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Around the College
October 2007
African-American Studies
- Professor William L. Conwill presented A Celebration of 10 Years of the University of Tennessee's Full-service Schools Program, a 10-year-old Community Partnership at University-School-Community Partnerships: The Rules of Engagement, an event at the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on September 25.
- Faye Harrison, Director and Professor of African American Studies and Professor of Anthropology, delivered the inaugural lecture for the new academic year at the The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS), Anthropology Section, on September 24 in New York City. Her lecture was entitled Racism in Academia: An Anthropological Perspective on a Persistent Problem. The NYAS Anthropology Section hosts lectures and symposia for an audience of anthropologists and others interested in anthropological perspectives in the New York City area.
- Faye V.
Harrison, Stephanie Evans, Marlo
David Azikwe, and William
Conwill presented "The Big Read", a panel discussion
of Zora
Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God,” on September
29 at the University of Florida Museum of Natural History. National
Endowment for the Arts, the Florida
Museum of Natural History, the African American Studies Program,
and the Alachua County Public
Library.
Department of English
News of Faculty
- Roger Beebe, with Jason Middleton, has coedited Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, published by Duke University Press. Beebe also cowrote the introduction to the collection with Middleton and his “Paradoxes of Pastiche: Spike Jones, Hype Williams, and the Race of the Postmodern Auteur” appears in it.
- Sidney Homan's “Race and the Theatrical Mirror” appears in the Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, eds. Hernan Vera and Joe Feagin (Springer, 2007), 241–62.
- Debra Walker King's “The Not-So-Harmless Social Function of a Word that Wounds” appears in the Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, eds. Hernan Vera and Joe Feagin (Springer, 2007), 101–14.
- Maureen Turim's “Art/Music/Video.com” also appears in Beebe and Middleton’s Medium Cool.
- Richard Burt's “Shakespeare ’Tween Media and Markets: Literacy, Losers and Literary Culture from Little Women to Lizzie McGuire” appears in Shakespeare's Children / Children’s Shakespeare, eds. Susanne Greenhalgh and Robert Shaughnessy (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 218–32.
- Norm Holland's “Tickled Rats and Human Laughter” appears in Neuro-Psychoanalysis 9.1 (2007): 42–57.
- Barbara Mennel's book The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature has been published by Palgrave. Her essay “Returning Home: The Orientalist Spectacle of Fritz Lang’s Der Tiger von Eschnapur and Das indische Grabmal” appears in Take Two: Fifties Cinema in Divided Germany, eds. John Davidson and Sabine Hake (Berghahn Books, 2007). Her essay “Political Nostalgia and Local Memory: The Kreuzberg of the 1980s in Contemporary German Film” appears in a new special issue of The Germanic Review on Newer German Cinema
- Malini Schueller has edited (with Ashley Dawson) a special issue of Social Text on “The Perils of Academic Freedom.” The issue includes essays by Ward Churchill, Ashley Dawson, Bill Mullen, Vijay Prasad, and an interview with Andrew Ross. Schueller’s essay “Area Studies and Multicultural Imperialism: The Project of Decolonizing Knowledge” also appears in the issue.
- Roger Beebe's most recent film, “TB TX DANCE,” has been selected for preservation by the Sundance Film Festival, who will be archiving the original elements plus a new internegative and release print in the vaults at UCLA. Since his last update to the Newsletter (January 2007), “TB TX DANCE” has screened at 8 festivals, including the NY Underground and Antimatter in Victoria, BC; his “Strip Mall Trilogy” (2001) was installed at the Urban Explorers Festival in Dordrecht, Netherlands; and “S A V E” (2006) screened a half dozen times, including festivals in Paris, Berlin, and Madrid. “The Strip Mall Trilogy” is also being screened in Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Jakarta, Indonesia between August 28 and September 10. For Flag Day, the New Nothing Cinema in San Francisco hosted a retrospective of Beebe’s films and videos. Beebe will be screening this same program of films on a 55-day East Coast tour starting with a show in Jacksonville on September 4. For more on Beebe’s tour, see http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/
- Two essays by Richard Burt appear in Exemplaria 19.2 (2007), a special issue on “Movie Medievalism”: “Getting Schmedieval: Of Manuscript and Film Prologues, Paratexts, and Parodies” (217–42), and “Re-embroidering the Bayeux Tapestry in Film and Media: The Flip Side of History in Opening and End Title Sequences” (327–50).
