Recent Scholarly Activity by Faculty and Staff Members

Fall 2005

Jinqiao (Victor) Yu (Computer Science) has a research paper, “TRINETR: An Architecture for Collaborative Intrusion Detection and Knowledge-Based Alert Evaluation," to appear in the International Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics, published by Elsevier Science. In addition, Yu and Jacob Kronika (a 2005 computer science graduate) have contributed a paper, “IP Traceback: Determining Network Attack Sources," to the 3rd NATO Scientific Conference, Security and Protection of Information (SPI) 2005. Jinqiao (Victor) Yu has had several other peer-reviewed papers appear in research conferences this summer.

Spring 2005

An essay by Raymond G. Wilson (Physics, Emeritus) is published in the second edition of All Things Nuclear by James C. Warf of the University of Southern California. Wilson's essay is entitled "A New Way of Thinking About Preserving Peace." The book, published by Figueroa Press, is "a sourcebook of significant information for motivated nonprofessionals on everything concerning atomic nuclei, both peaceful and military. It is of interest to all who are concerned with atomic weapons and peacetime applications of nuclear science."

A new book entitled Teaching Black Girls: Resiliency in Urban Classrooms has been published by Venus Evans-Winters (Educational Studies) by Peter Lang Publishers. The book, part of a series, Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, is called "the first book to directly focus on the pedagogical and educational needs of poor and working-class African American female students."

Abigail Jahiel (Political Science) and Given Harper (Biology) co-authored "The Green Task Force: facing the challenges to environmental stewardship at a small liberal arts college" in the Strategies for Sustainability: Stories from the Ivory Tower, published by MIT Press.

A new play by Sandra Lindberg (Theatre Arts), “A Breach in Autumn,” was presented as a “concert reading” at the Judith Shakespeare Co. in New York City in February.

Ram Mohan (Chemistry) and student co-authors have published “Bismuth Compounds in Organic Synthesis. A One-Pot Synthesis of Homoallyl Ethers and Homoallyl Acetates from Aldehydes Catalyzed by Bismuth Triflate,” in the Journal of Organic Chemistry and a chapter, “Use of Ionic Liquids in Organic Synthesis,” in the prestigious American Chemical Society Symposium Series.

Christopher Prendergast (Sociology and Anthropology) is the author of an article, "The typical outline of an ethnographic research publication," in the journal Teaching Sociology and a book review, "Schultz's reflections on the social relationship between the author and beholder of literary works," in Human Studies.

Tim Query (Business Administration), in collaboration with both former Illinois Wesleyan students and colleagues, has published a series of articles: “Making Investment Decisions Based on Prior Merger and Acquisition Performance in the Preannouncement Period,” in Proceedings of the Academy of Finance; “Shareholder Wealth Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions,” in Working Money; “Risk Management of Sexual Harassment,” in Risk Management; and a book chapter, “Is the Latin American Pension Reform Model Transferable? An Assessment Utilizing the Venezuelan Social Security System,” in Latin American Financial Markets: Developments in Financial Innovations.

Greg Shaw (Political Science) has an article, “False Consensus: Public (Mis)Estimation of Public Opinior,” in a new on-line journal of public opinion research, Public Opinion Pros as well as a book review of Navigating Public Opinion: Polls, Policy, and the Future of American Democracy in Political Studies Review.

Doran French (Psychology) and colleagues at Arizona State University and Padjadjaran University in Bandung, Indonesia, have been awarded a $96,500 grant from the Fetzer Foundation. The grant is titled, "Indonesian Adolescents: Caring and Caring Relationships" and explores friendships that cross some of the fault lines of Indonesian society, for example friendships between Christians and Muslims and between Javanese/Sundanese and Chinese. The grant, which will be administered by Arizona State University, will be for a one-year period beginning in January 2005.

Linda French (Physics) is among authors from both the United States and Japan who published "Physical Characteristics of Hayabusa target Asteroid 25143 Itokawa," which appeared in the January 2005 edition of journal Icarus. The article describes the small diamater, near-Earth. French observed the asteroid at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona.

Sonja Fritzsche (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures) is the author of an article, “Reconceptualizing East German Popular Literature via the Science Fiction Niche,” which appeared in the fall issue of The German Quarterly, one of the top journals in German Studies and the literary journal of the American Association of Teachers of German.

Tian-Xiao He (Mathematics) has published two recent journal articles-“Biothogonal Spline Type Wavelets,” in Computers and Mathematics with Applications and “A Symbolic Operator Approach to Several Summation Formulas for Power Series” (co-authored with three others) in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.

