Printed & Presented Archive

Fall 2003

Katharina Altpeter-Jones, assistant professor of German, has given several presentations. In May, she gave a paper titled “Economic Ethics and the Noble Merchant in Flore und Blanscheflur” at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

In July, she defended her dissertation at Duke University titled “Trafficking in Goods and Women: Love and Economics in Konrad Fleck’s Flore und Blanscheflur.”

In October, Altpeter-Jones presented a paper titled “‘Tyran Sieman’ or ‘tyrant she-man’ in Sixteenth-Century Texts and Images” at the Women in German annual conference in Carollton, Kentucky.

Stephanie Arnold, professor of theatre and dean of arts and humanities, published the third edition of The Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatre. (McGraw-Hill, 2003).

Keller Autumn, associate professor of biology, answered the question “How do gecko lizards unstick themselves as they move across a surface?” in Scientific American magazine (September 29, 2003).

Michael Blumm, professor of law, spoke at the law school’s Endangered Species Act conference on the constitutionality of the ESA’s take provision. A written version of his remarks will be published in the journal Environmental Law.

Michael L. Broide, associate professor of physics and department chair, coauthored a journal article with collaborators at Portland State University and University of Portland. The article titled “Hypochlorous acid modifies calcium release channel function from skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum” was published in the Journal of Applied Physiology (April 2003).

Carolyn Bullard, professor of educational administration, has recently published The Itinerant Teacher's Handbook. (Butte Publishing Co., Hillsboro, Ore., 2003)

Emily Clark, visiting assistant professor, department of religious studies, was awarded the annual prize for best article on southern women’s history by the Southern Association for Women Historians at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Houston. Her article was titled “The Feminine Face of Afro-Catholicism in New Orleans, 1727-1852” (coauthored with Virginia M. Gould). The article first appeared in The William and Mary Quarterly (April, 2002).

Clark published Felicité Girodeau: Racial and Religious Identity in Antebellum Natchez, and edited with Elizabeth Payne, Marjorie Spruill, and Martha Swain Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (University of Georgia Press, 2003).

Clark co-chaired the ninth annual meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. The 2003 gathering was held in New Orleans. The institute is the largest international meeting of historians of early American history and culture.

In October, she spoke on "Early American Catholicism" at the Women in American Religion: Reimagining the Past conference, cosponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School. She spoke on "Catholicism and Repulbicanism" at One Nation Under God: The Church, The State and The Louisiana Purchase, a symposium at the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans.

Also in October, she was a presenter and participant at the Mellon Colloquium on the Louisiana Purchase at Tulane University.

Clark presented an essay entitled “Refracted Reformations and the Making of Republicans” at La vente de la Louisiane: perspectives franco-américaines or The Louisiana Purchase in French-American Perspective, an international colloquium at the University of Paris in June, at the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. She gave a similar presentation in Charlottesville, Virginia in October.

In February 2004, Clark will speak at a meeting sponsored by the National Park Service and Historic Natchez Association in Natchez, Mississippi.

In December, William Funk, professor of law, submitted comments on behalf of the American Bar Association to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget relating to OIRA’s proposed Guidance on Peer Review and Information Quality.

In November, Doug Erickson, head of special collections and archives, gave a talk about the literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition at San Francisco's Roxburghe Club.

On December 7, Erickson will talk about the literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition at Fort Clatsop for the Oregon Chapter of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.

Lin Harmon-Walker, associate director of environmental and natural resources law, served on the conference committee for the national Endangered Species Act conference in October. She also spoke on the topic of “The Environmental Impacts of War” in the Lewis & Clark College Environmental Symposium in October.

Deborah Heath, associate professor of anthropology, is coeditor of Genetic Nature/Culture: Anthropology and Science Beyond the Two-Culture Divide (University of California Press, 2003). The volume examines the complex relationships between biology, culture, ideology and myth.

Heath was recently elected to the executive board of the American Anthropological Association.

Greg Hermann, assistant professor of biology, received a $293,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The three-year research project will be a genetic and molecular analysis of lysosome assembly and stability in C. elegans.

Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, Mary Stuart Rogers Professor of Education, recently published The Art of Classroom Inquiry (Heinemann, 2003).

