Printed & Presented Archive

Fall 2005

In September, Katharina Altpeter-Jones, assistant professor of German, presented a paper titled “Powerful Images: Imaginary Violence and the Body in Late Medieval Short Narrative Fiction.” She delivered the paper at a conference of scholars in the field of German medieval studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

In October, Altpeter-Jones attended the 30th annual conference of the Coalition of Women in German in Carrollton, Kentucky. She is an elected member of the organization’s steering committee.

Kip Ault, professor of education, received a $25,350 grant from the National Science Foundation. His project title is "Teachers on the Leading Edge." Ault and his colleagues, Robert Butler of the University of Portland, and Ellen Bishop of Wallowa Resources, will study the geology of the North American plate from the Oregon coast to Hells Canyon in eastern Oregon.

In June, Eleonora Beck, professor of music, published a book about the philosophical and cultural intersection of musicians, artists, and intellectuals in early 14th-century Padua. “Giotto’s Harmony: Music and Art in Padua at the Crossroads of the Renaissance” (European Press Academic Publishing, 2005) makes the case that the musical Renaissance has its roots in Padua's prehumanist tradition.

In July, Mark Becker, assistant professor of psychology, gave a lecture titled “Fearful faces elicit panicked search” at the 11th annual Cognitive Science Association for Interdisciplinary Learning conference. Becker copresented the lecture with his colleague, Brian Detweiler-Bedell, assistant professor of psychology.

In May, Becker published an abstract in the Journal of Vision. The article, coauthored with I. Rasmussen and A. Sims, was titled “Scene specific memory guides the allocation of attention in natural scenes” (5(8), 411).

The Oregon Historical Society’s exhibit “Oregon, My Oregon” has received a Merit Award from the American Association for State and Local History. The exhibit is curated by Steve Beckham, Pamplin Professor of History, who served as writer and researcher for the exhibit, including the "Exploration" theater program, one of two film/video galleries in the exhibit. The presentation is an overview of the region's history and the major themes that have shaped the development of the state.

Several faculty members provided scholarship and expertise to the national public radio series “Unfinished Journey: The Lewis and Clark Story.” The series was produced in a collaborative partnership between Lewis & Clark and Oregon Public Broadcasting, with major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Among the College contributors: Stephen Dow Beckham, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Professor of History; Clay Jenkinson, humanities scholar in residence; Robert Miller, associate professor of law; Liz Safran, assistant professor of geological science; Juan Carlos Toledano, assistant professor of Spanish; Steve Tufte, associate professor of physics; and Kim Stafford, associate professor of the graduate school and director, Northwest Writing Institute. The series, with supplemental material, will be released in March 2006 in a compact disc set.

Several people associated with the College have been involved with and have supported the radio series, including Doug Erickson, head of special collections and College archivist; Roger Wendlick, collector in residence, and Gerald Torres, visiting professor of law from the University of Texas at Austin.

Debra Beers, senior lecturer in art and program head of drawing, received a $30,000 grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council for her “Portraits Project” at the Donald E. Long Juvenile Justice Detention Center. In June, a juried exhibition at Portland’s Froelick Gallery included works by Beers titled “First Person.” In October and November, an invitational group exhibition at Mount Hood Community College features work by Beers titled, “War Drawings.”

Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers has appointed Doug Beloof, associate professor of law and director of the law school’s National Crime Victim Law Institute, to chair Oregon’s first statewide Crime Victims’ Rights Advisory Committee. The committee will develop a plan to ensure that crime victims understand the criminal justice system and “have every opportunity to fully exercise their rights.”

In October, Oregon Business Magazine named Beloof one of “Fifty in Motion: Great Leaders for Oregon.” The magazine writes that Beloof, “has brought national attention to Oregon with his innovation” as an expert in victimology.

