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Retiring Faculty / 1 HONORING

J. Peter Burkholder James (Jim) Hengeveld Stuart Mufson Distinguished Professor of Music Senior Lecturer in Biology, College Professor of Astronomy, College of Arts (Musicology), Jacobs School of Music of Arts and Sciences and Sciences

Cary A. Buzzelli Marjorie R. Hershey Jefrey Palmer Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Professor of Political Science, College Distinguished Professor and Class School of Education of Arts and Sciences of 1955 Professor of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences James Campbell Linda Hoke-Sinex Professor of Music (Woodwinds), Senior Lecturer in Psychological Philip Parnell Jacobs School of Music and Brain Sciences, College of Arts Associate Professor of International and Sciences Studies, Hamilton Lugar School Keith Clay of Global and International Studies Distinguished Professor of Biology, Mark Hood College of Arts and Sciences; Director Associate Professor of Music (Audio Andreas Poulimenos of IU Research and Teaching Preserve Engineering and Sound Production), Professor of Music (Voice), Jacobs School of Music Jacobs School of Music Lynda Fuller Clendenning Associate Librarian and Head of Larry Humes Elizabeth Raf Acquisitions, University Libraries Distinguished Professor of Speech Professor of Biology, College of Arts and Hearing Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences Haldan Cohn and Sciences Professor of Astronomy, College of Arts Kathleen Rowold and Sciences Charles (Chuck) Livingston Professor and Associate Dean, School Professor of Mathematics, College of Art, Architecture, and Design Edmund Cord of Arts and Sciences Professor of Music (Brass), Edward W. (Bill) Ruf Jacobs School of Music J. Scott Long Senior Lecturer in Biology, College Distinguished Professor and of Arts and Sciences Diana Ebling Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Physician and Medical Director, Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences John Schilb IU Health Center Professor and Culbertson Chair of Wendy Marencik Composition, English, College of Arts Ben Edmonds Clinical Assistant Professor and Sciences Clinical Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Curriculum and Instruction, of Education Russell J. Skiba School of Education Professor of Counseling and Educational Dale McFadden Psychology, School of Education Christine R. Farris Professor, Head of M.F.A. Acting and Professor of English, College of Arts Directing Programs and Associate Chair Eliot R. Smith and Sciences of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Distinguished Professor and Dance, College of Arts and Sciences Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological Jefrey Hass and Brain Sciences, College of Arts Professor of Music (Composition) Michael D. McGinnis and Sciences and Director of the Center for Electronic Professor of Political Science and Computer Music, Jacobs School and Associate Dean for Social Sciences of Music and Graduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences

2 / Indiana University Bloomington Michael Spiro Associate Professor of Music (Percussion), Jacobs School of Music

Peggy A. Thoits Virginia L. Roberts Professor of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences

Susan Vargo Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Communication, Professional, and Computer Skills, Kelley School of Business

Antonio C. Vitti Professor of French and Italian, College of Arts and Sciences

Marc Weiner Professor of Germanic Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Retiring Faculty / 3 4 / Indiana University Bloomington J. PETER BURKHOLDER

When Distinguished Professor J. Peter for the articles “Music of the Americas and Burkholder joined the Indiana University Historical Narratives” and “The Twentieth faculty in 1988, having just earned tenure Century and the Orchestra as Museum.” at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Early on, he won the prestigious Alfred the musicology department was nestled in Einstein Award of the American Sycamore Hall and his now-legendary Musicological Society for “Johannes undergraduate survey of music history Martini and the Imitation Mass of the Late class met at 8 a.m. in the basement of the Fifteenth Century” (1986). Musical Arts Center. Remarkably, for In 2010, Peter became the youngest someone specializing in the oeuvre of person ever named an Honorary Member American composer Charles Ives and other of the American Musicological Society. By modern music—Peter studied composition then he had served the society for decades in addition to the history and theory of with dedication and good humor, including music at the University of Chicago—he as its vice president, president, and past chose to teach the Greeks-to-1750 segment president from 2002 to 2005. His local of the two-semester history (M401/402). colleagues will miss the levity he brings to Thomas J. Mathiesen, an expert in music our department meetings—and his delight of the ancients, taught the modern part, in reciting, now and again, this ditty ensuring that each of them would always (with footnote): remember what it felt like to be a student. The Lama Since then, Peter has given M401 “about Peter’s passion and talent for clear twenty-fve times” and the end date of the explanation impressed generations of The one-l lama, course has crept up from 1750 to 1800; students. Current colleagues Judah Cohen He’s a priest. Haydn and Mozart have become and Phil Ford both credit Peter with The two-l llama, early music. igniting their interest in the feld. Phil, now He’s a beast. In the 1980s, the idea of a canon, teaching M402, was a piano major here in And I will bet a body of music that every music student the late 1980s when he overslept the frst A silk pajama needed to know, was widespread. Nearly M401 exam. Running to Sycamore Hall, There isn’t any all students in the United States gained “all contrition and bed hair… I sat on the Three-l lllama.* their overview from a monumental but couch in his ofce and we talked about this —Ogden Nash notoriously dry textbook by Donald Jay and that, and by the end of our Grout (of Cornell University), later conversation I wanted to do well in the *The author’s attention has been called to a type expanded, updated, and revised by Claude class.” He refects, “I believe that our of confagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh. V. Palisca (of Yale University). Peter got greatest infuences are those that model Peter has served the university in involved in the 1990s, creating study and a whole way of being. Peter had as many capacities, from associate dean of listening guides and updating the passionate a relationship to music as any the faculties and acting vice chancellor for accompanying volumes of music performer’s, but that passion was academic afairs, to department chair; yet anthologies and recordings, before taking expressed through scholarship and writing. working for and with students remained over the entire project himself, beginning Taking M401 with Peter gave me the idea always his highest priority. Thirty-six with the 7th edition of A History of that I could be that kind of person too.” dissertations came to fruition under his Western Music in 2005. Every edition The start-time of the course soon moved direction and he read many, many more. since has embraced a greater variety of to late morning. His students now populate the faculties of music and breathed life back into the Peter’s never-waning fascination with music departments all around the country. people who performed, heard, and paid for Charles Ives, whose music is chock full of He spearheaded the department’s it, not only those who created it. As the quotations from popular songs, band fundraising to ensure that musicology tapestry’s threads multiplied and tangled numbers, and much else, is refected not students will always be able to see over time, Peter only grew more certain only in his books and articles on Ives, but materials in archives and travel to that historical perspective made it in his general editorship of the online conferences. We are deeply grateful to him coherent: “As a rule, if something does not database Musical Borrowing and for all this, and for the many department make sense, there is a historical reason for Reworking: An annotated Bibliography, parties he and his husband, Doug it, and only knowing its history can explain now displaying over 2,000 entries. Like the McKinney, host. Their welcoming home it,” he sagely remarks in the preface to the massive History project, this is scholarship has been the heart of our department’s 9th edition. that serves others as much as Peter’s social life. Peter vows to keep it so for Publication of a 10th edition of the own interests. many years to come. History coincides with Peter’s retirement His work has been translated into this spring. This beautifully curated and Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Kristina Muxfeldt exquisitely illustrated story, still jam-packed and Spanish. Among his many honors are with information, is a pleasure to read. ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor Awards

Retiring Faculty / 5 CARY A. BUZZELLI

“A gentleman and a scholar” is an accolade and Instruction in 2004. During his time originating in eighteenth-century England as chair, he particularly enjoyed mentoring to describe someone with courtly manners new and pre-tenured faculty. and an educated and inquisitive mind. Cary retires after 32 years in academia Such attributes were preeminently valued (25 at IU and 7 at UAB). In terms of his by the polite society of the day. More scholarship, he will be remembered for his recently, according to the Urban contributions to the understanding of Dictionary, “a gentleman and a scholar” moral dialogue in the classroom. His 2002 has come to describe someone who “goes book with Bill Johnston, The Moral out of their way to do something benefcial Dimensions of Teaching: Language, to you and others with you.” Whether Power, and Culture, is a powerful and using the old-school, old-world defnition essential read for those who ponder the or the new hipster version, all who know role of morality and how it is communicated him would agree that Cary Buzzelli—a in the classroom. More recently, Cary has kind, generous, passionate, and thoughtful turned his focus to a closely related topic, man—is truly a gentleman and a scholar. the “capabilities approach,” examining Cary is proud of his Italian heritage. how the theory captures issues of His dad, Mario, came to the United States children’s rights, agency, and well-being. from Italy as a young child and his mother, As a faculty member in teacher education, Aileen, whose parents were from Italy, was he enjoyed teaching undergraduate, a frst-generation American. Cary was born experience in the feld during his four master’s, and doctoral students, but he on June 17, 1952, in Cleveland, Ohio, years as head teacher and instructor at the especially loved supervising student where he lived throughout his childhood. Child Development Laboratory Preschool teachers. He found visiting and mentoring He is the second of six children, and his at Purdue. By all accounts from those who preservice teachers in classrooms in local siblings—Ken, Alan, Maribeth, Nancy, and worked with him at that time, he excelled school systems particularly rewarding. In Richard—all still live in the Cleveland area. as a teacher of young children and as a terms of service—beyond his many years as A memory he shares from his youth is supervisor of staf and undergraduate associate and then department chair—it about delivering fowers for his father’s students. In 1985, he began doctoral should be noted that Cary was a good and fower shop, frst on horseback and then, studies at Georgia State University in thoughtful citizen, responding to calls to after he’d saved enough from tips, on his Atlanta. At GSU, he again majored in early serve the department, School of Education, own bicycle. childhood education, studying under the and university in multiple ways and at Cary is passionate about his family mentorship of Dr. Walter Hodges; he numerous times during his career. He was and is a devoted husband and father. On minored in developmental psychology. His always generous with his time and June 13, 1987, he married Janice Lilly in dissertation, titled “The Role of Trust in insightful and discerning in the Atlanta, Georgia. Their frst son, Andrew, Children’s Peer Relations,” received the contributions he made. was born in 1990, followed soon after by Outstanding Dissertation Award from his In retirement, Cary and his wife, Charles in 1992. In refecting on their early department at GSU in 1985. Janice, look forward to activities they love years as a family, Cary says that their After completing his Ph.D. in 1985, to do together, including kayaking, baking favorite family pastimes revolved around Cary accepted his frst academic position and cooking, spending time with their their boys’ sports activities. He recounts as assistant professor of early childhood sons, and art making (weaving, printing the following: “Charles played baseball for education at the University of Alabama at from small linoleum cuts, etc.). He also is years, playing around Indiana and in Birmingham. Following tenure and looking forward to catching up on reading, tournaments from Oklahoma to Tennessee. promotion to associate professor at UAB, particularly history, which is one of his We traveled around south central Indiana he accepted the position of associate passions. In addition, Cary will continue to attend Andrew’s cross-country and track professor of early childhood education, volunteering in the community, serving meets. We enjoyed hosting team dinners, with tenure, at Indiana University in 1993. dinner at the Community Kitchen and and I made countless loaves of banana Also in 1993, Cary was honored with the working at the Interfaith Winter Shelter. bread to fuel the team.” Distinguished Alumni Award from the Cary earned his bachelor’s degree in College of Education and Human Mary McMullen psychology from the University of Dayton Development at GSU. In 2002, Cary was in 1974, after which he began graduate promoted to full professor, and after studies in early childhood education at spending several years as associate Purdue University. Starting in 1976, with department chair, he began serving as his M.S. earned, Cary gained practical chair of the Department of Curriculum

6 / Indiana University Bloomington JAMES CAMPBELL

James Campbell’s career at Indiana moderate tempo, which allows all three University began in 1988 and has spanned players plenty of room to sing out their 31 years. Dubbed “Canada’s pre-eminent solo phrases.” clarinetist and wind soloist” by the Toronto Performing chamber music with Jim Star, James has performed as soloist and is simply magical; there always seem to be chamber musician with many major an unspoken understanding and intuitive international orchestras in more than flow that occur without belabored 35 countries, including the Boston Pops, discussion in rehearsals. His solo and Montreal Symphony, and London chamber performances are always Symphony, to name a few. breathtaking and have been a great source He has collaborated with some of the of inspiration to those that have had the most legendary musicians and composers, privilege to hear him perform. If one is such as Glenn Gould and Aaron Copland, ever lucky enough to sit down with Jim for and he has toured with 35 string quartets, conversation, he will inevitably have a including the Guarneri, Amadeus, and colorful, funny, or whimsical musical story Vermeer. He has made more than 40 solo to tell that always leaves one smiling for and chamber recordings. The Times of the rest of the day. London rated his recording of the Brahms It is impossible to encapsulate Jim’s Clarinet Quintet as the best available and amazing career and his contributions for his CD Stolen Gems won a Juno Award. the last 35 years at the Indiana University Jim is a household name in Canada the imagination of his students. Over the Jacobs School of Music. He is the very and is recognized as one of the greatest years, he has produced many successful best of the best and has left an enormous living classical musicians. He is a world- students that have gone on to major legacy for future musicians to admire renowned pedagogue and has also served international careers. Everyone knows in perpetuity. as the artistic director of the Festival of the Jim for his great sense of humor and his Sound in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada, unwavering commitment to students and Kathleen McLean since 1984. colleagues at Indiana University. He is a Jim was named Canada’s Artist of the true mentor in all aspects of life. Year in 1997 and was awarded the Order of A quote from Gramophone magazine Canada, which ranks as one of the most (in reference to Brahms Clarinet Trio in distinguished and highest honors of merit A minor, Op. 114, Chandos Records) sums in the system of orders, decorations, and up the spirit and nature of James Campbell medals of Canada. as a musician and person: Jim’s roots are in the prairie lands “James Campbell has a pure, warm of Canada (he was born near Edmonton, quality of tone and shows himself to be a Alberta), and although his reputation is sensitive artist. I particularly liked the way that of a world class artist, his humble Campbell and his colleagues (of the character and warm personality remain. Borodin trio) gently caress the third Jim’s approach to teaching is filled with a movement, Andantino, before tackling the lot of narrative and metaphors that capture finale with a good sense of attack at a

Retiring Faculty / 7 KEITH CLAY

Distinguished Professor of Biology Keith that has made their homes places of beauty that “Keith has this knack for seeing an Clay retired from an illustrious 32-year and history; and have enjoyed many interesting pattern in nature, and following career in June, 2018, moving seamlessly outdoor adventures. One such adventure up on it.” At least once a semester, Keith into a new career as chair of Tulane underscores Keith’s legendary powers of would take his students on a hike in the University’s Department of Ecology and nature observation (and Caroline’s local community, “often leaving a few in Evolutionary Biology. The position at supportiveness as a spouse): while the dust as he quickly popped back and Tulane returns Keith to his faculty roots vacationing at Hanging Rock State Park, forth on the trail identifying this tree or and to the Cajun/Creole culture he has North Carolina, Keith made (and that fower.” enjoyed since accepting his frst assistant subsequently published) novel observations Keith is a renowned scientist who was professor position at Louisiana State of ant seed dispersal (myrmeocochory) for elected to the American Association for the University in New Orleans in 1983. trailing arbutus, an uncommon woody vine Advancement of Science in 2005 and is Born in Banbury, England, on a (and coincidentally, Indiana University’s respected internationally. Yet Keith is U.S. Air Force base, Keith spent his early ofcial fower). equally remarkable for his teaching and years at bases in Biloxi, Mississippi, and After a short postdoc at the University service excellence. His trademark teaching Savannah, Georgia, before moves to of Texas at Austin, Keith briefy moved to style is hands-on, and in addition to the upstate New York and northwestern his frst faculty position at Louisiana State world-class research he fostered as New Jersey. After high school and a year University before joining Indiana co-founder and director of IU’s seven working jobs with the town road crew, a University’s Department of Biology in Research and Teaching Preserve properties, factory, and a grocery store, Keith enrolled 1986, earning the Outstanding Young Keith championed the preserve’s use in at Rutgers University. Originally a premed Faculty Award in 1989. Besides his teaching and educational outreach. In student, Keith shifted his intellectual continued groundbreaking research with 1999, Keith earned IU’s Teaching interests from people to plants after taking endophytes, Keith’s tenure at IU was Excellence Recognition Award, partly on a botany course with Dr. Barbara Palser. marked by highly infuential work in other the basis of his redevelopment of the A summer wandering the vast, New Jersey areas of plant ecology, including a 2000 course Field Ecology to introduce students Pine Barrens for a vegetation mapping Nature paper and other high-impact work to ecological theory and experimental project with Dr. Murray Buell sealed his demonstrating that the presence vs. methods through immersion in Indiana’s interests in plant ecology and evolution. absence of host-specifc soil pathogens can natural habitats. Keith generously lent his Keith conducted his graduate determine whether plant species coexist or scientifc expertise to the local community research in the botany department at Duke become invasive weeds; a 2012 Science over the years, including service on the University, working with Janis Antonovics paper demonstrating the ubiquity of City of Bloomington’s Environmental on the reproductive biology of Danthonia stabilizing forces (factors causing members Commission, Commission on grasses. Noticing that many of these of the same species to limit one another Sustainability, and Deer Task Force. grasses seemed to beneft from a fungal more than members of diferent species) Keith will be sorely missed by his infection led him to a eureka moment in in structuring eastern deciduous forests; colleagues at Indiana University, who the hot Carolina sun: Keith realized that research on periodical cicada efects on appreciate his “dry sense of humor, vast such plant-fungal interactions were forest trees that led to a National Science knowledge of the natural world, and unexplored and potentially hugely Foundation-sponsored educational video, razor-sharp intellect”; admire his “uncanny important. He went on to become a leader Return of the Cicadas; and research on ability to recognize important ecological in the feld of endophytes (symbionts that pathogen-bearing ticks and their range problems”; and consider him to be “one of live within plants), publishing a seminal shifts in response to global change that is those nucleating fgures who simply makes paper explaining that endophytic fungi featured in IU’s Prepared for everyone around him better.” Fortunately, could act as a defensive mutualism by Environmental Change Grand Challenge. we need only head down to the bayou to producing chemicals that protected plants To date, Keith has trained 19 Ph.D. fnd him. from being eaten by mammals and students, 9 M.S. students, and 15 postdocs. insects. A 1999 Science paper and other Keith’s students remember him as Heather Reynolds signifcant papers followed over the years, “incredibly patient, encouraging, and demonstrating that endophytes could approachable,” someone who “engages indeed shape—and be shaped by—the with his students to the level they want and composition and diversity of grasslands, really allows room for his students to forests, and other plant communities over explore and build research that they fnd both space and time. exciting” while providing “critical feedback Keith met his wife, Caroline, at Duke, at all stages.” Students were inspired by and they raised two sons, Zach and Ben; Keith’s “knowledge of and passion for share a love of architecture and antiques botany and natural history,” recognizing

