Faculty Accomplishments (2011-2012)

Recent scholarship, creative activity, and professional achievements.

May 2012

The Office of First Year and Transition Programs is excited to continue the legacy of the Outstanding First-Year Advocate Award. This award recognizes faculty, staff or administrators that have gone above and beyond to ensure student success for our first-year students. Be on the look out for ways to nominate in Spring 2013. Congratulations to this year's Outstanding First-Year Advocate Awards!

Dr. T. Wayne Bailey- Professor, Political Science-"Since I have started at Stetson, whatever kind of advice I needed, Dr. Bailey has always been there willing to help and always patient."

Amy Crane- Professor, School of Music-"Dr. Crane has been a guiding light for me. What once seemed impossible, has become one of my favorite subjects to study, in class and outside of class. When I am in class, the word "can't" never crossed my mind. My confidence level is once again on the way up and beyond its original starting place."

Dr. Ana Eire- Professor, Modern Languages & Literature-"The passion that she has for teaching the language has really inspired me to continue with it [Spanish] and maybe even study abroad in Spain. No matter how unenthusiastic the class may seem about learning, her attitude remains unchanged. It is because of her my drive for learning the language has changed."

Dr. Bette Heins- Professor, Teacher Education-"Aside from making all the freshmen present feel welcome, she served as an advisor, making our concerns and our life outside of the classroom important. She opened our minds to new literature in a fun way at 8:30 in the morning. She made each one of us feel like we were a part of the Stetson community the first day of class. " AND "She is a kind, warm-hearted professor who wants every student to succeed. Because I was new, she took that one step further and helped to really make Stetson a home for me."

Dr. David Hill- Professor, Political Science- "Since starting at Stetson, Dr. Hill has always been ready to help me out with any sort of advice I needed. I am forever grateful for his kind words."

Dr. Ekaterina Kudryavtseva- Professor, Art History-"My Art History professor has not only expanded my mind to art theories and philosophies exponentially through her teachings, but has also enriched my passion to continue my work as an artist here at Stetson even further. I had never had a learning experience quite like the one she provides. Her passion is shown in her knowledge, her blunt nature, and her teaching style."

Dr. Mitchell Reddish- Professor, Religious Studies-"He has gone above and beyond to help me with my major and made me feel comfortable in the Religious Studies department. I constantly send him emails with questions and he is always very helpful. He is always happy to answer any question at any time and puts his students first. It is his kindness and his words of wisdom that helped me to get through my first semester at Stetson and he has become one of my favorite professors."

Dr. Alicia Schultheis- Professor, Biology-"She would constantly remind students about her office hours and that we could seek her for advice. I am an international student and at the beginning, I was a little lost. I think Dr. Schultheis noticed that and she personally came and told me that I could go talk to her whenever I need help. Her attentiveness made me feel very welcome. Dr. Schultheis is an inspiring person because she carries herself in a professional manner but at the same time, she interacts with students."

Joshua Rust- Professor, Philosophy-"Without Dr. Rust, I would not have made as great an impact at Stetson as I have. His guidance opened up many avenues that showed me how to get things done on campus—participate in Senate, work with SAFAC, and lead a student organization. I hope to continue under his tutelage as I complete my years at Stetson."

Dr. John Tichenor- Professor, Decision & Information Sciences-"Dr. Tichenor has made me feel like a part of the Stetson community because he didn't put up a front and invites everyone to visit him in his office all year round; not only during the semester we had him because he enjoys finding out how his students are even after they have moved on. Being able to confide in someone just to tell them about your classes or how your day is going is very comforting."

Bobby Andrews- Admissions Counselor-"I felt abandoned when my Admissions Counselor left the University over the Summer, but Bobby took me in and helped me feel welcome. I really appreciate all his help even though I was a Transfer he worked with freshmen."

Rosalie Carpenter- Assistant Dean of Students-"I have only known Rosalie for about a month and a half but her impact on my transition and sense of inclusion in the Stetson community is something that will remain with me for the rest of my time here and long after I graduate. Rosalie is the ideal person for incoming students to get to know. She is approachable, caring, and just overall fabulous. She is part of the reason why my stay here at Stetson is much more enjoyable."

Jack Caywood- The Commons Staff-"Mr. Jack is absolutely wonderful. Since I've arrived at Stetson he has done everything in his power to make sure that not only myself but everyone on campus is satisfied with their food and is doing well in school. He always puts a smile on my face. I can never have a bad day when I'm around him. You can just tell by even the shortest conversation that he is a genuine person. Mr. Jack has inspired me by all of his good words of advice. Because of him, I've come to learn that no matter what I'm going through there's always a positive side to my dilemma."

Savannah-Jane Griffith- Associate Director of Community Engagement- "Savannah-Jane lights up this campus with her warm, caring spirit. Since the day I met her she has been a mentor and inspiration to me. As someone completely dedicated to service in every way, she really makes this campus a better place. She was able to help me through my first semester at Stetson by being a supportive and caring supervisor."

John Moore- Admissions Counselor-"Mr. Moore was there for me throughout my entire transition process and provided excellent service to both myself and my family. He is a true student advocate and is willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that the proper resources are utilized and the students receive a warm welcome while making them feel at home. His professional attitude and caring here reflect his utmost love for Stetson University."

Lisa Rosencrans- Study Abroad Coordinator-"She is a very encouraging woman and has many "words of wisdom." She was the one person I could go to to help me get an answer and to also inspire me to not give up. It's not always the advisors or professor that should receive recognition but the person behind the "curtain" doing all the extra things that no one else does or sees. I know that if I had a problem right now, she would be the woman I would go to."

Chris Colwell, Associate Professor of Education and Director of Undergraduate Teacher Education, was awarded the "Lifetime Advocacy for Children Award" by the County Council of PTAs in May of 2012.

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing, received her Doctor of Philosophy in Human Communication from Arizona State University. Her dissertation is titled "Work and Family Identities in Regulatory Rulemaking: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Family and Medical Leave Act Regulatory Rulemaking Process."

Debbi Dinkins, Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Library, published an article in the journal, College & Research Libraries News, entitled Individual Title Requests in PDA Collections: A Small University Library's Experience. The article appears in the May 2012 issue (v.73, no.5, pp. 249-252, 255).

Bobbi Flowers, Professor of Law, presented, with Professor Morgan, a talk titled "Real-Life Ethical Issues and Applications for NAELA's Aspirational Standards" at the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys annual conference.

Ellen S. Podgor, Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor, has had several specaking engagements recently:

Keynote Speaker at the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) 2012 Meeting - Get Social: Thinking Outside the Books
Spoke at the Judicial Symposium sponsored by George Mason University School of Law's Law & Economic Center, as part of a panel titled, "The Overcriminalization Problems – How They Impact the Justice System and the Role of the Courts, and Reforms that are Necessary to Restore Founders Intent."
Spoke at the 2012 Northern District of California Judicial Conference as part of a panel titled, "Brady: New Challenges for Old Issues."

Following up on a successful conference on our campus for Gay-Straight Alliances in Volusia County high schools, Meghan Walter, Assistant Professor of Counselor Education, wrote an op-ed piece for the Orlando Sentinel (May 3, 2012, p. A15) on the importance of these alliances in combating bullying of LBGTQ students and contributing to safe school environments for all students. The conference was supported by Stetson's Community Based Research Initiative, Stetson's Department of Admissions, Volusia County Public Schools, and the national Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The project included Dr. Amy Hall, Volusia County's counseling and curriculum specialist; undergraduate leaders of Stetson's gay-straight alliance, Kaleidescope; Volusia County Public Schools family members; and students currently in the master's program in counseling.

Nathan Wolek, Associate Professor of Digital Arts, was one of four executive committee members responsible for organizing the Symposium on Laptop Ensembles & Orchestras (SLEO - http://sleo2012.cct.lsu.edu/), held at Louisiana State University on April 15-17. This international academic workshop was the first ever to be dedicated solely to music performance with laptops and mobile devices. Wolek was joined on the committee by Drs. Stephen David Beck and Jesse Allison of LSU and Dr. Rebecca Fiebrink of Princeton University.

At the symposium, Wolek delivered a juried paper entitled Media representations of the laptop as musical instrument. This presentation resulted from his continuing research into the role of media in developing conceptions and stereotypes about the laptop as a musical instrument. Documentation of this presentation can be downloaded here: http://www.nathanwolek.com/2012/04/media-representations-sleo/

Stetson's own Mobile Performance Group was also one of five ensembles invited to perform during the symposium. This faculty-student performance under the direction of Matt Roberts, Associate Professor of Digital Arts, and Wolek, featured the talents of five senior Digital Arts majors: Kim Crawford, Mark Kisch, Hunter Lee, Philip Meisner, and Meg Spivey.

April 2012

Congratulations to those faculty nominated for the 2012 McEniry Award! The McEniry recipient will be announced at their college/school's commencement ceremony, May 12, 2012.

Cynthia Batt, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Education, presented "Good Enough" — Identifying Practices that Work for YOUR Externship/Field Placement Program at the Externship 6: Preparing Lawyers and the Role of Field Placement conference in Boston co-sponsored by Northeastern University School of Law and Harvard Law School. Professor Batt also presented at the Southern Clinical Conference at the University of Tennessee College of Law on a panel titled Expanding Clinical Opportunities to Promote Access to Justice and Community Engagement.

Jason Bent, Assistant Professor of Law, presented his paper, "Hidden Priors: Plausibility and Inference in Systemic Discrimination Cases," at a faculty exchange workshop at the Texas Wesleyan School of Law.

Professor Bent's article "An Incentive-Based Approach to Regulating Workplace Chemicals" has been accepted for publication in the upcoming volume of the Ohio State Law Journal.

Catherine Cameron, Professor of Legal Skills, presented as part of a panel on The Impact of the I-Pad on the Classroom: How to Enrich Student Learning by Embracing New Technology at the Capital Area Legal Writing Conference.

Kirsten Davis, Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Law, Lance Long, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, and Jason Palmer, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, recently gave a panel presentation entitled "Subject-Focused Legal Writing Classes: What, Why, and How We Did It" at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference held at Arizona State University in Tempe Arizona.

Debbi Dinkins, Associate Professor of Library, has been appointed Associate Dean of the duPont Ball Library effective April 1, 2012. Dinkins has been a member of the Library faculty since 1993, working as Catalog Librarian, Technical Services Librarian, and, since 2002, as Head of Technical Services. Her areas of expertise include collection development, collection management, and Patron-Driven Acquisitions.

Chelsea Embry, Assistant Professor of Integrative Health Science, presented a paper on April 24 at the Experimental Biology 2012 conference in San Diego, CA. The paper was entitled "IL-1beta Loss Contributes to Reduced Toxicity of the TRIF-biased TLR4 agonist Monophosphate Lipid A".

Bobbi Flowers, Professor of Law, and Rebecca Morgan, Boston Asset Management Chair in Elder Law and Director, Center for Excellence in Elder Law, presented "Ethical Considerations in Elder Law" at a program for the Ohio Elder Law Institute and the Ohio State Bar Association.

Professor Flowers presented, with Professor Morgan, a talk titled "Real-Life Ethical Issues and Applications for NAELA's Aspirational Standards" at the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys annual conference.

Gene Huskey, Professor of Political Science, chaired a graduate/undergraduate student session at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies in Savannah on March 31, 2012. One of the presenters was Christine Jacobson, a Stetson senior, whose paper on the vote against all in the 2010 parliamentary election in Kyrgyzstan grew out of a project supervised by Dr. Huskey and Dr. David Hill.

Dr. Huskey also presented a paper with David Hill, Associate Professor of Political Science, on April 21 at the World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York. The paper was entitled "Explaining Voter Preference in the 2010 Parliamentary Election in Kyrgyzstan."

Marco Jimenez, Leroy Highbaugh Sr. Research Chair and Associate Professor of Law, has had two article accepted for publication. "Remedial Consilience" will be published in the upcoming volume of the Emory Law Journal, and the Pepperdine Law Review will publish "Towards a Borgean Theory of Constitutional Interpretation."

Jamil Khader, Professor of English, is happy to announce that his artile, "Un/Speakability and Radical Otherness: The Ethics of Trauma in Bram Stoker's Dracula," has just come out in the literary journal, College Literature 39.2 (2012): 73-97. A link to the article can be found here:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/college_literature/toc/lit.39.2.html. The article can also be retrieved from the full-text databases at DuPont-Ball library.

Dr. Khader also gave a talk about his forthcoming co-edited collection, Žižek Now: Current Perspectives in Žižek Studies, at the 2012 Žižek Studies Conference, "Neoliberal Perversions: Fantasy an Gaze in Contemporary Culture," the College at Brockport (SUNY), Brockport, NY, April 28-29, 2012. The talk addressed the rationale, scope and structure of the book, and outlined the major contributions it hopes to make in the field of literary theory, in general, and Žižek studies, in particular.

K.C. Ma, Director of the Roland George Investments Program & Institute and Visiting Professor of Finance, and the Roland George Student Management Portfolio students attended the G.A.M.E. SMP competition. They placed 1st in the Core Equity category at the competition at the University of Quinnipiac in New York City. This is the 2nd first place out of two years of competitions at GAME. The competition is based on the calendar year returns on the equity portfolio. This is the first time ever the George Students have won two national Student Managed Portfolio competitions in the same year (RISE and GAME)!

Rebecca Morgan, Boston Asset Management Chair in Elder Law and Director, Center for Excellence in Elder Law, spoke at the 2012 Changes and Trends Affecting Special Needs Trusts conference at the University of Texas School of Law. She also presented on the topic "Cutting Edge national and Federal Issues in Elder Law Practice at a program on Elder Law Practice in the Circuit Court of Cook County: The New Elder Law, co-sponsored by the Circuit Court and the John Marshall School of Law.

Professor Morgan presented on three panels at the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys annual conference. She was one of four current or past presidents of the organization presenting a panel on "Case Law Updates"; she served on a panel titled "National Guardianship Summit"; and she co-presented, with Professor Flowers, on a panel titled "Real-Life Ethical Issues and Applications for NAELA's Aspirational Standards". In addition, Professor Morgan presented a talk titled "The Past, Present and Future of Elder Law Practice" at a program on the future of elder law sponsored by the Alaska Bar Association.

Joe Morrissey, Professor of Law, will have his article "Contractarian Critique of Citizens United" published in the upcoming volume of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law.

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, presented a lectured titled "Commoditization of Human Beings: Denies Individuals of Their Dignity" at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Bill Nylen, Professor of Political Science, has been awarded a full-year Fulbright teaching/research fellowship in Maputo, Mozambique for 2013. He will be based at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, where he'll teach a course on practical methods of participatory democracy and other courses as well. His research will focus on efforts to implement participatory democratic practices in Mozambique.

Daniel Plante, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computers Science and Bill Penney, Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer, gave a presentation, "Collaborative Computer Science Class", on April 17, 2012 at the NITLE Symposium in Arlington, Virginia. An extended version of this presentation was also delivered on March 16, 2012 at the 3Ts 2012: Engaging Students with Transliteracy, Teaching and Technology conference in Albany, New York.

Beth Paul, Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs, contributed a commentary entitled, "COEUR: Advancing Undergraduate Research on Campus and Beyond," in the recent Council on Undergraduate Research publication, Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research (COEUR). This publication developed under Dr. Paul's leadership as President of the Council on Undergraduate Research, and includes national principles and best practices for undergraduate research that can be used by colleges and universities to assess current efforts and plan for advancement of mentored research.

Guen Rae, Lab Coordinator in Integrative Health Science, presented a paper with Michele Skelton, Associate Professor of Integrative Health Science, on April 22 at the Experimental Biology 2012 conference in San Diego, CA. The paper was entitled "The Use of Medical Images in Teaching Human Anatomy". Ms. Rae received a first place award from the American Association of Anatomist for her presentation of this paper.

Ms.Rae also presented a paper with Dr. Skelton and Dr. Harry Price on April 25 at the Experimental Biology 2012 conference in San Diego, CA. The paper was entititled "Strength differences between traditional medicinal preparations of cimicifuga racemosa, chamomilla rectita and petroselinum crispum".

Susan Rozelle, Professor of Law, presented "The Technical Term Is 'Homicidal Maniac': A Response to Joel Eigen" as part of a scholars workshop on "Criminal Responsibility and its History" sponsored by the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Minnesota Law School.

Sue Ryan, Professor of Library, has been appointed as Dean of the duPont Ball Library and Digital Learning Resources, effective April 1, 2012. As longtime Associate Library Director and Professor, and as Interim Director since Betty Johnson's retirement last summer, Ryan has impressive breadth and depth of expertise. Moreover, her passion for learning and library science fuels her active professional engagement in the field. Areas of particular expertise and experience include emerging technologies, government information policy, and website administration.

Matt Schrager, Assistant Professor of Integrative Health Science, presented a paper on April 22 at the Experimental Biology 2012 conference in San Diego, CA. The paper was entitled "Effects of blueberry vs. carrot juice supplementation on muscle strength and performance of psychomotor tasks in older persons".

