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Maureen Aggeler, adjunct professor-College of Professional Studies, recently published a book, Dear Richard: Letters to an Irish Immigrant.
 Yoko Arisaka, professor-Philosophy, presented a paper titled “The Co-Emergence of Self and Other in Japanese Philosophy” at the Ethics East and West Conference in Alet-les-Bains, France in June. The paper was recently published in “Between Ourselves,” a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies. She also presented a paper titled “Some Ontological Clarifications in the Recent Theories of Consciousness” at a meeting of the Association for Phenomenology and Cognitive Science in Copenhagen in June. That paper will be published in the Journal of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. In July, her article titled “Introducing the American Philosophy of Technology” appeared in the Japanese philosophy journal, Shiso.
David Batstone, associate professor-Theology and Religious Studies, was invited to address the governments of Sweden, Australia, and Norway on the ethical impact of technology on society. In April, he addressed a gathering in Stockholm organized by the Swedish trade minister. In May, Batstone delivered a talk as part of the Alfred Deakin Lectures sponsored by the state of Victoria, Australia. His speech was also broadcast nationally on ABC radio and printed in The Melbourne Age. In November, Batstone will speak to the Norwegian parliament in Oslo at its opening session.
Cynthia Boaz, assistant professor-Politics, spent a month last spring in Castellon, Spain teaching a course on violence and human rights at the Center for Peace and Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I, as part of a faculty exchange program.
Nicole Bohn, coordinator-Disability Related Services, was a plenary panelist at the Association of Higher Education and Disability national conference in Portland, Ore. in July. Her session, titled “Hailstones Keep Falling on My Head,” demonstrated the reasonable accommodation problem-solving process as universities “widen the umbrella” to involve administration, faculty, and deans.
Francis J. Buckley, S.J., professor-Theology and Religious Studies, in June attended the annual convention of the College Theology Society at the University of Portland, where he delivered a paper titled “Theological Images.” He was interviewed there by the National Catholic Reporter about the impact of the Mandatum (a bishop’s approval of intellectual material) on theologians at Catholic universities. The same month he attended the annual convention of the Catholic Theological Society of America, held in Milwaukee. In July, he taught a course titled “Introduction to Religious Education,” for the graduate program in religious education at Santa Clara University.
Thomas Cavanaugh, associate professor-Philosophy, delivered a talk titled “Ethical Theory and its Application in the Clinic,” at St. Mary’s Medical Center’s Spring Forum on Perspectives in Nursing Ethics. In the spring he also delivered the keynote address “Cor ad cor loquitur: Are Catholic Universities Listening to the Heart of the Church?” to the board of governors of Thomas Aquinas College. His article titled “The Instability of the Standard Justification of Physician-Assisted Suicide” appeared in the winter 2001 issue of The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.
John Denvir, professor-School of Law, had his book, Democracy’s Constitution: Claiming the Privileges of American Citizenship published by the University of Illinois Press.
Robert Elias, professor/chair-Politics, recently published a book, Baseball and the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender and the National Pastime. His article, “The Secret Life of Leon Trotsky,” originally published in Nine: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture, was recently reprinted in Exquisite Corpse and in The 2001 Big Baseball Annual. He was named to the advisory board of the California Historical Society for its project on the history of California baseball.
Kathryn Evans, coordinator-Expository Writing and assistant professor-Communication Studies, published an article last March titled “Rethinking Self-Assessment as a Tool for Response” in the journal Teaching English in the Two Year College. She also presented the following papers: “The Writing Conference: Towards a Model of Effective One-on-One Teaching,” at a conference on reading and writing held at San Francisco State University in May; “Teaching One-on-One: Insights from a Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Conferencing” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver in March; and “Two Teachers’ Implicit Assumptions about Communication: An Account of Shifts Between Conflicting Models” at the National Council of Teachers of English Research Assembly at the University of California, Berkeley in February.