8 / Indiana University Bloomington LYNDA FULLER CLENDENNING

Lynda Fuller Clendenning retired in the American Library Association’s September 2018 after working 50 years Acquisitions Section, including that of in a variety of academic library positions. chair, the highest national position She started in the pencil-and-pen, achievable for an acquisitions librarian. pre-computer days as a student library Within the IU Libraries, she chaired the assistant at Franklin College while earning IU Bloomington Libraries Budget Advisory a B.A. in English. Her 18 years as a staf Committee numerous times and was an member at the University of Maryland ex-ofcio member of the Libraries’ Libraries included a stint in library school, Collection Development Committee. She ending with a dual history M.A./M.L.S. recognized the importance of mentoring degree focused on archives and rare books. and not only chaired the Libraries’ frst In 1990, Lynda accepted her frst networked mentoring committee but also professional librarian position at the served as a mentor to a number of University of Virginia Libraries, where she librarians. On campus, Lynda was engaged held various leadership positions including in university faculty afairs through her head of Serials, acting assistant director of service as chair of the Bloomington Faculty the Sciences and Engineering Libraries, Council Student Afairs Committee. director of the Acquisitions and Over the years, Lynda has experienced Preservation Department, and interim incredible changes in libraries. Although director of Special Collections. The she found the current academic library highlight of her 12 years at Virginia was selfessness is very rare indeed, and that it environment to be the most exciting to the development of an exhibition in might well epitomize the ideal librarian.” date, she decided to step away from Special Collections that she co-curated Academic librarians strive to meet the librarianship in order to spend time with with Dr. John M. Unsworth, professor of information needs of scholars, researchers, family. Plans are underway for more trips English and current UVA dean of libraries. and students, and Lynda exemplifed this to Europe, especially given that her Entitled Rave Reviews: Bestselling Fiction core value through the efcient acquisition husband is an historian of France. in America, the exhibit incorporated of library resources. IU colleagues admired Eventually, Lynda and her husband plan to Special Collection bestsellers with her professionalism and dedication to the relocate to Richmond, Virginia, to live the Unsworth’s English class on bestsellers. IU Libraries and the users it served. While urban life experience. Lynda returned to the Hoosier state in at UVA she implemented Purchase Thank you, Lynda, for your many the fall of 2002 to join the IU Libraries as Express, a program designed to procure contributions to librarianship and the head of the Acquisitions Department. user-requested publications from order- outstanding dedication to the Indiana In this position, she expertly led and to-shelf within seven days. Her ongoing University Libraries. managed the centralized resource eforts to respond to user requests in a acquisitions operations for 16 years. Her timelier manner continued here at IU with Mechael D. Charbonneau tenure at the IU Libraries was marked by the successful implementation of shelf- the early movement from print to the new ready domestic approval plans and online and ever-expanding digital environment. patron-driven acquisitions services. Under Lynda’s leadership, her staf Throughout her career, Lynda successfully managed the ongoing contributed to the feld of acquisitions acquisitions of print collections while also librarianship through local, regional, and developing new processes for acquiring national presentations and published electronic journals, online databases, articles. One of her best-known electronic books, and interactive media. publications is “Secrets for Managing Much of Lynda’s focus was on Materials Budget Allocations: A Brief building a competent, service-oriented Guide for Collection Managers” (Library Acquisitions Department that supported Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical library collection managers in selection Services 29[1]; 2005). Co-authored with and fund management. A library colleague IU colleagues J. Kay Martin and Gail wrote of her being “ever conscientious in McKenzie, this often-cited and suggested developing her already extensive reading in library literature continues to professional knowledge and skills in order guide subject librarians through the to facilitate the work of others, for example challenges of managing their collection by becoming an expert on e-books in order acquisitions budgets. to support subject librarians who are Service was an equally important purchasing these materials” and noted that aspect of Lynda’s professional life. She was “this combination of expertise and elected to various leadership positions in

Retiring Faculty / 9 HALDAN COHN

Haldan Cohn’s lifelong fascination sources discovered with the Chandra X-ray with orbital dynamics manifested during Observatory, sources both in the galactic his high school years as he participated in plane and in the centers of collapsed-core the Thatcher School Summer Science globular star clusters. With the optical Program, determining the orbits of counterparts identifed, they have been asteroids from photographic plates. After able to compare the spatial distributions completing his undergraduate degree in of X-ray binaries in normal and collapsed- physics from Harvard University, Haldan core clusters. WIYN data have also been spent the summer working with Josh used to study the global dynamics of Grindlay in galactic X-ray astronomy, globular clusters to compare with the beginning of a long and fruitful theoretical models. collaboration. Haldan went on to earn an A third important contribution, with M.A. (1977) and a Ph.D. (1979) in Phyllis Lugger and graduate students Larry astrophysics from Princeton University, David and Brian Murphy, was a study of working with Lyman Spitzer. Spitzer, the dynamical and luminosity evolution of himself working on the dynamical the central cores of galaxies and the evolution of stars in clusters, encouraged evolution of the mass of central black Haldan to develop a new method for holes. They explored how the central simulating the dynamical evolution of star luminosity distribution in a galaxy changes clusters, known as the Fokker-Planck with time, depending on the initial central method. In this approach, the time Combining both theoretical density. For high density systems, the evolution of the distribution of stellar simulations and new, high angular central core of the galaxy contracts due to velocities under the infuence of applicable resolution instrumentation allowed collisions; for lower density systems the forces can be computed to see how a star Haldan, in collaboration with his wife, central core expands as stars are captured cluster evolves. Phyllis Lugger, also an IU professor of into orbits around the central black hole. After graduate school, Haldan astronomy, to develop realistic, evolving, Their work elucidates the growth process went on to postdoctoral positions at dynamical models for globular clusters; to of black holes. the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for carry out large-scale optical observational High performance computing has Astrophysics, Caltech, and the University studies of globular cluster structure, been key to Haldan’s research throughout of Illinois. He joined the IU faculty in 1983 kinematics, and stellar content; and to ft his career. Particularly important was the as an assistant professor, rising in rank to observational data for globular clusters acquisition of a GRAPE-6 N-body associate professor in 1988 and to full with numerical models. supercomputer at IU for the simulation professor in 1995. Among their many collaborative of star cluster evolution. The GRAPE Haldan’s research centers on both papers, Haldan and Phyllis surveyed stellar computers (the acronym GRAPE stands theoretical and observational problems in densities in the central cores of globular for GRAvity PipE) were very efcient the dynamics of stellar systems, including clusters to identify those clusters that are hardware implementations designed interacting binary stars, star clusters, the pre- and post-core collapse. Fitting the specifcally for force calculations between Milky Way Galaxy, galactic nuclei, and central surface brightness distributions stars in self-gravitating N-body systems. clusters of galaxies. In his work, he has with models, they were able to determine Haldan also earned a reputation as made use of high-performance computers which globular star clusters show evidence an outstanding educator and a thoughtful at IU, as well as the WIYN 3.5-m telescope of having undergone core collapse. colleague. He received an IU Trustees at Kitt Peak in Arizona, the Hubble Among Haldan’s most signifcant Teaching Award in 2010. His classes Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray research contributions is a paper with were always models for their clarity and Observatory. His interests focused Princeton astrophysicist Piet Hut on the crispness. In addition to teaching a specifcally on the core collapse process in dynamical evolution of star clusters after rigorous graduate dynamics course for star clusters that leads to very high stellar core collapse. Their model necessarily many years, Haldan took on responsibility densities at the centers of some clusters— includes binary formation and its efect on for two of the department’s most popular one of the most fundamental problems increasing the “temperature” of the stellar introductory courses, Stars and Galaxies of gravitational astrophysics. In dense velocities. They found that after core and Solar System. His courses were always stellar environments, frequent star-star collapse was halted by binary formation, popular; students appreciated his clear gravitational interactions afect the overall the binaries continued to add energy to insights about astronomy. During his structure of a cluster, with the center the cluster, causing it to re-expand. The career, Haldan also supervised or collapsing and stars in the outer portions expansion is unstable, however, and leads co-supervised 10 Ph.D. students. expanding to be lost to the cluster. to gravo-thermal oscillations of the core. We all appreciate his calm, thoughtful The collapse of the core is halted by the Haldan, in collaboration with Phyllis demeanor and wish him the best in formation of close binary stars, which Lugger, also used the WIYN telescope to retirement. evolve to become strong X-ray sources. identify optical counterparts to X-ray Catherine Pilachowski

10 / Indiana University Bloomington EDMUND CORD

Edmund Cord has enjoyed a varied, I’ve been at IU. He is always positive and high-profle career as a performer and supportive of the students and faculty. His teacher. Professor Cord earned a B.M. dedication to teaching and knowledge of degree in trumpet performance from IU in music made him a terrifc colleague.” 1972, studying under professors Louis Professor John Rommel (trumpet) Davidson, Charles Gorham, and Herbert adds, “I feel very fortunate to have been a Mueller, with further studies under colleague of Edmund Cord for the last 26 Thomas Stevens, Arnold Jacobs, and Max years. Ed’s ever-expanding knowledge of Woodbury. After leaving IU, he embarked musical concepts and brass pedagogy has directly on a career as an orchestral greatly impacted everyone who has had the trumpet player, joining the Israel opportunity to work with him. The support Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) as principal he has extended to students and colleagues trumpet, a position he held from 1972 to has been greatly appreciated by all of us.” 1976. In 1976 he appeared as soloist with Along with a long and distinguished the IPO in Haydn’s trumpet concerto. career as a performer, Ed will leave as part He returned to the U.S. to join the of his legacy numerous students with Utah Symphony Orchestra (1976–89), performing and teaching careers in frst as associate principal trumpet, then orchestras, military service bands, and at co-principal trumpet, and later as principal colleges and universities in the United trumpet, appearing as soloist in 1982 and States, Canada, Mexico, Israel, Australia, 1987. Of his Haydn concerto performance, others. All of these groups are very happy Japan, Thailand, and Singapore. the Salt Lake Tribune wrote: “His that Ed, with his consummate skills and Susan Rider (master gunnery phrasings were beautiful; the perfect logic extensive experience, has been available sergeant, “The President’s Own” United of his interpretation made a difcult when they need a principal trumpet or States Marine Band), writes, “Every achievement appear easy.” extra player. trumpet lesson I ever had with Ed was just During the 1978-80 seasons, and In addition, Ed has been very active magical and always inspired me to want to in 1990, he was principal trumpet of the with summer music festivals worldwide. do my very best. His musical and life prestigious Santa Fe Opera. In 1989 he left These include serving as trumpet teacher lessons have had a profound infuence on Utah to join the faculty of the IU Jacobs for the Asian Youth Orchestra (1994– my life and continue to do so to this day.” School of Music. 2000); director of the Thailand Brass Travis Peterson (principal trumpet, His discography includes nearly Festival (2004–09); and principal trumpet, Utah Symphony) writes, “I never would 40 recordings with the Israel Philharmonic teacher, and brass ensemble director of the have imagined that I would ever win and with the Utah, St. Louis, and FOOSA Festival in California (2015–18). Mr. Cord’s previous position (principal Indianapolis Symphonies under conductors Other teaching has included masterclasses trumpet, Utah Symphony), but thanks to and soloists such as Arthur Rubenstein, and workshops in brass performance in his patience and guidance during my time Leonard Bernstein, Maurice Abravanel, Australia, Israel, and throughout Asia and at IU, he set a foundation in my playing Elmer Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, and North America. that is still holding strong to this day.” Joseph Silverstein. Though classically trained, Ed is Erik John Ramos (sergeant frst class, Professor Cord’s duties at the no stranger to the jazz and commercial The United States Army Band, “Pershing’s Jacobs School include trumpet instruction, idioms, and has performed or recorded Own”), adds, “I will always cherish my chamber music coaching, and directing the with Doc Severinsen, Ella Fitzgerald, time at IU with Mr. Cord. His dedication to IU Brass Choir, which presents several Henry Mancini, Marvin Hamlisch, the teaching is inspiring. He made me a better concert performances each year and has Moody Blues, and others, as well as with musician and a better human being.” been featured at many university events. big bands, in Broadway shows, and on Edmund Cord’s fne teaching, The Bloomington Herald Times writes: numerous commercial recording sessions. performing, conducting, and his friendly “The 19-member choir often sounded In addition to the IU Brass Choir, and professional collegiality will be missed thrilling, and throughout, gave evidence Ed has put his conducting skills to good by his colleagues and students at the of both fne individual training and Cord’s use in performances with the brass and Jacobs School. We wish Ed, his wife, Ruth, ability to give the group cohesion.” percussion sections of the Indianapolis and their highly talented family all the Joining the Jacobs School faculty Symphony and Louisiana Philharmonic. best, and a long and enjoyable retirement. didn’t slow Ed down as a performer or As a conductor, he has enjoyed diminish his love of music performance. presenting a wide variety of both original Rick Seraphinof Since that time, he has been busy playing compositions for large brass ensemble and recitals and chamber music and serving as arrangements of other works for brass. guest principal trumpet and extra with Professor Joey Tartell (trumpet, the St. Louis Symphony, Indianapolis director of undergraduate studies) shares Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, his thoughts on working with Ed: “It has Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, and been my pleasure to work with Ed since

Retiring Faculty / 11 DIANA EBLING

Dr. Diana Ebling started her work at the In other words, Diana is the type of rumored a few may have extended their IU Health Center as a staf physician in boss everyone wants and feels valued by. academic careers just to continue seeing 1988. Throughout her time there, she One employee’s direct report shared the Dr. Ebling. established herself as a leader among her following, when talking about Diana as Diana’s skills as director, health colleagues and was promoted to the role of her supervisor: care provider, and colleague have been medical director, which included serving “Personally, [during] my frst two immeasurable over the years. We will all also as the health center’s laboratory months at the health center, my father miss her easy smile and her caring, director. During this tenure, the lab was became gravely ill and passed away. In my compassionate, and positive outlook on consistently measured as one of the State frst and second year of employment, my everything that she does. The entire staf at of Indiana’s best by its accrediting agency, young son was having some coping skill the health center considers itself lucky to COLA (Cost of Living Agency). Across the difculties, which was a constant diversion have had the opportunity to work with her university and among the health centers from work and there was a need to be and wishes her the best in this next phase within the Big Ten Conference, Diana’s readily present for him. I knew she truly of her life, flled with blessed time with reputation as a leader placed her within had concern and understanding of my her husband, her children, and her the top tier in college health. needs during both of these unfortunate life grandchildren. Diana is truly a genuine Diana did not pursue recognition events. She took time to listen to my and exceptional individual. or high-profle positions within college concerns and was instrumental in health, such as with regional or national alleviating the guilt and stress of being Peter Grogg college health associations. Instead, away from work, ensuring me of the Diana’s reputation was built through each importance of family frst. This built a level patient encounter and each contribution of trust and commitment to the health she made to the IU Bloomington campus center, as an employee. Now as a leader of by either serving on committees or leading other employees, I use Dr. Ebling as a our response to a public health concern template of leadership.” impacting our campus. She always Staf indicated that as a supervisor, demonstrated great skill in not only Diana focused on everyone’s strengths and assisting the campus on committees but made sure each member of the team felt also in representing the campus publicly valued and heard. Her strength of during outbreaks such as mumps, H1N1, character and calm demeanor helped keep Ebola, Zika virus, or whatever campus everyone at ease, even during very tense or health issue was the topic of the day. Over frantic times. She expected the best out of time, her reputation and her value on this everyone but was always ready to help campus continued to grow. Diana’s guide you when you fell short. During such priorities were her patients, the health times, she might take an empathetic and center, and IU Bloomington. Her caring approach toward addressing the reputation throughout college health issues, but she also knew when she had to was a byproduct of this commitment. be tough and uncompromising, especially To her patients and staf, Diana when a patient’s well-being was at stake. is a careful listener who asks thoughtful Regardless of the circumstances or the questions. When it’s her turn to speak, situation, she always made sure that she it is always obvious she was listening and stayed open-minded and that she considering a range of other perspectives understood all sides of an issue before that no one else considered. Said one of acting. Throughout, she demonstrated a her staf, “She always made me feel like a professional and caring demeanor. peer despite her role as boss. She led by This gentle thoughtfulness has also example via her dedication to her job, been noticed by countless patients that being an advocate for the students, and her Diana has served over the years. Staf desire to make the health center a great report that patients request to see her over place to come to for care and to work.” and over again, so much so that it is

12 / Indiana University Bloomington BEN EDMONDS

Ben Edmonds was born and raised in the efects of poverty on student achievement, small town of Sharpsville, Indiana. By the building resilience and competencies in time he came to Indiana University in teachers and students, using statistical 2005, he was a more-than-qualifed special software to enhance active learning, education doctoral student with a B.A. facilitating student teachers’ transition to in psychology from Cumberland College the workplace, infuences of teacher and a master’s in special education from education on high-stakes testing for Wright State University. He had spent students with disabilities, preparing 25 years as an Ohio school administrator, special education doctoral students, including as principal, director of pupil teacher characteristics associated with services, director of personnel, and achievement for students with disabilities, assistant superintendent; in each position, engaging struggling students in math he was responsible for the districtwide learning, students’ rights, and using special education program. He had also technology to drive curriculum alignment. spent fve years teaching and working with Ben’s contribution to the school and junior high school students as well as department are substantial. He chaired the adults with developmental disabilities. Curriculum and Instruction Committee, On his retirement from Indiana University the Beechler Dissertation Award Bloomington, Ben noted that he “has been Committee, and the Secondary Education involved with special education in some Council. He has served multiple terms on form for 43 years.” every IU campus who are nominated by the School of Education Policy Council, His dissertation, “Teacher peers and pass a rigorous review. FACET the Graduate Student Council, the Faculty Characteristics and Achievement of “advocates pedagogical innovation, Annual Review Committee, the Noyce Students with Disabilities,” examined a inspires growth and refection, cultivates Science Advisory Board, the Teaching All public school landscape increasingly the scholarship of teaching and learning, Learners Advisory Council, the Committee infuenced by state standardized testing and fosters personal renewal in the on Teacher Education, and the University mandates. His fndings were compelling: commitment to student learning.” Division and Residential Programs and Yes, the quality of teacher education Closer to home, Ben taught Services student outreach program. He programs has a signifcant efect on assessment courses for the special chaired two search committees for clinical student achievement; however, students education area and, throughout his time and visiting faculty. He also served on with cognitive disabilities were failing to in the curriculum and instruction (C&I) search committees for the C&I department achieve on these tests regardless of that department, lent valuable wisdom gained chair, the Otting Endowed Chair for quality. His conclusions ofered critical from his former lives as a director of Special Education, and the department implications for teacher education special education, director of personnel, administrative assistant. Even as his programs and raised important questions and assistant superintendent in public retirement looms, he ofered to chair one about the growing use of student school systems as well as from his last search committee, to fnd a clinical performance as an accountability measure scholarly work. When the position of assistant professor of special education. for schools, districts, teachers, and in some associate dean for teacher education came In faculty discussions, Ben’s cases, teacher education. open in the SOE, Ben was enthusiastically contributions have been unfailingly calm, In 2009, Ben joined the faculty of the nominated for the position by several of reasoned, deliberative, intelligent, honest, IU School of Education (SOE), skillfully his peer faculty members. and thoughtful. He understands how to bringing his practical and scholarly While Ben’s formal responsibilities work with people who have diverse experiences to bear on teacher education. focused on program coordination, interests and perspectives and strong During his time at IU, he directed the teaching, and service, he also continued opinions. He has a frm sense of how Secondary Transition to Teach (T2T) research and scholarly activities that have colleagues and students should be treated program for nine years, holding the rank of informed the feld in important ways. but brings personal experience and a clinical assistant professor and shepherding These include an eight-year evaluation unique set of competencies when applying 225 students as they transitioned from of the Energy Express summer reading these qualities in practice. previous career paths to teaching. In this program for the West Virginia Commission We wish Ben a retirement full of role, Ben cultivated working relationships for National and Community Service as grandchildren, tractors, gardening, and for the SOE with more than 40 Indiana well as work for IU’s Center for Evaluation special times with his partner, Carol. schools, where he placed and supervised and Education Policy reviewing special T2T students in their early feld experience education services in Indiana. Ben also Hannah Schertz and student teaching. worked with Gretchen Butera and Wendy Jef Anderson In May 2013, Ben was inducted into Wall-Marencik to conduct an evaluation Indiana University’s prestigious Faculty of our special education doctoral program. Academy on Excellence in Teaching His presentations and trainings (FACET), a community of faculty from addressed diverse topics, including the

