Printed & Presented Archive

Fall 2004

In June, Nicole Aas-Rouxparis, professor of French, took part in the Conseil International des Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference in Liège, Belgium and chaired a session titled "Le Maghreb aujourd'hui: mythes et réalité." She presented a paper about writer Assia Djebar titled "La Femme-oiseau de la mosaïque: image et chant, dans La Femme sans sepulture d'Assia Djebar."

Over the summer, Katharina Altpeter-Jones, assistant professor of German, worked with a research assistant and completed an article entitled “Adam Schubart’s Early Modern ‘Tyrant She-Man:’ Female Misbehavior, Gender, and the Disciplining of Hybrid Bodies.” The article will appear next spring in the Women in German Yearbook. She also did preliminary work on another article on marital violence in 15th century short narrative fiction.

Altpeter-Jones received the WiG Dissertation Award, given by the Women in German, an organization of North American women, feminists and scholars who work on womena nd feminist issues in the field of German studies. Her 2003 prize for best dissertation acknowledges that her submission “best reflects the values of the Women in German Mission Statement, makes a substantial contribution to the current dialogue in the given area, and demonstrates solid and innovative scholarship.” The award includes a $500 cash award.

In October, Altpeter-Jones chaired a panel at the the annual conference of the Coalition of Women in German. The panel was titled “Does History Matter?” She was also elected to a three-year term on the coalition’s steering committee.

Kellar Autumn, associate professor of biology, published an article titled “Design principles of gecko adhesive nanostructures” in the Journal of Morphology 260(3). He also gave a presentation at the symposium on adhesion, International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, in Boca Raton Florida, and organized and spoke at the DARPA symposium on dry adhesion in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Mark Becker, assistant professor of psychology, coauthored an article in the September issue of Vision Research (Vol. 44, Issue 21). The article is titled “Metacontrast Masking Is Specific to Luminance Polarity Vision Research,” was coauthored with Stuart Anstis.

Debra Beers, senior lecturer in art and program head of drawing, has a solo exhibition of 24 large drawings and paintings at the Mark Woolley Gallery in Portland. The exhibit runs December 1, 2004 through January 29, 2005.

Michael Blumm, professor of law, published “Retracing the Discovery Doctrine: Aboriginal Title, Tribal Sovereignty, and Their Significance to Treaty-Making and Modern Natural Resources Policy in Indian Country,” 28 Vermont Law Review (2004). Another of Blumm’s articles, “The Bush Administration’s Sweetheart Settlement Policy: A Trojan Horse Strategy for Advancing Commodity Production on Public Lands,” 34 E.L.R. 10397 (2004), was among the Legal Scholarship Network’s top ten environmental law downloads.

In October, Blumm spoke in Los Angeles at Georgetown’s annual conference, Litigating Takings, on “Background Principles of Nuisance and Property as Takings Defenses.” His paper on that topic, coauthored with Lucus Ritchie ’05, will be published shortly. Blumm also is at work on several other projects, including a paper on the rule of capture of wildlife and the rise of the state ownership of wildlife doctrine; a revised Columbia River Basin chapter in another volume of the water treatise; and a centennial remembrance of the Supreme Court’s 1905 decision in United States v. Winans, upholding the Indian treaty right of taking fish.

He is chair-elect of the Natural Resources Section of the American Association of Law Schools.

On June 20, a poem by Michael Broide, associate professor and chair of physics, titled "Physics" was published in The Oregonian's BooksWeek poetry section.

Iin September, Blythe Butler, associate dean of admissions, was a panelist addressing the topic of counseling and recruiting rural high school students at the National Association of College Admissions Counseling conference in Milwaukee, Wis. She also serves on the executive board of the Pacific Northwest Association of College Admissions Counseling.

In November, Kimberly Campbell, assistant professor of language arts, gave a presentation titled “Cultivating teacher researchers: Preservice teachers learning through classroom inquiry” to a meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English in Indianapolis, Indiana.