 Stan Fasci, associate director–Sports and Fitness Management, has been appointed chair of the annual conference of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals to be held in San Diego next year. The organization, with more than 1,000 members, draws more than 600 graduate program professionals across North America to its yearly event.
H. Leonard Fisher, program director-Information Systems Management and assistant professor-College of Professional Studies, and William Bollinger, adjunct professor-college of professional studies information systems program, had a paper accepted for presentation at the Information Systems Education Conference to be held in Cincinnati in November. The paper is titled “Redesigning an Undergraduate ISM Curriculum to Better Meet the Professional Needs of Working Adults.”
Elisabeth G. Gleason, professor emerita-History, was the 2001 distinguished visiting scholar at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. She presented lectures on “Renaissance Venice through Victorian Eyes: Rawdon Brown and the Calendar of State Papers, Venetian.” She also organized a session on “The Roman Colonna Family in the Sixteenth Century” for the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago at which she read a paper titled “Ascanio Colonna and the Salt War of 1541.” During the last academic year she published six book reviews in scholarly journals, most recently in the American Historical Review. Currently she is serving as the Bay Area regional coordinator of The Historical Society, and has organized a meeting at USF for Oct. 20. This summer she served as outside reviewer in tenure and promotion cases of two universities.
Andrew Heinze, associate professor-History, completed a chapter on the 1901-1929 era for the forthcoming book Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, and had his article, “Jews and American Popular Psychology: Reconsidering the Protestant Paradigm of Popular Thought,” accepted for publication in the Journal of American History.
Peter Jan Honigsberg, professor-School of Law, was invited to talk about legal writing issues at the Barristers Club in San Francisco on Sept. 12.
Roberta Ann Johnson, professor-Politics, chaired the panel, “Campaigns, Elections and Gender,” at the American Political Science Association conference in San Francisco in August. She also had an article, “Cyberspace and Elections,” published in the fall issue of Peace Review.
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Melissa Kenzig, coordinator-Student Health Education Program, was invited for the second year in a row to be a guest instructor at the Health Advocate Training Institute at Loyola Marymount University.
Neil Laughlin, professor-Exercise and Sport Science, will present his paper, “Ethical Tenets of Thomism: Implications for Sport,” at the International Association of Philosophy of Sport conference at William and Mary College in October.
Lois Ann Lorentzen and David Batstone, both associate professors-Theology and Religious Studies, had their book, Religions/Globalization: Theories and Cases, published by Duke University Press.
Larry Margerum, associate professor-Chemistry, had his article on artificial metalloenzymes (water-soluble, cobalt-containing polymers that react with phosphate esters) published in Inorganica Chimica Acta. USF graduate students Shirley Zhang and Sherrie Yu co-authored. Margerum was also recently appointed to the executive committee for the Lafayette Arts and Science Foundation.
M. Theresa Moser, RSCJ, assistant dean-academic programs, Arts and Sciences, was a panelist during major sessions on the Mandatum (bishop’s approval of intellectual material) at both the College Theology Society annual meeting at the University of Portland in May and at the Catholic Theological Society of America annual meeting in Milwaukee,Wisc., in June.
Chris Paterson, assistant professor-Media Studies, wrote a chapter in Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and our Understanding of the Social World. It is the first major book in the mass communications field to explore the increasingly influential theoretical perspective of “framing.” The chapter argues that constructions of “global news” are neither as diverse nor polysemic as commonly thought.
 Paolo Ricci, professor-Environmental Science, will chair a session on the health risks of ambient exposure to arsenic, as well as a workshop on that topic, at the Dixie Lee Ray Conference in Washington, D.C. in October. He will also chair a workshop in October on water supply, demand, and quality for the Electric Power Research Institute on Emerging Environmental Issues in Washington D.C.
Tracy Seeley, associate professor-English, presented a paper titled “Flights of Fancy: Spatial Digression and Storytelling in A Room of One’s Own” at the International Virginia Woolf Conference in Wales in June.
