Published & Presented 2009

Published & Presented

Laura Williamson Ambrose, assistant professor of humanistic studies, gave her archival research presentation, “Travel in Time: Almanac Use and Local Travel in Seventeenth-Century England,” to the participants of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, “The Reformation of the Book,” in Oxford, England, in July.

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Don Balka, professor emeritus of mathematics, was elected to the office of president-elect of School Science and Mathematics Association (SSMA), the oldest professional organization for mathematics and science educators. His one-year term as president-elect begins in October, followed by a two-year term as president and one-year term as past president. SSMA is an inclusive professional community that joins researchers and teachers in promoting research, scholarship, and practice to improve school science and mathematics and to advance the integration of the two.

Balka also recently began a three-year term on the board of directors of TODOS: Mathematics for All. The mission of the organization is to advocate for equitable and high quality mathematics education for all students—in particular, Hispanic/Latino students—by increasing the equity awareness of educators and their ability to foster students’ proficiency in rigorous and coherent mathematics.

Saint Mary’s Department of Mathematics’ partnership with the South Bend Community School Corporation in its program, Reach for the Numbers, was the catalyst for involvement in TODOS. The program provided training for the South Bend Community’s English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and students. Working with Balka were associate professors Mary Porter and Colleen Hoover.

In addition, Balka coauthored the books, A Guide to Mathematics Coaching: Processes for Increasing Student Achievement and A Guide to Mathematics Leadership: Sequencing Instructional Change (Corwin Press). He is also coauthor on the K–5 elementary mathematics series, Math Connects (The Macmillan Group).

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J. Philip Bays, professor of chemistry, represented the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Project SEED (Summer Experiences for the Economically Disadvantaged) summer research program at a black-tie dinner and ceremony in May at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. The event honored recipients of the 2009 National Science Board Public Service Awards, including Project SEED. Bays is the immediate past chair (2006–08) of the ACS committee, which oversees the program.

Project SEED focuses on fostering interest in science as a career and encouraging achievement in science, mathematics, and engineering among high school students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Established in 1968, Project SEED provides summer research opportunities for students in academic, industrial, and government research laboratories across the country under the supervision of volunteer scientists who serve as mentors. In its 40–year history, more than 9,000 students have participated in the program.

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Linda Berdayes, associate professor of communication studies, presented the paper “Secondary Orality and Mobile Phones” at the Tenth Annual Convention of The Media Ecology Association, at Saint Louis University, in June. The paper examines how the mobile phone may mediate instrumental relationships that increase objectification of others as well as feelings of isolation. The incessant need to talk and connect, especially when moving through transitional spaces, can be used to disconnect one from direct experience with the world and oneself.

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Vince Berdayes, professor of communication studies, presented “Scenario Planning as a Socially Conscious Research Methodology” at the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in May. The paper describes methodological aspects of scenario planning, a social forecasting technique increasingly used in conflict resolution exercises and for social planning purposes.

Berdayes also presented the paper “Numbers in Oral Societies” at the Tenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association, Saint Louis University, in June which the paper examines how numbers change when print technology is introduced into a society.

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Theodore Billy, chair and professor of English, published his article, “‘Look Here, You See:’ Focusing on Myopic Vision in The Great Gatsby,” in Approaches to Teaching The Great Gatsby (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2009), 156–61.

Billy will also present his paper entitled “From Usher with Love: The Poesque Purloined in Stephen King’s The Shining” at the Poe Bicentennial Conference, in Philadelphia in October.

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Carolyne Call, director of the Office of Civic and Social Engagement, presented a paper, “Knowing Our Roots: Religious Traditions and Community Engagement,” at the first Faith, Justice, and Civic Learning Conference, in June, at De Paul University in Chicago. Call worked with regional service-learning colleagues to plan and carry out the conference.

Call also presented a preliminary paper, “Incorporating Hospitality into a College Classroom,” as part of a two-year faculty seminar series entitled Christian Practices to Christian Pedagogy, hosted by Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. Call’s final paper will be presented at the group’s October conference, and along with submissions from other seminar participants, will become a chapter in a forthcoming text from Eerdmans Press.

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Insook Chung, associate professor of education, had a research article entitled “Korean Teachers’ perceptions of student success in Mathematics: Concept versus procedure” published in The Montana Mathematics Enthusiast, 6 (1/2), 239–256.

Chung also attended the 2009 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Annual Meeting and Exposition, in April, in Washington, D.C., where he presented a session, “Teaching and Assessing English Learners’ Mathematics Using Hands-On Learning Games and Activities,” also in April. The participants for the presentation were elementary school teachers (K–5), educational administrators, researchers, and educational legislators in the elementary education field.

