The Fulton Exchange October 2013

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Charles R. & Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts OCTOBER 2013 The EXCHANGE Visit Us On the Web n Salisbury University Home Page Leading Positive Change www.salisbury.edu By Dr. Maarten Pereboom, Dean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts n Fulton School of Liberal Arts aking my Kanter’s keys can help us to be more intentional in www.salisbury.edu/fulton older son off our efforts as we embark on a new academic year: n Advising Tto college 1. Show up – Kanter talks about how showing up www.salisbury.edu/fultonadvising several weeks ago allows opportunity to fall in our laps, but in n Department of Art was bittersweet, our world, where we prize work flexibility and www.salisbury.edu/art but my overall the solitude to research, write, prepare for class sense was one of and grade, we have to make an effort to be n Department of Communication Arts excitement for him present for the activities that create community: www.salisbury.edu/commarts and a renewed generous availability to students for advising, n Department of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution appreciation of whether scheduled or on the fly; conversations www.salisbury.edu/cadr the four-year with fellow faculty members; campus cultural n Department of English residential college events and lectures. www.salisbury.edu/English experience. 2. Speak up – Many of us don’t have any trouble Enjoying the talking, but this is really about advocacy and n Department of Environmental Studies Fulton School Dean freedoms and being able to define and articulate what we do. www.salisbury.edu/Environmentalstudies Dr. Maarten Pereboom embracing the Especially in the national press, the loudest n Department of History responsibilities of voices don’t have a clue about regional www.salisbury.edu/history early adulthood in a diverse and stimulating comprehensive universities and the excellent n Department of Modern Languages environment with lots of smart people everywhere education we can provide because their view is and Intercultural Studies seems like a pretty good idea in an affluent society limited to the major research universities and www.salisbury.edu/ModLang where individuals can expect a lot from life. More elite liberal arts colleges they, in most cases, seriously, excellence in higher education is critical attended themselves. n Department of Music to a civilization that is going to keep moving 3. Look up – This one should be pretty easy, given www.salisbury.edu/MusicDept forward: That effort requires people who are the importance of education, but how often do n Department of Philosophy capable of achieving their full potential as we let other interests supersede the best interests www.salisbury.edu/Philosophy individuals, able to interact with one another as of our students? It’s those higher values that n Department of Political Science mature and responsible citizens, and ready to inspire us to pursue positive change with www.salisbury.edu/politicalscience enrich the workforce with creativity and a wide conviction and determination, while the variety of knowledge, skills and abilities. Not to narrower interests often stand in the way. n Department of Psychology mention football. 4. Team up – Any major initiative is going to www.salisbury.edu/psychology If you, like me, are completely sick of reading require collaboration and collective effort, it’s a n Department of Sociology articles about the decline of the humanities, or good idea to look for partners in unusual and www.salisbury.edu/sociology about psych majors being the worst paid, or about surprising places. General education came up at n Department of Theatre and Dance students not knowing anything after they graduate, a recent strategic planning brainstorming session, www.salisbury.edu/theatreanddance what can we do? One more article, by Thomas and that’s a good example of a critical Frank in the current Harper’s (October 2013), may component of the curriculum that will never be The Exchange is published twice a semester. be worth inflicting upon yourself. He makes a successfully assessed, reviewed or changed number of good points, laying out the politics of without true teamwork. these debates as well as the tendency of academics 5. Never give up – Lasting positive change is deeply themselves to indulge in self-loathing as well as rooted in the culture of an institution. Culture self-righteousness, but in the end he addresses can change and does change, but usually it takes IN THIS ISSUE: university faculty directly: “Don’t propagandize for a long time and requires patience and your institutions, professors: Change them. Grab persistence. Applying for grants springs to mind the levers of power and pull.” as a good example. Upcoming Theatre Productions A few weeks ago, in our Fulton School meeting 6. Lift others up – This one is perhaps the most to open the academic year, I talked about inspiring, and the one that encourages me to Sustainability on Campus leadership, and specifically about sociologist and encourage you to think of yourself as someone Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss who can have a positive impact on the quality of Kanter’s six keys to leading positive change, which what we do here, certainly in the courses you New Faces in Fulton she explains in an easily Googled, 20-minute TED teach and the students you advise, but more Talk well worth your time. She addresses a more broadly on the community we are and the Living Learning Community general audience, but her keys are worth applying experience our students have. to our setting as we consider our students’, and our Inside this issue you’ll read about the different ways Department Reports society’s, needs. Our profession calls upon us to be in which you and your colleagues are pursuing more than experts in our academic fields. We positive change. The curriculum, in particular, is a already value teaching excellence above all other major lever of faculty power, and you are pulling criteria in assessing job performance, but how well hard when it comes to responding to the challenge do we work together, and with students, to of climate change, to providing students with maximize the potential of the whole academic opportunities to study and learn abroad and to experience? We have good instincts and good making the learning experience in our home practices and, indeed, the value we place on campus community more diverse and collegiality is also a major asset, but I believe cosmopolitan. Thanks for everything you do! www.salisbury.edu/fulton 2 The Exchange Professors Logan and Tuske Attend Prestigious NEH Programs by April Logan, English neglected writers and works, literacy programs, for the pursuit of an independent project.” curricular originality, scholarship and the life-long The two professors also applauded the NEH’s learning of university and K-12 educators. embrace of interdisciplinary study. “I enjoyed the Indeed, one of the reasons that the NEH interdisciplinary nature of the institute. There were Institute drew Logan’s interest is that her book people from the fields of neuroscience, western project includes a chapter on the poems of philosophy of mind and Buddhist studies, and all of Frances Harper, whose activism and publishing them were very keen to learn from each other,” career, which spanned two centuries, made her Tuske said. Logan recalled that a highlight of her one of the most beloved African-American poets experience was the presence of both established of the 19th century. “Although many acknowledge and emerging literary critics/creative writers among Harper’s importance as a writer and proto- her institute’s attendees and faculty. She observed, feminist, her poetry has been somewhat neglected “The poets at my institute, people such as Eugene due to some prominent scholars’ questioning of its Redmond, Aldon Nielsen and Evie Shockley, have April Logan with award-winning poet, literary critic, and Institute literary merit as popular literature. The Institute produced some of the most important scholarship faculty member Dr. Eugene Redmond. offered a wonderful opportunity to study Harper’s on poetry; they have distinctive perspectives as pril Logan of the Department of English significance within the context of her practitioners and theorists.” and Joerg Tuske of the Department of contemporaries and the poets who followed Tuske and Logan stated that they intend to use APhilosophy were accepted to a National them,” explained Logan. assigned texts from their NEH programs in their Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) institute Tuske shares Logan’s enthusiasm for applying classes and to design new courses. In addition to and seminar last summer. NEH programs are for NEH programs. He has participated in an networking, which Tuske mentioned often leads to highly competitive and include stipends for travel institute and a seminar. This year, he attended the future research collaborations, institute and and living expenses. Through them, participants four-week “NEH Summer Seminar: seminar participants also exchange teaching are able to attend lectures by and receive guidance Understanding Buddhism through its Classic materials and discuss pedagogy. Therefore, from leading scholars, apply what they learn in Texts”, held at the Mangalam Research Institute SU’s students will benefit from Logan and presentations, take excursions to relevant local in Berkeley, CA. In 2012 he participated in the Tuske’s recent professional development landmarks and archives, and share their expertise two-week NEH summer institute “Investigating excursions, as well. with peers through informal and formal activities Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary such as dinners and group projects. The federal Approaches.” Tuske noted, government founded the NEH in 1965 to provide “The topics of the seminar and grant support to the humanities. institute fell exactly into my The focus of the institute Logan attended, area of research interest.” “Don’t Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching Tuske added that NEH African-American Poetry,” was the important seminars and institutes differ in debates, evolution and history of African- terms of their size and the American poetry written during pivotal periods nature of their activities: “The from 1900-2013. The University of Kansas, in institute had 25 participants Lawrence, hosted and organized the three-week and three directors in addition institute. Scholars will be able to continue their to another 20 guest faculty, with studies this fall via online sessions with Ishmael presentations and discussion Reed, Natasha Trethewey, Rita Dove, Terrence 9a.m.