Jim Huffman, law school dean and Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law, spoke at the FREE Conference on Globalization and the Environment, Gallatin Gateway, Montana in July.

In September, Huffman participated as senior faculty member in the PERC Conference on Environmental Economics at Mountain Sky, Montana. He moderated a panel on federal judicial selection at the American Judicature Society, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa in October. Huffman represented Lewis & Clark Law School at the inaugural meeting of the International Academy of Environmental Law at Shanghai, China, in November.

The seventh edition of Vernon Jones’ book Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating Communities of Support and Solving Problems will be published next year (Allyn & Bacon, 2004). The book presents practical methods for creating a positive learning environment, working with behavior problems, and other challenges in the K-12 classroom. Jones is a professor of education.

In November, Jim Kopp, director of Aubrey R. Watzek library, presented a paper titled "Dr. Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language: The Utopian Roots of Esperanto." The talk was at the Society for Utopian Studies 28th Annual Conference in San Diego.

Kopp was interviewed by Canada's BookTelevision about the utopian roots of esperanto.

Also in November, Kopp gave a presentation titled "Eden Within Eden: Exploring Oregon's Utopian Heritage." The talk at Portland State University for the Retired Associates of PSU was part of the Oregon Council of Humanities' Chautauqua program.

Peter Mortola, assistant professor of counseling psychology, will publish a new book titled Windowframes: Perspectives on the Oaklander Approach to Training Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists (Gestalt Press, 2004).

Nancy Nagel, associate professor of education and teacher education department, contributed a chapter titled “Connecting through Integrated Mathematics” in the book Integrated Mathematics: Choices and Challenges. (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2003).

Dan Rohlf, associate professor of law and director for Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, spoke in October at the Endangered Species Act conference.

In August, William A. Rottschaefer, professor emeritus of philosophy, gave a presentation titled "The Limitations of volutionary Ethics: Morality and Biologically Based Altruism and Selfishness" to the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences in Philadelphia.

In October, Rottschaefer gave three presentations at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy, meeting at Reed College. The talks were titled "Scientifically Based Moral Realism: The Explanatory and Motivational Power of Weird Properties," "Neither Inert nor Weird or Vacuous: A Reply to Frierson," and "Relating Moral Realism to Causality: A Comment on Levy's "Moral Causation and Moral Realism."

Nicholas D. Smith, James F. Miller Professor of Humanities and philosophy department chair, published The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies (ed. and trans. with Thomas C. Brickhouse (Oxford University Press, 2002). Smith also authored “Generic Knowledge” in American Philosophical Quarterly (39, 2002, 343-357).

Smith and Brickhouse coauthored “Incurable Souls in Socratic Psychology” in Ancient Philosophy (22, 2002, 1-16); “Apology of Socratic Studies” in Polis 20 (2003); and “The Socratic Elenchos?” in the volume Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato's Dialogues and Beyond (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002). The pair wrote about Socrates in Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell, 2003).

Smith wrote the entry for Plato for Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/plato.htm. He also reviewed James Colaico’s book Socrates against Athens (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2002.02.12).

Smith has been active as a presenter, including a talk about “Plato’s Book of Images” given at the ninth annual Arizona Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy. He also gave the keynote address titled “Socrates on Educating the Passions” for the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society.

Two books by Kim Stafford, director of the Northwest Writing Institute, were finalists for the 2003 Oregon Book Awards. The Muses Among Us (University of Georgia Press, 2003) is a “how to” for writers and draws on material from Stafford’s writing workshops at the institute; and Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford (Graywolf Press, 2002) is a portrait in words of Kim Stafford’s father.

Stafford's new book is titled Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford on War and Peace (Milkweed Editions, 2003).

On Nov. 20, Juan Carlos Toledano Redondo, assistant professor of Hispanic studies, was a panelist during the Cuba Week Conference at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Toledano Redondo talked about the particular Cuban literary approach and political implications of cyberpunk-style science fiction since the 1990s.

Zahir Wahab, professor of education, was a participant and presenter in October during Afghan Education and Cultural Awareness Day at Portland State University. The educational event raised funding for school rehabilitation projects in Ghazni, Afghanistan.