Faculty Scholarly Activities and Honors

The following is a sampling of significant scholarly activities by Centre College faculty over the past several years. For a listing of students who have collaborated with these and other professors, visit the Student-Faculty Research page. For a complete faculty directory linked to biographical sketches, visit the Faculty Roster page.

• Humanities (Division I)
• Social Studies (Division II)
• Science and Mathematics (Division III)

Humanities (Division I)

Genny Ballard (Spanish)
Author:
The Implied Reader in Hispanic Children’s Literature, The University Press of Kentucky (At press).

The Keys to the Kitchen: Cooking and Latina Power in Three Contemporary Latin(o) American Children’s Stories, a chapter in Children’s Literature and Food, Routledge (2008).

Entries for Jose Martí, Hilda Perera, Graciela Montes, and Juana de Ibarbourou, Oxford Encylopedia of Children’s Literature (2006).

Larry Bitensky (music)
Composer: numerous works for a variety of media, with performances throughout the U.S. and abroad.

Awards and honors: the Fromm Foundation, the Big Ten Band Directors Association, Saint Mary's University Kaplan Commissioning Project, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Omaha Symphony, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, the Kentucky Arts Council, the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, the Music Teachers National Association, and the Kentucky Music Teachers Association.

Recording artist: Mark Records and Sea Breeze Vista records.

Karin N. Ciholas (French, German; emerita)
Author:
book on André Gide, University of North Carolina Press.

twelve short stories in literary magazines.

Playwright: four plays; three produced; "One Candle in the Night," performed at Centre College.

Brian P. Cooney (philosophy)
Author: Posthumanity—Thinking Philosophically about the Future, Rowman & Littlefield (2004).

Vince DiMartino (music)
Musician: Played trumpet on Vivaldi's "Concerto in C for Two Trumpets" from the CD, Music for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble Vol. 2, which was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Helen V. Emmitt (English)
Publications:
"Connecting with the Humanities at Centre College" in collaboration with Daniel Manheim, Mark Rasmussen, Milton Reigelman, Maryanne Ward, and Philip White. In a book of essays published by the MLA and edited by Judith Anderson and Christine Farris.

"Forgotten Memories and Unheard Rhythms: H.D.'s Poetics as a Response to Male Modernism", in a special issue of Paideuma devoted to H.D. and Marianne Moore (2005).

"Rhyming Hope and History: Medbh McGuckian's Recent Poetry," Shenandoah Vol. 15, No. 2-3 (Summer/Fall 2001).

"'The One Free Foot Kicking under the White Sheet of History': Eilean Ni Chuilleanain's Uncanny Landscapes," Women's Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Fall 2000), a special issue on Irish women authors.

Patricia S. Finch (Spanish)
Translating La Celestina, by Fernando de Rojas (European Masterpieces.)

Co-author: Don Quijote en el arte y pensamiento de Occidente, with John J. Allen (Madrid: Cátedra, 2004.) Material for this book was published in the proceedings of a Yale symposium in 1996 as "Don Quijote en el pensamiento de Occidente: una selección," in En un lugar de la Mancha: Estudios cervantinos en honor de Manuel Durán (Salamanca: Almar, 1999.) Translated and reprinted with significant modification as "Don Quijote Across the Centuries," in Don Quijote, ed. Diana de Armas Wilson (N.Y.: Norton Critical Edition, 1999.)

Editor: La Celestina, by Fernando de Rojas, ed. Patricia S. Finch. Newark, Del.: European Masterpieces, Spanish Classics No. 9 (2003).

Subsequent variant versions of the above were presented for the Asociación International de Hispanistas (Madrid, 1998); at the inauguration of the Salón de Actas of the Casa de Cervantes in Alcalá de Henares, 2001, and at four universities in Kentucky, Illinois, and New York. Further presentations at five other colleges and universities are scheduled during 2005, the quatercentenary of Don Quijote, and another will constitute the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Cervantes Society of America(MLA affiliate), Washington, D.C. in December 28.

Anthony R. Haigh (dramatic arts)
Performer:
Josua in Walden (PBS-TV). Directed by Beth Kershner. (Opera House, Lexington).

Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor. Directed by Anthony Haigh & David Brown. (Shakespeare at Equus Run).

Nick in ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. Directed by John Dietrich. (Pines Theatre, Dollywood).

The King in The Underpants. Directed by B. J. Jones. (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville).

Andre Huguenet in Exits and Entrances. Directed by Benny Sato Ambush. (Actor’s Guild of Lexington).

Director:
Loves Labours Lost and Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare at Equus Run).

Still Life and Annulla by Emily Mann in London, 2008.

President: Southeastern Theatre Conference, 2005-2006.

Recent Courses/Papers:
Stanislavski—His Life and Work. Six week seminar for MA performance students at the Rose Bruford College. London, England (2008).

Powder and Power: Macbeth in Context. 4 day seminar, Royal Palm Players. Boca Grande, Florida (Jan. 2005).

Respondent, Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, Irene Ryan Awards. Palm Beach, Florida (Feb. 2005).

Demystifying Shakespeare: A textual approach to acting Shakespeare. Workshop for Florida Theate Conference, West Virginia Theatre Conference and Kentucky Theatre Association (Nov. 2004).

Samuel Drake: Kentucky’s Theatrical Pioneer—the problems of scholarship. Paper for “Theatre Symposium.” University of Memphis (April 2004).

Recent Publications:
“Jane McCullough: Advice for Acting Shakespeare,” Southern Theatre Magazine, Vol. 47, Issue 3.

“Acting? It’s not the Only Theatre Career,” Southern Theatre Magazine, Vol. 46, Issue 5 (winter 2005).

“Learning from the Master at Summer Camp,” Southern Theatre Magazine, Vol. 46, Issue 5.

English Regional Theater: A Traveler’s Guide – Web site under construction with funding support from the Associated Colleges of the South and Centre College.

The Queens English. Written and performed for Kentucky Horse Park’s “All the Queens Horses” event (summer 2003).

“English Regional Theatre,” Southern Theatre Magazine Vol. 44, Issue 2.

“Humana Festival of New American Drama “03” Review, Southern Theatre Magazine Vol. 44, Issue 3.

“Joe Orton: A casebook,” book review for New England Theatre Journal, Vol 14, pages 145-147.

Matthew Hallock (dramatic arts)
Scenic Design:
The Seagull, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (2009).
The BFG, Lexington Children's Theatre (2008).
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Equus Run Shakeseare (2008).
Anton in Show Business, Lexington Actor’s Guild (2007).
Exits and Entrances, Lexington Actor’s Guild (2007).
Rounding Third, Lexington Actor’s Guild (2006).
Vincent in Brixton, Lexington Actor’s Guild (2005).
Where the Red Fern Grows, Lexington Children’s Theatre (2004).
Androcles and the Lion, Lexington Children’s Theatre (2003).

Scenic and Lighting Design:
Stop Kiss, Lexington Actor’s Guild (2004).
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lexington Actor's Guild (2002).
Master Class, Lexington Actor's Guild (2002).

Lighting Design: Bat Boy–The Musical, Lexington Actor's Guild (2003).

Judith Pointer Jia (art)
Award:
Stodghill Research Professorship, Centre College (2006).
Centre Scholar Faculty Award, Centre College (2006-08).
Al Smith Fellowship for Individual Artists, Kentucky Arts Council (2004).

Selected Exhibitions:
Uncommon Wealth: A Traveling Exhibit, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art (2007).
Handbuilt Clay, Kentucky Artisan Center, Berea, Ky. (2007).
Nature/Culture, Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, N.M. (2006).
A Southern Presence, Lexington Art League, Lexington, Ky. (2006).
Ceramic Currents: Program in Artisanry 1975-2003, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Md. (2005).
Master Craft Works: Kentucky, Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (2005).
Al Smith Fellowship Exhibit, Actors Theatre of Louisville (2004).
Everyday Elegies, & Epiphanies: Ceramics by Judith Pointer Jia, Photographs by Guy Mendez & Mary Tortorici,      Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, Ky. (2004).
Gaolin International Biennial Ceramic Exhibition, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, China (2004).
As I See Myself, Kentucky Museum of Art + Design, Louisville, Ky. (2004).
CRAFT TRANSFORMED, University Art Gallery, New Bedford, Mass. (2003).
Wichita National, Wichita, Kansas Center for the Arts, Honorable Mention, Albert Paley, Juror (2001).

