College of Wooster Dean of Faculty

COMMITTEES:
Named to the Review Board and Advisory Board for Audiology Online, the American Academy of Audiology Publications Committee, and the American Academy of Audiology Honors Committee.

JUDITH C. AMBURGEY-PETERS (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY)

PRESENTATION:
Synthesis and Characterization of Cyclohexyl Phosphoserine Compounds as Analogs for Phosphatidylserine," invited talk at the Chemistry Department Seminar, Michigan State University, August 16, 2006.

OUTREACH:
Presented lectures, demonstrations and hands-on activities for Teaching Physical Sciences Workshop: Professional Development Workshop for 4th, 5th, 6th Grade and Other Teachers, August 7-10, 2006, The College of Wooster. Coordinated by the Wooster Science Education Center with support from the College's Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Award Program, the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, and the Wooster Local Section of the American Chemical Society.

DENISE M. BOSTDORFF (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION)

PUBLICATIONS:

Published with co-author Steven R. Goldzwig of Marquette University "History, Collective Memory, and the Appropriation of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Reagan's Rhetorical Legacy," Presidential Studies Quarterly 35: 661-690, December 2005.

Published a review of Robert L. Ivie's book, Democracy and America's War on Terror, in The Quarterly Journal of Speech 92: 223-225, May 2006.

Published "Rhetorical Ambivalence: Bush and Clinton Address the Crisis of Haitian Refugees" in Who Belongs in America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration, ed. Vanessa B. Beasley (College Station: Texas A&M University Press), 206-246, 2006.

PRESENTATIONS:

Delivered "George W. Bush, Epideictic Advocacy, and the War in Iraq," one of the conference's featured presentations, at the 10th Biennial Public Address Conference at Vanderbilt University, October 2006.

Delivered "Personal, Professional, and Pedagogical Opportunities: Preparing Students for Citizenship at a Small Liberal Arts College," as part of a panel on teaching communication at small liberal arts colleges at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in San Antonio, November 2006.

OTHER:

Appointed to the editorial board of the journal, Rhetoric & Public Affairs.

Appointed by the Executive Committee of the National Communication Association as its representative on the Selection Committee for the Karlyn Kohrs Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism.

Quoted in March/April 2006 issue of the Utne Reader magazine in article "Beyond Bushisms," about President Bush's rhetoric.

Was part of a Memorial Day story on National Public Radio's Morning Edition about the presidential use of ceremonial rhetoric in times of war.

JOHN BREITENBUCHER (ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES)

Appointed to the Board for the TeX Users Group <http://tug.org/board.html>;

MARCY CAMPBELL (ADJUNCT FACULTY)

PUBLICATIONS:

"Solving for X" (fiction), REAL: Regarding Arts & Letters.

"But That's the Way it Really Happened: Turning Fact Into Fiction" (article), Writers' Journal.

"Traffic" (poetry), RTA buses in Cleveland.

"Remnants" (fiction), Sou'wester 34.1, 22-28, 2005.

"Breathe" (fiction), Pindeldyboz 20.5, www.pindeldyboz.com, 2005.

"Trails" (fiction), Westview 24.2, 7-11, 2005.

PRESENTATION:
"But That's the Way it Really Happened: Turning Fact Into Fiction" presented at Winter Wheat: The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing, Bowling Green State University in November 2005.

AWARDS:

Short story titled "Two Lincolns" selected as a finalist in the fiction category of the Summer Literary Seminars Contest in April 2006.

Poem titled "Traffic" selected as a winner of the Moving Minds: Verse and Vision Project in January 2006.

CHRISTA CRAVEN (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND WOMEN'S STUDIES)

PUBLICATION:
Published a book chapter "Every Breath is Political, Every Woman's Life a Statement: Cross-Class Organizing for Midwifery in Virginia" in Mainstreaming Midwifery: The Politics of Change.

