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February 2009
Kevin Brien presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association held in Philadelphia this past December. The paper is titled "Away with all Gods! -- Perhaps: But not with all Spiritualities"

Stew Bruce gave a presentation in December at the Maryland Crime Analysis Summit on Washington College's Crime Mapping and Analysis Program. Stew, John Seidel, Austin Lobo, Marty Suydam, and Robert Siudzinski were awarded a $164,530 grant in December from the Maryland Higher Education Commission entitled "Geospatial Technology Training for the Current and Future BRAC Workforce." In addition, the county economic development departments from Kent, Queen Anne's, and Talbot County are contributing $10,500 to the project. Two Washington College students will be participating in developing curriculum over the next year and several other students will be helping to manage the funded youth and teacher camps this summer. Stew was also awarded a $201,000 grant/contract in December to provide distance-learning GIS support and curriculum development for seven school districts in Central Pennsylvania from the USDA Distance Learning program and the Tuscarora Intermediate Unit. Several students will be helping to develop curriculum for this project and assist in teaching next fall. Stew was awarded two small contracts totaling $3,800 in December. The first is from the Kent County Chamber of Commerce to develop their new promotional map and the second is from the Sassafras River Association to help them develop their GIS for a watershed assessment plan. Two students are now funded to work on these projects in the Spring semester.

Melissa DeckmanW had two articles published in the Journal of Politics and Religion; the first, coauthored with Sue Crawford and Laura Olson, was entitled, "The Politics of Gay Rights and the Gender Gap: A Perspective on the Clergy." The second was a book review on "From Pews to Polling Places," edited by J. Matthew Wilson and published by Georgetown University Press.

Ryan Kelty's co-authored article, "Sociology at West Point," appeared in a special issue of Armed Forces & Society. Ryan also gave an invited talk at the United States Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership entitled "Civilian-Military Integration: Policy and Ethics Implications."

Mike Kerchner delivered a featured co-authored presentation, "Leadership in shaping interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering & mathematics (STEM) learning environments" at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities in Seattle, WA. Mike also presented a poster co-authored with students, "A rodent model of Parkinson's Disease: 6-Hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesions of the striatum," during the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) Social & Poster Session at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, in Washington, DC.

Alisha Knight took part in a live studio discussion on January 8 on Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR (88.1 FM). Hosted by Dan Rodricks, the show featured a discussion about Michelle Obama's role as our first African-American First Lady.

Aaron Lampman co-authored an article titled, "The Grace of the Flood: Classification and Use of Wild Mushrooms among the Highland Maya of Chiapas," in Economic Botany, with colleagues Glenn Shepard Jr. and David Arora. The article explores ethnobiological classification and describes a new, edible species of mushroom named Amanita hayalyuy.

Andrea Lange and Stewart Bruce were awarded an additional $54,000 in October for the Crime Mapping and Analysis Program to develop a new web mapping application for the Division of Parole and Probation and provide additional training to crime analysts statewide. This grant funded one additional student to work in crime analysis.

Deb Marciano presented a session introducing her new strategy for engaging readers with text: Promoting Inquiry Through Children's Literature: The Three New R's - Relevance, Relationships, & Responsiveness at The NCTE Annual Conference: Shift Happens, in San Antonio, Texas in late November. She also has been appointed to the board of the Children's Literature Assembly of NCTE.

Matt McCabe's essay "In Defense of Ethically Caring Physicians" was published in Communication and Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society.

Donald McColl served as juror for the Adkins Arboretum 2009 Art Competition: "Discovering the Native Landscapes of the Coastal Plain," at the Adkins Arboretum, in Ridgely, Maryland.

Tahir Shad appeared on "The Marc Steiner Show." Tahir was invited to be a guest on the program to discuss the recent wave of terrorism in India.

Karen Smith was on the faculty of the National Dance Association GOTTA DANCE! Page-to-Stage conference on Musical Theater held at Manatee School of the Arts/Palmetto, Florida, presenting sessions on Pilates, Nutrition for Dancers, and Stretching for Injury Prevention.

The History News Network published an article by Rick Striner about a possible "Lincolnesque" solution to the financial crisis. You can read it here: http://hnn.us/articles/57568.html. Rick's chapter,"Abraham Lincoln and the Anti-Slavery Movement," was included in the multi-author book "Lincoln's America," published in December by Southern Illinois University Press.

Aileen Tsui presented a paper entitled "The Painter as Collector: Whistler's Japanism and the Abstracting Eye" at the North American Victorian Studies Association annual conference held at Yale University.

Michele Volansky presented a talk "The Urgency of Now -- Selecting Plays that Matter" at the Region 2 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival in Philadelphia in January. In addition, her three-year journey as dramaturg with MY NAME IS ASHER LEV culminated in the play's production at the Arden Theatre, running through March 15th, 2009.

Monika Weiss lists the following recent professional activities/achievements:
- Video and photography installation "Keimai 3" as part of international exhibition "Frauen Bei Olympia" at FrauenMuseum, Bonn [October-December 2008, catalogue] with artist talk on November 9;
- Video, sound and sculpture installation "Phlegethon-Milczenie" as part of international exhibition "The Prisonner's Dilemma" at Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation/Miami Basel, on view through March 1 [catalogue];
- Video, sound, and sculpture installation "Expulsion" as part of "Wa[h]re Kunst" at ConcentArt, Berlin, on view through Feb.4, with performance on January 9;
- Individual exhibition of recent works in drawing, photography, video and sound in "Monika Weiss: Marginalia" at Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, on view through Feb. 15.
Elizabeth Young's book review of the four volume "Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History" appears in volume 48, issue 2 of Reference and User Services Quarterly. This multi-volume encyclopedia has been added to Miller Library's collection.
December 2008

Erin Anderson (Sociology) served as organizer and discussant for "The Sociology of the Body" research paper session and presided over a roundtable session on "Gender and Violence" at the recent American Sociological Association annual meeting in Boston in August.

Kevin Brien's (Philosophy) paper, "Marx and the Living Flower," was published in the Greek journal SKEPSIS: A Journal for Philosophy and Inter-Disciplinary Research. Kevin participated in the XXII World Congress of Philosophy held at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea (July 30-Aug 5); and he presented three papers at this Congress. The titles of his three papers are: "Contemporary Chinese Philosophy"; "Marx and the Living Flower"; and "Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Humanistic Marxism." Additionally, he participated in the XIX International Symposium of the Olympic Center for Philosophy and Culture held in Olympia, Greece (Aug 8-12); and he presented the long version of his paper, "Marx and the Living Flower."