Njeri Mbugua (Sociology) has published her novel, Joki:When Elephants Fight, the Grass Suffers, set primarily in her native Kenya and intended to introduce readers to a very different side of African society than the one we usually see in journalistic works.

Greg Shaw (political science) authored a substantial entry on “Federalism and Social Welfare Policy (United States),” in the Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America.

Winter 2004

David Bollivar (Biology) is co-author with former student Cheryl Clauson of "Rhodobacter capsulatus-porphobilinogen synthase, a high activity metal ion independent hexamer" in the journal BMC Biochemistry (vol. 5, 12 pp., 2004).

Christina Isabelli Garcia (Hispanic Studies) is the author of A Case Study of the Factors in the Development of Spanish Linguistic Accuracy and Oral Communication Skills: Motivation and Extended Interaction in the Study Abroad Context published by The Edwin Mellen Press.

Valerie Orlando (Hispanic studies) critically examined filmmaker Moussa Sene Absa's 1996 film Tableau Ferraille in a paper entitled "African feminine transformative consciousness in francophone cinema: Moussa Sene Absa's Tableau Ferraille (1996)," in African Identities (vol. 2, pp. 189-202, 2004). In addition, she also published "The visual turn: classical film theory and art history" in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video (vol. 21, pp. 356-361, 2004).

Gabe Spalding (Physics) has published a paper entitled "Alloptical sorting" in the journal Optics & Photonics News (vol. 15, p. 23, 2004).

Fall 2004

An article by Carmela Ferradáns (Hispanic Studies), "Reflections on a Woman’s Eye: Ana Rossetti on the Wrappings of Desire," appears in the recently published volume, P/Herversions: Critical Studies of Ana Rossetti, published by Bucknell University
Press.

Tim Query (Business Administration) is co-author of an article managed health care programs in the Winter 2004 issue of Hospital Topics: Research and Perspectives on Healthcare. With Patricia H. Born of California State University, Northridge, Query examined complaints against HMOs for the article entitled "Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) Performance and Consumer Complaints: An Empirical Study of Frustrating HMO Activities." He also was published "An update on public policy changes impacting long-term care"online in the Journal of Financial Planning's "Between the Issues" (December 1, 2004).

Brian Hatcher (Religion) is the author of a chapter on "Contemporary Hindu Thought" in Contemporary Hinduism: Ritual, Culture, and Practice from ABCCLIO
Press.

Tatah Mentan (Political Science) is the author of Dilemmas of Weak States: Africa and Transnational Terrorism in the 21st Century, which is part of the Ashgate Series on "Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies."

Ram Mohan (Chemistry) has published "Environment-friendly organic
synthesis using bismuth compounds: Bismuth triflcate catalyzed synthesis of
substituted 3, 4-dihydro-2H-1-benzopyrans" in Tetrahedron Letters.

Chris Prendergast (Sociology) has three contributions to the Encyclopedia of Social
Theory—an essay in Volume 1 entitled "Levels of Social Structure," and in
Volume 2, articles on "Alfred Schütz" and "Social Capital."

Greg Shaw (Political Science) is co-author with Sarah E. Mysiewicz, a junior from Chicago, of "Trends: Social Security and Medicare in Public Opinion Quarterly. A second essay by Shaw, "Living, Learning and Teaching Anti-Poverty Policies," is published in PS: Political Science and Politics. In addition, his extensive entry on "Framing Questions" appears in Public Opinion and Polling Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1.

Gabe Spalding (Physics) is co-editor of a new book, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation, Proceedings SPIE 5514, published by The International Society for Optical Engineering.

Nancy Sultan (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures) is author of a chapter on the history of Greek/Roman music in the Thomson-Gale Series, Arts and Humanities through the Eras.

An exhibition of paintings by Miles Bair (School of Art) is on display in the McLean County Arts Center through October 16. According to the MCAC Web site, Bair combines "his commitment to art-making with an intense interest in Japanese art and culture" and explores "all that the painting medium allows." Examples of the exhibiton are available at the MCAC Web site.

For the third consecutive year, Robert Kearney (Business Administration) presented one of the top two papers and received a Distinguished Proceedings Paper Award at the Academy of Legal Studies in Business' annual conference in Ottawa, Ontario. His paper was entitled, "The 'Deliberately Indifferent' Employer: Sexual Harassment Law in Its Maturity." Also for the third consecutive year, Kearney was invited by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago to present an Employment Law Briefing and lecture on "How to Handle Employment Law Appeals." He presented to both senior and incoming staff attorneys at the court.

