Faculty Accomplishments
Department of Communication
Dr. Elizabeth Coffman's documentary on nation‑building aired on Bosnian national television during the past several years. She is currently working on a documentary on the disappearance of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands and the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita entitled "Veins in the Gulf".
Dr. Kay Felkins spent six weeks in Kenya working on collaborative research projects with faculty at Catholic University of Eastern Africa and Kenya Methodist University. She is writing several chapters and co-editing a two-volume book, Weaving Wisdom: African Indigenous Knowledge in the 21st Century, which will be published in Africa and the U.S. She is also on the editorial board to launch the Africa Journal of Indigenous Knowledge.
In May Dr. Felkins presented a paper, "Technology, Community and the Common Good" at an international conference on Africa, Globalization and Justice held in Nairobi, Kenya. This paper is based on research for her book on participative community development in establishing community technology centers in East Africa to help meet social, economic and public health needs. Dr. Felkins is part of a team that has been awarded a Global Initiatives Incentive Fund Grant for a collaborative project, "AIDS and Malaria Education and Research in Kenya." Her research focuses on public information campaigns, communication strategies, advocacy, and school and community programs related to AIDS.
Dr. Connie Fletcher has completed her book on crime scene investigation for St. Martin’s Press. Connie interviewed dozens of police officers, detectives, forensic scientists, and attorneys on the politics of crime scenes.
Dr. Jeff Harder published an article on "Imagining the Croatian Nation" and became the new Acting Director for the International Cinema major.
After turning in a document the size of a tenure book to Homeland Security, Dr. Elizabeth Lozano received her green card for being "an outstanding international professor and researcher," and was promptly appointed Director of the Latin American Studies program here at Loyola. She has almost completed her book on Hispanic television in the United States for Hampton Press.
Dr. Mark Pollock presented an essay on Rhetoric and Democracy in Cape Town, South Africa, and became new Director of the Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies.
Dr. Bren Murphy completed a radio documentary on Hate Speech in Chicago High Schools with Craig Kois and WLUW, which aired in early October on the station.
The Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies is focusing on Hate Crimes and Hate Speech for this current academic year and is bringing in films from Laramie, Wyoming, photojournalists from Columbia and filmmakers who have documented AIDS orphans, women's issues and postcolonial politics in Kenya, Iran and Palestine.
Department of History
Dr. Dina Berger's book, The Development of Mexico's Tourism Industry: Pyramids by Day, Martinis by Night, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Dr. Berger's book explores the development of Mexico's tourism industry as a revolutionary project. It also critically examines the success of Mexico in reshaping its image through a promotion of both the traditional and modern in order to enhance its tourism. In a short time, Dr. Berger has already received wide acclaim for her book, which has been described as "a path breaking, deftly researched study," and "an engaging and insightful example of cultural and political history."
Dr. Robert Bucholz created the Database of Court Officers 1660-1837, which is now online. It provides the career histories of every remunerated officer and servant of the English royal household from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837. It may be found here.
Dr. Anthony Cardoza published a new book in 2005, Benito Mussolini: The First Fascist. In the book, Dr. Cardoza "integrates the latest scholarship on the life of Mussolini with the story of Italian fascism." This book is considered very readable and important to scholarship on Mussolini and the particular dynamics of the system of Italian fascism.
Additionally, Dr. Cardoza’s book on Turin, Italy, A History of Turin, was published this year by Einaudi. This timely work coincides with the recent Winter Olympics, and was co-authored by Geoffrey W. Symcox. A History of Turin covers a broad span of history, examining Turin from the Taurini of Piedmont's unsuccessful opposition to Hannibal to the death of Gianni Agnelli, the patriarch of Fiat. In recognition of their impressive scholarly reputations, both authors were commissioned to write this history by the city of Turin.
