FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2009

Sharon Betsworth (Religion) has a book under contract: The Reign of God is of Such as These: A Socio-Literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark. She published a book review in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly, and an entry in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. She will be presenting two papers at the annual national meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in New Orleans. She presented a paper at the Society of Biblical Literature regional meeting.

Lisa Wolfe (Religion) had an article, "Notes from the Classroom: Human Timeline: A Spatial-Kinesthetic Exercise in Biblical History," in Teaching Theology & Religion. Her “Exegetical Commentary on Psalm 119:33-40, Psalm 131, Psalm 31:1-5, 19-24,” was printed in Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year A, Volume 1. She also had selected articles in the New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible Volume 5, 2009.

John Starkey (Religion) is Vice President of the Southwest Region of the American Academy of Religion, serves on the program committees of the Society for Ricoeur Studies and the Paul Tillich Society, ran a workshop on teaching religion in Texas, taught fifty Methodist high school youth for three days at the Oklahoma CYME camp, and received the 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award for Full-Time Faculty Award at OCU.

Stuart Asprey (Art) placed second at the 2009 Feats of Clay International Clay Exhibition (CA)-One of the most prestigious ceramic juried exhibitions in the United States; Honorable Mention at the 2009 Vision Makers Biennial Exhibit (OK), curated by Professor Judith Schwartz of NYU, internationally recognized artist, critic, and teacher Participant in the Seven State Biennial (OK)-Upcoming (opening at USAO's gallery in mid-October).

Judith Palladino (Theater) published an article in Incite/Insight, an American Alliance of Theatre and Education publication. She is a member of the Arts Integration Faculty Learning Community and prepares a Study Guide to accompany every Theatre OCU main stage production for use by OCU faculty in their classes.

Ally A. Zhou (TESOL) published an article, “What Adult ESL Learners Say About Improving Grammar and Vocabulary in Their Writing for Academic Purposes,” in Language Awareness. Her empirical research report and one position paper/book review were published in Language Awareness. She co-authored Handbook of Standards for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, to be published in 2009 by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, a prestigious publisher in China. She serves on the U.S. Student Fulbright National Screening Committee. She was invited to visit two top Chinese universities, and she appeared on the largest Chinese Television Network (CCTV4) as a result of her service as a key trainer for a Chinese teacher training program sponsored by the Office of Chinese Language Council International, the headquarters of Confucius Institutes.

Terry Conley (Biology) co-authored a peer-reviewed article, “Genotyping polyploid grasses with single primers: PAL-PCR,” accepted for publication in Grassland Science, the official publication of the Japanese Grassland Society. The publication is the result of a long-term collaboration with Dr. Bryan Kindiger, a research geneticist at the USDA/ARS Grazinglands Research Laboratory in El Reno, OK.

Scott Davidson (Philosophy) published a book translation, Michel Henry’s Seeing the Invisible, and a book review. “Barbaras, Patoçka, and the Movement of Existence,” in Research in Phenomenology. Next year he will publish a book, Ricoeur Across the Disciplines, and two co-authored articles in Ricoeur Across the Disciplines, a book he edited: “Ricoeur and African & African-American Studies: Convergences with Black Feminist Thought” and “Translation as a Model of Interdisciplinarity.” Another forthcoming article is “Womanist Literature” in An African American Studies Volume.

Nathan Ross (Philosophy) had an article accepted for Philosophy Today, “'Nothing Human is Foreign to Me: On the Role of Difference in Hegel's Philosophy of Art.” Three students from his business ethics class last spring won the OK Ethics Case Competition in the undergraduate division. He will present a paper, “'On the Debt of Philosophical Hermeneutics to Schiller's Letters on Aesthetic Education,” at the 2010 Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association.

Robin Meyers (Philosophy) published Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus, endorsed by Desmund Tutu, Bill Moyers, and Bishop John Shelby Spong, et al., resulting in numerous lectures and done numerous book signings. He delivered lectures in Phoenix, for the Arizona Foundation of Contemporary Theology, in Wichita for University Congregational Church, and in Denver for Arvada United Methodist Church.

Kewei Sha (Computer Science) presented a poster, "Role-based Deceptive Data Detection and Filtering in WSNs," at the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.

Bryan Farha (Counseling) gave an interview in the fall issue of Body & More Pseudoscience of Astrology.