Professional Experience:
Panelist, Seminar on Chinese Porcelain – From Tradition to Today; panel titled "Vital Issues in International      Contemporary Ceramic Art," University of Kentucky (2008).
Juror, American Founders Bank Woodland Art Fair, Lexington (2007).
Juror, Keeneland Art Fair, Lexington (2006).
Panelist, Ceramic Symposium in conjunction with the traveling exhibit, "A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the      Archie Bray Influence," University of Kentucky (2004).
Panelist, Tangents: Ceramics and Beyond, NCECA Pre-Conference Workshop, "Making Meaning in Clay:
     Teaching Traditions and Contemporary Issues," Indiana University, Bloomington (2004).

Jane Joyce (classics)
Publications:

• Translation with commentary and glossary of Statius' Thebaid—A Song of Thebes (Cornell University Press) 2008.
• Reissue of The Quilt Poems in Quilt Pieces (Gnomon Press) 2008.

Awards:

• Stodghill Award (2010 spring term).

Patrick Kagan-Moore (dramatic arts)
Director: Vincent in Brixton at the Actors Guild of Lexington (November 2005).

Ken Keffer (French, German)
Presentations: Kentucky Philological Association and Kentucky Foreign Language Conference on Kantian Aesthetics (2006).

Articles: Monluc and Warfare in 16th France, Droz Editions, Geneva (2005).
Actes du Colloque sur l'histoire de la Renaissance (Monluc, La Noue et Brantome.)

Author: Montaigne For Ever. Published by Mellen (2001); published by Champion Editions, Paris (2005).

William Robert Levin (art history)
Publications:

• “The Canopy of Holiness at the Misericordia in Florence and Its Sources (Part Two),” Southeastern College Art Conference Review, vol. 15, no. 4 (2009), pp. 393-407, 9 illustrations.
• "The Canopy of Holiness at the Misericordia in Florence and its Sources (Part One)," Southeastern College Art Conference Review, vol. 15, no. 3 (2008), pp. 309-325, 12 illustrations.
• Reviewer, John B. Nici, Barron’s AP Art History 2008 and Barron’s AP Art History 2009 (study guides for the Advanced Placement Examination in Art History), Hauppauge, N. Y.: Barron’s Educational Series, 2008, 2009.
• Reviewer, Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, 3rd edition, Upper Saddle River, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 2007.
• "'Tanto goffe e mal fatte...dette figure si facessino...belle:' The Trecento Overdoor Sculptures for the Baptistry in Florence and Their Cinquecento Replacements," Studies in Iconography, vol. 26 (2005), pp. 205-242, 21 illustrations.

Honors:

• Who’s Who in the World (biographical profile in recognition of professional accomplishments), 26th edition 2009; continued in subsequent annual editions.
• “A Sculptural Juggling Act and Iconographical Agility on the Exterior of the Baptistry in Florence,” Invited Paper, Julius Fund Lecture in Renaissance Art, Cleveland Museum of Art in association with the Department of Art History and Art at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, November 2008.
• Who’s Who in America (biographical profile in recognition of professional accomplishments), 62nd edition (2008), vol. 1, p. 2774; continued in subsequent annual editions.
  

Nathan Link (music)
Author:

• The Orchestra as Choric Voice in Handel's Operas," Göttinger Händel-Beiträge, 12 (2008): 163-181.
• Handel's Operas, 1726-1741 (Review).
• "Performance: George Frideric Handel, Guilio Cesare,." Opera Quarterly 24, no. 2-4 (Oxford Unversity Press), 2009, 313-324.
• Review of Bärenreiter vocal score editions of Riccardo primo, Re d’Inghilterra (HWV 23) and Tolomeo, Re d’Egitto (HWV 25), in Opera Today, March 2008.
• Audio Study Tools for Craig Wright, Listening to Music, 5th ed. (Thomson Schirmer, 2007).

Presentations:

• "Cleopatra the Nightingale" presented at American Handel Society Conference, Princeton (April 2007).
• “Voices in Handel’s Operatic Arias,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Washington, D.C. (October 2005).
• “Song and Enchantment in Handel’s Operas,” presented at the American Handel Society Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (March 2005).
• “Handel’s Dramatic Practice,” pre-performance lectures given in conjunction with Yale Opera’s production of Giulio Cesare in Egitto, New Haven, Connecticut (March 2003).

Other:

• Vice-President, American Handel Society.
• Vice-President, American Musicological Society, South-Central Chapter.
  

Mark Lucas (English)
Interviews:
Red Barn Radio (June 2008).
American Songwriter (January 2008).

Publications:
“Stephen Rolfe Powell: An Anecdotal Biography,” in Stephen Rolfe Powell, Glassmaker. University Press of Kentucky (2007).

Work-in-progress: Lives of the Southern Writers [biographies].

Other: Principal narrator of Fire and Motion, PBS/KET documentary (nationwide release December 2008).

Dan Manheim (English)
Co-editor: Emily Dickinson’s Reading, special issue of The Emily Dickinson Journal, forthcoming in Spring 2010.

Works in Progress: Gift Economy and Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development.

Publications:
"'Have We Not a Hymn?' Emily Dickinson and the Rhetoric of New England Revivalism," in The New England Quarterly (September 2005).

"The Signifying Spinster: How Emily Dickinson Found Her Voice,"in issue of ESQ (September 2005).

"Connecting with the Humanities at Centre College," co-authored with numerous colleagues, in Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction in First-Year English, edited by Judith Anderson and Christine Farris, from the Modern Language Association of America.

"Benito Cereno and the Fall of a Sparrow," The Explicator (Spring 2005).

"Why Mrs. Lloyd? The Tableaux Vivants Scene in Wharton's The House of Mirth," The Explicator, Winter 2002.

James V. Morrison (classics)
Author:

• Shipwrecks and the Re-invention of Self in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World (expected 2011).
• Reading Thucydides (2006).
• A Companion to Homer's Odyssey, Greenwood Press (2003).

Articles:

• "Thucydides' History Live: Reception, Politics, and Debate," forthcoming in C. Cooper (ed.), Orality VI The Politics of Orality (2007).
• "Homeric Imagery and the Human Emotions of Odysseus and Penelope," in R. Rabel (ed.), Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern, University Press of Wales (2006).
• "Speech and Narrative in Thucydides," forthcoming in Antonios Rengakos, Antonios Tsakmakis (eds.), The Brill Companion to Thucydides (2005).
• "Memory, Time, and Writing: Oral and Literary Aspects of Thucydides' History," ed. C. Mackie, Oral Performance and its Contexts (2004) 95-116.
• "Historical Lessons in the Melian Episode," TAPA 130 (2000) 119-148.
• "Shipwreck Encounters: Odyssean Wanderings, the Tempest, and the Post-Colonial World," Classical and Modern Literature 20 (2000) 59-90.
  

Stephen R. Powell (art)
Author: Stephen Rolfe Powell: Glassmaker, University Press of Kentucky (2007).

Awards:
2005   Award of Excellence, Jurors Award—Habatat International Glass Invitational Sponsored by the Toledo            Museum of Art.

2004   Acorn Award, Kentucky Council on Post-Secondary Education.

Selected Print Media: DK Collector's Guides, 20th Century Glass, by Judith Miller, featured "Igniting Lunar Lunacy", pg. 213, DK Publishing (2004).

Broadcast Media:
HGTV "Modern Masters" Glass Artist, Episode MAS-705 (February & November 2002).

Solo Exhibitions:
2009   Hawk Galleries (Columbus, Ohio)
           d'Art Center (Norfolk, Va.)

2008   Janice Mason Art Museum (Cadiz, Ky.)

2007   Marx-Saunders Gallery (Chicago, Ill.)
           Marta Hewett Gallery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
           Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (Louisville, Ky.)

2006   Foundry Art Centre St. (St. Charles, Mo.)
           Tobin-Hewett Gallery (Louisville, Ky.)

2005   Concept Art Gallery (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
           Hawk Gallery (Columbus, Ohio)
           Muskegon Museum of Art (Muskegon, Mich.)

