Faculty News
(select image to purchase
from Amazon.com)Irwin Abrams recently co-edited
The
Iraq War and Its Consequences: Thoughts of Nobel Peace Laureates
and Eminent Scholars.
In this book, Abrams - Antioch College Professor of History,
Emeritus, and leading authority worldwide on the history of
the Nobel Peace Prize - and co-editor Wang Gungwu - renowned
historian and Director of the East Asian Institute at the
National University of Singapore - have collected works of
notable laureates and scholars from diverse backgrounds. The
Nobel Peace Laureates and eminent scholars, together, expound
on the consequences and impacts of the Iraq War - an effort
that has not been made before. Prominent contributors include:
Tensin Gyatso, Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet; José
Ramos-Horta, Foreign Minister of East Timor; Peter Hansen,
Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency; and Noam Chomsky, political critic and Professor of
Linguistics, MIT.
Jill
Becker, Assistant Professor of Dance, was artist-in-residence
at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts. During the
week she was a guest teacher in dance classes and set a version
of the Newspaper Dance on students. She also performed two
pieces in the Five College Dance Concert at Hampshire College.
She opened the concert with Storytelling,
an amusing piece which uses trans-language vocalizing combined
with audience participation as the aural element. Becker then
showcased her range in Indictment,
a sorrowful solo performance she created at the time of the
first Gulf War.
Kab
N. Butamina, Associate Professor of Chemistry,
presented a paper entitled "A Mechanistic Ab Initio Study
of Acrylamide Formation in Fried Foods" at the Annual
Poster Session of the American Chemical Society/Society for
Applied Spectroscopy at the University of Dayton in March
2003 with student co-author J. Robert
Scott '03.
Samantha (Williams) Eckenrode '83
rejoined the co-op department as Visiting Assistant Professor
of Cooperative Education in September 2003. She previously
worked as an advisor from 1994-1996. In the fall term, she
authored a weekly Record column called "Dear Co-op Advisor"
in which she responded to commonly asked questions by current
Antioch students.
In Spring term 2004, she queried the 15% of the current Antioch
faculty & faculty emeritus who graduated from Antioch
about their participation in the co-op program; those interviews
also ran in the Record.
Eckenrode has lived and worked abroad in many countries,
including Germany, England, France, Morocco, Japan, and Thailand.
In London she became certified to teach English as a Foreign
Language, and in Japan she spent a year and a half teaching
EFL. She also has extensive writing, editing, and research
experience at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation (Dayton,
OH), Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, OH), and the Antioch
Review (Yellow Springs, OH). Her current areas of interest
include memoir, adoption issues, and comparative religions.
She also serves on the boards of the Riding Centre and the
YS Kids Playhouse, a therapeutic riding program and an innovative
arts organization for children.
Sam Eckenrode, her husband, Eddie, and their son, Polo, live
on Livermore Street in the house originally built by former
college secretary Helen Tordt, who housed many Antioch student
boarders during the 40s, 50s & 60s. Together they own
and operate Sam & Eddie's Open Books, a local Yellow Springs
landmark bookstore & art gallery.
Ann
Filemyr was promoted to Full Professor of Journalism/Communications
& Environmental Studies in the spring of 2003. In fall
of 2003, she completed a nine-month sabbatical supported by
an anonymous donor to complete a manuscript. She enjoyed a
one-month residency at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos,
New Mexico. She has done readings of her work in Taos; with
the Eco-Poets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for Earth Day; and at
Epic Books in Yellow Springs. She has also been invited to
teach a writing course for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Filemyr holds a minister's license in the non-profit religious
organization founded by the late Keewaydinoquay Peschel. Her
work in this community since the fall of 2002 has involved
leading numerous ceremonies, including conducting three marriages
and one baby naming ceremony. She also led and/or co-facilitated
three weeklong spiritual retreats and nine weekend workshops
in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota based on the teachings
of Keewaydinoquay. She had an article published in the on-line
journal, From the Field, in
Winter 2003.