Tom Cousineau (English) recently published his fourth book, Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard, with University of Delaware Press.

Lisa Daniels (Economics) and her spouse gave a presentation, "Managing Work and Family as a Dual-Career Couple," for the Michigan State University Department of Agricultural Economics seminar series on October 22.

Jessica Gerrity (Political Science) co-authored the article, "The Interest Group—Staff Connection in Congress: Access and Influence in Personal, Committee, and Leadership Offices" in PS: Political Science and Politics.

Adam Goodheart (History) was appointed to the board of the Maryland Humanities Council.

Charlie Kehm's (Physics) coauthored manuscript, "Characteristics and applications of RELAX, an ultrasensitive resonance ionization mass spectrometer for xenon", made the cover of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.

Anne Marteel-Parrish (Chemistry), and her husband, Dr. Damon Parrish, and Katie Juromski '08 published an article entitled, "Tris(4-acetamidophenoxymethyl)-methanol 0.7-hydrate" in Acta Crystallographica E in October 2008. The American Chemical Society Student Affiliates chapter (Chemistry Club) supervised by Anne received an honorable award for their activities performed in 2007-2008. This is the third year since 2004 the ACS SA chapter at Washington College is recognized by the Education Division at the American Chemical Society. Anne gave a talk and led a session on "Teaching Green Chemistry without a textbook" at the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers meeting in Saint Mary's City College on October 11, 2008.

Matt McCabe's (Philosophy) article, "The Physician-Patient Relationship: An Aretaic Formulation", was published in An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, vol. II.

Donald McColl (Art) gave a talk entitled "Glancing Blows? Art and Corporal Punishment in Early Modern Europe," in "Papers in Honor of H.C. Erik Midelfort" a session sponsored by the Society for Reformation Research, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. He also gave a talk entitled, "The Cleveland Marbles and the Visual Cultures of Pre-Constantinian Christianity" Colloquium of the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania.

The National University of Singapore Press has published a low-cost Asian paperback edition of Andrew Oros's (Political Science) recently-published book, Normalizing Japan, just four months after its release from Stanford University Press. Also, together with co-author Steve Clemons, Andrew had published, "Japan's Leadership Struggle to Create a New 'Normal'" in the Spring/Summer edition of the Harvard Asia Quarterly.

John Seidel (Anthropology) was a lead speaker in a workshop on "Expanding an Historic District" at the Annual Maryland Historic Preservation & Revitalization Conference in Hagerstown, MD on May 30. He delivered a paper on "Geospatial Technology in Community Visioning and Regional Economic Development" to the Maryland Economic Development Association in Cambridge, MD on June 2, 2008, four public lectures on marine archaeology and historic architecture in Bermuda in July and three lectures on the Center for Environment & Society to various groups over the summer. On August 9, he gave a lecture titled "In the Footsteps of John Smith" to the Shrewsbury Institute. He spoke on "The Natural & Cultural History of the Sassafras River" to the Sassafras River Association on September 18, and hosted a workshop on the use of substitute materials in historic buildings on September 20 for the Maryland Association of Historic District Commissions. Seidel and the Center for Environment & Society recently received a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for developing a new initiative, the Chesapeake Semester, as well as: $335,000 from the U.S. Dept. of Education for acquisition of a new research vessel and related equipment, to be used for estuarine study and STEM education; $25,000 from the Town Creek Foundation for work with Chestertown and other Kent County municipalities, assisting them to meet the goals of the U.S. Mayors Climate Commitment; $30,000 from the Maryland Historical Trust for regional archaeological surveys; and $26,000 from the Maryland Higher Education Commission for graduate and undergraduate fellowships in archaeology and historic preservation.

Leslie Sherman (Chemistry) presented a poster entitled, "Sequential Burning Effects on the Soil Chemistry of a Grassland Restoration on the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain" at the joint meeting of the Soil Science Society of America and the Geological Society of America in Houston, TX, as part of a symposium on Black Carbon in the Environment.

Karen Smith (Physical Education) has been appointed by the National Dance Association for a three-year term as National Chair of the Advisory Committee for Nu Delta Alpha - the National Dance Honor Society. Karen presented two workshops at the Southwest District convention of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Dance held in June in Waikoloa, HI -- one a Pilates mat class on Pilates exercises that emphasize the core, the other on Posture and Movement Evaluation for Dancers.

Rick Striner (History) has received an advance publication contract from Johns Hopkins University Press to be the senior author of a book about architecture in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Rick has received a second book contract, this one from Southern Illinois University Press, to write a book about Lincoln and race. Rick was interviewed about Lincoln on radio station WYPR on October 28.

Michele Volansky's (Drama) dramaturgical work on Peter Bonilla's A HUMAN EQUATION at the PlayPenn New Play Development Conference was honored when the play was nominated for the Timothy Smith Playwriting Prize, which recognizes work that investigates American political and civic thought. Michele developed the play this summer with the playwright, director Casey Stengl and actor David Straithern. Michele also presented a talk "The Dramaturg as Civic Leader" at the annual conference of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas this June at the University of California, San Diego.
September 2008

Chris Ames published "The Hollywood Novel at the End of the Twentieth Century" in Literature/Film Quarterly (Summer 2008).

Stew Bruce gave a public presentation on the St Michaels/Miles Point Community Visualization project to the St Michaels Town Commission in a quasi-judicial hearing on April 16th. Four Washington College students played a key role in the success of this project. Funding from the Bay Hundred Foundation was received to develop this project. Stew presented a webinar on Geographic Information Systems in the K-12 Education System to at least 35 school teachers and school administrators in Pennsylvania on April 29th. The webinar can be viewed by going to http://vclass.cciu.org/recordings.html and selecting the date of April 29th. He also gave public presentation on the Kent County GIS Needs Assessment to the Kent County Commissioners on May 6th. Students from the Introduction to GIS class each wrote individual departmental technology assessments as part of this project.

The GIS Program, in the Center for Environment and Society, was awarded an $8,800 contract to develop a high school course entitled Intermediate Geographic Information Systems. This is the second of what will be a four-semester sequence of geospatial technology courses developed for the Dover Area High School in York County, Pennsylvania. This summer two Washington College students helped to develop the curriculum.