In addition, Chung served as coeditor on the Korean version of two books: Navigating through algebra in grades 3 to 5, and Navigating through algebra in grades 6 to 8 (Kyungmoon Publishers, 2008).

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Olivia Barzydlo Critchlow, assistant director of the Office for Civic and Social Engagement, and director of the College Academy of Tutoring (CAT), presented a program, “Partnering Higher Education with Title 1 Schools,” at the 20th Annual National Service-Learning Conference, in Nashville, in March.

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Nancy L. D’Antuono, professor of Italian, presented her paper, “Andrea Perrucci as rifacitore of Spanish Golden Age Drama,” at a Northeast Modern Language Association meeting last February and March in Boston. Accepted for publication: A critical edition of the score (Professor Ethan Haimo, University of Notre Dame) and a dual language edition of the libretto (Nancy L. D’Antuono) of Domenico Cimarosa’s, L’Infedeltà fedele, text by Giambattista Lorenzi (Napoli, 1779); A-R Publications Inc., Middleton, Wis., for the series, “Research in the Music of the Classical Age.”

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Indi Dieckgrafe, professor of dance, presented a workshop, “Tools and Fuels for Sacred Dance—a Choreographic Workshop for Your BodySpirit,” sponsored by the Lake Shore Chapter of the Sacred Dance Guild, at The South Church, Mount Prospect, Ill., in August.

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Keith J. Egan, Aquinas chair in Catholic Theology Emeritus, received the 2009 first-place award from the North American Catholic Press Association for his essay, “Mother Teresa’s Dark Night,” Spiritual Life 54 (2008), 135–143.

Egan’s recent publications include, “Carmel’s Love of Learning and the Desire for God,” The Sword 67–68 (2009), 151–166, and in the same issue, “Funeral Eulogy for Ernest Larkin, O. Carm,” pp. 177–79; a book review of The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila in Spiritus (Spring 2009), 129–131.

Egan lectured on “John of the Cross,” to Secular Discalced Carmelites of Twin Cities, Minn., in Buffalo, Minn., May 15–17. That month, he also conducted a retreat on “Prayer and Hope” for the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Ind. His lecture on “Nature, Grace and Glory in John of the Cross,” was given at the College Theology Society’s annual convention in May at Notre Dame, Ind. He also presented a week of lectures on the topic of mysticism at Notre Dame’s annual Alumni College, in June. In July, he gave a speech, “Taking a Long Loving Look at the Real,” at a dinner honoring the summer of 2009 Theology Master of Arts graduates at the University of Notre Dame.

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Laura Haigwood, professor of English, presented her paper, “Anne Lutton’s Methodism Against the Tide of Modernity,” at the 17th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, at Duke University, in May.

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Charles A. Hobbs, visiting assistant professor of philosophy, had his essay “Naturalism, Death, and Functional Immortality” appear in the current issue of Contemporary Pragmatism (Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2009, 39–65). In March, Hobbs presented “Pragmatism as a Contribution to Philosophy of Death and Dying,” at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in Texas.

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Krista Hoefle, associate professor in the art department, had a solo exhibition August 31–October 14, at the Wabash College Art Gallery in Crawfordsville, Ind.: “The girl who stopped being human!” In July, Hoefle also had a solo show at “ebers/b9,” a Chicago gallery. In July and August, her work was also displayed as a part of the Mixed Greens Gallery group exhibition “X” in New York City.

Hoefle’s digital animation, “This is a type of freakshow parthenogenesis,” was screened at the Aurora Picture Show Theater in Houston, Tex., as a part of its “Extremely Shorts” film festival in June. Bill Arning, director of the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, juried the festival.

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Sister Eva Mary Hooker, CSC, professor of English, recently had several of her poems published, including “This Ain’t No Boogie-Woogie,” and “Oh Death, Thou Comest When I Had Thee Least in Mind,” Drunken Boat, Summer 2009; “Shadow of Two,” Agni, Spring 2009; “The Hospitality of War” and “Salt Flower,” Memorious 12, Summer 2009; “Working Methods,” New England Review, Volume 30, Number 2, 2009, and “Three Woodpeckers,” Terrain, Fall 2009.

Coming this fall, are Sister Eva Mary’s poems, that include: “I Tell the Lake A Story,” and “Things You Thought You Were Rid Of,” Cavalier, “Goodness, Sweet, Can Make You Blind,” Water~Stone, and “Posting from a Lunar World,” Re-dactions.