James Buss (History) has five entries that will appear in the Encyclopedia of Indian Removal and the Encyclopedia of United States Political History; a chapter on “Indian Policy” for a textbook, Governing America; and a book-review for American Indian Culture and Research Journal. He authored “Race, Religion, and the Politics of Indian Removal on the Wyandot Reservation, 1817-1843” in Contested Territories: Native Americans and Europeans in the Lower Great Lakes, 1750-1850. He presented at two national conferences—the annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in Springfield, IL (to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth) and the annual meeting for Ethnohistory in New Orleans—and gave two workshops in the St. Petersburg, FL, school district as part of a National Humanities Council Teacher Workshop entitled, “The Contested Frontier: Making and Remaking the American West, 1815-1848.” He received a grant from the Oklahoma Historical Society to conduct research for “The Winning of the West with Words” and is co-editing a volume on Native American history.

Blue Clark (History) was interviewed for a Stateline program on OETA television dealing with the Klan in Oklahoma during the 1920s and afterward. The University of Oklahoma Press published his Guide to Indian Tribes in Oklahoma volume and various book-signings and television appearances will continue to advertise it.

Marie Hooper (History) is presenting papers in two conferences: one paper on teaching at the International Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and one paper on historical research about French diplomats at Mid America Conference on History.

Larry Eberhardt (Political Science) is teaching a nine-week adult Sunday school class on ‘Christianity and U.S. Politics’ and has appeared in several Telemundo TV public affairs interviews.

Mohamed Daadaoui (Political Science) was asked by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy to contribute a response to President Barak Obama’s landmark Cairo speech to the Muslim world. His comments were included with those of other Middle East experts to be forwarded to Obama and to approximately 25,000 CSID scholars. In July, he was one of 19 Middle East Scholars worldwide invited to Israel for the fourth annual Tel Aviv University Workshop on the Arab-Israeli Conflict July 5-17. His article “Rituals of Power and Political Parties in Morocco: Limited Elections as Positional Strategies,” will appear in the journal Middle Eastern Studies. He is under contract for a book manuscript on monarchical authoritarianism in Morocco. He spoke at the Governor’s Ethnic Americans Advisory Council about campus Diversity at OCU. In September he organized Islam Day at OCU, including lectures, including an interfaith panel discussion between Islam, Christianity and Judaism, and an Iftar dinner sponsored by the Muslim community of Oklahoma and attended by faculty, staff, students and members of community.

Jo Rowan (Dance & Arts Management) received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Arts. She produced a new music for ballet class CD published and distributed internationally by Statler Music and Video featuring OCU music faculty member Jan McDaniel at the keyboard. Jo has more than 30 internationally distributed ballet class music CDs.

Rachel Jacquemain (Dance & Arts Management) received the Certified Special Event Professional designation by the International Special Events Society—the first person in Oklahoma to ever receive this credential. She also received the Certified Meeting Professional designation from the Convention Industry Council, recognizing expertise in meeting management.

Kenna Griffin (Mass Communications) was named a member of the board of directors for the Oklahoma Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She also took three OCU Mass Communications students to a national workshop hosted by Associated Press Managing Editors.

Howard Kurtz (Sociology) had numerous presentations and interviews on FOX TV, Channel 9, KSBI TV, Channel 5, Channel 12, and Telemundo television on topics ranging from child abuse and murder cases to white collar crime. He presented papers at the International Conference on Parenting and at the International Association on Parenting. He organized FBI conferences on Terrorism and Violence in Oklahoma, and on Cyber Security. He hosted a white collar crime summit, “Catch Me If You Can,” for bankers, auditors, FBI, and law enforcement officials.

Melissa Hakman (Psychology) co-authored three articles accepted or printed this year: “The effect of task and maternal verbosity on compliance in toddlers” in Infant and Child Development; “Change trajectories for parent-child interaction sequences during parent-child interaction therapy for child physical abuse” in Child Abuse and Neglect; “Same Constructs, Different Results: Examining the Consistency of Two Behavior Rating Scales with Referred Preschoolers” in Psychology in the Schools. She made four presentations in community, state or regional conferences. She co-hosted a workshop, “Differences between ADHD and PTSD,” at the 17th annual Oklahoma Conference for Child Abuse and Neglect and Healthy Families in Oklahoma City. In November, she will co-host a workshop at the 14th Annual Conference on Advancing School Mental Health in Minneapolis, MN entitled “Student Self-Injury: Meeting Student Needs and Preventing Contagion.” She helped form and serves as faculty advisor of "NAMI at OCU," the first such group at any college in the state to promote mental health awareness.

