August 1, 2009-July 31, 2010
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Christine Adams, professor of history, wrote Poverty, Charity and Motherhood: Maternal Societies in Nineteenth-Century France, University of Illinois Press. She published an article, “Women Helping Women: Citizenship, Gender, and the Society for Maternal Charity,” in the journal, Women in French Studies.
Charles Adler, Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of Science and associate professor of physics, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to organize the 10th international "Light and Color in Nature" conference, which specializes in the optics of the atmosphere and landscape. The Atmosphere Exposed, a juried exhibition of meteorological optics photographs connected with the conference, was organized with Mary Braun, Boyden Gallery director. Adler served as one of the art show judges, organized two lectures and a panel discussion.
Sybol Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, wrote Hegel's Theory of Recognition: From Oppression to Ethical Liberal Modernity (Continuum International Publishers, London). She presented the following invited papers: “Why the Fight? Revisiting the Struggle to the Death in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit” at the Women in Philosophy Workshop: Bridging Traditions at Goucher College; “Concerning the Life and Death Struggle in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit” at St. John’s College; and “The State of Black America: A Philosophical Investigation” keynote address at the Ida B. Wells Conference at the University of Memphis. Anderson presented the refereed paper, "Oppression Reconsidered," at the Concerned Philosophers for Peace conference in Dayton, Ohio.
Aileen Bailey, associate professor of psychology, co-authored a presentation, “Damage to nucleus basalis magnocellularis (nBM) Cholinergic Target Areas Produce Different Effects on the Acquisition of Learning Set,” with Jennifer Enos ’08 and Vanessa Medley ‘08 at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting. She co-authored a presentation, “Serotonin Mediated Potentiation in Area CA1: Altered in Depression and Crucial for Antidepressant Action,” with Drs. Xiang Cai and Scott Thompson (University of Maryland School of Medicine), Angy Kallarackal ‘06 and Kaitlyn Gaylor ’11 at the Serotonin Club meeting. Bailey and Kimberly Konka ‘10 were awarded a Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research for the project, “Investigating the Effects of Postnatal Exposure to Prozac on Adult Rat Motor and Emotional Behavior.”
José Ballesteros, associate professor of Spanish, published six poems in the anthology, Al pie de la Casa Blanca: Poetas hispanos del área de Washington DC , by the Real Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. “Dales palo para que se curen: La sífilis en El Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Colón por Lope de Vega” was published in Madrid as part of an edited volume that includes the proceedings of the XVIth Congress of the Association of Hispanists. He participated in several poetry readings around the D.C. area.
Michael Baltzley, visiting assistant professor of biology, co-published "Species-specific Behavioral Patterns Correlate with Differences in Synaptic Connections Between Homologous Mechanosensory Neurons” in the Journal of Comparative Physiology A. He co-presented a poster with Kaitlin Gibbons ’10 and Steven Rees ’12 at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Seattle, Washington.
Thomas Barrett, professor of history, co-curated an exhibition on the career and life of Will F. Jenkins at the Gloucester History Museum in Virginia. He was an invited speaker for Richard Stites Memorial Celebration at Georgetown University.
Leslie Bayers, assistant professor of Spanish, published “The Poetics of Revision: Tulio Mora’s Cementerio General” in A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America. She presented the paper, “Visualizing War: The Graphic Narrative Rupay,” at the mid-America conference of Hispanic literatures at the University of Kansas.
Barbara Beliveau, assistant professor of economics, co-published “Prohibition and Repeal: A Short History of the Wine Industry’s Regulation in the United States, in the Journal of Wine Economics, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 53-68.
Fevzi Bilgin, assistant professor of political science, received a National Endowment for Humanities summer fellowship to attend and present at the university and college professors workshop, “Philosophical Perspectives on Liberal Democracy and the Global Order,” at Washington University in St. Louis. He presented “Law and Society Scholarship in Muslim Societies” at the annual meeting of Law and Society Association, Chicago. Bilgin moderated a discussion with Professor Peter Mandeville of George Mason University, “Globalization, Identity and Transformation of Islamic Activism,” at Rumi Forum, Washington, D.C.
Holly Blumner, associate professor of theater, film and media studies, learned and performed a Japanese kyôgen play, Tobikoe (Jumping the River) that was performed at the Oe Noh Theater in Kyoto, Japan.
