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May 12, 2004
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Dana Tai Soon Burgess, assistant professor
of dance, CCAS, along with students Mary Tisa and Kristy Shimabukuro,
performed solos by the first Asian American choreographer, Michio Ito,
at Manhattan’s Hunter College “Sharing the Legacy” dance
history symposium and conference.
Christina Gee, assistant professor of psychology,
CCAS, received a five-year grant titled “Psychosocial Stress and
Ethnic Minority Adolescent Mental Health” from the National Institute
of Mental Health.
Dennis W. Johnson, associate dean, GSPM,
presented the invited paper, “First Hurdles: Pre-Primary and Primary
Stages in Recent American Presidential Elections,” at the Eccles
Centre for American Studies, the British Library, London, in March.
Anne Lester, assistant professor of history,
CCAS, was awarded a Mellon post-doctorate fellowship at Notre Dame University’s
Medieval Institute to conduct the research and writing necessary to revise
her dissertation into a book.
Jack Siggins, University librarian, presented
two invited lectures, “The Art of Negotiation” and “Dealing
with Problem Employees,” at the annual conference of the Texas Library
Association in San Antonio, TX.
Lawrence Singleton, associate professor of
accountancy, SB, presented “The US Rules Regarding Business Combinations
and Accounting for Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets: Some Evidence
of the Effects After Two Years of Compliance” at the 27th Annual
Congress of the European Accounting Association, April 2, Prague, Czech
Republic.
Charles Toftoy, associate professor of management
science, SB, and John Rollins, a visiting professor and a GW School of
Business board member, won the Best Workshop award at the United States
Association for Entrepreneurship and Small Business conference, for their
presentation, “The Most Troublesome Small Business Issues: Interactive
Discussion with Four Small Business CEOs.”
Andrew Zimmerman, assistant professor of
history, CCAS, was awarded a fellowship by the American Council of Learned
Societies for work on his second book about Booker T. Washington and German
colonialism.
Appointments:
Sheryl Elliott, associate professor of tourism
studies, SB, was appointed to the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority by
Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich, Jr. The authority promotes historic
preservation and areas of natural beauty in order to stimulate economic
development through tourism.
Publications:
Theodore Barnhill, professor of finance,
SB, will publish “Fiscal Sustainability Under Uncertainty” in
an upcoming edition of the Journal of Risk.
Michael Cornfield, research director, Institute
for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, GSPM, published the book “Politics
Moves Online” (Century Fund Press, 2004).
Michael Corry, assistant professor of educational
technology leadership, GSEHD, and Chih-Hsiung Tu,
assistant professor of educational technology leadership, GSEHD, co-authored
“Distance Education: What Works Well.”
Zsuzsa Csergo, assistant professor of political
science, CCAS, and James M. Goldgeier, associate
professor of political science, CCAS, published “Nationalist Strategies
and European Integration,” in Perspectives on Politics, March
2004.
Gordon E. Dehler, associate professor of
organizational sciences, CCAS, co-authored the chapter “P(l)aying
Attention: Communities of Practice and Organized Reflection” with
Ann Welsh (University of Cincinnati), in the forthcoming book “Organizing
Reflection,” edited by M. Reynolds & R. Vince (Ashgate, UK).
Dehler also published “Advocacy, Performance, and Threshold Influences
on the Decision to Terminate New Product Development” with Steve
Green (Purdue University) and Ann Welsh in the Academy of Management
Journal, 2003, v. 46.
John Lill, assistant professor of biological
sciences, CCAS, recently published “Seasonal Dynamics of Leaf-tying
Caterpillars on White Oak,” in the Journal of the Lepidopterists’
Society v. 58: pp. 1–6, and “Leaf Ties as Colonization Sites
for Forest Arthropods: An Experimental Study,” co-published with
R. J. Marquis in Ecological Entomology v. 29: pp. 1–9. Lill
also presented a poster session “Community-level Consequences of
Induced Plant Responses to Eastern Tent Caterpillar Defoliation in Black
Cherry,” at the Gordon Conference on Plant-Herbivore Interactions
in Ventura, CA.
Peter Locke, associate professor of finance,
SB, will publish “Professional Trader Discipline and Trade Disposition”
in the Journal of Financial Economics. The article was co-authored
by Steven C. Mann (Texas Christian University).
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