Retiring Faculty / 13 CHRISTINE R. FARRIS

The career of Christine R. Farris in that can be intellectually engaging at the research, teaching, and service spans more same time. Equally daunting is the need to than four-and-a-half decades, decades in design a curriculum not only capable of which these three activities have been so being taught by 40 or more novice intertwined as to render them virtually instructors of wildly varying interests, but indistinguishable from one another. After one that also meets the reading, writing, earning her B.A. in literature with high and critical thinking needs of frst-year honors from Eckerd College in 1971, she college students, as well as the demands of began her career teaching and serving as our colleagues in the other IU schools. the co-director for an alternative school in Finally, there is the ultimate challenge of St. Petersburg, Florida. She then relocated trying to convince—respectfully but to New York City, where she was a writer in frmly—graduate student teachers, the schools with Teachers and Writers frst-year students, faculty from other Collaborative. An opportunity to assist that schools and departments, and even program’s research collaboration with occasionally one’s own colleagues that cognitive psychologists at Rockefeller writing and the teaching of writing are not University kicked of a career-long interest innate abilities nor skills that anyone in how writing is learned in various social sufciently acquainted with the English and disciplinary contexts and how teachers language can master in a mere 15 weeks, of writing theorize their practice. After deliver efectively, and evaluate fairly. earning a joint M.A. in English and volume, College Credit for Writing in High Indeed, Christine’s ability to meet all of education from the University of South School: The “Taking Care of” Business these challenges successfully stands as Florida in 1977 and a year teaching (2010), won the Council of Writing perhaps her greatest legacy. composition for the University of Program Administrators (WPA) Best Book But the ripples of Christine’s work will Maryland European Division in Reykjavik, Award in 2012. continue to widen through the years after Iceland, Christine returned to the United Christine’s tenure at IU Bloomington her retirement. Due in large part to her States to pursue her Ph.D. in English at the has been distinguished by her many guidance, hundreds of former graduate University of Washington. During that conference presentations and publications, students now stand in front of classrooms time, she was as a teaching assistant and by her achievements in teaching and confdent in their knowledge of composition in English, an instructor in the service. A fve-time recipient of a Trustees and literature pedagogy in both theory and Interdisciplinary Writing Program, and Teaching Award, she was honored in practice. Nor does her infuence stop with a staf consultant for writing in the 1998 with the President’s Award for our graduate students. Chris’s work for the disciplines in the Center for Instructional Distinguished Teaching. She earned the past 23 years as English liaison with IU’s Development and Research. After earning Distinguished Service Award from the Advance College Project has ensured that her Ph.D. in 1987, she was immediately Ofce of the Provost at IU Bloomington in hundreds of high school teachers across hired as an assistant professor of English 2012 and the system-wide George Pinnell the state of Indiana have had the beneft of at the University of Missouri in Columbia; Outstanding Service Award from Indiana her training and guidance in teaching she remained there until coming to University in 2013. Her service at the composition to their students as well. Indiana University in 1990, where she has national level has included multiple chair Christine’s research, teaching, and been teaching writing, rhetoric, and and committee memberships for the WPA, service for the English department go well literature in the Department of English the Conference on College Composition beyond even these accomplishments, of ever since, obtaining the rank of associate and Communication, the Modern course, but these are among the benefts professor in 1997 and professor in 2005. Language Association, and the National that IU Bloomington’s frst-year Christine’s scholarly publications Council of Teachers of English. undergraduates, our graduate student include an ethnographic study, Subject to Nevertheless, it is for her tireless teachers, her Ph.D. dissertators, and we, Change: New Composition Instructors’ service and commitment to the English her colleagues, have received from her, Theory and Practice (1996); and a department at IU Bloomington that her frsthand, every day for the past 28 years. collection, Under Construction: Working colleagues most value Christine. For more Together, they have earned her our at the Intersection of Composition Theory, than 14 years, she served as the director profound respect, our gratitude, and our Research, and Practice (1998). Her of composition and the trainer of our very best wishes in retirement. co-edited MLA volume with colleague frst-time graduate associate instructors. Judith Anderson, Integrating Literature It is no small feat to convince new Kathy O. Smith and Writing Instruction (2007), in part associate instructors, in pre-semester grew out of an English department workshops and semester-long proseminars, initiative she co-led to design a graduate that the teaching of writing is not a literature pedagogy seminar tied to necessary evil but rather a professional undergraduate courses. Another co-edited and a professionalizing experience, one

14 / Indiana University Bloomington JEFFREY HASS

A gifted composer, dedicated colleague, of 3D motion-graphics software, in order and wise mentor to generations of to develop further the idea of placing dance electronic music students, Jefrey Hass in an imaginary 3D space, projected as a retires from the IU Jacobs School of Music video image, with sound that responds to faculty. He leaves a legacy of dynamic changes in the video, and vice versa. As an growth, technological advancement, and extended study in these techniques—and creative excellence by students of the as an attempt to inject humor into what Center for Electronic and Computer Music can be an overly serious concert (CECM), which was founded in 1966 by experience—he composed Three Easy Iannis Xenakis. Jef is a fellow at the Recipes, a wild ride through a bizarre 3D Indiana University Institute for Digital landscape of dueling egg yolks, dancing Arts and Humanities; was a Bogliasco Jello cubes, and banana submarines. Foundation fellow at their Study Center Recently, Jef collaborated with in Bogliasco, Italy, during a sabbatical; IU professor and choreographer Michael and is a former composition and theory Vernon to create video of a solo ballet instructor at Rutgers University and dancer, again for placement in an Interlochen Center for the Arts. imaginary 3D world. The result is Capsule, Jef has extensive experience another in a planned series of dance video composing for orchestra and various pieces. His growing experience with ensembles, with and without electronic sophisticated 3D techniques has led to soundtracks, and has created an generation of sound—with compelling surprising transformations of the dancer’s impressive catalog of successful pieces abstract narratives conveyed through environment, complete with colorful sound that have been performed widely to great music and dance. that amplifes the visual impact. The visual acclaim. His earlier pieces for band or The Nature of Human, with lighting and musical virtuosity of this piece has wind ensemble with electronics include design and virtual scenography by IU’s delighted audiences at American All the Bells and Whistles and Lost in the Rob Shakespeare, is their largest and electroacoustic music festivals the last Funhouse, the latter of which won awards most infuential work. Its striking frst few years. from the National Band Association and movement, “Mind Maze,” takes the idea Directing the CECM since 1984, the Walter Beeler Memorial Foundation. of synaptic activity in the brain and Jefrey Hass has overseen minors in Both are exciting, whimsical adventures, represents this with body rhythms, spatial electronic music for numerous doctoral exquisitely crafted. His Three Etudes for juxtapositions, and twitchy musical composition majors, helped develop a Piano with Electronics is a barnburner textures derived from the sonifcation of summer program for IU composers in virtuoso piece with vivid electronic sound EEG data. All three collaborators worked Paris at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et that is carefully integrated and balanced together closely, developing a method that Coordination Acoustique/Musique), with the piano. Its high energy recalls the prizes frequent brainstorming, feedback, helped many students achieve national and earlier Keyed Up for two pianos and and review, rather than a sequential international recognition for their music electronics. Pieces for orchestra and large approach, in which the choreographer and created in the studio, and kept the center’s ensemble include City Life, which won the lighting designer would begin their work equipment and software well maintained 2007 Heckscher Award; Postcards from only after the composer had fnished the and current. In 1991, he completely the Canyons, the result of a Utah Arts score. This rich collaborative experience reworked the studio into a state-of-the-art Festival 2009 Symphonic Commissioning convinced Jef of the value of working with digital environment. He has cultivated Award; and the 30-minute Symphony for people outside of his discipline. substantial fnancial support for Orchestra with Electronics, which won the The Nature of Human prompted equipment and upgrades over the years. ASCAP/Rudolph Nissim Composition a spin-of music/video work, Magnetic In his leadership of computer music at the Prize in 2005. Resonance Music, with music and video by Jacobs School, Jef also produced concerts, A decade ago, Jef embarked on Jef. He has presented this piece around nurtured increased activity in interactive a series of ambitious works that includes the world. The success of Magnetic music for musicians and electronics, and dance and electroacoustic music. Resonance Music led him and Shea to assisted numerous Jacobs ensembles in He developed a strong collaborative investigate further the dance video genre, performances that required technological relationship with IU professor and in which the dance is choreographed expertise and logistical help. choreographer Elizabeth Shea. Together specifcally for its use in the video, rather On behalf of the school and they produced four substantial live- than for a live performance. Subsequently, the composition department, we performance works: Coming to Light, they completed Labyrinths, a video project wholeheartedly congratulate Jef on his Grow/Move/Change, The Nature of featuring a dancer placed in a range of retirement and thank him for his years Human, and Unstrung. These pieces surreal 3D environments, accompanied by of dedicated service to the school. combine technical exploration—often an electroacoustic score. around cutting-edge interactivity between Over the past several years, Jef has David Dzubay the movement of dancers and the real-time devoted time to mastering the complexities John Gibson

Retiring Faculty / 15 JAMES (JIM) HENGEVELD

James Hengeveld was born in Paterson, 20-plus years. Many of those students New Jersey, and attended a nearby high went on to professional or graduate school, where he experienced frsthand schools, while others graduated and how a teacher can shape students’ interests pursued a variety of careers; but they all and, indeed, their choices of careers. His shared a new awareness of the natural biology teacher, Gordon Schultze, the head world around them. of the Nature Outing Club, introduced him Jim’s knowledge and enjoyment and his friends to the love of nature, of birds were not restricted to teaching including the love of birds. The enjoyment courses in the biology department. In of and passing on of these passions to 2005, he was appointed an editor for the others have defned much of Jim’s life journal North American Birds, the since those early years. primary journal documenting the status of Jim attended Calvin College in Grand bird populations throughout the continent. Rapids, Michigan, from 1971 TO 1975, He is one of three editors for the Illinois- majoring in biology. He didn’t immediately Indiana region and has been writing head of to graduate school, but instead quarterly summaries for the journal from worked various jobs, started a family, and 2005 until the present. In addition, Jim followed his passion for soccer, playing on has committed countless hours to leading a local team. The pull of academics and the feld trips for Sassafras Audubon Society, lack of intellectual stimulation led Jim to as well as to an ad hoc birding group that consider graduate school, and in the fall of adding and changing lab exercises. L113 formed following a continuing education 1979, he and his family headed to had a reputation for putting a very high class of Jim’s in the late 1980s. Jim and Bloomington. In Val Nolan’s lab, Jim demand on AIs; Jim worked hard to reduce Susan continue to teach continuing worked on the adaptive signifcance of the work for AIs without diminishing the education classes on birds and butterfies hatching asynchrony in red-winged quality of the class. His dedication and (a newer hobby), focusing on various blackbirds, studying the population at profciency were acknowledged in 2017 aspects of biology and identifcation. Jim nearby Yellowwood Lake. In addition to with the conferring of the IU Trustees and Susan run a Northern saw-whet owl Ph.D. work, Jim was hired by the Indiana Teaching Award. banding program in Yellowwood State DNR to help out with the reintroduction Shortly before taking over the running Forest every fall as part of a continent- of bald eagles project at Lake Monroe, of L113, Jim married his wife, Susan, who wide initiative to study the migratory monitoring bobcats in the state, and joined the biology department in 1996. In patterns of this small, secretive, nocturnal working on the Indiana Breeding Bird addition to running the L100 lab course, species. Many ornithology students and Atlas project, which involved many hours Susan was asked to teach L376, Biology of other Bloomington residents have come to of censusing birds throughout the state. Birds, which she agreed to do if she could the banding station to learn about the Jim also took courses in the School of co-teach it with Jim. From the frst time process and, ideally, to see an owl up close Public and Environmental Afairs, earning they co-taught the course, they both agreed and personal. a Master of Science in Environmental it was by far their favorite course to teach. It is hard to summarize the impact Science degree in the process. Jim’s primary job had been to that Jim has had as an instructor and lab After completing his Ph.D. in 1989, coordinate courses with multiple lab coordinator at IU, as well as in his role in Jim stayed in Bloomington, having been sections, but his interests and training science outreach in the Bloomington area hired for a position in the biology were sufciently diverse that he also taught and beyond. The ultimate goal of a teacher department as a lab coordinator and Evolution, Biological Sex Roles, and a is to pass down his or her knowledge, with lecturer. Jim’s initial position involved the graduate course, Avian Conservation. the hopes of enriching the lives of students. coordination of a large, non-majors biology However, his true love involved Like his biology teacher, Gordon Schultze, lab class, L100 Humans and the Biological direct interactions with students and Jim continues to spread his knowledge and World. In 1996 and until his retirement, teaching ornithology. Since L113 was so love of birds and nature to generations Jim coordinated Biology L113, the major demanding, he typically did not teach of others. introductory lab class for science majors in other courses during the spring and fall which 400–450 students were typically semesters but would teach a diferent class Susan Hengeveld enrolled. For most of the latter years, (usually L376 Biology of Birds) during the 26 associate instructors (AIs) did the summer. Jim’s love of birds came out in actual teaching of the labs. Jim handled those classes, and L376 became a favorite the logistics of the labs and diverse sets of lab class for many biology students; AIs with aplomb and extreme efciency. teaching one’s passion has a way of He worked with hundreds of AIs, revising instilling that passion in others. Jim taught the lab manual repeatedly, including 20–25 students every summer for the past

16 / Indiana University Bloomington MARJORIE R. HERSHEY

Professor Marjorie Randon Hershey, a devotion to their professional and personal native of Chicago, received her B.A. from development. This has been particularly the University of Michigan (1966) and her important for female graduate students M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) from the who, until quite recently, were severely University of Wisconsin–Madison. She underrepresented in our incoming spent two years at Florida State University graduate classes. Margie provided a before taking a position with the political signifcant example as well as mentorship science department at IU in 1974 as an to these students, many of whom have assistant professor. She was promoted gone on to highly successful careers in the to associate professor in 1978 and to discipline. They consistently credit professor in 1985. Professor Hershey for their success. Margie’s early research contributions She has been the primary force in our were on the impact of the media in department’s eforts to equip our graduate elections, with two important books: students for their roles as teachers. For The Making of Campaign Strategy (1974) more than two decades, Margie has helped and Running for Ofce: The Political graduate students become efective Education of Campaigners (1984). In a teachers. She has been our point person series of articles and chapters, she on the Preparing Future Faculty Program, explored diferent aspects of pre-adult which included a highly successful political learning, or what political two-semester course, taken by all of our scientists call “political socialization.” science. The evidence for her classroom graduate students, that dealt with a wide This work combined with her continued excellence is more than impressive. range of practical things educators need to attention to elections, including election Besides consistently being at or very near know, from how to lead a discussion to law, the role of the media, political the top of end-of-semester student diferent ways of assessment. She worked activists, and political parties. She was the evaluations, she has garnered an amazing closely with graduate students who are leader in the analysis of how the media array of teaching awards. teaching their own independent sections. defne elections for both the public and Margie’s eforts for our undergraduate As a result we saw a marked improvement elected ofcials. students extend well beyond excellence in in the end-of-semester evaluations of our Her consistently sharp election classroom pedagogy. She was instrumental graduate instructors. analyses made her a favorite of reporters in the development of the Leadership, There seems to be no end to and local community groups. Former Ethics, and Social Action (LESA) program Professor Hershey’s contributions to colleague Russell Hanson said: “Margie is and headed it for several years. She teaching political science. For half of her well known for her expert analyses of local, facilitated the evolution of LESA into the long career at IU, she has been the state, and national elections, which she current Political and Civic Engagement department’s director of undergraduate has shared in person, on the air, and via (PACE) program, where she remains an studies. Most recently, in addition to that interview with reporters for leading active member of the board of directors. role, she has contributed outstanding newspapers and magazines. Her classroom Margie developed our undergraduate service as associate chair of the extends to the public at large, where her course in professionalization, which brings department. Our colleague, Professor Ted extraordinary and award-winning teaching back our alumni to network with students Carmines, describes her many positive skills are on full display.” and show them paths their IU degree in contributions: All of this, as well as her work in political science can take. “I think of Margie as someone who many of the discipline’s professional Professor Hershey has long been has the versatility of a utility infelder organizations, made her an obvious choice active in the IU teaching and learning combined with the skills to excel at every for leadership, which she provided in many community. Beyond IU, she has to her position. She has performed expertly in all ofces including president of the Midwest credit several published papers, teaching the positions and responsibilities that she Political Science Association (1990–91). panels at professional meetings, and has assumed in the department and While Margie has a stellar research committees on teaching with the American university. Whenever the department or record, her colleagues and students have Political Science Association. She served university has needed someone to take also been incredibly lucky to have benefted on the Political Science GRE Committee of on a difcult and time-consuming from her many outstanding contributions Examiners from 1993 to 1998 and as chair responsibility, Margie has been willing to as an educator and all-around super-citizen of that committee from 1996 to 1998. step up to the plate and hit a home run.” of the department and IU community. Margie Hershey has had a huge, She will be sorely missed by her colleagues First, Margie is simply the best teacher positive impact on graduate education in and students. I have ever had the pleasure to work with. political science. Some of this impact has This includes the classroom, teaching our been through her record of mentoring; Gerald Wright graduate students to teach, and signifcant generations of students in American publications on teaching in political politics have appreciated her caring

