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Kahn Chronicle: Fall 2010, Smith College, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute

Kahn Chronicle

Table of Contents:

Marking Time: Smith's Newest Time Capsule
Information Sessions: Renaissances & Evil
2010-2011 Student Fellowships
Short-term Project Fellowship Opportunities
Neilson-Kahn Seminar
News Briefs
Tes Slominski: Mellon/ ACLS Fellow
Wellness & Disease Project Final Report
Telling Time Project Final Report
A Note from the Director

Useful Fictions, Michael Austin

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling. Might there be an evolutionary reason behind our species’ need for stories? Drawing on evolutionary biology, anthropology, narrative theory, cognitive psychology, game theory, and evolutionary aesthetics, Austin develops the concept of a “useful fiction,” a simple narrative that serves an adaptive function unrelated to …

Christine, Laura Curtis Bullard

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote the novel Christine in 1856, she created one of antebellum America’s most radical heroines: a woman’s rights leader. Addressing the major social, political, and cultural issues surrounding women from within an unusually overt feminist framework for its time, Christine openly challenges a social and legal system that denies women full and equal rights. Christine defies her family, rejects marriage, and leaves a job as a teacher to embark on her career, rewriting the script for a successful nineteenth-century heroine. Along the way, she recreates domesticity on her own terms, helping other young women gain economic …

The Nebraska Dispatches, Christopher Cartmill

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Standing Bear, a Ponca Native American chief, is best known for successfully arguing in U.S. District Court in 1879 that Native Americans are “persons within the meaning of the law” who have the right of habeas corpus. When playwright Christopher Cartmill returned to his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to write a play about Chief Standing Bear, he unknowingly began a complicated adventure. As he followed the story of the Ponca chief who fought so hard to return from a reservation in Oklahoma to his homeland in northern Nebraska, Cartmill stumbled into the politics of identity, contested notions of homeland, and …

Daviborshch's Cart, David Fraser

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

In the spring of 1942, Nazi forces occupying the Ukraine launched a wave of executions targeting the region’s remaining Jewish communities. These mass shootings were open, public, and intimate. Although the victims themselves could never testify against their killers, many eyewitnesses could and did identify the perpetrators. Among these communities, three local men from the villages of Serniki, Israylovka, and Gnivan were intimately implicated in such killing operations: Ivan Polyukhovich, a forester in the German-controlled administration; Heinrich Wagner, a Volksdeutscher liaison officer; and Mikolay Berezowsky, a member of the local police force. More than fifty years later, these three men …

Soccer Stories, Donn Risolo

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

Arguably the world’s most popular sport, soccer has its own colorful lore, still little known in a nation only now beginning to give the game its due. This book offers the perfect opportunity to catch up on soccer’s rich history—and to discover some of the funniest, most ironic, outlandish, and tragic stories ever to come out of the world of sports. Taking readers as far afield as the Faeroe Islands, Thailand, Madagascar, Belarus, Bhutan, and the North Pole, the selections in Soccer Stories range from the strange (Brazilian players paid in cattle by their cash-strapped club) to the wild (the …

Reservation Reelism, Michelle H. Raheja

University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters

In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native audiences. These films have been highly influential in shaping perceptions of Indigenous peoples as, for example, a dying race or as inherently unable or unwilling to adapt to change. However, films with Indigenous plots and subplots also signify at least some degree of Native presence …

Retribution And The Experience Of Punishment, Jonathan Masur, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco

Articles

No abstract provided.

Celebrating Faculty Scholarship: Bibliography - 2009, University Libraries

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A bibliography of faculty publications submitted for inclusion in the second annual 'Celebrating Faculty Scholarship' event sponsored by Loyola University Libraries. The event, which took place on October 21, 2010 in the Richard J. Klarchek Information Commons on the university's Lake Shore Campus, featured articles, books, creative works, and other materials authored by Loyola University Chicago faculty in 2009.

201026 Obiter Dicta: Autumn Mid-Term 2010, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Fides Quaerens Rectitudinis Intellectum: Christian Faith And Practical Rationality In Anselm, Gregory B. Sadler

Government and History Faculty Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Foundations, Amy Cagle, Bo Hemphill, Cathy Lammons, John P. Rush, Mississippi State University Foundation

Mississippi State University Foundation Foundations Newsletter

This document is an issue of Foundations.

Ssrc Annual Report 2010, Kayla Bradley, Laura R. Walton, Marla Reno, Elizabeth Fine, Nikki France, Marchella Thomas

SSRC Annual Reports

An annual report reflects the accomplishments and achievements of an organization during the previous year. This report is no different in that it celebrates the work of the very talented and productive scientists, research assistants and staff at Mississippi State University’s Social Science Research Center.

Pod Network News, Fall 2010

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

No abstract provided.

The Virtuous Person As Norm In Aristotle’S Moral Theory, Gregory B. Sadler

Government and History Faculty Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Fy2011 All Salaries Over $50,000 After Adjustment, Clemson University

Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

Joint Force Quarterly 59 (4th Quarter, October 2010), National Defense University Press

Joint Force Quarterly ARCHIVES

No abstract provided.