Michele Skelton, Associate Professor & Chair of Integrative Health Science, presented a paper on April 23 at the Experimental Biology 2012 conference in San Diego, CA. The paper was entitled "The effect of oral creatine monohydrate supplementation on cognitive function in young women".

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Assistant Professor of Law, recently published Shareholder-Authorized Corporate Political Spending in the United Kingdom in volume 46 the University of San Francisco Law Review, co-authored with Dr. Kathy Fogel.

Professor Torres-Spelliscy will publish her article "The $500 Million Question: Are the Democratic and Republican Governors Associations Really State Pacs Under Buckley's Major Purpose Test?" in the upcoming volume of the New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy.

Lou Virelli, Associate Professor of Law, presented his paper, "Congress, the Constitution, and Supreme Court Recusal," as part of a faculty exchange workshop at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center.

Professor Virelli's article "Congress, the Constitution, and Supreme Court Recusal" will be published in volume 69 of the Washington & Lee Law Review.

Rebecca Watts, Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies, presented "Rhetorical Reconstructions of Slavery: The National Park Service's Presentation of Anna Madgigne Jai Kingsley, A Senegalese Freewoman and Plantation Owner in Colonial Florida," as part of a group of panels on Slavery and Memory at the Association of American Geographers convention, February 26, 2012, in New York, New York. This research was supported by a Stetson Summer Research Grant in 2011.

Watts also presented "Being Tim Tebow: The Rhetorical Construction of a Football Superhero-Savior," in a Sports Division panel, at the Popular Culture Association/America Culture Association, San Antonio, Texas, in April 2011.

March 2012

Kate Bohl, Professor of Legal Skills, gave a presentation titled "An Introduction to Grandparent Visitation Laws" at a forum on family law at the Southwestern University Law School.

Brooke Bowman, Profesor of Legal Skills, recently held a six and a half hour seminar on Polishing for Professionals, a workshop on writing and presentation skills, for the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Central Florida Paralegal Association (CFPA) at the ITT – Orlando campus.

Patrick Coggins, Professor of Teacher Education, and Rebecca Watts, Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies, were panelists for a discussion on the Confederate Flag sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honorary society. Over 120 students and faculty attended. Dr. Watts discussed how the flag is identified today with certain political and cultural opinions, while Dr. Coggins focused on legal issues at the state and federal level.

Patrick Coggins was recognized by the National Coalition for Residential Education (CORE), at their national conference in March 2012, with the "Outstanding Trustee of the Year Award." Dr. Coggins was among over 150 nominees from each state in the United States of America. He was nominated for this award by the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches a program operated by the 67 Sheriffs of Florida. Dr. Coggins was credited with the development of Project Harmony, a violence reduction program that became a national model which served over 30,000 youth in public schools. Additionally, the Sheriff's Ranches said, "Dr. Coggins dedication for the past decade as a Trustee, Board member and Chair of the Program Committee guided the juvenile intervention and residential programs, services and outreach to the 15,000 plus youth served during 2011."

Andy Dehnart, Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism, had a 6,500-word piece of literary journalism published in Playboy magazine's April 2012 issue. Reported on location from the Faroe Islands near Iceland, on board Sea Shepherd's flagship Steve Irwin, the story examines how environmentalists are trying to stop whaling in the small island nation while being filmed by a documentary film crew for Animal Planet's Whale Wars, and looks at the intersection of the competing and complementary priorities each group has as their actions are exposed to the world via media.

Hala El-Aarag, Associate Professor of Computer Science, was awarded the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) Outstanding Service Award for outstanding and dedicated technical contributions and services to the Modeling and computer simulation discipline and to the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.

Glen Epley, Professor of Teacher Education, had his manuscript, "Educators' Personal Liability for Violating Student Rights: The Risks When Regulating Student Speech," has been accepted for publication in the Kappa Delta Pi Record, the journal of Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education.

Dr. Epley has had two papers accepted for presentation at the National Education Finance Conference in San Antonio, TX, in May this year. Additionally, he has been asked to chair another session at the same conference.

Susanne Eules, Coordinator of the Hand Art Center and Adjunct Lecturer, had her book length manuscript of poetry „ůbern růckn des atlantiks/den rand des nachmittags" („across the ridge of the atlantic/the edge of the afternoon") promoted at the Leipzig Book Fair, March, 15-18, 2012. The book was published this month by the German publisher FIXPOETRYverlag, Hamburg.

In conjunction with 1st place in the Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger Literature Award 2011 in Cologne, Susanne also received the European Award for Poetry As A Culture Of Peace, awarded by the City for the Cultures of Peace, an international, interdisciplinary research network founded by a group of scholars, scientists, and artists in response to the violence and wars overshadowing the twentieth century and the start of the new millennium. Through cultural and academic activities, its members work to build bridges between different cultures and to contribute to conflict resolution by studying the political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of peace as well as the forces, which endanger it: violent nationalism, racism, and fanaticism (http://www.peace-culture.org/english/eng.htm).

Several of Susanne's poems have also been published in German and Swiss literary journals and magazines. Her poem "passacaglia" in Konzepte, Zeitschrift für Literatur, Nr. 31, December 2011, p. 142-148; "à vol d'oiseau" in "entwürfe - Zeitschrift für Literatur", Zürich, Nr. 68: issue "lighten", p. 31-32; her art work „yvonne, homage to the released cow" and her poems „i.skǻte", „/spiegelschrift", „lichtung" and „prada trinità"in Prolog, Heft für Zeichnung und Text, Journal for Drawings and Text, Nr. 8 (double issue), December 2011 in Berlin.

Kate Feeley, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, and James Sheehan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, have received a contract from Carolina Academic Press to author and publish their book Mastering Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Blake Hudson, Assistant Professor of Law, and Lance Long, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, recently organized and participated in a panel discussion entitled "Crafting Viable Sub-National Forest Management Standards in a Time of Urbanization and Climate Change" at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference held at the University of Oregon.

Eugene Huskey, Professor of Political Science, gave a presentation on October 12, 2012, "Analyzing the 2010 Kyrgyzstan Parliamentary Election from the Bottom Up," at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. He was in Bishkek to participate in the First Annual Conference of the Central Asian Studies Institute at AUCA (CASI), where he gave a paper on the Kyrgyz opposition and served as a panel discussant. While in Kyrgyzstan he interviewed several leading political figures and took part in a meeting of the board of CASI.

Dr. Huskey presented a paper entitled "Government and Opposition in Kyrgyzstan's Third Republic" at the 43rd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, Washington, DC, November 18.

On February 24, Dr. Huskey gave the keynote address, "Barriers to the Study of the Post-communist State," at the GOSECA Conference at the University of Pittsburgh on February 24. This is an annual conference for graduate students working in the field of Russian and East European studies. The theme of this year's conference was Rightly Stated? Contemporary and Historical Considerations of the State in Eastern Europe and Eurasia.

On March 22, Dr. Huskey presented a paper entitled "The Third Time a Charm? Voters, Parties, and Elections in Kyrgyzstan, 2010-2011," at the Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto. The paper was based on research conducted jointly with Professor David Hill.

Dr. Huskey's chapter, entitled "The Bureaucracy," has just been published in The Routledge Handbook for Russian Politics and Society, edited by Graeme Gill and James Young.

The following book chapters are scheduled for publication this summer:

"Legitimizing the Russian Executive: Identity, Technocracy, and Performance," in Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund, and Elena Namli (eds.), Power and Legitimacy: Challenges from Russia (Routledge).
"The Challenges to Deregulating Russia: Business Registration Policy and Practice under Putin," in David Linnan (ed.), Legitimacy, Legal Development & Change: Law and Modernization Reconsidered (Ashgate).
"De-bureaucratizing the State," in Lena Johnson and Stephen White (eds.), Waiting for Reform under Putin and Medvedev (Palgrave MacMillan)

William Kaplin, Distinguished Professorial Lecturer, spoke on the panel "Higher Education Law and Policy 3.1: Scholarship, Scholarship Networking, and Emerging Topics in Scholarship" at the 33^rd Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education.

Jamil Khader, Professor of English, delivered a paper entitled, "Monstrosity in International Vampire Fiction: The Vampire as a Master Signifier," at the 33^rd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 22-25, 2012. In it he develops a transcultural methodology for examining the "homomorphic equivalency" of vampiric monstrosity in international vampire fiction, by focusing on the function the vampire serves in Hideyuki Kikuchi's manga, Vampire Hunter D. The conference program can be found at this link: http://iafa.highpoint.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2012-Program-20120316.pdf

Dr. Khadar, had his review article of Asian horror cinema, a review of Asian Horror by Andy Richards (Kamera Books 2010), and Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema, edited by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Hong Kong UP 2009), just published in Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies, Issue 22 (Feb 2012): pp. 51-60. This review can be found here:http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/February_2012/book_reviews.pdf#page=51

Dr. Khader also received word that his article, "Will the real Robert Neville please, come out? Vampires, Homoerotic Desire, and the Ethics of Queer Monstrosity in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend," has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Homosexuality.

Dr. Khader's article, ""Un/Speakability and Radical Otherness: The Ethics of Trauma in Bram Stoker's Dracula," will appear next month in College Literature 39.2 (2012): 73-97.

Michael King, Professor of Biology, has been awarded a $100,000 grant by the National Science Foundation to support his research for the next two years. The title of the project is "Behavioral Role of Descending Projections to the Gustatory Brainstem".

Peter Lake, Charles A. Dana Chair and Director, center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy, spoke on the panel "Higher Education Law and Policy 2.1: The Rise of the Compliance University" and "Looking into the Crystal Ball 2012: Higher Education Law and Policy Challenges of Tomorrow" at the 33^rdAnnual National Conference on Law and Higher Education. Professor Lake also spoke at the Boot Camp on the Fundamentals of Higher Education Law and Policy. Both the boot camp and the conference were organized and hosted by Stetson's Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy, for which Professor Lake serves as director.

Joseph Morrissey, Professor of Law, spoke on the panel "Challenges for the Multicultural and Global University – Study Abroad, Revolutions, Riots and Foreign Students" at the 33^rd Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education.

Jason Palmer, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, spoke on the panel, "Higher Education Law and Policy 3.1 – Scholarship, Scholarship Networking and Emerging Topics for Scholarship" at the 33^rd Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education.

Ann Piccard, Professor of Legal Skills, presented her paper "Death by Indian School: How the United States Killed a Culture" at the Samford University Cumberland School of Law.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Assistant Professor of Law, testified before Connecticut's General Assembly's Government Administration and Elections Committee about the shareholder protections that are needed in light of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FEC decision.

February 2012

Congratulations to our Law School faculty colleagues who have been selected for leadership roles in the Association of American Law Schools:

Linda Anderson, Professor of Legal Skills and Associate Director of Legal Research and Writing: Chair, Section on Part-time Division Programs
Brad Areheart, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law: Secretary, New Law Professors Section
Cynthia Batt, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Education: Co-Chair, Membership, Outreach, and Training Committee; and Externship Committee for the Section on Clinical Education
Mark Bauer, Professor of Law: Treasurer, Section on Aging and Law
John Cooper, Associate Dean for International Programs and Professor of Law: Executive Committee, Section on International Legal Exchange
Kristen Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing: Secretary, Section on Women in Legal Education
James Fox, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Law: Secretary, Section on Legal History
Peter Fitzgerald, Professor of Law: Executive Committee, Section on Animal Law
Luz Nagle, Professor of Law: Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers
Jason Palmer, Associate Professor of Legal Skills: Executive Committee, Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
Ellen Podgor, Professor of Law: Secretary, Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues
Susan Rozelle, Professor of Law: Work-Life Balance Committee of the Section on Women in Legal Education; Chair, Teaching Materials Network for the New Law Professors Section
Lou Virelli, Associate Professor of Law: Executive Committee, Section on Constitutional Law

Raymond Barclay, Director of Institutional Research. Barclay is one of two principal investigators on a phase 4 clinical research study recently approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), titled "The Efficacy of Cranial-electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) Using Alpha-Stim Technology in The Treatment of Anxiety Disorders." The goal of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Alpha-Stim technology in the treatment of anxiety by using a double-blind clinical trial over a period of five weeks. Cranial-electrotherapy stimulation (CES) is a noninvasive procedure that has been used for decades in the United States to treat anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Although many studies on CES have been published in previous decades, most have used relatively small samples using various frequencies and links of treatment. Results will be collected through spring 2012 and analysis will occur in the fall/winter of 2012.

Mark Bauer, Professsor of Law, recently gave a workshop to the University of Melbourne (Australia) Competition Law and Economics Discussion Group on the topic of "Competition Law and Retail". Professor Bauer is currently a Senior International Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the University of Melbourne Law School.

John Cooper, Professor of Law, moderated a panel at the AALS Annual Meeting entitled The Globalization of the Legal Practice for the Section on International Legal Exchange, and he continues to serve on the Executive Committee for the Section.

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law, presented "Feedback Mechanisms" at the AALS Day-Long Workshop on Academic Support.

Andy Dehnart, Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism, published an essay in The Daily Beast (Jan. 25) aboutToddlers & Tiaras and Dance Moms, abusive reality TV shows that star children, and his interview with X Factor host Steve Jones was published in New York Magazine's Vulture on Dec. 22.

In addition, as a member of the Lab Rats ensemble at Orlando's SAK Comedy Lab, he performed in improvisational comedy shows on Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 15, Dec. 13, and Jan. 17.

Tandy Grubbs, Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as an Innovation Scholar by the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). Innovation Scholars work in teams to complete a series of challenges geared toward producing a concrete solution to a thorny problem facing liberal education. Prior to the NITLE Symposium (April 16-17), Scholars will pitch ideas, select the most promising projects, generate innovative solutions, and build an initial business plan. At the Symposium, Scholars pitch their projects. Following the Symposium, they explore techniques for product development, methods for developing and retaining a user base, and approaches to funding and sustaining projects. In early August, teams pitch their final product (a web site, toolkit, piece of software, curriculum, new coalition, etc.) to leaders in the liberal education community.

Jeffrey Minneti, Professor of Legal Skills and Director of Academic Success, recently published Rising Together: Clarifying The International Environmental Marketing Claim Regulatory Landscape So That Developing Country Exporters May More Effectively Market Their Environmentally Responsible Products in volume 2 of the Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, recently gave a speech to the President of Brazil and Brazil's Supreme Court on behalf of the IBA for the Innovate Institute's Premio for Justice Reform. She also presented, on behalf of the International Bar Association, the Institute's Special Award for 2011 to Permanent Group of Proactive Practice of the Brazilian National Attorney General's Office for their work in combating organized crime.

Professor Nagle recently gave a presentation entitled Central American Gangs and Their Criminal Activities and Expansion Worldwide at the 12th European Regional Conference of the International Association of Prosecutors at The Hague.

Ann Piccard, Professor of Legal Skills, presented a paper entitled Death by "Indian School": How the United States Killed a Culture at a USF-Tampa program called "Violence, Memory and Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Conference."

Ellen Podgor, Professor of Law, recently gave an opening talk at the Symposium on Overcriminalization sponsored by the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Northwestern University School of Law. Professor Podgor also recently published the Introduction to the symposium on Corporate Criminal Liability in Volume 41 of the Stetson Law Review.

Mark Powell, Assistant Professor of English, announces that the Winter 2012 issue of the literary journal APPALACHIAN HERITAGE is devoted to his work. It features three excerpts from my forthcoming novel, THE DARK CORNER, to be published later this spring by the U of TN Press, and four essays about me and my work by Ron Rash, Pete Duval, Casey Clabough, and Denton Loving.

Mary Sanders Pollock, Professor of English, and Abigail Burnham Blum are the editors of Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2011. Mary Pollock's article in the book is "The Power of Money: Browning's 'The Pied Piper' and Egoyan's 'The Sweet Hereafter."

Susan Rozelle, Professor of Law, serves on the Work-Life Balance Committee of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, and is chair of the Teaching Materials Network for the AALS New Law Professors Section.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Assistant Professor of Law, recently presented a paper on the Federal Election Campaign Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at Chapman Law School's Symposium on "The 40th Anniversary of Watergate: A Commemoration of the Rule of Law."

Professor Torres-Spelliscy recently spoke about independent campaign expenditures and campaign finance laws at the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws conference in Nashville.

Professor Torres-Spelliscy presented a paper on the Democratic and Republican Governors Associations and the regulation of corporate money in politics at the Legal Theory Speaker Series at the University of Miami Law School.

Lou Virelli, Associate Professor of Law, organized, moderated, and spoke at the panel at the AALS Annual Meeting entitled Hot Topic Program: Politics, Ethics, and the Supreme Court: The Present and Future of Supreme Court Recusal. He was also was elected to the Executive Committee of the Section on Constitutional Law.

