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The following faculty achievements were compiled by the Provost Office from faculty
submissions
PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES
Roarke Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Biology,
published two articles: Donnelly, R., and J.M. Marzluff. 2006.
“Relative importance of habitat quantity, structure, and spatial
pattern to birds in an urbanizing region.” Urban Ecosystems 9(2);
and Donnelly, R. 2005. “Leveraging education to conserve Kori
Bustards and Biodiversity.” African Conservation Telegraph 2:7-8.
Karen Head, Lecturer in English, published “Annie's
Song,” “Georgia Clay,” “Grandmother's Spit,” “The Hustle,” “Living
in the Material World,” “It's Still Rock and Roll to Me.” Prairie
Schooner. 79:3 (2005); “Bad Girls.” War, Literature, and the Arts:
An International Journal of the Humanities 17: 1-2 (2005);
“Southern Gothic.” New Millennium Writings 15 (2005); “Hester
Speaks” and “Indian Reservation.” The Women’s Review of Books 22:3
(2004); “Southern Girls.” Knoxville Bound: A Collection of
Literary Works Inspired by Knoxville, Tennessee. Ed. Judy Loest;
“The One that You Love.” The Burnside Review 1:1 (2004).
Matthew Hogben, Lecturer in Psychology, published the
following articles in 2005: McCree DH, Oh J, Hogben M. “Status of
and pharmacists’ role in patient-delivered partner therapy for
sexually transmitted diseases.” American Journal of Health-Systems
Pharmacy, 65, 643-646; Hogben M, Ledsky R, Middlestadt SE,
VanDevanter NL, Messeri P, Merzel C, Bleakley A, Sionean CK, St.
Lawrence JS. “Psychological mediating factors in an intervention
to promote adolescent health care-seeking.” Psychology, Health &
Medicine, 10, 64-77; VanDevanter N, Messeri P, Middlestadt SE,
Bleakley A, Merzel C, Hogben M, Ledsky R, Malotte CK, St. Lawrence
JS. “A community-based approach to increase preventive health care
seeking in adolescents: The Gonorrhea Community Action Project.”
American Journal of Public Health, 95, 331-337; Golden MR,
Whittington WLH, Handsfield HH, Hughes JP, Stamm WE, Hogben M,
Clark A, Malinski C, Larson J, Thomas KK, Holmes KK. “Impact of
expedited sex partner treatment on recurrent or persistent
gonorrhea or chlamydial infection: A randomized controlled trial.”
New England Journal of Medicine, 352, 676-685; Hogben M, McCree
DH, Golden MR. “Patient-delivered partner therapy for sexually
transmitted diseases as practiced by U.S. physicians.” Sexually
Transmitted Diseases, 32, 101-105; Gift TL, Malotte CK, Ledsky R,
Hogben M, Middlestadt SE, VanDevanter NL, St. Lawrence JS, GCAP
Study Group. “A cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions to
increase repeat testing in patients treated for gonorrhea or
chlamydia at public sexually transmitted disease clinics.”
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 32, 542-549; Hogben M, Paffel J,
Broussard D, Wolf W, Kenney K, George D, Rubin S, Samoff E. “STD
partner notification with men who have sex with men: A review and
commentary.” Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 32(supp), S43-S47.
Robert B. Hornback, Assistant Professor of English,
published “Robert Armin's Artificial Fool in the King Lear Quarto
vs. the Folio Revision,” English Literary Renaissance 34.2 Autumn,
2004: 306-38.
Rebecca Hyman, Director, Women's and Gender Studies,
Assistant Professor of English, published “Energizing the
Eggheads: INOSA and Globalization” Clamor Magazine, Fall 2005; and
“Supreme Court Battle More Than Abortion” Chicago Tribune.
Kendra A. King, Assistant Professor of Politics and
Assistant Director of the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership
Program, published “Community and Service-Based Learning II,”
Leanne Doherty, Suzan Harkness, and Kendra A. King, PS:Political
Science and Politics, July, 2006.