Anne Marie Brady, associate professor of psychology, co-presented a poster, "An Investigation of Sex Differences in the Neonatal Ventral Hippocampal Lesion Rat Model of Schizophrenia," with Alex Hernandez '10 at the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Brady's research was funded by a 5-year sub-award from the University of Maryland-Baltimore, under a research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She was also awarded a supplement to this grant under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to support summer student research. Brady served as faculty adviser to the 4th annual Southern Maryland Brain Bee.
Adriana Brodsky, assistant professor of history, presented her work at several conferences: “The Jewish Woman and Her Body” at Youngstown State University; “AMILAT” at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Latin American Studies Association at Tel Aviv University; and Association of Jewish Studies” in Los Angeles. She gave an invited presentation at the University of Oklahoma’s Jewish Studies and International Studies Programs and was selected to participate in a workshop organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Sephardi Jewry. Brodsky published an entry on Argentina and Sephardi Jews in the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill) and a book review on Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans in EIAL (Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe). She reviewed a manuscript for publication in Modern Jewish Studies. Brodsky is currently the president of the Chile-Rio de la Plata Committee of the Council on Latin American History and a board member of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association. She received a Faculty Incentive Grant from the Amado Foundation, the most prestigious association that supports work on Sephardi Jewry.
Jeffrey Byrd, Aldom-Plansoen Distinguished Professor and professor of biology, co-presented the poster, “Isolation and Characterization of Non-obligate Bacterial Endospore Predators from Organic Soils,” with Jon Ford ’10, and the poster, “Cyto-Mind Storming: Melding Immunology and Virology Classes Through Problem-based Learning Exercises,” with Samantha Elliott, assistant professor of biology, at the 110th national meetings of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego.
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Colby Caldwell, associate professor of art, was featured in “Rounds,” a solo exhibition, in the Goodyear Gallery at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He exhibited at a two-person show, “The Heaviest Flower,” at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. “Economy of Scale,” a group show, opened at Hemphill Fine Arts Gallery in Washington, D.C. Caldwell co-presented a series of lectures and workshops at the Corcoran College of Art and Design with Bernard Welt and presented a lecture, “Framing Lazarus,” at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. He was commissioned to create four large-scale photographs, which were installed in a downtown D.C. building project by J. St. Developers.
Jennifer Cognard-Black, associate professor of English, published the cover article on “The Feminist Food Revolution” for the summer edition of Ms. magazine. She produced an article on “Sue Johnson’s Curious Cabinets” for the Rosenbach Museum exhibit in Philadelphia of Sue’s work, Moore Adventures in Wonderland. Cognard-Black published two pieces of fiction: “Blink” in So To Speak and “Gifts” in Assembly Journal and did a review of Feminism, Inc. for Ms. magazine. She ran a workshop for Otterbein University’s Women Studies Program and gave the annual Holder Lecture at her alma mater, Nebraska Wesleyan University, on “Eat My Words: Teaching Writing through the Literatures of Food.”
Jeffrey Coleman, associate professor of English, published two short essays as book chapter entries, “James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain” and “Literature’s Response to the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements,” at the request of John Cusatis for his edited collection, Research Guide to American Literature, Post-War Literature, 1945-1970. He presented “Elegies for Malcolm X: Forty-Five Years after the Audubon Ballroom” during the “Literature and Politics III: Reshaping the Politics of Discourse” session at the national Popular Culture & American Culture Associations Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Coleman read poems from Spirit Distilled and a new manuscript at the “Beyond the Movement: Global and Contemporary Freedom Struggles” national conference at the University of Georgia in Athens and gave an invited guest lecture on “Poetry and Social Change” at Roland Park Place in Baltimore.
Linda Coughlin, associate dean of faculty and associate professor of biology, co-published “Social Capital and the Campus Community” in To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development.
Karen Crawford, professor of biology, served as a member of the National Institutes of Child Health and Development study section. She helped develop and sponsor a society wide–daylong symposium on Regeneration at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in Seattle, Washington. Crawford continues to serve as program coordinator/director for the Joint Universities Summer Teaching Laboratory (JUSTL) at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This program, funded by the Hong Kong government, brings six graduate students/postdoctoral fellows from Hong Kong and in some cases mainland China to the MBL each summer to do research. She continues to serve on the Scientific Board of the Indiana University Center for Regenerative Medicine.
Laine Doggett, associate professor of French, wrote Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance, Penn State University Press. It was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) and selected for The Daily Beast online highlights of selected books by Peter Stothard, editor of TLS.
