Faculty News: 2004-05 Academic Year

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Spring Quarter 2005

Beth Kalikoff Published

May 2005—Beth Kalikoff is the author of a mystery novel set in Tacoma, Dying for a Blue Plate Special, published by Five Star.

Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich

May 2005—Guido Preparata is the author of Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich, just published by Pluto Press (London). As the back cover notes, "Through a close analysis of events in the Third Reich, Preparata unveils a startling history of Anglo-American geopolitical interests in the early twentieth century. He explains that Britain, still clinging to its empire, was terrified of an alliance forming between Germany and Russia. He shows how the UK, through the Bank of England, came to exercise control over Weimar Germany and how Anglo-American financial support for Hitler enabled the Nazis to seize power."

Tyler Budge's current showing at UW Tacoma Gallery

May 2005—"Living in the Land of Milk and Honey", an installation by Tyler Budge, is currently showing in the UW Tacoma Gallery, May 4-28, 2005. Gallery hours are Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, 1-4pm, and Thursdays, 4-7pm.

Congratulations Dr. Banks

Apr 2005—John Banks has been named the recipient of UWT's second annual Distinguished Research Award. Dr. Banks will deliver a public talk on his research in the coming academic year. Congratulations to Dr. Banks!

Distinguished Teaching Award

Apr 2005—Michael Allen has been selected as UWT's Distinguished Teaching Award recipient for this year. He will be honored at the UWT Founders Day ceremony on May 25, at the UW Recognition Ceremony June 9 in Seattle, and at the UWT commencement June 10. He will also receive a $5,000 award provided by the office of the president. Congratulations to Dr. Allen!

Julie Nicoletta Receives Grant

Apr 2005—Julie Nicoletta received a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York to help her continue research on her project dealing with the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. The grant will allow her to conduct research for her new book at the Center next year.

Linda Dawson Gets Published

Mar 2005—Linda Dawson is the author of the Excel Manual for Moore and McCabe's Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (New York: W.H. Freeman and Company). This manual will help students perform statistical analysis in conjunction with the textbook, and makes it possible for them to transfer the statistical methods learned using Excel to work and research outside the classroom.

Winter Quarter 2005

Phil Heldrich's Book Wins Award

Feb 2005—Phil Heldrich is the author of Out Here in the Out There: Essays in a Region of Superlatives (Minneapolis: Mid-List Press, 2005). The book is also the winner of the Press's First Series Award for Creative Nonfiction.

Dr. Heldrich Presents Paper on Public Service Scholarship

Feb 2005—Phil Heldrich recently returned from Albuquerque where he co-directed the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Association's 26th Annual Conference. He also presented a paper on public service scholarship that discussed in part his recent explorations of this topic with facutly from the University of Cienfuegos in Cuba. The SW/TX PCA/ACA conference drew over 700 participants from across the nation and internationally.

Dr. Duncan Honored by Mayor of Cienfuegos

Feb 2005—Cynthia Duncan was recognized by the mayor of Cienfuegos as a "Distinguished Daughter" of this Cuban city. Duncan was honored for her long term commitment to improving relations between the United States and Cuba, for her support of humanitarian projects, and for her scholarly expertise on Cuban culture. Duncan is the first North American to receive this award.

Film Music 2: History, Theory, Practice

Feb 2005—Claudia Gorbman is the joint editor of FILM MUSIC 2: HISTORY, THEORY, PRACTICE, just published by the Film Music Society. As Claudia says in her introduction to the book, scholars write about film music in order "to understand [its] pleasures and powers, responding to the old desire to contribute to dialogues on theory and aesthetics in new ways. This primary reverence is what motivates the study of that artful and mysterious intersection of music, pictures, and stories."

Faculty and Students Join Together for Workshop

Faculty members Beth Kalikoff and Rachel May, and IAS students Kim Dodds, Leo Rollins, and Michael Shook are presenting a panel/workshop on linked courses and human rights education for a conference on Education for a World Lived in Common: Environmental, Economic, and Social Justice. The February 17-19 2005 conference is sponsored by the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education in Olympia. A synopsis of the presentation, "Practicing Democratic and Collaborative Inquiry Through Linked Courses", is available on the conference website.

Dr. McMillin Participates in Research

Jan 2005—Divya McMillin is one of five researchers participating in a two-year (2004-06) international media project titled, TV Characters and the Formation of Cultural Identity, funded by the Internationales Zentralinstitut für das Jugend-und Bildungsfernsehen (IZI) of the Bavarian Broadcasting Company, Munich. McMillin's ethnographic fieldwork among teen television viewers in urban and rural India forms part of a comparative analysis of similar fieldwork in Germany, South Africa, and the United States. Results were analyzed at a workshop in Munich, September 2004, and will be presented at the December 2005 IZI International Conference and the April 2006 Prix Jeunesse International Conference, both in Munich. The results will be published as five separate articles addressing various aspects of television and youth identity in TelevIZIon, the official journal of the IZI. Methodological issues arising from the cross comparative analysis will be presented at the May 2005 International Communication Association Conference in New York under the panel title, "Constructing Research Dialogues Across National Borders: Investigating Teens, Television, and Cultural Identities in Four Countries." Also, McMillin will be a UW Royalty Research Fund Scholar during Spring 2005.