Joseph M. Knippenberg, Professor of Politics, published
the following articles:“Compassionate Conservatism and the
Constitution: President Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative and the
Courts,” in Carl Raschke and David Hale, eds., In God We Trust?
Cultural Conflict and Consensus in Post 9/11 America (Silverton,
CO.: Aspen Academic Press, 2005), 12 – 31; Review of Naomi
Schaefer Riley, God on the Quad, Touchstone: A Journal of Mere
Christianity XVIII July/August, 2005, 49 – 50; “Muddle America:
Why Red and Blue States Are Really Just a Purple Haze ,”
Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity XVIII , June, 2005, 16
– 18; “Faith-Based Social Work: Going Beyond the Myths,” Local
Liberty III Spring, 2005, 3 – 5. He published the following pieces
in The American Enterprise Online: “Immigration: Religious Duty
and the Rule of Law,” March 29, 2006; “The Bipartisan Faith-Based
Initiative: A Postmortem,” March 22, 2006; “Adoption and the
Culture War,” March 15, 2006; “Evangelicals and Catholics: Exit,
Stage Left?” March 8, 2006; “Leadership in a Large Commercial
Republic,” March 1, 2006; “Getting Truth in Boots,” February 22,
2006; “Judging and Legislating,” February 15, 2006; “Senatorial
Silliness,” February 8, 2006; “The Second Time as Farce,” February
1, 2006; “Judicial Overreach in Maryland,” January 25, 2006;
“Lessons from Lincoln,” January 18, 2006; “Con-fusion: Prudence
and Principle in Contemporary Conservatism,” January 4, 2006;
“Impeach the President? Bring It On!,” December 28, 2005;
“Religion in the Public Square: A Textbook Case,” December 21,
2005; “Alito and Abortion: Let the Debate Commence!” December 14,
2005; “The Schools, the Courts, and Our Children…Again,” December
7, 2005; “’Tis the Season,” November 30, 2005; “Thanksgiving and
Our Civic Religion,” November 23, 2005; “Harvard’s Proposed
Reforms: The Triumph of Choice,” November 16, 2005; “The Schools,
the Courts, and Our Children,” November 9, 2005; “George W. Bush’s
Conservatism,” November 2, 2005; “Thucydides and Us,” October 26,
2005; “Identity Crisis in Georgia,” October 20, 2005. Joe
published the following pieces on www.ashbrook.org: “Religious
Freedom in Afghanistan,” March 21, 2006; “Burned Out in
Birmingham: Liberal Education and America.” March 10, 2006;
“Irreducible Hostility: Intelligent Design in the Courts,” January
2, 2006; “The Political Theology of Thanksgiving,” November 23,
2005; “My, Oh Miers!,” October 27, 2005; “Tiptoeing Toward the
Center: Galston and Kamarck on ‘The Politics of Polarization,”
October 17, 2005; “Reading Lolita in Atlanta,” August 29, 2005;
“John Roberts on Church and State: A Speculative Reconstruction,”
August 4, 2005; “Policing Pluralism: The Ten Commandments and the
First Amendment,” July 1, 2005; “Doing Justice to Justice Sunday,”
May 3, 2005; “Religion and (Abortion) Politics in Great Britain:
Tony Blair’s Faithworks Speech,” March 29, 2005; “In Defense of
Discrimination,” March 8, 2005. In addition, he published “Why We
Need a Faith [and Family] Services Law in Georgia,” Marietta Daily
Journal, February 22, 2006; “Setting Stage for Costly Fight,”
Atlanta Journal Constitution, February 6, 2006; and “Constitution
Can’t Be Rushed,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution September 16, 2005.
Alan Loehle, Associate Professor of Art, exhibited his
work in the following: Schoolhouse Gallery (Solo Exhibition of
Drawings and Paintings) Croton Falls, New York; The Drawing Center
(Collection/Slide File) New York City; and Museum Of Contemporary
Art of Georgia (Exhibition and Auction) Atlanta.
