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November 15, 2006 - February 28, 2007

Assistant Professor of anthropology, David Davies, presented a paper titled "Wal-Mao: Corporate Morality as Ideology at a Chinese Wal-Mart" on Saturday, November 18, at the 105th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, CA.

Deanna Thompson, CLA Religion, participated in the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Washington D.C. 16-21 November. During the Annual Meeting, Thompson attended the AAR Executive Committee Meeting, the semi-annual Board Meeting, served as a panelist for the session "Decentennial Celebration of Student Involvement in the AAR" and delivered a paper entitled, "Letting the Word Run Free: Luther's Use of Romans and Popular Reception."

As part of her sabbatical, Professor Peg Lonnquist (Master of Arts in Teaching Program in the School of Education) went through a 3-day tryout, was selected and trained as a Quantum Learning facilitator. She worked at a middle school SuperCamp this July teaching accelerated learning and life skills, and will continue on as an occasional QL facilitator.

Professor Peg Lonnquist (Master of Arts in Teaching Program, School of Education, presented a workshop entitled, "Knock-Your-Socks-Off Secondary Strategies That Work" at the National Urban Alliance Conference held in Minneapolis, November 3-5.

Professor Ann Mabbott, Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, presented a workshop entitled, "Effective Program Models for English Language Learners" at the National Urban Alliance Conference held in Minneapolis, November 3-5.

Professor Jenny Keil, management and economics, presented a paper on November 19 in Charleston, South Carolina, at the Southern Economic Association Conference, entitled "The Labor Market Experiences of Women: An Economic Investigation of the 'Opt-Out' Hype". This paper is co-authored with Professor Karine Moe, Macalester College.

Kim Johnson, faculty in the Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, published a chapter in a new TESOL volume. The name of the chapter is, "Adapting to New Realities: ESL Professional Development for Community and Technical College Faculty". 

On November 18, Professor Mark Berkson, department of religion, participated in a comparative religious ethics panel at the American Academy of Religion conference in Washington, D.C. The topic was "Authority, Justice, and Compassion in Comparative Perspective."

Columnist Dave Beal ran a story on micro-lending in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press on December 3. Professor of economics Fahima Aziz was quoted throughout the article.

Professor of Law Marie Failinger answered the WCCO-TV "Good Question" of the day on November 29, which was, can you legally shoot an intruder in your home?

Professor in the School of Business, David Schultz commented on Congressman-elect Keith Ellison's wish to be sworn into office with the Qaran, rather than the Bible, on KARE 11 on December 1. 

Professor Carolyn Levy, theatre arts and communication studies, was featured in a recent article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The article discusses her involvement with Sexual Offense Services, a Ramsey County agency that serves victims of rape and their family members.  Professor Levy also teaches a class at Hamline called “Living in a Rape Culture: What are we going to do about it?”  You can read the entire Star Tribune article online.

School of Law Professor David Larson's article "Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (TMDR): A New Paradigm for ADR," was recognized as one of the Top Ten downloads on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) for five lists; "Labor: Human Capital", "Labor: Personnel Economics", "Law & Society: Family Law, Relations & Dispute Resolution", "MRN Negotiations & Dispute Resolution Network", and "LSN Educator: Courses, Materials, and Teaching."

Kathryn Heinze, associate professor in the Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning in HSE, presented two workshops this fall for WMEP (West Metro Education Program). Both workshops addressed making mathematics instruction accessible for elementary and secondary English language learners.

Margot Fortunato Galt, a professor with the Graduate School of Liberal Studies, has had her new book, The Circuit Writer, published. It includes chapters on teaching immigrant Somali high school students, a collaboration between suburban and charter school students, writing camel poems based on the Somali tradition, and another chapter on bilingual poems from Saint Paul's Adams Spanish Immersion School. The book includes both memoir and teaching strategies, and is an anthology of poems used with students, inspiring to all, and the student’s often stunning responses.

Jeff Turner, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, delivered a paper entitled "Teenage Tempest: Resisting Normative Gender Roles in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour" at the 2006 Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia on December 30, 2006.

David Schultz, professor in the School of Business, has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists project to teach at the American University of Armenia this February and March. The United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board informed Schultz of his award this week.

Kate DiCamillo, a faculty member in the Graduate School of Liberal Studies MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program, won a Geisel Beginning Reader Honor for "Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride." The book is one in a series of humorous takes on a pig who loves buttered toast. The honor was given by the American Library Association last week along with the Newbery and Caldecott Medals.

David Albornoz, a School of Education student and the program coordinator for the CLA Education Department has been selected as a HECUA Graduate Fellowship Recipient for the 2007/2008 year and has been awarded a Hancock-Hamline mini-grant.  (HECUA, the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs is an organization of 17 liberal arts colleges, universities and associations dedicated to education for social justice.) The Graduate Fellowship on Human Rights and Philanthropy is a joint venture between HECUA and the Otto Bremer Foundation. The graduate scholars spend the academic year working on their individual research projects with support from HECUA, an advisory committee of university faculty from various colleges and universities, as well as individual staff at the Otto Bremer Foundation. The scholars receive a $12,000 stipend to support their independent research. David’s HECUA project will relate to the re-segregation of minority children in the Saint Paul Public Schools. David Albornoz was awarded a Hancock-Hamline mini-grant for his project, “Vamos a Leer y a Jugar!” This project is designed to provide Latino/Hispanic children with role models in their first language and to assert the value of being bilingual as opposed to replacing Spanish by English. The project is being developed at Hancock Elementary School. 

Deanna Thompson, CLA Religion Department, just completed a three week series at Presbyterian Church of the Way in Shoreview on "Gender and Sin," "Gender and Jesus," and "Gender and the Cross."

 Psychology professor Dorothee Dietrich attended the annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Memphis, TN, where she presented a paper on academic achievement, academic merit and the impostor phenomenon. She also was a co-author with Ashley Gulden, B.A. 06, of the presentation "Differentiating fear of stranger rape from fear of acquaintance rape in the prediction of adopting restrictive behaviors to prevent rape".

Peg Lonnquist, HSE Master of Arts in Teaching Department, just returned from the International Alliance for Learning (IAL) Conference in Austin. IAL promotes "accelerated learning," a brain-compatible teaching process that makes learning joyful, meaningful and effective for all learners. This complements her sabbatical work last summer with the Quantum Learning Network at Stanford University.

The January 23, Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Gov. Tim Pawlenty reappointed Judge James A. Morrow, a professor in the School of Law, to the Minnesota Boxing Commission.

Professor David Schultz told the Minneapolis Star Tribune why he feels it was inappropriate for a University of Minnesota professor to use her work email to rally support for a political candidate.

Professor David Schultz commented on KARE-11 on January 21about why legislators may not be supporting President Bush and his "troop surge" in Iraq.

Professor Marc Anderson talked to the Pioneer Press about his work teaching elementary students African drumming, a program in its fifth year at a Cottage Grove school. The program helps kids learn to understand different cultures and build self-esteem.

Kathy Thomsen, Associate Professor in Music, will give a workshop on Dalcroze Eurhythmics to the Minnesota Valley Music Teachers' Association in Mankato February 9, 2007.

Professor Leif Hembre, biology, presented the results of his and Jacob Cooner's, '(06, biology) collaborative research project at the American Society of Limnology & Oceanography meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The title of the presentation was "Phylogeographic analysis of Bythotrephes invasions in Minnesota Lakes".

The Minnesota Department of Education awarded Hamline University with a grant of nearly $2.3 million dollars to provide quality, statewide professional development opportunities for K-12 science teachers; the program aims to significantly improve science achievement in students across the state. Commissioner of Education Alice Seagren awarded Hamline President Linda Hanson and Lee Schmitt, program coordinator with the Center for Global Environmental Education, with a super-sized check for the program at a press conference in the Klas Center on Monday.

Professor Sharon Preves, sociology, was featured on WCCO's 10 p.m. news as part of their "Good Question" segment.

Political science professor Joe Peschek commented on Senator Coleman's position on Iraq and how fellow senators are reacting to it in the January 29 Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Deanna Thompson, College of Liberal Arts faculty member, attended the Executive Committee meeting of the American Academy of Religion at Emory University, Atlanta, February 17.

