Division of Social Sciences 2003-04

HISTORY

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

Lectures/presentations given:

• Lecture on religious anthropology in Birmingham

• Orientation lectures for Masters in Theology program

Consulted with faculty at the University of California in preparation for a conference on Latin American history to take place in summer 2004

Discussions and studies on inter-religious dialogue

Studies for further development of materials for Asian history courses

Neil Hamilton

Volunteer abstractor for American History and Life published by ABC-CLIO

My writing continued to benefit my courses, especially HIS 499 Seminar, in which I focused on writing techniques

Works in progress:

• Working on book for Facts on File titled America in the 1970s

•  Revising Presidents book

• Revising HIS 104 United States Since 1876 to reflect research on the 1970s;  may prepare an upper division course on this topic

Patricia Harrison

Lectures/presentations given:

·         Stewartfield Lecture: “Votes for Women: Tactics, Tensions, and Triumphs”

Attended:

·         Southern Conference on British Studies, Southern Historical Association annual meeting, and Southern Association for Women Historians meeting, all held concurrently in Houston, Texas

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:

• Traveled to Ireland in summer 2003 and visited relevant historical sites and exhibits ranging from pre-Christian Ireland to twentieth-century Irish history;  bought books and visual materials to use in classes

• Read microfilm from 1908-1913 newspapers Nashville Banner, Nashville Tennessean, the Democrat (Nashville), Dallas Morning News, and Daily Picayune (New Orleans)

• Contacted the Director of the Archives at Fisk University in Nashville regarding material there

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

Submitted a paper to the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women for their conference to be held in Claremont, California, in June 2005

Worked with Division of Teacher Education regarding changes enacted by the State Department of Education; 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

Worked with a computer science student to set up a history website

Works in progress:

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

 John Welch

Attended:

• Lecture at the University of South Alabama on racial and gender ideologies as power strategies in American history, given by Dr. Jacqueline Jones from Brandeis University

• SHC Opening Week workshops

Visited:

• National D-Day Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Napoleon and Lewis and Clark exhibits at the New Orleans Museum of Art 

Works in progress:

• Revising HIS 101 Western Civilization to 1648 and HIS 104 United States Since 1876: more detailed syllabi, additional videos

• Increasing engagement with students, especially marginal freshman students during the first six to eight weeks of the fall semester

• Continue to make classes more relevant and interesting

PSYCHOLOGY

Lisa Hager

Publications:

• Teaching case study entitled “The Mozart Effect: A Psychological Research Methods Case” was reviewed and published at http://www.sciencecases.org/psych_research/psych_research.asp.  The manuscript has been reviewed and is expected to be published in the fall edition of the Journal of College Science Teaching.

Awarded:

• Teagle Summer Research Grant

Lectures/presentations given:

• SHC Opening Week, Fall 2003:  Led roundtable discussion on Institutional Review Boards

Attended:

• Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia

• Southeastern Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference in Birmingham

• APA/ORI workshop: “Ethics in Conducting Research,” Washington, DC

• Council of Undergraduate Research workshop:  “Institutionalizing Undergraduate Research”

• SHC Opening Week activities, Fall 2003

• SHC Opening Week activities, Spring 2004

Faculty consultant for the Advanced Placement Exam in Psychology for the Educational Testing Service, Daytona Beach, Florida

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

Student research supervision:  Supervised three students in conducting research projects

Student teaching assistant supervision:  Supervised one student as a teaching assistant

In conjunction with Dr. Royce Simpson, accompanied 6 students to the Southeastern Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference in Birmingham; one student presented research

Took 2 students to the Southeastern Psychology Association Conference in Atlanta; both students presented research

Organized poster session and colloquium for senior research students 

Introduced new textbook in PSY 468 History and Systems;  student reading of material and participation in class were much improved over previous years

Continued work on the revision of the social science core curriculum

With the help of work study students and my colleagues, organized a library of materials for students so they can check out books with information on graduate school, careers, and the GRE

Chair of SHC's Institutional Review Board

Faculty representative on the Student Services Committee of  SHC’s Board of Trustees

Co-chair of SHC’s Quality Enhancement Plan Committee for SACS

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?"

• Writing manuscript on a pedagogical technique for teaching sensation and perception to intro students

• Conducting pilot study on the effects of methyl mercury consumption on the development of children on the Gulf Coast

• Working with Dr. Terry Mathers on a manuscript regarding research funding for the Journal of Nephrology

• Revising PSY 351 Descriptive Research Methods to include more coverage of the importance of research, information literacy, plagiarism, and writing

• Revising PSY 304 Developmental Psychology as a 3-hour evening class

Bob MacAleese

Lectures/talks/presentations given:

• Mobile Association of Professional Counselors:  “New Alabama Guidelines for Licensing”

Attended:

• American College of Forensic Psychology/Psychiatry annual conference, San Francisco, California

Reviewed:

• Three chapters of the general psychology textbook Psychology by Seaman and Kendrick, Prentice-Hall, 2003

• Chapter on stress in the health psychology textbook An Invitation to Health by Hales, Thomson, 2004  

Sponsored three class speakers and a college-wide talk on internet fraud by an FBI agent

Revised PSY 330 Industrial/Organizational Psychology to provide students with more out-of-class assignments

Works in progress:

• Revising PSY 330 Industrial/Organizational Psychology to include more in-class graded projects and exercises

• Revising PSY 445 Approaches to Psychotherapy and Counseling Psychology to include more in-class graded projects and exercises

• Preparing to teach PSY 320 Personality Theories in fall 2005

Royce Simpson

Publications:

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

• Co-authored paper with Jennifer Clavin which was submitted to the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research for publication in Spring 2004

Attended:

• Southeastern Psychological Association meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

