Spotlight Archives
May 2012
New Books
David Holt, BA '01, published Big League City: Oklahoma City’s Rise to the NBA, the story behind the arrival of major league sports in Oklahoma City.
Jane Shore, professor of English, authored That Said: New and Selected Poems.
Awards and Recognition
Megan Buonaiuto, a senior chemistry and history major, and Heather Dingwall, a senior in biological anthropology and archeology, were honored by GW with an Outstanding Academic Achievement Award. Both will be speaking at the Columbian College Celebration ceremonies on May 19.
Kerry Crawford, a doctoral candidate in political science, received one of six 2012 Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellowships to support her dissertation, “Punctuated Silence: Variation in the International Response to Wartime Sexual Predation," which examines how the international community dealt with elements of predation.
Juniors Nathaniel Diskint, biological anthropology, and Caitlin Keating, psychology, won 4th place in the GW Business Plan Competition for their proposal Imagnus Biomedical, designed to make quality and cost-effective biomedical instruments that offer advanced solutions in the areas of research and medicine.
Laura Hardwick, political communications student, and Dorothy Gilliam, research scientist in media and public affairs, are featured in a video about Prime Movers Media, GW’s intensive journalism mentorship program that aired at the recent White House Correspondents’ dinner.
Dorothy E. Holmes, professor emeritus of clinical psychology and professional psychology, received the Lifetime Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women’s and Racial Issues in Psychoanalysis from the American Psychological Association.
Garett Howardson, doctoral candidate in industrial and organizational psychology, won the International Personnel Assessment Council James C. Johnson Student Paper Competition Award for his paper “Coming Full Circle with Reactions: Toward an Understanding of Affective Training Reactions through the Core Affect Circumplex”.
Michelle Jurkovich, a graduate student in political science, was awarded a grant from the Loughran Foundation to conduct dissertation research at Oxford University.
Michael D. Larson, associate professor of biostatistics, was selected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Julian Panero, a student in Chinese and economics, won first place in the D.C. 11th Annual Chinese Bridge Speech Competition.
Jozef Przytycki, professor of mathematics, is part of a collaborative international research project, “Algebraic Modeling of Topological and Computational Structures", that received a $700,000 grant from the Greek Government and European Union.
Elizabeth Saunders, asst. professor of political science and international affairs, won the American Political Science Association International History and Politics section's Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Award for her book "Leaders at War." She also received a Wilson Center Fellowship for 2012-13.
John Sides, associate professor of political science, was awarded a $76,160 grant by the National Science Foundation, to survey and assess attitudes toward two social groups—African Americans and Muslims—to determine how and why group-centrism affects political attitudes.
Cheryl Vann, adjunct honors professor, was selected to participate in the Japan Studies Association Freeman Summer Institute for incorporating Japan Studies into the undergraduate curriculum.
Ross White, a graduate student in philosophy and social policy, won a Walter Green Fellowship to support his graduate studies.
Ellen Zane, BA ’73, a GW trustee and Columbian College National Council member, was named the third most powerful woman in healthcare by HealthExecNews.com.
Selected Published Works
Catherine Snow Bailard, assistant professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs, authored “A Field Experiment on the Internet’s Effect in an African Election: Savvier Citizens, Disaffected Voters, or Both?” in the Journal of Communication.
Brandon Bartels, assistant professor of political science, authored "Political Justice? Perceptions of Politicization and Public Preferences toward the Supreme Court Appointment Process" in Public Opinion Quarterly.
Douglas Boyce, associate professor of music, released a CD “Group Theory” with his ensemble counter)induction.
Xiaoning (Julia) Chen, Hanban Teaching Fellow from China and Chinese language instructor, has been a regular contributor to a popular series entitled “Teaching Chinese in the USA” in an on-line magazine on the Chinese language 中国语言生活. Most recently she authored “Me and Chinese Bridge,” and “Positive Attitude”.
Henry Hale, associate professor of political science, published “Two Decades of Post-Soviet Regime Dynamics” in the spring 2012 edition of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.
Professor of Mathematics Valentina Harizanov co-authored “The Computable Embedding Problem,” published in Algebra and Logic and “Isomorphism Relations on Computable Structures,” published in the Journal of Symbolic Logic 77.
