Professional Spotlight Summer 2016
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Claudia C. Beal, assistant professor, published "Beal, C.C., Flanders, S., & Bader, S. (2016). Can children reduce delayed help seeking for acute ischemic stroke? A systematic review of school-based stroke education," in Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, Vol. 48, Issue 3, p. E2-E13, June 2016, with co-authors Sonya Flanders and Susan Bader, director for the learning resource center of the Louise Herrington School of Nursing.
Dr. Abjar Bahkou, senior lecturer of Arabic, published "The Monk Encounters the Prophet, The Story of the Encounter between Monk Bahira and Muhammad as it is recorded in the Syriac Manuscript of Mardin 259/2" in Journal of Cultural and Religious Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 6, p. 349-357, November-December 2015; "The Signs of True Religion in the Apology of Gerasimus 'The Complete Book of the Healing Meanings'" in Parole de l'Orient, Vol. 42, p. 1-26, 2016.
Dr. Heidi Bostic, professor of French, chair of modern languages and cultures department, published "The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges" in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 30, 2016.
Dr. Cristian Bratu, associate professor of French, published "Patrons, Arts, and Audiences" (chapter) in Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, Vol. II, p. 1381-1403, 2015; "Literature" (chapter) in Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages, Vol. II, p. 864-900, 2015; "Effet de parlé and Effet d'écrit: The Authorial Strategies of Medieval French Historians" (chapter) in Telling the Story in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz, p. 93-110, 2015.
Dr. Holly Collins, assistant professor of French, published "The Littérature-monde vs. the Parisian Publishing Empire" in Romance Notes, Vol. 55, Issue 3, p. 495-508, 2015; "Towards a 'Brave New World': Tracing the Emergence of Creolization in Maryse Condé's Canonical Rewritings" in Women in French Studies , Vol. 23, p. 69-84, 2015.
Dr. Guillermo Garcia-Corales, professor of Spanish, published "La imagen de la nostalgia en Pasado perfecto de Leonardo Padura" in BADEBEC, Revista del Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria - Rosario Argentina, Vol. 4, Issue 8, p. 251-273, March 2015; "Nostalgia, extravío y carnavalización en La casa de Dostoievsky de Jorge Edwards" in Confluencia: Revista hispanica de cultura y literatura, Vol. 31, Issue 1, p. 42-55, November 2015.
Meredith David published "Saying 'No' to Cake or 'Yes' to Kale: Approach and Avoidance Strategies in Pursuit of Health Goals" in Psychology & Marketing, April 2016.
Dr. Kevin D. Dougherty, associate professor and graduate program director, published "Congregational Diversity and Attendance in a Mainline Protestant Denomination" in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2015), Vol. 54, Issue 4, p. 668-683, October 2015, with coauthors Dr. Brandon C. Martinez, Providence College, and Dr. Gerardo Marti, Davidson College.
Dr. Rafael Climent-Espino, assistant professor of Spanish, published "Theatrical Therapy: A Psychoanalytic Reading of José Triana's Night of the Assassins" in Confluencia. Revista Hispanica de Cultura y Literatura, Vol. 30, Issue 2, p. 88-101, 2015; "Chthonic Contexts and Symbolic Figures in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World" in Revolución y Cultura, Vol. 3, p. 25-29, 2015; "Cookery, Books of Recipes and Social Class in Emilia Pardo Bazan's The Tribune of the People and The House of Ulloa" in Hispanófila, Vol. 174, p. 153-69, 2015; "Authorial Masquerade and Literary Transvestitism in Rubem Fonseca's Lonely Hearts" in Brazil. A Journal of Brazilian Literature, Vol. 52, p. 1-23, 2015; "Classic Tradition in 20th Century Brazilian Drama: From Plautus' Amphitryon to Guilherme Figueiredo's A God Slept Here" in Chasqui. Revista de literatura latinoamericana, Vol. 45, Issue 2, p. 92-108, 2016.