The fifth edition of Managing Financial Institutions by Mona Gardner (Business Administration) (with Dixie L. Mills and Elizabeth Cooperman) has been released by Thomson-Southwestern Press.

Tian-Xiao He (Mathematics) has published two papers recently. One is entitled ``On Multivariate Abel-Gontscharoff Interpolation,'' which appeared in Advances in Constructive Approximation. This volume is the proceedings of the international conference, Advances in Constructive Approximation. Professor He's second paper is "Dimension-reducing expansion, boundary type quadrature formulas, and the boundary element method,'' which appeared in Advances in Boundary Element Techniques V. This paper was published, as a new formulation and computational algorithm, in the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Boundary Element Techniques, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during July 2004. Professor He has also been selected to join the editorial staff of the Journal of Applied Functional Analysis.

David Fryer's (Religion) new book, The Intervention of the Other, was published in May 2004, by Other Press. It is a comparative analysis of Jacques Lacan and Emmanuel Levinas, based on Fryer's original understandings of the possibilities of dialogue between the two.

Cesar Valverde’s (Hispanic Studies) article, "Failed Manhood, Failed History: Masculinity and Agency in Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno’ and Carpentier’s ‘The Kingdom of this World,’" was recently published in Phoebe: Journal of Feminist Scholarship. Cesar also contributed the translation of the introduction of Carlos Fuentes’s novel Terra Nostra, which has just come out from the Dalkey Archive Press.

Tim Query (Business Administration) has two co-authored articles currently appearing—the first in CPCU eJournal is "Sexual Harassment Litigation: Risk Management Implications." The second appeared in The Baker Chair Journal of Insurance, Risk and Public Risk Management and is entitled "Determinants of Life Insurance Demand at the Provincial Level in China."

Sonja Fritzsche (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures) won the Arthur O. Lewis Award from the Society for Utopian Studies for the best paper presented by an untenured faculty member at their annual conference. Fritzsche’s paper was entitled "Utopia, Dystopia, and Ostalgia: The Pre- and Post-Unification Visions of East German Science Fiction Writer Alexander Kröger."

A number of David Vayo's (Music) compositions have been performed recently around this country and the world. On April 15, 2004, Vayo's composition Mosaics and Webs, commissioned by the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, was premiered at that organization's annual conference in Minneapolis. The performers were faculty and students from Ball State University. On April 29, the Sound One festival at the University of Illinois included the world premiere of his composition Three for Two, a set of pieces for two clarinets. His percussion composition Border Crossing was used as the soundtrack to a dance composition by Laurie Cameron of Pomona College, which was performed a number of times in late April and early May at Pomona and at the Festival of Solos and Duets at the Fountain Theater in Los Angeles. His work Play of Hands was performed on July 13 in Tokyo by harpsichordist Michiyo Honma. And his Prayer: In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen was performed by organist David Hatt in a July 18 concert at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco. Vayo was the recipient in August of an award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) for the 17th year in a row.

Brian Hatcher (Religion) presented three papers at the 2004 North American Bengali Conference in Baltimore, Md/, this summer and was also the recipient of a Distinguished Service Award from the Cultural Association of Bengal for his research on colonial Bengal. The magazine published by the conference also featured Hatcher's translation of a Bengali short story, "Dark Glasses."

Dan Terkla (English) presented a session titled "Reading, Hearing (and so Having) the Mappamundi: Thoughts on Praxis," at the International Medieval Congress held at The University of Leeds, England, in July. Terkla also organized a session on "The New Nature of Cartography" at the Congress. In addition, Terkla's article on the Hereford map: "The Original Placement of the Hereford Map" appeared in Imago Mundi: The International Journal of the History of Cartography (56.2 (July 2004):1-21). He has also served as a consultant and contributor to the Curricular Resources Library (cURL), hosted by Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. The cURL database presents detailed, annotated references to current websites in wide-ranging aspects of European Intellectual History from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment through Postmodernism.

Charlotte Brown (Philosphy) presented a paper, "Hume on Passions and Powers," at the 31st annual Hume Society Conference held in Tokyo in August. She also chaired a session on "Hume and Kant on the Motives of Our Duties to Others."

Ted Morris (Philosophy) presented a paper, "Another Look at Hume’s Doctrine of Necessity," at the 31st annual Hume Society Conference held in Tokyo in August.. Morris chaired a session on "The ‘Uncommon’ Road of a Subtle and Refined Thinker: Causal Reasoning in Hume’s Political Economy."

Vicki Magee (Educational Studies and Psychology) presented a paper, "The Poetics of Written Communication: DeBold and Gilligan's Self-Poem as an Analytic Tool," at the International Communicology Institute's 2004 Summer Symposium held at Bemedji State University.

