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Faculty Achievements
Tom Cousineau, professor of English, attended the annual meeting of the Board of Directors of "La Maison Samuel-Beckett" in Roussillon, France.
Doug Darnowski, assistant professor of biology, reviewed a paper on transgenic plants with increased resistance to insect attack for Plant Cell Reports. He also gave a talk at the 2000 International Carnivorous Plant Society meeting on several projects he is conducting with students on carnivorous plants and triggerplants. He had two book reviews accepted by the Botanical Society of America for The Plant Science Bulletin, attended the Educational Publishing Institute in Pennsylvania, had accepted for publication an article called "A Little Bit of Oz in Maryland" in The Bulletin of the Australian Carnivorous Plant Society, and was co-author on an abstract presented at a meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists.
Melissa Deckman, assistant professor of political science, had her article, "School Board Elections and the Christian Right: Strategies and Tactics at the Grassroots," published in the American Review of Politics. She won a research grant from the Association for the Sociology of Religion to study the politics of women clergy, and she presented a paper at the meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Thomas J. Finnegan, professor of physical education, has completed his Ph.D. in modern intellectual history and literature from Drew University.
Lisa Graham, lecturer in German, spent several weeks this summer in China as Washington College's exchange professor with Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. She also revised The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning German, 2nd edition, published by Macmillan.
Michael Harvey, assistant professor of business management, was named to the Maryland Board of Examiners for the 2000 U.S. Senate Productivity and Maryland Quality Awards. He has signed a contract with Hackett Publishing Company to publish his writing guide, "The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing." He recently presented three papers: "Leadership as a Liberal Art" at the meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management; "Teaching an Online Seminar: Critical Reflections" at the meeting of the International Business School Computing Association; and "The Lion, the Fox, and the Corporate Trainer: Machiavelli and Modern Management" at the meeting of the American Political Science Association.
This summer, assistant professor of psychology Lauren Littlefield, with research student Rielle Miller, co-authored an instructional module called "Understanding Reading Disorders." Their work will be published and will accompany a text chapter on learning disorders.
Donald McColl, assistant professor of art history, has been invited to give a paper, "Crime and Punishment: Early Modern Images of Calvary," at the Third International Conference of the Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär at Carnegie Mellon University. His review of Mitchell B. Merback's book, The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel, has been posted on the College Art Association's web site, CAA.Reviews.
Steven Rose, assistant professor of economics, has co-authored an article titled "The Private Provision of Public Goods: Tests of a Provision Point Mechanism for Funding Green Power Programs," that will appear in Resource and Energy Economics.
The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development has awarded two grants for historic preservation to John Seidel, assistant professor of environmental studies. One, for $40,000, is for his "Pilot Project for Integrated Remote Sensing Survey and Inventory for Submerged Cultural and Natural Resources." The second, for $30,000, is for "Historical Archaeology of the Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass Birthplaces." As a member of the Maryland Humanities Council's Historic Advisory Panel of Scholars, Seidel is helping to formulate sound interpretive plans for developing heritage tourism.
Eleanor Shriver '93, head coach of women's lacrosse, earned her master's degree in education from Goucher College last May.
Karen Smith, professor of physical education, was a moderator for a panel on dance injury at the Dancing in the Millennium Conference in Washington, DC. She was also a reviewer for a manuscript for ICHPER-SD Journal: "Promoting Community Collaboration: A Model for Enhancing Dance Education Programs."
John Taylor, professor of political science, has received a contract from ABC-CLIO Press for a book tentatively titled Right to Counsel and Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Rights and Liberties Under the Law. He published a book review of Donald Grier Stephenson, Jr.'s Campaigns and the Court: The U.S. Supreme Court in Presidential Elections in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Ted Widmer, Director of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, had an article published in the New York Observer entitled "The Village, Vanished Arcadia, Presented by a Nostalgic Snob."
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