Retiring Faculty / 17 LINDA HOKE-SINEX

For Dr. Linda B. Hoke-Sinex, teaching at cultivated skills of self-examination and research, flling a capstone requirement Indiana University has been the perfect critical thinking by freely expressing their for a degree in psychology. career. Fueled by opportunities to be own thoughts and opinions and learning to Dr. Hoke-Sinex’s courses have creative, to be intellectually challenged, accept afrmation or disagreement from enriched relationships among the and to keep pace with the most recent others. Lively class discussions have university, the department, and the local information and cutting-edge research to encouraged the acquisition of advanced educational community. Through her share with students, she has enriched skills such as comprehension, application, service-learning courses, she has placed countless lives in innumerable ways. analysis, and synthesis of the students in Head Start, Jackson Creek The belief that has been the basis course content. Middle School, Batchelor Middle School, of Hoke-Sinex’s contributions is best In 2011, Hoke-Sinex was awarded Tri-North Middle School, The Project expressed as, “Everyone gets a voice.” a College of Arts and Sciences Course School, and Harmony Education Center. She was a shy student in elementary Development Grant to participate in a Hoke-Sinex emphasizes the connections school, but her life was transformed by a summer workshop on online education she’s developed with community partners teacher who encouraged her to share her hosted by the Center for Innovative as a key to the success of her course: opinions. The message from him, and the Teaching and Learning (CITL). She created “You have to work hard to help those message Hoke-Sinex has shared with her a version of Introductory Psychology II, connections grow and become strong. students, is that everyone counts and adding entirely new ways of teaching to They need to be nurtured. You have to be everyone should have their voices heard. her repertoire and achieving excellence in fexible and positive.” This conviction has guided her work online education. More recently, she The Ofce of Service-Learning over the past 45 years as an IU student, has launched an online version of provided Hoke-Sinex with support as she instructor, pedagogical innovator, mentor Developmental Psychology that includes a developed her courses and connected with to countless students, community service-learning component. community partners. She has since advocate, and contributor to research on Perhaps Dr. Hoke-Sinex is most received the Beth Wood Distinguished the benefts of service-learning for proud of her contributions to the feld of Service-Learning Faculty Award undergraduates. service-learning. Over the past decade, she (2012–15) and the Service-Learning Dr. Hoke-Sinex earned her bachelor’s, designed and taught two such courses, Partnership Award (2012–16). To promote master’s, and Ph.D. at Indiana University The Psychology of Adolescent Girls and engaged learning, Hoke-Sinex serves on Bloomington. Her undergraduate degree in Therapeutic Interventions in Early the advisory board of the CITL Service- psychology set the stage for a Master of Childhood Behavior. Learning Program, the Community- Science in Counseling and a Ph.D. in In The Psychology of Adolescent Engaged Learning Committee, and the Educational Psychology. Girls, class time and readings were devoted Carnegie Elective Community Engagement Her initial teaching appointments to learning about specifc challenges Classifcation Committee. She has also were as associate instructor in the related to self-esteem, math and science delivered presentations on assessment, Department of Education and the achievement, and relationship authenticity mentoring, and teaching diversity in Department of Gender Studies. Hired and sexuality. As girls approach puberty, service-learning at events hosted by CITL as a lecturer by the Department of the socialization of gender roles becomes and by the Faculty Academy on Excellence Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS) intensifed and may contribute to these in Teaching (FACET). in 2005, she rose to the rank of senior challenges. IU students served as role After retirement, Hoke-Sinex is lecturer in 2008. She has served the models and mentors, meeting with looking forward to continuing her work department on the PBS Advisory Board, adolescent girls at local middle schools and with community-engaged service-learning Faculty Awards Committee, and Alumni encouraging them to express their on the IU Bloomington campus. She is Organization and Fundraising Committee. opinions and insights. Hoke-Sinex hopes excited to now have the chance to focus on She continually mentors students, the message—that what they have to say is writing academic articles about engaged serving on undergraduate honors thesis important—has been as signifcant for learning and for the popular media. committees and as faculty advisor to them as it was for her. She’ll be spending more time with the Psychology Club. Service-learning students have her children and grandchild, enjoying Students point to Dr. Hoke-Sinex’s reported increased retention of knowledge yoga, and hopes to travel more with her tremendous enthusiasm for teaching and personal growth. As one IU student spouse, IU Financial Management Services psychology as having motivated them to put it: “We need more classes like this one. Director Charlie Sinex, who plans to do their best work. Her most powerful I’m learning about important material and retire in December 2019. technique to inspire students is to get them helping others with my knowledge. I love to personalize material, to apply their class this class!” Professional skills were Cynthia Patton knowledge to personal experiences. Active reinforced through interacting with learning, application, and ownership administrators, social workers, counselors, over learning are vital to personalizing and teachers in the community setting. knowledge. In her courses, students have Students also completed naturalistic

18 / Indiana University Bloomington MARK HOOD

Through a long and distinguished career Ruth Stone. This group developed practical in the music industry, recording engineer strategies to preserve and make accessible and producer Mark Hood has amassed a much of the valuable content housed on body of creative output that includes more almost 600,000 degrading and obsolete than 500 LP, CD, and visual media releases analog carriers on campus. In September in all genres. 2011, they released their frst report, Mark grew up in Interlochen, Meeting the Challenge of Media Michigan, where his father was an Preservation: Strategies and Solutions. instructor and headmaster for the It outlined strategies to accomplish Interlochen Arts Academy. At Interlochen preservation of IU Bloomington’s media he was immersed in a competitive treasures and described the fnancial environment of classmates preparing for commitments required to achieve this goal. careers in music, dance, drama, creative The work of the Media Preservation Task writing, and the visual arts. He studied Force led to $15 million in funding for fute, piano, and composition; however, he the creation of the Indiana University found himself drawn to mathematics and Media Preservation and Digitization the sciences, where he excelled. As fate Initiative (MPDI). would have it, Interlochen also had Mark’s experience as a teacher has well-equipped audio recording facilities, allowed the audio engineering department stafed with experienced audio producers to expand its oferings in sound for visual and engineers. Mark became a work- Eventually Mark moved back to media and has fostered collaborations with scholarship intern in that department and, Bloomington, where he opened Echo Park the Media School and IU Cinema. His jazz while still in high school, found himself Studios in partnership with Michael expertise has created an enduring recording visiting artists such as Van Wanchic, whom he had met in the 1970s, partnership with the Jacobs School jazz Cliburn, Dave Brubeck, and Isaac Stern. when a little-known singer-songwriter department, and his many years working Mark continued to work as a freelance named John Mellencamp recorded his in recording studios has provided recording engineer and musician while frst demo. Wanchik was Mellencamp’s signifcant experiential learning for audio attending the University of Michigan, bandleader; Wanchik’s experience engineering students. He is a valued where he studied electrical engineering. producing numerous artists and Mark’s colleague and will be missed. In 1972 he became chief engineer experience and reputation as an engineer Throughout his career, Mark has at the famous Gilfoy Sound Studios in established Echo Park as one of the most given back to the Bloomington community. Bloomington, Indiana, where he worked eminent recording studios in the Midwest. He was part of the team that created the with faculty from the IU Jacobs School of Projects of note produced at Echo Park community radio station, WFHB. From Music and Indiana bandleader Al Cobine, include the multi-platinum album How to 1996 to 2001 he was vice chair of the among others. It was at Gilfoy that Mark Save a Life by The Fray; Robert Mirabal’s board of directors of the Lotus Education frst met David Baker; he went on to record Music from a Painted Cave for PBS, one and Arts Foundation, Inc., and was a and produce numerous projects for Baker, of the network’s most successful fund-drive founding member of BCT Management, including several award-winning PBS productions; and the Emmy and Tony Inc. (the board of the Buskirk-Chumley documentaries and albums. Many years Award-winning Blast! for which Mark Theater), for which he served as treasurer later, Mark collaborated with the Buselli- served as theatrical sound designer, audio from 2001 to 2007. He has also served on Wallarab orchestra to record two critically producer, and engineer. Mark also the boards of many area nonproft acclaimed CDs of David Baker’s music: recorded the aforementioned Basically organizations, including Bloomington Basically Baker, Volumes 1 and 2. Baker Vol 1 CD at Echo Park, which Restorations, Inc., the Bloomington In 1977 Mark moved to Manhattan to DownBeat magazine designated as one Community Service Council, Rhino’s pursue opportunities in the New York and of the top 100 albums of the decade. Youth Center, and the Bloomington Washington, D.C., area and was appointed In 2005 Mark joined the faculty Telecommunications Commission. chief engineer of Celebration Studios in of the Recording Arts Department at The IU Jacobs School of Music and midtown Manhattan. Celebration the IU Jacobs School of Music, where he the audio engineering department have specialized in music for advertising, continues to produce and record projects benefted deeply from Mark’s tenure. television, and flm, but also opened the for artists from around the country. We wish him and his wife, Chris, the best studio after hours to the very active New Recently, he produced Plain Spoken, a in retirement, where he will undoubtedly York jazz, punk, and art music scene. full-length autobiographical live-concert continue to fnd interesting projects and By day the studio did recording and flm by John Mellencamp, recorded at the remain involved in the Bloomington and post-production for national advertising Chicago Theater. His primary research university communities. campaigns and feature-length flms, and in interest centers on the preservation of the evenings, they hosted all manner of legacy audio formats. To that end, he was Konrad Strauss jazz, Latin, punk, new wave, no wave, and appointed to the IU Bloomington Media downtown “art” music projects, usually Preservation Initiative Task Force led by with Mark at the controls. then-Associate Vice Provost for Research

Retiring Faculty / 19 LARRY HUMES

Larry Humes’ rise from modest Hoosier them to return to their beloved Hoosier origins to international prominence in state and be closer to their extended the feld of audiology and hearing science families. Larry was hired as a professor and his appointment as a distinguished in the Department of Speech and Hearing professor make an inspiring story. Other Sciences in 1986. In 2010, he was awarded than the year he lived in Michigan the rank of distinguished professor, pursuing a master’s degree at Central the frst in the department’s 70-year Michigan University, the two years in history to be so honored. Illinois pursuing a Ph.D. from Northwestern For a few years after their arrival in University, and the eight years on the Bloomington, Marty decided to keep her faculty at Vanderbilt University prior to primary focus on the family, teaching part joining IU’s faculty, Larry has lived his life time. Once their children grew to become in Indiana. Larry’s mother, a frst- independent young adults, Marty went generation Italian American, and father, back to college to update her credentials, a Depression-era orphan—neither college served as a frequent substitute teacher for graduates—wanted all six of their children a few years, and then returned to her craft to have a college education. Larry, the on a full-time basis for the fnal 12 years second oldest, was the frst in his extended of her career in early childhood education. family to graduate from college and each of Through their almost half-century his four younger siblings followed him. His collaborative partnership, both have been parents took great pride in their children’s years, a strong, loving, and enduring fortunate to have been able to fulfll their college degrees and subsequent careers. partnership was forged, one that continued personal and professional ambitions. Larry credits a part of his motivation for to grow over time. Larry’s academic career has been one excelling academically and professionally After obtaining his Ph.D., Larry of highest distinction and an unparalleled to the unselfsh commitment his and Marty moved to Nashville, Tennessee, level of achievement in his feld. He is the hardworking parents made to insuring that where Larry began his academic career author or co-author of 211 publications in their children would have the educational as an assistant professor and Marty his feld’s top scientifc journals. He has opportunities they never had themselves. continued her teaching career. A year later received 38 federal and private grants to Larry credits a larger part of his their son, Andrew (Andy), was born, support his research laboratory. He has motivation and success to the support and followed 30 months later by the birth of mentored 18 Ph.D. students, many of sacrifce of the love of his life, his wife, their daughter, Lauren. Larry rose rapidly whom have gone on to establish their own Marty. High-school sweethearts, they through the ranks, being promoted to successful careers. He has received married following their sophomore year at professor near the end of his eighth year at numerous awards, fellowships, and Purdue University. To pay for their living Vanderbilt. During that time, Marty chose honors. He served as department chair expenses and tuition after marriage, both to focus on raising their children, always for 9 years and director of audiology for Larry and Marty worked during and with an eye toward returning to her craft 11 years. His appointment as an Indiana between school years. During their junior when circumstances allowed. Their two University distinguished professor in 2010 and senior years, both carried full course children beneftted from Marty’s love and was in recognition of his outstanding loads so that they could graduate on time her talents as an early-childhood educator, academic and scientifc accomplishments. in four years. Larry had a full-time job both bundled into her most treasured title, Now that Larry is also retired, his during his junior and senior years, working “Mom.” Larry and Marty valued their and Marty’s enduring partnership enters from 6:00 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. at a local roles as parents above all, but Marty’s another new and exciting chapter, one that refrigerated food warehouse. Marty willingness to devote her primary focus to will certainly involve more travel together worked 20–40 hours per week at a local the children allowed Larry the opportunity and time spent with family, including their grocery store and food cannery and, during to focus on the development of his four beautiful grandchildren. At least it her fnal undergraduate semester, as a academic career. As in other stages of their should be easier now for each to attain full-time paid student-teaching fellow. lives together, theirs was a mutually their desired work-life balance! While Larry pursued master’s and Ph.D. agreed-upon partnership, one in which degrees, working 15–20 hours per week as each of them valued and respected the Phil Connell a clinical audiologist and carrying a full other’s contribution and sought the desired course load in the Ph.D. program, Marty work-life balance for each. was a full-time elementary school teacher, After eight wonderful years commuting 30–60 minutes each way for in Nashville, both personally and work. From these busy and strenuous early professionally, an opportunity arose for

20 / Indiana University Bloomington CHARLES (CHUCK) LIVINGSTON

After 37 years in the Department (MAA) Lester R. Ford Award for expository of Mathematics at Indiana University, writing. He co-authored, with colleague Charles (Chuck) Livingston retired on Paul Voakes in the School of Journalism, December 31, 2018. His colleagues and the book Working with Numbers and friends salute his profound research Statistics: A Handbook for Journalists. contributions to pure mathematics, his Chuck is an excellent teacher. He was devotion to teaching, and his service to awarded the Rothrock Teaching Award in the department and the university. 1993 (the department’s highest award), the Chuck grew up in Burbank, California. Trustees Teaching Award in 2001 and He began his university studies at the 2012, and the Indiana Section of the MAA University of California, Los Angeles, then Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2013. transferred to the Massachusetts Institute He has a reputation as a kind yet of Technology, receiving a B.S. in 1975. He demanding instructor. He has taught a earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from the University greater variety of courses than any of his of California, Berkeley. His thesis, titled colleagues. He has long been devoted to “The Knotting of Surfaces in 4-Space,” was teaching courses for future primary and written under the direction of Rob Kirby. secondary mathematics teachers. Several Chuck spent a year at Rice University of his Ph.D. students are now successful before coming to Indiana University in scholars and his collaborators. Chuck was 1981. He was granted tenure in 1987 a frequent member of thesis committees in and promoted to professor in 1992. steady stream of visits by the best young other departments and universities. He Chuck is an internationally known knot theorists in the world. was a frequent departmental go-between expert in knot theory, the study of knotted Chuck’s two major mathematical with the College; Chuck’s counsel on curves in 3-dimensional space, with a focus strengths are his ability to peel away curricular or assessment issues was always on their 4-dimensional aspects. He has technicalities to expose and attack the useful and direct. written more than 85 refereed articles essential difculty in a mathematical Chuck served on the College and two monographs, one of them his problem, and his creativity in fnding Policy Committee and as director of award- winning book, Knot Theory. He has (and solving) new geometric problems. undergraduate studies. But his most directed eight Ph.D. theses, has been In the best mathematical tradition, he infuential and important service role was supported by grants from the National has always strived to fnd the most elegant, as the conscience of the department and Science Foundation and the Simons elementary, and concise solutions to university. Chuck led several crusades Foundation, has won numerous teaching problems, even when the methods used are against what he saw as ill-advised awards, and served as director of deep and technical. He has frequently proposals. He may have lost more battles undergraduate studies in the mathematics provided simple solutions to problems that than he won, but in each case he took a department. were previously only understood using well-informed stand, always motivated by Knot theory can be studied from complicated approaches. the goal of improving the scholarly mission two perspectives, continuous and smooth. Chuck embraced the digital age, of the university. Chuck’s early work focused on the use of making an important contribution to Chuck’s topology parties, typically non-abelian methods to probe the the international knot theory community featuring his own baked desserts, are the continuous case. In 2003, knot theory with his creation and maintenance of the glue of our academic group. His interests underwent a renaissance with the KnotInfo website. This comprehensive include a passion for cinema and introduction of the Heegaard Floer theory, database of knots and knot invariants crossword puzzles. He went through an a powerful and difcult tool with its roots is used by researchers worldwide intensely focused pottery period. He loves in analysis and theoretical physics. Chuck to formulate or test conjectures in the great outdoors and has hiked in many quickly realized its potential to solve knot theory. of America’s splendid parks. previously intractable problems and he Chuck is an excellent writer. We thank Chuck Livingston for essentially reinvented himself, soon He insists on short, clear sentences and his many accomplishments, as well as for proving important theorems using this perfect grammar, as well as tightly focused his friendship and his mathematical new and mysterious approach. and polished exposition of mathematical generosity. We wish him a most pleasant Chuck has an amazing facility with ideas. His book Knot Theory is, in our retirement. geometric visualization, in particular the opinion, the best introductory book on the ability to produce knots that illustrate subject. It was chosen by the Association of Jim Davis subtle phenomena. In conversations, he American Publishers as the outstanding Paul Kirk exhibits a vast reservoir of knowledge mathematics book of 1993. His paper combined with mathematical common “Enhanced Linking Numbers” won the sense. As a result, Bloomington has had a Mathematics Association of America

Retiring Faculty / 21 J. SCOTT LONG

Scott Long joined IU in 1989 as professor Arts and Sciences to appoint a department after 11 years at Washington State University. chair, recruit faculty, secure space, and Over the next three decades, Scott brought create a governance structure. After the distinction to IU through groundbreaking department was established in 2006, Scott substantive and methodological research, split his time between sociology and exceptional graduate training, and statistics, using his vast experience to help dedicated institutional service. the fedgling department negotiate the Scott has contributed to multiple challenges of faculty recruitment, areas of sociological research, having developing new degree programs, and published more than 70 scholarly creating essential links to other units on manuscripts on statistical modeling and campus. His infuence is evident in the in substantive felds spanning science successful M.S. in applied statistics studies, gender studies, life course studies, program, which allows students in other stigma, and health. He initially studied the IU graduate programs to obtain a structure and dynamics of scientifc secondary degree in statistics. Scott also careers, testing the hegemonic view that created the Workshop in Methods, which science is meritocratic. Using painstakingly continues to draw faculty and students assembled longitudinal data on the careers from across campus. of biochemists, Scott modeled key career Among his many honors are the events and uncovered a complex process, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Memorial Award for fnding that once scientists become Scott turned his attention to the Distinguished Contributions to Sociological established, their productivity shifts to research process itself with his 2008 book, Methodology (2002); the 2007/2008 conform to the expectations of their The Workfow of Data Analysis, which Women, Science, and Technology department. He then turned to gender extols the virtues of systematic planning, Distinguished Lectureship; and the diferences in scientifc careers, showing organization, and documentation of Learner-Rosenthal Prize from the Berkeley that the average paper published by a quantitative research projects; exposes the Initiative for Transparency in the Social female scientist receives more citations pitfalls of poor workfow; and provides a Sciences (2015). In 2013 Scott was elected than that of a male scientist. Scott was also roadmap for individual and collaborative a fellow of the American Statistical editor of a National Academies of Science research projects. It has been lauded Association “For his integrative writing, report, From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender worldwide, translated into Chinese, and teaching, and statistical software on Diferences in the Careers of Doctoral inspired many workshop invitations. limited dependent variable models, his Scientists and Engineers, which Scott’s work has been infuential in infuential manuscripts on structural documented the leaky pipeline for women part because he makes complex ideas and equation models, his path-breaking book in the sciences. Later, he began research methods comprehensible to a wide on workfow, and his key role in creating a on health and aging, stigma and mental audience. The same qualities made Scott new Department of Statistics at IU.” illness, and human sexuality. an outstanding teacher, responsible for What colleagues value most is Scott’s As a doctoral student at Cornell ensuring that generations of graduate superb mentorship. Scott understands how University, Scott published his frst paper students left IU with a frm grasp of institutions operate and ofers sage advice on measurement error in linear models in quantitative methods. Recognizing these about how to navigate their complexities. Sociological Methods and Research, a contributions, sociology honored Scott He is a model of collegiality, unfailingly journal he would one day helm as editor. with its Edwin Sutherland Teaching patient and generous to colleagues even His 1983 books, Confrmatory Factor Award. Scott’s teaching reaches far beyond when he disagrees with their positions. Analysis and Covariance Structure IU through his popular courses at the He taught each of us a great deal about Analysis, systematized the emerging Interuniversity Consortium for Political how to be efective administrators. literature on structural equation modeling. and Social Research’s Summer Institute Retirement will allow Scott to His 1997 book, Regression Models for and through the work of his students, now devote more attention to several books in Categorical and Limited Dependent placed at prestigious institutions progress, spend more time with his family, Variables, is widely regarded as the classic throughout the country. and revive his enthusiasm for photography, work in the area. Its companion, Scott combined his academic interest even as he continues to give invited Regression Models for Categorical in scientifc careers with administrative lectures and workshops on the workfow of Dependent Variables Using Stata (with service, serving as chair of sociology and as social science research. We sincerely hope former student, Jeremy Freese), is used in associate vice provost for research. He that he occasionally returns to enlighten countless graduate statistics courses and advocated tirelessly for improvements to the next generation on the possibilities of has been cited more than 16,000 times. IU’s social science research infrastructure, rigorous social research. His technical contributions to categorical and his eforts were key to establishing a data analysis, including methods for group Department of Statistics. Scott chaired the Jane McLeod comparisons, are widely cited across the Departmental Formation Committee for Patricia McManus social sciences. two years and worked with the College of Michael Trosset