December 2011/January 2012

From the School of Music:

This weekend (1/28-29/12) was certainly a rich illustration of the depth of the School of Music:

First, congratulations and thanks to alumna Jessica Hall Speak, clarinetist, who presented a recital on Saturday night with fellow alums Tammy Miller (adjunct professor and pianist) and Carlos Velez, flutist. We appreciate your continuing loyalty and artistic energy!
Congratulations and much appreciation to Drs. Larson and Price, the Stetson Men, the Concert Choir and all choral assistants for your contributions to another successful Men's Choral Festival. The event brought 99 male singers (and their teachers) to campus for a powerful day of learning and singing Friday. Andrew tells me that this was the strongest year musically since the inception of the Men's Choral Festival, with much recruitment potential.
Thanks to "Doc" West and the Stetson University Jazz "Reggae" Combo that appeared at the Images Art Festival in New Smyrna Beach on Saturday. A big turnout for an incredible arts event.
Bravo to Susan McQuinn for her headliner performance Friday night at the 36th annual convention of the Florida Flute Association in Orlando. Both On Saturday Susan led a warm up, taught a class and conducted the Stetson Flute Orchestra in a flute choir showcase, on the same program where alum Tammy Phillips and I performed with the Florida Flute Orchestra; that group, conducted by Paige Long, brings together professional flute teachers from across the state and beyond. Adjunct professor and alum Douglas Phillips conducted the Sr. High Honors Flute Choir through the weekend. Susan and I have been closely involved in this FFA for many years, and some of you will remember conventions hosted at Stetson and in DeLand, before the event outgrew our hotels. Tammy Phillips now sits on the Board of the FFA and will serve as next year's convention program chair.

Toni Blum, Associate Professor of Psychology and Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences, andJohn Tichenor, Associate Professor of Decision Sciences, will present proposal "Assessing Across Three Schools: Involving Faculty in the Assessment of General Student Learning Outcomes" at the AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal conference General Education and Assessment: New Contexts, New Cultures in February, 2012.

Gail Choice, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, recently presented a paper titled " Extending Relevant Teacher Education Beyond Traditional Schooling" at the American Reading Forum 2011 National Conference in Sanibel Island, FL.

Hala El-Aarag, Associate professor of Computer Science has presented a paper entitled "Simulation Based Experiments Using EDNAS: The Event-Driven Network Architecture Simulator" at the Winter Simulation Conference that was held in Phoenix Arizona December 11-14, 2011. The paper is co-authored with Stetson alumnus Sean Salmon who now works as a software engineer at Scientific Research Corporation in Charleston, SC. The peer refereed paper is published in the conference proceedings.

Chris Kandus-Fisher, Dean of Students, had his article, "The Future of Depression: A Medicated Society—Part 2" published on the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education web site: http://naspa.org/pubs/mags/nr/default.cfm.

Andrew Larson, Associate Director of Choral Activities, has received word that his composition "Salvator natus est" for mixed chorus and piano will be published by Hinshaw Music, Inc., one of the most important publishers of choral music in the U.S. The composition also appears on the Stetson University Concert Choir's latest compact disc recording 'A Candlelight Tradition,' which is available in hard copy, on iTunes, Naxos, and other digital media. Dr. Larson's music has been sung in reading sessions at American Choral Directors Association conferences and in performance all over the country for several years. This year alone, he is aware that his choral compositions have been programmed by the Penn State women's choir and the Brigham Young University Singers. Bravo, Dr. Larson!

Adrienne Perry, Senior Associate Professor of Teacher Education, is coordinating the 7th Biennial M. Jean Greenlaw Children's Literature Conference from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, April 30, 2012. This year's conference will feature keynote speaker, Helen Ketteman, author of twenty picture books. Ketteman's books range in age from preschool through fifth grade. There will be numerous informative and fun workshops throughout the day as well as an author book signing, said Dr. Adrienne Perry of Teacher Education. The registration fee is $12.00 and includes a complimentary lunch. Participants must register online at https://secure.stetson.edu/forms/artsci/education/clc/registration/ by Friday, April 20. The conference is open to the entire Stetson community.

Robert L. Perkins, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Stetson, has completed the 24th and last volume of International Kierkegaard Commentary. The series was published by Mercer University Press, the first volume appearing in 1984. The 7587 pages and indexes contain 282 essays written by 123 authors from 14 countries. Dr. Perkins was honored for creating the IKC with a Festschrift, Why Kierkegaard Matters, at the 2010 annual meeting of the Søren Kierkegaard Society (which he founded in 1982) held in conjunction with the American Academy of Religion.

Ellen Podgor, Professor of Law, just published Mastering Criminal Procedure, Volume 2: The Adjudicatory Stage, which she wrote with co-authors Peter J. Henning, Andrew Taslitz, Margaret L. Paris, and Cynthia E. Jones and which is published by Carolina Academic Press.

Mobile Performance Group, under the direction of Matt Roberts and Nathan Wolek, Associate Professors of Digital Arts, performed during Art Basel Miami as part of the 12 Nights Electronic Music and Art series curated by Juraj Kojs for the Harold Golen Gallery. This faculty-student collaboration was the culmination of last semester's DIGA 398 (Advanced Digital Arts Studio) and featured the talents of seven students: Kim Crawford, Dan Duvall, Joe Flanagan, Mark Kisch, Hunter Lee, Philip Meisner, and Meg Spivey. Documentation of the performance can be found here: http://mobileperformancegroup.com/basel/

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Assistant Professor of Law, had her chapter "Corporate Political Spending & Shareholders' Rights: Why the U.S. Should Adopt the British Approach" was just published in Risk Management and Corporate Governance, edited by Abol Jalilvand and Tassos Malliaris and published by Routledge.

December 2011

Brooke Bowman, Professor of Legal Skills, recently gave a presentation titled "Advocacy Tips and Tricks," as part of the panel discussion of "Teaching Persuasive Writing, Appellate Advocacy, and Moot Court" at the Legal Writing Institute One-Day Conference at the University of Miami School of Law.

Christopher Colwell, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, was a speaker at the National Conference of State Legislatures: A Seminar for Legislative Education Staff in Tampa, Florida on December 3^rd. Colwell spoke on the topic, "Time as a Resource: A New Look at Where and When Learning Takes Place."

Steve Everhart, Professor of Law, gave a presentation titled "China & the WTO: 10 Years and Counting: Where We Have Come From: Where Do We Go" at Beijing Normal University. He also taught a course at Beijing Normal on the use of expert testimony in WTO litigation.

Tim Kaye, Professor of Law, had his edited book Law, Justice, and Miscommunications: Essays in Applied Legal Philosophy, a collection of essays by him and six students at Stetson Law, published with Vandeplas Publishing.

Jamil Khader, Professor of English, delivered a paper entitled, "Cosmopolitanism and the Infidelity to Internationalism: Repeating Postcoloniality and the World Revolution to Come," at an international conference,Cosmopolitanism in a Wider Context: Conceptualizing Past and Present, which was held in Stockholm, Sweden Nov. 26-26, 2011.

Rebecca Morgan, Professor of Law, gave her webinar for the ABA, "Ethical Issues in Elder Law: Getting It Right," which she conducted along with Charlie Sabatino, Director of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging, recently won the award for the Most Innovative Presentation for 2011 from the ABA Center on Continuing Legal Education.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Assistant Professor of Law, recently spoke about independent campaign expenditures and campaign finance laws at the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws conference in Nashville.

Marilyn Uzdavines, Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Skills, recently gave a presentation titled "Behind the Scenes: The Making of a Great Teaching Assistant Team" at the Legal Writing Institute One-Day Conference at the University of Miami School of Law.

Darryl Wilson, Professor of Law, spoke at the Fifth Annual IP Scholars Forum on the failure of the Patent Law Reform Act of 2011 to adequately address tax patents and business method patents

Nathan Wolek, Associate Professor of Digital Arts, was invited to attend Third Practice, a festival of electronic music presented annually by the University of Richmond. This year's program included one of his recent fixed media compositions, attack. More information on the festival is available here: http://thirdpractice.org/3p11/index.html.

Benhua Yang, Assistant Professor of Economics, has had several recent publications:

Refereed Journal Publications:

"Does Democracy Foster Financial Development? An Empirical Analysis," Economics Letters, Vol. 112, No. 3, 262-265, 2011.
"Political Democratization, Economic Liberalization, and Growth Volatility," Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 39, 245-259, 2011.

Book Review Publications:

Review of Financial Globalization, Economic Growth, and the Crisis of 2007-09, by William R. Cline. Washington, DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics. 2010. Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 45, No. 3, 736-738, 2011.
Review of Intangible Capital: Its Contribution to Economic Growth, Well-Being and Rationality, Tomer, John F., UK: Edward Elgar, 2008, Review of Social Economy, Vol. 69, No. 1, 134-137, 2011.

November 2011

Congratulations to Vince Brenner, Professor of Accounting, Monica Jeancola, Assistant Professor of Accounting, and Ann Watkins (Lamar University)! Their paper, "Using the Case Method Approach to Introduce Students to International Financial Reporting Standards" won the Best Teaching Innovation Award at the 13th Annual Conference of The Academy of Business Disciplines in Ft. Myers Beach, FL November 10, 2011.

Hala El-Aarag, Associate professor of Computer Science has presented a paper entitled "Simulation-Based Comparison of Scheduling Techniques in Multiprogramming Operating Systems on Single and Multi-core processors" at the 25th annual conference of the Consortium of Computing sciences in colleges co-sponsored by ACM-SIGCSE and Upsilon Pi Epsilon, at Furman University November 11-12, 2011. The paper is published in the journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol 27, No 2, December 2011 and is co-authored with Stetson alumni David and Steven Bauschlicher who now work as Software engineers at Harris Corporation.

Chris Kandus-Fisher, Dean of Students, had his article, "The Future of Depression: A Medicated Society—Part 1" published on the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education web site: http://naspa.org/pubs/mags/nr/default.cfm

Eric Kurlander, Associate Professor of History, had his article, "Hitler's Monsters: The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Nazi 'Supernatural Imaginary,'" accepted for publication by the journal 'German History' (Oxford, 2012).

His article, "Violence, Volksgemeinschaft, and Empire: Interpreting the Third Reich in the Twenty-First Century," appears in the October 2011 edition of the 'Journal of Contemporary History' (http://jch.sagepub.com/content/current).

His review of Ann Goldberg's 'Honor, Politics, and the Law in Imperial Germany, 1871–1914.' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, also appears next month in Central European History, v. 44, nr. 4 (December 2011).

Finally, Kurlander presented the paper "The Orientalist Roots of National Socialism? Asian Religion, Occultism, and the Nazi Supernatural Imaginary," at the 2011 Convention of the German Studies Association (Louisville, KY, September 22-25, 2011).

He also commented on the panel, "Nationalisms: Bound and Unbound" at the same conference (http://www.thegsa.org/conferences/2011/index.asp).

Carolyn Mueller, Professor of Management & International Business, has published (with others) an article, "Organizational Culture Profile of Service and Manufacturing Businesses in Mexico," in Revista de Investigacion Administrativa, edited by the Politecnico National, Mexico (listed in LATINDEX, and Latin American index of research journals), 21(40), 2011.

Dr. Mueller also presented a paper, "Retesting the Linkage between Masculinity/Femininity and Task/Relationship Approaches: A Three Country Study," at the Academy of International Business-SE (USA) Annual Conference in Winter Park, FL, Oct. 27, 2011. At the conference, she also chaired the Doctoral Consortium (Oct. 26) and was a presenter on a panel, "Study Abroad in Emerging Markets," about her experiences with short-term study abroads for undergraduate students in China (Oct. 28.)

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, recently co-chaired two panels at the International Bar Association's 2011 Annual Meeting in Dubai: "The Impact of the Global Economic Meltdown on the Modern Welfare State" and "New Rights and Reversals: The Development of Legal Frameworks to Include and Exclude Participation of Vulnerable Groups."

Ellen Podgor, Professor of Law, recently spoke on a panel titled, "Lawyers in the Cross-Hairs: When Legal Advice Exposes Counsel to Criminal Charges and Civil Enforcement Remedies" at the ABA Sixth Annual National Institute on Securities Fraud.

Gail Radley, Lecturer in English, has biographical feature, "Shirin Dalvand: A Prisoner Called 'Sweetness'" in the Nov/Dec 2011 edition of the award-winning children's magazine, Brilliant Star. She is currently under contract for 2 additional features.

Michele Skelton, Associate Professor of Integrative Health Science presented a paper on "How much Exercise is Enough? An Examination of the Impact of Physical Activity and Exercise on GPA in College Students" at the ACSM conference on Physical Activity, Cognitive Function, and Academic Achievement, November 17, in Washington, DC.

Jud Stryker, Eugene M. Lynn Chair and Professor of Accounting, was recognized for his years of dedicated service to the accounting department and the School of Business Administration. The plaque he was awarded read as follows:

Stetson University M.E. Rinker, Sr. Institute of Tax and Accountancy

In recognition and appreciation of meritorious service and outstanding contributions to the University, the School of Business Administration, and the M.E. Rinker, Sr. Institute of Tax and Accountancy

Dr. Judson Stryker, Stetson MBA '71, Eugene M. Lynn Chair, Professor of Accounting, Treasurer, Business School Foundation, Inc.

Chair, M.E. Rinker, Sr. Institute of Tax and Accountancy (2003-2011), Associate Dean, School of Business Administration (1993-1997 and 2001-2011), Vice President for Finance (1997-2001)

A Loyal Alumnus, A Valued Colleague, A Trusted Administrator, A Caring Teacher, and A Genuine Human Being

November, 2011

Betty Thorne, Professor of Decision & Information Sciences, and John Tichenor, Associate Professor of Decision and Information Sciences, received the Session Best Paper Award when they presented "Assessing Business Statistics Learning Outcomes Under Two Curricular Models" at the 13th Annual Academy of Business Disciplines Conference, November 10-12, 1011 in Ft. Myers Beach, FL.

Terri Witek, Professor of English, announces that her new book, Exit Island, is just out from Orchises Press. The story is that Ariadne washes up on Naxos with the poetry of Fernando Pessoa. Poor thing--does she speak this language (island/Portuguese/palmetto)? The press has also commissioned a limited edition of 26 boxed hardbacks--these feature one of 7 aluminum prints by Cyriaco Lopes. Lopes will join Witek for a multi-media performance on March 15 (7 o'clock, Rinker), and the Hand Center will run a show of their collaborations to date.

Nancy Vosburg, Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures, organized and chaired a session on women's crime fiction at the Annual conference of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica, held at theUniversity of Barcelona on Oct. 19-21, 2011. In that session she also presented a paper entitled "Respuestas literarias al maltrato de mujeres."

October 2011

Christopher Colwell, Associate Professor of Teacher Education, is participating several lectures and presentations this fall:

Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents 8^th Annual Summit on Hispanic Education. San Francisco – Oct. 12-15: "Formative Empowerment for Teacher Effectiveness: A Multiple Measures Approach" round table discussion led by Chris Colwell
Florida Education Research Association State Meeting. Orlando – Nov 2: "Formative Empowerment for Teacher Effectiveness: A Multiple Measures Approach" Lecture by Chris Colwell
"Wings of Change" Webinar. Nov 4: "Formative Empowerment for Teacher Effectiveness : A multiple measures Approach" Webinar by Chris Colwell
National Conference of State Legislatures and the Education Commission of the States Seminar: A Look at the Research and Policy Behind More Time for Learning: A Seminar for Legislative Education Staff. Tampa – Dec 3: "Time as a Resource: A New Look at when and Where Learning Takes Place." National Panel Presentation including Chris Colwell

Joel Davis, Associate Professor of English, announces the publication of his monograph, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature, out from Palgrave Macmillan November 8, 2011. The link for the book:http://us.macmillan.com/thecountesseofpembrokesarcadiaandtheinventionofenglishliterature/JoelDavis

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law, Lance Long, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, and Catherine Cameron, Professor of Legal Skills, recently organized and presented the latest webinar in Stetson's innovative and successful "Virtual Legal Writing Conference." This conference, "Legal Writing Scholarship: Empirical and Statistical Studies," included presentations from a panel of leading scholars in legal writing empirical studies and statisticians who have partnered with legal writing scholars in publishing empirical work.

Four Stetson faculty members have been nominated for honorary membership in Phi Eta Sigma, the academic honorary society for first-year students in any academic discipline: Michael Denner, Department of Modern Languages; Phillip Lucas, Department of Religious Studies; Carolyn Nicholson, Department of Marketing; andStephen Robinson, School of Music. Stetson's chapter dates back to the late 1970s. Phi Eta Sigma was established in 1923, to encourage and recognize high scholastic achievement among first-year students. Students who earn a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5 are eligible for membership, provided they have carried a normal academic load and rank in the upper 20% of their class.

Hala El-Aarag, associate professor of Computer science has had an article entitled "An Overview of the Best Papers of the 2011 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference" published in the October 2011 issue of the Modeling and Simulation magazine, a publication of the Society of Modeling and Simulation International.

Chelsea Embry, Assistant Professor of Integrative Health Services, and Michele Skelton, Associate Professor of Integrative Health Services, attended the Summit on Undergraduate Education in Public Health on October 29 in Washington, DC.

