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College of Liberal ArtsSEPTEMBER 2005Worthy of Note• Welcome to the new interim associate deans of the College of LiberalArts. Paul Whitney (psychology) has assumed John E. Kicza’s(history) position as associate dean for research; after five and a halfyears in the dean’s office, Dr. Kicza will serve as interim chair of theDepartment of History this year. In new associate dean positionsare Susan Ross (communication), associate dean for corporate andfoundation relations, and T.V. Reed (American studies), associatedean for interdisciplinary studies. A renewed and more permanentwelcome goes to Erich Lear, who has agreed to serve as dean of thecollege for an additional two-year appointment.• Virginia Hyde, a longtime faculty member inthe Department of English, received the Harry T.Moore Award for Lifetime Achievement June 30 atthe tenth International D. H. Lawrence Conference,held in Santa Fe. She is one of only fifteen internationalscholars who have received the Harry T.Moore Award. The conference was held in Santa Fein order to recognize a successful nomination thatplaced the Lawrence ranch, the Kiowa Ranch at SanCristobal near Taos, New Mexico, on the National Register of HistoricPlaces in 2004. Hyde and Christine (Tina) Ferris authored the nomination,a five-year effort sponsored by the North American LawrenceSociety and the University of New Mexico. Hyde, the conference director,also gave a plenary presentation June 28 at the conference; sheled the panel “Women Scholars around the World.” She retired thisyear after teaching at WSU for 34 years.• Andrew Duff (anthropology) was awarded $160,076 from theNational Science Foundation to further support his archaeologicalresearch in west-central New Mexico. The project is examining theorganization of several local communities and the nature of theircontacts with, or connections to, Chaco Canyon during the eleventhand twelfth centuries.• C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies) participated in theCurt C. and Else Silberman Summer Seminar for Social Scientists atthe Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States HolocaustMemorial Museum, in Washington, D.C., June 8–17.• Clay Mosher (sociology, WSU Vancouver) received the 2005 Chancellor’sAward for Research Excellence at the Vancouver regional campus.The award was presented during the commencement ceremonyon May 14.• Eight WSU faculty members will share $150,000 awarded through the2005 WSU Foundation New Faculty Seed Grant Program, includingthree liberal arts faculty: Melissa Goodman-Elgar (anthropology),“Cajamarca: People and Landscapes at the Crossroads of PeruvianPrehistory”; Heidi A. Hamann (psychology), “The Impact of GeneticCausal Information on Perceptions of Lung Cancer”; and Johncontinued on p. 2Dean’s MessageWelcome back! The requisitionfor longer summers will receive aresponse around October 1, comingtogether with any allocationsof new resources. We have,of course, not much hope for theformer and considerable positiveanticipation for the latter. So, sincewe are all back, let’s start “cruisin’”!Quick recap of spring and summer’05 now. In spring, we madeconsiderable progress on our deficit,received salary increases and anincreased rate for promotions (now10%), took no budget reductions beyondour internal balancing adjustments,delivered a highly effectivemessage concerning the ten-yearhistory of increased instruction andits associated costs comparing ourcollege with other colleges, draftedand reported on benchmarks,and initiated efforts toward a “CLASeason” and structured planningfor our fund raising. In summer,we received supplemental fundingto ensure section availability forFreshman Focus, saw distributionof the reports of the Committeeon Academic Structure (realignment),received agreement fromour Dean’s Advisory Committeeon Resource Allocation (DACRA) towork through 2005–06 on issues ofbudget/administration/reshapingin the college, increased energy andtime commitments to fund raising,restructured associate dean posi-continued on p. 12September 2005 | 1

Worthy of Note, continued from p. 1M. Ruiz (psychology), “Personality,Social Vigilance, and InflammationMarkers for CardiovascularDisease Risk: The SHAPE Study.”Their proposals were selected fromamong forty-eight submissionsuniversity-wide.• John Irby (above), associateprofessor and associate director ofundergraduate studies in the MurrowSchool of Communication,presented a poster of an interactiveclassroom session titled “ThePower of Words: How to StopPainting Stereotypical Pictures byAvoiding Racial Identifiers.” Thepresentation was made at the August2005 Association for Educationin Journalism and Mass Communicationannual conventionin San Antonio. He was one oftwenty-five professors from acrossthe country selected for the “GreatIdeas for Teachers” (GIFT) session.He also served as an expert witnessin arbitration between theHawaii Tribune Herald and HawaiiNewspaper Guild, testifying aboutcommunity newspaper workloadexpectations. The hearing washeld in June 2005 in Hilo.• Frances K. McSweeney (psychology,vice provost for facultyaffairs) has been named presidentof the Association for BehavioralAnalysis (ABA). She assumed hernew responsibilities as the electedhead of the internationally recognizedorganization of behavioralscientists in May at the group’sthirty-first annual convention inChicago. The event was attendedby about 4,000 ABA membersand associates representing sometwenty nations.• Ella Inglebret (speech andhearing sciences) was an invitedspeaker at the National Institutefor Native Leadership in HigherEducation held in Phoenix, Arizona,in August. Her presentationfocused on a research frameworkfor identifying factors associatedwith Native American student successin higher education.• Andrea Mason (English) hasbeen awarded a grant from the HeleneWurlitzer Foundation of NewMexico to work on her collectionof essays, Tourists on the Left.• Benedict J. Colombi (Ph.D.candidate, anthropology) andWilliam Willard (professoremeritus, anthropology) presentedinvited papers at the Robert K.Thomas Symposium, hosted bythe Lummi Nation and the Centerfor Indian Scholars and held atthe Northwest Indian College inBellingham July 21–23. Colombi’spaper was titled “The Nez PerceTribe vs. Elite-Directed Developmentin the Lower Snake RiverWatershed: The Struggle to Breachthe Dams and Save the Salmon,”and Willard’s paper was titled“Archie Phinney and the IndianClaims Commission.”• The American Association ofTeachers of German (AATG) andthe Goethe-Institute New Yorkwill present their annual Certificateof Merit Award to RachelHalverson (foreign languages).She is one of seven recipients ofthe 2005 award for outstandingachievement in furthering theteaching of German in schools ofthe United States. The presentationceremony will take placeNovember 19, during the AATG’sannual meeting in Baltimore, andwill be attended by approximately500 AATG members.• Stanton Linden (professoremeritus, English) presented aninvited paper, “Recent Scholarshipon Alchemy and Hermeticism,” atthe annual conference of the RenaissanceSociety of America, heldat Cambridge University, April 7–10. The paper was part of a sectionsponsored by the journal CaudaPavonis: Studies in Hermeticism,formerly edited by Linden andnow published at the University ofTexas. In January and February, hewas appointed visiting scholar bythe University of Washington Departmentof English, while workingon an essay on Sir ThomasBrowne at the Suzzallo Library.