In November, Rachel Cole, assistant professor of English, participated in a seminar on experimental poetics at the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics conference in Boston. She presented a paper titled “‘No More to Hide’: Dickinson’s Poetics of Obtrusion.” Cole also published an article titled “The Reality Effect: Emerson’s Speakers and the Phenomenon of Personality,” which appeared in the spring 2005 issue of Yale Journal of Criticism.

A chapter written by Benjamin David, assistant professor of art history, is included in a new book titled “Renaissance Siena: Art in Context” (Truman State University Press, 2005). David’s article is titled “Narrative in Context: The Cassoni of Francesco Di Giorgio.”

Janet Davidson, associate professor of psychology, coedited a book titled

“Conceptions of Giftedness” (Cambridge University Press, 2005). The book explores the major concept of what it means to be gifted, and describes how those concepts apply to identification, instruction, and assessment of the gifted. It provides a critical evaluation of various theories of giftedness and gives practical advice to teachers and administrators on how to put theories of gifted education into practice.

Three stories by Annie Dawid, professor of English, will appear in fall 2005. “The Teacher's Apology Poem” will be published in The Teacher’s Voice, a new magazine out of New York; “The Nazi’s Daughter Falls in Love: 1933” will be published in Poetica, a Virginia-based Jewish-issues magazine; and “Celestine Du Bois Plays Brahms: 1943” will be published in Pittsburgh-based Paper Street, a new historical-fiction venue.

In October, Dawid gave a talk at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The presentation featured readings from her fiction collections, including “Lily in the Desert” (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2001), and from her novel in progress “Fathom These Events: Jonestown, a Novel.”

Dawid won second prize in the 2005 Arthur Edelstein contest for her story titled “Calisthenics: Bucharest 1950.”

Excerpts from Dawid’s essay “Fathom These Events: Jonestown” are published online on San Diego State University’s Web site “Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple.” The Web site is hosted by the university’s religious studies department.

Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell, assistant professor of psychology, published an article in the April issue of the journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 36(2), 219-223. The article, coauthored with a colleague, is titled “A lesson in assigning homework: therapist, client and task characteristics in cognitive therapy for depression.”

In December, Peter Drake, assistant professor of computer science, published a computer science textbook titled “Data Structures and Algorithms in Java” (Prentice-Hall, 2005). The book features a practical approach to real-world programming and introduces readers to the process of crafting programs by working through the development of projects.

A book chapter written by Robert Eisinger, associate professor and chair of political science, is included in a forthcoming book titled “The Guide to Political Campaigns in America” (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press). Eisinger’s chapter is titled “Political Polling and Research.”

Kathy Faust, assistant director for technical services at the Boley Law Library, has been elected secretary-treasurer of the American Association of Law Libraries’ Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section.

The graduate school has received a grant of nearly $20,000 from the Oregon Department of Education. The funding will support work by Alejandra Favela, assistant professor of education, and Danielle Torres, assistant professor of school counseling, through the Oregon New Minority Teacher Summer Institute. The program pairs new ethnic minority teachers with higher education experts and mentors to examine experiences and challenges of working in classroom settings with diverse student populations, with a focus on teachers’ professional development. The program will operate initially in partnership with the Beaverton and Woodburn school districts, which have high numbers of students of color.

In November, Kurt Fosso, associate professor of English, presented a paper at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference in at California’s Pepperdine University. Fosso’s paper was titled “‘The Feet of Beasts’: Tracking the Human Animal in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion.”

Tami Gierloff, associate director of the Boley Law Library, has been elected president of the Western Pacific Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries. The chapter’s membership is drawn from Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, U.S. Pacific territories and western Canada.

In September, The Oregonian published a poem by Jerry Harp, visiting assistant professor of humanities. The poem was titled “Litany.”

Martin Hart-Landsberg, professor of economics, published two books coauthored with a colleague: “The Political Economy of Japanese Capitalism” (Meeto Press, 2005) and “China and Socialism: Market Reform and Class Struggle” (Monthly Review Press, 2005). The latter is being translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish, and Norwegian. Hart-Landsberg is part of a research team at the Social Science Research Institute, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea, where he and a team of four South Korean economists study the consequences of recent transformations in the South Korean economy.