Rob Crawford Featured in TNT

Jan 2005—An article by Rob Crawford, "Justification of torture must be rejected," appeared in the Insight section of the Tacoma News Tribune on Sunday, January 16th.

Michael Kucher Published

Jan 2005—Michael Kucher is the author of The Water Supply System of Siena, Italy: The Medieval Roots of the Modern Networked City. The book is published by Routledge, and is part of their Studies in Medieval History and Culture, a series directed toward "highlighting new directions that will shape and define scholarly discourse in the future".

The Practice of Business Statistics

Jan 2005—Linda Dawson is the author of the Excel manual for The Practice of Business Statistics (Moore, Mccabe, Duckworth, and Sclove), which is one of the most important texts in its field.

Autumn Quarter 2004

A Patriot's History of the United States

Dec 2004—Mike Allen is the co-author (with Larry Schweikart, University of Dayton) of A Patriot's History of the United States, just published by Sentinel/Penguin. A synopsis of the book is available on the Penguin website. For this new book, Allen and Schweikart have been awarded the Laissez Faire Books Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty.

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Nov 2004—John "Buck" Banks is the author of an article appearing in the December issue of the Ecological Society of America's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment aimed at academics and practitioners in applied ecology fields. The article, entitled "Divided culture: integrating agriculture and conservation biology", is also the basis for a "Pathways to Scientific Teaching" feature in the same journal issue, using environmental conflicts and scientific uncertainty issues highlighted in the article as a research-based pedagogical tool for the classroom. Both articles may be viewed online at the journal's website.

Brown vs. Board of Education: 50 Years Later

Nov 2004—Luther Adams will lead a discussion on the topic of "Brown vs. Board of Education: 50 Years Later", Friday, November 5 at 6pm in Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle. The event is sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities. More details are available on their website.

UWT Lecture Series

Nov 2004—Bill Kunz will speak on "The Olympic Games of Athens: The Grand Experiment and A Remarkable Classroom" as part of the UWT Lecture Series sponsored by the UWT Alumni Association. Bill's lecture will take place on Wednesday, November 3 at 6 p.m. in the Carwein Auditorium.

Dr. Heldrich will present his essay

Oct 2004—Phil Heldrich presented his essay, "In Tahoma's Shadow: An Essay on Mount Rainier," at the Western Literature Assocation's Annual Conference held in Big Sky, Montana.

Breathing Through Fear

Oct 2004—"Breathing Through Fear", a survey of recent digital work and an audience-participatory, site-specific installation by Beverly Naidus, was presented in the UW Tacoma Gallery, October 6-30, 2004. Beverly's work marked the inaugural exhibit for the new UWT Gallery. For more information about the exhibit, read the UWT press release.

Dr. D'Costa in Helsinki, Finland

Oct 2004—Anthony D'Costa served as a Sabbatical Fellow at the United Nations University's World Institute of Development Economics Research (WIDER) in Helsinki, Finland from August-October, 2004. Visit the WIDER website to view his paper, "Globalization, Development, and Mobility of Technical Talent: India and Japan in Comparative Perspectives". While in Europe, he presented several seminars, speaking at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the University of Amsterdam, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, and the University of Helsinki.

Summer Quarter 2004

Dr. West Receives Award

Aug 2004—Carolyn West has received the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award. This honor, sponsored by the American Psychological Association's (APA) Society for the Psychology of Women is awarded to recognize the achievements of a Black woman in the early stages of her career. Her book, "Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue" won this award for creativity and for making a major contribution to the understanding of the role of gender in the lives of Black women. Dr. West also was elected to Fellow status in the APA. Fellow status is awarded based on evidence of unusual and outstanding contribution in the field of psychology.

Dr. Kalikoff's Novel to be Published

Jul 2004—Beth Kalikoff's novel, "Dying for a Blue Plate Special", set in Tacoma, will be published by Five Star Mystery Line in 2005.

Dr. Richardson helps develop Research and Study Programs

Jul 2004—Bill Richardson presented a paper on historic preservation in Vladivostok during the late Soviet era at the 11th Conference of the International Planning History Society in Barcelona, Spain. He was able to take advantage of the conference to meet with scholars from Cuba, Australia, and Hong Kong, where UWT is developing research and study programs.

Potential Study Abroad Programs at UWT

Jun 2004—Bill Richardson participated in a project funded by the Freeman Foundation aimed at developing study abroad options in East Asia for UWT students. He traveled to Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China to meet with representatives from colleges, universities, and research centers and to investigate logistical aspects of potential study abroad programs.

Dr. Kunz at the Olympic Games in Athens

Jun 2004—Bill Kunz will be producing one of the two daytime cable broadcasts of this summer's Olympic Games in Athens. Kunz' broadcast will be on the Bravo network, 12-7pm Athens time daily during the games. As the show producer, Bill will be in the International Broadcast Center to work with the host and venue producers, and make decisions on when and where to go from venue to venue. Travelling with Bill will be Jen Reed, a Spring 2004 graduate of IAS with a concentration in Communication. She has been hired as a "runner" for the Bravo broadcasts, a job which will give her a first hand look at television broadcasting, as she provides assistance to all aspects of the production. For a complete Olympics broadcast schedule, visit NBCOlympics.com.

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