*published “The Internet Rhetoric of the Ku Klux Klan: A Case Study in Web Site Community Building Run Amok,” Communication Studies 55 (Summer 2004): 340-361.

*appointed to the editorial board of The Quarterly Journal of Speech, the communication discipline ’s oldest scholarly journal

*delivered presentation at Otterbein in October on Wooster’s Communicating Common Ground (CCG) Service Learning Program as part of the Ohio Communication Association’s conference, “Civic Engagement: What Questions Should We Ask?” In CCG, Wooster students develop and teach lessons to preschoolers on communication, conflict management, and diversity.

*attended the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in Chicago in November 2004 where she delivered a competitively-selected paper, "History, Collective Memory, and the Appropriation of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Reagan's Rhetorical Legacy," (co-authored with Steven Goldzwig of Marquette University). Professor Bostdorff also participated in a discussion panel on post-9/11 presidential rhetoric about immigration, on which she presented "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free (Or Not?): A Post 9-11 Update on Presidential Rhetoric about Haitian Refugees."

*presented "Enhancing Civic Engagement Through the Rhetorical Education of Undergraduates: Upholding the Legacy of William Norwood Brigance" for Colloquy on Rhetoric and Democratic Citizenship in Honor of W. Norwood Brigance, Wabash College, April 2005. The Colloquy was sponsored by the Brigance Forum Fund, the Center for Inquiry into the Liberal Arts, and the Wabash College Speech Department.

MARGO CURL (TECHNICAL SERVICES LIBRARIAN)

Ms. Curl served as editor of a special issue of Against the Grain (Vol. 16, no. 3, June 2004) on the topic of cooperative collection development. She wrote an introduction and solicited six contributed articles.

Ms. Curl co-authored an article with Michael Zeoli of YBP Library Services, "Developing a Consortial Shared Approval Plan for Monographs," Collection Building 23, no. 3 (2004): 122-128.

Ms. Curl's presentation at the 2002 Charleston Conference, "Yours? Mine? Ours? Duplication in Consortia," was published in Charleston Conference Proceedings 2002 (Rosann Bazirjian and Vicky Speck, eds.), Westport CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003, p.156-158.

JOHN GABRIELE (PROFESSOR OF SPANISH & COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)

PUBLICATIONS:

"Dramatizing the Postmodern Condition in Luis ARAÚJO'S PROTOTIPO DE PONIENTE." GESTOS 37 (2004): 69-83.

"El mundo al revés: la construcción de una narrativa femenina EN LA TRAICIÓN EN LA AMISTAD de María Zayas y Sotomayor." LITERATURA ESPAÑOLA: SIGLOS XVI Y XVII. VOL. II OF ACTAS DEL XV CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACION INTERNACIONAL DE HISPANISTAS. Eds. Isaías Lerner, Robert Nival and Alejandro Alonso. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2004. 239-45.

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

"El personaje en crisis social y artística: Feminismo y posmodernismo en ELLA SE VA, de Jerónimo López Mozo." XV Congress of the Association of International Hispanists, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, July 19-24, 2004.

SHILA GARG (PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS)

PUBLICATION:

Shila Garg, Tom Spears*, "Dielectric Properties of a Nematic Binary Mixtures" Molecular Crystals Liquid Crystals 409, 335 (2004).

*class of 2004

Presentation:

"Dielectric Anisotropy of a Binary Nematic Mixture" Invited talk at the Polymer Engineering Department Seminar, University of Akron, December 3, 2004.

ALPHINE JEFFERSON, PROFESSOR, HISTORY

In Portland, Oregon Professor Jefferson was elected as a Council Member
and First Vice President of the Oral History Association. I am honored to assume these positions in OHA, First Vice President, Vice President and President (2006-2007). In 2006, when he is Vice President, he will be in charge of the Program in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is planning a theme around the "Transformative Power of Education" and the importance of the Supreme Court's second ruling (1956) in Brown V. Board "... with all deliberate speed." He sees this as a wonderful opportunity for Wooster to highlight IS, student and faculty research collaboration.

JEFFREY LANTIS (POLITICAL SCIENCE)

Published:

Article-

"American perspectives on the Transatlantic Security Agenda," Jeffrey S. Lantis, European Security, 13(4):361-380, 2004.

Book Chapter-

"The Return of the Imperial Presidency? The Bush Doctrine and U.S. Intervention in Iraq", Jeffrey S. Lantis and Eric Moskowitz, Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade (Congressional Quarterly press), Second Edition, edited by Ralph Carter.

Article Published

"European Union Strategic Culture and U.S. Ambivalence," has just been
published in the Oxford Journal on Good Governance (March 2005).

This article appears in a new on-line journal on international relations published by Oxford University. It features a mix of opinion pieces authored by political leaders in Europe and research works by scholars of strategic culture. Other authors in this issue include Michel Barnier, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Elmar Brok, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the European Parliament, and General Klaus Naumann, former chief of the German Defense Staff and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.