Alexander Huang, associate professor of English, authored "Global Shakespeare 2.0 and the Task of the Performance Archive" in Shakespeare Survey and "The Theatricality of Religious Rhetoric: Gao Xingjian and the Meaning of Exile" in Theatre Journal.
Young-Key Kim-Renaud, chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, authored “The Vowel System and Vowel Harmony in 15th-Century Korean: Alay-a (•) Revisited,” in Japanese/Korean Linguistics, Vol. 20 and co-authored “Agreement in Korean Revisited,” in Inquiries into Korean Linguistics IV: 209-222 with Miok D. Pak, teaching assistant professor in the Korean Language.
Geralyn Schulz, associate dean of research and outreach and professor of speech and hearing sciences, co-authored “Selective Left, Right and Bilateral Stimulation of Subtalamic Nuclei in Parkinson’s Disease: Differential Effects on Motor, Speech and Language Function” in the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease.
Guanyu Wang, assistant research professor of physics, authored “Optimal Homeostasis Necessitates Bistable Control” in the Journal of Royal Society Interface.
April 2012
New Books
Dameon Alexander, assistant professorial lecturer in sociology authored The Imprint of Business Norms on American Education.
Erin D. Chapman, assistant professor of history, authored her first book, Prove It On Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s.
Barry Chiswick, chair of the Department of Economics, edited Recent Developments in the Economics of International Migration, Volume One.
Charles Freericks, BA ’83, authored the book My Imaginary Friend Was Too Cool to Hang Out With Me.
Daniel Marschall, professorial lecturer in sociology, authored The Company We Keep: Occupational Community in the High-Tech Network Society.
Graduate teaching assistant Wesley J. Reisser, MA ’07, authored his first book The Black Book: Woodrow Wilson's Secret Plan for Peace.
Gregory D. Squires, professor of sociology and public policy and public administration, co-edited the book Warfare Welfare: The Not-So-Hidden Costs of America’s Permanent War Economy.
Awards and Recognition
Kelly Bauer, a graduate student in political science, received a U.S. Student Fulbright award for 2012-13 to conduct fieldwork in Chile.
History students Carly Gibbs and Robin Pokorski represented GW at the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference last month at Towson State University. Pokarski’s paper, "The Nobility of the Mind: Isotta Nogarola, Laura Cereta and the Question of the Appropriate Forum for Female Humanists," won second place.
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, written by Suleiman Osman, assistant professor of American studies, won the Hornblower Award from the New York Society Library.
Elizabeth Saunders, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, received a Wilson Center Fellowship to work on her project "Power Projection in International Relations".
Martin Schwartz, visiting professor in sociology, received the 2012 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award.
Susan Sell, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, received a Wilson Center Fellowship to work on her book Cat and Mouse: Forum Shifting and the Battle over Intellectual Property Protection and Enforcement.
Graduate student in anthropology Anna Stewart received a Critical Language Scholarship from the Department of State to travel to Jaipur, India where she will study Hindi for 10 weeks this summer.
Courtney Wallin, graduate student in psychology, received a $30,000 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship to compare younger and older adults in judging the absolute distance of objects seen in a natural indoor environment.
Selected Published Works
Stephanie Cellini, assistant professor of public policy and public administration, authored a study featured in the Boston Globe on how for-profit schools who receive federal financial aid set higher rates for their tuition than those who go without government support.
Martin D. Schwartz, visiting professor in sociology, co-authored “Left Realism” in Handbook of Critical Criminology.
The late Lee Sigelman, former professor of political science, and Robert Goldfarb, professor emeritus of economics and political science, authored "The Influence of Economics on Political Science: By What Pathway?" in Journal of Economic Methodology.
Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, authored “Rapid, Non-Targeted Discovery of Biochemical Transformation and Biomarker Candidates in Oncovirus-Infected Cell Lines Using LAESI Mass Spectrometry” in Chemical Communication.
Paul Wahlbeck, professor of political science, co-authored "The Origin and Development of Stare Decisis at the U.S. Supreme Court" in New Directions in Judicial Politics.
Assistant Professor of Art Therapy Elizabeth Warson authored the article “Exploring American Indian Adolsecents’ Needs through a Community-Driven Study” in The Arts in Psychotherapy.