• Southeastern Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, Birmingham, Alabama

• Heartland-Delta Faculty Conversations

• SHC Opening Day 2003 poster presentation on involving undergraduates in research

Member:

• American Psychological Society

• Mobile Special Olympics Planning Committee

• SHC’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute Planning Committee:  wrote portions of grant proposal and researched biomedical instruments for the grant budget

Reviewed two textbooks:  General Psychology and Social Psychology

Moderator for all sessions of SHC’s COOL (Celebration of Our Learning) Day

Supervised five students working on independent research projects:

• One student worked on a project entitled The Effects of Thin-Ideal Internalization on Spring Hill College Students' Body Image and Implicit Attitudes;  this research was presented at a regional conference and at SHC’s COOL Day and has also been submitted for publication to the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research

• One student worked on a project investigating the effects of short-term diets on body image;  this research was presented at a regional conference and at SHC’s COOL Day

• Three students assisted me with my research on gender difference in autobiographical memories

Accompanied students to the Southeastern Psychological Association meeting in Atlanta

Developed and analyzed a survey administered to psychology majors;  analyzed exit (ETS) exam results

Co-leader of Cubscouts

Taught two new courses:  

• PSY 380 Learning and Behavior:  employed unique discussion format with daily mini-exams

• PSY 375 Cognitive Psychology

Works in progress:

•  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

• Preparing new course on senior research

• Significantly revising PSY 491 Senior Seminar

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Nader Entessar

Awarded grant from the Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies to conduct research on the conditions of the Iranian Kurds in light of recent developments in neighboring Iraq

Publications:

• Review article on War Without End, Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, vol. 19, no. 1, Spring 2003 (refereed journal)

• Hegemonic Discourse and the Looming Crisis in Iraq, Resalat, June 3, 2003 (invited article)

• Numerous short reviews in Choice and Library Journal

Attended:

• 45^th annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada

• Organized and chaired panel on "Dominance, Power, and Conflict Outcomes"

• Presented paper:  "Permanent War, Elusive Peace"

• Conference on “The Implications of the Iraq War for the Kurdish Question,” Boston, Massachusetts

• Presented an invited paper:  " The Implications of the Iraq War for the Kurds in Iran "

• Annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Presented paper:  “Islam, Authenticity, and the Crisis of Legitimacy”

• Conference on globalization and the Middle East, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

• Speaker on plenary panel

• Commentator on an "author-meets-critics" panel on Farhang Rajaee's book entitled Globalization on Trial: The Human Condition and the Information Civilization

Lectures/presentations given:

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

• International Studies Forum, University of South Alabama: "The Neo-Cons and the Shaping of America's Contemporary Middle East Policy"

• West Mobile Rotary Club:  "The New Media in the Middle East"

• Ashland Place United Methodist Church:  Talk on Islam

• St. Lawrence Parish:  Talk on Zoroastrianism

Reviewed articles for:

• Choice

• Library Journal

• Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

• Journal of Third World Studies

Served as chief evaluator of a book manuscript, Conflict Resolution Processes, for McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Served as one of two evaluators of a book manuscript, Manufacturing Identity and Managing Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran, for Syracuse University Press

Sponsored talks for students:

• Mr. Werner Fornos, president of the Population Institute in Washington, DC, for SHC students

• Ms. Bettie Harris of the Cumberland School of Law for SHC pre-law students

• Assistant Director of Admissions at St. Louis University School of Law for SHC pre-law students  

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 multi-volume encyclopedia)

• Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism

Introduced new course on international law which was taught online 

Revised European politics course by adding non-European countries and making the course a truly comparative one that goes beyond politics and compares a number of countries on a broader scale that includes geography, modern history, and culture

Continued to use in-class computer-based simulations  

Works in progress:

• Two book chapters

• One conference paper

Alex Landi [Division Chair]

Awarded:

• Hacker J. Fagot, S.J. Award, given by the Student Government Association to honor a member of the faculty who has contributed outside the classroom the greatest service to the student body 

Publications:

Contributed to forthcoming article in SHC's alumni magazine 

Lectures/talks/presentations given:

• Local television news interview on Judge Roy Moore's activities

Member:

• Alabama Political Science Association

Provided pre-publication advice for Prentice Hall:

• on Harold Sullivan's Civil Rights and Liberties

• on the table of contents of a constitutional law text

 Brought to completion the process of modifying the social science portion of the core curriculum so that it is more coherent and more in line with the core curriculum's mission

Works in progress:

• Significant revisions to POL 112 American National Government that will be taught to Lifelong Learning students next spring; will focus greater attention on the local dimension of American politics

• Minor revisions to LIS 503 Modernity

Kathleen Orange

Awarded:

• Sabbatical for the 2003-04 academic year

SOCIOLOGY

Larry Hall

Attended:

• Mid-South Sociological Association annual meeting, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

• Presented paper: " Title IX Hearings, Special Interest Groups, and Judicial Activism" by Larry D. Hall and Audwin Anderson

• Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association annual meeting, Starkville, Mississippi

• Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia

• Presented paper on Hope VI research: "Public Housing Residents to Home Ownership: Hope or Fantasy"

Member:

• Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Association

• Coordinator for new e-journal

• Mid-South Sociological Association

• Southern Sociological Society

Directed research for Hope VI project aimed at improving low-income housing in Prichard; involved supervising SHC students and completing an external evaluation for the Prichard Housing Authority

Converted several courses to PowerPoint:  SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology, SOC 256 Cultural Anthropology, SOC 385 Sociology of Sport, SOC 351 Marriage and Family

Works in progress:

• Paper on Title IX

• Paper on factors influencing young people to join the military

• Combining PowerPoint with more active forms of learning

• Second phase of Hope VI research