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Vol. 3, No. 7 - February 24, 2004
Faculty-Staff Activities Michael Arnush, associate professor of classics; John Brueggeman, associate dean of faculty development; Charles Joseph, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty; Raymond Rodrigues, director of assessment; and Gordon Thompson, associate professor of music; led a case study discussion at the annual Association of American Colleges and University meeting Jan. 21-24. The case was titled "Major Curriculum Revision in a Time of Fiscal Constraints." Ruth Copans, college and special collections librarian, visited Swarthmore College to lecture about an exhibition that she designed. Her talk, "Ubiquitous Cycle: Book Artists Look Back," was presented Feb. 17. She discussed the relationship between traditional book binding techniques and contemporary book artist interpretations. The exhibition, "Binding Structures: Book Artists Look Back," on view through Feb. 29 at Swarthmore's McCabe Library, features artistic responses to traditional bookbinding techniques from around the work, including papyrus, palm leaf, Coptic, scrolls, spirals and library bindings. Original examples of bookbinding were juxtaposed with their contemporary spin-offs. The Associates of Swarthmore College Library sponsored the exhibition and gallery talk Susan Zappen, associate college librarian for collections, moderated "Totally Virtual: Libraries, Librarians, and Information from a Distance," a program sponsored by the Capital District Library Council's Continuing Education and Coordinated Collection Development Committees, Oct. 20. On Nov. 5 she presented a paper titled "Déjà vu: Inflated Prices and Deflated Budgets," at the 23rd annual Charleston Conference pre-conference, Serials Management. She presented a workshop, Copyright Issues for Students and Educators, twice for school administrators Nov. 14 at the Warren-Saratoga-Washington-Hamilton-Essex BOCES Model Schools Program, "Technology - A Tool for Learning." Publications Terry Diggory, Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and chair, Department of English, is the author of "What Abstract Art Means in Pull My Daisy" in the collection of original essays, Reconstructing the Beats, edited by Jennie Skerl (2004, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan). Skerl, a former Skidmore English faculty member, currently is association dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. Beth Gershuny, assistant professor of psychology, is a co-author of the following articles, all of which have accepted for publication: "Relation Between Trauma and Psychopathology: Mediating Roles of Dissociation and Fears About Death and Control," with L. Najavits, P.K. Wood, and M. Heppner, to appear in Journal of Trauma and Dissociation; "The Relationship Between Obsessive-Compulsive and Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Clinical and Non-Clinical Samples," with J.D. Huppert, J.S. Moser, D.S. Riggs, M. Spokas, J. Filip, G. Hajcak, H. Parker, L. Baer, and E.B. Foa, to appear in Journal of Anxiety Disorders; and "Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Death Anxiety in Person with Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Medication Adherence Difficulties," with S.A. Safren, and E. Hendriksen, to appear in AIDS Patient Care and STDs. Grant Gutheil, assistant professor of psychology, is co-author (with P. Bloom, N. Valderrama, and R.R. Freedman) of "The Role of Historical Intuition in Children's and Adults' Naming of Artifacts," published in Cognition, Vol. 91, No. 1, 2004. Penny Jolly, Kenan Professor of Art History, is the author of "Art for Domestic Interiors: Models, Cautionary Tales, and Delights" in Method and Metaphor: Selected Works form the Seena and Arnold Davis Old Master Collection, edited by Rachel Seligman (2004, Schenectady, N.Y.: Union College). Christine Page, associate professor of management and business, has two new publications: "If Only I Hadn't Smoked: The Impact of Counterfactual Thinking on a Smoking Related Behavior," (co-written with Patricia Colby), published in Psychology and Marketing, Vol. 20, Nov. 2003; and "Time and Distance: Asymmetries in Consumer Trip Knowledge and Judgments" (co-written with Yong-Soon Kang and Paul Herr), published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 30, December 2003. Pushkala Prasad, Zankel Professor of Management for Liberal Arts Students, is co-author (with Charlotte Echtner) of "The Context of Third-World Tourism Marketing," published in Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 30, 2003. In addition, Prasad wrote a chapter titled "The Return of the Native: Organizational Discourses and the Legacy of the Ethnographic Imagination" for Postcolonial Theory and Organizational Analysis: A Critical Engagement, edited by Prasad (2003, New York: Palgrave/Macmillan). Mary Zeiss Stange, associate professor of women's studies and religion, has an essay, "No More Raping: When Some Women are Armed, Are All of Us Safer?", in the February issue of The Women's Review of Books, a special issue with the theme "Women, War, and Peace."
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