Peg Lonnquist, Master of Arts in Teaching/School of Education faculty member, presented a 3-hour workshop on accelerated, brain-compatible learning at Columbia Heights School District's Professional Development Day.

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, as Interim Director of the Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching, participated on a panel workshop entitled Partnerships Matter Most: How Do Educational Partnerships Impact Your Companies bottom Line. The presentation was held at the Multicultural Forum at the St. Paul River Center. Staff members Tom Ellis and Brian Swann represented the Center at the exhibit.

On Friday, February 16, Steve Jongewaard, College of Liberal Arts Professor of Education, conducted a break-out session titled "Beyond Multiculturalism: Towards a Theory of Transcultural Competence" at the Collaboration Conference: Transforming Student Learning for a Global Society. Professor Jongewaard co-presented with three undergraduate students from his Fall Term course EDU 5400: Teaching Elementary Social Studies. The three students were: Elizabeth Owens ('08), Nikki Kadechka ('07) and Cori Adams ('07). His students presented on curriculum they had developed and taught to 4th graders at Hancock, as part of Jongewaard's grade-level pairing collaboration.

Kimberly Johnson, faculty member at the Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, co-facilitated the Faculty Developers' Breakfast Session with Lynda Milne (MnSCU System Director for faculty development) at the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning conference on February 17. The session, entitled "Developing Programs to Improve Intercultural Competence", focused on significant ways that professional development for college faculty can impact the engagement and learning of culturally and linguistically diverse learners.

ProfessorKaren J. Vogel, Political Science, chaired and presented a panel workshop on "Fostering Global Citizenship and Local Partnerships: Active Learning Through Model UN Simulations" at The Collaboration for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Conference, Feb. 17, 2007. Participating on the panel was Brian Rochel, Hamline senior and philosophy major/political science minor; Michael Eaton, Executive Director of National Model UN; and Associate Professor Joseph Underhill-Cady, Augsburg College.

Hamline men’s basketball coach, Barry Wohler was featured in a recent article in GopherHole discussing his legendary high school athletic career, playing on two successful University of Minnesota teams, and his coaching career at Hamline University. He was also interviewed on WCCO-TV on Saturday, February 17. 

Professor Deanna Thompson, chair of the Religion department, was featured on the WCCO-TV's "Good Question" segment on Monday, February 26. She was answering the question "Does the tomb contradict Christianity?" referring to the discovery of tomb, filmakers are claiming belonged to Jesus.

Suda Ishida, assistant professor of Media Studies, and director of International Journalism Program, was quoted in St. Paul Pioneer Press in the article "Stories by the Busload" on Friday Feb. 23, 2007. She commented on the democratic aspects of weblogging. Suda's forthcoming book on "Heightening Environmental Awareness as a Political Strategy: The Journalistic Construction of an Anti-Dam Movement by the Press in Thailand" will be released this summer.

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Department of Education and Interim Director of the Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching attended the annual American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) and the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education (AILACTE) conferences in New York, February 22 -27. Dr. Watson exited the Board of Directors of AACTE after three years of service. He was selected by the AILACTE membership to be the President-elect. Dr. Watson is now serving as treasurer of AILACTE.

Alison McGhee, professor in Hamline's low residency Master in Fine Arts in writing for children and young adults, will be interviewed on February 27 on NPR's All Things Considered by Michelle Norris to talk about her new picture book for all ages titled Someday. She will also be the feature author on Minnesota Public Radios Talking Volumes at the Fitzgerald Theater on March 15.  For more information and a list of local readings, go online. Reading dates are listed on her blog.

School of Law Professor David Larson was interviewed by ADRworld.com regarding proposed legislation that will require arbitrators in Minnesota to "state the reasons for the arbitrators' decisions and the evidence upon which the arbitrators relied."

The Science Museum of Minnesota is tackling the challenging topic of race in a first-of-its-kind national exhibit to deal with the science, history and everyday experience of race and racism in the United States. Hamline Law Professor Dr. Jonathan Kahn, whose scholarly research and writing related to the legal and ethical implications of how racial categories are produced and disseminated in the course of drug development, is featured in the exhibit. He is quoted in a question-and-answer format display on the legal and ethical ramifications of Bi-Dil, the first medication ever approved by the FDA to be targeted to a specific racial group.

November 2006

Professor James Coben from the School of Law presented will be a presenter on April 28, 2007.  His talk will be titled:  “Lawyer as Problem Solver:  Idea and Exercises for Creative Teaching,” Eighth Annual Legal Educator’s Colloquium, co-sponsored by AALS and the ADR Section of the American Bar Association and held in conjunction with the ABA ADR Section Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C.).

Professor James Coben from the School of Law presented will be a presenter on April 26, 2007.  His talk will be titled "2006-2007 Mediation Case Law ‘Revue’:  Lessons Learned from State and Federal Litigation About Mediation,” Annual meeting of the ADR Section of the American Bar Association (Atlanta, Georgia).

Professor James Coben from the School of Law presented will be a presenter on March 20 - 23, 2007 on:  “International Consensual Dispute Processes,” University of Deusto ADR Seminar (Bilbao, Spain).

Professor James Coben from the School of Law presented will be a presenter on March 15 - 18, 2007 on:  “American Models of Mediation,” Catholic University (Paris, France).

Professor James Coben from the School of Law presented will be a presenter on March 2, 2007 on: “The Feasibility of Establishing a National Federal Court Program to Address ERISA Disputes,” ERISA Litigation Seminar, Minnesota CLE (Minneapolis, MN).

Feburary 16 - 19, Professor James Coben will be coaching the Hamline Mediation Representation Moot Court Team at the 2nd Annual International Chamber of Commerce Competition (Paris, France).  Hamline is one of only ten American teams admitted to competition.

Professor James Coben from the School of Law presented will be a presenter on February 8, 2007 on: “Mediation Case Law,” Annual Joint Meeting of the Dispute Resolution Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators and the American Inn of Court for ADR (Basking Ridge, NJ).

Professor James Coben from the School of Law was a presenter October 20, 2006.  He was the Plenary Speaker at the Annual Mediation Case Law Update, The 8th annual ADR Institute sponsored by the Minnesota State Bar Association. 

Professor James Coben from the School of Law was the plenary speaker on October 19, 2006.  His talk was titled, “Avoiding Litigation About Mediation,” Alternative Dispute Resolution Department of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York  (Brooklyn, New York)

Professor James Coben from the School of Law was a presenter on October 16, 2006 on: “Litigation Arising from Mediation,” Annual Alternative Dispute Resolution Seminar, Texas State Bar Association (Dallas, Texas).

Professor James Coben from the School of Law was a presenter on October 14, 2006 on: “Advocacy Challenges in International ADR,” Annual Conference of the International Law Student Association -- “The International Practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution” (St. Paul, Minnesota)

 Professor James Coben from the School of Law presented the "Closing Plenary:  International ADR Expansion – Real Social Progress or Disturbing Decline in the Role of Law?,” Annual Conference of the International Law Student Association -- “The International Practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution” (St. Paul, Minnesota) on October 14, 2006.

CLA Philosophy Professor Stephen H. Kellert recently published Scientific Pluralism, a volume co-edited with Helen Longino (Stanford) and C. Kenneth Waters (Minnesota). This book grew out of a workshop sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation, and it includes contributions exploring the plurality of theories at work in quantum physics, foundations of mathematics, economics, genetics, and other fields. In addition to writing the introduction with his co-editors, Kellert contributed the closing essay on interdisciplinary approaches to science studies. The volume is the 19th in the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science series, the world's longest running and best known series devoted exclusively to the philosophy of science.

Professor Patricia Palmerton, theatre arts and communication studies, traveled to Scotland where she worked on the first leg of research at the request of the Equibuddy Trust, with funding support from the Scottish Equestrian Association. The focus of the research is on equestrian vaulting (gymnastics on the back of a moving horse) for children with special needs, with a particular focus on the development of social skills, resilience,and empathy. Researchers were especially interested in the communicative interaction between participants with special needs, coaches, horse handlers, and (as it turns out) the children and the horse.

