Printed & Presented Archive

Spring 2004

Nicole Aas-Rouxparis, professor of French, published “Essai” and "L'Espérance-Macadam de Gisèle Pineau: 'donner couleur aux sons' " in Francographies (March 2004).

In April, Aas-Rouxparis will take part in the Women in French conference at Scripps College and will chair a session titled "Exil/Isolement."

In June, she will take part in the Conseil International des Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference in Liège, Belgium and will chair the session titled "Le Maghreb aujourd'hui: mythes et réalité." She will present paper about writer Assia Djebar titled "La Femme-oiseau de la mosaïque: image et chant, dans La Femme sans sepulture d'Assia Djebar."

Katharina Altpeter-Jones, assistant professor of German, gave a talk in March at Portland State University. The talk was titled "Trafficking in Goods and Women: Love and Economics in the Medieval Imagination."

In May, Kellar Autumn, associate professor of biology, served as a judge at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.

The January 2004 issue of Long Short Story, a Web magazine, featured a short story by Nora Beck, associate professor and chair of music. The story is titled “Darcy’s Sketchbook.”

Stephen Dow Beckham,Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of History, addressed the Oswego Heritage Council's annual meeting on Jan. 22. His talk was titled "Land of Promise: Oregon Trail Settlers in Early Lake Oswego."

Greg Block, distinguished environmental law scholar, worked with International Environmental Law Project students to draft a brief to the NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation calling attention to several issues that threaten to undermine the legitimacy of the citizens’ submission process.

Block is overseeing the development of an IELP citizen’s handbook on trade rules and the environment, prepared for state attorneys-general, legislators, nongovernmental organizations and others. He is also writing portions of a text book on trade and the environment with Chris Wold, clinical law professor, and Sanford Gaines, as well as an article solicited by the Loyola Law Journal on the NAFTA and environmental issues.

Additionally, Block is advising the CEC Independent Review Committee on the results of efforts to assess the environmental impacts of free trade on the environment for the ten-year review of the NAFTA environmental side agreement.

In March, Michael Blumm, professor of law, spoke at the National Association of Environmental Law Society’s annual conference held at the law school, on the Bush administration’s litigation settlement policy and its effect on public land management.

In May, Blumm will speak at the Lewis and Clark Expedition bicentennial law symposium about Chief Justice John Marshall’s interpretation of the Discovery Doctrine and its effect on Indian proprietary and sovereign rights.

Two articles by Blumm are featured in the Berkeley Electronic Press’s electronic law journal, “Issues in Legal Scholarship,” in a symposium on Professor Joseph Sax and the Public Trust Doctrine: “Public Property and Democratization of Western Water Law: A Modern View of the Public Trust Doctrine,” originally published at 19 Envtl.L. 573 (1989), and “Mono Lake and the Evolving Public Trust in Western Water,” originally published at 37 Ariz. L. Rev. 701 (1995) (coauthored with Thea Schwartz ’95). The symposium summary appears online at www.bepress.com.

Blythe Butler, associate dean of admissions, is secretary on the executive board of the Pacific Northwest Association for College Admission Counseling (PNACAC).

In April, Kimberly Campbell, assistant professor of language arts, gave a presentation titled “Sharing your voice as teacher researchers” to the Jefferson Teacher Alliance Teacher Inquiry Mini-Conference in Portland, Oregon.

In April, Campbell presented “Sharing Your Voice as Teacher Researchers” at the Jefferson Teacher Alliance Teacher Inquiry Mini-Conference in Portland, Oregon.

In April, Mary Clare, professor of counseling psychology, presented “The Elders’ Project” at the annual meeting of the National Association of School Psychologists in Dallas, Texas.

Rebecca Copenhaver, assistant professor of philosophy, received a Graves Award in the Humanities from Pomona College and the American Council of Learned Societies. The $5,000 award recognizes Copenhaver's outstanding accomplishments in teaching the humanities and will support her scholarly project: a book on Thomas Reid's philosophy of mind.

Raphael Dagold, visiting assistant professor of English, gave the keynote address at the Laurel School’s (Cleveland, Ohio) annual ceremony to honor cum laude students. The talk focused on “intellect and instinct: some thoughts on achievement.”

Dagold has also had poems accepted for publication in 2004 in The Georgia Review, Perceptions, and in Midnight Snacks. Several of his fables have been accepted for publication in Bestia X: The Journal of the International Beast Fable Society.

Mark Dahl, library technology coordinator, had an article titled "Forging your own OpenURL resolver" published as the cover story in the February 2004 issue of Computers in Libraries magazine. The article described technology developed at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library to facilitate linking to full text articles from our online research databases.

In March 2004, Annie Dawid, professor of English, will be a writer in residence at the University of North Dakota’s annual writers’ conference.