Spring 2004

Teddy Amoloza (Sociology and Anthropology) has been named of Executive Director of ASIANetwork, beginning in the fall of 2005. ASIANetwork is a consortium of more than 140 liberal arts institutions in the U.S. whose mission is to stimulate the study of Asia and to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of a liberal arts education.

Irv Epstein (Educational Studies) and Tom Lutze (History) will become co-Editors of the ASIANetwork newsletter, The ASIANetwork Exchange after Professor Amoloza assumes the directorship.

Ram Mohan (Chemistry) has recently published a paper entitled "Bismuth Compounds in Organic Synthesis. Bismuth Nitrate Catalyzed Chemoselective Synthesis of Acylals from Aromatic Aldehydes, which appeared in the journal Tetrahedron (vol. 60, pp. 3675-3679, 2004). His co-authors–– Dave Aggen, Josh Arnold, Patrick Hayes and Nate Smoter––are all junior chemistry majors at Illinois Wesleyan.

Gabe Spalding (Physics) has published ""Reconstruction of Optical Angular Momentum after Distortion in Amplitude, Phase, and Polarization," with co-authors V. Garcés-Chávez, D. McGloin, M. D. Summers, A. Fernandez-Nieves, and K. Dholakia, in the Journal of Optics A (vol. 6, pp. S235-S238, 2004).

Tom Streeter (Music) has published "An Interview with Ron Carter" in the Jazz Education Journal (vol. 36, pp. 43-52, 2004). Carter is a musician of some renown, having won major awards and considerable acclaim as both a performer and a teacher of jazz.

Marina Balina (Modern and Classical Language and Literature) gave an invited lecture at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in February 2004. The title of her talk was “Politicizing Magic: Fairy Tales of Socialist Realism.”

Sonja Fritzsche (Modern and Classical Language and Literature) has been invited to join 24 other professors in Germany this summer as participants in the Fulbright Commission's German Studies Seminar 2004. The seminar is entitled: "Visual Culture in Germany: Film, Television and the Internet" and will take place from June 5-25.

Fred Hoyt (Business Administration) is the new presidenct of the Marketing Management Association, the largest of the 14 marketing associations that meet under the umbrella of the Midwest Business Administration Association. Hoyt edited the 2004 Proceedings of the society entitled Marketing in a Changing World.

Valérie Orlando (Modern and Classical Language and Literature) has been accepted as a participant in the Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar in Morocco this coming summer. The seminar runs from June 23-July 24 (with optional research time extended into August) and is on the topic of women's issues in Morocco. She has also published an article entitled “Les politiques de la race et de la patriarchie dans Claire-Solange, âme africaine de Suzanne Lacascade” which appeared in Etudes Francophones (pp. 77-87, Autumn, 2003).

Continuing his work in the mathematics of fuzzy sets, Larry Stout (Mathematics) has just had “Fully Fuzzy Topology” appear as a chapter in the newly published Topological and Algebraic Structures in Fuzzy Sets––A Handbook of Recent Developments in the Mathematics of Fuzzy Sets (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Chapter 8, pp. 235-253, 2003). The volume is contribution #20 in the Trends in Logic Series by Kluwer.

Tom Streeter (Music) was a discussion panelist in the Illinois Music Educator’s Association All-State Conference held in Peoria in January 2004. The topic of his discussion group was “Creating and Sustaining a Quality Jazz Program.”

Kevin Sullivan’s (Religion) is the author of Wrestling with Angels––A Study of the Relationship between Angels and Humans in Ancient Jewish Literature and the New Testament.

Cesar Valverde (Hispanic Studies) had an article entitled "Pasado soterrado y masculinidad perdida en La muñeca reina y Chac Mool" ("Buried past and lost masculinity in La muñeca reina and Chac Mool") appear in the Hispanic Journal (vol. 23.2, pp. 65-76, 2004. Cesar also gave a two-part radio interview discussing his work on masculinity on the Universidad de Costa Rica's program "Cátedra Universitaria" on March 15.

Winter 2004

Christina Isabelli-García (Hispanic Studies) is the author of an article entitled "Development of Oral Communication Skills Abroad" in fall 2003 edition of The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad .

Chuck Springwood (Sociology and Anthropology) has published an article entitled "I’m Indian Too! Claiming Native American Identity, Crafting Authority in Mascot Debates" in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues. He also contributed three entries to the recently released encyclopedia entitled Native Americans in Sport: "Walter Lingo" (pp. 186-187), William P. Winnishiek (pp. 330-331), and "Oorang Indians" (pp. 236-238).

