Division of Social Sciences 2002-03

HISTORY

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

Lectures/presentations given:

• Lecture on world religions in Atlanta

Attended:

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

Developed two new courses:  Anthropology of Religion for master's program and Honors History for sophomore class

Continued efforts to find new materials, both primary and secondary, for all courses

Works in progress:

• Continuing to study world religions both for history (as part of world cultures) and theology classes

• Continuing to work on inter-religious dialogue

• Continue contacts with community organization studies in Brazil

Neil Hamilton

Publications:

• Book:  American Social Leaders and Activists, published by Facts on File

• Book:  Rebels and Renegades, published by Routledge

Lectures/presentations given:

• Lesson on protest during the Vietnam War to eighth-grade class at Holy Family School in Mobile, Alabama

Serve as abstractor for publisher ABC-CLIO and the journal New York History;  received 10-year certificate for this work

Served as editorial advisor for a history reference book

Significant course revisions:  HIS 104 United States Since 1876 and HIS 362 American Presidents

Patricia Harrison

Promoted to Professor

Awarded sabbatical for Fall 2002:  Researched and completed rough draft for an article/chapter on British suffragists in the American South from 1908 to 1913

Attended:

• Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

• Research day for Berkshire Conference participants, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

• North American Conference on British Studies, Southern Conference on British Studies, Southern Historical Association annual meeting, and Southern Association for Women Historians meeting, all held concurrently in Baltimore, Maryland

• SHC Core Curriculum Workshop

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 Friends of the Library

Research:

• Microfilm from Sylvia Pinehurst's papers (originals in Amsterdam)

• M. Carey Thomas's papers from Bryn Mawr

• Photocopies from the Hannah Whitall Smith papers at Indiana University

• Suffrage newspapers in the United States and Britain

• 1908-1913 newspapers including Atlanta Constitution, Courier Journal (Louisville), Daily Journal and Tribune (Knoxville), Daily Picayune (New Orleans), Dallas Morning News, Nashville Banner, Nashville Tennessean, National American, Rock Hill Herald, San Antonio Express, Times-Gazette (Tuscaloosa)

• Newspaper microfilms and other materials at the Library of Congress

• Other primary sources related to selected suffragists

• Books on the woman suffrage situation in the South

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

Worked with Division of Teacher Education regarding changes mandated by the new "No Child Left Behind" act;  secondary education majors who want to be certified to teach history or social studies will now be required to major in the respective field

Serve as institutional representative for the Rhodes Scholarship

Works in progress:

• Completing an article/chapter on “British Suffragists in the American South, 1908-1913”

• Reading extensively in my fields of specialization:  British history, modern European history, and women's history

 John Welch

Lectures/presentations given:

• Brief interview by Channel 15 on the war in Iraq

Member:

• Southern Historical Association

PSYCHOLOGY

Lisa Hager

Awarded:

• Teagle Summer Research Grant:  will work with two students to conduct a pilot project investigating the effects of methyl mercury exposure on development in children

Lectures/presentations given:

• Mobile Infirmary Hospice workers:  Presentation and workshop on how hospice workers can cope with work-related stress

• SHC Opening Week, Fall 2002:  Presented information to faculty from my participation in the Case Studies in Science Workshop

• SHC Faculty Friday:  Presented research on ADHD

Attended:

• Case Studies in Science Workshop, SUNY, Buffalo, New York (sponsored by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science with grant support from the Pew Charitable Trusts) 

• Invited participant

• Annual Conference on Teaching Case Studies in Science, Buffalo, New York

• Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Poster presentation

• College Board's Advanced Placement Psychology Reading, Daytona Beach, Florida

• Faculty consultant

• Heartland-Delta Conference, Denver, Colorado

• SHC Social Sciences Division summer 2002 retreat to revise the division's mission

• SHC Opening Week Learning Workshop, Fall 2002

• SHC Opening Week Active Learning Workshop, Spring 2003

External reviewer for psychology for MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

Student research supervision:  Supervised one student in conducting a research project 

In conjunction with Dr. Royce Simpson, took 2 students to the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference in New Orleans;  both students presented research

Organized poster session and colloquium for senior research students 

Restructured PSY 451 Senior Research:  required students to write proposals for their independent research projects, submit the proposals to SHC's new Institutional Review Board for approval, and present their projects through a poster session and oral presentations open to the SHC community

Implemented the use of case studies in PSY 304 Developmental Psychology, PSY 102 General Psychology II, and PSY 351 Descriptive Research Methods

Restructured PSY 304 Developmental Psychology so students took a more active role in learning

Participated in the revision of the social science core curriculum

Helped revise the current curriculum in psychology:  wrote the proposal to require PSY 468 History and Systems for the psychology major

Assisted in the development of SHC's Institutional Review Board

Helped write a grant proposal for a National Conferences on Undergraduate Research/Lancy Foundation grant (not funded)

Works in progress:

• Data analysis and research report for small grant research: "The development of lateralized short-term attention in children, adolescents, and adults with and without ADD"

