Faculty Activities

2002-2003

May 2003

Linda Fink

Coauthored a paper at the April 2003 meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting with three Sweet Briar students: Rachael Chilton '04, Christina Tannahill '04, Andrea Stassi '04, Linda Fink: The effect of logging on the occurrence of an invasive exotic grass, Microstegium vimineum. The research was conducted in General Ecology in Fall 2002, on Paul Mountain on campus. Chilton and Tannahill attended the ASB meeting, and Chilton presented the talk.

John Goulde

Paper to be Presented: Globalized Korean Art: Korean Painting in an IT World, 2003 Korean Studies Conference, Institute of International Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C., May 23-25, 2003

Seminar to be Presented: " Buddhism in Korea", Japan Society Buddhism in East Asia Seminar, Japan Society, New York, N.Y. May 3, 2003

Paper Presented: U.S. Foreign Policy on North Korea, International Studies Program. Central Virginia Community College, Lynchburg, VA, April 23, 2003

Paper presented: The Myths and Models of Korean Christianity's Indigenization: The Encounter of Christianity and Korean Ethno-Nationalist Discourse, 2003 Conference of the Luce Foundation on Korean Christianity Program, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, April 25-26, 2003

Seminar Presented: " Buddhism In China", Japan Society Buddhism in East Asia Seminar, Japan Society, New York, N.Y. April 12, 2003

Seminar Presented: "Korean History and Heritage", North Carolina Teacher's Association: Teaching Asia Program, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, N.C., December 7, 2002

Panel Respondent: The Korean Transformation of Christianity and the Christian Transformation of Korea, Korean Religions Group, 2002 Annual Conference of the American Academy of Religion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 23-26, 2002

Paper Presented: Confucian Theorists on Utopian Society, The Search for a Perfect Society: Korea and World History in the New York Schools Program, The Korea Society, New York, N.Y., November 1, 2002

Published Article: "Scholarly Women before Confucianization: The Case of Hwang Chin-I (1506-1544)", co-authored with Mark Peterson, in Pathways into Korean Language and Culture: Essays in Honor of Young-Key Kim Renaud, Seoul: Pagijong Press, 2002

Jonathan Green

Judged a Fiestaval Choir Competition in Virginia Beach, April 25, 2003

Judged a Musicale Choir Competition in Williamsburg, VA April 26, 2003

Will judge the Raleigh Music Club solo string competition, May 5, 2003

His "Threnody" for oboe and string orchestra was premiered by the Champman University Chamber Orchestra, the final concert of their director of 32 years, John Koshak, April 25, 2003

Edited the forthcoming issue of "The Journal of the Conductors Guild." This journal had fallen two years behind its publication schedule. JG assumed editorship in 2001. With this issue, it has been brought up-to-date.

Ronald Horwege

Hosted a meeting of the executive committee of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia at Sweet Briar College in February. He is a past president of this organization and is presently a member of the executive council.

Organized and presided over the German Teacher Annual Spring Workshop at the University of Virginia on March 29. The theme of the workshop was ÒMusik und Film im DeutschunterrichtÓ(Using Music and Films in the Teaching of German). Approximately 50 Virginia German teachers participated in the conference.

Attended the annual convention of the Virginia Organization of German Students in Richmond in March and judged the forensics competition.

Presided over a meeting of the executive council of the Virginia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German on April 26 at Randolph-Macon College. The committee made plans for activities for the coming academic year.

Worked with Professor William Macdonald (UVA) to plan a German student activity for the next academic year.

Traveled with members of the German Club to Hampden Sydney College for a ÒGrillfestÓ with German students and faculty from Longwood and Hampden Sydney.

Had a meeting with members of the Goethe Institut in Washington to make plans for the next German Teacher Immersion Weekend at Sweet Briar College.

Allen Huszti

Participated in an Alumnae tour to Prague and Vienna during Spring vacation.

Sang as bass soloist in a concert at First Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg on March 23.

Played an organ recital at Emmanuel United Methodist Church in Amherst on March 30.

Conducted the Canticum Novum Choir and sang as bass soloist in Danville on April 6.

Presented a masterclass and Alexander Technique workshop for voice and piano students At Randolph Macon Woman's College on April 8.

Sang as bass soloist in Dubois' "Seven Last Words," at Rivermont Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg on April 16.

Accompanied Gillian Long's Senior Violin Recital at SBC on April 27.

Rebecca Massie Lane

Profile of artist Joe Pendleton will be published as the lead story in Spring 2003 issue of Folk Art Messenger.