Lisa Daniels gave a presentation in July on, "Teaching institutional economics in undergraduate development courses", as part of an organized symposium at the annual meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association in Orlando, Florida.

Jessica Gerrity presented a paper, "Electoral Change and Women's Representation in the State Legislatures", at the 2008 American Political Science Association Conference in Boston, MA. Jessica co-authored a chapter titled, "Did the Media Do it? The Influence of News Coverage on the 2006 Congressional Elections," in Fault Lines: Why the Republicans Lost Congress, edited by Jeffrey J. Mondak and Dona-Gene Mitchell. The book was published by Routledge Press.

Ryan Kelty published his article last month: "The U.S. Navy's Maiden Voyage: Effects of Integrating Sailors and Civilian Mariners on Deployment," in Armed Forces & Society. Ryan (Sociology) and Ruth Kelty (marine ecologist for the National Ocean Service and Fellow at the Center for Environment and Society) were interviewed by Alaska Public Radio about their social science research with a rural Alaskan fishing community.

Austin Lobo served as the Chair of Committee for the Poster Sessions, International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC 2008) at Linz, Austria, in July 2008. Austin also served as an AP Reader, Advanced Placement Test in Computer Science, in June 2008.

In June, Deb Marciano presented a paper: It's More Than Puppy Love: A Boy and His Service Dog Go to School, at the Association of Childhood Education International (ACEI) World Conference, in Moscow, Russia. "The Changing of the Guard: Innovations in Russian Education. Education For Children In The World Without Borders," brought elementary teachers, early childhood workers, and teacher educators together to reach across methods and theories to advance learning for young children. Deb's article, "Acquiring A Service Dog: From Research to Classroom", was published in the summer 2008 issue of Focus on Inclusive Education, a peer-reviewed publication of The Association of Childhood Education International (ACEI).

Anne Marteel-Parrish attended the 12th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering conference in Washington, DC from June 22 to June 25 and gave two oral presentations: one on her research performed with four undergraduate students: Harlan, D.'06; Martin, J.'06; DeCarlo, S.'10; Sheridan, H.'10 titled "Extension of the environmentally benign catecholate method to the synthesis of barium-based perovskites and environmentally benign synthesis of doped barium titanate" and one on her course on Green Chemistry and Sustainability titled: "Towards the greening of our minds: A new course offered at Washington College, Chestertown, MD"

Cathy Mulder's article "The Minimum-Wage Debate and Its Implications for Unions" was published in the Journal of Collective Negotiations. Cathy also testified and authored a report as an expert economist in a wrongful termination case in front of the Indiana State Supreme Court in Fort Wayne, IN, this August. Cathy's book, Unions and Class Transformation: the Case of the Broadway Musicians, will be released by Routledge Publishers on December 5th of this year.

In July, Lisa Noetzel attended the American Association of Teachers of Spanish & Portuguese (AATSP) in San José, Costa Rica where she presented "Colonization & language contact: Castilian & Timucuan." In August, she presented a second paper, "El encuentro castellano-timucuano y su consecuencia lingüística" at the Asociación de lingüística y filología en América Latina (ALFAL) held in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Normalizing Japan: Politics, Identity, and the Evolution of Security Practice by Andrew Oros was released by Stanford University Press in May and featured at book launch events at the East West Center Washington, the Brookings Institution, and the Pudong Institute in Shanghai. Andrew also discussed his new research on China-Japan-U.S. security cooperation at a trilateral workshop in Beijing and at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston.

Shaun Ramsey's article, "Interactive Volumetric Shadows in Participating Media with Single-Scattering", is now in print in the IEEE / EG Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing 2008.

Janet Sorrentino was awarded a contract by the FDA to teach, "History of Medical Technologies." The ten-hour course, to be offered over five weeks in October and November, was arranged by Emily Siwarski, WAC 2002, who coordinates continuing education for the Staff College of the Medical Technologies division of the FDA. Dr. Sorrentino also read a paper in July, "The Gilbertine Chapter Office and the Rule of St. Augustine" at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK.

Shawn Stein delivered a paper entitled, "Derrocando los pilares de la literatura nacional: el caso de Diogo Mainardi", on August 11th at the Octavas Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago.

Susan Vowels' article, "Understanding RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)", was published in the Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology, published by Information Science Reference, and edited by Antonio Cartelli and Marco Palma, both of the University of Cassino, Italy. The Encyclopedia has been named the September eBook of the Month by OCLC NetLibrary. In addition, her paper, "A Strategic Case for RFID: Wal-Mart and its Supply Chain", originally published in the proceedings of the Southern Association for Information Systems, has been included in RFID: Changing the Face of Supply Chain Management, edited by Suhas Rane and published by the ICFAI University Press. She was also appointed to a second term as a member of the College Board CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications Test Development committee.

Peter Weigel's book on the philosophical theology of Thomas Aquinas, Aquinas on Simplicity, has been published by Peter Lang Publishers of Oxford.

Monika Weiss published her essay, "Horos and other playgrounds" in Homo Ludens Ludens: Third Part of the Gaming Trilogy, (Laboral/Centro de Arte y Creation Industrial, Gijon, Spain.) Monika also presented her work in two exhibitions: May 20-June 24, "Kraj" international exhibition in Centre for Contemporary Art, Opole, Poland and July 15-November 9, "Frauen bei Olympia" international exhibition, Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany (catalogue). Reviews of her work were published in several newspapers and art magazines in Poland from the exhibition "Kraj" including, Obieg: Contemporary Art Journal.
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.
December 2007

Peter Campion attended the "Kenyon Review Literary Festival" in Gambier, OH, where he participated in two panel discussions on literary editing. His book review of David Wojahn (one of this year's Sophie Kerr Lecturers) was issued as a podcast by the Poetry Foundation and National Public Radio. It can be heard at alt.npr.org.

Anat Gilboa's review of Professor Stephanie Dickey's recent book, Rembrandt: Face to Face, was accepted for publication and will appear in the German journal "Sehepunkte" in December.

The State Crime Prevention Agency has awarded $95,279 to Washington College for a grant proposal written by Andrea Lange and Stewart Bruce, to fund their project on Rural Crime Mapping.

