Papers and Presentations

 

Sean Murphy, Liberal Studies, presented “‘Why Shouldn’t We Observe the Law?’: The Challenge of Matthew 5:17 in Twelfth-Century Intellectual Culture” at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, England, July 9 to 12.

Sean Murphy, Liberal Studies, published an article on "William of Auvergne" (an early 13th-century bishop of Paris) in "Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History," Vol. 4 (1200-1350), published by Brill.

Sandra Alfers, MCL, had her article "Writing from Within: Else Dormitzer in Theresienstadt, 1943-45" published in the Journal of Teaching and Education 1.4 (Fall 2012).

Keith Russell, PEHR, wrote a chapter in the recently published "The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Conservation Psychology" from Oxford University Press. "The therapeutic use of nature," runs on pages 428 through 445. The book, according to the description on the Oxford University Press website, includes basic research on environmental perceptions, attitudes and values; research on specific environments, such as therapeutic settings, schools and prisons; environmental impacts on human well-being; and ways to promote a more sustainable relationship between people and the natural environment.

Paqui Paredes and Sandra Alfers, MCL, organized a panel for the 2012 fall conference of the Washington Association of Foreign Language Teaching and the Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching in Vancouver, Wash., in October. They co-presented a paper on the use of new technologies in foreign language instruction titled "Using Apps and Online Books in the L2 Classroom."

Linda Keeler, PEHR, co-authored an article with a former graduate student titled "Examination of a hazing workshop intervention for intercollegiate sport club athletes." The article was published in the Recreational Sports Journal, Vol. 36, pp. 113-126.

Johann Neem, History, has had his article "A University without Intellectuals: Western Governor's University and the Academy's Future" published in the Fall 2012 issue of the journal "Thought & Action."

Sean Murphy, Liberal Studies, presented “‘Why Shouldn’t We Observe the Law?’: The Challenge of Matthew 5:17 in Twelfth-Century Intellectual Culture” at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, England, July 9 to 12.

Johann Neem, History, has had his article "A University without Intellectuals: Western Governor's University and the Academy's Future" published in the Fall 2012 issue of the journal "Thought & Action."

Jeff Grimm, Psychology, just had a book chapter published in the book "Food and Addiction, A Comprehensive Handbook," edited by Kelly Brownell and Mark Gold. The book is a compendium of chapters written by experts in the study of drug addiction and eating disorders. It was edited by two leading experts in addiction science. Grimm's chapter (Chapter 32) describes the abstinence-dependent increase in food seeking that Grimm and his students study in Grimm's lab at WWU, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Grimm's chapter is titled "Incubation of Sucrose Craving in Animal Models."

Carolyn Nielsen, Journalism, prresented her research "Interpreting the Nation's Toughest Immigration Law: How The Arizona Republic’s Editorials Framed SB 1070" at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Chicago on Aug. 10. Nielsen also was selected as a national finalist for her teaching module "Journalistic blogging analysis: Examining voice, interactivity, engagement, and ethics," which she presented at the conference.Nielsen serves on the national board of AEJMC's Commission on the Status of Women.

Joseph E. Trimble, Psychology, presented an invited lecture titled "Ethics and the Irresponsible Conduct of Research with Ethnocultural Populations" at the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellows Program Psychology Summer Institute in Washington, D.C., in July. Also in July, Trimble served as a member of a scientific review panel for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health. The review panel was conducted in Rockville, Md.

Joseph E. Trimble, Psychology, presented two co-authored papers titled "Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research with Indigenous Populations: Listening to the Voices of the People" and "The Meaning of Coping in Yup'ik Communities Facing Rapid Cultural Change" as part of a symposium focusing on "Conducting Responsible Community Based Intervention Research in Indigenous Communities in the Circumpolar North: Utilizing Local Knowledge and Expertise" at the 15th International Congress on Circumpolar Health in August in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Joseph E. Trimble presented an invited lecture titled "Ethics and the Irresponsible Conduct of Research with Ethnocultural Populations" at the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellows Program Psychology Summer Institute in Washington, D.C., in July. Also in July, Trimble served as a member of a scientific review panel for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health. The review panel was conducted in Rockville, Md.

Cornelius Partsch, MCL, co-authored "Treffpunkt Deutsch (6th ed.)," an elementary German textbook (Pearson, 2012; co-authors Margaret Gonglewski and Beverly Moser).

Joseph E. Trimble, Psychology, recently published the following articles:

• Trimble, J., Rivkin, I. D., Johnson, S., Lopez, D. S., Orr, E., Allen, J., Fok, C., & Henry, D. B. (2012). 'Taringenqegcallrat cayarat umyuat-llu': Indigenous understandings in community based participatory research. Symposium published online by invitation in SCRA special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 2(3).
• Rivkin, I., Johnson, S., Lopez, E., Orr, E., & Trimble, J. (2012). Understanding Yup’ik conceptions of stress within the context of rapid cultural change. Narrated presentation published online by invitation in SCRA special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 2(3).
• Trimble, J.E, (2012). Ethno-measurement and ethno-scaling obstacles in community based research with indigenous populations. Narrated presentation published online by invitation in SCRA special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 2(3).