Selected as a grant reviewer for Institute of Museum Services, 2003 Learning Opportunities Grant Awards

Named to the board of the Northern Virginia Art Education Association

David Orvos

  • Have accepted the offer of editor for the journal Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. I currently serve as a reviewing editor.
  • Attended the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists in Washington, D.C., where I presented a paper on the ES program. Two ES majors presented results of their investigations. Sara Kemper and I presented "Effect of fluoxetine (Prozac) on Daphnia magna and Selenastrum capricornutum." Rachael Chilton, along with biology major Christina Tannahill, ES major Andrea Stassi, and Professor Fink presented "The effect of logging on the occurrence of an invasive exotic grass, Microstegium vimineum." My research group presented results at a total of three meetings this year in Utah, Baltimore, and D.C.

April 2003

John Beck

Received the 2003 VFIC Mednick Fellowship

Steve Bragaw

  • "Indian Reserved Water Rights: The Winters Doctrine in its Social and Legal Context, 1880s-1930s" by John Shurts. Reviewed by Stephen Bragaw, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 13 No. 4 (April, 2003) (forthcoming).
  • Perry & Bragaw, "Teaching and Learning for Civic Engagement: The Sweet Briar College Experience." Focus on Law Studies: Teaching About Law in the Liberal Arts 18:11-13 (Fall 2002).
  • Bragaw & Perry, "Bush v. Gore and the Rehnquist Court's Vision of the Equality Principle and Judicial Supremacy." Presentation to the Clark University Law & Society Program Conference on Bush v. Gore, Worcester, MA, March 14, 2003.
  • "The Rehnquist Court and Federalism." Panel Chair and Organizer, Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 5, 2003.
  • "The Rehnquist Court, Subnational Governments, and the Constitutional Politics of Sovereign Immunity." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 5, 2003.
  • "Big Brother in the Panopticon: The American Tradition of Privacy in Law." Presentation at the Virginia Tech Choices and Challenges Forum "Big Brother Technologies", Blacksburg, VA., March 27, 2003.
  • Attended the Center for Civic Education's National Scholars Conference on Research in Civics and Legal Education, Pasedena, CA, January 30-February 2, 2003.
  • "We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution" State Finals Debate Tournament Judge, February 11, 2003.
  • "Is the Supreme Court Really Supreme?" James Madison Foundation Center for the Study of the Constitution/SBC Center for Civic Renewal Teacher Institute, March 22, 2003.
  • "The Rivalry that Shaped America" Presentations made to the SBC Alumnae Association Chapters in Richmond (February 11, 2003) and Chicago (April 3).

Radio:

  • WVTF "Evening Edition" 1 hour call-in show, March 25, 2003, on invasion of privacy
  • WNRN "Sunday Conversation" 1 hour call-in shows, Nov 3 & Dec 15, 2002 on the election and current events.
  • WLNI "Morning Line" interviews 11/4, 11/6, 12/16/02 on state and national politics.

Debbie Durham

  • Gave an invited lecture at Tulane University in March: ÒTransnational Personhood and Technologies of the State: Being Herero in Liberal Democratic Botswana.Ó
  • Reviewed a book manuscript for a major university press.
  • Published ÒPassports and Persons: The Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges in Southern Africa.Ó as a chapter in Clifton Crais, ed., The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination, pp. 151-181. Social History of Africa series, Heinemann, 2003.

Rob Granger

  • Syntheses of New, Water-Soluble N-Donor Ligands, Corresponding Zn(II), Cu(II), and Ni(II) Complexes, and the Investigation of Their Activities Towards, Hydrolyzing Substrates.Ê Hong-Chang Liang, The Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society Grant # 39798-G3, 2003
  • Synthesis and Characterization of a Series of Dicopper Compounds for Use as Electrocatalysts in the Redction of Carbon Dioxide. Emma W. Goldman, ÊThe Jeffress Memorial Trust Research Grant2003.

Jonathan Green

  • chaired the panel, "Music in the 21st Century: What Next?" at the annual meeting of the Conductors Guild in New York
  • presented a lecture, "Aesthetics and Perception in Music," at the 2003 Denver College for a Day and at the Vero Beach Museum of Art
  • conducted the District XIII Virginia Women's Choir in Charlottesville
  • had a composition, "Queensbury Rules," performed by Nick Ross at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the College Music Society, at which he also chaired a panel discussion "What Can You do with a Degree in Music Outside of Performing and Teaching?"

February 2003

Kay Brimijoin:

  • Co-authored an article which appeared in February 2003: "Using Data to Differentiate Instruction". Kay Brimijoin, Ede Marquissee, and Carol Ann Tomlinson. Educational Leadership 60, 5: February, 2003: 70-73.
  • Presented a paper, "New Dimensions in Building Expertise in Mentoring and Differentiation," at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in New Orleans, LA: January 26, 2003. This paper has been accepted for publication in the ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher Education - Document Number pending.
  • Keynote Speaker: Mini-Conference on Gifted Education for Korean Teachers, January 20-21, 2003: Sweet Briar College.
  • Presented "Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for Gifted Learners" to 150 elementary and secondary teachers in Waunakee, WI, February 6-7, 2003.
  • Follow-up Workshop: "Differentiating Instruction and Assessment" - Rockfish Elementary School, Nelson County, VA: December 18, 2002.
  • Coaching teachers in Differentiating Curriculum and Instruction: Reed Elementary School, St. Louis, MO: December 12-13, 2002.

