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Christine Adams, professor of history, published “In the Public Interest: Charitable Association, The State, and the Status of Utilité Publique in Nineteenth-Century France” in Law and History Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 283-321. She presented a paper, “Mother Love and the Emotional Appeal of the Society for Maternal Charity,” at the annual conference of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era in Arlington, Virginia.
Sybol Cook Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Redeeming Recognition: Re-Actualizing Hegel’s Social Theory for a Liberal Politics of Difference,” making her the first African-American woman to receive the Ph.D. in philosophy from a Maryland institution (Johns Hopkins University) and the 20th such recipient in the U.S. She was awarded the Maryland Higher Education Commission’s Henry C. Welcome Fellowship for 2006-2009. She presented “Re-Reading Hegel’s Dialectic of Desire and Recognition” at the department of philosophy, University of Memphis. Professor Anderson co-presented with Angela Johnson, assistant professor of educational studies, and Kathryn Norlock, associate professor of philosophy, “A Moral Imperative: Retaining Women of Color in Science Education” at “Educating Women/Women’s Education in the Post-secondary Context” at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and “Why (Some) Women of Color are (Still) in Science: What We Can and Should Do in Higher Education” at the Gender and Education Association International Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She co-presented with Kathryn Norlock, “Why (Some) Women of Color are (Still) in Science” at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference, St. Charles, Illinois.
Katy Arnett, assistant professor of educational studies, published two practitioner-oriented articles on teaching students with learning disabilities in French programs in Canada. They were "Accommodating the Exceptional Learner in French Immersion: Strategies for Addressing Issues of Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Practice" in the Journal de l'Immersion and "How to Make Your Core French Classroom More Inclusive in the Coming Year" in the British Columbia Association of Teachers of Modern Languages' (BCATML) Newsletter. She presented "A Theoretical Justification for the Inclusion of Students with Learning Disabilities in Core French" and delivered a practical symposium on her research into teaching French to students with learning disabilities, as part of the first-ever French Teacher Education symposium, which was delivered in French. The symposium, "Le lien entre les difficultés d’apprentissage et les stratégies pédagogiques en Français cadre" (The Link Between Learning Difficulties and Pedagogical Strategies in Core French), was held at the Conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics at the University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Professor Arnett delivered two workshops, "Two Sides of the Same Coin: Effective L2 Instruction for Students with Exceptional Needs" at the conference of the Ontario Modern Language Teachers' Association conference, and "Two Birds with one Stone: Teaching French to Students with Exceptional Needs" at the Congrès Tripartie. She led a professional development seminar for ESOL teachers of the Tri-County Consortium (school systems of St. Mary's, Calvert, and Charles counties) on meeting the needs of ESL learners in light of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. She also designed and led a year-long professional development endeavor on applying the principles of Universal Design to instructional strategies and practices at the Maiden Choice School in Baltimore County.
Aileen Bailey, associate professor of psychology, co-published with SMCM alum, Jennifer M. Lee, “Lesions to the Nucleus basalis magnocellularis Lower Performance but do not Block the Retention of a Previously Acquired Learning Set” in Brain Research, Vol. 1136, pp. 110-121. “Approaches to the Study of Higher Cognitive Functions Related to Creativity in Nonhuman Animals,” published in Methods, Vol. 42, pp. 3-11, was co-authored with Dr. William McDaniel of Georgia College and State University and Dr. Roger Thomas of the University of Georgia. She and Angy Kallarackal (’06) made a professional presentation at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, “Apamin Significantly Improves Spatial Cognition in a Mouse Model of Neurofibromatosis 1.”
Thomas Barrett, associate professor of history, published “Wild East Shows: Becoming Soviet, Becoming Ossetian Through Dzhigitovka” in the Russian journal dealing with the Caucasus. He also published “’It Does Not Suit a Cossack to Live Alone’: Women and Gender in Cossack History” in a special thematic issue on “Changing Paradigms” of a journal published by the St. Petersburg Institute of History, a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He presented “’It’s Been a Long Time Since We’ve Been Home’: The Memory of World War II and Popular Music in the Late Stalin Period” at the national convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, as well as “Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism” and “Wartime Perceptions between America and the Soviet Union” at the Calvert County teacher-training seminar, “Teaching History through Primary Sources: The Cold War,” at Plum Point Middle School, Huntingtown, Maryland.
