2009 Archaeology Field School on SIUE campus May 18 - July 10, 2009. Under the direction of Julie Holt, Chair of Anthropology, and GA Lori Belknap, eleven anthropology students surveyed and excavated a prehistoric site on campus. Surface collection confirmed that the site, which was first recorded by archaeologists in the 1960s, was occupied at various times between the Mississippian and Archaic periods - from 800 years ago to 2500 years ago and older. Our excavations revealed storage and cooking pits dating to the Middle Woodland period, ca. 2000 years old, and also demonstrated the potential for deeply buried components dating to the end of the last Ice Age.
Jacoby Arts Center Art Exhibit, Songs of Presence is a solo exhibition by fiber artist Laura Strand, director of Textile Arts at Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville. Professor Strand has exhibited throughout the U.S. and was a 2006 Artist Fellowship recipient from the Illinois Arts Council. Laura has been profiled in FIBERARTS and Surface Design Journal. Songs of Presence is part of Innovations in Textiles 8, a biennial collaborative event in the St. Louis Metropolitan Region that investigates the state of contemporary textile arts. Opening reception was Friday, August 28, 2009 at the Jacoby Arts Center in Alton, Illinois. The exhibit continues through October 4, 2009. For more information call 618-462-5222.
Lauren Kirchner (BFA Printmaking, 2008) was recently accepted at the University of Dallas into their MFA Printmaking Program - Lauren was awarded a full scholarship. Kristen Bartel (MFA Printmaking, 2010 - expected) has accepted an invitation for two weeks of apprenticing as well as having a print or two published at Hole Editions in Newcastle-Upon-Gyne, United Kingdom. Hole Editions is a fine art lithography publishing company. Kristen will be traveling out to England in May of 2009. This is a rare and distinguished honor. Congratulations to both of you.
Under the leadership of Howard Rambsy the Black Studies Program is working hard to figure out new ways of *modifying* the program to address contemporary challenges and opportunities. That has meant increasing the interactions between black studies and technology. Along those lines the Black Studies Blog has become very active. If you get a chance, check the blog out. You can, for example, read about the " Poetry Correspondence Program," a letter-writing initiative between SIUE college students and more than 200 students at three different local high schools and an area middle school.
We've also written about " Black Studies Now," " Black Studies, Organizing in the Digital Age," and Roland Fryer's incentive programs designed to " Motivate Higher Achievement" among African American students from low-income areas. In coming weeks, we'll report on our "African American Health Initiative" and our "Interactive Reading Group," an online reading and composition program for about 40 black male college students.
New posts for the blog appear on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Leah O'Brien of the Department of Chemistry has received a grant award from the National Science Foundation. The project title is Isothermal Calorimetry in Physical Chemistry and Biochemistry Laboratories. Isothermal titration calorimetry is a relatively new technique that is used to determine thermodynamic parameters for small scale reactions. The interdisciplinary nature of isothermal calorimetry makes it a powerful tool to demonstrate the link between discovery and societal benefits such as drug development. Modern ultrasensitive ITC has found many applications in Biochemistry and Parmaceutical research: protein-protein, protein-drug, protein-DNA, protein-ligand and metal-ligand interactions are examples of intermolecular interactions that can be studied. Education materials resulting from these efforts will be nationally disseminated at chemistry education conferences and via manuscripts to be submitted to the Journal of Chemical Education and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.
Here is an article about a significant achievement. Mike Shaw of the Chemistry Department has written instrument programming and supporting documentation that has become quite popular to download and is rated highly by users. Mike has provided information and links below. http://decibel.ni.com/content/people/roadchem?view=overview, http://decibel.ni.com/content/people/roadchem?view=documents If you click on any of these documents, you can see the documentation, download the file as a pdf, and see how many times the actual program (very bottom) has been downloaded. As mentioned, the programs for the PAR potentiostats will be in use in the fall in the instrumental labortories at Virginia Commonwealth University...basically for their version of our Chem 435 class.
