March, 1999

Behavioral and Social Sciences

C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, had her article "The Problem of ‘Comfort Women: The Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Class, Ethnicity, and the State" published in the book "Cross-Cultural Communication East and West in the 90s," Institute for Cross-Cultural Research.

Karen Olsen Bruhns, Anthropology, presented an invited paper "Place and Plazuela: Elite Architecture, City Planning, and the Construction of Multi-ethnic Urbanism at Cihuatan, El Salvador" at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington D.C. on Feb. 3.

Marilyn J. Boxer, History, recently had a book published by Johns Hopkins University Press: "When Women Ask the Questions: Creating Women’s Studies in America." She has also been appointed Affiliated Scholar with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University.

Business

Stanley Kowaclczyk, Management, and George Giusti, Finance, had their article "The HP Way: An Application Using Deliberate & Emergent Corporate Cultures to Analyze Stategic Competitive Advantage" published in the book "Strategic Flexibility: Managing in a Turbulent Environment" edited by Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad, Howard Thomas, and Daniel O’Neal and published by Wiley Publishers.

Susan Fox-Wolfgramm, Management, recently completed her fall ’98 sabbatical at the Oracle Corporation. As the company’s first scholar-in-residence, she conducted research for Oracle’s business development as well as for her own interest in the image, identity, and reputation of high technology firms.

George Lee, International Business, had the article "Necessary Conditions for Successful Post-Communist Transformation" published in the Harvard Asia Pacific Review.

Creative Arts

At the International Kolo Festival Dance Conference, held in San Francisco Nov. 26, Jerry Duke, Dance, presented a paper, "Dance Ethnology Perspectives on Balkan Dance."

As National President of MENC: The National Association for Music Education, Carolynn Lindemann, Music, led the U.S. delegation to the International Society for Music Education World Conference in Pretoria, South Africa last July. She also served on the five-member ISME International Nominating Committee and presented a paper on "Celebrating Hildegard (1098-1179): Visions and Strategies for Teaching about Women Composers."

John B. Wilson, Theatre Arts, received a Garland Award for Excellence in West Coast Theatre for his set designs for American Conservatory Theatre’s recent production of Molnar’s "The Guardsman." The award was presented at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood on Jan. 25.

Education

Stanley Goldberg, Special Education, had two articles published in the winter edition of Saltwater Fly Fishing: "Fishing in San Francisco Bay" and "The Health of the Bay." He also accepted a position as an editorial consultant for the Journal of Fluency Disorders.

The National Association of Multicultural Education recently named Rosa Hernandez Sheets, Elementary Education, associate editor of its quarterly periodical, Multicultural Resources for Multicultural Magazine. The fall issue of Multicultural Education published Rosa’s article, "A Theoretical and Pedagogical Multicultural Match, or Unbridled Serendipity."

Inés Goméz, Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies, has contributed a chapter titled: "A Space for Remembering: Home-Pedagogy and Exilic Latina Women’s Identities" for vol. five of the series "Engendering Forced Migration, Theory and Practice," Bergahn Books, New York.

Ethnic Studies

Jose Cuellar, La Raza Studies, was the keynote speaker and conducted the education work-shop at The Asumir El Mando—Teen Latino Conference on Jan. 20 at CSU Chico. On Jan. 16, he per-formed with Amorindio and con-ducted a workshop on "The His-tory of Chicano/Latino Working Class Music" for the 13th Annual Western Workers Heritage Festival in Burlingame.

Health and Human Services

Patrick Tierney, Recreation & Leisure Studies, co-presented "Who Is Least Likely to Visit Natural Areas and Parks; What Are the Barriers; and How Can Barriers Be Broken?" at the A Mosaic in Motion: Breaking Barriers of Race and Diversity in Our National Parks Conference held Jan. 16 in San Francisco. In November, he co-presented "Virtual Classroom Software: Can It Supplement Your Teaching?" at the California Society of Parks and Recreation Educators Meeting held in Monterey.