March 2012
Awards
Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs Jeff Blomster received a $267,605 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his research work at Etlatongo, Oaxaca, Mexico, to explore the emergence and dynamics of the people of the Nochixtlán Valley between 1150 and 850 BC.
Political Science graduate student Kerry Crawford won a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Jake Haselswerdt, a graduate student in political science, received the award for best poster by the American Political Science Association's Public Policy Section.
Political Science graduate student Lisel Hintz received a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State, enabling her to conduct dissertation research in Turkey.
Ruth Weintraub Professor of Biology Gustavo Hormiga received an award of $424,002 from NSF to examine the taxonomy and systematics of selected Neotropical species of spiders.
Senior journalism and mass communication major Haley Lesavoy won a Gracie Award for her work as host of the GWTV show "Select Seven."
Assistant Professor of American Studies Suleiman Osman received the American Council of Learned Societies/Oscar Handlin Fellowship to support his new project "The New Localism: Neighborhood Activism and Slow-Growth Politics in North America and Europe in the 1970s."
Brian Richmond, chair of the Department of Anthropology, received a NSF grant to conduct fieldwork in Koobi Fora, Kenya, relating to fossil bones and footprints of human ancestors and relatives from 1.4-1.6 million years ago.
Political science doctoral candidates Ajay Verghese and Rachel Whitlark were selected, respectively, for a Shorenstein Fellowship in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University and a Stanton Nuclear Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Recognition
Seven geography graduate students— Eric Ashcroft, Emiko Guthe, Ellen Hatleberg, Amanda Osborne, Genevieve Parente, Colin Reisser, and Maianna Voge—and two geography undergraduate students—Kathleena Mumford and Kelsey Nyland— presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
The Maryland Theatre Guide featured Zack Colonna, BA ’07, in the article, “A Quick 5 with Zack Colonna.” He will appear as the title character in “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown” at the Olney Theatre Center through March 18.
Five communication majors—Madison Cooke, Ashley Huffman, Alya Ibrahim, Risa Langelo, and Tess Leibowitz—authored senior theses that were accepted for presentation at the Theodore H. Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate Honors Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
Sociology graduate students Scott Grether, Amanda Hayes, Allison Helmuth, Kai Jenkins, Jee Jee Kim, and Gerilyn Slicker presented papers at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society Conference in New York.
Gabrileel Demczuk, who is majoring in fine arts and minoring in journalism, wrote and edited the video “Saving Madagascar’s Forests” published on the National Geographic website.
Professor of Mathematics Valentina Harizanov presented an invited paper "Pi-0-1 Equivalence Structures and Their Isomorphisms" at the international meeting on Computability Theory at the Oberwolfach Mathematical Institute in Germany.
Patrick McDonough, MFA ’10, is one of the artists participating in the award-winning Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit that will be on display April 21 through October 20 in the Foggy Bottom Historic District.
I Am, a documentary short created by junior political communication major Sara Snyder and alumnus Stephen Molldrem, BA '11, will be screened at the 2012 Undergraduate Ethics Symposium at DePauw University.
Patricia Phalen, associate professor of media and public affairs, traveled to Sweden’s annual TV Drama Vision Seminar, presenting research on Hollywood writers and leading a discussion on the differences between European and American production.
Doctoral candidate in economics Pingkang Yu appeared on the daily news program Biz Asia America discussing the G20 Mexico Meetings on February 24.
Selected Published Works
Brandon Bartels, assistant professor of political science, published “Politics at the Checkout Line: Explaining Political Consumerism in the U.S.” in Political Research Quarterly.
David Hildebrand, MA ’87, is the primary music historian for a documentary in production, entitled Anthem, about music of the War of 1812 in America and the true story of the birth of "The Star-Spangled Banner." It is scheduled for release this summer on Maryland Public Television.
Hugo Junghenn, professor of mathematics, authored Option Valuation: A Frist Course in Financial Mathematics.
Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs Albert May co-authored a chapter in the new book Citizen 2.0: Public and Governmental Interaction through Web 2.0 Technologies that explores how social media technologies affect the interaction between Congress and the American people.
Professor of English Robert McRuer co-edited the collection of essays Sex and Disability.
Rani Parker, PhD ’04, was featured in the Maryland Entrepreneur Quarterly.
