Printed & Presented Archive

Spring 2005

In January Katharina Altpeter-Jones, assistant professor of German, presented a paper titled “Inscribing Gender: Marital Violence in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Text and Image.” She delivered the paper at a conference in Leeds, England, organized by the Gender and Medieval Studies Group at the University of Leeds.

Altpeter-Jones will present some elements of this project at a panel she helped organize for Lewis & Clark’s annual Gender Studies Symposium. The panel, titled “Causing Trouble: Challenges to a Gendered Order in German Texts and Images,” will also feature three student papers that were generated in Altpeter-Jones’ German Literature in Translation class in spring 2004.

Altpeter-Jones also recently published an article in the 2005 Women in German Yearbook. The article is titled “Adam Schubart’s Early Modern ‘Tyrant She-Man’: Female Misbehavior, Gender, and the Disciplining of Hybrid Bodies.”

Kellar Autumn, associate professor of biology, published an article titled “Evidence for self-cleaning in gecko setae” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, or PNAS (January 3, 2005). Autumn also gave a presentation about the design of synthetic gecko setae during a terrestrial locomotion mechanics session at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in San Diego, Calif. on January 5.

Margo Ballantyne, visual resources curator, steps down in April from her two-year appointment to the Executive Board for the Visual Resources Association. During her tenure she participated in the creation of conference programs and registration in Houston and Miami Beach and moderated a workshop for “Negotiating and Licensing Electronic Content for Visual Resources Collections.”

In February, Stephen Dow Beckham, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Professor of History, gave a lecture at the state Capitol building as part of the state’s 146th birthday and to mark the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Beckham’s talk centered on his book “Lewis and Clark: From the Rockies to the Pacific.”

In March, Beckham spoke as part of the Mission Mill Museum lecture series in Salem. He presented an illustrated overview of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with an emphasis on historical context, the traveling library, and the consequences of the expedition for Native Americans and the United States.

Beckham is the curator and writer of the Oregon Historical Society’s exhibit titled “Oregon My Oregon.” The exhibit highlights “artifacts and stories that document the human experience in the Pacific Northwest.”

Doug Beloof, associate professor of and director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute, received the president’s and U.S. attorney general’s Award for Professional Innovation in Victim Services. It is one of seven national awards given each April during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. The award honors those who help to expand the reach of victims’ rights and services.

Andrew Bernstein, assistant professor of history, will publish a new book this year titled “Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan” (University of Hawaii Press, 2006).

Greta Binford, assistant professor of biology, received a $14,000 award from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for its Partners in Science Program. Binford’s project is titled “Analyses of cDNA Sequences of the Toxic Venom Enzyme Sphingomyelinase D from Brown Recluse Relatives.” Binford’s coresearcher is a Cleveland High School teacher Scott N. Burns in Portland, Ore.

In April, Janet Bixby, assistant professor of education, presented “Variations on a Theme: Detracking Reforms and Educators’ Ambivalence in Two School Contexts” at the American Educational Research Association’s annual conference in Montreal.

A chapter on reserved water rights by Michael Blumm, professor of law, was published in volume 4 of the treatise “Waters and Water Rights.” He also wrote (with William Warnock J.D. ’03) “Bureaucratic Boundaries vs. Clean Water: A Reply to Cliff Villa,” 34 Envtl L. 815 (2004), and “Origins of Animal Law at Lewis & Clark,” 10 Animal L. 5 (2004).

Ed Brunet, Henry J. Casey Professor of Law, presented a paper, “Markman, Summary Judgment, and Judicial Discretion” at the 10th annual Lewis & Clark Fall Business Law Forum. The paper, which examines how judges administer patent cases and seek to more efficiently manage these complex cases, will be published in the first issue of the new Lewis & Clark Law Review. Brunet also is working on his coauthored book, “Reforming Federal Arbitration,” to be published later in 2005 by Cambridge University Press.

Kimberly Campbell, assistant professor of language arts, published an article in the Winter edition of Oregon’s Future. The article, titled “One teacher’s journey,” discussed the challenges and the rewards of progressive education in teaching language arts.

In February, Campbell addressed the Oregon Association of Teacher Educators with a presentation titled “Cultivating teacher researchers: Preparing teachers to teach through classroom inquiry.” She also gave the keynote address for Willamette University’s Graduate School of Education Research Conference in May. The speech was titled “Teacher research: A habit of practice that informs and sustains.”