Jay Lutz, Frances I. Eeraerts ’76 Professor of Foreign
Language, published a review in Nineteenth-Century French Studies
33 (2005) 452-454; he also published translations from the French
in Masterpieces from European Artist Colonies, 1830-1930,
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, 2005.
Jeanne McCarthy, Visiting Assistant Professor of
English, published “Elizabeth I's ‘picture in little’: Boy Company
Representations of a Queen's Authority,” Studies in Philology
100.4 (Fall 2003): 401-424; and “Ben Jonson and the Boy Company
Tradition,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 3.1
Spring/Summer, 2003: 1-49. She also published a review of London
Civic Theatre: City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558,
Anne Lancashire in Sixteenth Century Journal, 35.3 (2004): 863-64.
Douglas McFarland, Associate Professor of English,
published “The Task of Translating Daisy Miller,” in 19th Century
American Fiction into Film, ed. Barton Palmer, Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
R. Barton Palmer, Visiting Professor of Film Studies,
published the following articles: (with Linda Badley and Steven
Schneider), Traditions in World Cinema (Edinburgh and New
Brunswick NJ: Edinburgh and Rutgers UP, 2006); (with Barbara
Altmann) An Anthology of Medieval Debate Poetry (Tallahassee: U
Press of Florida, 2006); R. Barton Palmer, editor and translator,
Medieval Religious and Secural Lyric: An Anthology of English and
French Narrative (Glen Allen VA: College Publishing, 2006); “Moral
Man in the Dark City” in Mark Conard, ed., Philosophy of Film Noir
(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006), 187-206; “2001:
Critical Reception and the Generation Gap” in Robert P. Kolker,
ed., Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006), 13-27; (with others) “Roundtable on
Lillian Hellman,” Tennessee Williams Annual Review 8 (2006),
149-174.
Anne A. Salter, Director, Philip Weltner Library,
published “Using a GHRAB Grant to Reclaim a University Archives,”
The Southeastern Librarian Summer, 2005.
William O. Shropshire, Professor Emeritus of Economics,
published “Adam Smith,” in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology,
and Ethics, Macmillan, 2005.
William Bradford Smith, Associate Professor of History,
published “Lutheran Resistance to the Imperial Interim in Hesse
and Kulmbach,” Lutheran Quarterly 19 (2005): 249-273; and
“Friedrich Förner, the Catholic Reformation, and Witch Hunting in
Bamberg,” Sixteenth Century Journal 36:1 (2005): 115-128.
Brad Lowell Stone, Professor of Sociology, published
“Mediating Structures” and “Quotas” in American Conservatism: An
Encyclopedia. Jeremy Reevs, Bruce Frohnen and Jeffrey Nelson,
editors. Wilmington: 1st Press.
Linda J. Taylor, Professor of English, published the
following poems: “Prelude: At the School Piano Concert, November
1989,” The Comstock Review, Syracuse, NY, Summer 2005; “Whistle
Music at the Freight Room,” Concho River Review, Angelo,TX, Fall
2005; “Insomnia,” Asheville Poetry Review, Asheville, NC, Fall
2005.
William Vincent, Lecturer in Business, published an
article titled “Successful Resolution of Network Expansion
Conflict,” Franchising World, March, 2006.
Alan Woolfolk, Professor of Sociology and Director of
the Core Curriculum, published the following: Introduction to new
edition of Ralph A. Beals, Politics of Social Research: An Inquiry
into the Ethics and Responsibilities of Social Scientists (New
Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2006), pp. vii-xi.;
“The Horizon of Disenchantment: Film Noir, Camus, and the
Vicissitudes of Descent,” chapter in The Philosophy of Film Noir,
edited by Mark Conard (The University Press of Kentucky, 2006),
pp. 107-123; “The Therapeutic State,” Encyclopedia of Conservatism
(ISI Press, 2006), pp. 849-51; “Christopher Lasch,” Encyclopedia
of Conservatism (ISI Press, 2006), pp. 488-90.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Lynn Gieger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Education, presented the following papers: “Making Meaningful
Mathematics with Music” (co-presented with Andrea Antepenko,
graduate student in the MAT program) at the 46th Annual Georgia
Mathematics Conference, October 21, 2005, Rock Eagle Center,
Eatonton, GA; “The Myth of the Good Mathematics Teacher” at the
Joint Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America and the
American Mathematical Society, January, 2006, San Antonio;
“Studying the Academic Choices of Mathematically Talented College
Women” at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics, April, 2006, St. Louis.