Mel Priesz (Psychology) received a Lifetime Member Status in the American Psychological Association.

Celeste Pagano (Law) published an article, “Proceed with Caution: Avoiding Hazards in Toll Road Privatizations,” 83 St. John’s Law Review 351 (Winter 2009).

Eric T. Laity (Law) published “The Corporation as Administrative Agency: Tax Expenditures and Institutional Design,” in Virginia Tax Review 411-475 (2008). “The Competence of Nations and International Tax Law,” in Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 187-261 (2009).

Art LeFrancois (Law) published an article on GPS technology and the Fourth Amendment in an ABA journal, The SciTech Lawyer, and spoke about two Supreme Court cases at the national conference of Federal Bar Association. He appeared on OETA’s Oklahoma Forum and on Oklahoma City’s Telemundo affiliate. He was interviewed by The Daily Oklahoman and the Associated Press.

Lynn Korvick (Nursing) presented a webinar on “Clicking: How to Bring the Classroom to Life.” She also presented a poster at the Emerging Technologies Conference held in La Jolla, CA.

DeAnne Parrott and Dianna Bottoms (Nursing) presented a statewide workshop for nurse educators, “Test Writing, Analysis, and Evaluation: How to Improve Classroom Testing.”

Linda Cook and Denise Burton (Nursing) received KSN’s first research grant award from the OCU Faculty Scholarship Committee for Phase II of a study on retention of aging faculty in the workforce.

The list of nationally Certified Nurse Educators (CNE) at Kramer School of Nursing now includes Hilda Crane-Smith, DeAnne Parrott, Lynn Korvick, Linda Cook, Dianna Bottoms, Lois Salmeron, Susan Barnes, and Marvel Williamson.

Denise Burton and Betty Gorrell (Nursing) will present “On the Road: Educational Mobility for Oklahoma’s Rural Nurses” at the National Rural Health Association conference on Multiracial and Multicultural Health Conference in Memphis.

Dianna Bottoms (Nursing) was honored by the Beta Delta Chapter-at-Large of Sigma Theta Tau International, the nursing honor society, as the 2009 Educator of the Year.

Denise Burton (Nursing) presented a paper on rural nursing education at the 18th annual Rural Health Association of Oklahoma conference.

Susan Barnes (Nursing) was awarded a $24,834 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for scholarships and stipends for M.S. in Nursing students. She presented a paper, “Ethics of the Body and the Body of Ethics: Teaching Ethics to Nursing Students,” at the International Philosophy of Nursing Conference to be held at the University of the West of England. She and one of her graduate students presented a poster session on “Information Technology and Faculty Orientation” at the Rocky Mountain Educator Conference. She co-presented with Dianna Bottoms their research on success by new nursing graduates in their first positions, being conducted with St. Anthony Hospital at the Oklahoma Statewide Nursing Research Day.

Elizabeth Diener (Nursing) was a graduate of the inaugural class of the Caritas Coach Facilitation- Watson Caring Science Institute. She made a poster presentation, “Awakening Caritas: Utilizing Aesthetic Self-Reflection to Cultivate Healing Environments” at the bi-annual meeting of the International Caring Consortium.

Linda Cook (Nursing) has been appointed to the Oklahoma Board of Nursing’s Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) Task Force that will review APN state regulations.

Sara Manning, Lisa DeSpain, and Dianna Bottoms (Nursing) were elected respectively as Chair of the Leadership Succession Committee, as OCU Liaison Vice President, and as Treasurer of the Beta Delta Chapter-at Large of Sigma Theta Tau International, the honor society of nursing.

Linda Cook, Marvel Williamson, Lois Salmeron, and Denise Burton (Nursing) presented research on retention of aging faculty in the workforce accepted for presentation at the Oklahoma Statewide Nursing Research Day, and at the 20th Annual Nurse Educators Conference in the Rockies held in Breckenridge, CO.

Stephen Prilliman (Chemistry) will present “POGIL 2.0 – going beyond paper and pencil models in guided inquiry instruction” at the American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting in November in El Paso, TX, discussing the use of demonstrations, lab data and animations to enhance students’ understanding of chemical concepts.