- Pamela Gilbert's new book The Citizen’s Body: Desire, Health, and the Social in Victorian England has been published by Ohio State University Press. She also recently gave a paper and chaired a session at a conference on “The Idea of the City,” held at the University of Northampton, England.
- Andrew Gordon and Norman Holland organized the 24th International Literature and Psychology conference, held at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, July 4–9, in conjunction with the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy, the Serbian Center for Applied Psychology, and the Serbian Psychological Society. This was the first such conference held in Serbia. Conferees were greeted by the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and members of the two psychological societies. There were 47 papers in English by participants from Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland, France, Greece, Israel, Australia, Qatar, and the United States. Professor Holland presented “Reader Response: Three Models” and Professor Gordon presented ““Do We Not Bleed?’: Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer.” Conference activities included a visit to the Kalemegdan fortress and the Ethnological Museum in Belgrade, a bus tour to a medieval monastery, a wine tasting, and a banquet on a boat floating on the Danube. The 25th International Literature and Psychology conference will take place July 4–9, 2008 at the Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada in Lisbon, Portugal. For more information, contact Professor Gordon at <agordon@ufl.edu>.
- Malini Schueller's book Exceptional State: Contemporary US Culture and the New Imperialism, co-edited with Ashley Dawson, has been published by Duke University Press. The book includes her essay “Techno-Dominance and Torturegate” and her co-authored introduction and coda.
- Gregory Ulmer's “Derrida in Miami (Miautre)” appears in The European Legacy 12.4 (2007): 457–68, a special issue on Derrida edited by Eric White.
- Phillip Wegner's essay “Here or Nowhere: Utopia, Modernity, and Totality” appears in Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming, eds. Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini (Peter Lang, 2007), a collection of essays based on lectures originally presented at the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick.
News of Current Students
- Bharati Kasibhatla presented “Citizens, Domestics, and Terrorists: Resistant Cartographies in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing” at the 14th international Triennial Conference of ACLALS, held at the The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, August 17–22.
- Carolyn Kelley presented “Feminisms and Jouissance: Missed and Mixed Messages in Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke at the “Feminism(s) and Film Symposium,” held at the University of Hartford, April 21. She also presented “Aubrey Beardsley and the (Funny) Femme Fatale” at the “Fin De Siècle Seminar Series” sponsored by the Faculty of English Language and Literature, The University of Oxford, on June 7. Her poems “Dry Drown” and “The Stars” appear in The Aroostook Review 1.2 (Summer 2007).
- Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar recently gave an invited talk for the English Department of North Carolina State University, titled “Haram in the Harem: Narratives of Muslim Domesticity in India, Algeria, and Pakistan.”
- Andrea Wood has accepted a position as a postdoctoral Brittain Fellow in The Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Literature, Communication and Culture.
News of Former Students
- Eric Otto (PhD, 2006) has accepted a position as assistant professor of Environmental Humanities and English at Florida Gulf Coast University. He has also been appointed Environmental Humanities program leader.
- Barbara Stephenson (PhD), current Deputy Director for Iraq for the US Department of State, was profiled in a recent article in The Gainesville Sun.
- Washella Turner (PhD, 2005) has accepted a tenure-track position in African-American Literature at Savannah State University.
- Joel Adams (PhD, 2007) has accepted a position with the University of Michigan’s LGBT Affairs office. His entry “Throwing Shade” appeares in LGBTQ America Today, forthcoming from Greenwood Press.
- Michael Shay (BA, 1976) will be one of the presenters at the Wyoming Book Festival, September 14–15, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Shay is the author of the story collection The Weight of a Body (Ghost Road Press 2006) and co-editor of Deep West: A Literary Tour of Wyoming (Pronghorn Press 2003). He works at the Wyoming Arts Council, where he supervises programs for individual artists.
- Sharmain van Blommestein (PhD, 2005) has accepted the position of Assistant Professor at SUNY Potsdam, beginning Fall 2007.
Department of Geography
- Grant Thrall, Ashish Patel and Timothy Fik were awarded the Torto Wheaton prize for best real estate market analysis at the 2007 American Real Estate Society Meeting, for their manuscript Trade Area Definition and Calculation. Torto Wheaton is an independent research firm owned by C.B. Richard Ellis and is the world’s largest real estate services company. The paper can be downloaded from http://www.tradearea.info/, which also presents a MapInfo GIS add-in for executing the model presented in the manuscript.