Department of ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Allison Funk, Department of English Language and Literature, was recently featured in Verse Daily. The poem featured was taken from her recently released fourth collection, The Tumbling Box, and may be found at http://www.versedaily.org/2009/
Eileen Joy from the Department of English Language and Literature has delivered many papers and presentations during the last year. The following are included in her work: "The Light of Her Face was the Index of a Voluptuous Multiplicity of Guthlacs: Desire and Incest in the Lives of Saint Guthlac" (44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI 2009);Panel Discussant: "Getting the Medieval Studies We Want: Institutional Perspective," sponsored by the George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2009); Featured Speaker: "The Faded, Silvery Imprints of the Bare Feet of Angels: Historical Poethics," Inaugural Symposium: "Touching the Past," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (November 2008);
Valerie Vogrin from the Department of English Language and Literature was recently awarded a one-month residency at the Anderson Center in Redwing, Minnesota. The Anderson Center serves the artistic community through artistic leadership, program development, and support.
Chay Lemoine, a lecturer in the department of English Languages and Literature, has been appointed as a delegate to the Illinois Senate Forum on Intergenerational Leadership. In May 2009 Chay traveled with a delegation from the University to the State Capital to discuss intergenerational civic responsibility with the State Senate.
Professor Adrian Matejka, English professor at SIUE, is among three area writers who continue St. Louis' longtime association with fine poetry. Two of the other up-and-coming poets to watch - and, more importantly, to read are: Professor Devin Johnston a professor at St. Louis University whose book "Sources" was published by Turtle Point Press and Sally VanDoren's book "Sex at Noon Taxes" was published by Louisiana State University Press. Professor Matejka and his wife Stacey Lynn Brown, write poetry and teach creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. Adrian's most recent collection of work "Mixology" is to be published in May by Penguin. It won a National Poetry Series award last year. In "Mixology", Matejka contemplates life's combinations, at times mashing formal poetic structures with pop culture, slang or hip-hop. Another of his works, "Affirmative Action", is now on local buses and light rail trains and online at artsintransit.org.
Dr. Eileen Joy has been asked to serve as a keynote speaker for a conference being organized by Blackwell publishers. It is their first-ever virtual conference and is called "Breaking Down Barriers". It will be a global conference, with presenters and registrants from different countries around the world. The conference will be held online and also in Second Life from Oct. 19th through 30th, 2009
Dr. Joy suggests that others in the humanities and social sciences will be interested to learn that they may submit papers, or register for this conference. Registration is free and there will be no travel costs involved. All accepted papers will receive formal comments and peer review and be published in one of Blackwell's several Compass journals [Literature Compass, History Compass, Philosophy Compass, etc]. This is a great opportunity for SIUE faculty to participate in a global, cross-disciplinary dialogues on subjects such as the environment, justice and human rights, new modes of communication, etc. See more Details.
Stacey Lynn Brown’s poetry manuscript, Cradle Song, has just won the 2007 Cider Press Review Book Award and will be published in January 2009. Here's the link to Cider Press Review
Department of FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
Douglas P. A. Simms of the Department of Foreign Languages has a new publication in The Journal of Germanic Linguistics 2009 v.21.3 pp.297-333. The Article is entitled "The Words for 'Fire' in Germanic". This article puts forth a comprehensive set of etymologies for "fire" words in the Germanic languages that descend from Proto-Indo-European (PIE). Dr. Simms proposes that all relevant cognates are derived from the PIE holokinetic inflection and that all variants in the Germanic languages arose as a result of analogical changes in the Proto-Germanic and later periods. In addition to providing cause to review existing reconstructions, this article also provides a closer philological view of the evidence of cognates in Germanic.
