Professional Spotlight Fall 2014

PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Beth Allison Barr, assistant professor of history, published "Fourteenth Century England" in "A Star of the Sea to Give Light to Men" and "Mirror to All Sinful": A comparative Analysis of Biblical Women in the English Wycliffite Sermons with John Mirk's Festial, Vol. VIII, p. 147-163, 2014; "Perspectives in Religious Studies" in Women in Early Baptist Sermons: A Late Medieval Perspective, Vol. 41, Issue 1, p. 13-29, spring 2014.

Dr. Alexander Beaujean, associate professor of educational psychology and director of Baylor's Psychometric Laborator, published Latent Variable Modeling using R: A Step-By-Step Guide, 2014.

Dr. Matt Bradshaw, assistant professor of sociology, published "Prayer, Attachment to God, and Symptoms of Anxiety-Related Disorders among U.S." in Sociology of Religion, Vol. 75, Issue 2, p. 208-233, July 2014, with co-authors Dr. Christopher Ellison, University of Texas at San Antonio, Dr. Kevin J. Flannelly, Center for Psychosocial Research, and Dr. Dr. Kathleen C. Galek, HealthCare Chaplaincy.

Dr. Cristian Bratu, associate professor of French, published "Literature" and "Patrons, Arts, and Audiences" in Medieval Culture: A Compendium of Critical Topics, 2014; "Chronicles in Medieval Italy: An Overview" in Handbuch: Chroniken des Mittelalters, forthcoming; "Jean-François Balmer," "Jean Clement," "Coluche," "Jean Dujardin" and "Michel Galabru" in Portraits d'artistes, forthcoming.

Dr. Trey Cade, director, Institute for Air Science, published "The First Space Weather Prediction" in Space Weather, Vol. 11, p. 330, 2013.

Dr. William V. Davis, professor of English and writer-in-residence, published "On Not Hearing My Birthday Mentioned on Garrison Keillor's "Writers Almanac' Again This Year" (poem) in Concho River Review, Vol. XXVII, Issue 2, p. 103-104, fall 2013; "A Visit to Sam Gimignano" (poem) in Cottonwood, Vol. 70, p. 47, fall 2013; The Bones Poems, Lamar University Press, forthcoming.

Dr. Nathan T. Elkins, assistant professor of art history, published "Numismatics, Roman Imperial" (a chapter) in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, p. 5522-5529, 2014; "Investigating the Crime Scene: Looting and Ancient Coins" in Biblical Archaeology Review, Issue July/August, p. 26, 69, 2014.

Dr. Luke Ferretter, associate professor of English, published "D.H. Lawrence" in The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. XIV, Issue 93, p. 37-47, 2014; The Bible as Literature: A New Introduction, Routledge Publishing, forthcoming.

Dr. Paul Froese, associate professor of sociology, published "Religion and American Politics from a Global Perspective" in Religions, Issue 5, p. 648-662, July 2014.

Dr. Shelby L. Garner, assistant professor of nursing, published "Perceived challenges and supports experienced by the family caregiver of the older adult: A photovoice study" in Journal of Community Health Nursing, Vol. 31, Issue 2, p. 63-74, May 7, 2014, with co-author Dr. Mary Ann Faucher, associate professor of nursing.

Arna Hemenway, assistant professor of English, published "The Fugue" (short story) in Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 31, Issue 1 and 2, spring and summer 2014.

Kathy Hillman, associate professor and director of Baptist collections and library advancement, published "Wisdom Is a Woman: Exploring the Wisdom of God by Heidi Lee" (book review) and "Grandma Thoughts by Boots Brizendine" (book review) in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 126, Issue 18, May 5, 2014; "Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God by Dallas Willard (IVP Books, 2014)" (book review) in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 126, Issue 24, June 16, 2014.

Dr. Kyle Irwin, assistant professor of sociology, published "Group Level Effects of Forgiveness: Group Cohesiveness and Collective Action in Social Dilemmas" in Ropean Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 44, p. 280-286, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Jo-Ann Tsang, assistant professor of psychology, and Dr. M. Shen.