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Education Department, presented a conference workshop entitled Literacy as Access: Serving African-American Learners at the National Urban Alliance Conference on November 5, 2006.

Congratulations to Kate Knuth, a 25-year-old DFLer and a newcomer to politics, and environmental specialist for the Center for Global Environmental Education within the School of Education, bested Republican Lori Grivna, a two-term member of the Mounds View School Board, in the race for the open 50B seat. Knuth took 54 percent of the vote to Grivna's 46 percent.

Professor David Schultz has been keeping busy....serving as political expert all evening on FOX9-TV as election returns came in last night. He also appeared this morning on KARE11-TV as a political analyst to discuss election results. Schultz has completed dozens of interviews on a variety of political issues in the past few months leading up to the elections.

Professor David Hudson spent election night working as a Quality Control Supervisor for the Associated Press in their Minneapolis bureau. Three Hamline students, Sean Bailey, Trevor Maine, and Tessa Reck were also busy working for the AP as County Stringers. It was an exciting night, with more than the usual number of close races to cover, and it continues Hamline University's tradition of involvement with vote reporting for the major media.

Professor Carolyn Levy, theatre arts department, is currently directing The Action Against Sol Schumann for the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company's 12th professional season. In addition to teaching at Hamline, Levy is a freelance director who has worked in the Twin Cities for more than 25 years.

College of Liberal Arts political science professor Joe Peschek was interviewed by the Associated Press and KSTP-TV about the tight race for governor. He was also interviewed by KSTP-TV on the outcome of the governor's race.

Political Science faculty member Alina Oxendine appeared on FOX9-TV last week as a political analyst exploring local and national voter turnout.

Professor of Law David Larson was the featured speaker at the Yale Law School (New Haven, CT) where he presented his article titled “Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (TMDR): A New Paradigm for ADR," November 10, 2006.

Ken Fox, Conflict Studies Director, gave an invited presentation on the evolution of ADR (alternative dispute resolution) in the United States at La Fondation pour L'Innovation Politique (Foundation for Political Innovation) in Paris, November 9. The Foundation is a French "think tank" that examines a range of emerging social issues in that country. His presentation was part of a one-day symposium that examined the judicialization of French society and the role alternative conflict processes might play in changing how citizens relate to one another and to social institutions.

Professor Steve Jongewaard, CLA Education, presented a paper titled "Means and Ends of Education in Democracy: Public Policy and the Achievement Gap" on Saturday, November 4 at the National Urban Alliance "Believe to Achieve" Conference held in Minneapolis. Jongewaard's presentation also included four undergraduate students including Jamie Vigness from Hamline along with Fiorella Ormeno, Karmela Jones and David Seitz from Macalester, who presented their policy proposals designed to close the K-12 achievement gap.

Political Science faculty member Alina Oxendine is lead author of the article "The Importance of Political Context for Understanding Civic Engagement: A Longitudinal Analysis" which will be published in the March 2007 issue of Political Behavior (an interdisciplinary journal published by Springer Netherlands).

October 2006

Tom Anderson of the Department of Chemistry will give a presentation of his research, "Biological Membranes as Non-ideal Solutions," at the University of St. Thomas at 3 p.m. on October 6.

Dr.Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Department of Education participated in a panel presentation at the Minnesota Department of Education that discussed culturally and linguistically diverse gifted learners. He shared his experiences as a teacher of gifted children in North Carolina, a state Odyssey of the Minds coach, and the president of the Parents for the Advancement of Gifted Education (PAGE). He spoke about how to identify unrecognized cognitive potential that is not assessed through traditional intelligence test measures.

Professor Yali You, Department of Music, will give a lecture on "Smetana, Dvorak, and Czech Nationalism" in the CSPS Hall on Michigan Street in St. Paul this Thursday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m.. This lecture is organized by the Czech and Slovak Cultural Center, Office of the Czech Honorary Consul for Minnesota, and Czech & Slovak Sokol Minnesota.

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Department of Education, presented at the Minnesota NAME (National Association of Multicultural Education) Conference on October 7, 2006. His topic was Deconstructing the N-word: Using Content and Context as a Conduit to Understanding.

David Albornoz, program director in the College of Liberal Arts, education department, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Hamline/Midway Coalition. This fellowship - Leadership in Support of Neighborhood- is awarded to individuals committed to serve and improve our neighborhood community trough service and participation. His program "Soccer Around The World" is housed at Hancock Recreation Center.

City Pages ran an extensive article on author and Graduate School of Liberal Studies professor Larry Sutin. It focused on his life and his writing, including his latest book, All Is Change: The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.

Professor Carol Harris, from the School of Business, was interviewed for an article on entrepreneurship for the Twin Cities Business Magazine.

Professor David Schultz of the School of Business was interviewed for the Minneapolis Star Tribune regarding his work helping the Maplewood City Council members work well together. Schultz has been interviewed more than a dozen times in the past two weeks, on a variety of topics and for a variety of media outlets, including Bloomberg, WCCO 830AM radio, KSTP-TV, KARE11-TV, WCCO-TV, FOX9-TV, The Hill (a Washington D.C. publication), and others. Topics include the GOP convention coming to Minneapolis, the Jim Ramstad congressional race, how America is viewed in the world, Peter Hutchinson's new ad with Jesse Ventura, and the differences between good and bad local governments, among other topics.

Professor Nancy Holland, philosophy, presented a paper entitled "'Give Me Your Number and I'll Call/And I'll Follow that Thing in the Mall: A Feminist Revisits Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization" for the Critical Theory Roundtable meeting held October 21-22 at the University of Windsor, Ontario.

Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, David Stern, was elected Vice President of the Hegel Society of America at its biennial meeting in Chicago earlier this month.  According to the Hegel Society Web site, “The Hegel Society of America was founded in 1968 at the Wofford Symposium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Its purpose, as stated in its charter of incorporation as a learned society, is to promote the study of the philosophy of Hegel, its place within the history of thought, its relation to social, political, and cultural movements since his time, and its relevance to contemporary issues and fields of knowledge."

An editorial in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press on October 26, outlined the papers' support for various political candidates. Kate Knuth, who works as an environmental specialist for the Center for Global Environmental Education within the School of Education is highlighted within the article. She is running for the House District 50B seat in the legislature. 

School of Law professor Marie Failinger commented in the October 21 edition of the Minneapolis Star Tribune on religious expression within the workplace.

Professor David Schultz of the School of Business has been busy as the elections approach.  He answered the “Good Question” segment on what ‘middle class’ truly means for  WCCO-TV on October 20, spoke about negative political ads on WCCO-TV on October 19, and commented on KARE11-TV on October 18 about whether a pastor could publicly endorse a political candidate while on church property.  In addition, David contributed to FOX9, the Business Journal, WCCO-AM radio, and Bloomberg News. He will also be a guest political commentator on FOX9-TV, along with former governor Arne Carlson, on election night.

September 2006

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, chair of the education department in the College of Liberal Arts presented a workshop titled Literature Circles in Intermediate Grade Classrooms to middle grade teachers in the Waconia Public Schools on August 24. He also presented the keynote address at the Minneapolis Public Schools Elementary Conference on August 29 speaking to all Minneapolis 3-5 grade teachers on the topic "To Teach the Whole Child, You Must be a Whole Teacher."  On August 30, he presented a grades 2-6 vocabulary workshop and a separate grades 7-12 vocabulary workshop to more than one hundred teachers in the Moorhead, Minnesota area for the Dilworth, Glyndon, Felton Public School District. 

Professor Leif Hembre, biology, had an article accepted for publication in the Journal of Plankton Research. The article is titled "Direct and indirect effects of predation on the genetic structure of a Daphnia population."