Isabelle C DeMarte, assistant professor of French, and J.M. Fritzman, associate professor of philosophy, coauthored an article titled “Diderot’s Uncle, Hegel; or ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ as a Branch of the Phenomenology of Spirit.’” The article will be published in the journal “1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era.” Earlier versions of the article were presented during the fall 2002 philosophy colloquia series at Lewis & Clark and at the spring 2003 Midsouth Philosophy Conference.

Dinah Dodds, professor and department chair of German, recently published a paper in a volume called Critical Essays on Contemporary European Culture and Society. Her chapter is called "German Unification and East German Youth: Ten Years after the Wall."

A second paper by Dodds, titled "Ten Years after the Wall: East German Women in Transition," was published in The European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 10(3): 261-276, 2003.

Dodds says the papers are the culmination of ten years of work on the changes that have occurred since German unification in 1990. She began the project with a book of interviews with women living in East Berlin, The Wall in my Backyard: East German Women in Transition (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994).

Doug Erickson, college archivist and head of special collections, and Paul Merchant, bibliographic specialist, spoke about writings on the Lewis and Clark Expedition during a presentation at Southern Oregon University in May.

Robert Eisinger, associate professor and chair of political science, received a $20,000 grant from the Arkay Foundation. The grant, "Fighting Cynicism and Building Trust: The Campus Civility Project," will fund a campus lecture series for the 2004-05 academic year.

Kurt Fosso, associate professor of English, published his latest book titled Buried Communities: Wordsworth and the Bonds of Mourning (SUNY Press, 2004).

William Funk, professor of law, has been awarded a Fulbright Lectureship for the academic year 2004-2005. He will be affiliated with the Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

In February, Funk served as a judge at the first annual National Animal Advocacy Competition at Harvard Law School, a competition presented by the National Center for Animal Law, located at Lewis & Clark, and the Harvard Student Animal Legal Defense Fund.

Susan Glosser, associate professor and chair of history, has published a new book titled "Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953 (University of Calif Press, 2004).

Eban Goodstein, professor and chair of economics, published the fourth edition of his textbook Economics and the Environment (John Wiley and Sons, 2004).

In March, Goodstein gave a talk on "Global Warming and the Northwest" at the environmental law conference in Eugene. He also coauthored a paper with Laura Matson ’05 titled “Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest: Valuing Snowpack Loss for Agriculture and Salmon.” The paper will appear in the journal Forthcoming in Frontiers in Environmental Valuation and Policy.

On May 24, Goodstein gave a talk titled "Social Security and Global Warming" as part of the DemoForum series. The series is sponsored by the Benton County Democrats, in Corvallis, Ore.

Lin Harmon-Walker, associate director of environmental and natural resources law, is currently coaching the Law School’s first team in the Merhige National Environmental Negotiation Competition, to be held at the University of Richmond Law School in Virginia in April.

An article by Elaine Gass Hirsch, reference librarian, was published in the spring 2004 issue of the journal Oregon Humanities. The article, titled "The Corps of Discovery for Children," discusses the past two centuries of children's literature on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Hirsch is also a presenter in the 2004-05 Oregon Council for the Humanities Chautauqua catalog. Her program topic is "Exploring Lewis and Clark through Children's Literature."

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.

In January, Jim Huffman, law school dean and Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law, Wood, presented a paper on “Water Marketing in Western Prior Appropriation States” at a seminar on Critical Issues in Georgia Water Law and Policy held at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta. He continues to serve as a member of the Kinship Conservation Institute’s Advisory Board, and is chair of the Federalist Society Environmental Law and Property Rights Practice Group.

Laura Ireland, director of the National Center for Animal Law, discussed "Pet Trends and Other Trends in Pet Law" during an April presentation in St. Helens, Ore. sponsored by the Columbia Humane Society.

Curtis Johnson, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of Government and dean of the college, will publish a new book titled Socrates and the Immoralists (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).

In May, Erica Johnson ‘98, assistant dean of admissions, lead a panel entitled “Creating High School Profiles” at a joint conference of the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain Associations for College Admissions Counseling, held in Seattle.

Craig Johnston, professor of law, and Don Large, professor of large, coached their environmental moot court team to win the 2004 National Environmental Moot Court competition.

Johnston, along with William Funk, professor of law, and a colleague from the University of Houston, will finish their environmental law casebook in December 2004. Johnston continues as president of the Friends of Tryon Creek State Park and is organizing a July 2004 across-the-country run to benefit muscular dystrophy research.

At the seventh annual conference of the National School Social Work Convention in San Francisco, California, Vern Jones, professor of education and chair of teacher education and educational leadership, gave a keynote address titled “Creating effective behavior change programs for students with emotional and behavior disorders.”

