Faculty/Staff Achievements
Director of the Center for Environment and Society, Dr.
Wayne Bell, published an article with two student co-authors
in the Marine Pollution Bulletin titled “Coastal Seas
as a Context for Science Teaching: A Lesson from Chesapeake
Bay.” He also traveled to Bangkok in November to attend
the Sixth International Conference on the Environmental Management
of Enclosed Coastal Seas (EMECS), joining the larger Maryland
delegation. Bell and Jill Brewer ’03 shared results and
recommendations from the first Rural Communities Leadership
Program for the Eastern Shore through a paper titled “A
Bio-Regional Approach to the Chesapeake Bay: The Role of the
Citizen and Government Involvement in a Watershed-Based Program”
presented to counterparts from around the world.
Kevin Brien, professor of philosophy, had his
paper “Buddhism and Marxism: Ironic Affinities”
published in Dialogue and Universalism, a journal published
jointly by the Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University.
Katherine Cameron, assistant professor of psychology,
presented a co-authored poster at the Society for Neuroscience
Meeting in New Orleans, titled “NMDA Antagonists Modulate
the Hypothermia Produced by Muscimol, a GABAA Agonist.”
The research began as the senior thesis project of Courtney
Alfes ’03 and is part of an ongoing collaborative research
project on drug interactions.
Mike Davenport, assistant to the athletic director
and head rowing coach, has teamed up with his wife, Tracy, to
write a book aimed at helping other parents and caregivers deal
with infants in distress from gastroesphogeal reflux. Making
Life Better for a Baby With Acid Reflux outlines the steps families
can take to improve the quality of life for baby and parents,
and addresses issues such as how to work with health care providers,
dealing with the stress and strain of a baby’s chronic
illness, staying healthy and managing additional financial burdens.
Orders can be placed with the publisher at www.makinglifebetter.org.
Melissa Deckman, assistant professor of political
science, has co-authored two articles published in the Journal
for the Scientific Study of Religion: “Clergy and the
Politics of Gender” and “The Political Attitudes
and Activities of Mainline Protestant Clergy” in the Election
of 2000: A Study of Six Denominations.
Julie H. Ernstein, lecturer in anthropology,
completed her Ph.D. in archaeology at Boston University in December.
The dissertation, titled Constructing Context: Historical Archaeology
and the Pleasure Garden in Prince George’s County, Maryland,
1740-1790, is under review for publication by the University
of Tennessee Press. Ernstein celebrated her January graduation
while attending the Society for Historical Archaeology’s
annual meeting in St. Louis, MO. An exhibit she and other members
of the Education Committee of the Council for Maryland Archeology
prepared, titled “Maryland Archeology Gives a Voice to
the Past and Speaks to the Present,” was mounted in the
Miller Senate Office Building in Annapolis, MD, during January.
A smaller version of the exhibit was on display in the House
in March. She is part of an editorial team working to bring
last fall’s symposium, “The Future of Maryland’s
Past,” to publication.
Adam Goodheart, a Fellow at the C.V. Starr
Center for the Study of the American Experience, delivered an
on-air essay on National Public Radio (WAMU 88.5 FM in Washington,
DC) about restoring his old Eastern Shore house.
John S. Lang, director of the journalism intern
program, was named a contributing editor for Preservation Magazine.
 Anne
Marteel, visiting assistant professor of chemistry,
co-authored the article “Green Chemistry and Engineering:
Drivers, Metrics, and Reduction to Practice,” published
in Annual Reviews: Environment and Resources, and was the primary
author for another article, “Hydroformylation of 1-Hexene
in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide: Characterization, Activity,
and Regioselectivity Studies,” published in Environmental
Science and Technology.
Katherine Maynard, assistant professor of French,
delivered her paper “Ronsard’s Epic Lessons: Charles
IX and the Unruly Exempla of the Franciade,” at the Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference in Pittsburgh.
Donald McColl, associate professor of art history,
recently published two reviews: one of Jörg Breu the Elder:
Art, Culture and Belief in Reformation Augsburg by Andrew Morrall,
in The Burlington Magazine; and the other of Painted Prints:
The Revelation of Color in Renaissance and Baroque Engravings,
Etchings and Woodcuts by Susan Dackerman, in The Historians
of Netherlandish Art Newsletter. He also gave three talks: “Holbein’s
‘Ambassadors’ and the Waning of the Renaissance,”
at Kent County High School; “Thinking through Art,”
given to visiting students from Amistad Academy, New Haven,
CT; and “The Schooner Sultana, Chestertown, Maryland,
and British North America,” at Evelyn Harrison Public
School, London, Ontario.
Kate Moncrief, assistant professor of English,
is one of 12 Shakespeare scholars participating in a semester-long
seminar, called “Early Modern Embodiment,” at the
Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. She is the only
participant from a liberal arts college. Others in the group
include scholars from the University of Virginia, Duke, University
of Toronto, Columbia, Brown, Georgetown, Fordham and Rutgers.
Dr. Valerie Traub of the University of Michigan is leading the
seminar.
Director of the O’Neill Literary House and associate professor
of English, Bob Mooney, was selected by the
Maryland State Arts Council to receive an Individual Artist
Award in Fiction. Jurors bestowed the $3,000 award to Mooney
on the basis of artistic excellence.
Erin Murphy ’90, lecturer in English,
was nominated for a 2003 Pushcart Prize for her poem “Studies,”
published in the August 2003 issue of the poetry journal Red
River Review. Her manuscript of collected poems, The Science
of Desire, has been accepted for publication and will be released
in June by Word Press. This is the first full-length collection
for Murphy, who teaches creative writing and literature courses
at the College.
Andrew Oros, assistant professor of political
science and international studies, presented remarks on “American
Foreign Policy Trends and Security in East Asia” at the
17th Annual ACT Security Seminar in Zao, Japan, and  spoke
on “Requiem for a Kamikaze: The Changing Faces of Japanese
Society Since World War II,” at a joint Japan-America
Society/Center for Strategic and International Studies talk
in Washington, DC.
Pamela Pears, assistant professor of French,
will publish a revised version of her dissertation in the series
After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
from Lexington Books.
Roxanne Riegler, lecturer in German, presented
the paper “Visiting the Past and Present, Imagining the
Future: Romanies in Austrian Contemporary Literature,”
at the Rocky Mountain Language Association.
Ken Schweitzer, lecturer in music, presented
a lecture/performance at the Society of Ethnomusicology in Miami,
titled “Learning Cuban Bata: Transmitting Rhythms and
Meaning within an Oral Tradition.” He also presented a
research paper at the 5th Cuban Research Institute (CRI) Conference
on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, titled “Transnational
Music Aesthetics: Cuban Bata Drumming in Diaspora,” and
was invited to Bates College to present a lecture and provide
one-on-one percussion instruction.
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