Transitions Magazine Spring 2013 - Prescott College

Faculty & Staff NotesFaculty & Staff NotesRafaelle Abramovitz ’06Adjunct instructor Rafaelle Abramovitz organized and led awomen’s empowerment/cultural exchange program in Kenyawith a combination of Americans and Maasai last February.The culmination of the experience was a self-supported climbof Mt. Kenya with all ten women involved.Sophia Andali, M.A., M.B.A.Prescott College’s new Director of Student Life, Sophia Andali,started in October. She came to usfrom The Art Institute of Salt LakeCity, where she was the Directorof Student Affairs. She has years ofexperience in higher education andthe corporate world and is currentlypursuing a doctorate in leadership.Becca Deysach ’99Instructor Becca Deysach put together an online anthology of some of herstudents’ writing from the fall Limited-Residency Undergraduate Writingthe Wild class. Check out “Words Unbound” atwww.writingthewild2.wordpress.com.Suzanne Dhruv, M.A. ’05Director of Prescott College, Tucson, Suzanne created and recently publisheda curriculum to engage youth and families in exploring the natural environmentaround them. To learn more about the curriculum, go tohttp://neighborhoodnatureclubs.arizona.edu/sampleactivities.html.Nina Ekholm Fry, M.S.Sc.Director of Equine-Assisted Mental Health Nina Ekholm Fry presented alecture at Scottsdale Community College and at the Professional Associationof Therapeutic Horsemanship International conference. She was appointedEditor of the Scientific and Educational Journal of Therapeutic Horsemanship, andwas chosen to contribute a manuscript on equine-assisted therapy for thebook Biotherapy: History, Principles, and Practices.Walt Anderson, M.S.Walt Anderson’s essay “In Defense of Tumbleweeds” wasrecently published by New Clear Vision Blog. You can read itat http://www.newclearvision.com/2012/10/08/in-defenseof-tumbleweeds/.Joel Barnes ’81, Ph.D.Joel Barnes, on-campus faculty member and director ofthe Graduate Teaching Assistant Program, had two articlespublished on landscape ecology and wild and scenic rivers inGrand Canyon; one in Boatman’s Quarterly Review and anotherin the International Journal of Wilderness. Joel also presented onthis topic at the Grand Canyon River Guide’s Training Seminarin March.Melanie Bishop ’86, M.F.A.My So-Called Ruined Life, a young adult novel by facultymember Melanie Bishop, was accepted for publication byTorrey House Press.Danny Brown, M.Ed.Program Development Director for Professional PreparationDanny Brown was recently appointed to represent the Collegeon the Yavapai County Educational Technology ConsortiumBoard of Directors. For more information visithttp://ycetc.org/bylaws/.Grace Burford, Ph.D.The Islamic Speakers Bureau ofArizona (ISBA) honored GraceBurford (faculty member in Culturaland Regional Studies) withthe 2012 Building Bridges Awardfor Educators. Dr. Burford hasworked with ISBA for more than10 years to integrate interactionswith Muslims and other first-handexperiences of Islam into her religiousstudies courses. (With Azra Hussain of ISBA, above.)Kenny Cook, M.F.A.K. L. Cook, Arts & Letters faculty member, was one of sevenartists and writers awarded a 2013 Arizona Commission onthe Arts Research and Development Grant. His essay, “FootNotes,” which originally appeared in Shenandoah, was reprintedin the online journal Redux, athttp://www.reduxlitjournal.com/2012/12/61-foot-notesby-kl-cook.html.He was also interviewed for a series withcontemporary authors from the American West, available athttp://multi-interviews.com/western/?p=29.26Transitions Spring 2013Anita Fernández, Ph.D.On-campus faculty member Anita Fernández is working closely with theorganization Save Ethnic Studies. Dr. Fernández and fellow faculty memberZoe Hammer’s forthcoming article “Red Scare in the Red State: The Attackon Mexican American Studies in Arizona and Opportunities for BuildingNational Solidarity” will appear in a special issue of the Journal of theAssociation of Mexican American Educators.Tom Fleischner, Ph.D.Environmental Studies faculty member and Director of the Natural HistoryInstitute Dr. Fleischner contributed a sidebar to the book Observation andEcology. He also co-authored several articles: “Adapting to climate changeon Western public lands” in Environmental Management; “Revisiting trendsin vegetation recovery following protection from grazing, Chaco CultureNational Historic Park, New Mexico” in The Colorado Plateau V (along withfaculty members Lisa Floyd-Hanna and David Hanna); and “Towardtransformative natural history education” in the Journal of Natural HistoryEducation and Experience.Deborah Ford, M.F.A.Faculty member Deborah Ford recently exhibited her photographs andpresented at Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community and Culturein North America. She currently has work in the Desert Grasslands exhibit atthe Tucson Museum of Art through July 7, and an exhibit of her photographsis on view at the B2 Gallery at the Biosphere in Oracle, Ariz., where she wasan artist in residence.Dan Garvey, Ph.D.Since returning from his stint as Dean for the Semester at Sea Program atUniversity of Virginia, faculty member and former College President DanGarvey has been working with the Institute for Sustainable Social Change,a consortium of programs, services, and scholarly activities aligned with themission of Prescott College, specifically focused on projects and programsthat seek to effect improvements in the human condition locally, nationally,and globally.Ellen Greenblum, M.F.A., M.Ed.’Tis Art Center and Gallery in Prescott presented faculty member EllenGreenblum’s hand-dyed fabrics and adjunct instructor Tom Alward’swoodfired ceramics Dec. 2–30, 2012Zoe Hammer-Tomizuka, Ph.D.Faculty member in Cultural and Regional Studies Zoe Hammer-Tomizukacontributed to the forthcoming book Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders,and Global Crisis. Dr. Hammer, in collaboration with fellow faculty memberAnita Fernández, also presented a session focused on critical ethnic studies inArizona at NAU’s conference Fanaticism and the Abolition-Democracy.Allison Jack, Ph.D.Agroecology faculty member Allison Jack has been awarded a one-year postdoctoraltraining grant through the National Science Foundation