Jones also published “Creating Effective Programs for Students with Emotional and Behavior Disorders: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Adding Meaning and Hope to Behavior Change Interventions” (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2004). He coauthored the book with two colleagues.

On May 15,Stuart Kaplan,associate professor of communication, took part in a panel discussion during the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon's "Safe and Free: On Tour in Oregon." The panel discussed the U.S. Patriot Act and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, merging government and commercial databases and other privacy issues, and discrimination and profiling.

William Kinsella, professor of communication, published a chapter titled “Public expertise: A foundation for citizen participation in energy and environmental decision” (pp. 83-95) for the book Communication in environmental decision making: Advances in theory and practice (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press).

In May, John Kroger,assistant professor of law, gave a talk titled "The Enron Collapse: A Case Study in Business and Regulatory Failure." The event was sponsored by Lewis & Clark and Portland State University's Center for Professional Integrity and Accountability.

In May, Robert Kugler, Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies and department chair, took part in a panel discussion about "Faith, Justice and Taxes in Oregon." The event was sponsored by Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon.

Gordon Lindbloom, associate professor of counseling psychology, has published two new volumes: "Clinical Supervision: Building Chemical Dependency Counselor Skills, Participant's Manual" and "Clinical Supervision: Building Chemical Dependency Counselor Skills, Instructor's Manual." Lindbloom's coauthors are Tom Ten Eyck, graduate school adjunct faculty, and Steve Gallon, Northwest Frontier Addictions Transfer Center and Oregon Health & Science University.

Jens Mache, assistant professor of computer science, presented a recently published a paper titled “Modifying the Overlay Network of Freenet-style Peer-to-Peer Systems after Successful Request Queries” The paper was presented by coauthor Thierry Lopez ’03 to the 37th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences Jan. 5-8, 2004.

In March, Mache published an abstract with coauthor David Ely ’04 titled “Bread-Crumb Algorithms: Improving the Performance of Freenet-style Peer-to-Peer Systems.” The paper was presented at the Oregon Academy of Science conference in Portland.

In April, Mache cochaired a workshop titled “International Workshop on Grid Education” at the fourth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing held in Chicago.

In April, Mache published a paper titled “Communication Patterns and Allocation Strategies,” with coauthors David Bunde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Vitus Leung, Sandia National Laboratories. The paper was presented at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in Santa Fe, N.M.

In April, Elizabeth Meador, assistant professor of education, gave a lecture titled “The making of marginality: Schooling for Mexican immigrant girls in the rural Southwest” at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Diego, California.

Joe Miller, assistant professor of law, delivered a paper titled, "The Proven Key: Roles & Rules for Dictionaries in the Patent Office & the Courts" on March 25 at the Dean Dinwoodey Center for Intellectual Property Studies at the George Washington University Law School. The paper, one of five presented, was part of the Dinwoodey Center's annual spring Intellectual Property Workshop Series.

Robert J. Miller, associate professor of law, published an article in the March-April issue of the Oregon State Bar Bulletin. The article is titled "Agents of Empire: Another look at The Lewis and Clark Expedition."

Joanne Mulcahy, visiting assistant professor of education and folklorist in residence at the Northwest Writing Institute, published an essay on Oregon called "Oregon: A Contrary Unity" in an anthology called These United States(Nation Books) and an essay called “Quiet Hour” appeared in Portland Magazine.

Nancy Nagel, professor of education and associate dean of the graduate school, has coauthored a book chapter with Celeste Brody. The chapter appears in the book “Teaching Cooperative Learning: The Challenge for Teacher Education” (SUNY Press, 2004).

In February, Nagel and Sherri Carreker, instructor of education, gave an presentation titled “Supporting new teachers in a diverse urban school system” to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education’s annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

Janet Neuman, professor of law, gave the opening presentation at Law Seminar International’s annual Oregon Water Law Conference. Her talk was titled “Western Water Law: An Emerging Doctrine.” Neuman authored “Droughtproofing Water Law” in the winter volume of the University of Denver Water Law Review.

In January, Neuman spoke on “The Impact of Water Markets: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” at Georgia State University in Atlanta and spoke again on that topic in March in Lincoln, Neb. In February, she attended the ABA SEER annual Water Law Conference in San Diego.

In May, she organized a conference for the law school on the Lewis and Clark Expedition and Native Americans.

Roger Nelsen, professor of mathematics, published a paper titled “The symmetric footrule in Gini’s rank association coefficient,” coauthored with M. Ubeda Flores. The paper appeared in Communications in Statistics--Theory and Methods (v. 22, no. 1, pp. 195-96) 2004.

Stephanie Parent, acting director and staff attorney for Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, spoke at the Northwest Environmental Defense Center’s annual meeting on “Public Lands Grazing: Environmental Effects and Litigation.” She also took part in the Council on Environmental Quality Western Regional NEPA roundtable at the Squaxin Island Museum Library and Research Center.

