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Yasemin
Akbaba 
Department of Political Science
Matthew H. Amster Departments of Sociology and Anthropology
Paul Austerlitz Departments of Music and Africana Studies
Austerlitz, Paul. "Jazz Consciousness." A Companion to
African-American Studies. Eds. Lewis Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon. Malden,
MA: Blackwell, 2006. 209-222
Béla Bajnok Department of Mathematics
Bajnok, Béla. "On Euclidean Designs." Advances in
Geometry 6.3 (2006): 423-438.
This paper deals with a finite set of points in space which are placed in an optimal way so as to approximate the entire space.
John Barnett Musselman Library
Barnett, John. "Food con pasión in San Antonio: A quick-fix, sure-fire, hot-plate-coming-through! Guide to Good Eats at ALA Midwinter." American Libraries 37.1 (2006): 64-69.
<http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/selectedarticles/restaurantguidemid06.pdf>.
Having lived in San Antonio for nine years prior to coming to Gettysburg College, I was asked if I would write a restaurant review for the January 2006 issue of American Libraries magazine. The January issue features a preview of events and happenings at the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting, which was held in San Antonio from January 20-25, 2006. American Libraries is sent to thousands of libraries and library staff members across the country and around the world.
Joel Berg Department of Interdisciplinary Studies
Berg, Joel. "Meet Your New Officemate: Artificial Intelligence Could Alter Campaigning As We Know It." Campaigns & Elections 28.9 (2006): 32-26.
Published as the magazine's cover story, the article looks at the application of artificial intelligence in political campaigns, both today and in the future.
Temma Berg Department of English
Berg, Temma. The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006.
Drawing on archival scholarship and contemporary theoretical frameworks, this book provides an intimate glimpse into eighteenth-century life in rural and urban England.
Michael J. Birkner Department of History and Benjamin Franklin Chair in the Liberal Arts
Birkner, Michael J. "The 'Foxardo Affair' Revisited: Porter, Pirates and the Problem of Civilian Authority in the Early Republic." Warfare in the USA, 1784-1861. Ed. Samuel Watson. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2005. 267-280.
Birkner, Michael J. Gettysburg College. David Crumplar, coll. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
The book is a pictorial history of Gettysburg College, part of a series that Arcadia publishes on college histories.
Birkner, Michael J. "A Place in History." Concord Sunday Monitor. 13 Aug. 2006.
The article, published in the Viewpoints section, discusses the closure of the Daniel Webster birthplace in Franklin and reintroduces readers to the reasons that Webster was a major figure in the early republic.
Birkner, Michael J., ed. Adams County History. Vol. 12. Adams County Historical Society, 2006.
Philip Bobko Departments of Management and Psychology
Buster, Maury A., Philip L. Roth, and Philip Bobko. "A Process for Content Validation of Education and Experienced-Based Minimum Qualifications: An Approach Resulting in Federal Court Approval." Personnel Psychology 58.3 (2005): 771-799.
This paper provides a flexible approach for content validating selection screens that are frequently used by public and private organizations.
Roth, Philip L., Philip Bobko, and Lynn A McFarland. "A Meta-Analysis of Work Sample Test Validity: Updating and Integrating Some Classic Literature." Personnel Psychology 58.4 (2005): 1009-1037.
This meta-analysis indicates that point estimates in prior summaries may not be accurate, and that the validity of work sample tests in predicting job performance may be less that previously thought.
Potosky, Denise, Philip Bobko, and Philip L. Roth. "Forming Composites of Cognitive Ability and Alternative Measures to Predict Job Performance and Reduce Adverse Impact: Corrected Estimates and Realistic Expectations." International Journal of Selection and Assessment 13.4 (2005): 304-315.
This article shows that combining selection tests of cognitive ability with suggested alternatives may not reduce adverse impact as much as previously believed.
Lee, Cynthia, Philip Bobko, and Zhen Xiong Chen. "Investigation of the Multidimensional Model of Job Insecurity in China and the USA." Applied Psychology: An International Review 55.4 (2006): 512-540.
This study suggests that the call to eliminate job features or powerlessness from theoretically complete measures of job insecurity is premature in both cultures studied.
Roth, Philip L., Philip Bobko, and Fred S. Switzer III. "Modeling the Behavior of the 4/5ths Rule for Determining Adverse Impact: Reasons for Caution." Journal of Applied Psychology 91.3 (2006): 507-522.
This article provides several Monte Carlo simulations indicating that the four-fifths rule - which has been used for decades in employment discrimination cases - can be associated with substantial Type I error rates under several potentially realistic situations.
Gabor Boritt Department of History and Civil War Institute
Boritt, Gabor. The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech Nobody Knows. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
This narrative history peels away myths of nearly 150 years. The book starts with Gettysburg after the battle - the greatest man-made emergency of American history - and goes on to how the devastated town recovered, what happened when Lincoln came, how and when he wrote what he said here, what Americans heard then, the reaction to his words at that time and during the years that followed all the way to 9/11, and how his "remarks," that at first few saw as great, became the "Gettysburg Address."
