Academics
Faculty Activities
April 2008
Jessica Gerrity presented three papers at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting in Chicago, Il this week, entitled, "Interest Group Message Promotion: Can Interest Groups Count on Members of Congress to Promote their Policy Messages?", "Reinforcing Inequalities: The Perverse Consequences of A Strong Interest Group Sector," (with Maryann Barakso and Brian F. Schaffner), "The Interest Group—Staff Connection in Congress: Access and Influence in Member, Committee, and Leadership Offices," (with Kathryn C. Lavelle and Nancy Hardt)
Charlie Kehm gave a research talk at the University of Washington Tacoma campus entitled "Understanding the Environment through Astromaterials Research."
Robert Lynch testified before the United States House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human services, Education, and Related Agencies on the benefits of public investment in early childhood education programs. He also spoke on the cost effectiveness of public investment (at the state level) in high-quality prekindergarten at the National Invitational Conference of the Early Childhood Research Collaborative organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota. In addition, he gave two talks about the benefits of public investment in high-quality prekindergarten in Rhode Island before the Rhode Island early Childhood Investment Council and at the Rhode Island KidsCount Early Education Conference.
Donald McColl gave a talk entitled, "'Signs of the Times:' The Cleveland Marbles," both at Heron Point, for WC-All, in honor of the College's 225th Anniversary, and at the regular meeting of Unitarian Universalists of the Chester River. He also gave a guest lecture, "Exempla virtutis in the Twilight of European Kingship" to Professor Michael Harvey's seminar, "Art of Leadership," at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, College Park. He gave a tour to several Chestertown residents of the exhibition, "Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christain Art," at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Donald reviewed for the "Sixteenth Century Journal," Gunnar Lucas Heydenreich's "Lucas Cranach the Elder: Painting Materials, Techniques and Workshop Practice," Chicago and Amsterdam, 2007.
Kate Moncrief served as a Research Seminar Co-Leader, for the seminar, "Gender and Instruction in Early Modern England", at the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas.
Joshua Wolf Shenk was signed by Bantam/Dell and the Library of Congress to co-edit (with Harold Holzer) In Lincoln's Hand, the official companion book to the Library of Congress exhibition on the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth. The book will reproduce images of Lincoln's manuscripts, as he wrote them, alongside commentaries by such luminaries as William Safire, E.L. Doctorow, Liam Neeson, and President George W. Bush. Josh also addressed arts and cultural leaders at the Heritage Program of Philadelphia on "Lincoln's Melancholy: Does Suffering Breed Character?" He curated and moderated a panel on "Memory and Memoir," with Mary Karr, A.M. Homes, and Dan Kennedy, at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference in New York City. Josh was interviewed on camera by the documentarian Barak Goodman, whose company Ark Media, is producing a PBS "American Experience" special on Lincoln's assassination.
Karen Smith presented a workshop "Pilates Matwork: The Core and More" at the Eastern District Convention of AAHPERD in Newport, R.I. in February.
George Spilich published a co-authored article entitled, "Consequences of mild traumatic brain injury on information processing assessed with attention and short term memory tasks", in the Journal of Neurotrauma.
Rick Striner's review of the book "The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views" was published in the Fall/Winter 2007 edition of American Studies and his review of "Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial" was published in the March 2008 edition of Journal of American History. Rick will be listed in the next edition of Who's Who in America.
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