Susanne Eules, Coordinator of the Hand Art Center and Adjunct Lecturer has received 1st place in the Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger Literature Award 2010/2011 sponsored by the Bundesverband Junger Autoren und Autorinnen, Armin T. Wegner Gesellschaft, FAUST (Free Authors of Cologne), amobo (online portal) and the Anne Frank-Fonds. The award will be given for her poem "Passacaglia about Selma's Life Coordinates". On December, 15 2011 she will read her poetry at the award ceremony in the synagogue of Cologne, Germany. Prior to the ceremony, she will meet two relatives of Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger who will also travel from the USA. The poem will be published in the prolific literary magazine "Konzepte".

In the summer, Dr. Eules was accepted as member of the prolific German literary group Forum der 13:http://www.forum-der-13.de . On June 6, 2011 she read her poetry in Freiburg at „Stimmpunkt" and on June 29, 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in Ausstellungshalle 1A. In July, she attended the 2011 poetry festival in Berlin, Germany. Her poems entitled "der erbleichte himmel; subtraktion; metaphysicher abend" were published in the Swiss literary journal "entwürfe - Zeitschrift für Literatur", Zürich, Nr. 66: issue "islands", June 2011. Her poems entitled "späte lese; reyfung; so wasz" will be published in the German literary journal Dulzinea, Moderne Lyrik Nr. 15 this fall.

Sidney Hodkinson, Almand Chair of Composition, shared his Winter 2012 News Release which included the following:

PREMIERES:

POTPOURRI (2088), for Sym. Orch.,Stetson Sym. Orch., A Hose cond., Lee Chapel Stetson University, Deland, FL, 9/30/10
FADED ANECDOTES (2009), for solo piano, Kristie Born, School of Music, Lee Chapel, Stetson University, 2/4/11
EULOGY (2009), for Symphonic Band, Stetson University Band, B. Adams, cond., Lee Chapel, Stetson University, Deland, FL, 2/11/11
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED (2010), for Chamber Ens., Aspen Contemporary Ens., Hodkinson, cond., Aspen Music Festival & School, Harris Hall, Aspen, CO, 8/20/11

PERFORMANCES:

STOLEN GOODS (2008), Four Preludes for solo piano, Barry Snyder, Second World Piano Conference, Isidor Bajic Music School, Novi Sad, Serbia, 8/27/10
A PILGRIM'S COUNSEL (2009), Four Ballads for voice and piano, E. Murphy, tenor, M. Rickman, Pno., Lee Chapel, Stetson University, Deland, FL, 2/4/11
TSATSKES (1984), for woodwind trio, Veritate Winds, Adams, oboe, Musco, clar., Heintzen, bassoon, Lee Chapel, Stetson University, Deland, FL, 3/15/11
RUSH (2008), for solo violin, P. Szewczyk, violin, Lee Chapel, Stetson University, Deland, FL, 9/9/11

NEW PUBLICATIONS:

ORGANMUSIC (2009), 6 Tableaux for solo organ Merion/Presser 9/10
FADED ANECDOTES (2009), 5 Images for Solo Piano Merion/Presser 10/10
NIGHT WATCH (2010), for solo Bassoon Merion/Presser 10/10
NIGHT ROUNDS (2010), for solo Horn Merion/Presser 10/10
EULOGY (2009), for Band Merion/Presser 12/10
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED (2010), for Chamber Ens. Merion/Presser 2/11
TRES VIENTOS (2010), for flute, oboe, clarinet Merion/Presser 4/11

Lloyd Linney, Soprano, Professor of Music and Michael Rickman, Steinway Artist, Professor of Music had their CD "Treasured Memories" released by Clear Note Classics. A description of the CD can be seen athttp://clearnoteclassics.com.

Phillip Lucas, Professor of Religious Studies, has published an article, "New Age Millennialism: Progressive and Catastrophic Visions of Global Transformation," in The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism, edited by Catherine Wessinger. The 768-page volume is part of Oxford University Press's Handbooks series and appeared in October 2011. It offers readers an in-depth look at both the theoretical underpinnings of the study of millennialism and its many manifestations across history and cultures. Lucas's 40-page article traces the historical development of the two main types of New Age Millennial thought, a slowly unfolding planetary enlightenment, and a millennium that is preceded by massive "earth changes" and socio-political upheavals.

William R. Nylen, Professor of Political Science, was the keynote speaker at the conference, "III Seminario Internacional: Nuevos Ciudadanos para una Nueva Democracia," held on October 6 and 7 in Puerto Montt, Chile, and hosted by the Universidad de los Lagos and the Proyecto FONDECYT. The title of Dr. Nylen's talk was "Desafíos de la Democracia Participativa y del Presupuesto Participativo en América Latina."

Ellen Podgor, Professor of Law, recently spoke on a panel titled, "Mind Games: Challenging Intent, Winning the Case" at Fordham Law School, co-sponsored by NACDL.

Professor Podgor recently spoke at the Southwestern Law School as part of their Faculty Speaker Series, on the topic "Unregulated Corporate Internal Investigations: From Theory to Practice."

Theresa Radwan, Professor of Law, presented her paper entitled Sword or Shield: Use of Tithing to Establish Nondischargeability of Debt Following Enactment of the Religious Liberties and Charitable Donation Protection Act at the St. John's University School of Law/American Bankruptcy Institute Symposium on "Religion and Bankruptcy: Perspective Thereon and Treatment Therein." The paper will be published in the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, which is edited in conjunction with St. John's.

Leander Seah, Assistant Professor of History, delivered a paper entitled "China, the Nanyang, and the Chinese World: Jinan Alumni, Nanyang Studies Researchers, and Trans-Regionalism, 1937-1941" at the 53rd American Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 14-16, 2011.

Lou Virelli, Associate Professor of Law, announces his article, The Unconstitutionality of Supreme Court Recusal Standards, has been accepted for publication in the 2011 volume of the Wisconsin Law Review.

Matt Wilson, Assistant Professor and Program Director Sport Management, announces that his article, "NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Coaching Contracts: A Comparative Analysis of Incentives for Athletic and Academic Team Performance," co-authored with Matthew Schraeger, Kevin Burke, Billy Hawkins, and Stetson Alumnus Lane Gauntt, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics. In addition, Wilson's article, "Working with Male Athletes: The Experiences of U.S. Female Head Coaches," was recently published inICHPER-SD Journal of Research.

In September, Wilson presented a paper entitled, "A Qualitative Investigation of Female Head Coaches' Experiences in Working with Male Athletes" at the Annual Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii. He also presented on "Enhancing the Youth Sport Experience: Building Great Parent-Player Relationships," at the 8^th Annual Athlete Development Summit in Orlando, Florida. An annual meeting for the Professional Association of Athletic Development Specialists, this conference brings together specialists from the NFL, NBA, MLB, MLS, NHL, LPGA, PGA, Australian Rules Football, Australian Rugby, WTA, USTA, ITA, and NCAA.

Nathan Wolek, Associate Professor of Digital Arts, travelled to Kansas City for a workshop with other developers for Jamoma, an open-source platform for interactive performance systems. While there, he gave an artist's talk with Trond Lossius, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (Norway), for graduate music composition students at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He also presented 3 of his past works (must contain, being directly, and also apply) at a gathering of the Kansas City Electronic Music & Arts Alliance (http://www.kcema.net/) at Urban Culture Project's La Esquina gallery space.

September 2011

Michael Allen, Professor of Law, recently spoke at the annual conference of the National Organization of Veterans Advocates on the topic "Major Developments in Veterans Law." He also recently gave a speech titled "The Supreme Court's October 2011 Term" at a luncheon for the Federal Bar Association of Palm Beach County.

Professor Allen recently spoke to the Florida Conference of District Court of Appeals Judges, a conference including the Florida Supreme Court as attendees, in Amelia Island, Florida, on the topic "Constitutional History: Applying 18th Century Ideas to Our 21st Century World." He also spoke at the Otis Constitution Day event in Jupiter, Florida, on the topic of "Freedom of Speech for Students in Public Schools."

Cynthia DeBose, Professor of Law, has been appointed to the ABA Collaborative Law Committee's newly formed sub-committee on Law School Courses in Collaborative Law.

Andy Dehnart, Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism, published a feature-length piece of literary journalism in the July issue of Playboy magazine. "The Curse of Reality TV" explored the impact of unscripted television on cast members, including the mentally ill people featured on A&E's Hoarders.

In August, he presented the first-ever Television Critics Association award for unscripted television during the organization's annual awards show, which was held during its summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., from which he reported for two weeks.

He also performed improv comedy as a member of SAK Comedy Lab's Lab Rats ensemble during shows on May 17, June 28, July 5, and Aug. 23 in Orlando.

Hala El-Aarag, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, has had her paper entitled "A Quantitative Study of Web Cache Replacement Strategies using Simulation" accepted for publication in Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Sage Publication.http://sim.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/07/23/0037549711414152.abstract The paper is co-authored with Stetson alumnus Sam Romano who now works as a software engineer at Lockheed Martin.

Dr. El-Aarag is a contributing editor of The Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 27, Number 2, December 2011, ISSN:1937-4771, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2038836

She is also a member of the board of directors of the Consortium of Computing Sciences in Colleges Southeastern Region.

Kelly Feeley, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, announces her article Hiring Sexters to Teach Children: Creating Predictable and Flexible Standards for Negligent Hiring in Schools has been accepted for publication in volume 42 of the New Mexico Law Review.

Dan Hale, Professor of Psychology, on leave of absense this year, has shared an article about his work as a special adviser in the Office of the President at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and as adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD:http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/howard/news/community/ph-ho-n-senior-circles-0901-20110905,0,7047618.story.

Carol Henderson, Professor of Law, was a keynote speaker at the 19th International Association of Forensic Sciences World Meeting in Portugal.

David Hill, Associate Professor of Political Science, announces his coauthored manuscript "Achieving Validation: Barack Obama and Black Turnout in 2008" was accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal State Politics and Policy Quarterly.

David Hill chaired the panel "Economic Voting in a Comparative Context" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Seattle,Washingtonon September 2.

David Hill served as chair and discussant on the panel "Polarization, Tolerance, Compromise, and Culture" at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Seattle, Washington on September 4.

Blake Hudson, Assistant Professor of Law, just had his article, Fail-safe Federalism and Climate Change: The Case of U.S. and Canadian Forest Policy, accepted for publication in the Connecticut Law Review.

Eugene Huskey, Professor of Political Science, announces that his article, "Narrowing the Sites and Moving the Targets: Institutional Instability and the Development of a Political Opposition in Kyrgyzstan," which he co-authored with Gulnara Iskakova, appeared in Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 58, no. 3 (May-June, 2011).

Dr. Huskey, along with David Hill, Associate Professor of Political Science, published an Election Note entitled "The 2010 Referendum and Parliamentary Elections in Kyrgyzstan," in the journal Electoral Studies, vol. 30, no. 2 (June 2011).

John Jett, Biology lab manager and adjunct faculty in Biology and Environmental Science has had an article he co-authored on the stress of Orca captivity published online: https://theorcaproject.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/keto-tilikum-express-stress-of-orca-captivity/. The Orca Project is a website/project that he collaborates on with other cetacean researchers, former trainers, and journalists. Research on the perils of orca captivity is one component of his research, which also includes waterway management and manatee conservation. He is currently working on a paper regarding poor dentition among captive orcas and the association with chronic disease.

John Pearson, Professor of English, had his article "Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and the Fashioning of Southern Identity," included in Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894. Ed. Kathleen Diffley. Jackson,MS: U ofMississippi P, 2011. 73-89.

Dan Plante, Associate Professor of Math and Computer Science had his paper, "Mobile Advertising Engine for Centralized Mobile Coupon Delivery", listed on Social Science Research Network's Top Ten download list for ERN: Technology (Topic).

Mary Sanders Pollock, Professor of English, presented a paper entitled "Love Is Neither Here Nor There" at the biannual conference of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) at Indiana University, June 20-25, 2011.

Bradford Stone, Charles A. Dana Professor of Law Emeritus, recently co-authored Commercial Transactions Under the Uniform Commercial Code and Other Laws, Sixth Edition published by LexisNexis. In addition, Professor Stone co-authored (with Santiago Gonzalez Luna, Universidad Panamericana), Aggrieved Buyer's Right to Performance or Money Damages Under the CISG, UCC, and Mexican Commercial Code, which is forthcoming in the University of Pittsburgh Journal of Law and Commerce.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Assistant Professor of Law, announces her article, Has the Tide Turned in Favor of Disclosure? Revealing Money in Politics AfterCitizens United and Doe v. Reed, has just been published in volume 27, number 4 of the Georgia State Law Review.

Professor Torres-Spelliscy recently published her article Hiding Behind the Tax Code, the Dark Election of 2010 and Why Tax-Exempt Entities Should Be Subject to Robust Federal Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws in volume 16 of Nexus: Chapman's Journal of Law & Policy.

Darryl C. Wilson, Professor of Law, and Cynthia Hawkins DeBose, Professor of Law, co-authored the book Mastering Property Law, which was recently published by Carolina Academic Press.

Terri Witek, Professor of English, had two sonnets included in Hot Sonnets, a new anthology respectfully reviewed on the Best American Poetry site. A folio of 12 poems, "A Manual for Children Leaving Home" was recently published in JMI with an interview and introduction by Jane Satterfield.

In June Witek joined the faculty of the West Chester Poetry Conference, the country's largest. There she also debuted a new collaborative words and pictures game, Uma Coisa 'Na Outra, with visual artist Cyriaco Lopes.

In July she was the inaugural artist at a new national salon, Evolve the Conversation.

A video of Terri Witek, reading her poem, "See You Tomorrow Night," from Carnal World (2006) was featured as the PBS News Hour weekly poem on September 20, 2011. The reading, filmed at the 2011 Associated Writer's and Writing Programs annual convention in Washington, DC, can be viewed online at http://www.frequency.com/video/weekly-poem-see-you-tomorrow-night-by/16831484.

August 2011

Mike Allen, Professor of Law, spoke on the panel "The National Security Constitution and the Federal Courts Canon: Three Years into the Obama Administration" and also moderated the discussion group on "Evolution or Revolution? American Civil Procedure in the 21st Century" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C.

Brad Areheart, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, moderated two panels at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C. The first panel was titled "Contracts: A Fresh Look at Classic Doctrines and Cases" and the second was "Real Property and Real Poverty."

Dorothea Beane, Professor of Law, moderated a panel titled "Constitutional Models Throughout the Caribbean Region and Self-Determination Among Non-Self Governing Territories" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C. She also was named to the Latin America Workshop Committee for the 2012 Conference.

Monu Bedi, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, was a discussant on the discussion group panel titled "Technology and the Fourth Amendment" and also moderated a panel titled "The Law of Partition & Heirs' Property" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C.

Cindy Bennington, Associate Professor of Biology, and Karen Cole, Director, Gillespie Museum, have received two grants for development of the Teaching Landscape: Volusia Sandhill Ecosystem, an outdoor learning center on the south grounds of the Rinker Environmental Learning Center. The Volusia County Department of Environmental Management has provided $10K for purchase of trees, understory plants, and a low-impact irrigation system. Through the 2011 Urban and Community Forestry Program, the Florida Forest Service has awarded $7K for interpretive signage for ten teaching stations in the landscape, as well as support of student interns, who will develop a printed brochure and a website for educational outreach. Planting began earlier this summer; the landscape will continue to take shape over the next eighteen months: www.stetson.edu/other/gillespie/sandhill.php.

Cynthia DeBose, Professor of Law, spoke on the panel titled "Rethinking ADR in Legal Education and Professional Practice" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C. She was also named to the Moderator Committee for the 2012 conference.

Terence Farrell, Professor of Biology, published a paper entitled "Proteomic analysis of ontogenetic and diet related changes in venom composition of juvenile and adult Dusky Pigmy rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri)" in the Journal of Proteomics with collaborators from the Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia (Spain) and Ohio State University. Farrell has another paper, "The Herpetofauna of Lake Woodruff National Wildlife refuge", coauthored by Dr. Melissa Pilgrim (class of 1992) and Dr. Peter May (Professor of Biology) that will be published in The Southeastern Naturalist. He also presented a talk last month on recent geographic range expansion of the timber rattlesnake in Florida that was coauthored by Brooke Deak (class of 2011) at the annual meeting of the American Association of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Blake Hudson, Assistant Professor of Law, spoke on the panel "Land Use Law: Federal and Local Interactions" and also on the panel "Junior Faculty Challenges" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C.

Bruce Jacob, Professor of Law, taught at Northwest University School of Politics and Law in Xi'an in a program called "Forum on American Law". His subjects were Criminal, Criminal Procedure, International Extradition, and Legal Education. The Forum lasted from June 8 to June 15, 2011. The audience consisted of Chinese judges, prosecutors, law faculty and law students.

Marco Jimenez, Associate Professor of Law, moderated the panel titled "Instant Culture and the Law" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C. He also was named to the Call for Papers Committee for the 2012 conference.