Interim dean of College of Liberal Arts and chair of the Biology Department Pres Martin was interviewed in the Star Tribune and Associated Press about whether Hamline is seeing a drop in the number of students interested in math and science. In fact, Hamline is seeing growth in the number of students choosing science as a major. Scott White, a Hamline student who is a double major in math and biology was also interviewed for the story. The story was picked up by 26 other newspaper and online publications, including, among others, the Duluth Tribune, Grand Forks Herald, WCCO.com and KARE11.com

Political science professor Joe Peschek commented in the Associated Press, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, and Examiner that in the race to fill Senator Mark Dayton's seat the Republican party is using the anti-incumbent mood to its advantage. Read the article.

Professor in the School of Law Joe Daly has been interviewed extensively throughout the trial of the man convicted in the death of Dru Sjodin. In this interview Daly commented that the penalty phase of the case will likely be the most emotional. Read the article.

Professor in the School of Business David Schultz commented in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press on what it will mean for gubernatorial candidates now that Governor Pawlenty has rejected campaign spending limits.Read the article.

Professor David Larson, School of Law, has written an article titled "Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (TMDR): Opportunities and Dangers," that has been accepted for publication in Volume 38, No. 1 of the University of Toledo Law Review.

Professor Fahima Aziz, Management and Economics, was quoted in the article titled "Ranks of women CEOs at MN's top 100 dwindling" in Minneapolis/Saint Paul Business Journal in August 2006.  

Deanna Thompson, CLA Religion, attended the Executive Committee meetings for the American Academy of Religion (AAR) September 8-9 at Harvard University. Thompson was elected to the Executive Committee by the AAR Board of Directors in November 2005 and is serving a three year term.

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Education Department, had an article published in Voices in Urban Education a publication from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University . The featured article was entitled Serving African-American Learners: Literacy as Access.

Jennifer L. Carlson, faculty in the School of Education-Center for Literacy and Learning, has had a paper accepted for presentation at the International Reading Association meetings in Toronto. The presentation is titled "Developing Multimedia Text Sets: Collaboration, Comprehension, and Content."

Ken Fox, conflict studies director, presented two conference sessions at the second International Conference on Transformative Mediation, September 17 and 18. The first session, "Mediation Models Matter," addressed the conceptual foundations of the major models of mediation practice in the United States. The second session, " A Conversation about Peace-Building and Relational Practice" drew insights from Hamline University's participation in various civic education and tolerance initiatives in the Middle East.

Jeanne Kosieradzki, associate professor in the legal studies department, was quoted in the July 28, 2006 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education in an article discussing the pros and cons of legal studies as an undergraduate major for those planning to go to law school.

Brandon Lussier, assistant director of off-campus programs & study abroad, has been awarded a Travel Fellowship by the American Literary Translators Association.He will use the award to travel to, and present at, the association's national conference in October. Lussier co-translated a collection of poems by Estonian poet Hando Runnel, which was published in August 2006 (Kirgastumine / Brightening, Ilmamaa Press, Tallinn).

Lynn Praska, university development, chaired the 2006 30th annual Minnesota Planned Giving Conference on September 13 and 14 in Saint Paul. More than 300 development and allied professionals attended the conference.

Julie M. Thompson, Center for Academic Services, recently delivered an invited talk, titled "Misrepresented People: Counter-Racist Rhetoric in Spike Lee's Bamboozled", at the National Conference on Race and Pedagogy at the University of Puget Sound. She also visited with students enrolled in a Writing and Gender course to discuss her 2002 book Mommy Queerest.

Dwight C. Watson, chair of the education department, in coordination with Gevonee Ford (a former Hamline student), director of the Network for  the Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD), received a $75,000 grant from the United Way titled "Teaching Our Children to Read:  Moving Beyond Aliteracy." The purpose of the grant is to provide research-based reading instruction that insures that children read at grade level by third grade and integrates culturally responsive strategies for involving parents, schools, and communities. Fifty students in St. Paul and Minneapolis will be particiapnts in this after school support program.

Rosilyn Carroll, Barbara Shin, Barbara Washington, and Terry Larson of the School of Education's Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching are facilitating a workshop on October 5 titled "Teaching about Race and Unlearning Racism." This program, which includes speakers from the American Anthropological  Association, is a two-part workshop for grades 7-12 educators at the Science Museum of Minnesota in conjunction with the exhibit, RACE, opening January 11, 2007. The workshop supports the teaching of science, history, and social issues around human variation. 

August 2006

Melissa Embser-Herbert, Professor of Sociology, CLA, participated in the panel titled, “Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Solomon, FAIR v. Rumsfeld and the Law Librarian's Role in Amelioration,” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in St. Louis, MO. She also presented Don't Ask, Don't Tell": U.S. Law as a Weapon of Sexism, at the 1st Annual LGBT Human Rights Conference, held in conjunction with the Outgames in Montreal, Quebec.

Professor Mark Berkson, from the department of Religion, made a recent radio appearance on FM 107.  He was interviewed on "The Jill Spiegel Show" on Saturday, July 22 on the topic of "Comparative Conceptions of the Divine."

Law school Professor Mary Jane Morrison recently delivered a talk on dedicated funding clauses to members of the Washington County bar association.  She has a piece forthcoming this month on this topic in the Minnesota Journal.

August 7 - 10, 2006 , Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Education Department, co-coordinated and implemented the Summer Literacy Institute for Minneapolis Public Schools secondary teachers around the strands of motivation, content literacy, and assessment. Dr. Watson also conducted professional development around guided reading and a balanced reading approach for the elementary teachers in the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Schools on August 11.

Jim Bonilla, Associate Professor of Conflict Studies in the School of Business was recently appointed chair of the National Advisory Faculty Sub-Committee to the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in Higher Education.

President Linda N. Hanson was interviewed by WCCO-TV for a "Good Question" segment regarding the value of U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Here is a link to that story. President Hanson was also quoted in a story in the Minnesota Private Colleges Newsletter that focused on Urban Educators Summer Scholars, a collaborative program with Hamline's Center for Excellence in Urban Teaching, St. Paul Travelers Foundation and the Minnesota Private Colleges Fund. The program aims to significantly increase the number of well-prepared teachers of color in the state's K-12 urban classrooms.

Professor Larry Sutin, Graduate School of Liberal Studies, was the focus of an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday, August 27.  His new book is called, All is Change:  The Two-Thousand-Year Journey of Buddhism to the West.

Political science professor Joe Peschek comments on DLF gubernatorial candidate Mike Hatch's support of stem cell research were in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology David Davies was interviewed on what he thought the Minnesota State Fair would look like in 50 years in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

July 2006

Professor Paul Gorski from the School of Education has been elected as a member of the board of directors for the International Association for Intercultural Education.  He is the first North American to be elected to the organization's board and is invited to attend a conference in Bosnia in 2007. 

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Jeff Turner, recently published "A Queer Sort of Whiteness: Circulations of Deviancy and Desire in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Gummo and Boys Don't Cry." Genre: An International Journal of Literature and the Arts 25 (Fall 2005): 189-206.

Professor David Larson was interviewed by the Associated Press concerning the legal protections available for unpaid interns, June 12, 2006.  He was also interviewed by WCCO TV-Minneapolis concerning his Cardozo Journal of Internal and Comparative Law article, “Understanding the Cost of the War in Iraq and How that Realization Can Affect International Law. 

Kate Borowske, librarian at Bush Library, won the New Yorker magazine “Cartoon Caption Contest” for the June 26, 2006 issue.

George Gaetano,associate professor of Communication Studies, was the guest speaker at the July meeting of the Minnesota Fiction Writers. Professor Gaetano spoke about how to deal with stagefright when making public presentations.   2005-2006 Achievements (June-May)

On Saturday, April 29, three GLS faculty were awarded Minnesota Book Awards.  Jim Moore, MFA core faculty member, won the award in poetry for Lightning at Dinner (Graywolf Press).  Two faculty in the new, low-residency MFA in writing for children and young adults also won:  Alison McGhee in young adult fiction for her novel, All Rivers Flow to the Sea (Candlewick Press) and Jane Resh Thomas in children's fiction for The Counterfeit Princress (Clarion Books).  Another GLS faculty member, Ed Bok Lee, was nominated for Real Karaoke People.  A GLS alum, Elizabeth Andrew, was nominated for her essay collection, On the Theshold: Home, Hardwood & Holiness.   Phyllis Messenger, director of the Wesley Center and adjunct faculty in anthropology, chaired a symposium on Preserving the World’s Heritage Resources at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in San Juan, PR, on April 28. She presented a paper on “Preserving Heritage Resources through Public Policy,” which presented preliminary results of the Cumberland Island working conference on Preserving the World’s Heritage Resources held in November 2005.  Professor of Anthropology Skip Messenger presented a paper in the SAA symposium entitled, “Seeking the ‘First Person’ in Antiquity: A Pedagogical Approach Toward Taking Ownership of the Preservation of Heritage Resources.” This paper discussed the impact of a fiction writing assignment embedded in his Intro to Archaeology classes at Hamline.

