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The following faculty achievements were compiled by the Provost Office from faculty
submissions
Publications and Exhibits
Robert Blumenthal, Professor of Mathematics, published
"Mathematics: What Role in a Liberal Arts Curriculum?" in College
Teaching 51:1 (Winter, 2003).
Joseph Knippenberg, Professor of Politics and Director of
the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership Program, published a review of
Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence, Captain America and the
Crusade against Evil, in Perspectives on Political Science
XXXIII (Winter, 2004). He also published two pieces of journalism:
"Liberal Arts and Civic Controversy,"
www.collegenews.org (October 24, 2003) and "Putting Faith in
Politics; George W. Bush and 'Compassionate Conservatism,'"
Flying Petrel LXXX (Summer, 2003).
Alan Loehle, Assistant Professor of Art, had his work
exhibited at the Hambidge Center Exhibition and Auction, Atlanta and
the "Gallery Artists Salon Exhibition," at the Marcia Wood Gallery,
Atlanta. His work was accepted into the permanent files of The
Drawing Center, an alternative museum in New York City.
Jay Lutz, Frances I. Eeraerts ’76 Professor of Foreign
Language, published a review of Etincelle: Magazine et cassette
avec exercices pour niveau intermédiaire. Authentik en français:
Magazine et cassette pour étudier le français à un niveau avancé
in the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Review (52) Spring, 2003.
John Nardo, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, published
"Energizing Multivariable Calculus via Maple" in the Proceedings
of the 15th Annual International Conference on Technology in
Collegiate Mathematics ed., Corinna Mansfield (Addison-Wesley,
2004).
Viviana Plotnik, Associate Professor of Spanish,
published a book, Female Body, Mourning, and Nation: A Study of
Eva Peron as Literary Character (Buenos Aires, Argentina:
Corregidor Editores, 2003).
William Bradford Smith, Associate Professor of History,
published The Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection: An
Annotated Bibliography. Emory Texts and Studies in Ecclesial
Life, Volumes 3-6 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999). He also published
an article, "Anticlericalism in Bamberg on the Eve of the Peasants
War" in James Van Horn Melton, ed., Constructing Publics:
Cultures of Communication in the Early Modern German Land. (Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2002) 48-65. Brad also published a review of Das
Strafgericht Gottes: Kriegserfahrungen und Religion im Heiligen
Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation im Zeitalter des Dreissigjährigen
Krieges. Eds. Matthias Asche and Anton Schindling in
Sixteenth Century Journal 33/4 (2002).
Jason Wirth, Associate Professor of Philosophy published
his book The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His
Time, The SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy,
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003). He published the
following articles "Empty Community: Kierkegaard on Being with You,"
in The New Kierkegaard, edited by Elsebet Jegstrup,
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004); "Beyond Black
Orpheus: Thoughts on the Good of African Philosophy," in Race
and Racism in Continental Philosophy, edited by Robert
Bernasconi, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003); "Diamond
Knowing: Philosophical Reflections on the Vajracchedikā
Prajñāpāramitā-Sūtra," in East-West Connections, 2004; "Mitwissenschaft:
Schelling and the Ethical," in Epochē: A Journal for
the History of Philosophy, 2004; and "Nietzsches Fröhlichkeit:
Gibt es etwas, über das nicht mehr gelacht werden darf?" in
Nietzsche Forschung: Eine Jahresschrift, (Berlin: Akademie
Verlag, 2004). Jason also published a review of Jørgen Bukdahl’s
Søren Kierkegaard and the Common Man, in Review of
Metaphysics, 57 (September, 2003).
Alan Woolfolk, Professor of Sociology and Director of the
Core Curriculum, published the following works: "From Virtues to
Values: Some Opening Thoughts," chapter in Faith, Morality, and
Civil Society, ed. P. Lawler and D. McConkey (Lexington Books,
2003); "An Impossible Yet Necessary Ethic of Resistance," review
essay in Journal of Human Rights, 2:2 (June, 2003); and “The
Therapeutic Ideology of Moral Freedom,” in Journal of Classical
Sociology, 3:3 (November, 2003). He also published a review of
Moral Freedom by Alan Wolfe, in Society, 40:2
(January/February, 2003).
Scholarly Presentations
Charlie Baube,
Associate Professor of Biology, presented a poster with M.P. Rowe,
J.B. Phillips, and G.H. Jacobs, “ Functional Substitution of
Photopigments: A Method for Exploring Color Vision in Non-Human
Animals” at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
in Fort Lauderdale.
Roarke Donnelly,
Assistant Professor of Biology, delivered an Environmental Studies
Seminar at Emory University entitled “Can We Build Developments for
Birds and People?”
