Faculty & Staff Notes Archives :: Winter 2004

Week of January 12, 2004
Linda Pardee, an administrative technician for the Gender and Women's Studies and the Rhetoric and Composition Programs, recently designed two ads for the Spring 2004 issue of Cleveland Magazine's Bride to Be. She also has designed a web site for Barbara Keplinger, owner of Feng Shui Design-Ohio. Aside from her duties at Oberlin College, Pardee runs her own business, Pardee Web Design, which specializes in web site development, design, maintenance, and graphics.

Week of December 15, 2003
On Dec. 22, Routlege will publish Merce Cunningham and the Modernizing of Modern Dance, a new book by Professor of Theater and Dance Roger Copeland. Cunningham is widely acknowledged as the world's greatest living choreographer, and Copeland's book is the first scholarly study to examine his 50-year career in a broad cultural context. The book will be published in time to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Cunningham Dance Company.

Barbara Sawhill, director of Oberlin College's Language Lab, recently received the Marie Sheppard Memorial Award for her contributions to and leadership in the field of language learning technology. This award, which is issued every two years, is administered by the International Association for Language Learning Technology (IALLT).

Week of December 8, 2003
Professor of East Asian Studies Suzanne Gay recently delivered two off-campus lectures, "Japanese Merchant Life in the Age of the Warrior," at Case Western Reserve University, and "Managing to Survive: Two Merchant Families of Late Medieval Kyoto," at the University of Michigan's Center for Japanese Studies.

Frances Hasso, assistant professor of gender andwomen's studies and sociology, was recently awarded a Winter/Spring 2004 Residency Fellowship, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, at the Center for the Study of Ideas, University of California, Riverside. She also received the American Sociological Association's Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award supported by the ASA and the National Science Foundation. These awards are to support a new research project titled "Emerging Economies of Desire: Exploring New Relationship Forms in the Middle East and North Africa."