-5 p.m. every day. The Hayes and other critically-acclaimed poets. In seminar had 20 participants addition to having sponsored several NEH and two directors. We met as a institutes and seminars, the University of Kansas group for three hours every is home to The Project on the History of Black morning to read assigned texts Writing, which supports the recovery of lost or together and used the afternoons forJoerg group Tuske and study other participants of the NEH Seminar at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. CMAT Launches New Living Learning Community his fall, 16 students joined the new department and to meet Department of Communication Arts some of their future T(CMAT) Living Learning Community professors in an informal (LLC). This program, like the other campus atmosphere. A special guest, LLCs, offers students a chance to live together in local book artist, Barbara a community that shares a common major or Israel, gave a short interest. Students also take two classes together presentation on her use of in the fall and one in the spring. images and text to create The CMAT LLC kicked off the semester with story art from old books and a barbecue at the home of Lori DeWitt, one of found objects. the instructors leading the program. The other Other CMAT LLC instructors for this program, Chrys Egan (CMAT) activities this semester and Robert Barber (Mathematics and Computer include a service project at Science), were also there along with several other the HALO Ministries members of the CMAT faculty. This event homeless shelter and a trip allowed the students to learn more about the to New York. The Exchange 3 Leslie Yarmo’s Research Journey Theatre Welcomes By Thomas Anderson, Technical Director/Lighting Designer, Department of Theatre and Dance wo years ago, Leslie Yarmo, costume depictions of imposed dress codes or “sumptuary John Raley Designer, Department of Theatre and laws” as seen in art works of the period. She was here is no rest for the Theatre TDance, began research for the in Italy prior to the Romeo and Juliet production, Department’s newest faculty member, John Department Production of Romeo and Juliet. The meeting with scholars and searching libraries, and TRaley. He joins the production teams for production asked the question, “What if the made discoveries that assisted with her designs for both The Laramie Project and The God of Carnage as Capulets and Montagues were separated by the show. They also led her beyond her original set designer and advisor for props and sound. In Christianity and Judaism?” Yarmo began search to some groundbreaking ideas. Last addition, he is teaching theatre appreciation and seeking what Jews wore in Verona in the 1400s. summer in Ferarra, Italy, she made her latest design fundamentals. That question and her seminal investigation break through. She was investigating the dyes Originally from “the other side” of the bay, have sparked a journey of research that has led used in fabric and was comparing them to the Severna Park, MD, Raley is returning home to conference presentations, international travel pigment choices in paintings of the period. I following stops in Louisiana, New York and and a breakthrough which may change the way cannot say what came next. Pennsylvania. He began his training as an art people look at art. In our recent interview, Yarmo said, “I’m major, but quickly found his calling in the theatre department of Anne Arundel Community College. Her discovery, which has to remain a secret (for enjoying using my language skills in both Italian He met his wife, Mary Tyler, while attending now), may well transform how color is interpreted and French in reading the scholarly works in my graduate school in New York City; they have been in Renaissance and medieval art and how investigation.” She went on to say, “This married eight years. Their son, Brook turned 3 medieval dress codes relate to clothing depicted reinforces my view of the importance of a this summer. Their three other children include in that art. language requirement for students and how it has two dogs and a cat. Yarmo has been searching images, seeking proven valuable in my work and research.” Raley’s current projects are working with Tobin Ost on Barry Manilow’s Harmony at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, which just opened Upcoming Theatre Productions September 6; Violet at the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C., and Tappin Thru Life at Season Opener - The Laramie Project Performances are October 10-13* and Arena Stage in Washington D.C., which also is The Theatre and 17-20* in the Fulton Hall Black Box Theatre, traveling to The Cleveland Playhouse and the Dance Department 8 p.m. and *2 p.m. Free SU student, staff and Alliance Theatre. season opens with faculty tickets are available for Thursday, October Raley has been working professionally for The Laramie Project 10, only. The play is suited for mature 15 years as a designer. He holds a Master of Fine by Moises Kaufman. audiences only. Arts from New York University’s Tisch School for The production is the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts from University of directed by Dr. T. The God of Carnage Maryland, College Park. Previous to Salisbury, he Paul Pfeiffer with set The Theatre and has taught at Louisiana State University and designs by John Dance Department’s Ursinus College. His recent work as a set designer includes: Blithe Raley, costume second offering of Spirit for the Delaware Theatre Company; Drowsy designs by Leslie the fall term is The Chaperone and How I learned to Drive for Villanova Yarmo and lighting God of Carnage by University; Hair, King Hedley and Satellites at designs by Johnny Yasmina Reza. This Swine Palace in Baton Rouge; The Magic Flute Pantazis ‘13 and modern comedy and Hansel and Gretel for Opera Louisiane; Bat Boy: Tom Anderson. shows what happens the Musical and Kit Marlowe for the Studio Theatre This production commemorates the 15th when two sets of in Washington D.C.; and Othello and Julius Caesar anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard. parents meet to deal at the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. The play is the result of interviews conducted by with the schoolyard His extensive work also includes assisting Tobin members of the Tectonic Theatre Company who fight of their young Ost on Disney’s Broadway production of Newsies, traveled to Laramie, WY, in the wake of this sons. A calm and Erhard Rom on productions for many regional brutal crime. rational debate opera companies, in television assisting James According to Pfeiffer, “The play examines the about how to teach proper behavior devolves Yates and as an associate at Coberg Design, impact of this horrific demonstration of hate on into name calling, hysterics, tantrums and working on theme park design. the residents of this typical American small tears...and dessert. town, on the members of the Tectonic Theatre The God of Carnage is directed by Robert Company and on our culture. The play holds Smith, with set designs by Raley, costume up a mirror to a American mindset, raising designs by Yarmo and lighting designs by News from issues of traditional morality, sexual orientation Anderson and Pantazis. and the acceptance of violence as a means The cast is comprised of theatre major, The Society of of communication.” Victoria Finley theatre production major, Matt The cast features Fulton faculty members Cox, communication art major, Leah Conigland Anderson, Ross Leasure and Karen Rayne; and biology major, Chase Douglas, with Jennie Professional Journalists Salisbury community members Robert Forrester Phelps, a double major in English and theatre U’s chapter of The Society of Professional and Susan Rogers; and SU students Zach Baker, serving as stage manager. Journalists hosts an event examining types of Linda Bancroft, Kerri Barr, Sarah Bolganis, Performances are November 14-17* and diversity in American newsrooms on October Reed Delisle, Lacey Hudson, Dallas Jordan, 21-24* in the Fulton Hall Black Box Theatre, S 24, from 6-9 p.m. in the Wicomico Room. Panelists Leah Naill, Rachell Plunkett, John Posner, 8 p.m. and *2 p.m. Free SU student, staff and include representatives from ESPN, WMDT and Patrick Pruitt, Andres Roas, Alex Scorsas, Faith faculty tickets are available for Thursday, The Daily Times. Food and beverages will be served Sullivan, Madeline Stiso, Sarah Tart, Melissa November 14, only. during a networking period from Valdivia and Dayton Young, and is stage 6-6:30 p.m. All are invited to this free event. For managed by Kelly Ross. more information contact faculty advisor Jennifer Cox (CMAT) or club president Ajia Allen. 