Appointments

Robert Bahnson, Surgery, has been appointed to the Dave Longaberger Endowed Chair in Urology.

Steven Campbell has been appointed assistant director of the Office for Technology Licensing.

Brooke A. Foody has been appointed director of special events at the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

Jeffrey M. Fowler has been appointed to the John G. Boutselis Chair in Gynecology.

Douglas M. Lambert has been appointed to the Raymond E. Mason Chair in Transportation and Logistics.

Books

John M. Bennett, University Libraries, Decima Mucho (Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods., 2001), co-author is Ivan Arguelles, and rOlling COMBers, (Bedford, Mass.: Potes & Poets Press, 2001).

Mansel Blackford, History, Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000, (University Press of Kansas, 2001).

David Cressy, History, Agnes Bowker's Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Sebastian D.G. Knowles, English, The Dublin Helix, The Life of Languages in Joyce's Ulysses (Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 2001).

Smriti Srinivas, Comparative Studies, Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

Grant

The Office of Corporate and Community Education, Mansfield, $175,000 Ohio Board of Regents Grant for its project on "Information Technology Training: Promoting Business Retention and Expansion."

Performance

Tony Pasquarello, Philosophy, Emeritus, Mansfield, solo piano recital of works of DeFalla, Gershwin and Weber, Don Pablo Hotel, Torremolinos, Spain, March 6.

Presentations

David Allen, Office of Technology Licensing and Technology Partnerships, presented "Integrating a Research University into a Regional Technology Economy"at the Capitol Forum Series 2001: Discussing Minnesota's Future, St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 22.

Janice Aski, French and Italian, presented "A Usage-Based Model of Sound Change"at Emory University, March 19.

Paul A. Beck, Political Science, presented "The Presidency and the Party System: Participation Across the Life Cycle"at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, April 20.

Mark Bender, East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented "From Suzhou to Shilin: Representative Styles of Folk Performance In South China"at Miami University, Ohio, March 20, and "Opening Oral Territory in Suzhou Storytelling"at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 6.

Anne Bower, English, presented "Cookbook as Historical Artifact or Recipe Collection?: Reprinting The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro"at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, N.M., March 9.

Brenda Jo Brueggemann, English, presented "On (Almost) Passing"at the Rutgers University Institute for Research on Women, New Brunswick, N.J., March 2, and "An Enabling Pedagogy"at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Feb. 19.

Xiaomei Chen, Comparative Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented "Not Just Ten Years: The Roots of the Chinese Cultural Revolution since Late Imperial China"at the Culture of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Conference, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Feb. 23-26.

David Cressy, History, presented "Babylon if Fallen: Reformation and Revolution, 1640-42"at the Reformation Studies Institute, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, March 15.

Angie Estes, English, presented "Voice-Over"at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Feb. 21.

Rich Graham, Office of Information Technology, and Jeff Kemper, Research Foundation, presented "Web Front-end for PeopleSoft A/P"at the 11th Annual International Accounts Payable Professionals Conference, Las Vegas, April 16-20.

Timothy Gregory, History, presented "Distance Learning and Distance Teaching É on Three Continents"at the Technology Enhanced Learning and Research's TELR Awareness Series, March 8.

Rose Harris, Women's Studies, presented "Moving, Shaking and Trouble-Making: African American Women (Re)Defining Political Participation"at the Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, March 16.

Susan Hartmann, History, presented "20th Century Transformations in American Women's Lives"at the University of Southern Mississippi, March 6.

Mark Headings, Agricultural Technical Institute, presented "Eggplant Culture, Insect Control, and Yield in Ohio"at the 56th Annual North Central Branch of the Entomological Society of America Conference, Ft. Collins, Colo., March 25-28.

F. Abiola Irele, Comparative Studies and African-American and African Studies, presented "The Political Imagination in Africa"at Africastudiecentrum (African Studies Center), University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Jan. 18.

Douglas Jones, Public Policy and Management, presented "Regulatory Concepts, Propositions, and Doctrines: New Casualties, Old Survivors, New Additions"at the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association Conference, New Orleans, Jan. 7.

Lindsay Jones, Comparative Studies, presented "Sacred Architecture and Authority: Alternatives and Illustrations from Mesoamerica and Elsewhere"and "Puzzling Pivots: Queries into Maya Preoccupations with the Center"at the 19th Annual Maya Weekend, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, March 20-24.

Sally Kitch, Women's Studies, presented "Forecasting the Feminist Future: The Dangers of Utopia"at Wichita State University, March 13.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, presented "Senses of History and the History of the Senses in the Novels of Melania Mazzucco"at the 29th Annual 20th Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 23.

Emma Perry Loss, English, presented "Grieving Masculinity and (Re)Gaining Whiteness in John Updike's Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux"at the 20th Century Literature Conference, Louisville, Ky., Feb. 22-24.

Wendy Matlock, English, presented "'And long to sue it is a wery thing': Legal Commentary in The Assembly of Ladies"at the Medieval Academy of America, Tempe, Ariz., March 16.

