Books

Dick Davis, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Panthea's Children: Hellenistic Novels and Medieval Persian Romances, (New York: Biblotheca Persica, 2002), co-author is Robert B. Slocum.

Katharine A. Dean, Miriam Conteh-Morgan and James K. Bracken, University Libraries, Undergraduate's Companion to Women Writers and their Web Sites, (Libraries Unlimited, November 2003).

Allen Millet, History, Their War for Korea: American, Asian, and European Combatants and Civilians, 1945-53, (Washington: Brassey's, Inc., 2002).

Jacqueline Jones Royster, English, Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community, (New York: Longman, 2003).

Ahmad Sikainga, History, "City of Steel and Fire," A Social History of Atbara, Sudan's Railway Town, 1906-1984, (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2002).

Marvin Zahniser, History, emeritus, Then Came Disaster: France and the United States, 1918-1940, (Westport: Praeger, 2002).

Grants

Nicholas Breyfogel, History, $7,000 seed grant from the College of Humanities for "Baikal: the Great Lake and its People."

Paulo Campos, English, $1,500 from the Office of International Affairs for research travel for his dissertation.

Saul Cornell, History, $400,000 two-year grant from the Joyce Foundation to create a comprehensive Second Amendment Research Center. He also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his project "Armed in the Holy Cause of Liberty: The Second Amendment in American History."

Richard Moore, Human and Community Resource Development, $1 million EPA 319 and USDA SARE grants for the Sugar Creek project, beginning Jan. 1.

Presentations

David Adams, English, presented "Myth Versus Dogma in 1920: Freud's Response to Modernity" at the Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 28.

Constance K. Barsky, Physics, presented "Plate Tectonics: From Paradigm Shift to Technological Transformation" at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 1.

Linda Bernhard, Women's Studies and Adult Health and Illness, presented "On Medicalization" at the OSU College of Medicine and Public Health, Nov. 20.

R.J. Birkenholz, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "The Induction of Novice Teachers: A Study of First-Year Agriculture Teachers in Missouri," co-presenters were B.C. Greiman and W.D. Walker, and "Assessing Research Capacity in Agricultural Eduation: A Department and Disciplinary View," co-presenter was B.C. Greimanat, at the National Agricultural Education Research Conference, Las Vegas, December 2002.

J. Cano, J. Connors, N. Knobloch and M.S. Whittington, Human and Community Resource Development, presented a poster, "Retooling Preservice Agricultural Education" at the 2002 American Association for Agricultural Educators Meeting, Las Vegas, December 2002.

D.D. Cartmell and J. Dyer, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Gatekeeping Decisions of Arkansas Daily Newspaper Editors in Publishing Agricultural News" at the National Agricultural Education Research Conference, Las Vegas, December 2002.

Rebecca Dingo, English, presented "Secularizing Fundamentalisms: Women, Globalization, and the Expanding Discourse of The Christian Right" at the American Studies Association, Houston, Nov. 14.

Joseph F. Donnermyer, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Patterns of Rural Adolescent Substance Use," co-presenter was Scott D. Scheer, and "Sticking With It Or Dropping Out: The Sustainability of Community Based Crime Prevention," co-presenter was Jeremy Wilson, at the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November 2002.

Jon Erickson, English, presented "Virtue and Virtuality" at the American Society for Theater Research, Philadelphia, Nov. 17.

Angie Estes, English, presented readings from Voice-Over at the University of Cincinnati, Oct. 8; University of Indianapolis, Oct. 16; New York University, Nov. 4; Bowling Green State University, Nov. 7; and Otterbein College, Nov. 12.

Theresa Ferrari, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "The Results of a Survey of Adolescents' Out-of-School Time Use" at the Older Kids Conference, Chicago, Sept. 21 and at the Ohio Department of Education Early Childhood Conference, Nov. 4; and presented two seminars on "4-H After School" at the statewide 4-H/FCS in-service at Oklahoma State University, Dec. 4.