4 The Exchange Fulton as a Cornerstone of Sustainability on Campus – Progress Big and Small By Karl Maier, Psychology, and Shawn McEntee, Sociology embers of the Fulton Sustainability American Environmental History. Committee (FSC) and other Fulton Like these courses, much of the existing Mfaculty are working on several sustainability curriculum reported in the survey initiatives that make the Fulton School a consisted of upper level offerings, with some cornerstone of sustainability efforts on campus. degree of specialization on the topic. However, it Here are highlights of some accomplishments of is telling that nearly 30 sections across 10 general this past year and things to come. education courses within the Fulton School address sustainability to some extent. Thus, the Within the Fulton School: survey results collectively underscore the broad Curriculum relevance of sustainability to a liberal arts Last fall, the FSC surveyed Fulton faculty of all education and beyond. departments to assess the extent to which our dialogue on the future of addressing of climate courses incorporate or address a range of Information Sharing change in the curriculum. Visit the FSC website environmental sustainability topics – thank you To support broad-based development of (www.salisbury.edu/fulton/FSC/climate) to see more results of the for your responses! sustainability on campus, the FSC has created a climate change faculty survey or to watch a video Of the 110 courses reported as dealing with MyClasses site that will serve as an ‘information of the results presentation from this meeting. sustainability in the survey, 24 were identified hub’ for sharing best practices, information, Faculty also are encouraged to join the as either “mostly or entirely devoted to instructional materials, and discussions related to conversation and provide comments and sustainability issues” or as having “many focused integrating environmental sustainability into the suggestions on the issue at this website. lectures, discussions or assignments” that curriculum and campus life at SU. Gather your Also in the winter, several Fulton faculty address sustainability. materials, and get ready to share your ideas presented on sustainability topics at the annual Not surprising, over half of these offerings are when the site becomes available. January Teaching and Learning Conference part of the new Environmental Studies (ENVR) (www.salisbury.edu/instructionaldesign/tlc). This year, a full track program (www.salisbury.edu/environmentalstudies). Yet, a notable Beyond the Fulton School: of sustainability presentations is expected to run 40 percent of the courses were offered in other By virtue of the universal importance of throughout the day. Faculty from any discipline Fulton departments including CADR, CMAT, sustainability, many of the FSC sustainability who would like to present something within this ENGL, HIST/ANTH, POSC, PSYC, initiatives naturally have reached beyond Fulton track, or have suggestions, should contact Karl SOCI and THDA. Hall and the school’s departments. In August Maier ([email protected]). The Fulton survey also revealed 30 courses (2012), the FSC and the Henson School Based on faculty suggestions to keep the with “some focused lectures, discussions or sponsored an informal discussion on climate discussion alive on curricular aspects of climate assignments” pertaining to environmental change in the curriculum during the lunch hour change, and sustainability more broadly, the FSC sustainability. The topic also is brought into of Faculty Development Day. The participation of is starting CrossTalk – an informal lunchtime courses in more subtle ways; 33 faculty members over 50 faculty members and the President speaks gathering of interested faculty and students across reported occasionally using sustainability issues for to the growing interest in this topic on campus. disciplines to discuss and develop ideas for illustration, and other instructors at least briefly Stemming from this, the FSC was busy over the including environmental sustainability topics into mention sustainability issues in class. For example, winter developing a campus wide survey of courses and the broader curriculum at SU. For some faculty shared that they simply try to raise faculty on their knowledge and attitudes about Fall 2013, the topic will be “Climate Change in the awareness of environmental issues by polling climate change, and their views about Curriculum.” Participants will meet the students about their recycling habits or attitudes incorporating the topic into the curriculum. first Wednesday and third Thursday about climate change as it relates to the topic at There was active participation from all schools, (11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) Of each month hand. Other comments indicated that faculty with nearly 200 respondents - the greatest number September through November in the Talbot members incorporate sustainability from varied of which came from the Fulton School! Across the Room, the Commons. A limited number of perspectives – for instance, “the ways in which University, there was widespread agreement lunch tickets will be available for attendees who environmental issues relate to human cultural among faculty that climate change poses are scheduled in advance to attend. Contact activities,” and “through the lens of the current important challenges for society, and that students Maier ([email protected]) for tickets - efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay.” Some should gain literacy on the topic as part of their or just stop by! faculty saw their disciplines as especially suited to education at SU. In this regard, a large majority of Lastly, Sarah Surak reached far beyond Fulton address sustainability, whereas others indicated the respondents favored allowing instructors to Hall with her September 27 presentation on, well, importance of faculty taking action outside of the designate some General Education courses as trash. At the inaugural SU Research Day and classroom in cases where the subject matter using either climate change or environmental Innovation Showcase (www.salisbury.edu/researchday), she affords little opportunity to address sustainability sustainability issues as a vehicle for instruction. shared with the University and greater issues in class. Campus wide, there were no courses reported so community her research addressing several Looking forward, survey responses from several far devoted exclusively to recent climate change, questions: Why do humans create waste? What departments indicate that some faculty members though a few were expected to be offered in the does the creation of waste say about humans’ are developing new courses or augmenting future, including in the History, Psychology and relationship with the environment? And, is existing courses to more heavily cover Geography/Geosciences departments. mankind destined to be waste makers? sustainability topics. As anticipated last year, the The interest is there; nearly 150 out of Indeed, these are questions that may inspire all Department of Psychology is offering a Special 192 responding faculty members indicated that as Fulton faculty members and global citizens to Topics course, Psychology and Global Climate they would make use of climate change continue leading the campus in sustainability. Change, this fall. Co-taught by Karl Maier, Mark instructional materials if the University made them Those with ideas on how to support sustainability Walter and George Whitehead, the course is available. This enthusiasm for resources, however, on campus, are asked to contact any member of charting new territory on the trans-disciplinary is countered by the limited number of faculty on the Fulton Sustainability Committee (Tom issue of climate change by examining the beliefs, campus who reported a significant amount of Boudreaux, Mike Lewis, Karl Maier, Shawn attitudes, coping, behavior change and professional expertise in climate change. McEntee, Maarten Pereboom, Sarah Surak, socio-political factors that pertain to the cause of, Following the survey, the FSC held an informal Marion Duval, and Kristen Walton) or make mitigation of and adaptation to recent changes in social event in February for the campus to discuss suggestions and comments at the FSC website Earth’s climate. Also this fall, in the History the findings of the project and to consider a (www.salisbury.edu/fulton/FSC) or the Office of Campus Department, Mike Lewis is teaching World direction forward. Sponsored by the Fulton and Sustainability and Environmental Environmental History, and Creston Long is Henson schools, this event drew faculty from Safety (www.salisbury.edu/sustain). leading the graduate level seminar, Early across the University and yielded a productive The Exchange 5 New Faces in Fulton