Lizabeth Moody, Professor of Law, was elected a delegate to the House Of Delegates of the American Bar Association at the recent Annual Meeting in Toronto. The House of Delegates is the governing body of the Association. It is composed of lawyers from all states of the U.S.A. and many foreign countries.

William R. Nylen, Professor of Political Science, published "Participatory Institutions in Latin America: The Next Generation of Scholarship" in the most recent edition of the journal, Comparative Politics.

Jason Palmer, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, presented his paper "The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Will Ratification Lead to Post-Secondary Education for Persons with Disabilities?" as part of a New Scholars Workshop at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C. He also was named to the International Committee for the 2012 conference.

Ellen Podgor, Professor of Law, moderated the discussion group panel titled "Overcriminalization: Is There a Problem to Solve?" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C. She also was named to the Distance Learning Committee for the 2012 conference, and she continues to serve on the Board of Trustees for SEALS.

Professor Podgor chaired a panel on the topic of universal jurisdiction at the annual conference for the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. She also served on the conference organizing committee and on the organization's board of directors.

Rebecca Morgan, Boston Asset Management Chair in Elder Law and Director, Center for Excellence in Elder Law, spoke on a discussion group panel titled "Teaching Elder Law -- What Works? What Doesn't?" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C.

Charlie Rose, Professor of Excellencce in Trial Advocacy, spoke on the panel "The Troubled State of the Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Doctrine" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C.

Robert Sitler, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, spent three weeks in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas investigating Tzeltal and Tzotzil-speaking Mayan conceptions of the future. While there, he was interviewed on regional radio and gave a public talk at the joint invitation of the Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas and the Mayan writers' organization Sna Jtz'ibajom. He also facilitated a half-day workshop on the Mayan calendrics, spoke at a public meeting with elders that was broadcast live from the town square of Tenejapa (a large Tzeltal community), and spoke on Tenejapa community radio about 2012. During his stay, he was granted intimate access to sacred ceremonies that culminate with offerings in an ancient cave shrine. Pictures from Dr. Sitler's trip can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150278069806435.350118.222829441434&l=b2dc2cf72b

Rebecca Trammell, Professor of Law, moderated the discussion panel on "Distance Learning" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C. She also was named chair of the Distance Learning Committee for the 2012 conference.

Lou Virelli, Associate Professor of Law, spoke on a panel titled "Supreme Court and Legislative Update: Business and Regulatory Issues" at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Hilton Head, S.C.

Darryl Wilson, Professor of Law, was named co-chair of the Latin America Workshop Committee for the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in 2012.

Candace Zierdt, Professor of Law, delivered a presentation on recent Magnuson Moss cases and their intersection with UCC Article Two at the Business Law Section meeting of the the American Bar Association Annual Meeting in Toronto. She also chaired the UCC Article Two, Sale of Goods subcommittee.

July 2011

Congratulations to the members of the Stetson General Education Assessment Committee (GEAC): Toni Blum (Chair), Jane Bradford, Lisa Coulter, George Glander, Carolyn Mueller, Megan O'Neill, Greg Sapp, Ann Small, Mercedes Tichenor, and John Tichenor (ex officio). Stetson University, though the work of the General Education Assessment Committee, has won the 2011 Exemplary Program Award from the the Association for General and Liberal Studies (AGLS). The AGLS serves colleges and universities by fostering strong General Education programs.

Members of the AGLS comprise a community intent upon improving liberal learning by advocating the centrality of general education and supporting its continuous improvement. Recent calls for higher education to produce evidence of learning create an urgent need for strong general education assessment models.

The AGLS Exemplary Program Award serves higher education by offering exemplary models of general and liberal education program revisions and assessment. The 2011 Award focused on models using assessment to drive curricular improvement.

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Tony Abbott, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, will travel to Colombia on a Climate Change Fellowship offered by Partners of the Americas through the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs from July 26th, 2011 until August 5th, 2011. During his Fellowship, Anthony will work at Universidad de los Andes with their Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Development (CIDER). CIDER is a research center which seeks to contribute to the understanding of the development processes at local, regional, national and global levels. One of just nine Fellows chosen this summer, Abbott will represent Stetson University a university working actively on implementing climate change solutions.

William J. Ball, Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, was one of the organizers of the Frontiers of Democracy: Innovations in Civic Practice, Theory, and Education conference held at Tufts University July 21-13, 2011. The conference focused on "citizenship" as creativity, agency, and collaboration. Dr. Ball was a collaborator on planning and convening the conference's workshop track on the "neutrality challenge" which centered on balancing a commitment to a politically neutral process with a commitment to achieving more equitable outcomes, in public forums and in the classroom. The conference was co-sponsored by The Deliberative Democracy Consortium, The Democracy Imperative, Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE), and Tisch College at Tufts.

Raymond Barclay, Director of Institutional Research and Planning, has co-authored a recently published article entitled "Online Teacher Education: Exploring the Impact of a Reading and Literacy Program on Student Learning" for the Sloan Foundation's Consortium's (Sloan-C) scholarly periodical, Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, (JALN Volume 15 Issue 2). Additionally, findings will be presented at the Foundation's 4th annual symposium, Empowering Next Generation Teaching.The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN), published by the Sloan Consortium, is a major source of knowledge about online education. The aim of the JALN is to describe original work in synchronous learning networks (ALN), including experimental results. For more information, visit http://sloanconsortium.org/publications/jaln_main.

Just prior to coming on board at Stetson University, Dr. Barclay completed work on a recently published (June 2011) State of Texas' report entitled "Evaluation of the Texas Dropout Recovery Pilot Program: Cycles 1 and 2." The Dropout Recovery Pilot Program (DRPP) is a multi-year, multi-million dollar initiative of the Texas Educational Agency and Texas Legislature. The DRPP identifies and recruits students who have already dropped out of Texas public schools and provide them services designed to enable them to earn a high school diploma or complete an alternative path to college by demonstrating college readiness. The full report (200+ pages) and Executive Summary (16 pages) can be found at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=2898&menu_id=949

Brooke Bowman, Professor of Legal Skills, spoke on a panel entitled, "Constructing a Scholarly Persona" at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law, spoke on a panel entitled, "The Bottom Drawer: Exploring Scholarship Topics" at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. Professor Davis also presented a program at the conference entitled, "Legal Writing 'Faculty': What Does That Mean in a Legal Writing 'Program'?"

Professor Davis had her newest article, Legal Forms as Rhetorical Transaction: Competency in the Context of Information and Efficiency, appeared in 79 UMKC L. Rev. 667.

Roberta Flowers, Professor of Law, recently spoke in Korea at the Seoul National University Law Research Institute's Foreign Authority Forum. She also gave a talk at the Ageism Conference held at the City of Seoul Law School.

Roy Gardner, Interim Dean of the College of Law and Professor of Law, recently participated in a Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel in Wallingford, England, at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

Eric Kurlander, Associate Professor of History, has just received a Fulbright Scholarship for research and teaching in Freiburg, Germany during the Spring Semester 2012. From January through April, Kurlander will conduct research on his next book project, 'A Supernatural History of the Third Reich,' at the Johannes-Künzig-Institut für ostdeutsche Volkskunde (Institute for East German Folklore), University of Freiburg Institut für Volkskunde (Folklore Institute), and the Freiburg Bundesarchiv (Federal Military Archives). Beginning in April, he will offer three courses in the History Department at the Freiburg Pädagogische Hochschule.

Dr. Kurlander has also published the article: "Between Detroit and Moscow: A Left Liberal Third Way in the Third Reich," Central European History, v. 44 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) pp. 279-307 (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8277660)

Finally, Dr. Kurlander delivered the paper, "Nazi Monsters: Toward A Supernatural History of Violence and Criminality in the Second World War, 1942-1945," at the conference, "Re-thinking the Monstrous: Violence and Criminality in Society," Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, 1-3 July, 2011.

Lance Long, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, spoke on a panel entitled, "Legal Writing Visitorships: A New Frontier" at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.

Danielle Morel, Assistant Professor of Physics, delivered an invited talk at the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics' 7th triennal International Conference on Biological Physics, hosted by the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at the University of California San Diego, June 22-24, 2011. See http://icbp2011.ucsd.edu/ for conference information and p.41 of the online conference program for abstract. (only 24 junior investigators were invited to give oral presentations, selected out of 163 accepted posters submission)

Dr. Morel also presented a poster at the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics' 7th triennal International Conference on Biological Physics, hosted by the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at the University of California San Diego, June 22-24, 2011. See http://icbp2011.ucsd.edu/ for conference information and p. 112 of the online conference program for abstract.

Sylvia Perkins, retired faculty in the Philosophy Department and leading translator and interpreter of the work of Søren Kierkegaard has a new publication: "Discourses at the Communion on Fridays." Søren Kierkegaard's 13 communion discourses constitute a distinct genre among the various forms of religious writing composed by Kierkegaard. Originally published at different times and places, Kierkegaard himself believed that these discourses served as a unifying element in his work and were crucial for understanding his religious thought and philosophy as a whole. Written in an intensely personal liturgical context, the communion discourses prepare the reader for participation in this rite by emphasizing the appropriate posture for forgiveness of sins and confession. For more information, visit: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-253-35673-4.

Ellen Podgor, Professor of Law, had her article, 100 Years of White Collar Crime in "Twitter", published in volume 30 of The Review of Litigation (University of Texas Law School).

Professor Podgor recently spoke on a panel titled The Accidental Felon: Challenging the Expansion of the Willful Blindness Doctrine, presented at the First Annual West Coast NACDL White Collar Crime Seminar.

Professor Podgor's article, The Role of the Prosecution and Defense Function Standards: Stagnant or Progressive?, has just been published in volume 62 of the Hastings Law Journal.

Susan Rozelle, Professor of Law, presented "As Infallible as Humanly Possible: Structural Problems in Capital Punishment," at the Law and Society conference in June in San Francisco as part of a roundtable discussion of Ken Williams's book, Most Deserving of Death: An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence.

June 2011

Michael Denner, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literature and Director of the Russian Studies Program, is trekked across Russia following in the footsteps of Tolstoy: https://www2.stetson.edu/secure/announce/2011/06/06/dr-michael-denner-retraces-tolstoy-walk-in-russia/ Follow Denner's Tolstoy Walk on his blog at http://strollswithtolstoy.blogspot.com/. Follow him during the journey on Twitter at www.twitter.com/strannikudarnik.

Diane Everett, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and Zach Loftus '09, had their article, "Resident Assistants as Rule Enforcers versus Friends: An Exploratory Study of Role Conflict" published in the Journal of College and University Student Housing, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 72-89. The direct link is http://www.acuho-i.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1007

Peter Fitzgerald, Professor of Law - Professor Fitzgerald's newest article is out: "Morality" May Not Be Enough to Justify the EU Seal Products Ban: Animal Welfare Meets International Law, 14 JIWLP 85 (2011).

Jeffrey Minneti, Associate Professor of Legal Skills, had his article, "Relational Integrity Regulation: Nudging Consumers Toward Products Bearing Valid Environmental Markings," has been published in Environmental Law, a publication of Lewis & Clark Law School.

Ellen S. Podgor, Professor of Law, spoke on a panel titled, The Accidental Felon: Challenging the Expansion of the Willful Blindness Doctrine at the First Annual West Coast NACDL White Collar Crime Seminar.

May 2011

Kirsten Adams, Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Law, served as an official blogger for the 2011 American Law Institute annual meeting, http://2011am.ali.org/blog.cfm.

Michael Bitter, Professor of Accounting and Faculty Athletics Representative, was was recently appointed by the NCAA Division I Board of Directors to serve on the NCAA Division I Leadership Council for a three year term representing the Atlantic Sun Conference, of which Stetson is a member institution. Dr. Bitter assume this position after completion of a three year term on the NCAA Division I Amateurism Cabinet. He will replace Director of Athletics Jeff Altier who is just completing his three year term on the Council.

Dr. Bitter also moderated a session on behavioral issues in accounting at the Southeast Regional meeting of the American Accounting Association in Destin, FL.

Gary Bolding, Professor of Art, had his piece, "Double Self Portrait" selected for the Cover of the Best of the South issue of The Oxford American.

Yves-Antoine Clemmen, Professor of Modern Languages and Literature, presented a paper entitled "Amélie Nothomb: la littérature protozoaire" at the last 20th and 21st century French and Francophone Studies Colloquium, March 24-27, SanFrancisco.

William Elliot, Lecturer/Production Manager, Communication Studies and Theatre Arts, did the set design for the concert version of the opera La Boheme at the Bob Carr in Orlando, FL. A picture from Act II can be found here.

Thomas Farrell, Professor of English, performed as Caipha in a Reader's Theater performance of the DigbyCoversion of Saul, recorded by the Chaucer Studio at the 46 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo. (He also learned that previous recordings of Brome Abraham and Isaac, with Tom as Abraham and the the York Fall of the Angels, with Tom as Deus, are ready for release for download or on CD). Tom further served as a session leader for the Chaucer Out-Loud Workshop.

Jamil Khader, Associate Professor of English, reports that his article "Humanizing the Nazi? The Semiotics of Vampirism, Trauma, and Post-Holocaust Ethics in Louise Murphy's The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival," has just come out in Children's Literature volume 39 (2011): 126-43. The link to the article is: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/childrens_literature/toc/current.html.

Additionally, Dr. Khader announces that Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Little, has offered him a contract for his second book, Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms: Geography, Culture, Identity, Politics. The book is expected to be out in 2012.

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, was presented with a certificate of recognition from the California Sate Senate for her social activism to combat human trafficking. She also spoke at the International Conference on Transportation and Human Trafficking, San Diego on May 12-13, 2011.

Ellen Podgor, Professor of Law, served as an official blogger for the 2011 American Law Institute annual meeting, http://2011am.ali.org/blog.cfm.

April 2011

Congratulations to recipients of this year's Outstanding First-Year Advocate Awards, sponsored by the Office of Student Success. To be considered, a faculty member must be nominated for the award by a first-year student. The awards recognize faculty (and staff) who have gone above and beyond to support first-year students. This year, awards went to Scott Jones, Department of Marketing; Jamil Khader, Department of English; Phillip Lucas, Department of Religious Studies; Bill Nylen, Department of Political Science; John Pearson, Department of English; David Schmidt, School of Music; and Tom Vogel, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. (Laura Glander, Administrative Specialist in Physics and the Office of Academic Affairs, also received an award.)

School of Business Administration faculty were honored with faculty awards at the Foundation Honor's Banquet. Congratulations to the following:

Teacher of the Year - Rick Copeland
Scholarship - Scott Jones
Service - Mike Bitter
Professor of the Year - Ted Surynt
Additionally, Paul Dascher was named Professor Emeritus

Michael Allen, Professor of Law, announces his article, "Due Process and the American Veteran: What the Constitution Can Tell Us About the Veterans' Benefits System: has been accepted for publication in Vol. 80 of the University of Cincinnati Law Review. In addition, his article titled "The Law of Veterans' Benefits 2008-1010: Significant Developments, Trends, and A Glimpse into the Future" has appeared in print at 3 Veterans L. Rev. 1 (2011).

Robert Batey, Professor of Law, announces his article, "The Vagueness Doctrine in the Roberts Court: Constitutional Orphan", will be published in the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review.

Mark Bauer, Professor of Law, presented a talk titled "Exacerbated By Success: Consumer Fraud Against Seniors and the Incomplete Integration of North American Financial Systems" at the University of Houston Law Center.

Paul Boudreaux, Professor of Law, gave a talk at the Wake Forst University School of Law titled "Light Bulbs to Suburban Sprawl: Rethinking Laws Targeting Environmental Impacts."

Shawnrece Campbell, Associate Professor of English, reports that her article, "Female Imagery, Exploitation, and Richard Wright's Journey to His Other World: Haiku," has been published in The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives on his Haiku, edited by Jianqing Zheng and published in the Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies by the University of Mississippi Press, 2011.

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing, has been re-elected to the Board of Directors for the Association of Legal Writing Directors.

Darby Dickerson, Professor of Law and Dean of the College of Law, was a featured panelist on April 8 at the 5th Annual North Carolina Statewide Safety Conference.

Debbi Dinkins, Head of Technical Services and Associate Professor, has just been published: "Allocating Academic Library Budgets: Adapting Historical Data Models at One University Library", Collection Management (Volume 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119 130).

Ms. Dinkins also had "Allocating Academic Library Budgets: Adapting Historical Data Models at One University Library," published in the latest issue (v.36 no.2, 2011) of Collection Management.

Terry Farrell, Professor of Biology, presented a three-hour workshop in Miami in March on learning spaces in science facilities. This workshop was a part of the larger joint Project Kaleidoscope/American Association of Universities and Colleges meeting on "Engaged Science Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices". He collaborated with Jeanne Narum (Emeritus Director of Project Kaleidoscope) and Susan Whitmer (Architect, Herman Miller Educational, Inc) in developing the program.

Roy Gardner, Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, announces his book, Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics, has just been published by Island Press.

Blake Hudson, Assistant Professor of Law, announces his article, "Federal Constitutions and Global Governance: The Case of Climate Change", will be published in volume 87 of the Indiana Law Journal, scheduled for publication in early 2012.