22 / Indiana University Bloomington WENDY MARENCIK

As we prepare for her retirement, I am accomplishments include: (1) working delighted to ofer some insights into with other TAL faculty to complete a Dr. Wendy Marencik’s contribution to the thorough curriculum mapping of the program, the department, IU, and the program; (2) devising and implementing a larger community. One of the most plan to extend student teaching to a full noteworthy aspects of her contributions is year; and (3) supporting workshops to help how connected they all are to the generous, student teachers prepare for completion of loving, and intelligent person that she is. their edTPAs. She has worked closely with Wendy is homegrown. She was born the Ofce of Teacher Education to develop in Detroit but grew up in northern Indiana. our sense of a shared mission. She received her B.S. from Indiana Wendy also works well with our University in special education in 1974. partners in the feld. Within two months of After graduation, she moved to Houston, accepting the role of co-director of TAL, where she taught and supervised programs she visited the heads of special education for students with cognitive and emotional in several school corporations. She disabilities for 10 years, while also continually expands our network of attaining her M.Ed. in educational/school potential host teachers by meeting with psychology from the University of teachers in multiple schools across several Houston. In 1989, she moved to Berlin, corporations on an ongoing basis. Germany, employed as a school Wendy’s commitment to public psychologist by the U.S. Department of as individuals and works to bring out schools is manifest in the work she does Defense Educational Agency for 10 years the best in each of them. These personal with the Indiana Coalition for Public during and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. qualities are refected in the students’ Education. She has published several After 20 years of working in the feld, she glowing course evaluations and in the letters to the editor in the local and returned to her Indiana roots to achieve comments they make on a regular basis. Indianapolis newspapers to make her her Ph.D. in special education with a minor It is clear that students admire and respect views known. In these letters, Wendy in clinical psychology at IU Bloomington. Wendy very much and often credit her argues in favor of strengthening public She has taught for the IU School of with their successes. schools so that they can meet the needs Education for the past 17 years. At the end of each academic year, of all students. First and foremost, Wendy is Wendy hosts a gathering for student Wendy has managed all this while dedicated to preparing teachers who can teachers in the Teaching All Learners (TAL) maintaining a demanding teaching load teach children with special needs program. That almost all of the seniors and raising a family. She has raised three efectively. Students beneft greatly from attend this event is a good indication of the girls, one of whom went on to be a teacher. Wendy’s years as a special educator and great esteem they hold for her; imagine Now that her youngest is in her frst year at school psychologist here in Indiana as well students coming from all over the state to University of California, Los Angeles, as in Texas and in Germany. The personal spend a few hours together. One year, Wendy and her husband, Jim, have more experiences she describes illustrate then-superintendent Glenda Ritz spoke, time to play ping pong and put together concretely what students are learning in ofering encouragement and advice to jigsaw puzzles. Add to that her painting, theory, allowing prospective teachers to these teacher candidates who were about gardening, and activism and you can be fully embrace what they are being taught. to embark on their careers. A standard sure Wendy’s retirement will be anything Wendy is constantly working to stay feature of these events is that the student but dull. apprised of new developments and teachers share stories and experiences they As a colleague, Wendy is warm, innovations. She also improves the have had in classrooms. Last year, one kind, and helpful. She has a great sense of teaching of her colleagues by sharing student teacher told this story: Two humor and is just fun to be around! As a current information about evidence-based eight-year-old boys were working together. school champion, a teacher educator, and practices and the changing policy context. One showed the other how to end a colleague, she will be missed a great deal. Wendy knows that teaching is sentence with a period. When the student complex and multifaceted and must be teacher asked the boys what they were Ana Maria Brannan informed by knowledge about one’s self. doing, one of them said, “Oh, I was just She believes that encouraging her students helping Bobby with his period.” Everyone to become self-aware and refective is part laughed at that adorable story and those of of her role. In this and in many other ways, others. This is just one example of how Wendy’s commitment to students extends Wendy draws out the humanity of past the classroom. On multiple occasions our profession. she has gone beyond the call of duty to aid Wendy has also worked to improve students who were experiencing personal the TAL program. Her eforts in this regard and professional struggles. And as a special are informed by her dissertation research, educator, she knows the importance of the which examined the experiences of students individual. She understands her students in their feld placements. Some of her

Retiring Faculty / 23 DALE MCFADDEN

Dale McFadden has been a faculty member Dale is a director who comes to the at Indiana University since 1985. He table having done all of his research and serves as associate chair in the Department preparation for each production, including of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary reading all the reviews of all the previous Dance, where he also heads the M.F.A. important productions and fnding and acting and directing programs. Dale watching any visual materials available— supplemented his theatrical training with including the VHS tapes of the production attendance at University of London and or movie if such a thing existed. His Trinity College in Dublin before going on attention to detail is exquisite; he serves as to direct professionally in Chicago. a role model for professional as well as He has worked at the Goodman Studio, academic directors and actors. We don’t Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The know if he ever golfed a day in his life, but Theatre Building, The Raven Theatre, one could expect to fnd him at his desk Renaissance Rep, and Chicago Dramatists, with the set model in front of him, moving and was artistic director at The Body golf tees around as he did his pre-blocking Politic. His Chicago production of The of the script. King’s Clown won several Joseph Jeferson Dale is always consistent with the Award citations. topics of conversation outside of class and Dale’s directing interests include work. When Chris Berg moved back into classical works, modern drama, and new town in 1997, he owned a 1996 Ford F150 plays. Some favorite credits include Table guiding artists who have gone on to pickup. Chris said, “I owned that truck 17 and Tweaked at New York City’s 78th shape the American theatre. In 2001 he until 2004. During that time, Dale Street Theatre; High Holidays at Chicago’s participated in the International purchased the same model truck, and to Victory Gardens; and This, Mauritius, Conference on Actor Training in Paris. this day, still drives it to work occasionally. Stuf Happens, Fat Pig, and A Number at He has also been a frequent director at He would ask my opinion on maintenance the Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis. the New Play Development Conference of the truck years after I sold mine.” For IU Theatre he directed Pride and for the Association for Theatre in Former student Chris Handley said, Prejudice, Lacy and Ashley . . ., The School Higher Education. “While we were working on Hedda Gabler, for Scandal, In the Next Room (or The While he has directed all kinds of Dale said to me, ‘If I can suggest a line is Vibrator Play), Marat/Sade, Dead Man plays, Dale seemed to do his best work in more than itself, believe me, I’ll do it.’” In Walking, and Macbeth; and The Gentleman non-realism and the work of Samuel like manner, we would say that a career is from Indiana, The Miracle Worker, The Beckett. He directed Waiting for Godot as more than itself. Because at the end of the Matchmaker, You Can’t Take It with You, the last production in IU’s old University day, when the work is done and the show is and Ah, Wilderness! for The Indiana Theatre in fall 2001. In the hands of a closed, what we will all carry on is the Festival Theatre. He was a director at lesser director, Godot is often difcult. heart and soul of an artist passionate about Brown County Playhouse for 25 seasons. However, Dale’s production is particularly his work and the collaborators who helped At Crossroads Repertory Theatre, he remembered because it truly came to life— make that work. directed the Midwestern premiere of one could actually understand the heart Terre Haute (also presented at Indiana and depth of the piece. Ansley Valentine Repertory Theatre). Other credits include a We will always remember the staged reading of High Holidays at Dale-isms, common catch phrases that Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre; and seemed to pepper his conversations with River City, Seminar, This, Mauritius, Stuf students and colleagues. Statements such Happens, Fat Pig, and A Number at the as: “the devil is in the details,” “the proof Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis. is in the pudding,” “in a good way,” and Dale traveled in May 2014 to the Here “GRRREEAATTT!” will always bring him and Now Festival in Mannheim, Germany, to mind. Former student Ashley Dillard to direct the premiere of A Letter from said, “We had this phrase called the ‘Dale Aunt Sophie, a new play based on the life Boomerang.’ Sometimes Dale would say of Polish resistance leader Jan Karski. The things to us in class or give a note in production also toured Poland before it rehearsal and it would make absolutely no returned for a United States premiere in sense. And I would think about it for days Indiana at Crossroads Repertory Theatre and days and then bam—it would come and Chopin Theatre in Chicago, followed back and hit me in the back of the head by a new production recently at the Jewish and make perfect sense.” Theatre of Bloomington. A large amount of Dale’s work Dale has taught all levels of acting included interfacing with the technical side and directing at IU, and is responsible for of productions.

24 / Indiana University Bloomington MICHAEL D. MCGINNIS

After 34 years at Indiana University during his Indiana University career. Bloomington, Mike McGinnis retired in While most faculty members are content to June 2019. He has spent his entire repeat their course oferings from semester academic career at IU as a faculty member to semester and year to year, Mike has in the Department of Political Science, followed a diferent path. All told, he has while also holding adjunct and afliated taught 17 diferent undergraduate courses appointments in several other units of the and 8 diferent graduate courses. university. In all of these positions, Mike Especially impressive is the role that he exemplifed a deep commitment to the played in sustaining the feld of public well-being of Indiana University. His policy in the Department of Political friends, colleagues, and students are Science at a crucial time and being a delighted to recognize his varied and major mainstay in ofering the core seminar in achievements at the time of his retirement. the Joint Ph.D. Program in Public Policy Mike grew up on a farm in ofered by the department and the School northwestern Ohio, earned his B.S. in of Public and Environmental Afairs. For a mathematics from The Ohio State number of years, he served with distinction University in 1980, and received a Ph.D. as the department’s coordinator of the in political science from the University subfeld in public policy and was chair or of Minnesota in 1985. He is thus a a member of numerous graduate student Midwesterner by birth, by education, committees at the written exam and and by career. policy, by which he meant the dissertation stages. From an early age, Mike was response of national governments, Mike’s service contributions fascinated by maps and math and found international organizations (IGOs), have been truly impressive. Especially his career path when he realized that it was and nongovernmental organizations noteworthy have been the various possible to use math to study politics, (NGOs) to local and regional conficts. leadership positions he held at the Ostrom specifcally international relations. His This new research agenda resulted in Workshop. These positions included initial research focused on the rivalry the publication of studies that focused co-associate director, co-director, and between the United States and the USSR; on topics such as the design and director for three years (2010–12). he employed rational expectations models implementation of policies related to Mike was highly successful in these and time series analysis to examine the humanitarian relief, development positions, leading the workshop in the competition between the superpowers. assistance, and peace-building and interdisciplinary tradition forged by the This early stage in his career was marked reconciliation in troubled regions of the Ostroms. More recently, Mike served as by a mutually benefcial collaboration world, as well as standard topics such as chair of the Department of Political between Mike and his colleague and close education, health care, and welfare Science for a year (2015–16) before friend, John Williams. Their collaboration assistance in societies less directly assuming his current position of associate led to a number of articles that were challenged by the ravages of war. dean for social and historical sciences and published in leading journals in As Mike’s research agenda took graduate education in the College of Arts international politics and culminated in on a public policy perspective, he began and Sciences in July 2015. This latter the publication of a book-length monograph a long-term and extremely fruitful and position has been an excellent ft for Mike entitled Compound Dilemmas: Democracy, rewarding collaboration with his because it requires an interdisciplinary Collective Action, and Superpower colleagues and friends Vincent and Elinor focus, which has been at the core of his Rivalry, published by the University of Ostrom, who founded and directed the interests since the beginning of his career. Michigan Press in 2001. During this Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Mike has had a varied and highly period, Mike was teaching his favorite Analysis, an interdisciplinary research and successful career at Indiana University. It courses on the nuclear arms race and teaching center focused on institutions, is a pleasure to recognize his achievements strategic arms control. resource management, and democratic as he embarks on a well-deserved But with the Cold War coming to an governance. Their collaborative research retirement that will aford him more time end, Mike was forced to shift his teaching led to numerous publications focusing to root for his beloved Ohio State football and research agenda. Fortunately, his on the myriad ways in which local team and improve his golf handicap, interests were interdisciplinary from the communities around the world manage though it is doubtful that he will ever very beginning of his career, so the resources critical to their own survival. outperform Shelia in mastering this transition to a public policy focus was Additionally, he has edited or co-edited impossible game. virtually seamless. Originally trained in the seven volumes of readings on governance study of confict between states, Mike now issues written by scholars associated with Edward G. Carmines approached international politics from the the Ostrom Workshop. perspective of public policy. He was Mike has taught a wide variety of particularly interested in global confict graduate and undergraduate courses

Retiring Faculty / 25 STUART MUFSON

Stuart Mufson knew, growing up in Philly, required for the NOvA experiment to that he wanted to be an astronomer. After keep the detectors cold. completing a B.A. and an M.S. in physics at Finally, Stuart led the development the University of Pennsylvania, he began of an innovative, on-orbit calibration his astronomical career at the University of system for a satellite mission to measure Chicago, working under Peter Vandervoort. the properties of dark energy. The system He completed his dissertation on the made use of light-emitting diodes to stability of the shocked interstellar provide precisely regulated light at the medium in 1973 and was awarded a Ph.D. required wavelengths. His dissertation, published in 1974, is still Stuart’s research career spanned a cited as one of the fundamental papers in remarkable range of astrophysics, from the feld, explaining how shock waves theory to observational astronomy to space increase gas density to create clouds in the and particle astrophysics, and he was interstellar medium, leading ultimately to always working on problems that star formation. interested him. He made noteworthy As a postdoctoral research contributions in each of these areas. associate at the National Radio Astronomy Stuart also earned a reputation Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, as an outstanding teacher, both at the Stuart continued his theoretical work on undergraduate and the graduate level, the stability of the interstellar medium, where he became responsible for the but also expanded his expertise to As the MACRO collaboration department’s graduate course on the observational radio astronomy. wound down, Stuart joined the MINOS interstellar medium. He also took on He detected the frst molecule (carbon experiment at Fermilab, focusing on responsibility for a graduate course on monoxide) ever seen in a planetary nebula, neutrino astrophysics, working at the cosmology, adapting the course as the feld and attributed its presence to a shell of gas Soudan underground mine in northern itself became increasingly quantitative and ejected from the star in its pre-planetary Minnesota. He later joined the NOvA as the discovery of the acceleration of the nebula phase. Stuart then moved to a experiment. Both of these experiments universe changed our perspective of the postdoctoral position at the Marshall involved building instrumentation to cosmos. Stuart mentored more than a Space Flight Center in Huntsville, detect neutrinos shot through Earth from dozen graduate students, working both Alabama, where he began to work with Fermilab near Chicago to the deep mine. on hardware and on interesting satellite observations. Results included measurements of the astro-physical problems. Stuart joined Indiana University as muon charge ratio and the kaon/pion At the undergraduate level, Stuart an assistant astronomy professor in 1977. ratio. In a feat of instrumental prowess, was particularly well known for the energy During his early years on the faculty, Stuart Stuart and his collaborators were able to and enthusiasm he brought to teaching continued his observational research, detect the shadows of the sun and moon introductory courses for non-science focusing increasingly on active galactic in the fux of cosmic ray particles detected majors. His introductory course on nuclei. His repertoire expanded from the in the Soudan mine. cosmology was particularly popular, radio spectrum to include a broad range of Among Stuart’s most intriguing despite the challenging subject matter. the electromagnetic spectrum, adding contributions to the MINOS experiment Stuart brought a vision of the non-intuitive optical and X-ray observations to better is his search for a sidereal modulation in universe in which we live into clarity for understand the physics of these high- the MINOS near detector neutrino data. students. Stuart enjoyed taking on energy sources in the centers of galaxies. Any change in the signal strength with controversial topics such as astrology and Stuart found his passion building direction sets a limit on any violation of ESP in his courses, pointing out how belief hardware for experiments in high energy Lorentz and CPT invariance, as predicted often matters more than evidence in physics, focusing specifcally on particle by a class of extensions to the Standard people’s thinking. He is also famous for astrophysics. He joined the MACRO Model of particle physics. He found no warning students not to take his courses if collaboration in the Gran Sasso mine in evidence of any violation of Lorentz and they loved their grandparents, since the Italy, working on the detection of cosmic CPT invariance, with upper limits on any grandparents of so many students seemed rays and high energy neutrinos and muons violations at less than 1 percent. to pass away during each semester! Stuart (and also searching for quark matter). As part of the NOvA experiment, received the College of Arts and Sciences Stuart became known as an ace Stuart was responsible for production and Alumni Association Distinguished Teacher instrumentalist, making important delivery of 3.3 million gallons—10,000 Award in 1987 and a Trustees Teaching contributions to the MACRO tons—of liquid scintillator to the Soudan Award in 2005. instrumentation as well as to balloon mine. Liquid scintillator is a material that experiments setting limits on the presence becomes luminescent when high energy Catherine Pilachowski of anti-matter in the universe from cosmic particles pass through it. Mufson and his rays, a key constraint on theories of the team also designed and constructioned the Big Bang origin of our universe. 13,000 thermally controlled heat sinks

26 / Indiana University Bloomington JEFFREY PALMER

Distinguished Professor of Biology and Jef’s trainees were in awe of his deep Class of ’55 Professor Jef Palmer retires vocabulary, which painted the colorful after 30 years at IU. Jef’s father was a prose that make his writing instantly foreign service ofcer in the state recognizable and his papers so enjoyable to department, so Jef enjoyed a world-capital read. Despite rolling their eyes as Jef childhood. Born in London, he lived there edited and reedited their manuscripts, his and then Athens for his frst six years. Then trainees happily inherited his consummate the family moved to Washington, D.C., editing skills and eye for detail. And where Jef fell in love with nature, although many tried, only one ever bested especially the botanical world. College took Jef in ping pong. Humiliated opponents him to Swarthmore College and grad often cited apparent supernatural forces school to Stanford University. There he fell and his home-court advantage. Jef’s in love twice more. Forever with Mimi students and postdocs always felt that their Zolan, his soulmate of 40 years, who interests and successes were of paramount retired as IU professor of biology last year. importance to him, and it was this, And probably forever with the genomes of perhaps more than anything, that they chloroplasts and mitochondria. These appreciated and admired in Jef. evolutionary marvels tell a two-billion-year Faculty esteem came in the form story of endosymbiosis, phylogeny, and of Jef’s election (or reelection) as transcompartmental integration at the department chair four times. He actually most intricate and awe-inspiring levels. Jef’s numerous scientifc honors served as chair for “only” 10 years, twice Starting in graduate school and include a Presidential Young Investigator stepping down early because the job was continuing in his fve faculty years at the Award in 1985 and a Special Creativity taking too big a toll on his research University of Michigan and his early Award in 1991, both from the National program (and sanity). As chair, Jef IU years, Jef pioneered two related felds Science Foundation; the David Starr worked tirelessly for the good of the of study. One was comparative genomics, Jordan Prize in 1991; election to the department, ushering in a new era of where he made a series of groundbreaking American Academy of Arts and Sciences faculty growth that helped transform the discoveries concerning the structure and in 1999 and the National Academy of department, building excellence in areas evolution of plant chloroplasts and Sciences in 2000; a Guggenheim from microbiology to evolution. He also mitochondrial genomes. The other was Fellowship in 2005; and the McClintock helped foster a renewed appreciation and plant molecular phylogenetics, where he Prize for Plant Genetics and Genome commitment to the department’s teaching used chloroplast DNA variation to Studies in 2016. mission. He fercely and unyieldingly elucidate the genealogical history of plant Jef is most proud, however, to have championed the interests of the evolution. He developed widely used won the high esteem of his trainees and department, and of the sciences in general, methodology, trained many current biology colleagues. He trained 40 with fve college deans and with several leaders, and published numerous postdoctoral fellows and 20 graduate chancellors, provosts, and IU presidents. infuential studies. students, many of whom have had notable For example, he led the three-year, Over the past 25 years, Jef’s lab careers themselves. Jef was a devoted and very-much-uphill battle that sited Simon conducted equally pioneering work on outstanding research mentor. His mentees Hall so propitiously. evolutionary gene transfer. He described recognized this on the occasion of his 50th What’s next for Jef? More time with the frst cases of modern-day, functional birthday in 2005, when they organized and family and friends. Much travel with Mimi, transfer of organelle genes to the nucleus traveled from around the world to attend, especially to the splendors and solitude of and elucidated mechanisms, rates, and write appreciations for, and speak in nature, including the magnifcence of constraints on these transfers. He “Genomes in Flux: A Symposium in Honor Utah, where their son Michael lives. Visits discovered that plants capture genes, and of Jef Palmer.” One mentee wrote: “I use to a few special cities, especially London, even whole genomes, from other plants Jef Palmer stories all the time to inspire where their son Nick lives. Community and from algae. He showed that these my students and postdocs.” Another said: service. Continued scientifc research, but horizontal transfers occur remarkably “Palmerlab was an amazing place to work. less consumingly so. A return to the tennis often in plant mitochondrial genomes but The group you assembled and the court and the ping-pong table. Hiking in never in their chloroplast genomes, and leadership you provided in countless big the woods. Tending to his back-to-the- that mitochondrial fusion is the driving and small ways are always an inspiration. forest yard. Knowing Jef, a listaholic of force for this profound diference. It felt like (and was pretty much true) the the best and worst kind, I can say that his Jef’s ventures outside the world of plant really exciting stories in plant systematics retirement list undoubtedly runneth over. organelle genomes have also broken new and evolution, molecular evolution, and I wish him well in balancing his ground, on diverse topics such as the genome evolution were coming from many passions. origin and evolution of nuclear introns and the Palmer lab. It’s a testament to your the deep phylogeny of the tree of life. leadership how much that has remained Lynda Delph the case through two decades.”