Christopher
Garcia, Associate Professor of Art, instructed
a week-long winter workshop on primitive ceramic techniques
and stabilized adobe at the Casa Mosaico Artist Retreat in
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. He was Artist-In-Residence at the
Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska, where he instructed a two-week
workshop with students working in adobe and stabilized adobe.
Garcia has two articles, "The Residency Program at Philadelphia's
Clay Studio" and "Ceramics in Deruta, Italy,"
which will appear in Ceramics Monthly
Magazine. His artwork has appeared in numerous exhibitions
across the country, including several group shows, and a solo
show at the Urban Arts Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Benjamin
Scott Grossberg, Assistant Professor of Literature
and Creative Writing, had five poems accepted for publication.
He also bought a small farm in Clayton, Ohio, and began restoring
the 100-year-old farmhouse.
David
Kammler, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, had
the article "Aldol Reactions of Unsubstitued Beta-Lactams:
Studies of a Beta Clycine Enolate Equivalent" published
in the chemical journal Heterocycles. This article was co-published
by David R. Williams and Andy Donnell. The article is based
on a portion of Kammler's graduate research, and continuing
studies derived from it. The methods developed by this research
solve a small but annoying problem in organic synthesis, and
provide novel entries into beta-lactam and pyridone antibiotics.
Cheryl Keen, Dean of Community
Learning, and Jim
Keen, College Professor, published "From Service
Politics to Lives of Commitment: Reflections on the New Student
Politics" in the July 2004 Journal
of Public Affairs.
Janice
Rye Kinghorn, Assistant Professor of Economics
had a baby, Joseph Patrick Wielsen. Joseph was born on October
13, 2003. He joins his two brothers for a big, noisy house
full of boys. Kinghorn also published "A Practice Without
Defenders: The Price Effects of Cartelization" in How
Cartels Endure and How They Fail
in April 2004.
David
LaPalombara, Professor of Art, spent his fall sabbatical
at the American University in Rome as a visiting artist. He
had a show at the Wingspread Gallery in Maine. His other accomplishments
include running the Boston Marathon, in which he finished
280th out of 20,000 runners, and the Columbus Marathon, which
he finished in 2:44 - 32nd out of 4,000 runners.
Pat
Linn, J.D. Dawson Professor of Cooperative Education
and Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, gave the
keynote presentation at the combined meeting of the New England
Association for Cooperative Education and Field Experience
(NEACEFE) and the New York State Cooperative and Experiential
Education Association (NYSCEEA) in Saratoga Springs, NY, in
October, 2003.
She also chaired a co-op student Learner's Panel and presented
a session about her research at the World Association of Cooperative
Education's Symposium on Work-Integrated Learning in Pensacola
Beach, Florida, in November, 2003. Her study, focused on the
links between occupational categories of jobs taken on co-op
and in post-graduate jobs for a sample of Antioch alumni/ae
from 1946-55, will appear in the forthcoming issue of the
Journal of Vocational Behavior.
She also sent her youngest off to college this year, and
is learning to enjoy "the empty nest."
Nevin
Mercede, Associate Professor/Painting and Printmaking,
presented a paper on the results of last summer's traveling
block course, The Culture of Art Exhibitions,
at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York
City. She was one of four presenters in the session on Audience
Research and Evaluation in Art Museums, which was chaired
by Dr. Robert Eskridge, Executive Director of Education at
the Chicago Art Institute.
Mercede also chaired a round- table discussion at the Biennial
FATE Conference in Sarasota, Florida titled
Cultural Perceptions of Time and Space: Effects on Learning.
This discussion centered around how general cultural understandings/perceptions
of time affect programming, student attitudes, learning approaches,
interests, and evaluations. She also posed these same initial
questions in relation to artists-as-educators. While no large
conclusions were drawn, it was very interesting to see how
institutional type, geographic/geopolitical location affected
the participants positions.
In addition to chairing the above session, Mercede participated
in a panel discussion on how assignments should guide students,
and how different strategies affect student creativity. Mercede
focused on the need for flexibility and responsiveness to
students in the planning and implementation of assignments.
She also facilitated two lunch table discussions. The first
was on studio art and general education and the second was
on art history and cultural literacy.
