Division of Social Sciences 2000-01

HISTORY

David Borbridge, S.J. (teaches half-time in history and half-time in theology)

Attended:

• Discussions at the Center for Latin American History at the University of California Berkeley

• Lectures in Latin American History at the University of Hamburg

Lectures given:

• on Philosophy of Religion, St. Richard’s Church, Jackson, Mississippi

• on Comparative Religions, St. Richard’s Church, Jackson, Mississippi

Developed new courses:  HIS 497 Asian History;  THL 565/261Comparative Religions

Works in progress:

• Preparation of new course for next year on history of revolutions

Neil Hamilton

Publications:

• American Presidents (narrative dictionary of the 43 presidential administrations), to be published July 2001

• “The Ice King.”  American History, October 2000  (presents the story of Frederic Tudor who transported ice in the early 1800’s from New England to the Caribbean, India, and other warm climate locations as a business venture)

Volunteer historical abstractor for ABC-CLIO and New York Journal of History

Lectures/presentations given:

• Panel discussion program on Trinity Broadcasting Network (television)

Developed new course, HIS 362 American Presidents, based on my book American Presidents (see publications)

Increased use of PowerPoint and new lecture material in survey history classes

Works in progress:

• America the Radical (survey of radical leaders and movements in the U.S. from the colonial period to contemporary society)

Patricia Harrison

Member:

• American Historical Association

•  North American Conference on British Studies

• Southern Conference on British Studies

• Southern Association for Women Historians

• Southern Historical Association

• Berkshire Conference for Women Historians

• SHC Board of Trustees Committee on Educational Policy and Academic Affairs

• SHC Friends of the Library

Lectures/presentations given:

• Two presentations at Barnes and Noble for their “Perspectives in History” series

• On my book, Connecting Links:  The British and American Woman Suffrage Movements:  1900-1914

• On the British and American woman suffrage movements

Received SHC Dawson Research Award at Commencement 2001

Attended:

• Fifth Southern Conference on Women’s History, University of Richmond

• Southern Historical Association meeting, the Southern Conference on British Studies, the Southern Association for Women Historians, and the European History luncheon, all held concurrently with the Southern Historical Association meeting in Louisville, Kentucky

• Chaired session, “Edwardian Contestations:  Race, Class, and Gender,” at the Southern Conference on British Studies

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Dr. Barbara Walvoord

     Visited historical sites:

• Scotland in June 2000:  Edinburgh, Inverness, Culloden, Skye, Glasgow, and New Lanark, which added to knowledge in teaching specialization areas (Robert Owen and the Owenites, British Labor Party history, Glasgow suffragettes, and working-class Glasgow);  made slides and bought visual materials for class use

• Italy in May 2001:  Rome, Pompeii, Florence, and Venice, which are relevant to Western Civilization courses as well as several upper division courses;  bought slides and CD Rom pertaining to history of these periods

Conducted preliminary research on paper, “British Suffragists in the American South, 1908-1913,” being submitted for a conference in summer 2001

Course development:  Master of Liberal Arts course, Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  (covered both European and American women)

Read articles in American Historical Review, Journal of British Studies, Albion, History Today, and Journal of Women’s History

John Welch

Attended:

• Two visiting scholar lectures, University of South Alabama

• SHC workshop:  Dr. Barbara Walvoord

PSYCHOLOGY

Bob MacAleese

Publications:

• Submitted paper, “Memory:  Putting Together the Past Puzzle,” for publication in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, April 2001

Attended:

• Southeastern Psychological Association meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

• Association of Forensic Psychiatry meeting, San Diego, California

Diane Thompson

Attended:

• National Conference on the Teaching of Psychology

• Conference on stress and health

Used new techniques and materials in classes

Works in progress:

• Working on a book

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Nader Entessar

Attended:

• 34^th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Orlando, FL

• Presented paper entitled “Economic Decay and Iran’s Regional Foreign Policy”

• Organized and chaired panel on “Iran’s Regional Foreign Policy”

• By-invitation-only meeting at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, DC

• Presented paper on “Competing National Identities:  The Kurdish Conundrum in Iran”

• Conference on “Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity,” University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

• Chaired a panel on “Constitutionalism and the Politics of Reform in Iran’s Legal System”

• Presented paper entitled “Iran’s Legal Conundrum”

• American Political Science Association workshop on incorporating new technologies in teaching undergraduate political science courses

Publications:

• “Limits of Change:  Legal Constraints to Political Reform in Iran,” Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Middle East Virtual Community.  Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2000.  (refereed publication)

• Review of Arab-Iranian Relations, Iranian Studies, vol. 32, no. 4, Fall 1999 (refereed publication)

• Review of Iran and the United States:  The Rise of the West Asian Regional Grouping, Journal of Third World          Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, Spring 2001 (refereed publication)