Ismail Kombe (Mathematics) co-authored “Improved Hardy and Rellich inequalities on Riemannian manifolds” in the prestigious journal Transactions of American Mathematical Society. He also published "Sharp Rellich and Uncertainty Principle Inequalities on Carnot Groups" in Communications in Applied Analysis.

James Ma (Business) co-authored “Around the Clock Performance of Closed End Funds,” accepted for publication by Financial Management, one of top 10 finance journals in the world. He presented a paper, “Eco Efficiency: Financially Efficient?” at the 2009 Eastern Finance Association annual conference in Washington D.C. He was interviewed and quoted in Business Week Germany about green investing, and was interviewed by Daily Oklahoman about the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, and by Channel 4 on common mistakes by small investors.

Hossein Shafa (Business) was key note speaker at the 2009 Oklahoma World Trade Conference. The title of speech was “A Global Recession and its Impact on World Trade.” He presented “OCU Great Wall International MBA Program and its Implications for the Foreign Policy of the United States” at the Oklahoma Global Education Conference. He was also invited to speak at several gatherings, churches and conferences on a topic titled “Should President Obama Negotiate with The Islamic Republic of Iran?” He has had several interviews with national media on issues related to the Monetary Policy of China, Chinese Investment in Africa, Chinese Investment in Latin America and Implications for the United States.

Zahra Karimipour, Tom Guild, and Vince Orza (Business) received the Dikerman Award for their article "Historical Perspectives: Legal Landmarks and Legal Landmines in Applying the Disabilities Act."
Barbara Crandall (Business) co-authored two articles: ”Legal Liability for sexual harassment by Supervisors: A Complicated Series of Potential Landmines” in Central Business Review, and “Hostile Environment Plus” in Oklahoma Business Bulletin. She was keynote speaker at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Dept 0f Pediatrics Honorary Dinner and at the OG&E Eng/Tech Conference.

Stefanie Latham (Kinesiology) received the Betty Abercrombie Scholar Award from the Oklahoma Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. She was also elected to the board of OAHPERD as vice president of Physical Education. She presented “Female athletes coaching preferences using mixed methodology: Does the coach’s gender matter?” at the OAHPERD state convention. Her research will be published in the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology.

Lois Lawler Brown (Education) is president of Oklahoma Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and represented Oklahoma at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education at its Leadership Institute in Washington D.C., meeting with the Oklahoma Congressional delegation about national and state policy issues regarding teacher education. She is a site visit chair for the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). She is on the board of the Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association (OFLTA), where her presentation on personalized integration of reading and writing strategies was selected by attendees to receive the “Best of Oklahoma” award. She presented a paper at the national conference of the Association of Teacher Education.

Liz Willner (Education) published an article in New Teacher Advocate this fall, a journal for beginning teachers. She presented in Dallas at the national Association of Teacher Educators. She coordinated an OCU partnership with Oklahoma City Public School on a national grant to work with middle school teachers. She provided workshops for teachers in Tulsa, Norman, Moore, Chickasha, and Oklahoma City, and Chaired the Oklahoma Reading Association conference last March. She was interviewed on the local Telemundo station about President Obama's September speech to school children.

Sergio Monteiro (Music) under the auspices of the Embassy of Brazil, performed a solo recital on the Millennium Stage at Kennedy Center as part of the "Performing Arts for Everyone" initiative, showcasing national and international artists in music, dance, and theater.

Judith Willoughby (Music) lectured and conducted a concert at Yale University at the invitation of their Choral Faculty and department of Sacred Music. She conducted performances by OCU’s University Singers at the National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association. She designed and implemented the musical and movement element for the “Peace Event” at the National Memorial in Oklahoma for the ACDA National Convention. She was guest conductor of the International Choral Festival in Charleston.
She published an article in Choristers Guild Magazine. She led choruses in rehearsals and in a performance at the Distinguished Concerts International in New York.

Edward Knight (Music) presented a multimedia talk on “Where Art Originates: Artists and the Creative Process” at Stanford University, sponsored by the California-based Djerassi artist colony. He is the first Oklahoman chosen for a Djerassi fellowship. During his residency, his “Tales Not Told” was voted Best Song Cycle at the San Francisco Cabaret Opera’s May Fresh Voices Festival. OCU professor Michael Anderson presented Knight’s “Triduum” for trumpet and organ at the International Trumpet Guild Conference, and OCU graduate student Karol Kowal premiered Knight’s “Bringer of Fire,” for double bass and piano, at the International Society of Bassists convention, hosted by Penn State University. Five commercial CDs feature Knight’s work.