Faculty

Steven Durow, Kara French Kyoung Rae Jung Echo Leaver Jennifer Liston Susan McCarty Art, Assistant Professor, M.F.A., History, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Psychology, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Psychology, Assistant Professor, Art, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., English, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Tulane University History and Women’s Studies, Psychology, University of Minnesota Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, Art History, English Literature & Creative University of Michigan University of Illinois at Urbana- University of California Writing, University of Utah Champaign

John Nieves Victoria Pass John Raley Eric Rittinger Alexander Stoner Joseph Venosa English, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Art, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Theatre & Dance, Political Science, Assistant Sociology, Assistant Professor, History, Assistant Professor, English, University of Missouri Visual & Cultural Studies, Assistant Professor, M.F.A., Professor, Ph.D., Political Science, Ph.D., Sociology, University of Ph.D., African History, University of Rochester NY University, Syracuse University Tennessee Knoxville Ohio University Tisch School for the Arts New Full-Time Non-Tenure Track Faculty Congratulations, Fulton Faculty!

The following faculty earned promotion to Professor: Tom Moriarty, English

The following faculty earned promotion to Associate Professor: Emily Story, History Regine Ananou Robert Kirsch Derya Kulavuz-Onal Modern Languages & Intercultural Philosophy, full-time effective English, Ph.D., Second Studies, full-time effective 8/2013, 8/2013, Ph.D., Political Language Acquisition and The following faculty earned tenure M.A., International Business in Science, Virginia Polytechnic Instructional Technology, and promotion to Associate Professor: English and Spanish, University of Institute and State University University of South Florida Thomas Anderson, Theatre & Dance Toulouse Le Mirail Danielle Cumming, Music Lori DeWitt, Communication Arts Adam Hoffman, Political Science New Staff Claire Kew, Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies James King, English Loren Marquez, English Corinne Pubill, Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies Michele Schlehofer, Psychology

New Department Chair: Rachel Barnes Brooke Church Tineka Harmon Bill Nelson Tom Moriarty, English Administrative Assistant II, Administrative Assistant II, Administrative Assistant II, Program Management Sociology and Political Music Department History Department Specialist, Environmental Science Departments Studies Department 6 The Exchange Fulton Committee Inaugural Salisbury University Research Day Members and Innovation Showcase U’s inaugural Research Day and Innovation and have much to gain from engaging in Fulton Curriculum Committee: Showcase on Friday, September 27, community-University research partnerships. Two James King - English Shighlighted current faculty endeavors and applied research projects were presented as Larence Becker - Psychology provided information about the various efforts examples of the types of community-based Tom Goyens - History connecting the University and community. research academics can conduct to benefit their James Burton - Communication Arts Vinita Agarwal’s (CMAT) talk on “Social communities. The first project, a needs assessment Liz Kauffman - Art Media in PR” highlighted her of children’s programming and Shawn McEntee - Sociology (& UCC Rep) service learning approach in Public resources in Wicomico County, is Relations courses in CMAT. Her an ongoing collaboration between Fulton Faculty Grants Committee: goal is to explore partnerships in Schlehofer, Egan, and the Jinchul Kim - Art Jacques Koko - Conflict Analysis PR initiatives (such as in social Wicomico Partnership for Families & Dispute Resolution media) with local nonprofit and Children. The second, a gap Lucy Morrison - English organizations, small businesses and analysis of mental health crisis Frances Kendall - Communication Arts institutions that might benefit from services on the Lower Shore, was Joerg Tuske - Philosophy student participation in social media conducted by Schlehofer for the and public relations, and provide Wicomico-Somerset Core Service Fulton Student Research Grant Committee: students a valuable forum for their résumes Agency (under the auspices of the Wicomico Liz Kauffman - Art in return. County Health Department). Using these projects Vitus Ozoke - Conflict Analysis Michèle M. Schlehofer (Psychology) and Chrys as examples, they provided an overview of the & Dispute Resolution Egan (CMAT) addressed “Applied, Community- advantages to community-based research and Louise Detwiler - Modern Languages & Based Research: Challenges and Opportunities discussed some of the unique challenges and Intercultural Studies for Improving Our Community.” They made the considerations of this research. Sarah Surak - Political Science argument that University-based researchers have SU’s Office of Graduate Studies and Research Creston Long - History much to offer community based organizations sponsored this event. More Than Blood: Today’s Reality And Tomorrow’s Vision Of Family ennis Leoutsakas, CMAT (with Sherilyn that features current family communication wide spectrum of family contexts and their Marrow), has edited a new book published research about interpersonal behaviors and surrounding issues. Dthis year by Kendall Hunt, More Than practices of understudied contemporary families. The book includes chapters contributed by Blood: Today’s Reality and Tomorrow’s Vision of Family. It features contemporary readings that well-respected authors from numerous fields of While actual blood relations play an important showcase aspects of the “new” or “evotypical” study, including communication, family science, role in defining family for many, the prevalence of family. These readings will spark provocative psychology, social work, counseling, mental health, today’s diverse families suggests that families are discussions, dialogue, debate and conversation law enforcement and sociology. “more than blood” and have evolved into a new among readers. It also includes discussion and reflective identity — one more broadly defined with The reader goes beyond the 1900s traditional questions to provoke conversation and highlight evolving norms constantly under revision. treatment of family research (married, two- the inherent challenges and possibilities This book is a research-driven, dynamic reader parent, male-female, 2.2 children) by examining a experienced by the current everyday family.