James Phelan, English, presented "Technique and Ethics in Angela's Ashes and 'Tis"at the International Conference on Narrative, Houston, Texas, March 9.

M. Karen Powers-Stubbs, English, Mansfield, presented "Rhetorics of Empathy: Teaching Ecojustice in the Composition Classroom"and "(Re)Composing a Community of (Eco)Compositionists: New Perspectives on Greening the Curriculum"at the College Composition and Communication Conference, Denver, March 15-17.

Matthew Ramsey, English, presented "The Mystery of/and the Research Essay: Demystifying Through Genre Study"at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, March 16.

Barry Shank, Comparative Studies, presented "Fractured Utopian Soundscapes"at the American Studies Association, October 2000, and "Angels, Hearths and Home: Early Christmas Cards and the Promise of Abundance"at the Honors and Scholars House, November 2000.

Andrea Smidt, History, presented "El discurso de la hagiografia: la representacion de Ôsantos'y Ômartires'en la Neuva Coronica y Buen Gobiemo de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala"at the 11th Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics Conference, University of Texas, Austin, March 24.

Smriti Srinivas, Comparatives Studies, presented "Saint, Guru and Avatar: Iconic Representations and the Politics of Modernity in the Sai Baba Movement"at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2000.

Beth Sutton-Ramspeck, English, Lima, presented "The Needleworker Re-Worked: Sarah Grand's Literary Housekeeping as a Reply to Carlyle and Tennyson"at the 9th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., March 16.

Jennifer Terry, Comparative Studies, presented "Sexual Rights as Cultural Capital: When Revlon Meets the UN"at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Nov. 3, 2000.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented "Autobiography as Cultural Performance: Charlotte Salomon's Life or Theater?"at the Barnard Feminist Art History 2000 Conference, New York, October 2000, and "Autobiography at a Visual-Verbal Interface: Charlotte Salomon's Life or Theatre?"at the Modern Language Association Conference, December 2000.

Publications

Brenda Jo Brueggemann and Johnson Cheu, English, "Becoming Visible: Lessons in Disability,"CCC, Vol. 52, No. 3 (February 2001), pp. 368-98, co-authors are Patricia A. Dunn, Barbara A. Heifferon and Linda Feldmeier White, and "Hearing, with Aids,"Currents in Electronic Literacy, Vol. 3 (Spring 2001), www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents.

Xiaomei Chen, Comparative Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures, "Visual Culture in 20th Century China,"edited with Julia A. Andrews, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (February 2001).

Bogac Ergene, History, "On Ottoman Justice: Interpretations in Conflict (1600-1800),"Islamic Law and Society, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2001), pp. 52-87.

Eugene Holland, Comparative Studies, "Nizan's Diagnosis of Existentialism and the Perversion of Death"Deleuze and Literature, edited by Ian Buchanan (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000), pp. 251-62, and "Infinite Subjective Representation and the Perversion of Death,"Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, (Vol. 5, No. 2 (August 2000), pp. 85-91.

Nicholas Howe, English and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, reviews of C. Loflin's African Horizons: The Landscapes of African Fiction and H. Mikasa's Uganda's Kitikor in England, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 32 (2001), pp. 142-44.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, "Rallying Points: Literary and Cultural Journals, 1945 to the Present,"Italy: Fiction, Theater, Poetry, Film Since 1950, edited by Robert S. Dombroski, Review of National Literatures, New Series, III (New York: Council on National Literatures, 2000), pp. 53-71.

Anthony Libby, English, "Sailor Man, Sailor Man"and "The Care and Feeding of Tintern Abbey,"Literal Latte, Vol. 6, No. 6 (March 2001), pp. 10, 14.

Louis M. Mansky, Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, "Sorting Out Mutations in Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus Type I Proviruses During In Vivo Clonal Expansion,"Journal of the National Cancer Institute , Vol. 93, No. 5 (2001), pp. 336-37.

Jeredith Merrin, English, "Bat Ode,"Phoenix Poets Series (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).

James Phelan, English, "Why Narrators Can Be Focalizers -- and Why It Matters,"New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective, edited by Willie Ivan Peer and Seymour Chatman (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2001) pp. 51-64.

Claire Robertson, History, "Age, Gender, and Knowledge Revolutions in Africa and the United States,"Journal of Women's History, edited by Birgitte Seland, Vol. 12 (Winter 2001), pp. 174-83.

Smriti Srinivas, Comparative Studies, "The Advent of the Avatar: The Urban Following of Sathya Sai Baba and its Construction of Tradition,"Charisma and Canon: The Formation of Religious Identity in South Asia, edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Angelika Malinar and Martin Christof Fuechsle (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001), and review of Charles S. Prebish's Luminous Passage. The Practice and Study of Buddhism in America, Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2000).

James N. Upton, African American and African Studies, "Stop-outs: African American Participation in Adult Education,"Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies, edited by Delores P. Alridge and Carlene Young (New York, N.Y.: Lexington Books, 2000), pp. 491-506.