Robin Bates, professor of English, published “Teaching Race, Class, and Gender Conflict through Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko” in a Slovenian festschrift, Literary Criticism as Metacommunity.
Jeff Byrd, professor of biology, wrote The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Microbiology, Alpha Press. He served as a commissioner for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education.
Colby Caldwell,assistant professor of art, had a major solo exhibition, “Small Game,” at Hemphill in Washington, D.C. This show was favorably reviewed in the March issue of Art Forum.
Katherine Chandler, associate professor of English, published “Beatrix Potter’s Words, Not ‘a Poor Second’” in the Beatrix Potter Society Newsletter. She was twice invited to speak at the U.S. meeting of the Beatrix Potter Society and at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden during their celebration of Beatrix Potter as a naturalist and gardener. Professor Chandler delivered a paper at the conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, “Disenfranchised ‘Creatures of Environment’: Appalachia from Kephart to Kingsolver.”
Benjamin Click, associate professor of English, co-facilitated a pre-conference afternoon workshop, “Thinking Partners, Thinking Partnerships: Building Library-Writing Program Collaboration,” with Brian O’Sullivan, assistant professor of English, and Celia Rabinowitz, director of the library and media services, at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City.
Jennifer Cognard-Black, associate professor of English, was named a 2007 Nebraska Wesleyan University Distinguished Alumnus. She published “Extreme Makeover: Feminist Edition: How Cosmetic Medicine Co-opts Feminism” in MS. Magazine. Professor Cognard-Black published two encyclopedia entries, “Food and Drink” and “Professionalism,” for American Literature in Historical Context and a headnote on Harriet Beecher Stowe for Prentice Hall’s new Anthology of American Literature, Volume I.
Karen Crawford, professor of biology, received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on gene expression in intercalary limb regeneration to support her research on amphibian limb regeneration in collaboration with Howard University. She presented “The role of MAPK in the Molluscan Organizer” at the General Science Meetings, Marine Biological Laboratory and “Inhibition of First Cleavage Modifies MAP Kinase Activity and Embryonic Patterning in Squid” at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting. Professor Crawford gave invited talks: “Getting Organized: MAPK and the D-lineage in the Squid Embryo” for both the department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Illinois School of Medicine and the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, Maryland, and “Filling the Gaps: Growth Factor Initiated Intercalary Regeneration in Salamanders” for the American Association for Anatomists. She was elected chair of the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology for the Society for Comparative and Integrative Biology and was appointed to a standing grant review panel subcommittee for the National Institutes of Child Health and Development.
Asif Dowla, professor of economics, co-wrote The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story, Kumarian Press, Bloomfield, Connecticut, which is in its second printing. The book was reviewed by the library science journal, Choice, receiving “highly recommended” status and was also favorably reviewed by the journals, Economic and Political Weekly and Small Enterprise Development. It has been adopted for a class in the University of Denver.
Michael Ellis-Tolaydo, professor of theater, film and media studies, appeared as Rabbi Shmuel Berger in Motti Learner's English premiere of The Pangs of the Messiah at Theatre J.; as Robert Smith in Joe Penhal's Blue/Orange at the Alliance Theatre; as the Old Man at Theatre J's New Play Reading Series; and as Mark in Arnold Wesker’s new play, The Groupie (Jessica Lefkow, director). Professor Ellis-Tolaydo played in Requiem by Hanoch Levin (Stephen Fried, director) and as the Narrator for The Theatre of the First Amendment’s New Play Development Series in the premiere of The Patient Stone by Sadeq Hedayat, translated by Kristin Johnsen-Neshati and Amin Neshati (Paul Takacs, director). He is the senior drama consultant for The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Education Department and the artistic director of Bill’s Buddies, the Folger Theater’s educational outreach performance group.