2004   R. Duane Reed Galleries (St. Louis, Mo.)
           Tobin-Hewett Gallery (Louisville, Ky.)

Select Permanent Collections:
The Auckland Museum (Auckland, New Zealand)
Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio)
The Corning Museum of Glass (Corning, N.Y.)
Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Mich.)
Haystack Mountain School (Deer Isle, Maine)
Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Huntsville Museum of Art (Huntsville, Ala.)
Lvov Art Institute (Lvov, Ukraine)
Mobile Museum of Fine Art (Mobile, Ala.)
Montgomery Museum of Fine Art (Montgomery, Ala.)
Muskegon Museum of Art (Muskegon, Mich.)
Sydney College of Art (Sydney, Australia)

Milton Reigelman (English)
Selected Recent Articles:

• "Connecting with the Humanities at Centre College," one of six authors, in Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction, ed. Judith H. Anderson and Christine R Farris, Modern Language Association of America: New York, 2007.
• "Another Turn of the Screw in James' The Aspern Papers," Kentucky Philological Review, vol. 20, March 2006.
• "Melville's Mardi as Literary Pompidou Centre," Editors' Choice in Kentucky Philological Review, vol. 19, March 2005.

Selected Other Recent Activities:

• Acting Managing Director: Centre’s Norton Center for the Arts, January 2010.
• Coordinator: Energizing Kentucky conferences (co-sponsored by Berea, Centre, University of Kentucky, and University of Louisville) and editor of the Energizing Kentucky white paper, 2008-2010.
• Co-Chair: "Hearts of Darkness: Melville and Conrad in the Space of World Culture" Conference, Szczecin, Poland, 4-7 August 2007. (www.melville.us.edu.pl).
• Global Partners Tri-Consortial Teagle Grant to Evaluate Study-Abroad Experiences (Associated Colleges of the South, Great Lakes College Association, and Associated Colleges of the Midwest), 2005-2007.            
• Rotary International District Selection Committee, Ambassadorial International Scholarships, 2003-2006.
  
  

Sheldon Tapley (art)
Awards:
2004     Martha & Merrit deJong Memorial Artist-in-Residence, Evansville Museum, Indiana

Solo Exhibitions:
2008     Center for Contemporary Art—Sacramento (Sacramento, Calif.)
2004     Evansville Museum (Evansville, Ind.)
2003     Owensboro Museum of Fine Art (Owensboro, Ky.)
2002     Tatistcheff Gallery (New York, N.Y.)

Group Exhibitions:
2006     Artists At And After Grinnell, Faulconer Gallery (Grinnell College, Iowa)
2005     Gallery Artists (December), Tatistcheff Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
•           Gallery Artists (September), Tatistcheff Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
•           Annual Collector's Exhibition, Arkansas Center for Contemporary Art (Little Rock, Ark.)
•           Dances of Death, Tatistcheff Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
•           The Ever-Changing Landscape, Kentucky Museum of Art+Design (Louisville, Ky.)
2003     Contemporary American Realism VI, M. A. Doran Gallery (Tulsa, Okla.)
2002     Annual Collector's Exhibition, Arkansas Center for Contemporary Art (Little Rock, Ark.)

Publications and Reviews:
2005 Kentucky Homes and Gardens Magazine, "Magical Believability", an illustrated feature article by Cynthia Rush (Nov/Dec 2005).

2001 Looking at Painting. A KET video production, written & directed by Robert Tharsing.      

2001 Tulsa World. "American Realism' Exhibit seeks the Dreams Beneath the Surface".

Collections:
AEGON Corporation (Louisville, Ky.)
Brown-Foreman Distilleries (Louisville, Ky.)
Centre College (Danville, Ky.)
Compaq Computer (Houston, Tex.)
Ernst and Young, Inc. (St. Louis, Mo.)
Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa)
Evansville Museum (Evansville, Ind.)
Fidelity Investments (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Hilliard and Lyons (Louisville, Ky.)
Houston Industries (Houston, Tex.)
Nations Bank (Charlotte, N.C.)
Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts (Owensboro, Ky.)
Prudential Life Insurance (Houston, Tex.)
Ralston-Purina Corporation (St. Louis, Mo.)
University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington, Ky.)

Philip White (English)
Author: The Clearing (poems), published in 2007.
 
Awards:
Ralston Fellowship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2008.
Walt Macdonald first book prize (poetry), 2007.
Pushcart Prize in Poetry, 2006.
Georges and Anne Borchardt Scholarship, Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2005.
 
Articles, etc.:
“Counterpoint,” “Rising and Falling Rhythm,” and “Heptasyllable”, Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (forthcoming)

"Connecting with the Humanities at Centre College" (with profs. Emmitt, Manheim, Rasmussen, Reigelman, and Ward), Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction in First-Year English. MLA (2007).

Poems: The New Republic, Slate (on-line), Poetry, Cincinnati Review, Hudson Review, The Southern Review, Southwest Review, Quarterly West, Literary Imagination, The Journal, Ninth Letter, Tar River Poetry, Verse Daily (reprint; on-line), Poetry Daily (reprint; on-line), Poetry Magazine.com (reprint; on-line), and other journals and magazines.
 
Poems reprinted in books: The Pushcart Prize XXXI (2006) and Poetry Daily Essentials (2007).

Roberta White (English, emerita)
Author: a book of literary criticism, A Studio of One's Own: Fictional Women Painters and the Art of Fiction (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005).

Lisa Williams (English)
Books:

• Woman Reading to the Sea: Poems, W.W. Norton (2008).
• The Hammered Dulcimer (1998).

Awards:

• The 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize.
• Rome Prize in Literature for 2004-2005 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• May Swenson Poetry Prize for The Hammered Dulcimer.
• Elliston Poetry Fellowship and Elliston Poetry Prize from the University of Cincinnati.
• Henry Hoynes Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Prize from the University of Virginia.
• Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, and the Elizabeth Matchett Stover award.

Articles and essays:

• “A Forest of Forms: The Poetry of Susan Stewart” (forthcoming in The Hollins Critic).
• "An Innovative Music: Two British Poets" (essay/review), The Cincinnati Review (2009), also a Poetry Daily Prose Selection of the Week (2009).
• Review of John Allan Wyeth's This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets in The Hollins Critic (2009).
• "Traveling: The Poetry of Sarah Arvio" in The Hollins Critic (Spring 2007).

Poems published or forthcoming in: Orion, Poetry Daily, The Missouri Review, Measure, Salmagundi, Raritan, The Cincinnati Review, The New Republic, Poetry, New England Review, Southwest Review, Ninth Letter, Literary Imagination, Michigan Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Quadrant, and Verse Daily.

Regularly publishes essays on contemporary poetry in The Hollins Critic, for which she is a contributing editor.

Work featured in Best American Erotic Poets: 1800 to Present, Best American Poetry 2009, and Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds (selected by Billy Collins).

Ian Wilson (German, humanities)
Author: entries for Jean Toomer, Richard Allen, Colson Whitehead, photography and literature; James Van Der Zee, basketball and literature and Michael Jordan, An Encyclopedia of African American Literature (Greenwood Press, 2005.)

Articles:
“A Return to Memory, Possibility, Life: The Spirit of Narrative in John Edgar Wideman’s The Cattle Killing.” Forthcoming in 2010 in essay collection Out of the Dead Land: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead in Twentieth-Century American Texts and Performances, eds. Lisa Perdigao and Mark Pizzato.

“Greeting the Holocaust's Dead? Narrative Strategies and the Undead in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten.” Modern Austrian Literature 39.3-4 (2006): 27-56.

Reviews:
Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity, eds. Matthias Konzett and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger. Modern Austrian Literature 41.4 (2008).

Martin Chalmers, trans. Gier. By Elfriede Jelinek. Modern Austrian Literature 41.1 (2008).

Scholarly Conference Activity:
“‘Begreifen können wir es nicht!’: Performing Sexual Normalcy in Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin”: Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association Conference, Seattle, Wash. (April 2008).

Co-organizer and respondent, “Crossing the Bridge? Transnational Identities in the Films of Fatih Akin”: German Studies Association Conference, San Diego, Calif. (October 2007).

“‘Und mir bleibt die Sprache weg’: Strategies of Artistic Skepticism in Elfriede Jelinek’s Nobel Prize Lecture ‘Im Abseits’”: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Ky. (April 2007).

“(Not) Reading the Holocaust: Illegibility and Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Kinder der Toten”: Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. (December 2005).