PRESENTATIONS:

Presented a paper on feminist ethnography at the National Women's Studies Association conference.

Was invited by childbirth activists to speak at the Defining Moments Festival: An Exploration of Birth Through the Arts in Richmond, Virginia.

OTHER:

Served on the Governance Commission of the American Anthropological Association and on the Executive Board of the Society of Lesbian & Gay Anthropologists.

Served as a discussant for the panel "Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?: Bringing the Past Into the Present" and as a chair of the Presidential Invited Session "What's All the Fuss About Same-Sex Marriage?: Family, Marriage and the New Culture Wars in America" at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association.

JENIFER CUSHMAN (IPO DIRECTOR AND ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF GERMAN)

PRESENTATIONS:

Co-presenter (with Karen Edwards and Susan Lee) "Collaboration Over Competition: Ways That Work Across the Campus" at NAFSA Region VI conference, Columbus, Ohio, November 5-7, 2006.

"The Golem in Meyrink and Wegener," M/MLA 2006 conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 9-11, 2006.

OTHER:

Elected to a three-year term (2006-2009) on the Executive Committee of the Midwest Modern Language Association.

Co-organizer (with Isolde Mueller, SCSU) of German I: German Literature, Art, and Film Session (2006 topic: "Pop Goes the Canon!"), M/MLA 2006 conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 9-11, 2006.

CAROLYN A. DURHAM (INEZ K. GAYLORD PROFESSOR OF FRENCH)

PUBLICATIONS:

Book: Literary Globalism: Anglo-American Fiction Set in France (Bucknell, 2005)

Article: "New Mysteries of Paris: The Riddling of the City in Cara Black's Detective Novels," in Paradoxa: Terrains Vagues (2006)

Conference Paper: "Paris in 21st Century Cinema: Femme Fatale and The Truth About Charlie," Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, October 11-14, 2006.

Conference Paper: "Is Film the Universal Language: Educating Students as Global Citizens," ADFL-ADE Round Table, Modern Language Association Convention, December 26-31, 2006.

BRIAN DYKSTRA (PROFESSOR OF MUSIC)

PRESENTATIONS:
Between November 2005 and May 2006 presented a 45-minute program of piano music entitled "Rags and Classics" to College of Wooster alumni groups in 16 cities coast to coast: Princeton, New York City, Jacksonville (Florida), Fort Myers, Venice (Florida), Boca Raton, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Rochester (New York). His recent original concert rag for Bb clarinet and piano, "The National Pastime," was premiered in Atlanta on August 11 by Hild Peersen and Kenneth Williams at the annual ClarinetFest of the International Clarinet Association. During his leave year of 2005-06 he prepared a recital of music for piano solo. The program, to be presented in Gault Recital on September 17, 2006, will include works by Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Sofia Gubaidulina, as well as three new concert rags by Dykstra.

DEAN FRAGA (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF BIOLOGY)

PUBLICATIONS:

Apoptotic cascades as possible targets for inhibiting cell death in Huntington's disease, L.R. Pattison, M.R. Kotter, D. Fraga, R.M. Bonelli, in the Journal of Neurology, 2006

The Particle Inflow Gun Can be Used to Co-Transform Paramecium Using Either Tungsten or Gold Particles," D. Fraga, E. Keenan, E. Hendel, A. Nair, and W. Schofield in the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 53 (1): 16-19, 2006.

PRESENTATIONS:

Invited speaker at the May 3-5, 2006, International Paramecium Genomics meeting in Dourdan, France, where he gave a presentation entitled "Using bacterial-mediated RNAi in Paramecium as an educational tool for teaching undergraduates about functional genomics."

Attended and presented posters of current research with students at the following meetings: the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) meeting April 1-5, 2006, in San Francisco; Ohio Physiological Society meeting at Wright State University October 27-28, 2006; and Ohio Academy of Science/Ohio Branch of the American Society of Microbiology at the University of Dayton April 22, 2006.

