Administration and Finance
Members of the Housing and Residential Services staff gave presentations entitled "Advancing the Retreat," "The A-B-Cs of Community Learning Communities," "Managing Off Campus Housing Listings," and " Emergency Procedures: Is "Your Department's Emergency Plan a Disaster?" at the Western Association of College and University Housing Officers/Northwest Association for College and University Housing Officers conference held in February in Seattle.

Word: Rap, Politics + Feminism by Adrienne Anderson, Information Technology, was recently published by Writers Press.

Behavioral and Social Sciences
Bernard Wong, Anthropology, presented a paper titled "Globalization and Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley," at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology held March 20 in Portland, Ore.

Bill Issel, History, was elected to a three-year term on the Council of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch.

Business
Ana Valenzuela, International Business, published a paper titled "Performance of Store Brands: A Cross-Country Analysis of Consumer Store Brand Preference, Perceptions and Risk," in the November issue of the Journal of Marketing Research.

Stanley Kowalczyk, Management, Jamie Eng, Decision Sciences, and Ann Malmberg presented "The Underlying Construct of Fortune's Corporate Reputation" at the International Conference on Corporate Reputation, Image, and Identity held in May at the Manchester Business School in Manchester, U.K.

Rob Nickerson, Information Systems, and Jamie Eng, Decision Sciences, and Lisa Ho presented "An Exploratory Study of Strategic Alignment and Global Information System Implementation Success in Fortune 500 Companies" at the Americas Conference on Information Systems held in Tampa, Fla.

Ronald Purser, Management, presented a paper titled "Towards a Future Infinitive Approach to Organizational Change" at the In Search of Time conference held in May in Palermo, Sicily. Purser's article "Time and Causes of Flow in Organizational Change" was recently published in Research in Organizational Change and Development.

Creative Arts
Rhonnie Washington, Theatre Arts, played the roles of Polonius in "Hamlet" and Aegeon in "A Comedy of Errors" this summer at Shakespeare Santa Cruz.

Jane Veeder, Design and Industry, presented "Time, Space, and Process: A Pilgrim's Progress Through Feature-Land," at the Animation Production Series held April 17 at University of Washington, Seattle.

Hafez Modirzadeh, Music and Dance, contributed the chapter "Makam X: Musical Archetype of the People," in Afro/Asia: Revolutionary Connections In Asian/African American Politics and Culture published by Autonomedia Publications.

The Agent by Arthur Asa Berger, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts (emeritus), was recently published by Hampton Press. The Portable Postmodernist, and Durkheim is Dead: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Sociological Theory also by Asa Berger was recently published by AltaMira.

Stephen Wilson, Art, displayed his art and biology installation "Protozoa Games" Aug. 7 at the Blue Room Gallery in San Francisco.

Education
Stan Goldberg, Special Education, presented a workshop titled "Becoming Involved in Your Child's Stuttering Therapy" at the Friend's Conference held June 17 in San Francisco.

Health and Human Services
Erik Peper, Holistic Healing Studies, presented "Client Strategies: Practical Examples and Demonstrations of Somatic Awareness Techniques to Enhance Self-Regulation," at the Nederlands Paramedisch Institute Congress held June 18 in Arnhem, Netherlands. Peper also wrote a chapter titled "Protocol for the Treatment of Asthma" for Clinical Practice of Biofeedback published recently by Higher Education Press. Computermens: Evolutie and Preventie van RSI by Peper and co-author A.C. Weijman was published by Elmar Publishers.

Darlene Yee, Gerontology, was appointed to chair the membership committee and co-chair the program committee of the Gerontological Society of America.

Humanities
Minoo Moallem, Women Studies, published a book chapter titled "Cultural Nationalism and Islamic Fundamentalism," in Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Orientalism, Nation and Race published by Duke University Press. Moallem also presented "Feminism, Fundamentalism and The Spectacle of the Other Woman" at the Conversations in Feminist Theory Conference held April 19 at Cornell University.

Linda Ellis, Museum Studies, contributed "Duplex Ius: Conflict and Competition Between Romano-Byzantine Law and Folk Law in the Balkans," to Confrontation In Late Antiquity published by Orchard Press. Ellis presented "Trial Before Fire: How the Romans Made War Legal," at the California Classical Association meeting, held April 26 at Loyola Marymount University.

Marc Dollinger, Jewish Studies, published an essay titled "American Jewish," in the March issue of American Jewish History. Dollinger presented a paper on American Jews and the politics of the 1960s to the Jewish Studies Faculty community advisory board meeting held in February at University of California, Santa Cruz.

Masahiko Minami and Shiho Kanazawa, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "Communication Strategies Used by Second/Foreign Language Learners: Narrative Analysis," at the Georgetown Round Table on Language and Linguistics held at Georgetown University.

Masahiko Minami and Hiroshi Imase, Foreign Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "Computer-Assisted Language Learning as Applied to Basic Relational Acquisition in Beginning Japanese: One" at the Annual "Digital Stream" Emerging Technologies in Teaching Language and Culture meeting held in March at CSU, Monterey Bay. Minami presented "Bilingual Narrative Development in English and Japanese: A Form/Functional Approach," at the International Symposium on Bilingualism held in May at Arizona State University.

Michelle Carter, Creative Writing, won the 2003 PEN West Award for drama for her script "Ted Kaczynski Killed People with Bombs."

Nona Caspers, Creative Writing, won the Iowa Award in fiction from the Iowa Review.

"At the Desk Where I Didn't Write, In the Room Where I Didn't Paint" a story by Toni Mirosevich, Creative Writing, appeared in a recent issue of Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly. Mirosevich also published a prose poem titled "The Raft," in the fall issue of Bellevue Literary Review and a poem titled "The Procession" in Against Certainty: Poets for Peace San Francisco Bay Area Anthology, a book published earlier this year by Chapiteau Press.

Library
David Hellman presented "Notable Books and Notable Trends: A Librarian's Perspective On Publishing and the Unsustainable Profit Margin" at the Book Conference 2003 held in Cairns, Australia.

The Association of College and Research Libraries' Emerging Technologies in Instructional Committee named the J. Paul Leonard Library's OASIS (Online Advancement of Student Information Skills) tutorial as "Site of the Month" for July 2003.

Student Affairs
Kimberly Wible, Public Safety, was recently appointed to the California Campus Sexual Assault Task Force.

Michael Ritter and Bita Shooshani, Counseling and Psychological Services, presented "What We Can Learn from Group Counseling: Working with Athletes, Team by Team" at the California State University Alcohol Advisory Council's 2003 Educational Conference held April 25 in Sacramento.

First Monday accepts submissions to the Insiders column from members of the campus community. Items must reflect faculty or staff achievements beyond the campus, e.g., papers/lectures given at professional meetings; appointments to boards; books/articles published; performances, exhibits, readings of works off campus; awards and honors, etc. Please submit items no more than six months old. Items are edited for space.

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