In July, Mary Clare, professor of counseling psychology, presented “Current Opportunities in Psychology and Schooling for Accepting the Powerful Invitation of Human Diversity” at the annual meeting of the Student Affiliates of School Psychology in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In August, Clare presented “Toma el Tiempo: What Mexican Migrant Families Teach Psychologists” at the annual meeting off the American Psychological Association in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Over the summer, Ken Clifton, associate professor of biology, spent more than a month in Panama with two student research assistants. The trio snorkeled around coral reefs to the reproductive ecology of tropical seaweeds as part of Clifton’s National Science Foundation-funded research program. Clifton has been accepted into this year’s class of Faculty for the 21st Century. The program, part of a national alliance of science educators called Project Kaleidoscope, holds its national assembly in Dallas in October.

Two stories by Annie Dawid, professor of English, will be published in 2005: “Celestine Du Bois Plays Brahms, 1943” will appear in Paper Street and “The Nazi's Daughter Falls in Love, 1933” will be in Poetica. Both stories are sections from her forthcoming novel “And Darkness Was Under His Feet.”

Dawid's short story collection, “Meteorite Showers,” was a finalist in the Elixir Press Fiction Competition.

Gov. Ted Kulongoski appointed Henry Drummonds, professor of law, to the Commission on Uniform State Laws, a national nonprofit that attempts to encourage the states to standardize their laws. Drummonds attended his first national conference of the commission in August. Drummonds is working Ed Brunet, Henry J. Casey Professor of Law and Jim Huffman, Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law and school dean, on an amicus brief to be filed in the litigation over the constitutionality of the 2003 legislative reforms to the Public Employee Retirement System. The brief, which supports the legislation, will be filed on behalf of the Oregon Business Council, Portland Business Alliance, Oregon Business Association, and Associated Oregon Industries.

Drummonds, a commissioner representing Oregon in the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, also has been appointed to a committee studying genetic/privacy issues. His comments on two recent employment law cases in the U.S. Supreme Court were published in “Labor Law Reports Insight” on September 22. Those cases were Tennessee v. Lane, which involved state sovereign immunity under the Americans With Disabilities Act, and Smith v. City of Jackson, which tests whether disparate impact doctrine is available under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

In October, Melina Dyer, an instructor in teacher education, presented “Mining 1st and 2nd Grade Science Content for Rich Math Problems” at the Northwest Math Conference.

Barbra Fletcher-Stephens, assistant professor of counseling psychology, received the Volunteer of the Year award from SE Works, a Portland community-based nonprofit organization that offers employment and training services to job seekers and businesses.

An article Fletcher-Stephens will be published in the Journal of Systemic Therapy, an international journal for family therapy. The article is titled “Twin Legacies of African American Families.”

Monica Flori, professor of Spanish, has been named a Fulbright committee evaluator for researchers applying to go to South America.

John M. Fritzman, associate professor of philosophy, and Brianne Riley ’06 received a faculty/student collaborative summer stipend to work on a project titled “From Spinoza’s Mechanistic Substance to Hegel’s Organicistic Subject.” The coresearchers published their paper titled “From Spinoza’s Substance to Hegel’s Subject” and gave a preliminary presentation of it in August on campus and at the Northwest Philosophy Conference in October.

William Funk, professor of law, attended the spring meeting at Duke University of the Member Scholars of the Center for Progressive Regulation. Funk also attended the annual conference of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, in July, participating on a panel discussing amendments to the Administrative Procedure Act. From there Funk drove to Atlanta to chair his last meeting of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section of the American Bar Association. In October, Funk begins teaching his course titled “An Introduction to the American Public Law System” at the Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg.

Susan Glosser, associate professor of history, completed the second year of a Millicent McIntosh Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She spent nearly a month in China doing research for her next book, which details daily life in Shanghai under the Japanese occupation, 1937–1945.

In June, Glosser traveled to Beijing to present a paper titled “Chinese Women in the World: Division and Unity in World War Two” at a conference focusing on China’s interaction with the world—“Internationalization, Internalization, Externalization.”

Among the forthcoming articles by Eban Goodstein,professor of economics, is “Gender Imbalance in College Applications: Does it Lead to a Preference for Men in the Admissions Process?,” coauthored with Sandra Baum.

In June, Goodstein presented his paper titled “Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest: Valuing Snowpack Loss for Agriculture and Salmon” and discussed his ongoing research into “Valuing Beach Loss form Climate Change” with Susan Whitmore ’04 at the biannual meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in Montreal in June.