Valérie Orlando (Modern Languages and Literature) has published an article entitled "The Truncated Memories and Fragmented Pasts of Contemporary Algeria: Salim Bachi’s Le Chien d’Ulysse" in the International Journal of Francophone Studies (vol. 6, pp. 103-118, 2003). She also wrote the Introduction to the entire volume in which she introduces the theme of the volume as well as its contributing authors.

Gabe Spalding (Physics) is co-author of several recent articles: "Numerical Analysis of Waveguide-Enhanced Optical Bistability" appears in Optical and Quantum Electronics. "Optical Trapping of Three-Dimensional Structures Using Dynamic Holograms," appears in Optics Express. "Three-Dimensional Arrays of Optical Bottle Beams" appears in Optics Communications (v. 255, p. 215, 2003). "Applications of Spatial Light Modulators in Atom Optics" appears in Optics Express (v. 11, p. 158, 2003). It would appear to be more than just a lucky fluke that Gabe joined up with the H. Melville group of co-researchers; he appears to have plunged deeply into his research and had a whale of a good time in the process.

Michael B. Young (History) has recently published "Queen Anna Bites Back: Protest, Effeminacy, and Manliness at the Jacobean Court" as a chapter in a book entitled Gender, Power, and Privilege in Early Modern Europe, edited by Jessica Munns and Penny Richards.

Fall 2003

Gabe Spalding (Physics) is co-author of "Microfluidic Sorting in an Optical Lattice," in the November 27, 2003, edition of Nature. The article reports on the development a new technique that uses light to separate microscopic particles such as biological cells. Additional details.

Tian-Xiao He (Mathematics/Computer Science) has published two papers. The first, which appeared in the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics and was co-authored with R. Zhang and Y.S. Zhou, is titled "Boundary-type quadrature and boundary element method. The second, appearing in Analysis in Theory and Applications, is written with leetsch C. Hsu and Peter J.S. Shiue and is titled "On Abel-Gontscaroff-Gould's Polynomials."

Brian Hatcher (Religion) has published a translation of a potem to Krishna entitled "AMAZING GRACE: The Sri-krsnástakam of Girisacandra Vidyaratna" in the Journal of Vaishava Studies.

At the invitation of the Embassy of Spain, Teodora Amoloza (Professor of Sociology) is visiting Spain in November as part of an 18-member delegation from the Midwest. The group is hosted by the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade and the Spanish Association for the Advancement of Spanish as an Economic Resource. They will meet with representatives from various educational institutions in Madrid and Santiago de Compostela. Professor Amoloza is also visiting the Fundacion Ortega y Gasset where Illinois Wesleyan's Madrid Semester program will be based.

April DeConick (Associate Professor of Religion) has published "The great mystery of marriage – sex and conception in ancient Valentinian traditions" in the journal Vigiliae Christianaei .

An article entitled "The evils of child marriage – Ishvarcandra Vidyasagar" by Brian Hatcher (Professor of Religion) has recently appeared in Critical Asian Studies .

Narendra Jaggi (Professor of Physics) and 2003 graduate Alexander Laurie have recently published "Physics and Sociology: Neighborhood Racial Segregation" in the journal Solid State Physics (DAE).

Robert Kearney (Assistant Professor of Business Administration) received the Outstanding Proceedings Paper Award for the second year in a row at the national meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. His paper, "The Unintended Hostile Environment: Mapping the Limits of Sexual Harassment Law," has been accepted for publication by the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. He also was invited recently by the United States Court of Appeals in Chicago to present a lecture on employment law and employment discrimination appeals before the court's staff attorneys and judicial law clerks.

Greg Shaw (Assistant Professor of Political Science) has published an article presenting and discussing polling data on questions relating to abortion in the journal Public Opinion Quarterly.

Michael Weis (Professor of History) has been invited to participate in a program sponsored by the Bloomington Public Library under the auspices of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He will lead discussions by members of the Bloomington-Normal community after the group has viewed a video series entitled The Sixties: America’s Decade of Crisis and Change. Michael also reports that a Portuguese translation of a journal article originally written by him in English has recently appeared in Brazil. It is entitled "O debate sobre desenvolvimento entre o Nrasil e os EUA na década de cinqüenta."

Marina Balina (Professor of Russian) is co-editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography with Mark Lipovetsky of the University of Colorado at Boulder. "Russian Writers since 1980" is volume 285 in the Dictionary series and features literary biographies of 39 Russian authors. In addition, Balina also has published an article, "Non-fiction: Autobiographical and memoir writing in contemporary Russia" in the January 2003 issue of the Russian journal Znamia as well a book review of a German book on Minimalism which appeared in Slavic Review.

