APRIL 2018 SCHOLARLY T H E C O L L E G E O F L I B E R A L A R T S N E W S L E T T E R APRIL 2018
01 Update From the Dean
02 Special Kudos
03 Development News
04 History and Geography News
08 Mass Communication News
10 Media Ethics Conference
11 New Faculty Series: Epic Conflict and the Female Body
12 An Hour for an Hour
13 Criminal Justice Alumni Event
14 CLA Alumni Reunion
15 Schedule of Events
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
—Benjamin Franklin UTpdahte freom Dean
Dear friends and colleagues,
For once, perhaps April will not be the cruelest month, but rather the CURest month, here at UCO. Thousands of people -- students and faculty mentors from 435 different colleges and universities -- will soon arrive from all parts of the country to participate in the National Conference on Undergraduate Research(NCUR). Talk about a High-Impact Practice!
Classes are pre-empted April 5th and 6th so that all of us may participate and contribute to the fullest extent possible. The College is well represented at all levels, from Dr. Michael Springer, co-chair of the event, to faculty ambassadors, student presenters of keynote speakers, and nearly 100 students and dozens of faculty mentors. I hope you will take advantage of this singular event and encourage your students, as well.
Enrollment gets underway this month, too! Our five Student Success Advisers stand ready to assist Liberal Arts majors in their preparations for Fall 2018, but I know that many more of you promote courses, minors, and majors and assist students in finding their academic paths. It would not hurt to remind students that Enrollment is upon us and that they have resources available to them as they work through their options.
Lastly, I am filled with pride that two of our faculty members and one alumna have been named as finalists for the 2018 Oklahoma Book Awards. For more details about some great reads, read on!
All my best,
Cathy
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2018 OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARDS
The following books have written by College of Liberal Arts professors and alumnists have been selected as finalists in the twenty-ninth Annual Oklahoma Book Award Competition. Winners in each category will be announced at the Oklahoma Book Award ceremony April 7, 2018, at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City. Angie Debo: Daughter of the Prairie by Patricia Loughlin Oklahoma Hall of Fame Publishing
Live from Medicine Park by Constance Squires University of Oklahoma Press
Brave New Girl by Rachel Vincent Delacorte Press
Follow Oklahoma Department of Libraries on Facebook or Twitter for live updates of the 2018 Oklahoma Book Awards on April 7. You can also find announcements of the winners at #OKBookAwards2018.
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College of Liberal Arts Top 3 Tune in to watch the April 2018 episode of the CLA Top 3.
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College of Liberal Arts Student Honors and Awards Ceremony
Join us for this year's Student Honors and Awards Ceremony from 6-9 p.m. Friday, April 27 in Constitution Hall. We look forward to celebrating the academic achievements of our students!
Page 3 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY NEWS UCO Hosts Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians/Phi Alpha Theta Conference, March 2-3
Photo to the right: Phi Alpha Theta students and faculty including Phi Alpha Theta advisors Dr. Rowan Steineker, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Erik Huneke, Assistant Professor.
Photo below: student winner Rachel Watson The Rho Lambda Chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society hosted the 2018 Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians/Phi Alpha Theta Conference on March 2-3, 2018. There were 126 students, faculty members, and professional historians in attendance from thirteen different Oklahoma institutions. Conference highlights included a roundtable discussion on “History and Politics” and a keynote address by Dr. Erika Gasser of the University of Cincinnati entitled “Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England.” The Department of History and Geography congratulates the following UCO students, who won three of the twelve conference paper prizes awarded:
• Rachel Watson tied for first place for a presentation on U.S. history by an undergraduate student for her paper “An Unflinching Call for Freedom: Clara Luper’s Pedagogy at the Center of Sit-Ins.”
• Elizabeth Dahl received first place for a presentation on world history by a graduate student for her paper “‘Breeding Grounds of Vice': Irish Rookeries and the Ecology of Crime.”
• Ann Riley-Adams received second place for a presentation on world history by a graduate student for her paper “Nationality in 16th-Century Wales.”
Rowan Steineker, Assistant Professor, and Erik Huneke, Assistant Professor, the conference co-organizers, are very grateful for the logistical and financial support provided by the Department of History and Geography’s students, faculty, and staff and for the sponsorship of the Office of Academic Affairs, the Leadership Minor, the Women’s Research Center and BLGTQ+ Student Center, and alumnus contributor Phredd Evans.
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Publications
Xiaobing Li’s The Cold War in East Asia has been published by Routledge, 2018. This book received the Academic Excellence Award from the Association of the Chinese Historians in the US.
Xiaobing Li published his book chapter, “Sino-Japanese Maritime Conflicts and Security Concerns in the East China Sea,” in Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific: Heritage and Contemporary Challenges, eds. Howard M. Hensel and Amit Gupta (Routledge, 2017).