In June and July, Jane Hunter, professor of history, participated in a seminar titled “Rethinking America in Global Perspective” at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Historical Association. The four-week seminar is designed to encourage college teachers to rethink the way American history is taught.

Loretta Johnson, adjunct professor in the humanities, published two articles. The article titled “T. S. Eliot’s Bawdy Verse: Lulu, Bolo, and More Ties,” was included in the Journal of Modern Literature (Fall 2003), 27, 1/2, 14-25; and “History in Ellison’s Juneteenth,” appeared in Studies in American Fiction (Spring 2004), 32, 1, 81-100.

In August, Vern Jones, professor of education and chair of teacher education and educational leadership, presented a one-day workshop sponsored by the Iowa State Department of Special Education in Des Moines, Iowa. The workshop was titled, “Developing programs for students with emotional and behavior disorders.”

Oren Kosansky, assistant professor of anthropology, has given a number of presentations. In October, he presented “Saints in the Age Mechanical Reproduction: Religious Icons and Torah Practice in Morocco” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. He also delivered a talk titled “The Real Morocco Itself: Judeo-Muslim Pilgrimage and the Idea of the Moroccan Nation” to the Maghrebi Area Studies Symposium in Rabat. Kosansky was an invited lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona; and gave a talk titled “Jewish-Muslim Relations in Morocco” for the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Arizona; and “The Book, the Saint, and the Dead: Burial and Textual Embodiment in Jewish Morocco” for in an invited session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

Kosansky’s public lectures as Fulbright Scholar in Morocco included “On Being a Student in the United States” for AMIDEAST, in Rabat; “Religion in the United States” for Partnerships for Learning – EFL Institute Program, in Rabat; “Fact and Sensation in American Media” for Dar America, United States Information Service, in Casablanca; “Comparative Religion: Islam, Judaism, and Christianity” for Center for Cross Cultural Learning, in Rabat; and “Academic Expectations in United States Higher Education” for Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange, in Rabat.

Two poems by Kosansky appeared in the Spring issue of Topos: Poetry International (Volume 7). The poems are titled “Jafaf, or after the drought” and “Somewhere south of Marrakesh.”

Kosansky received a 2004 Fulbright Scholar award for research in Morocco and has received continuance of the award for research in summer 2006. He serves on the editorial board for “Perspectives,” the newsletter of the Association for Jewish Studies. His article titled “Beyond Exoticism and Syncretism: Situating Moroccan Jewish Pilgrimage in Jewish Studies” was published in Perspectives (Spring, 14-16).

The U.S. Department of State chose Michael Krauss, instructor in Academic English Studies, as an English language specialist to conduct teacher training in Honduras and Russia. In May, Krauss presented workshops on computer-assisted language learning to Honduran teacher s of English as a foreign language in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He also gave a keynote address to the fourth national conference for teachers of English. The conference theme was “English and Technology in a Globalized World.”

In June, Krauss gave a plenary and a series of workshops for the Petrozavodsk, Russia, Summer Institute of English for more than 300 teachers. In St. Petersburg, he conducted a weeklong computer-based workshop to help writers develop Web-based resources for a soon-to-be published textbook series of English for specific purposes.

In June, Robert Kugler, Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies and religious studies chair, gave a presentation about the Dead Sea scrolls at Portland’s First Baptist Church.

Louis Kuo, professor of chemistry, received a $33,640 grant from the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society for 2005-06. His project is titled “Synthesis of Water-Soluble Ruthenium-Alkylidene Reagents for Effecting Aqueous Olefin Metathesis; A ‘Green’ Metathesis Catalyst.”

Jim Kopp, director of the Watzek Library, published an article titled “Seeking Prosperity and Freedom on the Oregon Coast: The Bellamy Colony, Lincoln County, Oregon (1897-1899).” The article, published in Communal Studies (Vol. 25, 2005, p. 57-74) was coauthored by Carol Ginter, a descendant of a member of the short-lived colony.