Sandy Ganzell, assistant professor of mathematics, published “Ends of 4-Manifolds” in the refereed journal, Topology Proceedings, Vol. 30, pp. 223-236. This paper studies differentiable structures on 4-dimensional manifolds, a subject that underlies the connections between topology, geometry and quantum mechanics. He was an invited reviewer for Mathematical Reviews by the American Mathematical Society.
Laraine Glidden, professor of psychology, completed her 20-year NIH-funded longitudinal research project studying parental adjustment to children with developmental disabilities. Articles relevant to this research appeared in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research and in the American Journal on Mental Retardation with Brian Jobe (’03) and James Billings, visiting assistant professor of psychology, as co-authors. Professor Glidden also authored or co-authored three book chapters in books edited by others and published by MIT Press, Springer, and the American Association on Mental Retardation. Her own editing of the International Review of Research in Mental Retardation resulted in the publication of volumes 32 and 33, the latter with guest editors. She presented or was discussant on five international or national conference papers or posters with four different student co-authors and served on the Steering Committee for the 2nd International Forum for Special Needs Children in Doha, Qatar. Professor Glidden continues to serve on the Executive Committee of the Academy on Mental Retardation, is the international representative for the American Psychological Association Division 33, and did consulting/reviewing work for NIH and six professional journals.
Susan Goldstine, assistant professor of mathematics, published "Dancing Elves and a Flower's View of Euclid's Algorithm" in the Mathematical Intelligencer. The article grew out of a plenary lecture she gave on the surprising connections between the growth patterns of sunflowers and Euclid's Algorithm in classical number theory.
Susan Grogan, professor of political science, published “The Political Science Brown-Bag Lunch” in the Political Science Educator. In the article she describes the origin and first semester’s operation of the political science department’s informal discussions among faculty and students on politics, teaching, and research.
Linda Jones Hall, associate professor of history, published two invited articles in foreign scholarly journals. “The Governors of Phoenicia as Known to us from the Letters of Libanius” in “Mélanges offerts à Rey-Coquais,” Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph, Vol. 60, pp. 433-445, appeared in a journal published in Beirut and continues the study of the political structure of the Late Roman province of Phoenicia, which should be distinguished from Syria. “Tyre in Late Antiquity,” Electrum, Vol. 12, pp. 73-87, appeared in an issue of a Polish journal which focused on Late Roman history. The article summarized the state of knowledge of Late Roman Tyre and developed some new leads in understanding the capital of Late Roman Phoenicia.
Jeff Hammond, Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts and professor of English, published two articles in Ohio Magazine: “Bad Chemistry” and “When Moses Came to Findlay,” revisions of pieces that initially appeared in the River Gazette. Another essay, “A Fan Letter to Lefty Gomez,” was published in Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball, ed. Philip Deaver, University of Nebraska Press, pp. 167-181. Professor Hammond received a general nomination for a Pushcart award, and one of his essays was given a “Special Mention” in the 2007 Pushcart Prize annual. He gave a workshop in creative nonfiction at Georgetown University.
Louis Hicks, professor of sociology, published “Erasure, Convergence and the Great Divide: Trends in Racial Disparity in Middletown” in City and Community, a journal of the American Sociological Association, with co-authors Howard M. Bahr, Mindy Judd Pearson, and Leif G. Elder. His earlier article, “The Social Impact of Military Growth in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, 1940 – 1995,” originally published in Armed Forces and Society with co-author Curt Raney, associate professor of sociology, was reprinted in an Ashgate volume, United States Military History, 1865 to the Present Day, edited by Jeffery Charlston. Professor Hicks was the guest editor for two issues of a sociology journal, Sociological Focus, that included articles about the war in Iraq. He spoke to the Islesboro Forum on the topic, “Educating Future Generals," about his experiences at the U.S. Army War College.
Silas Hurry, adjunct instructor of anthropology, and Dorsey Bodeman co-published “The Whole Site is the Artifact: Interpreting the St. John’s Site, St. Mary’s City, Maryland,” in Past Meets Present Archaeologists Partnering with Museum Curators, Teachers and Community Groups, edited by John H. Jameson and Sherene Baugher. The article explores the challenges of creating an exhibit and provides a history of the archaeology at the site and the story of exhibit development. He co-produced with Ruth Ann Armitage, Leah Minc, and David Hill “Characterization of Building Materials from the Brick Chapel at Historic St. Mary's City by INAA and Petrographic Analysis” in Archaeological Chemistry #968: Analytical Techniques and Archaeological Interpretation, edited by Michael D Glascock, Robert J Speakman, and Rachel S Popelka-Filcoff.
