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Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• ‘Inside Georgia Southern Football’ takes National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy
• Camp Lawton Archaeological Project receives Leadership in History Award

Bemis, Alfred Hall, 1883-1956 (Sc 527), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 527. Photocopies of manuscript entitled “Destiny,” which concerns Alfred Hall Bemis’ five years of residency in Pulaski County, Kentucky, and a brochure used by Bemis to advertise his lecture on the life, philosophy and background of the hill people of Kentucky.

Teacher Educators As Role Models: A Qualitative Examination Of Student Teachers’ And Teacher Educators’ Views Towards Their Roles, Mahsa Izadinia

The Qualitative Report

Teacher Education is considered to be the first and perhaps the most important stage in the professional development of student teachers (Wideen, Mayer-Smith, & Moon, 1998) as teacher educators who work with student teachers during these programs exert significant influence on who students are and will become (Caires, 2007; Chalies, Ria, Bertone, Trohel, & Durand, 2005). This article highlights the impact of language teacher educators’ ideas and beliefs with regard to Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and their teaching practices on their student teachers’ beliefs and perceptions about their role as language teachers. 20 Iranian language student teachers …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - June 10, 2012, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the June 10, 2012 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• June Med School Café - "Nonsurgical Treatment for Dupuytren's Contracture"
• Department of Internal Medicine to Host Endowed Lecture
• Dr. Hanes Swingle Speaks at USA Board of Trustees Meeting
• Reminder: AOA Visiting Professorship Lectures
• Patient Care Network Program Being Implemented for Mobile, Washington Counties
• USA Chairs Honored by Via Center

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, June 10, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

American Association Of Anthropological Genetics (Aaag) News: Agar Workshop, Human Biology Editors

Human Biology

Early this year, more than 60 molecular anthropologists from across the country gathered in San Antonio, Texas, to hone their technical and analytical skills in the growing field of genomics at the first ever Application of Genomics to Anthropo- logical Research (AGAR) workshop. This two-day workshop, held between January 9th and 10th at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, was organized by the Education Committee of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics (AAAG) and sought to address the major advantages (and hurdles) related to integration of state-of-the-art genomic data into anthropological studies.

Workshop Announcement: Revisiting The "Negrito" Hypothesis, An Inter-Disciplinary Synthesis Of The Prehistory Of Southeast Asia, Human Biology Editors

Human Biology

Title: Revisiting the "Negrito" Hypothesis, an Inter-Disciplinary Synthesis of the Prehistory of Southeast Asia.
Date: Paris (France); September 3–5, 2012
Venue: The National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
Convener: Phillip Endicott, Ph.D.
Website: www.mnhn.fr/mnhn/ecoanthropologie/paris2012negrito/negrito_index.html

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism (James L. Kastely) (Reviewed by Richard Marback, Wayne State University)

Mania and Literary Style: The Rhetoric of Enthusiasm from the Ranters to Christopher Smart (Clement Hawes) (Reviewed by Teresa Feroli, University of Tulsa)

Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism (Ed. James Acheson and Romana Huk)
Out of Dissent: A Study of Five Contemporary British Poets (Clive Bush)
(Reviewed by Keith Tuma, Miami University)

The Evolution of Allure: Sexual Selection from the Medici Venus to the Incredible Hulk (George L. Hersey) (Reviewed by Barbara Dickson, Wayne State University)

Mistaken Identities: Poetry …

The Personal Characteristics And Pedgagogical Styles Of Effective Abstinence Education Instructors, Karen D. Hill

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the personal characteristics and pedagogical styles of effective abstinence instructors. Abstinence instructors receive regular training and evaluation and tend to remain in the abstinence education field for multiple years. Abstinence education programs are offered throughout the United States and present a pool of participants in which to sociologically examine the dynamics of the relationship of adolescents and instructors in a youth prevention program. This qualitative study is based on in-depth personal interviews of eight abstinence instructors who shared insights into their own teaching experiences, expressed their thoughts about who they are as …

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, June 7-8, 2012

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on June 7-8, 2012.

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session June 7, 2012, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the June 7, 2012 WMU Board of Trustees meeting include:

• Lease for WMU School of Medicine
• Personnel Report

Contributors, No. 3. Volume 32

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Syncretism In Philippine Catholicism Its Historical Causes, S.J. Schumacher

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Index, Criticism Editors

Criticism

No abstract provided.

On Victor Li’S The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections On Alterity, Culture, And Modernity, Marianna Torgovnick

Criticism

The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity (Victor Li)

Introduction: Rethinking The Disciplinary Confluence Of Anthropology And Literary Studies, Brad Evans

Criticism

No abstract provided.