Dr. James Kendrick, associate professor of film and digital media, published Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg, 2014.

Dr. Eric Lai, professor of music theory, published "Review of Peter Chang's 'Chou Wen-chung: The Life and Work of a Contemporary Chinese-Born American Composer' (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2006)" (book review) in CHIME: Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, Vol. 18/19, p. 204-207, December 2013.

Dr. Ann McGlashan, associate professor and division director of German and Russian languages, published "'Refracted Light': Tolkien's 'Myopoeia' and the Authority of Imaginative Literature" in Contemplation, Crisis, Construct: Appropriating Core Texts in the Curriculum: Selected Papers from the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, p. 51-54, 2014.

Dr. Timothy R. McKinney, professor of music theory, published "A Rule Made To Be Broken: On Zarlino, Vicentino, Willaert, and Parallel Congruent Imperfect Consonances" in Early Music (Oxford), Vol. 42, Issue 2, p. 175-189, 2014.

Dr. Grant B. Morgan, assistant professor of educational psychology, published "A Comparison of Diagonal Weighted Least Squares Robust Estimation Techniques for Ordinal Data" in Structural Equation Modeling, Vol. 21, Issue 3, 2014, with co-author Dr. Christine DiStefano, University of South Carolina.

Melissa Neathery, senior lecturer of nursing, published "Silence Speaks Volumes" in Journal of Christian Nursing, Vol. 31, Issue 3, p. 197, July-September 2014.

Amanda Keys Norman, university archivist, published "Send in the Professors: Cultivating Class Projects in the Archives" in Archival Outlook, May/June 2014, with co-author Amie Oliver, librarian/curator of print materials.

Dr. Jerry Z. Park, associate professor of sociology, published "Workplace-Bridging Religious Capital: Connecting Congregations to Work Outcomes" in Sociology of Religion, Vol. 75, Issue 2, p. 309-331, July 2014, with co-authors Jenna Griebel Rogers, graduate assistant of sociology, Dr. Mitchell J. Neubert, associate professor and holder of the Hazel and Harry Chavanne Chair of Christian Ethics in Business, and Dr. Kevin D. Dougherty, associate professor of sociology.

Dr. Linda Sue Plank, associate dean for academic affairs, published "Dementia Screening and Management Practices of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in Texas" in The Journal for Nurse Practitioners-JNP, Vol. 10, Issue 5, p. 308-315, May 2014, with co-authors Dr. Kathryn Daniel, BSN '78, Marcella Upshaw and Dr. Jane Nunnelee, senior lecturer of nursing.

Dr. Richard Russell, professor of English, published Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama, Syracuse University Press, spring 2014; Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings, Bloomsbury, spring 2014; "The Black and Green Atlantic: Violence, History, and Memory in Natasha Tretheway's 'South' and Seamus Heaney's 'North'" (essay) in Southern Literary Journal, Vol. Issue Literatures of the Gulf Souths, Gulf Streams, and the Dispersions, spring 2014; "W.H. Auden, Michael Longley, and Poetry as Citizenship in Northern Ireland" (essay) in The Cresset, Vol. 2012 Lilly Seminar for Faculty-Valparaiso University, Issue Teaching Peace and Reconciliation: Theory and Practice in Northern Ireland, forthcoming; "'Deep Down Things': The Inner Lives of Things in Later Heaney" (essay) in 'The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances': Essays on Later Heaney, Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming.

Dr. Stephen Silverstein, assistant professor of Spanish, published "Jorge Luis Borges's Poetic Response to the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War" in Hipertexto, Vol. 19, p. 20-31, winter 2014; "La hibridacion en las Cartas de Luis de Carvajal, el Mozo" in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, p. 30 ms. pp., forthcoming; "The Cuban Anti-Antislavery Genre: Anselmo Suarez y Romero's Coleccion de articulos and the Policy of Buen Tratamiento" in Revista Hispanica Moderna, p. 32 ms. pp., forthcoming.