Shalendra Sharma, associate professor-Politics and director of the MAPS Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, had his article, “The Indonesian Financial Crisis: From Banking Crisis to Financial Sector Reforms, 1997-2000,” published in the April 2001 issue of Indonesia Journal, printed by Cornell University’s Southeast Asia program. Also, “The Making of the Korean Economic Crisis: Financial Liberalization Without Regulation” will be published in the fall issue of the International Journal of Korean Studies, and “Thailand’s Financial Crisis: From Irrational Exuberance to the IMF’s Star Pupil” will be published in the spring issue of Oxford Development Studies. Sharma is also a consultant to the International Monetary Fund.
Gini Shimabukuro, associate professor-School of Education, conducted a faculty retreat with the principals of the Diocese of San Bernardino in August on the topic of “Spirituality of the Educator.”
Colin Silverthorne, professor-psychology, published his article, “A Test of the Path-Goal Theory of Leadership in Taiwan,” in the July issue of the Leadership and Organizational Development Journal.
Dayle Smith, professor-School of Business and Management, has published a book, The E-Business Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to E-Commerce and Beyond, as a “how to” introduction to setting up and conducting an effective, efficient, and profitable business on the Internet.
Melinda Stone, visiting artist in residence-Media Studies, will present “If It Moves We’ll Shoot It,” a screening of films created by California Amateur Film Clubs, at the upcoming Association of Moving Image Archivists convention in Portland, Ore. She is also participating in an exhibit titled “Back to the Bay,” created by the Center for Land Use Interpretation, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She will give a presentation on the Yerba Buena exhibition in October.
John T. Sullivan, fletcher jones professor-Biology, co-authored the paper, “Hematopoietic Tissue Allografts in Biomphalaria Glabrata (Mollusca: Pulmonata) Induce Humoral Immunity to Schistosoma Mansoni,” published in the September issue of Developmental and Comparative Immunology.
James Lance Taylor, assistant professor-Politics, wrote a chapter titled “Benjamin Chavis-Muhammad: From Wilmington to Washington; From Chavis to Muhammad” in the recently published book Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Politics. Taylor is also completing a report for the Human Rights Commission of San Francisco titled “The Effects of Violence on San Francisco’s Neighborhoods and Communities of Color.”
 Sister Mary Peter Traviss, O.P., associate professor-School of Education, has been named to the board of directors of the Jesuit Secondary Educational Association, headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Brian Weiner, assistant professor-politics, presented a paper, “Defending the Emotional Jurisprudence of Harry A. Blackmun,” at the annual American Political Science Association convention in San Francisco in September.
Bruce Wydick, assistant professor-Economics, had a journal article titled “Affirmative Action in College Admissions: Examining Labor Market Effects of Four Alternative Policies” accepted by Contemporary Economic Policy to be published this January. On July 19, the San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed piece based on the ideas presented in the paper.
Richard Zitrin, director-Center for Applied Legal Ethics, was a speaker at an American Bar Association national educational conference for appellate judges in Vancouver, British Columbia in July. He also published opinion pieces in the National Law Journal in July, the ABA Professional Lawyer in August, and the San Francisco Chronicle on Aug. 21 on efforts to end “secret settlements” like in the Firestone case, which allow lawyers and their clients to keep knowledge of dangerous products from the public.
Stephen Zunes, associate professor-Politics, delivered an address on the impact of globalization on world hunger at a June conference on globalization in Genoa, Italy. In July, he spoke on U.S. policy toward the status of Jerusalem at the Center for Policy Analysis on Palestine in Washington, D.C. In August he addressed the 5th Annual National Jesuit Leadership Conference at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., on the ethical challenges of globalization. He was also featured in August at a forum sponsored by the Nuclear Free Zone Commission of Arcata, Calif. discussing the nuclear threat in the Middle East.
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