Lynn Gieger,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education, presented a paper,
“Talented College Women and Mathematics: What role Do Values Play
in Choosing a Major?” at the 29th Annual Fall Conference
of the Research on Women in Education (RWE) Special Interest Group
of the American Education Research Association (AERA), Knoxville.
Lynn Guhde,
Visiting Associate Professor of Business, presented a paper, “From
Down-Home Charm to Retail Dominance: Why the News on Wal-Mart has
Turned Negative” at the American Society of Business and Behavioral
Science, Las Vegas.
Rebecca Hyman,
Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Women’s and
Gender Studies Program, presented
“Issues and Challenges in Global Feminism” at the Gender Studies
Symposium at Lewis and Clark University, Portland.
Beth Johnson,
Assistant Professor of Psychology, co-authored a poster with
psychology senior Eric Hill titled “Incidence of Vomiting in Two
Wild Groups of Bonnet Macaques (Macaca radiata).” The poster
was presented at the 26th annual meeting of the American
Society of Primatologists in Calgary, Canada. She conducted a
symposium with colleague Dr. John Carton at the Best Practices in
Teaching Introductory Psychology meeting in Atlanta, “Teaching
Psychology Without the Big Book.”
Joseph Knippenberg,
Professor of Politics and Director of the Rich Foundation Urban
Leadership Program
delivered the
following papers: “Faith, Hype, and Charity: The Constitutional
Politics of the Faith-Based Initiative,” and “Religion and the
Limits of Liberal Pluralism,” at the American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. He served as a discussant
at the same conference on a panel entitled “Tocqueville’s Art.” Dr.
Knippenberg also delivered a paper entitled
“Ancient Historians and Modern
History: Herodotus and Thucydides on Patriotism” at the Association
for Core Texts and Courses Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
Peter Kower,
Assistant Professor of Economics, presented “An Empirical Test of
the Aghion-Howitt Model of Schumpeterian Growth” at The Annual
Meeting of the Southern Economics Association, San Antonio. He also
presented a paper co-written with Piret Kull (Class of 2003) and
Valerie Schicho (Class of 2005), “A New Measure of Innovative
Activities in Lesser Developed Countries” at the annual meeting of
The Southwestern Society of Economists, Orlando.
Jay Lutz,
Frances I. Eeraerts ’76 Professor of Foreign Language, presented
“The Satirical Song Collections of
Anti-Boulangist Verse: Jules Jouy, Maurice Millot and Louis
Marsolleau” at the Nineteenth Century French Studies Colloquium at
the University of Arizona.
Doug McFarland,
Associate Professor of English, presented “Communal Remembering
through Tragic Myth: Athens and the Sicilian Expedition” at the Re-Membering
Culture conference at Emory University.
John Nardo,
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, presented two papers:
"Infusing Applied Calculus with
Technology and Projects” at the International Conference on
Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Chicago; and
"Encouraging Artistic Expression via
Mathematical Exploration in the Core Curriculum" at the National
Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the
Mathematical Association of America, Phoenix.
Viviana Plotnik,
Associate Professor of Spanish, presented a paper, “Eva Peron, the
Mean Woman of Argentine Literature” at the International Conference
on Mean Women: The Representation of Women in the Luso and Hispanic
Worlds. University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal.
Anne Rosenthal,
Associate Professor of Communications, presented the following
papers: “Ideoscapes, Human Rights Rhetoric, and the Adult Learner”
at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San
Antonio; and “Worldliness as the Rhetorical Practice of Judgment” at
the previous Conference on College Composition and Communication),
New York. She organized panels at both conferences: “(Re)Imagined
Worlds: Global Landscapes and the Adult Learner” and “Belonging to
the World: Habits at the Core of Arendt for Global Citizenship.”
William Bradford
Smith, Associate Professor of
History, presented several papers: “Rule by Exception: Clergy,
Community, and Confession in Late Sixteenth-Century Franconia” and
“The Political Theology of Johann Rürer of Ansbach” at the Sixteenth
Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh. “Medieval Historiography
and the Post-Modern Classroom” at the Association for Core
Texts Conference, Atlanta; and “Johannes Sleidan, Charles V, and the
Schmalkaldic League: The Two Orations of 1540” at the
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, San Antonio. He chaired a
session of graduate students and recent Ph.D. recipients at “Pietism
in Two Worlds: Transmission of Dissent in Germany and North
America, 1680-1820” at Emory University, Atlanta.