Dr. Rishi Sriram, assistant professor of educational administration, published "Rethinking Intelligence: The Role of Mindset in Promoting Success for Academically High-Risk Students" in Journal of College Student Retention, Vol. 15, Issue 4, p. 515-536, 2014.

Dr. Lori Ann Spies, FNP and missions coordinator, published "Work-related Quality of Life of Ugandan Healthcare Workers" in International Nursing Review, Vol. 61, Issue 1, p. 116-123, March 2014, with co-authors Dr. Jakki Oppollo and Dr. Jennifer Gray, the University of Texas at Arlington.

Dr. Michael D. Thomas, professor and division director of Spanish and Portuguese, published Coming of Age in Franco's Spain: Anti-Fascist Rites of Passage in Sender, Delibes, Laforet, Matute, and Martin Gaite, New York: Peter Lang, 2014.

Dr. Jeremy E. Uecker, assistant professor of sociology, published "Religious Schools, Home Schools, and the Timing of First Marriage and First Birth" in Review of Religious Research, Vol. 56, Issue 2, p. 189-219, June 2014, with co-author Dr. J.P. Hill, Calvin College; "Religion and Early Marriage in the United States" in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 53, Issue 2, p. 392-415, 2014.

Richard Veit, concert and promotion manager in the School of Music, published Home Sweet Home Front, WingsSpan Press, 2014.

Dr. Jay Yoo, assistant professor of family and consumer sciences, published "Body-Tanning Attitudes among Female College Students" in Psychological Reports, Vol. 114, p. 585-596, April 2014, with co-author Dr. Won-Moo Hur, Pukyong National University.

PRESENTATIONS

Dr. Kara Poe Alexander, associate professor of English, presented "Students as Sponsors of Social Change: How Digital Technologies Enable Literacy Sponsorship in Service-Learning Settings" at Conference on College Composition and Communication, held March 19-22, 2014, in Indianapolis; "From Story to Analysis: Reflection, Uptake, and Inclusivity in Literacy Narratives" at Literature and Language Teaching Institute, held April 25, 2014, at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Dr. Christian Bratu, associate professor of French, presented "A quoi bon étudier le français?: Qu'en pensent (et disent) nos étudiants" at 3e Colloque international sur l'enseignement du français langue étrangère, held February-March 2014, at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, P.R.; "Translating the Ovide moralisé" at Honors Colloquium, held January 2014 at Baylor.

Dr. Barbara Camune, graduate program director for nursing, presented "Sexual Education for Mentally Challenged Adolescents" and "Teaching Developmentally Disabled Women About Sexuality" at Texas State AWHONN meeting, held May 3, 2014, in Fort Worth.

Dr. Gerald Bryan Cleaver, professor and graduate program director for physics, presented "Icarus Interstellar and NASA's 100-Year Starship Project Goal" at Physics Department Colloquium, held April 9, 2014, at Texas State University, San Marcos.

Dr. Jeff Doyle, dean for student learning and engagement, with Terri Garrett, associate director for academic initiatives, campus living and learning, presented "Creating Academic Demand for Living-Learning Programs: An RFP Process;" with Jasmine Wilson, assistant director for resident learning, campus living and learning, presented "Lessons Learning in Applying the 21st Century Principles to Building Projects;" with Alisdair MacLean, regional vice president, Aramark, Brett Perlowski, vice president of operations, Aramark at Baylor, and Rob Engblom, assistant director for resident learning, campus living and learning, presented "Choosing an Enterprise Solution for Outsourcing;" with Tiffany Lowe, director for campus living and learning, Julia Bales, South Russell residence hall director, Sean Studzinski and Ellen Moriarty, KSQ Architects, presented "How Partnerships Made Living-Learning Possible at Baylor University" at Association of College and University Housing Officers International, held June 27-July 1, 2014, in Washington, D.C.; with Jane Wright, HEWV Architects, presented "Visioning and Planning for East Village at Baylor University" at 21st Century Project Open Housing Symposium sponsored by the Association of College and University Housing Officers International, held May 2, 2014, in Waco.

