James Allan, assistant professor of political science, presented a co-authored paper titled “The Distributive Consequences of Welfare State Reform, 1970-2002” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago, Ill., Sept. 2-5. Allan also had a co-authored article titled “The Changing Party System in Québec: The 2003 Election and Beyond” accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Québec Studies.

Doug Andrews, professor of statistics, has recently begun a consulting relationship with the state Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation’s forensics lab. As a statistical consultant, Andrews helped develop an improved system for testing confiscated materials for controlled substances.

Charles Chatfield, professor emeritus of history, has published an article titled “At the Hands of Historians: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era” in the July issue of Peace and Change.

Robert L. Davis, associate professor of English and WittSems director, has two forthcoming essays, one on Walt Whitman’s political writing titled “Democratic Vistas” in A Companion to Whitman, and “The Practice of the Everyday in the Literature of Nursing” in the Journal of the Medical Humanities. Davis also spoke at the “Nursing Practice Through Literature” conference at The Pennsylvania State College of Medicine.

Steve Dawson, associate professor of health, fitness and sport, coached a U-17 men’s team, Ohio FC, to the United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA) Ohio State Championship earlier this year. The team qualified for the Region 2 Championships in Rockford, Ill., and finished ranked 8th in the country.

Kent Dixon, professor of English, and Mimi Dixon, professor of English, led another successful creative writing program in Paris, France, this summer with Wittenberg students.

Keith Doubt, professor of sociology and department chair, has had his essay titled “Hamlet and Friendship” re-printed in Shakespearean Criticism. The essay first appeared in Hamlet Studies in 1995.

Mark Ellison, assistant professor of chemistry, chaired a panel on the use of “Symbolic Mathematics in Chemical Education” at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society. In addition, Ellison has published an article titled “Adsorption of NH3 and NO2 on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes” in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B with Michael Crotty ’02, Dukho Koh ’03, Ryan Spray ’04 and Kaitlin Tate.

Regina Entorf, reference librarian and associate profesor, served as a visiting scholar at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Entorf conducted research, presented six lectures and taught two English courses at the university. An article with Fred Y. Ye titled “Information Literacy Instruction at Zhejiang University: Case Study” is forthcoming in the Journal of East Asian Libraries.

Mary Jo Groves, university physician, had an editorial on malpractice reform titled “My Modest Malpractice Proposal” published in the July 23 issue of Medical Economics.

Peggy Hanna, academic department assistant for sociology/geography, has authored a book titled Patriotism, Peace, and Vietnam: A Memoir, which Charles Chatfield, professor emeritus of history, calls “a passionate plea for understanding, then and now.”

James Huffman, H. Orth Hirt Professor of History, presided as president at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Oct. 1-3. Huffman joined leading historians of modern Japan and modern China at the presidential panel.

James Humphries, associate professor of theatre and dance, was the scenic designer for A Man of No Importance at the Circuit Theatre and The Book of Days at The Playhouse on the Square, both in Memphis, Tenn. Humphries will also be designing Man of La Mancha and The Goat for those theatres in May.

Thomas Kennedy, associate professor of music, will begin his fourth season as conductor of the Miami Valley Symphony Orchestra. He is also in his second season as assistant conductor of the Springfield Symphony. In addition, Kennedy attended the National Flute Association Convention in Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 11-15, during which he guest conducted The Ohio State University “Flute Troupe.”

Lora Lawson, assistant professor of education, serves as Wittenberg’s representative on the Arts Al!ve Partnership, which provides arts integration workshops for area teachers. Lawson helped the partnership write several successful grant applications, which provided area teachers with materials and allowed for visits by teaching artists.

Shih-Ming Li attended a two-week dance and technology workshop in New York City where she studied the computer program Isadora with Amy Humrichouser ’05. Li plans to incorporate this interactive technology in her classes. Li was also invited to Poland where she taught Tai Chi and Chinese dance at an international contemporary dance festival.

Amy Livingstone, associate professor of history and department chair, completed her book Family, Friends and Foes: Aristocratic Family Life in the Chartrain, 1000-1200 AD. She also organized a session and presented a paper titled “More than Geneologies: Recovering Aristocratic Family Life from Medieval Charters” at the Society of French Historical Studies annual meeting in Paris. Livingstone was also elected to the journal Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques’ editorial board.

Nancy McHugh, associate professor of philosophy and director of women’s studies, spent two weeks in Vietnam on a Freeman Foundation grant during which she attended a seminar titled “Transition and Transformation in Vietnam.” She has also authored a reference book on feminist philosophy and has two forthcoming book chapters:”Telling Her Own Truth: June Jordan, Standard English and the Epistemology of Ignorance” in Still Seeking an Attitude and “It’s in the Meat: Fictional Science and Ruth Ozeki’s De-Mystification of Scientific Knowledge” in Science Studies and Science Fiction. 

Jim Noyes, professor of computer science, was chosen to be a member of the newly created six-member Ohio Nanotechnology Steering Committee at the first State Nanotechnology Forum at the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus.

The section on Animals and Society of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco recognized David Nibert, professor of sociology, with a service award in appreciation of his contributions to his profession and colleagues as well as his commitment to social justice for humans and other animals. Nibert also presented a paper titled “Cows and Guns: U.S. Agribusiness in Latin America” at the meeting.

Steven Reynolds, chair and professor of theatre and dance, attended the annual meeting of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in Toronto. He will also be adjudicating new plays written and produced by students or faculty for Region III of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.

Matthew J. Smith, associate professor of communication, has published the second edition of his co-authored textbook, Online Communication: Linking Technology, Culture, and Identity.

Carmen Trisler, associate professor of education, conducted activities for children and curated an insect collection while an instructor at “Science Camp at the Bay.” She will also be surveying former fifth-grade students in her seven-year-long prairie community comparison project in Lyndon, Kan., to identify correlations between their experience and increased interest in biological studies.

Andy Tune, university pastor, presented a paper, “How the Incarnation Explicates the Trinity in Augustine’s De Trinitate,” at the North American Patristics Society annual meeting at Loyola University of Chicago. He also had an article published in Dialog: A Journal of Theology titled “Quantum Theory and the Resurrection of Jesus.”

Molly Wood, assistant professor of history, spent two weeks in Vietnam on a Freeman Foundation Travel and Curriculum Development Grant. She will be developing a new course for the history department titled “Vietnam and the American War.”

Bin Yu, associate professor of political science, published two articles: “Moscow, Beijing, and Washington in the Era of Preemption” in Harvard International Review, and “Geo-economics for Geo-politics” in Comparative Connections. Yu also presented papers at two conferences this summer, the 5th Round of Pacific Forum-Fudan annual workshop in Shanghai, China, and at the Sino-American Security Dialogue Series sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the OSU Mershon Center.