2001-2002

 

September 2001

 

Stephen Bragaw

*      Published the following: 

*       "Traditional Native American Law and Dispute Resolution." Legal Systems of the World. edited by Bert Kritzer. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001. (Forthcoming Fall 2001).

*      "The ÔBrooding Omnipresence' in Bush v. Gore: Anthony Kennedy, the Equality Principle, and Judicial Supremacy" (with Barbara Perry).  STANFORD LAW AND POLICY REVIEW. (Forthcoming Fall 2001).

*      "Elections of State Judges: An Overview." AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION'S INSIGHTS ON LAW & SOCIETY (Forthcoming September issue).

*      Review of Tinselly Yarborough, The Burger Court. CHOICE.

 

Commentary:

*Supreme Court & American Indian Law interview, American Indian Report: Indian Country's News Magazine (October 2001 article on the Supreme Court).

*Virginia & national politics commentary, WLNI--Lynchburg, May 3rd, June 13

 

Jonathan Green

*      Completed another book: A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works of the Classical Period: volume 1, Haydn and Mozart, which is scheduled to be released by Scarecrow in December.

*      Composed the following pieces:

1.  Spoils of War, sonata for trombone and piano (already published by Bernel Music Ltd.)

2.  Three Roses: Herbaceous Songs of Love, for voice and piano Light Fantastic, concerto for piano and symphonic band

*      Has been appointed editor of the Journal of the Conductors Guild

*      Received his fifth consecutive ASCAP Annual Standard Award for composition.

 

Rebecca Massie Lane

*      The Shockoe Bottom Arts Center hosts a monthly juried show which has a Call for Entries and a Reception.  Rebecca Massie-Lane was the juror for the July All Media Show and Reception.  The show hangs through August 12th.

 

Barbara Perry

*      During the summer, Barbara Perry taught in the Supreme Court Historical Society's Summer Institute for Teachers in Washington and in the Center for Civic Education Teachers' Institute at James Madison University. 

*      Wrote two articles for journals published by the ABA's Division of Public Education, two newspaper editorials on church and state issues, and a co-authored article, with Steve Bragaw, on Bush v. Gore for the Stanford Law & Policy Review. 

*      She appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio to comment on the partisan change in the Senate and received a contract from the University Press of Kansas for their Modern First Ladies Series to publish a book on Jacqueline Kennedy.

 

Laura Pharis

*      Professors Laura Pharis and John Morgan are having a two-person art exhibition called "Almost Too Beautiful" at Gallery 11 in Lexington, Va.  The opening is 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Sept 7th.  Laura Pharis will be in another two-person show called "Natural Selection" at Roanoke College from Oct. 22 - Dec. 7th, with Pam Wallace, who is teaching printmaking at Randolph-Macon

 

October 2001

Stephen Bragaw

*      Reappointed to the Law & Society Study Committee of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association

*      WLNI "Morning Line" Guest, September 18

 

H. Christian Carr

*      Presented a lecture--"Glamour Girls of the Gilded Age" to the Spartanburg County Museum of Art in South Carolina.  The lecture was offered as a special incentive to their members, and resulted in 40 new memberships, and she has been asked to return in January as the keynote speaker at their fundraising gala.

 

John Goulde

*      Paper Presentation and All Conference Discussant, Korean Identity and the Pangnangja (Non-conformist Wanderers) for Keimyung University International Conference on Korean Studies, 2001, Taegu, Korea, September 16-20, 2001 (unable to attend due to flight cancellation)

*      Paper Presentation: The Korean War: The Post-War Political Impact for the Conference: The Korean War After 50 Years; Challenges for Peace and Prosperity, International Council on Korean Studies and The Institute for Peace Studies, Arlington, VA, June 22-24, 2001

*      Conference Participant and Discussant: Korea and the Four Major Powers in Northeast Asia, Annual Conference on Korea, Walker Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. May 18-20, 2001

*      Paper Presentation: Contemporary Native Traditions in Korea for the program: Healing Divisions: Religion in Korea Today, Korean Studies Conference, The Korea Society, NYC, May 18, 2001

*      Paper Presentation: Religion in Contemporary Korea for the program: Contemporary East Asia, sponsored by The Korea Society, The China Institute, and the Japan Society, NYC, May 16, 2001

*      Paper Presentation: Daoism and the West: Lessons in a Globalized, Multicultural World, 1st Unitarian Universalist Church, Lynchburg, VA, March 11, 2001.

 

Allen Huszti

*      Sang the bass solos in two performances of Handel's Messiah with the Bedford Choral Society (Dec. 3 and Dec. 8, 2000).

*      Sang the bass solos in Handel's Messiah at Heritage United Methodist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia December 16, 2000.

