eInside Recognition

Mark Piccone, Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, was the keynote speaker at the Western Reserve Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America annual recognition dinner and meeting in Akron, Ohio, on May 17, 2012.

Joanna Trzeciak, Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Institute for Applied Linguistics, NEOMFA, and advisory board member, Wick Poetry Center, has been shortlisted for the 2012 International Griffin Poetry Prize by The Griffin Trust. Every year, the Griffin Poetry Prize judges compile a short list of up to seven outstanding books of poetry, four international and three Canadian. Trzeciak was nominated as the translator of Poet Tadeusz Różewicz’s book Sobbing Superpower: Selected Poems of Tadeusz Różewicz (2011) W.W. Norton & Company.

Jeanne Marie Stumpf-Carome, Department of Anthropology, Kent State University at Geauga, was the organizer and chair of the session "Exploring Hegemonic Devices of Politics of Culture in Contemporary Settings” at the Central States Anthropological Society in Toledo, Ohio, on March 23, 2012. This session explored diverse facets of politics of culture in three far distant environments – China, the Dominican Republic and Singapore. The papers examine shifting domains of competition, power and cultural construction, and reconstruction within contemporary settings. Dominance and domination are investigated through filters of kinship, gender, ethnicity and policy. Fetishisms of tourism, beauty and policy are considered within the detail of each setting. Outcomes highlight resolutions of resiliency, resistance and resourcefulness.

Denise Bedford, Library and Information Science, presented a poster on "Convergence and Divergence: Two Areas of Information Architecture Practice" at the IA Summit Poster Night in New Orleans, La., March 23, 2012.

Amy Dupper, Department of Anthropology, presented "Matando el Pelo: An Ethnograpjic Study Exploring Dominican Women's Perception of 'Good Hair' and 'Bad Hair' Within the Environment of the Beauty Salon” in Santiago, Dominican Republic, at the annual meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society in Toledo, Ohio, on March 23, 2012.

Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, presented "Racial Stereotypes in the U.S. and Southeastern Solomon Islands" to a session entitled “A Century of Fighting Racism,” organized by Alice Kehoeat at the annual meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society in Toledo, Ohio, March 22-24, 2012. www.aaanet.org/sections/csas.

Richard Feinberg, Department of Anthropology, authored "Defending ‘Traditional’ Marriage? Whose Definition? What Tradition?" in the Huffington Post, April 30, 2012.

www.huffingtonpost.com/american-anthropological-association/defending-traditional-marriage_b_1460026.html

Daniel Roland, School of Library and Information Science, authored the online journal article "Using Sermon Text Archives to Investigate the Construction of Social Values: A Proposal for a Collaborative Research Agenda in Social Epistemology", Theological Librarianship, Vol. 5, Issue 1, (2012): 43-55.