David Campion, assistant professor of history, has written two forthcoming articles. “Policing the Peelers: The 1833 Parliamentary Investigations into Misconduct by the Metropolitan Police” will appear in the journal London Politics, 1789-1914 (2005), edited by Tony Taylor, and “Railway Policing and Security in Colonial India, c. 1860-1930” will appear in “A History of the Indian Railways” (Publisher, 2005).

In July, Campion will present a paper at the annual Anglo-American Conference at the University of London. His paper is titled “An Empire of Souls: The Society of Jesus and European Expansion in Asia during the Age of Discovery.”

Mary Clare, professor of counseling psychology, published an article in the Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 16 (1, 2), 95-111. The article, coauthored with two colleagues, is titled “Toma el tiempo: The wisdom of migrant families in consultation” and is about children of migrant farm working families who live in conditions that stunt their health and education.

The Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, Vol. 6, No. 1 and 2 (2005) published an article by Clare and coauthors Jennifer McClendon and Anna Jimenez. The article is titled “Toma el tiempo: The wisdom of migrant families in consultation.”

Emily Clark, adjunct professor of history, will publish a new book titled “Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development of a New World Society, 1727-1834” (University of North Carolina Press). Her article “The Feminine Face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727-1852,” coauthored with Virginia M. Gould, won the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize for Best Article on Southern Women’s History.

Peter Cookson, dean of the graduate school, published a book that he coauthored with Alan Sadovnik and Susan Semel. “Exploring education: An introduction to the foundations of education” (3rd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2006) is an introduction to the disciplines of history, philosophy, politics and sociology of education and their application to educational issues including school organization and teaching, curriculum and pedagogic practices, education and inequality and school reform.

Mark Dahl, assistant director for systems and access for Watzek Library, was interviewed by Primary Research Group for a study titled “Best Practices of Academic Library Information Technology Directors. The study, published in February, covers a wide range of topics including electronic reserves, virtual reference services, technology investment, library and instructional technology centers, and other issues of concern to library information technology staff directors.

“The Closer you Were, The Less You Knew,” by Annie Dawid, professor of English, won second prize in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open. Dawid’s prize: $1,000 and the opportunity to have the story published in 2006 in “Glimmer Train Stories,” a national fiction journal.

The section “In Dostoyevsky’s Atmosphere: 1980,” from Dawid’s novel “And Darkness Was Under His Feet” will be published in the literary magazine Out of Line in 2006. The magazine deals with themes of peace and justice.

In March, Carol Doyle, associate professor of counseling psychology, presented “Life Transitions: A Retrospective Study of the Class of 1942 Utilizing a Cohort From a Small Midwestern High School” at the Joint Conference of American Society on Aging and National Council on the Aging in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Melissa Dudek, sports information director, has published her second novel “Catchers, Cows, & Nachos” (iUniverse, 2005). The book, a sequel to “Wildfire Summer” (Writers Club Press, 2001), follows the story of Mark Gentry, a 31-year-old former professional baseball player.

James Duncan, professor of chemistry, has published a paper titled “DFT calculations on the allenyl Cope rearrangement of syn-7-allenylnorbornene: comparison with results obtained from CASSCF calculations.” The research appears in the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry (2005; 18: 462-467). His coauthor is Marie C. Spong ’01, currently a graduate student in Harvard University’s chemistry and chemical biology department.

On January 7, Jon Eldridge, dean of students, and John Schneider, director of the Counseling Center, presented “The Comprehensive Health & Disability Report Form: A Key to a Comprehensive Approach to Mental Health Issues on Campus” at the Effective Interventions for Student Mental Health On Campus conference in Rhode Island.

Eldridge has been named to the board of directors of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) for a two-year term.

In January, Doug Erickson, head of special collections and College archivist, gave a presentation titled “Finding Middle Ground: Archives, Libraries, Business and Government Consortiums.” The talk to a meeting of the Oregon chapter of the Association of Records Managers and Administrators focused on issues and ideas that bridge the challenges faced by professionals in library science, records and archival management.

On February 25, Alejandra Favela, assistant professor of education, presented “Partnering with Districts to Promote Success for Novice Teachers and their ELL Students” at the Oregon Association of Teacher Educators conference.