Dr. Lewis Erenberg's book, The Greatest Fight of our Generation: Louis vs. Schmeling, was published in 2005 by Oxford Press. This book features a detailed historical analysis of the time period in which this fight takes place, and it has been called "brilliantly argued and beautifully written." Dr. Erenberg's book has already achieved critical acclaim, as it was selected by The Chicago Tribune as one of the best books of 2005.
Dr. Timothy Gilfoyle received the Best Article Award from the Society for the History of Children and Youth. This organization is hosted by Marquette University and supports research on childhood, youth culture and experiences of young people across diverse times and places. Dr. Gilfoyle received this award for his publication in the Journal of Social History: "Street-Rats and Gutter-Snipes: Child Pickpockets and Street Culture in New York City, 1850-1900."
Dr. Jo Hays, Professor Emeritus of History, had a new book published through ABC Clio in December 2005 titled Epidemics and Pandemics: Their Impacts on Human History. This substantial volume includes 50 essays covering a broad spectrum of contemporary and historical issues related to the global spread of diseases. Dr. Hays' book looks at various cases of pandemics and epidemics on nearly every continent, moving from ancient cases such as the Black Death to current diseases like AIDS and malaria. This vast scholarly book "combines biological and social information to form a picture of the significance of epidemics that have shaped world history," and it demonstrates the impact of epidemics and pandemics at several levels of society.
Dr. Theodore J. Karamanski's 1993 book, Rally 'round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War was printed in a new, 2006 paperback edition. Dr. Karamanski's book adds to the literature on the role of northern cities in the Civil War by tracing the history of Chicago throughout the Civil War from the beginning to the end of Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Among many accolades, the Journal of American History called it "Deeply researched and wide-ranging."
Dr. Suzanne Kaufman received special recognition for "Excellence in Graduate Teaching" as part of Graduate Education Week. She was honored at the Graduate Faculty and Student Recognition ceremony on Wednesday, March 29. In addition, Dr. Kaufman was nominated as a "Fabulous, Extraordinary, Wonderful Woman Leader at Loyola and the Rogers Park/Chicago community." This recognition was sponsored by the Gannon Scholars and Women's History Month. She was recognized at
the Women's Leadership Reception on March 30 at the Gannon Center.
Dr. Michael Khodarkovsky just had two chapters published in the prestigious Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 1. From Early Rus to 1689, ed. Maureen Perry (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006): Chapter 14 "The non-Christian peoples on the Muscovite Frontiers" and Chapter 22 "Non-Russian subjects."
Dr. Janet Nolan's essay "Pioneers in the Classroom: Irish-American Teachers in San Francisco in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," was published in The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area: Essays on Good Fortune, eds. Donald Jordan and Timothy J. O'Keefe. Professor Nolan's essay was published in this volume in 2005 by The Executive Council of the Irish Literary and Historical Society.
Dr. Harold Platt recently published a book entitled Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago. This book, which has been proclaimed "an environmental history of the highest order," compares the environmental transformation of two industrial cities: Manchester and Chicago. Dr. Platt's book is large in scope, covering ecology, technology, urban planning and public health. It is already serving as a methodological model for students in these fields.
Modern Languages Department
Dr. Wiley Feinstein has been working in the area of Italian Jewish Studies and Italian Holocaust Studies. His recent Civilization of the Holocaust in Italy, (2004) is an extensive study of negative cultural representation of Jews in the Italian literary and cultural tradition. The work was published by Fairleigh Dickinson Press that has called attention to the work by including a September 2005 author interview on the features page of its Website (See interview at http://inside.fdu.edu/fdupress/5102801.html).
A recent review in the Summer 2005 issue of Italica, the leading journal among Italian language and literature scholars cited the study for the quality of its scholarship and the provocative nature of its central thesis that Mussolini’s anti-Semitic laws and Italian support for Hitler’s war on the Jews stem directly from beliefs cultivated throughout Italian cultural history.