William D. Bowman Department of History and Chair
Bowman, William D., Frank M. Chiteji, and J. Megan Greene, eds. Imperialism in the Modern World: Sources and Interpretations. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
This book is intended for classroom use and covers modern world history from a wide variety of perspectives, including examinations of political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, military, diplomatic, and gender-based issues.
Judith Allen Brough Department of Education
Brough, Judith Allen, Sherrel Bergmann, and Larry C. Holt. Teach Me - I Dare You!. 
Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education Press, 2006.
Written for educators, parents, and social agencies that work with disinterested and disengaged youth, the book provides research-based and practical suggestions for reaching reluctant learners in grades four through twelve.
Kathleen M. Cain 
Assistant Provost and Department of Psychology
Cain, Kathleen M. "School Years." Encyclopedia of Human Development. Vol. 3. Ed. Neil J. Salkind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006. 1115-1124.
The entry reviews major changes in children's physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development that occur from six to eleven years of age.
Frank M. Chiteji Department of History
Bowman, William D., Frank M. Chiteji, and J. Megan Greene, eds. Imperialism in the Modern World: Sources and Interpretations. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
This book is intended for classroom use and covers modern world history from a wide variety of perspectives, including examinations of political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, military, diplomatic, and gender-based issues.
Laurel A. Cohen-Pfister Department of German
Cohen-Pfister, Laurel A. "Portraying Mass Wartime Rape in the Documentary: BeFreier und Befreite and Calling the Ghosts." West Virginia University Philological Papers, Special Issue on the Evolution of War and its Representation in Literature and Film 51 (2006): 104-110.
This article summarizes key arguments in feminist scholarship on wartime rape as they are used in the named documentaries on the rape of German women in 1945 and the rape of Bosnian women in the early 1990s.
Cohen-Pfister, Laurel, and Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner, eds. Victims and Perpetrators 1933-1945: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2006.
The volume's seventeen essays explore the reevaluation of World War II in contemporary German cultural memory. The research anthology was chosen as the second volume to appear in de Gruyter's Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies Series.
Cohen-Pfister, Laurel. "Rape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-Unification." Victims and Perpetrators 1933-1945: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2006. 316-336.
The chapter compares reaction in the post-unification period to two texts that represent the mass rape of German women in Berlin in 1945, Helke Sander's documentary BeFreier und Befreite (1992), and the anonymous diary Eine Frau in Berlin (first German edition 1959; reprint 2003).
Cohen-Pfister, Laurel, and Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner. "History and the Memory of Suffering: Rethinking 1933-1945." Victims and Perpetrators 1933-1945: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2006. 3-26.
This chapter outlines the current memory debates on German wartime memory that influence both the formation of German national identity and German-European relationships in the present.
Welzer, Harald. "The Collateral Damage of Enlightenment: How Grandchildren Understand the History of National Socialist Crimes and Their Grandfather's Past." Trans. Laurel Cohen-Pfister. Victims and Perpetrators 1933-1945: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2006. 286-295.
This is my translation of an article by sociologist Harald Welzer for the volume Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945. (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture, which I co-edited with Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner. Welzer writes about the transmission of memory through the postwar generations of Germans.
John A. Commito Department of Environmental Studies
Commito, John A., Wendy E. Dow, '03, and Benjamin M. Grupe, '03. "Hierarchical Spatial Structure in Soft-Bottom Mussel Beds." Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 330 (2006): 27-37.
This paper demonstrates that mussel beds in Maine have a unique spatial structure, one that is hierarchical or nested across spatial scales. The work has implications for the management of the New England coastal zone, where conflict has recently arisen between local "hunter-gatherer" clam diggers and more highly capitalized companies that use boats to dredge the bottom for mussels. Wendy grew up on an island off the coast of Maine and recently completed a Masters in Environmental Management at Duke University. Ben is a land-lubber from Missouri and is currently a Ph.D. student in marine science at the University of Oregon.
Dubois, Stanislas, John A. Commito, Frédéric Olivier, and Christian Retière. "Effects of Epibionts on Sabellaria alveolata (L.) Biogenic Reefs and Their Associated Fauna in the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel." Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 68 (2006): 635-646.
John A. Commito, Professor of Environmental Studies, published this paper with his colleagues from the French National Museum of Natural History Marine Station in Brittany. They demonstrated that the biodiversity "hotspots" on huge reefs built by sabellariid worms in this UNESCO World Heritage Site are being threatened by nearby oyster farming. Oysters settling on the reefs and algal growth stimulated by nutrient enrichment from oyster farms cause deleterious changes in worm population structure that make the future of the reefs uncertain.
