Exhibit

Michael Cadwell, Architecture, exhibited work at the ADC Gallery in New York in April as part of the American Academy in Rome exhibition: FAAR OUT.

Presentations

The following individuals presented their research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the University of Utah, March 13-14: Jon Anderson, Religious Studies, "Fascist Scholar/Communist Monk: Eliade, Merton, and the Politics of Religion: A Comparative Intellectual Biography"; Kelly Erby, History, "Academic Freedom in the Face of McCarthyism: The Gag Rule at Ohio State University"; Daniel Kaser, Comparative Studies/Microbiology,

"Justifying Tuskegee? An Exercise in Moral Relativism"; Andrew Kinney, English, "Ritual Violence and White Masculinity in the Early 20th Century South"; Benjamin Parrot, German/Linguistics, "Indoctrinating Innocents: Children's Literature in Nazi Germany"; and Ayana Wilson, English, "Calypso."

Amy Alrich, History, presented "Germans as Forced Laborers: Deportation to and Internment in the Soviet Union at the End of and Following World War II" at the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Eighth Annual World Convention, Columbia University, New York City, April 3; and "The German Homefront Becomes the Warfront, October 1944 to May 1945" at the United States Military Academy at West Point, April 4.

Anne Bower, English-Marion, chaired a panel at Shaw University's Undergraduate Humanities Conference where three English majors from the Marion campus, Amanda Crease, Lois Everitt, and Amanda Yoder, presented papers on Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, Raleigh, N.C., April 12.

Brenda Brueggemann, English, presented "Arguing (over) Ability: Locating Disability Rhetoric in Contemporary Culture" at Miami University, Oxford, March 31; "Linking Dwarves and Deafness: A Response to Shahar Rozen's Holocaust Film, Liebe, Perla" at Gallaudet University Press Institute on Genetics, Disability, and Deafness, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., April 12; and "Introducing Disability Studies" at the Multiple Perspectives on Disability Conference, Ohio State, April 16.

David Cressy, History, presented "Semper Eadem, Defender of the Faith, and Queen Elizabeth of Famous Memory" at the Tudor-Stuart Seminar, Kenyon College, Gambier, April 7.

Georgina Dodge, African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, presented "Keeping Women of Color in Their 'Place'" at the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference, Boca Raton, Fla., April 10-13.

Kathy Fagan, English, gave a reading, led a workshop, and held student conferences at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., April 22-23; gave a reading at the SUNY Farmingdale Paumanok Poetry Award Series, Farmingdale, New York, April 3; and gave a reading and made a class visit at the Denison University Beck Lecture Series, Granville, March 6.

Jared Gardner, English, presented "Republican Discrimination: Early American Periodicals and the Dissemination of Taste" at the Society of Early Americanists Biennial Conference, Providence, R.I., April 10.

Stephanie Gilmore, History, presented "Beyond the Lavender Menace: The Struggle for Lesbian Rights in NOW after 1971" at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Memphis, Tenn., April 4.

Donna Guy, History, presented "Latin American Gender and Sexuality History, Past, Present and Future" at Gender Across Divides, a conference sponsored by OSU Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, April 4.

Peter Hahn, History, presented "Thinking About the War" at a special panel discussion entitled "Historian Reflect on the War in Iraq" at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Memphis, Tenn., April 5.

Mark Headings and Roger N. Williams, Agricultural Technical Institute and Entomology, presented "Attraction of Multicolored Asian Lady Beetles, Harmonia axyridis, to Extrafloral Nectaries of Mung Beans" at the 112th Annual Conference of the Ohio Academy of Science, Findlay, April 5.

Andrews Hudgins, English, gave a poetry reading and workshop at the Montevallo Literary Festival, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Ala., March 14-15; and a poetry reading at Ole Miss, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., March 25; and was the Leidig Lecturer in Poetry at Emory and Henry College, Emory, Va., April 7-8.

Valerie Lee, English, presented "Everything I Learned About Chairing I Learned From Cartoons" at a workshop at the CIC Department Executive Officer Seminar, Chicago, April 5.

Robyn Malo, English, presented "The Spatial Macrocosm and Bodily Microcosm of Chastity in John Gower's Confessio Amantis" at the Bodies in Space: Columbia University's Annual Medieval Guild, Columbia University, New York City, April 26; and "Speech and Identity in the Manciple's Tale" Medieval Forum, Plymouth, NH, April 11.

Elizabeth Marsch, English, presented "In the Face of Beauty: The Artist and the Object in Mina Loy's Insel" at the American Literature Association Symposium: Developments and Definitions, Long Beach, Calif., March 14.

Lee Martin, English, presented "The Depth of Family Ties," readings from his novel Quakertown, and his memoir From Our House as the feature author at Broward Community College's Writes of Spring Literary Festival, (courtesy of Prentice Hall/Penguin Traveling Author Series), Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., March 26-27.