Jason Wirth,
Associate Professor of Philosophy presented the following conference
papers “Silent Thunder and the Texture of the Earth: An Introduction
to Japanese Ceramics,” at the 43rd Meeting of the
Southeast Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, University
of Florida; “The Ecstasies of History: Nishitani on Time and
Karma,” The Third Annual Conference: Karma in Buddhist
Philosophy, at the International Society for Buddhist Philosophy (ISBP),
Oglethorpe University; “Plant Life: On the Vegetative Soul,”
Scholar’s Session on Elaine Miller’s The Vegetative Soul: From
Philosophy of Nature to Subjectivity in the Feminine, at The 42nd
Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Boston College and Boston University; “Tempestuous
Silence: Entering the World of Japanese Ceramics,” Exhibition
Lecture Series in conjunction with Masterpieces of Contemporary
Japanese Crafts, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art; “Poison
and the Great Health: Nietzsche and Hakuin,” The Mike Ryan
Lecture Series, Kennesaw State University; “Nietzsches
Fröhlichkeit: Gibt es etwas, über das nicht mehr gelacht werden darf?,”
at the VIII. Internationales Dortmunder Nietzsche-Colloquium (DNK),
“Gegen die Verlogenheit von Jahrtausenden”? Nietzsche und seine
Interpreten, Dortmund, Germany; “Nietzsche’s Joy: Is There
Something at Which We May not Laugh?,” Södertörns Högskola,
Stockholm; “Re-membering Nietzsche,” at The Ninth Annual Conference
of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Atlanta; and
“Re-membering Nietzsche,” Critical Moments: Re-Membering
Community and Self, Emory University.
Alan Woolfolk,
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Core Curriculum presented
the following papers: "Arendt’s Ethic of Resistance" at the
Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City;
and "Arendt and the Burden of Judgment" at the Association for Core
Texts and Courses Annual Meeting, Atlanta.
Community Service and other Professional Activity
Charlie Baube, Associate Professor of Biology, co-chaired
the fourth annual River Rendezvous project. He was interviewed for
"The A-to-Z of Bees" (Robin Hood Productions) The Natural South,
Turner South. Along with Drs. Aufderheide and Wolf, he succeeded in
obtaining a grant from the Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National
College Grant for the purchase of an atomic absorption
spectrophotometer.
Roarke Donnelly, Assistant Professor of Biology, offered a
presentation to the Oglethorpe Estates Homeowner’s Association, "Can
a Case Study from Seattle Help Us Conserve Native Birds in Suburban
Atlanta?" He also organized an urban ecology guest lectures series
open to the university community.
Lynn Gieger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education,
conducts volunteer staff development workshops dealing with
elementary-grades mathematics instruction for teachers in grades 2-5
at John Hope Elementary School, located near the Martin Luther King
Center. She participated by invitation in the elementary grades PMET
("Preparing Mathematicians to Educate Teachers") workshop at
Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Along with Professor John
Nardo of the mathematics department, she was recently selected for a
grant to further develop the Mathematical Inquiry course offered
through Oglethorpe’s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program in
Early Childhood Education.
Rebecca Hyman, Assistant Professor of English and Director
of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, presented an evening
lecture summarizing her book "Anatomies of the Mind: Manufacturing
an American Unconscious" for the Oglethorpe Women’s Network.
Peter Kower, Assistant Professor of Economics ,
participated with RG Lamar (2005), Katy Purwin (2004), Valerie
Schicho (2005), and Aaron Whitworth (2004) in the 26th Annual
College Symposium on Ethics, "Dealing with Ethical Issues in the
Decision Making Process," Hilton Head Island.
Alan Loehle, Assistant Professor of Art, served as a jury
member for "Emerging Artists" for the Forward Arts Foundation and as
an advisory committee member for Atlanta City Council President
Cathy Woolard for public art installation.
John Nardo, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, led a
Service Learning Project at Lynwood Park Community Center as part of
Freshman Orientation, 2003. He was awarded the Lu Thomasson Garrett
Award for Meritorious Teaching at Commencement, 2003. He served as
Principal Mathematical Investigator for the "Preparing
Mathematicians to Educate Teachers" Grant for the Mathematical
Association of America, 2004.
Dan Schadler, Professor of Biology, published "Hey, Who
Forgot to Bank the Fire: Hot Enough For You?" in Reminisce,
14(1):18 (January/February, 2004).
Dean Tucker, Professor and Mack A. Rikard Chair in
Economics and Business Administration, delivered talks or
performances on a variety of subjects to community organizations:
"Economics of Baseball," "Evolution of the Rules of Baseball,"
"Russia Today: Economic Progress" (Optimist Club of Roswell), and
"Marriage, Malice & Mayhem" (North Fulton Regional Hospital).
Alan Woolfolk, Professor of Sociology and Director of the
Core Curriculum served as the Oglethorpe representative to the board
of the Silver Lake Civic Association.
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