Elizabeth Balser (Associate Professor of Biology) and Will Jaeckle (Assistant Professor of Biology) are co-authors along withK. Emily Knott and Gregory A. Wray of SUNY-Stony Brook) of a paper, "Identification of asteroid genera with species capable of larval cloning," in the Biological Bulletin, a journal published by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Connie Dennis (Professor of Nursing) and Sheila Jesek-Hale (Assistant Professor of Nursing) have published "Calculating therapeutic self-care demand for a nursing population of normal newborns" in the April 2003 issue of Self-care, Dependent-care, & Nursing, the official journal of the International Orem Society.

An article by Sara Freeman (Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts) entitled "Adaptation after Darwin: Timberlake Wertenbakers’s evolving texts" has appeared inthe Winter 2002 edition of Modern Drama.

David Fryer (Religion) served as guest editor of the Spring 2003 issue of Listening – Journal of Religion and Culture. Fryer wrote the Introduction and contributed an article to the volume. Fryer’s "Introduction: Symbols of the human phenomenology, poststructuralism, and culture" introduces the authors and the topics to be discussed, while his article "Toward a phenomenology of gender: On Butler, positivism, and the question of experience" is a contribution on the question of what it means to identify oneself in terms of a specific gender.

Abigail Jahiel (Associate Professor of Environmental and International Studies) has published "Globalization and the violation of environmental justice" in the journal China Rights Forum – The Journal of Human Rights in China. This article is an examination of "the global pattern of exportation and displacement of environmental harms from the rich to the poorer people and nations," as well as an examination of the likelihood of change in the pattern.

Sandra Lindberg (Associate Professor of Theatre Arts) had her paper "Archetypal image work in Shakespearean performance training" appear recently in the Summer 2003 edition of Voice and Speech Review.

Fred Miller (Director of Information Technology) has been appointed to a three-year term on the Editorial Committee for EDUCAUSE Quarterly magazine.

Ram Mohan (Associate Professor of Chemistry) is co-author with Illinois Wesleyan students of two recent papers. The first, "Bismuth Triflate: An Efficient Catalyst for the Formation and Deprotection of Tetrahydropyranyl Ethers," appears in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry; the second paper, "Bismuth Compounds in Organic Synthesis. Synthesis of Resorcinarenes Using Bismuth Triflate" is published in Tetrahedron Letters.

Valérie Orlando (Associate Professor of French) has recently published "Authority, desire and the sacred in the new Algeria," in Phoebe, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship Theory and Aesthe. In addition, her article, "From Rap to Raï in the mixing bowl: Beur Hip-Hop culture and Banlieue cinema in urban France," appears in the Journal of Popular Culture).

Chris Prendergast (Professor of Sociology) organized the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society as that organization's president-elect. The conference theme was "Social and Cultural Dynamics: From social relationships through the world system."

Greg M. Shaw (Assistant Professor of Political Science) is the author of "Teaching anti-poverty policies through an undergraduate travel course" in the Journal of Teaching in Marriage and Family.

Tim Query (Assistant Professor of Finance) is co-author with alumnus Todd Marshall (Class of 2003) of an article entitled "When mutual fund managers move on" in the on-line journal Working Money. In addition, Query has also coauthor of a paper with former Illinois Wesleyan professor Zhenhu Jin entitled "Waking Tiger" in the August 2003 edition of Best’s Review.

Winter 2003

A review article by David Bollivar (Assistant Professor of Biology) entitled "Intermediate steps in chlorophyll biosynthesis: methylation and cyclization" has become part of a 20-volume set from Academic Press entitled The Porphyrin Handbook.

Joerg Tiede (Assistant Professor of Computer Science) has published "Proof Theory and Formal Grammars: Applications of Normalization" in Foundations of the Formal Sciences II.

Given Harper (Associate Professor of Biology) and Jeff Frick (Associate Professor of Chemistry) have published a paper with former student, Jeff Klemens (now finishing his doctorate at Penn)—"Lack of widespread organochlorine pesticide contamination in South American resident passerines" in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.

Fred Hoyt (Associate Professor of Business Administration) has has supplied an entry on "Bayer Bess Vanderwarker" for The Advertising Age Encyclopedia of Advertising.