Serena King, assistant professor of psychology published two papers in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology (November 2005 and February 2006 issues) from her research on personality, genes, and environment in the development of substance use from adolescence to young adulthood.

School of Education faculty Cynthia Lundgren, Sarah Clyne, Ann Mabbott and Leigh Schleicher all presented at the Minnesota ESL, Bilingual and Migrant Education Conference on May 4th. Cynthia and Sarah presented a workshop titled  ESL Readers in the Mainstream.  Ann and Leigh conducted a workshop on program evaluation.

Ken Fox, Director of Conflict Studies, DRI Senior Fellow and School of Business Associate Professor, was the featured keynote presenter at the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution's 9th annual state-wide conference in Salt Lake City, May 9. He presented on the importance of mediation research and theory in light of the growing diversity and globalization of the conflict field.

Two members of the Hamline community appeared in Hardcover Theatre Company's staging of "A Princess of Mars," an original adaptation of the 1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which opened on Thursday, May 11. Terri Elofson Bly, a staff counselor at Counseling and Health Services, and Kieran Adcock, a sophomore Theatre major play a variety of Martian creatures in this unique theatrical production.  

The Associations of Hamline Alumni are pleased to announce that Chairesia Chatham, Desktop Support Engineer in Computer Support Services, has been hired as the Director of Alumni Information Systems for the Associations of Hamline Alumni.  She will start on Tuesday, May 30, 2006. 

School of Education professor Barbara Elvecrog was an invited speaker at the Classrooms of the Future Conference on May 23.  Her presentation was titled "Using Current Brain Research to Create Engaging Classrooms."  Andreas Schramm and Ann Mabbott, Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, presented at the same conference. They discussed models for assessing online course quality.

On May 18, Associate Professor of Religion, Mark Berkson, appeared in a televised interview for a WCCO (channel 4) news story entitled, "What Religion Are We Really?" a story about trends in religious affiliation in contemporary America.

Assistant Professor John Shepard of the School of Education has received over $150,000 in grant support to continue the Waters to the Sea Project in Texas, Minnesota and California. This project celebrates our nation's rivers and educates our students to become river stewards and scientists.

Professor of Law, Marie Failinger, has been elected president of the Board of Directors of Central Minnesota Legal Services.  She has also published: Introduction, Symposium, AALS Professional Responsibility Section Essay Contest:  Ethics in the Year 2050, 15 Widener L.J. 235 (2006).

Deanna Thompson, CLA Religion, co-hosted the annual meeting of the Upper Midwest Region American Academy of Religion/Society for Biblical Literature Meetin! g, March 31-April 1, at Luther Seminary in St. Paul. As Director of the Upper Midwest Region, Thompson runs the meeting with her colleague Mark Schuler, Concordia College St. Paul.  This year the meeting reached a new high of 290 participants.

Kate Knuth, Center for Global Environmental Education, was endorsed by the DFL party on April 1 in her campaign for a seat in the Minnesota State House.  Kate is running in District 50B, which includes New Brighton, Arden Hills, and parts of Shoreview and Fridley.

Peggy Knapp of the Center for Global Environmental Education and faculty member in the School of Education has been appointed to St. Paul Mayor Chris Colman's "second shift" team. The purpose of the second-shift commission is to increase student access to after-school programs.

The Office of Admission is pleased to announce that Jen Mayeron has been promoted to Associate Director of Admission.  Since arriving in the Admission Office in 2001, Jen has worked with the AAP program, coordinates the Campus Visit Coordinators and Telecounselors and maintains Hamline's web presence.  She supports new ideas and trends in the profession and her work on the Piper Blog this year is just one example of her willingness to take an idea and implement change.  Congratulations to Jen.

David Davies, CLA anthropology, presented a lecture at Johns-Hopkins Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China on Monday April 10th.  The lecture, The Discipline of Corporate Culture and "Studying Success" at Wal-Mart China, marked the end of his six-week research fellowship at the Hopkins-Nanjing Institute for International Research.

Marty Knight (Physical Education) and Mike Farris (Biology) attended the spring meeting of the Northland Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine in St. Cloud on April 7.

Brandon Lussier (Acting Director of Off-Campus Programs and CLA alum '00) presented the paper "Estonian Soil and Estonian Heart: Emphasized Otherness In the Translation of Estonian Poetry" at the American Comparative Literature Association's annual conference at Princeton University on March 23.  He'd like to thank English Department Professors Marcela Kostihova and Mike Reynolds for their help with drafts of the paper.

Julie M. Thompson, Center for Academic Services, has been invited to present her recent research on counter-racist representations of blackness in the Spike Lee film "Bamboozled" at the National Conference on Race and Pedagogy, which will be held at the University of Puget Sound in September 2006.

Duane Cady, CLA Philosophy Department, wrote the "Pacifism" and "Violence" entries for the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He was interviewed twice last week on morality for a WCCO TV feature on fossil fuel consumption.

Professor Karen Vogel, political science, and Annika Johnson, senior political science student, will be presenting a paper at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago this week, April 20-22.  The paper is based on their collaborative research, a comparative study of disabilities legislation in France and the U.S.  Karen Vogel will also be chairing a panel at the conference focusing on transitions and integration in Central and Eastern Europe. 

Ken Fox, Associate Professor and Director, Conflict Studies, was the invited keynote speaker at the 2006 Minnesota Association for Community Mediation Annual Education Day conference, April 22.  Also, his review "In Search of a Canon:  Three Texts on Dispute Resolution" was published in the April issue of the Harvard Negotiation Journal.

Registration and Records announces that Katie (Max) Macke, Associate Registrar, has accepted the position of Assistant Director of Operations in Admission effective May 1.  Please join both departments in offering Katie congratulations on her new role as well as gratitude for her accomplishments during her years of service in Registration and Records.

The Associations of Hamline Alumni (AHA) announces that Tim Traffie has accepted the position of Associate Registrar for the college and graduate schools at Hamline University. 

Jim Bonilla, associate professor of conflict studies, School of Business, has been appointed for a second term to the National Advisory Committee of the National Conference on Race & Ethnicity (NCORE). He currently serves as secretary to NCORE's Faculty Development Sub-Committee. NCORE is the leading and most comprehensive national forum on issues of race and ethnicity in American higher education. 

Vickie Jauert, of the clinic and lawyering skills programs in the School of Law, graduated with an MA in Public Administration from Hamline on May 21, 2005. 

Professor Deborah Keenan, from the Graduate School of Liberal Studies, was asked, and accepted, the Edelstein-Keller Minnesota Author of Distinction Chair at the University of Minnesota for the academic year 2006-2007.  She will teach a fall seminar to selected graduate students from the English and Creative Writing Departments, and in the spring will assist with thesis work, and give a  public reading. She will continue with her full-time position at Hamline University.

She is the author of six collections of poetry:  Household Wounds, The Only Window That Counts, How We Missed Belgium (written with Jim Moore), One Angel Then, a limited edition text designed and illustrated and hand-printed by Gaylord Schanilec, Happiness, and Good Heart, her newest, now in its second printing, from Milkweed Editions.  She is, with Roseann Lloyd, co-editor of Looking For Home: Women Writing About Exile, which won the American Book Award in 1991. 

Keenan has received two Bush Foundation Fellowships for her poetry, an NEA Fellowship, The Loft McKnight Poet of Distinction award, among other grants and awards.  In 1994, 2000, and 2004 she was named professor of the year for teaching and service in the Graduate School of Liberal Studies (MALS & MFA programs) at Hamline University.