Asif Dowla, Hilda C. Landers Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of economics, published a monograph on climate change and microfinances funded by Grameen Foundation and Oxfam, America. At the invitation of the World Bank he contributed a blog post on the issue of climate change and microfinance for their website. Dowla was a keynote speaker in a conference organized to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Chongqing University in Sichuan, China. He gave an invited talk on microfinance in conferences organized by the Army National Guard and Machik and the Tibet Sustainable Governance Program of the University of Virginia. Dowla served as a referee for several journals in his field.
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Todd Eberly, assistant professor of political science, published papers in the journal, Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, and in Population Research and Policy Review. He presented a paper, “Barack Obama and the Politics of Preemption,” at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.
Leah Eller, assistant professor of chemistry, co-presented the following posters: “Two Synthetic Routes to 3-Substituted Pyrroles from Itaconic Acid” with Neil Hawbaker ‘10 and “Potential Route to Substituted Pyrroles from Oranges!” with Brian VanParys ‘11 at the 238th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington D.C. and “Extraction of Maltol from Fraser Fir Needles Using ‘Green’ Materials: An Experiment for the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Class” with J.P. Spencer ’10 and “Continued Work Towards a Green Synthesis of Substitutes Pyrroles” with Brian VanParys at the 239th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco.
Samantha Elliott, assistant professor of biology, was chosen as one of 25 attendees for the Introductory Biology Education Specialists (IBES) meeting in June. IBES is a subset of the Introductory Biology Project, which is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative to improve the undergraduate experience in introductory biology. Through this meeting she received a grant that allows collaboration with other institutions to detect early factors that determine student risk or success in introductory biology. She presented “Characterization of Intestinal Distension in ELT-2-/- Caenorhabditis elegans upon Infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa,” which was co-authored with Craig Sturgeon ’08, Deborah Travers ’10, and Madeline Montgomery ’12, at the American Association of Immunologists national meeting and “Comparison of the Use of Role-play in Both Large and Small Classes to Teach the Basic Concepts of an Immune Response to Undergraduate Students,” a three-year education research project. Elliott and Jeffrey Byrd, professor of biology, co-presented the poster, “Cyto-Mind Storming: Melding Immunology and Virology Classes Through Problem-based Learning Exercises,” at the 110th national meetings of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego.
Michael Ellis-Tolaydo, professor of theater, film, and media studies, received an ensemble Helen Hayes award for his performance as Henri in Heroes by Gérald Sibelyras (trans: Tom Stoppard). He performed as narrator in a production of The Spirit of Shakespeare with Maestro Duain Wolfe, the U.S. Army Chorus and the U.S. Army Orchestra at the Vienna Presbyterian Church in Virginia. He also directed and performed as narrator in The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky and Charles Ferdinand Ramuz with Damien Mahiet as conductor and Caroline Copeland as choreographer at Cornell University. Ellis-Tolaydo was featured in a staged reading of the Tectonic Theatre’s Project of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later: Epilogue at Clarice Smith Center. In conjunction with this, over 100 staged simultaneous readings throughout the United States and the world were performed and then linked to Lincoln Center in New York City for discussions. He was the featured speaker at Cosmos Club’s Shakespeare Discussion Group and presented a paper on “Hamlet – A Man of Action!”. Ellis-Tolaydo was one of two performance faculty for the Folger Shakespeare Library's 15th month-long NEH Teaching Shakespeare Institute for middle- and secondary-school teachers. He played Mortera in New Jerusalem. The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 by David Ives at Theatre J.
David Ellsworth, assistant professor of theater, film and media studies, has screened his short film, Surface Kinetic, at eight film festivals internationally, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival. His film, Five County Fair, was included in Vol. 18 winter edition of The Journal of Short Film published by The Ohio State University’s Film Studies Program.
Matthew Fehrs, assistant professor of political science, presented work at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Toronto on factors that make it more likely for democratic countries to be attacked. He presented a paper, “Letting Bygones be Bygones: Rapprochement in U.S. Foreign Policy,” at the Midwest Political Science Association.
David Finkelman, professor of psychology, and Lois Stover, professor of education, co-presented a paper, “Sharing Light with Troubled Teens,” at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in Philadelphia. The paper dealt with the issue of bullying among adolescents, as described and portrayed in young adult literature.
Iris Carter Ford, associate professor of anthropology, published “Postrace: Every Good-bye Ain’t Gone” in Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 80, No. 1.