By Tina Melczarek, Sophomore Year Experience Program Begins at SU special to The Exchange newsletter U launched the Sophomore Year on campus for four semesters. Explaining the for undecided students. Experience (SYE) program to encourage extended residency requirement, Fulton Dean The idea is not to be exclusive. Pereboom Sstudents successful undergraduate career. Maarten Pereboom said, “We assume adding a explained that the SYE is aimed at as broad a The SYE may focus on sophomores, but the second year to the residency requirement has to definition of “sophomore” as possible, including program’s goal is to lay the foundation for the rest do with expanded housing capacity and good many transfer students. He hopes students will take of students’ years at SU. The program is half relations with the broader Salisbury community. a mindful approach to their second college year. communication strategy and half events Studies show that students who live on campus “There are many things that they can take specifically aimed at second-year students. are more likely to graduate.” advantage of as a second semester sophomore or “We found we didn’t need to add events. We The SYE has a few events that are specifically first semester junior: internships, practicums, study are just going to have better communications to targeted at sophomores, including campuswide abroad — when they go abroad in their second form this community,” said Brooke Rogers, departmental meetings, but there are already semester, they come back energized and worldly associate professor and chair of the Art many events and activities on campus of which wise,” he said. Department, and who served on the SYE Task sophomores may take advantage. The SYE aims “The whole point is to approach every year in Force that shaped the pilot program. to highlight those events and opportunities for a thoughtful way and make the most of the To encourage and build this sophomore sophomores who may not otherwise know they college experience”. community, incoming sophomores received an were happening. “In focusing on the SYE, we are focusing on informational mailer during the summer, and September is “Sophomore September” with a the whole undergraduate experience to the degree there is a continually updated website for the slate of activities for the second-year students. that we (usually) focus on a particular stage in SYE (www.salisbury.edu/sye ). Other SYE Aside from the campus wide meeting, there will their undergraduate career. It’s not just thinking of communications will be at the departmental level. be an end-of-summer dinner; they are encouraged college as ticking off boxes and fulfilling degree This initiative coincides with the second-year to attend the SU Art Galleries – Downtown requirements. Today, it’s also about the experience on-campus residency requirement. This is the Campus opening downtown at the Salisbury Arts we provide our students”. first year of SU’s two-year residency & Entertainment District’s 3rd Friday event, the requirement. Students are now required to live study abroad fair, and the majors and minors fair The Exchange 7 American Studies Major at Chesapeake Faculty & Staff College By Ivan Young, English Awards n a recent trip to Washington D.C., I encourage community college students to Congratulations to winners of the found myself people watching on the continue on for a bachelor’s degree with SU, Metro as we approached the Mall empowers students to shape their futures by Faculty/Staff Awards presented at O Fulton Appreciation Day, May 2013: station. An old man with glasses perched on his choosing humanities courses that address their nose read Jonathan Franzen; a young Arabic strengths and needs. The major also allows for woman adjusted her burqa and scrolled through working students to move through the curriculum MaryKathryn Brown the music list on her iPod. We reached the in the way a traditional student would by offering Excellence in Admin Support, Art station and I listened to a group of French innovative hybrid classes that mix traditional Dr. Louise Detwiler tourists argue about which monument to see classroom settings with online learning. Excellence in Service as Department Chair, first. At the top of the escalators I read the signs: This new track allows me to really get to know African-American History and Culture Museum, students, to sit with them and explore what it is Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies American Indian Museum, Korean War they want to do, and then to plan a curriculum Dr. Ryhannon Bemis, Memorial, the Washington Monument. I together. I have been fortunate to meet, in my first Excellence in Academic Advising, Psychology thought about the rich intersections of people few months, bright, eager students who are ready Dr. Claire Kew, and disciplines, of past and present, of art and to take on the challenges of today’s online world, Excellence in Teaching, science, of music, literature, history and where old boundaries blur and interconnectedness Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies philosophy this most American of places and interdisciplinary become the norm. Indeed, represented. the first student to commit to the program was Dr. Manav Ratti It is at such an intersection that I find myself in what I would call an ideal candidate — on the GI Excellence in Scholarship, English my first days as site coordinator of the new Bill, she is fascinated by microscopy, Dr. Michele Schlehofer American Studies major Salisbury University now environmental science, and the arts. She is excited Excellence in Scholarship, Psychology offers at Chesapeake College through the Eastern to start the program and to tailor her curriculum Shore Higher Education Center. If, as economist toward a job that fits her interests. We already Dr. Judith Pike and author Tyler Cowen claims, we are on the have begun to discuss a possible internship using Excellence in Research Mentoring, English edge of a new economy in which old categories her skills. I look forward to meeting more students Dr. Joerg Tuske no longer hold sway and in which students must like her, students who are willing to explore an Excellence in International Education, be creative in shaping their futures, then we are intellectual American landscape as new and Philosophy on the verge of something exciting. The varied as the one I witnessed in Washington on a American Studies major, housed in hot summer’s day. Dr. Lucy Morrison Interdisciplinary Studies and designed to Excellence in Service, English Database Trial: 19th-Century Collections Online Access

(Free! Campuswide!) By Lucy Morrison, English was a little afraid, this fall, that I would find So I contacted Gale Cengage, whose database, the ways in which the monarchy were depicted in my two sections of English 344, Literature of Nineteenth Century Contexts Online (NCCO), is London newspapers of the time will further our Ia Decade—the 1790s, populated by students priced so high as to be unaffordable for our class understanding of Burke’s position on the who had misread the course date as “1970s” library budget. But when I explained to Gale that monarchy (and Wollstonecraft’s response). and had disco ball dreams coming in the doors access to the materials and archives contained Considering the scientific pages of September of Fulton Hall. It was a pretty rude awakening within their database, which include all kinds of 1799 will show us what Jenner’s smallpox for them, if so, as we began with Edmund newspapers, manuscripts, journals, and various vaccination discoveries meant for contemporary Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France photographs and other images from around the understanding of various diseases, while furthering (1790), which may be a little more engaging for world, would make a huge difference to my our own; students can (and will!) consider pictorial today’s students were the Bee Gees its students’ projects (and then I agreed to ask depictions of chimney sweeps from a variety of soundtrack (Marie Antoinette — Stayin’ Alive... students for their feedback in using such databases political perspectives and forums alongside their I know, I know). and to share my syllabi with Gale), they granted address and understanding of Blake’s better- I am excited to be teaching this course for the access for a trial for this semester. And then they known works on the subject. first time mostly because of the potential that such went one step further and made the free trial In all instances, the research they undertake will a narrow time span allows (for someone who available to the entire campus. Thanks to the folks undoubtedly deepen their understanding of the teaches surveys covering hundreds of years, as do at Blackwell Library and to the generosity of the topic they have chosen, and their choice in doing many of my colleagues!). And I decided I wanted folks at Gale, any campus Gull Card holder can so hopefully will engage their interest. Students a focal point of the class to be its opportunities for access the NCCO database via the library site will work on a written product demonstrating and undergraduate research, which often can be and thus explore the wealth of opportunities this documenting their efforts, as well as a brief class challenging within our general education classes. database offers. presentation (so the assignment will, of course, There already is such a wealth of material You can access the free trial of NCCO at: address pertinent general education goals and needing consideration, but students also often http://blackwell-buzz.tumblr.com/post/60267502614/database-trial-nineteenth- expectations!) Students have even more latitude in don’t have the opportunity to see the ways in century-collections-online using the databases for their final research projects, which such research can further their My students, challenged to undertake research which will be both the culmination of their efforts understanding of a particular topic. I was into their birthday month of an assigned year this semester and also, perhaps, a springboard to concerned that we would not have the wealth of from the decade we are studying, are exploring other efforts and interests in other classes. materials needed to really bring the class to life for elements of the era that thus complement the my students. central literary texts of the course. Investigating 8 The Exchange Fulton Faculy Sabbatical Projects Fulton Faculty Grants he Fulton School of Liberal Arts Fall 2013 supports the professional development of Grace Clement – Philosophy Claire Kew - Modern Languages & Tits faculty, as manifested via research and Her goal for this sabbatical is to build upon Intercultural Studies other significant developmental activities that work she has already completed in the area of Will complete a scholarly translation of Ivory enhance teaching capabilities and contribute to animal ethics. She will complete three new Coast/Martinican writer Serge Bile’s book the advancement of knowledge. All full-time articles on animal moral agency, animal on the practice of skin-whitening entitled faculty members in Fulton are eligible to apply. friendship and animal citizenship. She also is Blaschissez-moi tous ces negres! (Whiten all of Fulton Faculty Grants are supported through working on a book proposal which she will these black people for me!). This will require the Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton submit by January. specialized and interdisciplinary research into Endowment and through the indirect costs the history of the Francophone diaspora and generated by faculty grant-writing activity. The Loren Marquez – English de jure vs. de facto racism. She will apply for Fulton Faculty Grants Committee screens Will conduct an activity theory-based study of the “French Voice Program” translations all applications. the teaching assistants in the English grant provided by FACE to help offset the Department who teach first-year writing; costs associated with the publication. Upcoming deadlines are: English 103; and the materials, genres and Secondly, she will conduct further research Submit by January 13, 2014: For grants in systems of preparation and support for on the integration of poetry, specifically support of work conducted between teaching. She will study the TAs as they non-canonical poetry of the French diaspora, January 13, 2014, and April 13, 2014, or for engage in the activities of participating in the into the world language curriculum. An Fall 2014 release/reassigned time. workshop and practicum, and how they article will be submitted on this topic to the Submit by April 14, 2014: For grants in appropriate the materials: syllabi, schedules, ACTFL’s Language Educator. support of work conducted between assignment sheets, etc. April 14, 2014, and September 7, 2014. Dean Kotlowski - History Adam Wood – English Will make final revisions of his book, The FFG home page and the online Will complete a book manuscript, tentatively Paul V. McNutt and the Age of F.D.R., a application site (including the application titled Violating Realism: Violence and Verisimilitude in scholarly biography of this once-prominent instructions) have been fully updated for the American Literary Realism. This will be submitted leader that is under contract with Indiana new year and may be accessed directly at to the University of Alabama Press’ series on University Press, and to write three refereed http://www.salisbury.edu/fulton/Grants/FultonFacultyGrants.html. American Realism and Naturalism. This journal articles dealing with McNutt’s life, Please note that there will be a Fulton Faculty project is an examination of the role of career and legacy. Grants Information Session/Q&A prior to each violence in myriad forms - ranging from deadlines. The sessions will include an overview domestic violence to military violence to of the FFG process and the updated online economic violence - in select novels from application and instructions, as well as tips on Stephen Crane, Frank Norris and how to prepare an application packet. Theodor Dreiser.