Deanna Thompson, CLA Religion, was hosted on Tuesday, March 21, at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, as a speaker for Women's History Month. In addition to speaking in chapel, she met with the Religion Department's Honor Society to discuss her book, and spoke at the dinner of the Political Awareness Committee on the topic "Reformers and Revolutionaries."

Deanna Thompson, CLA Religion, attended the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Board Meeting in Washington D.C., March 25-6. In addition, she interviewed three finalists for the Executive Director of the AAR on March 24, also in D.C.

Professor Fahima Aziz presented her paper "Poverty and Income Inequality in the U.S.: A Closer Look After Katrina" at the 70 the Annual Midwest Economic Association, on March 25, 2006, in Chicago. She chaired the session titled " Studies in Discrimination" and discussed the paper titled ' "Do Females Receive Lenient Sentences Despite the Federal Sentencing Guidelines" at the annual conference.

Rev. Tim Tennant-Jayne, assistant chaplain for vocational life, was recently quoted in the Pioneer Press. He was attending the People of Faith rally at the State Capitol on March 23. Clergy rally against gay-marriage ban. At least 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol Thursday in opposition to a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Kathryn Heinze, associate professor in the Second Language Teaching and Learning Program, presented a two-hour work entitled 'The Math-Language Connection" at the national TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference on March 23, 2006, in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Dwight C. Watson and Lenore Kinne (Hamline alum and former professor) published an article in the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education Journal, Fall 2005.  The article is entitled, Implementing Teacher Work Sampling.  The teacher work sample is an authentic assessment that requires candidates to carefully analyze the learning context, to plan and deliver a unit of instruction with appropriate assessment before, during, and after instruction and to analyze those assessment results in both aggragated and disaggregated form, with reflective analysis of student learning.

Nancy Holland, philosophy, traveled to Cyprus in December to serve on the "specialists committee" for a candidate for tenure and promotion in the English department at the university there.

The Presbytery of the Twin Cities Area elected School of Law Assistant Dean Vincent Thomas to serve as a commissioner to the 217th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church-USA at its meeting on Saturday, January 14. Thomas and five other commissioners will represent the Presbyterian congregations located in the Twin Cities, southeastern Minnesota, and western Wisconsin at the General Assembly. The General Assembly will meet from June 15-22 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Mark Berkson gave a 3-part lecture series entitled "Interfaith Dialogue in a Multifaith Society" at the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church in January. The talks focused on Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Department of Education, attended the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) in which he is a member of the Board of Directors. He also attended the Annual Meeting of the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education (AILACTE) in which he is a member of the Executive Board and serves as Treasurer. At the AILACTE Annual Meeting, he presented a session entitled, Collaborative Partnerships: Bridges to Connectivity. San Diego, CA. January 26 - 31, 2006.

Diane Clayton of Bush Library and Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg, women's studies, College of Liberal Arts, were honored on February 1 for their "good works on behalf of women," by the Minnesota Women's Consortium. The women's studies program and Bush Library co-sponsored the Women's Consortium 26-year anniversary celebration in the Klas Center on February 1. Cathy Wurzer from Minnesota Public Radio was the celebration host. The event featured arts organizations such as Calliope Women's Chorus, Women's Arts Registry, and the Minnesota Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Current Hamline fastpitch softball coach, Janelle Tieken, has been named senior women's administrator. Janelle will promote women's athletics at the university and represent Hamline at the conference and national level. She is in her eighth season at the helm of the Piper's fastpitch softball team and has led the team to the conference playoffs in each of the last two seasons. In 2002, Tieken was named MIAC Coach of the year.

Grant Awards
The Faculty Development in International Learning project funded by the Bush Foundation recently selected three College of Liberal Arts faculty members as short-term Visiting Scholars to China: Serena King, psychology (May 2006), Fahima Aziz, management and economics (May 2007), and Faith O'Reilly (May 2007). The Bush Foundation awarded Hamline's College of Liberal Arts $300,000 in November 2004 for a three-year Faculty Development in International Learning project.

First-year grant initiatives are focused specifically on China. The grant is directed by Alan Silva, CLA associate cean, who works with an eight-person faculty and staff Advisory Council: Kate Bjork, CLA anthropology and global studies; Diane Clayton, Bush Library; David Davies, CLA anthropology; Veena Deo, CLA English; Jeff Johnson, corporate and foundation relations; Rita Majerle, CLA Chemistry; Kari Richtsmeier, CLA modern languages and off-campus programs; Hellen Yin, CLA modern languages and principal consultant.

Linda Gesling, director of church relations, has published the book, Mirror and Beacon: The History of Mission of The Methodist Church 1939-68.. The book was published by the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church (New York, New York, 2005).

Prof. Dorothee Dietrich, psychology, attended the 2006 Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in January in Palm Springs, CA, where she presented her research paper on "Gender differences in feelings of inadequacy of low and high self-handicappers".

Deanna Thompson, CLA religion, participated as a member of the search committee in the interviews of four finalists for the position of Executive Director of the American Academy of Religion January 19-21 in New York City.

Beginning February 17, David Schultz, professor in the School of Business, will be the Friday, 5 - 6 P.M. host for Minnesota Matters, a radio show on Air America Minnesota, 950 AM.  Minnesota Matters is a Monday to Friday drive time show that will include news, politics, interviews, commentary, and listener call-ins.

B. R. Hergenhahn, professor emeritus, psychology and Matthew H. Olson, psychology have published the 7th edition of An Introduction to Theories of Personality. Pearson-Prentice Hall released the book this week.

Tom Romero, assistant professor of law and Jim Bonilla, associate professor, conflict studies and School of Business were featured panelists in a forum on Latin Issues in Higher Education in Minnesota.  State Representative Carlos Mariani convened a panel which was hosted by Metropolitan State University President Wilson Bradshaw. The forum will provide the basis for a 30-40 page featured report in the March edition of "Vice Versa" magazine. 

Anthropology department professor David Davies presented a paper, "Must the Story Always End in Reform?: The Differential Lessons of "Successful" Zhiqing and Rebels," at a workshop with philosopher Alan Badiou entitled "Is a History of the Cultural Revolution Possible" held February 23-26, 2006 at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Stephen H. Kellert of the CLA philosophy department recently published an essay "The Uses of Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and Antidepressants" in the interdisciplinary journal Philosophy, Psychiatry,& Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Mark Berkson, associate professor in the College of Liberal Arts religion department was interviewed on Saturday, Feb. 25, on "The Jill Spiegel Show", FM 107.  The topic was "The Art of Listening in the Buddhist Tradition."

Professor Fahima Aziz, management and economics, presented her paper titled " A Closer Look After Katrina: Poverty and Social Justice Issues in the U.S." at the Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 24, 2006. 

Kathryn Heinze, associate professor in the Graduate Schools of Education, Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, conducted a workshop on "the Grammar of History," for secondary ESL teachers at the Anoka-Hennepin School District on February 21, 2006, which addressed strategies for identifying and teaching language features specific to social studies texts to English language learners.

Professor Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Education Department, presented a workshop at the National Black Child Development Institute Conference in Orlando, Florida on October 16, 2005. The workshop was entitled Fortress of Support: Early Literacy Practices for Urban Learners. This workshop was co-presented with Gevonne Ford, a former Hamline student. Mr. Ford is now the Executive Director of NdCAD, the Network for the Development of Children of African Descent.

Hamline men's and women's tennis coach Dan Haertl will speak at the Minnesota State High School League girls' tennis banquet that will be held on Tuesday night at the St. Paul Radisson.  Haertl will speak on behalf of the United State Tennis Association to urge High school players to go and play in college.  Dan is in his 20th season at the helm of the women's tennis team and eight leading the men's team.

Professor Nancy Holland, philosophy, presented a paper entitled "The Revenante of Abu Ghraib:  Derrida and the Discourses of Globalization, Gender, and Forgiveness" at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy held October 20-22 in Salt Lake City.

Carolyn Levy, theatre arts will be directing Shadow of the Valley for the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company.  The show is making its world premiere telling the story of a 30-year friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian.  The show runs through November 13. 