Erickson, Paul Merchant, manuscript specialist, and Jeremy Skinner, archives coordinator, have published a newly edited facsimile of Thomas Jefferson’s 1806 report to Congress with a scholarly introduction, The book is titled “Jefferson’s Western Explorations: Discoveries made in exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita by captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and William Dunbar, and compiled by Thomas Jefferson, the Natchez Edition, 1806” (Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004). In April, the trio gave a presentation titled “Jefferson's Western Explorations” at Powell’s City of Books (Portland, Ore.). The talk coincided with the publication of their new book.

Kim Feicke, director of Small Schools Northwest, coordinated the third annual conference for small schools practitioners. The conference, titled “Small Schools: It’s About the Kids,” drew 400 participants to discuss best practices for converting large, comprehensive high schools into small, student-focus schools.

William Funk, professor of law, received a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant. He is affiliated with the Center for American Studies at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, where he is teaching An Introduction to American Constitutional Law in the center’s new master’s degree program. Funk also is teaching a course to the law faculty, American Approaches to Environmental Protection. The German American Lawyers Association has scheduled Funk for presentations in Freiburg, Hannover, Leipzig, Bochum, and Heidelberg on issues in American law.

In January, Eban Goodstein, professor of economics, gave a keynote address titled “Global Warming and the Meaning of Life,” at Vermont’s Middlebury College. Goodstein’s address was part of a global warming conference titled “What Works? New Strategies for a Melting Planet.”

On May 19, Goodstein testified before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Small Business Committee in Washington, D.C. Goodstein’s prepared remarks urged the United States to improve energy security by reducing the nation’s economic dependency on oil. Goodstein concluded: “Policies such as improved vehicle efficiency standards would achieve this goal, and by reducing the trade deficit, create more jobs faster than would Arctic Refuge oil development.”

In May, Jerry Harp, visiting assistant professor of humanities, read from his second collection of poems titled “Gatherings” during an event in Iowa City, Iowa. The volume won the 2004 Robert McGovern Prize from Ashland University Press. WSUI-AM broadcast the reading as part of its “Live from Prairie Lights” series.

Greg Hermann, assistant professor of biology, received a $26,000 award from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust for its College Research Program for Life Sciences. Hermann’s project is titled “Investigating a Monoclonal Antibody that Recognizes Late-Stage Apoptotic Cells in Caenorhabditis elegans.”

In May, Elaine Hirsch, Watzek Library reference librarian, presented a slide-illustrated look at how the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been chronicled in children’s books since 1821 and how the books have reflected changing values and attitudes. She spoke to a meeting of the Tigard branch of the American Association of University Women.

John Holzworth, assistant professor of political science, has been accepted for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ summer seminar titled “Reading Emerson’s Essays.” The four-week seminar in June at the University of New Mexico offers intensive study of Emerson’s essays, along with a significant body of secondary literature on a series of topics.

Jane Hunter, professor of history, has been accepted for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ summer seminar titled “Rethinking America in Global Perspective.” The four-week seminar is hosted by American Historical Association in Washington, D.C., and takes place at the Library of Congress. Participants will research internationalizing American history in the context of teaching about “an America faced with a multitude of global challenges and opportunities.”

In January, Jim Kopp, director of the Watzek Library, gave a talk to the Friends of Yachats Commons titled “Eden within Eden: Exploring Oregon’s Utopian Heritage.” The presentation is an Oregon Chautauqua program that explores “what the ideal meant to those who came to, or lived in, Oregon and sought to achieve Eden here, bridging the historical roots of these views with modern notions of the ideal in Oregon.” Kopp also gave the presentation in February at the Forest Grove City Library.

Kopp received a grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities. The $5,000 award “encourages scholarly inquiry that contributes significantly to work within the disciplines of the humanities and to a broad public discourse in scholarly ideas.” Kopp’s research project is the first comprehensive compilation and documentation of sources relating to utopian communities throughout the history of Oregon, from the late 19th century through “post-1965 communal experiments in the state.”

In January, Robert Kugler, Paul S. Wright Professor of Christian Studies and chair of religious studies, presented a four-week series titled “Demystifying the Dead Sea Scrolls” at Milwaukie Presbyterian Church.