This summer, Professr Hudson will be returning to his undergraduate alma mater, the University of Montevallo, to help develop a new Environmental Studies Program.

Eugene Huskey, Professor of Political Science,presented a paper on December 14thentitled "Legacies in the Russian Executive" in the lecture series, Historical Legacies of Communism, at Princeton University.Dr. Huskey returned to Princeton for a two-day workshop on April 21-22 with other speakers in the series, which will result in a volume edited by Professors Mark Beissinger and Steven Kotkin of Princeton. The 14 participants included specialists on Russia and Eastern Europe from major American research universities.

On January 24, Dr. Huskey gave the 2011 Pauley Lecture in History at the University of Central Florida. The lecture topic was "Russia in Central Asia: The Waning of a Special Relationship?" As part of the lecture series, he also attended a dinner the previous evening with the university president and provost and the day of the lecturehemet UCF graduate students during a brown bag lunch.

On April 15-16,Dr. Huskey presented a paper, "Legitimating the Russian Executive: Identity, Technocracy, and Performance," at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters in Stockholm. The conference was organized by the Academy and the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Uppsala. The 16 participants came from Scandinavia, Russia, and North America. The conference will lead to a volume edited by Stefan Hedlund, Elena Yamli, and Per-Arne Rodin and published by Routledge.

Dr. Huskey was recently invited by President Andrew Wachtel of the American University of Central Asia to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of the new Central Asian Studies Institute at AUCA. The Institute has the goal of promoting academic research on Central Asia in the region and internationally.

Recent publications include "Elite Recruitment and State-Society Relations in Technocratic Authoritarian Regimes: The Russian Case," Communist and Post-Communist Studies, no. 4 (2010), and, with Gulnara Iskakova, "Narrowing the Sites and Moving the Targets: Institutional Instability and the Development of an Opposition in Kyrgyzstan," which will appear in the next issue of Problems of Post-Communism (May/June 2011).

Tim Kaye, Professor of Law, announces that Vandeplas Publishing has agreed to publish as a book, Law, Justice & Communication, a collection of six of the essays submitted in his Jurisprudence Seminar last semester; Professor Kaye will edit the book and author the introduction.

Jamil Khader, Associate Professor of English, will have his review article, "Asian Horror Cinema: Towards a Pan-Asian and Transnational Methodology," review of Asian Horror (Kamera Books 2010), by Andy Richards, and Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema (Hong Kong UP 2009), edited by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, appear in the February 2012 issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/

Rick Medlin, Professor of Psychology,wrote an article, "Home Schooling and the Question of Socialization," that appeared in the Peabody Journal of Education in 2000. The publishing house for the journal (Taylor & Francis, Ltd.) recently announced that even now, ten years later, the article was among the four "top-of-the-charts downloads in 2010."

Lance Long, Associate Professor of Law, presented at the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference on March 25, 2011: "How to Avoid Writing Like a Loser: The Theory of Argumentative Threat" After years of research, I have developed a theory suggesting that when a lawyer writes a brief for a losing argument, or when a judge writes a dissenting opinion, they both subconsciously sabotage their respective briefs or opinions by adopting "poor" writing styles. This presentation shows the highlights of that research, using SCOTUS as an example. I will also suggest some simple procedures you can use to help your students avoid "writing like a loser."

Here is a description of Professor Lance's forthcoming article in The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process, Volume 12, Issue 1 Fall 2011. His co-author is William Christensen, a statistics professor at Brigham Young University: "Does the Readability of Your Appellate Brief Affect Your Chance of Winning an Appeal?-An Analysis of Readability in Appellate Briefs and Its Correlation with Success on Appeal." Our study described in this article suggests that the length of sentences and words, which is "readability" for our purposes, probably does not make much difference in appellate brief writing. First, we found that most briefs are written at about the same level of readability; there simply is not much difference in how lawyers write appellate briefs when it comes to the length of sentences and words. Furthermore, the readability of most appellate briefs is well within the reading ability of the highly educated audience of appellate judges and justices. Second, the relatively small differences in readability are not related to the outcome of an appeal in a statistically significant manner. Our study did show, however, that the opinions of judges and justices are less readable than lawyers' briefs and that the opinions of dissenting judges or justices are the least readable of all the appellate writing we analyzed. Ultimately, we conclude that readability, as determined by the Flesch Reading Ease scale, is a non-issue for legal writing at the appellate level.

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, spoke at the ABA's annual criminal law conference in Miami. She also spoke at an international human trafficking conference sponsored by South Texas College of Law, in Houston.

Beth Paul, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Terry Farrell, Professor ofBiology,and Alicia Schultheis have a paper 'Promoting undergraduate research through revising tenure and promotion policy' coming out in the CUR Quarterly this summer.

Dr. Schultheis also announces that Biology students present at 72nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.

Caity Peterson is presenting a poster describing her work with Cindy Bennington, Associate Professor of Biology, on an Alaskan common garden transplant experiment. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Cailin Kellmann is giving an oral presentation on her work with Alicia Schultheis. They studied the diet and life history of the springsnail Floridobia floridana. The project was funded by a 2010 SURE grant and the Dean's fund.

Courtney Gardner is presenting a characterization and evaluation of microsatellite loci for paternity analysis in passionflower. The study was performed with Alicia Schultheis and Cindy Bennington. The project was funded by a 2010 SURE grant program.

Tim Roberts is presenting a poster on genetic differentiation in populations of the springsnail Floridobia floridana. The study was performed with Alicia Schultheis. Tim has been awarded a SURE grant for summer 2011 for a related study.

Ann Piccard, Professor of Legal Skills, had her article, "The United States' Failure to Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Must the Poor be Always with Us?" has been published in volume 13 of The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues.

Ellen S. Podgor,Professor of Law,moderated a panel on the First Amendment, the Internet, and the Criminal Law at a symposium on Criminal Law and the First Amendment being held at Texas Tech University School of Law.

Professor Podgor also spoke in March, 2011 at the ABA National Institute on White Collar Crime on a panel titled, "The Ethical and Legal Line Between Zealous Advocacy and Obstruction of Justice."

On April 8, 2011, Professor Podgor moderated a panel on the First Amendment, the Internet, and the Criminal Law at a symposium on Criminal Law and the First Amendment held at Texas Tech University School of Law.

Alicia Schultheis, Associate Professor of Biology, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Research Opportunity Award to work on molecular systematics of invertebrates with Dr. Jason Bond this summer.

Rebecca Trammell, Dolly & Homar Hand Law Library Director, Director of Electronic Education, and Professor of Law, presented at the SEAALL (Southeastern Association of American Law Libraries) annual meeting in Columbia, S.C.

Betty Thorne, Professor of Statistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Business Administration, was honored to serve on the Selection Committee Panel of Judges for the 2011 Smart Awards presented by ACG (Association for Corporate Growth) Orlando and sponsored by the law firm of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A. Each year, ACG-Orlando recognizes companies whose accomplishments set the standard for operating excellence among middle market, second-stage growth companies with headquarters in the Central Florida area. Selection criteria include demonstrated growth in revenue, profitability, and employees as well as factors such as corporate culture, entrepreneurial achievements, product development milestones, and demonstrated community involvement. The 2011 Smart Awards recognize companies in specific industry categories with annual revenues of at least $10 million (U.S.) but not more than $1 billion (U.S.). Finalists will be recognized, and winners will be announced at a high profile event in Orlando on May 25, 2011.

Lou Virelli, Associate Professor of Law, announces his article, "Constitutional Traditionalism in the Roberts Court" has been accepted for publication in volume 73 of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review.

Nancy Vosburg, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, announces that her Iberian Crime Fiction has recently been published by the University of Wales Press, in their European Crime Fiction series. The book is the first volume in English to provide an extensive overview of crime fiction in Spain and Portugal, with chapters that trace the origins of peninsular crime fiction, its development through the second half of the 20^th-century, and current trends in the 21^st-century.

Dr. Vosburg's Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain (Bucknell University Press, 2011), co-edited with Jacky Collins of Northumbria University in the UK, was released on April 1. It is available through Amazon.com and Borders Books.

March 2011

Andy Dehnart, Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism, completed 80 hours of improvisational comedy training over four semesters at SAK Comedy Lab's SAK University in Orlando. After performing in a public graduation show on March 7, 2011, he was asked to join SAK's Lab Rats ensemble, described on its web site as a group of "selected graduates" and "wonderful improvisers [who] are continuing their improv education with SAK. Every Tuesday night they gather for a workshop and later that night will perform in a show for the public."

Hala El-Aarag, Associate Professor of Computer Science, has been electedas CUR Councilor in the Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division (2011-2014)

Blake Hudson, Assistant Professor of Law, presented his paper, "Federal Constitutions and Global Governance: The Case of Climate Change" at a faculty workshop at the George Mason University School of Law.

Jamil Khader, Associate Professor of English, has agreed to serve as a specialist reader for the Journal of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), which published his article on the Mexican-American writer Rudolfo Anaya's Heart of Aztlán and U.S. proletarian fiction in the Spring issue of 2002. Specialist readers evaluate essays in their subject areas 2-3 times a year, and the journal simply sends the articles to these specialist readers when they come in without querying first.

Dr. Khader also presented the following:

"Will the real Robert Neville please, come out? Vampires, Homoerotic Desire, and the Ethics of Queer Monstrosity in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend." 32nd International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 16-20, 2011.

"The Pleasurable Pain of the Vampiric Bite: The Perversity of Love and the Pornography of Horror." Phi Alpha Theta's "Undead Week" Lecture. Stetson University. March 21, 2011.

Lloyd Linney, Associate Professor of Music, took students to attend the Southeastern Regional Student Auditions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia on March 25-26, 2011, with the following results:

Beginning High School Women

First Place: Katie Coulter (studio of Lloyd Linney; will be a Stetson musicmajor in the fall)

First Year College Women

Second Place: Mallory Sekel (studio of Jane Christeson)
Fourth Place: Tiffany Somogy (studio of Russell Franks)
Semifinalists: Jennifer Allenby (studio of Lloyd Linney); Erin Coatney (studio of Craig Maddox); Lauren Davis (studio of Craig Maddox)

Second Year College Women

Fifth Place: Amanda James (studio of Lloyd Linney)

Second Year College Men

Semifinalist: Sean O'Malley (studio of Craig Maddox)

Third Year College Women

Second Place: Kate Nadolny (studio of Craig Maddox)

Third Year College Men

Fifth Place: Shane Thomas (studio of Craig Maddox)

Fourth Year College Women

First Place: Feryal Qudourah (studio of Lloyd Linney)
Third Place: Constance Rogalski (studio of Lloyd Linney)
Fourth Place: Sandra Perry (studio of Lloyd Linney)
Fifth Place: Melissa Serluco (studio of Craig Maddox)

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, reports her article "Child Soldiers and the Duty of Nations to Protect Children from Participation in Armed Conflict" has been published as the lead article in the winter 2011 issue of the Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Rebecca B. Watts, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, reports that her chapter, "The Lost Boys of Sudan: Race, Ethnicity, and Perpetual Boyhood in Documentary Film and Television News," has been published in the anthology Mediated Boyhoods: Boys, Teens, and Young Men in Popular Media and Culture, edited by Annette Wannamaker and published in the Mediated Youth series by Peter Lang Publishing, 2011.

Darryl Wilson, Attorneys' Title Insurance Fund Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Caribbean Law and Policy, attended the Latest Developments in IP Law conference at Suffolk University Law School on February 4, 2011, where he spoke on the Trademarks panel and specifically addressed New Developments in the ongoing "Trademarks in Cyberspace" debate. Next month, he will speak at The National Bar Association Conference on Law & Religion in Atlanta on the topic of Copyright Law and Music Ministry.

Professor Wilson's article, "Battle Galactica: Recent Advances and Retreats in the Struggle for the Preservation of Trademark Rights On the Internet," is scheduled to appear in 12 J. High Tech. L. during 2011-12.

Finally, his article on Caribbean Intellectual Property law is forthcoming in the Michigan State Journal of International Law's 19:3.

Rusty Witek, Professor of English, has published an article, "Justin Green: Autobiography Meets the Comics" in Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels, a collection of essays from the University of Wisconsin Press. The volume also includes the essay "In Praise of Joseph Witek's Comic Books as History," a discussion of the book's position in contemporary comics scholarship.

February 2011

Tony Abbott, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Science, will have a book chapter titled "Public Support Systems and Permitting Procedures for Wind Power in the United States" appear in March 2011 in "Energía eólica: Cuestiones jurídicas, económicas y ambientales." The publisher is Thomson-Civitas.

Kiryssa Kasprzyk and Dr. Abbott have co-authored an article titled "Hot Air: University Climate Action Plans and Disarticulated Federalism" that has been accepted by "The Professional Geographer."

In October one article reached print: "The localized and scaled discourse of conservation for wind power in Kittitas County, Washington." Society and Natural Resources, 23: 969-985.

Conferences Presentations:

2010.10.10-12 "Can state-level policies fill the national climate policy vacuum? A case study of the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment." Poster at the Association for Advancement in Higher Education Conference, Denver, Colorado.

2010.06.10-20 "The Senior Research Project: Facilitating Self-Motivated Lifelong Learning." Panel presentation at the 2010 conference of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences "Many Shades of Green," Portland, Oregon.

2010.07.22-25 "Notes from the Field on Challenges and Opportunities to Signatories of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment" A Working Group Paper at the 2010 Annual Meeting for Society for Values in Higher Education, Portland Oregon.

Bob Batey, Professor of Law, had his article, "As Used in the Federal Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Statutes, Is 'Cocaine Base' Limited to Crack?" appear in the Feb. 21, 2011 issue of Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases.

Paul Croce, Professor of American Studies and History, recently delivered the William James Society Presidential Address, "The Pre-Disciplinary William James," at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division meeting. He has also published "Reaching Beyond Uncle William: A Century of William James in Theory and in Life," invited inaugural article for the Retrospective Series, essays on major psychologists, History of Psychology (2011); "William James: In the Academy But Not Of It" for History and Philosophy of Science (2011); and a review of John Haller, Jr., Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine, for Isis (2011).

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing, has been invited to speak at the Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in March 2011; her program is What? Take a Gamble on a Legal Research and Writing Exam?: Yes, You Can Bet on It!

She has also been invited to speak at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, in Sacramento, CA, in June 2011 as part of a roundtable titled Legal Writing "Faculty": What Does That Mean In A Legal Writing "Program"? She will also speak on You Are Already Writing An Article: A Workshop.

Andy Dehnart, visiting assistant professor of journalism, broke news in The Daily Beast (Feb. 1) of a secret lawsuit that exposed a Survivor contestant as the source of leaks about the CBS reality series, and reported additional details on his site realityblurred.com. The story was widely distributed and discussed. He also published a 25th anniversary feature on The Golden Girls in The Daily Beast (Nov. 12), and essays about television on msnbc.com (Feb. 16, Jan. 17, Dec. 3).

In addition, he attended and reported from the Television Critics Associations' winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., in early January.

Darby Dickerson, Vice President, Dean and Professor of Law, presented "Medical Marijuana on Campus" with Dr. Thomas Workman of the Baylor Medical Center at the 32nd Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education. The presentation was featured in "The Chronicle of Higher Education."

Debbi Dinkins, Head of Technical Services at the duPont-Ball Library and Associate Professor, was invited to serve on a panel at the OCLC Member Meeting at Florida Southern College on February 17th. The meeting, entitled, "Great Practices for Great Outcomes: Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference," featured a panel discussion and presentation by Dinkins entitled, "Electronic Formats: You Just Have to Let Go."

Roy Gardner , Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, recently spoke in Mexico at the 40th anniversary celebration of the Ramsar Convention. As part of the event, Ramsar launched "Wetlands in the Americas: The Role of the Ramsar Convention and the Benefits of Ramsar Site Designation," a book to which Professor Gardner contributed chapters and co-edited.

Professor Gardner has also written a chapter about the Ramsar Convention for "Wetlands: Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts," which Springer will publish next month.

Moving to the domestic front, this month's Environmental Law Reporter just published "Stacking Opportunities and Risks in Environmental Credit Markets."

Finally, "Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics" will be published by Island Press in May.

Bill Kaplin, Distinguished Professorial Lecturer and Senior Fellow, Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy, presented "Getting Up to Speed on Higher Education Law's Essentials with the Experts: Basic Principles and Practices for Administrators and Attorneys" and "The Roberts Court and Free Speech on Campus: Examining CLS, West Borough, Citizens United, and More."

Timothy Kaye, Professor of Law, presented his paper "Torts as Relational Contracts" on February 19th at the Sixth Annual International Conference on Contracts held at Stetson.

Peter Lake, Charles A. Dana Chair and Director, Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy, served as Chair of the 32nd Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education. At the conference, he spoke "New Challenges to Academic Freedom" and "Looking into the Crystal Ball: Future Trends and Prognostications" panels.