BRENDA MEESE (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION)

Meese was recently selected to serve on the NCAA Division III Field Hockey Committee for 2004-2006. This will be the fourth NCAA National Sport Committee that she has served on, having been on both the women's lacrosse and women's basketball committees over the last ten years.

BOUBACAR N'DIAYE (BLACK STUDIES & POLITICAL SCIENCE)

Boubacar N'diaye (Black Studies & Political Science) and two colleagues from Miami University of Ohio - Abdoulaye Saine and Mathurin Houngnikpo - have collaborated on a new book that chronicles West Africa's journey from authoritarian rule toward democracy The title of the book published by Carolina Academic Press is "Not Yet Democracy: West Africa's Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism."

The end of the Cold War unleashed powerful forces of democratization across Africa. Millions of people, more or less organized in a variety of civil society groups yearning for political freedom and higher standards of living pressed their governments to abandon their old ways. Starting in the 1990s, under the pressure of donor countries and institutions no longer constrained by Cold War politics and hithereto repressed opposition groups, all over Africa authoritarian governments instituted reforms. Soon, multiparty elections were held throughout the continent raising hopes that at long last, democratic governance will take hold.

More than a decade after the first instances of democratic opening, theorist and practitioners of democratization are still reflecting on the significance, extend, and character of this major political development in Africa. Not Yet democracy contributes to this ongoing debate. The book is the product of the collaboration between three seasoned scholars (and advocates) of democratization and of (overhauled, democratic) civil-military relations in West Africa. It takes stock of the recent political evolution in an edifying sample of five West Africa states by analyzing their respective democratization processes (or the lack thereof), the roles played by the military Head of state, and the security apparatus in general. It documents and critically evaluates the efforts made to move away from authoritarianism and usher in genuine democracy. It also scrutinizes the policies and actions that too often thwarted them and slowed the 3farewell2 to the autocratic practices that have lingered although under a different guise. In analyzing this situation, emphasis is put on the nexus between the transformation of the security sector, economic reforms, and overhaul of the entire political system. The study draws sobering conclusions on the status of the democratization process in West Africa so far and proffers practical advice to speed up the end of authoritarianism. rights, and meet the economic needs of Africans.

DALE SEEDS (PROFESSOR OF THEATRE)

Dale Seeds served as scenic designer for the Ohio Light Opera's

production of The Vagabond King , which ran in repertory during the

summer 2004 season.

DEBRA SHOSTAK (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH)

PUBLICATION:

Philip Roth--Countertexts, Counterlives, a book published by the University of South Carolina Press in the summer of 2004.

PAPER DELIVERD:

"Celebrity as Simulacrum: Philip Roth's Doubles," at the American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2004.

She was also recently appointed to the editorial advisory board of a new journal, Philip Roth Studies.

Rachel Hall Sternberg, Assistant Professor, Classical Studies

Conference Presentation;

ÒDidoÕs Carthage: A Poetic Topography,Ó presented at the Penn-Leiden Colloquium III at the University of Leiden. June 2004.

Also, in August, she used a travel grant from the International Center for Jefferson Studies (complemented by Faculty Development Funds) to make a research trip to Monticello.

DIANE UBER (PROFESSOR OF SPANISH)

PUBLICATIONS:

"Fórmulas de tratamiento en el discurso del trabajo en Latinoamérica." Actas del XIII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina (ALFAL), ed. by Víctor Sánchez Corrales, San José, Costa Rica, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2004, 1501-1513.

"Forms of Address in Business Spanish in the Dominican Republic", CIBER 2004 The
International Business Trinity: Language, Culture, and Technology, Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 2004, 3-10.

"Spanish Forms of Address in Latin America" Journal of Language for International Business (JOLIB), 15,1 (2004), 90-99.

SEMINAR:

Participated in Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Faculty Seminar on Economic Reform, Regional Integration and Democratization in Chile and Argentina, held in Santiago and Buenos Aires, June 6-15, 2004.

Diane R. Uber presented a paper, "The use of vos in the workplace in Buenos Aires", at the XXXIII meeting of The Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), held in New Orleans, LA from September 10-12, 2004.

Ansley Valentine, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre

Gave a Actor Training Techniques Panel Presentation at the upcoming conference THE TRANSMISSION OF TECHNIQUE: ACTOR TRAINING IN NORTHEAST OHIO at the University of Akron on Saturday, October 9. His topic was Mask Performance as one component of an actor's training.

MARK WILSON (PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY)

Mark Wilson was an invited speaker this summer at the Fourth Annual Bioerosion Workshop held in Prague. He and his colleague Tim Palmer (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) presented their work on an evolutionary event they've called the "Ordovician Bioerosion Revolution". Mark and his students Allison Mione ('05) and Kevin Wolfe ('05) will be giving a paper this November at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America on their recent work in the Jurassic of the Negev Desert of southern Israel. Another co-author on this paper is their new colleague Yoav Avni of the Israeli Geological Survey.