Carolina Rocha, from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, recently returned from Mexico after a busy summer. June 11- 13, 2009 Carolina attend the conference of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Rio de Janeiro. She was named program co-chair of the Mass media and Popular Culture Track (MAS). http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/eng/congress/tracks.asp. LASA's mission is to foster intellectual discussion, research, and teaching on Latin America, the Caribbean, and its people throughout the Americas, promote the interests of its diverse membership, and encourage civic engagement through network building and public debate. Carolina also organized and coordinated a panel at the 53rd International Congresses of Americanists (ICA) in Mexico.The Scientific Committee and Academic Committee evaluated more than four hundred proposals of symposia from which 366 were approved. Information about ICAs: the International Congresses of Americanists continued with a strong inter and multidisciplinary approach to the scientific knowledge of the people of the Americas.
http://53ica.com/welcome.html
Olga Bezhanova is a new faculty member in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. She is originally from the Ukraine and emigrated to Canada. She got her PhD at Yale and most recently taught at Cornell. Bezhanova, Olga. "Temblor de Rosa Montero: un Bildungsroman neobarroco." Ogigia 6(2009):5-14. Issn 1887-3731 More detail here.... Olga also recently had another article accepted for publication. This is her first article published in English and not in Spanish. Here is the publishing information: "La casa de enfrente: Ernestina de Chapmourcin's Contribution to the Genre of Female Bildungsroman in Spain." Letras hispanas. 6.1 (2009)
Doug Simms, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, announces the publication of his article, "Metrical Foregrounding in the Old Saxon Heliand and Genesis Poems" in the journal "The Heroic Age" 12. The publication is available on-line at: http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/12/simms.php
Elizabeth Killingbeck received the 2009-2010 Rotary Foundation’s Ambassadorial Scholarship to study French for 3 months in Senegal in the fall 2009. As recipient of this award she will be acting as goodwill ambassador from the Edwardsville Rotary Club and Rotary District 6460.
Elizabeth will be enrolled in a French language immersion program and accepts the challenge of Rotary International’s motto “Service Above Self” and looks forward to working with the people of the community through the local Rotary Club in Senegal. As Ambassador Elizabeth will be responsible for increasing awareness and promoting international understanding for both the host company and her homeland.
Carl Springer, Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences presented a paper entitled "Barbaric Humanism" at the annual meeting of the 16th Century Conference held in Geneva Switzerland on May 24, 2009 in connection with the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin. The website address is: http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conf_register.shtml.
At a recent Association of American Geographers West Lakes Meeting several Geography students presented papers and Jen Glaubius was awarded second place in the Master’s student paper competition. Participants from left to right are: Chuck Yeager, Kusumaker Bhusal, Dr.Susan Hume, Jen Glaubius, Dory Matthews, Dr. Mark Hildebrandt and Kevin Rohling.
Department of HISTORICAL STUDIES
Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Edition, which was edited by Professor Jason Stacy, Department of Historical Studies for the University of Iowa Press was published this month. Following is a link to the book's description http://amazon.com/Leaves-Grass-1860-Anniversary-Facsimile/dp/1587298252. Also Professor Stacy has an article forthcoming in the October issue of Social Education, which is the flagship journal for the National Council for the Social Studies. The article is called: "The Guide on the Stage: In Defense of Good Lecturing in the History Classroom." Social Education goes to over 10,000 social science educators nationwide and is housed in over 1200 libraries.
Jason Stacy, the historian for the Teaching American History Grant, "People and Places: Our Story of Freedom, Liberty and Equality", will serve as the content and university liaison between St. Clair County Schools and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. In this capacity, he will organize history courses for St. Clair County teachers, schedule lectures by quest historians, assist with field trips to historical sites, and serve as a historical pedagogy consultant. Jason is very excited about this opportunity to help bring together our resources at SIUE and our region's teachers!
Stephanie Jacober, a history education student, received the 2009 Student Teacher of the Year Award from the Illinois Council for the Social Studies. Stephanie was given the award at the Great Lakes Regional conference for the National Council for the Social Studies on April 24, 2009 in Lisle, Illinois. Norma Asadorian of Dupo High School served as Stephanie's cooperating teacher and Jason Stacy served as her SIUE supervisor. Congratulations Stephanie!
