Once a year the Clark community comes together to celebrate the
scholarly publications and creative projects authored by Clark faculty over the
previous year. On April 13, 2011, from noon - 2 p.m. at the Lurie Conference Room,
Higgins University Center,
we saluted the faculty achievements detailed below.
Above: Professors Virginia Vaughan and Thomas Kuehne discuss their research.
Books and Creative Works
(alphabetical by Clark author, editor or artist: April 2010 - Present)
Aoyama, Yuko, James T. Murphy, Susan Hanson. 2010. Key Concepts in Economic Geography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.
Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen, Marion Kloep, Leo B. Hendry, Jennifer L. Tanner. 2011. Debating Emerging Adulthood: Stage or Process? New York: Oxford University Press.
Bebbington, Anthony, ed. 2011. Minería, Movimientos Sociales
y Respuetas Campesinas: Una ecología política de transformaciones territoriales. [Mining, Social Movements and Peasant Responses: a Political Ecology of Territorial Transformations]. Peru: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
Morgan, Clare with Kirsten Lange & Ted Buswick. 2010. What Poetry Brings to Business. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Carolan, Michael, ed. 2009. The Mass Deportation of Poles to Siberia: A Historical Narrative Based on the Written Testimony of the Polish Serbian Survivors. Translated by Marta Kazimierszak. Chicago: Siberian Society of the U.S.A.
Enloe, Cynthia. 2010. Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War. Berkeley,CA: University of California Press.
Fábos, Anita. 2010 revised and expanded, in paperback. "Brothers" or Others? Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt. New York: Berghahn Books.
Gale, Beth. 2010. A World Apart: Female Adolescence in the French Novel, 1870-1930. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press.
Garton, John and Diane Wolfthal, eds. 2011. New Studies on Old Masters: Essays in Renaissance Art in Honour of Colin Eisler. Toronto, Canada: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Press.
Gertz, SunHee Kim. 2010. Visual Power and Fame in René D'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and The Black Prince. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Gould, Harvey and Jan Tobochnik. 2010. Statistical and Thermal Physics: With Computer Applications. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Huang, Betsy. 2010. Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (nominated by Clark University for the Council of Graduate Schools' Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities)
Jensen, Lene Arnett. 2010. Bridging Cultural and Developmental Approaches to Psychology: New Syntheses in Theory, Research and Policy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Korstvedt, Benjamin. 2010. Listening for Utopia in Ernst Bloch's Musical Philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kuehne, Thomas. 2010. Belonging and Genocide: Hitler's Community, 1918-1945. Ann Arbor, MI: Yale University Press/Sheridan Books.
Larkin, Jack. 2010. Where We Worked: A Celebration of America's Workers and the Nation They Built. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press.
Malsky, Matthew, CD recorded 2005-2009 at Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, Clark University. Music for String Quartet. Produced and engineered by Matthew Malsky. Cover painting: Lawrence Malsky
Osnowitz, Debra. 2010. Freelancing Expertise: Contract Professionals in the New Economy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Peet, Richard, P. Robbins and M. Watts, eds. 2011. Global Political Ecology. London and New York: Routledge.
Ahmed, W., A. Kundu and Richard Peet, eds. 2010. India's New Economic Policy. London and New York: Routledge.
Rifkah, Eve. 2010. Outcasts: The Penikese Island Leper Hospital, 1905-1921. Seekonk, MA: Little Pear Press.
Rifkah, Eve. 2010. Dear Suzanne, a novel in verse. Cincinnati, OH: Turning Point.
Ropp, Paul S. 2010. China in World History. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sarkis, Joseph, James J. Corderio, Diego Vazquez Brust, eds. 2010. Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective. Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York: Springer
Toomela, Aaro and Jaan Valsiner, eds. 2010. Methodological Thinking in Psychology: 60 Years Gone Astray? A volume in: Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing.
Vaughan, Virginia Mason, Fernando Cioni, Jacquelyn Bessell, eds. 2010. Speaking Pictures: The Visual/Verbal Nexus of Dramatic Performance. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Joyce P. Kaufman and Kristen P. Williams. 2010. Women and War: Gender Identity and Activism in Times of Conflict. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press.
To acknowledge and honor other important faculty accomplishments, the following departments today present portfolios or posters celebrating scholarship and creative activity:
Biology
Carlson School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Economics
English
Graduate School of Geography
International Development, Community, and
Environment
Graduate School of Management
Mathematics and Computer Science
Philosophy
Physics
Hiatt School of Psychology
Visual and Performing Arts
New Grant Awards
February 25, 2010 to April 4, 2011 (including renewals and supplemental funding)
Yuko Aoyama and Daniel Haberly. Sovereign Wealth Funds, Dependent Development, and the New Alliance Capitalism, National Science Foundation.
Anthony Bebbington and Denise Humphreys. Conflict and Institutional Construction: Tackling the Local and National Resource Curse in the Andean Region, Ford Foundation.