Karen Head, Lecturer in English, presented “Using
‘Hyper-Think” To Help Students Structure Fictional or
Non-Fictional Prose.” Associated Writing Programs, 2006 Annual
Conference.
Bruce Hetherington, Professor of Economics, presented
(with Peter Kower) the following paper: “Technological Diffusion
and Profitability of Blockade Running during the Civil War: the
Lebergott Paradox Undone” at the 75th Annual Meeting of the
Southern Economic Association, November, 2005 in Washington, DC.
Matthew Hogben, Lecturer in Psychology, presented the
following paper: “Syphilis partner notification for men who have
sex with men: Current effectiveness and impediments in eight
cities.” National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta. At the
American Public Health Association Conference in Philadelphia, he
presented: Hogben M, Liddon N. “Disinhibition applied to sexual
behavior as a function of interventions”; and Liddon, Hogben, et
al. “Reasons adolescent females give for having sex and their
correlations with condom use.” At the International Society for
STD Research Conference in Amsterdam, he presented the following
papers: Hogben, Wimberly, et al. “Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention guideline dissemination and use by US physicians.”
International Society for STD Research , Amsterdam; Hogben, Liddon,
et al. “Risky sexual behavior and attachment style.”; Liddon,
Hogben, et al. “Reasons for having sex: A qualitative study of
adolescent females at a pediatric clinic.”; Golden, Brewer, Hogben,
et al. “Community-wide implementation of expedited partner therapy
(EPT) for gonorrhea and chlamydial infection” ; Schwartz RM, Malka
ES, Williams J, Cintron, Liddon, Hogben, et al. “Predictors of
partner notification for C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae: An
examination of social, cognitive, and psychological factors.”
Robert B. Hornback, Assistant Professor of English,
presented two papers: “‘Speak of me as I am’: Othello’s Eloquence
Versus Racist Blackface Dialects, Renaissance to Antebellum,”
Third Blackfriars Conference, The American Shakespeare Center,
Staunton, Virginia, October, 2005; and “Cambridge Misrule and
Edwardine Iconoclasm: Reading Gammer Gurton’s Needle’s
‘Excrementall Conceits,’” Elective Affinities Conference,
University of Pennsylvania, September, 2005.
Rebecca Hyman, Director, Women's and Gender Studies, and
Assistant Professor of English, presented a paper, “Identity
Politics and Its Discontents” at the Gender Studies Symposium,
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon.
Elizabeth C. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Psychology,
gave the following presentations: “The psychology of eating,”guest
lecture at the University of Georgia for ANTH 3541: Anthropology
of Eating; “The psychology of animal diets,” invited talk for the
Department of Zoology and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn University,
November, 2005; and Johnson, E. C., Brakke, K. E., Wheat, A. L.,
Raleigh, S. C., & Rogers, A. “Are there gender differences in the
ability to parallel park?” Annual meeting of the Southeastern
Psychological Association, Atlanta, March, 2006.
Kendra A. King, Assistant Professor of Politics and
Assistant Director of the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership
Program, presented the following papers: “Kingian Ethics and the
Development of the Hol(i)stic POD” at the Ethical Leadership
Center's Illuminating Liberal Arts Conference, Kennesaw State
University, October 2005, Atlanta; and “Community Building How-To's:
The Lynwood Park Experience” at the American Association of
Colleges and Universities Civic Engagement Imperative Conference,
November, 2005, Providence, R.I. and at the American Political
Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference, February
2006, Washington, D.C.