Anne Marteel-Parrish was the Washington College delegate to the Sigma Xi (The Scientific Research Society) annual conference in Orlando, FL on November 1-4, 2007. She was also a judge for the student research conference on November 3. Her two students, Samantha DeCarlo '10 and Heather Sheridan '10, received a Certificate of Recognition for their excellent presentation on green chemistry.

James Martin's article, "'Die bezaubernde Anmut eines chemischen Prozesses' - The Role of Photography in the Works of Gerhard Roth and W.G. Sebald" was published in the journal Modern Austrian Literature 40.4 (2007).

Donald McColl gave a talk: "Ad fontes: Iconoclasm by Water in the Reformation World," at the Seminar of the Reformation Studies Institute, St. Andrews Centre for Advanced Historical Studies, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Donald also served as an outside reader for Phaidon Press, Ltd., UK.

Kate Moncrief's book, Performing Maternity in Early Modern England, has been published by Ashgate. It is co-edited with Dr. Kate McPherson (Utah Valley State College) and features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity's cultural representation, performative aspects, and practical consequences, both on stage and off, in the period from 1540-1690. Moncrief is co-author of the essay "Embodied and Enacted: Performances of Maternity in Early Modern England," and sole author of the essay, "'Show me a child begotten of thy body that I am father to': Pregnancy, Paternity and the Problem of Evidence in All's Well That Ends Well. Moncrief and McPherson are currently leading a Shakespeare Association research seminar titled "Gender and Instruction in Early Modern England" and are beginning work on a new book on the same topic.

Andrew Oros published "Let's Debate: Active Learning Encourages Student Participation and Critical Thinking" in the Journal of Political Science Education; he also discussed growing US-Japan-China military confidence building measures at an invited workshop in Tokyo, Japan.

Tahir Shad appeared via telephone from South America, to discuss the political and security situation in Iraq, on "The Marc Steiner Show" on NPR affiliate WYPR (88.1 FM).

Leslie Sherman presented a poster on her research entitled "Sequential burning effects on the soil chemistry of a grassland restoration on the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain" at the 2007 International Annual Meeting of the Soil Science Society of America in New Orleans, LA.

Karen Smith successfully completed her "test out" for final certification in Pilates Equipment and Apparatus at the Physical-Mind Institute in NYC (May 31). Karen taught a workshop in "Pilates for Dancers" at the National Dance Assn. Pedagogy Conference at the National Dance Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY (June 14). Karen adjudicated a choreography competition for the Edward Stewart Memorial Ballet Scholarship Fund at MD Hall for the Performing Arts in Annapolis (Aug. 18). She also presented a paper, "The Phenomenon of The Nutcracker Ballet: A Hard Nut to Crack" and taught a workshop on "Pilates for Dancers"; at the 20th World Dance Congress of CID-UNESCO (Congreso Internationale de Dance) in Athens Greece (Sept 5-9). She was appointed to serve on the Scientific Committee for 2007-08 for CID-UNESCO, and was Guest Speaker for opening remarks for The Art of the Solo Concert at the Baltimore Museum of Art, speaking on "The State of Dance in the State (of MD)" (Sept. 29).

Aileen Tsui presented a paper entitled "Whistler's Golds: Classicism, Japanism, and Modernist Authority" at the Southern Conference of British Studies, held this year in Richmond, VA.

Susan Vowels attended the 2007 Decision Sciences Institutes Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona where I presented "RFID and the SCOR Model" and served as session chair for "RFID in the Supply Chain."

Monika Weiss gave an invited lecture and book signing, "Monika Weiss: between presence and performative memory", a two-part lecture presenting the artist's new work in the context of the experimental drawing practices, followed a book signing of the recently published monograph survey of her work "Monika Weiss: Five Rivers" and "Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art", a book featuring 50 international artists' works, The School of Art, Loughborough University, England, November 19, 2007.
November 2007

Joyce Baugher successfully defended her dissertation, "Textual Figures: Visual Art in Contemporary Latin American Fiction: Clarice Lispector, Lya Luft, and Diamela Eltit," at Tulane University.

John Boyd led a workshop on writing college application essays at SciLife 2007, a conference in Washington D.C. organized by the National Institutes of Health.

Peter Campion's poem "Recurring Dream in a New Home" appeared in AGNI, and his poems "In Late August" and "Just Now" were published in Poetry. His catalog essay on the painter Eric Aho, "Landscape and Sensation," was published by the Reeves Contemporary Gallery in New York City. He spoke at the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics' annual conference in Chicago. He also participated in the Gunston Day School's "In Celebration of the Book."

Tom Cousineau published a review of French philosopher Alain Badiou's On Beckett in the Journal of Beckett Studies.

Lisa Daniels was invited to be a guest speaker at the International Congress on Economics and Politics at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico as part of their fiftieth anniversary celebration in September. She presented a paper entitled "Small Enterprises in Africa: Microfinance, The Legal Environment, and Contributions to Income."

Melissa Deckman's article, "Gender Differences in the Decision to Run for School Board," was published in American Politics Research. Melissa was quoted in the Montgomery County Gazette, on September 14, 2007, in the article, "Taking the Lead: Women are Being elected to more top spots and key roles" by Alan Brody about women's electoral victory in primary elections around the state.

Meredith Davies Hadaway's poem, "Yahrzeit," has been nominated for a 2007 Pushcart Prize.

Michael Harvey has been named a Senior Scholar at the University of Maryland's James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, where he is co-teaching a leadership course this fall. He has also signed a contract with academic publisher Edward Elgar to co-edit (with Prof. Ron Director of the Kravitz Leadership Institute at Claremont University) a book entitled Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines. On November 2, he chaired a panel and presented a paper entitled "Gilgamesh: The First Leadership Story" at the annual conference of the International Leadership Association (Vancouver, Canada). He also gave two talks in the Brookings Institution's Government Executive Education program: "Just Win, Baby: Machiavelli on Leadership" (September 12) and "The Moral Challenges of Power: Fear and Courage" (October 3).

Lauren Littlefield was honored with the Maryland Psychological Teacher of the Year Award, which was presented by the Maryland Psychological Association "in recognition of innovation and excellence in teaching Psychology at the undergraduate level."

James Martin presented a paper entitled "Crossing Bridges/Crossing Cultures: The Films of Fatih Akin" at the German Studies Association annual conference held in San Diego and the Foreign Language Film Conference hosted by Southern Illinois University.