Dr. Feinstein is currently working on questions of anti-Semitism in Italy during the post-World-War II and is currently preparing a study focusing on questions and problems of Jewish identity in the two major Italian Holocaust authors—Giorgio Bassani and Primo Levi. He is also interested in Catholic-Jewish relations in Italy and in fostering reconciliation and mutual understanding Christians and Jews in an age of continuing tension related to the Middle East conflict.
Dr. Deni Heyck, Professor of Spanish, is currently working on a project regarding "Nonformal Education in Latin America," which looks specifically at the role of agencies, communities, and the state in the rise of nonformal education. This research also explores the possibilities of nonformal education for disenfranchised populations, such as women and children from rural areas. This topic will be placed within the broader context of the gendered effects and cultural consequences of globalization in Latin America. Dr. Heyck’s research on nonformal education will be used as a special topic in his graduate seminar "Women, Culture, and Development" for the Spanish and Women's Studies programs. This project is an outgrowth of earlier research on globalization, a book published in 2002 entitled Surviving Globalization in Three Latin American Communities.
Dr. Frank Kujawinski and Dr. Bozena Nowicka McLees have been incredibly active in their work to expand Polish Studies program at Loyola. In the last year, Dr. Kujawinski has worked on several projects to promote Polish Studies both within Loyola and also in the larger Chicago area. Included in these activities is extensive work with the Polish Women's Alliance, where he has helped with fundraisers and created a reading club. Dr. Kujawinski and Dr. McLees have also worked with students to promote Polish Studies and bring in several important speakers, and Dr. Kujawinski recently spoke to a gathering of the Polish Committee of the International Women's Club regarding the expansion of offerings in Polish Studies at Loyola.
In addition, Dr. McLees has organized a Polish Career Day at Loyola and has worked with students to broaden interest in Polish Studies, and one of her students had two of his articles placed in the academic section of the Polish language community newspaper, Dziennik Zwiazkowy. Finally, Dr. Kujawinski and Dr. McLees are responsible for generating publicity about the attempts to broaden Polish Studies at Loyola. They have taken part in several interviews, including one for the May issue of Polonia magazine, which is featuring an article on Loyola and the efforts to establish a minor in Polish Studies at the university.
Dr. David M. Posner spent a month in Tanzania in the summer of 2005, where he helped to start a vocational-training program in bicycle repair for AIDS orphans. After teaching and studying African film and literature for several years, Dr. Posner traveled to Africa in 2004 as a participant in Loyola’s faculty-immersion trips.
In 2005, Dr. Posner returned to Tanzania, where he worked with the Global Alliance for Africa (GAA) and one of its partners, the Tumaini Vocational Training Center, to create this program. Dr. Posner worked extensively to build the infrastructure for this program, as he worked with local workers, the Director of Tumaini, and GAA workers to prepare the program, recruited trainees and instructors, and developed a curriculum. In this program, students will have the opportunity to gain skills repairing and building bikes and cargo trailers and generate income through the repair work and sale of the product. Dr. Posner was able to see this program implemented in a short time, and it will be covered in a radio documentary on WBEZ's Worldview, and possibly NPR.
Department of Physics
Three professors from the physics department, Dr. John J. Dykla, Dr. Asim Gangopadhyaya, and Dr. Jeffry V. Mallow, have co-authored an article entitled "Exactly solvable systems and the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi formalism." This article, which appears in Physics Letters A, was listed in "The Science Direct TOP25 Hottest Articles." This distinction indicates that in one month the article was among the 25 most frequently downloaded journal articles from the Science Direct database, which contains over 2000 titles.
School of Social Work
Dr. Brenda Crawley, who has been involved in projects in Africa for more than 15 years, worked with the counseling department at Kenya Methodist University (KEMU), in the Summer, 2005. Dr. Crawley taught courses in theory and human development, consulted with the department regarding program issues, and visited several social service agencies to enhance her knowledge of their work. From 1993 to 1999, Dr. Crawley lived in Africa, established an M.S.W. degree program in Lesotho, and worked with the Austrian-based SOS Kinderdorf International Social Service Agency. She has published an article in the International Social Work Journal entitled: Creative Pathways to Establishing a Graduate Social Work Program: An Interntional Context.