Kopp gave two presentations of his Chautauqua talk titled “Eden Within Eden: Exploring Oregon's Utopian Heritage:” in September at the Independence Heritage Museum in Independence, and in October at the Salem Public Library. This brings to 22 the number of times he has given this talk around the state in the past two years.

Kopp published an article titled “Seeking Prosperity and Freedom on the Oregon Coast: The Bellamy Colony, Lincoln County, Oregon (1897-1899).” The article, published in Communal Studies (Vol. 25, 2005, p. 57-74) was coauthored by Carol Ginter, descendant of a member of the short-lived colony.

Along with Jim Grant, associate professor of economics, Kopp was a mentor this summer for a high school student in the Oregon Council for the Humanities Young Scholars Program. The student undertook a research project on dystopian novels.

Ron Lansing, professor of law, published a novel about Oregon’s first big murder case. “Nimrod: Courts, Claims and Killing on the Oregon Frontier” (Washington State University Press, 2005) details the trial of Nimrod O’Kelly, who came to Oregon in 1845 and stood trial for murdering his neighbor.

In June, Todd Lochner, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper titled “Counting the Costs: The Use of Prosecutorial Resources in the War on Terror” at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In June, Jens Mache, associate professor of computer science, published, with coauthor Tim Likarish B.A. ’05, a paper titled “Performance Evaluation of Browser-Based SSL VPN Gateways” at the 2005 International Conference on Internet Computing. The conference was held in Las Vegas.

In August, Mache received additional support from the National Science Foundation for his research project titled “Collaborative Project: Adaptation of Globus Toolkit 3 Tutorials for Undergraduate Computer Science Students.”

In October, an article titled “The impact of spatial layout of jobs on I/O hotspots in mesh networks,” by Mache, coauthored with Virginia Lo, University of Oregon, and Sharad Garg, Intel, was published in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 65, Issue 10, pp. 1190-1203.

In November, Mache gave a poster presentation and published an abstract titled “Parallelizing OpenVPN for High-Bandwidth Cluster Integration” at the 18th SC | 05 Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Mache’s coauthors are Chris Allick ’06, Andre Pinter ’07, and Damon Tyman ’07. The conference, held in Seattle, was sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

In December, Mache published a paper titled “Grid Computing Communication Strategies for Cross Cluster Job Execution” at the first International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences and Engineering. Mache’s coauthors are Chris Allick ’06, Andre Pinter ’07, and Damon Tyman ’07. The Web-based conference was conducted completely online and in real time.

In September, Orla McDonagh, instructor in music and piano program director, gave a recital in Corvallis as part of the Sundays at Four series. She performed works of Haydn, Schumann, and Liszt, as well as works by Irish composers.

In September, Joanne Mulcahy, assistant professor at the Northwest Writing Center, presented an essay titled “Thinking Culturally” to the New York Folklore Society Meeting in Tarrytown, New York.

In June, Nancy Nagel, associate dean for faculty of the graduate school, was accepted to attend the Harvard Institute for Management and Leadership in Education (MLE), an institute for experienced administrators responsible for their institution’s change agenda, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Roger Nelsen, professor of mathematics, published two research papers. The first, in the journal Insurance, Mathematics and Economics, is titled “Copulas with fractal support.” Nelsen’s coauthors are Gregory A. Fredericks and Jose Antonio Rodriguez-Lallena. (37(2005), pp. 42-48).

In the journal Comptes Rendus de l’Academie des Sciences Serie I Mathematique, 341 (2005), 583-586, Nelsen published an article titled “The lattice-theoretic structure of sets of bivariate copulas and quasi-copulas.” His coauthor is Manuel Ubeda-Flores.

In August, Nelsen gave a talk at Mathfest, a gathering in Albuquerque, N.M. His talk was titled “Some visual gems from elementary number theory.”