Patti Loughlin’s Angie Debo: Daughter of the Prairie (Oklahoma Hall of Fame Publishing, 2017) has been named a finalist in children/young adult for the 2018 Oklahoma Book Awards, Oklahoma Center for the Book, Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Winners will be announced April 7. Dr. Loughlin is a Professor of History and the chair of the History and Geography department.
History instructor Patrick Salkeld has a book contract with Rowman & Littlefield for Americanizing the Beautiful Game: The Rise of Soccer in the United States.
Grant Proposals
Patrick Salkeld has received the temporary faculty grant to support his research project, “The Rise of Women’s Soccer in the Unites States: WUSA, WPS, and NWSL, 2000-2018.”
Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Professor, has submitted a grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Summer Seminar for College and University Faculty in summer 2019, “Anglo-American Travel Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.”
Justin Quinn Olmstead, Assistant Professor, and Stan Adamiak, Professor, have submitted a grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a for a Summer Seminar for K-12 Social Studies Teachers in summer 2019, “The Global Implications of the Second World War.”
Faculty Conference Presentations and Public Presentations
Xiaobing Li presented “Anticorruption Policy and Corruption Tolerance: The Lost Political Battle and the Face of the GMD in the Chinese Civil War, 1946-49” at the American Historical Association annual meeting, January 4-7, Washington, DC.
Heidi Vaughn attended the midwinter meeting of the Mountain-Plains Museums Association, January 22-25 in Billings, MT. She serves on the board as vice president, the Oklahoma representative from the Oklahoma Museums Association board, and chair of the governance committee.
Page 5 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY NEWS Faculty Conference Presentations and Public Presentations Bing Li, Katrina Lacher, Associate Professor, and Rowan Steineker shared their expertise at Many Cultures: Different Perspectives Workshop, a K-12 teacher professional development opportunity, February 15, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Marc Goulding, Assistant Professor, presented “White Face: Education and Race” and Justin Quinn Olmstead presented “Mis-teaching the First World War” at the Teaching History in the 21st Century History Pedagogy Conference, February 16-17, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas. Sponsored by the History Department at Midwestern State University, the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU, Texas Humanities, and the American Historical Association.
Andrew Magnusson, Assistant Professor, presented “Inclusion or Exclusion? Islamic Prohibitions on Marriage and Meat in Persian History” at Symposia Persica: An International Conference on the Persianate World and Central Eurasia, February 21-24, Oklahoma State University.
Patti discussed historian Angie Debo and women’s history at the History Book Club at the Edmond Library on February 22.
Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen attended the Asian Studies Development Program Alumni Conference February 28- March 4 in Washington, DC. Jessica is conference co-chair and will present on the current state of affairs in Myanmar.
Katrina Lacher presented an OLLI Town Hall, “The Problem of Riches: Oil Boom and Bust in Indian Country,” an examination of the early twentieth century meteoric rise of the oil industry and its impact on the Osage, Creek Seminole, and other tribes, March 6 at the Stillwater Public Library.
Xiaobing Li will speak at the Muskogee Public Library on “China and America: the New Geopolitical Equation” in the Great Decision Program at 7 p.m. on April 3.
Dr. Monica Gallamore, Lecturer in History, will attend the Western Social Science Association Conference, April 4-6, in San Antonio, TX. Monica serves as History Section Coordinator and member of the Executive Council.
Xiaobing Li, Associate Professor, will present “Building Ho’s Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam” and participate in the roundtable “Is There a Chinese Way of War?” at the Chinese Military History Society/Society for Military History Conference, April 5-8, in Louisville, KY.
Stan Adamiak will participate in a roundtable “Is There a Chinese Way of War?” at the Chinese Military History Society/Society for Military History Conference, April 5-8, in Louisville, KY.
Michelle Brym will present “Places of Worship and the Spatial Integration of Immigrants in the Suburbs” at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 10-14, in New Orleans, LA.
Mark Janzen, Associate Professor, will present “Images of Greatness: Guthrie’s Entertainment History” at the 2018 Oklahoma History Conference OHS 125: Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing for the Next Generation, April 25-27 at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.
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Dr. Nuratu Mohammed, Visiting Scholar
Dr. Nuratu Mohammed, Associate Professor of Geography from Bayero University in Nigeria, is a visiting scholar in our department this year. She has collaborated with colleagues here as she pursues her research project on microloans and gender in Nigeria and Ghana. In addition, she has presented guest lectures and workshops.
Student Travel
Graduate student Hanan Awad recently displayed a photo exhibit on Palestinian Bedouin at the Sorbonne's campus in Qatar.
