Faculty/Staff Achievements
WAYNE BELL, director of the Center for Environment and Society,
reviewed Chesapeake Bay Blues: Science, Politics, and the Struggle
to Save the Bay by Howard R. Ernst for the latest issue of the
journal Ecological Restoration.
JENNIFER BERSHON ’95 M’00 has been promoted to Registrar.
She joined the College in 1995 after graduation and has held
several posts, including Associate Registrar.
 KEVIN
BRIEN, professor of philosophy, has signed a contract with Prometheus/Humanity
Books to publish his book Marx, Reason, and the Art of Freedom:
Expanded Second Edition. The first edition was published by
Temple University Press in 1987. The expanded second edition
includes an additional 97 pages of development beyond the first
edition.
TOM COUSINEAU, professor of English, co-chaired in Paris an
organizational meeting to plan "Presence de Samuel Beckett,"
a scholarly conference that will take place this summer in Normandy.
FRANK CREEGAN, professor of chemistry, became President Elect
of Washington College’s Sigma Xi chapter this year. He
will follow this term by serving as President of the chapter
next year. ANNE MARTEEL-PARRISH, assistant professor of chemistry,
was elected to the position of secretary.
MELISSA DECKMAN, assistant professor of political science, co-authored
the chapter “Disciples of Christ” in Pulpit and
Politics, edited by Corwin E. Smidt.
In October, PEGGY DONNELLY, assistant professor of education,
presented the lecture and workshop, “Readers’ Theatre:
Performance for Fluency,” to the faculty and staff of
Church Hill Elementary School in Queen Anne’s County.
In November, she made a similar presentation to the entire faculty
and support staff at Sudlersville Elementary School in Queen
Anne’s County. Also in November, she presented the workshop,
“Creating Scripts for Readers’ Theatre,” to
the faculty and staff of both Church Hill Elementary School
and Sudlersville Elementary School, two of Washington College’s
Professional Development School partners.
BOB FALLAW, professor of history, recently lectured on “Native
Americans of Colonial Maryland” for the Daughters of the
American Revolution and on “James Madison, the Essential
Moderate” at the convention of the Maryland chapter of
the Sons of the American Revolution.
RICHARD GILLIN, professor of English, signed a contract with
the Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914 to contribute an article.
ADAM GOODHEART, Fellow at the C. V. Starr Center for the Study
of the American Experience, won the inaugural Henry Lawson Award
for Travel Writing for his article on Australia, “The
Other Side of Oz,” written for Travel + Leisure. The award,
sponsored by Tourism Australia and Qantas Airways, recognizes
the best travel writing about Australia in North America.
MEREDITH DAVIES HADAWAY, Vice President for College Relations
and Publications, published reviews of new books by Maxine Kumin,
Judith Skillman, Jan Lee Ande, and Milo De Angelis in Poetry
International (Volume 9).
MIKE KERCHNER, associate professor of psychology, recently was
named President Elect of Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience
(FUN). He was also selected to be a member of a Project Kaleidoscope
(PKAL) Keck Consultancy Team charged with providing a programmatic
review of the current plans to build a new science center at
Gustavus Adolphus College, and he was chosen as a principal
consultant to Emmanuel College to assist with the development
of an undergraduate neuroscience program. He also represented
the Washington College Chapter of Sigma Xi at the Sigma Xi Annual
Meeting in Montreal, where he presented a poster highlighting
recent activities and programs sponsored by the Washington College
Chapter. Finally, he served as a judge in the Sigma Xi undergraduate
research poster awards.
EDWARD MAXCY, former associate dean of students, will move from
Student Life to the Provost’s Office to serve as Senior
Academic Advisor in July. He will be working closely with Mark
Hoesly, associate dean of  academic
advising, and will continue to teach as a lecturer in the department
of drama.
DONALD MCCOLL, associate professor of art, spoke on Roman art
at Rosa Parks Middle School in Olney, Md. He also wrote an essay,
"Ad Fontes: Iconoclasm by Water," for Idols in the
Age of Art edited by Michael Cole and Rebecca Zorach, and reviewed
an exhibition catalogue, Review of Painted Prints: The Revelation
of Color in Northern Renaissance and Baroque Engravings, Etchings,
and Woodcuts by Susan Deckerman, for Historians of Netherlandish
Art Newsletter. Professor McColl participated in the colloquim,
"History through Images in the Sixteenth Century: The Wars,
Massacres, and Troubles of Tortorel and Perrissin," at
the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery
of Art. He also gave a conference paper, "Words Fail: Remarks
on the Visual Culture of the Reformation," at the Fourth
International Conference of the Fruhe Neuzeit Interdisziplinar,
held at Duke University.
MIKE MCLENDON, assistant professor of mathematics and computer
science, gave a talk in November at the American Mathematical
Society Regional Meeting Session on invariants of knots and
3-manifolds titled “Traces on the skein algebra of the
torus.”
ERIN MURPHY, lecturer in English, gave poetry readings this
fall at West Chester University and at the Poetry Center in
Paterson, NJ. She also received the 2004 Chesapeake Award from
the Office of Economic Development in Cecil County, MD, for
her community service work in the literary arts. Her poem, “13
Ways of Looking at Wallace Stevens,” was published in
the Atlanta Review, and she has more poetry appearing in Beltway:
The Walt Whitman issue. A review of her first collection of
poems published last year, Science of Desire, appears in the
current issue of The Georgia Review.
SEAN O CONNOR, professor of education, presented the paper,
“Holding Up a Mirror to Our Teaching Patterns in Instruction:
One Generalized Model Based on Structured Observations in Graduate
Classes,” and another interdisciplinary paper with Michael
Harvey, assistant professor of business management, titled “The
Problem Set Process: Knowledge Transformation, Collaborative
Meaning Making, Change, and Leadership,” at the Inaugural
Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning, October 21-24, at Indiana University.
ANDREW OROS, assistant professor of political science, served
as an invited panelist on “Implications of the U.S. Presidential
Election for Bilateral U.S.-Japan Relations” at the Washington
and Southeast Regional Japan Seminar held at George Washington
University. He also delivered a United States Institute of Peace-sponsored
local outreach lecture on “Sources of Conflict in East
Asia: Challenges for the United States” at Wesley Hall
in Easton, MD.
JASON RUBIN, assistant professor of drama, published the essay,
“The Girl Friends: Lew Fields and the Early Musicals of
Rodgers, Hart, and Fields,” in the book Art, Glitter,
and Glitz: Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s
America.
 KAREN
SMITH, professor of physical education, presented the paper,
“From the Village to the Stage: Shaping Traditional Dance
for the Concert Venue,” and taught an introduction to
American tap dancing class at the 18th World Congress on Dance
Research of the International Dance Council/UNESCO in Argos,
Greece. She also presented a lecture on “Brown Bag Nutrition”
at the 32nd Maryland State Dance Festival.
Professor of Political Science JOHN TAYLOR recently released
the book The right to Counsel and Privilege Against Self-Incrimination:
Rights and Liberties under the Law, part of the America's Fredom
series published by ABC-CLIO.
MICHELE VOLANSKY, assistant professor of drama, recently served
as dramaturg for the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production
of Tracey Scott Wilson’s play, The Story. In addition
to her rehearsal work and writing for the theater’s publications,
she coordinated and moderated two public lectures on contemporary
media issues of race, ethics, and plagiarism in the context
of Wilson’s play. She also has been contracted to serve
as dramaturg for two new plays: an adaptation of Chaim Potok’s
My Name is Asher Lev, and Seventh Ward, a play about a middle-class
African-American family in Civil War-era Philadelphia.
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