People, Papers, Presentations

People, Papers, Presentations

Michael Barlow, assistant professor,
Dept. of Linguistics, presented a talk titled “Beyond
Concordancing” at the U. of Chemnitz, Germany, May
17. Barlow also gave a workshop on “An Introduction
to Corpus Analysis” at the Teaching and Language Corpora
2000 conference in Graz, Austria, July 21.

Paul Brace, the Clarence L. Carter
Professor of Political Science, was presented the Best Paper
Award by the State Politics and Policy Section of the American
Political Science Association for his paper “Public
Opinion in the American States” (co-authored with Kevin
Arceneaux, Kellie Butler and Pressley Martin Johnson, Rice
political science graduate students) delivered at the 1999
meetings of the American Political Science Association.
Brace, with Melinda Gann Hall of Michigan State U., also
was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for “Collaborative
Research on State Supreme Courts” and NSF-funded Research
Experience for Undergraduates. Brace recently was appointed
to the boards of the State and Local Government Review and
State Politics and Policy Review.

Jane Chance, professor of English,
recently delivered several lectures and conference papers: “Illuminated Royal Manuscripts of the Early 15th Century
and Christine de Pizan’s Remythisization of Women in
Cité des Dames,” triennial symposium on Christine
de Pizan, U. of Glasgow, Scotland, July 24, and “Medieval
Mythography (The Commentary Tradition),” Central European
U./CARA (Medieval Academy of America) Summer Institute on
Eastern European Resources, Budapest, Hungary, July 31.
She also organized two sessions on “Women Medievalists:
An Oral History of Women in the Academy,” with Charity
Cannon Willard, Joan Ferrante, Sheila Delany, Mary McLaughlin,
Jo Ann MacNamara and Constance Bouchard, chaired by Chance
and Bonnie Wheeler, 35th International Conference on Medieval
Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan U., Kalamazoo,
Mich., May 4, and was asked to moderate a session on “Women
and Literacy in the Middle Ages,” organized by Susan
Dykstra-Poel, Boydell and Brewer Ltd., 35th International
Conference on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western
Michigan U., Kalamazoo, Mich., May 4-7. Several reviews
also have been published of Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace,
eds., Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature
and History in 15th Century England, Medieval Cultures (Minneapolis
and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), xii &
242 pp., International Journal of the Classical Tradition
5.4 (Spring, 1999 [Published in 2000]): 626-28; of Lawrence
Besserman, Chaucer’s Biblical Poetics (Lincoln: U.
of Nebraska Press, 1998), 338 pp., International Journal
of the Classical Tradition 6.3 (Winter, 2000): 480-83; of
Paul Beekman Taylor, Chaucer’s Chain of Love (Madison,
Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson U. Press; London; Associated
U. Presses, 1996), 215 pp., International Journal of the
Classical Tradition 6.1 (Summer, 1999 [Published in 2000]):
127-31. In the series she edits as general editor, the Library
of Medieval Women, the following book has been reprinted:
St. Bride and her Book: St. Birgitta’s Revelations,
translated from the Middle English by Julia Bolton Holloway
(Newburyport, Mass: Focus Press, 1992; rpt. Woodbridge,
Suffolk and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2000).

Bruce Etnyre, associate professor
and chair, Dept. of Kinesiology, presented a paper at the
North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical
Activity titled “Hand Laterality and Sex Differences
in Reaction Time” June 9 in San Diego. About 300 people
were in attendance. He also recently had a publication come
out, “A Test of a Dual Central Pattern Generator Hypothesis
for Subcortical Control in Locomotion” (co-authored
with M.A. Guadagnoli and M.L. Rodrigue.) It was published
in the September 2000 issue of the Journal of Electromyography
and Kinesiology, 10(4):241-247.

Werner H. Kelber, the Isla C. and
Percy E. Turner Professor of Religious Studies and director,
Center for the Study of Cultures, presented two invited
papers at the International Association for the History
of Religions, 18th Quinquennial Congress, in Durban, South
Africa, Aug. 8: “Memory and Manuscript, or the Role
of Memory in the Formation of the Gospels” and “Christianity,
Judaism and the Ordeal of Remembering.” Both papers
also were presented at the U. of Natal, Pietermaritzburg,
South Africa; the first one Aug. 15 at the invitation of
that university’s School of Theology, and the second
one Aug. 16 as a university lecture.

Jordan Konisky, vice provost for
research and graduate studies and professor of biochemistry
and cell biology, has been appointed to a recently established
committee of the American Association of Universities that
will focus on graduate education. The project is intended
to educate opinion leaders in government, academe, industry
and the news media on what graduate education is and why
it is important to society and the role that stakeholders
must play for graduate education to remain strong in the
United States.

Steven W. Lewis, senior researcher,
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and lecturer,
Dept. of Political Science, presented two papers at the
American Political Science Association annual meeting in
Washington, D.C., Sept. 2. The papers were titled “Entrepreneurial
Networks as State Builders in China’s Transition”
and “Long-term Institutional Constraints on Privatization
Experimentation: Evaluating Path-Dependency in China and
Other Former Central Planned Economies.”

T. Clifton Morgan, the Albert Thomas
Professor of Political Science, and Anne Miers, Rice political
science graduate student, presented “Economic Sanctions
and Foreign Policy Substitutability” at the 2000 American
Political Science Association meetings (co-authored with
Glenn Palmer, Texas A&M U.).

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