce Pinkleton, “The Double-Edged Nature of Satisfaction with Media in Political Decision Making”; awarded Third Place Faculty Paper

Welcome to Our New Liberal Arts Faculty

Tenured and tenure-track faculty

Todd Norton (communication), Kristin Arola (English), Dene Grigar (English, WSU Vancouver), David Menchaca (English, WSU Vancouver), Wendy Olson (English, WSU Vancouver), Anne Stiles (English), Nickolus Meisel (fine arts), Manling Luo (foreign languages and cultures), Xiuyu (Kelly) Wang (history, WSU Vancouver), Jennifer Scovell (music), Ruth Boden (music), Keri McCarthy (music), Aaron Bunch (philosophy), Jeffrey Bouffard (political science), Leana Bouffard (political science), Brett Parmenter (psychology), Amy Meredith (speech and hearing sciences), Alair MacLean (sociology, WSU Vancouver), Nishant Shahani (women’s studies)

Temporary faculty and instructors

Brett Atwood (communication), Cheris Brewer (comparative ethnic studies), Victoria Arthur (English), Todd Battistelli (English), Hilary Hawley (English), Nathan Lowe (English), Larry Mayer (English), Robert Richardson (English), Verena Theile (English), Zachary Mazur (fine arts), Sandra Cook (foreign languages and cultures), Rob Snyder (philosophy), Paul Zimmerman (philosophy), Carly Hayden Foster (political science), Michael Infranco (political science), Douglas Lane (psychology), Bill Druffel (sociology)

Religion in the Public Square:
Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices
September 28 • 1:25–3:00 p.m. • Venue TBA

The Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Research will hold its first academic-year event the afternoon of Thursday, September 28. Representatives from around the nation will participate in a public forum on faith-based initiatives, “Religion in the Public Square: Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices.”
Keynote speaker for the event is Mark Ragan, senior fellow for the Rockefeller Institute of Government and analyst for the Roundtable on Religion and Social Welfare Policy. Joining him are Cathy Sisneros, director of grants and foundation relations at Young Life; Dr. Robert McCann, executive director of Catholic Charities; Tom Pannella, deputy director of Washington State Mentoring Partnership with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services; and Dr. Kathleen Boyce Rodgers, associate professor in the WSU Department of Human Development. Along with presentations, there will be a roundtable discussion moderated by Dr. Edward P. Weber, director of the Foley Institute, and a Q&A session. Please see fliers in liberal arts departments for additional information regarding location and time.

Gift Creates History Department’s First Endowed Chair

A $3 million gift from John W. (Jack) and Janet M. Creighton will create the Corps of Discovery Endowed Chair in the Department of History. Interest from the gift will also fund symposia, travel, and graduate study related to the history of the American West.

“We wanted to help create something that can be easily identified with Washington State University,” said Janet Creighton, “something that was uniquely ‘west.’”

According to their written agreement with the University, the Creightons selected the name “Corps of Discovery Chair” to denote cutting-edge scholarly research, research that pushes forward the horizon of learning and adds to the existing body of knowledge. The agreement states, “Meriwether Lewis and William Clark did just that at the behest of Thomas Jefferson. They opened the eyes of the young republic to the resources and wonders of the American West. The name also complements the geographic location of Washington State University’s campuses and the University’s role as a premier research institution.”

“We want to make the point to others,” said Janet Creighton, “that giving can be structured to fit any financial circumstance. People might look at the amount of our endowment and say, ‘I could never do that,’ but the point is, almost everyone is capable of doing something.”

“We also want to motivate others who have a capacity similar to ours, or greater, to consider a transformational gift,” said Jack Creighton.

“Transformational gifts are those which are sizable and strategic enough to have a profound and lasting impact,” said Erich Lear, dean of the College of Liberal Arts. “The Corps of Discovery Chair is certainly in that category for the history department.”

“The Corps of Discovery Chair should be transformational directly in the field of American West history because WSU’s history department has had strengths in that area for several decades,” said John E. Kicza, interim chair of the Department of History. “This chair will, without doubt, elevate substantially the department’s reputation in the academic community and our ability to attract quality faculty and graduate students.”

“Few people have advanced our university more than Jack and Janet,” said President Rawlins. “Through their unwavering commitment and generosity as donors and volunteers, they have distinguished themselves as leaders, creating a lasting legacy of excellence for the students and faculty at Washington State University.”

The Creightons and their three adult children, two of whom are WSU alumni, are a degree-oriented family. In all, the family has earned twelve degrees. Jack and Janet Creighton have six degrees between them, the most recent being Janet’s Ph.D. in history from Washington State University in December 2005.

A search committee at WSU has already placed ads and plans to fill the Corps of Discovery Endowed Chair position by the fall semester of 2007.