Faculty publications (books, chapters, articles and conference proceedings) written during the past year were recognized at UDM's annual Celebration of Authors, March 10. The following CLAE faculty members were recognized:

Blume, Libby B., & Zembar, M.J., Middle Childhood Development: A Contextual Approach.

Hill-Vasquez, Heather Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama.

Presbey, Gail, M., Editor, Philosophical Perspectives on the War on Terrorism.

Calley, N.G. "The Use of Prompted Feedback to Increase Interpersonal Skill Development" and "Behavioral Scaling as a Group-Guided Approach to Self-Management " in The Group Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy: Viers, Dawn.

DeVita, Randy, "Riding the Doghouse," The Best American Short Stories 2007: King, Stephen.

Finkenbine, Roy, "Blake, or the Huts of America (Delany, 1859)," p. 68-70; "Garner, Margaret (1833-1858)," p. 207-208. "Resistance During Middle Passage," p 322-325. Vol. 1 A-N, Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion: Rodriguez, Junius, P. "Uprisings at Sea," p. 551—553 and "Washington, Madison (C. 1819—?)," p.571—572.  Vol. 2, O-Z, Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion: Rodriguez, Junius, P.

Koukal, David, "Speaking to the World Through Husserl and Merleau-Ponty." Issues in Interpretation Theory: Vandevelde, P. "The Mortal God to which We Owe Our Peace and Defense," Philosophical Perspectives on the War on Terrorism: Presbey, Gail.

Bambery, M. & Abell, Steven C., "Relocating the Nexus of Psychopathology and Treatment: Thoughts on the Contribution of Erich Fromm to Contemporary Psychotherapy," Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy.

Calley, N.G., "Integrating Theory and Research: The Development of a Research-Based Treatment Program for Juvenile Male Sex Offenders," Journal of Counseling and Development. "Promoting an Outcomes-based

Treatment Milieu for Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Guided Approach to Assessment," Journal of Mental Health Counseling.

Crabtree, Claire, "At the Peasant Museum, Bucharest," and "Primordial," Innisfree Poetry Journal.  "Thorn, Needle."  So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art.

Finkenbine, Roy. "Belinda's Petition: Reparations for Slavery in Revolutionary Massachusetts," William and Mary Quarterly.

Freeman, John, "Engine Nearing Perfection? Utopia.com(mons) and Steorn-Power, UnLtd.," C Theory. "Utopia, Incorporated: Reassessing Intellectual Property Rights to The Island," English Literary Renaissance.

Gibbs, Patricia, "The Primacy of Psychoanalytic Intervention in Recovery from the Psychoses and Schizophrenias," Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.

Hill-Vasquez, Heather, "Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Hoccleve's Arguing Women and Lydgate's Hertford Wives: Lay Interpretation and the Figure of the Spinning Woman in Late Medieval England," Florilegium.

Presbey, Gail, "Sage Philosophy: Criteria That Distinguish It from Ethnophilosophy and Make It a Unique Approach within African Philosophy," Philosophia Africana.

Scott, C.L. & Homant, Robert, "The Professional Mentor Program Plus: An Academic Success and Retention Tool for Adult Learners," The Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice.

Sumner, Gregory, "The Gentleman from Indianapolis: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922—2007," Indiana Magazine of History. "Planetary Citizen: Kurt Vonnegut," New Politics.

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Professor of Religious Studies Gloria Albrecht presented the paper, "Detroit - Still the Other America," at the 2008 annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Jan. 4-6 in Atlanta. The paper has also been selected for publication in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. Albrecht was also a respondent to a panel of ethicists discussing "Feminists Among the Virtues," an exploration of the possibility of feminist virtue ethics.

Libby Balter Blume, professor of Psychology, has been named book review editor for the new Journal of Family Theory and Review, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell beginning in 2009.

Professor of Economics Donald Byrne was featured in a FOX 2 News segment, Feb. 12 regarding the effects of the General Motors employee buyouts. 

As Chair of the Research Committee for the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE), Assistant Professor of Psychology Barry Dauphin organized a panel titled, "Are We Out of Our Minds?" for the 2007 IFPE Conference, held in Toronto, Oct. 19-21.  Dauphin also presented the paper, "Why Can't the English Learn to Speak?"

Professor of History Roy E. Finkenbine gave the talk, "My Journey into Diverse Classrooms," to the faculty at Taylor University (Upland, Indiana) and led a faculty development workshop, "Teaching for Inclusion," March 13. He also presented the papers, "'Day of Reckoning': Jordan Anderson's 1865 Letter to His Old Master," at the Great Lakes History Conference in Grand Rapids, Oct. 27, and "The failure of compensated emancipation and slave reparations in the United States in a comparative context," April 12 at Atlantic Emancipations, an international conference in Philadelphia sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. On March 13, he gave the talk, "My Journey into Diverse Classrooms," to the faculty at Taylor University (Upland, Indiana) and led a faculty development workshop, "Teaching for Inclusion."

Professor of English John Freeman presented the paper, "Shakespeare and the Catholic Legacy in Hamlet," at St. Elizabeth's Church in Wyandotte, March 6, and presented the paper, "The Steorn Phenomenon: Overunity, Webminds, and Psychic Overload," in the "Middle Passages" session of the American Comparative Literature Association in Long Beach, California, April 24.