John Grant, visiting professor of law, published “The Lockerbie Trial: A Documentary History” in March. He attended much of the trial and the whole of the appeal, and has used his experiences to trace, through official and semiofficial documents, the history of the legal events from the destruction of Pan Am 103 in December 1988 up to the present day. The book is the first legal text to be published on this important terrorist trial.

Grant gave a paper at an October symposium on Terrorism on Trial at the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case School of Law in Cleveland. His paper drew on his experiences at the Lockerbie trial of the two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988.

In September, Elaine Hirsch, reference librarian, Aubrey R. Watzek Library, gave a presentation at the Canby Public Library about the literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Hirsch discussed how juvenile literature about the expedition relates to documented trends in the history of children’s literature.

Phil Howe, visiting assistant professor of political science, has received the 2004 Austrian Cultural Forum dissertation prize. The biennial honor is for “the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Austrian Studies” among dissertations defended between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2003. Howe’s dissertation is titled “Well-Tempered Discontent: Nationalism, Ethnic Group Politics, Electoral Institutions and Parliamentary Behavior in the Western Half of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1867-1914.”

Susan Hubbuch, director of the Writing Center, has published the fifth edition of her textbook, “Writing Research Papers from Across the Curriculum” (Wadsworth, 2004). First published in 1985, the text grew directly from her work at the Writing Center and with the society and culture program, forerunner to Inventing America.

A book by Jane Hunter, professor of history, has earned the History of Education Society’s top prize: the Outstanding Book Award for 2004. With the award, Hunter’s book “How Young Ladies Became Girls: The Victorian Origins of American Girlhood” (Yale University Press, 2002) becomes the year’s “best book in the history of education.”

Steve Johansen ’87, director of the Legal Writing Program, was reelected to the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute for his third term. In July, Johansen completed his two-year term as president of the institute. In April, he participated in a panel discussion of the proposed revision of Oregon Rules of Professional Responsibility before the Oregon State Bar’s section on criminal law. He continues to serve on the Oregon Bench and Bar Commission on Professionalism and the Multnomah Bar Association’s Professionalism Committee.

In September, “Toccata,” a composition for alto saxophone and piano by Michael Johanson, visiting assistant professor of music, was performed at Indiana State University at Terre Haute, Ind. Saxophonist Frederick Hemke and organist Douglas Cleveland recorded Johanson’s composition “Memento.”

In November, Molly Robinson Kelly, assistant professor of French, presented a paper to the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference in Portland, Ore. Her paper was titled “Approaches to Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom.”

In December, she presented a paper titled “Technology, Manuscripts, and the Renewal of Philology” at the Modern Languages Association Conference in Philadelphia.

In early October, Jim Kopp, director of the Watzek Library, gave two presentations titled “Eden Within Eden: Exploring Oregon’s Utopian Heritage.” He spoke at Terwilliger Plaza and at the Lake Oswego Public Library.

Oren Kosansky, assistant professor of anthropology, has given a number of presentations. He delivered “The Resilience of Hybridity: Syncretism, Symbiosis and Patrimony in the Moroccan Nation” to the American Institute for Maghribi Studies Annual Conference. Tangier, Morocco; “Time and the Jewish Other: Past and Present in the Anthropology of Judaism” at the Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania; and “Pilgrimage as Torah Practice” at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Kosansky’s other presentations include “Market Women and Gendered Pilgrimage in Jewish Morocco” to Temple University’s Department of Anthropology; “Anthropology’s Jewish Problem” to the University of Pennsylvania’s Jewish studies program and anthropology department; “Tools of the Trade: Technology and Ethnographic Research in Morocco” at Kansas State University; and “We are all sons of Adam and other Stories from Morocco” at Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology.

He is also the recipient of 2004 Fulbright Scholar Award for research in Morocco and a long-term research grant from the American Association for Maghrebi Studies. Kosansky serves on the editorial board for “Perspectives,” the newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies. He is on the planning committee for the 10th annual Gross Colloquium in Judaic Studies, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kosansky received a 2004 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award, social sciences honorable mention, from the Middle Eastern Studies Association. His dissertation is titled “All Dear Under God: Saints, Pilgrimage, and Textual Practice in Jewish Morocco.”

In November, he presented his research at Reed College to an anthropology class on Nation and Ethnicity in North Africa.