Retiring Faculty / 27 PHILIP PARNELL

From his third-foor ofce in Sycamore a post as an executive at Armco Steel. In Hall, Phil Parnell could see through the mid-1960s Middleton, Phil enjoyed happy treetops as folk walked among the days as a high school student. He was limestone buildings, the diagonal paths editor of the newspaper and travelled to leading their movement across the seasons Tokyo, Japan, as an exchange student. and years. Inside, the heat might be After high school graduation, Phil left clanging even as the air conditioner for Princeton University, where he was a pumped, by hook or by crook making the member of the managing board of the old dorm room comfortable for Daily Princetonian. In the University conversation. Visitors would be met with Scholars Program, in lieu of regular course a big old black leather desk chair, its requirements, he wrote a thesis on the seemingly inviting nature qualifed once passage of the frst Air Pollution Control one sat down by a tendency to tilt, creating Act in the New York-New Jersey area. an odd maritime feeling of needing to hold The project sparked a lifelong interest in one’s body in balance whilst pursuing the the anthropology of law. After college, he matters at hand. The combined efect went to study with Laura Nader at the somehow made things slightly comic, at University of California, Berkeley, in one least for me, always leavening one’s sense of the few law and society centers in the of any difculties and freeing one’s ideas United States. In graduate school, from whatever might be holding them he learned to appreciate the value of back. In quiet moments between Fulbright Research Award, he went to the interdisciplinarity. This led him to sentences, a visitor could gaze at the books, Philippines and moved into Payatas Estate IU Bloomington, where he joined a young, some lined up properly on the shelves, to study the frst People Power Revolution idealistic, and interdisciplinary group of many in helter-skelter groupings, all and grassroots democracy. He arrived at faculty led by Ellen Dwyer, Hal Pepinsky, pulling one’s imagination to diferent parts the end of the Marcos dictatorship, when and Victor Stribe. Together, they and of the world and diferent kinds of those who had gone underground or been others worked to broaden the boundaries scholarship, yet suggesting together a solid exiled were resurfacing and returning to of criminal justice, creating a more core in law and society. neighborhoods to resist forced demolitions inclusive sense of whose voices could be My ofce was across the hall. and relocations. Three decades later, in the heard and what could be taught and In between the many graduate and current moment of failed national researched. Crime’s Power, the volume I undergraduate students entering and democracy, Philippine President Duterte co-edited with Phil, was inspired by exiting Phil’s ofce, I, too, would fnd sees the strong and active democratic force UC Berkeley and supported by Indiana refuge in his company, kindness, and keen of Payatas as a threat. His police are University, even as it pushed the frontiers insight. When in 2014 we both moved targeting and killing the very leaders who of professional discourse in both arenas by from criminal justice to international have been able to realize their vision of analytically integrating personal studies, from the familiarity of old housing democracy as the way out of experience in feldwork. Sycamore Hall to the bright stone-and- poverty. Is there a way the leaders can fnd From Escalating Disputes, Phil’s frst glass architecture of the Global and safety and resist the violence? This is the book about the Oaxacan marketplace, to International Studies Building, Phil momentous question that motivates Phil his book in progress, Transgression in became the inaugural director of Southeast as he retires from full-time teaching. He is Translation, about rights-seeking in the Asian and ASEAN Studies. His dedication writing against the lies about the poor that Philippines, Phil has thoughtfully to human rights has continued to bend to justify their murder, illuminating the participated in the complex, regional-scale the tasks of helping students and accomplishments and values of those in intricacies of social justice. I don’t see him colleagues craft meaningful intellectual danger of being killed, and waiting until it stopping anytime soon. But I surely will lives of their own. makes sense to return to his home away miss being able to talk to him in his ofce But there’s another side to Phil’s work, from home. across the hall. on the other side of the world. The Payatas Meanwhile, he is also commuting Estate is home to more than 300,000 of back and forth from Bloomington to Stephanie Kane Metro Manila’s poorest people, who have Middleton, Ohio, to care for his father, self-organized into three democratic who was part of the D-Day invasion of federations. Phil’s vantage point is unique; World War II. His mother died two years he has witnessed, and been part of, the ago. Some biography in a nutshell: Phil entire arc of this vital housing project for was born in Atlanta during the civil rights the poor, the largest in the Philippines. era. The family moved to Middleton, a In academic year 1986–87, with a company town, where his father took

28 / Indiana University Bloomington ANDREAS POULIMENOS

Baritone Andreas Poulimenos retires usually you can fnd it full of his students this spring after celebrating the milestone and their friends observing lessons. One of of 50 years as a teacher of voice. He was his favorite teaching activities is to invite awarded both the Bachelor of Music and one of us and our studio to share a Master of Music degrees from the Boston masterclass, where we collaborate, Conservatory of Music, where he studied teaching each other’s students. He delights voice with Iride Pilla and coached opera in watching a colleague produce successful with John Moriarty. As a young singer, results in a way that might appear to be the Andy was an apprentice at Santa Fe Opera, opposite of his own method. won second prize in the WGN Chicago Love of family is the only thing that Auditions of the Air, and won frst place in comes before Andy’s love of teaching. First the Maria de Varady Award Competition. among his retirement goals is spending In 1967 he was a winner of the New more time with his lovely wife, Lee, baker England Regional Metropolitan Opera of the best baklava in Bloomington; son Auditions, and competed in the fnals Jimmy and his new wife, Annette; along with his future IU colleague, Emerita daughter Andrea; and of course playing Professor Costanza Cuccaro. Poulimenos Santa for his two grandchildren. In was also chosen to participate in the temperate weather you will fnd him Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Program. basking in the sun, working on his tan, or A Fulbright Scholarship took him to rising out of the pool—our very own Greek the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, a capstone to his teaching career, and Poseidon. Opa! Italy, for vocal study with baritone Paolo joined IU in 2002, bringing a number of Silver. He studied the style and very talented students with him. While at Mary Ann Hart conventions of Italian opera privately with IU, Andy has experienced some serious conductor/pianist Luigi Ricci, who had and debilitating illnesses, but through worked with Puccini and Mascagni, among them all, you could fnd him in his studio, others. Again, Andy crossed paths with propped up on the couch, teaching. Costanza Cuccaro, also in Rome on a When anyone asks me about his Fulbright, studying with Maestro Luigi teaching, I tell them that Andy could make Ricci. Maestro Ricci was of extremely short a rock sing. I will never forget the master stature, and was wont to rise on tiptoe in class he gave as part of his job interview. order to reward his female students with a It was a revelation, or perhaps a visit from kiss on the cheek when he was pleased Mr. Wizard. Over the years, Andy has with their work. When her husband was developed and refned his own very specifc not available to be her pianist, Andy vocabulary of pedagogical techniques for volunteered to be Cuccaro’s “bodyguard” the phenomena of singing. Some might call and sat in on her lessons to keep a watchful it imagery, but each gesture, instruction, or eye on everything. use of a simple prop is based in the Andy has a lively sense of humor and physiological events that must take place always enjoys a good joke, even if the joke in order to produce a ringing, resonant is on himself. While in Rome, he decided voice that carries over the orchestra. to send all his teachers and colleagues a He knows that his methods work; he holiday card wishing them a Happy New has produced a generation of successful Year. Not yet fuent in Italian, instead of students who bear witness and who credit “Buon Anno!” he inscribed each card their success to him. They have won “Buon Ano!” or (loosely) “Nice Ass!” numerous national and international Professor Poulimenos performed awards, including an Emmy and a Tony, more than 20 operatic roles and made and perform across the United States at concert appearances throughout the the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand United States and in Canada, Germany, Opera, Washington National Opera, and and Switzerland. For over 30 years, Andy Columbus Opera, and in European and taught on the music faculty of Bowling South American opera houses. Some direct Green University, which honored him opera as well as sing. Many teach in with their Faculty Excellence Award. universities across the United States, Some teachers might reach that milestone carrying on the work he began with them. and cheerfully retire, proud of their Andy is a warm and generous accomplishments. Andy was eager for colleague. His studio is always open;

Retiring Faculty / 29 ELIZABETH RAFF

Professor Elizabeth (Beth) Raf has retired for tubulin genes expressed in other tissues from the Department of Biology after a during cell division and in development. In career spanning 47 years at Indiana the years following, Beth became a leading University. A world-renowned scientist fgure in the microtubule feld, using a with expertise in multiple disciplines, Beth carefully choreographed interplay of pioneered the use of genetics to investigate genetics and biochemistry to discover the the roles of individual tubulin genes in the mechanisms by which tubulins had function of microtubule polymers. Beth specialized to modify the role of played a formative role in the nascent feld microtubule polymers. of evolutionary developmental biology Written into so many of Beth’s works (evo-devo), performing experiments that are the basic and foundational questions would show how the same cellular about how complexity could have arisen in polymers could be refactored to allow for the natural world. Throughout her career, new functions throughout animal Beth never left the journey she began with development. A tireless mentor, teacher, her husband, Rudy, to reframe how we and advocate for science, Beth taught core view animal development through the undergraduate and graduate courses to critical strictures of evolution. Beginning hundreds of students over her career while in 1998, Beth and Rudy initiated their running her research laboratory and annual trips to Australia, serving as serving on critical department and visiting professors at the School of university committees. Beth began her work at Indiana Biological Sciences at Sydney University. Beth studied biochemistry at University in 1971 as a postdoctoral fellow Fossil hunting in the outback and a Pennsylvania State University, obtaining a in what was then the Department of long-standing curiosity about fossilized B.S. degree before moving directly to her Zoology. Her work with Rudy examining a materials led Beth to an entirely new area Ph.D. at Duke University in North Carolina. tubulin mutant in axolotl embryos resulted of discovery. In a wonderfully novel set of As a graduate student with Joseph Blum, in a major paper indicating a primal role experiments from a marvelously unique Beth developed an experimental approach for microtubules in early development. team, Beth showed that fossilization is for deconstructing cilia and working with Seeing the power of genetics to explain mediated by microbial bioflms. the motile components, including the fundamental biological phenomena, Beth Capping a long and impressive service microtubules. The work would cement a turned quickly to Drosophila, the leading career, Beth chaired the Department of lifelong interest in how these essential model system for genetic studies. With the Biology from 2002 to 2007, instituting intracellular polymers organize and drive shift to Drosophila, and the reorganization carefully considered organizational motile cells. Another lifelong interest to a singular Department of Biology, Beth changes and weathering a collapse in discovered at Duke was Rudy Raf, Beth’s moved to part-time assistant scientist and federal funding that would alter the husband and scientifc collaborator. progressed to senior scientist and then to research landscape for a decade. With Married in graduate school, the two found tenured professor by the early 1980s. more than 75 scholarly works and reviews postdoctoral positions frst in Washington, The identifcation during this time of a crossing disciplinary boundaries with D.C., and later in Boston. During this time, Drosophila mutant with specifc defects delightful irreverence, Beth Raf was Beth published a prescient work looking at in spermatogenesis led to a series of now elected as a fellow of the American the “wounding” response in cells that were classic papers, published in Cell and the Association for the Advancement of cultured in a petri dish. This assay would Proceedings of the National Academy. Science in 2013 and, with her husband, resurface years later as a standard tool in Led by postdoctoral fellow Ken Kemphues Rudy, was presented with the cytoskeletal biology and beyond. Working (now emeritus at Cornell University), Beth distinguished Career Award for with her husband, Rudy, Beth also played and her group discovered that the family of Outstanding Contributions to an integral role in setting a course toward “tubulin” genes expressing the proteins Geobiosciences in 2015 from the an integration of biochemistry and that polymerize to form microtubules were Geological Society of America. molecular genetics with more classical not interchangeable. Diferent gene studies of the fossil record and animal isoforms showed specifc genetic and Sidney L. Shaw evolutionary biology. A perhaps less biochemical properties that are only now well-known aspect of Beth’s talents is that being molecularly characterized. The she is a very fne artist. Striking evidence of arrival of Margaret “Minx” Fuller (now at this is that she did a majority of the Stanford University) for a postdoctoral illustrations for Rudy’s 1983 book, fellowship with Beth brought depth and Embryos, Genes, and Evolution, which breadth to the evolving story; together represents the founding of the they showed that the lessons learned in aforementioned feld of evo-devo. Drosophila spermatogenesis were also true

30 / Indiana University Bloomington KATHLEEN (KATE) ROWOLD

After 40 years of service to Indiana scholarship ranged from designing University Bloomington, Kate Rowold costumes for musician-writer Lauren retires as a full professor and associate Robert at Bloomington Playwrights Project dean of the School of Art, Architecture, and to designing several novelty ensembles for Design. Born in Milwaukee and raised in Bloomington’s Trashion Refashion Long Island, she received a B.A. from Runway Show, now in its tenth year. Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania; She was invited to speak at the an M.S. from Miami University in Oxford, IU Foundation’s Colloquium for Women Ohio; and a Ph.D. from Purdue University. (2014) and contributed to the Emmy Kate’s tenure at IU emerged in three Award-winning video What’s in a Picture: stages. She began in 1979 teaching theory Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery with the IU and research; by 1983 she had moved into Ezkenazi Museum of Art (2013). She was academic and curatorial administration; active with professional journals and and in 2000 she returned to her frst love, organizations, including Journal of teaching design studios. She served Fashion, Style, and Popular Culture as chair of the Department of Apparel (board member and reviewer); Journal of Merchandising and Interior Design Material Culture (reviewer); Threads (AMID) for 21 years (1983–2000, Magazine (judge); Alliance of Bloomington 2010–14). She was instrumental in Museums (treasurer); Costume Society founding the IU Center for Art and of America (reviewer); Indiana Arts Design-Columbus (IUCAD) in 2011 and As 32-year curator of the Sage Commission (judge); International Textile played a key role in the merger of AMID Collection (1985–2017), and then director and Apparel Association (reviewer); with studio art, leading to the founding of (2000–17), Kate has developed Sage Master of Sewing and Design Certifcation the School of Art, Architecture, and Design holdings from 7,000 to 26,000 objects, as (board); and Professional Association in August 2016. In 2017 she was appointed well as developing the Sage Study Collection of Custom Clothiers (board). associate dean of the school. for instructor and student use. She curated Kate served on many committees As educator and mentor, she taught and co-curated more than 42 exhibitions at at IU, chairing the Provost’s Strategic courses ranging from large lectures to IU and in Bloomington, including exhibits Planning Committee for Design Initiatives small studios, on topics from fashion with the Grunwald Gallery, Mathers (2013–14), which established theory and the history of dress to collection Museum of World Cultures, Wylie House recommendations for the formation of the management and fashion design. She Museum, and Monroe County History School of Art, Architecture, and Design. directed 22 master’s theses and served Center. She guest-curated exhibitions in She served on the Dean of Faculty’s on dozens of master’s and doctoral museums outside of Bloomington, such Promotion Advisory Committee (2007–10) committees. She was active with the as the Indianapolis Museum of Art– and college-level search committees for a Individualized Major Program (IMP) from Columbus Gallery (1985–87), and at the new IMP director (1991) and our school’s 1984 to 2010, sponsoring nearly 90 Museo Italoamericano, including Legacy: own founding dean, Peg Faimon (2016). fashion design students, using IMP as an The Art of Barbara Natoli Witt, San She is also on the Vice Provost’s Research incubator to establish the B.A. in fashion Francisco (2006). Advisory Committee and IU Bloomington’s design (2010). Other exhibition highlights, Academic Associate Deans Committee. Kate is a specialist in the social and co-curated with Kelly Richardson (current Former students say “Kate is a aesthetic history of Western European and Sage curator), include Celebrating a Jazz consummate educator with an ability to U.S. fashion. She worked with Indiana’s Icon: Ella Fitzgerald’s 100th birthday, talk about fashion in a way that is truly favorite son and iconic American fashion Kirkwood Hall Gallery (2018); Eye of the magical. She is a special mentor; it’s designer, Bill Blass. She co-edited the Beholder: Fashion and Transforming valuable to have someone who believes in book, Bill Blass: An American Designer Ideals of Beauty, in conjunction with and supports your development. Kate has (Abrams, 2002), published in conjunction IU’s Themester 2016: A Thing of Beauty, been one of those key people in my career with a retrospective exhibition at the IU IUCAD (2016); Halston: Line and Legacy, and life” (Lori Frye, 2003). “What I most Art Museum (now the Eskenazi Museum Grunwald Gallery (2015); Fashioning a admire about Kate’s leadership is she of Art). Blass’s work with Kate and IU led Legacy: Irwin Sweeney Miller Style, never assumes someone isn’t capable of to a million-dollar bequest for student IUCAD (2012); and Flights of Fancy, something. She would ask if you were, scholarships, guest lecturers, and Sage IU Eskenazi Museum of Art (1997). ofer the opportunity, and let you decide. Collection support. More recently Kate Kate has published in Clothing I quietly consider her the Meryl Streep of helped cultivate a relationship with actress and Textiles Research Journal, Dress higher education—unfappable, smart as a Glenn Close. Working with IU First Lady and Popular Culture, Journal of Social whip, beautiful, and graceful—the person Laurie Burns McRobbie, she developed Behavior and Personality, and you want in the room because she’s a plan for Ms. Close to donate her Psychological Reports. She authored sure to make everyone else look better” career-spanning collection of costumes, exhibition catalogs, juried papers, and (Mary Embry, 1993). comprising nearly 800 pieces from conference proceedings with leading 42 flm, television, and stage productions. professional organizations. Her creative Deb Christiansen