Parent has been briefing two cases in the Ninth Circuit: a Clean Water Act challenge to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operation of the four Lower Snake River dams in violation of the water quality standard for temperature, and an Endangered Species Act challenge to six fish and wildlife service biological opinions resulting from consultation on timber harvesting effects on northern spotted owls.

In January, Laura Pedersen, assistant professor of the school counseling program, presented “Small Schools: What’s a School Counselor Like You Doing in a Place Like This?” with Vicki Brooks-McNamara at the Small Schools Northwest Conference in Portland, Oregon.

In April, Boyd Pidcock, associate professor of counseling psychology, addressed the biannual meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence in Baltimore, Maryland. The presentation, which Pidcock gave with three colleagues, was titled “Difference in binge drinking and alcohol-related problem behaviors for fraternity and non-fraternity college students.”

Liani Jean Heh Reeves, staff attorney for the National Crime Victim Law Institute's Center for Law and Public Policy on Sexual Violence at the law school, is a founding board member of the Korean American Citizens League (KACL). KACL will work to enforce and protect the civil rights of the Korean American community and of all underrepresented and underprivileged communities through education and advocacy. Projects are designed to reach all generations, language proficiencies, and economic, professional, and social backgrounds. The organization held its inaugural event on March 1 titled "Celebrating Civil Rights: From Samil Independence to Today."

In February,William A. Rottschaefer,professor emeritus of philosophy, gave a presentation titled "Is Philosophy of Science any Good for Science: Some Reflections on Peter Achinstein's Book of Evidence." The talk was delivered to the Oregon Academy of Science meeting at Portland State University.

In March, Rottschaefer gave a pair of talks to the Pacific Division meting of the American Philosophical Association in Pasadena, California. The talks were titled "Scientifically Based Moral Realism: The Explanatory and Motivational Power of Weird Properties" and "Explanatorily Powerful, Weird and Motivating, but not moral?: A Reply to Dorsey."

Rottschaefer talked about "Scientific Naturalistic Ethics: Weird Science and Pseudo-Ethics?" at the International Academy of Humanism's Conference on Science and Ethics, International Academy of Humanism in Toronto in May. Later that month, he gave a talk titled "From Is to Ought and Back Again: A Scientific Naturalistic Odyssey" to the Canadian Philosophical Association.

In January, Mike Sexton, dean of admissions, and Kari Chisholm, creative director for new media, gave a workshop on “Integrating the Web into Your Admissions Strategy” in New Orleans.

In May, Sexton was on a panel entitled “Rankings, Ratings and Serving Education” at a joint conference of the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain Associations for College Admissions Counseling, held in Seattle.

Stepan Simek, associate professor of theatre, published the first part of an article titled “Theatre as a Temple of the Mind and the Remarkable Moralist Karel Steigerwald” in the winter 2004 issue of the Slavic and East European Performance Journal. The article’s second part will appear in the spring 2004 issue.

Simek’s article “Tales of Bemused Alienation” will be published by Theatre Forum Journal (San Diego) in summer 2004.

Nicholas D. Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities, will publish a new book in fall titled Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates, coauthored with Thomas C. Brickhouse (Routledge, 2004).

Smith’s recent journal articles and chapters in books include: "Did Plato Write the Alcibiades I? (forthcoming in Apeiron); "Persuade or Obey," coauthored wtih Brickhouse (forthcoming [in French] in Plato's Ethics, ed. Pierre Destrée and Louis-André Dorion, Presses Universitaires de France); "Socrates on Akrasia, Knowledge, and the Power of Appearance," coauthored with Brickhouse; and "Socrates' Daimonion and Rationality," coauthored with Brickhouse.

Smith has given numerous presentations in spring 2004, including"Persuade or Obey" at the second annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities;

"Socrates on How Wrongdoing Damages the Soul," with Thomas C. Brickhouse, at the International Socrates Symposium, Texas Christian University.

Beginning in April 2004, Smith will serve on the executive committee of the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific division.

Janice Weis. assistant director for environmental and natural resources law, has been appointed to the membership committee of the American Bar Association’s section on environment, energy, and resources. She continues to teach in the introductory and advanced sessions of the Endangered Species Act short courses for forest Service biologists and other agency specialists held in the fall and spring each year.

A painting by Phyllis Yes, professor and art department chair, has been accepted for Oregon State University's Art About Agriculture exhibition, which is on view beginning Feb. 22 in the Giustina Art Gallery at OSU's LaSells Stewart Center. The work will also be part of the exhibition's 2004 tour. In addition, Yes received the 2004 Reese Lamb and John Lamb Honor Award of $1,000.