*      Attended the Alexander Technique Workshop in Santa Barbara, California December 28, 2000-January 2, 2001.

*      Sang the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes with the Hollins Chamber Players at Lynchburg College on January 29, 2001.

*      Taught a voice workshop for the Lynchburg Talent Education School on February 17, 2001.

*      Presented an introduction to the Alexander Technique for Professor Roberta Sadler's Mind/Body Seminar on March 15, 2001.

*      Attended the Baroque Art and Music Seminar at the University of Richmond on April 6-7, 2001.

*      Sang the baritone solos in Orff's Carmina Burana with the Jefferson Choral Society and the Lynchburg Symphony on April 22, 2001.

*      Played a noonday Organ Recital at Court Street United Methodist Church in Lynchburg on May 16, 2001.

*      Presented two lectures for Sweet Briar's Alumnae College on June 13, 2001.

*      Attended the Alexander Technique Workshops at Sweet Briar College, July 3-8 and July 10-15.

*      Taught organ, harpsichord and fortepiano and was the recital accompanist for the Central Virginia Suzuki Institute at Sweet Briar College July 22-27 and July 29-Aug. 3.

*      Played as substitute organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg July and August.

*      Sang as bass soloist at First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg several times during February – April.

*      Appointed conductor of the Novum Choir of Cantate (the Youth Choir of Central Virginia).

 

Mark Magruder

*      Performed Beverly Blossom's solo "Last Bow" at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign on May 19, 2001.

 

Rebecca Massie Lane

*      Presented a lecture on the c. 1830 murals at Edgewood in Amherst, Virginia to the Amherst Chapter of the DAR on September 11, 2001.

 

November 2001

Jim Alouf

*       Along with Kay Brimijoin, has had a proposal accepted for the Association for Teacher Educators Conference in Denver on February 6.

 

Susan Beers

*       Has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Panel to the American Psychological Association's Board of Educational Affairs Task Force on Undergraduate Psychology Major Competencies.

 

Kay Brimijoin

*       Has received notification that she has won the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development's (VASCD) Dissertation Research Award Grant for the doctoral research she is doing.  She will be recognized at their annual conference in Williamsburg on December 6.

*       Will be presenting a paper at The Virginia Gifted Association Conference in Williamsburg on November 2nd.

*       Will be presenting three papers at The National Association for Gifted Children Conference in Cincinnati on November 9 & 10

*       Along with Jim Alouf, has had a proposal accepted for the Association for Teacher Educators Conference in Denver on February 6.

 

Pamela DeWeese

á       Presented a paper, "Cuestiones de identidad: El caso de Eleanora Ellis en El cielo dividido de Reina RoffŽ," at the 51st Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference on October 11 in Wilmington, NC.

 

Allen Huszti

*       Sang as soloist for a luncheon honoring the new youth minister at First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg on October 14.

*       Was guest soloist at an opera appreciation course at the Lynchburg Academy of Music on October 20.

*       Sang the bass solos in Haydn's, "Lord Nelson" at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lynchburg on November 4.

 

Mark Magruder

*       Performed two dance solos in the Fringe Festival of the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville on Oct. 24 and 26, 2001. He performed Beverly Blossom's work Last Bow and Besame Mucho. After the first performance on the 26th. Besame Mucho was chosen as a feature work in the Film Festival Showcase so Mark donned his wig again and performed a second time that evening. Sweet Briar's dance program was well represented by senior dance major, Amy Mullen, who performed her solo Groove in the performances on the 24 and 26.

 

Joe Malloy

*       Organized a two day Old-Time and Bluegrass Fiddle Contest at the State Fair of Virginia in Richmond on September 29th and 30th.  Fiddle contests have been documented at local fairs in Virginia since Colonial times.

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Lee Piepho

Lee Piepho's book-length study of Italian humanism in early modern England, HOLOFERNES' MANTUAN, will be released for publication in October.  He has recently given invited lectures on aspects of this topic at the University of Munich, Cambridge University, and The Library of Congress in Washington.

 

Stephen Wassell

*       This past summer, he became the Mathematics Editor of the online/print journal, Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics, the url for which is http://www.nexusjournal.com

 

December 2001

Stephen Bragaw

*      "The Impact and Legacy of the Rehnquist Court" Panel organizer and discussant, Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 7, 2001.

 

Brian Cusato

*      Presented a poster entitled "CS-US Similarity Effects in Sexual Conditioning" at the 42nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Orland, FL on November 17, 2001.

 

Deborah Durham

1)   Out in print: "Botswana." Entry in Melvin and Carol Ember, eds., Countries and their Cultures (Macmillan Reference, 2001), vol. 1, pp. 271-282.