EVOKE awards have gone to four faculty: Dr. Carlean Gilbert, Dr. Maria Vidal de Haymes, Dr. Terry Northcut and Professor Shirley Simon.
Dr. Carlean Gilbert has two articles accepted for publication: Crossing Jordan: Spiritual Boundary Issues in Clinical Practice, in the Clinical Social Work Journal, and Religion and Spirituality: Is Religion Sufficiently Emphasized? in Social Thought: Journal of Religion in the Social Services. Dr. Gilbert also publishes on supervision and has a chapter forthcoming entitled: Supervision as Life-long Learning, in Spitzer, W. J., (Ed.), Supervision. Petersburg, VA: The Dietz Press.
Dr. Susan F. Grossman and Dr. Marcia Spira have been selected for participation in a two-year project with The Hartford Foundation and the Council for Social Work Education, the Curriculum Development Institute. The goal is to infuse all foundation-level courses in social work with gerontological content and to assist faculty in developing teaching methods for this content.
Dr. Susan F. Grossman and Dr. Marta Lundy have written two articles, one entitled The Mental Health and Service Needs of Young Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Supportive Data, published in Families in Society, 86(1), 17-29, and Domestic Violence Across Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Practice and Policy, which will be published in Violence Against Women, 2006.
Dr. Grossman also has mentored School of Social Work students who co-authored with her two articles: Rural versus Urban Victims of Violence: The Interplay of Race and Religion, in Journal of Family Violence, 20(2), 71-81, and Weaving a Safety Net for Immigrants Post PRWORA, in the Journal of Poverty and Inequality (forthcoming).
Dr. Edward Gumz has a forthcoming article on discharge planning for children who have been in residential care.
Dr. Teresa Kilbane participated in an Africa immersion trip, Summer, 2005. Resulting from this trip, Dr. Kilbane has developed three distinct presentations regarding social work and the influence of culture and poverty related to health disparities, as well as integrating the content into her coursework.
Dr. Daniel Lee is co-editor of a book published in 2005, entitled Social Work and Divinity. Also, Dr. Lee was guest co-editor of The Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thoughts, Vol. 24 (1/2), 2005, and has a chapter in press in Bergquist & Kim’s Transplanted Children, entitled: Reconstruction of the Psychosocial Worlds of Korean Adoptees in the U.S.: A Search for New Meanings. In addition, Dr. Lee published an article in the Journal of Religion and Spirituality & Social Work, 24 (1/2), 2005, entitled, The Issues and Challenges of Dual Degree Programs in Social Work and Divinity. Dr. Lee also has been featured in such Korean newspapers as The Korea Times Daily and The Korea Times, U.S. edition.
Dr. Alan Levy, who has been actively developing Loyola’s new Certificate in Child Psychotherapy program, has two articles in preparation.
Dr. James Marley was elected into Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society in June 2005.
As a member of the editorial board of two national professional journals, Dr. Terry Northcut reviewed three manuscripts, wrote an article, and is working on a grant for international social work field placements.
Dr. Janice Rasheed has a textbook in progress: Family Therapy: A Systematic and Comprehensive Introduction, and has published an article in the Journal of Human Behavior and the Environment, entitled The Impact of Racism, Poverty, Educational Attainment, and Masculine Identity on the Efficacy of African American Fatherhood.
Professor Shirley Simon is a long-time group worker and teaches courses in group work. She has two chapters in press, in Viers (Ed.)., The Group Therapist’s Notebook, entitled: The Magic Wand and The What’s My Name: Ball Toss Game.