Carmen Werder (Libraries/Communication) and Catherine McDonald (English) co-presented a session titled "Transfer Theory that Transfers: Using Questions of Transferability to Learn More than How to Teach Writing" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in St. Louis on March 23. Werder is part of the 2011-2013 Elon Research Seminar national/international cohort studying writing transfer.

Joseph E. Trimble, Psychology, presented the invited G. Stanley Hall/Harry Kirke Wolfe lecture titled “An attentive exploration of ethnic identification perspectives and influences on change, measurement, and theory” at the annual convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association, in Oklahoma City in April.

Jonathan Miran, Liberal Studies, guest-edited a special issue of the journal "Northeast African Studies" (Volume 12, Issue 1, 2012) on the theme “Space, Mobility and Translocal Connections across the Red Sea Area since 1500 A.D.”

Sandra Alfers, MCL, was invited by the Goethe Institute, Germany's premiere cultural institution, to attend a professional workshop in San Francisco from Jan. 27 to 29. Together with colleagues from the western United States, she designed teaching materials for high school and university courses on multiculturalism in Germany and Switzerland.

Keith Russell, an associate professor of Physical Education, Health and Recreation, has co-authored the book "Adventure Therapy: Theory, Research, and Practice," recently published by Routledge Mental Health. Also, Russell will be presenting research on adventure therapy at the American Psychological Association Convention in 2012. Russell's paper is titled "A Case Study of the Shunda Creek Substance Treatment Program."

Jeff Grimm (Psychology) published a video journal article in November 2011. The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) publishes peer-reviewed methods articles that include both a manuscript and a video that is made on site by a professional videographer. Grimm's article is titled “A General Method for Evaluating Incubation of Sucrose Craving in Rats.” Four undergraduates contributed to the article and are featured in the video. The students -- Jesse Barnes, Kindsey North, Stefan Collins, and Rachel Weber -- are part of, or have recently graduated from, the undergraduate program in Behavioral Neuroscience at WWU. The research was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at WWU.

Sean Eisen Murphy (Liberal Studies) presented "Pagans Past and Present: Righteousness and Idolatry in Academic Discussions of Ancient Religion, c. 1130-c. 1230" at Gott und die Heiden: Funktionen und Semantiken der Heiden in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, an interdisciplinary conference on the concept of "pagans" in medieval European culture held at the University of Bayreuth March 22 to 24, 2012. Murphy was invited to give the lecture.

Jeff Grimm (Psychology) recently was awarded a "Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-related Research." The award is tied to his current grant from the National Institutes of Health. The funding ($22,567) supports basic research on the neurobiology of craving by Kylan Dorsey, an undergraduate student majoring in behavioral neuroscience. Additionally, Grimm's lab recently published an article in the journal "Addiction Biology." The paper is titled "Nicotine increases sucrose self-administration and seeking in rats." Four undergraduate co-authors helped write the paper.

Jonathan Miran, an associate professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University, guest-edited a special issue of the journal "Northeast African Studies" (Volume 12, Issue 1, 2012) on the theme “Space, Mobility and Translocal Connections across the Red Sea Area since 1500 A.D.” The issue responds to an innovative effort in the field of global history that focuses on maritime spaces as useful units of analysis. The 10 contributions to the issue explore the Red Sea as a space sui generis characterized by multi-layered connectivities, transregional circuits and cross-cultural interaction from a multidisciplinary (history, linguistics, maritime ethnography, literary and film analysis, architectural history and sociology) and long-term historical perspective. Apart from the “Introduction to the Special Issue” (pp. ix-xxvi), Miran’s research article in the issue is titled “Red Sea Translocals: Hadrami Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Strategies of Integration in Eritrea, 1840s-1970s” (pp. 129-168).

Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology) delivered an invited address titled “Interethnic Conflict, Colonialism, and Conflict Negotiations among American Indians: Perspectives from Intergroup Conflict Resolution Theory” at the Scripps College Humanities Institute series on “Continuing Invasion: Resistance, Resilience, and Re-invention among North American Indigenous Peoples” in Claremont, Calif., in March.

Also, Trimble recently was appointed to the expert panel on "Operationalizing Culture for Health Disparities Research," a project funded by the National Institutes of Health. The project is designed to accomplish four goals: 1) to scientifically define culture for application in health disparities research, 2) identify the domains of culture that influence health behavior, 3) specify the pathways by which these domains influence health behavior outcomes in diverse populations, and 4) propose a set of recommendations to guide both researchers and funders in the conceptualization and measurement of culture.