William Friebele, assistant professor of art, exhibited twice at the Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, D.C. in collaboration with Mike Iacovone. They also collaborated on a large-scale video installation in unused office buildings in the NOMA district of Washington, D.C., in a show that was supported by the Cultural Development Corporation and Flashpoint Gallery. The show, "Construct: Space Transformed," featured five artists in different buildings and was reviewed in The Washington Post. He and Iacovone exhibited videos in a show called "Art Obsessive" at the following places: Chalarma Depot Gallery in Sarajevo, Bosnia; the St. Louis Artist Guild, Missouri; the Chestnut Art Space, Baltimore; and at the University of Maryland. Friebele participated in an exhibition, "Art in Odd Places," in which artists were asked to create artworks in public space on 14th Street in Manhattan.
David Froom, professor of music, wrote Three Love Songs, which was premiered in Milan, and was followed up with performances in Turin, Genoa, Bowling Green, Ohio, Baltimore, and twice in Washington, D.C. Other works were performed in twelve different concerts throughout the U.S. and in Italy. His Sonata for Solo Violin was released on Navonna Records. Froom had twelve works added to his published catalog at American Composers Edition.
Gerald Gabriel, visiting assistant professor of English, wrote Drowned Boy published by Sarabande Books, which won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Katherine Gantz, associate professor of French, published a comparative review on The Heroic City: Paris 1945-1958 by Rosemary Wakeman and Paris from the Ground Up by James H. S. McGregor, two recent works detailing social and esthetic shifts in the history of Paris, in South Central Review, Vol. 1, No. 28. She presented a paper, “On the Origin of Species: Lessons on the City from Huart’s flâneur fossilize,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium in Salt Lake City.
Laraine Glidden, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Human Development, served her 13th and final year as series editor of the International Review of Research in Mental Retardation published by Academic Press/Elsevier. Volume 37, the 16th of her editorship, was co-edited with Marsha Seltzer of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A chapter, co-authored with Brian Jobe ’03, was included in this volume, and in it results from the 23-year Project Parenting research were described and interpreted. Four articles were published in refereed journals, two of which included a total of four SMCM student co-authors from the classes of 2008, 2010, and 2011. Other publications included an encyclopedia entry and an introduction to a special issue on Families Research of the Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, which she co-edited with two colleagues at other universities. Among her other professional activities were five conference presentations with four different SMCM student co-authors and an invited presentation in the department of psychology colloquium series at George Mason University. Glidden continued to serve on the executive councils of both the Academy on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Division 33 of the American Psychological Association, including chairing the Fellows Committee. She reviewed grants for the National Institutes of Health and chaired an external review of the department of psychology at Montclair State University. She served as a consultant for projects on early childhood intervention in India; transition to adulthood for persons with intellectual disability in New York City; and Special Olympics International and completed her first year of service on the board of directors of the Arc of Southern Maryland.
Haomin Gong, assistant professor of Chinese, published five articles: “Commerce and the Critical Edge: Negotiating the Politics of Post-Socialist Film, the Case of Feng Xiaogang” in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 193-214; “Social Critiques and Sentimentalism: On Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Close to Paradise” in Asian Cinema, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 182-92; “Digitized Parody: The Politics of Egao in Contemporary China” with co-author Xin Yang in China Information, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3-26; “Unevenness in Contemporary China: A Critical Inquiry,” in Telos, No. 151, pp. 57-85; and “Constructing a Neo-Realist Reality: Petty Urbanites, Mundaneness, and Chi Li’s Fiction” in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 59-95.
Holly Gorton and William Williams, professors of biology, co-presented three papers at professional meetings: “Effects of Irradiation on Leaf Absorptance of Direct vs. Diffuse Light” at the Ecological Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and “Leaf Tissue Optics under Direct and Diffuse Light: The Problem and Instrumentation to Solve It” and “Absorption of Direct and Diffuse Light by Leaves: Localization and Consequences to the Photosynthetic Machinery” at the American Society for Photobiology, Providence, Rhode Island. They co-authored a paper, “Measurement of the Optical Properties of Leaves Under Diffuse Light,” in Photochemistry and Photobiology. Gorton contributed a chapter, “Biological Action Spectra,” to an online photobiology textbook, Photobiological Sciences Online, sponsored by the American Society for Photobiology and gave a talk on the same topic as a Photobiology School lecture for the American Society for Photobiology national meeting. She gave an invited talk, “Leaf Optics,” to provide plant perspective on photobiology to a group of physicians and animal-cell biologists at a symposium on Low Level Light Therapy at the University of Rochester in New York. Gorton delivered the following talks at the University of Vermont: “Bright, Cold and Red: Light and Life in the Snow” to the Department of Plant Biology and “Light and Plant Life” to a Greenhouse Operations and Management class.