Matt McCabe presented his paper, "The Physician-Patient Relationship: An Aretaic Formulation," at the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) 2nd International Conference on Philosophy, in Athens, Greece, in June.

Donald McColl published a book review in Renaissance Quarterly. Donald also gave public lectures at Hood College (where he taught a class for the graduate seminar in the Humanities, "Death and the Afterlife") and the University of Virginia: "'Signs of the Times': The Cleveland Marbles," and gave a talk at Heron Point, Chestertown: "Reckoning with the Jonah Marbles at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Donald also participated in "Judaism and Christian Art," the 3rd Lavy Colloquium, of the Smokler Center for Jewish Life, The Johns Hopkins University, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program.

Michael McLendon's article, "Traces on the skein algebra of the torus," appeared in the October 2007 issue of the journal Topology and Its Applications.

Scott Pearson successfully defended his dissertation, "Credit Registries, Lender's Networks, and Reputational Effects on Repayment: Experiments with Implications for Microfinance," at The Ohio State University.

Michele Volansky was named Artistic Associate for the PlayPenn National New Play Conference; she has been serving as Conference Dramaturg since the Conference's inception in 2004. Michele also recently served on the national selection committee for the New York Shakespeare Festival/Joseph Papp Public Theatre's Emerging Writers Series.

Carol Wilson's latest book is featured prominently in the October 19 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Carol's book, The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans (Rutgers University Press) received the main review under the Chronicle's "New Scholarly Books" section.

Beverly Wolff gave a lecture entitled "Women and Film: Centrality, Margin and Focus" as part of the Research on Women, Fall 2007 Lecture Series, University of Delaware.
October 2007

Kevin Brien presented a paper on "World Peace and Humanistic Marxism" at the Seventh Congress of the International Society for Universal Dialogue held in Hiroshima, Japan in June 2007. Following that he presented an invited paper on "Lao Tsu, Buddha, and Native American Wisdom" at an International Symposium on Dialogue: Philosophy and Literature held at Beijing International Studies University in Beijing, China. He also presented another invited paper on "Humanistic Marxism and Freedom" to graduate students and faculty at the Institute for Transcultural Studies in Beijing, China. Finally, he participated in an International Congress on Planetary Initiatives 2007 held in Salt Lake City, Utah in August. He moderated a panel on "Peace, War and Militarism" that met for a total of more than twenty hours, and formulated resolutions on Palestine, Tibet, Chechnya, the Iraq war, and depleted uranium weapons—all of which were later adopted by the whole Congress, and will now be sent respectively to the governments of Israel, China, Russia, the United States, and also to the United Nations.

Peter Campion's poem "Lilacs" was published in Slate, and his poem "Simile" in The New Republic. His interview with the British poet, Clive Wilmer, appeared in The Notre Dame Review (reprinted from The London Magazine). His piece on Robert Pinsky was published in The Yale Review. He gave a reading at Area 405 in Baltimore. He was also appointed Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Literary Imagination, which is published in collaboration between the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics and Oxford University Press.

Robert Lynch had an op-ed, "Public investment can stimulate growth more than tax cuts" published in the Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) on September 19, 2007.

Deb Marciano presented her research "Childhood in Italy: Schools, Culture, and Children's Literature" at the Association of Childhood Education International (ACEI) Annual Conference: Education for Transformation -Impact on the Children of the World, in Tampa, FL, May, 2007. Deb's paper, "Making an Ass of Assessment: A Look at Children's Literature" was published in September in Papers & Proceedings of the Third Western Pennsylvania Teaching and Learning Conference.

Lisa Noetzel presented a paper, "La périphrase future et la réanalyse de VADERE: une perspective generative," at the Congres International de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes (CILPR) in Innsbruck, Austria, September 3-8, 2007.

Brian Scott presented a co-authored paper to the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) seminar entitled, "Nitrogen Farming in the Mississippi Watershed: An Environmental Economics Policy Comparison."

John Seidel recently received seven grants: $25,000 from the Town Creek Foundation to assist Chestertown in implementing the US Mayors Climate Commitment; $30,000 from the Maryland Historical Trust to evaluate an ecological predictive model for archaeological site location on the Eastern Shore; $18,843 for archaeological survey on Eastern Neck, Kent County; grants of $6,000 and $20,000 from the Maryland Higher Education Commission for undergraduate and graduate fellowships in historic preservation; and, in partnership with the Town of Chestertown, $40,000 from the Chesapeake Bay Trust for an urban greening initiative in Chestertown. During the summer, John gave several lectures: "Exploring the Bottom of the Bay: Technologies for Assessing & Managing Shallow Water Habitats" at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum; "Archaeological Perspectives on the American Revolution" at the Friends of the Vanderveer House, Bernardsville, NJ; a discussion of Native Americans on the Eastern Shore for a teacher's institute led by Sultana Projects; and two public lectures in Bermuda : "The Two Worlds of Captain John Smith: the Chesapeake and Bermuda" and "Withstanding the 'Hurricano': Environment & the Architecture of Bermuda."

Christine Wadedelivered a paper entitled "Salvadoran Political Economy in the Postwar Era," was a panelist on the "Maras in Central America" workshop, and acted as a discussant on the "Unraveling the Textures of Violence in Central America" panel at the XXVII International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, September 5-8, Montreal, Canada.
September 2007

Erin Anderson attended the American Sociological Association annual meeting in New York where she participated in a pre-conference workshop entitled "Teachers are Made, Not Born." Erin received a Sage/Pine Forge Press Teaching Innovations & Professional Development award to attend the workshop and meeting. She presented a paper "It's the Job, Not the Gender: At-Home Fathers and the Parenting Role" at the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction annual meeting in New York. Erin also has a new publication now out: Teaching the Sociology of the Body: A Collection of Syllabi, Assignments, and Other Resources, edited by Erin K. Anderson and Susan J. Ferguson. This text is part of the ASA Resource Materials for Teaching collection.

Tom Cousineau gave a talk entitled "Mimetic Desire vs. Chiasmic Form: A New Reading of Hamlet," at the annual meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion in Amsterdam. His review of Paul Armstrong's Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form appeared in the summer 2007 issue of Studies in the Novel.

Lisa Daniels traveled to Rhodes University in South Africa in June to meet with faculty and administrators who assist with the Washington College study abroad program. She was also hired by the Center for International Economic Studies and Research at the University of North Texas to review the research methods and results of a pilot survey in Mexico on micro and small enterprises.