Queer Theory, Historicism, And Early Modern Sexualities, Mario Digangi

Criticism

Queer/Early/Modern (Carla Freccero)
Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England (Daniel Juan Gil)
Incest and Agency in Elizabeth’s England (Maureen Quilligan)
Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama (Denise A. Walen)

Exporting A "Sense Of Space": The Exploration Of A Regional Gastronomic Identity Beyond National Borders, Brian Murphy

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

Technology In The Aid Of Delivering Economic Content To Teachers: Virtual Economics V. 3, John R. Swinton, Benjamin Scafidi

Faculty Articles

We examine the impact on student achievement of a face-to-face teacher workshop that also provides economics instructors with access to an electronic library of instructional and reference material for their economics classroom—Virtual Economics v. 3 (VE3), offered by the Council for Economic Education. Based on evidence using student and teacher-level administrative data from the Georgia Department of Education and controlling for students’ prior achievement in mathematics, we find evidence that the VE3 workshop experience increases student achievement in high school economics. Our difference-in-differences estimates suggest that teacher participation in the VE3 workshop increases student achievement by 0.061 standard deviations on …

The Amazing Library Race, Katherine O'Clair

Library Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Learning Without Being Taught: A Look At How Schools, The Home And The Neighborhood Influence "Race" Conceptualization, Owen Christopher Gaither

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Where do we get our ideas about the concept of `race'? The conceptualization of `race' has long been a topic of interest in the social sciences and society in general. The word `race' has been used and defined in different ways and different purposes throughout U.S. history. The definition of `race' therefore is arbitrary, changing according to the situation, but the consequences of how the word `race' is used are concrete and effect peoples lives daily. This research, in accord with much of the literature on the topic, shows that public schools play a major role in the conceptualization …

Engraved In The Mind: The Significance Of Smell, Jane Levi

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

Introduction: What Is Reenactment?, Vanessa Agnew

Criticism

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Materia Media, Cannon Schmitt

Criticism

No abstract provided.

Editor’S Introduction, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr.

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Progressive Entanglements Religious Intimacy In Japanese–Filipino Marriages, Mario Ivan Lopez

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Studies on international marriages often focus on how gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity are constructed and articulated through the migration process. The influence of religion as one articulator in migrants’ lives and its influence on the family tend to be ignored, but arguably individuals’ faith must be included in the research agenda. Using ethnographic examples, thisarticle traces the religious practices that develop in the lives of some Japanese–Filipino couples. Thisarticle highlights not just the transnational mobility of migrants, but also the movement of their faith and its potential impact on intimate relations within migrant homes and communities postmigration.

Difference And Alliance In Transnational Social Fields The Pendular Identity Of The Filipino Middle Class, Koki Seki

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle offers a cultural analysis of Filipino middle-class identity emerging in transnational social fields. Although the practice of identity construction of the middle class leads to polarization and fragmentation of society, the ambivalent character of their identity results in social networks and alliances with members of different social classes in the Philippines. Thisarticle provides an approach to understand seemingly discrete and contrasting dual aspects—of differentiation and alliance, exclusion and inclusion, and plurality and unity—found in transnational social fields through an alternative framework of civil society and public sphere in the Philippines and other parts of the globalizing world.

Toward A Working Theory Of Neurorhetorics, Jeffrey L. Honnold

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This piece makes the claim that rhetoric is first philosophy--before philosophy, epistemology, ontology, or any other field--or that rhetoric is, at the least, on equal footing as these fields because:

empathy--and thusly the impulse for communication--is physiologically hardwired into humans; special distinctions between human and animal are largely artificial constructions, as is evidenced by neurosciences; "hard" science, in the form of neurosciences, is providing entrance points & opportunities for rhetoric to raise its status within the academy; and said neurosciences, in addition to empathy studies, have shown strong evidence supporting linguistic and evolutionary links between humans and other species, thereby …

Book Reviews , Criticism Editors

Criticism

Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity (Seyla Benhabib and Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves)
The Power of Dialogue: Critical Hermeneutics after Gadamer and Foucault (Hans Herbert Kögler)
(Reviewed by John Rapko, University of California, Berkeley)

Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton (Leah S. Marcus) (Reviewed by Thomas L. Berger, St. Lawrence University)

Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England (Kim F. Hall) (Reviewed by Karen Newman, Brown University)

The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton (John Rogers) (Reviewed by Christopher Kendrick, Loyola University-Chicago)

Gray Agonistes: Thomas Gray mid Masculine Friendship …

Effect Of Antioxidants And Oxidative Stress On Different Cancer Cell Types, Gaytri Devi Gupta Elera

Theses and Dissertations

Vaccinium cyanococcus, most commonly known as blueberry, is a fruit native to North America that is known for its unique taste and high antioxidant content. The skin, seed and juice of both organically and conventionally grown blueberry extract were analyzed for antioxidant content using both the Hydrophilic and Lipophilic Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) assays. Results from the Hydrophilic ORAC test showed that conventionally grown blue berries had a higher antioxidant capacity across all samples, while the Lipophilic ORAC assay showed that the antioxidant concentration of organically cultivated blueberry juice was highest, but conventionally grown blueberry seed and skin …