Susan Grogan, professor of political science, published a review of Garrett Epps’ Peyote vs. The State: Religious Freedom on Trial in the Law and Politics Book Review.
Joshua Grossman, assistant professor of physics, presented “High Atom Number Using Bichromatic Forces in Microsized Atom Traps” with Sara DeSavage ’10 as a co-author, at the annual Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Atomic Physics meeting of the American Physical Society in Houston, Texas. He presented “An Atom-Interferometric Magnetic Field Gradiometer” at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Quantum-Assisted Sensing and Readout workshop in Arlington, Virginia.
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Linda Jones Hall, professor of history, served on the board of directors for the Byzantine Studies Association of North America. As chairman of the program committee, she organized the conference in Sarasota, Florida, with speakers from Britain, Austria, and Hungary.
Jeffrey Hammond, George B. and Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts and professor of English, wrote Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties (University of Iowa Press). His 2008 book, Small Comforts, received a third-place tie for a 2009 Independent Publishers Book Award in the essays/creative nonfiction category; a 2003 essay in American Scholar was selected for use in New York’s Regents Exam (2011-2014); and the Shenandoah essay, “My Father’s Hats,” was awarded a Pushcart Prize. Hammond published four columns in Ohio Magazine; a scholarly article in The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (Oxford University Press); a monograph, Playing for Keeps: The American Fifties in Plastic and Tin, (Hiram, Ohio: Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature). He lectured on the historiography embodied in 1950s toys at Hiram College.
H. Anna Han, assistant professor of psychology, co-published with S. Czellar, R. H. Fazio, and M.A. Olson, “Malleability of the Attitudes or the Malleability of the IAT” in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 46, pp. 286-298. She co-presented a poster with K. Fujita, “Priming Construal Level Impact the Attitude Estimates on the IAT at the 11th annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Las Vegas.
Walter Hill, professor of political science, published a chapter, "A Brief Look at American Policy in Southern Africa in the Early 2000s, Including the Prospects of Genetically Modified Organisms Ending Hunger," in Assessing George W. Bush's Africa Policy and Suggestions for Barack Obama and African Leaders.
Sue Johnson, professor of art, was featured in two one-person exhibitions: Moore Adventures in Wonderland at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Recent Work from The Alternate Encyclopedia at Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana. Her work was included in the following group exhibitions: “OPTIONS,” Conner Contemporary Art, D.C.; Alonzo Davis Fellowship Exhibition, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia; and the WPA exhibition and auction, Katzen Art Center, American University, D.C. Johnson delivered public lectures at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Southeastern Louisiana University, Ohio State University, and Washington University in St. Louis. She served as a grants reviewer for the Wyoming State Arts Council and as an outside reviewer for the graduate art program at Washington University in St. Louis. Her art work was acquired by the following public collections: the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Herzegovina; Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University; Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace Archive; Chelsea College of Art & Design, London; Smithsonian American Art Museum; National Portrait Gallery Library; Smithsonian Institution Libraries; Cleveland Institute of Art; Joan Flasch Artists' Books Collection/School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Rhode Island School of Design; Carnegie Mellon University; F.W. Olin Library, Mills College; Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University; Washington University Libraries University in St. Louis, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Collection. Johnson completed her three-year term on the board of directors of the National Council of Arts Administrators, continues to serve on the exhibition advisory board of the Museum of the American Philosophical Society, and was elected to serve on the nominating committee for the board of directors of the College Art Association.
Katharina von Kellenbach, professor of religious studies, co-edited with Annette Esser and Annette Mehlhorn, Feminist Approaches to Interreligious Dialogue (Leuven: Peeters Verlag), which included an essay, “Interreligious Dialogue and the Development of a Transreligious Identity: A Correspondence,” with Manuela Kalsky, pp. 41-59, and a review article of Feministische Theologie. Initiativen. Kirchen. Universitäten—eine Erfolgsgeschichte, pp. 244-246. A review of Grieving Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn was published in the Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 100-102. She gave a paper, “Mary, The Manhattan Declaration and Women’s Submission to Childbearing,” at the Heidelberg University Consultation on Concepts and Practices of Freedom in the Biblical Traditions and Contemporary Contexts and presided over the a book panel on Melissa Raphael’s The Female Face of God in Auschwitz at the meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Montreal. Von Kellenbach gave three invited lectures: “Why Christians Must Remember the Shoah: A Panel Discussion” at the Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations, Saint Joseph’s University; “The Politics of Christian Discourses of Forgiveness” and “Anti-Judaism/Antisemitism in Feminist Religious Discourses” at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She joined the editorial Board of the newly founded Journal of Religion and Gender.