Robert (Buddy) Paulett, Professor in History, has an article forthcoming in the near future. The article is titled "The Bewildering World of William DeBrahm: An Eighteenth-Century Map Maker surveys the End of Time." The journal is Eighteenth-Century Studies, a national, interdisciplinary journal run by the American Society for Eithteenth-Century Studies.
Department of MATHEMATICS and STATISTICS
Marilyn Hasty and Tammy Voepel, both of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, have been awarded a grant from the Illinois State Board of Education: Mathematics and Science Partnership for Project Title: Mathematics and Science Leadership Initiative 2 - Secondary Mathematics (MASLI2-SM). The long term goal of the program is to improve student achievement in Illinois' highest need schools. As a step toward this goal, SIUE revised the existing Master's degree in Secondary Mathematics by, a )creating mathematics related content courses for teachers that align with National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, b) creating and revising education courses to align with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education goals, and c) weaving opportunities for members of the design team involved faculty from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Other members included secondary mathematics teachers from East Alton Wood River High School, a National Board Certified teacher from Roxana, and faculty members from the School of Nursing and School of Engineering.
Urszula Ledzewicz of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has received two grants: one from the National Science Foundation in the amount of $49,830 and one from the Society of Mathematical Biology in the amount of $4,800 for the project "US-Israel Workshp: Mathematical Methods in Systems Biology, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 4-7, 2010." The goal of the workshop is to bring together applied mathematicians and researchers working in various fields of systems biology in order to exchange ideas and initiate collaborations motivated by problems arising in fields such as cancer modeling, detection and treatment, epidemiology and infectious diseases, computer-assisted diagnosis, medical imaging and others. The grants are expected to cover travel expenses of mostly US participants, including graduate students and postdocs. More information about the workshop can be found at http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~mmsb Congratulation Professor Ledzewicz.
Steve Rigdon, from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics has received a grant award from the National Science Foundation for his project title "Collaborative Research: Efficient Experimentation for Product and Reliability Improvement". This project will explore optimal strategies for designing life testing experiments. Experiments are often run in industry to compare the quality of various product or process designs. When the quality of interest is the life time, the experiments are called life tests. While most experiments assume a normal distribution for the response variable, life tests usually assume a different distribution (since lifetimes are not normally distributed). Congratulations Dr. Rigdon on receiving this award!
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is proud to announce the acceptance of Suzuki students into the IMEA (Illinois Music Educators Association) All District Orchestra Festival. Auditions were held October 12, 2009 and the Festival will be at Edwardsville High School on November 7, 2009. 52 students were accepted from Southern Illinois in the Senior Orchestra, 14 of them are our SIUE Suzuki students and one is in a leadership position (2nd chair, next to the concertmistress) in the first violin section. 72 students were accepted from Southern IL in the Junior Orchestra, 21 students are from our SIUE Suzuki Program and 5 of them are in leadership positions including concertmistress and first chair of the second violin section. The first chair viola and first chair cello went to SIUE Suzuki students as well. Congratulations to all.
Professor Glussie Klorer, from the Department of Art & Design, has been invited to do a keynote address in New York the week of October 12, 2009. Professsor Klorer's Presentation Expressive Therapy Moments: Arts and Play with Severely Maltreated Children will focus on how and why expressive therapies are successful for children with severe maltreatment and attachment disorders. Trauma, the brain and examples of treatment will be addressed. Gussie Klorer is the director of the Graduate Art Therapy Counseling program at SIUE. She maintains a private practice in art therapy, specializing in work with children with severe abuse and neglect histories living in foster care. Klorer is widely published, the author of Expressive Therapy with Troubled Children as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. She has served on the editorial boards of Trauma and Loss Journal, the American Journal of Art Therapy, and Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.
Kim Archer, Department of Music, has been chosen as an ASCAPLUS Award recipient this year. These awards, made by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, reflect the continuing commitment ASCAP has made to assist and encourage composers. Awards are granted by an independent panel and are based upon the unique prestige value of each writer's catalog of original compositions., as well as recent performances in areas not surveyed by the Society.
