November 4, 2001

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Daniel Vencill, Criminal Justice, and Zagros Sadjadi, Economics, presented "New Security Issues and the Dark Side of Globalization: Transnational Crime, Drug Smuggling, Terrorism, Money Laundering, and the Stealth of Nations" at the Western Economic Association annual meeting held in July in San Francisco. Vencill also presented with coauthor Jack Osman, Economics, "Treatment or Jail for Drug Users: California Referenda Results."

C. Sarah Soh, Anthropology, presented "Comfort Women Issues in the International Community: A Psycho-Political Perspective" at the Third International Roundtable on the Comfort Women held in September in Tokyo. Soh was also recently elected to serve a two-year term as treasurer of the newly created East Asian Section of the American Anthropological Association.

Don Mar, Economics, organized and chaired a session on "Minorities in the Labor Market" at the Western Economic Association Meeting held July 5 in San Francisco. Mar presented "Discrimination and Asian Men in the Professions" at the same session.

JoAnn Aviel, International Relations, spoke on "NGOs and Human Rights in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)" to members of women's organizations in July in Singapore. Aviel presented "NGOs and Human Rights Regimes in Central American and Southeast Asia" at the International Studies Association conference held in July in Hong Kong.

Business

Kenneth Danko, Accounting, and coauthor Marshall Pitman presented "An Empirical Investigation of Job Satisfaction Among Professors of Accounting" at the American Accounting Association Western Regional Meeting held in May in San Jose.

Stanley Kowalczyk, Management, presented "Corporate Branding at Silicon Valley Firms" at the 21st Annual International Conference of the Strategic Management Society held Oct. 22 in San Francisco.

Creative Arts

Richard G. Mann, Art, presented a lecture on "El Greco's Synthesis of Byzantine and Renaissance Conventions" in May at a Renaissance lecture series at the University of British Columbia. He also presented "Synthesizing Divergent Cultural Traditions: A New Interpretation of El Greco's Work" at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Conference held in May in Colorado and "New Perspectives on Utopias" at the International Utopian Studies Conference held in July in New Lanark, Scotland.

Whitney Chadwick, Art, presented a lecture on "Gender and the New Internationalism" on Sept. 19 at Mills College.

The Pickle Clowns: New American Circus Comedy by Joel Schechter, Theatre Arts, was published in September by Southern Illinois University Press.

Yukihiro Goto, Theatre Arts, facilitated a discussion on "What is Butoh Today? The Future of Butoh in Japan and Its Influence on Other Art Forms" on Aug. 5 at Theatre Artaud in San Francisco. The discussion was part of the San Francisco Butoh Festival. Guto presented "The Theatre of Tadashi Suzuki" on Oct. 1 at the Performing Arts Library in San Francisco.

Richard Festinger, Music, received a cash award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in August.

"Paranirvana (self-portrait)," a large-scale sculpture by Lewis DeSoto, Art, is being exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Mass. through Nov. 18.

Education

Taking It Personally: Racism in the Classroom from Kindergarten to College by Ann Berlak, Elementary Education, and Sekani Moyenda was recently published by Temple University Press.

Minnie S. Graham, Special Education, presented "Beginning Esophageal Speech Instruction," "Maximizing Esophageal Speech," and "Enhancement of Speech Using the Artificial Larynx" at the Pacific Rim Conference of Laryngectomees held Oct. 9-12 in Honolulu.

Kate Kinsella, Secondary Education, lead summer professional development institutes on adolescent literacy sponsored by the California League of Middle Schools and High Schools in Maui and Indian Wells, Calif. Kinsella also conducted summer academies on "Expository Reading and Writing Scaffolds for College-Bound ESL Students" for international teachers of English to speakers of other languages at San Diego State University and the University of Colorado.

Health and Human Services

Andrea Schmid-Shapiro, Kinesiology (emerita), was recently inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

Jerry Wright, Kinesiology (emeritus), recently received a lifetime achievement award from the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

Tina Summerford, Kinesiology, presented "Ways to Develop Disability Awareness" at the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Southwest District Conference held June 22 in Park City, Utah.