Anthony Bebbington and Denise Humphreys. Extractive Industries, Conflict and the Possibilities of Development in the Andes: a Seminar Series, Ford Foundation.
Mary-Ellen Boyle. Liberal Education and Effective Practice (LEEP) Initiative: A Deep Rebuilding of the Undergraduate Curriculum at Clark University, Davis Education Foundation.
Nancy Budwig and Jack Foley. Main South Promise Neighborhood Partnership, U.S. Department of Education.
Sarah Buie. In Dialogue: Humanities and LEEP at Clark University, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Esteban Cardemil and Rachel Ishikawa. Study of Mental Healthcare Follow-up among Latinos, National Institute of Health.
Tom Del Prete. College Readiness Numbers and Words Project, Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.
Tom Del Prete. Main South Secondary School Collaborative, Greater Worcester Community Foundation.
Tom Del Prete. UPCS High School-College Transition Program, Jobs for the Future.
Tom Del Prete. Literacy Design Collaborative, Gates Foundation.
Debórah Dwork and Elizabeth Anthony. Rückkehrer: Holocaust Survivors' Repatriation to Austria, Holocaust Education Foundation.
Debórah Dwork and Jeffrey Koerber. Dissertation: Born in the Borderlands, Holocaust Education Foundation.
Debórah Dwork and Alexis Herr. Fossoli di Carpi: The History and Memory of the Holocaust in Italy, Holocaust Education Foundation.
Debórah Dwork and Raz Segal. Embittered Legacies: Genocide in Subcarpathian Rus', Holocaust Education Foundation.
J. Ronald Eastman and Stefano Crema. Ecosystem Services Modeler, Investigative Phase, Conservation International.
J. Ronald Eastman. Transformative global access to data and tools for broad and transparent origination, planning and evaluation of REDD projects, based on the Land Change Modeler, and the computing platform and geospatial database provided by Google's Earth Engine (GEE), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
J. Ronald Eastman. A Risk Assessment for Japanese Encephalitis, NASA.
Jacque Emel, Dianne Rocheleau and Roberta Hawkins. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Buy a Disposable Diaper, Save a life? An Analysis of Consumption as Development Intervention, Society of Woman Geographers.
William Fisher. Compton/Clark Environment and Sustainability Fellowships, Compton Foundation.
Susan Foster and John Baker. REU Supplement: Ancestral Plasticity and Mating System Evolution, National Science Foundation.
Karen Frey and Prajjwal Panday. Cryospheric and Hydrological Processes in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan: Assessment of Climate Variability Using Hydrological and Regional Climate Modeling, NASA.
Karen Frey. A Workshop to Draft the Implementation Plan for the Arctic in Rapid Transition (ART) Initiative, National Science Foundation.
Karen Frey. West Antarctic Meltdown? Causes and Consequences of Changes in the Cryosphere from Land to Sea, NASA.
Abbie Goldberg. Youth and Young Adult Perspectives on Marriage Equality and Inequality, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues.
Abbie Goldberg. Perspectives on Marriage Equality: Listening to the Voices of Youth and Young Adults with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Parents, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
Dale Hattis. Avenues to Interpret, Improve, and Extend Observations of Biomarkers from High-Throughput Test Systems for Human Health Risk Assessment, Environmental Protection Agency.
David Hibbett. Collaborative Research: AFTOL: Resolving the Evolutionary History of the Fungi (REU Supplement), National Science Foundation.
David Hibbett. MSB/PEET: PolyPEET: Enhancing Taxonomic Expertise in the Polyporales (REU/RET Supplements), National Science Foundation.
Manfred Binder and David Hibbett. Biodiversity Inventories: Boletineae (Fungi) in Queensland, Australia, National Science Foundation.
Donald Honeman. Energy for Education, Davis UWC Scholars Program.
Robert Johnston. Long-Term Health Effects, Risk/Risk Perceptions, and Implications for Agricultural Product Markets, US Department of Agriculture.
Robert Johnston. Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea (COMPASS) New England Program Support, Tides Center.
Robert Johnston and Verna DeLauer. Sustaining Coastal Landscapes and Community Benefits: Developing an Interdisciplinary Model for Enhancing the Impact of NERRS Science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Stphanie Larrieux. Career Enhancement Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Colin Polsky. Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC) II, National Science Foundation.
Colin Polsky. Urban Long-Term Research Area (ULTRA), National Science Foundation.
Robert Pontius. Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Project, National Science Foundation.
Robert Pontius. Plum Island Ecosystems LTER Project, National Science Foundation.
Robert Pontius and Colin Polsky. Plum Island Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research (PIE-LTER), National Science Foundation.
Deborah Robertson. Regulation of Nitrogen Assimilation in Marine Diatoms: Investigation of the Importance of Post-Transcriptional Processes, National Science Foundation.
Robert Tobin. German Discovery of Sex, German Academic Exchange Service.
Kristen Williams. All Kinds of Girls Program, United Way of Central Massachusetts.
Christopher Williams. Impacts of Disturbance History on Carbon Fluxes and Stock in North America, NASA.