The U.S. Department of State chose Michael Krauss, instructor in Academic English Studies, to provide training to Russian teachers of English in June. Krauss delivered a plenary talk titled “Partnering with the Internet to Enhance English Teaching: Critical Links and Tipping Points.” He conducted workshops for more than 180 educators from 35 cities across Russia at the Summer Institute of English in Irkutsk.

In November, Krauss, conducted a half-day workshop at the annual ORTESOL (Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) fall conference at St. Mary’s Academy. Attendees were educators of non-native English speakers from around the state. Krauss titled his workshop “Teaching S.M.A.R.T with the Web.”

John Kroger, assistant professor of law, has two scholarly articles coming out this fall. “Enron, Fraud, and Securities Reform” draws on Kroger’s time as a prosecutor on the Justice Department’s Enron Task Force, will be published by University of Colorado Law Review. A second piece, “The Philosophical Foundations of Roman Law,” will appear in Wisconsin Law Review.

Art LaFrance, professor of law, completed an article on the merger of religious and government hospitals as part of a symposium in Seattle in February. In May, he submitted an amicus brief in the Premera Blue Cross proceedings in Washington, opposing Premera’s effort to become a “for profit” organization. The brief was submitted on behalf of the law schools at Lewis & Clark, Seattle University, and University of Washington. During the spring semester LaFrance will be visiting at the University of Houston, which has the nation’s premier health law program. There, he will teach a course in health care delivery and a seminar on poverty and health.

Lydia Loren, professor of law, published “Copyright in a Global Information Economy: Case and Statutory Supplement 2004” in July. In June, Loren cotaught a course titled “International Intellectual Property” at Sun Yat-sen University in Zhuhai, China, through Whittier Law School’s summer abroad program. Loren’s lectures focused on international copyright law.

Deborah Lycan, associate professor of biology, published an article on the assembly of the complex machine responsible for protein synthesis in cells in the journal Genetics (December 2004). The article is titled “Genetic and biochemical interactions between Yar1, Ltv1 and RpS3 define novel links between environmental stress and ribosome biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” Lycan’s coauthors are Jesse W. Loar ’03, Robert M. Seiser, Alexandra E. Sundberg ’04, Holly J. Sagerson ’99, Nasreen Ilias ’01, Pamela Zobel-Thropp, visiting assistant professor of biology, and Elizabeth A. Craig.

Jens Mache, associate professor of computer science, received a $40,093 two-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The project is titled “Collaborative Project: Adaptation of Globus Toolkit 3 Tutorials for Undergraduate Computer Science Students.” Mache is a coprincipal investigator with Amy Apon, associate professor of computer science at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

In June, Mache’s abstract “Look-Ahead Improves the Routing in Freenet-style Peer-to-Peer Systems” was presented and published at the International Conference on Internet Computing meeting in Las Vegas. Mache’s coauthor is Jeff Lesh ’04.

In August, Mache’s abstract titled “How Mature are Clientless SSL VPN?” was presented in San Diego at the 13th USENIX security symposium. Mache’s coauthors are Tim Likarish ’05, Eric Anholt ’05, Biljana Risteska ’05, Valentina Grigoreanu ’05, and Chris Stevens, director of the College’s network and technical services.

In November, Mache gave a poster presentation and published an abstract titled “Using Shibboleth to Manage Access Control to Remote Cluster Computing Resources.” His coathors are AmyApon and Kurt Landrus, University of Arkansas, and Kathryn Huxtable, University of Kansas. The presentation took place at the 17th Supercoming/High-Performing Computer, Networking and Storage Conference in Pittsburgh. The conference was sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Orla McDonagh, instructor in music, spent three weeks at Indiana University’s Piano Academy. She served as the academy’s ensemble coach, theory professor, presenter discussing the college audition process, and a panel participant in a session about keyboard choreography and movement.

Robert Miller ’91, associate professor of law, spoke in April on Thomas Jefferson, the Doctrine of Discovery, and Lewis and Clark at an Oregon Supreme Court and Court of Appeals CLE, and also at the Oregon Historical Society. He conducted U.S. Forest Service employee trainings on tribal issues and the National Historic Preservation Act. In May, Miller spoke at the law school conference on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Native Americans. Miller appeared at the fourth Lewis and Clark National Signature Event in southern Illinois as a featured speaker and as part of a panel presentation. He also spoke about tribes as governments at the Southern Illinois University Diplomacy Conference.

