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Assistant Professor of English Carla Arnell had an article accepted for publication titled, “From the Middle Ages to the Internet Age: The Courtly Love Tradition in Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion and The.Powerbook." It will appear in a forthcoming issue of Studies in Medievalism.
Lecturer in History Susanna Calkins and Assistant Professor of Psychology Matthew Kelley will see their paper, “Evaluating Internet and scholarly sources across the disciplines: Two case studies” published in the upcoming issue of College Teaching. The article describes two case studies from their respective disciplines and offers a variety of strategies that instructors can use to help students learn to critically evaluate and analyze Internet and scholarly sources.
Assistant Professor of Art Tom Denlinger was invited to participate in a major photography exhibition held by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Turin, Italy. It opened on November 17 and will run for one year. Professor Denlinger will have solo exhibitions at two venues in Chicago and one in Venice in 2008: at the Chicago Academy of Sciences Notebaert Nature Museum opening January 19 and continuing through March, and at Rowland Contemporary Gallery in late May. The exhibition in Venice will open in September in the Chiese di San Samuele next to Palazzo Grassi.
Professor of Psychology Robert Glassman saw his article “Psychology of Science/Theology of Science: Reaching Out or Narrowing?” appear in the September 2007 issue of Zygon/Journal of Religion and Science. It cautions against prematurely solidifying a Psychology of Science subarea, because that may inhibit some of the more creative uses of principles and findings from psychological sciences. In making this argument, he compared academic fields with religious institutionswhile arguing against excessive ritualization.
Professor of Psychology Sergio Guglielmi completed a research project that was supported with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The hypothesis that native language (L1) proficiency promotes English acquisition and overall academic achievement, a key theoretical assumption underlying bilingual education, was tested using latent growth modeling of data from 899 limited English proficient 8th graders who were followed for 12 years in the National Education Longitudinal Study. A model in which L1 proficiency predicted English reading ability, which in turn predicted high school achievement and distal educational/occupational attainment, fit the data well, especially for the Hispanic subsample.
In May, 2007, Professor Guglielmi presented the results of this research at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association and his article, "Native Language Proficiency, English Literacy, Academic Achievement, and Occupational Attainment in Limited English Proficient Students: A Latent Growth Modeling Perspective," has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Educational Psychology.
Lecturer in English Luke Krueger saw Toy Boat Productions of Portland, Oregon, perform his play, "The Kicker." This December, his play "Holiday Money Shot" will be performed as part of the holiday play festival.
Another play "Exit, Cute Ed," will be the featured play in the inaugural issue of The Alchemy Review.
His book A Noble Function: How U-Haul Moved America (Barricade Books, 2007) continues to do well with sales, and is available in bookstores nationwide.
Associate Professor of Economics Rob Lemke has a chapter which documents the role liberal arts colleges play in producing future PhD students that will appear in Ron Ehrenberg's edited volume Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future (Cornell University Press). He also published a paper this fall with former Lake Forest economics professor Kristina Lybecker in the Journal of Industrial Organization Education that uses the markets for plasma and red blood cells to look at the joint production decisions of firms and the role joint production might have in limiting competition.
Director of the Center for Chicago Programs and Composer-in-Residence Rami Levin heard the world premiere of her latest work, "Caprichosa," for flute and harp on the Lake Forest Lyrica series on September 30. The piece was written for and premiered by the flute-harp duo Capriccio. On October 28, Professor Levin heard the New York premiere of her piano solo "Passages," performed on the North/South Consonance series.
Associate Professor and Chair of Music Don Meyer, Instructor in Music Dave Amrein, and Meg Golembiewski '10 recently heard the premiere of their new film score for Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 silent film The Lodger. Conducted by Professor Amrein, the Lake Forest College Orchestra played the work before a packed Mohr Student Center on the night before Halloween. The three composers worked through the summer of 2007 on the project, with Golembiewski working through the Richter Apprentice Scholar program. The orchestra will perform the work again on February 17 at 2:30 p.m. at the Portage Theater in Chicago, in association with the Silent Film Society of Chicago.
Professor Meyer also heard his arrangement of "Conspirators' Waltz" performed by the Lake Forest College Jazz Ensemble on November 7. An earlier version of this piece was heard in 2006 in Professor Meyer and Lecturer in Theater Dennis Mae's collaborative revisioning of Shakespeare's Tempest.
College Archivist Arthur Miller reports that the exhibit "Twenty Lake Forest Maps" has been picked up by the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Miller wrote an article on Almerin Hotchkiss for the forthcoming second volume of Pioneers of American Landscape Design for the Foundation, which is paired with information about the exhibit.