Rob Kearney (Asssistant Professor of Business) has two publications appearing in top labor/employment law journals. "The High Price of Price Waterhouse: Dealing with Direct Evidence of Discrimination" first won the outstanding Proceedings Paper at the 2002 annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and is now out in The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law. "The Disparate Impact Hostile Environment Claim: Sexual Harassment Scholarship at a Crossroads" has been selected as the lead article in the Twentieth Anniversary issue of The Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal.

Carolyn Nadeau (Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies) has an article, "Authorizing the Wife/Mother in 16th-Century Advice Manuals," in a new volume from the University Press of Florida entitled Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain.

Ilaria Ossella-Durbal (Assistant Professor of Economics) has published "Growth Effects of Free Trade under Increasing Returns," in the December issue of The Japanese Economic Review.

Julie Prandi (Professor of German) reports ten contributions—four of them major articles—appearing in the newly released Cyclopedia of Literary Places from Salem Press.

Jim Simeone (Associate Professor of Political Science) has been selected to join 24 others for a seminar offered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and led by Professor Joyce Appleby at Columbia University in June.

Bill West (Associate Professor of Music) is recognized by Ardal Powell for his help in producing a second edition of The Baroque Flute Fingering Book. West's contributions ranged from reformatting, editing, and proofreading to testing out each of the fingerings for accuracy on several instruments.

David Ross Fryer (Assistant Professor of Relgion) has published an article, "Post-Humanism and Contemporary Philosophy," in Radical Philosophy Review.

Tian-Xiao He (Professor of Mathematics) is co-author of Analysis, Combinatorics and Computing (Nova Science Publishers). In addition,he has published three recent articles: "Multivariate Interpolation Using Carlitz’s Inversion Formulas" in Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications; "Stable refinable generators of shift invariant spaces with certain regularities and vanishing Moments," in Approximation Theory X, Innovations in Applied Mathematics; and "Dimensionality-reducing expansion, boundary type quadrature formulas, and the boundary element method," in Analysis, Combinatorics, and Computing.

Narendra Jaggi (Professor of Physics) and senior Alex Laurie have published "Role of ‘vision’ in racial neighborhood segregation: a variant of the Schelling segregation model," appearing in the most recent edition of Urban Studies.

James Plath (Professor of English" is the author of "21 Tips: Get Out of the Slush Pile," which first appeared in the Winter 2002 edition of Start Writing Now! (Winter 2002) and was reprinted in The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing (Writer's Digest Books). Plath's poem "Cartographic" was published in the Fall/Winter 2002 issue of Spillway .

Becky Roesner (Assistant Professor of Chemistry), three former Illinois Wesleyan students and colleagues from Illinois State and the University of Santiago (Spain) are coauthors of an article in Inorganic Chica Acta. The article is entitled "Mono- and di-functional aromatic amines with p-alkoxy substituents as novel arylimido ligands for the hexamolybdate ion." The Illinois Wesleyan alumni, all members of the Class of 2002, are S.C. McGrath, J.T. Brockman, and J.D. Moll.

Ram Mohan (Associate Professor of Chemistry), Illinois Wesleyan senior Herbert M. Zerth and 2002 Illinois Wesleyan graduate Nicholas M. Leonard are the authors of "Synthesis of Homoallyl Ethers via Allylation of Acetals in Ionic Liquids Catalyzed by Trimethylsilyl Trifluoromethanesulfonate" in Organic Letters.

Gabe Spalding (Associate Professor of Physics) is coauthor of an article, "Applications of Spatial Light Modulators in Atom Optics," which appears in Optics Express.

Valérie Orlando (Assistant Professor of French) wrote the introduction to a new translation Rain (Diary of an Insomniac) by Algerian author Rachid Boudjedra. The volume is part of the "The Maghreb in Translation Series" of which Orlando is editor.

Julie Prandi (Professor of German) is co-editor of The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History (Oxford University Press, January 2003) with former Illinois Wesleyan faculty member John Cooper, now associate professor of musicology at the University of North Texas. Prandi is the author of a chapter titled "Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die Erste Walpurgisnacht."

Marcia Thomas (Director of Technical Services and Assistant Professor) is co-author with Kathe Conley of Illinois State University of "Partnership for a Community Cancer Information Center," published as the lead article in the latest issue of Illinois Libraries.

Five Small Packages, a composition of David Vayo (Professor of Composition and Theory), was performed in November by the Ahramjian String Quartet at a concert presented by the Mid-Atlantic Chamber Music Society at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts in Wilmington, Del.

Tim Query (Assistant Professor of Risk Management, Insurance, and Finance) was the author of a column, "Insurers try to gauge cost of terrorism," which appeared in the Jan. 5, 2003, edition of The Pantagraph.