Christopher Williams and Bardan Ghimire. Summer graduate research fellowship, NASA.
Marianne Wiser. Collaborative Research: Rethinking how to Teach Energy: Laying the Foundation in Elementary School, National Science Foundation.
Jing Zhang. I-Choose: Enabling Full Information Pricing in North America, National Science Foundation.
Honors and Awards
April 2010 - Present
John Aylward (V&PA) will receive one of two Goddard Lieberson Fellowships from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, to be presented at the Academy's annual Ceremonial in May, 2011.
John Aylward was a featured Composer of the Month in August 2010 at the Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music, which is based in Maine.
Davis Baird (Philosophy) was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed in recognition of distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
George Billias (History, emeritus) received the James P. Hanlan Book Award from the New England Historical Association during their conference at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine in October, 2010.
Michael Carolan's (English) essay, "Perpetual Hunger," won the Crossroads Irish-American Festival Writing Contest in March, 2011. The Festival promotes the discovery and understanding of the Irish experience in the Americas, with an emphasis on the San Francisco bay area.
Ya-chen Chen (Foreign Languages and Literatures) was elected a member of the board of the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS) in November, 2010.
Judith Wagner DeCew (Philosophy) was awarded the 2010 University Senior Faculty Fellowship, presented to an outstanding senior faculty member who personifies the Clark ideal of excellence in teaching and excellence in research, scholarship, or creative work.
Gino DiIorio's (V&PA) new play, "Reparation" was given a staged reading by Urban Stages Theatre in New York City in October, 2010.
Gino DiIorio's new play, "Release Point" is a finalist for the Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwright's Award, which is given by the Episcopal Actor's Guild. The play was given a staged reading on March 22, 2011 at the EAG, New York City.
Gino DiIorio's play, "Dead Ringer" had its New England premiere on August 12, 2010 at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre.
J. Ronald Eastman (Geography) was presented with the Distinguished Career Award from the Association of American Geographers' Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group during their 2010 Annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Cynthia Enloe (International Development, Community and Environment) was awarded the prestigious international peace scholar award, the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award, by the Peace and Justice Studies Association in August, 2010.
Karen Frey (Geography) was awarded the Edward Hodgkins Junior Faculty fellowship for personifying the Clark ideal of excellence in research and in teaching.
Janette Greenwood's (History) book, First Fruits of Freedom: The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900, was named by Providence Journal reviewer Erik J. Chaput among his favorites for 2010.
Scott Hendricks (Philosophy) was chosen as Outstanding Academic Advisor for the 2009-10 academic year.
Shuanghong Huo (Chemistry) and Paul Posner (Political Science) each received the 2010 Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellowship Award, presented to an outstanding junior faculty member who personifies the Clark ideal of excellence in teaching and excellence in research, scholarship or creative work.
Benjamin Korstvedt (V&PA) received the Julio Kilenyi Medal of Honor from the Bruckner Society of America in Fall 2010, in recognition of his important achievements in promoting a better understanding and appreciation of the music of the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896).
Sharon Krefetz (Political Science) was appointed in Fall 2010 as the next holder of the Andrea B. and Peter D. '64 Klein Distinguished Professorship.
Arshad Kudrolli (Physics) was elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society in November, 2010 "for his innovative experiments and significant contributions to nonlinear physics, dissipative systems, granular matter, and geomorphology."
Thomas Kuehne (History) was awarded a fellowship, in May 2010, from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in support of his proposed book-length essay, "Struggling for Beauty."
Doug Little (History) was appointed as the first holder of the new Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations in Fall, 2010.
Meredith Neuman (English) was selected to receive the Outstanding Teacher Award by the graduating class of 2010.
Ravi Perry (Political Science) was elected President of the Worcester chapter of the NAACP in March, 2011.
Paul Posner (Political Science) and Shuanghong Huo (Chemistry) each received the 2010 Oliver and Dorothy Hayden Junior Faculty Fellowship Award, presented to an outstanding junior faculty member who personifies the Clark ideal of excellence in teaching and excellence in research, scholarship or creative work.
Paul Ropp (History, emeritus) received the Professional Achievement Award in October, 2010 from the Alumni Association Board of Directors at Bluffton University in Ohio, his alma mater. The award is for continued pursuit of intellectual growth and exploration of creative ventures in a chosen field -
in his case, History.
Laurie Ross (International Development, Community and Environment) received The Katharine F. Erskine Award for Education from the YWCA at the Tribute to Women Luncheon in Worcester in May, 2010. This award recognizes women who have demonstrated leadership and reached exemplary levels of achievement in their professions and communities.
Robert Tobin (Foreign Languages and Literatures) was elected as a delegate to the Assembly of the Modern Languages Association, representing gays and lesbians in the profession.
Jaan Valsiner (Psychology) was awarded an honorary professorship from the Universidad del Valle, Cali, Columbia, where he has been presenting visiting graduate seminars at their Center of Cognition and Culture since 2005.
