Vanderbilt University Register: Faculty Staff Notes

FACULTY & STAFF NOTES

APPOINTMENTS

Michael Kurek, associate professor of music composition, has been appointed by the Board of Trustees of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences as a committee member. The committee met Dec. 6-8, 2001, in West Hollywood, Calif. Kurek has been a member of NARAS since 1996, when his self-titled New World Records CD was nominated in four categories of the preliminary round of the Grammy Awards.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Daniel M. Patte, professor of religious studies and professor of New Testament and early Christianity, was honored at the Society of Biblical Literature national meeting in Denver Nov. 17-20, 2001. Colleagues and former students participated in a session titled "The Work of Daniel Patte: From Structuralism to Poststructuralism." In another session, three former students presented Patte with an advanced copy of Reading Communities Reading Scripture: Essays In Honor of Daniel Patte to be published this year. In the book, 27 religion scholars from around the world celebrate Daniel Patte as a "scholar, editor and teacher who has helped shape the character and set the direction of contemporary American biblical studies."

PAPERS AND PRESENTAIONS

Akram Aldroubi, professor of mathematics, presented a talk titled "Non-uniform Sampling and Applications" at the University of Houston Nov. 15, 2001.

Alice C. Harris, professor of linguistics and anthropology and chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages, presented papers on endoclitics at the University of Tbilisi and at the Oriental Institute, both in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. She was in the Republic of Georgia in June 2001 to conduct fieldwork on the Georgian language. In June 2001, she also presented an invited paper "Udi: 'Was Bleibt?'" at a workshop on syntactic change at the University of Konstanz in Germany. In August 2001, she presented a lecture titled "Words Inside Words" to inaugurate the new Centre for Research on Language Change at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Lisa Schultz Bressman, associate professor of law, will have her article "Disciplining Delegation after Whitman v. American Trucking Associations" published this month in the Cornell Law Review.

Beth Fortune, associate vice chancellor for public affairs, was a panelist in the Oxygen channel's stop in Nashville as part of the national Choose to Lead tour. She participated in the "Choose to Lead: Powerful Choices" panel discussion Dec. 6, 2001, at the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum. The panel explored women's complex relationship with power and how it affects leadership.

Fortune

Virginia Scott, associate professor of French and applied linguistics and associate provost for academic affairs, and Holly Tucker, assistant professor of French, co-edited SLA and the Literature Classroom: Fostering Dialogues. The book, published in 2001, is an annual volume of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators. It reconsiders traditional divisions between second language acquisition (SLA) and literary study in post-secondary foreign language education in the U.S. Bringing together recognized scholars from both fields, Scott and Tucker offer one of the first book-length studies on how research in SLA can inform the teaching of literature, and, conversely, what contemporary literary theory might bring to research and methodology in SLA. The volume provides new insight into the importance of collaboration for both the pedagogy of literature and the development of research models to study the role of literature in language acquisition.

Ronnie J. Steinberg, professor of sociology and director of Women's Studies, was the guest speaker at the American Association of University Women's meeting Dec. 8, 2001. The business meeting and luncheon was held at the University Club.

PUBLICATIONS

Ararat Osipian, fellow of the U.S. Department of State from the graduate program of economic development, had his monograph titled "Economy of the Welfare State: Foundations and Creation under the Conditions of Market Transformation" published by Kharkov University of Humanities "People's Ukrainian Academy" in December 2001.

Osipian

W. James Booth, professor of political science, published the leading article, "The Unforgotten: Memories of Justice," in the December 2001 issue of the flagship journal of the discipline, The American Political Science Review.

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