• Patricia Ericsson (English) presentedat the twenty-first annualComputers and Writing Conferenceheld at Stanford Universityin June. Her presentation, “ExploringHypertext, Multimedia Arguments,”grew out of her researchand teaching in the digital technologyand culture program andwas part of a conference sessionconcerning “Rhetoric, Writing,and Hypertext.”• Gene Rosa (sociology) served onthe Scientific Committee of theconference “Environment, Knowledge,and Democracy,” sponsoredby Research Committee 24 of theInternational Sociological Association,in Marseille, France. He wasalso recently appointed to theeditorial board of the Journal ofIndustrial Ecology.• Carol Ivory (fine arts) cohostedand presided over the Pacific ArtsAssociation’s (PAA) VIIIth InternationalSymposium held at PeabodyEssex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts,during the week of July 18.She was re-elected PAA presidentfor a second two-year term.• Jennifer Schwartz (sociology)was awarded a grant from the AlcoholBeverage Medical ResearchFoundation to research her project“Identifying and ExplainingTrends in Drunk Driving amongWomen and Men.”• Diane Gillespie (professoremeritus, English) was the featuredspeaker who inauguratedthe fifteenth annual InternationalConference on Virginia Woolf,held June 9–12 at Lewis & ClarkCollege in Portland, Oregon. Herillustrated presentation was entitled“Godiva Still Rides: VirginiaWoolf and Divestiture.”• In April Maria Cuevas (sociology,WSU Tri-Cities) was co-coordinatorand panel presenter for theUniversity of Washington HarryBridges Labor Center’s “The Historyof the UFW in WashingtonState,” at the University of Washington,WSU Pullman, and Ya-2 | The Chronicle

kima Valley Community College.She also gave the workshop presentation“As Close to God as OneCan Get: One Woman’s Accountof Farm Worker Organizing” at theELLA (Empowered Latinas LeadingAmerica) Conference, sponsoredby Mujeres Unidas, WSU Pullman.In March, she participatedin the panel presentation “VivaLa Campesina” at Western WashingtonUniversity’s InternationalWomen’s Month Celebration.• Marina Tolmacheva (associatedean of liberal arts, history) hasbeen awarded an InternationalScholar Fellowship by the OpenSociety Institute’s (OSI) AcademicFellowship Program for 2005–06.The nonresident appointmentis part of the Higher EducationSupport Program sponsored byOSI with the support of the SorosFoundation. The fellowship willinvolve Tolmacheva in teachingand curriculum development atthe history department of the NationalUniversity of Kyiv-MohylaAcademy in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine.In May Tolmacheva traveled to Almaty,Kazakhstan, to participate inthe selection of OSI fellows fromCentral Asia under the FacultyDevelopment Program that bringsvisiting Eurasian scholars to U.S.universities for up to three semestersover a period of three years.• Cornell W. Clayton and J.Mitchell Pickerill (both politicalscience) have been invited toparticipate in a Georgetown UniversityLaw Center symposiumthis fall entitled “The RehnquistCourt’s Reversal of Direction inCriminal Justice.” Other participantsinclude Ken Starr, ErwinChemerinsky, and David Cole.• Two of Paul Brians’ (English)photographs from Turkey wereused in a History Channel documentaryon the history of sewers.The program aired July 27 inthe series “Modern Marvels.” Anaudio version of Brians’ CommonErrors in English is being createdat the California State University,Long Beach, for use by disabledstudents. An interview with Brianswas the subject of the Voice ofAmerica (VOA) program in AugustWSU Research Key to Metropolitan Exhibit“It was an amazing experiencein every way,” said CarolIvory (fine arts) about theMay 10 opening of Adorningthe World: Art of the MarquesasIslands at the MetropolitanMuseum of Art.Ivory, president of the PacificArts Association and thefirst art historian in the worldto focus on the MarquesasIslands, was asked to consulton the exhibit with Eric Kjellgren,the museum’s assistantcurator of the arts of Africa,Oceania, and the Americas.She played a key role in choosingobjects for the exhibit andhelping to write and edit theexhibit catalog. She was alsoinvited to present lectureson Marquesan art at the BardGraduate Center and at theMetropolitan Museum.Ivory (left) greets Sarah Vaki, a school teacherand cultural leader from the Marquesas Islands.“There are so many aspects of my trip and the exhibit that were memorable,”said Ivory. “I would say one of the best moments was openingnight. Fifteen Marquesans representing five of the six islands made thetrip especially for that night. They were dressed in and performed traditionalsongs and dances. It was wonderful to see them in the museumcelebrating their culture.“Keep in mind,” Ivory said, “most of the things in the museum are noton the islands anymore. Marquesans have seen some of these pieces onlyin photographs; for them to be there and see them in person was a magicalmoment. And, the 200 people who attended the opening were able tosee that the culture of the Marquesas Islandsis still alive.”Ivory makes annual trips to the Marquesasand knew many of the island representatives,which she said made sharing the experienceespecially meaningful.Raised in the Bronx, Ivory completed herB.A. in history at Fordham and her master’sin American civilization at New York Universitybefore teaching high school for tenyears in the Bronx and on Long Island. Itwas a yearlong trip around the world thatsparked her interest in the art of the Pacificand prompted a return to school. Ivorycompleted a master’s and Ph.D. in art historyat the University of Washington. Hersis the only art history dissertation that focuseson Marquesan art; she is one of about a dozen scholars in theworld, in a variety of fields (ethnohistory, archaeology, linguistics),whose research centers on the Marquesas. Ivory joined the faculty atWSU in 1992.Adorning the World: Art of the Marquesas Islands runs through January15, 2006. The catalog is available at Amazon.com. Exhibition informationand images may be found at http://www.metmuseum.org/special/.September 2005 | 3

on the short feature “Wordmaster.”The transcript and audio areavailable at http://www.voanews.com/wordmaster/.Brians’ translation of Leo Africanus’“Description of Timbuktu”has been selected for use by theAga Khan Trust for Culture HumanitiesProject for Central Asiain Tajikistan. It will be used as oneof the readings for a new curriculumat several Central Asian universities.On June 25, Brians gave aninety-minute multimedia presentationcalled “The Roots of ‘StarWars,’ or Why Princess Leia Fightslike a Girl” at the annual meetingof the Science Fiction ResearchAssociation in Las Vegas. He alsoled a discussion of H.G. Wells’ Warof the Worlds in the WSU SummerRecreation reading group programon June 30 at the Bookie.• Brigit Farley (history, WSUTri-Cities) participated in a panelentitled “Pioneers of Restoration”at the British Association of Slavicand East European Studies’ annualmeeting at Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge, on April 2. Her paperwas titled “Oleg Zhurin’s RedSquare Projects, 1990–95.”• Don Dillman (sociology) gavean invited presentation, “DesignEffects in Web Surveys,” atthe 2005 eHealth Conferencesponsored by NIH and the NationalCancer Institute June 9in Bethesda, Maryland. Dillmanalso presented an invited shortcourse on “Visual Design Effects inSelf-Administered Surveys” at thetwentieth anniversary celebrationof the Journal of Official Statisticsat Statistics Sweden in Stockholm,August 24–25.