Bruce Podobnik, associate professor of sociology, was featured in an article in the July/August issue of Portland Monthly. “Air of Concern” details his research on industrial pollution.

In July, Podobnik published “Transforming Globalization” (Brill Academic Press, 2005). The book, coauthored with a colleague, examines the emergence of the movement of resistance that has arisen to challenge neoliberal forms of globalization.

In November, Podobnik published “Global Energy Shifts” (Temple University Press, 2005). The book draws intriguing parallels between the “coal panics” that once swept through Britain and the “oil panics” that grip the world today.

James Proctor, professor of environmental studies, is editor of “Science, Religion, and the Human Experience” (Oxford University Press, 2005). The book is based on a research and lecture series he coordinated.

Matthieu Raillard, assistant professor of Spanish, published an article in the fall 2005 issue of the journal Dieciocho (Volume 28, Issue 2). The article, titled “El jard'n de Venus: Samaniego’s Arcadia of the Senses,” deals with 18th-century Spanish erotic poetry.

Molly Robinson Kelly, assistant professor of French, published an article in the summer issue of Dalhousie French Studies (71, 149-59). The article is titled “Love and Alienation in the Western World: Albert Cohen's Solal and Belle du Seigneur.”

In July, Bill Rottschaefer, professor emeritus of philosophy, gave a presentation based on his article titled, “The Many Places of Knowledge in Nature: Reflections on Hilary Kornblith’s ‘The Place of Knowledge in Nature’” (Abstract), Proceedings of the Oregon Academy of Science (Volume, XLI), 2005, p. 56). He delivered the paper at the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Study of Biology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.

In October,Rottschaefer gave four conference presentations:

“An Ironic Turn: Comments on Card’s ‘Pure Aretaic Ethics and Character.’” Conference on Virtue Ethics and Moral Psychology: The Situationism Debate, University of Denver.

“The Many Places of Knowledge in Nature: Reflections on Hilary Kornblith’s ‘The Place of Knowledge in Nature.’” 57th annual Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Seattle University.

“The Truth and Nothing But the Truth: Comments on Jerry Dopplet’s ‘How to be a Scientific Realist.’” 57th annual Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Seattle University.

”Goals and Knowledge: A Response to DeMoss’s ‘The Many Goals of Knowledge in Nature.’” 57th annual Northwest Conference on Philosophy, Seattle University.

In November, Tom Ruhl, assistant professor of education, and Carol Smith, instructor in education, gave a presentation at the International Network of Principals’ Centers in Denver. Ruhl and Smith focused on the statewide influence of The Oregon Principals’ Center to support the professional growth of school leaders.

In July, Gilbert Seeley, John W. Rogers Professor of Music, won a first prize in the Gorizia, Italy, International Choral Competition. The prize was awarded for the choir’s performance in the folk, spiritual, and gospel category. The singers also performed in Prague, Cesky Krumlov, Vienna, Bratislava, Ljbliana, and at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice. Oregon Repertory Singers are Lewis & Clark’s choir in residence.

In September, Mike Sexton, dean of admissions, directed the Admissions Mid-Management Institute for the National Association for College Admission Counseling conference in Tampa, Florida. He also gave a presentation at a session titled “Heeding the Call of “College Unranked”... Rethinking College Admission Practices.”

In October, Ruth Shagoury, Mary Stuart Rogers professor of education, published an article in Educational Leadership, 63 (2), 53-57. The article, coauthored with Andie Cunningham, is titled “The sweet work of reading” and is about kindergarten teachers helping their students make authentic connections by making meaning from books and exploring the students’ interests.

In November, Shagoury published a book about reading comprehension for young children. “Starting with comprehension: Reading strategies for the youngest learners” (Stenhouse Publishers, 2005), coauthored with Andie Cunningham, shows how comprehension skills can be nurtured by linking reading, thinking, and communicating.