Dave Steffens and Erik Heine (Music) co-authored an article, “A History of Varèse’s Ionisation: Editions and Recordings,” in Percussive Notes, an analysis of various editions and recordings of Edgard Varèse’s “Ionisation,” one of the first compositions for percussion ensemble.

David Steffens published articles on Gary Burton, Tupac Shakur, and Les Paul in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century, published by Salem Press. He had numerous performances with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Lyric Theater, Tulsa Symphony, and others.

Erik Heine published another article, “Controlling and Controlled: Ophelia and the Ghost as Defined by Music in Grigori Kozintsev’s Hamlet,” Literature/Film Quarterly. He had an interview, “The Big Picture: A Look at Theory and Form in Music,” with Daniel Smithiger, published in Black Swamp Percussion Online, and will present “Elmer Bernstein’s Self Parody: Music in The Magnificent Seven and ¡Three Amigos!,” a talk with film clips, on campus in November/December. He also presented research at the Fourth Annual ECHO Conference at UCLA. ?A panel discussion featuring Heine’s paper “Parody and Self-Parody: Elmer Bernstein’s Music for ‘The Magnificent Seven’ and ‘¡Three Amigos!’” kicked off the two-day conference exploring music and humor.

Jan McDaniel and William Christensen (Music) were featured artists at the 2009 Key West Symphony Young Artist Program, which featured performances of 44 scenes from primarily opera and musical theater, with singers from Europe, Asia and across the United States.

Frank Ragsdale (Music) was in a program in Austria with the faculty of the University of Miami Frost School of Music at Salzburg, coaching dramatic interpretation and stage presentation.

Jeffery Picón (Music) was a 2009 artist-in-residence at the Bay View Music Festival on Lake Michigan, directing opera scenes, teaching vocal technique to young professionals, and performing two concerts a week. He also toured as tenor soloist in the “Bernstein on Broadway” program.

Matt Mailman (Music) conducted the OCU Wind Philharmonic in “The Bags,” (a film short remake of Hitchcock’s The Birds) directed and scored by OCU student Vinnie Hogan, which has been accepted at the 2009-10 Los Angeles Children’s Film Festival.

John Schimek (Music) has been invited to present a lecture/demonstration at the 2009 Texas Double Bass Symposium.

Randi Von Ellefson (Music) will conduct a 25th Anniversary concert of Spokane Opera at the historic Fox Theatre in Spokane. As president of the National Collegiate Choral Organization, he will preside over the National Conference at Yale University in November. In Lima, Peru, he will present master classes and coaching at the National Conservatory of Music, to establish a relationship between the Conservatory and OCU’s Bass School of Music.

John Allen, Michael Anderson, and Cory Gavito (Music) are members of the new Oklahoma City Jazz Orchestra, which premiered this month.

Kate Pritchett (Music) has an article in Horn Call¸ the periodical of the International Horn Society.

Danita Berg (English) published a non-fiction piece, "Letting Go By Beginning Again," in the literary magazine Southern Women's Review. She has a flash fiction piece, "Lavatory," in an upcoming issue of the online literary magazine Quay.

Salwa Khoddam (English) presented a paper at the C.S. Lewis and Inklings conference at Calvin College and helped one of her students present a paper at the conference. She is organizing a spring CSLIS conference at OCU. Her paper was accepted at The International Conference on the Humanities in Hawaii. She and Lee Webb of the OCU library have organized an OKC chapter of the CSLIS that meets monthly at The All Souls Episcopal Church.

Abigail McBirnie (Library) published “Seeking serendipity: the paradox of control” in Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives. She presented at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, one of 20 participants accepted worldwide, and at the i3 (information: interactions and impact) conference in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Christina Wolf (Library) received a grant from the Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board. The “Threats to Your Collection” grant paid for archival map folders for the OCU Dulaney-Browne Library map collection; custom-made boxes for Methodist ledgers; and equipment to start an environmental monitoring program in the archives.

Terry Phelps (English) participated again (sixth year) in the National Writing Project spring meeting in Washington, D.C., which included lobbying members of Congress to continue funding for the NWP. He sponsors two OCU student publications: Stellar, the undergraduate research journal, and The Scarab, the anthology of student writing and art.