Joanne Klein, professor of theater, film, and media studies, presented a paper, "Spiked: Girl 6 and the Sport of Apparatus Demolition," at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, in a session on “Considering the Reading of Films.”
Cynthia Koenig, associate professor of psychology, co-authored with A. Christopher, A. Furhnam, M. Batey, G. Martin, and K. Doty, “Protestant Ethic Endorsement, Personality, and General Intelligence,” which was published in the journal, Learning and Individual Differences.
Andrew Kozak, associate professor of economics, published with co-authors, Thomas A. Garrett and Russell Rhine, associate professor of economics, "Institutions and Government Growth: A Comparison of the 1890s and 1930s" in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 92, No. 2.
Björn Krondorfer, professor of religious studies, wrote Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination, Stanford University Press. He was a panelist with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the international conference Beyond Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa. Krondorfer presented the following: a lecture on “Liberated Bodies: The Case of the Gnostic Phibionites” at the Netzwerk Geschlechterbewusste Theologie in Zurich, Switzerland; a paper at the research symposium Erinnerungskultur und Praktiken der Versöhnung at Oldenburg University, Germany; “Educating for Social Responsibility” at the Stephen Feinstein Holocaust Symposium, Wroxton College, United Kingdom; and a talk at the American Academy of Religion in Montreal, Canada. He was the first invited non-Muslim to deliver the William Temple Lecture at the Jaamiatul-ilm Wal-Huda (Islamic College) in Blackburn, England. Krondorfer published a book chapter on “Theologische Horizonte des Mann-Seins” in Gender, Religion, Bildung; a review essay on The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany (Association of Contemporary Church Historians); and book reviews of Erlöser: Figurationen männlicher Hegemonie and Frau–Gender–Queer: Gendertheoretische Ansätze in der Religionswissenschaft in the Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality. He offered a national teacher training workshop on “Home, Roots, Rupture” at the Memorial Library Leadership Institute, New York City, and spoke at a Yom HaShoah Commemoration at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Krondorfer continues to serve on the editorial/advisory boards of Religion and Gender (Netherlands); CrossCurrents (U.S.A.); theologie.geschichte (Germany); and The Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (Australia) and as an active member of The Christian Scholars Group on Christian-Jewish Relations (Boston).
David Kung, associate professor of mathematics, delivered the undergraduate lecture in mathematics, an hour-long invited address at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco. He published two refereed papers, “Teaching Assistants Learning How Students Think,” in Research on Collegiate Mathematics Education VII, and “Mathematics Teaching Assistants Learning to Teach: Recasting Early Teaching Experiences as Rich Learning Opportunities,” in the special mathematics issue of the Journal of Graduate and Professional Student Development with Natasha Speer. He received grants from the National Science Foundation and Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for undergraduate research experience. Kung gave invited talks on mathematics and social justice at the University of Maine and at MathFest, the summer meeting of the MAA, and on mathematics and music at Princeton University and the MAA’s Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware section meeting.
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Sterling Lambert, assistant professor of music, wrote Re-Reading Poetry: Schubert’s Multiple Settings of Goethe published by Boydell & Brewer.
Pamela Mann, assistant librarian, published a book review, "Curious Creepiness: Pamela Mann on Janet Mitchell's The Creepy Girl and Other Stories," in the online journal, Gently Read Literature; Essays and Criticism of Contemporary Poetry and Literary Fiction. She was included on the DVD, Altar: Cruzando Fronteras, Building Bridges, with a short clip of her discussion on the acquisition of the Gloria Anzaldúa literary archive for the Benson Latin American Collection.
Alexander Meadows, associate professor of mathematics, presented “Chomp, Chomp, BeChewey Chomp: Math and Games” at Mt. St. Mary’s University, Longwood University, University of Mary Washington, and the Budapest Reunion Conference. At the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) sectional meeting he presented “Math + Games = Fun in the Classroom” and “Thoughts on an Inquiry-based Learning Course in Undergraduate Analysis.” Meadows was an invited participant in the summer Park City Math Institute on Image Processing and became an invited senior member of the Center for Geometric Analysis and Data.