Lecturer in Music and Director of the Jazz Ensemble Mitch Paliga joined the Lt. Dan Band as saxophonist. The band, led by Chicago-area actor Gary Sinese, plays USO and charity benefit concerts around the world. Paliga's second solo album, "Fall Night," will be released in February on the Seattle-based jazz label Origin.
Assistant Professor of Education Rachel G. Ragland's article “Adopting and Sustaining Use of New Teaching Strategies for American History in Secondary Classrooms” will be published in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of Social Studies Research. The article reports on a study of how middle and high school American history teachers adopted and maintained the use of research-based instructional practices during and following a professional development experience.
Associate Dean of the Faculty, Director of the Learning and Teaching Center, and Professor of Mathematics DeJuran Richardson saw his research article, "Elements of Nonpharmacologic Interventions That Prevent Progression of Heart Failure: A Meta-Analysis" published in the October 2007 issue of the medical journal Congestive Heart Failure. The work was done in collaboration with researchers at the Rush University Medical Center, including Elizabeth Avery ’02, a biostatistician and data manager.
Gorter Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Islamic World Studies Director Ahmad Sadri saw several pieces published. A collection of his essays entitled, "Apocalypse Tomorrow and Other Essays," translated by Amirhossein Teymoori, was published in Iran (Kavir Press, 2007); a translation of his book Max Weber’s Sociology of Intellectuals, translated by Mohsen Abniki, was published in Iran (Kavir Press, 2007)
He co-authored a chapter, “Three Faces of Decent: Cognitive, Expressive and Traditional Discourses in Contemporary Iran” with Mahmoud Sadri in the book Iran in 21st Century, edited by Homa Katuzian and Hossein Shahidi (Rutledge, 2007).
Professor Sadri published an article entitled, “300 Takes Stereotyping to New Levels,” in Daily Star of Lebanon on April 2.
He also published seven articles in the main Persian reform daily newspaper Etemade Melli: "Critique of Irresponsible Expressions of the Leaders of Islamic Republic" on October 30; "Two explanations of Bolenger’s Belligerence" on October 3; "Towards Perpetual Peace" on September 16; "Reason, Violence and Religion According to the Pope" on August 4; "A Chapter from Sociology of Intellectual" on June 15; "Persians and Greeks in Snyder’s 300" in March; "Futurology and the New Year" in March; and "We are all Checkmated, Hamehkishim, Rouzegar, Number 1."
Associate Professor of English Davis Schneiderman saw two chapters entitled, “Fex at the Carnival” and “As Fex Falls, so Falls Fex,” from his forthcoming collaborative novel, Abecedarium (Chiasmus Press) published in the Journal of Experimental Fiction.
His story “Baron Samedi Clan vs. Authority of the 1st-World All Stars (Export Processing Zone edit)” from his novel ms. ScatØlØgically Yours, was published in Absent. 2 (2007).
His parody of a cover letter to a literary journal, “Clackamas Literary Review (Cover Letter),” was published in the November issue of Clackamas Literary Review.
His story “dream caused by the contusion of your brain around a pixilation, one second before cluster bombing” was published in 5_Trope. 23 (2007). The editor names the issue after the piece, and had things to say about it here.
Betty Jane Schultz Hollender Professor of Economics Jeffrey Sundberg had a working paper completed and posted on the Web site of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The title is “Measuring the Effect of State Income Tax Incentives on Land Conservation."
D. K. Pearsons Professor of Politics Ghada Talhami’s book, Palestine in the Egyptian Press: From al-Ahram to al-Ahali, was released by Lexington Books. It came to about 400 pages and is based on field research she conducted in Cairo during her last sabbatical.
She also edited an encyclopedia volume titled, Children in North Africa and the Middle East, which will be published this month by Greenwood Publishing Company. This is part of a series called Children in the World, edited by Irving Epstein.
Her article “Massawa under Egyptian Rule,” was published in the Journal of Eritrean Studies. This is part of her PhD dissertation which was done when Massawa was still under Ethiopian rule. Her research was also done in Cairo.
Lecturer in Politics and Philosophy Christopher Whidden published his article, "The Account of Persia and Cyrus's Persian Education in Xenophon's Cyropaedia." The article appears in the most recent issue of The Review of Politics, which is published by Cambridge University Press.
Professor of Mathematics David Yuen published a mathematics research paper “Computations of Spaces Siegel Modular Cusp Forms” in the Journal of the Mathematics Society of Japan.