Annette Fieldstone, Psychology, presented "Why They Stay: The Psychobiology of Victims of Repeated Domestic Violence" at the Center for New Beginnings, Newark, Jan. 8.

C. Magbaily Fyle, African American and African Studies, presented "Ethnicity, Politics, and Sierra Leone History" and chaired a session on the "Politics of Identity" at the 45th Annual African American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 5-8.

Jared Gardner, English, presented "Charles Brockden Brown's New York and the Monthly Magazine" at the Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 27.

Leigh Gilmore, English, presented "Biography as Autobiography" at the Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 29.

Hannibal Hamlin, English, presented "Gascoigne ad Penitent? King David in the Posies" at the David in Medieval and Renaissance Culture, The Eighteenth Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Barnard College, New York, Dec. 7.

Susan Hanson, English, presented "From Publick Square to Village Green: Suburban Space, Place, and Performance" at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Nov. 24.

Wendy Hesford, English, presented "Global/Local Labor Politics and the Promise of Service Learning" at Oberlin College, Dec. 6; and "Globalization, Gender Politics and Community Service Learning" at the Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 28.

Andrew Hudgins, English, presented "The Consequences of Writing about Religion" at the Newman Center, Ohio State, Nov. 1.

N.L. McCaslin, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Resources for Professional Development Academy Activities for CTE" at the Job Corps' National Academic Manager Training, Overland Park, Kan., Nov. 20.

Jeredith Merrin, English, gave a reading and book signing at the Old Worthington Library, Worthington, Dec. 6.

Larry Miller, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Instructional Technology Competencies Perceived as Needed by Vocational Teachers in Ohio and Taiwan," co-presenter was Chifang Lu, and "Agriculture Teachers' Attitudes toward Adult Education in Ohio Comprehensive High Schools," co-presenter was Yung-Chul Kim, at the 2002 Annual Conference of ACTE, Las Vegas, Dec. 13; and "Impact of External Tests on Teaching," co-presenter was Lih-Mei D Chen, "Vacation Farm: Promising Setting for Informal Learning," co-presenter was Chia-Chine Hsu, "Instructional Technology Competencies Perceived as Needed by Ohio Vocational Teachers," co-presenter was Chifang Lu, and "The Multicultural Classroom Educator: Reaching Out to Parents of Chinese American Students," co-presenters were Judy Wen-Hsia Yeh and Angela Hwang, at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Educational Research Association, Columbus, Oct. 16-19.

Gabriella Modan, English, was a discussant on the panel "Playing with Space: Communication and Community on the Physical-virtual Continuum," and presented "Neighborly Relations: Contesting Ideologies of Citizenship, Community, and Public Space" at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 2002.

Richard Moore, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Regional Marketing of Tofu Soybeans to the Japanese Consumer Cooperatives" at the Organic Agriculture Consortium (USDA IFAFS grant) at Iowa State University; and was a discussant on the panel, "Power, Culture, Food: Globalization and Farming in the First World" at the Annual Meeting of The American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov. 20-24.

Takashi Nishiyama, History, presented "Postwar Kamikazation of Wartime Japan's Aeronautical Technology" at the Science, Technology, and Society Colloquium at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo University, Dec. 18 .

Basia Nowak, History, presented "Assisting the Communist Party State and Working Mothers: Maternalism and the League of Women in Poland, 1948 to 1957" at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, Nov. 21-24.

R. Parker, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Professional Development Academy Activities for CTE," co-presenter was N. L. McCaslin, "Improving CTE Programs Through Professional Development Opportunities," co-presenter was J. Wagner, and "National Leadership Institute: The Program and How You Can Be a Participant" at the Association for Career and Technical Education Convention, Las Vegas, December 2002.

James Phelan, English, presented "If Literature Is the Protagonist, Must Composition be the Antagonist?" at the Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 28.

Christopher Phelps, History, presented a paper as part of a roundtable on Sidney Hook's Toward the Understanding of Karl Marx at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division's Meeting, Philadelphia, Dec. 28.

John Stapleton, History, presented "King William's War: Anglo-Dutch Relations and the War in the Spanish Netherlands, 1688-97" at the North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Nov. 10.