Dr. Shweta Singh, new to the faculty in Fall 2005, is a tireless advocate for women of color. She was awarded the Feminist Scholarship in Social Work Award for 2005 for the paper "Identities of Women - An Alternative to the Gender and Development Paradigm," by the Council on Social Work Education's Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work. Her most recent publication, Deconstructing 'Gender and Development' Paradigm for Identities of Women, has been accepted for publication in The International Journal of Social Welfare, 2006.
Dr. Marcia Spira has been awarded a three-year grant from The Hartford Foundation and the New York Academy of Medicine to develop and coordinate a Practicum Partnership Program (PPP) for social work students interested in service the aging population. Dr. Spira has written two articles regarding aspects on aging entitled: Mapping our Future: A Proactive Approach to Aging, in Gerontological Social Work, and Cultural and Generational Narrative in Family Relations.
Dr. Katherine Tyson is editor-in-chief of the inaugural issue of the Illinois Child Welfare Journal. Dr. Tyson gave the concluding keynote address at Festschrift for Pastora San Juan Cafferty, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. Dr. Tyson also was invited to present at the International Social Work Conference, held at the University of Lapland, Department of Social Sciences, Rovaniemi, Finland, in June 2005. The title of the presentation was: Developing Self-Determination from the Child’s Perspective: Effective Social Services for Traumatized Children. Dr. Tyson received the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program Award for Summer 2005, for collaborative teaching and research with faculty at Vytautus Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, and Klaipeda University School of Social Work, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Dr. Maria Vidal de Haymes was awarded a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, ACYS, Children’s Bureau. The project is entitled: Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice with Latino Children and Families: A Child Welfare Staff Training Model. Dr. Vidal de Haymes has been asked to serve as the co-editor of a special journal issue on child welfare and migration in the Americas. In addition, Dr. Vidal de Haymes published two articles: Addressing the Child Welfare Needs of Immigrant and Mixed-Status Families: Bridging Community and National Borders through Policy and Practice Innovation, in the Journal of the American Humane Association; and Racial and Ethnic Classifications and the Meaning of Hispanic/Latino in the United States, published in Ethnic Studies Review. The following article has been accepted for publication entitled: Policy, Practice, and research from the Latino Consortium Roundtable discussions, forthcoming in Illinois Child Welfare.
Dr. Jack Wall has written two articles on aging with Dr. Marcia Spira, entitled Issues in Multigenerational Families: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Grandparents’ Declining Health, in Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, and Voices of Three Generations: Families and the Declining Health of Older Adults, in Families in Society.
School of Education
Dr. Hank Bohanon co-published “Schoolwide Discipline Policies,” a chapter in the Handbook of Behavior Management: Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues, edited by Carolyn Evertson and Carole Weinstein.
Dr. Steven Brown co-edited Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work; contributed chapters to the Handbook of Vocational Psychology and Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work; and published several journal articles.
Dr. Erwin H. Epstein wrote "Education as a Fault Line in Assessments of Democratization: Indigenous Responses to Globalizing Influences of Schools," a chapter in the International Handbook of Globalization and Education Policy Research. Also, his chapter, "Echoes from the Periphery: Challenges to Building a Culture of Peace through Education in Marginalized Communities," will be published in Educating Towards a Culture of Peace (Information Age Publishing). He has written two other chapters on different historical periods in the development of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies, which will be published in Common Interests, Uncommon Goals: Histories of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies and Its Members (Springer). Dr. Epstein was invited to serve on the Honorary Academic Council, Graduate Program in Educational Policy and Administration, at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Argentina. He has also been invited to give the keynote address at the National Conference on Primary Education in Chimbote, Peru, and to lecture at the University of Oxford, England.
Dr. Pamela Fenning co-wrote “Schoolwide Discipline Policies” in the Handbook of Behavior Management: Research, Practice and Contemporary Issues, edited by Carolyn Evertson and Carole Weinstein. She also presented papers at several conferences on such topics as: building university-school research collaborations; the role of the school psychologist; and Positive Behavior Support (PBS) in schools. Dr. Fenning was recognized for Excellence in Graduate Teaching during Loyola’s Graduate Education Week in March 2006.