“Contemporary Austrian Critiques of the Spectacle of Violence: Funny Games and Der Kameramörder”: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Ky. (April 2005).

“Vampires as Readers of the Past: Elfriede Jelinek’s Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen”: Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, St. Louis, Mo. (November 2004).

Social Studies (Division II)

David A. Anderson (economics)
Selected Awards & Honors:

• Chief Reader, AP Economics Program (2008 to present).
• Permaculture Design Certificate, Ecological Solutions of Australia (2005).
• Stodghill Research Professorship (2005).
  

Selected Books:

• Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management (2010, Routledge).
• Treading Lightly: The Joy of Conservation, Moderation, and Simple Living (2009, Pensive Press).
• Contemporary Economics for Managers (2008, Worth Publishers).
• Sometimes I Get So Angry! Anger Management for Everyone (2007, Pensive Press).
• Economics by Example (2007, Worth Publishers).
• Favorite Ways to Learn Economics, with James Chasey (2001, 2006; South-Western).
• Cracking the AP Economics Exam (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006; Princeton Review/Random House).
  

Selected Articles:

• "Finding the Path to Optimal Deterrence by Tracking the Path that Leads to Crime," Senior Editor’s Introduction, 9:2 Criminology & Public Policy (May 2010).
• “What’s New in Moderation,” 82 The Clearing House, (2009).
• “Utopia Isn’t So Bad,” 68:5 The Humanist, (Sept./Oct. 2008), 20-24.
• “Sex Stereotyping and Under-Representation of Female Characters in 200 Popular Children’s Picture Books: A 21st Century Update,” with Mykol Hamilton, 55:11/12 Sex Roles: A Journal of Research (2006) 757-765.
• "The Determinants of Municipal Solid Waste," 24:2 Journal of Applied Economics and Policy (2005).
• "Evaluating Policies for Sustainability: The Neglected Influence of Visual Images," International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability (2005).
• "Gender Role Stereotyping of Parents in Children's Picture Books: The Invisible Father," with Mykol Hamilton, 52:3/4 Sex Roles: A Journal of Research (2005) 145-151.
• "The Aggregate Burden of Crime," republished in Kurt Finsterbush, ed., Taking Sides: Social Issues 13e (2004, McGraw-Hill/Duskin), and in Isaac Ehrlich and Zhiqiang Lui, eds., The Economics of Crime (2005, Edward Elgar).
  
  

Rick Axtell (religion)
Author:
Paper presented at the Society of Christian Ethics in January 2009: Living in Hope in Kentucky: An Assessment of the HOPE VI Redevelopment Project (co-authored with Berea College professor Michelle Tooley).

Entry on attitudes toward war, peace, and military service in "Early Christianity—Jesus Movement" in The Encyclopedia of Religion and War, eds. Elizabeth Eno and David Levinson, Berkshire/Routledge Publishing, 2003.

Steve Beaudoin (history)
Author: Poverty in World History, part of "Themes in World History" series. Routledge Press, January 2007.

Editor: The Industrial Revolution. Problems in European Civilization Series, ed. Merry Wiesner. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.

Contributor: Modern Europe Section, Encyclopedia of World History, 6 ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.

Articles and Encyclopedia Entries:
"The Welfare State," Encyclopedia of European Social History. New York: Scribner's and Sons, 2001.

"Current Debates in the Study of the Industrial Revolution," Organization of American Historians Magazine of History for Teachers of History (Fall, 2000): 7-13.

Richard A. Bradshaw (history)
Publications:
Militaries, Mercenaries and State Formation in Precolonial Africa, forthcoming 2009. Co-author Ibrahim Ndzesop.

Historical Dictionary of the Central African Republic. New edition. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, forthcoming. Co-author Juan Fandos-Ruis.

History of the Central African Republic. London & Westport, CT: Greenwood Press (Series: Greenwood Histories of Modern Nations), 2008.

“Central African Republic.” Africa South of the Sahara 2008. Co-author Juan Fandos-Ruis.

“Mercenaries, Slave Soldiers and State Formation in Precolonial Africa” (2008). Co-author Ibrahim Ndzesop.

“Children in the Central African Republic.” In Laura Arntson, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues. London & Westport, CT: Greenwood Press: 2007. Co-author Juan Fandos-Ruis.

“Children in Cameroon.” In Laura Arntson, ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues. London & Westport, CT: Greenwood Press: 2007. Co-author Ibrahim Ndzesop.

“African Armies and Warfare, 1750-1914.” World History Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2007. Co-author Ibrahim Ndzesop.

“Central African Republic.” Africa South of the Sahara 2007. Co-author Juan Fandos-Ruis.

"Mercenaries: 1750-2000." In Peter Sterns, ed. Encyclopedia of Modern World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2007).

“African and Japanese mercenaries in Southern China and Southeast Asia, c. 1550-1650.” Kokujin Kenkyu [Black Studies] (Kyoto) 76 (April 2007).

“Israel’s Public Threats Inflame Iran Crisis.” Lexington Herald-Leader, (November 27, 2006) A10 Feedback.

“Boganda, Barthélemy [Central African Republic].” In Kevin Shillington, ed. Encyclopedia of African History. London: Fitzroy Dearborn (2005).

“Gbaya, Banda, Zande [Central African Republic].” In Kevin Shillington, ed. Encyclopedia of African History. London: Fitzroy Dearborn (2005).

"Nihon to Shokuminchi Afurika: Igirusu Teikokushugi o Megutte" [Japan and Colonial Africa: A Focus on British Imperialism]. In Kokujin Kenkyu no Kai [Japan Black Studies Association], ed. Kokujin Kenkyu no Sekai [The World of Black Studies], Tokyo: Seijishobo, (June 2004) pp. 55-95.

Sarah Goodrum (sociology)
Author: "The Interaction between Thoughts and Emotions following the News of a Loved One's Murder," Omega: The Journal of Death and Dying (publication forthcoming).

Co-author:
with Mark C. Stafford, "The Management of Emotions in the Criminal Justice System," Sociological Focus 36(3):179-196 (2003).

with H. Jean Wiese, and Carl Leukefeld, "Urban and Rural Differences in the Relationship between Substance Use and Violence," International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 48(5):613-629 (2003).

with Michele Staton, Carl Leukefeld, J. Matthew Webster, and Richard T. Purvis, "Perceptions of a Prison-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program among Some Staff and Participants", Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 37(3/4):27-46 (2003).

Above article reprinted in:
Treating Substance Abusers in Correctional Contexts: New Understandings, New Modalities (pp. 27-46), edited by Nathaniel J. Pallone (2003). New York, N.Y.: Haworth Press, Inc.

David Hall (religion)
Books:
Writing the Divine: Literary Meetings of Humans and Gods, co-edited with Jay Twomey (under review).

Paul Ricoeur and the Poetic Imperative: The Creative Tension Between Love and Justice (SUNY, 2007).

Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought, co-edited with William Schweiker and John Wall (Routledge, 2002).

Articles:
"A Poetics of the Divine: God as Otherwise than Being, Faith as Otherwise than Belief" in Writing the Divine: Literary Meetings of Gods and Humans. Eds. W. David Hall and Jay Twomey (under review).

"Visions of the End: Contemporary Appropriations of Christian Apocalypticism" (under review).

"Followers of the Lamb: The Rhetoric of Suffering and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Apocalypticism," in Revaluation, Subversion, Nostalgia: Contemporary Echos of the Bible. Ed. Beth Hawkins Benedix (under review).

"The Economy of the Gift: Paul Ricoeur's Poetic Redescription of Reality." Journal of Literature and Theology, vol. 20, no. 2 (June 2006).

"Does Creation Equal Nature: Confronting the Christian Confusion about Ecology and Cosmology." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 73, no. 3 (September 2005).

"Remembering Paul Ricoeur." Sightings (June 16, 2005).

