Recently Published - July 2010

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Summertime Reading
The month of June marks the official start of summer. To honor the season, @UI&U decided to ask Kevin Jones, faculty member and advisor at UI&U’s Sacramento Center, for his Top Five Summer Reading Picks.

Rev. Judith Campbell, Ph.D., 1995
A Deadly Mission (Mainly Murder Press, 2010), Dr. Rev. Judith Campbell’s latest book, takes place in a college town and features two unique protagonists:  college chaplain Rev. Olivia Brown and her sidekick Father Jim. Together, they work to save a group of young students from the grips of a shadowy cult that has been recruiting on campus.

Barry A. Cassidy, Ph.D., 1995
Dr. Barry Cassidy’s recently published book, Ethics and Professionalism: A Guide for the Physician Assistant (F.A. Davis, 2007), examines the external factors that influence ethical decision making and demonstrates how to implement an ethical plan of action.

Dr. Richard Couto, Cohort Ph.D. Faculty
Dr. Richard Couto’s recent publications include four chapters in: Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook. Other journal articles and book chapters include: “Politics,” “Making Decisions,” and “Influence”; “Lobbying” (with Larry Ottinger); “Civil Religion” (with Eric Thomas Weber);  “Leading Change” (with Margaret Mark); and “Social and Economic Development” (with John Davidson) in Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook.

Mirlene Dere, Ph.D., 2005
Dr. Dere recently published Bittersweet (Tate Publishing, 2010), a novel about two best friends who are ripped apart by a long-held secret. Torn between a new love and the father of her child, the main character is at a crossroads and needs to decide which road will lead to happiness.

Dr. Dorothy Firman, M.A. Psychology Faculty
Dr. Firman’s book Brace for Impact was recently published. She also authored the preface to the book Act of Will and gave a presentation titled "Working with Dreams" at the Synthesis Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. In addition, Firman served as the editor to the newsletter Psychosynthesis on the Move in March.

Russell M. Genet, Ph.D., 2003
Dr. Genet’s book, The Evolutionary Epic: Science's Story & Humanity's Response (Collins Foundation Press, 2009), is a collection of research, essays, and artistic work from the Evolutionary Epic Conference and was co-authored by Genet, Brian Swimme, Linda Polner, Linda Gibler, and Cheryl Genet.

Lucille M. Griswold, B.A., 2007
Life Lived in Reverse: A Memoir (Hamilton Books, 2009) recounts Lucille Griswold’s personal journey into womanhood. In her book, Griswold examines her own Italian-American heritage and relates her experiences in education, and also explores gender relationships in the workplace.

Michael Halperin, Ph.D., 1993
Michael Halperin’s play, “Freedom Texas,” (JAC Publishing, 2010) tells the story of an 18-year-old college student, Steve Weisbart, who drops out of college in 1953 to move to the Texas Panhandle to take a job as a disc jockey/radio announcer.

Dr. Norma Jenckes, Cohort Ph.D. Faculty
Dr. Norma Jenckes’s review essay “Shaw's Controversial Socialism” was recently published in Shaw, an annual of Shaw Studies, 2010.

Dr. Richard Judah, M.A. Psychology Faculty
Dr. Richard Judah co-authored several published articles, including: “The human side of living with Learning disabilities: In search of the shared experience; Executive function disorder and learning disabilities;” and “The connection, diagnosis, and strategies for intervention and Learning Disabilities: A Lived Perspective.”

Lynn Kapitan, Ph.D., 2000
Dr. Kapitan’s book, An Introduction to Art Therapy Research (Routledge, 2010), serves as an introduction to the basics of research design in quantitative and qualitative methodology, written in the language of art therapy. It contains strategies for evaluating research and reports, and writing for peer- reviewed journals.

Diane Katz, Ph.D., 1996
Dr. Katz’s book, Win at Work! The Everybody Wins Approach to Conflict Resolution (Wiley, 2010), is based on real-life scenarios of people who are at pivotal points in their lives. Katz provides a step-by-step process for conflict resolution, and also helps the reader deal with complex business questions about independence, moral values, face-saving, goal-setting, and leadership.