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Cindy Iavagnilio and Mary K. Welle, assistant professors of nursing, were accepted by blind peer review to present an interactive poster at Mosby’s Development Institute in Orlando, Fla., in January. The poster was titled “Clinical Simulation Day: Ease of Transition.” The purpose of this learning activity was to determine if a preclinical simulation day, consisting of scenarios that exposed students to commonly encountered problems/skills, eased their transition into the clinical setting.

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Jeffrey Jacob, professor of music (piano, piano pedagogy). Jacob’s Symphony no. 3, was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Daniel Spalding at the London Abbey Road Studios, in October 2008. It was released on the Vienna Modern Masters label in September. The 20-minute work in three movements is inspired by Richard Strauss’s Tone Poem, “Death and Transfiguration.”

Jacob performed a recital of contemporary American piano music at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and at Texas Lutheran University, in October 2008. He also gave a lecture-recital on the music of George Crumb at Rice. His recording, “Piano Music from Four Continents,” was released by Vienna Modern Masters and contains new works by composers Hyekyung Lee; Santiago Luchares; Ananda Sukarlan; Peter Klatzow; Polo Vallejo; He Jian-Jun, and Hannes Talfaard.

Jacob performed a solo recital of piano works by Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Bartok, and Chopin for the dedicatory concert of the new Steinway D piano at the Liberty Theater in Astoria, Ore., in January, and performed a similar recital for the Fine Arts Society of Casper, Wyo., in March. He also performed a program of contemporary music at Casper College and gave a lecture on contemporary compositional techniques, in March.

In May, Jacob appeared as piano soloist with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 2 at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. His most recent recording, “Contemporary American Eclectic Music for the Piano,” was released in July on the New Ariel Recordings label. It contains works by American composers: Eliane Aberdam; Arthur Gottschalk; Thomas Flaherty; Jose-Luis Hurtado; Eric Moe; Christopher Malloy, and Richard Brooks. The CD is dedicated to Brooks, an important advocate of American composers and American music for 40 years. The first volume of Jacob’s three-volume series of the Piano Music of Vincent Persichetti, for 30 years, chair of the composition and theory department of the Juilliard School in New York, was released in September.

Harvard University has invited Jacob to give a lecture-recital on the piano music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, George Crumb, in Spring 2010, as part of its Music Department’s guest lecture series.

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Richard Jensen, professor of biology, published “Phenetics: Revolution, Reform or Natural Consequence?” Taxon 58: 50–60 (2009), and “The origins of oaks,” Amory, M.H. The Oaks of Chevithorne Barton (Adelphi Publishers, London; pp. 28–30 [2009]).

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Phyllis H. Kaminski, professor of religious studies, organized and convened the Women’s Consultation pre-convention session, “Fermenting Impasse: Women’s Critical Communities and Ecclesial Transformation,” at the annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, in June, in Nova Scotia.

Kaminski was also among the featured speakers at the 2009 Irigaray Circle Stonybrook Manhattan, in September. Her paper, “Living Difference(s): Dialogue as Spiritual Practice,” was part of a panel on spirituality.

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Elizabeth “Lisa” Karle, library assistant at the College’s Cushwa-Leighton Library, had her book, Hosting a Library Mystery: a Programming Guide, published in April (American Library Association). The book is considered a valuable resource to any event-planning or service-based librarian.

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Renee Kingcaid, professor of modern languages, presented her paper, “I’m Sorry, but Your Story Doesn’t Qualify as Narrative: The Banlieue Picaresque in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine,” at the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, in Honolulu, in January. The paper was an analysis of storytelling, and its socio-cultural significance in this French film has often been compared to Crash for its depictions of racism and violence in the underprivileged suburbs of Paris.

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Frances Bernard Kominkiewicz, chair and associate professor of social work, was appointed co-chair of the Social Work Baccalaureate Program Directors Research Subcommittee for the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors. The co-chair is Elizabeth Twining Blue, chair of human behavior and diversity, and professor of social work at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.

In addition, Kominkiewicz co-presented the paper, “Students as Producers or Consumers? A National Study of BSW Research Syllabi,” at the Board-Sponsored Research Session, in Phoenix, in March. Co-presenting were Blue; Sudershan Pasupuleti, associate professor of social work and Hartford Geriatric Faculty Scholar with the College of Health Sciences and Human Services, University of Toledo, and Rowena Fong, Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor and director of the Bachelor’s of Social Work program in the School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin.

Kominkiewicz was also recently appointed as a consulting editor of the Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work.