Angela Johnson, assistant professor of educational studies, published “Graduating Under-represented African American, Latino, and American Indian Students in Science” in the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering and “Minority Women in Science” in the Association for Women in Science quarterly magazine. She was the distinguished speaker for the Women in Science and Engineering group at Duke University and presented with Kathryn Norlock, associate professor of philosophy, and Sybol Cook Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, at several conferences, including “Educating Women/Women’s Education in the Post-Secondary Context,” Halifax, Canada, and “Gender and Education Association,” Dublin, Ireland. Professor Johnson was invited to conduct a workshop for the Mathematical Association of America on evaluating emerging scholars programs.
Sue Johnson, professor of art, had two one-person exhibitions: “Cabinet of Wonders: Marvelous Transformations and Other Accidental Images” at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and “Animated Nature: The Art of Sue Johnson” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York. Her work was included in a six-person show, “Artists and Specimens: Documenting Contemporary Experience,” at the Hoffman Gallery, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon. Two exhibition catalogs were published, the first by Swarthmore College with an essay by contemporary art historian Celia Rabinovitch, and the second by Lewis & Clark College with an essay by curator Linda Tesner. Professor Johnson received a residency fellowship from the Jentel Artist Residency in Banner, Wyoming, where she completed new works on paper, and another residency fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to live and work in the Salzburg Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria. The John Michael Kohler Art Center awarded her a fellowship to create new works in ceramics at the Kohler Co. factory in Kohler, Wisconsin. Lectures were delivered at Swarthmore College, Lewis & Clark College, and the John Michael Kohler Art Center. Her works were included in the traveling exhibition, “Landscape and Nature: A View from Maryland,” organized by the Maryland State Arts Council, which were exhibited at the Annapolis State House, the James Backus Gallery in Baltimore, and Yokohama, Japan. Professor Johnson was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Council of Arts Administrators and serves on the Exhibitions Committee of the Museum of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
Samantha Kerry, assistant professor of biology, co-authored with Michael TeKippe, Nathan Gaddis, and Alejandro Aballay from Duke University, “GATA Transcription Factor Required for Immunity to Bacterial and Fungal Pathogen” in the journal, PLoS ONE. The research described a gene in the intestine of the nematode, C. elegans, which is important for its immune response to different types of bacteria and fungi that also infect humans.
Andy Koch, associate professor of chemistry, in collaboration with Stephen DiMagno of the University of Nebraska/Lincoln, was awarded a National Science Foundation Grant regarding the synthesis and study of anhydrous fluorinating reagents.
Cynthia Koenig, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored “The Importance of Religious Orientation and Purpose in Life for Dying Well: Evidence from Three Case Studies” in Journal of Religion, Spirituality, and Aging. She also co-authored with Richard Platt, professor of psychology, “Using Dual-process Theory and Analogical Transfer to Explain Facilitation on a Hypothetico-deductive Reasoning Task” in Psychological Research.
Björn Krondorfer, professor of religious studies, joined the editorial board of The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) and serves as the journal’s book review editor. He wrote an entry for the International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (Routledge) on “Men and Christianity.” He published “Who’s Afraid of Gay Theology? Men’s Studies, Gay Scholars and Heterosexual Silence” in Theology & Sexuality, Vol. 13, No. 3, and the rejoinder to the discussion of this piece, Vol. 14, No. 1. An article on the “Christian Dramatization of Embodiment” appeared in Textraum: Bibliodrama Information and book reviews appeared in Association of Contemporary Church History, and Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kulturgeschichte. Professor Krondorfer presented the following invited, scholarly papers: “Protestant Autobiographies by German Theologians” at the Katholische Akademie in Trier, Germany; “The Hour of the Church: Nationalizing Christian Identity in Post-1945 Autobiographies” and “Gay Theology and Heterosexual Silence” at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) in Washington, D.C.; “Holocaust Education in Europe” at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania; and “A Perpetrator and his Hagiographer” at Claremont McKenna College in California. He gave invited talks on “Mending Broken Relations” at Montgomery College (Rockville), Fairhaven Retirement Community (Sykesville), and Buena Vista University (Storm Lake, Iowa). Objects of his artist collaboration with Karen Baldner were shown at Meshulash Exhibit (Centrum Judaicum, Berlin); Book Bodies (Indy Art Museum, Indiana); and Herron School of Art & Design (Indianapolis).
