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Dr. Jhon C. Akers

Associate Director of the Success Initiative/Associate Professor
Success Initiative
Foreign Languages

Article on Sandburg publishes

In 2008, Dr. Jhon Akers presented several public performances of hsi work on Sandburg and his love of the Spanish classical guitar, including a new program titled "Sandburg's Wish" that includes Akers' own translations of Spanish language guitar-inspired poetry. Venues include the Free Library of Philadelphia, Pa. (April 2008); the Sumter Library, Sumter, S.C.; the Chapel at the Cliffs of Glassy Mountain; the Skye Ballroom in Bennettsville, S.C.; Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C.; and St. John in the Wilderness Church in Flat Rock, N.C. He was one of the featured performers at Carl Sandburg Home, National Historic Site, on Memorial Day 2008.

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Dr. A.K. Anderson

Assistant Professor
Religion

Article published

An article by Dr. A.K. Anderson ’90, "Process and (Kieslowski's) Reality: Images of God in Decalogue," was published in the July-December 2008 volume of the online film journal Cinemascope (www.cinemascope.it). The entire Cinemascope edition is devoted to director Krzysztof Kieslowski's series of 10 films on the Ten Commandments.

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Dr. Laura H. Barbas Rhoden

Associate Professor
Foreign Languages

Publishes lead article in journal

Dr. Laura Barbas Rhoden has published an article in a peer-reviewed journal, "Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature."  The article is "Ecology, Coloniality, Modernity: Argentine Fictions of Tierra del Fuego," and it appears as the lead article in the March 2008 edition of the journal (Vol 41.1, March 2008, 1-18).

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Dr. Kara Bopp

Assistant Professor
Psychology

Presents research on cognition

Dr. Kara Bopp presented research at the Cognitive Aging Conference in April 2008. The poster, titled “Memories Can’t Wait: Age-Related Working Memory Capacity Decrease is Tied (Mostly) to Retention, not Encoding,” was presented with Wofford College student co-authors TJ Bradford, Crystal Burnette and Leigh Anne Campbell.

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Tamara Burgess

Assistant to the Registrar
Registrar's Office

Conducts camp in West Africa

Tamara Burgess traveled to Niamey, Niger, West Africa, on March 23, 2008, for a 10-day stay conducting a sports camp with children in the village of Dargol.  She and members of her group told bible stories and taught the children John 3:16 as a memory verse.  They held a party for 30 to 35 children in an orphanage in Niamey complete with hotdogs, chips, Kool-aid, Rice Krispie treats, pinatas, and lots of fun. They collected clothes, toys and money to buy food for the children. Burgess hopes to return to Niamey in two years to help build a larger home and facilities for the children on donated land.

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Dr. Begona Caballero

Assistant Professor
Foreign Languages

Presents poster on iPod use in classroom

Dr. Begoña Caballero and Dr. Dennis Wiseman presented a poster in the NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) conference in San Francisco in April 2008 on the use of iPods in the classroom.

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Dr. G.R. Davis

Professor
Biology

2007-08 teaching award

Dr. G.R. Davis was the 2007-2008 Wofford recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award sponsored by South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities.

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Dr. William E. DeMars

Chairman and Professor
Government

Presents paper, gives lecture

Dr. William DeMars presented a paper, "Tragic Idealism? Power Constructivism? Theorizing real NGOs," at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association March 26-29, 2008, in San Francisco. He also gave a lecture titled "NGO Agency: What is it? What is it good for?" on April 2, 2008, to graduate students in the masters of arts in international affairs program at the University of Miami. DeMars participated on two panels in Wofford's 2008 Symposium on Citizenship and Leadership: The Roundtable on "Poverty and Citizenship" on Saturday, April 12, with Dr. Cynthia Fowler and Mitch Kennedy of the City of Spartanburg, and the discussion of "New Leftist Leaders in Latin America" on April 21 with Dr. Nancy Mandlove.

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Dr. Dennis M. Dooley

Professor Emeritus
English

Retires, granted emeritus status

Dr. Dennis M. Dooley retired at the end of the 2008-09 academic year and was granted professor emeritus status.  He was recognized at the 2009 Commencement on May 17.