The following history students presented their research at the National Phi Alpha Theta Conference, January 3-6, 2018, in New Orleans, LA: graduate student Elizabeth Ryan Dahl, “Victorian Perceptions of Female Criminality”; graduate student Margaret Snowden, “Lost Ephemera: Letters to the London Foundling Hospital, 1857-1872”; undergraduate student Blake Christopher Charles Janak, “Despotic Monopoly in Trade”; and undergraduate student Beth Anderson, “Women Artists during the Great War.”
Graduate student Margaret Snowden presented “Lost Ephemera: Letters to the London Foundling Hospital, 1857-1872” and undergraduate history major Blake Janak presented “Despotic Monopoly in Trade” during the inaugural undergraduate poster session at the American Historical Association annual meeting, January 3-6, in Washington, DC.
History majors, undergraduate student Beth Anderson and graduate students Timothy J. Butler and Deependra Dehariya, presented research at the Asian Studies Development Program Annual Conference, March 1-3, 2018, in Washington, DC.
Graduate student Mike Maxey presented a poster “Joseph Oklahombi-Choctaw War Hero” at Oklahoma Research Day, March 9, at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Enid.
Graduate student Margaret Snowden presented “Tears Long Dry: Emotional Turmoil in Unwed Mothers’ Letters to the London Foundling Hospital” at the Conflicts and Resolutions History Conference at Texas A&M University, March 23-24.
Graduate student Helen Salkeld will present “Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ Use of Myth-Making as Self Preservation, 1950-1963” at the Western Social Science Association Conference, April 4-7, in San Antonio, TX.
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The second edition of Dr. Mark Hanebutt's "Media Law: A Guide to Understanding Mass Communication Law" was published in January. The text is being used both in the United States and abroad. The second edition of his news reporting text "The Journalist's Primer: A No- nonsense Guide to Getting and Reporting the News" is scheduled for release next January.
Desiree Hill recently defended her dissertation, “Timeline of trauma: A case study of newsroom management during and after the Oklahoma City bombing,” and is now Dr. Desiree Hill. She will be presenting a portion of her dissertation research at the Athens (Greece) Institute for Education and Research International Conference on Communication and Mass Media in mid-May.
Joe Hight, the Endowed Chair of Journalism Ethics and director of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, has obtained separate $2,500 and $3,000 sponsorship grants from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
The $2,500 sponsorship was given to support the annual Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame ceremony, which will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, May 3, in the Nigh University Center ballrooms. The hall of fame receives extensive assistance from the Mass Communication Department and the university in coordinating the hall of fame. More than $1,100 also was received during a first-ever fund-raising drive, with part of the funds being used to create hall of fame lapel pins for all members and honorees. Craig Beuchaw, Art Director for University Communications, designed the pins that will be given for the first time at this year's hall of fame ceremony.
The $3,000 sponsorship will help support an Investigative Reporters and Editors workshop on database reporting from Oct. 12-13 in the Mass Communication Department. The workshop is helping to kick off a Database Reporting class that will be offered this fall as part of a special Gridiron Foundation grant. The Gridiron grant is also helping to support the IRE workshop. Also, Hight also has been recently asked to speak via Skype to classes at Ohio University, the Rochester Institute of Technology and Ball State University on subjects ranging from writing to trauma coverage. He also was interviewed for a multimedia project about journalists covering disasters for the Ryerson Review of Journalism in Toronto, Canada.
In February Dr. David Duty and Ms. Jacque Hocking presented “Why Don’t You Say What You Mean”: Using Couples Communication & Negotiation Skills in Shared Governance” at the AAUP Statewide & Regional Event at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK. In September of last year, David Duty was the invited speaker for “Beyond the Border: Rhetoric Reform Starts with You” presented by the UCO Hispanic American Student Association.
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Dr. Chad Perry presented three workshops at the Southwest District Conference of PRSA held in Albuquerque March 7-9. The workshops included: how to prepare to take the Accredited in PR (APR) exam, intercultural communication, and current topics in public relations.
Dr. Jill Lambeth will be presenting at the American Association of the Advancement of Curriculum Studies this April in New York City about her research on nonprofit service learning projects in online courses.
UCO’s Edventure Partners Peer-to-Peer Competition Team won First Place in the nation in the Fall 2017 Challenging Online Extremism Project. UCO’s project uSpeak focuses on efforts to protect free expression on University campuses across the nation at a time when such expression is being limited out of fear of violent repercussions initiated by online extremist rhetoric. Students developed a toolkit of resources for organizations, university leadership, security officers, and sponsors of Free Expression Forums to help create violence-free discussions and guidelines for training participants. The campaign also includes an interactive web page, a Facebook page and a Statement of Commitment for organizational leaders to sign. UCO’s spring 2018 Edventures Team working on an educational and awareness campaign funded by the American Petroleum Institute has already submitted preliminary campaign materials and has been advanced into the advanced level competition.