Presentations:
"The Primacy of Rhetorical Speech: Philosophy and Religion Among the Humanists," Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Cambridge, Mass. (2009)

"All American Messiah: The Death of Captain America and the Symbolism of American Messianic Aspiration," Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, Calif. (2008)

"Narrating God: Rethinking Scripture and the Divine with Ricoeur and Blanchot," Invited lecture, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky. (2008)

"Otherwise than Being: Speaking about God After Feuerbach and Nietzsche," The Sophia Lecture, Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. (2008)

"Forum on Sports and Religion," Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Washington, D.C. (2006)

"Followers of the Lamb: The Rhetoric of Suffering and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Apocalypticism." Religion and Nation: 2006 Nexus Interdisciplinary Conference, Knoxville, Tenn. (2006)

"A Poetics of the Divine: God as Otherwise than Being." Gods Absent and Present (two-day seminar), Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton, N.J. (2006)

"Visions of the End: Debates Over the Nature and Fuction of Apocalyptic Texts." Roundtable on Literary (Mis)Readings of Religious Texts, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, Wis. (2005)

"What's God's Story? The (American) Politics of Telling Tales about God." International Conference on Narrative, Louisville, Ky. (2005)

"Who's Left Behind? Christian Apocalypticism in Contemporary Culture Debates." Seminar on the Rhetoric of Christian Fundamentalism and Empire, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, State College, Pa. (2005)

Michael F. Hamm (history, international studies)
Author:

• "Kiev," in Europe since 1914 Encyclopedia of the Age of war and Reconstruction, eds. John Merriman & Jay Winter (2006), vol. 3, pp. 1558-64.
• "Jews and Revolution in Kharkiv: How One Ukrainian City Escaped a Pogrom in 1905," in Jonathan D. Smele and Anthony Heywood, eds., The Russian Revolution of 1905: Centenary Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, 2005):156-76.
• "On the Perimeter of Revolution: Kharkiv's Academic Community, 1905", Revolutionary Russia, vol. 15, no. 1 (June 2002): 45-68.

Papers:

• "Teaching Sustainability in College World History Courses," Southwest Historical Association, Denver, April 2009.
• Presented to the British Study Group on the Russian Revolution, Aberdeen, Scotland (2007), Nottingham, England (2004), and Durham, England (2002). All of the papers dealt with the 1905 Revolution in Kharkiv.
• "Kyiv: A Portrait of an Artisitc City," at the International Council for Central and East European Studies World Congress, Berlin (2005).

Articles:

• "'Special and Bewildering': A Portrait of Late Imperial and Early Soviet Kyiv," in Irena Makaryk & Virlana Tkach, eds., Jubilant Experimentalism: Kyiv and International Modernism," forthcoming, University of Toronto Press, spring 2010.

Other:

• Board of Directors of the Central Kentucky Wildlife Refuge.
• Chair of the Board of Trustees, Kentucky Chapter of the Nature Conservancy.
  

Lori Hartmann-Mahmud (international studies)
Articles:
"The Rural-Urban dynamic and implications for development: perspectives from Nigerien Women", Journal of Contemporary African Studies 22/2 (May 2004).

"A Language of their own: Development Discourse in Niger", Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29/2 (Winter 2004).

"War as Metaphor" in Peace Review: Journal of Social Justice, vol. 14, no. 4 (December, 2002).  

Op-ed:
"US must respond to tragedy" op-ed in the Lexington Herald Leader (7/15/03).

"Remembering the Global Policeman" article in ACE Weekly (4/3/03).

"Give an Account of War's Costs" op-ed in the Lexington Herald Leader (8/2/04).

Conference participation:
Organized panel, "Democracy's Third Wave in West and Central Africa: Expanding, Maintaining or Crashing?" and presented paper, "The Neopatrimonial Stew in Cameroon: headed for transformation in this post-abertura era?" at the ASA (African Studies Association) meeting in New Orleans, La. (Nov. 11-14, 2004).

Gave presentation on study abroad trips to Africa at the ACM (Association Colleges of the Midwest) African Studies Conference at Coloradao College, Sept. 24-26, 2004.

"The Rural-Urban Dynamic and Implications for Development: Perspectives from Nigerien Women," presented at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, March 17-21, 2004.

Chaired panel on Comparative and International Politics, KPSA (Kentucky Political Science Association) meeting at Georgetown College, March 5-6, 2004.

African Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C., December 5-8, 2002. Discussant and panel organizer (invited Ms. Zeinabou Hadari from Niamey, Niger to come to the conference and deliver public lecture at Centre College).

Invited speaker at the Eastern Kentucky University conference on "Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Africa," April 22, 2002.

“The ‘Anatomy Lesson’ Painting in the Via Latina Catacomb Reconsidered,” in Church History (under review).

“Picturing Theology: A Primer on Early Christian Art,” Religion Compass (forthcoming 2010).

“Superstition and the Significance of the Image of Christ Performing Miracles in Early Christian Art,” Studia Patristica XLIV-XLIX (Leuven: Peeters, in press 2010).

“Adam in Visual Art,” and “Adam and Eve in Visual Art,” entries for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, gen. eds. Hermann Spieckermann and Choon-Leong Seow (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008 - ).

“The Pagan Feast and the Sacramental Feast: The Implication of Idol Food Consumption in Paul’s Corinth,” in Sewanee Theological Review (Christmas 2007), 22-47.

Reviews:
Perspectives on the Passion: Encountering the Bible through the Arts, ed. by Christine E. Joynes (T and T Clark, 2007), for Review of Biblical Literature (forthcoming).

Religiose Philsophie und philosophische Religion der frühen Kaiserzeit, ed. by Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Herwig Gorgemanns, and Michael von Albrecht (Mohr Siebeck, 2009), for Journal of Roman Studies (forthcoming).

“A Bountiful Tableau: The Laity’s Primer on the Art Images of Benton Chapel,” The Spire, Vanderbilt Divinity School (Fall 2006), 27-9.

Presentations:
“Is the ‘Anatomy Lesson’ Painting in the Via Latina Catacomb Really an Anatomy Lesson?” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Art and Religions of Antiquity section, New Orleans, LA, November 2009.

“Appropriating Asclepius, Appropriating Christ: Pagan-Christian Conflict in Word and Image,”
North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 2008.

“Superstition and the Significance of the Image of Christ Performing Miracles in Early Christian Art,”
Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, University of Oxford, England, August 2007.

“Augustine the Scholar: The Contribution of North African Church Tradition to Augustine’s Theology of Baptism,”
Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Nashville, TN, March 2007.

“The Healing Christ: Late Antique Representations of Jesus and Asclepius,”
North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, May 2006.

Bruce K. Johnson (economics)
Recent Publications:
"What Do We Know About Non-Market Benefits From Pro Sports?" in Bridging Research and Practice, volume 3 of The Business of Sport, edited by Dennis Howard and Brad Humphreys, Praeger Press, forthcoming.

"Willingness to Pay for Amateur Sport and Recreation Programs," with John Whitehead, Dan Mason, and Gordon Walker, Contemporary Economic Policy, forthcoming.

"The Value of Public Goods Generated by a National Football League Team," with Michael Mondello and John Whitehead, Journal of Sport Management, vol. 21, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 123-136.

"Contingent Valuation of Sports: Temporal Embedding and Order Effects," with Michael Mondello and John Whitehead, Journal of Sports Economics, vol. 7, No. 3, August 2006, pp. 267-288.

"Public Funding of Professional Sports Stadiums: Public Choice or Civic Pride?" with Peter Groothuis and John Whitehead, Eastern Economic Journal, vol. 30, No. 4, Fall 2004, pp. 515-526.

Public Service:
By joint appointment of the Legislative Research Commission and the Governor's Office of Economic Analysis, member of the Consensus Forecasting Group, the nonpartisan body charged with developing the official forecast of state government revenues for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Brianna Leavitt-Alcántara (history)
Papers:

• “Pious Accounts: Laywomen, Capellanías, and the Gendered Pursuit of Salvation in Guatemala City, 1750-1860,” American Historical Association, San Diego, January 2010.

C. Thomas McCollough (religion)
Books published: The Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the “Other” in Antiquity (editors: C. Thomas McCollough and D. Edwards). Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2007.

Articles: “Monumental Changes: Architecture and Culture in Late Roman and Early Byzantine Sepphoris,” in The Archaeology of Difference, pp. 267-78.

Co-author: with Beth Glazier-McDonald of articles that have appeared in Atiqot and The Journal of Roman Archaeology, on amulets discovered in excavations in Israel.

Encyclopedia Entries: “Chorazin” and “Gerasa” in Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus (editor: Craig Evans). New York: Routledge, 2007.

Honors:
Co-Director, Centre College and University of Puget Sound Archaeological Excavations at Khirbet Cana, Israel.