Dr. C. Stephen Evans, professor of philosophy and humanities, published "Moral Arguments for Theism and Divine Command Theories of Moral Obligation" in Christian Philosophy of Religion: Essays in Honor of Stephen Davis, p. 258-272, 2015; "Can an Admirer of Silentio's Abraham Consistently Believe that Child Sacrifice is Forbidden?" in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: A Critical Guide, p. 61-78, 2015; "Kierkegaard, Natural Theology, and the Existence of God" in Kierkegaard and Christian Faith, p. 25-38, 2016; "What Does It Mean to Be a Bodily Soul?" in Philosophia Christi, Vol. 17, Issue 2, p. 315-330, 2015, with co-author Brandon Rickabaugh, PhD student in philosophy.
Dr. Kevin Gardner, chair and professor of English, published Building Jerusalem, Issue Bloomsbury Continuum, May 2016; "Nonsense precipitate: A Reading of The Dunciad I, 123-124" in ANQ, (forthcoming); "Parish of the Dead: Memory, History, and Eternity in the Poetry of Peter Scupham" in Religion and the Arts, (forthcoming); "Verses Sacred and Profane: Anthony Thwaite's Valediction and Other New Poetry Collections" in Religion and the Arts, (forthcoming).
David Garland, professor of Christian scriptures, published "The Theology of Mark" in Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015.
Dr. Jennifer Good, associate professor of German, published "Book Review of Kafka und die Religion in der Moderne/Kafka: Religion and Modernity. Eds. Manfred Engel, and Ritchie Robertson" in Journal of Christianity and World Languages, Vol. 17, p. 71-74, Spring 2016.
Dr. Karol Hardin, associate professor of Spanish, published "Medical Spanish in the United States" in Hispania, Vol. 98, Issue 4, p. 640-61, December 2015.
Dr. Adrienne Harris, associate professor of Russian, published "Book review of Helena Goschilo's and Yana Hashamova's 'Embracing Arms: Cultural Representation of Slavic and Balkan Women in War'" in Russian Review, p. 522-523, July 2015; "Kazakevich's 'Zvezdy:' Gendered Norms and Heroic Ideals in Emmanuil Kazkevich's Postwar Novella and Nikolai Lebedev's 2002 Cinematic Revision" in CARTA Research Journal, Vol. 2, p. 35-37, 2015; "Patriot or Saint? The Resurrection of a Soviet Hero and Post-Soviet Identity" (chapter) in An Introduction to Area Studies in the 21st Century, p. 34-52, 2016.
Dr. Helen E. Harris, assistant professor, published "Social work field education in and with congregations and religiously-affiliated organizations in a Christian context," in Religions, Vol. 7, Issue 52, May 9, 2016, with co-authors Dr. Gaynor I. Yancey, professor, and Dr. Dennis R. Myers, professor.
Kathy Hillman, associate professor and director of Baptist collections and library advancement, published "Glory Days: Living Your Promised Land Life Now by Max Lucado" (book review) in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 128, Issue 11, March 10, 2016; "Crumbs from the Cookie Jar by David Rhew" (book review) in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 128, Issue 17, April 21, 2016.
Dr. Bill Hoy, clinical professor of medical humanities, published Bereavement Groups and the Role of Social Support: Integrating Theory, Research, & Practice, Routledge, March 2016.
Dr. James Kendrick, associate professor, published "Ambiguous Loss: The Depiction of Child Abduction in Spielberg's Early Films" (chapter) in Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg, p. 71-90, April 2016.
Dr. Theresa Kennedy, associate professor of French, published "Book Review of Madame de Souza, Eugénie et Mathilde, ou Mémoires de la famille du Comte de Revel. Ed. by Kirsty Carpenter" in New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Vol. 36, p. 161-162, 2015.
Dr. Eric Lai, professor of music theory, published "Review of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, October 15-16, 2015"in The Bruckner Journal, Vol. 20, Issue 1, p. 33-34, March 2016.
Dr. David Music, professor of church music, published "His Voice as the Sound of the Dulcimer Sweet" (choral octavo anthem) in Augsburg Choral Library, 2016.
Dr. Jeffrey Petersen, associate professor, published "Sport Discontinuation: An Assessment of Goal Achievement via Empirical Measures" in Journal of Amateur Sport, Vol. 2, Issue 1, p. 164-187, 2016, with co-authors Patrick Marsh, doctoral student, and Dr. Osborne Barbara, University of North Carolina.
Dr. Abjar Saadi, assistant professor of Arabic, published "Making Orthography for the Suryoyo of Tur Abdin" in Journal of Syriac Language, Literature and Heritage Quarterly, Vol. 29-30, p. 62-87, 2015; "Interdependence of Classical Syriac and Suryoyo of Tur Abdin" in Journal of Syriac Language, Literature and Heritage Quarterly, Vol. 29-30, p. 1-31, 2015.
Dr. Stephen Silverstein, assistant professor of Spanish, published "La hibridación en las Cartas de Luis de Carvajal, el Mozo" in Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 31, Issue 1, p. 1-21, Winter 2015; "Racial Alchemy and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La cuarterona" in Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, Vol. 44, Issue 1, p. 119-135, May 2015; "The Cuban Anti-Antislavery Genre: Anselmo Suarez y Romero's Colección de artículos and the Policy of Buen Tratamiento" in Revista Hispanica Moderna, Vol. 68, Issue 1, p. 59-75, June 2015; "'La relación de sus males, [y] el medio de curarlos': Transamerican Models of Slave-Labor Organization in José Antonio Saco's An lisis de una obra sobre el Brasil" in Dirasat Hispanicas: Revista Tunecina de Estudios Hispanicos, June 2016; The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive, 2016.
Dr. Lori Ann Spies, assistant professor, published "HIV and Nurses: A Focus Group on Task Shifting in Uganda" in Journal of the Association of Nurses in Aids Care, December 2015, with co-authors Dr. Jennifer Gray, Oklahoma Christian University, Dr. Jackline Opollo, adjunct faculty, and Scovia Mbalinda, Makerere University; "Developing Global Nurse Influencers" in Journal of Christian Nursing, Vol. 33, Issue 2, p. 20-22, April 2016; "An Exploratory Descriptive Study on Task Shifting in East Africa" in Advances in Nursing Science, Vol. 39, Issue 2, p. 44-53, May 2016.
Dr. Rishi Sriram, associate professor of educational administration, published "Student affairs collaborating with academic affairs: Perceptions of individual competency and institutional culture" in College Student Affairs Journal, Vol. 34, Issue 1, p. 56-59, March 2016, with co-author Ah Ra Cho, University of North Texas; "STEM as 'minority': A phenomenological case study of how students of color perceive their experience in a STEM living learning program" in Journal of Learning Spaces, Vol. 5, Issue 1, p. 9-18, March 2016, with co-author Dr. Crystal Diaz, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Dr. Jeremy E. Uecker, assistant professor of sociology, published "Belief in Human Sinfulness, Belief in Experiencing Divine Forgiveness, and Psychiatric Symptoms" in Review of Religious Research, Vol. 2016, Issue 58, p. 1-26, March 2016, with co-authors Dr. Christopher G. Ellison, University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Kevin J. Flannelly, Center for Psychosocial Research, Massapequa, New York, and Dr. Amy M. Burdette, Florida State University.
Dr. Robin Wakefield, associate professor of information systems, published "Social Media Network Behavior: A Study of User Passion and Affect" in Journal of Strategic Information Systems, April 2016, with co-author Dr. Kirk Wakefield, professor of marketing.
Dr. Lindsay R. Wilkinson, assistant professor of sociology, published "Childhood Disadvantage and Health Problems in Middle and Later Life: Early Imprints on Physical Health?" in American Sociology Review 2016, Vol. 81, Issue 1, p. 107-133, February 2016, with co-authors Dr. Kenneth F. Ferraro, Purdue University, and Dr. Markus H. Schafer, University of Toronto.
PRESENTATIONS
Dr. Heidi Bostic, professor of French and chair of modern languages and cultures department, presented "Learning from Indigenous Networks: Negotiating the Intersections between STEM and Humanities" at 12th Annual Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society, held February 2016, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; "The Ethics of Storytelling: A Hermeneutics of Grand Challenges" at American Comparative Literature Association, held March 2016, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Cristian Bratu, associate professor of French, presented "Authorial Self-Sketches and Self-Portraits in the Works of Gaimar, Wace, and Benoît de Sainte-Maure" at 72nd Annual Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association, held November 2015, in Nashville; "Translatio imperii and translatio studii in Luís Vaz de Camões's Lusíads" at Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 10th Biennial Conference, held July 2015, in St. Lucia, Australia.
Dr. Holly Collins, assistant professor of French, presented "'All this Past is Past in Name Only': Reading Marie-Célie Agnant and Dany Laferrière in Tandem" at The Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S. 2015 Biennial Conference, held October 2015, in Las Vegas; "The Ethics of Race and Gender in the Literature of Dany Laferrière and Marie-Célie Agnant" at Modern Language Association Annual Convention, held January 2016, in Austin.
Dr. Gerald B. Cleaver, professor and graduate program director of physics, presented "Matter- Antimatter Propulsion via QFT Effects from Parallel Electric and Magnetic Fields" at Ad Astra Kansas, held April 22, in Wichita, Kansas, and at Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop, held March 1, in Chattanooga.
Dr. Rafael Climent-Espino, assistant professor of Spanish, presented "El tratado médicoculinario como género de ficción en la narrativa hispanoamericana actual" at Coloquio Internacional Entre Literatura y Medicina, held September 2015, in San José, Costa Rica; "Genealogía de una narración: El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier" at Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held May 2016, in New York.
Ramona Curtis, director for community engagement and initiatives, presented "Strategic Planning: Education for Development" at University of Belize Teacher and Administrator's Conference: Belize 2030 Pillar II, held October 2015, in Belmopan, Belize; "More Than We Can Bear: Black Mental Illness on White College Campuses," with Dr. Monique Marsh- Bell, psychologist and coordinator for multicultural services, Lori Genous, Millsaps College, and Dr. Kelley Kimple, associate director for multicultural affairs, at 2016 NASPA Strategies Conferences: Alcohol & Other Drug Abuse Prevention Mental Health & Violence Prevention, held Jan. 22, in Orlando, Florida; "Planning Service Learning Projects for Students" and "Cultivating Excellence in African American Students" at 2015 Conference on Diversity: Improving Outcomes for All, held Aug. 4, in Waco.
Dr. C. Stephen Evans, professor of philosophy and humanities, presented "The Role of the Holy Spirit in Making Moral Knowledge Possible" at the Society of Christian Philosophers meeting during the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, held Nov. 21, in Atlanta; "Kierkegaard on Faith, Doubt, and Uncertainty" at the Boston University Philosophy of Religion Colloquium, held Dec. 9, in Boston.
Dr. Jan Evans, professor and graduate program director of Spanish, presented "Kierkegaard and Unamuno on Despair that Destroys and Despair that Leads to Life" at Christian Association of World Languages, held April 14-16, in Houghton, New York.
Dr. Jennifer Good, associate professor of German, presented "Documentaries of Ruth Beckermann: Transdisciplinary Questions of Movement, Time and Humanness" at Austrian Studies Association, held March 14-18, in Vienna, Austria.
Dr. Karol Hardin, associate professor of Spanish, presented "Maximizing communication through an interpreter" at International Medicine Lecture Series, held March 2016; "Working with Spanish-Speaking interpreters in a family health setting: Language and training needs" at 3rd International Symposium on Language for Specific Purposes, held March 2016, in Phoenix; "Pragmatic devices used to persuade: A year of sermons in a rural Latin American town" at Christian Association of World Languages, held April 2016, in Houghton, New York.
Dr. Adrienne Harris, associate professor of Russian, presented "The Piercing Resonance of Zoia's Wound: The Role of Trauma in War, Memory and Mythopoesis" at Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, held November 2015, in Philadelphia; "'Those who Say that War's not Scary / Know Nothing about War:' Self-Representation in Yulia Drunina's War Poetry" at American Association for Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, held January 2016, in Austin; "Kazakevich's 'Zvezdy:' Gendered Norms and Heroic Ideals in Emmanuil Kazkevich's Postwar Novella and Nikolai Lebedev's 2002 Cinematic Revision" at Central Association of Teachers of Russian of America, held April 2015, in Dallas.
Dr. Alex Holznienkemper, lecturer of German, presented "Common Good or Corporate Interest? New Perspectives from German Professional Soccer" at IFL Symposium "The Spirit of Sports," held November 2015, in Waco.
Dr. Bill Hoy, clinical professor of medical humanities, presented "Goin' Up Yonder: Death and Meaning in African American Eulogies" at Association for Death Education & Counseling, held April 14, in Minneapolis.
Billie Hulke, senior lecturer of Spanish, presented "Reaching Global Competency with Connections in a Beginning Literature Class, Focus: Adolfo Gustavo Béquer, Volverán las oscuras golondrinas" at TFLA, held Oct. 15-17, in Houston; "Proficiency Bound: Serious Interpersonal Communicative Activities That Are Seriously Fun" with Tracey Jones, temporary lecturer of Spanish, at TFLA, held Oct. 15-17, in Houston; "Celebrate Communication, Promote Proficiency, Love Learning: Communicative Activities and Strategies for All 3 Language Modes" at Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, held Feb. 11-13, in New York City; "In Literature There is Life with Connections to Art, Music, Legends and Movies," at Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, held March 3-5, in Honolulu; "Proficiency Bound with Communicative Activities and Strategies for All 3 Language Modes" at Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, held March 10-12, in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Steven Jug, temporary lecturer of Russian, presented "Sexual Violence in the Red Army" at Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, held November 2015, in Philadelphia; "Soldatskie Stikhi: Delineating the Place of Poetry in Red Army Culture, 1941-1945" at American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, held Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Dr. Theresa Kennedy, associate professor of French, presented "The Good, The Bad, and the Thoughtful: The Emergence of the Deliberative Heroine in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Women's Theater" at Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, held Oct. 8-10, in Santa Fe; "Deliberating the Violent Heroine in Seventeenth-Century Women's Theater" at Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, held Nov. 5-7, in New Brunswick, New Jersey; "Theater and Religion: The Case of Madame de Maintenon's Dramatic Proverbs" at Christian Association of World Languages, held April 14-16, in Houghton, New York.
Dr. Michael Long, professor of Russian, presented "On the Edge of the Edge: An Eco-Critical Reading of Lermontov's 'Taman'" at Central Association of Russian Teachers of America, held April 1-3, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Dr. Antonio Macias presented "The Cost of Supermajority Target Shareholder Approval: Mergers versus Tender Offers" at the Finance Seminar, held April 2016, in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Joe McKinney, professor of economics, presented "NAFTA Panel Arbitration of Investment disputes" at the 20th Western Hemispheric Trade Conference, held April 2016, in Laredo.
Dr. Timothy McKinney, professor of music theory and director of the academic studies division, presented "Subject and Subjectivity in Andrea Gabrieli's Ecco L'Aurora" at South-Central Renaissance Conference, held March 25, in St. Louis.
Dr. Linda McManness, professor of Spanish, presented "Se me olvidó toda esta información: Teaching Se for Unplanned Occurrences to Second Language Learners" at South Central Modern Language Association, held Nov. 2, in Nashville; "Text Expression, Mixture, and D/F Modal Poles in the Venetian Madrigal School" at Society for Music Theory's Early Music Analysis Interest Group Conference, held May 21, Bloomington, Indiana.
Dr. Alex McNair, associate professor of Spanish, presented "El Cid in the Southwest: 'Victorioso vuelve...' in the New Mexican Ballad Repertoire" at Texas Medieval Association Annual Conference, held Oct. 17, in San Marcos, Texas; "El Cidi por ahí pasara: Rethinking Cidian Lore in Light of the Judeo-Spanish Ballad Tradition" at South-Central Modern Language Association, held Nov. 3, in Nashville; "Converso Anxiety and Mestizo Sensibility: Antonio Enríquez Gómez's Vida y muerte del Cid (1660)" at Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22nd Conference, held Feb. 6, in Phoenix; "Treacherous Words, Forbidden Love: Segovia between the Spanish Qur'an and El Cid's Sword" at 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, held May 2016, in Kalamazoo, Michigan; "Local Traditions and Pan-American Identities in the New Mexican Ballad 'Los americanos'" at Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, held July 9, in San José, Costa Rica.
Dr. David W. Music, professor of church music, presented "The Origin of Lowell Mason's Tune HAMBURG" at Society for American Music, held March 13, in Boston.