• Completing draft of manuscript: "Are self-rating scales valid instruments for the diagnosis of ADD in adults?" which will be submitted in Summer 2003;  a student who graduated in May 2003 is assisting with this draft

• Writing manuscript on a pedagogical technique for teaching sensation and perception to intro students;  will be submitted in Summer 2003

• Conducting pilot study on the effects of methyl mercury consumption on the development of children on the Gulf Coast;  4 students are assisting with this project

Bob MacAleese

Awarded:

• Teagle Grant with Dr. Carol Harrison and Dr. George Gilmore to provide alternative curricula for nursing students who wish to change majors in their junior or senior year 

• Teagle Grant in conjunction with Dr. Charles Cheney to study critical thinking

Attended:

• American Association of Social Sciences annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada

Reviewed:

• General psychology textbook: Exploring Psychology (Myers) for Worth Publishers

• Counseling textbook: Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories and Interventions (Capuzzi and Gross) for Prentice-Hall publications 

Member:

• Southwest Alabama Mental Health Association:  Advisory board member

Completed:

• 40 CEU's for Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) license in Alabama

• 20 CEU's for renewal of National Board Certification as Professional Counselor (NBCC)

Program accreditation reviewer, Spectrum Center for Developmental Disabilities, Atlanta, Georgia

Conducted curriculum review that resulted in changes in the psychology major and minor

Works in progress:

• Revision of OMC 400/401 Organizational Behavior to new Organizational Leadership course LDR 360 Organizational Behavior and Leadership 

• Revision of PSY 445 Approaches to Psychotherapy and Counseling:  am incorporating new behavior therapy techniques learned at the American Association of Social Sciences annual meeting

Royce Simpson

Awarded:

• Teagle grant (with Dr. Kathleen Orange) for development of a multi-disciplinary course on social justice

Lectures/presentations given:

• SHC Faculty Friday: "Flashbulb Memories"

Publications:

• Book chapter for Condensed Knowledge, a popular book that makes academic disciplines accessible to the lay public

Attended:

• American Association of Colleges and Universities conference: "The Courage to Question: Liberal Education in the 21^st Century"

• Southeastern Psychological Association meeting

• National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Salt Lake City, Utah

• Best Practices in Assessment conference

• SHC summer meetings to discuss the social sciences division's contribution to the core curriculum

• SHC faculty development lecture and workshop:  Robert Leamnson

• SHC faculty development workshop:  Active Learning

Member:

• American Psychological Society

• Mobile Special Olympics Planning Committee

Reviewed Psychology 7^th edition (Myers)

Collected and analyzed data for a flashbulb memory project:  involved collecting data regarding memories of events surrounding the 9/11/01 attacks

Began literature review for a joint project with Dr. Larry Hall that will investigate the role of incentives on the likelihood of individuals enlisting in the military

Continued to maintain the "PsyQuest" websites created as part of a grant that expired in 2002

Student research supervision:  Supervised  two students working on independent research projects -- one assisted in completing a project examining the flashbulb memories for the events of September 11, 2001, and presented the research at the Southeastern Psychological Association meeting;  the other student (1) assisted in the fall with collecting data that will be used for the purpose of examining the effects of attractiveness on perceived intelligence and (2) completed in the spring an independent research project entitled The Effects of Thin-Ideal Internalization on Spring Hill College Students' Body Image and Implicit Attitudes which will probably be presented next fall

In conjunction with Dr. Lisa Hager, took students to the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference in New Orleans

Assisted other faculty with statistical data analysis

Continued curriculum review for the psychology major and minor;  resulted in the deletion of PSY 102 General Psychology II, the restructuring of PSY 101 General Psychology I, and changes to the minor

Developed and analyzed a survey administered to psychology majors, created an exit exam given to all senior psychology majors, and analyzed exit exam and ETS exam results

Participated in the Teagle-funded planning and establishment of an undergraduate research program:  collected data from peer schools regarding their undergraduate research programs; also involved visiting Birmingham Southern and Samford as well as talking to several other schools about the most important components in establishing an undergraduate research program

Works in progress:

• Submission of flashbulb memory project for publication

• Project designed to assess gender differences in the development of autobiographical memories

• Co-authoring a paper with Dr. Larry Hall on the role of gender and incentives on military enlistment

• Assisting Dr. Lisa Hager with collection of pilot data for a project assessing the role of mercury on cognitive functioning

• Working with Dr. Kathleen Orange to develop a multi-disciplinary course on social justice

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Nader Entessar

Publications:

• Kurdish Ethnicity (Tehran: Marefat Publishers, 2002).  (refereed book)

• United States-Iran Relations, Encyclopedia of Asian Studies (New York: Scribner's Sons, 2002). (refereed multi-volume publication)

• The Reform Movement and Iran's Foreign Policy Quagmire, Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, vol. 18, no. 2, November 2002 (refereed journal)

• Review of Martijn A. Roessingh's Ethonationalism and Political Systems in Europe: A State of Tension, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, vol. 29, nos. 1-2, 2002 (refereed journal)

