Professional Activities

Scholarship

Barbara Carle, Foreign Languages, has published, “Introduction and English Translation of Two Poems by Rodolfo Di Biasio,” in the Journal of Italian Translation; translation of Rodolfo Di Biasio’s, “Poemetto dei naufragi e delle rottamazioni/Poem of Scrap Heaps and Shipwrecks,” in Gradiva; “The Sun in the Sepulcher: Six Poems by Gianfranco Palmery Introduction and Translation,” in Gradiva; “Seven Poems from Alfredo De Palchi’s Essenza Carnale,” translation and critical introduction, in Italian Poetry Review. She also presented a paper, “Bolaffio e Saba,” at the Catholic University of the Sacro Cuore in Milan.

Mark V. Siegler, Economics, co-authored two papers, “Sound and Fury: McCloskey and Significance Testing in Economics,” and, “The Rhetoric of ‘Signifying Nothing’: A Rejoinder to Ziliak and McCloskey,” which were published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology.

James Sobredo, Ethnic Studies, Gregory Kim-Ju, Psychology, Julie Figueroa, Ethnic Studies, and Gregory Yee Mark, Ethnic Studies, published “An Ethnic Studies Model of Community Mobilzation: Collaborative Partnership with a High Risk Public High School” in this month’s edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

James Sobredo, Ethnic Studies, presented a lecture, “Contract Labor Migration from Iloilo” at the invitation of the Guam Humanities Council. He was also featured in the Pacific Daily News for his role as a visiting humanities scholar in Guam.

Xin Ren, Criminal Justice, spoke at the "Raising the Global Standards for Victims: The Proposed Convention on Basic Justice Principles for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power" Symposium in Mito Japan. She presented a commentary paper and joined a panel to formulate an action plan for the United Nations Congress on Crime and Justice that will convene in two years in Brazil.

Darryl O. Freeman, Government, presented a research paper, “Which State is Next Determining the Social-Political Construct Profile of States Conversion to Strict Voter Identification Requirements (1995 – 2005),” at the Southwestern Political Science Association annual meeting in Las Vegas.

Daniel Clark Orey, Multicultural Education, participated in a workshop at the University of Haifa and the Israel Institute of Technology that examined the connections between culture, creativity and learning in the teaching of math. The gathering in partnership with the John Templeton Foundation included 28 scholars from 14 countries.

Recognition

David Gharagozlou, Economics, was cited by the Research Institute for Applied Culture of Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany for his book Economic History in Comparison: Culture, Religion and Economic Development.