Joseph Morrissey, Associate Professor of Law, presented his paper "Lochner, Lawrence, and Liberty" on February 19th at the Sixth Annual International Conference on Contracts held at Stetson.

Professor Morrissey also spoke at the DAR's annual constitutional law luncheon. He also spoke at Stetson's 32nd Annual National Conference on Law & Higher Education. His topics were "Continuing Challenges in International Studies" and "Rapidly Evolving Issues in GLBT Litigation."

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, had her article, "Youth Gangs and Transnational Organized Crime in Europe," accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue (early March) of the International Enforcement Law Reporter.

Tara J. Schuwerk, part-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, has published a book chapter, Food Bank Culture: Food and Nutrition Communication in a Hunger-Relief Organization, in a new, edited volume entitled: Food as Communication/Communication as Food.

International and comprehensive in approach, this volume is the first book-length study of food from a communication perspective. Scholars examine and explore this emerging field to provide definitive and foundational examples of how food operates as a system of communication, and how communication theory and practices can be understood by considering food in this way. In doing so, the book serves to inspire future dialogues on the subject due to its vast array of ideas about food and its relationship to our communication practices.

Rebecca Trammell, Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library Director, Director of Electronic Education, and Professor of Law, will be presenting a CLE seminar on May 10 titled "Find It Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web."

Darryl Wilson, Attorney's Title Insurance Fund Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Carribbean Law and Policy, has been elected Chair of the Code Enforcement Board for the City of St Petersburg.

Candace Zierdt, Professor of Law, Marco Jimenez, Associate Professor of Law, Brad Areheart, Bruce R. Jacob Fellow, and Kristen Adams, Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Law, served as moderators on panels at the Sixth Annual International Conference on Contracts

January 2011

Mike Allen, Professor of Law, will be speaking this June in Palm Beach at the annual meeting of the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers about judicial independence as part of a reception honoring several members of the Florida Supreme Court. In September 2011, he will be speaking at the Florida Appellate Judges Conference about the U.S. Constitution. In November 2011, he has been invited to speak in Washington, D.C. to the annual meeting of the Appellate Judges Education Conference, an organization that focuses on educational programs for U.S. appellate judges at the federal and state level.

Professor Allen was re-elected to the Executive Committee of the AALS Remedies Section.

Linda Anderson, Associate Professor of Legal Skills and Associate Director of Legal Research and Writing, was selected as the incoming Chair-Elect for the AAL Part-Time Division Programs Section.

Mark Bauer, Professor of Law, was re-elected to the Executive Committee of the AALS Education Law Section, and elected to the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Aging and the Law.

Monu Bedi, Bruce R. Jacob Fellow, participated in the AALS "Hot Topics Panel" titled "E-Marriage: Emerging Trends Meet the Law"; he spoke on the military aspect of e-marriage.

John Cooper, Associate Dean of International and Cooperative Programs and Professor of Law, moderated the meeting of the Section on International Legal Exchange, and spoke on the panel for the joint meeting of the Section on Graduate Programs and Graduate Programs for Foreign Lawyers. He will serve as Chair of the Section on International Legal Exchange for coming year.

Darby Dickerson, Vice President, Dean and Professor of Law, delivered the keynote address at a joint meeting of law deans and law library directors at the AALS Annual meeting in San Francisco; she also participated on a panel on evaluating the effectiveness alumni events for the Institutional Advancement Section. In addition, she was selected as Co-Chair-Elect of the AALS Section for the Law School Dean.

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing, was elected to the Executive Committee for the AALS Women in Legal Education Section.

Susanne Eules, Coordinator of the Hand Art Center and Adjunct Lecturer, has received 2nd place in the poetry competition "Political Poetry" sponsored by one of the most prominent German literary periodicals lauter niemand: A Literary Magazine for Poetry and Fiction in Berlin, Germany. The award was given for her poems passing on the speedway, recitativo secco and comrade coyoute. On December, 1 2010 she read her poetry at the award ceremony in Berlin and participated as panelist in the discussion following the readings. passing on the speedway is published on the website of www.lauter-niemand.de. Together with recitativo secco it is also published in the award publication lauter niemand preis für politische lyrik, edition bodoni, Berlin 2010.

On December 30, 2010 Dr. Eules was also awarded third place in the German literary contest of Blaues Blatt for her poem à vol d'oiseau, published in the literary online forum: http://blauersalon.net/online-literaturforum/page.php?p=wettbewerbe

Dr. Eules' poems entitled handschrift and so wasz were accepted for publication in the German literary journal Zeichen&Wunder. Issue strangeness, No 55, December 2010, Frankfurt am Main. At the same time several of her poems were accepted in a virtual author's book on the German poets' website http://www.fixpoetry.com/autoren/susanne_eules.html. Dr. Eules has just received an invitation for a reading of her poetry at the German Bookfair in Leipzig, Germany in March 2011.

Blake Hudson, Assistant Professor of Law, has been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Natural Resources Law.

Eric Kurlander, Associate Professor of History, recently returned from the American Historical Association Conference, Boston, MA, 6-9, January, where he taped an interview on 'The First World War' for Pearson Education's Author Video Series. The series supplements Pearson Education's World and Western Civilization textbook series, including the two volume Western Civilization textbook Dr. Kurlander is co-authoring with Dr. Kimberly Reiter, 'The West in Question: Continuity and Change' (Pearson, 2012).

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, serves on the AALS Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers Committee.

Joe Morrissey, Associate Professor of Law, is a member of the executive committee of the AALS New Law Professors Section.

Jamil Khader, Associate Professor of English, spoke January 9, 2011 at the Mosaic Unitarian Universal Congregation in Orange City, FL, about the Muslim-veil (hijab) experiment he conducted at Stetson as part of Diversity Day last February. Story in the DeLand Beacon.

Diane Klein, Visiting Professor of Law, moderated the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues panel called "Uncovering Heterosexuality in the Law" at the AALS annual meeting in San Francisco; she also has been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the SOGII Section.

Jason Palmer, Assistant Professor of Legal Skills, presented at the AALS Section on International Law's Year-in-Review program in San Francisco. He spoke on the Human Rights panel about "The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Holistic Approach to Disabilities."

Ellen Podgor, LeRoy Highbaugh Sr. Research Chair and Professor of Law, will speak at the 20th Annual National Seminar on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, co-sponsored by The Tampa Bay Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Associationthe Federal Bar Association; the conference will be held May 4-6, in Orlando.

Professor Podgor has been selected to serve on the AALS Criminal Justice Working Group; she is also chairing the ABA's Legal Education Committee on Technology and Education.

Professor Podgor's article, "The Tainted Federal Prosecutor in an Overcriminalized Justice System," has been published in the Fall 2010 issue of the Washington & Lee Law Review.

Susan Rozelle, Professor of Law, moderated "On the Chopping Block: Hard Choices in Teaching First Year Criminal Law" during the AALS Criminal Justice Section's daylong workshop, ran the Section's business meeting, and ran the joint lunch with the Criminal Justice Section and the Section on Evidence. As the outging section chair, she will continue to serve in the Criminal Justice Section's Executive Committee for 2011.

Lou Virelli, Associate Professor of Law, is a member of the programming board for the AALS Constitutional Law section.

Thomas Vogel, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, announces the publication of his paper entitled, "Identification of localized structure in a nonlinear damped harmonic oscillator using Hamilton's principle" in the journal Involve. His co-author is Ryan Rogers, SU class of 2009, and was based in part on Ryan's senior research. Ryan is now pursuing his MS in Mathematics at Cambridge University.

Nathan Wolek, Associate Professor of Music and Digital Arts, was one of three judges in the 2011 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition. The panel for this national competition was tasked with selecting four finalists from over 100 entries of student (undergraduate and graduate) electroacoustic compositions. First place in the 2010 competition was awarded to Stetson alumnus Chester Udell.

A letter of response by Dr. Wolek to Bob Gluck, Associate Professor of Music at the University of Albany, was published on the Array blog, the official blog of the International Computer Music Association, and will be included in the next print edition of their journal. The response continues an open discussion that was triggered by Wolek's 2008 review of Gluck's CD "Electric Brew" in the pages of Array. The response can be accessed here: http://arrayblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/nathan-woleks-response-to-bob-gluck/

On January 14, Dr. Wolek presented a lecture at the Florida Music Educators Association Annual Clinic-Conference entitled "Enhancing musical skills through sound design". The premise was that although sound design for audio-visual media is not equivalent to music, it can enhance students' musical skills and understanding in new ways. An enhanced podcast of the lecture can be accessed here: http://www.lowkeydigitalstudio.com/2011/01/fmea-sound-design-lecture/

And from January 20-22, Dr. Wolek attended the 2011 Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States national conference with 6 Digital Arts students, hosted by the University of Miami, where his piece "also apply" was featured in the Genelec Listening Room. A blog post about the SEAMUS trip is now on the web and can be accessed here: http://www2.stetson.edu/diga/2011/01/diga-seamus-2011/

Peer-Reviewed Publications in the SoBA (2010)

December 2010

Derek Larson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art & Digital Art, "is an American new media artist, currently gathering information on Finnish internet culture for a project while a resident artist at Arteles in Pirkanmaa. His project titled "Finnish Memes" will include scenes of the landscape surrounding Helsinki and Tampere combined with online imagery and videos collected from lists provided by local residents." (Full article found here: http://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en/component/content/article/10355.)

November 2010

Vincent Brenner, Professor of Accounting, presented two papers this fall:"Accounting Student Views on Ethics," (co-author) presented at The Academy of Business Education's Annual Conference in September, and "Introducing Students to the FASB's Codification System." (co-author) presented at The Academy of Business Disciplines Annual Conference in November.

Andy Dehnart, visiting assistant professor of journalism, wrote and reported stories and essays for NPR's All Things Considered (Sept. 29), The Daily Beast (Aug. 28, July 15, June 14), RealScreen (Oct. 2010) and msnbc.com (Nov. 2, Oct. 5, Sept. 14). He was interviewed about his writing and work as a guest on Minnesota Public Radio in Sept, and profiled in AfterElton.com. In late October, he took eight members of The Reporter's new editorial staff to the National College Media Convention in Louisville, Ky, where he critiqued other schools' newspapers and presented sessions on social media and blogging.

Debbi Dinkins, Librarian and Associate Professor, presented a poster session entitled, "Migration to the Ebook Format: The Time is Now," at the Florida Association of College and Research Libraries annual conference at the end of October. The conference was held at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.

Ana Eire, Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures, presented a paper, "Los desdoblamientos del yo en la poesía de Miguel d'Ors," at the 2010 Convention of The South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) in Atlanta, GA, November 5-7.

William Elliot, Lecturer/Production Manager, designed the scene for Tennessee Williams' play Sweet Bird of Youth for the Tennessee Williams' Tribute Festival in Columbus Mississippi. Photo ~ Photo

Terry Farrell, Professor of Biology, Peter May,Professor of Biology, and Paul Andreadis, Brown Visiting Scholar, had a paper titled "Experimental manipulation of tail color does not affect foraging success in a caudal luring rattlesnake" accepted for publication by The Journal of Herpetology.

Gene Huskey, Professor of Political Science, participated on Friday, November 5, in a panel devoted to transitional justice at the Open Society Institute in New York. The forum marked the publication by OSI, in English and Russian, of a 40-page mission report, entitled Assessing the Prospects for Transitional Justice in Kyrgyzstan. The report was based on a week-long mission to Kyrgyzstan in early June, sponsored by the International Center for Transitional Justice. During this week, Huskey and two specialists in transitional justice interviewed 30 government and civil society leaders.

On October 14, shortly after the recent parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan, Professor Huskey published (with the former ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the US, Baktybek Abdrisaev), "The Long Shot in Central Asia," in the online journal Salon. On November 5 they published an op-ed, "Kyrgyzstan's Coalition Challenges." which ran online in the Wall Street Journal internationally and in the print edition of Wall Street Journal Asia.

With Gulnara Iskakova, Huskey published "The Barriers to Inter-Elite Cooperation in the Post-Communist World: The Evidence from Kyrgyzstan," in the academic journal, Post-Soviet Affairs, no. 3 (2010), pp. 228-262. On September 26, he submitted the final report for a two-year project on the opposition in Kyrgyzstan funded by the National Council of Eurasian and East European Research. The final field work for this project was a 9-day trip to Kyrgyzstan in the second half of July. During this stay he had dinner with the President of the country, Roza Otunbaeva, and interviewed leaders of the government and opposition.

From July 26-30, Huskey attended the quinquennial World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES), where he presented a paper entitled, Bureaucratic Agents and Policy Implementation in Contemporary Russia: De-Bureaucratizing the Small Business Sector.

On July 17, Huskey appeared on radio program, Rear Vision, for the Australia Broadcasting Company. The hour-long program gave the back story to the inter-ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in June. This violence was also the subject of Why is This Happening Now?, reflections presented on the webpage of the Canadian Broadcasting Company on June 14, and a live interview with Al-Jazeera TV in English on June 13. On May 7, Huskey did an interview on the new Interim Government of Kyrgyzstan that was published by the Kyrgyz online publication, 24.kg. On May 5, he gave an interview on US relations with Kyrgyzstan that appeared on the website of Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe.

On June 30, he presented a paper on Russia and Central Asia at a conference in Washington, DC organized by the American intelligence community. Huskey's chapter,"Pantouflage a la russe: The Recruitment of Russian Political and Business Elites," was published in Stephen Fortescue (ed.), Russian Politics from Lenin to Putin: Essays in Honour of T.H. Rigby (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Eric Kurlander, Associate Professor of History, recently delivered the invited lecture, "A 'Special Path' Less Traveled: Liberals, Nazi Occultists, and The (Dis)continuities of German History," sponsored by the Phi Alpha Theta Society and History Department of the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, November 18, 2010.

Earlier in the day Kurlander visited Dr. Vladimir Solonari's upper level class on "Nazism and Interwar Fascism" to discuss his recent book, "Living With Hitler: Liberal Democrats in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 (Yale, 2009)", which is assigned reading in the course.

Kurlander also is happy to announce that he has had two articles accepted for publication, "Between Detroit and Moscow: A Left Liberal Third Way in the Third Reich?," by Central European History (Cambridge University Press), and "Violence, Volksgemeinschaft, and Empire: Interpreting the Third Reich in the Twenty-First Century," by the Journal of Contemporary History (Sage Publications). After some revisions, both articles are slated to appear some time in 2011.

In the past month, Kurlander has also presented two papers: "Hitler's Magicians' Controversy: Superstition, The Occult, and the Campaign for "Enlightenment," in the Third Reich," at the 2010 Convention of the Southern Historical Association (SHA) in Charlotte, NC, November 4-7, 2010 and "The Occult Roots of Nazism and the Emergence of the Supernatural Imaginary, 1919-1924," at the 2010 Convention of the German Studies Association (GSA) in Oakland, CA, October 6 9, 2010. Both papers, which represent preliminary work on Kurlander's next book project, were based on research conducted in the German Federal Archives and Berlin State Library, thanks to a 2009 Stetson Summer Research Grant.

As 2010 Chair of the Graduate Student Paper Committee, Kurlander also helped select and referee the 2009 GSA conference's best graduate student paper: Wendy Westphal (Indiana-Bloomington), "Truer than the Real Thing": 'Real' and 'Hyperreal' Representations of the Past in Das Leben der Anderen". The paper will be published in the Spring 2011 edition of the German Studies Review. As Chair, Kurlander delivered the laudatio for this award at the annual GSA banquet.

Finally, Kurlander has recently published two book reviews:

"A German Liberal Mugged By Reality." Review essay of Andreas Wesemann, ed., Chronicle of a Downfall: Germany 1929-1939. Leopold Schwarzschild, London: Tauris, 2010. Literary Review, October 2010.

Hermann Beck, The Fateful Alliance. German Conservatives and Nazis in 1933: The Machtergreifung in a New Light. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2008. European History Quarterly, v. 40 (2010), nr. 3, pp. 503-505.

Monica Jeancola, Instructor, Accounting Department. Please join us in congratulating Dr. - that's Dr. Monica Jeancola on successfully defending her dissertation last week! We are extremely proud of her accomplishment.

Nick Maddox, Professor of Management and International Business, Bob Boozer, Professor of Management and International Business, and Peter Heine, Associate Professor of Management, collaborated on two presentations made at the Academy of Business Education conference in early October in San Antonio. The first presentation, "The Individual Creativity Self-Assessment Project: Helping Learners Unblock Their Creative Potential" focused on a individual project approach used in Dr. Maddox's MGT 400 class (Organizational Creativity and Innovation). The second presentation "Building Positive Learning Climate: A Review of Core Dimensions and Methods" represented an update of ongoing collaborative research for the past 20 years and its current status. Both presentations are being expanded into journal articles for submission to pedagogically-focused journals.

Greg McCann, Professor of Accounting, was awarded a Certificate in Family Wealth Advising by the Family Firm Institute at the 2010 International Conference in Chicago, IL. This certificate designates an FFI member as having achieved significant professional knowledge through fulfillment of all the requirements for the FFI Certificate in Family Wealth Advising. Such distinction further ensures that family business owners, and/or the clients of family business and family wealth advisors, will continue to benefit from the highest standards in professional best practices.