• Jeff Joireman (psychology) hasbeen invited to join the Society ofExperimental Social Psychology.A paper by Joireman, DishanKamdar, Denise Daniels, andBlythe Duell (Ph.D. candidate,psychology), “Above and Beyondthe Call of Duty: How Empathy,Concern with Future Consequences,and Employee TimeHorizon Impact OrganizationalCitizenship Behaviors,” was presentedat the annual Academy ofManagement conference in Honolulu,Hawaii, in August. Joireman,Kamdar, Daniels, and CelestinaBarbosa-Leiker (M.S. candidate,psychology) coauthored the paper“Willingness to Share Knowledgein Organizations as a Functionof Empathy, Future Orientation,Time Horizon, and Social Identity:A Social Dilemma Analysis,”presented at the eleventh InternationalConference on SocialDilemmas in Krakow, Poland, inJuly; a poster by Duell, Joireman,Craig Parks (psychology), andMark Konty (sociology), “TheEffect of Mortality Salience onCooperation in a Public GoodsDilemma,” was presented at thesame conference.• Victor Villanueva (English)delivered the keynote address forthe University of Delaware Mc-Nair Scholars Awards Dinner onAugust 11.• Stephen Lakatos (psychology,WSU Vancouver) has beenawarded a $32,135 contract bythe Centers for Disease Controlto evaluate a new class of vehiclebackup alarms for possible adaptationin the U.S.• Mimi Salamat (speech and hearingsciences, WSU Spokane), withcolleagues from the Universityof North Carolina at Greensboroand Brigham Young University,presented a paper titled “ALRand P300 Brainmaps Variationsin Adults Due to Age” at the XIXBiennial Symposium in Havana,Cuba, in June.• Tahira M. Probst (psychology,WSU Vancouver) was appointed tothe editorial board of the Journalof Business and Psychology. She wasalso reappointed for a three-yearterm to the editorial board ofthe Journal of Occupational HealthPsychology. Probst concluded her2004–2005 sabbatical leave withthe United Nations’ InternationalLabor Organization (ILO) in Geneva,Switzerland. Probst and ILOresearchers submitted a $1.8 milliongrant application to the NIH,the first such collaboration for theILO with a U.S.-based researcher.She was also asked to contribute achapter on economic stress for abook on managing health-relatedproblems at work, to be publishedby the ILO in 2006. Her leave waspartially supported by a $1,000International Programs InternationalizationProfessional DevelopmentGrant. Probst also gave aninvited talk to the business schoolat the University of Navarra in Barcelona,Spain, entitled “Unemployment,Underemployment, and JobInsecurity: Implications for Spain.”• Helen Burgess’ (English, WSUVancouver) DVD-ROM project, ReimaginingBiocommerce, coauthoredwith Rob Mitchell (Duke University)and Phillip Thurtle (Universityof Washington), was awardeda grant from the North CarolinaBiotech Consortium for $38,000for continued development.• Gail Chermak (speech andhearing sciences) presented twoinvited lectures, in May on neuroplasticityand treatment of auditoryprocessing disorders at BoysTown National Research Hospitalin Omaha, Nebraska, and in Julyat the University of Connecticut,Storrs campus.• John Streamas (comparativeethnic studies) has been named toa three-year term on the MinorityScholars Committee of the AmericanStudies Association (ASA). Thecommittee’s function, accordingto the ASA constitution, is to keep“the association’s membership informedof the issues affecting minorityscholars in the profession”and to undertake “special tasksinvolving minority scholars in themembership.”• Joseph Keim Campbell (philosophy)was recently selectedto serve a three-year term on theProgram Committee for the PacificDivision of the American PhilosophicalAssociation.• Bill Condon (English) deliveredthe keynote address to the FacultyInstitute at Nicholls State Universityon August 16. His topic was“Identifying, Assigning, Evaluating,and Assessing What We Value:Writing and Critical Thinkingacross the Curriculum.” He also ledtwo breakout sessions, one deal-4 | The Chronicle

ing with program assessment andaccreditation issues and the otherwith designing writing assignmentsthat promote critical thinking.• David Pietz (history, Asia Program)delivered a paper, “Stateand Nature on the North ChinaPlain, 1949–1999” at the InternationalSymposium on Environmentand Society in Chinese Historyat Nankai University (Tianjin,China) in August. Pietz has alsobeen awarded a $100,000 grantfrom the National Science FoundationScience and TechnologyStudies Program for 2005–2006 tosupport his project “Engineeringa State of Nature: Hydraulic Transformationson the North ChinaPlain, 1949–1999.”• Susan Swan (general education)has completed a commission fromthe law offices of Aitken, Schauble,Patrick, Neill, & Ruff to paint awatercolor portrait of the firm’sfounding partner. The painting willbe hung in the office entry area.• Kim M. Lloyd (sociology) wasawarded the spring 2005 EdwardR. Meyer Grant DevelopmentAward by the College of LiberalArts. She will receive release timefrom teaching and a monetaryaward to facilitate her efforts toprocure an extramural grant fromthe National Institute of ChildHealth and Human Developmentto examine “Latino Family Formationin the United States.”• The Self-Control Lab, underthe direction of Thomas A.Brigham (psychology), presentedthe following posters at thethirty-first annual convention ofthe Association for Behavior Analysis:“Chewing Gum: A Hard Behaviorto Swallow,” by RaymondSacchi (M.S. candidate), RyanSain (Ph.D. ’05), Brigham, JenniferMcDonald (Ph.D. candidate),and Sean Greene; “Peer Reviewof Teaching: Increasing InstructionSkills,” by Sacchi, Brigham,Sain, and McDonald; “IncreasingCondom Use in College Students:A Modification to the Psychology106 Program,” by Sain, Sacchi,Julie Carrier (B.S. ’04), andBrigham; and “Listserv Discus-Welcome to our new liberal arts faculty!TENURED AND TENURE-TRACKFACULTYAnthropologyJessica Lynch AlfaroRobert QuinlanCommunicationStacey HustJeffery PetersonMija ShinComparative Ethnic StudiesKimberly ChristenCriminal JusticeBryan Vila (WSU Spokane)EnglishAimee PhanAugusta RohrbachFine ArtsStephen ChalmersMaria DePranoDouglas Gast (WSU Tri-Cities)HistoryIan WendtMusicJeffrey SavageAnthony TaylorPhilosophyAbigail GosselinPolitical ScienceDana Lee Baker (WSUVancouver)PsychologyArmando Estrada (WSUVancouver)SociologyHiromi OnoSpeech and Hearing SciencesNancy Potter (WSU Spokane)TEMPORARY FACULTYAND INSTRUCTORSAnthropologyCourtney MeehanMarsha QuinlanCommunicationKenji KitataniWayne PopeskiEnglishRhonda DietrichJared EshelmanLaura Gruber-GodfreyLeslie SenaMatthew ShearsDometa WiegandFine ArtsTia-Maria HoellerForeign LanguagesSuzanne PolleJennifer WalserGeneral StudiesCarla MichaelsenMusicSarah BahauddinNoel BarbutoHeidi JarvisKaren SavagePhilosophyRoyce GrubicPsychologyKathryn Becker-Blease (WSUVancouver)Greg Belenky (WSU Spokane)John M. Roll (WSU Spokane)SociologyMaria Quevas (WSU Tri-Cities)Speech and Hearing SciencesMary Ann NewcomTheatre ArtsBen GonzalesWomen’s StudiesSerena PetersKITATANI APPOINTED LES SMITH DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORKenji Kitatani has accepted a two-year appointment as the Les Smith DistinguishedProfessor of Media Management in the Edward R. Murrow School ofCommunication. He is currently executive advisor, Sony Corporation, and formerexecutive vice president, Sony of America.Kitatani will be teaching Entertainment and Corporate CommunicationManagement. He will be on campus periodically and conducting class sessionsfrom Tokyo via videoconferencing. He is also recruiting corporate leaders tospeak to the class by video or phone conference. So far, he has lined up Fred Cohen,president, International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences; GordonSmeaton, vice president, National Football League; John Mezacco, senior vicepresident, WKC Group, and former vice president of marketing, Sony Music Entertainment;and John Meglen, president, Concerts West (currently promotingthe Celine Dion Show at Caesars in Las Vegas).Kitatani will donate his faculty appointment salary back to the Murrow School.September 2005 | 5