Retiring Faculty / 31 EDWARD W. (BILL) RUF

Bill Ruf joined the Department of Plant emphasis on coral reef ecology. In Sciences at Indiana University in 1974. He addition, Bill recently started teaching in a grew up in Kentucky, where he spent much School of Public and Environmental Afairs of his youth outdoors and developed a Wildlife Conservation Overseas Study deep appreciation for the beauty and Program held in South Africa. complexity of natural systems. Bill remains Bill has engaged in research with fascinated by the vastness of biological various faculty in the department. In diversity and the complex relationships particular, he worked closely with among all living things. His interest in Professor Howard Gest for several years on nature landed him at Saint Louis University, the role of sulfde oxidation in microbial where he was particularly inspired by ecology. He also had the opportunity to Walter Ong, John Padberg, and Clarence work closely with Professors David Miller while he was obtaining his B.A. Dilcher, Charlie Heiser, Carlos Miller, Gary degree. Bill followed his B.A. with graduate Soika, John Hayes, and Norm Pace. school at the University of Texas at Austin, In appreciation of his dedication to where he studied plant morphology and teaching, Bill received a Teaching evolution under the guidance of his major Commendation from the Honors Division professor, world-renowned botanist and a Biology Undergraduate Teaching Harold Bold. During his time in Austin, Award. However, the most rewarding thing Bill also had the privilege of learning from for Bill is hearing from students about how two other notable plant biologists, Ted teaching laboratories; conducted research his teaching and advice have stuck with Delavoryas and Verne Grant. with a number of faculty; taught many, them after they have graduated. This is Bill’s graduate research focused many classes; and became a senior when teachers truly know they have on the evolution of Selaginella, a genus lecturer. Bill was also a lecturer for the achieved their goal. of primitive vascular plants that are also Indiana University College for Gifted and Bill’s contributions to the educational called spike mosses or lesser clubmosses. Talented Youth from 1990 to1995 and mission of the Department of Biology are Selaginella are short, creeping plants with served as an instructor for minority middle numerous and signifcant. We are simple, scale-like leaves on branching school students in the Summer Enrichment enormously indebted to him for all that stems from which roots also arise. Program in Biology from 1998 to 2014. he has contributed. Although Bill will Selaginella look essentially the same Beginning with exploring in the continue his involvement in overseas study today as their fossil relatives did about Kentucky woods, Bill developed a lifelong programs, he is looking forward to 375 million years ago. Some species can interest in plant biology and natural enjoying more time pursuing his many survive severe dehydration for months and history that turned him into an other interests, which include photography, sometimes years. The dehydrated plants extraordinarily well-rounded biologist with scuba diving, tending to his vast collection can roll up into brown balls that appear the ability to teach a remarkable diversity of plants, and restoring antique vehicles dead; but upon renewed exposure to moist of topics. During his 44 years at IU, Bill such as his beloved Jeep. conditions, the plants can rehydrate, has almost certainly taught a greater become green again, and resume growing. diversity of courses and topics than anyone Roger Hangarter Due to this remarkable property, some else in the department, including courses species are called resurrection plants. Bill’s on various aspects of plant science, work was primarily on their method of organismal biology, ecology, evolution, reproduction and he was able to develop biodiversity, genetics, and molecular methods for studying their sexual biology. reproduction in controlled conditions. In 1990, Bill’s longtime interest in From time to time along the way, Bill also biological diversity led him to initiate, with managed to explore much of the United Professor David Dilcher, a program for States by motorcycle. undergraduate tropical biology feld Bill’s real love is teaching others about courses in Costa Rica with an emphasis on the many things he fnds wonderful about terrestrial tropical habitats. Since biology. Bill served in numerous positions establishing that program, Bill has served in the Department of Biology and became as the director of the Tropical Biology an important and integral part of the Program for the Indiana University Ofce department. When Bill started at IU, he of Overseas Study and Department of was part of the Department of Plant Biology. Amazingly, Bill has taught Sciences, which subsequently merged with Tropical Biology of Costa Rica a total of the other biology programs to form the 27 times. His interest in overseas studies Department of Biology. Throughout his also led him to develop a marine biology tenure at IU, Bill coordinated numerous course in the Grand Caymans with an

32 / Indiana University Bloomington JOHN SCHILB

John Schilb is retiring from the English College Project, helping high school department in the spring of 2019 after teachers design a primary gateway course serving as the Culbertson Chair of Writing for English majors (literary interpretation) for the past 21 years. A modest man with and directing summer workshops on an infectious laugh and abundant energy, pedagogy. He has also taught residents of the latter a product of his devotion to the Meadowood Retirement Community, running, he has contributed mightily to the where he routinely ofers popular courses department’s highly regarded composition on literary and flmic subjects, as he also program, recently honored by its receipt of does at IU’s annual and highly successful the National Council of Teachers of English Mini University. coveted Certifcate of Excellence. John This outreach to the community and would be quick to identify the fne cohort state is consistent with the increasing of colleagues recognized by this award, prominence of the composition program which was presented at the organization’s and the recent expansion of the English national conference in March 2019. department’s rhetoric program to include A scholar of the intersections of fne teachers and scholars working in literature, rhetoric, and composition, public speaking. In addition, John’s John came to IU in 1998 after teaching at stewardship of the Culbertson endowment Carthage College and Denison University has led to more seminars, workshops, and working for six years as vice president lectures, and student fellowships than can of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, a disciplinary organization with more than be recounted here. But one initiative a Chicago-based consortium of liberal arts 26,000 members from 100 countries. The merits commentary: John’s editorship of colleges. Between 1990 and 1998, he prize is awarded for an outstanding work College English, which since 1939 has served as an associate professor at the in the felds of language, culture, literacy, been one of the nation’s eminent journals University of Maryland, directing the or literature with strong application to the in its feld. Funded by the Culbertson composition program between 1990 and teaching of English, and is the top book endowment and supplemented by stipends 1992. When he arrived in Bloomington, prize in the feld of rhetoric and from the College of Arts and Sciences, the English department’s rhetoric and composition. The selection committee’s John edited this widely read, peer- composition faculty were outstanding, citation summarized the work’s signal reviewed journal between 2005 and 2012. to be sure, but the program itself was achievements and its potential for In the process, he was able to fund many considerably smaller. As the Culbertson accomplishing meaningful cultural work: graduate students who served as assistant Chair of Writing, a position made possible “Theoretically informed and editors, while also giving them frsthand by a benefactor whose motive for endowing beautifully written, John L. Schilb’s experience of professional editing. it included “the improvement of student Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audience John Schilb is retiring having fulflled writing,” John embarked upon an Expectations ofers a nuanced analysis of a number of commendable goals, one of ambitious program of scholarship, how writers and speakers defy audience which is leaving a program that is much teaching, and professional and community expectations. Schilb’s reading of case stronger than when he entered it in 1998. service. His monograph, Between the studies of recent and past rhetorical acts And, in his case, retirement is not the most Lines: Relating Composition Theory and and his careful construction of a accurate term to describe his plans. He will Literary Theory, had been published two framework for understanding rhetorical doubtless continue to write—indeed, he is years earlier, underscoring his interest not refusals speak powerfully to the in the midst of working on a new book, On only in writing studies, but also in theories contemporary disinclination to address Nuance: A Rhetoric—and give generously of reading. Shortly after he joined the other points of view in civic issues. This of his time to the Bloomington community. faculty, his widely used textbook, meticulously argued book will help And he’ll be pounding the pavement or co-authored with John Cliford, Making instructors teach to these rhetorical treadmill somewhere, running his way into Literature Matter: An Anthology for refusals in ways respectful of students and the next productive chapter of an enviable Readers and Writers, appeared from St. cognizant of the centrality of discourse to career. Martin’s/Bedford and is now in its 7th civic responsibility.” edition. John has published more than 40 Much of John’s work and career might Stephen Watt essays and articles in leading journals and be characterized in just these ways. anthologies, and also edited six books for It should be noted that John carries classroom use. his erudition into the classroom with great Arguably, his most celebrated work is success, and since 2002 his students have Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audiences’ included not only those enrolled on Expectations (Southern Illinois University campus, but also high school teachers of Press, 2007), which in 2008 won the Mina English across the state and Bloomington’s P. Shaughnessy Award given by the senior citizens. He has served as the Modern Language Association of America, literature liaison for the IU Advance

Retiring Faculty / 33 RUSSELL J. SKIBA

Russ spent the frst 12 years of his life knowledge and practice with respect to the the applicant pool. Year after year, Russ’s on Long Island in Baldwin, New York. He efects of and interventions for disparities external funding was critical in enticing spent his middle and high school years in in exclusionary discipline. diverse students to choose IU for their Fairfax, Virginia, where he was the founder Over the past 30 years he has graduate education. and frst president of the Environmental successfully sought external funding from He has been an active member or Action Club at Oakton High School. multiple sources: Atlantic Philanthropies, chair of the SOE’s Diversity Committee for Russ earned his B.A. in religion/ Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, Indiana 14 years. In 2006, he spearheaded a study religious education from Catholic University Department of Education, Kellogg on the diversity of students in the school, in 1975. While there, he served as editor Foundation, Lilly Endowment, Open which examined the numbers of students of The Tower, the college newspaper. The Society Foundations, U.S. Ofce of Special by race and ethnicity that applied to the year following graduation, he worked as an Education and Rehabilitation Services, school, accepted the admission ofer, and instructor for Central Fairfax Services in and the William T. Grant Foundation. matriculated. Recruitment of diverse Fairfax, Virginia. From 1978 to 1981, he Russ has been invited to give students applying for admission was found was residential teacher and data consultant prestigious addresses. In 2017, he gave to be the major challenge facing the SOE. at Spaulding Youth Center in Tilton, New the Centennial Lecture of the American Under his leadership, the committee Hampshire, where he was part of a team Educational Research Association, conducted a second school-wide survey of that successfully served children with “School Discipline: Issues of Equity and diversity, equity, and inclusion issues, and social and emotional challenges by Efectiveness.” At La Sorbonne, Paris, began work on the SOE’s strategic plan. employing behavioral principles. France, he presented at a plenary session In retirement, Russ is continuing his In 1983, he completed his M.A. in to the Etats généraux de la sécurité à l’école commitment to social justice and equity educational psychology with an emphasis (National French Conference on School for children by serving as a member of the in measurement and evaluation at the Safety and Security). Arizona State University Children’s Equity University of Minnesota, where he also He was lead author of “Race Is Project. He will continue to be an active received a Ph.D. in educational psychology: Not Neutral: A National Investigation contributor through presentations at the special education programs in 1987. of African American and Latino American Education Research Association. At Minnesota, Professor Stan Deno was Disproportionality in School Discipline,” In future years, Russ and his wife, Kathleen Russ’s mentor. This was an exciting time, which was named the School Psychology Hugo, will have more time to travel and to when Dr. Deno was developing curriculum- Review article of the year in 2010. He visit his four children and one new based measurement and hypothesis-driven was lead author of the 2006 American granddaughter. experimental teaching for students with Psychological Association Zero Tolerance learning challenges. Russ also worked with Task Force report that comprehensively Jack A. Cummings Professor James Ysseldyke, who directed reviewed the evidence surrounding the the highly infuential Institute for Research efects and efectiveness of zero tolerance on Learning Disabilities. practices in schools. Russ joined the school psychology He has been called on to present faculty at the Indiana University School of on school discipline practices before the Education (SOE) as an assistant professor Education and the Workforce Committee in 1987. He was promoted to associate of the U.S. House of Representatives, professor in 1993 and professor in 2004. the Committee on Law and Justice of the At IU, Russ’s scholarship has addressed National Academy of Sciences, and the critical disparities in education. From 2006 U.S. Civil Rights Commission. In 2008, to 2018, he served as director of the Equity he acted as a special consultant to the Project at Indiana University, a consortium U.S. Department of Education Ofce of of federal, state, and foundation-funded Special Education Programs on issues grants providing evidence to practitioners of disproportionality and equity in and policy makers in the areas of school special education. violence, zero tolerance, and equity In the school psychology program, he in education. He has documented racial has been a relentless advocate of students and ethnic disparities in school of color. When that program’s admission disciplinary practices. process was yielding too few students from He was lead facilitator and organizer underrepresented groups, Russ established for the Discipline Disparities Research- contacts with Historically Black Colleges to-Practice Collaborative, a group of 26 and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic national educators, researchers, advocates, Serving Institutions (HSIs). This resulted and policy makers who sought to advance in signifcant increases in the diversity of

34 / Indiana University Bloomington ELIOT R. SMITH

Eliot R. Smith received his B.A. and Ph.D. he took on the editorship of the Attitudes from Harvard University. After fnishing and Social Cognition subsection of our his Ph.D., he took a position as assistant fagship journal, the Journal of Personality professor in the sociology department and Social Psychology. During his six-year of University of California, Riverside, tenure in this position, he facilitated the where he remained from 1975 to 1982. journal’s transformation in embracing the He then moved on to our neighbor to the exciting new directions in which research north, Purdue University (sometimes in our feld has been progressing. He has afectionately called by our departmental consistently demonstrated a tireless colleagues our “farm team”), where he was commitment to guiding the feld of social a professor of psychological sciences for psychology to embrace new methods and the next 21 years. In 2003 Eliot moved to approaches in investigating classic and Indiana University, where he has been an contemporary issues. For his remarkable invaluable colleague to many of us in scholarship and contributions to the feld, psychological and brain sciences. Eliot has Eliot was awarded the Distinguished said that coming to IU was one of the best Scientist Award by the Society of decisions he ever made, and the feeling Experimental Social Psychology in 2018 is very mutual. and the prestigious Donald T. Campbell When you meet Eliot, one of the Award from the Society for Personality and frst things you notice is his brilliance and Social Psychology at its annual meeting insightfulness. In his academic career, He has presented his work at universities in 2019. Eliot has established himself as one of the all over the world. In recognition of his Despite his outstanding academic premier thinkers and researchers in social accomplishments, IU named him Classes accomplishments, Eliot remains one of the cognition, guiding the feld toward exciting of the War Years Chancellor’s Professor in most humble individuals you are privileged new directions in the pursuit of socially 2008 and Distinguished Professor in 2016. to meet. An accomplished teacher, he situated cognition and embodiment. His In 2012, he was elected Fellow of the developed a new course, Psychology of empirical and conceptual contributions to American Association for the Advancement Public Opinion, which many advanced social psychology and psychology in of Science, the nation’s largest and most undergraduates were able to enjoy. He general have garnered him several awards, prestigious scientifc society. served as chair of our departmental policy but it has been his tireless service to Beyond these notable and steering committee for several years, promoting better scholarship and accomplishments, Eliot has shown a guiding the department through some mentorship that really set him apart as one remarkable commitment to advancing the difcult challenges. We will greatly of the most visible and notable leaders in feld of social psychology and to the miss his leadership and sagacity. His his discipline. mentorship of current and future commitment to excellence and the priority Eliot’s academic excellence and scientists. He undertook a leadership role he placed on providing strong support and scholarship are outstanding. He is the as a core member of the advisory board for mentorship to his young colleagues in author of over 50 chapters and more than the Summer Institute in Social Psychology, particular will continue to be his legacy to 100 peer-reviewed articles. His work has funded by NSF biennially, in which the department and the university. been consistently funded by the National advanced graduate students take two-week In retirement, Eliot plans to continue Institute of Mental Health and the intensive courses taught by professors to pursue his passion for music and for his National Science Foundation for the past from all over the world to broaden their family. Eliot has been an accomplished 25 years. Moreover, the impact of his work training and learn new theoretical member of the Bloomington Chamber is demonstrated by his stellar h-index of approaches and methods of data collection Singers for years. His loving wife, Pamela, 68, and by the fact that his papers have and analysis. He also served as the primary and his children and grandchildren will won many competitive national and organizer for the Person Memory continue to be a source of joy and international awards. He has been one pre-conference held for three days prior to inspiration in his life. of the most prominent individuals in the annual meeting for the Society for promoting the resurgence of interest in Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), in Ed Hirt the social nature of social psychology, which 50–100 attendees from all over the encouraging the movement away from world present their work to colleagues the exclusive reliance on intrapersonal interested in social cognition. In addition, processes and cognition to the study of he worked diligently to shape the feld group and social infuences. Moreover, his through his herculean eforts as journal work intersects a number of diferent editor. From 2000 to 2005, he took on the disciplines, and he has collaborated with editorship of Personality and Social colleagues across many departments and Psychology Review and oversaw the schools here at IU and elsewhere to transformation of this fedgling outlet into address issues ranging from group one of the most prestigious and highly emotions to human-robot interactions. ranked journals in our discipline. In 2011,

Retiring Faculty / 35 MICHAEL SPIRO

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Michael Spiro freelance artist and clinician. However, is the son of two academicians; his father there is one big diference: Michael Spiro was an anthropologist and his mother was is a scholar! After 25 trips to Cuba and a Chinese art historian. Michael did not countless trips to Brazil, there is, without a start playing music until he was 19 years doubt, no one on the planet who knows old. At that time, he quit his studies at the more about Afro-Cuban and Brazilian University of California, Santa Cruz, to music. When we made the decision follow his dream of becoming a drummer. 10 years ago to have Michael join us here He eventually returned to college and at IU, we determined that those two areas earned a degree in Latin American studies of world music (a term Michael hates) in 1975 and authored a book on political would be of the most value to our students. theory in 1982. Well, we got that and much more. After earning his bachelor’s degree, “What we inherited was literally the Michael continued his musical studies at source for African, Cuban, and Brazilian Cabrillo Junior College. He began to culture/music. The students have been on specialize more in the area of the conga a global journey the last 10 years and now drum, working as a freelance performer thankfully, his minions are spreading the and later pursuing a graduate degree in Spiro message far and wide. On a personal ethnomusicology at the University note, I’ve been fortunate to teach side by of Washington. side with Professor Spiro, constantly In 1980, Michael moved to San teaching the important historical and learning about life, the music business, and Francisco to study bata drums and to seek cultural aspects of this music. most of all, the passion and commitment it out other performance opportunities. Michael is a ten-time Grammy takes to play music and be a world For the next 29 years he traveled, taught, nominee and has produced seminal authority. For that, I’ll always be grateful.” recorded, and performed nationally and recordings in the Latin music genre. His Perhaps the best gift that Professor internationally until he joined the Indiana performing and recording credits cover an Spiro shared with our students was his University Jacobs School of Music array of internationally known artists, professional presence and expectation. (IU JSoM) in 2008. including David Byrne, Carlos Santana, Michael had the ability to create and instill Michael initially joined the Charlie Watts, Ella Fitzgerald, and many a truly high level of musicianship in his IU JSoM faculty as a visiting professor; others. He has an extensive flm score students, who beneftted greatly from their he was appointed associate professor of resume and wrote several arrangements studies with him. percussion in 2011. During Michael’s for the Tony award winning Broadway Apparently, many of our tenure, he developed the curriculum for show Blast! His recording of Canto percussion majors could tell when they Latin music and culture in both the America, produced with his longtime were nearing the end of a lesson with percussion and jazz departments. The working partner Wayne Wallace, was Professor Spiro. Michael would begin to IU Latin Jazz Ensemble was created and nominated for a 2017 Grammy in the Latin swoon over the “meatball madness special” quickly became the most popular jazz Jazz category. His most recent project, across the street at Mother Bear’s ensemble at the IU JSoM. Professor Wayne Bákini: En el Nuevo Mundo, produced restaurant. And every week, without fail, Wallace (co-director of the IU Latin Jazz with Joe Galvin, was also released in 2017. they would fnd him with a dish of Mother Ensemble) comments: “I have worked Professor Spiro has written, Bear’s meatballs and garlic bread when the with Michael for 30 years. He has an performed, and produced several lesson was concluded. It’s safe to say that encyclopedic knowledge of styles and has critically acclaimed instructional books some of our students’ favorite memories of performed and recorded with a multitude and DVDs on percussion. His education Professor Spiro were shared at the table, of musical greats. Through all of his websites, CongaMasterClass.com and just hanging out, listening to stories of a career, Michael has always maintained a SambaMasterClass.com, ofer thorough life well lived from a master teacher and willingness to learn and retained a refned instruction in Afro-Cuban and Brazilian lifelong student of his craft. sense of intellectual curiosity.” music for percussion. He continues to be in In 2011, the IU JSoM Afro-Cuban demand as a guest artist at universities John Tafoya Percussion Ensemble was selected from worldwide and is a frequent presenter at Wayne Wallace an international competition to be featured national and statewide conventions of the Steve Houghton in a special showcase performance at the Percussive Arts Society. His former McKayla Phillips Percussive Arts Society’s International students enjoy successful careers as Convention. This recognition is held in professional performers and college high regard among college-level percussion educators. programs. In addition to training his Steve Houghton, professor of music student ensembles to perform Afro-Cuban (percussion) at the IU JSoM, writes: “I’ve and Brazilian music at the highest level, known Michael Spiro for 30 years as we’ve Professor Spiro also emphasized in his followed a similar career path of a