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Dr. Cynthia T. Fowler

Assistant Professor
Sociology

Elected society secretary

Dr. Cynthia T. Fowler was elected secretary of the board for the Society of Ethnobiology in February 2009.

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Dr. Ellen S. Goldey

Professor
Biology

Represents Wofford at poster session

Dr. Ellen Goldey along with Dr. Byron McCane represented Wofford College April 15, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at the poster session and reception of the SENCER’s Washington Symposium. SENCER – Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities – is a faculty development and science education reform program supported by the National Science Foundation. SENCER programs engage students in science and mathematics by focusing coursework on real world problems. This method extends the impact of student learning across the curriculum to the broader community and society.

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Dr. Karen H. Goodchild

Associate Professor
Fine Arts
Art History

Article set to be published

Dr. Karen Goodchild has an article, "Vasari Contra Bronzino," to be published winter 2009 in the peer-reviewed journal Source. She will present a paper titled “Some (Naughty, Funny) Versions of Pastoral” at the Renaissance Society of America Conference in March 2009.  In April 2008, she made several presentations, including "Get Thyself to Venus' Realm: Landscape as Medicine in the Renaissance" to the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in Chicago.

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Dr. Susan C. Griswold

Professor Emeritus
Foreign Languagues

Retires, granted emeritus status

Dr. Susan C. Griswold retired at the end of the 2008-09 academic year and was granted professor emeritus status.  She was recognized at the 2009 Commencement on May 17.

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Dr. Stacey R. Hettes

Associate Professor
Biology

Receives Milliken Teaching Award

Dr. Stacey R. Hettes received the 2009 Roger Milliken Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Science, presented at the 2009 Commencement on May 17.  Hettes came to Wofford in 2003 after receiving her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California Riverside. She graduated summa cum laude in 1996 from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. In 2004-05, Hettes received a S.C. Space Grant Consortium, designated by NASA, Research Experience for Undergraduates grant. She received the 2004 Faculty Summer Research Award at Wofford. She is a member of the Aerospace Medical Association, the Society for Neuroscience, the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, the Society for Undergraduate Neuroscience, Sigma Xi, Alpha Epsilon pre-medical honor society, Delta Epsilon Sigma honor society of Catholic colleges, and the St. Thomas Aquinas Society (King’s College Honor Society). She was an instructor in the 2005 Citizen Scholars Camp at Wofford and is faculty advisor for the Biology Honor Society. She has been published numerous times in a variety of academic and research journals and publications.

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Dr. Charles Kay

Professor
Philosophy

Appointed department chair

Dr. Charles D. Kay has been appointed chair of the Philosophy Department beginning with the 2008-2009 academic year. In July 2008, he presented a paper on American politics and religion at the fifth biennial Pancrac Theological Forum in Prague. Kay also serves on the Ethics Committee of Spartanburg Regional Medical Center, and the Bioethics Committee of the S.C. Medical Association.

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Dr. Li Qing Kinnisson

Assistant Professor
Chinese Studies

Receives Covington Teaching Award

Dr. Li Qin Kinnison received the 2009 Philip Covington Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Humanities and Social Sciences, presented at the 2009 Commencement on May 16.  She received her bachelor’s degree in literature and language from Inner Mongolia Teachers University in the People’s Republic of China. She received her master’s degree and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Michigan State University. Members of her class have provided a Chinese Academy to students at E.P. Todd Elementary School. Since beginning the Chinese language and studies program, Kinnison’s students have been published in a prestigious journal of Beijing University in China. Wofford now is a member of the highly regarded Confucius Institute, a partnership with Beijing Language and Culture University, the Office of Chinese Language Council International, the University of South Carolina and a number of other institutions of higher education in the state.

