Appointment

James Upton, African American and African Studies, has been awarded a courtesy appointment as a professor of city and regional planning in the Knowlton School of Architecture.

Book

John Conteh-Morgan, French and Italian, translated The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa, by Paulin J. Hountondji, (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002).

Matt Goldish, History, editor, Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present, (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003).

Jane Hathaway, History, Osmanli Misir'inda Hane Politikalari: Kazdaglilarin Yukselisi, Turkish translation of her book, The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of Kazdaglis, Istanbul: Tarih Vakfi Yurt Yayinlari, (History Foundation Publication, 2002).

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

Grants

Carla Wilks, Community Extension Center, Cynthia Tyson, Teaching and Learning, and Patrick Mullen, English, $15,500 from the Ohio Humanities Council and the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation to conduct a 2003 Summer Teachers Institute.

Presentations

John M. Bennett, Rare Books Library, gave a one-person reading and performed with the Be Blank Consort sound poetry group at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Feb. 8.

Alan Beyerchen, History, facilitated and presented "Teaching the Teachers" at the Seventh Lessons and Legacies Conference: The Holocaust in International Perspective, University of Minnesota, Nov. 2.

Deborah Bohanan, Treasurer's Office, and Tricia Privette, Accounting, presented "Accounts Receivable & Accounts Receivable Collection Services" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Dec. 9.

Sherwin Bryant, History, organized the panel "Mita and Slavery: The Realities of Bondage in the North Andes" and presented "Subjects of the King: Afro-criollos and the Notion of Mercy in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Quito" at the Conference on Latin American Historical Association, Chicago, Jan. 4.

David Cressy, History, presented "God's Time, Rome's Time, and the Calendar of the English Protestant Regime" at the conference "Calendar Reform and Religious Reformation," UCLA, Los Angeles, Jan. 25.

Georgina Dodge, African American and African Studies, presented "Can Tiger Change His Stripes?: Transcending Racial Identity with a Golf Club" at the Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 30.

Tom Ewing, Accounting, and Renne Komula, Public Safety, presented "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Oct. 23-24.

Luciano F. Farina, French and Italian, presented, "Perifrasi e Antifrasi:a proposito della necssita di una disanima della lingua di Parini" at the Circolo Filogico Brianteo, Bosisio-Parini-Milan, Dec. 14-15.

Stephen Finn, Resource Planning, Susan Litton, Financial Training and Documentation, and Rick Schaffer, Optometry, presented "Earnings Operations at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers on Dec. 3-5.

Magbaily C. Fyle, African American and African Studies, chaired "The Politics of Identity" and presented "Ethnicity, Politics and Sierra Leone History" at the African Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Dec. 5.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, presented "The Three Lives of Aunt Jemima and Uncle Mose, Or, How the Darkies Got to Harvard" at the Community Extension Center, Feb. 6.

Donna Guy, History, participated in a roundtable entitled, "Interviewing in the Job Market in the Twenty-First Century" at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2003.

Sarah-Grace Heller, French and Italian, presented "Embroidery and Gender Contradictions in Medieval Romance, Rhetoric and History" at the 119th Annual MLA Convention, New York, Dec. 27-30.

Elizabeth Hewitt, English, presented "Minding Each Other's Business: A History of Advice Columns, Conduct Books and Guides to Manners and Moral" to the City of Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission, Jan. 25.

Nancy Jacobs, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Joan Randall, Horticulture Crop Science, Don Seidelmann, Resource Management Systems, and Anne Wilcheck, Accounting, presented "Using General Ledger Reports" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Oct. 28-29.

Jessie Char, Financial Training, and Aleta Wallace, Accounts Payable, presented "Procurement Card Fiscal Training" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Nov. 8, and "Working with the Office of Accounts Payable" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Oct. 10-11 and Dec. 12-13.

Kevin King, Academic Affairs, and Susan Litton, Financial Training, presented "Debits and Credits" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Oct. 15-16.

Sebastian Knowles, English, presented "Aftermath: A Presentation for Peace" at Ohio State, Feb. 2, co-presenters were Patrick Woliver, Edward Bak, Laurel Butler and William Conable; and "Baedeker Raids: London, 1942" at The History Club, Bexley, Feb. 3.

Valerie Lee, English, presented "African American Literature and Folk Medicine" at the Community Extension Center, Feb. 13.

Susan Litton, Financial Training, presented "Accounting at OSU" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Dec. 16-17.

Ted McDaniel, African American and African Studies, presented "Jazz," with a performance by the OSU Jazz Orchestra, at the Community Extension Center, Feb. 27.