Alexander Stephan, Germanic Languages and Literatures and Mershon Center, presented "Im Fadenkreuz des FBI: Berthold Brecht" and "Amerikanisierung der deutschen Kultur. Problemfelder und Forschungsansatze" at the Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut, Essen, Germany, November 2002; and "Neues vom FBI. CNDI LA-BB-1: Die Uberwachung von Brechts Telefon in Los Angeles" at the Literaturforum, Berlin, December 2002.

Dale Van Kley, History, presented "Marginal Martyrs: Catholic ‘Communion' with the ‘Schismatic' Church of Utrecht, 1719-1808" at the Newberry Library, Oct. 27; "Riots and Religion at the End of the Old Regime: the Case of a Mini-Emeute in Paris on 29-30 September 1789" at Trinity Theological Seminary, Nov. 7; and "Christianity as Casualty and Chrysalis of Modernity: The Problem of Deschristianization in the French Revolution" at the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France Workshop, University of Chicago, Dec. 7.

Ara Wilson, Women's Studies, presented "Post-Fordist Corporeality and Transnational Heterosexuality in Bangkok" at the Anthropology Association Conference, New Orleans, Nov. 20.

Kenneth G. Wilson, Physics, presented "Unifying the History of Science and Technology: Introducing the Concept of ‘Innovation by Redesign'" at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 9.

C. Zirkle and J. Connors, Human and Community Resource Development, presented "Contributions of Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO) to the Development and Assessment of Workplace Skills and Knowledge: A Literature Review" at the Annual Meeting of Omicron Tau Theta, Las Vegas, 2002.

Publications

K. Ahijevych and M.E. Wewers, Nursing, "Passive Smoking and Vascular Disease," Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 69-74.

Morris Beja, English, emeritus, "Citizen Joyce, or My Quest for Rosebud," reprinted in Morton Levitt, Joyce and the Joyceans (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press 2002), pp. 13-22.

John M. Bennett, University Libraries, "Blaster Thoughts," Blaster: The Art of Blaster Al Ackerman, 1972-2002 (Baltimore: CHELA Gallery, 2002).

David Citino, English, "The Invention of Secrecy," poem reprint, The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young, eds., (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002); and "Willard Scott Makes It to the Next Century," Witness, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 140-1.

Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Human and Community Resource Development, "Local Preparedness for Terrorism: A View from Law Enforcement," Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, Vol. 15, pp. 211-224.

Angie Estes, English, "Paramour" and "Chez Nous," Field, Vol. 67 (Fall 2002), pp. 57-59; and "Say Merveille," Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2002), pp. 75.

S.K. Frazier, D.K. Moser, L.K. Daley, S. McKinley, B. Riegel, B.J. Garvin and A. Kim, Nursing, "Critical Care Nurses' Beliefs About and Reported Management of Anxiety," American Journal Of Critical Care, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 19-27.

Leigh Gilmore, English, "Jurisdictions: I, Rigoberta Menchu, The Kiss, and Scandalous, Self-Representation in the Age of Memoir and Trauma," Signs, Vol. 28 (Winter 2002), pp. 695-790.

Michelle Herman, English, "Super Star," River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Fall 2002), pp. 45-66.

Andrew Hudgins, English, "Tools: An Ode," reprint in The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine, Joseph Parisi and Stephen Young, eds., (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002), p.409; and "Two Strangers Enter Sodom" and "The Afterimage of a Ghost," The Georgia Review, (Fall 2002), pp. 697-700.

Anthony Libby, English, "Falling from Bills Party, May 15, 1996," ONTHEBUS, Vol. 17-18 (2002), pp. 45-66.

Stuart Lishan, English, "Eurydice & Lover Boy," www.versedaily.com (December 2002), and "Finding Means for Meaning in a Computer Age," Posse Review, Vol. 14 (Autumn 2002).

Linda Lobao and Rogelio Saenz, Human and Community Resource Development, "Spatial Inequality and Diversity as an Emerging Research Area," Rural Sociology, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 497-511.