Jozef Przytychi, professor of mathematics, authored the article "Distributivity Versus Associativity in the Homology Theory of Algebraic Structures" published in Demonstratio Mathematica. Several doctoral candidates in mathematics worked on problems proposed in the paper and will present it (in posters) at GWU Research Days 2012 March 28-29.
Daniel B. Schwartz, assistant professor of history, authored The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image.
Assistant Professor of Art Therapy Elizabeth Warson authored the article “Healing Pathways: Art Therapy for American Indian Cancer Survivors” published in the Journal of Cancer Education.
February 2012
New Books
Eric Cline, chair of the Department of Classical & Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, co-authored the book The Ahhiyawa Texts.
Thomas Mallon, director of the Creative Writing Program, wrote the novel Watergate, which was featured in this month’s Washingtonian magazine and recently made Newsweek’s list of 12 books “not to miss” in 2012.
Awards and Recognition
Donna Betts, assistant professor of art therapy, authored the article “Positive Art Therapy Assessment: Looking towards Positive Psychology for New Directions in the Art Therapy Evaluation Process” in the book Assessment in Art Therapy.
Alexis Boyd, a student in the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, won a grant from the Cosmos Club for her work in the development of an in vitro model of invasion by the infective L3 of Brugia malayi in human skin.
During the Homecoming game on February 18, five Columbian College alumni—Tina Brown, BA ’90, MFA ’96; Ingrid (Wicker) McCree, BA ’89; Chris Monroe, BA ’04; Shawnta Rogers, BA ’11; and the late Jim Tarr, BA ’60—will be inducted to the GW Athletic Hall of Fame.
Michael Komo, BA’11, former president of Pi Sigma Alpha, received a Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from GW for his outstanding service, leadership, and embodiment of the values and the dream of Dr. King.
Pravin J. Mishra, a student in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, received the 2012 National Cancer Institute (NCI) Director's Innovation award of $10,000 for her research during the NCI Intramural PI Retreat.
Svetlana Roudenko, assistant professor of mathematics, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program grant of $450,000 for five years.
Amir Stepak, a graduate student in political science, received a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation's World Politics Statecraft and Fellowship Program.
January 2012
Awards and Recognition
The Jazzies, D.C.’s Jazz Awards, named Herman Burney, part-time faculty in the Department of Music, D.C.'s Best Bassist for 2011.
Yvonne Captain, associate professor of Spanish and international affairs, was recently honored with an award in her name: the Yvonne Captain Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to International Education. She also chaired a session and presented a paper at the 6th biennial conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora.
Lindsay Garvin, graduate student in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, was awarded a PhRMA Foundation Fellowship, which provides a two-year stipend to support her pre-doctoral studies.
Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology, was lead investigator for the study “The Epidemiology of Autism in South Korea,” listed as one of the Editor’s Choices 2011 in Nature.
Professor of Mathematics Valentina Harizanov gave a lecture at the Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, University of Vienna.
Alexander Huang, associate professor of English, will be a research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library from January to March in 2012. He also was appointed to the Modern Language Association's (MLA) Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare and was elected to the MLA executive committee on East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900.
Qing Pan, assistant professor of statistics, received a Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children's National Mentored Research Career Development Award.
Selected Published Works
Professor of Chemistry Chris Cahill and his research group co-authored the article “Uranyl Sensitization of Samarium (III) Luminescence in a Two-Dimensional Coordination Polymer” published in and featured on the cover of Inorganic Chemistry.
Elizabeth Fisher, professor of classics, served as co-editor of Byzantine Religious Culture: Studies in Honor of Alice-Mary Talbot. She also published an article in that volume, "Michael Psellos on the 'Usual' Miracle at Blachernae, the Law, and Neoplatonism".
Lisel Hintz, a graduate student in political science, published "Explaining Democratic Failure in the Post-Soviet Space" in The Washington Review of Turkish and Eurasian Affairs’ December issue.
The Shakespearean International Yearbook, edited by Associate Professor of English Alexander Huang, with a special section edited by Professor of English Jonathan Gil Harris, was published.
Harris Mylonas, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, authored "Greece" in the European Journal of Political Research.
Gregory Squires, professor of sociology and public policy and public administration, authored “Professors Stand with Occupy Protesters” in the Occupied Washington Times.
Clay Warren, Chauncey M. Depew Professor of Communication, authored “Family Sex Communication Quotient” in Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures.