Faculty & Staff Notes Archives :: Spring 2006

Week of May 26, 2006
Professor of Chemistry Albert R. Matlin receive the John and Samuel Bard Award for Medicine and Science from Bard College during Bard's commencement weekend President's dinner.

Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Wendy Kozol and Rebecca DeCola '04 recently publish an essay titled "Remapping the Visual War on Terrorism: 'US Internationalism' and Transnational Citizenship." The essay, which appears in the book Rethinking Global Security: Media, Popular Culture, and the "War on Terror" (Rutgers University Press 2006), examines news photographs of the U.S. war on terrorism, focusing on the visual rhetoric of rescue and liberation of Iraqi and Afghan women.

Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Laurie McMillin recently talked to radio personality Joanne Weintraub (Milwaukee Presents, WHAD 90.7) about her book Buried Indians: Digging Up the Past in a Midwestern Town (University of Washington Press). McMillin also appeared on Milwaukee.com to talk about her book, which recently was nominated for The National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Emeritus Professor of Singing Richard Miller will be honored by The Voice Foundation at a special awards ceremony during its annual symposium. The Voice Foundation is an international organization of professional voice users that includes medical professionals, speech scientists, actors, opera singers, recitalists, stage personalities, and singing teachers. In addition to Miller, his year's award recipients include Martina Arroyo, a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera, and Ben Vereen, star of stage and screen.

Week of May 1, 2006
Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies James Dobbins has been selected as a fellow at the National Humanities Center for 2006 - 2007 academic year. Dobbins is one of 40 professors from 32 colleges and universities across the United States that has been who has been awarded a grant to pursue research at the center. Each fellow will work individually on research projects in the humanities, and will share their ideas in seminars, lectures, and conferences.

Week of April 24, 2006
Associate Provost and Professor of Economics David Cleeton has been invited by the European Commission's Directorate General of Economic and Financial Affairs to participate in the seventh annual Brussels Economic Forum on May 18-9. The purpose of the forum is to stimulate debate on economic policy at the European Union level.

Associate Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand's recent comment on classical antiquity and modern popular culture at the Teagle Forum in Liberal Education (Northwestern University, March 2006) can now be downloaded as a podcast from the Teagle Foundation's web site.

Week of April 17, 2006
A poem by Emeritus Longman Professor of English David Young from his new collection Black Lab leads off Alfred A. Knopf's 2006 Poem-a-Day program as part of its National Poetry Month festivities.

An audio clip of Young reading the title poem from Black Lab also can be heard on site's Poem-a-Day podcast.

Young is a co-founder of the College's creative writing program and Oberlin College Press, publisher of one of the nation's leading poetry journals, Field.

Houch Associate Professor of Creative Writing Dan Chaon recently received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The award, which recognizes Chaon's distinguished career as a young fiction writer, also includes a $7500 monetary prize.

Week of March 27, 2006
The University of Wisconsin Press recently published Buried Indians: Digging up The Past in a Midwestern Town, by Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition Laurie McMillin.

Associate Professor of English T.S. McMillin has been invited to give a talk at the University of Michigan as part of a conference celebrating the career of Professor John Knott. McMillin will discuss his current research project on rivers and American literature. Highlighs of the conference include a keynote address by John Elder, a reading by Janisse Ray, and an exhibit of the work of photographer Emmit Gowin.

Week of March 13, 2006
Syracuse University Press recently released Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East), by Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Frances Hasso. In this book, Hasso examines Palestinian feminist activism from the late 60s to the present and offers comparative discussion of women's involvement in party politics in Lebanon, Syria, and Kuwait.

Rutgers University Press recently released Just Advocacy?: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, And The Politics Of Representation, a book co-edited by Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies Wendy Kozol and her colleague Wendy S. Hesford, an associate professor of English at Ohio State University.

Associate Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand recently participated as a respondent at a Teagle Forum in Liberal Education on the topic of "Classical Antiquity and American Popular Culture" at Northwestern University (March 3). Ormand offered comments, titled, "Failed Aesthetics and Misappropriation in Popular Politics," in response to papers by Daniel Mendelsohn (Princeton) and Danielle Allen (University
of Chicago).

Week of December 11, 2005
Professor of German Heidi Thomann Tewarson and Faculty-in-Residence Dorothea Kaufmann recently co-edited Willkommen und Abschied: Thirty-Five Years of German Writers-in-Residence at Oberlin College (Cambden House, New York), which chronicles the history of Oberlin's German Writers-in-Residence program over the past 35 years. The book, which is bilingual, includes information on the authors who participated in the residency program, as well as updated bibliographies of their work.

The German publisher Rowohlt recently published another book by Thomann Tewarson. Titled Toni Morrison, this book represents a critical study of the Nobel Laureate's work (in German ), and includes a brief biography of her early life in Lorain, Ohio.

Week of January 2, 2006
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Jason Belitsky recently received a $45,640 grant from Arizona's Research Corporation to continue his study of aminooxy serine/threonine peptide ligation. Belitsky was one of only 31 professors to receive the corporation's prestigious Cottrell College Science Award, which champions the work of scientists at undergraduate institutions in the U.S. and Canada.