JOHN GABRIELE (PROFESSOR OF SPANISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE)

PUBLICATIONS:

Book: 1605-2005: Don Quixote Across the Centuries. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2005.

Book: Jerónimo López Mozo: Forma Y Contenido De Un Teatro Español Experimental. Madrid: Fundamentos, 2005.

Article: Narrative Prisms and Prisons: Mirror Effects and 'mise-en-abyme' in DON QUIJOTE. SYMPOSIUM 29.1, 31-42, 2005.

Article: El inicio posmoderno de Jerónimo López Mozo: LOS NOVIOS O LA TEORÍA DE LOS NÚMEROS COMBINATORIOS. RILCE 21.2 (2005): 227-37.

Conference Papers:

Plotting the Nature of Postmodern Being in Itziar Pascual's PÈRE LACHAISE. Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2-5, 2006.

AMBER GARCIA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY)

PUBLICATION:
Amber Garcia, Daniel Miller, Eliot Smith, Diane Mackie, "Thanks for the Compliment? Emotional Reactions to Group-Level Versus Individual-Level Compliments and Insults," Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 9, 307-324, July 2006.

GRANT:
Awarded the Agnes Scott College Center for Teaching and Learning Summer Research Grant (with Jim Wiseman). Project title: "Psychological Barriers to Learning: Examining Women in Math and Science Courses."

JULIA CHANCE GUSTAFSON (ACCESS SERVICES LIBRARIAN)

PUBLICATIONS:

Poem "Everything In Its Place," Common Threads, Spring/Summer 2006: 46.
Poem "Circular Thoughts," Common Threads, Fall/Winter 2006-2007: 7.

Poem "Friendship and Pain," Living with Loss Magazine, v. 21, no. 1, Spring 2007: 36.

CHARLES R. HAMPTON (JOHNSON PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS)

PUBLICATION:
"Making the Most of Your Sabbatical," Jennifer R. Galovich et al., FOCUS - The Newsletter of the Mathematical Assocation of America, Aug./Sep. 2006, vol 26 number 6, 12-13.

PRESENTATIONS:

"All Matrices are Nearly Diagonalizable," at MATHFEST 2006 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the summer meeting of The Mathematical Association of America, Aug. 2006.

"Surgical Solutions in Differential Equations," at MATHFEST 2006 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the summer meeting of the Mathematical Assocation of America, August 2006.

OTHER:
Elected Treasurer of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

JENNIFER HAYWARD (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH)

PRESENTATION:
Exhibiting Empire: Annie Brassey, Angel or Ethnographer?, at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Salisbury, Maryland, in March.

GRANTS:
Awarded the Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas from the Bibliographical Society of America. The grant will be used for research in Washington, D.C., and in the U.K.

KENT KILLE (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE)

PUBLICATION:
From Manager to Visionary: The Secretary-General of the United Nations (2006, Palgrave Macmillan).

CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS:

"Active Learning Across Borders: Lessons From an Interactive Workshop in Brazil," with Matthew Krain and Jeffrey Lantis. Paper to be presented at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 28 - March 3, 2007.

"Reconsidering the Power of the UN Secretary-General: Religious Leadership and Moral Authority in International Affairs," presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31 - September 3, 2006.

"Multilateralism and Moral Authority: The Role of the UN Secretary-General," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 8-10, 2006.

Workshop Director (with Matthew Krain and Jeffrey Lantis), "Active Learning: Applied Lessons for Teaching International Studies -- A Teaching Development Workshop for International Relations Instructors," University of Brasilia, October 16-17, 2006.

JADE STAR LACKEY (VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY)

PUBLICATIONS:

J.S. Lackey, J.W. Valley and H.J. Hinke, Deciphering the Source and Contamination History of Peraluminous Magmas Using &18O of Accessory Minerals: Examples from Garnet-Bearing Plutons of the Sierra Nevada Batholith: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 151, p. 20-44, 2006.

