Accomplishments: College of Liberal Arts
Sue Fawn Chung (History) has been working on the Stanford University Chinese Railroad Workers Project and recently attended a workshop at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, where she presented a paper on Chinese railroad workers in Nevada. She also attended their anthropology workshop, where she headed a panel and commented on papers on…
Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is doing work on the effects of computer-mediated communication that is being recognized increasingly both nationally and internationally. He has been interviewed by Channel 8, FOX National News, Las Vegas Review Journal, Las Vegas Weekly, and CNet, and cited in the New York Times and the Pew Internet and American Life…
David Fott (Political Science) recently had a book published by Cornell University Press. The press published his translations of Cicero's "On the Republic" and "On the Laws."
Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) was one of the authors of a recently published study, "An International Comparison of the Ohio Department of Aging-Resident Satisfaction Survey: Applicability in a U.S. And Canadian Sample." Coauthors were Heather Cooke of the Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, J. Scott Brown and Jane…
Denise Cook (Sociology) has an article, "The Cultural Life of the Living Dead," appearing in Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological Association. The article explores how zombies have become an explosive cultural phenomena that producers, retailers, and governmental agencies utilize to target consumers. The zombie myth pervades…
Charles Whitney (English) wrote an essay, "Green Economics and the English Renaissance: From Capital to the Commons," that appears in Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now: Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). This essay links the 16th-century assault on commons rights to today's assault on the environmental commons…
Simon Gottschalk and Jennifer Whitmer (both Sociology) have published a coauthored chapter in the edited volume, The Drama of Social Life: A Dramaturgical Handbook (Ashgate). Additionally, two of Gottschalk's articles have been reprinted in the edited volume, Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology (Oxford…
Felicia Campbell (English) had award-winning author Len Rosen talk with students in her Chaos Theory and Literature class via Skype in September. The author spent more than an hour discussing his book, All Cry Chaos,and answering students' questions.
Peter Gray (Anthropology) participated in a National Institutes of Health panel in September that focused on the "Effects of Children on Fathers." As a panelist, he shared an overview of the evolution of human fatherhood and effects of children on men.
Jane Karwoski (Psychology) received the Outstanding Research Award of 2012 from the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions for her article, "Revisiting the Educationally Influential Physician: Development of a Simplified Nomination Form." The honor includes a $1,000 cash award.
Maurice Finocchiaro (Philosophy) just has published a book, The Routledge Guidebook to Galileo's Dialogue (Routledge--Taylor & Francis Group, 2013). It is a volume in a series called "Routledge Guides to the Great Books." The great book in question is Galileo Galilei's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, whose…
Dan Bubb (Academic Assessment), Gregory Schraw (Education), David James (Academic Programs), Barbara Brents (Sociology), Kyle Kaalberg (Teaching and Learning), Gwen Marchand (Educational Psychology), Penny Amy (Biology), and Ann Cammett (Law) recently published an article in Assessment Update, a publication that is widely read by assessment…