Stepan Simek, assistant professor of theatre, published an article in Slavic and East European Performance Journal, 25 (2) 44-55. The article, titled “Belonging to Those Who Create It—a History of Public Financing and Organization of the Czech Theatre Before and AFTER the Velvet Revolution,” deals with the methods of organization and financing of the Czech Theatre.

Simek has also translated two Czech plays, both of which were produced in American theatres this year. His translation of Petr Zelenka’s 2002 European hit called “Tales of Ordinary Madness” played at the University of California, San Diego School of Drama in March and April. His translation of Iva Volankova’s “3Sisters 2002CZ” is a contemporary variation on Anton Chekhov's famous play “Three Sisters,” set in contemporary Czech Republic in 2002. The play received a full staged public reading at the Public Theatre in New York City in May. His translations from Czech are now represented by the Marton Agency in New York.

Tod Sloan, professor and chair of counseling psychology in the Graduate School received the 2005 Distinguished Service Award from Psychologists for Social Responsibility for his four years of work in the role of national cocoordinator of the peace and social justice advocacy organization.

Nicholas Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities, co-edited two books: “Socrates' Divine Sign: Religion, Practice, and Value in Socratic Philosophy” (Academic Printing and Publishing, 2005) and the forthcoming “Readings in the History of Philosophy, Volume One: Ancient Philosophy” (Blackwell Publishing, in press).

Smiths recently published articles include “Socrates in the Agora: Some Thoughts about Philosophy as Talk” (Revista de Filosofia de la Universidad de Costa Rica 41.104, 2005, 165-173) and “Socrates' /Daimonion/ and Rationality,” written with a colleague, which appears in “Socrates' Divine Sign: Religion, Practice, and Value in Socratic Philosophy.”

Smith also delivered papers at two international conferences this past summer— one at Cambridge University, England and one at the University of Granada, Spain.

Newsweek magazine’s issue “America’s Hottest Colleges” (August 2005) featured a color photo by Shannon Smith, public relations assistant. The photo captured activity in the Autumn Gecko Lab, with Kellar Autumn, associate professor of biology; Terry Stratton ’06, Kjell Schroder ’08, and Tim Kelly ’06.

Kim Stafford, associate professor/director of NWI & William Stafford Center, received a $45,000 grant from the National Writing Project at UC/Berkeley to support the Oregon Writing Project, a program which he directs at Lewis & Clark College. The grant will support writing teachers in the Portland metro area.

Stafford published a collection of poems titled “A Thousand Friends of Rain” (Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2005).

A one-person exhibition at Portland’s Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery included installation work and sculpture by Theodore Vogel, assistant professor of art and program head of ceramics. His exhibition was on view from June through August.

The Environmental Protection Agency has appointed Chris Wold, associate professor of law and director of International Environmental Law Project, to its National Advisory Committee. Wold will serve a two-year appointment. The committee provides advice to agency on a range of strategic, legal, and regulatory issues for the implementation of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

In November, Norman Yoshida, instructor in Academic English Studies, gave two presentations at the Oregon Teachers of English to Speakers of Second Languages fall conference. With three colleagues, he developed, coordinated, and presented a half-day workshop on “Grammar Control in Writing: Helping ESL Students Over the Threshold to Academia.” He also copresented at a workshop titled “Beyond the ESL Classroom: Transition Models to Facilitate Academic Success.”

Yueping Zhang, assistant professor of psychology, published an article in the April issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience, 119 (2), 399-410. The article, coauthored with three colleagues, is titled “Involvement of ventral pallidum in prefrontal cortical-dependent aspects of spatial working memory.”

Zhang published an article in the summer issue of Psychopharmacology, 181:280-288. The article, coauthored with two colleagues, is titled “Effects of clonidine in the locus coeruleus on prefrontal- and hippocampal-dependent measures of attention and memory in the rat.”

In November, Rishona Zimring, associate professor of English, attended the annual Modernist Studies Association conference and presented a paper on a memoir of childhood by Charles Darwin’s granddaughter, Gwen Raverat.