 

2)   Invited presentation: "Just Playing: Choirs, Bureaucracy, and the Work of Youth in Botswana" at conference on Youth in Africa, Amherst College, November 9-11, 2001.  The presentation was based on a paper included in the collection, "Children and Youth as Emerging Categories in Postcolonial Africa," ed. Filip de Boeck and Alcinda Honwana, currently under review at Duke University Press.

 

3)   Organized a panel and gave a paper at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Washington, November 28, 2001: "Making Youth Citizens:   Empowerment and Disempowerment in Botswana," as part of panel jointly organized with Jennifer Cole (UChicago), "Global Ages: Age Groups in the Context of Globalization." Cole and Durham are compiling an edited book based on (but larger than) the panel, and have discussed it with two rather enthusiastic presses.

 

4)   Organized a panel (with Rijk van Dijk [ULeiden] and served as discussant at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Washington, December 1, 2001: "Transgression and Transcendance: Anthropologies of Disgust." The panel was rather a hit, and I have already been contacted by a journal eager to publish it.

 

5)   Was invited to participate in discussion (with 6 other anthropologists) with the editors of the Chronicle of Higher Education on the state of anthropology (hot scholarly topics, new directions, public affairs, institutional issues), November 30, 2001. (great food, fun discussion)

 

Judith Evans Grubbs

*      Published an article, "Virgins and Widows, Showgirls and Whores: Late Roman Legislation on Women and Christianity" in _Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity_, edited Ralph Mathisen (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 220-241.

*      Presented a Teachers' Workshop at the Augusta County Institute for Classical Studies (July 2001) on "Bringing Classics to Third Graders on a College Campus"

*      Presented a paper, "Pietas and Potestas: Parent-Child Conflict in the Code of Justinian" at the Fourth Annual E. Togo Salmon Conference.  Roman Family IV: Italy and Beyond, McMaster University, September 28, 2001.

 

John Goulde

*      Community Presentation: Islam and the Modern World: Political Islam and Nationalist Heresy, Ascension Episcopal Church, Amherst, VA, October 7, 2001.

*      Community Presentation: North-South Korean Dialogue: Towards Unification or Co-Existence?  Unitarian Universalist Church, Lynchburg, VA, November 11, 2001.

 

Cathy Gutierrez

*      "Disorders of the Soul:  Curing History in American Spiritualism," paper presented at Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion in Charlotte, NC, April 2001

 

*      Contracts signed for the inaugural year of the monograph series, Contexts and Consequences:  New Studies in Religion and History which I co-edit with Lisa Poirier, Davies Group Press, publishers.  (These may be working titles.)

 

*      Brian Hoffert, The Huang-Lao Silk Manuscripts:  A Conceptual Unification of China Laurie Cozad, Context as Weapon:  The Keepers of Indian Orthodoxy Versus the Snake in the Grass-Roots Movement James Hanges, Christ, The Image of the Church:  The Construction of a New Cosmology and the Rise of Christianity

 

*      "The Ghost in Millennial Machines:  Spiritualism and the Quest for Objectivity," paper presented at annual conference of the Center for Millennial Studies, Boston University, Nov. 2001

 

*      Attended annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver, CO, Nov. 2001

 

Ronald Horwege

*      Organizer and Administrator of the Sixth Annual Goethe Institut-AATG-Sweet Briar College Immersion Weekend for German Teachers held at Sweet Briar on October 26-28.

 

*      Participant in a discussion at the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Friday, November 2, 2001.  He was one of a group of around twenty people, including officials from the Embassy, the Executive Director of the AATG and the Director of the Goethe Institut in Washington.  Professor Horwege represented the Virginia Chapter of AATG.  The topics discussed at the meeting included strategies for encouraging the study of German in the United States.

 

*      Participant in several meetings at the annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the American Association of Teachers of German in Washington, D.C. on November 15-18.  On November 15 he participated in a meeting of the Chapter Presidents' Council of AATG, followed by a reception at the home of the German ambassador.  On Friday he attended the Annual Awards Luncheon of the AATG.  On Saturday morning he presided at a meeting of the Virginia Chapter of AATG and a business meeting of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia, for which he is a member of the executive council.  He spent the afternoon at a meeting of the executive council of the Delta Phi Alpha German Honor Society.  He was recently elected to the post of Second Vice President of this society. On Saturday evening he served as one of the hosts at a reception given by the Foreign Language Association of Virginia.

 

*      Host for a Sweet Briar College-VCCA Fellow in residence.  Ralph GrŸneberger spent two weeks at the VCCA. During this time Professor Horwege worked with him on some poetry translations and participated with him in a poetry reading session at the VCCA.