American Historical Association PresentationsWSU graduate students and faculty were well represented at the annual meetingof the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, in Corvallis,Oregon, August 4–7, 2005.• Mark Moreno (Ph.D. candidate, history) presented “Ethnic Street Gangs,Migration, and the Formation of an Alternate Culture in the Pacific Northwest:The Yakima Valley, 1944–2004.”• Cheris Brewer (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) presented “‘This Lot Arethe Good Ones’: The Racial Dynamics of Cuban Refugee Acceptance and Resettlement.”• Armand Garcia (Ph.D. candidate, history) presented “Martí and Montoroon Race and Patria: The Greater Complexities of Cuba’s Late Nineteenth-CenturyNational Debate.”• Lori Saffin (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) presented “RememberingOur Dead: Transpersons of Color, Economic Exploitation, and Racism withinthe Queer Community.”• Tanya Gonzales (Ph.D. candidate, American studies) presented “DisruptingWhite Representation: A Decolonial Review of Edward Curtis’s Photographyof the North American Indian.”• C. Richard King (comparative ethnic studies) served as chair and commentatorfor the panel “Racial Identities and Indigenous Communities.” He alsopresented a paper titled “Putting White Power into Play: White NationalistInterpretations of Sport and History.”• Linda Heidenreich (women’s studies) served as chair for the panel “ReimaginingMid-Nineteenth-Century California.”• Susan Armitage (history) served as a panelist in the roundtable “New Approachesto Pacific Northwest History.”• José Alamillo (comparative ethnic studies) served as chair and commentatorfor the panel “Borders and Boundaries: Articulating Identity and Citizenship.”He also served as co-chair for the conference program committee.History Professor Chosen for Public Intellectuals ProgramThe National Committee on United States–China Relations (NCUSCR) hasselected David Pietz (history, director of Asia Program) for the newly createdPublic Intellectuals Program. Funded through grants, the program was createdto upgrade the quality of American understanding of China by strengtheninglinks among U.S. academics, policymakers, and opinion leaders.The Public Intellectuals Program consists of twenty unpaid appointmentsand attracted 126 applications from academics nationwide. During their thirtymonthterm, participants will attend workshops on U.S.–China relations, organizeregional workshops, and may be asked to travel to China. The hope is thatscholars will deepen and broaden their knowledge about China’s politics, economics,and society and use this knowledge to inform policy and public opinion.Pietz has previously published research focused on the history of water managementon the North China Plain since 1949. “My ultimate interest,” said Pietz,“is to understand how the development and utilization of resources, in thiscase water, may condition China’s commitment to international economic andsecurity networks.”“A critical goal of intellectuals working on China, it seems to me,” said Pietz,“is to recognize and communicate the dynamics of Chinese society, economics,and politics and to articulate to as wide an audience as possible how these realitiessuggest limitations and opportunities for mutual understanding.”“The program will offer unique opportunities for professional development,mentoring by senior scholars, networking, and exposure,” said Stephen A. Orlins,NCUSCR president. “Program participants will gain access to senior policymakersand experts in both the United States and China and to individuals andfields they would not typically be exposed to, including, for instance, the emergingbusiness and nonprofit sectors in China, as well as to media representatives.”sions: Effects on In-Class Discussionsand Student Performance,”by Sain, Samantha Swindell(psychology), and Brigham.In addition to the posters,Brigham was chair of an invitedsymposium entitled “BehaviorAnalysts Should Be the Best Teachersin the Academy. Are We?” withDaniel Bernstein and Richard Malott.His presentation was entitled“‘You Can’t Shape an Egg’: The Lecture-Discussion-PracticeCourse.”• Michael Delahoyde (English)in early August visited the SeattleOxford Society in Kirkland as aninvited speaker on Shakespeare’sLucrece. Also, a New York bookpublisher has taken an interest inhis monsters and dinosaur filmsWeb sites and is negotiating abook deal.• Yolanda Flores Niemann(comparative ethnic studies) wasinvited to lecture at the InternationalChristian University inTokyo, Japan, this past summer.She presented a key address on“Black-Brown Relations” as well asshort seminars on stereotypes andstereotyping.• Rebecca Craft (psychology) andJean Sumner (Ph.D. candidate,psychology) attended the Collegeon Problems of Drug Dependence(CPDD) annual scientific meetingin Orlando, Florida, June 18–23.Sumner presented her M.S. researchin a poster entitled “TimeCourse of the Modulatory Effectsof Gonadal Hormones on Nociception,Morphine Antinociception,and Reproductive Indicesin Rats.” Craft presented a posterentitled “Effects of Handling onNociception and Morphine Antinociceptionin Female vs. MaleRats” and chaired a symposium,“Glutamatergic Modulation ofDrug Reinforcement, Tolerance,and Dependence.” Sumner wasawarded a CPDD Women andGender Junior Investigator TravelAward from the National Instituteon Drug Abuse ($750) to attendthe conference.6 | The Chronicle

PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTIVITY• Gene Rosa’s (sociology) recentpublications include “Societal Processesand Carbon Dioxide (CO 2)Emissions,” with Richard York(Ph.D. ’02, sociology), in the journalSocial Forces, and “Celebratinga Citation Classic—and More:Symposium on Charles Perrow’sNormal Accidents” in the journalOrganization and Environment. Hewas also a committee coauthor onthe report “Thinking Strategically:The Appropriate Use of Metrics forthe Climate Change Science Program,”published by the NationalAcademy of Sciences.• Jennifer Schwartz (sociology),with coauthors Darrell Steffensmeier,Sara Zhong, and Jeff Ackerman,published an article titled“An Assessment of Recent Trendsin Girls’ Violence Using DiverseLongitudinal Sources: Is the GenderGap Closing?” in Criminology.• Maria Cuevas (sociology, WSUTri-Cities) has a book chapter inMemory, Community, and Activism:Mexican Identity and Labor in thePacific Northwest, edited by JerryGarcia and Gilberto Garcia andforthcoming from Julian SamoraInstitute, Michigan. She also contributedtwo entries, on RosalindaGuillen, farmworker organizer, andLuz Bazan Gutierrez, cofounder ofLa Raza Unida Party, to a Latinaencyclopedia project in press withCUNY Press and edited by VirginiaSanchez Korrol and Vicki Ruiz.• Jon Hegglund (English) haspublished a book chapter, “Modernism,Africa, and the Myth ofContinents,” in the edited collectionGeographies of Modernism:Literatures, Cultures, Spaces, just outwith Routledge. An image fromHegglund’s essay—a section of a1916 map of the West African kingdomof Bamum—was chosen to beon the cover of the collection.• Cornell W. Clayton and J.Mitchell Pickerill (both politicalscience) published their article“Guess What Happened on theWay to the Revolution? Precursorsto the Supreme Court’s FederalismRevolution” in the latest issue ofPublius: The Journal of Federalism.Pickerill also published a chapterentitled “Congressional Responsesto Judicial Review” in Congressand the Constitution (Neal Devinsand Keith Whittington, eds., DukeUniversity Press).