Associate Director, Archaeological Excavations at Sepphoris, Israel.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Albright Institute for Archaeological Research, Israel, 2009.

Grant Awarded by the Levy-White Foundation for Archaeological Publications at Harvard University for the Publication of the Roman Theater at Sepphoris.

Robert E. Martin (economics, emeritus)
Books: Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education. Edward Elgar, Ltd., 2005.

Book chapters: Prospecting Among the Inquiries: An Enrollment Forecasting Model," with Hokayem, Charles M., Leaf, Jed, and Perry John, in Managerial Analysis and Decision Support, NACUBO Accounting Principles Committee, eds. (Washington, D.C.: National Association of College and University Business Officers, 2004).

Refereed publications:
"Tuition Discounting Without Tears." Economics of Education Review, 23 (2004), 177-189.

"Pricing and Enrollment Planning." Planning for Higher Education (June/August 2003), 29-37.

"Why Tuition Costs are Rising so Quickly." Challenge (July/August 2002), 88-108.

"Tuition Discounting:  Theory and Evidence," Economics of Education Review, 21(2), April 2002.

Eric Mount (religion, emeritus)
Author:
"Storytelling and Political Leadership," The Progressive Christian, October 2008.

"Terrorism, Torture, and Conscience," Theology Today, October 2008.

"Covenant, Community, and the Common Good: Norms for Corporate Leadership and Culture," Journal of Lutheran Ethics, April 2007 (on-line journal).

"Improve nursing homes for all patients," Lexington Herald-Leader, article in "Feedback" section, April 2, 2007.

"Covenant, Community, and the Common Good: A Tale of Two Americas," essay published in Church and Society, a journal of the Presbyterian Church (USA), May/June 2005.

"It Takes a Community—or at Least an Association," article in In Search of the Common Good, edited by Patrick Miller and Dennis McCann (T & T Clark International, 2005).

Co-author: with Rick Axtell, two columns on global warming, The Kentucky Advocate and The Advocate-Messenger, October 8 and December 4, 2006.

Editor: book manuscript of Dr. "Corky" Deaton (Centre alumnus), accepted for publication with the working title Moments of Grace.

Endre Nyerges (anthropology)
Publications:
"Orthodoxy and Revision in West African Guinea Savanna Ecology," in Against the Tides: Critical Perspectives on the Study of Human-Environment Interactions. Bonnie J. McCay, Bradley B.Walters, Paige West, and Susan H. Lees, eds. 2008.

(with Daniel M. Saman and Laura B. Whitaker.) "Anthropology: Mapping Guinea Savanna Ecology in Sierra Leone,"in Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the College Curriculum. Diana Stuart Sinton and Jennifer Lund. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press. 2007.

Book Review Essay:
"Is There a Political Ecology of the Sierra Leonean Landscape?" American Anthropologist 103(3): 828-833, 2001.

(co-authored with Glen Martin Green) "The Ethnography of Landscape: GIS and Remote Sensing in the Study of Forest Change in West African Guinea Savanna." American Anthropologist 102(2): 271-289, 2000.

Phyllis Passariello (anthropology)
Publications:

• “Bodyprints: the Ecosemiotics of Corpse Control” in Semiotics 2008, edited by John Deely and Leonard Sbrocchi; Ottawa: Legas Publishing, 2009.
• “Profiles of a Summer in the Sun: Kentucky Professors Study in Oaxaca, Mexico,” (with Katherine Thomas), Kentucky Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning, volume 6, July 1, 2008: pp. 83-87; peer-reviewed journal (www.kentuckyjournalofexcellence.org/index.php, web journal)
• "Desperately Seeking Something: Che Guevara as a Secular Saint," in The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground, James Hopgood, editor; University of Alabama Press, 2005.
• "Reflections on Fieldwork in Ecuador...," column in Anthropology Newsletter, v. 41 (5): 21-22. American Anthropological Association, 2000.
  

Other:

• Invited Guest Speaker for Merida English Language Library, “The Mother of All Tricksters: Virgin of Guadalupe." Merida, Mexico, January 2010.
• Awarded a spot in an NEH Summer Institute, on-site for a month in Oaxaca, Mexico, entitled "Oaxaca at the Crossroads," summer 2007.
• TV commentator for "The Ten Best Places to Go Back in Time," Discovery/Travel Channel, summer 2003.
  

Donna Plummer (education)
Honors:
2007   Centre Scholars Award.

2006   Recognized in All-American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-Fashioned Liberals, and People

           of Faith (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) as one of fourteen Centre College professors “singled out for

           praise”.

           Recognized (by Vanessa Shepperson ’06) as "A Teacher Who Made A Difference," University of

           Kentucky College of Education, March 2006.

           Centre Scholars Award.

           Named Honorary Faculty Member of Toliver Elementary, May 2006.

Conference presentations:
2006   “We’ve Got Rocks in Our Heads (and Our Pockets, Too)," with Wilma Kuhlman, National Science            Teachers Association, Western Area Convention (Omaha, Nebraska).

Other professional experiences:
1999-2009   Kentucky Teacher Internship Program Teacher Educator for First Year Teacher Interns in Boyle                     County and Danville, Kentucky Elementary/Middle Schools.

2006-2007   Volunteer reader/listener for advanced 1^st grade readers and tutor of low-level math students, Mrs.

                    Carol Reynolds, Toliver Elementary.

2005-2006   Volunteer/Learner at Toliver Elementary (full-time January 4 to May 30, 2006).

2003-2006   Grant proposal and site coordinator for Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant (administered through

                    AIKCU).  

Publications:
2008   Invitation to submit chapter for international science education book, Fostering Scientific Habits of Mind:            Pedagogical Knowledge and Best Practices in Science Education (2008).

           Plummer, D. M. "Do children aspire to be scientists?," Science and Children, 45(8), 39-41.

           Plummer, D. M., & Kuhlman, W. "Literacy and science connections in the classroom," Reading Horizons,            48(2). 95-110.
   

           Plummer, D. M., & Kuhlman, W. "Wet and wonderful: Books about aquatic life," Booklinks, 17(4), 56-59.

2006   Plummer, D. M., MacShara, J. & Brown, S. K., “The Tree of Life in the primary classroom” included in            Start Young!: Early Childhood Science Activities. Arlington, VA: NSTA Press.

2005   Plummer, D. & Kuhlman, W., “Rocks in our pockets” in Science Sampler section of Science Scope, 29(2),            60-61 (October 2005).

Milton Scarborough (philosophy, religion; emeritus)
Books:
Comparative Theories of Nonduality: The Search for a Middle Way, Continuum, 2009.

Myth & Modernity: Postcritical Reflections, SUNY Press, 1994.

Article: "Hebrew God and Zen Nothingness," Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 30, 2000.

Book chapter: "Myth and Phenomenology" in Kevin Schilbrack, ed. Thinking Through Myth: Philosophical Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2002), 46-64.

William J. "Beau" Weston (sociology)
Books:
Centre College: A Story of How a College Made for Scholars, Gentlemen, and Christians Developed Into a College for Learning, Leadership, and Service While Still Holding its Center. Forthcoming from Centre College.

Leading From the Center: Strengthening the Pillars of the Church. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2003.

Called to Teach: The Vocation of the Presbyterian Educator. Edited, with Duncan Ferguson. Louisville: Geneva Press, 2003.

Presbyterian Pluralism: Competition in a Protestant House. University of Tennessee Press, 1997.

Education and the American Family: A Research Synthesis, editor and contributor. New York University Press, 1989.

Selected Articles:
"The Power Elite and the Philadelphia Gentlemen: Arguing with Mills and Baltzell about How the Nation Is Led." Forthcoming in Society.

“Rebuilding the Presbyterian Establishment.” Occasional Paper, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), 2008.

"Politics of Mainline Protestant Clergy: Presbyterian Church (USA)." In Pulpits and Politics: Clergy in American Politics at the Advent of the Millennium, edited by Corwin Smidt. Baylor University Press, 2004.

"The Battle of Lexington and Wilmore." Christianity Today, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 11, 2002): 46-49.

Daily blog: The Gruntled Center: Faith and Family for Centrists (gruntledcenter.blogspot.com).

Selected Honors and Awards:
(2008- present) Van Winkle Professor of Sociology

(2004) Kirk Award for Excellence in Teaching, Centre College

(2004) Delivered the Willson-Gross Lectures at Union College (Ky.)