Lee Martin, English, "Fire Season," Fourth Genre, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 1-13.

Erin McGraw, English, "Lucky Devil," Witness, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2002), pp. 38-51.

Jeredith Merrin, English, "'And Damned If It's Not a Harte Crane-Azure Sky!' Some Notes on American Modernism and Influence," Poetry International, Vol. VI (2002), pp. 159-171.

Randolph Roth, History, "Counting Guns: What Social Science Historians Know and Could Learn about Gun Ownership, Gun Culture, and Violence in the United States," Social Science History, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter 2002), pp. 699-710.

John Stapleton, History, "Pensionary at War: Anthonie Heinsius and the Nine Years' War, 1689-1697," in Anthonie Heinsius and the Dutch Republic, 1688-1720: Politics, War, and Finance, by Jan A.F. de Jongste and Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr. (The Hague: Institute of Netherlands History, 2002), pp. 199-225.

Leslie Tannenbaum, English, "What are Those Golden Builders Doing?': Mendelssohn, Blake, and the (Un)Building of Jerusalem," British Romanticism and the Jews, Sheila A. Spector, ed., (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 79-90.

Dale Van Kley, History, "Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560-1791," in Les Origines Religieuses de la Revolution francaise, 1560-1791, (Paris: Editions du Seuil, November 2002); and "Preface," to Ellen Weaver's Mademoiselle de Joncoux: polemique janseniste a la veille de la bulle Ungenitus, (Editions du Cerf), pp. 7-15.

L. Zhia and S.D. Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development, "The Influence of International Study Abroad Programs on Agricultural Students," Journal of International Agriculture and Extension Education, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 23-29.

Recognitions

Maureen Ahern, Spanish and Portuguese, received a 12-month fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for "Transformative Frontiers: Martyr Narratives and Ritual Performance on Missionary Frontiers in Northwest New Spain (1530-1645)."

Jamie Cano, Human and Community Resource Development, was selected as editor-elect for the Agricultural Education Magazine for 2003 and editor from 2004-2006.

David Cressy, History, received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for "The Revolutionary Origins of the English Civil War."

Kathy Fagan, English, had her poem, "Little Bad Dream Charm," selected by Edward Hirsch as his "Poet Choice" in the Dec. 1 Washington Post.

Carter Findley, History, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for 2003-04 for "Turkey, Nationalism and Modernity."

Susan Hanson, English, was awarded professional development funds by the Council of Graduate Students to present her research at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Nov. 20-24.

Michael J. Hogan, History was honored with an endowment scholarship established in his name at the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) in Chicago on Jan. 3-4.

John N. King, English, was elected to a 5-year term on the MLA executives committee of the division on the English Renaissance.

N.L. McCaslin, Human and Community Resource Development, received the Meritorious Service Award from the University Council for Workforce and Human Resource Education (UCWHRE) in Las Vegas, December 2002.

Vicki Reed and Scott Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development, received the NAE4-HA Communicator Award for outstanding achievement in a video program for the North Central Region at the 2002 NAE4-HA National Conference in Norfolk, Va., Oct. 30.

Carole Rogal, History, emeritus, received the gold medal of The Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, Nov. 21-24.

Scott Scheer, Human and Community Resource Development, was inducted into Epsilon Sigma Phi National Honorary Extension Fraternity on Dec. 3 at the Annual Ohio Extension Conference.

Brad Steinmetz, third-year theatre graduate student, was selected as winner of the USITT's 2003 Rose Brand Award for Scene Design, at the 43rd United States Institute for Theatre Technology Annual Conference, Minneapolis, March 2003.

Will Waidelich, Curriculum Materials Service, is one of six individuals who received the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) Outstanding Cooperation Award at the NAAE Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Dec. 13.

Susie Whittington, Human and Community Resource Development, was elected Secretary of the American Association for Agricultural Education (AAAE).

Judy Wu, History, was awarded a College of Humanities Seed Grant for "Radical Orientalism: Asia, Asian American, and American Movements."