• An article by Don A. Dillman(sociology), Arina Gertseva, andTaj Mahon-Haft (both Ph.D.candidates, sociology), “AchievingUsability in Establishment Surveysthrough Application of Visual DesignPrinciples,” appeared in theJournal of Official Statistics 21(2).Plateau Center Announces Training• C. Richard King (comparativeethnic studies) has published twoarticles coauthored with CharlesFruehling Springwood: “Body andSoul: Physicality, Disciplinarity,and the Overdetermination ofBlackness,” in Channeling Blackness:Studies of Television and Race inAmerica, Darnell M. Hunt, ed. (OxfordUniversity Press), and “PlayingIndian: Why Native American MascotsMust End,” in Race and Ethnicityin Society, Elizabeth Higginbothamand Margaret Andersen, eds.(Thomson Higher Education). Kingcoauthored with David Leonard(comparative ethnic studies) “PopularCulture and Ethnic Studies:Curricular and Pedagogic Reflections,”appearing in Popular CultureAcross the Disciplines, Ray Browne,ed. (McFarland).• Carol Siegel’s(English, WSUVancouver) latestbook, Goth’sDark Empire,has just beenreleased by IndianaUniversityPress.• RebeccaCraft (psychology) has an article,“Sex Differences in Behavioral Effectsof Cannabinoids,” in presswith Life Sciences.• Jeff Joireman (psychology) iscoauthor of “Organizational CitizenshipBehaviors as a Function ofEmpathy, Consideration of FutureConsequences, and EmployeeTime Horizon: An Initial ExplorationUsing an In-basket Simulationof OCBs,” in press with theJournal of Applied Social Psychology.Joireman, David Sprott (marketing),and Eric Spangenberg (deanof business and economics) haveThe Plateau Center for American Indian Studies has developed a governmentto-governmenttraining that can be available on a regular basis to various constituentsin the University.In 1989 the governor of the state of Washington and all of the federally recognizedIndian tribes in Washington signed a Centennial Accord to establish aframework for government-to-government relationships between the tribes andthe state. The Centennial Accord mandates the Governor’s Office of Indian Affairs(GOIA) to provide training. This training was developed for state agencieson an ongoing basis to increase understanding and respect for tribal history,culture, and sovereignty.In 1997, Washington State University signed a memorandum of understandingwith six tribes in the region, and to date a total of nine tribes have signedthis MOU. The MOU recognizes the self-governance of the tribes and commitsto increasing educational opportunities for Native Americans. A Native AmericanAdvisory Board to the President was established; it meets semiannually. Theadvisory board recommended government-to-government training for WSUadministrators, faculty, and professionals. President Rawlins desired to be thefirst to receive this training, and he and his executive cabinet participated in atraining in the summer of 2003 provided through the GOIA.The next session is open to deans, chairs, and directors, on Tuesday, September13, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Food Science and Human NutritionBuilding, room T-101. Refreshments and an exhibit entitled “Northwest TreatyTrail: 1854–1856,” provided by the Washington State Historical Society, will beshown during this training session.For more information, please contact the Plateau Center at 509-335-3936.September 2005 | 7

an article, “Fiscal Responsibilityand the Consideration of FutureConsequences,” in press with Personalityand Individual Differences.• Barry Hewlett(anthropology)published anedited bookwith MichaelLamb (Universityof Cambridge)entitledHunter-GathererChildhoods: Evolutionary,Developmental,and Cultural Perspectives(2005, Transaction/Aldine).• Michiyo Hirai (psychology) andGeorge Clum have coauthoredtwo articles: “A Meta-analyticStudy of Self-help Interventionsfor Anxiety Disorders,” in presswith Behavior Therapy, and “AnInternet-based Self-help Programfor Trauma Sequelae,” in presswith the Journal of Traumatic Stress.Hirai has a third article, with MelindaStanley and Diane Novy, inpress with the Journal of Psychopathologyand Behavioral Assessmenttitled “Generalized AnxietyDisorder in Hispanics: SymptomCharacteristics and Prediction ofSeverity.”• Ella Inglebret (speech and hearingsciences) and Joanne Harrison(B.A. ’01, speech and hearingsciences) published an articleentitled “Determining Directionsfor Speech-Language Interventionin Native Communities” for theAmerican Speech-Language-HearingAssociation’s 2005 “Perspectiveson Language Learning andEducation.”• Joseph Keim Campbell’s (philosophy)paper “CompatibilistAlternatives” will be published inthe September issue of the CanadianJournal of Philosophy 35(3).• Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (philosophy)and Carmen Lugo-Lugo’s(comparative ethnic studies)article “‘The War on Terror’ andSame-Sex Marriage: Narratives ofContainment and the Shaping ofU.S. Public Opinion” was recentlypublished in Peace & Change: AJournal of Peace Research. Theirarticle “‘The War on Terror’ andDomestic ‘Terrorism’: Same-SexMarriage and U.S. State Discoursein the 2004 Election Year” is forthcomingin International Journal ofContemporary Sociology, and theirarticle “‘Look Out New World,Here We Come?’: Race, Racialization,and Sexuality in Four Children’sAnimated Films by Disney,Pixar, and Dreamworks,” was acceptedfor publication in CulturalStudies Critical Methodologies.• Will Hamlin’s (English) newbook, Tragedy and Scepticism inShakespeare’s England, was publishedin June by Palgrave Macmillanin the U.K.• Laurie Drapela (political science,criminal justice, WSU Vancouver)and Clayton Mosher(sociology, WSU Vancouver) havehad an article, “The ConditionalEffect of Parental Drug Use on ParentalAttachment and AdolescentDrug Use: Social Control and SocialDevelopment Model Perspectives,”accepted for publication inthe Journal of Child & AdolescentSubstance Abuse.• An article by Robert Reff (Ph.D.candidate, psychology), PaulKwon (psychology), and DuncanCampbell (Ph.D. ’03, psychology),“Dysphoric Responses toa Naturalistic Stressor: InteractiveEffects of Hope and Defense Style,”appears in the Journal of Social andClinical Psychology 24. A paper coauthoredby Megan Olson (Ph.D.candidate, psychology), DanielaHugelshofer (Ph.D. candidate,psychology), Kwon, and Reff, entitled“Rumination and Dysphoria:The Buffering Role of AdaptiveForms of Humor,” has been acceptedfor publication in Personalityand Individual Differences.• Victor Villanueva (English)completed, with C. Jan Swearingenand Susan McDowall, atwenty-year retrospective onrhetoric, which will appear thisyear in Research on Composition:Multiple Perspectives on Two Decadesof Change (Teachers College Press),and a foreword to Compositions ofWhiteness: Writing, Reading, andRhetorics of Race, edited by IanMarshall and Wendy Ryden (Universityof Pittsburgh Press), also toappear this year. He has also had“Toward a Political Economy ofRhetoric (or A Rhetoric of PoliticalEconomy)” appear in print inRadical Relevance: Toward a “WholeLeft”, edited by Laura Gray-Rosendaleand Steven Rosendale (SUNYPress). This summer he posteda review of Crossing Borderlands:Composition and Postcolonial Studies(http://www.ncte.org/pubs/books/selects/college/121401.htm), andwith Bob Eddy (English) hascompleted and submitted a revisedmanuscript of Alternatives: Writingthe Academy/Writing Culture (Mc-Graw-Hill).