Fulton Faculty Colloquia Lambda Pi Eta he Fulton School Brown Bag Series, a Upcoming topics include: Updates lunchtime staple in the Fulton School of TLiberal Arts for more than a decade, Economic Principles in Writing Center U’s Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the evolved into the Fulton Faculty Colloquia in Administration. national honor society for undergraduate 2010-2011. Meeting on designated Tuesdays at October 15, 3:30 p.m., TE 152 Scommunication majors, welcomes its new 3:30 p.m. and featuring the research and Dr. Nicole Munday, associate professor of executive board members for the 2013-2014 creative work of faculty members from across English and director of the University school year: president - Victoria Paris, vice the school, the colloquia celebrate both the work Writing Center president - Lindsey Gerrish, secretary - Ajia of individual faculty and the disciplinary Allen, treasurer - Stephanie Barlas, PR/event diversity of the Fulton School. Walking with Extinction: Poems for Okami planner - Michelle Malinger. Since fall 2011 the Colloquia have focused October 29, 3:30 p.m., TE 152 The honors society held its Honor Cord primarily on the work of faculty returning Dr. James Hatley, professor Environmental graduation ceremony at The Fountains in May, from a recent sabbatical. Please plan to come studies and faculty affiliate in Philosophy attended by graduating students, family, and out and join Fulton colleagues for what will be CMAT faculty members, and will host its a series of thought-provoking and Tracking Changes: Thinking about induction ceremony in the Great Hall, Holloway conversation-starting colloquia! Scholarly Editing as Part of Your Hall, in October. Members are participating in For questions or suggestions regarding the FFC, Professional Development. the Salisbury Jaycees’ Treat Street and will attend contact Associate Dean Keith Brower at November 12, 3:30 p.m., TE 152 talks by Dr. David Burns, Becky Emery, and [email protected]. Dr. Christopher Vilmar, associate professor Vanessa Junkin from the Daily Times this Fall. of English and graduate director for programs Faculty co-advisors to the group are Drs. Vinita in English Agarwal and James Burton. The Exchange 9 Departmental Reports

