Publications and Presentations

Stephen Dow Beckham, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of History, gave the keynote address at a workshop sponsored by the Washington County Historical Society and Museum and the National Park Service in February. The program, held at Portland Community College's Rock Creek campus, was designed for K-12 teachers and others who plan to educate people about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Dinah Dodds, professor of German and chair of foreign languages and literatures, sponsored a daylong workshop at the College for Portland-area teachers of German. On March 8, participants discussed new methods of coordinating high school and college programs. Faculty from the University of Portland, Linfield College, Pacific University, Portland Community College, and area high schools attended the workshop, as did Ralph Saborrosch, director of Lewis & Clark's Year of Study in Munich program.

Robert Eisinger, associate professor of political science, department chair, and director of academic grants and awards, published The Evolution of Presidential Polling (Cambridge University Press, 2003). "After Eisinger's book, it will be hard to write a history of the modern American presidency or of contemporary American politics without taking into account the role of polling," says Stanley Greenberg, CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and a pollster for former President Bill Clinton.

Jane Hunter, associate professor of history, department chair, and Gender Studies director, published How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood (Yale University Press, 2003). The book, based on an array of diaries and letters, explores the shifting experiences of adolescent girls in the late 19th century. "Hunter has recreated a fascinating world of venturesome spirits, who speak—often eloquently and movingly—for themselves," says Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Vern Jones, professor of education, recently published Creating Effective Programs for Students With Emotional and Behavior Disorders: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Adding Meaning and Hope to Structure and Behavior Change Interventions (Allyn & Bacon, 2004). The seventh edition of his book Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems will be published in June by Lawrence Erlbaum.

Arthur LaFrance, professor of law, was an invited participant and presenter in March at Bioterrorism, National Security, and Public Health Law Initiatives, a national workshop at the University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law. Participants created a model syllabus for a bioterrorism and public health law course. LaFrance is the author of the casebook Bioethics: Healthcare, Human Rights, and the Law (Matthew Bender, 1999).

Last fall, LaFrance filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of 30 health law professors in Oregon v. Ashcroft, in which Attorney General John Ashcroft has challenged Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law. The brief, which presented research from the medical literature on the effects and practices of the law over the last four years, brought medical science to the court's decision-making process.

In June, LaFrance will serve on a panel at the annual meeting of health law professors, sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. He will discuss the role and conclusions of the amicus brief.

Next year, LaFance will take a sabbatical to work on two casebooks for Lexis Publishing: one on criminal sentencing and another on healthcare delivery systems. In addition, he will represent a consortium of law schools (Lewis & Clark, Seattle University, and University of Washington) before the Insurance Commissioner of Washington, opposing an effort by Premera Blue Cross to convert to for-profit status. The objective is to assure assets are preserved (as has been done in 20 states) for the public.

Carrie Loewen, employment and administrative manager in human resources, was elected director of human resources development for the Northwest Region of College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. She will coordinate conference speakers and other regional training opportunities. Previously, Loewen served as the association's director of membership and Oregon coordinator. In addition, she is director of special interest groups and legislative affairs for the Portland Chapter of the Northwest Human Resources Management Association.

Jens Mache, assistant professor of computer science, recently published two abstracts in the Oregon Academy of Science Proceedings, Vol. 39: "Performance and Robustness of Distributed File Systems," with coauthor Jason Guchereau '03 and "Efficient Content Distribution in the Peer-to-Peer System Freenet," with coauthor Felix Ramli '03. Mache presented both abstracts at the academy's February conference in McMinnville.

Clayton Morgareidge, professor emeritus of philosophy, presented "Explaining Subjective Consciousness, and Why There's Nothing That It's Like To Be a Bat" at the February Midsouth Philosophy Conference in Memphis, Tennessee.

Janet Neuman, professor of law, spoke on "Who Owns the Water Rights?" last December at the annual meeting of the Oregon Water Resources Congress in Seaside. In January, she assisted in hosting the Natural Resources Law Institute Futures Forum at the law school.

Bill Rottschaefer, professor of philosophy, published "Developmental Systems Theory and the Acquisition of Conscience," in Theorie in Biowissenschaften/Bioscience Theory, Vol. 121 (2002). He also published the abstract "Naturalizing Intentionality: A Critique of Jesse Prinz's Purely Causal Account of Intentionality" in the Oregon Academy of Science Proceedings, Vol. 39. He presented the abstract at the academy's February conference. In addition, Rottschaefer has had three papers accepted for publication: "Philosophy: The Chaperone for Theology?" in Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History and Science (forthcoming); "Selection Explanations and the Scientific Naturalization of Ethics," in the Scandinavian Journal of Cross Cultural Ethics and Value Study (forthcoming); and "Assessing the Role of Non-Epistemic Feminist Values in Scientific Inquiry," in Behavior and Philosophy (forthcoming).

In March, he presented "Moral Realism: Scientific Explanations of Queer Properties," at the Society for Empirical Ethics annual meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco, where he organized the first meeting of the Society for Empirical Ethics.

Vern Rutsala, professor of English, published seven poems in Spectaculum, Vol. I (2003): "After Chuang Tzu: Empty Vessels," "Don't Make a Monkey of Yourself," "Dreaming," "Perfection," "Living," "Three in the Morning," and "Uselessness." Last year, he published a number of poems, including "Hardyesque" in Mississippi Review (Winter 2002), "Romance" and "Pastoral" in Sewanee Review (Winter 2002), "Junk" in North American Review (March/April 2002), and "The House of Usage" in 5 A.M. Vol. 16 (Spring 2002).

Two of Rutsala's poems were recently published in anthologies: "The Mill Back Home" in Poetry in Motion From Coast to Coast: 120 Poems From Subways and the Buses (W.W. Norton & Company, 2002) and "It Keeps Happening" in September 11: West Coast Writers Approach Ground Zero (Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts, 2002).

Kim Stafford, associate professor in the graduate school and director of the Northwest Writing Institute, published The Muses Among Us: Eloquent Listening and Other Pleasures of the Writer's Craft (The University of Georgia Press, 2003). In addition, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association presented its annual nonfiction award to his book Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford (Graywolf Press, 2002).

Anthony Swofford, adjunct professor of humanities, published Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Scribner, 2003). A soldier during the Gulf War in 1990-91, Swofford wrote a memoir of war, a reflection on the mythos of the Marines, and a tale of struggle for inner peace. The New York Times called it "the most powerful memoir to emerge thus far from the last gulf war" and "a searing contribution to the literature of combat."

Anita Usacka, who has been instrumental in the law school's Latvia Exchange Program, has been elected to the Human Rights Division of the International Criminal Court. Usackis is a member of the University of Latvia law faculty and the Constitutional Court of Latvia.

Campus Connections welcomes information about presentations made by Lewis & Clark employees and books, articles, stories, papers, and poems they have published; please e-mail connect@lclark.edu.