Eight faculty members have been named to lead Paideia cohorts in 2009-2012. They are Don Gregory, Hal Haskell, Michael Kamen, Francis Mathieu, Scott McLean, Helene Meyers, Katy Ross, and Desi Roybal.

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, presented a paper titled “Female Candidacy in Japan and the U.S.: The Role Women’s Organizations Play in Confronting Electoral Obstacles” at the Southern Political Science Association meeting in New Orleans Jan. 8.

Eric Selbin, Professor of political science and University Scholar, had an article titled “Conjugating the Cuban Revolution: It Mattered, It Matters, It Will Matter,” published in Latin American Perspectives, vol, 36, no. 1 (2009), pp. 21-29.

Laura Hobgood-Oster, professor of religion and chair of the Environmental Studies Program, has been appointed to the National Council of Churches Ecojustice Working Group. The NCC represents 45 million people and 100,000 congregations and is the largest ecumenical organization in the United States.

Eileen Meyer Russell, associate professor of music, is presenting a master class at the 2009 Annual Tuba-Euphonium Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., Jan. 28-31. The conference is sponsored by the U.S. Army Band and features concerts, recitals, exhibits, master classes and lectures by leading low brass authorities from around the world. Russell’s presentation will be for those who double on trombone and euphonium.

Lynn and Frank Guziec from Chemistry and Biochemistry are co-authors on a publication “A Model for NADPH:Quinoneoxidoreductase (NQO1) Targeted Individualized Cancer Chemotherapy,” appearing in Drug Target Insights, 2009, 4,1-8.

Phil Hopkins, associate professor of philosophy, was invited to contribute a chapter on the presocratics to the forthcoming “Continuum Companion to Ancient Philosophy” (2010).

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, had a 2003 book chapter “Agency and Culture in Revolutions” (re)published in a Russian book titled The Concept of Revolution in Contemporary Political Discourse. The original chapter appears in Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies, pp. 76-84.

Cross country and track coach Francie Larrieu Smith was recently selected by USA Track and Field as Junior Women’s Team Leader for the World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan on March 28, 2009.

Cross country and track coach Francie Larrieu Smith was recently selected by USA Track and Field as Junior Women’s Team Leader for the World Cross Country Championships in Amman, Jordan on March 28, 2009.

Eileen Cleere, associate professor of English, delivered a paper titled “Hyperaesthesia: Art After Ruskin” at the November meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association in New Haven. The paper explored the work of late-Victorian art critic Bernhard Berenson in the context of E.M. Forster’s 1908 novel A Room with a View.

Laura Hobgood Oster, professor of religion and chair of the Environmental Studies Program, was the keynote speaker at a luncheon held at St. Edward’s University Nov. 12. The luncheon was part of a day-long program titled “Religion and Environment – Dominion or Stewardship?”

Lisa Moses Leff, associate professor of history, is spending the fall semester as a fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Leff is conducting research at the Center on the ownership of French Jewish history and archives in transit after World War II.

Laura Senio Blair, assistant professor of Spanish, published an article titled “Bridges between the divide: The female body in Y tu Mama tambien and Machuca” in Studies in Hispanic Cinemas Volume 4 Number 1 (2008): 47-62. The article was co-authored with former Communication Studies professor Hector Amaya.

Elizabeth Green Musselman and Thom McClendon, both of the History Department, recently participated in the eighth North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa in Burlington, Vt. Green Musselman discussed the practicalities and possibilities of scholarly podcasting, while McClendon participated in a panel on whiteness in 20th-century southern African history.

Michael Cooper, associate professor of music, published the premier edition of the first complete version of Mendelssohn’s secular cantata Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The first Walpurgis night) as part of the series “Recent Researches Concerning the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries” (Madison, Wisconsin; A-R Editions), based on a 1799 ballad by Goethe. The edition is based on manuscripts held in Cracow, Paris, Berlin and Oxford.

Ed Kain, professor of Sociology and University Scholar, had two short pieces on teaching published in Sociology Through Active Learning, Student Exercises, 2nd ed. The articles are titled “Global Stratification and its Impact on a Country’s Population Characteristics” and “An Introduction to an Important Source for Basic Quantitative Sociological Data.”

Katy Ross, assistant professor of Spanish, had an article published titled “Trauma, Violence and Pornography: Un mal ano para Miki by Jose Ovejero” published in Letras hispanas 5.1 (Spring 2008).

Suzanne Buchele, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, presented “Experiences with OLPC Technology in Ghana, West Africa” at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computer Science Conference in Keystone, Colo., Oct. 3. She will give the same presentation to the campus community on Wednesday, Oct. 22, at 4:45 p.m. in Olin 110.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science and University Scholar, had an article titled “What Was Revolutionary About the Iranian Revolution? The Power of Possibility” accepted for publication in Comparative Studies of South Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Rick Denman, associate professor of mathematics and computer science, and senior philosophy and computer science major Stephen Foster have had their paper titled “Using Clausal Graphs to Determine the Computational Complexity of k-Bounded Positive One-in-Three SAT” accepted for publication in the Journal of Discrete Applied Mathematics.

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, has an essay based on a conference presentation titled “Bringing Scholarship to the classroom: Strategies for promoting research through teaching” in the fall 2008 volume of ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts.

Fern Nguyen, a senior chemistry major, and Emily Niemeyer, associate professor of chemistry, published an article in the Sept. 24 issue of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry titled “Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization on the Phenolic Composition and Antioxidant Properties of Basil.”