• Review of Henner Furtig's Iran's Rivalry with Saudi Arabia between the Gulf Wars, Middle East Journal, vol. 57, no. 1, Winter 2003 (refereed journal)

• Negotiation or Ultimatum, Resalat (in Persian), June 17, 2002 (invited column)

• Challenges: Al-Qaida, War with Iraq, Mobile Register, September 8, 2002  (invited  column)

• Reformation War, Mobile Register, March 16, 2003  (invited column)

• Two articles for the Mobile Register Sunday editions

• Numerous short book reviews in Choice and Library Journal

Attended:

• 36^th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC

• Organized and chaired panel on "Challenges to Iran's Regional Foreign Policy"

• Presented paper:  "Iran's Israel Dilemma"

• International conference on "Iraqi Kurdistan: Ten Years of Self-Rule and Future Prospects," University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark (received a grant from the University of Southern Denmark to participate in this conference)

• Presented an invited paper:  "Iran's Position vis-à-vis the Iraqi Kurdistan"

• 21^st Annual Meeting of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA), Los Angeles, California

• Presented paper: "Iran's Security Challenge"

• Participant in roundtable on "U.S.-Iran Relations: Predicaments of a Quasi-Democracy"

• Chaired a panel on "Perspectives on Foreign Policy"

• SHC summer meetings on the social sciences in the core curriculum

Lectures/presentations given:

• Delivered the annual Saul Sidore Lecture on Global Justice, "The Kurdish Predicament and the Quest for Justice," at Plymouth State College, Plymouth, New Hampshire

• Participated in debate with Colonel Bill Callendar on "Efficiency versus  Fairness:  Ought the United States Re-institute the Military Draft?";  sponsored by the Philosophy Club

• Numerous interviews to several local, national and international media (e.g., Voice of America; Radio France International; BBC Radio; SBS Radio in Melbourne, Australia; WKRG TV-5, FOX 10-TV, WALA-TV in Mobile)

Reviewed articles for:

• Choice

• Library Journal

• Middle East Journal

• Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism

Served as the chief evaluator of a book manuscript, Bodies, Places and Time: Negotiations of Modernity, Nationalism, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey, for Routledge

Sponsored talks for students:

• Ms. Malesi Kinaro, Executive Director of the Uzima Foundation in Kenya:  "HIV/Aids and the Debt Crisis"

• Father Roy Bourgeois:  on the School of Americas Watch

• Cumberland School of Law:  on law school admissions policies 

Associate editor, Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis

Member of editorial board of:

• Journal of Third World Studies

• Journal of Central Asian Studies

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

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

Member of Executive Board of the Kurdish Studies Association

Incorporated computer-assisted exercises (using the Microcase ExplorIt statistical package) into courses 

Works in progress:

• Three book chapters

• Journal article

• At least one conference paper

Alex Landi [Division Chair]

Lectures/presentations given:

• Interviewed by WALA-TV regarding the debate between Don Siegelman and Bob Riley

Attended:

• Alabama Political Science Association Annual Conference:  served on Nominating Committee

• SHC Core Development summer seminar

• SHC summer retreat on social sciences and the core curriculum

• Coordinator

Member:

• Center for the Study of the Presidency

• Southern Political Science Association

• Alabama Political Science Association

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

Significant course revision:  POL 491 Senior Seminar -- used new texts, reorganized classes, involved students more in the classroom, guided students more closely through their seminar projects

Worked with Division of Teacher Education to design a major in social studies so secondary education majors can meet requirements of the new "No Child Left Behind" act; program will be submitted to the Curriculum Committee in fall 2003

Served as a judge for the Jesuit Advancement Administrators Special Events Awards category (at request of Ron Ferreri)

Kathleen Orange

Awarded:

• Teagle grant (with Dr. Royce Simpson) to develop a multi-disciplinary course on social justice

• Sabbatical for the 2003-04 academic year

 Attended:

• Follow-up to Santa Clara Justice Conference

Lectures/presentations given:

• Spoke to Rotary Club about SHC's service projects

Member:

• Steering committee to plan next Justice Conference

Developed an honors service/learning course on poverty

Used active learning techniques in POL 283 American Political Thought

Works in progress:

• Continued study of Bishop Cabrera's work and liberation theology

SOCIOLOGY

Larry Hall

Attended:

• Mid-South Sociological Association meetings, Memphis, Tennessee

• Presented a  paper 

• Chaired a session

• Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association meeting, Auburn, Alabama

• Southern Sociological Society meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana

Member:

• Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association

• Appointed to a committee to examine the possibility of the association publishing an electronic journal

• Mid-South Sociological Association

• Served as hotel negotiator

• Southern Sociological Society

Am in the process of incorporating some of Charles Bonwell's active learning approaches into courses

Began using PowerPoint in courses after the new Quinlan classrooms became available

Works in progress:

• Revising a paper on race and jury selection for journal submission

• Working on a paper on serving in the U.S. military and gender

• Analyzing focus group data on rural poverty in three southern states

• External evaluator for a Hope VI housing project in Prichard, Alabama