- Alisa Coffin's paper From Road Kill to Ecology placed 11th in the Journal of Transport Geography's"25 Hottest Articles" edition, January-April, 2007.
Department of Psychology
New Grants Received
- Tim Hackenberg is a collaborator on a 3-year grant with Charlene Krueger (Nursing) funded by NSF titled "Learning and Memory Across the Fetal-to-Early-Newborn Period".
- Marty Heesacker (Co-PI) and Maude Rittman (PI) have been awarded a grant titled "A Transition Assistance Program (TAP) to Improve Self-Efficacy and Reduce Strain in Stroke Caregivers".
- Brian Iwata has been awarded a grant for the Florida Center on Self-Injury (Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities, 2007-2008). He also received a grant for the Prader-Willi Syndrome Program (ARC, 2007).
- Andreas Keil (Co-PI) and Dr. Talma Hendler (Tel Aviv) German-Israel cooperative award (4000 Euros) for scanner development and time.
- James Shepperd (Co-PI) received a subcontract from Duke University on a RO1 grant from the National Institute of Health (2007-2011) “Young Smokers' Reactions to Genetic Risk for Lung Cancer”.
- Jacqueline Baron, MS. Fellowship from the UF Pre-doctoral Aging Training Program, Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health in Social Context, National Institute on Aging (T32), 2005-2008.
- Alissa Dark-Freudeman, MS. Individual NIH Kirchstein predoctoral fellowship (NRSA): Perceived Competence and Domain-Specific Possible Selves.
- The Psychology department faculty have some 30 extramural grants or fellowships with continued funding from previous years.
Faculty Awards
- Lise Abrams received the American Psychological Association Division 20 and the Retirement Research Foundation Mentor Award, August 2007. She also was the Psi Chi - Psychology Club Professor of the Year Award for the University of Florida on May 2007.
- Carolyn Tucker was made a Fellow of Division 17 of the American Psychological Association. Fellowship is an honor bestowed upon members who have made “unusual and outstanding contributions or performance in the field of psychology.” Their contributions are viewed as having enriched or advanced Counseling Psychology well beyond the level that normally would be expected of a professional psychologist. Fellows are selected by peers on the basis of evidence of sustained superior performance that is recognizable at a national level.
- Bonnie Moradi received the Fritz and Linn Kuder Early Career Scientist/Practitioner Award from Division 17 of the American Psychological Association. Funded by The National Career Assessment Services, Inc., this award was established to honor early career achievements in science and practice. This competitive award is made for outstanding contributions to the science and practice of counseling psychology.
- Brain Iwata received the Distinguished Research Award from Florida Association for Behavior Analysis.
Books
- Miller, S. A. (2007). Developmental research methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers.
- Harwood, R., Vasta, R., & Miller, S. A. (in press). Child development. New York: Wiley.
Publications
- Alea, N., & Bluck, S. (2007) I’ll keep you in mind: the intimacy function of autobiographical memory in adulthood. Applied Cognitive Psychology, published online, May 3.
- Brank, E. M., Woolard, J. L., Brown, V. E., Fondacaro, M., Luescher, J. L., Greig, R., & Miller, S. A. (2007). Will they tell? Weapons reporting by middle school youth. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 5, 125-146.
- Cottrell, C. A., & Albarracín, D. (2007). A Tribute to Allport: Surveying the Last Fifty Years of Research on Prejudice. [Review of the book /On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years after Allport/]. /American Journal of Psychology//, 120(2), 339-344.
- Cottrell, C. A. (2007). Intergroup emotions.
In R. F. Baumeister & K.
D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of social psychology. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.
DeFulio, A., & Hackenberg, T. D. (2007). Discriminated timeout-avoidance in pigeons: The roles of added stimuli. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 88, 51-71. - Grace, J. L., & Shepperd, J. A. (2007). Social loafing. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
- Hackenberg, T. D., & DeFulio, A. (2007). Timeout from reinforcement: Restoring a balance between analysis and application. Mexican Journal of Behavior Analysis, 33, 37-44.
- Iwata, B.A., & Smith, R.G. (2007). Negative reinforcement. In J.O. Cooper, T..E. Heron, & W.E. Heward (Eds.), Applied behavior analysis (2nd ed.) (pp. 291-303). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice Hall.
