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Vol. 1, No. 5 - March 8, 2002
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Faculty-Staff
Activities Beau Breslin, assistant professor of government, and John Howley, trustee, were panelists March 2 for a discussion on “The Future of Clemency” during a conference on “The Law and Politics of the Death Penalty: Abolition, Moratorium, or Reform?” Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon, the national conference featured Charles J. Ogletree Jr. of Harvard University, author of Black Man’s Burden: The Death Penalty in America, as conference host; noted prison minister Sister Helen Prejean, author of the book Dead Man Walking, and Stephen B. Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights, an attorney who has successfully argued against the death penalty before the U.S. Supreme Court. Breslin and Howley’s presentation, “The Politics of the Clemency,” will be published in a forthcoming edition of the University of Oregon Law Review devoted to the topic of capital punishment. Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, assistant professor of anthropology, translated and presented a paper titled “The Jose Acosta Field School in Tepetloaxtoc, State of Mexico,” by Carmen Viqueira in the session “Long-Term Research Projects in Mexico: A Critical Review,” at the 100th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association Dec. 1 in Washington, D.C. Christine Page, assistant professor of marketing, gave a presentation titled “Asymmetric judgments: Empirical support for bivariate representations of attitude” at the National Society for Consumer Psychology Conference Feb. 22 in Austin, Texas. Co-author of the study is Paul Herr, associate professor of marketing at the University of Colorado. Lewis Rosengarten, lecturer, Liberal Studies, and academic counselor, HEOP, has been invited to present a lecture titled “Hard Bop Before Parker’s Demise” at the College Music Society Conference April 6 at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Publications & Recordings Corey R. Freeman-Gallant, assistant professor of biology, has had two manuscripts accepted for publication. The first, an exploration of parental care in Savannah sparrows during the critical period when young have left the nest but are still dependent on their parents, will appear in the journal Animal Behaviour. Nathaniel Wheelwright and Kim Tice (Bowdoin College) are co-authors. The second paper also focuses on Savannah sparrows and characterizes the genetic architecture of the Major Histocompatibility Complex, a family of genes important to immune function in vertebrates. Liz Johnson ’02 and Fiorella Saponara and Matt Stanger, both Class of ’00, appear as co-authors of the manuscript, to be published in the journal Molecular Ecology. Virginia Murphy-Berman, visiting professor of psychology, and John Berman, professor of psychology, are co-authors of “Cross-cultural differences in perceptions of distributive justice: A comparison of Hong Kong and Indonesia,” published in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, No. 33. Christine Page, assistant professor of marketing, published a paper titled “The impact of consumer environments on consumption patterns of children from disparate socioeconomic backgrounds” in the Journal of Consumer Marketing, Vol. 18, 2001. Nancy Ridgway is co-author. Mark Vinci, lecturer in music, performed on a CD recorded by Michael Feinstein and titled Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway (Concord). The recording was nominated for a 2002 Grammy Award.
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