Hugh Urban, Comparative Studies, "The Syndrome of the Secret: Eso-centrism and the Work of Steven Wasserstrom,"The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Vol. 69, No. 2 (2001); "The Omnipotent Oom: Tantra and its Impact on Modern Western Esotericism,"Esoterica: The Journal of Esoteric Studies, Vol. 3 (2001), pp. 218-59; "A Dance of Masks: The Esoteric Ethics of Frithjof Schuon,"Crossing Boundaries: Ethics in the History of Mysticism, edited by G. William Barnard and Jeffrey J. Kripal (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2001); "Birth Done Better: Conceiving the Immortal Fetus in India, China, and Renaissance Europe,"Notes from a Mandala: Essays in Honor of Wendy Doniger, edited by Laurie Patton (New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2000); "Making a Place to Take a Stand: Jonathan Z. Smith and the Politics and Poetics of Comparison,"Method & Theory in the Study of Religions, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2000), pp. 339-78; and "The Cult of Ecstasy: Tantrism, the New Age and the Spiritual Logic of Late Capitalism,"History of Religions, Vol. 39 (2000), pp. 268-304.

Dale Van Kley, History, "Church, State, and the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution,"The French Revolution, edited by Ronald Schechter (Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2001), pp. 263-300.

Z. Wang, M.L. Eastridge and X. Qui, Animal Sciences, "Effects of Forage Neutral Detergent Fiber and Yeast Culture on Performance of Cows during Early Lactation,"Journal of Dairy Science, No. 84 (2001), pp. 204-12.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, "The Rumpled Bed of Autobiography: Extravagant Lives, Extravagant Questions,"biography, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter 2001), pp. 1-14, co-author is Sidonie Smith, and "Writing (in) Blood: Autobiography and Technologies of the Real in Janet Campbell Hale's Bloodlines,"Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real", edited by Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol (Champaign-Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2000), pp. 111-136.

Mark D. Wilson, Fisher College of Business, "Careers in Finance,"Encyclopedia of Business and Finance (2001), pp. 99-103.

Andrea Wolfe, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, "Independent and Combined Analyses of Sequences from All Three Genomic Compartments Converge on the Root of Glowering Plant Phylogeny,"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 97 (2000), pp. 13166-71, co-authors are T.J. Barkman, G. Chenery, J.R. McNeal, J. Lyons-Weiler, W.J. Elisens, G. Moore and C.W. dePamphilis.

C.A. Zimmerly and W.P. Weiss, OARDC and Animal Sciences, "Effects of Supplemental Dietary Biotin on Performance of Holstein Cows during Early Lactation,"Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 84 (2001), pp. 498-506.

Recognitions

Saul Cornell, History, has had his book, The Other Founders (UNC, 1999), selected as Choice's outstanding academic book for 2000.

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, received the Encyclopaedia Iranica's Ferdowsi Award for "Services to Persian Poetry."

Karen Downing, Neurology, is the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Services Employee of the Month for April.

Angie Estes, English, has received the Poetry Society of America's Cecil Hemley Memorial Award for a poem on a philosophical or epistemological theme.

Dorothy Ferguson, College of Medicine, is the College of Medicine and Public Health and Office of Health Services Employee of the Month for May.

Arthur F. Greenbaum, Law, has been appointed as a member of The Supreme Court of Ohio Commission on Certification of Attorneys as Specialists.

Rose Harris, Women's Studies, has been chosen a Houston, Texas, "Woman of Prominence."

John L. Robinson, Cardiology, received the Department of Internal Medicine's Earl N. Metz Distinguished Physician Award.

The following students in the College of Law were awarded the Center for Public Resources'First Prize for Outstanding Original Work on Alternative Dispute Resolution, Planning Mediation Programs: A Deskbook for Common Pleas Judges: Beverly Draine Fowler, Paul Garver, Glenda D. Gelzleichter, Jonathon Goodman, Tanya Johnston, Lisa-Marie Merida, Jason Noel, Timothy G. Pepper and Kristen Whitmer.

Service

Rose Harris, Women's Studies, served as chair and discussant on "Women in World Politics"at the Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, March 17.

Nicholas Howe, English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, was chair of "Religious and Psychological Landscapes"at the Medieval Academy of America, Arizona State University, March 16.

F. Abiola Irele, Comparative Studies and African-American and African Studies, served as facilitator for a conference on "The Power of the Word: A Millennium of Francophone and Anglophone Writers from West Africa and the Caribbean"at Churchill College, Cambridge, England, Nov. 17-18.

Amy Nathanson, Journalism and Communication, is secretary of the International Communication Association's Instructional and Developmental Communication Division.

Evan Straub, Office of Information Technology, and Erika Orrick, Cognitive Science Engineering, served on a panel discussing "Minerva's Machine: Women and Computing"for Ohio State Women's History Month, March 7.

James Upton, African American and African Studies, is on the Community Shelter Board of Trustees.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, chaired a session on "Women Artists'Self-Representation at the Verbal-Visual Interface"at the Barnard Feminist Art History 2000 Conference, New York, October 2000.