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Graduate Liberal Arts & Sciences DEPARTMENT & FACULTY NEWS Biology Aaron M. Bauer, Ph.D., published the papers “Geckos in traditional medicine — forensic implications” in Applied Herpetology 6:81–96, and “A new livebearing species of scincid lizard (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia, Southwest Pacific” in Pacific Science 63:123–136. Robert Curry, Ph.D., was elected second vice-president of the Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS) at the 2009 Joint Meeting of the Wilson Ornithological Society and the Association of Field Ornithologists, which took place in Pittsburgh in April 2009. This two-year position will lead to Dr. Curry serving as president of WOS in 2013-2015. Dr. Curry presented a contributed oral paper at the meeting entitled “Patterns of natal dispersal in a hybridizing chickadee population.” Adam Langley, Ph.D., a research assistant professor in Biology, published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled “Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise.” Mary E. Desmond, Ph. D., recently published two articles on brain growth in vertebrates. She co-authored a review paper with Angel Gato at the Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Espana on “E-CSF and the Neuroepithelium: Interdependent Regulators of Embryonic Brain Growth, Morphogenesis and Histiogenesis” in Developmental Biology. She also coauthored a paper with Michael L. Levitan, Ph.D., of Villanova’s department of Mathematical Sciences on: “Expansion of the Human Embryonic Brain during Rapid Growth: Area Analysis” in the Anatomical Record: Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology. Dr. Desmond spoke in June 2008 about her research to the graduate students of the Neuroscience Program at the Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Espana. The title of her presentation was “Fluid Pressure Drives Embryonic Brain Growth.” While in Spain, she spent two weeks at the Medical School of Valladolid initiating new research with Professor Gato on analyzing ventricular pressure of the developing mouse embryo. Education & Human Services Ray Heitzmann, Ph.D., received the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Award from the National Social Science Association (NSSA) at its Annual Conference. The award was given for his publications, professional conference presentations, mentoring students and general collegiality within the Association. Two of Dr. Heitzmann’s students have won the organization’s graduate student essay contest and were published in the organization’s peer reviewed journal. Heitzmann said, “I enjoy being part of NSSA’s commitment to excellence in pedagogy and research.” Dr. Jerry Baydo, executive director of the association, thanked Dr. Heitzmann for his valuable work for social science education over the years. English Jill Rappoport, Ph.D., has been granted the Monticello College Foundation Fellowship at the Newberry Library for 2009 – 10. This summer she will also receive a Summer Research Fellowship and a Research Support Grant from Villanova’s Office of Research and Sponsored Projects. Megan Quigley, Ph.D., presented an early draft of an essay on “Irish Modernism” for a forthcoming book collection at the American Comparative Literature Association meeting at Harvard University in March 2009. Hispanic Studies Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Ph.D., published a book chapter entitled, “The Border: A Space of Shifting Identities” in “Ethno- Kulturelle Begegnungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa,” edited by Erika Hammer and Laszlo Kupa. ‘Llamas que hablan’: Representaciones neoindigenistas del niño en medio de la violencia” in “La presencia del niño en las literaturas en lengua española,” edited by László Scholz and Gabriella Menczel. Proceedings of the Coloquio Internacional de Estudios Hispánicos. Budapest; and “Prólogo” Jorge Barrueto: In “Cine latinoamericano: género, raza e ideología.” She also had an article, “Nuestro norte es el sur”: articulaciones de identidad latinoamericana en la post/colonia,” published in 2008 in Diálogo Andino. Carlos Trujillo, Ph.D., director of the graduate program, was one of seventeen poets from around the world invited by the Foundation Casa de Poesía of Costa Rica, to participate in the II International Festival of Poetry of Costa Rica in May 2009. Poets will present in in several cities of this Central American country and will also be offering literary workshops and recitals at universities, schools, prisons and hospitals. Dr. Trujillo’s new poetry book, entitled “Texto sobre Texto,” was published by the Universidad de Costa Rica and will be distributed in all universities and schools of Costa Rica and other Central American countries. Dr. Trujillo also traveled to Chile in May 2009, where Isla Grande Editorial is publishing another collection of his poems entitled “La Maratón de los Poetas.” 6 •