The American Advertising Federation National Student Advertising Competition Team is preparing to travel to Corpus Christi for the Tenth District (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana) Competition to defend their first place finishes in the past two years. Last year’s UCO team finished among the top eight teams in the nation at Nationals in New Orleans.
The annual Department of Mass Communication student awards ceremony will be held Saturday, April 21st. We will recognize scholarship winners, top program awards, photography and media awards.
The Department of Mass Communication is hosting a Photography Day Camp for high school students. Campers will leave with a better understanding of the many genres photography and a sample of how the University of Central Oklahoma prepares its students for a career in photography upon graduating from the Department of Mass Communication. Camp will be held daily on UCO’s campus from 10AM to 4PM starting on Monday, June 4th through Friday, June 8th, 2018. Lunch will be provided. Tuition is $350. Applications are due May 18th. All cameras & materials will be provided. For an application and more information, please email [email protected] .
Page 9 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA MEDIA ETHICS CONFERENCE
The media are the biggest outlets to create and produce news. It shows how people can be highly connected to the world but yet completely disconnected it.
The issues of social, modern media and the connections and disconnects they make and cause in our society will be explored during “Modern Tribalism: A Social Connect/Disconnect Conference” in October at the University of Central Oklahoma. The media ethics conference will be from 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the Nigh University Center ballrooms. It will kick off Mass Comm Week at UCO. At this conference, a variety of speakers will discuss the issues of modern tribalism, how their jobs revolve around news and social media today, and how modern media are changing our connections and communities. A reception will follow immediately afterward.
“Our goal is to illuminate those things which bring us together and separate us,” said Promotions Director Vivian Tran. “We hope to answer questions like what is modern tribalism, how can humans be so disconnected with so much technology that is supposed to connect, and what role does the media play today.” The overall conference co-directors are Duncan Rowan and Trevor Stone. Other conference leaders thus far are Social Media Director Taylor Phillips, Sponsorship Director Alyssa Hosch, and Multimedia Director SongSong Wan. They are part of the Media Conference Leadership class at UCO
For further information, please follow our posts on these platforms: ● Twitter: @UCOModernTribal ● Instagram: @UCOModernTribalism ● Facebook: @UCOModernTribalism ● YouTube: Media Ethics Conference ● Snapchat: UCOMEC2018 ● Website: https://phillipstaylor.wixsite.com/moderntribalism
View "Modern Tribalism" Video
Page 10 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS EPIC CONFLICT AND THE FEMALE BODY
"Epic Conflict and the Female Body" will be a presentation of Dr. Jessica Appleby's current project, examining how conflict (often civil war) is aesthetically and rhetorically wrought upon female bodies in epic poetry. Her primary focus is on one author Agrippa d'Aubigné who wrote on the French Wars of Religion in the 16th century, though she reads his work "Les Tragiques" as a continuation of epic tradition.
Dr. Appleby is an assistant professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 2017 with a dissertation entitled "Politics and Poetics of Epic in the French Renaissance: Ronsard, Du Bellay, and d’Aubigné." Other than her primary research focus on epic poetry in the Renaissance, Dr. Appleby works on the French graphic novel, gender and sexuality in French literature, and SFF/pop-culture. Her presentation is based on a conference paper that is currently being developed into an article.
Page 11 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS CRIMINAL JUSTICE ALUMNI EVENT
Mark your calendars for the UCO School of Criminal Justice alumni networking event at the CHK | Central Boathouse the evening of Friday, April 13.
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Save the date to learn more about UCO, its students, and programs. For more information, contact Lea Morgan, 974-3782 or [email protected]
Page 13 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS ALUMNI REUNION
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE UCO COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS ALUMNI REUNION 5 P.M. SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018 CHK | CENTRAL BOATHOUSE 732 Riversport Dr. Oklahoma City, OK 73129
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UCO College of Liberal Arts alumni are invited to enjoy appetizers, tastings from local breweries, and musical entertainment by Irish folk band and local favorites Whiskey and Pie.
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Wed-Sat, April 4-7 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) | UCO Mon, April 9 CLA New Faculty Lecture Series | Dr. Jessica Appleby | 4-5:30 p.m. COM 120 Fri, April 13 UCO School of Criminal Justice Alumni Networking Event | CHK|Central Boathouse Sat, April 21 MCOM Scholarship and Awards Ceremony | 5:15-8 p.m. COM 120 Fri, April 27 CLA Honors & Awards Ceremony | 6-9 p.m. Constitution Hall, NUC 200 Sat, May 12 College-Wide Reunion | 5-8 p.m. CHK|Central Boathouse Wed, Sept 12 An Hour for an Hour | CHK|Central Boathouse Wed, Oct 10 Media Ethics Conference: Modern tribalism | 9 a.m.-Noon NUC Ballrooms
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