APRIL 2018 SCHOLARLY T H E C O L L E G E O F L I B E R A L A R T S N E W S L E T T E R APRIL 2018 01 Update From the Dean 02 Special Kudos 03 Development News 04 History and Geography News 08 Mass Communication News 10 Media Ethics Conference 11 New Faculty Series: Epic Conflict and the Female Body 12 An Hour for an Hour 13 Criminal Justice Alumni Event 14 CLA Alumni Reunion 15 Schedule of Events “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” —Benjamin Franklin UTpdahte freom Dean Dear friends and colleagues, For once, perhaps April will not be the cruelest month, but rather the CURest month, here at UCO. Thousands of people -- students and faculty mentors from 435 different colleges and universities -- will soon arrive from all parts of the country to participate in the National Conference on Undergraduate Research(NCUR). Talk about a High-Impact Practice! Classes are pre-empted April 5th and 6th so that all of us may participate and contribute to the fullest extent possible. The College is well represented at all levels, from Dr. Michael Springer, co-chair of the event, to faculty ambassadors, student presenters of keynote speakers, and nearly 100 students and dozens of faculty mentors. I hope you will take advantage of this singular event and encourage your students, as well. Enrollment gets underway this month, too! Our five Student Success Advisers stand ready to assist Liberal Arts majors in their preparations for Fall 2018, but I know that many more of you promote courses, minors, and majors and assist students in finding their academic paths. It would not hurt to remind students that Enrollment is upon us and that they have resources available to them as they work through their options. Lastly, I am filled with pride that two of our faculty members and one alumna have been named as finalists for the 2018 Oklahoma Book Awards. For more details about some great reads, read on! All my best, Cathy Page 1 IPsasguee 12 7 | 234 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS SPECIAL KUDOS 2018 Oklahoma Book Award finalists 2018 OKLAHOMA BOOK AWARDS The following books have written by College of Liberal Arts professors and alumnists have been selected as finalists in the twenty-ninth Annual Oklahoma Book Award Competition. Winners in each category will be announced at the Oklahoma Book Award ceremony April 7, 2018, at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel in Oklahoma City. Angie Debo: Daughter of the Prairie by Patricia Loughlin Oklahoma Hall of Fame Publishing Live from Medicine Park by Constance Squires University of Oklahoma Press Brave New Girl by Rachel Vincent Delacorte Press Follow Oklahoma Department of Libraries on Facebook or Twitter for live updates of the 2018 Oklahoma Book Awards on April 7. You can also find announcements of the winners at #OKBookAwards2018. Page 2 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS DEVELOPMENT NEWS College of Liberal Arts Top 3 Tune in to watch the April 2018 episode of the CLA Top 3. WATCH College of Liberal Arts Student Honors and Awards Ceremony Join us for this year's Student Honors and Awards Ceremony from 6-9 p.m. Friday, April 27 in Constitution Hall. We look forward to celebrating the academic achievements of our students! Page 3 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY NEWS UCO Hosts Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians/Phi Alpha Theta Conference, March 2-3 Photo to the right: Phi Alpha Theta students and faculty including Phi Alpha Theta advisors Dr. Rowan Steineker, Assistant Professor, and Dr. Erik Huneke, Assistant Professor. Photo below: student winner Rachel Watson The Rho Lambda Chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society hosted the 2018 Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians/Phi Alpha Theta Conference on March 2-3, 2018. There were 126 students, faculty members, and professional historians in attendance from thirteen different Oklahoma institutions. Conference highlights included a roundtable discussion on “History and Politics” and a keynote address by Dr. Erika Gasser of the University of Cincinnati entitled “Vexed with Devils: Manhood and Witchcraft in Old and New England.” The Department of History and Geography congratulates the following UCO students, who won three of the twelve conference paper prizes awarded: • Rachel Watson tied for first place for a presentation on U.S. history by an undergraduate student for her paper “An Unflinching Call for Freedom: Clara Luper’s Pedagogy at the Center of Sit-Ins.” • Elizabeth Dahl received first place for a presentation on world history by a graduate student for her paper “‘Breeding Grounds of Vice': Irish Rookeries and the Ecology of Crime.” • Ann Riley-Adams received second place for a presentation on world history by a graduate student for her paper “Nationality in 16th-Century Wales.” Rowan Steineker, Assistant Professor, and Erik Huneke, Assistant Professor, the conference co-organizers, are very grateful for the logistical and financial support provided by the Department of History and Geography’s students, faculty, and staff and for the sponsorship of the Office of Academic