Melissa Deckman published her article, "School Board Candidates and Gender: Ideology, Party, and Policy Concerns", in the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. She presented the paper "The ABCs of Fighting AIDS Internationally: the Involvement of Faith-Based Organizations in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief" at the Japanese and American Women's Symposium on Women and Foreign Policy, at Macalester College, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Melissa also participated in a roundtable discussion about women and foreign policy at the American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting on August 30, where she also received the Hubert Morken Award, which recognizes the best book on religion and politics. In addition, Melissa published the article "Women at the School Board Level: Ideology, Party and Policy Concerns" in the Journal of Women, Politics, and Public Policy.

Adam Goodheart had the lead article in the May 20th edition of New York Times Magazine. The piece was titled "This Old, Organic House." In addition, he also had the Independence Day cover story in the New York Times Week in Review, entitled "Wrapped in the Star-Spangled Toga." His review of Adrian Tinniswood's The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England, was published in the August 5th edition of the New York Times. Adam was also interviewed on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "By Design" radio program.

Jessica Gerrity's co-authored article, "Women and Representation: A Different View of the District?", was published in Politics and Gender.

Robert Lynch had an op-ed, "Pre-K Program Would Yield Many Benefits," published in three Virginia newspapers: the Fauquier Times-Democrat (8/28/2007), the Loudoun Times-Mirror (8/29/2007) and the Fairfax Times (8/29/2007).

Kitty Maynard published her article, "To the Point: The Needle, the Sword, and Female Exemplarity in Du Bartas's La Judit," in Romance Notes.

Lisa Noetzel presented "Vadere + Infinitive: The reanalysis of a Romance future" at the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Andrew Oros presented a paper on the U.S. role in Japan's security policy in East Asia at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago, and lectured on related subjects at the Free University of Berlin and the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute in Virginia. He was a guest of the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry as part of a "young scholars delegation" to Taipei in August.

Jason Rubin designed the scenery for the play Social Security at Totem Pole Playhouse in June.

Josh Shenk's review of Andrew Ferguson's Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America, was published in the July 8th edition of the New York Times.

Karen Smith won a gold medal in golf in the National Senior Olympics besting the field by 3 strokes (78-78-79) on the rain-soaked Quail Chase Golf Club in Louisville, KY.

Janet Sorrentino presented a paper, "Poems and Pedagogy in the Gilbertine Ordinal," at the 2007 International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI. She also supervised the research and presentation of a Washington College history graduate student's paper, "Religious Syncretism in Albania under the Ottomans," given by Lejnar Mitrojorgji to the Medieval Academy sessions at the IMC. In June she met with faculty, administrators and students of University of Copenhagen for the study abroad program.

Aileen Tsui presented her paper, "Whistler's Game," at the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies.

Susan Vowels earned the APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) designation. APICS provides industry certifications and education in the field of operations and supply chain. She also served her third year as an examiner for the Salisbury Chamber of Conference Excellence in Business Program, which is based on the Baldrige National Quality Awards program. Susan also joined the College-Level Examination Program" Information Systems and Computer Applications development committee in July.

Monika Weiss participated in the following exhibitions: "Between Body and History: recent works by Monika Weiss," (solo exhibition), at the Galerie Samuel Lallouz, accompanied by a review in the Montreal Gazette, in Montreal, Canada, May 17-June 30, 2007; "You Won't Feel A Thing" (video and drawing installation), part of an international exhibition accompanied by a book publication, at the WYSPA Institute of Art in Gdansk, Poland, June 1-October 1, 2007; "Keimai 3" performance and drawing installation, part of the Cornice Art Fair in conjunction with 52 International Art Exhibition/La Bienale di Venecia, in Venice, Italy, June 8-12, 2007. Monika also had a monograph catalogue of her works created between 1999-2006 published by Lehman College Art Gallery/City University of New York and Les Editions Lallouz, entitled Monika Weiss: Five Rivers.
May 2007

Chris Ames' article, "Day of the Locust: 1939 and 1975" was published in R. Barton Palmer (ed.) Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen published by Cambridge University Press.

John Boyd chaired a panel titled "Exploring Writing Centers as Communities of Practice" at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in Houston. As part of the panel, he also presented a paper, "Representing Community: Discourse Roles in Peer Tutor Conversations."

Peter Campion's review of The Collected Poems of C.K. Williams appeared in The Boston Globe. His review of "About Borromini," an art and text exhibition by Deborah Rosenthal and Jed Perl at the Bowery Galley in New York City, appeared in Artcritical (artcritical.com.) His poem "The Population" has been reprinted in The Poetry Daily Anthology (Sourcebooks.) His version of Jin Eun-Young's "Long Finger Poem," translated with the author from Korean, appeared in Poetry, along with his short essay on Eun-Young. He gave a poetry reading and class at The New England Art Institute in Brookline, MA. He participated in a panel on poetry and the visual arts at The Pulitzer Foundation in St. Louis, and in a writing workshop on poetry and the visual arts at Washington University.

Tom Cousineau gave a guest lecture on Hamlet to an honors seminar on literary theory at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Tom also reviewed Beckett and French Theory: The Narration of Transgression, by Peter Lang, for the James Joyce Literary Supplement. Tom's new book, Three-Part Inventions: The Novels of Thomas Bernhard, will be published by the University of Delaware Press.

Michael Harvey has been chosen as one of the fifteen participants from national liberal arts colleges for Transylvania University's summer seminar on Liberal Arts Education.

Ibtisam Ibrahim co-authored an article with Muhammad Shuraydi of the University of Windsor, ON, Canada entitled, "Palestinian Female Suicide Bombers: Equal Partners in the Struggle for Liberation", published in The Arab World Geographer, Vol 9, No 2 (2006), Toronto, Canada.

Alisha Knight delivered a presentation, "Race(ing) into the Publishing Marketplace" on March 31, 2007 at the Central Pennsylvania Consortioum's Africana Studies Conference at Gettysburg College. Alisha also delivered a paper entitled, "Operations and Co-operation at the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company," on April 19, 2007 at the Collegium for African American Research International Conference in Madrid, Spain.

Robert Lynch has been informed that his latest book, Enriching Children, Enriching the Nation: Public Investment in High-Quality Prekindergarten, will be made available on May 3. The book, supported by funding from the Foundation for Child Development, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts, will be published by the Economic Policy Institute.