Ben McCorkle, English, presented "Visual Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 19, co-presenters were Brenda Brueggemann, Wendy Hesford, Susan Delagrange and Rebecca Dingo.

Brian McHale, English, presented "Including History, After Pound: Postmodern Strategies of the Historical Long Poem" at the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature International Conference, Berkeley, Calif., March 28.

Michael Mechler, Greek and Latin, presented "The Prostitute as Emperor/The Emperor as Prostitute: Elagabalus in a Love-Letter of Philostratus" at the annual meeting of te Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Lexington, Ky., April 5.

Jeredith Merrin, English, gave a featured poetry reading at the "A Right Good Salvo of Barks" Conference on Marianne Moore at Penn State University, University Park, Pa., March 28; and gave a full-day of poetry workshops and readings at Victor J. Andrew High School, Chicago, April 4.

Patrick Mullen, English, presented "'I Went Downtown to See James Brown': African American Children's Rhymes, 1971-2001" at the Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, April 18.

Lucy Murphy, History, presented "Thrown Among Strangers, Too: Indian and Metis People and the Challenges of Colonization in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest" at the OAH conference, Memphis, Tenn., April 5.

Takashi Nishiyama, History, presented "From Kamikaze Aircraft to the Bullet Train: Social and Institutional Variables for Technology Transfer in Japan, 1945-1963" at the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo, April 23.

Doug Palmer, History, presented "From a National Church to International Unity: The Civil Constitution of the Clergy and International Jansenism" at the Society for French Historical Studies Annual meeting, Milwaukee, April 3-5.

D.K. Panda, Computer and Information Science, and co-authors V. Tipparaju and J. Nieplocha, won the "Best Paper Award" for their presentation of "Fast Collective Operations Using Shared and Remote Memory Access Protocols on Clusters," International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '03), Nice, France, April 2003.

James Phelan, English, presented "Disclosure, Configuration, and the Ethics of Surprise in Wharton's 'Roman Fever'" at Narrative: An International Conference, Berkeley, Calif., March 27.

Christopher Phelps, History, presented "Examining the Administration's Case for this War: Is the War in Iraq Justified?" as the keynote speaker at the "War and Our World" forum, Ohio State Mansfield, April 10.

Nancy Pine, English, presented "Images to See and Be: Employee Acculturation and the Rhetorics of Company Recruiting and Orientation Videos" at the Association for Business Communication Spring Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 4.

Karis Racevskis, French and Italian, presented "After the Postmodern: The French Critical Return to the Modern" at the 20th Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois, March 27-29.

Christopher Reed, History, presented "Conflict in Cultural Commerce, Shanghai Publishers and the Textbook Wars, 1904-27" at the Association of Asian Studies annual conference, New York, March 29.

Mark Ruegsegger, Biomedical Engineering Center, presented "Cardiovascular Nanotechnology: The cutting-edge of SMALL solutions to BIG problems" at the International Symposium for Application of Nanotechnology for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs, Tokyo, February 2003.

Martha Sims, English, presented "A Perilous Journey: Autobiography in the Composition Class" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 19.

David Steigerwald, History, presented "The Invention of Cultural Agency: Toward an Intellectual History of the 1960s" at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Memphis, Tenn., April 4.

James Upton, African American and African Studies, presented "Racial Profiling In the Florida 200 Presidential Election" at the National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, Phoenix, April 3-5; and "Racial Profiling in the Florida 2000 Presidential Election" at the National Association for Ethnic Studies 31st Annual National Conference, Phoenix, April 3-5.

Dale Van Kley, History, presented "Religion and Patriotic Movements in the Late 18th Century" at the session "In Memory of R. R. Palmer," at the 49th annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, April 3-5.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented "Schooling in Submission: Interrogating the Post/colonial Bildungsroman" at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, in San Marcos, Calif., April 4; "Autoethnographic Practices at the Border: Writing Latina Lives" at the Division on Anthropological Approaches to Literature, Modern Language Association, New York, Dec. 29; and "Charlotte's Tangled Web:  Autobiographical Scripts in Life or Theater?" at Trauma, Memory, Images, Music and Text Conference, University of Michigan, Jan. 23.

Ara Wilson, Women's Studies, presented "The Beckoning Lady, The Buddha, and the King in the Market Shrines of Bangkok" at the Asian Studies Association, New York, March 28.

Luke Wilson, English, presented "Risk and Marine Insurance in the Renaissance" at the Shakespeare Association of America, Victoria, B.C., April 12.

Judy Wu, History, presented "Modernizing Chinatown: Race, Heteronormativity, and Medical Tourism" at the "Race, Science, and Culture in 20th-Century East Asia and America" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 26.

