Faculty Notables
April 2013
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Bob Bednar, associate professor and chair of communication studies, had an article titled “Roadside Shrines: A Search For Meaning” published in the March 31 Insight & Books section of The Austin American-Statesman. Read the story here.
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Erin Crockett, assistant professor of psychology, and students Sara Goodman and Quinlyn Morrow are presenting posters this week at a meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association in Fort Worth. Goodman is presenting a poster titled “Perceptions of dating in adolescence and self-esteem in emerging adulthood” and Morrow is presenting a poster titled “Associations between friendship gender composition and interdependence.”
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Shannon Mariotti, associate professor of political science, presented a paper titled “The Housekeeper of Homelessness: The Democratic Ethos of Marilynne Robinson’s Novels and Essays” at the Western Political Science Association conference in Hollywood, Calif., March 29.
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Michael Saenger, associate professor of English, wrote a review of The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. 1, Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660 that appeared in the most recent issue of Notes and Queries, a publication of Oxford University Press.
March 2013
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Erika Berroth, associate professor of German, presented a research paper titled “Marica Bodrožić: Transnational Identity Narratives in Layers, Folds and Fractals” at the 44th annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association in Boston March 21-24. With this essay, part of a theory chapter in her book on transnational identity narratives by contemporary women writers, Berroth contributed to a double panel titled “The Eastern European Turn in Contemporary German-Language Literature” which brought together eight leading scholars on the topic from Europe and the United States. While at NeMLA, she also participated in expert discussions on “Blended Learning in Modern Languages and Literature Classrooms” and “Best Practices: Teaching Professional Communication in German.”
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Michael Cooper, professor of music and holder of the Margarett Root Brown Chair in Fine Arts, has completed work on the Historical Dictionary of Romantic Music. The book will be published this fall by Scarecrow Press as part of their series titled Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts.
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Abby Dings, assistant professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled “Language learners in interaction: Orientation to novice and expert identities” at the Dialogue in Multilingual, Multimodal, and Multicompetent Communities of Practice Workshop in Austin March 22-24.
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Melissa Johnson, associate professor of anthropology, was invited to participate in a one-day conference on Race, Place and Nature that was held at Rutgers University March 8 as part of a year-long Sawyer Seminar on Race, Place and Space in the Americas. Johnson presented a paper titled “Racing Nature in a Creolized World: Race, Color and Nature in Belize.”
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Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton, associate professor of English, presented a paper titled “The Limits of Liberal Literacy Pedagogies in a Global Context: Lessons from Vietnam” on a panel called Questioning English Instruction Abroad and at Home at the 2013 Conference on College Composition and Communication held March 13-16 in Las Vegas. At the conference she saw Southwestern graduate Sarah Hart, who completed her Ph.D. in August and is teaching as an adjunct at Colorado State and working on a book project based on her dissertation on rhetoric and poetry.
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Angeles Rodriguez Cadena, assistant professor of Spanish, attended a seminar on the history of mass media in Latin America at the University of Buenos Aires while she is on sabbatical in Buenos Aires this semester. She also participated in a workshop on “Memory and Education” at the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center for Social Memory, which is housed at a facility that functioned as a concentration camp in the 1970s during Argentina’s military dictatorship. The workshop provided an opportunity to interact with educators, community leaders, artists and students who are creating opportunities for the production and promotion of the culture of memory and human rights through art, education, literature, culture and politics. She said she plans to incorporate what she has learned this semester in the Contemporary Latin American Literature class she will be teaching in the fall, and in her Cultural Memory in Latin America class that participates in Paideia.
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Patricia Schiaffini, instructor of Chinese, delivered a paper titled “The Language Debate in Sinophone Tibetan Literature: Cultural Authenticity, Audience, and Representation” at a roundtable on “Critical Conversations in Sinophone Studies” at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego March 21-24.
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Brenda Sendejo, assistant professor of anthropology, presented a paper titled “Activist Pedagogies as Resistance: Promoting Social Change from the Borderlands of Chicana/o Studies and Anthropology” at the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies annual conference in San Antonio March 20-23.
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Anwar Sounny-Slitine, instructor of environmental studies and GIS Lab Manager, has received a $10,500 Google education grant to install Google Earth Pro edition on 30 computers on campus that are used by students in GIS, Physics and other programs.
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Barbara Anthony, assistant professor of computer science, facilitated a Birds-of-a-Feather session on “Trends in CS Enrollment at Small, Liberal Arts Institutions” at the 2013 SIGCSE (Computer Science Education) Technical Symposium, “The Changing Face of Computing” in Denver, Colo., March 7-9. Suzanne Fox Buchele, associate professor of computer science, presented a paper at the same conference titled “Two Models of a Cryptography and Computer Security Class in a Liberal Arts Context.”