- Keil, A., Bradley, M. M., Junghöfer, M., Russmann, T., Lowenthal, W., & Lang, P. J.(2007) Cross-modal attention capture by affective stimuli: Evidence from event-related potentials.Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 7:18-24.
- Keil, A., Stolarova, M., Moratti, S., & Ray, W. J. (2007) Adaptation in visual cortex as a mechanism for rapid discrimination of aversive stimuli. NeuroImage 36:472-479.
- Lopez, F. G., Moru a, W., & Rice, K. G. (2007). Factor structure, stability, and predictive validity of college students’ relationship self-efficacy beliefs. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 40, 80-96.
- Margolin, S. J., & Abrams, L. (2007). Individual differences in young and older adults' spelling: Do good spellers age better than poor spellers? Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 14, 529–544.
- Neimeyer, G. J., Rice, K. G., & Keilin, W. G. (2007). Does the model matter? The relationship between science-practice emphasis in clinical psychology programs and the internship match. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 1, 153-162.
- Parker, J. R., MacDonald, C. A., & Miller, S. A. (2007). John thinks that Mary feels…False belief across affective and physical domains. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 168, 43-62.
- Rowland, N.E. (2007). Food or fluid restriction in common laboratory animals: balancing welfare considerations with scientific inquiry. Comparative Medicine 57: 149-160.
- Rowland, N.E. (2007). Matching salt intake to physiological need in rats using foraging protocols. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 40: 713-720.
- Rowland, N.E., Vaughan, C.H., Mathes, C.M. & Mitra, A (2007). Review: Feeding behavior, obesity, and neuroeconomics. Physiology and Behavior (in press), published on line, September 2007
- Sabatinelli, D., Lang, P. J., Keil, A., & Bradley, M. M. (2007) Emotional perception: Correlation of functional MRI and event related potentials. Cerebral Cortex 17:1066-1073.
- Schlenker, B. R., Weigold, M. F., & Schlenker, K. A. (in press). What makes a hero? The impact of integrity on admiration and interpersonal judgment. Journal of Personality.
- Sweeny, K., & Shepperd, J. A. (2007). Do people brace sensibly? Risk judgments and risk prevalence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1064-1075.
- Terry, M., Sweeny, K., & Shepperd, J. A. (2007). Self-presentation. In R. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
- Thompson, R.H., & Iwata, B.A., (2007). A comparison of outcomes from descriptive and functional analyses of problem behavior. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 40, 333-339
- Villanueva Dixon, S., Graber, J. A., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (in press). Cultural differences in parent-child interactions: The role of girl’s respect for parental authority and maternal parenting practices. Journal of Family Psychology.
- Wang, J., Clementz, B., & Keil, A. (2007) The neural correlates of feature-based selective attention when viewing spatially and temporally overlapping images.Neuropsychologia 45:1393-1399.
- Wang, K. T., Slaney, R. B., & Rice, K. G. (2007). Perfectionism in Chinese university students from Taiwan: A study of psychological well-being and achievement motivation. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 1279-1290.
- West, R. L., & Smith, S. L. (In press). Development of a hearing aid self-efficacy questionnaire. International Journal of Audiology.
- West, R. L., Bagwell, D. K., & Dark-Freudeman, A. (In press). Self-efficacy and memory aging: The impact of a memory intervention based on self-efficacy. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.
International presentations
- Dirk, J., Bluck, S., & Mackay, M. Lebenserfahrung mit dem Tod: Wie Erinnerungen an Tod und Sterben genutzt warden. [Life experience with death: relation to the use of death-related memories].Presented at the 18th Meeting of the German Division of Developmental Psychology, Heidelberg, Germany, 2007.
- Keil, A. presentation in conference "Emotions: a cross-discipline approach", Madrid, June 29, 2007.
- Keil A. Invited address: European physiological society annual meeting, Munich, September 12, 2007.
- Graber, J. A. Puberty as a biological, psychological, and social construct: What we know and what we need to know. Invited presentation as part of a workshop at the 13th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Jena, Germany. August 2007.
National Presentations
At the American Psychological Association 115th annual meeting, San Francisco, August 2007:
- Abrams, L. Misspelling perception influences older adults' recall: The relevance of context.