Joseph M. Knippenberg, Professor of Politics,
participated in the following conferences: Discussant, Panel on
“Religious Identity and Activism,” Southern Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January, 2006; Discussant,
Panel on “Modern Philosophy on Experience, Reason, and Equality,”
Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta,
January, 2006; “Reclaiming Leadership for Liberal Education,”
Conference on “Illuminating Ethical Leadership: Faculty and
Administrative Roles,” sponsored by RTM Institute for Leadership,
Ethics, and Character (Kennesaw State University), Atlanta,
October, 2005; Discussant, Panel on “Eros, Power, and Politics,”
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C., September, 2005; Chair, Panel on “The Lord of the Rings as
Core Text,” Association for Core Texts and Courses Annual Meeting,
Vancouver, April, 2005; “Tolkien on Bioethics,” Association for
Core Texts and Courses Annual Meeting, Vancouver, April, 2005;
Chair, Panel on John Seery’s America Goes to College, Conference
on “The Future of American Education and Politics,” Berry College,
Rome, GA, March, 2005.
Peter Kower, Assistant Professor of Economics, presented
(with Bruce Hetherington) the following paper: “Technological
Diffusion and Profitability of Blockade Running during the Civil
War: the Lebergott Paradox Undone” at the 75th Annual Meeting of
the Southern Economic Association, November, 2005 in Washington,
DC.
Jay Lutz, Frances I. Eeraerts ’76 Professor of Foreign
Language, presented the following papers: “The Boulangist Era and
the 14th of July, 1886, Paris,” at the Society for French
Historical Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
April, 2006; “Oscar Levertin, Strindberg’s Götiska rummen, and the
Dissolution of the Norwegian-Swedish Union,” Society for the
Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Portland, Oregon, May, 2005;
and “The Virtual Cities of Christine de Pizan and Plato,”
Association for Core Texts and Courses, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada, April, 2005. He gave a public lecture at the
Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, “An Artist’s Life in Barbizon,
Pont-Aven and Le Pouldu,” March 16, April 27, 2005.
Alexander M. Martin, Associate Professor of History,
presented an invited lecture: “Imagining Urban Russia: The Case of
Pre-Reform Moscow,” at Humboldt University, Berlin, November 14,
2005. He presented a shorter version of this text at the November
2005 convention of the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies (AAASS). He also presented the following conference
papers: “Lost Arcadia: Moscow and the 1812 War in the Memory of
Russian Aristocratic Women,” American Historical Association,
Philadelphia, January 2006 (the papers from this panel will appear
in a special issue of European History Quarterly on “Women, Nation
and Patriotism in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars” in 2007);
“Remembering 1812: Russian and Soviet Scholarship on Historical
Memory” at the workshop “The Experiences and Memories of War in
European Comparison: (Trans)national and Interdisciplinary
Approaches,” Berlin, November 2005; “The Middling Sort and the Old
Regime: Elite Perceptions, Social Reality, and Government Policy
in Moscow, 1770s-1870s,” International Council for Central and
East European Studies, VII World Congress, Berlin, July, 2005.
Jeanne McCarthy, Visiting Assistant Professor of
English, presented the following papers: “Reexamining the Boy
Company Tradition: Is There a Boy Company Repertory After All?,”
Third Blackfriars Playhouse Conference, The American Shakespeare
Center, Staunton, Virginia, October, 2005; “The Chapel Stage in
Early Elizabethan Court Drama: Sacred Icons, Secular
Appropriations, and Iconoclasm in the Cambridge Visit,” Elective
Affinities Conference, University of Pennsylvania, September,
2005; “Elizabeth I and Her Majesties Children’s Companies:
Reconsidering a Queen’s Theatrical Patronage.” Folger Shakespeare
Library Fellows Presentation,Washington, D.C., May, 2004.
Douglas McFarland, Associate Professor of English,
presented a paper: “John Dos Passos and Modernist Historiography”
at the Association of Core Texts, Chicago, April, 2006.
