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Professional Publications

December 2007

Dr. Richard Courtney, Geography, has coauthored a book chapter titled, “Measuring and Mapping Conflict-related Deaths and Segregation: Lessons From the Belfast ‘Troubles’”, for inclusion in a book on Geographic Information Systems and Homeland Security. The chapter is now under review.

Richard A. Crooker, Ph.D., Professor of Geography, published "Atlantic Ocean" (pages 79-80), "Continental Shelf" (pages 361-362), "Ocean Currents" (pages 394-395), and "Indian Ocean" (pages 913-914) in the Encyclopedia of the Environment & Society, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.

Dr. Eric Johnson, Department of History, had the following publications: “Libertines and Liberty: State Justice and Changing Regimes in Eighteenth-Century.” A review of Lawrence Bongie, From Rogue to Everyman: A Foundling’s Journal to the Bastille and David Andress; The Terror: The Merciless War for Freedom in Revolutionary France, for the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Dr. Patricia Kelleher, Department of History, had two book reviews published. They are: Review of Sex Among the Rabble: An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830, by Clare A. Lyons in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies; and the Review of The Paddy Camps: The Irish Lowell, 1821-61, by Brian C. Mitchell an H-Net Book Review, published by H-Urban.

Prof. Jonathan M. Kremser, Department of Criminal Justice, published Pennsylvania Justice (2008). Pearson Prentice Hall.

Dr. Geoffrey Moss, Department of Anthropology/Sociology, presented a research poster titled "The New Urban Bohemia: Artists and Neighborhood Redevelopment in Lawrenceville Pittsburgh" at the annual conference of The American Sociological Association in New York City on August 11-14, 2007.

Professor Melissa Nurczynski, English Department, published a short feature in the October issue of "Budget Travel" Magazine called "My Hometown: Aruba" - under her pen name, Melissa Marshall.

Winnie Peterson, Mathematics Department, and Jane Murphy Wilburne, Penn State, Harrisburg, had their paper entitled “Using a Before-During-After Model to Plan Effective Secondary Mathematics Lessons” published in Mathematics Teacher, Vol 101, No. 3, October 2007, pp. 209-213.

Prof. Ilene Prokup, Department of Nursing, co-authored the following peer-reviewed journal article: “Colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in northeastern Pennsylvania,” in the Journal of Registry Management, 34(3):99-105.

Dr. Kim Shively, Department of Anthropology/Sociology, presented a paper, “’The Sharp Edge of a Razor’: Negotiating Religious Identity in Turkey,” at the American Ethnological Society meetings in Toronto, Canada on May 11, 2007.

Dr. Ronald Stoffey, Psychology Department, accepted for publication June, 2007. A paper co-authored with Robert M Gorden, Ph.D., private practice, Allentown, PA and Jennifer Bottinelli, Kutztown University, entitled, "MMPI-2 Findings of Primitive Defenses in Alienating Parents" has been accepted for publication by The American Journal of Family Therapy.

Francis J. Vasko, Mathematics Department, and Peter Huegler, Lock Haven University, had their paper entitled “Metaheuristics for Meltshop Scheduling in the Steel Industry” published in The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 58, N6 (June 2007), pp. 791-796. In this paper, they discuss metaheuristic solutions to the very complex and important logistical problem of scheduling a meltshop at an integrated steel plant.

Dr. Todd O. Williams, English Department,
• Has had a note accepted for publication by The Explicator called “ Reading Rossetti’s ‘The Mirror’ through Lacan’s Mirror Stage.”
• An article forthcoming in The Journal of William Morris Studies called “Teaching Morris’s Early Dream Poems through the Three Registers,“, due out November 2007
•A review of Dinah Roe’s book Christina Rossetti’s Faithful Imagination forthcoming in The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, due out in November, 2007.

Dr. Robert C. Ziegenfus, Professor of Geography and Faculty Athletics Representative, unveiled his Division II Best Practices website at the Faculty Athletics Representative Association Annual Meeting and Symposium. Baltimore, MD. November 8, 2007.