Cellist Marta Simidtchieva enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. She is currently the assistant professor of cello at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, where she is also a member of the LeClaire Piano Trio and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. She was on the faculty of the prestigious Eastern Music Festival this summer and also performed in the Carnegie Chamber Series. A native of Bourgas, Bulgaria and graduate of the Bulgarian State Academy of Music in Sofia, she earned her doctorate of music from Florida State University. Marta has presented a series of lectures and recitals at various universities and is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes
The Music department has announced that in June 2009 Brett Stamps and Jason Swagler were asked to perform with Frankie Valli in Chicago. Franki Valli has a show that is touring the country.. Because of our reputation, Brett Stamps has been asked to furnish four out of the five horn players. The Musical Director of the show, Robbie Robinson attended SIUE in the 60's.
Professor Rick Haydon Professor of music at SIUE was the first ever to graduate with a degree in jazz performance at the university. He plays a seven-string guitar, he says, because it is the best for playing jazz standards. Standard Time, a group of jazz musicians, has released a new compact disc, "Eastern Central Pacific," deriving the names from the members of the quintet who come from different parts of the country to join their time together to release what guitarist Rick Haydon said is "a really hard-swinging jazz record." As far as Prof. Haydon is concerned, he could not have had better company on the new CD than the members of the group Standard Time. Haydon also manages the SIUE recording studio and is head of the guitar program. Professor Haydon has studied with many of jazz guitar masters, such as Johnny Smith, Howard Roberts and Bucky Pizzarelli, with whom he performed at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis. Rick Haydon has performed in New York and many other places around the country. He also performs locally at a variety of venues, sometimes solo, sometimes joined with other musicians.
On February 22, 2009 voice students from SIUE attended the St. Louis Chapter National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Competition at Missouri Baptist University. SIUE was represented by 15 of our finest singers in the voice area. There are 10 divisions in the competition which college students may enter. Of those divisions SIUE claimed first place in 6, and second place in 6, for a total of 12 singers chosen as winners. 9 of these singers were chosen from Professor Audrey Tallants SIUE studio (5 first place and 4 second place). SIUE was by far the most awarded university in the St. Louis Chapter. There is clearly something wonderful happening in the voice area here at SIUE. The following were first place winners:
Brent Gravois Mikaela Sullivan Allison Wamser
The SIUE Trumpet Ensemble has been selected to perform at this year's International Trumpet Guild Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The group, under the direction of Dr. John Korak, professor of music, is comprised of ten students and performs music written for both modern and natural trumpets. Possessing ten Naumann natural trumpets, the SIUE Trumpet Ensemble is one of only a handful of ensembles in the Midwestern United States where performance opportunities on natural trumpet are offered on such a large scale. This past October the ensemble hosted noted trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins who worked with the members on Baroque performance techniques. At the ITG Conference, the SIUE Trumpet Ensemble will feature selections on both natural and modern trumpets
Professor Michael Mishra was voted onto the National Board of Directors of the Conductors' Guild. The Guild is a national and international service organization for conductors that organizes training workshops and conferences, publishes a journal, and provides mentoring. Visit the website.
Professor Margaret S. Simons, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, has been invited to visit the University of Alabama in Huntsville as a Visiting Eminent Scholar in Philosophy during the fall semester of 2009. While there, she will give one large public lecture, provide a lecture for the Honors Program Colloquium, and visit philosophy and women's studies classes considering questions relating to her areas of expertise which will greatly benefit the students.
Dr. Robert Ware has an invited article forthcoming in the Brown Journal of International Affairs entitled "Chechenization: Ironies and Intricacies". He also has a monograph titled "Dagestan: Russian Hegemony and Islamic Resistance", forthcoming from M. E. Sharpe. Publishers, and has been invited by the Russian Academy of Science to convene a panel discussion of "Hierarchy and Power in the Caucasus" on June 26, 2009 Additionally, five of his short analyses of events in the Caucasus were included in recent Oxford Analytica.