David Davies, assistant professor in the anthropology department had his essay "Old Zhiqing Photos: Nostalgia and the 'Spirit' of the Cultural Revolution" published in The China Review, Vol. 5. No. 2. Fall 2005.  The special issue of the interdisciplinary journal was published to mark the 40th anniversary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Paul Gorski, faculty in HSE, has been accepted as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. The Senior Specialist program connects senior U.S. scholars in specific fields with overseas educational institutions looking for very particular types of expertise. Senior Specialists spend 2-8 weeks with an institution providing faculty development, leading workshops, and/or working with administrators and students. Paul has been identified as a specialist in the area of Multicultural Education, able to provide expertise related to educational equity and social justice, based on previous work with schools and universities in Mexico, Panama, and Colombia.

Please join us in congratulating the following employees who are celebrating their anniversaries at Hamline University.  We appreciate their service and dedication to Hamline University.
Ten Years:  Julie Neraas and Mary Rockcastle
Twenty five years:  Marilynne Roberts

CLA Religion professor Deanna Thompson presented one of three keynote lectures for the 2005 Luther Colloquy at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, PA on 25 October.  Her talk was entitled "Becoming a Feminist Theologian of the Cross."  While in Gettysburg, Professor Thompson also taped a radio show interview for eastern Pennsylvania on "Teaching The DaVinci Code."

College of Liberal Arts Associate Dean Alan Silva presented the session "Holistic Advising and E-Folio Initiative at Hamline University" at the E-Folio Minnesota Summit Conference on November 3, 2005 at Hennepin Technical College in Brooklyn Park, MN.  This first annual E-Folio Summit brought together educators from k-12, community and technical colleges, and public and private colleges and universities from across the state of Minnesota. 

Members of the Education Department (Joy Wimsatt and Dwight C. Watson) and Education alums (Desirae Beck and Heather Halle Cohen) presented at the Minnesota Assocation for Teacher Education (MACTE).  The presentation was entitled Work Sample Methodology - One Teacher Education Program's Model that Closes Two Loops with One Authentic Assessment.  The presentation was well received by other teacher educators and applauded for the inclusion of authentic P-12 student work samples and  classroom teachers' commentary.

Andrea Bell, Modern Languages department, spoke on "La literatura fantastica de Dana Chaviano"  during the symposium "Latin America Writes Back: Science Fiction in the Global Era" at the University of Florida, Gainesville.  Oct. 27-29, 2005.

Duane Cady, CLA Philosophy Department, presented a paper, "Remembering the Present," at the annual conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, November 3-6, at California State University at Chico.

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Education Department, presented a session at the 2005 Celebrating Successes in Educating African American Children Conference.  He co-presented with Gevonee Ford, a Hamline alum.  The session was entitled Parent Power:  Developing a Firm Literacy Foundation in the Home.

Hamline University School of Law Professor Dr. Tom Romero has been named one of the "25 on the Rise" by the Hispanic Chamber of Minnesota, which recognizes 25 of the most accomplished and inspiring Hispanics throughout Minnesota. Professor Romero also will be honored at a reception to be hosted by Marilyn Carlson Nelson, CEO of the Carlson Companies, on Dec. 1. A story about Professor Romero will be included in the December issue of Vice Versa magazine.

The Faculty Development in International Learning project funded by the Bush Foundation would like to congratulate the following mini-grant recipients for teaching and research projects for academic year 2005-06:
.  Fahima Aziz, CLA professor of Management and Economics, for "China's Economic Growth, Rising Poverty, and Income Inequality:  Has Globalization Paid Off?"
.  Mark Berkson, CLA professor of Religion, for "Religious Pluralism and Multifaith Identity in China"
.  Suda Ishida, CLA professor of Communication Studies, for "Chinese Media Studies"
.  Yali You, CLA professor of Music, and Pam Berger, Director of the Preparatory School of Music and Manager of the Piano Institute, for "Building Trusting Relationships in China for Cultural Exchange Programs"

The Faculty Development in International Learning project would also like to congratulate the recipient of the Faculty Exchange Award:
.  David Hudson, CLA professor of English, for his course proposal, "Writing for International Journalism."  Professor Hudson will teach this course at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, China in the extended May term 2006.  The College of Liberal Arts is currently forming a partnership with UIBE for faculty and student exchanges, with an expectation of one UIBE faculty member coming to Hamline to teach in January 2007. 

The Bush Foundation awarded Hamline's College of Liberal Arts $300,000 in November 2004 for a three-year Faculty Development in International Learning project.  First-year grant initiatives are focused specifically on China.  The grant is directed by Alan Silva, CLA Associate Dean, who works with an eight-person faculty and staff Advisory Council:  Kate Bjork, CLA Anthropology and Global Studies; Diane Clayton, Bush Library; David Davies, CLA Anthropology; Veena Deo, CLA English; Jeff Johnson, Corporate and Foundation Relations; Rita Majerle, CLA Chemistry; Kari Richtsmeier, CLA Modern Languages and Off-Campus Programs; Hellen Yin, CLA Modern Languages and Principal Consultant. 

Ken Fox, Director of Conflict Studies and School of Business Associate Professor, presented an invited paper " What Private Mediators Can Learn from the Peace-builders" at the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution's 2005 symposium, "International Mediation in Times of Conflict:  Lessons from Public and Private Dispute Resolution" at Cardozo School of Law in New York on November 11.

Kathryn Heinze, associate professor, in the School of Education's Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, presented at the MinneTESOL (Minnesota Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) State Conference in Minneapolis on November 5, 2005.  The topic of her presentation was "The Language of Math," which helps K-12 English as a second language (ESL) and math teachers support English language learners' (ELLs) comprehension of word problems and provides ideas for getting students to use the language of math more frequently in their classes.

Theresa Mason, Assistant Professor of Religion, CLA, and university chaplain, presented a paper, 'I Am Your Neighbor:  A Collaborative Theater Process of Exploring Identity and for Community Education in Response to Anti-Immigrant Attitudes," at the National Conference on Art, Faith, and Social Justice November 10-12, hosted at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Assistant Professor of English Mike Reynolds presented two papers at the annual Midwest Modern Languages Association convention on November 11 and 12.  The first--"Reconciling, Repairing, Recovering the work of disciple in a World Literature Survey"--addressed the problems of teaching diversely and for diversity in the general education/liberal arts classroom.  For something entirely different, the second--"The Politics of Irresponsibility: Comedic Literature and the State of the Nation"--examined how comedy has been used by writers of political fiction as a means of challenging our conceptions of the individual's role in governmental institutions and processes. 

November 17, 2005 - Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair Department of Education, presented a keynote address at the Minnesota Minority Education Partnership Annual Board Meeting.  The address was entitled Supporting the Matriculation of Underrepresented Population from Middle School through College.  Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The student affairs office is excited to announce the hiring of Mildred Bynum as coordinator of graduate student life programs. In this new, part-time position she will act as liaison between the three graduate schools and student affairs to connect students with existing services and assist with emerging graduate student organizations. Mildred has a masters degree from the University of St. Thomas in student affairs leadership. She has began work this week in her office at 1271 Hewitt Avenue.

Associate professor Fahima Aziz was invited to present her paper "Engaging Students in Economic Research: Multi-Staged Semester Long Project in Labor Economics" at the Midwest Conference on Student Learning in Economics: Innovation, Assessment and Classroom Research, on October 28 in Akron Ohio.

Professor Terri Christenson, literacy faculty, and Marcia Rockwood, Director of Continuing Studies for Professional Development, both from the School of Education, presented at the regional International Reading Association (IRA) conference in Minneapolis on November 11. Their session, "The Many Faces of Literature: Books for Diverse Families"  focused around the themes of adoption,  divorce, single-parent, bi-racial, bi-cultural, extended, and GLBT families. Deb Cordes, Anoka Schools, and Heidi Bernal, St. Paul Schools, also participated in the session.     