Deb Marciano presented her research study, "Portrayals of Family Literacy in Contemporary Children's Picture Books", at the 35th Annual State of Maryland International Reading Association Council (SoMIRAC) Conference on March 29, 2007. Through this critical analysis across race, class, gender, and age, Deb reflected on goals of family literacy as evidenced in representations found in children's literature.

Donald McColl gave the following community talks: "Signs of the Times: The Cleveland Marbles," at the River Club, Chestertown, MD, and "Treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, with/for students from Strathroy District Collegiate Institute, Strathroy, Ontario, Canada. Donald's recent scholarly talks include: "Castaways—Ancient Babylon to Contemporary Baghdad," at the International Meeting of OREZ--Rupture and Tradition--Symmetry, for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology Foundation-Observatory, Trancoso, Portugal, and the International Symmetry Association in Trancoso, Portugal, April 2007, "Années de pèlerinage: Late Antique Asia Minor, Reformation Zurich, Rembrandt's Amsterdam, and Beyond," at the Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, April 2007, and "Drowning Hosts, Drowning Jews," in "Kinderfresser and Hostienschänder: Art in the Service of Anti-Semitism in Renaissance Germany," a session cosponsored by the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Annual Convention of the Renaissance Society of America, in Miami, FL, March 2007. Donald also had a book review of Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance: Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith, by David Hotchkiss Price, published in Renaissance Quarterly.

Kevin McKillop recently presented the following two papers with his student co-authors, at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Co-authored by McKillop, K.J., Smith, J., Coates, S., & Harrington, B., "Attachment styles and interpersonal enmity", and co-authored by McKillop, K.J., Coates, S., Smith, J., & Harrington, B., "Is it healthy to have enemies?"

Michael McLendon gave a conference talk titled "Hochschild homology and 3-manifolds" at Knots in Washington XXIV on April 13, 2007, hosted by George Washington University in Washington, DC. Mike also gave a colloquium talk titled "Studying 3-manifolds using knots" to the mathematics department at the University of South Florida on April 25, 2007, in Tampa, FL.

Lisa Noetzel attended the Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) in March and presented a paper entitled "Latin vadere/ire: going, going, gone...to the future."

Corey Olsen presented a paper entitled "Arda Marred: The Song of the Ents and the Entwives" at the Fourth Annual Tolkien Conference at the University of Vermont.

Andrew Oros participated in book launches for his latest volume, Japan's New Defense Establishment: Capabilities, Institutions, and Implications (Stimson Center, co-authored with Yuki Tatsumi), in Washington, DC (March 30) and Tokyo (April 5).

George Shivers was asked to collaborate on a project titled "Guide to Documentary Sources for Andean Studies 1530-1900," to be published in 2008, by the University of Oklahoma Press for the National Gallery of Art. . Over several years, he has translated into English a substantial number of the essays written in Spanish by contributors to the project.

Karen Smith taught a 4-hour Pilates workshop, including a Posture & Movement evaluation tool, Fundamentals class, Mat class, and Equipment/Accessories workshop, for the National Dance Association annual convention in Baltimore. She also taught a modern dance master class in the Charles Weidman technique.

Michele Volansky's book, The Collaborative Playwright, co-written with Bruce Graham, was published by Heinemann Press on March 30th, 2007. In addition, Michele presented a workshop on dramaturgy for student theatre artists at the annual Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival and served as an adjudicator for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for Women Playwrights, presented by the Association of Theatre in Higher Education.

Susan Vowels attended the Lilly-East Conference on College and University Teaching last week. It was held on the campus of the University of Delaware in Newark. The theme of the conference was "Blueprints for Student Learning."

Peter Weigel's paper on "Happiness, Division and Illusions of the Self in Plato's Symposium" presented at the International Society of Phenomenology, Fine Arts and Aesthetics Conference at Harvard last May is being published in Analecta Husserliana, Volume 96.

Monika Weiss' multi-media installation "Horos" will be part of "Loneliness and Melancholy" an international exhibition at the Hans Weiss New Space Gallery, MCC, Manchester, Connecticut, March 29-May 1, accompanied by a catalogue.

Carol Wilson's book, The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans, has just been published by Rutgers University Press.
April 2007

Chris Ames' article, "Schooled by American Idol," was featured in the March 16 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Tom Cousineau's article, "/En attendant Godot/: pour en finir avec les rites sacrificiels," was published in the proceedings of the "Présence de Samuel Beckett" conference that he co-directed at the Centre International de Cérisy in Normandy.

Melissa Deckman's book, "School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics," was awarded the Hubert Morken Award, a biennial prize given by the American Political Science Association's Religion and Politics Organized Section that recognizes the best publication in religion and politics (2004-2005). She will be given the award at the American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting in Chicago over Labor Day Weekend.

Adam Goodheart has been awarded the 2007 A.D. Emmart Award for exemplary writing in the humanities by Maryland residents. Adam is being honored for the story "Expanding on Jefferson," which appeared in an issue of The New York Times Magazine devoted to architecture.

Charlie Kehm presented his paper, "Predicted Abundances of Cosmogenic Noble Gases in Interplanetary Dust Particles from Different Parent Objects," at the 38th Lunar and Planetary Science conference in Houston, TX.

Alisha Knight has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. The Wilson Fellowship, administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, assists junior faculty in their pursuit of scholarly research and writing in order to support their chances for success as tenured academics.

Don Munson has received a Grant-in-Aid from the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, formerly known as the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, that will help defray costs while conducting research there for two weeks this summer.

Susan Vowels presented her paper "Critical Success Factors for RFID Supply Chain Implementations: An Exploratory Model" at the Research Session of the 2007 SAP Curriculum Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Christine Wade delivered her paper, "El Salvador: Lessons Learned in Building Sustainable Peace," at the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention in Chicago, IL.

Monika Weiss's work "Phlegethon-Milczenie" was published in the March issue of Artnews in an article on Cisneros Fontenals Art Foundation, Miami, whose collection includes several works by the artist.
March 2007

Erin Anderson attended the Sociologists for Women in Society winter meeting in New Orleans. Also, Erin is a newly elected member of the board of directors for the Community Food Pantry.

Kevin Brien republished his paper called "Humanistic Marxism and the Transformation of Reason" in a second journal, namely the Polish journal Dialogue and Universalism.