Several members of the Department of Health Education pre-sented papers at the American Public Health Association 126th Annual Meeting held this past November in Washington D.C. Mary Beth Love presented the paper "Capacitating Community Health Promoters for the New Millennium. Love also co-presented with Beverly Ovrebo the paper "Labor Market Survey—The Employment Trend for MPH Level Community Health Educator in the Eight Counties of San Francisco Bay Area." Zoe Clayson presented the papers "The Role of Power and Culture in Community Building" and "Innovation in Community Public Health Education." Lisa Moore presented a paper titled "The Politics of Community and Drug User Self-Organization."

Susan Zieff, Kinesiology, presented her video ethnography, "From Birdies to the Bolero: Cultural Connection in San Francisco’s Chinatown," at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and the Assoc-iation for the Study of Play held this February in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In November, Roberta Bennett, Kinesiology, presented her paper "Who wants this body?" at the Western Society for Physical Education of College Women.

Humanities

"Actual People," a play by Robert Barker, Creative Writing, was recently produced by the Magic Theatre as part of its joint project with the Exploratorium.

Michael Gregory, English/NEXA, was named a fellow of the Von Uexkuhl Center for Biosemiotics in Tartu, Estonia, in October. In November, he was named an associate of the British Society for the History of Science, and in September he was renamed consultant member of The National Faculty in Atlanta, GA.

At the Society for Women in Philosophy meeting of the Pacific Division, Helen Heise, Philosophy, presented a paper entitled, "But is She a Philosopher?" The Nov. 7 meeting was held at Sonoma State University.

A book edited by Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, (along with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) "Between Women and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State" was recently published by Duke University Press.

Delphine Perret, Foreign Languages, presented a paper "Du Coneur au Marquer de Parole" at the Les Vases Communicants: Orality and Writing in French and Francophone Literature conference held at Columbia University, Nov. 21.

Louise Rehling, Technical and Professional Writing, presented a paper on "Charting an Evolutionary Path for Certificate Programs" at the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication in Lewes, Delaware, Oct. 16. Rehling gave two talks in San Antonio in November: a workshop presentation on "Packaging Your Consulting Business" at the Asso-ciation of Professional Communication Consultants; and a talk on "The Service Component of Writ-ing Internships" at the Association for Business Communi cation.

Two entries by Meg Schoerke, English, appeared in "The American National Biography" published recently by Oxford University Press and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her two contributions are "Harriet Prescott Spofford" and "John Hall Wheelock." Schoerke recently won a national humanities fellowship, the Eccles Fellowship in Humanities, to spend a year at the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah.

Carolyn Tipton, World and Com-parative Literature, gave various readings last fall from her English translation of poems by Rafael Alberti. She also participated in a booksigning at the Northern Cali-fornia Booksellers Association Con-vention held in October in Oakland.

"Disability, Difference, Discrimination," a book by Anita Silvers, Philosophy, was published this year by Rowman & Littlefield. Silver’s book chapter, "On Not Iterating Women’s Disability: A Crossover Perspective on Genetic Dilemnas," appears in the book, "Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances," Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. "A Fatal Attraction to Normalizing: Treating Disabilities as Deviations from ‘Species-Typical’ Functioning" appears in the book, "Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications," Georgetown, 1998.

Laurie Zoloth-Dorfman, Jewish Studies, presented two papers at the National Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities, in Houston last November: "Bioethics and the Use of Medical Embargoes in Foreign Policy" and "Articles of Faith: Religion and Bioethics."

Mary Anne Warren, Philosophy, presented the paper "Thoughts about Moral Status" at the Society for Women in Philosophy at Sonoma State University, Nov. 7, and the paper "Comments on Tom Athan-asiou, Divided Planet" at the Radical Philosophy Assoc. which took place Nov. 8 on campus. Warren’s article, "Abortion" appears in "A Compan-ion to Bioethics," Blackwells, 1998.

An article by Stanley Tick, English, "In the Case of Bleak House: A Brief in Defense of Mr. Tulkinghorn," appears in the final 1998 issue of the Dickens Quarterly.

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