Professor Suzanne Cataldi has accepted an invitation to present the keynote lecture for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle. The conference will be held at Mississipi State University's School of Architecture and the conference topic is "The Experience and Expression of Space." In May of 2008, Dr. Cataldi was an invited participant in a three-day Feminist Phenomenology Institute and a conference which followed it at the University of Oregon, where she presented a paper entitled "Feminist Phenomenology and the Problem of Empathic Understanding: The Example of Edith Stein." Publication:
SIUE produced 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast wins prestigious Parsec Award
A podcast produced at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) won the prestigious Parsec Award for Best Infotainment Podcast on September 5, 2009. This show, 365 Days of Astronomy, brings together the voices of astronomers and astronomy lovers from all around the globe. The show can be found at http://365daysofastronomy.org/. 365 DoA is an official podcast of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). Read more about the award....
Dr. Abdullatif Hamad of the Department of Physics has received a grant acceptance from Metastable Instruments, INC/DoD. The title of the grant is "STTR: Blue Laser for Oceanographic LIDAR."
Congratulations to Professor Jeffrey Sabby on receiving the award from University of Illinois/NASA for his project "SIUE Automated Observatory". The award is significant recognition of his work and effort to enhance SIUE by garnering support from from non-University sources. His dedication to SIUE is appreciated and we wish him continued success in securing external funding for future projects.
Dr. David Kaplan signed a contract with Pearson Education, Inc. to write a book entitled "Physics of Waves". The book is expected to be completed by early January 2012 and will be approximately 480 pages.
Dr. Pamela Gay was recently awarded a major grant by NASA. The forty two month project is entitled "The Universal Zoo: Citizen Science from the Moon to the Early Universe".
Department of POLITICAL SCIENCE
Izak Post, a senior in Political Science at SIUE, was able to attend a wonderful internship program at Georgetown University in Washington DC. The Fund for American Studies based out of Georgetown University provided him with a series of phenomenal opportunities this summer. Through the TFAS Institute of Business and Government, he was able to ":Live, Learn, and Intern" in the Nation's Capitol by interning during the day, taking classes at Georgetown at night, and taking advantage of all that DC has to offer. Through his internship and experience with The Fund for America Studies, Izak feels he was truly given the best opportunity as a political science major; the chance to delve into life in the capitol during the first few months of a new administration.
John Hanson, Political Science major, attended the Presidential Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health in July to deliver new research findings. The Adfvisory Board is appointed by the President of the United States and is charged with advising the Department of Health Services in regard to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation program Act of 2000. John, who has acted as a research assistant to Dr. Denise DeGarmo of the Department of Political Sciences for the past two years, attended this meeting to present newly uncovered research related to the former atomic weapons workers at the former Dow facility in Madison, Illinois
Laurie Rice, from the Department of Political Science has been notified of acceptance for publication of the following article: Visits and Votes: The Geographic Spread of Campaign, Visits Effects in the 2008 Presidential Primaries. This article was co-authored with one of SIUE's former majors, Dan Prengel.
Department of PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION and POLICY ANALYSIS
Department of SOCIOLOGY and CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDIES
What Welfare Reform Says About the United States of America: Values, Government Bureaucracy, and the Expansion of the Working Poor, Lisa C. Welch. The Results of Professor Lisa C. Welch's research make it quite clear that there are no easy policy solutions to the problem of integrating the underclass as there are deep structural factors behind its persistence. Work on several fronts and from many different perspectives will have to be coordinated and synthesized if forward movement is to be achieved. Professor Welch shows that, despite ingrained prejudices in American political culture, welfare bureaucracies functioned efficiently. But the welfare recipients she got to know also got wedged into a psychological double find of being poor mothers. Required to work, if they were not at home with their children, they were vulnerable to claims of exhibiting poor parenting skills. Following is a link to Lisa Welch's brand new book: http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7792&pc=9. Congratulations to Professor Welch on her new book.
Congratulations to Dave Kauzlarich of the Department o Sociology and Criminal Justice on his new book "Introduction to Criminology".