Randolph Larsen, assistant professor of chemistry, received a $15,000 summer research fellowship from the Office of Naval Research for environmental forensics. He gave a professional presentation with an undergraduate student and was a Calvert County Fair Judge.
Alex Meadows, assistant professor of mathematics, published “Tornado Solutions for Semilinear Elliptic Equations in R^2: Regularity” in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society , Vol. 135, and co-published “Tornado Solutions for Semilinear Elliptic Equations in R^2: Applications” in the same journal.
Pamela Mertz, associate professor of chemistry, co-authored “Role of Adipose Differentiation-Related Protein in Lung Surfactant Production: A Reassessment” in the Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 47, pp. 2367-2373, and “Functional Compensation for Adipose Differentiation-related Protein (ADFP) by Tip47 in an ADFP null Embryonic Cell Line” in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 281, pp. 34341-34348.
Henry Miller, adjunct associate professor of anthropology, published “When the Digging is Over: Some Observations on Methods of Interpreting Archaeological Sites to the Public” in Past Meets Present: Archaeologists Partnering with Museum Curators, Teachers and Community Groups, edited by John H. Jameson and Sherene Baugher. The article reviews the entire palette of archaeological site interpretation tools that have been utilized at St. Mary’s City.
Kathryn Norlock, associate professor of philosophy, presented “The Politics of Pedagogy: Global Warming, Public Policy, and the Ethics of Identifying Controversy” at the 32nd annual Richard R. Baker Colloquium in Philosophy on Environmental Philosophy and the Duties of Citizenship, Dayton, Ohio. She presented “The Impossibility of Responding Ethically to Environmental Atrocity” at the group session of the International Society for Environmental Ethics at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Washington, D.C. Professor Norlock co-authored the paper, “A Moral Imperative: Retaining Women of Color in Science Education,” with Angela Johnson, assistant professor of educational studies, and Sybol Cook Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy,which she presented at conferences including the Educating Women/Women’s Education conference at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; the Gender and Education Association Conference, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; and the annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, St. Charles, Illinois.
Deborah O’Donnell, assistant professor of psychology, co-published “Ethical Issues in Local, National, and International Disaster Psychiatry” in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, and “Training in Developmental Responses to Trauma for Child Service Providers” in Psychiatric Services with her collaborators at the International Center to Heal our Children at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She traveled to Tanzania and Japan this summer, involved in international curriculum-building seminars and student field-research supervision.
Brian O’Sullivan, assistant professor of English, co-facilitated a pre-conference afternoon workshop, “Thinking Partners, Thinking Partnerships: Building Library-Writing Program Collaboration,” with Celia Rabinowitz, director of the library and media services, and Benjamin Click, associate professor of English, at the conference on “College Composition and Communication” in New York City.
Carrie Patterson, assistant professor of art, had a solo show of paintings and collages called “Between Fictions” at The Painting Center in New York, New York. The work can be viewed at www.thepaintingcenter.com or www.carriepatterson.com.
Robert Paul, professor of biology, P. Joan Poor, associate professor of economics, and Keri L. Pessagno (‘04) published the peer-reviewed paper, “Exploring the Hedonic Value of Ambient Water Quality: A Local Watershed Based Study” in Ecological Economics, Vol. 60, No. 4.
Richard Platt, professor of psychology, and Cynthia Koenig, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored “Using Dual-process Theory and Analogical Transfer to Explain Facilitation on a Hypothetico-deductive Reasoning Task” in Psychological Research.