Dr. Nathan T. Elkins, assistant professor of art history, presented "Audience Targeting and the Projection of Power in the Reign of Nerva" at Currencies between Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, held July 3, 2014, at the University of Warwick, Coventry, England.

Dr. Shelby L. Garner, assistant professor of nursing, and Dr. Lyn Prater, senior lecturer and undergraduate clinical coordinator in the School of Nursing, presented "An Innovative Approach to Research on the perceived Rewards and Challenges of Nursing by Student Nurses in Bangalore, India," co-authored Leena Raj and Meena Putturaj, Rebekah Ann Naylor School of Nursing, and Prater at the 10th Conference of the Global Network of World Health Organization Collaborating Centres for Nursing and Midwifery, held July 24, 2014, in Coimbra, Portugal.

Arna Hemenway, assistant professor of English, presented "You Can't Go Home Again: Post-Iraq Assimilation, Trauma, and Narrative Art" at Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, held Feb. 27, 2014, in Seattle.

Dr. Johnanna Hernandez, assistant professor of nursing, presented "Polypharmacy in the Older Adult: Overdiagnosed and Overtreated" at Texas Nurse Practitioner's 26th-Annual Conference, held Sept. 6, 2014, in San Antonio.

Dr. Reneé Jones, lecturer of nursing, presented "Quantified Estimation of Blood Loss During Delivery" (poster presentation) at Midwest Nursing Research Society, held March 29, 2014, in St. Louis.

Dr. Julia Kisacky, senior lecturer of Italian, presented "The Figure of the Woman Warrior in Valeria Miami's Celinda" at Renaissance Society of America, held March 2014 in New York City.

Dr. Eric Lai, professor of music theory, presented "The 'Recapitulatory Crisis' and Bipartite Design in the First Movements of Bruckner's Symphonies" at Eighteenth Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, held June 20, 2014, at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Fred Loa, associate professor of Spanish, presented "Mesa Redonda: La Ley de Cuidado de Salud (Aca) y el Impacto Sobre la Salud Pública" at Conferencia sobre la Bioética, held March 26, 2014, in Edinburg, Texas; "Spanish Language on Texas Health Insurance Websites" at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, held April 10-12, 2014, in Lexington, Ky.

Dr. Michael Long, professor and division director of Asian and African Languages, presented "Taking on Nabokov: An Exercise in Russian Poetry Translation with Undergraduates" at CARTA, held March 28-30, 2014, in Columbia, Mo.; with Dr. Sara Alexander, associate professor, chair and director of Institute of Archaeology, presented "The Impact of Tourism Development on Georgian Cultural Identity" at International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Culture, Value and Justice, held May 21-23, 2014, at the University of Vaasa in Finland.

Tiffany Lowe, director for campus living and learning, Aaron Voyles, University of Texas at Austin, Andre Manukyan, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and James Lorello, Appalachian State University, presented "Lean Out: Men Engaging in the 'Lean In' Phenomenon" at National Association for Student Personnel Administrators National Conference, held March 17, 2014, in Baltimore.

Dr. Lorin Swint Matthews, associate professor of physics, and Dr. Truell W. Hyde, vice provost for research, professor of physics and director of CASPER, with Jesse Kimery, Rice University, presented "Photophoretic Force on Dust Aggregates," co-authored by Hyde and Kimery; with Michael Dropmann, graduate student, Dr. Rene Laufer, associate research professor and head of CASPER space science lab, and Dr. Georg Herdrich, Stuttgart University, presented "Lunar Swirls and Plasma Magnetic Field Interaction in the Laboratory" at 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 17-21, 2014, in The Woodlands.