Publications

J. Arvai, Natural Resources, "Testing Alternative Decision Approaches for Identifying Cleanup Priorities at Contaminated Sites," Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 37, No. 8 (2003), pp. 1469-1476.

Mansel Blackford, History, "British Business History: A Review of the Literature," Business History, Vol. 45 (April 2003), pp. 1-14.

Nick Breyfogle, History: "Kontakt kak sozidanie. Russkie sektanty i zhiteli Zakavkaz'ia v XIX v." ("Colonial Contact as Creation: Relations Between Russian Settlers and the Peoples of Transcaucasia, 1830-1900") in Diaspory: nezavisimyi nauchnyi zhurnal (Diasporas: An Independent Academic Journal), No. 4 (2002), pp. 154-198.

Brenda Brueggemann, English, "Gently Down the Stream: Reflections on Mainstreaming,"co-author is Georgina Kleege, Rhetoric Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 174-183.

Kathy Fagan, English, "God Helps Those Who Help Themselves," Ploughshares, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 57.

Carole Fink, History, "The European Court of Human Rights: Protecting Freedom of Expression," Human Rights in Europe Since 1945 , co-ed., Fink, (Bern: Peter Lang, 2003), pp. 59-84.

Andrew Hudgins, English, "Hunting with My Brother" and "Elegy for My Father, Who is Not Dead" reprint, Enduring Ties: Poems of Family Relationships, ed. Grant Hardy, (South Royalton, Vt.: Steerforth Press, 2003), Vol. 117, pp. 142; "In the Well" reprint, Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, ed. Billy Collins, (New York: Random House 2003), Vol. 110; "The Wild Swans Skip School, reprint in Literature for Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 6th edition, ed. Sylvan Barnet et al, (New York: Longman 2003), Vol. 194.

Robin Judd, History, "Circumcision and Modern Jewish Life: A German Case Study 1843-1914" in The Covenant of Circumcision: New Perspectives on an Ancient Jewish Rite, Elizabeth Wyner Mark, ed. (Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press, 2003).

R. Lal, Natural Resources, "Global Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect," Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2003), pp. 151-184.

Keith Manecke, English, "Wallace Stevens' 'An Ordinary Evening in New Haven': The 'Inescapable Romance' of Place," Wallace Stevens Journal, Vol. 27, No.1 (Spring 2003), pp. 80-96.

Michael Meckler, Greek and Latin, review of Constant J. Mews' The Lost Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise, Speculum, Vol. 78 (2003), pp. 572-574.

Jeredith Merrin, English, "Carmen in the Village," Schuylkill Valley Journal, No. 16 (Spring 2003), pp. 67-68.

Norihito Mizuno, History, "China in Tokugawa Foreign Relations: The Tokugawa Bakufu's Perception of and Attitudes toward Ming-Qing China," Sino-Japanese Studies, Vol. 15 (April 2003).

James Upton, African American and African Studies, "Racial Violence in the United States:  1900-1919," Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts, Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr., ed., (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2003), pp. 299-308.

Karen Winstead, English, review of Antonina Harbus' Helena of Britain in Medieval England, The Medieval Review, 2003.

Recognitions

Tunc Aldemir, Mechanical Engineering, was elected Fellow of the American Nuclear Society in recognition of his groundbreaking research in dynamic methodology development for system reliability and safety assessment, including the development of a Markovian approach to system reliability and safety assessment.

Chadwick Allen, English, has been accepted into the 2003 NEH Summer Institute "Re-imagining Indigenous Cultures, The Pacific Islands," which will be held at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Michael Les Benedict, History, has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Summer Fellowship at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Sherwin Bryant, History, received an Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Notre Dame, 2003-04 for his dissertation, "Slavery and the Process of Ethnogenesis: Africans, Afro-Quitenos, and the Realities of Bondage in the Kingdom of Quito, 1680-1800." 

Audeen Fentiman, Engineering, has been elected to the board of directors of the American Nuclear Society.

Carter Findley, History, was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Susan Hartmann, History, has been elected as Fellow of the Society of American Historians, which recognizes literary and scholarly distinction in historical work.

Andrew Hudgins, English, received a 2003 Ohio Arts Council Fellowship in creative writing.

Austin Kerr, History, has been elected president of the Ohio Academy of History.

John N. King, English, has received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to advance his book-in-progress, Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Early Modern England Print Culture, during the 2003-04 academic year.

Lisa Kiser, English, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the New Chaucer Society.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, was invited, along with five academics from Algeria, to take part in a two-hour live talk show on Radio Trait d'Union in Lyon, France, March 12.

Umit Ozkan, Chemical Engineering, was named "Technical Person of the Year" by the Columbus Technical Council (CTC), a consortium of a dozen scientific and professional societies.