P. Joan Poor, associate professor of economics, published the following peer- reviewed papers: “Socio-Economic Impacts of Open-Space and Agricultural Land Preservation” in The Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, Vol. 30, No. 3, with Rina Brule (‘05); and “Exploring the Hedonic Value of Ambient Water Quality: A Local Watershed Based Study” in Ecological Economics, Vol. 60, No. 4, with Robert Paul, professor of biology, and Keri L. Pessagno (‘04). She gave numerous professional presentations: “An Interdisciplinary Look at a Local Watershed” as an invited lecturer for the Environmental Policy Roundtable, Department of Public Policy Seminar Series, University of Maryland, College Park; “Economics of Archaeological Resource Management” as an invited panelist by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s Forum on Heritage Tourism and Archaeology - Challenges and Opportunities at the Society for Historical Archaeology annual meeting, Jamestown, Virginia; and at the Society for American Archaeology 72nd annual meeting, Austin, Texas.
J. Jordan Price, assistant professor of biology, co-published with first author, Emily Cramer (’05), “Red-winged Blackbirds Ageliaus phoeniceus Respond Differently to Song Types with Different Performance Levels” in the Journal of Avian Biology, Vol. 38, pp. 122-127. He co-published “Song and Plumage Evolution in the New World Orioles (Icterus) Show Similar Lability and Convergence in Patterns” in Evolution, Vol. 61, pp. 850-863. The paper was featured on the cover. Professor Price received a Research Opportunity Award from the National Science Foundation to continue a study of vocal evolution in the New World orioles and served as a grant proposal reviewer for the NSF. He presented invited talks, “A Phylogenetic Perspective on Avian Song Patterns” at the National Science Foundation; “Song Evolution in the New World Orioles” at the meeting of the Animal Behavior Society in Burlington, Vermont; and “Vocal Performance Influences Male Response to Song in Red-winged Blackbirds” at the Animal Behavior Society meeting in Snowbird, Utah.
Celia Rabinowitz, director of the library and media services, co-facilitated a pre-conference afternoon workshop, “Thinking Partners, Thinking Partnerships: Building Library-Writing Program Collaboration,” with Brian O’Sullivan, assistant professor of English, and Benjamin Click, associate professor of English, at the conference on “College Composition and Communication” in New York City. She was one of three presenters at a panel, “Inside the Academic Administrator’s Mind: What They Really Think About Library Value and Support,” at the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 13th national conference in Baltimore. Her service was completed on the ACRL President’s Program Planning Committee with the successful program, “The Art of Persuasion: Strategies for Effective Communication with Chief Academic Officers,” at the American Library Association annual conference in Washington, D.C. She was elected to a two-year term as member-at-large of the College Libraries section of the ACRL and became chair of the Council of Library Directors of the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions.
Curt Raney, associate professor of sociology, and Louis Hicks, professor of sociology, co-published “The Social Impact of Military Growth in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, 1940 – 1995,” which originally appeared in Armed Forces and Society, and was reprinted in an Ashgate volume, United States Military History, 1865 to the Present Day, edited by Jeffery Charlston.
Gail Savage, professor of history, published “’A State of Personal Danger’: Domestic Violence in England, 1903-1922” in an essay collection, Assaulting the Past: Placing Violence in Historical Context, Cambridge Scholars Press. (See http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Assaulting-the-Past--Violence-and-Civilization-in-Historical-Context.htm for a description of the book) and an on-line review essay of Marital Violence: An English Family History, 1660-1857 by Elizabeth Foyster for “Reviews in History,” a site maintained by the Institute of Historical Research in London: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/savage.html. She presented two conference papers: “Caroline Norton and Lord Brougham: The Injured Wife and Family Law Reform in England, 1830s-1850s” at the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Arlington, Virginia, and “The Injured Wife, Family Law Reform and the Origins of Feminism in the 1850s,” at the Mid-Atlantic Conference of British Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Lisa Scheer, professor of art, was awarded three new sculpture commissions: a large-scale cast bronze sculpture for the corner of 15th and P Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.; two sheet metal sculptures for an entrance lobby in a new office building in Rockville, Maryland; and a large-scale welded bronze sculpture for a public plaza in Arlington, Virginia.