Joanne Mulcahy, assistant professor at the Northwest Writing Center, presented “Eva Castellanoz: Teaching Through Metaphor” at the annual meeting of the Oral History Association in Portland, Oregon.

Nancy Nagel, associate dean and professor of education, earned a 2004 AESA Critic’s Choice Award from the American Education Studies Association. She coauthored a book chapter with Celeste M. Brody titled “Teacher Decision Making for Cooperative Learning in a Preservice Master’s Program.” The chapter appears in the book “Teaching Cooperative Learning: The Challenge for Teacher Education” (State University Press of New York, 2004).

In September, Nagel authored an op-ed in The Oregonian titled “Every new teacher is the ‘best’ teacher.” The editorial discussed the problem of new teacher retention in Oregon schools.

In October, Tom Olsen, associate professor of physics, attended the 2004 Quadrenniel Congress of Sigma Pi Sigma at the University of New Mexico. The congress officially launches the U.S. commemoration of the United Nations-declared International Year of Physics (or World Year of Physics, 2005). Among the Lewis & Clark delegation attending with Olsen were Tim Kelly ’05, Benita Altamirano Riesgraf ’01, Katie Clarkson ’01, Yu Hou ’05, Dmitri Gurkins ’05, and Scooter Johnson ’05.

In November, Boyd Pidcock, associate professor of counseling psychology, addressed the annual meeting of the national Council on Family Relations in Orlando, Florida. The presentation, which Pidcock gave with three colleagues, was titled “Parental psychological control, psychosocial development, and eating concerns.” At the same conference, Pidcock and his colleagues gave another presentation titled “Differences in binge drinking and alcohol-related problem behaviors for fraternity and non-fraternity college students.”

William Rottschaefer, professor emeritus of philosophy, published an abstract titled “Is Philosophy of Science Any Good for Science? Reflections on Peter Achinstein's The Book of Evidence” in Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Science, Volume XL, (2004).

He published an article titled “The Roots of Moral Agency: Review of Martin Hoffman’s Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice” in the Journal of Moral Education 33, (2004), 385-87. He also published an article titled “Naturalizing or Demythologizing Scientific Inquiry: Kitcher’s Science, Truth and Democracy” in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34, (2004), pp. 408-22.

Rottschaefer presented several papers at international gatherings, including: “The Benumbing Moral Indifference of the Relatively Wealthy: What Does it Take to Motivate the Fulfillment of a Minimal Norm of Economic Justice” at the Conference on the Neurobiology of Moral Reasoning, The World Forum of Cultures, in July in Barcelona, Spain; and “Is Analytic Philosophy of Science Any Help to Science? The Case of Peter Achinstein’s Book of Evidence” at the 56th annual Northwest Conference on Philosophy in Bellevue, Washington in October. He presented several other papers at the Bellevue conference.

Vern Rutsala, professor of English emeritus, has published a new volume “A Handbook for Writers: New and Selected Prose Poems” (White Pine Press, 2004), part of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series. His book “The Moment’s Equation” (Ashland University Press, 2004) earned a Richard Snyder Prize. Among his other activities, Rutsala gave readings at Broadway Books, the Multnomah County Library, and Borders Books and Music.

In December, Liz Safran, assistant professor of geological science, gave a presentation at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Safran coauthored the paper titled “Erosion rates, landscape morphology, and hillslope processes in the Upper Beni River region, Bolivian Andes.”

In November, David Savage,professor emeritus of history, led a discussion a the third annual Civic Dialogue on Kashmir conference. The conference, sponsored by the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia and Portland State University’s Institute for Asian Studies.

Mike Sexton, dean of admissions, was director of the Admissions Middle Management Institute at the annual conference of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling in Milwaukee, Wis. He is also on the advisory board of the Education Conservancy, a Portland-based nonprofit that just released a book titled “College Unranked.”

George Skipworth,visiting assistant professor of music, spent the summer in Europe. While there, his activties included directing the Dublin International Symphonic Festival. Orla McDonagh, instructor in music, was the featured soloist for a festival performance of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in a-minor.