ART Steven Durow’s solo exhibition of new work, Jinchul Kim served as juror for the “FLUENCY: Salisbury University Faculty and “Object Relations,” is on view at Exclusive Mid-Atlantic Regional Juried Exhibition at the Student Artwork in Dialogue” is on view through Jewels Fine Arts, in the Beacon Hill area of Art Institute and Gallery in Salisbury. He also September 30 at the Ocean City Center for the Boston. This exhibition explores Durow’s gave a talk in conjunction with this show which Arts on 94th Street in Ocean City, MD. The new fascination with translating the intangible into runs through October 11. Jinchul also is exhibition and classroom facility opened in physical objects. With this body of work he is completing the portrait of Fulton Dean, Dr. spring 2013 and has featured several exploring the ways in which the interpersonal Maarten Pereboom. The finished painting will collaborations with the University, already. aspects of lives change and affect who be displayed in “Marked: Recent Works by SU Marisa Sage, SU’s gallery manager juried a individuals are. As Durow explains in the artist Art Department Faculty” in the University group show over the summer. Brooke Rogers statement for the exhibition, “When we become, Gallery (September 30-October 26). taught a drawing class at the center in July. close to another person, who we are begins to “FLUENCY” was organized by Rogers and change. The closer we become the more In July, instructor of art John Mosher includes works by eight Art faculty members, significant the transformation. We assume roles presented the solo exhibition “Chromanaut” at each inviting one student to also exhibit his or within the relationship, or we develop coping the Las Manos Gallery in Chicago. The show her work in the show. Participating strategies that directly affect who we are over featured mixed media pieces on paper as well as teachers/students are: Jeanne Anderton/ time. These transformations can be good or bad, several video works. Jonathan Arias, Ed Brown/Melanie Lyons, healthy or unhealthy, but they are real and Jessica Cross Davis/Diana Johnson, profound. My goal in this body of work is to COMMUNICATION ARTS Jim Hill/Jonathan Demauro, Marjorie Hill/ reflect the effects of those transformations in the Vinita Agarwal has two chapters published in Becky Boyd, Jinchul Kim/Katie Jang, sculpture.” family and health communication edited Dean Peterson/Sarah Wilhelm and “Object Relations” collections: (a) Agarwal, V., & Shenoy, S. (2013). Brooke Rogers/Monica Forrester. runs through “On the evolution of togetherness and living October 19. with two hearts.” In S. Murrow and D. Jeanne Anderton organized her camera Durow also Leoutsakas (Eds.), More Than Blood:Today’s Reality collection for inclusion in the Ward Museum of currently has a and Tomorrow’s Vision of Family (pp. 164-173). Wildfowl Art’s exhibition “The Nature large-scale work, Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, and (b) Agarwal, Photographer’s Kit: From Plates to Pixels” (on “Levee Break”, V., D’Silva, M. U., & Leichty, G. B. (2013). view through October 18). Her collection forms on exhibition in Disease, Representation, and Public Relations: A part of a showcase of photographic equipment Carbondale, CO. Discourse Analysis of HIV/AIDS websites. In spanning from the early 1800s to the digital age through May R. Ahmed and B. R. Bates (Ed.), Health which highlights the development of 2014, as part of Communication and Mass Media: An Integrated photographic equipment and its ability to the city’s public Approach to Policy and Practice (pp. 51-65). Surrey, art program. “Levee Break” - Steve Durow, on exhibition adequately capture nature’s magnificence. in Carbondale, CO. England: Gower Publishing Ltd. Anderton also led a sunprints workshop at the Agarwal has a forthcoming research paper Ward Museum’s third annual Art in Nature Paul Flexner’s painting, “Afternoon presentation for the health communication Photography Festival Education Conference. Reflection” (oil on canvas) was accepted into the division at the Annual National Communication 13th Annual American Landscapes exhibition at Association Convention this November in This summer, Jessica Cross Davis was the MFA Circle Gallery in Annapolis. Out of Washington, D.C.: Dai or Doctor: Framing featured in 707 entries from around the country, Flexner’s Tensions between the Traditional and the two art work, and works by 70 other artists, was selected Biomedical Orientation in Maternal Health in exhibitions: for inclusion in the exhibition by juror Denise an Urban Resettlement Neighborhood in “The Carvalho. In addition, three of Flexner’s India, This research comes from the Faculty Immortals,” paintings were accepted into AACO, a juried Research Mini Grant (2010) supporting her travel the first exhibition for Artists of Anne Arundel County to India for fieldwork and data gathering. exhibit held at and members of the Maryland Federation of Recently, Agarwal served as a Speech the SU Art Art. From over 320 entries, Flexner was one of Consultant to Dr. Michael Finegan at the Galleries 46 artists selected to participate by juror John Peninsula Psychology and Psychiatry for his Downtown – Shipman, gallery director of The Art Gallery at presentation to an international panel of experts Campus, and the University of Maryland, College Park. at the Drug Enforcement Agency, Quantico, VA. “Portraire,” Flexner was also awarded second place for his held at the work, “Arcade.” Jennifer Cox received an honorable mention in 386 Gallery in the “Teaching Terrifically in the 21st Century” Albany, NY. Elizabeth Kauffman presented a paper in competition from the Association of Educators “The August on Buckminster Fuller at the in Journalism and Mass Communication at the Immortals,” interdisciplinary literature and art history organization’s annual conference in Washington, which ran from May 17 - June 29, was a solo conference, “Imagined Worlds” at the University D.C. in August. She also presented her research show, and “Portraire,” which opened on of Finland in Helsinki. In Summer she exhibited on the subject of breaking news content June 7 and ran through July, included works by several paintings, including “Iceberg,” at the differences in print and online publications at T. Alexander Rand, Tony Thompson, Aja Apa- University of Maryland University College in the conference. Cox also will present research on Soura, Ruth Alma, Eamonn James, Heather “The Portrait and the Figure: Faculty Art the distribution of content by news organizations Blossom Brown and Vicki Bower. Davis has had Invitational” 2013. “Iceberg” is currently on view using social media at the Beyond Convergence works in eight exhibitions in 2013. in Alexandria, VA. at the Target Gallery through conference in Las Vegas in October. September 29 for the juried show “In the Flesh 4” and other works by Kauffman are also currently on view in Norristown, PA, at the Pagus Gallery. Continued 10 The Exchange Departmental Reports (Continued) Dennis Leoutsakas’ “Last Lecture” HISTORY This September, Wright traveled to Switzerland presentation given last semester, “Life: Balloons, Jason Boroughs conducted SU’s first as guest artist of the Matthäuskanterei of Lucerne Glass, and Iron,” was uploaded to YouTube and archaeological field school in a decade at a site for a program of “Black and White Spirituals.” may be located with the key words: “Last in Cambridge, MD. The student’s findings on Lecture Salisbury University”. Leoutsakas won the site of a 19th-century African-American SOAP’s annual contest with his lecture on how school garnered significant attention throughout he was influenced by his experiences in foster the region and state. Boroughs is likely to lead care, surviving Vietnam and living with HIV. further archaeological research at the site next year. Haven Simmons delivered a FEMA multi-hazard emergency planning higher Last spring and summer, Celine Carayon education course September 14-17 in conducted research at Brown University under Gaithersburg, MD, to officials from Goucher the auspices of the distinguished John Carter College, Loyola University, Hood College, the Brown Fellowship Program. University of Vermont, Southern Maryland College and Anne Arundel Community College. Simmons has been adjunct media faculty at the MODERN LANGUAGES National Emergency Training Center in Louise Detwiler was invited by editor Bill Emmitssburg, MD, since 1997. Hanna to write a short essay for the University System of Marylands, The Faculty Voice. Her piece “Learning to Unlearn through CONFLICT AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION Testimonio” appeared in the June 10 issue, and Soosaipillai I Keethaponcalan’s research may be accessed online. paper on security sector governance was published as a chapter in an edited volume: “Trajectories of Security Sector Governance in Sri Lanka,” in Yuji MUSIC Wright portrays the role of Jean Valjean in the Uesugi (ed), Peace-building and Security Sector Governance William M. Folger was invited this summer to Salisbury Community Players’ production of Les in Asia (Geneva: Center for the Democratic Control perform with The Bel Canto Company, Inc., Misérables from November 1-3. His applied voice of Armed Forces, 2013) pp. 129-152. based in Greensboro, NC, for the August 2. students Amanda Lundstrom (junior/music Hinshaw Music Publishing Company annual education) and Meredith Hazel (junior/B.A. Celebration concert in Raleigh, NC. The music) landed the roles of Fantine and Cosette, ENGLISH highlight of the program was the premiere respectively, while Brittany Eaton Dave Johnson’s chapter “Critical Hearing and performance of the chamber orchestra version (senior/music education), Lauren Shockley the Lessons of Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up” of Requiem for the Living by Dan Forrest (junior/education/B.A. music), and Leah was recently translated by China Film Press in conducted by Welborn Young. The performance Wilson (senior/music education/vocal Beijing for a Simplified Chinese version of the will be distributed on CD. performance) earned spots in the ensemble. book in which it originally appeared, Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound. He also had In May, Sachi Murasugi attended the seven PHILOSOPHY an essay published in the journal Adaptation this Biennial Starling-DeLay symposium at The year, “The ‘Flashing Glimpse’ of Cinephilia: Timothy Stock will travel to Eugene, OR, to Juilliard School, joining participants from 32 present new work on Kierkegaard and Barthes What an Unusual Methodology Might Offer states and 14 countries. The Symposium fosters Adaptation Studies,” as well as a short piece on for the Søren Kierkegaard Society’s Bicentennial the legacy of renowned violin pedagogue Panel at the Society for Phenomenological and the film Take Shelter for the 10th anniversary of Dorothy DeLay and is one of the most the Web journal Reverse Shot. Existential Philosophy. The panel will highlight important events dedicated to the art of violin the work of six scholars from around the world teaching and performance. In August, she In the past few months, John A. Nieves’ poems who have projects that move Kierkegaard’s co-authored an article with Dr. Jeffrey Howard philosophy into new areas (such as, in Stock’s appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Confrontation, of Towson University about the symposium Contrary, Copper Nickel, Folio, Hayden’s Ferry Review, case, the intersection between literary theory entitled, “Making the ASTA Connection: How and performance studies,) and is a featured event Sugar House Review and Weave Magazine. He also Young Talents Become Rising Stars,” which will participated in Hayden’s Ferry Review’s innovative on the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center’s be published in the forthcoming edition of the SK2013 website. At the conference he will 21st Century Reading, streamed live around the journal American String Teacher. world. In addition, an announcement that his first moderate a discussion for continental philosophy book, Curio, due out in January, won the 13th in a Jewish context, regarding the political and Jeffrey Schoyen served on the faculty of Blue social implications of Jewish messianism Annual Elixir Press Judge’s Prize appeared in the Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan for his 12th September/October 2013 issue of Poets & Writers. featuring the work of Annika Thiem (Villanova season. In addition to teaching master classes’ he University) and James Martel (San Francisco performed with the Festival Orchestra as Judith Pike’s article “Rochester’s Bronze Scrag State), a program he has coordinated over the principal cellist and organized string past year. and Pearl Necklace: Bronzed Masculinity in Jane departmental activities. Eyre, Shirley and Charlotte Brontë’s Juvenilia” appears in the June 2013 issue of the journal Joerg Tuske presented his paper “Free will in In June, tenor John Wesley Wright performed as Indian Philosophy” at the Columbia Victorian Literature and Culture 41.2. In July, she soloist and American Spiritual Ensemble quartet presented her paper “‘Felicitations to the Comparative Philosophy Seminar at Columbia member, alongside the likes of Judy Collins and University, NY, on April 26. He also participated Brontëites: The 1895 Inaugural Volume of the Michael Flatley, for the Kennedy Family as part of Brontë Society’s Publications” at the Research in the NEH Summer Seminar: Understanding JFK50 celebrations in New Ross, Ireland. Wright Buddhism Through Its Classic Texts at the Society in Victorian Periodicals conference in toured with the full Ensemble in August as it the UK. Afterwards, she expanded the paper Mangalam Research Institute in Berkeley, CA headlined various international music festivals in (July 6-August 3). into an article that is presently under review by Spain, including Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao and the journal Brontë Studies. Sant Feliu de Guixols. The Exchange 11