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Dr. Kirsten A. Krick-Aigner

Associate Professor
Foreign Languages

Organized Jewish literature program

Dr. Kirsten Krick-Aigner gave a talk, "Austrian Literature in the Context of the Book Discussion Series' Jewish Literature: Let's Talk About It': Performing Literature, Community Outreach, and Scholarship," at the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association conference, April 24-27, 2008, at the University of Washington in Seattle. As outgoing president for the S.C. American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), Krick-Aigner organized and hosted a weekend conference on March 14-15, 2008, for 15 S.C. German teachers at Wofford College. Krick-Aigner gave a paper on "Ingeborg Bachmann’s Treatment of Joseph Roth’s Trotta in 'Drei Wege zum See': Austrian 'Heimat', Exile, and Identity" at the Philological Association of the Carolinas (PAC) in Asheville, N.C., in March 2008. Two students in Wofford's German program, Claudia Winkler and John Wood, were awarded a Teaching Assistantship Fulbright Grant to Germany for 2008-2009. A third student, Jessica Miller, was awarded a Teaching Assistantship Fulbright Grant to Germany in 2009.

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Dr. Eun-Sun Lee

Associate Professor and Director of the Chamber Players
Music
Fine Arts

Gives masterclass, performs in recitals

In February 2008, Dr. Eun-Sun Lee gave a masterclass and recital at Emory University with William Ransom, professor of piano at Emory University with William Ransom, professor of piano at Emory University and director of the Carlos Museum Concert Series.  In May 2008, she performed a recital at the Lake Keowee Performing Arts Series with pianist Fabio Parrini.

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Dr. Nancy B. Mandlove

Professor Emeritus
Foreign Languages

Retires, granted emeritus status

Dr. Nancy B. Mandlove retired at the end of the 2008-09 academic year and was granted professor emeritus status.  She taught in the department of foreign languages.  She was recognized at the 2009 Commencement on May 17.

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Dr. Daniel B. Mathewson

Assistant Professor
Religion



Essay 'Images of Disaster' published

Dr. Dan Mathewson's essay "Images of Disaster: Survival and the Impossible in the Artwork of Samuel Bak and the Book of Job" appeared in "Representing the Irreparable: the Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak" in spring 2008. His article "Between Testimony and Interpretation: The Book of Job in Post-Holocaust, Jewish Theological Reflection" will be published in spring 2008 in the journal "Studies in the Literary Imagination." In 2008, he presented a paper titled "The Sanitized Apocalypse: Left Behind, Rated PG-13" at the 2008 conference of the Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion. Mathewson's and Professor Matt Cathey's 2008 Interim course, "January Smackdown," was featured in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and on Fox Carolina TV.

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Dr. Byron R. McCane

Albert C. Outler Professor
Religion

Featured on Discovery Channel

Dr. Byron R. McCane was featured in "Who Was Jesus?", a three-hour documentary about archaeology, history, and theology which aired on the Discovery Channel on Palm Sunday (April 5, 2009). McCane also delivered a public lecture on April 23, 2009, at Duke University on the subject "Scholars Behaving Badly: Sensationalism and Archaeology in the Media." His lecture was part of a Duke conference on "Archaeology, Politics, and the Media: Re-envisioning the Middle East."  His article"Simply Irresistible: Augustus, Herod, and The Empire," appeared in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature. On the basis of archaeological analysis of their religious architecture, it argues that Augustus and Herod made the emerging Roman Empire seem attractive to the general public. The article concludes that "Augustus stepped out front to lead the parade, and Herod fell right in step behind him."

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Dr. Stephen A. Michelman

Associate Professor
Philosophy

Publishes book

In February 2008, Dr. Stephen Michelman published "Historical Dictionary of Existentialism" (Scarecreow Press), an A-Z reference guide for scholars and students alike. The book explains the ideas of existentialist philosophers and documents the historical and cultural contexts in which they arose.

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Dr. Cecile Nowatka

Associate Professor
Psychology

Paper in press

Dr. Cecile Nowatka has a paper in press, "Psychological Effects on Physicians of Poor Outcome versus Malpractice," for the Southern Medical Journal.  Co-writers are Suneet P. Chauhan, Vidya B. Chauhan and John C. Morrison.