• Dana J. Lindemann (psychology,WSU Vancouver), ThomasA. Brigham (psychology), ColinR. Harbke (Ph.D. candidate,psychology), and Teresa Alexanderhave an article, “Toward ErrorlessCondom Use: A Comparison ofTwo Courses to Improve Students’Condom Use Skills,” in press withAIDS and Behavior.• John Streamas (comparativeethnic studies) published an essay,titled “Toyo Suyemoto, AnselAdams, and the Landscape ofJustice,” in the book RecoveredLegacies: Authority and Identity inEarly Asian American Literature, editedby Keith Lawrence and FloydCheung. It is published by TempleUniversity Press, the leading publisherin Asian American studies.• Robert Patterson (psychology)coauthored “Active Heading Controlin Simulated Flight Based onVertically Extended Contours,”in press with Perception & Psychophysics.Patterson, Lisa Fournier(psychology), Matt Wiediger(M.S. candidate, psychology),Greg Vavrek (B.S. ’02, psychology),Cheryl Becker-Dippman, andIvan Bickler (B.S. ’04, psychology)have published “SelectiveAttention and Cyclopean MotionProcessing” in Vision Research45(20). Patterson, Marc Winterbottom,and Byron Pierce’s reviewpaper “Perceptual Issues in the Useof Head-mounted Visual Displays”is in press with Human Factors.8 | The Chronicle

STUDENT ACTIVITIES & AWARDS• Isaac Powell (M.F.A. candidate)is this year’s recipient of thegrand prize award of $20,000 forShifting Gears, a national juriedexhibit for young artists with disabilitiesopening September 26 atthe Smithsonian’s S. Dillon RipleyCenter. The jury was impressedwith his entire collection, choosinghis piece Growthplate as the selectedart work. The awards receptionwill be held in Washington,D.C., September 21.• Melissa Hussain’s (Ph.D. candidate,American studies) article“Seas, Slaves, and Cents: ReadingPolitical Economy in Wide SargassoSea and A Small Place” has beenaccepted for publication in theJournal of Postcolonial Writing. Inaddition, Hussain is under contractto write a bibliographic entry onthe early twentieth-century Indianfeminist writer Rokeya Hossain,which will be included in the Compendiumof Twentieth Century Novelistsand Novels (Facts on File, 2006).Also, Hussain’s book review of PostcolonialWhiteness: A Critical Readeron Race and Empire will appear inthe next issue of In-Between: Essaysand Studies in Literary Criticism.• An article by Benedict J. Colombi(Ph.D. candidate, anthropology),titled “Dammed inRegion Six: The Nez Perce Tribe,Agricultural Development, andthe Inequality of Scale,” is beingpublished in the journal AmericanIndian Quarterly 29(4).• Tracy Behler (M.A. candidate,speech and hearing sciences) receivedthe WSU Spokane LeadershipAward for spring 2005.• Erin Mae Clark (M.A. candidate,English) gave a paper, “‘Shut inReservations’ and Cultural Tourism:D.H. Lawrence’s Hopi SnakeDance and Resistance to AmericanCultural Imperialism,” at the tenthInternational D.H. Lawrence Conference,held this year in Santa Fe,June 26 to July 1. The conferencewas in the Hotel Santa Fe, ownedby the Picurus Pueblo of NewMexico, and several of the openingsessions concerned the EnglishNational Science Magazine HighlightsResearch of Anthropology ProfessorThe work of anthropology professor Timothy A. Kohler was highlighted inthe July 2005 issue of Scientific American magazine. Utilizing grants from theNational Science Foundation (NSF), Kohler is principal investigator of a projectthat is helping to create new understanding about settlement system changes inthe U.S. Southwest between A.D. 600 and 1300.“I think what is especially interesting to the scientific community,” saidKohler, “is that our research combines traditional archaeological methods withhigh-tech tools including computer modeling and imaging. We are finding thatour simulations, using new agent-based modeling tools, help us to put the resultsof traditional archaeology into a more meaningful context.” Kohler coauthoredthe Scientific American article with researchers George J. Gumerman andRobert G. Reynolds.Kohler’s team, which also includes graduate students and other faculty atWSU and archaeologists at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado,uses agent-based modeling to reconstruct land use by Puebloan peoples in theCentral Mesa Verde region in Colorado. Their new research methods allow thisteam to weigh the importance of multiple factors, such as hunting, availability offuel wood, water, and changing agricultural production, on regional settlementpatterns and on the number of people who can make a living on the landscape.“Computer models can provide basic insights regarding how individuals,households, and even entire societies may have interacted with their naturalenvironment,” said Thomas Baerwald, NSF program director and administratorof Kohler’s NSF grant. “There may be parallels between what happened in a historicalcontext and what is going on in these regions today.”Researchers say in the article:One of the great benefits of computer simulation is that it allowsresearchers to conduct experiments, a luxury that is otherwiseimpossible in an historical science such as archaeology. We havefound that virtual households often affect their environment inways that limit the options of their offspring and even limit theirlong-term survival. In addition to illuminating the distant past,these simulations may point to methods for sustaining natural resourcesin the future.Kohler joined the faculty of WSU in 1978. In addition to his work with thisNSF-funded biocomplexity project, Kohler has directed excavations in BandelierNational Monument in New Mexico. He is an external faculty member at theSanta Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and a research associate at the CrowCanyon Archaeological Center in Colorado.Illustration by Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation.Computer simulations helpscientists answer questionsthat archaeologicalevidence alone cannot.Researchers simulatedthe settlement and farmableland patterns of thePuebloan people living inArizona’s Long House Valleyfrom 1170 A.D. to 1305A.D. and then comparedthe models (upper) witharchaeological evidence ofactual settlement patternsin the region (lower). Themodels closely matched thearchaeological record untilabout 1300 A.D. Both showchanges that coincide witha drought during the late 1200s. However, the model did not predict what happened around 1300 A.D.,when the Puebloans completely abandoned the Long House Valley. Simulations indicate the region couldhave supported a small number of settlements. Environmental conditions alone cannot explain why theregion was abandoned abruptly 700 years ago, leading researchers to conclude that the change was due tosocial, political, or other factors not included in the model.September 2005 | 9