Mercede exhibited artwork in the 2003 Korea International
Contemporary Print Exhibition, Seijong Art Center, Seoul and
Danwon Art Center, in Ansan, Korea.
She was granted tenure in the fall of 2003.
Patricia
Mische, the Lloyd Professor for Peace Studies and
World Law, has two chapters in a forthcoming (2004) book from
State University of New York Press:
Educating
for a Culture of Social and Ecological Peace. Mische's
chapters are on "Ecological Security: New Challenges
for Human Learning," and "Relationships Between
Peace and Environmental Education." The latter article
is co-authored with Ian Harris of the University of Wisconsin.
Mische's book, Toward
a Global Civilization? The Contribution of Religions,
(co-edited with Melissa Merkling and published by Peter Lang
Publishing, 2001) is being translated into Portuguese for
publication and distribution in Portugal and Brazil.
Mische made major presentations at a number of events and
conferences, including the keynote presentation to launch
the "Season of Nonviolence" series co-sponsored
by peace and interfaith groups in the Dayton region that honors
the memories of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The
series ran from January 30 to April 4th in memory of the deaths
of these two great leaders of nonviolence.
She gave the keynote presentation on March 6 at the Peace
and Justice Conference sponsored by the Diocese of Baltimore,
Maryland. She also made a presentation on April 19 at Xavier
University's fifth annual "Town Hall Meeting: Expert-Led
Dialogue on the Vital Issues and Impacts of Globalization."
Pat spoke on "Women and Globalization." Additionally,
Mische was invited to give a series of lectures at the European
University Center for Peace Studies (EPU) in Stadtschlaining,
Austria. The EPU program attracts peace scholars from around
the world.
Mische is making the plenary presentation at the International
Peace Research Association conference to be held in Sopron,
Hungary, July 5-9. Pat has been invited to address the topic:
"Globalization and Reforming Higher Education for New
Knowledge Economies: Old Dangers or New Challenges and Opportunities
for Human Rights, Equity, and Peace." As part of an exchange
with Maseno University in Kenya, Mische will visit and lecture
at Maseno College later in 2004. She has been asked to help
develop a Peace Studies program at Maseno. In addition, she
will visit rural women's development projects in the Maseno
region. Mische, who once taught in this region of Kenya, has
been assisting the projects since 1997.
Helen
E. Richardson, Assistant Professor in Theatre,
published her article, "Shakespeare: A Mediator for Our
Times?" in the October 2003 AC
Resolution, a journal of the Association for Conflict
Resolution. She presented a paper on the same topic at the
Ohio University's Comparative Dramatic Literature conference.
Her review of Shane White's Stories
of Freedom in Black New York appears in the Spring
2003 issue of the Antioch Review.
She also participated in the Augusto Boal Workshop on Theatre
of the Oppressed, thanks to the Faculty Professional Development
Fund.
Louise
Smith '77, Associate Professor of Theatre, performed
Sacrificium Intellectus at the
Archetype Gallery in Dayton, with her daughter, Belle-Pilar
Fleming. This is a new work that looks at the idea of having
a body.
Smith directed Carlyle Brown's play, Fula
From America, which was named one of the year's ten
best plays in Minneapolis. It tours the Alaba Shakespeare
Festival, the Marsh Theatre in San Francisco and the Spolteo
Festival this spring. Smith will be performing an evening
of one-act plays Brown wrote for her entitled
Talking Masks at the Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis.
In May, Smith will also perform with Meredith Monk in her
piece, Mercy, at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Harold
Wright, Professor of Japanese, took a several day walking
tour in the Tango area of Japan to do research on the oral
traditions of the area. He also produced his second CD "Ici,
Ni, San, Shi, Go!" The CD is a recording of his translations
of Japanese folktales (told with his wife Jonatha Wright).
Christopher Caldwell, of Audio Books,
raves, "There is entertainment for all ages here. Children
and adults alike will enjoy the magical elements and suspense,
while adults especially will appreciate the wry commentary
on married relationships and the many human foibles that transcend
cultural divisions. These folktales do exactly what they should
do: namely, bear repeated listening throughout the life of
the audience." 
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