Dr. Brian Locke, Cohort Ph.D. Faculty
Dr. Brian Locke was invited by The Korea Society in New York City to present a paper this August as a part of its gallery show, Steel Helmets: U.S. Korean War Graphics.  Locke’s paper is titled "Hollywood's Interracial Buddy Film and the Korean War.”

Dr. Daniel Metraux, M.A. Online Faculty
Dr. Daniel Metraux recently published two texts: How Soka Gakkai Became a Global Buddhist Movement: The Internationalization of a Japanese Religion (Edwin Mellen, 2010) and  The Asian Writings of Jack London: Essays, Letters, Newspaper Dispatches, and Short Fiction by Jack London (Edwin Mellen, 2010.)

Dr. Chris Michael, M.A. Psychology Faculty
Dr. Chris Michael recently presented at the annual CFES/ College Connect Conference at the Hilton High Peaks in Lake Placid, New York. He also presented “Leadership through Service as a Pathway to College" at the Kentucky Gear Up Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, in March.

Robert Moffitt, Ph.D., 1996
Dr. Moffitt’s book, If Jesus Were Mayor (Monarch Books, 2007), encourages the reader to learn more about the Church and its impact on society. Moffit describes Jesus’ method of transformational leadership and how it can be used to benefit today’s society, as well as the Church’s role in cultural transformation throughout history.

Dr. Karsten Piep, Cohort Ph.D. Faculty
Dr. Karsten Piep recently presented his paper “Transnational Harlem: Larsen’s Quicksand and McKay’s Home to Harlem” at the NeMLA Convention in Montreal, Quebec, in April. He also served on the panel "Comparative Black Modernism."

Murray Polner, Ph.D., 1972
Dr. Polner recently co-authored We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now (Basic Books, 2008) with Thomas Woods, Jr. The book is a collection of writings, poetry, and essays that examines the tradition of principle and protest in America. Polner also co-authored Peace, Justice & Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition (Bunim & Bannigan, 2009) with Stefan Merken. This book examines the attitudes found in Jewish tradition and takes a closer look at Judaism and the moral crisis that is confronting it at the present time.

Andrea Scarpino,  Cohort Ph.D. Faculty
 Andrea Scarpino recently published poems in Opium Magazine (Spring 2010), Portland Review, (Winter/Spring 2010), Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 2010), The Cincinnati Review (Winter 2010), and the Southern California Review (Fall 2009). She recently gave readings in Los Angeles and Columbus, and was nominated for a California Book Award and selected to work as a Writer in the Schools at Pacoima Elementary School.

Ann Kaiser Stearns, Ph.D., 1977
Dr. Stearns’ Living Through Personal Crisis (Idyll Arbor, 2010) examines the ways in which people have suffered loss at every level and how they managed to overcome such grief. Stearns also offers practical tips on how to grieve and how to bounce back from loss.

Dr. Andy Vengrove, M.A. Psychology Faculty
Dr. Andy Vengrove recently gave a presentation on de-escalation techniques in March for the staff at Community Service Agency in Westfield, Massachusetts. He also attended the workshop It’s So Much Work to be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success at the 20th Annual Special Education Conference, Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Dr. Chris Voparil, Cohort Ph.D. Faculty
Dr. Chris Voparil co-edited The Rorty Reader with Richard J. Bernstein. (Blackwell, 2010). Available in the UK and Europe, The Rorty Reader will be released in the U.S. in August. He was invited to present “Rortyan Intercultural Communication and the Problem of Speaking for Others” at the University of South Florida for a conference co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the School of Communication, and the Humanities Institute. His paper “Pragmatism and Creative Democracy: Rorty and Dewey Reconsidered” was also recently presented at the Central European Pragmatist Forum biannual gathering at the University of Cadiz in Spain.

Voparil currently serves as secretary for the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy and was appointed to the society’s Board of Directors at its annual gathering in March at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He is also an invited scholar for the Summer Institute in American Philosophy, to take place July 26-31 at the University of Oregon.