J.W. Valley, J.S. Lackey, A.J. Cavosie, C. Elechenko, M.J. Spicuzza, M.A.S. Basei, I.N. Bindeman, V.P. Ferreira, A.N. Sial, E.M. King, W.H. Peck, A.K. Sinha, C.S. Wei, 4.4 Billion Years of Crustal Maturation from Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Zircon, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 150, p. 561-580, 2005.

J.S. Lackey, J.W. Valley and J.B. Saleeby, Evidence from Zircon for High &18O Contamination of Magmas in the Deep Sierra Nevada Batholith, California: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 235, p. 315-330, 2005.

GRANT:

Nova Scotia: Evolution of a Continental Margin (Co-PIs - J.S. Lackey and H. Lackey), Keck Geology Consortium Grant ($54,099), 2006-2007. This grant supports a month-long field research experience in Nova Scotia with nine students. The project was co-led by Jade Star Lackey, Hilary Lackey (Kent State) and Carl Mendelson (Beloit College). In the project they explored the evolution, both paleontological and petrologic, of key areas of Nova Scotia during and after the Acadian Orogeny. Two Wooster seniors, Brian Mumaw '07 and Jessica Hark '07, joined students from seven other colleges and universities on the project. Research results from this project will be presented in Wooster in spring 2007 as part of the 20th Keck Research Symposium.

JEFFREY LANTIS (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE)

PUBLICATIONS:

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 "European Union Strategic Culture and U.S. Ambivalence" 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.

Article "The Life and Death of International Treaties: Double-Edged Diplomacy and the Politics of Ratification in Comparative Perspective, International Politics 43," spring 2006. This article explores the politics of contemporary international treaty ratification processes across democratic regimes. Drawing on two-level game theory, Dr. Lantis posits that the likelihood of ratification success is often a function of elite strategies for treaty ratification, regime type (which conditions executive-legislative relations), interest group pressure, and public opinion in the domestic political environment relative to international commitments. A structured, focused comparison of case studies analyzes experiences of the United States, Canada and Germany in ratification struggles in the past decade. Dr. Lantis concludes that the likelihood of successful treaty ratification across issue areas depends primarily upon executive strategies and regime type within certain scope conditions.

Article "America's Nuclear Addition," published in Defense and Security Analysis. This article is featured in a special edition of the journal focused on security problems in South Asia, Vol. 22, No. 4, December 2006. The article represents a piece in an ongoing debate about the implications of the 2006 U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative.

LEE A. MCBRIDE, III (VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY)

PUBLICATION:
Collectivistic Individualism: Dewey and MacIntyre, Contemporary Pragmatism, June 2006, Vol. 3, No. 1, 71-85.

PRESENTATIONS:

Collectivistic Individualism, Central European Pragmatist Forum, Szeged, Hungary, May 2006.

Lived Experience: Continental and American Perspectives, Invited Panel, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, San Antonio, Texas, March 2006.

BRENDA MEESE (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION)

COMMITTEE:
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.

AMYAZ MOLDEINA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS)

PUBLICATION:
Amyaz A. Moledina and Robert C. Johansson, "Comparing Policies to Improve Water Quality When Firms are Strategic," Water International, Vol. 30, Number 2, Pages 166-173, June 2005.

PRESENTATION:
"The Role of the Liberal Arts Colleges in Public Scholarship: Engaging our communities and expanding our classroom," October 28-29, 2005, Beloit College.

OTHER:

International Students Association Mentorship Award. This award is voted on by students and is given annually to a faculty/staff member who has made a positive impact on one or many Wooster students.

Attended and escorted students to the Annual Eastern Economics Association Conference in Philadelphia February 23-26, 2006.

Reviewer at American Agricultural Economics Conference, Macroeconomics and International Trade Section, 2006.

BETH MUELLNER (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF GERMAN)

PUBLICATIONS:

Book review of "Hochsaison in Sils-Maria." Brigitta Klaas Meilier. Basel, Schwabe: 2005. German Quarterly 80.3, 2007.