Approximately 70 posters were presented at the Second Annual UDM Faculty and Student Research Symposium and Poster Fair, April 15. Awards were presented to the best poster from each college/school. The posters were judged on the basis of scholarship and presentation. The College of Liberal Arts & Education award was presented to Associate Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Hill and Sylvia Malcore in Biopsychology for "Spontaneous Maternal Behavior of Laboratory Mice: Strain Differences."

Associate Professor of English Heather Hill-Vasquez has been invited to present her paper, "Mapping the Spiritual in a Physical World: Pilgrimage and the Medieval Drama," at the 29th Plymouth State University Medieval and Renaissance Forum in Plymouth, New Hampshire in April.

The most recent issue of Journal of Applied Security Research has published "Breaking New Ground: A historical look at the Master of Science in Security Administration degree at the University of Detroit Mercy," by Professor Daniel Kennedy and Associate Professor Michael Witkowski of the Sociology & Criminal Justice Department.  The article focuses on the history, professionalization and transformation of security administration, and highlights the history and accomplishments of the UDM program.

Kennedy was also appointed to the advisory committee of a new Praeger Publishers series in forensic psychology.  He authored the book chapter, "From Crime to Tort: Criminal Acts, Civil Liability and the Behavioral Sciences," in the recently published textbook, Psychology and Law: Bridging the Gap. Kennedy also presented the colloquium, "Criminology in the Courtroom: Consulting and Forensic Criminology," at the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University, in February.

Assistant Professor of Education Lorri MacDonald presented "Inquiry in Science" to the Japan Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development in Tokyo, Jan. 26.  While in Japan, MacDonald consulted at Yokohama International School and Saint Maur International School, and gave a presentation to the Department of Defense School, Yokota West Elementary, on her constructivist approach to science instruction.

Associate Professor of Political Science Victoria Mantzopoulos was featured in a series of live radio interviews for BBC World Service, commenting on the Michigan presidential primary election, Jan. 15.  Mantzopoulos was also quoted on the subject in La Presse, a French-language Canadian newspaper, in the article, "Romney ressuscite au Michigan." The second edition of her textbook, Foundations in Statistics is now in print.

In addition, Mantzopoulos and Professor of Economics Raphael Shen, S.J., co-authored and presented the paper, "China's Six Decades of Socialist Construction and Restructuring: 1949-2007," at the Midwest Economics Association, March 16, as well as the paper, "China's foreign trade reform and its expected declining trade surpluses," at the Midwest Political Science Association, April 5.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Jack Martin presented at the annual convention of the Michigan Association of School Psychologists along with Psychology graduate students Evelyn Brissman, Jennifer Grantham, Elizabeth Korolewicz, Jennifer Pavlovich, and Sherry Smeltzer.  Their topics involved research-based interventions for learning-disabled students who have difficulty with basic math, written expression, math reasoning, oral expression or reading comprehension.

Stephen Manning, associate professor of Political Science, chaired and served as the discussant on the panel, "Transition Politics in Post-Soviet Countries," at the 66th annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, held April 3-6 in Chicago. The panel featured papers on impediments to democratic transition in Russia, Georgia, Belarus, and the three republics of the Caucasus.

Michael Morgan, coordinator of the American Language and Culture Program, wrote the article, "ESL students see the point of PowerPoint," published in the March 7 edition of TESOL Connections.

Cheryl C. Munday, associate professor of Psychology, delivered the invited paper, "Crossing the Post-Racial Divide: Psychoanalytic Conceptualizations of Race" to the Bowling Green State University Psychology Department, March 29.

Professor of Psychology Christine Panyard received a grant of data management services from the RDA Group to enter personality and demographic information from over 900 public safety pre-employment psychological evaluations into a format that will allow easy access to the data for theses, dissertations and faculty research.

Professor of Philosophy Gail Presbey gave the talks, "Prof. Henry Odera Oruka of Kenya: an intellectual history," to the Philosophy and Africana Studies Departments of Wayne State University, April 4, and "Torture and the war on terrorism," to the Oakland Pax Christi meeting, April 11 in Sylvan Lake.

Associate Professor of Education Karen Selby was named to the Task Force on Catholic Education during the annual meeting of the American Jesuit Colleges and Universities' Education Council at Loyola University of Chicago.  Selby was also elected to the board of the Michigan Association for Colleges of Teacher Education.

Economics Instructor Joseph A. Weglarz delivered the paper, "Antonio Rosmini's Proto-Austrian Elements as found in The Constitution under Social Justice," at the 2008 Austrian Scholars Conference in Auburn, Alabama, March 15.

Associate Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice Michael Witkowski gave the presentation, "Is torture ever justified? College students' attitudes toward coercion and torture," at the conference, "Terrorism and Justice: The Balance for Civil Liberties," at the University of Central Missouri, Feb. 18. The talk was based on a paper co-authored by himself and Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice Robert Homant. 

UDM Economics faculty Joe Weglarz and Don Byrne spoke at the 2008 State of the Michigan Economy Symposium on April 5 at the Macomb University Center. The symposium panel of speakers was sponsored by the UDM Department of Economics at Macomb University Center and the UDM Center of the Michigan Council on Economic Education.