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Graduate Liberal Arts & Sciences STUDENT NEWS Biology Villanova was well represented at the 2009 Joint Meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society and the Association of Field Ornithologists, which took place in Pittsburgh in April 2009. M. S. student Stephanie Wright presented a contributed oral paper entitled “Hybrid chickadees show higher survival than Carolina Chickadees in southeastern Pennsylvania,” coauthored by Dr. Curry. M.S. student Josh LaPergola presented a contributed oral paper entitled “Natural history of the Black Catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris) in Quintana Roo, Mexico,” coauthored by Blanca Roldán Clarà, Juan E. Martínez-Gómez, a Villanova M.S. graduate, and Dr. Curry. Current M.S. student Jess Trout-Haney presented a contributed poster entitled “Breeding biology and phenology of the Boreal Chickadee in southwestern Nova Scotia,” coauthored by Dr. Curry. Current M.S. students Perry Wood and Jesse Grismer coauthored a paper with Aaron Bauer, Ph.D., entitled “Two new montane species of Acanthosaura Gray, 1831 (Squamata: Agamidae) from Peninsular Malaysia” in Zootaxa 2012:28 – 46. Dr. Bauer also coauthored a paper with recent M.S. graduate Amanda Cotton entitled “Self-rubbing and substrate marking by the rhombic skaapsteker, Psammophylax rhombeatus rhombeatus (LINNAEUS, 1758)” in Herpetozoa 21:186 – 189. Rachel Jones, a current master’s student, received a Sigma Xi grant to help fund her research on the interactions between native and nonnative plant biodiversity. Education Graduate student Lea Culp and Deborah Schussler, Ph.D, presented a paper entitled, “Building Awareness of Dispositions: Enhancing Moral 10 • Sensibilities in Teaching” at the 2009 American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting in San Diego, Ca. History M.A. student Kelly Weber served as a judge for National History Day in Philadelphia on March 11, 2009. Elliott Drago, M.A. student, has been accepted to the Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminar 2009 at Gettysburg college. Human Resource Development Gina Ligon, Ph.D., along with several current graduate students and alumni from the M.S. in Human Resources Development program, presented data from a large scale study done on working and non-working mothers’ satisfaction with the workplace. Dr. Ligon and coauthors C. Costigan, M. Doran, L Panik, M. Curley, H. K. Osburn, and M. Horne, presented a poster “Organizational factors associated with job satisfaction among mothers” to the Association of Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, Ca. in May 2009; Dr. Ligon and coauthors C. Costigan, H. K. Osburn, L. Panik, M. Doran and M. Curley, presented a poster “Mothers look to their mothers when deciding to work” to the Association of Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, Ca. in May 2009. Philosophy Doctoral student Geoffrey Karabin recently published “The Annihilative Potential of Immortality Beliefs: Examining Immortality’s Connection with Violence” in the Review Journal of Political Philosophy (vol. 6, iss. 2). He presented a paper entitled “Is Contemporary Thought in the ‘Between’?” at the 4th Annual West Chester University Conference in January 2009. He presented “Islamic Suicide Bombing and the Question of Evil” at a conference entitled Evil and Suffering: Philosophical, Psychological and Theological Perspectives, Wesleyan Philosophical Society, in March 2009. He also presented a paper entitled “Islamic Suicide Bombing, Camus, and the Question of Forgiveness” at a conference entitled Forgiveness – Probing the Boundaries, Interdisciplinary.Net, in March 2009. Derek Aggleton, a current doctoral student, presented a paper entitled “Artfulness: An Ethico-aesthetic Description of Spielraum,” for the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), in Pittsburg, Pa., in October 2008. Current student Yong Dou (Michael) Kim, made the following conference presentations this year: “Can Only a God Save Us?: Notes on the Theologico-Political in ‘Postmodern’ Politics,” at the 13th annual Northeastern Political Science Association meeting in November 2008; “The Aesthetics of Politics: Affectivity and the Political Imaginary” at the 8th biennial Radical Philosophy Association meeting in November 2008; and “Badiou’s Challenge to French Materialism: Imagination or Dialectic?” at the SPEP 2008 annual meeting in October 2008. Psychology Matt Keller, a 2nd year student in the M.S. program, presented a poster entitled “Observe, remember, avoid? Social spatial memories in a foraging task” at the recent International Conference on Comparative Cognition. The poster was co-authored by Michael Brown, Ph.D. Mary Beth Knight-Green, Edward Lorek, Wendy Shallcross, and Tim Wifall, alumni and alumnae of the M.S. program, coauthored a paper that appeared in a recent issue of Learning continued on next page
