Washington College Magazine
Faculty/Staff Achievements
Rick Striner, professor of history, has made numerous media and public speaking appearances for his new book, Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery, released in January by Oxford University Press. His review of Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States, edited by Max Page and Randall Mason, appeared in The Journal of American History.
One of Bob Day's recent short stories was singled out for Special Mention by the 2006 Pushcart Prize anthology of best American short stories. Three others are being nominated for upcoming issues. A recent essay, "The Committee to Save the World," was published by New Letters magazine.
Carol Wilson, associate professor of history, has had her book, The Two Lives of Sally Miller: A Case of Mistaken Racial Identity in Antebellum New Orleans, accepted for publication by Rutgers University Press.
KEVIN BRIEN, professor of philosophy, presented his paper, "Humanistic Marxism and Buddhism: Ironic Affinities," at two universities in India, Benares Hindu University and Magdh University in Bodh Gaya.
KATHERINE CAMERON, assistant professor of psychology, and senior Fei'i Atualevao presented their summer research on the neural basis of racial and gender stereotypes at the meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington DC, and were honored at a banquet with Dr. Story Landis, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Cameron also published two papers, "Long-term memory is the representational basis for semantic verbal short-term memory" in the journal Psychophysiology and "Active maintenance of sentence meaning in working memory: Evidence from EEG Coherences" in the International Journal of Psychophysiology.
Writing instructors CATHERINE CHAMBERS and JOHN KLUTTZ presented the paper, "Dual Citizenship: Negotiating the Boundaries between Tutors, Faculty and the Writing Center," at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in Minneapolis.
MARTIN CONNAUGHTON, associate professor of biology, presented the poster, "Seasonal variation in the sonic muscles of male and female Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulates," at the 2005 joint meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Tampa. He is also reviewing scientific manuscripts in his field of teleost bioacoustics for four international journals, Journal of Fish Biology, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Copeia and Zoological Studies.
Professor of English TOM COUSINEAU gave a guest lecture to graduate students at the University of Paris on Ford Maddox Ford's novel The Good Soldier. He also gave the keynote address at the fi nal meeting of the Center for Modernist Studies of the National Dutch Research School for Literary Studies in Utrecht.
MELISSA DECKMAN, assistant professor of political science, has co-authored a textbook on women and politics to be published by Pearson/Prentice Hall for Fall 2006.
The study "The Influence of Live-Case Business Films on Student Perceptions of Finance Principles," co-authored by IRV DEGRAW and SUSAN VOWELS, assistant professors of business management, was presented at the conference of the American Academy of Accounting and Finance in St. Petersburg, Florida. DeGraw was cited in a Wall Street Journal article of December 6, 2005, "Average Folks Let In on IPO Perk."
PEGGY DONNELLY, assistant professor of education, presented the all-day workshop, "Reading American History: A Bridge to Learning," to history teachers from Maryland at the invitation of the Washington's Legacy Grant project.
MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY, Vice President for College Relations and Marketing, published reviews of new books by James Richardson, Frannie Lindsay and Jane Tassi in the latest issue of Poetry International.
MICHAEL HARVEY, associate professor of business management, reports his book The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing is selling well and is now in its second printing.
HUGH JARRARD, assistant professor of biology, presented the results of collaborative research with senior Kyle Stem, "Impacts of brief malathion exposure on olfactory, brain and liver acetylcholinesterase activity in striped bass," at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Baltimore. The research was conducted during the summer of 2005 with the help of a Middendorf Foundation grant.
LAUREN LITTLEFIELD, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored with Evelyn Klein of La Salle University the paper, "Examining Visual-Verbal Associations in Children With and Without Reading Disorder," which was published in the September-December 2005 volume of Reading Psychology: An International Journal.
DONALD MCCOLL, associate professor of art, has been awarded a Summer 2006 Fellowship in Byzantine Studies at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC.
Professor of biology DON MUNSON attended the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Orlando, where he chaired a session titled "Invertebrate Evolution and Development." He was also elected Chair of the Business Advisory Committee for the International Society of Protistologists.
ANDREW OROS, assistant professor of political science and international studies, delivered the Rotary Peace Forum lecture, "Explaining Japan's New Security Politics," at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. He spoke on "The Koizumi Victory: Implications for Japan's External Affairs" to members of the Congressional Study Group on the Asia-Pacific Economy organized by the United States Asia Pacific Council and served as discussant and panelist at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation public dialog over "The Current Dilemma of Sino-Japanese Relations" held in Washington, DC.
JOHN SEIDEL, associate professor of anthropology and environmental studies, secured a grant of $52,384 from the Maryland State Highway Administration to prepare a cultural resource GIS and archaeological predictive model for Caroline, Talbot and Cecil counties. He also secured a grant of $10,000 from the Maryland Historical Trust for archaeology at the Charles Sumner Lodge, Grand Army of the Republic, in Chestertown. In January, he participated in an expedition exploring the world of the ancient Maya. On board the Radission Navigator, he presented a lecture series on the history and archaeology of the Maya while visiting archaeological sites in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras.
KAREN SENECAL, assistant professor of business management, has presented lectures to the AARP Mid-Shore Tax Aide group. The topics were Child Tax Credit, Dependent Care Tax Credit, Sale of Investments and Sale of Home.
Associate professor of anthropology JEANETTE SHERBONDY's review of Paul Trawick's book, The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons, has been published in the Hispanic American Historical Review.
LESLIE SHERMAN, assistant professor of chemistry, published the article, "Soil Chemistry as Affected by First-time Prescribed Burning of a Grassland Restoration on a Coastal Plain Ultisol," in the journal Soil Science. She presented the results of her work at the annual meeting of the Soil Science Society of America in Salt Lake City.
KAREN SMITH, professor of physical education, presented the paper "Mask, Ritual and Dance: Art Initiatives of Three Primary Cultures of the Primitive World" at the 19th World Dance Congress in Larnaca, Cyprus.
SUSAN VOWELS, assistant professor of political science, published the article "Using Blackboard to Sustain Student Organizations" in the November issue of National On-Campus Report. She also served as a panelist representing Washington College for the session "Administrative and Faculty Perspectives on Minority Recruitment Programs: The Maryland DuPont Visiting Scholars rogram" held at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, DC.
MICHELE VOLANSKY, assistant professor of drama, has co-authored a new book, No Heavy Lifting Required: A Practical Guide To Playwriting and Collaboration, with playwright Bruce Graham. The book has been accepted for publication by Heineman Press. She also presented a talk, "What's So Great About New Plays?," at the Region II Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival at SUNY New Paltz and dramaturged the workshop reading of Bruce Graham's new play Dex And Julie at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company.
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