Science and Mathematics (Division III)

Mike Barton (biology)
Author: "Bond's Biology of Fishes, 3rd edition" (2007). Published by Thomson Brooks/Cole (2007).

Publications on Fishes:
Turner, B.J., D.D. Duvernell, T.M. Bunt, and M.G. Barton. 2008. Reproductive isolation among endemic pupfishes (Cyprinodon) on San Salvador Island, Bahamas: microsatellite evidence. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society 95:566-582.

Barton, M. and C. Barton. 2008. Pupfishes of the Bahamas. Journal of the American Killifish Society 41:161-171.

Publications on Automotive Topics:
Barton, M. 2009. Tri-Five Chevys—An Honorable Conveyance. Classic Chevy Magazine Feb. 2009, p. 12-15 (an account of the role of private vehicles and drivers recruited in support of the Montgomery Bus Boycott).

Barton, M. 2008. Returning Home in Style. Cars & Parts, Sept. 2008, p. 56-59 (featuring the work of William Porter and other significant automobile designers working in Detroit during the 1960’s and 1970’s).

Barton, M. 2007. Kentucky is Keen on Jaguars. Classic & Sportscar, Dec. 2007 p. 12.

Melissa Burns-Cusato (psychology)
Recent Grants: 

• Kentucky Academy of Science - Special Research Award (2010). The aging process: Analyses of aging from a cellular, systemic, and behavioral perspective.
• NIH R01: Co-PI with Kimberly Nixon, University of Kentucky (2007). Ethanol alteration of the neurogenic niche.
  

Recent Publications:

• Pehar, M., Burns-Cusato, M., Andrzejewski, M. E., Li, H., O’Riordan, K. J., del Alcazar, C. G., Burger, C., Scrable, H., & Puglielli, L. (in press). Altered longevity-assurance activity of p53:p44 in the mouse causes memory loss, neurodegeneration, and premature death. Aging Cell.
• Scrable, H., Burns-Cusato, M., & Medrano, S. (2009) Anxiety and the aging brain: Stressing out over p53. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects, 1790(12), 1587-91.
• Cusato, B. M., & Burns-Cusato, M. (2009). Individual recognition requires physical and behavioral cues in Japanese quail. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 22, 93-112.
• Medrano, S., Burns-Cusato, M., Atienza, M. B., Rahimi, D., & Scrable, H. (2009). Regenerative capacity of neural precursors in the adult mammalian brain is under the control of p53. Neurobiology of Aging, 30(3), 483-497.
• Park, J. H., Burns-Cusato, M., Dominguez-Salazar, E., Riggan, A., Shetty, S., Burgoyne, P. S., Arnold, A. P., & Rissman, E. F. (2008). Effects of sex chromosome aneuploidy on male sexual behavior. Genes, Brain, & Behavior, 7, 609-617.
  

Jeff Fieberg (chemistry)
Awards:

• Stodghill Research Professorship (2010)
• Centre Scholar (2008-2010)

Presentations:

• Emily C. Green, Sarah A. Steele, Benjamin G. Gowen, Sarah M. Hawkins and Jeffrey E. Fieberg, “Biosensing with Functionalized Gold Nanotubes,” Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Nashville, Tenn., November 2008.
• Jeffrey E. Fieberg, “Relating thermodynamic state functions through a simple mnemonic device: The Energy Pie,” 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Indiana University, Ind., July 2008.
• Jeffrey E. Fieberg, “Nanomolar Sensing with Multiple Conical Gold Nanotubes,” KYNANOMAT 2008 ( Kentucky NanoMaterials), Louisville, Ky., March 2008.
• Sarah Hawkins, Nathaniel Blank, Benjamin Gowen, Lauren Lackey and Jeffrey E. Fieberg, “Prototype Nanoscale Biosensor for use in Aqueous Solutions,” Kentucky Academy of Sciences Meeting, Louisville, Ky., November 2007.
• Nathaniel Blank, Benjamin Gowen, and Jeffrey E. Fieberg, “Fabrication of Conical Nanopores in Polycarbonate to be used for Biosensors,” Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Augusta, Ga., November 2006.
• Jeffrey E. Fieberg, “Visualizing the transition state and reaction coordinate,” Demo Grand Prix, 19th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Purdue University, Ind., August 2006.
• Jeffrey E. Fieberg and S. Keith Dunn, “Quantum or Thermo First? Yes.” 19th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Purdue University, Ind., August 2006.
• Jeffrey E. Fieberg, “Exploring vibrational motion in the general chemistry laboratory: molecules rock!” 19th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Purdue University, Ind., August 2006.

Mykol Hamilton (psychology)
Publications:
Hamilton, M. C., & McGinley, K. (in preparation for journal submission). "Lies, Damn Lies, and Voir Dire: Pretrial Publicity and Juror Bias".

Hamilton, M. C., & Snavely, K. (in preparation for journal submission). "College Students’ Preferences for Sons vs. Daughters".

Hamilton, M. C., Anderson, D., Broaddus, M., & Young, K. "Sex Stereotyping and Under-representation of Female Characters in 200 Popular Children’s Picture Books: A 21st Century Update", Sex Roles, 55, 757-765, (2006).

Anderson, D., & Hamilton, M. C. "Children’s Picture Books: Where are the Dads?", Sex Roles, 52, 145-151, (2005).
 
Lambdin, J. R., Greer, K. M., Jibotian, K. S., Wood, K. R., & Hamilton, M. C. "The Animal = Male Hypothesis: Children’s and Adults’ Beliefs about the Sex of Non-Sex-Specific Stuffed Animals", Sex Roles, 48, 471-482, (2003).

Presentations:
McGinley, K., & Hamilton, M. C. (2009). "Lies, Damn Lies, and Voir Dire: Prospective Juror Bias Concerning Defendant Guilt in Highly Publicized Cases," paper presented at the American Psychology-Law Society conference, San Antonio, Tex.

Snavely, K., & Hamilton, M. C. (2009). "College Students’ Preferences for Future Children: Sons vs. Daughters," poster presented at the Association for Women in Psychology conference, Newport, R. I.

Ferguson, E. K., & Hamilton, M. C. (2007). "Bestselling Children’s Picture Books in 2001 and 2006: Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Gender Stereotypes Paper presented at the conference of the Association for Women in Psychology", San Francisco, Calif.

Hamilton, M. C., Anderson, D., Broaddus, M., & Young, K. (2005). "Sex Stereotyping and Under-Representation of Female Characters in 200 Popular Children’s Picture Books: A 21st Century Update," paper presented at the conference of the Association for Women in Psychology, Orlando, Fla.

Current research:
Priest, B., & Hamilton, M. C. "Princess Ubiqiutous: Images of Girls and Women at Disney World."

Pope, L., & Hamilton, M. C. "Weapon Focus: The Role of Threat in Children’s Eyewitness Testimony."

Siler, H., & Hamilton, M. C. "Untitled project on psychology and the law."

Jones, C, & Hamilton, M. C. "Juries, social desirability, and the backfire effect."

McGinley, K., & Hamilton, M. C. "Voir Dire (Dis)Honesty."

Awards: Stodghill Endowed Professorship, 2006-present.

Joel Kilty (mathematics)
Publications:

• The L^p Dirichlet Problem for the Stokes System on Lipschitz Domains, Indiana University Math. J. 58 (2009), no. 3, 1211-1226.

Grants:

• $10,000 award from the Academy of Inquiry-Based Learning Small Grants Program (a program of the Educational Advancement Foundation) for the development of inquiry-based learning courses. Co-written with Jeff Heath.

Anne E. Lubbers (biology)
Papers:

• J. B. McGraw, S. Souther, and A. E. Lubbers (2010). Rates of Harvest and Compliance with Regulations in Natural Populations of American Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.). Natural Areas Journal (In press).
• J. McGraw, M. A. Furedi, K. Maiers, C. Carroll, G. Kauffman, A. Lubbers, J. Wolf, R. Anderson, M. Anderson, B. Wilcox, D. Drees, M. Van der Voort, M. Albrecht, A. Nault, H. MacCulloch, and A. Gibbs (2005). "Berry ripening and harvest season in wild American ginseng", Northeastern Naturalist. 12(2):141-152.

