Summer 2005

Kudos!

Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications of the GW faculty and staff

Acknowlegements:
Paul Churchill, professor of philosophy, CCAS, presented the Gail Hodgkins Lecture at California State University, Chico, on “Face to Face with Terror: What Radical Evil Teaches Us about Peace,” April 4. Churchill also published the book Human Rights and Global Diversity (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005).

Valentina Harizanov, professor of mathematics, CCAS, presented an invited paper “Degrees of structures,” at the South Eastern Logic Symposium at the University of Florida on April 16.

Carol Hoare, professor of human development and human resource development, GSEHD, and Julie Nelson, doctoral student in Counseling and Academic Advisor in the Elliott School of International Affairs, presented the paper “Making the Grade: The Developmental and Adjustment Challenges of College Students with Serious Mental Illnesses,” at the 20th Annual Adult Development Symposium of the Society for Research in Adult Development in Atlanta, GA.

Christine Meloni, associate professor emeritus of English as a Foreign Language, CCAS, presented “Discourse-Level Grammar Practice through Discussion Boards” with D. Weasenforth (Collin County Community College) and S. Biesenbach-Lucas (American University), at the annual convention of International Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages in San Antonio, TX. Meloni also co-authored with D. Weasenforth (Collin County Community College) and S. Biesenbach-Lucas (American University), the chapter “Learner Autonomy and Course Management Software” in Distance Education and Languages: Evolution and Change published in the series New Perspectives on Language and Education (eds. B. Holmberg, M. Shelley, and C. White and published by Multilingual Matters, Ltd).

Bernard Mergen, professor of American Studies, CCAS, was invited as a Senior Fulbright scholar to participate in the 2nd annual Symposium on American Studies in Central Asia in Bisheke, Kyrgyzstan, April 22–24, where he gave the keynote address on the uses of American studies in Central Asia.

Andrei Morozov, visiting professor of mathematics and Columbian Teaching Fellow, CCAS, presented the plenary lecture “On Elementary Submodels of F-Parameterizable Models” at the Association for Symbolic Logic’s annual meeting. Morozov also presented an invited paper “Definable Structures of the Automorphism Group of Countable Rational Order,” at the South Eastern Logic Symposium at the University of Florida on April 16.

Appointments:
Roger Whitaker, dean of the College of Professional Studies, was elected president of the University Continuing Education Association. Whitaker assumed the one-year presidency at the Association’s annual meeting in Boston and delivered his presidential address titled, “What Shall We Cause?”

Awards:
Joseph Pelzman, professor of economics and international affairs, CCAS, received the Senior Fulbright Scholar award for the 2005–06 academic year.

Pat Schwallie-Giddis, assistant professor of counseling and director of Graduate Programs, GSEHD, received the C. Harold McCully Counselor Educator Recognition Award at the District of Columbia Counseling Association Annual Conference.

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, professor of public administration and president, The George Washington University, was awarded an honorary membership in The Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at its 77th annual banquet. Trachtenberg joins Gen. George Washington and Presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and others, as honorary members of the society.

Publications:
David Alan Grier, associate professor of international affairs, ESIA, published his book When Computers Were Human (Princeton University Press).

Cynthia Lee, professor of law, GWLS, recently published a new casebook, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (West 2005) with Angela Harris. Her first book, Murder and the Reasonable Man (NYU Press 2003), received an Honorable Mention in the Gustavus Myers Book Awards for 2004. Her article, “But I Thought He Had a Gun: Race and Police Use of Deadly Force,” was recently published in Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2004).

Kerr-Jia Lu, assistant professor of engineering and applied science, SEAS, published “An Effective Method of Synthesizing Compliant Adaptive Structures Using Load Path Representation” in the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, v. 16, n. 4, April 2005.

Patrick McHugh, associate professor of management science, GWSB, and doctoral candidate Diane Bridge published the article “Examining Structure and Process in ESOP Firms” in Personnel Review with co-author Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (MIT).

David J. Silverman, assistant professor of history, CCAS, published “Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth Century Martha’s Vineyard” in the April 2005 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly. Silverman also received the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Fellowship for a month of research at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA.

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