writer’s American work in a NativeAmerican context. Clark was inone of these special sessions called“Mexico and the Southwest.”Pamela Kaye Wright (Ph.D.candidate, English) presented a paperat the same conference entitled“Living Outside-In: The Role ofBeauty and Disfigurement in TheLadybird.” Her presentation, whichemployed disability theory, waspart of a session entitled “Philosophiesof the Body.” She has alsopresented two related papers atthe Twentieth-Century LiteratureConference at the University ofLouisville and is scheduled to presentanother at the national conventionof the MLA in Washington,D.C. She is teaching literatureat Texas A&M, Kingsville, whilecompleting her dissertation here.• Desirae Bear Eagle and AlisonHowe, new graduate students inspeech and hearing sciences, eachreceived a Creighton Scholarshipfor Native American Students inAllied Health Professions.• Diane Curewitz (Ph.D. candidate,anthropology) was selectedas the 2005–2006 Robert H. ListerFellow. The Lister Fellowship wasestablished at the Crow CanyonArchaeological Center, Cortez,Colorado, to commemorate thelife and work of the late Dr. Lister.The $5,000 award, given everyother year, is intended to supportthe final stages of dissertationresearch and actual writing of thedissertation. Curewitz is exploringthe changing relationshipbetween ceramic economy andsocial organization at the transitionbetween the Coalition (A.D.1150–1325) to Classic (A.D.1325–1600) periods in the northern RioGrande of New Mexico, focusingon ceramics produced andexchanged at Bandelier NationalMonument.• Zach Mazur’s (M.F.A. candidate)current work can be seen in MoscowArtwalk 2005 through September10. In June he participatedin the Artsource Gallery NationalJuried Show in Boise, Idaho, andthe Allied Arts Association (AAA)Scholarship Show in Richland,Washington. The AAA had selectedMazur to receive its M.F.A.scholarship, awarded to a finearts graduate student in residenceat a university in Washington,Oregon, or Idaho. In July Mazurparticipated in the third annualBarns & Farms exhibition at theBarnsite Art Studio and Gallery inKewaunee, Wisconsin.• Kazumi Kondoh (Ph.D. candidate,sociology) and Raymond A.Jussaume’s (community and ruralsociology) article “ContextualizingFarmers’ Attitudes towards GeneticallyModified Crops” is in presswith Agriculture and Human Values.• Rosemary Briseño (Ph.D. candidate,English) presented a paper,“Negotiating Space and Place inSandra Cisneros‚ The House onMango Street,” during the tenthannual Latina Letters ConferenceJuly 15 at St. Mary’s University inSan Antonio, Texas. The conference(previously known as Hijasdel Quinto Sol) has been called bycritics “one of the nation’s mostimportant gatherings about literatureby Hispanic women.” Briseñohas also been commissioned tocontribute an introduction on internationalauthor and critic CarlosFuentes (Where the Air Is Clear),winner of the Miguel de CervantesPrize as well as the Latin LiteraryPrize, in the forthcoming Compendiumof 20th Century Novelistsand Novels. The novelists includedin the collection are identified asthose who wrote during the twentiethcentury and in a languageother than English. The collectionis published by Facts on File, aleading New York publishing firm.• Jean Sumner (Ph.D. candidate,psychology) coauthored an articlein press with Pharmacology,Biochemistry, and Behavior titled“Naloxone Increases Ketamine-InducedHyperactivity in the OpenField in Female Rats.” She alsoreceived a Registration Grant fromGPSA ($100) and a Graduate StudentTravel Award ($450), and wasawarded the Sigma Delta EpsilonFellowship from Sigma Delta Epsilon/GraduateWomen in Science($500) for the year 2004–2005.ALUMNI NEWS• Brenda Jackson’s(Ph.D.’02, history)dissertationwill be publishedby theUniversity ofNebraska Pressthis November,with the titleDomesticatingthe West: TheRe-Creation of the Nineteenth-CenturyAmerican Middle Class. Followingthe post-Civil War careers of Thomasand Elizabeth Tannatt, Jacksonargues that middle-class coupleslike the Tannatts, faced with uncertainprospects in the East, foundopportunities for leadership in theWest (and in the Tannatts’ case, inWhitman County). As the dustjacketdescribes, “While many studiesof westward expansion focusexclusively on the earliest pioneers,Jackson adroitly shows how later arrivalsshaped the social, economic,and cultural growth of the nation.”• Michael Brown (Ph.D. ’03, history)has accepted a contract topublish his Ph.D. dissertation,“Victorio Acosta Velasco: AsianAmerican Activist.” The publisheris Hamilton Books, a new imprintof University Press of America andRowman & Littlefield of New York.Brown is also completing an article,“Tort Law,” for Postwar America:An Encyclopedia of Social, Political,Cultural, and Economic History (M.E.Sharpe, anticipated fall 2005). Heis establishing his private practiceas an attorney in Seattle, with aparticular emphasis upon race discriminationissues in both westernand eastern Washington.• A solo exhibition of large-scale, abstract-surrealistpaintings by BrianSims (B.A. ’98, fine arts), PaintingUnrestrained, will run throughSeptember 30 at the Tribe Theatreand Art Gallery, 510 NW Glisan St.,in Portland, Oregon. There will bean opening reception 4:00–8:00p.m. on September 1 featuring asilent auction of the artist’s paintingMaternal Earth; all proceedsfrom the auction will benefit thePortland Rescue Mission.10 | The Chronicle

Jazz Northwest Kicks OffWSU Week in SeattleWSU Week in Seattle kicks off September14 with Cougar Jazz Night,a performance by faculty jazz ensembleJazz Northwest at Tula’s Restaurantand Nightclub, one of thetop jazz clubs in America (Down Beatmagazine).Admission is $15 per person or$25 per couple. Proceeds from theevent will benefit scholarships in theSchool of Music and Theatre Arts.Reservations are required. Visithttp://libarts.wsu.edu/cougarjazz todownload an order form, or for moreinformation call the dean’s office at509-335-4581.“Saint Paul Sunday” toTape Faculty MusiciansNorthwest Public Radio welcomesBill McGlaughlin, host of “Saint PaulSunday,” a nationally distributed publicradio program on classical music,to campus September 9 for a live tapingof the weekly show. McGlaughlinwill be joined by WSU’s Solstice WindQuintet for music and conversationin a program that will be recorded forregional broadcast on Northwest PublicRadio at a later date.The event is set for 7:30 p.m. inBryan Hall Theatre. Tickets are $12for the general public, $10 for WSUfaculty and staff, and $8 for WSUstudents. Tickets are available at allTicketsWest outlets, by phone at800-325-SEAT, or online athttp://beasley.wsu.edu.Members of the quintet havechanged a number of times over theyears, and the audience can expect tosee new talents this year. The quintetincludes music faculty Ryan Hare,bassoon; Jennifer Scriggins, frenchhorn; Anthony Taylor, clarinet;Ann Yasinitsky, flute; and GaryPlowman (Gonzaga University), oboe.McGlaughlin has entertained“Saint Paul Sunday” listeners fortwenty-five years. His knack for presentingperformers of the highestlevel in a down-to-earth, entertainingmanner has kept the audiencecoming back. The program’s combinationof outstanding performanceand natural conversation provideslisteners a glimpse into how music iscreated at the highest level.LIBERAL ARTS CALENDAR OF EVENTS • SEPTEMBER 2005Thru Sept. 8Thru Sept. 9Lace, Lawn, and Lingerie in La Belle Epoque, CUB Gallery.Carl Richardson: Spectacles, Spokane painter and printmaker, Fine ArtsGallery II.Thru Sept. 17 Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Art.Beg. Sept. 19 Giorgio Sadotti, U.K. conceptual artist, Fine Arts Gallery II.Beg. Sept. 24 Roy Lichtenstein Print Retrospective, Museum of Art.Sept. 5Sept. 6Sept. 9Sept. 9Sept. 9Sept. 14Labor Day, all-university holiday.Faculty recital, John Weiss, voice, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.Philosophy colloquium, “Non-Violence as a Civic Virtue: Ghandi as aReformed Liberal,” Nick Gier (University of Idaho), Bundy Reading Room,Avery Hall, 3:00 p.m.Guest lecture, Bill McGlaughlin, host of “Saint Paul Sunday” on NPR,Kimbrough Hall 101, 3:10 p.m.Taping of “Saint Paul Sunday” with Solstice Wind Quintet, Bryan HallTheatre, 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at all TicketsWest outlets, by phone at800-325-SEAT, or online at http://beasley.wsu.edu.Lecture by U.K. conceptual artist Giorgio Sadotti, Fine Arts Auditorium,5:00–7:00 p.m.Sept. 14 Cougar Jazz Night in Seattle. Tula’s Nightclub hosts Jazz Northwest. $15per person or $25 per couple. Reservations are required. For more