Fall 2002

Ram Mohan (Associate Professor of Chemistry) and two members of Illinois Wesleyan Class of 2002, chemistry majors Nicholas Leonard and Laura Wieland, are the authors of an invited review article on "Applications of bismuth(III) compounds in organic Synthesis" in the July 29, 2002, edition of TETRAHEDRON .

James Plath (Professor of English) has published "Counternarrative: An Interview with Ann Beattie." in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Plath's article, "Reshaping Reality: Hemingway's Wartime Fable of 'The Butterfly and the Tank'" appeared in Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction.

Chris Callahan (Associate Professor of French and Spanish) is the author of an article, "Hybrid Discourse and Performance in the Old French Pastourelle," in the Winter 2002 edition of French Forum.

Brian Hatcher (Professor of Religion and Humanities) has published translations of two short stories by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay in Critical Asian Studies.

Valérie Orlando (Assistant Professor of French) has published "’Home Is Where I Eat My Bread’: Beur, Hip-Hop Culture, and Banlieue Cinema" in Celaan: Review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa.

Curtis Trout (Associate Professor of Theatre Arts/Scene Design) and several colleagues were honored by the Central Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects with the highest award at its biennial Design Awards Program at the University of Illinois Architecture School. The award recognized Trout's work as Project Designer for a $1.5M renovation of St. Patrick Church in Decatur, IL.

Fred Miller (Director of Information Technology) is the author of "Organizing Information Professionals on Campus" in the current issue of Educause Quarterly.

Doran French (Professor of Psychology) is co-author with Elizabeth A. Jansen, a 2001 Illinois Wesleyan graduate and a current Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota , and Sri Pidada of Padjadjaran University in Bandung, Indonesia, of "United States and Indonesian Children's and Ado0lescents' Reports of Relational Aggression by Disliked Peers" in Child Development.

Dennie Bridges (Director of Athletics) is author of a memoir, A Dunk Only Counts Two Points: Stories of My Life in Small College Basketball.

Carl Gillett (Professor of Psychology) has an article, "The dimensions of realization: a critique of the Standard view," currently appearing in Analysis, a Blackwell publication.

Ram Mohan (Associate Professor of Chemistry) is co-author with Russell Smith, a junior chemistry major, and three 2002 graduates — Nick Leonard, Matt Oswald, and Bryce Nattier — of "A Simple and Versatile Method for the Synthesis of Acetals from Aldehydes and Ketones Using Bismuth Triflate" in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Mohan, senior chemistry major Herbert Zerth, and 2002 graduate Laura Wieland are co-authors of "Bismuth Triflate Catalyzed Allylation of Acetals: A Simple and Mild Method for Synthesis of Homoallyl Ethers" in Tetrahedron Letters.

Bob Mowery (Professor Emeritus, Library) wrote "Son of God in Roman Imperial Titles and Matthew," which appears in Biblica, the journal of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

Gabe Spalding (Associate Professor of Physics) is co-author of "Optical tweezers: the next generation," in Physics World.

Joerg Tiede (Assistant Professor of Computer Science) has published a chapter, "Proof Tree Automata," in the book, Words, proofs, and diagrams, from the Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Joy Calico (Assistant Professor of Musicology) has two pieces recently published—the first, a chapter, "’Für eine neue deutsche Nationaloper’: Opera in the Discourses of Unification and Legitimation in the German Democratic Republic," in the edited volume, Music and German National Identity, from The University of Chicago Press; the second, an article, "Hanns Eisler, Marxist Polyglot," in the online journal, Perfect Sound Forever.

April De Conick (Assistant Professor of Religion) has published "The Original Gospel of Thomas," in Vigiliae Christianae.

Hiroko Furo (Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies) has published two recent articles—"Listener Responses in Telephone and Face-to-face Conversations: How do Non-verbal Behaviors Affect Japanese and English Interactions?" in Japanese and Korean Linguistics and "Frames in American and Japanese Political Discourse" in the edited volume, Exploring Japaneseness: On Japanese Enactments of Culture and Consciousness.

Tim Query (Assistant Professor of Finance) has published "Rights of Passage: An Analysis of Graduated Driver Licensing Efforts in Selected States," which he co-authored with other members of the Central Illinois CPCU chapter and is now featured in the first ever online edition of the CPCU Journal. He is also "Understanding Reinsurance" in the Journal of Financial Planning.

Summer 2002

James Plath (Professor of English) had an article entitled "What's in a Name, Old Sport?: Kipling's The Story of the Gadsbys as a Possible Source for Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby" published in the Journal of Modern Literature.