In January, the Oregon State Bar Bulletin published an article by Ron Lansing, professor of law, titled “Alice in Law School Land: A Story of Love and Law.” The article chronicled the life of Alice and John Gantenbein who worked–through war, careers, and children–to keep Lewis & Clark Law School operating from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Nikolaus Loening,, assistant professor of chemistry, received a Cottrell College Science award. The nearly $40,000 award from the Arizona-based Research Corporation will support Loening’s project titled “The development and characterization of chemical shift thermometers for nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.”

Lisa LeSage J.D.’85, assistant dean for business law programs, has been elected to serve on the board of the Oregon Law Foundation.

A research paper, titled “Look-Ahead Routing Reduces Wrong Turns in Freenet-style Peer-to-Peer Systems,” by Jens Mache, associate professor of computer science, was published at the 38th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in January. Mache coauthored the paper with Eric Anholt B.A. ’05, Valentina Grigoreanu B.A. ’05, Tim Likarish B.A. ’05, and Biljana Risteska B.A. ’05. Anholt presented the paper to the conference.

In February, research by Mache and Tim Likarish B.A. ’05 was presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Oregon Academy of Science in Corvallis. The abstract is titled “Analysis of Pictures People Select as Graphical Passwords.”

In May, Mache published a paper titled “Grid Computing in the Undergraduate Classroom: Topics: Exercises and Experiences,” coauthored with Amy Apon, University of Arkansas. The paper was published as part of the fifth International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid and presented by Apon. The conference, held in Cardiff, Wales, was sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Elizabeth Meador, assistant professor of education, published an article in the Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36 (2), 149-165. The article is titled “The making of marginality: Schooling for Mexican immigrant girls in the rural Southwest.” It is an ethnographic study that explores how newly immigrated adolescent girls negotiate the sociocultural context of middle school in light of teachers’ beliefs about Mexican girls.

In April, Meador presented “Moving for Social Justice” at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Montreal. At the same conference, she also presented an essay titled “Social Reconstructionist Teacher Education.”

Shelly Meyer, senior communications officer, has been honored by the Oregon Columbia chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators. Meyer’s feature profile of President Tom Hochstettler in the winter 2005 edition of the College magazine The Chronicle earned the association’s 2005 Bronze Beacon award.

In January, Robert Miller, associate professor of law, gave a workshop for the Clark County (Washington) Historical Society. Miller’s workshop, titled “Lewis and Clark and the Doctrine of Discovery,” included “tribal contributions to the expedition’s success; the Doctrine of Discovery (the Corps of Discovery’s legal foundation); and subsequent Northwest Indian-U.S. treaties and the law regarding treaty interpretation today.”

Peter Mortola, associate professor of counseling psychology, collaborated on a chapter in a new text book about gestalt therapy. The forthcoming book is titled “Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory and Practice” (Sage Publications, 2005).

In February, Nancy Nagel, associate dean and professor of education, and Sherri Carreker, instructor in education, gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. Their talk at the Washington, D.C., conference was titled “Statewide New Teacher Initiative: Professional Development for Beginning Teachers.”

In May, Nagel published the third edition of her “Early childhood education, birth to 8: The world of children, families, and educators” (Allyn & Bacon: Boston, 2005). The text provides a comprehensive introduction to issues surrounding early childhood education for teachers as well as for children and their families. The book is coauthored with Amy Driscoll.

Boyd Pidcock, associate professor of counseling psychology, wrote an article for Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 23 (1) 79-97. The article, coauthored with two colleagues, was titled “Parental abusive drinking and sibling role differences.”

In February and March, Richard Rohrbaugh, Paul S. Wright Professor Emeritus of Christian Studies, gave a six-part series of talks titled “Making Sense of Biblical Texts” at Portland, Oregon’s Westminster Presbyterian Church.

The Oregon State Library exhibit titled Literary Oregon: One Hundred Books, 1800-2000 includes “Ruined Cities” (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1987), a volume by Vern Rutsala, professor emeritus of English. Rutsala’s manuscript titled “How We Spent Our Time” earned the Akron Poetry Prize and will be published in 2005 by the University of Akron Press.

The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (Vol. 75, No. 2, April 2005) published research by Thomas J. Schoeneman, professor of psychology, titled “Interior landscapes of mental disorder: Visual representations of the experience of madness.” Schoemann, with coauthors Vaunne Weathers B.A. ’95 and Carly M. Henderson B.A. ’95, M.A. ’02, surveyed 38 textbooks of abnormal psychology and found 673 pictures of the inner experience of mental disorder. Authors use these pictures to demonstrate diagnostic features of individuals and groups, to make a connection between mental disorder and artistic talent, and to suggest what it is like to experience mental disorder.