in Introductory Social Psychology and Mark Walter had two presentations at the Developmental Psychology Textbooks.” The Association for Psychological Science in Teaching of Psychology (with first author, Washington, D.C., in May with students: What George Whitehead, and Smith, S.H.). Does Your Personality Say About Your Attitudes Losonczy-Marshall presented a poster in May Toward History? (with N. Innocenti) and at the Annual Convention of the Association for Personality and Fundamentalism: The Mediating Psychological Science in Washington, D.C., titled, Role of Dogmatism (with Calloway, K.) “Stability of Emotional Expression and Temperament from One to Three Years.” She George Whitehead’s AmeriCorps grant also presented a poster (with George project has been funded for 19th year. Whitehead and S.H. Smith) in March at the Whitehead also reports two publications: a) Eastern Psychological Association in New York Smith, S. H. & Whitehead, G. I., III (2013). A City titled, “Is There Consistency Across Topics Preliminary Study of Psychological Distancing by and References Among Developmental African Americans and Whites. North American Psychology Textbooks?” Journal of Psychology, 15, p.p. 235-242, and b) In May, she gave a presentation to the Lower Whitehead, G. I. & Smith, S. H. (2013). The Shore Child Care Resource Center, sponsored by Coverage of Spontaneous and Planned Helping SU’s Institute of Developmental Research, called Behaviors in Introductory Social Psychology “Why are Children Aggressive?” Textbooks: A brief report. North American Journal of Psychology, 15, p.p. 299-302. "Stay Inside" - Jinchul Kim 2012 , oil on canvas, 28x22" In March 2013, Suzanne Osman delivered a presentation at the Eastern SOCIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY Psychological Association annual meetings Diane Illig along with Paula Morris Rhyannon Bemis presented a poster, “I (with student Ava Carcirieri) titled, (Management and Marketing Department, Remember When You Taught Me That! “Examining Body Shame of College Women Perdue School) and Michele Schlehofer Children’s Ability to Accurately Report on Their by Type of Sexual Victimization.” (Psychology Department) will be presenting a Own Learning,” at the Society for Research on workshop on Creating Safe Spaces for LGBT Child Development’s Biennial Meeting in Seattle, Meredith Patterson (with Chakraborti M.) people at work, school and community at the WA, last April. presented a poster at this May’s annual meetings Eastern Shore School Mental Health Coalition’s Bemis also began a new project with three of the Association for Psychological Science in (ESSMHC) third annual conference, “Linking students (Megan McComas, Lynly Meunier, and Washington, D.C., titled, “Effective Information Mental Health to Academic Success: Safe Jewellianna Palencia) examining children’s Literacy Training for Psychology Students.” Schools Nurturing Communities,” at SU on immediate recall of learning events. Two local September 27. schools have been included in this project and are This summer Michele Schlehofer prepared continuing their participation this fall. an Early Career Professional Development Alexander Stoner was awarded the 2013 Workshop as part of pre-conference events for Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young/Critical Charisse Chappell presented a poster in August the 13th biennial conference of the Society for Sociology Marxist Sociology Graduate Student at the annual meeting of the American Community Research and Action (SCRA). This Paper Award on behalf of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu, HI: “Color- half-day long workshop provided professional Sociological Association (ASA) for his paper Blind Racial Attitudes and Belief in a Just World in development training of interest to advanced “Sociobiophysicality and the Necessity of an Undergraduate Multicultural Course.” graduate students and newly graduated Critical Theory: Moving beyond Prevailing professionals working in applied and academic Conceptions of Environmental Sociology in the Marcy Losonczy-Marshall is first author on settings. In addition, Schlehofer chaired and USA.” Stoner’s paper is forthcoming in the a publication this year (with Marshall, P.D.): participated in three roundtables at the 13th journal Critical Sociology. “Factors in students’ seat selection: An biennial SCRA conference: one on preparing exploratory study” appears in Psychological tenure and promotion packets, one on Reports: Sociocultural Issues in Psychology, 112(2), experiential undergraduate teaching, and one on 1-10. She also is third author on a publication conducting community-based research as a currently in press: “A Pilot Study of Core Topics faculty member.

"Iceberg" - Elizabeth Kauffman, Iceberg, 2012, "Sidewalk" - SIDEWALK II by Paul Flexner, oil on canvas, 24x38 inches; currently on display at the Kunsthause Buhler in Stuttgart Germany. Oil on canvas, 56" x 33" 12 The Exchange Documentary Film Showcase Tuesday, October 29 Perdue Hall Room 156 3:30-7 p.m.

Frances Kendall (CMAT) and Elsie Walker (English) are hosts of this event, which highlights an exceptional selection of student films produced over the last few years in Kendall’s Documentary Production class. Three of the filmmakers are SU alumni and the fourth graduates this year. They share their insights on the production process, talk about their current projects and offer a glimpse of their aspirations.

3:30 p.m. The Guise Effect (Joseph Austin II, 2010), an investigation of how and why African Americans have been negatively represented on film and a consideration of the way forward. Featuring interviews with SU’s David Johnson, Darrell Newton, Professor Robert Smith and former SU professor Dr. Kelli Randall.

4:30 p.m. Hit the Deck (Stephen Carr, 2012), a tribute to the joy of skateboarding and its freeing impact for one person in particular. A young man from Easton MD, battles local bureaucracy and travels across the country in search of challenging venues – along the way he gathers personal-best moments performing an assortment of perilous tricks.

5:30 p.m. Fowl Play (Jacob Swinney and Erica Winter, 2013), a biography of Jimi Haha, leader of the band Jimmie’s Chicken Shack - a post-grunge, alternative rock band from Annapolis that emerged in the early 1990s and gained national status. Jimi is a multifaceted artist; he is effervescent and his outlook is inspiring.

Admission is free and the public is invited. Participants are encouraged to stay for all three films. Refreshments will be served in the lobby.

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Thanks to The Exchange Representatives who contributed to this issue:

Art ...... Jennifer Liston Philosophy ...... Tina Melczarek

Galleries ...... Elizabeth Kauffman Psychology ...... Jason McCartney

Communication Arts ...... Jody Morrison Sociology ...... Alex Stoner

Conflict Analysis & Dispute Resolution ...... Keetha Soosaipillai Theatre & Dance ...... Tom Anderson

English ...... Lucy Morrison Staff ...... Donna Carey

History ...... Creston Long Tina Melczarek

Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies . . . . .Louise Detwiler Editor ...... Jody Morrison

Music ...... Christopher English