Nationwide Acute Care Physical Therapist Practice Analysis Identifies Knowledge, Skills, And Behaviors That Reflect Acute Care Practice, Sharon L. Gorman, Ellen Wruble Hakim, Wendy Johnson, Sujoy Bose, Katherine S. Harris, Molly H. Crist, Karen Holtgrefe, Jennifer M. Ryan, Michael S. Simpson, Jean Bryan Coe

Physical Therapy Faculty Research

Background and Purpose. Acute care physical therapists have experienced the effects of dramatic changes in health care reimbursement systems and population demographics. Acute care hospitals now serve a patient population of much older, chronically ill patients who are hospitalized for shorter periods of time in a practice environment in which physical therapy staffing resources are often inadequate. The purposes of this study were to document common experiences in the practice of acute care physical therapy and to identify differences in the perceptions of physical therapists with varying levels of experience and in various sizes of acute care facilities.

Subjects …

Catalog, 2010-2011, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 2010-2011 graduate & undergraduate academic catalog and introduction to the university.

The Benefits Of Podcasting In The Literacy Classroom, Stephanie Pignato

Education Masters

This study examined the benefits of podcasting in the literacy classroom and beyond. The research was conducted in a small tutoring session, comprising of two high school students. During the study, participants listened, viewed, and created podcasts. Data was collected and analyzed through means of observation, student work samples, and personal interviews. The findings suggest that there are many benefits to be had for educators who incorporate podcasting into daily instruction. Increased motivation and engagement, building a sense of collaboration and community, capturing authentic learning experiences, and strengthening student writing skills are some of the benefits that podcasting lends itself …

Benefits, Limitations And Best Practices Of Online Coursework…Should Accounting Programs Jump On Board?, Mary Kay Copeland

Business Faculty/Staff Publications

The evolution of online teaching has evolved as quickly and vivaciously as the adoption of the World Wide Web. While there were and are skeptics, research shows that not only is online learning more convenient and makes educational available anytime and anywhere, it has the potential, in some cases, to be an improved tool for educating. To ensure maximized learning outcomes, and to experience the blessing and not the curse of online coursework, it is critical that universities embrace it wholeheartedly and follow online pedagogical best practices in developing and executing online courses. In addition, there are some courses where …

2010 October, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for October of 2010.

A Deterrence Model To Curbing Human Trafficking In The United States, Michelle Crawford Rickert

Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 2nd (2010)

Human trafficking is squarely a criminal justice problem. In order to eradicate human trafficking the traffickers need to be deterred from engaging in the business of trafficking in people. From a law and economics perspective, optimal deterrence is reached when a sentence or fine is just greater than the probability of getting caught multiplied by the benefit to the criminal. Utilizing this model, the proposed presentation will attempt to demonstrate how to sufficiently deter the trafficker by increasing probability of prosecutions through local laws, increasing the fines and sentences of traffickers once convicted, and increasing the certainty of detection through …

Ntid Research Bulletin Fall 2010, Ntid Department Of Research And Teacher Education

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

Table of Contents: Effect of Postsecondary Education on the Economic Status of Persons Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing; Attitudes Toward Communication: Intersections Between Deaf History and American Modernism

News From Hope College, Volume 42.2: October, 2010, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Wooster Magazine: Fall 2010, Karol Crosbie

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the fall of 2010. Karol Crosbie begins the magazine with an article about Billy Clyde’s special education students that had visited campus and made chalk art. 626 first year students were welcomed to campus this fall. A section titled "Special Educators" highlights alumni working as teachers in various areas: Tom Gilbert '73, David Coogan '90, Holly Water Kerby '77, Conya Doss '92, and Billy Clyde '73. The next section of the magazine features some bagpipers before and after Wooster. "Dogs With Purpose" follows the bagpiping section. This section highlights alumni that …

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 19, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“2010 Sinclair Lewis Conference A Great Success,” by Sally E. Parry, Illinois State University

“‘Carol Kennicott’s Story: Main Street,” by James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel

“Dodsworth Perfomed in New York”

“Ida Compton Papers Archived,” by Tom Steman, St. Cloud State University

“Lewis’s Voice on CD,” by George Killough, College of St. Scholastica

“St. Cloud State University and Minnesota Reflections Website to Publish Collection of Letters by Sinclair Lewis to Marcella Powers,” by Michael King, St. Cloud State University

“Reflections on Kingsblood,” by D. J. Jones

“Barnaby Conrad Writes New Novel”

“Habeas Corpus,” by Sinclair Lewis, part 5

The Geography Of Black Candidate Electoral Success, Marcus Allen, Marvin King

Publications and Research

In this manuscript, we reexamine claims about the geography of electoral success of African American candidates. Barack Obama's historic election in 2008 prompted journalists, partisans, and scholars to review prior notions of where African American candidates can successfully contend for elected office. Although Obama's victory is just an anecdotal national example (albeit an important one), we review the available evidence at the state level to understand what factors might impede African American electoral success. Heretofore, the literature focused on the density of the black population, and the interconnectedness of region and white racial attitudes. This paper shows that these old …

Clark Magazine, Fall 2010, Clark University

Clark Magazine

The Fall 2010 edition of Clark Magazine. Clark Magazine is a twice-yearly publication primarily geared towards Clark University Alumni.

The cover story is 'A Radical Life': D'Army Bailey '65 was booted from one university for leading civil rights protests. Then Clark came calling.

Law School Announcements 2010-2011, Law School Announcements Editors

Announcements

• Officers and Faculty
• The Law School - History
• Programs of Instruction
• Curriculum
• Student Activities and Organizations
• Funds and Endowments