Dr. Marlene S. Neill, assistant professor, presented "Have the Ethics Changed? An Examination of Ethics in Advertising and Public Relations Agencies" co-authored by Dr. Erin Schauster, University of Colorado at Boulder, at Academy of Advertising Annual Conference, held March 18, in Seattle.
Dr. Lourenco Paz, assistant professor of economics, presented "The China Shock Impact on Brazil's Manufacturing Labor Market" at the IDB Seminar Series, held April 2016, in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Renee Anne Poulin, lecturer of French and Italian, presented "Breaking Free from the Ancients: Pier Jacopo Martello's Renegotiation of Aristotelian Poetics" at American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, held April 2016, in Pittsburgh.
Dr. Yuko Prefume, senior lecturer of Japanese, presented "Exploring a Flipped Classroom Approach in a Japanese Language Classroom" at AATJ 2016 Annual Spring Conference, held March 2016, in Seattle.
Dr. Abjar Saadi, assistant professor of Arabic, presented "The Significance of the Syriac Bible 'Peshitta' for Biblical Studies" at International Conference commemorating 150 Years of the First Arabic Bible Translation, held Dec. 1-3, in Cairo, Egypt; "Ecumenical Attitudes in Syriac Literature Since the 4th Century" at Seminar on The Syriac Christian Churches: Rediscovering the Church's Eastern Roots, Institute for Studies of Religion, held April 20, in Waco; "Ninth Century Syriac Exegete and Apologist: Moshe Bar Kepha's Commentary on Luke" at VII North American Syriac Symposium, held June 21-24, at Catholic University of America.
Holly Shi, lecturer of Chinese, presented "Engaging Students in a Blended Learning Environment Through Canvas" at Texas Foreign Language Association Fall 2015 Conference, held Oct. 15-17, in Houston.
Dr. Stephen Silverstein, assistant professor of Spanish, presented "'La relación de sus males, [y] el medio de curarlos': Transamerican Models of Slave- Labor Organization in José Antonio Saco's Análisis de una obra sobre Brasil" at Modern Language Association Annual Convention, held Jan. 7-10, in Austin; "José Antonio Saco's Critique of Anti- Semitism in 'El domingo en los Estados Unidos'" at 34th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held May 27-30, in New York City; "The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive" at Latin American Jewish Studies Regional Conference, held May 26, in New York City; "Another Cuban Counterpoint: Coffee and Sugar" at 33rd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held May 27-30, in Puerto Rico; "The Notional Jew: Judaizing the Merchant in Nineteenth-Century Cuba" at Latin American Jewish Studies Association 17th International Research Conference, held June 21-23, 2015, in Miami.
Dr. Lori Ann Spies, assistant professor, presented "Nurse Practitioners on a Mission: Making a difference globally" at the 27th annual Texas Nurse Practitioner Conference, held Sept. 25, in Dallas.
Dr. David Uber, professor of French, presented "We'll always have... Modiano's Paris as seen in Quartier Perdu" at European Studies Conference, held Oct. 8-10, in Omaha.
Dr. Andrew Wisely, associate professor of German, presented "'I didn't come here to lie': Abraham de la Penha's testimony on March 26, 1965 in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial" at The Future of Holocaust Testimonies IV, held March 9, in Akko, Israel.
Dr. Jay Yoo, assistant professor, presented "When body-tanning becomes dress: Social norms, beliefs, and stigmatization of body modification" at Popular Culture Association-American Culture Association, held March 25, in Seattle; "The Influence of Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance (SATA), Gender, and Body Mass Index (BMI) on Adolescents' Appearance-related Consumption" with Dr. Jennifer Yurchisin, University of Minnesota, at Fashion and the Body, held April 29-30 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
HONORS
Dr. Roger E. Kirk, distinguished professor of psychology and neuroscience and master teacher, was named a Fellow from Southwestern Psychological Association at its annual meeting in Dallas, on April 9, 2016. Fellow status was conferred for outstanding contributions to psychology and statistics.
Deborah Manzanares, senior lecturer of Spanish, received Faculty Advisor of the Year 2014- 15 from The National Executive Council of Alpha Lambda Delta, May 2016.
Carolyn Muska, director of professional development in the office of career and professional development, received the 2015 Marshall Award from the American Association for Employment in Education, April 2016.
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