Joseph E. Trimble (psychology) presented the invited G. Stanley Hall/Harry Kirke Wolfe lecture titled “An attentive exploration of ethnic identification perspectives and influences on change, measurement, and theory” at the annual convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association, in Oklahoma City in April. Trimble was selected by the American Psychological Association to be one of the G. Stanley Hall/Harry Kirke Wolfe lecturers for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Carolyn Nielsen, an assistant professor in the Western Washington University Department of Journalism, had her most recent study published in the winter 2012 issue of Newspaper Research Journal. Nielsen's nationwide study explored whether the advent of anonymous online comments on newspaper websites has affected the way journalists conceptualize their professional roles. Nielsen found that while journalists are largely ignoring readers' comments, they support readers' opportunity to post them. NRJ is a top-tier communication journal that seeks to bridge the divide between media theory and practice.

Karen Stout, Associate Professor in the Communication Department at Western Washington University, presented a paper titled "The material costs of democracy: Business media construction of humanitarian concerns in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars" at the National Communication Association, held Nov. 17 to 20, 2011, in New Orleans. Stout also facilitated a roundtable discussion addressing methods for overcoming obstacles to effectively integrating service-learning into university courses and created a publicly available wiki for educators to share pedagogical tools and assessments.

Steven Garfinkle, Associate Professor of History,presented "Administration, Law and Local Customs under the Third Dynasty of Ur: Successes and Failures" on Nov. 24 at the Imperium and Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom conference hosted by the Nationales Forschhungsnetzwerk in Vienna, Austria.

Johann Neem (History) has published two essays: "A Republican Reformation: Thomas Jefferson's Civil Religion and the Separation of Church from State" in A Companion to Thomas Jefferson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012); and "Taking Historical Fundamentalism Seriously" in the journal Historically Speaking (November 2011).

Daniel L. Boxberger, a professor of anthropology at Western Washington University and chair of the department, presented two invited papers at the meetings of the American Society for Ethnohistory from Oct. 19 to 22 in Pasadena, Calif. The titles of his presentations were “‘We do not wish to leave from this Valley nor from this piece of land’: The Unratified Treaties of Western Oregon Revisited,” and “Konaway Memaloose Tillikum: The ‘Extinct’ Tribes of the Willamette Valley.”

Kimberly Lynn, an assistant professor of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University, was invited to present her research at "The Spanish Inquisition: Rereadings and New Questions. A Symposium," which was held at the University of Virginia on Nov. 4 and 5, 2011. She delivered a paper titled "Unraveling the Inquisitors."

Jeffrey Carroll, a post-doctoral fellow in the Western Washington University Psychology Department, has had an article published in "Trends in Molecular Medicine" on the important role that scientists can play in empowering patients through public education. The article, written with Edward Wild of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, is titled "HDBuzz: empowering patients through accessible education." While at Western, Carroll is teaching in the Behavioral Neuroscience program.

Mart Stewart, a professor of history at Western Washington University, has co-edited the volume "Environmental Change and Agricultural Sustainability in the Mekong Delta." The book was published by Springer as volume 45 in their "Advances in Global Change Research" series. Stewart also co-authored a chapter, titled "Precarious Paddies: The Uncertain, Unstable, and Insecure Lives of Rice Farmers in the Mekong Delta," in this volume.

Carolyn Nielsen, an assistant professor of journalism at Western Washington University, presented her research "Coproduction or Cohabitation? Gatekeeping, Workplace, and Mutual Shaping Effects of Anonymous Online Comment Technology in the Newsroom" in the Communication Technology Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference in St. Louis Aug. 9-13. Nielsen also was a finalist in AEJMC's annual Great Idea for Teachers competition. She presented her teaching idea, "Mass Media Ethics We Will Study, Hmmm: Using Yoda and Other Archetypes to Teach Ethical Concepts," at the conference. As well, Nielsen was elected to the national board of AEJMC's Commission on the Status of Women.

Knute Skinner, an emeritus professor of English, had his poem "The Holy Well" published in Revival Literary Journal, Issue 20, July-Sept 2011, p. 33. On July 29, Skinner gave a poetry reading with selections from his memoir "Help Me to a Getaway" at Banner Books in Ennistymon, Ireland. On Aug. 6 he gave another reading at the Feakle Traditional Music Festival in Feakle, Ireland. Skinner's poem "Let Us know" was selected by the Alaska Quarterly Review as the pilot for a project titled "The Midnight Muse: Singing Poems." Set to music and sung by Amy Lou Hettinger, it was first broadcast on Sept. 17, 2010, on Radio Station KNBA in Anchorage, Alaska.