36 / Indiana University Bloomington PEGGY A. THOITS

Peggy Thoits retires from Indiana Peggy has been drawn into service on University this spring, leaving a legacy of major institutional committees. She has distinguished scholarly accomplishment, served on multiple American Sociological teaching excellence, and dedicated service. Association section councils and Peggy received her Ph.D. in 1978 committees and as editor of the Journal from Stanford University. She began her of Health and Social Behavior from 2005 academic career at Washington State to 2007. Peggy’s counsel is sought widely University, moving from there to join the because colleagues know her to be wise, faculty at Princeton University, where she thoughtful, honest, direct, analytical, received tenure. She frst joined the responsible, and—perhaps most Indiana University faculty in 1986 and was important—kind, generous, and supportive promoted to professor in 1989 (the frst in all that she does. female full professor in the 100-year Peggy brings those same qualities to history of the department). She left us in her work with students. As soon as she 1990 for Vanderbilt University, then in stepped back through the Sample Gates, 2004 headed to the University of North she was widely sought as a graduate Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she held the instructor, advisor, and committee titles of Elizabeth Taylor-Williams member. Her courses on social psychology, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the sociology of mental health, medical Research Professor of Social Medicine. sociology, and interviewing draw uniform Peggy rejoined the faculty at IU in 2008— She proposed the innovative hypothesis praise. Her mentorship is legendary, and much to our collective delight—and was that the experience of stress depends on the was acknowledged by the Sociology granted the title of Virginia L. Roberts extent to which events or circumstances Graduate Student Association’s Professor of Sociology. challenge people’s identities. Peggy’s Outstanding Mentorship Award in 2012. During her illustrious career, Peggy research on this hypothesis revealed When students learned that Peggy has published over 75 articles and book methodological and theoretical would soon retire, they shared refections chapters in the most prestigious outlets in complexities in studying the stress process on her importance to their careers, our discipline, including the American related both to the difculty of accounting commenting on her “generosity of spirit,” Sociological Review, the American for context and sequence in people’s “steadfast warmth and steely competence,” Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces experiences of stressors and the complexity and gift for “creating spaces where people (the top three journals in sociology); the of incorporating people’s active eforts to feel safe and supported in learning and Journal of Health and Social Behavior change challenging life circumstances. She growing.” They call her “sharp, humble, (the top journal in medical sociology); has published similarly infuential articles and kind,” “a role model of who I aspire to and Social Psychology Quarterly (the top on labeling processes, resisting the stigma be, not only as a teacher and a researcher, journal in sociological social psychology). of mental illness, and social support. but as a person,” “a sincere and consistent Two of her articles were highlighted by Given these accomplishments, it is source of support,” and “a treasured hero.” American Sociological Review as “greatest little surprise that Peggy has received One student summed it up: “Having you as hits” for the high number of citations they distinguished career awards from every a mentor has blessed my career.” have received. The Institute for Scientifc American Sociological Association section Peggy’s retirement will give her more Information designated her a “highly cited in which she is a member: the Leonard I. time to negotiate a détente between her researcher” in 2003. Pearlin Award for Distinguished dog and cat, the most recent in a long line Peggy’s research spans social Contributions to the Sociology of Mental of challenging animals she has coaxed to psychology, sociology of mental health, Health in 2005, the Sociology of Emotions health through her love and nurturance. medical sociology, and sociology of Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, the She will move full time to Sewanee, emotions, with emphasis on the unequal Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Tennessee, where she has had a second distributions of stress experiences, social Contributions to Medical Sociology in home for many years and where her soul support, and physical and mental health 2010, the Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime and spirit thrive. There, as a visiting problems in adults. She is the go-to person Contributions to Distinguished Scholar- professor at the University of the South, for review articles and chapters in these ship in Sociological Social Psychology in she will teach medical sociology to under- areas. Her review pieces reveal an 2010, and the James R. Greenley Award graduate students who probably have no unparalleled ability to take widely for Distinguished Contributions to the idea how lucky they are. She will also scattered concepts and information and Sociology of Mental Health from the venture out across the country to develop a coherent picture of their Society for the Study of Social Problems reacquaint herself with our national parks. meanings, signifcance, and promise. in 2013. We will miss her gently probing questions, In addition to her impressive theoretical While becoming one of the most her boundless curiosity, and her warm contributions, Peggy has published many infuential social psychologists and medical spirit, and we wish her well on her infuential and brilliantly executed sociologists of her generation, Peggy also journeys. empirical articles that examine stress- became a beloved colleague, teacher, and related processes and outcomes. mentor. At each institution she has served, Jane McLeod

Retiring Faculty / 37 SUSAN VARGO

Dr. Susan Strack Vargo has taught to countless search committees, policy because they want to please her. She is thousands of students this communication committees, planning committees, task tremendous fun to be around and is as principle: People decide to believe a forces, and editorial boards. diligent about celebrating success as she is speaker based on warmth and competency. Her leadership and administrative about addressing problems.” Sue embodies both competency and talents grew the department, but her frst Dr. Byron Craig recalls Sue’s warmth and will be missed dearly as she love was always the classroom. Sue is a warmth in this way: “I remember how she retires from a 40-year teaching career and scholar and practitioner of interpersonal comforted me when my Mom passed away. 20 years as director of Communication and communication skills and efective While these were difcult days, Dr. Vargo Professional Skills (CPCS) at the IU Kelley listening. Her B.A., M.A., (University of taught me something very important and School of Business. Dayton) and Ph.D. (Indiana University) this sticks with me: Being in a role of Sue’s competency is evident in are all in communication. She couples this leadership also means knowing how and her visionary accomplishments as leader deep knowledge of communication with when to show the greatest love and and educator. She grew Business business savvy that included founding and compassion for others. Sue shows this not Communication from a one-course, later selling a singing telegram business. only in times of sadness and sorrow, but nine-faculty unit with a hand-me-down She taught dozens of diferent courses for when making difcult decisions that afect copy machine to a nationally recognized undergraduate, M.B.A., and executive us all.” powerhouse in business communication education students. Her expertise was Jef Cannon speaks of Sue’s education, now managing 50 full-time recognized in the numerous teaching compassionate leadership: “Sue faculty and more than 11 courses. awards she received, including the Alpha profoundly changed my life. Efective The national standing of the program is Kappa Psi Best Motivator Award and the leaders understand their potential and evident in the many requests that Sue Schyler Otteson Undergraduate Teaching their impact on their organization’s results. gets for information and advice from Excellence Award. Great leaders understand not only that, administrators and colleagues at other Sue inspired thousands of students, but their impact on people’s lives. It’s easy institutions. At Association for Business yet her legacy is most pronounced in the and true to say that Sue knows her Communication conferences, Kelley impact she has had on her faculty team. business well. But it’s her investment in faculty presentations are at the forefront of Katie Metz-Clavio, one of Sue’s former people that is truly extraordinary. Her the discipline, and Sue is in great demand students and later a faculty member, jokes investment in me as a person will radiate for sessions and networking. Her work that she couldn’t break the habit of calling in my life and in the lives of my family long touches the lives of more than 9,000 Sue “Dr. Vargo,” not because Sue was one after I’m gone. Working for Sue has taught students each academic year. to stand on titles, but because of the deep me volumes about what it is to be a As CPCS grew, Sue put together an respect Katie felt for her. Katie remembers committed teacher and leader and even amazingly diverse team by any standards, sitting in Dr. Vargo’s class watching her parent and friend, to truly be on the other not the least of which is background deliver a lecture and thinking, “I want to person’s side.” ​ specialty. CPCS includes people with be like her someday.” Katie had a glimpse Sue’s ofce is at the front of our expertise in communication, law, theatre, of a calling in her life. building. She has an open-door policy. management, accounting, English, As Sue teaches, though, competency Every one of her team has dropped in journalism, human resources, creative is not enough to earn the trust of others. countless times, plopped down in a comfy writing, administration, education, and One must also be perceived as warm, chair, and launched into a professional or more. Sue directed them all to address honest, and caring—Sue is all. This woman personal story. Every time, we were successfully the needs of aspiring business comes to the ofce every weekend to stock welcomed with her honest response, her professionals while valuing the variety the kitchen with drinks and candy for the laughter, and her love. Warmth and of skills and viewpoints that such convenience and comfort of her faculty. competency: Sue is the whole package! individuals bring to Kelley. She creates Sue’s honesty and compassion defne an atmosphere where colleagues share, her leadership style and relationship to her Brenda Bailey-Hughes help, and mentor one another in order to faculty. Dr. Kathy Fletcher, longtime achieve a common goal. friend and colleague of Sue, writes, “I Sue has served the Kelley School, appreciate her honesty and straightforward the university, and the discipline selfessly. approach to leadership. I always felt she She has advised a host of student was telling me the truth and I was willing organizations with interests as eclectic as to share my ideas and feelings with her Sue’s: Toastmaster’s, IU Speech Team, unreservedly. In my experience, this is U.S.-China Alliance, Scrabble Club, and a rare and precious gift. People work hard Yoga Club. She gave her heart and wisdom not only because Sue inspires them but

38 / Indiana University Bloomington ANTONIO C. VITTI

Antonio Carlo Vitti retires this year work of De Santis should be considered a cinema in the world. Every year, 50 to 60 after having taught Italian cinema and milestone of Italian neorealism. In his scholars gather on our campus to discuss culture since he joined Indiana University’s analysis, Vitti addresses De Santis’ key developments in Italian cinema. The Department of French and Italian in noteworthy stylistic and artistic evolution, main characteristic of this conference is January 2009. Professor Vitti (Ph.D., demonstrating that, while De Santis that it also constitutes a cinema festival, as University of Michigan, 1983), came to preserved his interest in realism and each year a diferent director is invited to IU from Wake Forrest University, where he historical events, he also developed a present his or her flms as they are became a full professor of Italian Studies unique cinematic style that absorbed the screened at the IU Cinema. The in 1997. When he was recruited to come to lessons and ideas of other artists, pedagogical benefts of such an annual IU, Dr. Vitti was already one of the most especially from abroad. event are evident. However, Vitti’s impact prominent scholars of Italian cinema in Vitti’s research agenda cannot be on the IU student community goes even North America and abroad. His tenure disengaged from his teaching and service further. He actively encourages many at IU allowed him to reinforce our missions. His career is marked by his students to present papers at the undergraduate and graduate cinema successful attempts to transmit his conference, and he chooses the best of programs as well as further his scholarly knowledge and passion for Italian culture these papers for inclusion in the selected career. Much of his prolifc publication to generations of students. This proceedings from the event. record (he has authored or co-authored commitment is also shown by his In sum, Antonio Vitti will be sorely 10 books and edited or co-edited 13 books, remarkable service to the profession. missed by his peers and by our students. in addition to numerous refereed articles To mention just a few such achievements, Replacing him will be a very hard task. and book chapters) has been achieved Vitti served as president of the American Ultimately, we would like to fnish this since he joined our department. Association of Teachers of Italian. This biographical sketch mentioning his human Since his frst monograph on director task alone speaks volumes about his touch, his attention to people before any and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini’s professional status in the feld. Further business-related matter. Indeed, we will socio-stylistic choices (1987), Dr. Vitti has highlighting how service and teaching are miss him as a colleague, but we will miss very clearly showed that his scholarly linked in his professional ideal of an active him, above all, as a friend. trajectory and main aesthetic interests deal academic, we should also mention his with art as a form of social and political teaching commitment to Middlebury Colleen Ryan engagement. His passion for neorealism, College’s Scuola Italiana, or Italian Andrea Ciccarelli one of the most formative moments of Summer School, of which he became the twentieth-century Italian and European director in 2006. One can only imagine the cinema, the inheritance of which extends endless work necessary to organize and in various forms to present times, was the conduct, annually, an intensive seven-week natural evolution of his early intellectual summer program that includes all aspects work. His books on Giuseppe De Santis, and all levels of Italian culture, from one of the founding fathers of cinematic introductory language courses to advanced neorealism, and on contemporary director graduate seminars. Most admirably, Vitti Gianni Amelio, who has most originally, has shown an unmatched ability to gather, perhaps, renewed the aesthetic teachings every summer, an amazing group of of neorealism, confrm Vitti’s attention to a talented teachers, scholars, and artists cinema that addresses the social issues from all over the world. Under Vitti’s that have long plagued Italy and Europe. watchful eye, the Middlebury College In sum, Vitti’s scholarship is largely Italian School has proposed some of the devoted to flmmaking that, whether most intriguing and updated classes on through irony or tragedy, portrays Italy’s Italian studies in the United States, struggle or failure to achieve justice, ofering to beginner or experienced fairness, and equality. Ultimately, Vitti’s students an exceptional learning scholarship is an ethical call. experience. It is fair to state that many of This is not the place to review his the current trends (Mediterranean studies, many publications, but we can at least migration issues, etc.) that are now an point to one of his books on Giuseppe De integral part of Italian programs Santis (1917–97), Giuseppe De Santis and throughout the U.S. were frst experimented Postwar Italian Cinema (University of under Vitti’s supervision in the Middlebury Toronto Press, 1996). This book perfectly Summer School environment. reveals Vitti’s love for Italian cinema as Vitti was the co-organizer of the IU well as his scholarly gift and mission. annual International Conference on New Here, he examines in depth the intellectual Trends in Italian Cinema, an event that has background of the director of Riso Amaro been recognized by the Italian press as the (Bitter Rice, 1949) to demonstrate why the most important conference on Italian

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When Marc Weiner arrived on campus and the libretti. Marc showed in intriguing in 1985 to fll the position of a newly ways that the aversion to what Wagner anointed assistant professor, he was on a considered to be features of Jews and mission. Generally speaking, post–World Judaism was fgured in the music itself— War II scholars, many of whom had for instance, in the intentions that drove emigrated from German-speaking Europe Wagner’s development of the musical either before or after the war, looked to techniques of the famed Heldentenor. Germany for the objects of their Critics of Wagner embraced Weiner’s book, investigation—the literary canon—as well while those who wished to minimize the as for the established methods of literary composer’s loathsome attitudes reacted analysis and for scholarly recognition. violently to the evidence that anti-Semitism That, at any rate, was the view of the new inhered in the music itself. But here is the generation of American-trained scholars, ironic beauty not only of Marc’s position like Marc, who sought to Americanize the but of Marc as a complex human being. discipline. This meant writing in English Through his mother, Marc fell in love with and publishing in North American Wagner as a teenager. His intense quarrel scholarly journals that did not specialize with Wagner is a lover’s quarrel, for he has solely in the European tradition. It also never fallen out of love with the music, meant incorporating Anglophone despite what he knows. Many of Wagner’s methodological and theoretical trends. critics who embraced Marc’s book were In the late 1980s and early 1990s, change editor, meticulously and mercilessly subsequently astonished and dismayed entailed exercising and championing a copy editing many of the submissions he when they learned about his enduring variety of philosophically informed trends received, as I painfully experienced. passion for the work. Marc demonstrates in literary theory and culture studies. Not In the end, he handed of a qualitatively that one can loathe the ideology of a body only did Marc move in this direction in his improved journal to subsequent (and of work that one loves. In today’s world, own works, but he also engaged forcefully equally talented) editors. such nuance is rare. in the contentious disputes that often erupt Marc describes his research thus: And Marc does love the German in crucial job searches. I was one of the “My scholarship concerns the relationship language tradition, but with a distinctly frst benefciaries of Marc Weiner’s eforts, between music and ideological forces critical passion, as can be seen by the for which I will always be grateful. refected in diverse examples of German courses he teaches. On the graduate level, Although he never served as chair cultural production (including literature, he has taught theoretical courses on of the department (for which he will opera, music drama, Lieder, and flm).” Cultural Despair, Productions of Presence, always be grateful), Marc did serve the He has published three groundbreaking Harbingers of Decadence, and Fantasies of department and the discipline in two books. Arthur Schnitzler and the Crisis Annihilation, as well as single-author crucial ways. As director of the Institute of of Musical Culture (1986) has been courses on Peter Sloterdijk, Richard German Studies, he reformed its structure credited with inaugurating a new feld Wagner, and Heinrich Heine. To and purpose. The institute’s purpose is within the study of the works of Schnitzler. undergraduates he has taught demanding twofold. On the one hand, it manages the Undertones of Insurrection: Music, courses on Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Opera in graduate student fellowships we receive Politics, and the Social Sphere in the German Culture, Thomas Mann, Nietzsche from the Max Kade Foundation, which Modern German Narrative (1993) was and Kafka, Wagner and Film, and enable us to recruit the proverbial best and republished (with altered title) in 2009, Theorizing Wagner. It is supremely ftting brightest students from across the land triggering an edited collection of essays on that Marc Weiner closed his career by and overseas. It also funnels funds into music and literature in German-speaking teaching a graduate seminar on Music undergraduate travel scholarships and Europe. These works helped inaugurate and German Culture in the 19th Century activities that bring high school students to a feld of study that flled a lacuna in and an advanced German class for campus to participate in academic activities German Studies. undergraduates on the complex and designed especially for them. The strength Nevertheless, Marc Weiner’s global rewarding poetry of Hofmannsthal, Rilke, of the institute today owes much to Marc’s reputation rests on his work on Richard and Stefan George. Alas, IU students will leadership in the 1990s and beyond. Wagner. Richard Wagner and the never again have the opportunity to learn In addition, as editor in the mid-1990s Anti-Semitic Imagination (1995; reissued from Marc, whose capacity for incisive and of The German Quarterly, the premiere 1997) and its German translation, decisive critique is legendary, and whose scholarly vehicle in North America for Antisemitische Fantasien: Die love for the literature and music he German literary studies, Marc carried his Musikdramen Richard Wagners (2000), explores is unsurpassed. missionary project beyond the borders of intervened in the debate on Wagner’s the department. He solicited material from anti-Semitism with the force of an William Rasch the younger cohort of German Studies incendiary device. Wagner’s anti-Semitism professionals, with an eye to new ideas and had long been debated, but the arguments trends. Furthermore, he truly was an focused primarily on his essayistic writings

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