Claudia Chang

  • March 2, University of Manitoba; March 4, University of Iowa; March 6, Lawrence University---Dr. Chang is the Archaeological Institute of American Lecturer: Digging the Eurasian Steppe: 1994-2002 The Kazakh-American Talgar Project.
  • "The Archaeology of Semirechye from the Bronze Age through Medieval Periods: Does Climate Matter?" An invited lecture at the University of California, Berkeley" Rocks and Hard Places: Society and Environment in Central Asia, Conference March 14-15.
  • Completed a book chapter: "The Grass is Greener on the Other Side: A Study of Pastoral Mobility on the Eurasian Steppe of Southeastern Kazakhstan" To be published in an edited volume, Ethnoarchaeology and Archaeology of Mobility and Sedentism, edited by R. Greaves, P.L. Yu, and F. Sellet (University of Florida Press).
  • Completed an article (accepted and revised for publication): Eurasian Iron Age Settlements and Chronology in Southeastern Kazakhstan by C. Chang, N. Benecke, F.P. Grigoriev, and P. A. Tourtellotte. Antiquity (June issue 2003).

Pam DeWeese

  • Her article "La iron’a o el arte de la interpretaci—n" has been accepted for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings for the Tenth Annual International Conference on Hispanic Literature sponsored by the Luis Goytisolo Foundation in El Puerto de Santa Mar’a, Spain (November, 2002). The monograph will be published this summer.
  • At the request of the editors, Marta Altisent and Cristina Mart’nez Carazo, she has written a biography of Luis Goytisolo for inclusion in the 20th Century Spanish Fiction Volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, published by Bruccoli Clark Layman. The edition will be published in 2003 and will serve as an educational and research tool for undergraduate students.

Linda Fink

  • Kellogg, Shelly K., Linda S. Fink and Lincoln P. Brower. Parasitism of native luna moths, Actias luna (L.) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) by the nonnative Compsilura concinnata (Meigen) (Diptera: Tachinidae) in Central Virginia, and their hyperparasitism by trigonalid wasps (Hymenoptera: Trigonalidae). Environmental Entomology is one of the leading entomology journals in the U.S.

Shelly is now in her first year of graduate study in Entomology at the University of Kentucky. The research was conducted during the summer of 2001, while Shelly was supported by an Honors Summer Research Fellowship. We also presented a talk on this work at the annual meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society last summer in Charleston. (Serena Basten '02 also presented a talk on her senior honors thesis at the Lep Soc meeting; we are collecting a last data set for Serena's study this March, and will have a paper ready for submission this summer.)

Rob Granger

  • Reviewed the text Bioinorganic Chemistry: A Short Course by Rosette M. Roat-Malone for "CHOICE Reviews". The review will appear in magazine form in approximately 3 months. If more information is needed about CHOICE go to...
  • Reviewed the paper "The Role Of The Metal Atom In Metalloporphyrins" by Clifford Sanders and Gary G. Hoffman for the Journal of Undergraduate Chemistry Research.

January 2003

Deborah Durham

Co-authored an article which appeared in December: 2002 ÒFunerals and the Public Space of Mutuality in Botswana.Ó Deborah Durham and Fred Klaits. Journal of Southern African Studies 28, 4 December 2002): 777-795.

Served as a screener for the SSRC International Dissertation ResearchFellowships again this year.

Allen Huszti

Was organist for Families Weekend church service at SBC - October 20.

Was organist for the 100th Anniversary Fund service at SBC - October 27.

Sang as baritone soloist for the Faure REQUIEM at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Lynchburg - November 3.

Was organist for the SBC Christmas Vesper service - December 5.

Conducted CANTATE and was bass soloist at the Christmas concert with the Lynchburg Youth Symphony Orchestra - December 7.

Sang as bass soloist in Bach's Cantata #104 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynchburg - December 8.

Conducted the CANTICUM NOVUM choir the Christmas concert at Chatham Hall - December 8.

Conducted the CANTICUM NOVUM choir and was soloist with the CANTATE Christmas Concert in Lynchburg - December 15.

Sang the role of Balthazar in Menotti's AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS in three performance for the Lynchburg Community Concerts Association Ð December 19 -21.

Conducted CANTATE at the Christmas concert with the First Presbyterian Church Choir in Lynchburg - December 22.