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Michael R. Kramer, associate professor of communication studies, coauthored the article, “A Review and Meta-Analysis Examining the Relationship of Music Content with Sex, Race, Priming, and Attitudes” (Communication Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 303–324 [2008]).

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Jerome L. McElroy, professor of economics recently published several articles including, “On the Mountain,” The National Catholic Reporter (April 17, 2009): 20; “Osprey,” Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry (Spring 2009): 24, and “Annunciation” and “Incarnation,” Penwood Review 13(1) (Spring 2009): 25. McElroy also published “The Supply Determinants of Small Island Tourist Economies,” ARA (Caribbean) Journal of Tourism Research 2(1) (2009): 13 Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 22 (with Courtney Parry ’09).

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Elaine Meyer-Lee, director of the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership, gave a presentation, “Assessment Toolbox for International Educators,” at the NAFSA 2009 Annual Conference & Expo, “Fostering Global Engagement Through International Education,” in Los Angeles, in May (Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 29). She also gave two presentations at the Fifth Annual Forum on Education Abroad Conference: “Being There: Teaching and Learning Abroad,” in Portland, Ore., in February (Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 20). Those presentations included, “A Social Identification Measure for Study Abroad Assessment” and “Implementing Assessment On-Site.”

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Zae Munn, professor of music, attended the Society of Composers Inc. National Conference in Santa Fe, N.Mex., in April. Munn’s composition, “Broken Tulip” (2008), a septet featuring a new instrument called the “contraforte,” was performed at the conference.

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Don Paetkau, assistant professor of biology, presented a poster at the 50th Annual Drosophila Research Conference in March: “The suppressor of retinal degeneration, su(rdgB)82, maps to the 53F8-54F1 region of chromosome 2,” which was researched and compiled by Kaitlyn S. Kuns ’09, Calli A. Davison ’09, and Paetkau.

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Daniel Party, assistant professor of music, published his paper, “Placer Culpable: shame and nostalgia in the Chilean 1990s balada revival” in Latin American Music Review 30(1), 2009, pp. 69–98. In May, he presented a paper, “Spanish canción ligera: the (un)official music of the late Franco regime,” at the Colloque International Musique d’Etat et Dictature (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France).

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Catherine Pittman, associate professor of psychology, and Elizabeth “Lisa” Karle, library assistant at the College’s Cushwa-Leighton Library, coauthored the book Extinguishing Anxiety: Whole Brain Strategies to Relieve Fear and Stress (Foliadeux Press, August 2009).

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Thomas Platt, professor of biology, published a paper based on the senior comprehensive research projects of Lindsay Burnside ’08 and Elizabeth Bush ’08. “The role of light and gravity in the experimental transmission of Echinostoma caproni (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) cercariae to the second intermediate, Biomphalaria glabrata (Gastropoda: Pulmonata),” Journal of Parasitology 95: 512–516.

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Ujvala Rajadhyaksha, associate professor in the Department of Business Administration and Economics, presented a paper, “Gender, Gender Role ideology and Work-Family Conflict in India,” at the Academy of Management Conference, in Chicago, in August. The paper was nominated from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations Division, for the Carolyn Dexter Award, an all-Academy Award given to the paper that best meets the objective of internationalizing the Academy.

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Claude Renshaw, Professor Emeritus of accounting, will present the “2009 Federal Tax Update,” at the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants’ annual convention in Las Vegas on October 20. He will also speak on that subject at a luncheon for the South Bend Rotary Club on December 16.

Meanwhile, “How the Income Tax Rules Hurt Low Income Families: A Startling Revelation,” an article that Renshaw coauthored with Ken Milani, professor of accounting at the University of Notre Dame, will be published in the October 19 issue of Tax Notes, a technical journal for tax professionals.

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Joanne Snow, professor of mathematics, and Colleen Hoover, associate professor of mathematics, have an article accepted for publication in Mathematical Intelligencer. The article, “Mathematician as Artist: Marston Morse,” should appear in Spring 2010.

Snow gave a presentation at the University of Notre Dame in July on the topic “Mathematician as Artist: Marston Morse.” The lecture was part of the series of lectures of the Clavius Group, which visited Notre Dame this summer.

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Mary Kay Welle, assistant professor of nursing, presented her poster, “Allowing Thin Water for the Dysphagic Patient: Is it Safe?,” displayed at the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing’s 20th Anniversary Research Conference, in July 2008, in Vancouver, Canada, which focused on evidence-based practice.

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Megan Zwart, visiting instructor of philosophy, presented a paper, “Revisiting Heidegger’s Plato: Recovering a More ‘Phenomenological’ Plato from the Sophist Lectures,” at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, in Chicago, in February.