and Behavior. The paper reported several experiments done over the course of three years in Dr. Brown’s laboratory. Three alumnae of the M.S. program, Melodie Fearnow-Kenney, Ph.D., Marissa Kiepert and Amanda Terembula, published a paper entitled “The Spacing Effect of Intentional and Incidental Free Recall by Children and Adults: Limits on the Automaticity Hypothesis” with Thomas Toppino, Ph.D., in the most recent issue of Memory & Cognition. Graduate student Carlie Allison was awarded the Barbara Wall award for her paper “Objects Lack Subjectivity: A Mediational Model of Risky Sex in College-aged women,” which she presented at the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Conference, hosted by the Villanova University Gender and Women’s Studies Program. Graduate students Carlie Allison and Amy Moors presented a poster coauthored with Patrick Markey, PhD., entitled “What We Want vs. What We Get: Are We Satisfied?” at the annual conference of the Eastern Psychological Association in Pittsburgh, Pa. Thomas Toppino, Ph.D., published a paper entitled “The Spacing Effect in Intentional and Incidental Free Recall by Children and Adults: Limits on the Automaticity Hypothesis.” The article appeared in the most recent issue of Memory & Cognition and was coauthored by three graduates of the M.S. program in psychology: Melodie Fearnow-Kenny, Marissa Kiepert, and Amanda Terembula Michael Brown, along with seven student co-authors, published a paper in a recent issue of Learning and Behavior entitled “Social working memory: Memory for another rat’s spatial choices can increase or decrease choice tendencies”. Graduate student coauthors are Mary Beth Knight-Green, Edward Lorek, Wendy Shallcross, and Tim Wifall. Undergraduate student coauthors are Caroline Packard and Eric Shumann. Thesis and Dissertation Listings – May 2009 Name Thesis Title Advisor(s) & Department Brian A. Anderson Explaining Variations in the Magnitude of Attentional Capture: Dr. Charles L. Folk, Psychology New Tests of a Two-Process Model Katherine L. Andriole A Mediation Model to Predict Career Choice: The Importance Dr. Nicole Else-Quest, Psychology of Sex-Typing and Self-Efficacy Felicia Maria Camacho The “Inter” Land: Mixing Autobiography and Sociology for a Better Dr. Heather Hicks, English Understanding of Twenty-First Century Mixed-Race Asma Sana Choudhary Development as Social Transformation: Assessing the Value of Social Capital Dr. Lowell Gustafson, Political Sci. in Microfinance and Its Role in the Success of the Grameen Bank Joseph Christian Collins The Anthropology of Faith Following Romans 1-3 Rev. Michael J. Scanlon, O.S.A. Theology and Religious Studies Ryan J. Corser Cursed by Knowledge in a Gambling Task: A Perspective Taking Test Dr. Diego Fernandez-Duque Psychology Laura De Furio Milton’s Indeterminate Theodicy: Will, Grace, and Cause in Paradise Lost Dr. Lauren Shohet, English Christopher E. Diehl Small Allies, Big Challenges: The International Politics of Military Access Dr. David M. Barrett, Political Sci. John E. Doherty SNAFU Reconsidered: The Evolution of Writing a True War Story from Vonnegut’s Dr. Heather Hicks, English Slaughterhouse Five to Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story,” and the Blogs of The Sandbox Ronald Eckert Community Policing as Procedural Justice: An Examination of Baltimore Residents Dr. Allison Ann Payne After the Implementation of a Community Policing Strategy Sociology and Criminal Justice William H. Espenshade III Notes on the Ecology of Southern African Tortoises Dr. Ronald Balsamo, Biology Zachary Eyster Re-imagining Ethics: Re-imagining Salvation: Josef Fuchs, Fundamental Option, Dr. Mark Graham, Theology and the Soteriological Implications Thereof Katie A. Farina The Effects of Situational Crime Prevention on Crime and Fear Among College Dr. Allison Ann Payne Campuses and Their Students Sociology and Criminal Justice continued on page 12 • 11
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