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Dr. David W. Pittman

Assistant Professor
Psychology

Publishes article on research on neural coding of taste

Dr. Dave Pittman and three Wofford College students published a research article titled "Orosensory detection of fatty acids in obesity-prone and -resistant rats: Strain and sex differences." in the peer-reviewed journal Chemical Senses in spring 2008. This is the second publication resulting from student research conducted in the Pittman laboratory during the 2006 Community of Scholars summer research program. Additionally, Pittman was recognized for his eminent contributions to the field of feeding behavior through the invitation to contribute a chapter reviewing his research on the taste of dietary fat in a forthcoming volume of Frontiers in Neuroscience titled "Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects." Research on the neural coding of taste is ongoing in the Pittman laboratory with two students conducting research projects examining the effect of anti-anxiety drugs on taste signals during the 2008 Community of Scholars summer research program.

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Dr. Philip Racine

Professor Emertitus
History

Retires, granted emeritus status

Dr. Philip Racine retired at the end of the 2008-09 academic year and was granted professor emeritus status.  He was recognized at Commencement on May 17, 2009.  In 2008, he published his book, "Gentleman Merchants: A Charleston Family's Odyssey, 1828-1870," an edition of the correspondence of the Gourdin-Young families (University of Tennessee Press, 2008, 800+ pages).

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Dr. Alliston K. Reid

Professor
Psychology

Elected group president; publishes research papers

Dr. Alliston Reid was elected president of the international Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (SQAB) for a three-year term (2009-2012). Previous presidents have lived in New Zealand, Portugal, and the U.S. For the past three years, Reid served as program chair for its annual conference and editor of the peer-reviewed journal, "Behavioural Processes." In that highly visible role, he invited and introduced all plenary speakers at the conference, including Nobel laureates and winners of the National Medal of Science. As president, he now oversees the administration of the Society and will give the Presidential Address at each meeting. At the SQAB conference in Phoenix in 2009, two Wofford students, Chelsea Nill and Brittney Getz, presented their most recent research with Reid. This research now has been submitted for publication in an international journal, and both students are co-authors. In 2009, Reid also published a major research article in "Journal of Experimental Psychology" titled "Resistance to Change in Heterogeneous Response Sequences." This research involved more than 25 students working in Reid's lab over the past seven years. Several senior theses were combined into an extensive monograph and published together to tell a more complete story than any single experiment could tell. In 2008, Reid was invited to be honorary president of a conference in behavior analysis held in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Mexican society paid all of his expenses to the conference, where Reid gave an hour-long Presidential Address in Spanish titled “Adaptación a contingencias cambiantes.” This presentation described some of the research he and his students at Wofford have completed in the past few years and presented a new mathematical model of behavior. Reid also was co-author on two other research presentations at that conference. He also published an article in "Behavioural Processes" titled “Completing the Scientific Method Circle.” He also presented a research paper at the Association for Behavior Analysis, held in Chicago, titled “Sequential analysis of behavior patterns using non-stationary Markov models.”

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Dr. G. Mackay Salley

Associate Professor
Physics

Researched while on leave

Dr. G. Mackay Salley was on professional development leave for the 2008-2009 academic year. The first part of his leave was spent at the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) Laboratory in Boulder, Colo. He was part of the laboratory's optoelectronics division and researched single photon detection, i.e. extremely low light intensity, devices that will find future uses in such areas as the telecommunications industry, quantum based computing, and quantum cryptography. A paper regarding this research will be presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics titled "Detection Speeds for Single-Photon Detectors Based on Photoconductive Gain." The second half of his professional development leave was spent at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash., where he worked with a research group interested in optoelectronic materials such as novel solar cell materials, to be used for solar panels, and spintronic materials which could lead to a new generation of "electronics." Salley is a co-author on a paper published recently in NANO Letters titled "Spin-polarizable excitonic luminescence in colloidal Mn2+-doped CdSe quantum dots," which is the result of a previous collaboration with the research group from the University of Washington.

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Dr. Timothy J. Schmitz

Associate Professor
History

Invited conference participant

Dr. Tim Schmitz was an invited participant at a conference titled “The Limits of Empire in the Early Modern World: A Conference in Honor of Professor Geoffrey Parker,” which was held in Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 26-28, 2009. Professor Parker, one of the best-known military historians of his generation, was Schmitz’s undergraduate thesis director at the University of Illinois.

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Dr. Philip G. Swicegood

Associate Professor
Accounting and Finance

Interviewed in Herald-Journal

Dr. Philip Swicegood was interviewed by the Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, S.C.) in February 2008 in an article about the federal economic stimulus plan. See the article at GoUpstate.com.