History Holly Sanders, Ph.D., chaired a session for the “Wives, Concubines, Courtesans, and Nuns: Early Modern Japanese Women Symposium” at the University of Pennsylvania in April 2009. In spring 2008, Dr. Sanders gave the invited lecture “Prostitution in Occupied Japan” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for East Asian Studies. Judith Giesberg, Ph.D., presented the talk “Lincoln and the Widow Bixby” at the Township Library of Lower Southampton in Feasterville in March 2009 as part of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council’s Commonwealth Speakers Bureau. In October 2008, Timothy McCall, Ph.D., presented the paper “Visual Imagery and Historical Invisibility: Antonia Torelli, Her Husband, and His Mistress in Fifteenth-Century Parma” at the “Sixteenth Century Society and Conference,” St. Louis, Miss. He gave an invited lecture in November 2008 entitled “The Mistress of Torrechiara Castle: Bianca Pellegrini, bianca pellegrina” at Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia. In February 2009, Dr. McCall gave a paper entitled “The Signore Hidden and Revealed: the Intarsia Coretto of Pier Maria Rossi of Parma” at the “The Hidden and the Revealed in Medieval and Early Modern Culture” conference at Rider University; co-organized a session entitled “The Secret Spaces of Early Modern Europe” at the College Art Association Conference in Los Angeles; and co-organized a related symposium of the same title, sponsored by the Early Modern Studies Institute of the Huntington Library and the University of Southern California. Dr. McCall also gave an invited lecture entitled “The Camera d’Oro and Courtly Interiors in Fifteenth-Century Italy” in March 2009 at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. Paul Steege, Ph.D., presented the essay “Ordinary Violence on an Extraordinary Stage: Incidents on the Sector Border in Postwar Berlin” as part of the “Performing Violence” conference at Amherst College in February 2009. Lynne Hartnett, Ph.D., was selected as a semi-finalist for the Lindback Award for Teaching Excellence this spring. In addition to her teaching duties, Dr. Hartnett is currently serving as the director of Villanova’s Russian Area Studies program. In November 2008, she presented the paper “The Venus of the Revolution: The Interplay of Gender and Terrorism in the Life of Vera Figner” at the Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Charlene Mires, Ph.D., participated in a roundtable on public history teaching and presented the paper, “American Historic Places, the United Nations, and the World” at the annual meeting of the “National Conference on Public History” in Providence, R.I. in April 2008. She also served as co-organizer of a “Civic Partnership and Planning” workshop for the creation of an Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Rebecca Winer, Ph.D., had an article entitled “Conscripting the Breast: Lactation, Slavery, and Salvation in the Realms of the Crown of Aragon and Kingdom of Majorca, c. 1250 – 1300,” in the Journal of Medieval History (Summer 2008). The article won the Best Article Prize of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. Dr. Winer attended the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Mich., to accept the award in May 2009. Dr. Winer gave the keynote address entitled “Marriage, the Family and the Family Business: Links Between the Jews of Medieval Perpignan and Girona” at “The Times and Places of Jewish Girona” international conference at the Institut d’EStudis Nahmanides in Girona, Spain in March 2009. The conference was sponsored by the Spanish Government, in particular by the Foundation that Maintains the Restored Jewish Quarter in the City, the “Patronat Call de Girona.” Mathematical Sciences David Sprows, Ph.D., has an article entitled “Constructing Easily Iterated Functions with Interesting Properties” appearing in the current issue of the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. Psychology Michael Brown, Ph.D., coauthored a paper published in the most recent issue of Psychonomic Bulletin and Review entitled “Facilitation of learning spatial relations among locations by visual cues: Implications for theoretical accounts of spatial learning”. Principal author of that paper was Bradley Sturz, Ph.D., who did postdoctoral research in Dr. Brown’s laboratory before moving to Armstrong Atlantic State University. The paper was also co-authored by Debbie Kelly, Ph.D., of the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Brown presented a paper at the recent meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association entitled “Social influences on spatial choice in rats” and authored or coauthored three presentations at the recent International Conference on Comparative Cognition in Melborne Beach, Fla. Nicole Else-Quest, Ph.D., published an article in the journal Psychology and Health entitled “Perceived stigma, self-blame, continued on page 8 • 7
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