Professor Terri Christenson, literacy faculty, and Marcia Rockwood, Director of Continuing Studies for Professional Development, both from the School of Education, presented at the regional International Reading Association (IRA) conference in Minneapolis on November 11. Their session, "The Many Faces of Literature: Books for Diverse Families"  focused around the themes of adoption,  divorce, single-parent, bi-racial, bi-cultural, extended, and GLBT families. Deb Cordes, Anoka Schools, and Heidi Bernal, St. Paul Schools, also participated in the session.     

CLA Religion Professor Deanna Thompson attended the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Philadelphia, PA, November 15-21.  At the meeting Professor Thompson delivered a paper to the Society for Lutheran and Anglican Theologians (SALT) entitled, "On the Freedom of a (Lutheran, Feminist) Christian," attended the Board of Directors meeting as a Regional Director, presented a the Department Chairs Workshop on "Enlarging the Pie: Growing our Students," facilitated a session on "Ethics and Drama in the Classroom," and, along with the other members of the search committee, interviewed candidates for the position of the Executive Director of the American Academy of Religion.

Dr. George Redman and Dr. Dwight C. Watson on November 18, 2005,  presented a session at the Collaboration for the Advance of College Teaching and Learning Conference entitled Diversity Exploration through Case Studies.  Bloomington, Minnesota.

Dr. Dwight C. Watson, Chair of the Education Department, published an article in the Minnesota Journal of English entitled Reading the World:  Supporting the Functional  Literacy Practices of Urban Learners.  The article discussed techniques that can enhanced students environmental print skills.  Environment print is a person's ability to read road signs, advertisements, menus, bill boards, etc.

Dwight C. Watson, chair of the education department, published an article in the Minnesota Journal of English titled "Reading the World: Supporting the Functional Literacy Practices of Urban Learners." The article discussed techniques that can enhance students' environmental print skills. Environmental print is a person's ability to read road signs, advertisements, menus, bill boards, etc.

Brandon Lussier, assistant director of off-campus programs and collaborative research, has been awarded a $6000 Artist Initiative grant by the Minnesota State Arts Board to work toward the completion of his first book of poetry.

David Davies, anthropology, College of Liberal Arts, attended the Fourth Annual International Convention of Asia Scholars from August 20-24 in Shanghai, China. At the conference, he presented the paper, "Made in China: The Discipline of Corporate Culture and Studying for Success", and participated in a roundtable titled, "Chinese Studies: Anything New?"

 Scott Edelstein, Graduate School of Liberal Studies, published, The Complete Writer's Kit: Everything You Need to Get Started, Get Inspired, and Get Published. He wrote two books for the kit, 30 Steps to Becoming a Writer and Get Published in 6 Months or Less. He gave a reading from the kit, as well as a talk about publishing at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis.

 Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert, sociology, College of Liberal Arts, was selected as a policy fellow with the 2005-2006 Humphrey Institute Policy Forum at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Margaret Hilger, program assistant, School of Education, had a sculpture on display in the art building at the Minnesota State Fair.

Martin Knight, physical education, College of Liberal Arts, was inducted into the M Club Hall of Fame at the University of Minnesota.

Cindy Lundgren, Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, School of Education, presented a paper at the International Conference for Second Language Teaching Education in June. She also gave the keynote address at the Metro ECSU Conference on Building a Strong Foundation for English Language Learners.

Ann Mabbott, Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, School of Education, presented a paper at the International Conference for Second Language Teaching Education in June.

Betsy Parrish, Center for Second Language Teaching and Learning, School of Education, presented a paper at the International Conference for Second Language Teaching Education in June.

Paul Schmaedeke, track and cross-country coach, College of Liberal Arts, was named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference cross country coach of the year.

Alan Silva, associate dean, College of Liberal Arts, published three biographical articles on John Smith, Increase Mather, and Cotton Mather in the online, peer-reviewed Literary Encyclopedia, February-June 2005.

Larry Sutin, Graduate School of Liberal Studies, won the 2005 National Faculty Award given by the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies. He received the award and gave an address at the national conference in the Twin Cities, October 6-8.

Yali You, music, College of Liberal Arts, was a guest teacher at Xian Conservatory of Music, where she was also named the honorary professor of cello in June 2005. She spent the second half of July teaching and performing at the Superior Music Festival in Michigan.

College of Liberal Arts Associate Dean Alan Silva facilitated a session titled "Integrating Career, Organizational, and Personal Dimensions of Professional Development," at the Association of New American Colleges (ANAC) Summer Institute in Springfield, Missouri from June 15 through 18. Brandon Lussier, assistant director of Off-Campus Programs and Collaborative Research, presented a poster session on ANACSA, the ANAC Study Abroad program, of which Brandon is the director.

College of Liberal Arts Associate Dean Alzada Tipton, Associate Dean of Students Alan Sickbert, and Director of Student Activities and Leadership Development Kelly Krebs also attended the institute. This year's institute, "Crafting Your Professional Identity at an ANAC Institution," brought together more than 100 participants from sixteen of the twenty member institutions.

College of Liberal Arts Associate Dean Alan Silva published three biographical articles on John Smith, Increase Mather, and Cotton Mather in the online, peer-reviewed Literary Encyclopedia from February through June 2005. The Literary Encyclopedia can be accessed at: http://www.litencyc.com/

College of Liberal Arts Professor Yali You, music, spent the month of June guest teaching at the Xian Conservatory of Music in China. She was the artistic director for a cello chamber music program which included daily coaching, master classes, a lecture, and a final concert. Her teaching included coaching three piano trios and a cello quintet, giving a lecture on the role of cello in the history and development of chamber music, and conducting a twenty-nine member cello ensemble in the concert. Xian Conservatory of Music is one of major conservatories in China with over 8,000 students, about 4,000 are music majors studying both Chinese and Western music. This is the third time You has been invited to teach there and was named the honorary professor of cello by the conservatory in June of 2005. You spent the second half of July teaching and performing at the Superior Music Festival in UP Michigan. In addition to teaching, she performed in four concerts during the two weeks.

School of Law Professor David Larson has written two articles that have been accepted for publication. "Understanding the Cost of the War in Iraq and How that Realization Can Affect International Law" will be published this fall in Volume 14, Issue 1 of the Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law. "Technology Mediated Dispute Resolution (TMDR): A New Paradigm for ADR" will appear in Volume 21, Issue 3 of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution (published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution).

Larry Sutin, associate professor in the Graduate School of Liberal Studies,  won the 2005 National Faculty Award given by the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies.  He will receive the award and give an address at the national conference, which is here in the Twin Cities on Oct. 6-8.  Nominees for this award "must have commitment to the philosophy of graduate liberal studies programs and must display an attitude and behavior that is interdisciplinary in nature.  The primary consideration given the nominee will be on the basis of the quality of his or her teaching and advising of graduate liberal studies students...[the] nominee should have a record of excellence in scholarship and/or professional service and activity."

Graduate School of Liberal Studies Professor Larry Sutin won the 2005 National Faculty Award given by the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies. He will receive the award and give an address at the national conference in the Twin Cities on October 6-8.

College of Liberal Arts Professor David Davies, anthropology, attended the Fourth Annual International Convention of Asia Scholars in Shanghai from August 20-24 in Shanghai, China. At the conference he presented a paper, "Made In China: The Discipline of Corporate Culture and Studying for Success" and participated in a roundtable titled, "Chinese Studies: Anything New?"

School of Education Program Assistant Margaret Hilger had a piece of art (sculpture) on display in the art building at the Minnesota State Fair.

College of Liberal Arts Professor Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert, sociology, has been selected as a policy fellow with the 2005-2006 Humphrey Institute Policy Forum at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Graduate School of Liberal Studies Professor Scott Edelstein has just published THE COMPLETE WRITER'S KIT: Everything You Need to Get Started, Get Inspired, and Get Published (Running Press, October 2005). This kit, written for anyone who has ever had the desire to write creatively, includes two books by Edelstein --30 STEPS TO BECOMING A WRITER and GET PUBLISHED IN 6 MONTHS OR LESS--as well as an inspirational card deck by Natalie Goldberg. On October 6, he will give a reading from THE COMPLETE WRITER'S KIT, as well as a talk with some very unorthodox ideas about publishing at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.