Crawford, Thomas W., John A. Commito, and Ann M. Borowik ('03). "Fractal Characterization of Mytilus edulis L. Spatial Structure in Intertidal Landscapes Using GIS Methods." Landscape Ecology 21.7 (2006): 1033-1044.
Commito's co-authors were former Gettysburg College faculty member Thomas W. Crawford and Environmental Studies alumna Ann M. Borowik ('03). The research utilized digital image analysis techniques to quantify the hierarchical spatial patterns of mussels in Maine's intertidal zone from scales ranging from millimeters to hundreds of meters. The authors found a downward-opening parabolic relationship between fractal dimension and mussel abundance, as predicted from the theory of forest fragmentation. Their results indicate that the factors regulating spatially complex species abundance patterns in marine and terrestrial habitats may be similar across ecosystem types.
Brendan Cushing-Daniels Department of Economics
Cushing-Daniels, Brendan and Brooks Kaiser. "Environmental Kuznets Curves: Environmental Wealth and Spending." Environmental Economics and Investment Assessment. Eds. K. Aravossis, C.A. Brebbia, E. Kakaras, and A.G. Kungolos. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2006. 233-242.
The existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) - a pattern of pollution that rises and then falls with higher levels of real gross domestic product per capita - remains controversial. Previous research failed to address simultaneity concerns. We match empirical evidence on EKCs with theoretical underpinnings and investigate the roles of endowments, spending, and technology. Income elasticity of demand for environmental quality may vary with output levels. Varying separability of pollution and production across goods may mask the presence of EKCs. Demand and supply must be contextualized by the resource endowment. We describe a model of the connection between collective environmental provision (government spending) and economic prosperity using data at the US state level. We examine the inverse of the traditional EKC: the relationship between state spending on natural resources and the environment and real gross state product, enabling identification of demand and supply components of the environmental quality-economic growth tradeoff. Our results suggest non-linear income effects for environmental quality and support the hypothesis that at higher incomes, environmental quality is a luxury good. An EKC is best described as a moving frontier of what people have (endowment), what people want (demand), and what is feasible (technology/ supply). In this light, the puzzle of where and when we witness EKCs should be considerably demystified.
Jinming Dong
Class of 2010, IDS/Films Major
Dong, Jinming. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein. Liaoning, China: Liaoning Fine Art Publisher, 2006.
This book focuses on
the film theory and montage style of Russian director Sergei Mikhailovich
Eisenstein. I began work on this book three years ago, when I graduated from
high school. At that time, I worked with my mentor, who is a scholar at the
Graduate School of China Art Academy (National Art
Academy in China).
She recommended that I write this book because in China,
there was not an appropriate introductory book about the film director's work.
This year, I am writing a book about American art education and also will shoot
a documentary film about Gettysburg College.
Ira Dworkin Department of English
Dworkin, Ira."'American Congo' Booker T. Washington, l'Afrique et l'imaginaire Politique Noir Américain." Trans. Pierre Lannoy. Civilisations 55.1-2 (2006): 165-179.
This article examines the career of educator Booker T. Washington in the context of transatlantic relationships between African Americans and l'Etat indépendant du Congo. While Washington is best known for his work in the US, this article suggests that his work related to Africa was consistent with his domestic program, and was part of widespread early 20th century African American interest in contemporary Africa.
Ann Fender Department of Economics
Fender, Ann. "Experimental Economics." Economic Theory at the Beginning of the XXI Century - Accomplishments, Problems and Perspectives. Varna, Bulgaria: Varna Economic University Press, 2005. 100-111.
In February, 2005, I gave a series of lectures titled collectively, "New(er) Developments in Microeconomics," at Varna Economics University. I was invited to present one of the talks at an international economics conference sponsored by the University in April, from which this paper resulted. Not so many years ago, mainstream economics derided the use of experiments to test economic hypotheses, preferring to allow history to generate the data for empirical testing. A few years ago, the academic guru of experimental economics won the discipline's Nobel Prize for his path breaking work. This paper quickly traces that development and gives examples of how experimental economics has expanded not only the methodological approaches of microeconomists but also some their conclusions.
Peter P. Fong Department of Biology
Fong, Peter P., Joseph J. Grzybowski, and Erin N. Barkdoll. "Chemical and Coliform Bacterial Analysis of Springs and Creeks in Adams County, Pennsylvania." Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 80.1 (2006): 4-11.
The paper documents the occurrence of various chemicals and coliform bacteria in springs and creeks in the Gettysburg National Military Park and Strawberry Hill Nature Preserve.
Edwin D. Freed Department of Religion
Freed, Edwin D. The Apostle Paul and His Letters. Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2005.
This book discusses the content and context of each of Paul's letters.
Freed, Edwin D. The Morality of Paul's Converts. Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2005.
The text stresses Paul's moral teachings for converts in churches, instead of the usual emphasis on justification by faith.
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