information:509-335-4581. http://libarts.wsu.edu/cougarjazz/Sept. 15Sept. 20Sept. 22Sept. 28Sept. 29Sept. 29Sept. 30Faculty Chamber Music, location TBA, 8:00 p.m.President Rawlins’ State of the University Address, Bryan Hall Theatre,4:10 p.m.Symphonic Band/Wind Symphony/Orchestra, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.Guest lecture, Dr. Harre Harren, Indian Music Therapy, Kimbrough Hall101, 7:30 p.m.Potter Memorial Lecture, “The Critique of Identity Politics,” Linda MartinAlcoff, CUE 203, 7:30 p.m.Faculty recital, Jennifer Scriggins, french horn, and Ann Yasinitsky, flute,Bryan Hall Theatre, 8:00 p.m.Philosophy lecture, “Identity, Autonomy, and Self/Other Relations,” LindaMartin Alcoff, Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall, 2:10 p.m.CLA Season Opens with a Full HouseL.L. Cavalli-Sforza, M.D., father of “genetic geography andhistory” and considered by most to be the world’s leadingexpert on human population genetics, delivered the 2005Philip C. Holland Lecture at Washington State University August25. The Kimbrough Concert Hall was filled to capacityfor his lecture, “Understanding Human Genetic Diversity byStudying Its History.”Cavalli-Sforza (pictured at right), creator of StanfordUniversity’s Human Population Genetics Laboratory, is anactive professor emeritus in the Department of Genetics atStanford’s School of Medicine. He is credited with advancingthe study of the origin of modern humans and their evolutionary history by usinggenetic markers along with linguistic and archaeological data. In effect, heused genes and culture to reconstruct the history of humankind.“It is fitting for a lecture of this high caliber to be the first event of the LiberalArts Season,” said Erich Lear, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, referring tothe CLA Season, a series of academic and interdisciplinary events ranging fromlectures to the Edward R. Murrow Symposium and the Festival of ContemporaryArt Music. “You know it is going to be an excellent academic year when L.L. Cavalli-Sforzasets the standard at the beginning of the semester,” Lear said.September 2005 | 11

Meet the New Leadership within CLADavid Pietz, Director, Asia ProgramDavid Pietz was born in Minnesota and earned B.A. degreesin history and English. After completing his Ph.D. inmodern Chinese history from Washington University inSt. Louis in 1998, Pietz joined the Department of History atWSU as an assistant professor in 2002.Pietz’s research examines post-1949 state policies on waterresources in the North China Plain and the impact these policiesmay have had on regional and international economicand security considerations. His publications include TheHuai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China (Routledge,2002) and State and Economy in Republican China (co-editor, Harvard, 2000).Dr. Pietz has received research funding from the Pacific Cultural Foundation,the China Times Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies,the American Philosophical Foundation, and the National Science Foundation(current). He held visiting and teaching fellowships at Harvard University from1992 to 1996 and was a Mellon Fellow at the Needham Center for the History ofChinese Science, Technology, and Medicine at Cambridge University (U.K.) inspring 2005. Prior to coming to WSU, Pietz taught at Assumption College, ClarkUniversity, and Tufts University.The ChronicleMelissa Alles, EditorTravis C. Pratt, Director, Criminal Justice ProgramTravis Pratt was born in Yakima. He received his B.A. in politicalscience and M.A. in criminal justice from WashingtonState University, and his Ph.D. in criminal justice from theUniversity of Cincinnati. He joined the WSU faculty in 2002.He has authored over forty peer-reviewed articles and bookchapters in the areas of criminology and criminal justice andhas a forthcoming book with Sage titled Addicted to Incarceration:Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in theUnited States. He lives in Pullman with his wife, Jodie, andtheir comfortably chubby basset hound named Lloyd.The College of Liberal Arts welcomes Gail Chermak, chair of the Departmentof Speech and Hearing Sciences; Bill Andrefsky, chair of the Department ofAnthropology; and T.V. Reed, director of the American Studies Program, backfrom their professional leaves. Welcome also to interim chairs John Hinson,Department of Psychology, and John E. Kicza, Department of History.Marina Tolmacheva, associate dean of liberal arts and professor of history,has accepted a position as dean of arts and sciences at the AmericanUniversity of Kuwait. Her new position begins January 1, 2006. She will bewith us through most of the fall semester, leaving to begin her transitionin mid-November. Our hearty congratulations go to Dr. Tolmacheva onthis significant opportunity.Dr. Tolmacheva has arranged to be with us through this fall’s promotionand tenure reviews and, we hope, a transitional period in which a new associatedean can gain from her experience. The dean’s office will announcea process for selecting her successor early in the fall and will also schedulean opportunity for appropriate recognition of her accomplishments andher long and distinguished service to Washington State University.The Chronicle is the Washington State University College of Liberal Arts newsletter for faculty,students, and staff. Share your achievements and news items by submitting them to yourchair or libarts@wsu.edu. Read the Chronicle on-line at http://libarts.wsu.edu/chronicle/.Dean’s Message, continued from p. 1tions for interim appointments, andselected events for the CLA Season’05–’06 in continued work towardmaking this a highly visible representationof what our college is anddoes. Oh, yes, and we removed theword “interim” from my title.So what’s up for fall? In early October,we will learn if we receive anynew resources. Our top priorities arepermanent funding for TAs and aleadership position and other supportfor Theatre. We may also receive helptoward our deficit. While we have notyet made a specific request, we willmove toward requesting a leadershipposition promoting equity and diversityin the college. The universityStrategic Plan is for 2002–2007. Whilebenchmarks took the forefront lastyear, this year we will begin revisionsto our unit and college strategic plans.At the college level, this will fostercoalescing the pillars of our strategicplan with those of our fund raisingplans, employing the CLA Seasonas a signature representation of theglobal issues whose consideration welead in improving people’s lives, andthe capacity of the college to deliverengaged and high-quality class andindividual preparation for studentswho encounter these current issuesand will need creative abilities to addressthose of the future.We are part of a very large enterprise,as individuals and as part of ouruniversity. We will hear much about“economic development” and “outreach”this coming year. The centraladministration is already restructuringto advance our collective causeseffectively. As I have said before, theprimary roles of administration (inmy view) are to make process thorough,transparent, and facile to allowimportant work to be done, and tocreatively synthesize the very best ofthat work in ways that increase contributionsto positive change locally,statewide, regionally, nationally, andinternationally. Essential to our successis the generosity of our faculty,staff, and students in giving yourbest. In advance, please accept mygratitude for all that you will do thiscoming year! It is a privilege to serveas your dean.Erich Lear, DeanCollege of Liberal Arts12 | The Chronicle