David Anderson, Kinesiology, presented "Does Locomotion Help to Calibrate the Perception of Distance in Far Space?" and "Putting Performance as a Function of Head Orientation and Vision" at the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity annual meeting held in June in St Louis. At the same meeting, Anderson and co-author Steve Wallace, Kinesiology, presented "Recruitment and Transitions in a Rhythmic Task" and Mi-Sook Kim, Kinesiology, presented "The Relationship Between Achievement Motivation, Affect and Coping Strategies Among Korean Intercollegiate Athletes."

Kim also presented "Achievement Goals, Anxiety Responses, and Coping with Stress in Competitive Sport" at the Division 47 meeting of the American Psychology Association held in August in San Francisco.

Wallace was recently elected to the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education.

Humanities

"Georgia's O'Keefe's 'Black Rock with Blue III,'" a poem by Sally Croft, English, was published in the summer issue of Common Ground Review. "Learning How," also a poem by Croft, was published in the spring issue of Red Owl.

Nonprofit Kit for Dummies, by Frances Phillips, Technical and Professional Writing, and Stan Hutton, was recently published by Hungry Minds Inc.

Service-Learning in Communication Studies, by Rick Isaacson, Speech and Communication Studies, was recently published by Wadsworth/Thomson International.

Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, gave a talk on "Muslim Women and the Politics of Representation," at the Global Fund for Women on June 26 in Point Reyes. Moallem presented a paper titled "Governmentality of the Nongovernmental: Feminist Activism in a Global World," on June 14 at the National Women's Studies Association Conference.

"Autobiographical Impulses in The Haunted Man," by Stanley Tick, English, appeared in the June issue of Dickens Quarterly.

"A New 'ALL' in Conversation," by Rachelle Waksler, English, was published in the summer issue of American Speech.

Michael Krasny, English, received the Phi Beta Kappa Distinguished Alumni Award in July at Ohio University. Krasny received the Inclusiveness in Media Award from the National Conference of Community and Justice in May, the KUDO Award from the American Women in Radio and Television in July, and the Talk Host Award from the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club in October.

Victoria Chen, Speech and Communication Studies, reviewed Wendy Ho's book In Her Mother's House: The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing for the August edition of the Quarterly Journal of Speech.

Lab'ring Muses: Work, Writing, and the Social Order in English Plebian Poetry, 1730-1830 by Bill Christmas, English, was recently published by the University of Delaware Press.

Loretta Stec, English, presented "Forays in Feminist Journalism: Virginia Woolf and Time and Tide" at the International Conference on Virginia Woolf held in June at the University of Wales, Bangor, U.K. Stec's "Pacifism, Vera Brittain and India" was published in a recent issue of Peace Review and her essay "Dystopian Modernism vs. Utopian Feminism: Burdekin, Woolf and West Respond to the Rise of Fascism" appears in Resisting Fascist Seduction, a collection of essays edited by Merry Pawlowski and published in June by Macmillan Press.

H. Douglas Brown, English, gave the keynote address "Teachers for Social Responsibility: Classroom Practicalities" at Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages conferences held in July in Montevideo, Uruguay, and Curitiba, Brazil, and at the Longman English Teachers Conference held in July in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

"The Essence of Translation," an article written by Chris Wen-Chao Li, Foreign Languages and Literatures, was published Sept. 21 in Taipei Taiwan's The Central Daily News.

Meg Schoerke, English, presented "New Formalism and Post Modernism" at a conference on contemporary American poetry held in June in West Chester, Penn. Schoerke's poetry chapbook Beyond Mourning was recently published by Robert L. Barth, Edgewood, Ky.

Anita Silvers, Philosophy, was selected by the National Endowment of the Humanities to direct a summer seminar on "Justice, Equality and the Challenge of Disability" at Sarah Lawrence College.

Science and Engineering

Lawrence Kroll, Computer Science, was awarded the Legion of Merit medal by the U.S. Navy in September. Kroll, a naval veteran, was nominated for the award by one of his former students.

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