Tom Cousineau presented two conference papers: "'Nothing Happens—Twice': Waiting For Godot and Hamlet" at the "Beckett's Traces" conference hosted by the Université de Lille 3, and "Becoming Bach in Thomas Bernhard's The Loser" at a panel on Metamorphoses of the European Bildungsroman organized at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association by the Division on European Literary Relations.

Anne Marteel-Parrish had an article published in the February issue of the Journal of Chemical Education titled, "Toward the Greening of Our Minds: A New Special Topics Course." This article describes her new special topics course offered every other spring at Washington College.

Kitty Maynard presented a talk entitled "Adaptations of Martyrdom: Jean Crespin's Martyrs in Agrippa d'Aubigné's Les Tragiques" at the MLA Annual Convention, in Philadelphia.

Matt McCabe presented a paper titled, "Admirable Dishonesty in Medical Practice?" at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in Cincinnati.

Don Munson was awarded a scholarship that will allow him to attend an Aspen Institute Executive Seminar this coming year.

Andrew Oros was chosen by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs as one of five "emerging leaders" in U.S.-Japan relations, an award which includes a week of meetings with government and business leaders in Tokyo. His commentary, "Listening to the People: Japanese Democracy and the New Security Agenda," was featured on the website of the Mansfield Foundation's collection of opinion polling.

Pam Pears's chapter "Le Mythe de la guerrière : Yamina Mechakra et Ly Thu Ho" is in the edited collection: "Des femmes écrivent la guerre" published by the Editions Complicité in Aix-en-Provence, France. Pam's book Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War has been reprinted in paperback by Lexington Books.

Rachel Scholz has just received her Ph.D from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her dissertation title: "How Three Expert Middle School Reading Teachers Engender Interest in Reading."

In January, Karen Smith served as one of two adjudicators for dance company auditions for the World Dance Showcase (March 24 at Publick Playhouse) sponsored by the Arts Division of the MD-National Capital Park & Planning Commission.
February 2007

Kevin Brien presented his paper called "World Peace: Humanistic-Marxism and Buddhism" at an Interim World Philosophy Congress held in December at Delhi University, India.

Peter Campion recently gave a poetry reading at Chapters Bookstore in Washington, DC. He also chaired a panel on painters in the modern city at Rider University in New Jersey. His omnibus review-essay, "Eight Takes" appeared in the January issue of Poetry Magazine, and his review of The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch appeared in The Boston Globe.

Frank Creegan is co-author of an article, "POGIL and the POGIL Project," which appeared in the December 2006 issue of Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, a volume devoted to Stem Innovation and Dissemination: Improving Teaching and Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. On January 6, Frank presented a half-day, hands-on workshop on Inquiry-Based Laboratories for Maryland high school chemistry teachers at the Annual Meeting of REACTS (Reaching Educators for the Advancement of Chemistry Teaching Statewide), which was held at University of Maryland, College Park.

Lisa Daniels presented a paper she wrote with two co-authors, "The Impact of PowerPoint on Student Performance and Course Evaluations in Economics Courses: An Experiment at Three Institutions," in January at the annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Association in Chicago, Illinois.

Michael Harvey wrote two chapters—"Leadership and the Human Condition" (ch. 2) and "Power" (ch. 4) in The Quest for a General Theory of Leadership, published by Edward Elgar in November 2006. He also chaired a panel and presented a paper, "Thinking Harter: A Walk in the Leadership Woods," at the annual November meeting of the International Leadership Association (ILA) in Chicago. In December, he was elected the next chair of the ILA's Scholarship group. In January, he was invited to write a chapter, "Enchanting Words: Imagining Leadership in Literature," for Leadership and the Humanities, edited by Joanne Ciulla, to be published by Praeger Press.

Juan Lin gave an invited lecture, "Modeling influenza A drift: Challenges," at the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk. He also reviewed, "Analysis of an SIR epidemic model with pulse vaccination and distributed time delay," for the Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology.

Deb Marciano presented a paper in November, "Testing Assessment: A Look at Assessment in Children's Literature" at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) annual convention in Nashville, TN.

James Martin had an article on Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr, "A World Turned Upside Down: Role Reversals in the Victim-Perpetrator Complex in Christoph Ransmayr's Morbus Kitahara," published in an edited volume, Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945. (Re) Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture. James also presented on German author W.G. Sebald at the Modern Languages Association annual conference held in Philadelphia.

Matt McCabe presented a paper titled "Ethical Caring, Medical Paternalism, and Respect for Patient Autonomy" at the Fifth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities.

Don Munson recently published an article (December 2006) - "Distribution of Acanthamoeba in More and Less Polluted North Sea Coastal Sediments"- in the Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. He also chaired a Contributed Paper Session on "Outreach, Education and Policy," at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Phoenix, AZ, in January.

Lisa Noetzel's article, "The Spanish Progressive and its Latin Source." was published in the January issue of Neophilologus, Volume 91. Issue 1. 2007.

Andrew Oros published an article, "Explaining Japan's Tortured Course to Surveillance Satellites" in the Review of Policy Research (January 2007).

Karen Smith was appointed to the Scientific Committee of the International Dance Council (CID/UNESCO) for 2006-07. She presented a paper "The Powwow Trail: Native American Dance Traditions in a Contemporary World" at the CID World Congress in Athens, Greece in October and taught a Pilates workshop for participants. She also wrote a chapter on Pilates mat exercise for the 4th edition of "Teaching Cues for Sport Skills for Secondary Students" just published by Benjamin Pearson Cummings.

Rick Striner has signed a contract to write a chapter in a multi-author book to be entitled Lincoln's America, to be published by Southern Illinois University Press. Rick's article "Lincoln, Race, and Moral Strategy" has been accepted for publication in Lincoln Lore, the journal of the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Favorable reviews of Rick's book Father Abraham have appeared in "Reviews in American History," "Civil War Book Review" (published by the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University), and the aforementioned Lincoln Lore. In January, Rick served as a grant proposal reviewer for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

John Taylor has published three major articles in the new Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties: historical background essays on the evolution of the right to counsel and the privilege against self-incrimination, and an essay on the scope and issues of the contemporary right to counsel.

Michele Volansky served as the dramaturg for the world premiere of Dex and Julie Sittin' in a Tree at the Arden Theater in Philadelphia. In addition, she was part of the selection committee for the 2007 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, help annually in July in Waterford, CT.