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Dr. Ed Welchel

Associate Professor and Chair
Education

Publishes book

Dr. Ed Welchel authored "Reading, Learning, Teaching Howard Zinn," published in January 2009 by Peter Lang. Howard Zinn is one of the most celebrated historians and social activists of our time. Raised in a working class family, he was a shipyard worker and union organizer when World War II began. He served as a bombardier in the European Theatre and this experience shaped his opposition to war as an instrument of foreign policy. He became active in the civil rights movement as well as the anti-war movement from the 1950s to the 1970s. He is perhaps best known as the author of "A Peoples History of the United States," published in 1980. This study of Zinn's life and work opens the door to many aspects of historical study often neglected in traditional secondary and collegiate survey courses in American history. To Zinn, history is not an objective account of the past to be indelibly carved into the brains of American citizens; rather history is an ever-changing palette of events as people react to the contexts and cultures they find themselves immersed in. By considering the lives and thoughts of less politically and socially prominent individuals, students have the opportunity to re-examine their own beliefs and assumptions about contemporary American life. Students will gain insight into how history is constructed and recorded through a consideration of the life and writings of Howard Zinn.

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Dr. Clayton J. Whisnant

Associate Professor
History

Essay translated, published

Dr. Clayton Whisnant had an essay translated and published with a Hamburg-based journal (Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg).  The essay, titled “Zwischen Verfolgung und Freiheit: Homosexuelle Männer in Hamburg in den langen fünfziger Jahren” (which translates as “Between Persecution and Freedom: Homosexual Men in Hamburg in the long 1950s"), was published in March 2008.  He also was guest editor, along with Dr. Daniel Walther at Wartburg College in Iowa, for a special issue of The Journal of the History of Sexuality titled “Masculinity and Homosexuality in Germany and the German Colonies, 1880-1945.”  Besides editing much of the issue, Whisnant wrote the introduction, titled “Gay History in Germany: Future Directions.”  The journal was published in January 2008.  

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Dr. Nancy Williams

Assisant Professor
Philosophy

Essay to appear in journal

Dr. Nancy Williams’ essay, “Affected Ignorance and Animal Suffering: Why the Lack of Extensive Debate about Factory Farming May Put Us at Moral Risk,” will appear in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics in August 2008. In April 2008, she presented a paper at the 31st Annual Southeastern Women’s Studies Association titled “Female Slave Narratives and Spatial Metaphors,” in North Carolina. Williams’ 2008 Interim course, Have a Cow! Don’t Eat One: Exploring Vegetarianism, was featured in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and some of her recipes appeared in “A Taste of Wofford Interim 2008,” a publication featuring recipes from cooking classes offered that interim. Williams also was invited to speak about ethical vegetarianism at Greenville Technical College in February 2008. You can find her editorial, “Fight global warming by being a vegetarian,” in the Nov. 7, 2007, issue of the Greenville News.

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Dr. Carol B. Wilson

Associate Profesor
English

Receives SCICU Teaching Award

Dr. Carol B. Wilson received the Excellence in Teaching Award presented by South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wofford College, earning a bachelor’s degree in English in 1981, Wilson returned to teach at her alma mater in 1984. She earned her master’s degree and the Ph.D. in English literature from the University of South Carolina. Wilson is faculty sponsor for the Sigma Tau Delta English honor society.

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Dr. Dennis M. Wiseman

Chairman and Professor
Foreign Languages

Attends conferences, presents poster session

Dr. Dennis M. Wiseman attended the Association of American Colleges and Universities Conference on "Integrative Designs for General Education and Assessment" in Boston in February 2008. He also presented a poster session, "Use of iPods in Advanced Language Courses," at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) Conference in San Francisco in April 2008. He attended the Global Studies Conference in May 2008 at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Annual Conference for Administrators of Departments of Foreign Languages in June 2008 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. He completed his fifth Assault on Mount Mitchell bicycle race on June 9, 2008. He also attended the Teagle Collaborative (Wofford, Converse, UNC-Asheville, Agnes Scott) in Asheville, N.C., June 11-13, 2008.