Lin Muilenburg, assistant professor of educational studies, presented papers, "More Than Talk: mLearning Activities for the K12 Classroom” and “Improving Student-led Discussions Using Cell Phones,” co-authored with M.A.T. student Marjorie Foley ’10, at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference in San Diego, California. She presented two papers, "Proofcasting: Perfecting Your Writing Through Phonecasting" co-authored with M.A.T. students Jevanina Schettini ‘10 and Melissa DeTorres ‘10, and “Ecosystem Scavenger Hunt Using Cell Phones and Flickr,” co-authored with M.A.T. student Catherine Brandt ‘10, at the ED-MEDIA conference in Toronto, Canada. Muilenburg presented co-authored papers, “More Than Just Talk: An Experience Using Cell Phones for Education” at the New Learning Technologies Conference in Orlando, Florida, and “mLearning and Individualized Learning,” at the E-Learn Conference in Vancouver, Canada. She served as a reviewer for the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
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Carrie Patterson, associate professor of art, exhibited fourteen paintings in “Color Autonomy,” curated by Robert Donovan of University of Maryland University College, at the Federal Courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland. Her work was part of a two-person show at AxD Gallery in Philadelphia. At Winona State University Patterson’s work was featured in the exhibition, “Placing Color,” and she participated in a panel discussion about abstraction and color and conducted critiques for senior studio art students. Her work was selected by juror and painter Sean Scully for “Open City” at the New York Studio School.
Jordan Price, associate professor of biology, published the following papers: "Plumage Evolution in the oropendolas and caciques: Different Divergence Rates in polygynous and monogamous taxa," co-authored with Luke Whalen '08, in the journal, Evolution, Vol. 63, pp. 2985-2998 and “Discrete Evolutionary Color Changes in Caciques Suggest Different Modes of Carotenoid Evolution between Closely Related taxa,” co-authored with four colleagues from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, in the Journal of Avian Biology, Vol. 40, pp. 605-613. He presented “Where Have all the Trees Gone? The Declining use of Phylogenies in Animal Behavior Studies” at the Animal Behavior Society meeting at the College of William and Mary.
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Russell Rhine, associate professor of economics, published with co-authors, Thomas A. Garrett and Andrew Kozak, associate professor of economics, "Institutions and Government Growth: A Comparison of the 1890s and 1930s" in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 92, No. 2. He co-published with author T.A. Garrett, "Government Growth and Private Contributions to Charity," in Public Choice.
Donna Richardson, professor of English, published an article, "The Can of Ail: A. E. Housman's Moral Irony," in the journal, Victorian Literature.
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Gail Savage, professor of history, published a book chapter, “…the instrument of an animal function: Marital Rape and Sexual Cruelty in the Divorce Court, 1858-1908,” in Politics of Domestic Authority, Lucy Delap, editor, Palgrave Macmillan. She presented a paper, “Regulation and De-Regulation of Family Law (Divorce in World War II England),” to the American Society of Legal History in Dallas, Texas. Savage was co-editor of book reviews for the Journal of British Studies.
Sahar Shafqat, associate professor of political science, presented a paper, “The Lawyers’ Movement: A Long View,” at the Law and Society conference in Chicago. She gave the following invited talks: “Achieving Peace in Pakistan” at the Tides Momentum conference in San Francisco and “Moving Towards Peace in Pakistan and Beyond” at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Shafqat served as a reviewer for the journal Feminist Studies and gave interviews to Al Jazeera and WYPR (Baltimore’s NPR affiliate).
Jeffrey Silberschlag, Steven Muller Distinguished Professor of Art and professor of music, conducted the Bulgarian Philharmonic in two concerts on New Year’s Day in Alba and Aosta, Italy. He gave the premiere of the Corrado Saglietti Trumpet Concerto with the Romanian State Symphony under the baton of John Wallace, a fellow trumpeter, now Head of Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Silberschlag directed the Romanian State Symphony in Sicily and performed in recital as trumpet soloist in Catania, Italy. He gave world premieres of Nathan Lincoln DeCusatis and William Kleinsasser works and Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat in the Italian version with Italian actor Michele di Mauro and an ensemble of all-star musicians gathered from around Europe.
Ivan Sterling, professor of mathematics, co-published with Josef Dorfmeister and Thomas Ivey, “Symmetric Psuedospherical Surfaces I: General Theory” in Results in Mathematics. He was the plenary speaker at the retirement of Henry Wente in Toledo, Ohio.