R. Barton Palmer, Visiting Professor of Film Studies,
presented the following papers: "Postmodernism, Baudrillard, and
the Coen Brothers," invited address at Paris VII, November, 2005;
"Barton Fink, Clifford Odets, and Nathanael West: The Politics of
Intertextuality" invited address at Universite de Nancy II,
November, 2005; "Dead Ringers and the Commercial-Independent
Film," "The Current State of Adaptation Studies," and "The Poetry
of Realism in Renoir's Grand Illusion," invited addresses at
Hampden-Sydney College Film Festival, February, 2006; (with
others) "Roundtable on William Inge," Tennessee Williams Scholars
Conference, New Orleans, March, 2006; "The Noir Redemption Film,"
invited address at the University of Arizona, April, 2006;
"Guillaume de Machaut and the Misogynistic Tradition," conference
paper at the Medieval Institute, May, 2006.
Viviana Plotnik, Associate Professor of Spanish,
presented “Auschwitz in Buenos Aires: Jewish Women in Daughters of
Silence by Manuela Fingueret” (in Spanish) at the XV International
Conference of the Asociación de Literatura Femenina Hispánica.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, October, 2005.
Seema Shrikhande, Assisstant Professor of Communication
and Rhetoric Studies, presented “Development Broadcasting and the
Global Media: Redefining an Old Concept in a New Era”(with
Elfriede Fursich) at the International Communication Association
Meeting, New York, May, 2006.
William Bradford Smith, Associate Professor of History,
presented the following papers: “The Urbanization of the Landscape
and the ‘Poor Folk’ in Late Medieval Germany,”at the Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, February,
2006; “Tolkien’s Nordic Muse: Reflections on Language, Myth, and
History in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien,” the Association for Core
Texts and Courses, Vancouver, BC, April 2005; “Images of Food and
Deception in the Discourse on Heresy and Witchcraft in Bamberg,
1560 – 1630” the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, Tempe, February, 2005.
Brad Lowell Stone, Professor of Sociology, presented two
papers “Robert Nisbet: Libertarian Communitarian?” June, 2005. The
Jon Mises Institute, Auburn University; and “Robert Nisbet and the
Conservative Intellectual Tradition,” April, 2006. ISI Leadership
Conference, Indianapolis.
Linda J. Taylor, Professor of English, gave a poetry
reading at The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences,
Dillard, GA, August 2005.
Jim Turner, Associate Professor of Accounting, presented
“Consolidations and Purchase Accounting – Proposed Changes to GAAP”
at The Buckhead Chapter of the Georgia Society of CPAs, November,
2005, Atlanta.
William Vincent, Lecturer in Business, presented
“Earnings Claims: To Be Or Not To Be, That is the Question’ May,
2005 at the University of Westminster Business School in London at
the 19th Annual International Society of Franchising Conference.
The paper was published in the society proceedings. He also
presented “Interpreting Earnings Claims Information: An Empirical
Investigation” February, 2006 at the 20th Annual International
Society of Franchising Conference in Palm Springs. This paper was
also published in the society proceedings. Vincent received an
award from the President of Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai to
celebrate the fact that his book Achieving Wealth Through
Franchising is the most widely read franchise book in China.
Vicky Weiss, Professor of English and Director of
Student Success, presented the following paper: “The Vitality of
the Desert: Ibn Khaldun, ‘Group Feeling’ and Contemporary Militant
Islam” at Teaching Islam in the Undergraduate Curriculum, June,
2005 at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Alan Woolfolk, Professor of Sociology and Director of
the Core Curriculum, presented a paper: “Kafka’s Vision of High
Culture as Penal Colony,” Association for Core Texts and Courses,
Chicago, April 2006.
COMMUNITY SERVICE AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Karen Head, Lecturer in English, was named Writing
Program Coordinator in the School of Literature, Communication,
and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Robert B. Hornback, Assistant Professor of English, had
his research cited in the World Shakespeare Biography and Virginia
Mason Vaughan’s Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500-1800.
Rebecca Hyman, Director, Women's and Gender Studies,
Assistant Professor of English, participated in the Communications
Working Group of the United States Social Forum.