Presentations:

• Seed production in American ginseng: Variation among populations and with plant size. U.S. Fish & Wildlife workshop on American ginseng, Moon Township, Pa. (January 31, 2006).

Awards:

• Centre Scholar (2004-2006).
  

Alex M. McAllister (mathematics)
Publications:

• A Transition to Advanced Mathematics: A Survey Course, with William Johnston, Oxford University Press, New York, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-19-531076-4. A textbook for a transition course surveying mathematics (July 2009).
• Abridgement editor for Schaum's Easy Outlines in Logic (McGraw-Hill, 2005).
  

Panels:

• Developing New Courses, NExT Panel, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington D.C. (January 2009).
• Perspectives on Transition Courses, (organized and participated) Kentucky Section of MAA Annual Meeting, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky. (March 2008).
• Finding Your Classroom Style, Kentucky Section of MAA NExT Program, Centre College, Danville, Ky. (March 2006).

Honors & Awards:

• Kirk Teaching Award (2009).
• Stodghill Research Professorship (2008).
• Centre Scholar (2005-2007).
• Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society (2005).

Ed Montgomery (chemistry)
Recent publications:
K.D. Sen, V.I. Pupyshev, and H.E. Montgomery Jr.; “Exact Relations for Confined One-Electron Systems” in press with Advances in Quantum Chemistry, Volume 57 (invited review).

H.E. Montgomery Jr. and K.D. Sen; “Electron density and its derivatives at the nucleus for spherically confined hydrogen atom,” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 109 (2009) 688.

H.E. Montgomery Jr. and K.D. Sen; “Statistical complexity and Fisher-Shannon measure for H2+,” Physics Letters A 372 (2008) 2271.

H.E. Montgomery Jr., N.A. Aquino, K.D. Sen; “On the degeneracy of confined D-dimensional harmonic oscillator,” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 107 (2007) 798.

N. Aquino, G. Campoy, H.E. Montgomery Jr.; “Highly accurate solutions for the confined hydrogen atom,” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 107 (2007) 1548.

S.H. Patil, K.D. Sen, N.A. Watson, H.E. Montgomery Jr.; “Characteristic features of net information measures for constrained coulomb potentials,” Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics 40 (2007) 2147.

Jennifer L. Muzyka (chemistry)
Publications:
“Model of Human Butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) Tetramer by Homology Modeling and Dynamics Simulations,” by Yongmei Pan, Jennifer L. Muzyka, and Chang-Guo Zhan, J. Phys. Chem. B., accepted.

"Visualization Tools for Organic Chemistry,” by Jennifer L. Muzyka, J. Chem. Educ. 2009, 86, 254.

“Making Student Acquired Spectra Available via a Web Browser,” by Jennifer L. Muzyka, Ian M. Kaster, Lucas W. Hatcher, J. Chem. Educ. 2007, 84, 1871-1872.

Presentations:
“Web-based practice problems for organic chemistry,” Ian M. Kaster, G. Swope Munday, Monica Foster, Deysi Hernandez, and Jennifer Muzyka, Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Bloomington, Ind., July 28, 2008.

“Web-Accessible Student Generated Spectra,” Jennifer L. Muzyka, Ian M. Kaster, Lucas W. Hatcher, Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, West Lafayette, Ind., July 31, 2006.

Christine Shannon (mathematics, computer science)
Awards: Mathematical Association of America Kentucky Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics for 2009.

Publications:
Jayawant, Pallavi, Martha Kosa, and Christine Shannon, “Reconstructing Curves from Sample Data: Implementing Algorithms using Voronoi Diagrams and Delaunay Triangulations,” Aug. 31, 2008; DIMACS Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, DIMACS Educational Module Series, Dec. 29, 2008. (dimacs.rutgers.edu/Publications/Modules/moduleslist.html)

B. Manaris, M. Wainer, A.E. Kirkpatrick, R.H. Stalvey, C. Shannon, L.  Leventhal, J. Barnes, J. Wright, J. B. Schafer, D. Sanders, "Implementations of the CC’01 Human-Computer Interaction Guidelines using Bloom’s Taxonomy", Computer Science Education Journal 17(1), pp. 21-57 (March 2007).

Shannon, Christine. “Robots Can Wear Multiple Hats in the Computer Science Curriculum at Liberal Arts Colleges.” In Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education. Technical Report SS-07-09, AAAI Spring Symposium, Menlo Park, CA.: AAAI Press (2007).

Shannon, Christine. “Schools Marginalizing Computer Science.” Lexington Herald Leader. July 18. 2005: 11A.

Shannon, Christine. rev. of User-Centered Website Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach, by Daniel D. McCracken and Rosalee J. Wolfe. Behaviour & Information Technology. 23.5 (2004) 375-376.

Mercer, David. Schaum's Easy Outline HTML. ed. Christine Shannon. New York: McGraw-Hill (2003).

"Another Breadth-first Approach to CS I using Python." Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Reno, Nevada, February 19-22, 2003. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (2003) 248-251.

Conrad Shiba (chemistry)
Presentations:

• “Volcanoes in New Zealand: A Field Experience for Liberal Arts Students,” presented at the national meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon (October 2009).

Field trip:

• “From Disaster to Recovery: The Hydrogeomorphic, Ecologic, and Biologic Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington” as a part of the national meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Oregon (October 2009).

Brian Storz (biology)
Publications:

• Kulkarni, S., Moskalik, C., Gomez-Mestre, I., Storz, B.L., Buchholz, D. (In review) Evolution of developmental plasticity in spadefoot toads. Evolution.
• Storz, B. L., Heinrichs, J., Yazdani, A., Phillips, R. D., Mulvey, B. B., Arendt, J. D., Moerland, T. S. and J. Travis. (In review). Reassessment of the environmental mechanisms controlling developmental polyphenism in spadefoot toad tadpoles part II. Oecologia.
• Storz, B. L. and T. S. Moerland. 2009. Proximate Regulation of Spadefoot Tadpole Polyphenism; Histological Analysis of Carnivore Myoenlargement Relative to Omnivores. Journal of Morphology.

Invited Seminars:

• Presentation: The Regulation of Alternative Developmental Programs: Environment, Morphology, and Molecules. University of Cincinnati, October 2009.

Jan Wertz (psychology)
Awards:
Centre Scholar, 2007-2009.
Stodghill Research Professorship, 2006.
Kirk Teaching Award, 2005.

Professional Activities:
Megan Collins, Julia Hubbard & Jan Wertz: The Effects of Commercial Media on Male Body Image. Presented at Southeastern Psychological Association Convention, New Orleans (March 2007).

Jan Wertz, Adam Heckmann, Elizabeth Tammen, Katrina Farris & Nick Denton: The Effectiveness of a Spay/Neuter Print-Media Campaign. (Spring 2006).

Katie Hoying & Jan Wertz: Sports Involvement History and Self-Esteem: A Study of Female College Students and Alumni. (Spring 2006).

Nick Denton & Jan Wertz: Autonomic Arousal, Personality Traits, and Gambling Behavior in College Students. Presented at Carolinas Psychology Conference, Raleigh, N.C. (April 2006).

Lisa Purdy & Jan Wertz: Student Alcohol Consumption’s Relation to Academic Success and Familial Drinking. Presented at Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta (March 2006).

Nick Denton & Jan Wertz: Autonomic Arousal, Personality Traits, and Gambling Behavior in Female College Students: A Pilot Study. Presented at Kentucky Academy of Science, Richmond, Ky. (November 2005).

Jan Wertz & William Stilwell: Burnout in Pre-doctoral Psychology Interns. Presented at Southeastern Psychological Association, Nashville (March 2005).

Maggie Ray & Jan Wertz: Body-Image and Self-Concept in Parochial High School Females. (Spring 2005).

Jan Wertz & William Stilwell: Therapist Burnout and Perception of Therapeutic Work. Presented at Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta (March 2004).

Kristen Allison & Jan Wertz: Effects of Appearance-Related Television Commercials on Female Body Satisfaction and State Anxiety. Presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Convention, Atlanta (March 2003).

Tarah Combs & Jan Wertz: Anxiety, Intimacy and Parental Divorce. Presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Convention, Atlanta (March 2003).

Jane Musson & Jan Wertz: The Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Academic Performance. Presented at Southeastern Psychological Association Convention, Atlanta (March 2003).

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