Dr. Dorothy Giroux spearheaded an effort that culminated in a $3 million TQE grant from the Department of Education. This grant now supports the Chicago's High-Need Area Partnership for Teacher Education Recruitment (CHAPTER) program at Loyola, which helps to train undergraduate and graduate students—and provide them with scholarships—to become teachers in high-need schools that would most benefit from quality instruction.
Dr. Vivian Gordon contributed two pieces to the Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration, one on academic freedom, and the other on Holocaust education. She has published an article on school safety in the Global Education Journal and on candidate interviewing for The Illinois School Board Journal. She has presented several papers on school negligence at various professional meetings. Dr. Gordon also put on a special interactive program entitled “Brown v. Board of Education and its Application for Today’s School Leaders” in coordination with the Library of Congress.
Dr. Marla Israel was awarded the 2005 Winn Research Award for her study, “Teacher Evaluation: Principals’ Insights and Suggestions for Improvement.” This award was established by the Illinois Association for Educational Research and Evaluation (IAERE) to honor outstanding Illinois educators who are engaged in research activities that make a difference in American education. She also been published in Planning and Changing and the Journal of Early Childhood Research, and has made various conference presentations on ethics in professional educational settings.
Dr. Beverly Kasper published an article on educational reform in the American Educational History Journal and in National Summit on School Leadership: Crediting the Past, Challenging the Present and Changing the Future, edited by C. Fulmer and F. Dembowski.
Dr. Steven Miller has published articles on mixed methods models in various journals including Methodological Innovations, Protosociology, Metaphilosophy, the International Journal of Methodology and the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Dr. Lorraine Ozar, as director of the Center for Catholic School Effectiveness (CCSE), provided professional development for teachers and principals from more than 400 Catholic schools and 50 dioceses around the country. Under her leadership, CCSE sponsored two national conferences, received more than $200,000 in NCLB grant money, and addressed national audiences at three national conferences. Working with the SOE, CCSE was instrumental in launching the first Catholic educator cohort for the M.Ed. degree in Instructional Leadership with Type 75 principal certification. In addition, with support from Loyola’s Corporate and Foundation Relations Office and the President’s Office, the Center received a $15,000 grant from the Mazza Foundation and a $5,000,000 endowment and grant from the Arthur Foundation.
Dr. David Prasse co-authored a presentation for the National Association of State Directors of Special Education and was published in Remedial and Special Education on policy issues in special education.
Dr. Sharon Reyes wrote “Nincas and Ninfas” in Language Learner. She is co-authoring a book under contract with Corwin Press entitled Second Language Learning in Constructivist Classrooms. Dr. Reyes has also made several conference presentations on bilingual learning.
Dr. Robert Roemer presented a paper, "Freire and Whitehead: Any Difference?" at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This paper will be published in the proceedings of the conferences, Philosophy of Education 2006.
Dr. Ann Marie Ryan has written articles on various aspects of Catholic higher education for History of Education Quarterly, Multicultural Education, Teachers College Record and the Teachers College Record. Dr. Ryan has also presented at conferences on promoting and sustaining strong Catholic higher education programs. She was awarded a faculty fellowship at the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) and a Summer Research Stipend Award from Loyola.
Dr. Noah Sobe has presented at annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), and the History of Education Society (HES). He has also published a chapter on the state of U.S. educational research in the 2006 World Yearbook of Education and contributed a chapter on John Dewey's ideas in the Balkans to a volume that examines the global circulation of Dewey, pragmatism, and forms of modernity.
Dr. Linda Wold has been published in the Journal of Reading Education and the Illinois Reading Council Journal, and co-authored Literacy Teacher Preparation: Ten Truths Teacher Educators Need to Know, published by the International Reading Association. Dr. Wold has also presented at the National Reading Conference and the College Reading Association Conference.