Paul McCoy, professor, ceramist-in-residence and director of Allbritton Art Institute, presented "International Ceramics Exhibition" at UNF National Juried Ceramics Exhibition, held March 4-April 18, 2014, at UNF Art Gallery, Jacksonville, Fla., at Shapes of Influence: Contemporary Ceramics, held April 3-26, 2014, at Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Ind., at Contemporary Clay Biennial 2014, held May 16-June 21, 2014, at Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, Colo., at Vessel, Icon, Canvas: The Clay Cup, held Sept. 22-Oct. 9, 2014, at George Caleb Bingham Gallery, the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.; "International Juried Ceramics Exhibition" at Clay & Context: Contemporary Ceramics International Biannual, held July 18- Aug. 6, 2014, at Springfield Arts Association, Springfield Ill.

Dr. Debbie McMahon, coordinator of assessment and program improvement, and Alisa Rod presented "There is Method To This Madness! Survey Methodology for Increased Response Rate" at Library Assessment Conference 2014, held Aug. 3-6, 2014, in Seattle.

Cathy Miller, lecturer of nursing, Dr. Roy Ahn, Harvard University Massachusetts General Hospital, Liz Gruenfeld, Project REACH Justine Resource Center, and Erin Williams, Love 146, presented "Healthcare and Psychosocial Issues Impacting Victims and Survivors" at Stolen Lives: An Interprofessional Response to Human Trafficking, held May 29-30, 2014, at Quinnipiac University, New Haven, Conn.

Dr. Grant Morgan, assistant professor of educational psychology, and Kari J. Hodge, PhD candidate in educational psychology, presented "Psychometric Investigation of a Professional Licensure Clinical Exam"; with Tonya M. Trepinski, PhD candidate in educational psychology, presented "Examining Some Fundamental Assumptions of Teacher Evaluation Systems: An Investigation of Teacher Performance and Effectiveness"; with Dr. Wendy H. Valerio, University of South Carolina, and Dr. Alison M. Reynolds, Temple University, presented "Examining the Ability of the Children's Music Behavior Inventory to Correctly Classify Children by Age" at American Educational Research Association, held April 5, 2014, in Philadelphia.

Jane Muir, temporary lecturer in Spanish, presented "The Narrator, the Author, and God in Unamuno's 'Niebla'" at North American Christian Foreign Language Association, held March 2014 in Wheaton, Ill.

Amanda Keys Norman, university archivist, presented "Students Blogging University History: Special Collections in the Classroom" at Texas Library Association annual conference, held April 9, 2014 in San Antonio.

Dr. Roberto Pesce, lecturer in Italian, presented "Saint Francis' Recordatio and the 'Franciscan Question'" at Modern Language Association, held January 2014 in Wheaton, Ill.; "Paolino of Venice, Forerunner of Flavio Biondo" at Renaissance Society of America, held March 2014 in New York City.

Dr. Renee Anne Poulin, lecturer of French and Italian, presented "Boccaccio, Ariosto, and Tasso Moralized: Giulio Rospigliosi's Operative Adaptations for the Barberini Court" at American Association for Italian Studies, held May 23-25, 2014, in Zurich.

Dr. Kristi Sason, DNP student, presented "Preventing Recurrent Preterm Birth: An Opportunity for Quality Improvement," co-authored by Dr. Cheryl Riley, NNP program coordinator, clinical assistant professor, at 2014 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice, held Aug. 8, 2014, in San Antonio.

Dr. Stephen Silverstein, assistant professor of Spanish, presented "Liberalism, Slavery, and Anselmo Suarez y Romero's Coleccion de articulos" at Modern Language Association, held Jan. 9-12, 2014, in Wheaton, Ill.; "The Jewish Slave Trader Myth" at the Jewish Community Center of Austin, held Jan. 26, 2014, in Austin; "Jewish Participation in the Transatlantic Slave Trade" at Latin American Jewish Studies Association, held May 1-2, 2014, in New York City.

Dr. Scott Spinks, lecturer of Spanish, presented "The Representation of the Poor in the Siete Partidas" at South Central MLA, held October 2014 in Austin.

Dr. Rishi Sriram, assistant professor of educational administration, presented "Beyond demographics: Developing, using, and analyzing surveys to improve persistence" at NASPA Assessment and Persistence Conference, held June 20, 2014, in San Antonio.