Joe Malloy

Was reappointed to the advisory panel for the Virginia Commission for the Arts touring program.

December 2002

Kay Brimijoin

Received a grant award from the Virginia Department of Education for a proposal entitled ÒNew Links in Building Expertise: Preparing and Supporting Highly Qualified TeachersÓ written with Dr. Jim Alouf, Ms. Kim Chandler, Dr. Mary Ann Mayhew, and Dr. Peggy Schimmoeller (Joint project Ð Sweet Briar College, Randolph-Macon WomanÕs College, and Amherst County Public Schools). A one-year award of $40,770 (the second yearÕs award depending on state budget).

ÒGifted Education: From Conceptions to CurriculumÓ, Keynote address to Mini-conference for Korean Teachers (Jollanamdo), Lynchburg, VA, November 12-13, 2002 (Second address in a series)

Presented a Workshop, ÒLinking Concepts, SOLs, and DifferentiationÓ, Amherst County Public Schools, Amherst, VA, November 7, 2002

ÒDifferentiating Professional Development: Blueprints for Instruction, Modeling, and CoachingÓ, Virginia Association for the Gifted Conference, October 29, 2002

Presented ÒLearning in Depth: Summarizing and Note-takingÓ at Conway Elementary School, St. Louis, MO, October 24-25, 2002.

Presented ÒPutting the Pieces of Differentiation Together: Assessment, Curriculum, and InstructionÓ at Rockfish and Tye River Elementary Schools, Nelson County, VA, October 17, 2002

Facilitator, Curriculum Planning Workshop, Amherst County Public Schools Differentiation Study Group, October 8, 2002

Presented ÒPutting the Pieces of Differentiation to Work: Curriculum, Instruction, and AssessmentÓ for Shelburne Middle School faculty, Staunton, VA, October 4, 2002

Pamela DeWeese

Was an invited guest speaker at the Tenth Annual International Symposium on Contemporary Hispanic Narrative, November 12-15 in El Puerto de Santa Mar’a, Spain. Her presentation was entitled "La iron’a o el arte de la interpretaci—n."

Deborah Durham

Served as discussant for 5 papers on the state, civil society, NGOs and the public sphere, at a small conference on "New Directions in Anthropology" outside New Orleans, Nov 24-26.

Presented (as of the time of the Faculty Meeting, at least) a paper "From "Hot Singers"to Deep Song: Song, Choirs and Community for Herero of Botswana" in a session on choirs and community at the African Studies Association annual meetings December 5-8 in Washington DC.

Holly Gould

Presentation (2002, November). ÒWhat preservice teachers need to know about the gifted.Ó National Association for Gifted Children Annual Conference, Denver, CO.

Consulting (2002, September 28-30). ÒDifferentiating instruction for gifted learners in the elementary school.: Anchorage School District, Anchorage, AK.

Publication (2002, October). The great expectations of going to graduate school: A Dickensonian approach. National Association for Gifted Children Graduate Student Newsletter. NAGC: Washington, D. C.

Dissertation Progress: Defended proposal for dissertation, November 13, 2002.

Jonathan Green

"Hubert's Vengeance" was performed at William Patterson College (10 Oct)

"Come In Speaking Silence of a Dream" was performed at Belmont Abbey College (12 Nov)

Has been included in the 2003 Who's Who in America

Angelo Metzidakis

Was invited to present the keynote speech at the Bicentennial celebration of Victor Hugo's birth that was held in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the sponsorship of L'Alliance Fran aise on November 16, 2002. His paper was entitled "Victor Hugo, sa vie, son oeuvre."

November 2002

Lincoln Brower

  • Published in 2002 -Quantitative changes in forest quality in a principal overwintering area of the monarch butterfly in Mexico: 1971 to 1999 entitled Conservation Biology 16:346-359.
  • On October 21, 2002, lectured at Lynchburg College on catastrophic mortality of the monarch butterfly in Mexico, January 2002.

Matthew Calarco

  • Received contract for co-authored monograph, On Levinas (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth) (to appear in 2004)
  • Completed manuscript for Continental Ethics Reader (New York: Routledge) (to appear in April 2004)
  • Book review of Paola Cavalieri, The Animal Question in International Studies in Philosophy, accepted and forthcoming, 2004.
  • Received invitation to present symposium paper at the Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, March 2003
  • Received invitation to present paper at the annual Collegium Phaenomenologicum meeting in Perugia, Italy (July 14-August 1st, 2003)
  • Attended annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Meeting, October 10-12
  • Attended annual International Association for Environmental Philosophy Meeting, Chicago, October 13
  • Honors Colloquium Presentation, ÒDeconstruction is Not Vegetarianism: Derrida and Animal Ethics,Ó October 23
  • Designed Philosophy Department website (

Christian Carr