• Review of Memoirs of M.A. Modjtahedi, Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, vol. 17, no. 1, April 2001               (refereed publication)

• Review of Kurdish Predicament in Iraq, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, May 2001 (refereed publication)

• Numerous short book reviews in Choice and Library Journal

Associate editor, Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis

Member of editorial boards of:

• Journal of Third World Studies

• Journal of Central Asian Studies

• Annual Editions:  American Foreign Policy  (published yearly by McGraw-Hill)

• Encyclopedia of the Developing World

• Nationalism and Ethnic Terminologies (a multi-volume encyclopedia)

Member of Executive Board:

• Kurdish Studies Association

Reviewer for:

• Choice

• Library Journal

• International Journal of Middle East Studies

• Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism

• Journal of Third World Studies

Refereed articles for publication in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, and Sociological Inquiry

Gave numerous interviews to several national and international media (e.g., Radio France International, SBS Radio in Australia, Tajik Service of Voice of America, Pacifica Radio)

Participated in two half-hour public affairs programs on WMPV-TV in Mobile

Provided pro bono consulting for the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada on asylum and refugee issues affecting individuals from the Middle East

Lectures/presentations given:

• Two lectures:  One on Iran’s foreign policy and another on Israel’s foreign policy, University of South Alabama Political Science Department

• Faculty Lecture Series:  Report on social justice activity of assigning students to interview refugees in town and then write papers relating their experiences to textbook materials

Two in-class guest lecturers:

• Falun Gong representative:  on China

• Voices in the Wilderness representative:  on U.S. sanctions on Iraq

Introduced new technologies in several classes:

• Used new online statistical package (Microcase ExplorIt) in American National Government class

• Posted lecture outlines and useful links on ERes for Introduction to European Politics class

Awarded sabbatical for Spring 2002

Works in progress:

• Three book chapters

• Several book reviews

• Two papers for national conferences next year

Alex Landi [Division Chair]

Lectures/presentations given:

• Lecture on Walker Percy, University of Mobile class

Attended:

• Alabama Political Science Association annual conference

• Heartland/Delta Conference, Loyola New Orleans

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Dr. Barbara Walvoord

• SHC workshop:  ERes

• SHC workshop:  file management in Microsoft Word

Member:

• Center for the Study of the Presidency

• Southern Political Science Association

• Alabama Political Science Association

Arranged for campus visit, including an evening lecture/demonstration and talks to four classes, by representatives of Falun Gong

Revised MLA curriculum

Incorporated some of Dr. Walvoord’s ideas into classes

Kathleen Orange

Attended:

• Conference on justice education in Jesuit higher education, Santa Clara University

• Presentation on service learning:  “Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education”

Lectures/presentations given:

• Faculty Friday presentation on the fall service learning classes

• SHC “Table Talk” on work of the Foley Center

Member:

• Hispanic Pastoral Council

• Board of Directors, Mobile Weed and Seed

• Board of Directors, Senior Citizens Services

Assisted in the organization of the Faculty Seminar on Justice Education

Developed service learning course with Larry Hall and assisted four other professors in developing service learning projects for their classes

Worked with Stephanie Girard (English Department) to develop the “Mobile Memories” service learning project for her two spring classes

Received grant from Mobile County Public Schools for support of after-school tutoring programs

Organizer of interparish dialogue between Hispanic Ministry and St. Catherine’s Parish

SOCIOLOGY

Larry Hall

Attended:

• Mid-South Sociological Association (MSAA) meetings, Knoxville, Tennessee

• Presented a co-authored paper on “Gender and Jury Selection”

• Served as panelist on a panel on “Civility on the Internet”

• Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Society (A-MSA) meeting, Spring Hill College

• Organized program

• Served as panelist

• Southern Sociological Society (SSS) annual meetings

• Presented co-authored paper on “Racial Discrimination and Jury Selection”

• Presided at session on teaching innovation   

• Jesuit Conference on Social Justice, University of Santa Clara

Publications:

• Book chapter:  “Equal Protection and Racial Exclusion” in Extraordinary Behavior, a social problems text published in 2001

• Encyclopedia entry: “The Criminal Justice System” in The Encyclopedia of Deviance and Criminology

• Newsletter for the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association

Member:

• Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association:  President

• Mid-South Sociological Association:  served as hotel negotiator

• Southern Sociological Association:  Chair, Committee on Small and Community Colleges

Journal reviewer:

• Deviant Behavior

• Sociological Spectrum

Developed “Social Justice Inventory” for SHC and presented results at the Spring Opening Day meeting

Incorporated more social justice material in a number of courses

Works in progress:

• Batson paper for journal consideration

• JEB paper

• Mock jury paper

• “Civility on the Internet” paper for article in special journal issue on "civility"