Lucy Murphy, History, presented "Women and Networks in the Upper Mississippi Valley and the Northern Louisiana Purchase" at the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference: The Louisiana Purchase and Its Peoples: Assessing Historical Knowledge on the Eve of the Third American Century, New Orleans, Jan. 24.

Viola Newton, African American and African Studies, presented, "The Integration of Caribbean Blacks into African American Culture" at the Community Extension Center, Feb. 20.

Takashi Nishiyama, History, presented "Migration of Wartime Aeronautical Engineers for the Development of the Bullet Train in Post-World War II Japan: The Case of the Railway Technical Research Institute, 1950" at the History of Science and Technology Colloquium, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Jan. 14.

Tricia Privette, Accounting, presented "Accounting Concepts Refresher" to departmental and college fiscal officers, Dec. 18.

Alexander Stephan, Germanic Languages and Literature and the Mershon Center, co-organized a symposium on "Amerikanisierung der deutschen Kultur nach 1918- Problemfelder und Forschungsansatze" (Americanization of German Culture After 1918- Issues and Approaches) at Essen University, Germany, November 2002.

Jennifer Willging, French and Italian, presented a paper entitled "Grade Inflation: A Survey of Recent Literature" at the annual MLA Convention, New York, Dec. 27-30.

Publications

John M. Bennett, Rare Books Library, published a CD recording, Sound Mess and Other Poems, performed by the Be Blank Consort, Columbus: (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2003).

John L. Brooke, History, "To Be Ready by the Whole People: Press, Party, and Public Sphere in the United States, 1790-1840," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, No. 110 (April 2000), issued Dec. 2002, pp. 41-118.

Cynthia Burack, Women's Studies, "Women and The American New Right: Feminist Interventions," Women and Politics, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 69-90, co-author was Jyl J. Josephson.

David Citino, English, "Verses Show Power Children Possess to Transform Adults," essay, Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 12, p. H7; "Ballad of the Buckeyes," poem, OSU National Champions Celebration Program, Jan. 18; "Autobiography by Anthology," essay, Columbus Dispatch, Feb. 9, p. H7; and "Poetry Cold, Poetry Hot," essay, Columbus Dispatch, Feb. 9, p. D6.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, preface, "Symphonic Poems: The Art of Aminah Robinson," Exhibition Catalog, Vol. 11 (Columbus Museum of Art, 2002).

Stephen G. Hall, History, "To Render the Private Public: William Still and the Selling of the Underground Railroad," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 127 (January 2003), pp. 7-27, and "George Bancroft," "Samuel Gompers," "John Brown" and "William H. Prescott," in Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionaries of the Western World's Great Cultural Eras, Jeff Bell, ed., Vol. VI: Industrialization and Imperialism, 1800-1924, (Westport: Greenwood Press, December 2002).

Jessica A. Johnson, African American and African Studies, "Notre Dame Coach Sets Milestone for Blacks," op-ed column, Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 11.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian, review of Ellen Nerenberg's Prison Terms: Representing Confinement During and After Italian Fascism, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2002), pp. 427-29.

Albert N. Mancini, French and Italian, "L'odeporica adattata al capitolo: testi di viaggio di Francesco Bolognetti," L'italiano nella lingua e nel pensiero, Tome I, A. Mollica and R. Campa, eds., and "Quaderni di Libri e riviste d'Italia," No. 46, (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico dello Sato, 2002).

Geoffrey Parker, History, "The Place of Tudor England in the Messianic Vision of Philip II of Spain," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th series, Vol. XII (2002), pp. 167-221; "Michael Roberts, 1908-1996," Proceeding of the British Academy, Vol. CXV (2002), pp. 333-54; and "'No se si vinieron estas' Dos cartas de don Alonso Martinez de Leyva con motivo del desastre de la Gran Armada en Agosto de 1588," Revista de Historia Naval, Vol. LXXIX (2002), pp. 7-16.

Carla Pestana, History, "Martyred by the Saints: Quaker Executions in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts," Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800, Allan Greer and Jodi Bilinkoff, eds. (London and New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 169-191.

Laura Podalsky, Spanish and Portuguese, "Tango, Like Scotch, Is Best Taken Straight': Cosmopolitan Tastes and Bodies Out of Place," Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, No. 21 (2002), pp.131-154; and editor of the special issue "Cine y literatura," Revista Iberoamericana, LXVII/199 (Abril-Junio 2002), including introduction "Undialogo entre sordos?," pp. 247-249.