"German Women's Bicycling Magazines as Contested Space for the Bourgeois Feminine Ideal" Women in German Yearbook, January 2007.

Paper: "When the Ethnographic Subject Resists: Stinnes and Söderström in China." Special Topics Panel on Travel Writing and Colonial Spaces. 60th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. April 19-21, 2007.

Paper: "An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Early New German Woman." Invited Talk. "Gender, Genre, and Political Transformations: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Transnational Gender Research." University of Minnesota. November 10-11, 2006.

Paper: "The Visual as Safe Haven? The Dangers of Women's Railroad Travel averted '...wenn man nur die Kunst versteht...'" German Women Writers and Visuality, The Group on German Women's Writing of the 18th and 19th Centuries Annual Meeting, The University of Iowa, May 19-21, 2006.

GRANT RECIPIENT: NEH Summer Institute. "Melting Pot Vienna. Then and Now" July-August 2006.

BOUBACAR N'DIAYE (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AFRICANA STUDIES AND POLITICAL SCIENCE)

PUBLICATIONS:

Colloborated with two colleagues from Miami University of Ohio - Abdoulaye Saine and Mathurin Houngnikpo - on a 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 farewell 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.

Article "Mauritania, August 2005. Justice and Democracy, or Just Another Coup" in the latest issue of African Affairs 105 (420).

PRESENTATION:
Delivered a plenary presentation on June 15, 2006, for the Senior Leadership Seminar of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Atlanta. The presentation was in French and titled "Des Relations Civilo-Militaires demoratiques: Quel Interet pour l'Afrique?" The audience was made up of senior policymakers and high-ranking military officers from 41 African countries.

CYNTHIA PALMER (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SPANISH)

PUBLICATION:
"Discursos espirituales contrahegemónicos y resistencia femenina en Geographies of Home de Loida Maritza Pérez," in Alpha, No. 23, 283-290, December 2006.

PRESENTATION:
"Mártir, monstruo, musa: En busca de la figura materna en Historia de mi madre de Angélica Gorodischer," invited talk at the Department of Modern Languages Research Colloquium, Cleveland State University, September 18, 2006.

OTHER:
Quoted in December 2006 Newhouse News Service article "Loss of Spanish language carries cultural cost for immigrants' progeny," about U.S. Latinos who do not speak Spanish.

PAMELA PIERCE (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES)

PUBLICATION:
"Some Generalizations of the Notion of Bounded Variation," with D. Velleman, in the American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 113, No. 10, 897-904, December 2006.

PRESENTATIONS:

"Dealing with Ups and Downs: Functions of Bounded Variation," presented at Denison University, November 2006.

"Assessment of the Mathematics Major Made Simple," with J. Hartman, presented at the Joint Meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America in New Orleans, January 2007.

OTHER:
Serving on the Organizing Committee for the Third South Florida Analysis Seminar, to be held March 2007.

DALE SEEDS (PROFESSOR OF THEATRE)

Served as scenic designer for the Cameo Production musical, "The King and I," produced at the Medina Center for the Performing Arts, July 2006.

Served as scenic designer for The Ohio Shakespeare Festival's productions of Macbeth and Always, Patsy Cline (July and August 2006). The Ohio Shakespeare Festival operates on the grounds of Stan Hywet in Akron.

JOSEPHINE SHAYA (ADJUNCT TEACHING STAFF, CLASSICAL STUDIES)

PUBLICATION:
Josephine Shaya, "The Greek Temple as Museum: The Case of the Legendary Treasure of Athens from Lindos," American Journal of Archaeology 109.3, 423-442, July 2005.

FIELD WORK:
Was the collections manager for the Kenchreai Cemetery Project in the summer of 2006. The project operates under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

DEBRA SHOSTAK (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH)

Appointed to the editorial advisory board of a new journal, Philip Roth Studies.