The Family Firm Institute, an international professional membership organization of over 1500 individuals and organizations across 50 countries, is dedicated to providing interdisciplinary education and networking opportunities for family business and family wealth advisors, consultants, educators and researchers. It works to increase public awareness and broaden the understanding of trends and developments in the family business and family wealth fields.

Ann Piccard, Professor of Legal Skills, has been selected to present at the AALS mid-year workshop on Women Rethinking Equality.

Mark Powell, Assistant Professor of English, and Terri Witek, Professor of English, announce their presence on the Writing Faculty at the recent Other Words Literary Conference. Both led workshops and gave readings: in addition, Powell led a panel called: "Building Your World: The Importance of Precision in Fiction and How We Get It.

Alicia Schultheis, Associate Professor of Biology, and Terry Farrell, Professor of Biology, jointly facilitated a workshop at the 2nd Annual Engagement in Undergraduate Research Symposium held at the University of Central Florida on October 8, 2010. The workshop title was "Promoting Undergraduate Research through Improved Tenure and Promotion Policies".

Tara J. Schuwerk, part-time Visiting Assistant Professorof Communication Studies, chaired and participated in a roundtable discussion titled "Balancing Equations: Family + Career = The Good Life?" at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender held in St. Petersburg, October 14-17.Rebecca Watts, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, also participated in the roundtable.

Betty Thorne, Professor of Statistics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Business Administration, presented her research on "Closing the Loop: An AoL Example from Rubric to Revisions" at the School of Business Research Seminar on November 18, 2010, Lynn Business Center Boardroom, Stetson University, DeLand, FL.

Thorne also presented a paper, "Closing the Loop: From Rubric to Revisions" at the 12th Annual Academy of Business Disciplines Conference in Ft. Myers Beach, Florida November 10 - 13, 2010.

Terri Witek, Professor of English, reports: A site-specific installation, A SHELTER ON KING'S ROAD, was recently shown in connection with the Other Words Literary Conference. Staged by poet Terri Witek and and former Stetson digital arts professor Cyriaco Lopes (now at CUNY John Jay), the installation placed the footprint of Martin Luther King's 1964 firebombed St Augustine cottage within that city's historic Markland House, opened for the occasion.

October 2010

Bill Ball, Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, will have his essay on the state of Florida's civic culture "The Community that Cannot Speak" appear in the Kettering Foundation's journal Higher Education Exchange. He presented an draft of the essay at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington D.C. in September.

Catherine Cameron, Professor of Legal Skills, had her article, "Fixing FOIA: Pushing Congress to Amend FOIA Section b(3) to Require Congress to Explicitly Indicate an Intent to Exempt Records from FIOA in New Legislation" published in the most recent issue of Quinnipiac University's Law Review.

Joel Davis, Associate Professor of English, announces his article, " 'Thus I restles rest in Spayne': Engaging Empire in the Poetry of Sir Thomas Wyatt and Garcilaso de la Vega" appeared in Studies in Philology 107 (2010): 493-519. It is the first comparative study of the two poets who brought the new poetry of the Italian renaissance into their respective vernacular languages, Castilian Spanish and English.

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing, presented a work-in-progress titled "'I know you like me, but I can't ask you to say that': The Tension Between Communicating Lawyer Reputational Information in Online Advertising and 'The Good Life' for Consumers of Legal Services" at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender held in St. Petersburg, October 14-17.

Cynthia H. DeBose, Professor of Law, was featured in an article in the October 2010 St. Pete Bar Association magazine, The Paraclete, titled "Community Champions." The article describes her various volunteer activities within the community.

Michael Denner, Associate Professor of Russian Studies, attended the New School conference, "Tolstoy in the 21^st Century." Dr. Denner made two presentations: "Sex, Money and Violence" (on Tolstoy's evolving social theories of the 1880s) and "Media's Obsessions with Media's Obsession with Media's Obsession with Tolstoy: Tolstoy's Metastasizing Image in Early Twentieth-Century Media." The conference, which Dr. Denner helped organize, will also spawn an edited volume of essays, which he is co-editing with my colleague Inessa Medzhibovskaya.

William R. Eleazer, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, has received the 2010 Gold Medal for "Adult Fiction" awarded to to his first novel, Savannah Law by the Florida Publishers Association.

Roberta Favis, Professor of Art History, will be hosting "Women and Art: an intriguing lecture and discussion series" at the Florida Museum for women Artists.Topics will include: History and its Exclusions or Whatever Happened to Herstory?: Case Studies from the Renaissance to the 19th Century; Is it Biography (or Biology) Destine? The Cases of Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eva Hesse, and Ana Mendietta; and Making of Art Domesticity and Domesticating Art: the Domestic as Subject and Material for Art from Mary Cassatt to the 21st Century.

Ron Hall, Professor & Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stetson has been appointed the new Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion. This journal published by Springer (of the Netherlands) has a world-wide circulation and provides a forum for critical, constructive and interpretative consideration of religion from an objective philosophical point of view. Hall replaces Eugene Long (The University of South Carolina) who has served as Editor-in-Chief for 20 years. Hall will assume this post beginning in February when the journal will move to Stetson as its new home.

Jamil Khader, Associate Professor of English, announces his book, Zizek Now, New Directions in Zizek Studies, will be offered a contract with Polity Press.

Janice McClendon, Professor of Law, spoke at the West Coast Employee Benefits Council in Tampa regarding executive compensation and recent changes under the Wall Street Reform Act and pending tax legislation.

Stuart Michelson, Dean of the School of Business Administration, moderated theAcademy of Financial Services (AFS) conference-running in conjunction with FPA Denver 2010-where the topic ofhow planners and academics can work together to build the body of knowledge around financial planning with more empirical research was discussed. More information can be found online at: http://practicemanagementblog.fpanet.org/2010/10/10/practitioners-and-academics-unite-for-research/

Carolyn Mueller, Professor & Chair ofManagement and International Business, had the following published:

Naffziger, D.W., Bott, J.P., & Mueller, C.B. (2010) Study abroad: Validating the factor analysis of student choices (triple-blind peer reviewed.). International Business: Research, Teaching & Practice (ISSN Print 1949-3290/Online 1949-3304), 4(1): 72-81.

Julian, C.C., Wachter, R.M., & Mueller, C.B. (2010) The role of trust revisited in international joint venture (IJV) top management teams (double-blind peer reviewed.) 4th Biennial Conference of the Academy of World Business, Marketing & Management Development: Managing and Marketing Orlanizations in an Era of Global Economic uncertainty and Environmental Complexity, Oulu, Finland, July 12-15, Vol. 4(1): 590-600. Published by the Academy of World Business, Marketing and Management Development, (ISBN 978-0-9752272-3-7).

de la Garza-Carranza, M.T., Guzman Soria, E., & Mueller, C.B. (2010) Organizational culture profile of service and manufacturing businesses in Mexico. Revista INNOVAR, Journal of Administrative and Social Sciences, (ISSN 0121-5051), 20(37): forthcoming.

In addition to the above publications, Dr. Mueller has recently been named to the Board of Directors of the International Council of Central Florida. During its most recent meeting, the ICCF Board approved a motion to become associated with The World Affairs Council, and will announce the move in January 2011 that the ICCF will become The World Affairs Council of Central Florida. More information on the ICCF is available at their website: http://www.iccfvip.com

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, was elected to the International Bar Association's Legal Practice Division Council.

Beth Paul, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, moderated a Congressional Briefing entitled, "Undergraduate Research and American Innovation" on October 26, 2010 in Washington, DC.

Michael Rickman, Professor of Music, has now been welcomed to the distinguished international roster of Steinway Artists. This honor follows a process of nomination and consideration over the past year. Quoting from the letter Dr. Rickman recently received from Brian Hunter, Steinway and Sons Director of Concert and Artist Activities, "Although you are already considered a member of the Steinway family through your personal association with our piano, the high standard you have set with your artistic and professional achievements make it most appropriate that you are now formally included among a list of the most accomplished and discriminating performing artists in the world."

September 2010

Monu Bedi, Bruce R. Jacob Fellow, had his article, "Excusing Behavior: Reclassifying the Federal Common Law Defenses of Duress and Necessity Relying on the Victim's Role" was accepted for publication in The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Northwestern).

Mike Bitter, Professor of Accounting, and Pat Knipe, adjunct professor of accounting, have had their article entitled "Central Florida Emphysema Foundation Audit: A Case Study of Personal and Professional Responsibility" accepted for publication in Issues in Accounting Education (IAE). IAE is one of several journals published by the American Accounting Association and is the leading academic journal for matters of accounting education.

Catherine Cameron, Professor of Legal Skills, spoke on two panels on September 25th at the conference "Media Law in the Digital Age" sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University, in conjunction with the Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She spoke on issues surrounding media access to government information. She was also invited to serve on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed Journal of Public Access Law.

Paul J. Croce, Professor of American Studies, presented four papers based on research connecting his teahing of environmental issues with his research on William James:

"The Incarnation Writ Large: Lifting the Veil on Swedenborg's Influence," for the symposium Emanuel Swedenborg--Exploring a "World Memory": Context, Content, Contribution, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2010

"The World of Experience and the Wilds of the World: William James on Nature and in Nature," for the Third Nordic Pragmatism Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2010

"Eclipse of Certainty--and Beyond," University of Toledo, Spain, June 2010

"Beyond Cultural Polarization, the Path Through Science, Religion, and William James," Dewey Seminar, Madrid, June 2010

In addition, as President of the William James Society, he planned and organized the symposium "In the Footsteps of William James," August 13-16, 2010, a public intellectual event on James and his continuing impact in many fields. The Society cooperated with the Chocorua Community Association (Chocorua, NH, where James died August 1910) and Harvard's Houghton Manuscript Library (in Cambridge, MA, where James worked most of his life); for a virtual visit, go to http://www.wjsociety.org/symposium.htm and http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/james/.

Kirsten Davis, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Legal Research and Writing, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors' Board of Directors.

Hala El-Aarag, Associate Professor of Computer Science, has had her paper entitled "A Neural Network Proxy Cache Replacement Strategy and its Implementation in the Squid Proxy Server" accepted for publication in Neural Computing & Applications Journal, Springer-Verlag, DOI 10.1007/s00521-010-0443.0. This paper is co-authored by and based on the senior research of Sam Romano, '08, who now works for Lockheed Martin.

Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, Associate Professor of Anthropology/Sociology, Brigid Noonan, Chair and Associate Professor of Counselor Education, Alicia Schultheis, Associate Professor of Biology, and Karen Kaivola, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Professor of English, recently represented Stetson University at a conference/workshop focused on multiple forms of scholarship. Hosted by Western Carolina University and held September 20-23 in Asheville, NC, the conference featured sessions on Boyer's model (the scholarships of discovery, application/engagement, teaching/learning, and integration), alignment between institutional mission and faculty reward systems (including t/p), and expanded methods of peer review appropriate to Boyer's models of scholarship.

Bobbi Flowers, Wm. Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law organized a very successful roundtable program for the ABA Criminal Justice Section this weekend on the proposed 4th edition of the Prosecution & Defense Ethics Standards. Professor Flowers and Ellen Podgor, LeRoy Highbaugh Sr. Research Chair and Professor of Law, presented papers; Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, moderated a panel and filled in for a speaker; Judy Scully, Professor of Law, moderated a panel: and Monu Bedi, Bruce R. Jacob Fellow, served as reporter. The work from this round table will provide important feedback to the ABA on the proposed standards.

Ron Hall, Professor & Chair of Philosophy, announces the upcoming publication of his essay: "It's a Wonderful Life: Reflections on Wittgenstein's Last Words." The essay is published in the journal Philosophical Investigations. The article is currently available online and will be published in hard copy in October. Professor Hall presented a version of this paper as the presidential address for the Society of the Philosophy of Religion which met at the Claremont Graduate Center in California last February.

Bette Heins, Chair, Nina B. Hollis Institute for Education Reform and Professor of Education, will participate on a panel that I am hosting at the Daytona Beach Hilton, September 8-10th. Dr. Heins will be there on Thursday, September 9th at 10:45am to 12:15pm-the discussion will center on 21st Century Preparation for Teacher Education. Joining Bette on the panel will be representatives from Bethune Cookman University, UCF-Daytona Beach Campus, and Daytona State College. This retreat will host 60 school board members from all across the State of Florida.

Jamil Khader, Associate Professor of English, received word that his article, "Humanizing the Nazi: The Semiotics of Vampirism, Trauma, and Post-Holocaust Ethics in Louise Murphy's The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival," was accepted for publication in volume 39 of the Journal of Children's Literature.

Camille Tessitore King, Associate Professor of Psychology, and her colleague, Dr. Alan Spector, Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, recently received word from the National Institutes of Health that their research proposal, "The Functional Organization of the Central Gustatory System," will be funded. Dr. King will serve as Co-Investigator on the five-year long project and will receive $190,000 to support the work conducted in her lab here at Stetson.

Phillip Lucas, Professor of Religious Studies, has published two extensive articles in The Encyclopedia of Religion in America (CQ/Sage Publications, June 2010). The first article is entitled, "New Religious Movements: Twentieth Century," and the second is "New Age Religion(s)."

Luz Nagle, Professor of Law, presented at the 15th International Association of Prosecutors(IAP) Annual Conference at the Hague. Her panel was titled: "The rise and expansion of gangs." Her topic focused on gangs emerging as a national and transnational security threat.

Ellen Podgor, LeRoy Highbaugh Sr. Research Chair and Professor of Law, testified on September 28th before the U.S. House of Representatives Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, which held a hearing on "Reining in Overcriminalization: Assessing the Problems, Proposing Solutions."

Gail Radley, Lecturer in English, contributed a chapter to Wellness & Writing Connections, edited by John Frank Evans (Idyll Arbor, 2010). The chapter, "'Writing with the Ink of Light on the Tablet of the Spirit': Coping with Chronic Pain and Other Health Challenges," was based on her workshop by the same title at the 2008 Wellness & Writing Connections conference.

Radley's book, Kyle Jeffries, Pilgrim, an early chapter book (i.e. for children) was published by Bellwood Press.

An earlier children's book, Second Birth (Baha'i Publishing Trust of the United Kingdom, 1984) was translated into Dutch for the Netherlands as De Tweede Geboort (A Creative Soul~Loordrecht, 2009).

Joshua Rust, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, recently had his research discussed in the Boston Globe. The article can be found online at http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2010/09/ethicists_who_d.html (available 9/22/10), and it explores whether being a professional ethicist makes one more likely to keep in touch with one's mother.

Florian Vauleon, Visiting Assistant Professor of French, announces an upcoming publication: "Le concept du désert dans l'Amérique de Baudrillard," The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 8 (January 2011): forthcoming.

August 2010

Thomas Farrell, Professor and Nell Carlton Chair of English, chaired a session at the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 13-16. He also presented his paper, "A Critical Edition of Canterbury Tales IV, 508: the Hand of Chaucer (in Honor of Alan Gaylord)" and performed the role of Abraham in the pageant of Abraham and Isaac from the York Cycle, recorded by the Chaucer Studio for later release.

Scott Jones, Assistant Professor of Marketing, had the following works published:

Refereed Journal Publications

Scott A. Jones, K. Damon Aiken, and David M. Boush (2010), "Integrating Experience, Advertising, and Electronic Word of Mouth," Journal of Internet Commerce, Vol. 8 (3/4), p. 246 - 267.

Christopher D. Hopkins, Scott A. Jones, Gregory M. Pickett, and Mary Anne Raymond (2009), "The Influence of Brand Levels and Associations on Purchase Intent", Journal of General Management, Vol. 34 (October), p. 19 - 34.

Refereed Conference Publications and Presentations

Scott A. Jones, Christopher Hopkins and Gregory Pickett (2010), "Exploring Consumer Perceptions of Brands Sponsoring a Competitor in Sport," presentated at the Proceedings of the AMA Summer Educator's Conference, Boston, MA.

Edited Book Chapters

Scott A. Jones, Stephen J. Grove and Gregory M. Pickett (2010), "Spectator Rage: An Overview," in Kahle, L. and Close, A. (eds.) Consumer Behavior Knowledge for Effective Sports and Event Marketing, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL.

Jamil Khader, Associate Professor of English, got word that his article, "Un/Speakability, Impossible Witnessing, and Radical Otherness: The Ethics of Trauma in Bram Stoker's Dracula," was accepted for publication in College Literature. This article was made possible by a 2009 Stetson University Summer Grant.

Ken McCoy, Professor and Chair, Communication Studies & Theatre Arts, directed Oscar Wilde's comedy of manners "The Importance of Being Earnest" in July 2010 at the Huron Playhouse, Ohio's longest-running summer theatre.

Gail Radley, Lecturer in English, wrote Vacationplanning.net's "West Volusia Blog" over the summer. Two of the 12 entries feature Stetson. http://www.vacationplanning.net/Blogs/blog_radley.aspx

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