Richard Sagor, professor of educational administration, published “The action research guidebook: A four-step process for educators and school teams” (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2004), which illustrates strategies for teachers to improve their practice and increase their students’ success.

Michael Sestric, campus planner, and Julian Dautremont-Smith ‘03 have been selected to present a planning paper at the 40th national conference of the Society for College and University Planning in July. The paper, titled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Planning Strategies,” profiles the greenhouse gas inventory work initiated on campus by Dautremont-Smith. Their presentation uses the College’s inventory as a case study to explain methodologies behind conducting a greenhouse gas inventory and illustrates comprehensive strategies to minimize greehouse gases.

Mike Sexton, dean of admissions, has been selected for the Coca Cola Foundation Program Review Committee. From February 3 through February 6, he was in Atlanta as part of a group of 21 educational leaders who selected the 2005 Coca Cola Scholars.

Ruth Shagoury, Mary Stuart Rogers professor of education, and Greg Smith, professor of teacher education, published an article in the May issue of Language Arts, 82 (5), 359-366. The article, coauthored with Caryl Hurtig Casbon, is titled “Rediscovering the call to teach: A new vision for professional and personal development.” It is about a professional development program called The Courage to Teach, a program that goes beyond instructional methods to help language arts teachers examine their own identity and dedication to literacy education.

Tod Sloan, professor and chair of counseling psychology, published an article titled “Global Work-Related Suffering as a Priority for Vocational Psychology.” His article appeared in the March 2005 issue of The Counseling Psychologist.

In April, Sloan gave an invited address at the Western Psychological Association meetings in Portland. His presentation was titled “Dialogue and Deep Democracy: Critical Roles for Psychologists.” He also spoke in Atlanta about “Social Justice: An Action Verb” at the American Counseling Association’s annual meeting.

In February, Kim Stafford, director of the Northwest Writing Institute, gave a presentation at Southern Oregon University. He reading and lecture, titled “A Field Guide to the Writing Life,” focused on the writing life of a northwest writer.

Elaine Sutherland, visiting professor of law, published “Parenting Orders: A Culturally Alien Response of Questionable Efficacy” in 49 Juridical Review 105 (2004). The article examines the issue of parents whose children offend or behave in an antisocial way being ordered by a court to participate in parenting education.

Danielle Torres, assistant professor of school counseling, contributed an account of her experiences with racism from clients, supervisees, and supervisors in Mudita Rastogi and Elizabeth Wieling’s book, “Voices of color: First-person accounts of ethnic minority therapists” (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004). Their book challenges readers to ponder how issues related to mental health intersect with race and ethnicity within a broader diversity framework.

In January, Torres presented a session at the 2005 National Multicultural Summit and Conference in Hollywood, Calif. Her talk was titled “An Outcome Study of a Career and Educational Intervention for Mexican American High School Students: An Investigation of Academic Resiliency.”

An exhibit at Seattle’s Lisa Harris Gallery includes works by Phyllis Yes, professor of art. The exhibit, which is on view during the month of April, is titled Natural Subjects.

In March, Elliott Young, associate professor of history, spoke at the University of Texas at Pan American in Endinburg. His talk was titled “Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border.”

Young has been named a 2005 Millicent C. McIntosh Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.. Young’s award includes a $15,000 stipend for research over a two-year period.

In May, Yueping Zhang, assistant professor of psychology, gave three presentations at the 17th annual American Psychological Society convention in Los Angeles. Zhang’s posters were titled “Chinese and American Student Perceptions of Desirable Faculty and Course Characteristics,” “Ovulatory Status in Women Affects Distress to Relationship Threats and Rival Characteristics,” “The Effects of Metyrapone on Spatial Memory Performance in Shock-Stressed Rats.”

Zheng was lead author for an article titled “Involvement of ventral pallidum in prefrontal cortical-dependent aspects of spatial working memory.” The research was published in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience. April 2005, 119 (2), 399-410.

Rishona Zimring, associate professor of English, is organizing the 15th annual conference on Virginia Woolf. The conference, titled “Virginia Woolf: The Art of Exploration,” takes place at Lewis & Clark College June 9 through June 12, 2005. The conference is supported by a generous grant from the Oregon Council for the Humanities.