 

*      Organizer of the Photography Exhibition: Die Leute im Dorf Erlln.  Professor Horwege worked with the photographer and carried the photo collection with him from Leipzig last summer when he returned from the Bradley Seminar in Berlin and Prague.

 

Karl Tamburr

*      Gave a paper at the annual conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association, entitled, "The Bodleian Manuscripts of the 'Evangelium Nicodemi,' or What I Did on My Summer Vacation." 

*      Published an article, "From Narrative to Drama:  The Transformation of the 'Gospel of Nicodemus' in Middle English," in "Medieval Perspectives."

 

February 2002

Gerald Berg

*      Published "Zionism's Gender: Hannah Meisel and the Founding of the Agricultural School for Young Women", Israel Studies, 6/3 (Fall 2001), 135-165.

 

Steve Bragaw

*      Garnered with Barbara Perry a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to help support the Center for Civic Renewal's lecture program on "Civil Liberties During Times of Crisis" (December 2001)

*      State Finals Judge, We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution High School Debate Competition, Richmond VA (February 5, 2002)

 

Deborah Durham

*      Served as a screener for SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowships this year.

 

Allen Huszti

*      On November 28, 2001, presented a lecture to the Lynchburg Chapter of the American Guild of Organists on the Venetian polychoral tradition.

*      On December 8, 2001, conducted the Cantate and Canticum Novum choirs in Richmond, Virginia.

*      On December 9, 2001, conducted Cantate, the Children's Choir of Central Virginia at a concert presented by the choir of the First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg.

*      On December 16, 2001, conducted the Cantate and Canticum Novum choirs in their Christmas concert in Lynchburg.

*      On January 6, 2002, sang the "Quoniam to solus sanctus" (from Bach's, MASS IN B MINOR) at the First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg.

*      On January 9, 2002, presented a lecture to the Lynchburg Chapter of the Sweet Briar College Alumnae Association.

*      On January 15, 2002, sang the premiere of Jonathan Green's THREE ROSES: HERBACEOUS SONGS OF LOVE, at a Gager Series concert.

*      On January 27, 2002, sang my twenty-fifth solo voice recital at Sweet Briar College.

 

Alix Ingber

*      Delivered a paper entitled "Teaching the comedia in the 21st Century: problems and opportunities" at the annual conference of the Modern Language Association, Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama, New Orleans, LA, December 28, 2001.

 

Joseph Malloy

Has been appointed to the Advisory Panel for the Performing Arts Touring program of the Virginia Commission for the Arts.

 

Eleanor Salotto

*      Published an article "Villette and the  Perversions of Feminine Identity," in Gender Reconstructions: Pornography and perversions in literature and culture.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002.

 

March 2002

 

Rebecca Ambers

*      Published "Learning About Teaching: A Graduate Student's Perspective" in the February 2002 issue of the Journal of College Science Teaching (5:327-330).

*      Was a co-principal investigator on the proposal A Standards-Driven, Inquiry-Based Science Curriculum for Future Elementary School Teachers which received $50,466 from the National Science Foundation.

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Gerald Berg

*      Review of Pier M. Larson, History and Memory in the Age of EnslavementÉOxford University Press (2000), in International Journal of African Historical Studies,  33/3(2001), 146-47.

 

David Orvos

*      Published "Characterization of Eastern Lake Erie Inshore Fish Communities in the Summer 2001 issue of the Great Lakes Research Review (5:6-10).

*      Had the manuscript "Aquatic Toxicity of Triclosan" accepted for publication in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

*      Issued the final report for a grant sponsored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation titled "Effectiveness of the Aquatic Weevil Euhrychiopsis lecontei as a Biocontrol Agent for Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) in Findley Lake, New York."

*      Was a co-principal investigator on the proposal A Standards-Driven, Inquiry-Based Science Curriculum for Future Elementary School Teachers which received $50,466 from the National Science Foundation.

*      Recently completed a five-week classroom session at Amherst Elementary School incorporating the use of aquatic habitats into an inquiry-based approach for 2nd graders.

*      Gave a presentation at Perrymount Elementary School in Lynchburg on use of aquatic habitats in the classroom.

*      Attended the Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry in Baltimore, Maryland, and served as a student mentor at the Career Workshop and Dinner.

 

April 2002

 

Jim Alouf

*      Presented a paper he co-authored with Kay Brimijoin and Kimberley Chandler of Amherst County Public Schools entitled "Into the Mixing Bowl: Combining Mentors, Novices, and Differentiation" at the Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference in Denver in February 2002. This paper also has been accepted as an archive in the ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education database.

*      Chaired two sessions for the Association of Teacher Educators' Legislative and Governmental Relations Committee at the annual conference in Denver in February 2002.