Dr. Michael D. Thomas, professor and division director of Spanish and Portuguese, presented "Crossing the Footlights: Instances of Chivalric Theatricality in Don Quijote" at South Central MLA, held October 2014, in Austin.

Alex Nix Vaughan, temporary lecturer in Spanish, presented "The Church, Faith and Family in Nada: A Reflection of Franco's Family Values" at North American Christian Foreign Language Association, held March 2014 in Wheaton, Ill.; "Como el engano expone el desengano en 'El mundo todo es mascaras. Todo el ano es Carnaval' de Mariano Jose de Larra" at Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, held April 10-12, 2014, in Lexington, Ky.

Dr. Marley W. Watkins, professor and chair department of educational psychology, presented "Latent Factor Structure of the WISC-IV (UK): Higher-order and Bifactor Considerations with 15 Subtests," co-authored by Dr. G.L. Canivez, Eastern Illinois University, Dr. T. James, Dr. James K. and Dr. R. Good, Éirim: The National Assessment Agency, Ltd., at International Congress of Applied Psychology, held July 2014 in Paris; presented "Bayesian structural equation modeling of the WISC-IV with a large referred US sample," co-authored by Dr. P. Golay, University of Geneva, Dr. T. Lecerf, University of Lausanne, and Dr. G.L. Canivez, Eastern Illinois University, at International Test Commission, held July 2014 in San Sebastian, Spain.

Dr. Andrew Wisely, associate professor of German and director of the honors program, presented "Breaking Rank to Break the Spell: Baretzki's Attack on Lucas in Spring 1965 of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial" at German Studies Association, held October 2013 in Denver, Colo.

Andrea Woodard, temporary lecturer of Spanish, presented "Quien habla dos lenguas vale por dos: Nurturing Language, Identity, and Faith Through the Development of a University-Level Heritage Speakers Program" at North American Christian Foreign Language Association, held March 2014 in Wheaton, Ill.

Dr. Chris Wynveen, assistant professor of health, human performance and recreation, presented "Sense of place and environmental beliefs regarding marine protected areas" an "Encouraging pro-environmental behavior in marine contexts" at Social Coast Forum, held February 2014 in Charleston, S.C.; with Dr. Suzanne Nesmith, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, and Dr. Bryan Brooks, professor of environmental science and biomedical studies, presented "Constructed wetlands as an educational tool to encourage water reuse," co-authored by Dr. Bill Hockaday, assistant professor of geology, and Dr. Cole Matson, assistant professor of environmental science, at 247th American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, held March 2014 in Dallas.

HONORS

Dr. Beth Allison Barr, assistant professor of history, received sabbatical grant for researchers from the Louisville Institute, a Lilly Endowment Program for research leave, $40,000, August 2013-May 2014.

Dr. Shelby L. Garner, assistant professor in the Louis Herrington School of Nursing, received Elected Chair of Health Science Division for National Organization from Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR), Aug. 1.

Dr. Reneé Jones, lecturer in the Louis Herrington School of Nursing, received doctoral degree in nursing practice from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, May 15.

Dr. Joshua King, associate professor of English, received Margaret Root Brown Chair of Robert Brown and Victorian Studies from Armstrong Browning Library to promote 19th-century studies through research and scholarly activities connected to Baylor's Armstrong Browning Library, 2014.

Aditi Mukhopadhyay, graduate student in physics, received $350 APS Division of Particles and Fields Travel Award from Division of Particles and Fields, American Physical Society to support travel to the April meeting of the American Physical Society in Savannah, Ga., for the presentation of a talk in the QCD Session H13 with the title, March 4.

Dr. Wade C. Rowatt, professor of psychology and neuroscience, received a national mentoring award from the American Psychological Association Division 36 (Psychology of Religion and Spirituality) for mentoring undergraduate and graduate students who have become active in the field, Aug. 22.

Dr. Richard Russell, professor of English, received faculty research grant from South Central Modern Language Association to conduct research in the Seamus Heaney Literary Papers at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin, 2014.