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School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, October 2014, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

In The Next Room (Or The Vibrator Play), School Of Theatre And Dance

School of Theatre and Dance Programs

By Sarah Ruhl

Productions took place October 2 - 4 and 8 - 11 @ 7:30 pm Matinee: October 5 @ 2 pm, 2014

Padania Or Federalism? An Examination Of The Spatial Demands Of Italy's Northern League, Anthony Vincent Pierucci

Theses and Dissertations

This study will analyze what factors affect the oscillation of the spatial demands of ethno-regionalist parties between more moderate and more radical objectives. The factors under examination are electoral, economic, internal organization, and the "other" that the party defines itself against. The study analyzes the relationship between these factors and spatial demands utilizing a case study of the Lega Nord. Ultimately, the study concludes that there is some relation between these factors and the Lega Nord's spatial demands, even if they are not directly causal of the change in spatial demands themselves. The findings also suggest that the generalized findings …

Faculty Recital Series, Linden Duo: Kimberly Mccoul Risinger, Flute; Angela L. Favis, Guitar; September 30, 2014, Kimberly Mccoul Risinger Flute, Angelo L. Favis Guitar

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 30, 2014
Tuesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Student Ensemble: Wind Symphony, September 28, 2014, Martin H. Seggelke Conductor

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
September 28, 2014
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m.

Ensemble Concerts: Jazz Ensembles I And Ii, September 26, 2014, Tom Marko Director

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
September 26, 2014
Friday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Faculty Recital Series: Geoffrey Duce, Piano; September 25, 2014, Geoffrey Duce Piano

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
September 25, 2014
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Guest Artist Recital, Matthew Muneses Quintet: Matthew Muneses, Saxophone; Zubin Edalji, Trumpet; Sam Hasting, Guitar; Mike Harmon, Bass; Matt Carroll, Drums; September 24, 2014, Matthew Muneses Saxophone, Zubin Edalji Trumpet, Sam Hasting Guitar, Mike Harmon Bass, Matt Carroll Drums

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 24, 2014
Wednesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Guest Artist Recital, Apollo Duo: Stefanie Abderhalden, Flute; Jeremy Johnson, Percussion; September 22, 2014, Stefanie Abderhalden Flute, Jeremy Johnson Percussion

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 22, 2014
Monday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Student Ensemble: Symphony Orchestra Concert, September 21, 2014, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
September 21, 2014
Sunday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Student Ensemble: Choral Showcase, September 21, 2014, Leslie Manfredo Director, Karyl Carlson Director, Mark Grizzard Director

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
September 21, 2014
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m.

Graduate Recital: Cláudia Amaral, Cláudia Amaral, Double Bass

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 18, 2014
Thursday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Graduate Recital: Cláudia Amaral, Double Bass; September 18, 2014, Cláudia Amaral Double Bass

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 18, 2014
Thursday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Illinois State University String Project: Honors Recital, September 11, 2014, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 11, 2014
Thursday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Reexamination Of The Intratextual Fundamentalism Scale Structure: The Impact Of Additional Items, Ryan Michael Tuggle

Theses and Dissertations

Hood, Hill, and Williamson (2005) proposed a new way of defining religious fundamentalism - one based on the principle of intratextuality. The principle of intratextuality states that fundamentalists derive truth through interpreting their sacred text. The six attitudes proposed as extensions of the principle of intratextuality were divine, inerrant, self-interpretive, privileged, authoritative, and unchanging (Williamson, Hood, Ahmad, Sadiq, & Hill, 2010). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to develop the Intratextual Fundamentalism Scale (IFS). The authors sought a multidimensional model with the six attitudes as latent variables, using principal components extraction and a Varimax (orthogonal) rotation. The authors failed to …

Recital: Jury Recognition, September 2, 2014, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 2, 2014
Tuesday Evening
8:00 p.m.

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, September 2014, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

The Unlevel Knowing Field: An Engagement With Dotson’S Third-Order Epistemic Oppression, Alison Bailey

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

Social justice demands that we think carefully about the epistemic terrain upon which we stand and the epistemic resources each of relies upon to move across that ground safely. Epistemic cartographies are politically saturated. Broadly speaking these terrains are unlevel playing fields—I think of them as unlevel knowing fields— that offer members of socially dominant groups an epistemic home turf advantage. Members of marginalized groups must learn to navigate this field creatively.

Faculty Recital Series: Daniel Schuetz, Countertenor; August 24, 2014, Daniel Schuetz Countertenor

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
August 24, 2014
Sunday Afternoon
3:00 p.m.

Developing A Multi-Group Moderated Model To Predict And Compare Commitment In Geographically Close And Long-Distance Relationships, Fredrick Andrew Eichler

Theses and Dissertations

Despite many recommendations to assess the role of the social exchange theory and the interdependence theory in long-distance relationships, few researchers have investigated if the roles of satisfaction, alternatives, and investments in a relationship influence commitment differently for individuals in long-distance relationships compared to individuals in geographically close relationships. I hypothesized that trust, desire for frequent sex, satisfaction, alternatives, and investment in the relationship have unique predictive relationships on commitment depending on relationship proximity and gender. In two studies, I first tested prior research investigating the role of negative affect on relationship commitment. I extended this research and found that …

Limitation, Subversion, And Agency: Gendered Spaces In The Works Of Margaret Mahy, Cynthia Voigt, And Dia Na Wynne Jones, Elizabeth Ann Pearce

Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation, I argue that adolescent literature featuring female protagonists often illustrates complicated relationships between gender and space. My contention is that because of their gender, these protagonists are uniquely constrained to the home, which creates a literary pattern that has serious ideological implications. While I argue that the dominant discourse of these novels implies that girls should adhere to specific cultural norms, some of these works, however, provide room for subversion and agency, including new ways of looking at patriarchal constructions. To demonstrate these issues at work, I use the novels of three female authors from three different …

Using Writing Studio Pedagogy To Help Students Reclaim Their Disabilities And Sexualities In A High School Writers' Workshop, Matthew Kim

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is an exploration into what students stand to gain from being mentored in terms of reclaiming their disabilities and sexualities. Writing studio pedagogy supports the following ideas: an understanding that composition is a social process and, therefore, must take place in a social environment, an acceptance of multiple composing tools, multiple problem-solving strategies, an acceptance that students possess many and different creative thinking processes, an awareness that spatial design matters for successful teaching and learning, and, finally, an understanding of writing as play. My primary research question is how can practicing writing studio pedagogy transform the writing classroom …

Implications Of Vertebral Degenative Disease And Vertebral Ligamentous Ossification In Native Populations Of The Lower Tennessee River Valley, Sarah Ann Boncal

Theses and Dissertations

Cervical vertebrae are an effective biomechanical proxy for understanding physical activities of a populace due to the osteological reactivity of nuchal muscle use to extensive weight and pressure. Differentiation in the distribution of osteophytosis (OPL), osteoarthritis (OA), and ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) along the cervical vertebrae may indicate particular biomechanical stresses and/or burden-bearing differences between subsistence strategies.

A collection of 287 pre-Columbian Native American individuals (N = 854 vertebrae) was analyzed for presence and severity of OPL, OA and OLF. The sample consists of remains from six archaeological sites located in the lower Tennessee River Valley: three sites …

2014 Illinois Shakespeare Festival Program, School Of Theatre And Dance

Illinois Shakespeare Festival

37th Season. The Theatre at Ewing. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley. Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare.

We Are Aquin: The Creation Of Community And Personal Identity In The Freeport Catholic Schools, Sherry Ann Cluver

Theses and Dissertations

Aquin Central Catholic High School, a tiny institution in the rural, Midwestern town of Freeport, Illinois, is a case study unlike the schools from Chicago, Boston, and other large cities highlighted in previous scholarship. Freeport's patterns of schooling in the 1970s and 1980s were largely unaffected by race or "white flight," and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockford afforded to its schools a greater than usual degree of local control. Yet, Aquin (founded in 1923) followed the trends of Catholic schools with regard to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), assimilation of previously immigrant Catholic families into middle class American social …

Factors Influencing The Major Satisfaction And Leadership Aspirations Of Men And Women In Traditional And Nontraditional Fields, Jennifer Yeoward

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis reports the results of an online survey study that examined the associations of role model influences, support/guidance, and socioeconomic status (SES) with college students' major satisfaction and leadership aspirations. Of the 558 students who responded to the survey invitation, data from 494 students who had provided responses on the main variables were included in the major analyses. Contrary to hypotheses, SES and the nontraditionality of students' majors were not significantly related to leadership aspirations or major satisfaction. The results did support the hypotheses that support/guidance and inspiration/modeling would be associated with students' leadership aspirations and major satisfaction, but …

The Effects Of Cold Adaptation On The Growth And Development Of The Neandertal Cranial Base, Sarah Caldwell

Theses and Dissertations

Neandertals and modern humans possess very different craniofacial shapes. Some recent work has attributed these contrasting shapes specifically to differences in brain development, which are extrapolated to mean differences in cognitive function. However, this may not necessarily be the case. In this paper, it is suggested that a size increase in the cranial base and rapid cranial growth are due not to cognitive differences, but environmental factors, specifically Neandertal adaptation to cold. Adaptation to cold would not only explain the more rapid growth of the Neandertal cranium, but also elongation of the cranial base via elongation of the nasopharynx for …

A Comparative Study Of Upper Limb Mechanical Stress In The Pre-Colombian Tennessee River Valley, Deborah Lyn Neidich

Theses and Dissertations

This investigation establishes the presence of rotator cuff disease (RCD) within human skeletal samples from a prehistoric North American context and evaluates the subsistence based (hunter-gatherer an agricultural) differences of the pathological and non-pathological osseous reactive change. The skeletal sample as recovered as a part of an archaeological salvage project from the western Tennessee River Valley prior to the 1944 completion of the Kentucky Lake Dam. The sites consist of three Middle and Late Archaic (4500-1000 BCCE) period hunter-gatherers and one Mississippian (1050-1450 CE) period agriculturalist sample. These sites are now submerged in the Kentucky Late Reservoir.

The bone elements …

School Of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter, May 2014, School Of Music

School of Music Faculty/Staff Newsletter

Accomplishments and news from the faculty and staff of the School of Music at Illinois State University.

In Search Of Ubuntu: An Examination Of Enslaved African Domestic And Labor Environments On St. Eustatius, Deanna Lynn Byrd

Theses and Dissertations

The discovery of dry stone rock features in the northern hills on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius presented a unique opportunity to investigate an enslaved African environment during the time of enslavement. Abandoned after emancipation, the area has remained virtually undisturbed by eco-tourism, making it an archaeological gem. The intact nature of the sites held potential to add significantly to our understanding of choices enslaved Africans made in slave village design, orientation, and the construction of their dwellings, as well as the labor activities of daily life. In doing so, this investigation attempted to detect whether higher levels of …