Lois Stover, professor of education, and David Finkelman, professor of psychology, co-presented a paper, “Sharing Light with Troubled Teens,” at the annual meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in Philadelphia. The paper dealt with the issue of bullying among adolescents, as described and portrayed in young adult literature. While at NCTE she also presented “Once and Future Shakespeare: Teaching Complex Literature in Non-tracked Urban High Schools” with Hal Foster from the University of Akron. Stover published three young adult novel reviews in Signal and reviewed manuscripts for The English Journal. She continues to serve on the Board of Examiners for the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.
Michael Taber, assistant professor of philosophy, published “A Value of Family: The Moral Significance of Involuntary Affiliations” in the collection, The Ethics of the Family, edited by Stephen Scales, Adam Potthast, and Linda Oravecz, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 343-349. His book review of Polansky’s Aristotle’s De Anima appeared in the Journal of Hellenic Studies.
Christopher Tanner, professor of biology, was first author on two collaborative papers published in the journal, Restoration Ecology, “Growing Zostera marina (Eelgrass) from Seeds in Land-based Culture Systems for Use in Restoration Projects” and “Evaluating a Large-scale Eelgrass Restoration Project in the Chesapeake Bay.” Sarah Hunter ‘07 was a co-author on the second paper. Tanner co-presented with Katie McKone ’06, “Trade-offs in Seagrasses Exposed to Varying Hydrodynamic Conditions: Applications for Protection and Restoration” at the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation conference in Portland, Oregon. He was appointed treasurer to the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation.
Merideth Taylor, professor of theater and dance, received the St. Mary’s County Historic Preservation Award for the documentary she wrote, directed and produced, “With All Deliberate Speed: One High School’s Story,” about the desegregation of Great Mills High School.
Jennifer Tickle, associate professor of psychology, published “Tobacco, Alcohol, and Other Risk Behaviors in Film: How Well do MPAA Ratings Distinguish Content?” in the Journal of Health Communication. She gave an invited presentation on “A Demonstration Using Automatic Stereotype Activation to Teach or Refresh Methodological Concepts in Psychology” at the Eastern conference for the Teaching of Psychology.
President Joseph Urgo, professor of English, co-wrote with Noel Polk, Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom! (University Press of Mississippi). He published “Report from Cherry Valley, Where Willa Cather Was Very Likely ‘Overcome by a Feeling of Place’” in Willa Cather: A Writer’s Worlds, pp. 312-324 and “Concerning Value: A Small College Liberal Arts Education” in University Business online edition, http://www.universitybusiness.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1549.
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Leon Wiebers, assistant professor of scenography, continued his work at California Music Circus by designing for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 42nd Street, and Spamalot! with Tony Award winning actor, Gary Beach. He designed the costumes for a new opera and musical based on two short stories by Anton Chekhov at La Mama, ETC in New York City. Wiebers designed the costumes for an educational film funded by the National Institutes of Health, which will be used in hospitals nationwide.
Elizabeth Nutt Williams, Dean of the Core Curriculum and First Year Experience and associate professor of psychology, began her term as president-elect of the Division of Psychotherapy of the American Psychological Association (APA). She published “Achieving Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research: A Pan-Paradigmatic Perspective” in the journal, Psychotherapy Research, and “Identity Salience Model: A Paradigm for Integrating Multiple Identities in Clinical Practice” in the journal, Psychotherapy. Williams chaired a symposium at the annual APA convention, served on the editorial boards for two scholarly journals, and continued in her role as chair of the Section for the Advancement of Women of the Society of Counseling Psychology.
William Williams and Holly Gorton, professors of biology, co-presented three papers at professional meetings: “Effects of Irradiation on Leaf Absorption of Direct vs. Diffuse Light” at the Ecological Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and “Leaf Tissue Optics under Direct and Diffuse Light: The Problem and Instrumentation to Solve It” and “Absorption of Direct and Diffuse Light by Leaves: Localization and Consequences to the Photosynthetic Machinery” at the American Society for Photobiology, Providence, Rhode Island. They co-authored a paper, “Measurement of the Optical Properties of Leaves Under Diffuse Light,” in Photochemistry and Photobiology.
Michael Ye, associate professor of economics, co-authored and presented the following: “Using Principles of Economics to Solve Federal Budget Allocation Problems” at the Economic Teaching Conference, Savannah, Georgia, and “Crude Oil Futures as an Indicator of Market Changes” at the 68th international Atlantic economic conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