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Eileen Cleere, professor of English, delivered a paper called “Chaste Polygamy and Victorian Sensation Fiction” at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) conference in Charlottesville, Va. , March 14-17. The essay extends her current project on representations of Mormon marriage in Victorian literature, 1860-1870. While at INCS she also chaired a panel on British Romantic literature, and agreed to serve on the selection committee for the 2014 INCS conference hosted by the University of Houston.
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Elaine Craddock, professor of religion, published an article titled “The Half Male, Half Female Servants of the Goddess Aṅkāḷaparamēcuvari” in the December 2012 issue of Nidān: Journal for the Study of Hinduism.
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Herbert Genzmer, visiting assistant professor of German, has been invited to start writing a column for Entwürfe, a literary magazine from Zürich. The column is titled “Notes from America.” The first column, published March 7, was titled “Faith will help.”
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Valerie Renegar, associate professor of communication studies, attended the Western States Communication Association annual conference in Reno, Nev., Feb. 15-19. She was involved in two roundtable discussions to help emerging scholars develop their work through the publication process. She also presented a co-authored paper in the Rhetoric and Public Address division titled “Contradictions and Watersheds: Up in the Air with the Comic Frame.”
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Fred Sellers, associate professor of business, presented a paper titled “Dynegy Corporation: Inflating Operating Cash Flow” at the Southwest Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Association in Albuquerque, N.M., March 15.
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Maha Zewail-Foote, associate professor of chemistry, co-authored an article titled “Science for the ‘Haves’” that was published in the January issue of the international journal Angewandte Chemi. Read the article here.
October 2012
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Eileen Cleere, professor of English, delivered a paper at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Madison, Wis., Sept. 27-30. The paper, “Mormon Fever: Sensationalizing the Saints in Mrs. Henry Wood’s 1863 Verner’s Pride,” is part of a new research project about female domestic privacy within representations of Mormon polygamy.
September 2012
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Maria Lowe, professor of sociology, and Reggie Byron, assistant professor of sociology, have had an article titled “Food for Thought: Frequent Interracial Dining Experiences as a Predictor of Students’ Racial Climate Perceptions,” accepted for publication in The Journal of Higher Education, the leading scholarly journal on the institution of higher education. Recent graduates Griffin Ferry and Melissa Garcia contributed to the paper.
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Abby Dings, assistant professor of Spanish, recently had an article titled “Native Speaker/Nonnative Speaker Interaction and Orientation to Novice/Expert Identity” published in the Journal of Pragmatics.
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Jesse Purdy, professor of psychology, is presenting a talk titled “Vertebrate Predators May Share Facial Characteristics Providing Opportunities for Detection by Prey” at the biannual meeting of the International Society of Comparative Psychologists, which is being held this week in Jaen, Spain.
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Pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa and several other members of the music faculty will be the featured performers in a Sept. 9 chamber music concert at the Cailloux Theater in Kerrville. The program will include a rarely performed version of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor arranged for piano, flute, violin and cello by Mozart’s pupil and protégé, Johann Nepomuk Humel; the Quintet in F minor for piano and string quartet by Johannes Brahms; and the regional premiere of a brand new work for piano, violin and cello by Composer in Residence Jason Hoogerhyde. Read more here.
August 2012
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Ben Pierce, professor of biology and holder of the Lillian Nelson Pratt Chair, published an article in theSouthwestern Naturalist along with former students Tiffany Biagas, Alex Hall and Alexis Ritzer. The article is titled “Time of day does not affect detection in visual encounter surveys of a spring-dwelling salamander, Eurycea naufragia.” Pierce was recently awarded a third year of funding from the Williamson County Research Foundation for his research on the Georgetown salamander.
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Mary Hale Visser, professor of art and holder of the Herman Brown Chair, presented a paper on “Cybersculpture: materials, processes and the history of sculpture in the digital age” at the European Forum on Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing symposium held in Paris in June.
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Katy Ross, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper at the Congreso de la Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades in Madrid June 28-30.
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Patrick Hajovsky, assistant professor of art history, has published a chapter in a new book titled Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World. His contribution is “Without a Face: Voicing Moctezuma II’s Image at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City.” The book was edited by Dana Leibsohn of Smith College and Jeanette Favrot Peterson of the University of California - Santa Barbara, both well-published scholars of Latin American art history. Read more here.
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Fay Guarraci, associate professor of psychology, and Maha Zewail-Foote, associate professor of chemistry, had a paper titled “Kin Discrimination in Prepubescent and Adult Long-Evans Rats” published in the July issue ofBehavioural Processes. Co-authors on the paper include former students Jessica Bolton, Alex Burby, Brittany Ford and Carissa Winland.
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Music Professor Lois Ferrari and the Austin Civic Orchestra have been named finalists for the 2012 American Prize in two categories: Orchestral Performance (Community Orchestra Division) and Conducting (Community Orchestra Division). Read more here.
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Melissa Byrnes, assistant professor of history, gave a paper on “The Algerian War through Metropolitan Prisms: How Ideas of Empire Shaped Local Immigration Policies and Policing” at the French Colonial Historical Society’s annual conference in New Orleans May 30-June 2.
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