Dr. David Kauzlarich, Professor and Chair of SIUE's Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies, will present the William and Margaret Going Endowed Professorship Public Lecture on Friday, April 10, 2009 in the Mississippi/Illinois Room of Morris University Center. Dr. Kauzlarich's talk will be "The Other Side of Crime:White-Collar Crime at Home and Abroad". Professor Kauzlarich has authored four books, and written nearly three dozen articles or book chapters. He was named the Critical Criminologist of the Year by the American Society of Criminology Critical Criminology Division in 2005. Additionally, he received the Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award at SIUE in 2009 and the Great Teacher Award from SIUE's Alumni Association in 2005. The William and Margaret Going Endowed Professorship Public Lecture is free and open to the public.
Drs. Dawn L. Rothe and Christopher W. Mullins were recently honored by the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Critical Criminology as joint Critical Criminologists of the Year.
Dr. Rothe, now Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Old Dominion University, received her bachelors degree in sociology at SIUE in 2002 and specializes in the study of state crime, international law, and international criminal justice. Dr. Mullins, now Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at SIU Carbondale, received a masters degree in sociology from SIUE in 1998, and has research interests in gender and crime, genocide and crimes against humanity, and state crime.
Dr. Lisa Welch's book, The Political Economy of Welfare Reform Meets Lived Experience: Mainstreaming the Underclass, will be published soon by the Edwin Mellen Press
This book examines the real achievements of welfare reform. The analysis holds together macro-level changes in political economy with micro-level evidence of how those directly impacted by this shift in social policy are experiencing it. Findings speak to the power of the neo-liberal narrative that emphasizes self-sufficiency through paid work, the manner by which the government bureaucracy implemented a substantial public goal in a relatively short period of time, the impact of social context on markets, and whether low-wage work pays for women being mainstreamed into the labor market.
Professor Gerald O'Brien has several recent and forthcoming articles in peer-reviewed publications, including the following: "Important elements of the Americans with Disabilities Act for persons with diabetes." Co-written by Graduate Assistant Melinda Brown. Published in Summer 2008 by the Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation.
"The 'act' of social work and ADA's essential functions provision: Challenges and Recommendations." Co-written by Graduate Assistant Jana Leneave. Published last month in Administration in Social Work.
"Metaphors and the pejorative framing of marginalized groups: Implications for Social Work Education." To be published soon by the Journal of Social Work Education.
Department of THEATER and DANCE
Gerard Rancourt Tsonakwa, Abenaki Indian storyteller and artist will be on campus next week from Thursday, November 12 to Saturday, November 14, 2009. His coming to SIUE to the Department of Theater and Dance as a guest artist was through the support of an EUE grant which was received by Professor Diane Sol with the help of the College or Arts and Sciences. Tsonakwa will be in Dunham Hall Theater for all of his presentation, including a lecture on archaeoastronomy, another on shamanism and magic in native America, as well as stories that are humorous and moving. Tsonakwa, who is an Abenaki Indian who grew up in Quebec, Canda, is a former Executive Director for the United American Indians and the Administration for Native Americans (Philadelphia, PA). He is noted for his 2001 book, Seven Eyes, Seven Legs: Supernatural Stories of the Abenaki, co-written with his wife Yolaikia Wapitaska. The book is divided into three sections, spiritual stories, children's stories, and spooky tales. Each story is accompanied by a paragraph of the original Abenaki verse and illustrated with his and Yolaikia's art works created from stone, bone, and wood.
The Department of Theatre and Dance is pleased to host two guest speakers in November. Senior Assessment students in Theatre Design and Technology will have the opportunity to hear about a career in theatre from two working professionals. On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 James Wolk will visit the class. Mr. Wolk is a New York-based scene designer, who has worked throughout the U.S. and in Europe. He will be in St. Louis designing a production of The 39 Steps at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. The following Wednesday, November 18, 2009, students in Senior Assessment and the Stage Management Seminar will talk with Champe Leary, an Equity stage Manager on staff at the Rep. Both classes begin at 4:00 p.m.