Elizabeth C. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Psychology,
volunteers weekly for the Georgia Innocence Project, which works
towards exonerating innocent people by overturning convictions
using DNA testing of the evidence.
Kendra A. King, Assistant Professor of Politics and
Assistant Director of the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership
Program, led a Roundtable Discussion on Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.'s
book The Measure of a Man at DeLoitte and Touche, Atlanta,GA
February, 2006.
Joseph M. Knippenberg, Professor of Politics, served as
Guest Faculty, Center for School Improvement and Policy Studies,
Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, teaching a course in The
American Founding. He was an invited participant at the conference
on “Toleration and Truth: The Impact of Liberal Society on
Religion,” at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory
University, March, 2006. He served as Member-at-large, Politics,
Literature, and Film Section Executive Committee, American
Political Science Association, 2005 – 06 and as Director,
Conference on “Politics, Culture, and Constitutional
Republicanism,” Oglethorpe University, March, 2006.
Jay Lutz, Frances I. Eeraerts ’76 Professor of Foreign
Language was awarded the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes
Académiques, a decoration by the French government.
Jeanne McCarthy, Visiting Assistant Professor of
English, has received the following fellowships in recent years:
Pforzheimer Fellowship in Renaissance Studies, Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, July, 2004;
National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship, Folger
Shakespeare Library, Long Term Fellow, 2003-2004; and the W. M.
Keck Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, June, 2003.
W. Irwin Ray, Jr., Director of Musical Activities, was
reappointed Associate Professor of Music: Conducting Adjunct at
Shenandoah Conservatory of Music at Shenandoah University in
Winchester, VA and will supervise and adjudicate their conducting
doctoral candidates living or working in metropolitan Atlanta.
Additionally Dr. Ray collaborated with Dr. Tommy Joe Anderson,
host of Atlanta Music Scene, to present a one-hour radio program
of choral art drawing from recent concerts by the Oglethorpe
University Singers and University Chorale. The show, heard Monday
evenings on WABE-FM, the local National Public Radio station
affiliate, aired in early November 2005.
Anne A. Salter, Director, Philip Weltner Library, served
as Chairman of AMPALS (Atlanta/Macon Private Academic Libraries),
Representative on the Galileo Steering Committee, 2005-06, and
Board Member and CFO, Georgia Archives Institute 2005-06.
Dan Schadler, Professor of Biology, was profiled in the
Member Spotlight of the January 2006 Issue of Big Red Atlanta News
of the Cornell Atlanta Alumni Association.
Seema Shrikhande, Assistant Professor of Communication
and Rhetoric Studies,
reviewed conference papers for the International Communication
Division and the Media Management and Economics Division for the
Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
meetings in San Antonio, August 2006. She is also a recipient of
the Governor’s Teaching Fellowship, May 2006 at the Institute of
Higher Education, University of Georgia.
William Bradford Smith, Associate Professor of History,
gave a public lecture on Mozart’s opera “Cosi fan Tutte” prior to
a performance of the work at the Conant Center, September 16,
2005.
Linda J. Taylor, Professor of English, served as
President of the Oglethorpe Estates Civic Asssociation from
2005-6, and served on the Board of Directors, Silver Lake Civic
Association, 2005-6. She gave a presentation and led a discussion
of selected modern poets for PALS (an organization sponsoring
educational luncheons and courses for seniors) July, 2005.
Jim Turner, Associate Professor of Accounting, who is
the immediate past president of the Georgia Association of
Accounting Educators (GAAE), hosted the 2006 annual GAAE
conference on the campus of Oglethorpe University February 3-4,
2006. Vicky Weiss, Professor of English and Director of Student Success, was
appointed the head of an accreditation team from the American Academy for
Liberal Education that last fall evaluated the liberal arts program at
International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.Kathryn Yancey, Lecturer in Accounting, was named
Chairman of the MAP (Management of an Accounting Practice) Section
of the Georgia Society of CPA's for the 2006-2007 year.
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