LAURA SILVERMAN (ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR OF PIANO)

PERFORMANCES:

Keyboard player for the Blossom Festival Band and the Blossom Festival Orchestra at its 2006 Summer Concerts.

Accompanist for the Summer Flute Experience at The University of Akron. This was a week-long intensive workshop consisting of master classes and recitals. The opening recital was presented in collaboration with George Pope, Professor of Flute at The University of Akron. Accompanist for the Brass Workshop at The University of Akron.

Staff accompanist for the National Flute Association Convention held in Pittsburgh the second week of August. Collaborative concerts were presented with John Bailey, Professor of Flute at University of Nebraska/Lincoln; Nancy Andrew, Professor of Flute at University of Oregon; and Beth Chandler, Professor of Flute at James Madison University. Accompanied master class given by Takeaki Matsume, accompanied the "Pedagogy Sampler" Concert, and performed in recital with Yuki Otsuka of Osaka, Japan.

DIANE UBER (PROFESSOR OF SPANISH)

PRESENTATIONS:

Conference paper "El voseo en los negocios: Santiago, Chile y Buenos Aires, Argentina" presented at Congress on Forms and Formulas of Address in the Spanish-Speaking World, Farl-Franzens Universitat, Graz, Austria, May 10-14, 2006.

Conference paper "Fórmulas de Tratamiento en los Negocios en Santiago de Chile" presented at XXXV Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO), Laredo, Texas, September 29 - October 1, 2006.

ANSLEY VALENTINE (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATRE)

PRESENTATION:
Gave an Actor Training Techniques Panel Presentation at the upcoming conference "The Transmission of Technique: Actor Training in Northeast Ohio" at The University of Akron on October 9, 2005. His topic was Mask Performance as one component of an actor's training.

VIRGINIA WICKLINE (WALTER D. FOSS VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY)

PRESENTATION:
V.B. Wickline (March 2006), Acculturation, Stress and Nonverbal Communication Predict International Students' Cultural Adjustment." Paper presented for the annual conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association in Atlanta, Georgia.

AWARDS:

Emory University Humanitarian Award, 2005

Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA), Special Topics Graduate Student Research Award: Cross-Cultural, 2006

MARK WILSON (PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY)

PUBLICATIONS:

Geological paper published in the Israel Journal of Earth Sciences, co-authored with Kevin Wolfe '05 and Yoav Avni (Geological Survey of Israel). It is an analysis of a Jurassic shoreline complex they discovered in the Negev Desert of southern Israel.

Paper, co-authored with Paul Taylor (Natural History Museum, London) and published in Geology. It is a description of unusual predatory drillholes found in Devonian fossils from Canada and the U.S.A.

Authored a chapter on dinosaurs as social icons in a recent book on American iconography.

Authored a chapter on the evolution of bioerosion in a recent book on trace fossils.

PRESENTATIONS:

Was an invited speaker last 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.

Gave several professional talks during the 2005-6 academic year in Jerusalem, London and Salt Lake City.

JOSEPHINE WRIGHT (THE JOSEPHINE LINCOLN MORRIS PROFESSOR OF BLACK STUDIES AND PROFESSOR OF MUSIC)

PUBLICATIONS:

"Songs of Remembrance," Journal for the Study of African-American Life and History (Fall 2006 issue), ed. Robert Hill, honoring historian P. Sterling, Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor emeritus of History, University of California-Riverside.

"The Third Culture, a Conversation about Truth and Reconciliation: an African Americanist's Reflection on the 'Two Cultures' Debate in Post-Modern Society," accepted for publication in peer-reviewed Forum on Public Policy Online: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, Oxford, England.

PRESENTATION:
Gave an invited paper entitled "The Third Culture, a Conversation About Truth and Reconciliation: An African Americanist's Reflection on the 'Two Cultures' Debate in Post-Modern Society" at Harris Manchester College (Oxford University) on July 14, 2006.