Tod Sloan, professor and chair of counseling psychology, published a chapter on global poverty and social justice in a new international textbook on community psychology and an article on work-related suffering in The Counseling Psychologist. He presented papers on liberation psychology at the National Latino Psychology Conference and on psychology and globalization at the Peace and Justice Studies Association meetings. He facilitated a citizens panel on nanotechnology in Washington, D.C., for the Loka Institute and was the featured speaker at the fall meeting of the Portland Alliance for the Advancement of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

In November, Christopher Stevens, director of network and technical services, gave a Web seminar titled “Improving Security Through Automated Policy Enforcement.” The online EDUCAUSE seminar described the “challenges of managing personally owned computers or distributed technology on the campus network and will offer effective practices and solutions for improving security through automated policy compliance.”

Elaine Sutherland, visiting professor of law,who wrote the original “Child Law” section of the Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopedia, a 1990 25-volume work, has rewritten the section with two colleagues in Scotland. The new 500-page section, “Child and Family Law,” was published by LexisNexis during the summer. Sutherland’s article “Procreative Freedom and Convicted Criminals in the United States and the United Kingdom: Is Child Welfare Becoming the New Eugenics?” which compares prisoners’ procreative freedom under the U.S. Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights, was published recently in Oregon Law Review.

Mary Szybist, assistant professor of English, won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for her book “Granted” (Alice James Books, 2003). The selection committee designated the volume as the best first book of poems published in 2003. She will tour twelve colleges in spring 2005 to give readings and to present classes and seminars. The book has earned other honors including the 2002 Beatrice Hawley award. It was named a finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, and Library Journal listed it among the “Best Poetry of 2003.”

In October, Juan Carlos Toledano,, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, chaired a panel called The Future is Now: The Emergence of Science Fiction in Spanish and Portuguese in the U.S.” at the Latin American Studies Association conference in Las Vegas. During that panel, he also delivered a paper titled “From Socialist Realism to Anarcho-capitalism: Cuban Cyberpunk.”

In December, he presented the paper at a meeting of the Portland Center for Cultural Studies. The conference, held at Lewis & Clark, was titled “Latin American Cultures in the Age of Globalization.”

In December, Zaher Wahab, professor of education, spoke about the war on terrorism during a panel discussion at Marylhurst University. Wahab’s presentation was titled “The Forgotten War: Afghanistan.”

Heather Watkins, visiting assistant professor of art, published an article in The Organ Review of Arts (Fall 2004). The article is titled “Typography Lesson.”

She was featured in Willamette Week’s October 27 cover story titled “Outside the Ballot Box: Portland Artists Tangle with Tuesday's Election.” Her piece “Divided, We Think” appeared on the weekly newspaper’s cover.

Watkins was awarded a commission to design a book for TriMet. The 60-page book, featuring all the public art for the new Interstate MAX lightrail project, was published in May 2004.

Chris Wold ’90, associate professor of law, traveled to Paris in May to develop a new international legal concept and treaty for world heritage species, designed to protect great apes and other species not adequately covered by existing international environmental treaties. He also published an untitled article on the convention on international trade in endangered species in the “Yearbook of International Environmental Law.”

Theresa Wright, clinical professor of law, recently completed a chapter update on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act for the Oregon State Bar’s Consumer Law in Oregon CLE. She also wrote the lead article (focusing on client interviewing and counseling) for the ABA’s Young Lawyer magazine. Wright has been recently appointed to the Oregon Discipline Board and the Oregon Bench and Bar Commission on Professionalism.

In November, Norman Yoshida, instructor in Academic English Studies, presented a workshop titled “Teaching Writing: A Potpourri of Ideas” at the annual fall conference of the Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Elliott Young,associate professor of history, has published his new book “Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border" (Duke University Press, 2004). He also coedited a collection of essays on border history, titled “Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History” (Duke University Press, 2004).

During the summer, Young organized the international Tepoztlan Institute on Transnational History of the Americas. The one-week international conference, funded by a consortium of colleges and universities including Lewis & Clark, and the Hispanic American Historical Review, brought nearly three-dozen junior and senior scholars and graduate students from Canada, the United States and Mexico to participate.

In July, Young participated in an international delegation to Venezuela convened by that country’s president, Hugo Chavez. The delegates visited poor urban communities and universities, and talked with Venezuelans about the country’s August presidential referendum. Young appeared on two television programs, “Dialogo Abierto” and “Aló Presidente.”