- Brewster, M., & Moradi, B. Perceived prejudice experiences of bisexual individuals: Scale development and initial validation.
- Celebi, E., Zhang, S., Flores, L. Y., & Robitschek, C. Investigating Learning Experiences as Mediator Variables in Social Cognitive Career Theory.
- Dark-Freudeman, A., West, R. L., H. McGinty.Age differences in self-regulatory beliefs and possible selves.
- DeBlaere. C., & Brewster, M. A multicultural-feminist model of graduate training in intersections of identities. In Moradi, B. (Chair), Graduate training on the intersections of diversities: Model, strategies, and implementation
- Dewsbury, D. A. Early Research on Archery: Studies of Karl Lashley and John Watson.
- Goodman, M., Wiseman, M. Methods and Benefits of Working in a Multicultural Feminist Team. In Moradi, B. (Chair), Graduate Training on Intersections of Diversities: Model, Strategies, and Implementation
- Huang, Y. -P., Goodman, M., Brewster, M., Wiseman, M., & Moradi, B. Content review of literature on LGBT people of color:1995-2005.
- Mackay, M.M. Bluck, S., & Dirk. J. Experience with life’s final stage: Effects on attitudes towards death.
- Mackay, M.M. Bluck, S., & Dirk. J. Confronting death: Adaptive autobiographical memory use as a human response.
- Merrell, R., Hannah, D. J., Van Arsdale, A., & Rice, K. G. Emergent themes in the writing of perfectionists: A qualitative analysis.
- Moradi, B. Research on LGBT Military Issues: Challenges and Approaches. In A. J. Lott (Symposium Chair), Sexual orientation and military service: Current evidence and APA policy
- Moradi, B., & DeBlaere, C. Implementing a social justice initiative in research. In E. Ward & S. Robinson (Symposium Chairs), Implementing social justice in teaching, research, and practice: Successful practices and strategies.
- Rice, K. G., Knippel, D., Sevlever, M., & Watson, B. Differentiating adaptive from maladaptive perfectionism on the MMPI-2.
- Rice, K. G., & Ye, H. J.Emergent themes in the presumed therapeutic expressive writing of perfectionists. Talk in Symposium “Perfectionism and psychopathology”.
- Wiseman, M., & Moradi, B.Eating Disorder Symptomatology in Gay Men: Testing an Extension of Objectification Theory.
- Wynne, C.D.L. The Search for Animal Consciousness
Other Presentations
- Alea, N. & Bluck, S. Autobiographical memory in everyday life: what the hell is it for? Paper presented in the symposium, Autobiographical memory: what the hell is it for? (Chair: Bluck, S.) at the International Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Lewiston, ME, summer 2007.
- Bluck, S. Baddeley’s question: twenty years later.Paper presented in the symposium, Autobiographical memory: what the hell is it for? (Chair: Bluck, S.) at the International Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Lewiston, ME, summer 2007.
- Hackenberg, T.D. and his students presented 5 talks and 3 posters at the Association for Behavior Analysis Convention in San Diego, May 2007.
- Iwata B. Keynote address: Some antecedents and consequences of functional analysis methodology: An historical perspective. Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, Jacksonville, FL, September, 2007.
- Iwata B. and his students presented 9 talks or posters at the Association for Behavior Analysis Convention in San Diego, 2007.
- Iwata B. and his students presented 3 talks or posters at the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, Jacksonville, FL, September, 2007.
- Rowland, N.E. Five poster presentations (with the student co-authors) at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, Steamboat Springs, CO, July 2007.
- Wynne, C.D.L. Do animals think? Talk presented at Freedom Fest, Las Vegas NV July 07, the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis Sept 07, and Purdue University Department of Psychology Sept 07,
- Wynne, C.D.L. The Future of Science (debate with Michael Shermer, Editor, Skeptic Magazine and Michael Denton, Author “Nature’s Destiny”) taped at FreedomFest, Las Vegas, NV, July and nationally televised on CSPAN 2: BookTV: September 15th 2007.
Other
- James Shepperd: June-July, 2007. Visiting Professor, Université de Savoie, Chambery, France.
- James Shepperd: September, 2007. Co-organizer, National Cancer Institute (Washington DC) think tank on “Incorporating Innovative Social Psychology Theory in Cancer Control Research”.
- Susan Bluck: Invited membership, Society for the Study of Personology.