Affairs, the Leadership Minor, the Women’s Research Center and BLGTQ+ Student Center, and alumnus contributor Phredd Evans. Page 4 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY NEWS Publications Xiaobing Li’s The Cold War in East Asia has been published by Routledge, 2018. This book received the Academic Excellence Award from the Association of the Chinese Historians in the US. Xiaobing Li published his book chapter, “Sino-Japanese Maritime Conflicts and Security Concerns in the East China Sea,” in Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific: Heritage and Contemporary Challenges, eds. Howard M. Hensel and Amit Gupta (Routledge, 2017). Patti Loughlin’s Angie Debo: Daughter of the Prairie (Oklahoma Hall of Fame Publishing, 2017) has been named a finalist in children/young adult for the 2018 Oklahoma Book Awards, Oklahoma Center for the Book, Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Winners will be announced April 7. Dr. Loughlin is a Professor of History and the chair of the History and Geography department. History instructor Patrick Salkeld has a book contract with Rowman & Littlefield for Americanizing the Beautiful Game: The Rise of Soccer in the United States. Grant Proposals Patrick Salkeld has received the temporary faculty grant to support his research project, “The Rise of Women’s Soccer in the Unites States: WUSA, WPS, and NWSL, 2000-2018.” Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen, Professor, has submitted a grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Summer Seminar for College and University Faculty in summer 2019, “Anglo-American Travel Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.” Justin Quinn Olmstead, Assistant Professor, and Stan Adamiak, Professor, have submitted a grant to the National Endowment for the Humanities for a for a Summer Seminar for K-12 Social Studies Teachers in summer 2019, “The Global Implications of the Second World War.” Faculty Conference Presentations and Public Presentations Xiaobing Li presented “Anticorruption Policy and Corruption Tolerance: The Lost Political Battle and the Face of the GMD in the Chinese Civil War, 1946-49” at the American Historical Association annual meeting, January 4-7, Washington, DC. Heidi Vaughn attended the midwinter meeting of the Mountain-Plains Museums Association, January 22-25 in Billings, MT. She serves on the board as vice president, the Oklahoma representative from the Oklahoma Museums Association board, and chair of the governance committee. Page 5 COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY NEWS Faculty Conference Presentations and Public Presentations Bing Li, Katrina Lacher, Associate Professor, and Rowan Steineker shared their expertise at Many Cultures: Different Perspectives Workshop, a K-12 teacher professional development opportunity, February 15, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Marc Goulding, Assistant Professor, presented “White Face: Education and Race” and Justin Quinn Olmstead presented “Mis-teaching the First World War” at the Teaching History in the 21st Century History Pedagogy Conference, February 16-17, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas. Sponsored by the History Department at Midwestern State University, the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU, Texas Humanities, and the American Historical Association. Andrew Magnusson, Assistant Professor, presented “Inclusion or Exclusion? Islamic Prohibitions on Marriage and Meat in Persian History” at Symposia Persica: An International Conference on the Persianate World and Central Eurasia, February 21-24, Oklahoma State University. Patti discussed historian Angie Debo and women’s history at the History Book Club at the Edmond Library on February 22. Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen attended the Asian Studies Development Program Alumni Conference February 28- March 4 in Washington, DC. Jessica is conference co-chair and will present on the current state of affairs in Myanmar. Katrina Lacher presented an OLLI Town Hall, “The Problem of Riches: Oil Boom and Bust in Indian Country,” an examination of the early twentieth century meteoric rise of the oil industry and its impact on the Osage, Creek Seminole, and other tribes, March 6 at the Stillwater Public Library. Xiaobing Li will speak at the Muskogee Public Library on “China and America: the New Geopolitical Equation” in the Great Decision Program at 7 p.m. on April 3. Dr. Monica Gallamore, Lecturer in History, will attend the Western Social Science Association Conference, April 4-6, in San Antonio, TX. Monica serves as History Section Coordinator and member of the Executive Council. Xiaobing Li, Associate Professor, will present “Building Ho’s Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam” and participate in the roundtable “Is There a Chinese Way of War?” at the Chinese Military History Society/Society for Military History Conference, April 5-8, in Louisville, KY. Stan Adamiak will participate in a roundtable “Is There a Chinese Way of War?” at the Chinese Military History Society/Society for Military History Conference, April 5-8, in Louisville, KY.