Donald Stabile, professor of economics, wrote Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism versus Virtue, Edward Elgar Publishers.
Ivan Sterling, professor of mathematics, was the visiting research scholar in the mathematics department of the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he researched weakly irregular surfaces of constant negative curvature and developed mathematical visualization software to study them. He presented talks at the International Differential Geometry conference in Oberwolfach, Germany, and at the Midwest Geometry Conference in Iowa.
Lois Stover, professor of education and associate provost for academic services, continues to serve on the Board of Examiners for the National Council on the Accreditation of Teacher Education. She made two presentations at the NCTE national conference in Nashville, Tennessee, including “Teaching Young Adult Literature in the Context of the American Literature Curriculum.” As chair of the NCTE Standing Committee on Teacher Preparation, she wrote several sections in Guidelines for the Preparation of Teachers of English Language Arts, and edited the rest of the document, which was published by NCTE. Professor Stover published several reviews of young adult novels in Signal, and “Teaching Out of the Dust as an American Novel” in Notes on American Literature. She continues to serve on the editorial board reviewing articles for English Journal.
Merideth Taylor, professor of theater and dance, received a 2007 Individual Artist Award in Playwriting from the Maryland State Arts Council for her script The Cocoonery. A production of The Cocoonery was presented as part of the TFMS department 2006 main stage season, directed by guest artist Thomas W. Jones, II. “Enacting Difference: Marita Bonner and the Ambiguities of Race,” an article co-written with Allison Berg and originally published in African-American Review, was republished by Thomas Gale in Drama for Students. Additionally, she was invited to present on her work on the publication, In Relentless Pursuit of an Education: African American Stories from a Century of Segregation, at the Oral History Association Mid-Atlantic Region annual conference.
Jennifer Tickle, assistant professor of psychology, presented “Stereotypes of Psychotherapists in Film” with student co-author Lisa Burkman and “Revealing the Dynamics of Online Social Networks” with student co-author Hillary Leech at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in March. She also presented “Utilizing Research on Automatic Stereotype Activation to Engage Students with Methodological Issues in Social Psychology” at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and was invited to have the materials made available online at Course Resources on the Web (CROW): Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology (http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/activities.htm#methodology).
Cynthia Traub, assistant professor of mathematics, as a postdoctoral fellow in the program, “Computational Applications of Algebraic Topology,” at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) spoke about the connections between topology, k-ellipses and the minimum weight triangulation problem at combinatorics seminars at the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. She was an invited speaker at the “Fall Bay Area Discrete Math Day” and was selected as a Project NExT Fellow by the Mathematical Association of America.
Leon Wiebers, assistant professor of theater, film, and media studies, was awarded the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Costume Design in a Larger Theatre for his designs of Ubu Roi at A Noise Within. The other designers and productions nominated in this category were David Kay Mickelsen, All My Sons and Debra McGuire, Boston Marriage, Geffen Playhouse; William Ivey Long, Curtains and Frida Parmeggiani, The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, Ahmanson Theatre; and Catherine Zuber, The Cherry Orchard and Gregg Barnes, The Drowsy Chaperone; Mark Taper Forum. He also designed costumes for productions of 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress for the Richmond Triangle Players and Jekyll and Hyde at California Musical Theatre.
Elizabeth Nutt Williams, associate professor of psychology and dean of the core curriculum and first year experience, published articles in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology and in the journal, Sex Roles. She chaired a symposium on feminist multicultural psychotherapy at the annual American Psychological Association (APA) meeting. In addition, she was elected chair-elect of the section for the advancement of women of Division 17 of the APA; continues on the Board of Directors of the Division of Psychotherapy of the APA; and as an editorial review board member for the journals, Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Research.
Ernest Willoughby, professor emeritus of biology, published “Geographic Variation in Color, Measurements, and Molt of the Lesser Goldfinch in North America Does not Support Subspecific Designation” in The Condor, Vol. 109, pp. 419-436.
Text and cover by Gail Dean; copy-editing by Janet Haugaard)
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