Alexander Stephan, Germanic Languages and Literature and Mershon Center, "Visier der Diplomaten. Die Observierung deutscher Exilanten durch die Botschaft des Dritten Reiches in Paris," (Under the Watch of Diplomates. The Surveillance of German Exiles by the Embassy of the Third Reich in Paris), in Fluchtziel Paris. Die deutschsprachige Emigration 1933-1940, Anne Saint Sauveur-Henn, ed., (Berlin Metropol, 2002), pp.181-9.

Graham Walden, University Libraries, "Survey Research Methodology, 1900-1999: An Annotated Bibliography," (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002).

Wynne Wong, French and Italian, "Linking Form and Meaning: Processing Instruction," The French Review, Vol. 76 (2002), pp. 236-264.

David Woods and Kevin Boyle, History, "The Trice of Peace: Vietnam, the Pound, and the Crisis of the American Empire," Diplomatic History, Vol. 27 (January 2003), pp. 37-72.

Shawn R. Wright, OSU South Centers, "Soybean Gap Influence on Velvetleaf Seed Production," J. Iowa Acad. Sci., Vol. 109, pp. 50-52.

Recognitions

James Davis, Hui Gao and Vignesh Kannappa, Computer & Information Science, won a best paper award for "A Three-Mode Expressive Feature Model for Analysis and Recognition of Action Effort" at the IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing.

Allison Efford, History, was awarded a Graduate School Dean's Distinguished University Fellowship for 2002-03; and has been selected by the Graduate School as a Roy A. Koenigsknecht Graduate Alumni Fellow for 2002-03.

Stephen G. Hall, History, received a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, 2003-04 for his project book A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century America.

K. Austin Kerr, History, had a new prize named after him at the Business History Conference. The K. Austin Kerr Prize will be given annually to a beginning scholar in business history.

Robert D. Newcomb, Clinical Optometry, received the 2002 Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Association of Veterans Affairs Optometrists.

Takashi Nishiyama, History, was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship for his doctoral dissertation research, "Swords into Plowshares: Civilian Application of Military Aeronautical Technology in Japan, 1920s-1960s," under the direction of Professor James Bartholomew.

Srinivasan Parthasarathy and Matt Coatney, Computer & Information Science, won the Best Paper Award for "Efficient Discovery of Common Substructures in Macromolecules" at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '02), in Maebashi City, Gumma Prefecture, Japan.

Jeff Slagle, English, has been selected as Ohio State's nominee to the Spring 2003 CIC Seminar for Graduate Students in American Indian Studies, Newberry Library.

Wendy Watkins, Greek and Latin, has been chosen as the inaugural winner of the Staff Advisory Committee's Above and Beyond the Call of Duty (ABC) Award.

Joan Wise, Information Systems, was the College of Medicine and Public Health's Employee of the Month, January 2003.

Stuart Zweben, Computer & Information Science, was named Outstanding Educator Advancing Technology, by the Columbus Technology Council at the annual Top Contributors to the Advancement of Technology.

Service

Katherine Burkman, English, emerita, directed two one-act plays, Two by Pinter: The Room and Celebration, for her writing/performing group, Women at Play

Chadwick Allen, English, was the discussion leader at the American Indian Perspectives on the Humanities in the 21st Century: A National Conference and Conversation, Newberry, Library, Chicago, Jan. 23.

Luciano Farina, French and Italian, has been elected regional representative of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) and will serve on the executive council through 2006.

Kenneth Goings, African American Studies, was a consultant for and appeared in, the PBS film The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Goings was a consultant for all four episodes, and appears in the first two -- "Promises Betrayed" (1885-1896) and "Fighting Back."

Paul Golden, University Extension, was recently elected second vice chair of the Coshocton Educational Center Advisory Board.

Nicanor I. Moldovan, Biomedical Engineering, organized "Novel Angiogenic Mechanisms," an international workshop at the Davis Heart and Lung Institute, April 2002.

Raj Singh, Mechanical Engineering, joined the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE) for a six-year term.

Ahmed Soliman, Automotive Research & Intelligent Transportation, chaired and organized the session on "Model-Based Fault Diagnosis of Automotive Systems" at the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.

Robert H. Wagoner, Materials Engineering, was elected chairman of the Material Sections of the National Academy of Engineering; and was appointed to chair the Peer Committee for the Section 9 (Materials Engineering) of the National Academy of Engineering.

Dave Woods, Industrial and Systems Engineering, joined the Committee on Aerospace Research and Technology for Vision 2050, of the National Research Council, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board; and is one of 14 scientists named to a new committee on using engineering to improve health care by the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.