Complete list of Authors

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Voon Chin Phua
Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Park, Keong-Suk, Voon chin Phua, James McNally, and Rongjun Sun. "Diversity and Structure of Intergenerational Relationships: Elderly Parent-Adult Child Relations in Korea." Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 20.4(2005): 285-305.

Using Korean survey data, we examine the impact of Korea's rapid demographic transition on intergenerational relationships. The results show that the younger generations in Korea only partially share similar perspectives on intergenerational relationships as their parents' generation.

 

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Rutherford V. Platt
Department of Environmental Studies

Platt, Rutherford V., Thomas T. Veblen, and Rosemary L. Sherriff. "Are Wildfire
Mitigation and Restoration of Historic Forest Structure Compatible? A Spatial Modeling Assessment." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93.3 (2006): 455-470.

A key premise underlying forest management policies is that fire suppression has resulted in denser forests in certain forest types than were present prior to European settlement. Thus, forest managers often view fuel treatments as a way to both reduce the threat of wildfire and restore "natural" forest conditions. This article evaluates the validity of this assumption and the potential for forest managers to accomplish both wildfire mitigation and restoration of historic forest structure in a fire-prone area of Colorado.

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Janet M. Powers
Departments of English and Asian Studies

Powers, Janet M. Blossoms on the Olive Tree: Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.

Comprising a mix of academic research, oral histories, and accounts of women's lives in various locales, the work emphasizes commonalities between Israeli and Palestinian women who, as political moderates, seek an end to the Israeli occupation.

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Clifton G.M. Presser
Department of Computer Science

Neller, Todd W., Clifton G. M. Presser, Ingrid Russell, and Zdravko Markov. "Pedagogical Possibilities for the Dice Game Pig." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 21.6 (2006): 149-161.

<http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/papers/ccscne06.pdf>.

This paper, which won Best Papers-2^nd place at the Consortium for Computing Sciences at Colleges (Northeastern Region - CCSCNE '06), describes a variety of ways the jeopardy dice game Pig may be used throughout a Computer Science curriculum. It underscores the importance of simple, fun teaching examples that engage students without obscuring target concepts.

Neller, Todd W., Clifton G. M. Presser, Ingrid Russell, and Zdravko Markov. Computer Science Resources for the Game of Pig. 19 April 2006. <http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/resources/pig/index.html>.

This page is a companion resource site for the paper "Pedagogical Possibilities for the Dice Game Pig."

Neller, Todd W., Clifton G. M. Presser, Ingrid Russell, and Zdravko Markov. Solving the Dice Game Pig: An Introduction to Dynamic Programming and Value Iteration. <http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/nsf/pig/index.html>.

This page presents the NSF-funded curricular project described in the paper "Pedagogical Possibilities for the Dice Game Pig."

Neller, Todd W., and Clifton G.M. Presser. "Pigtail: A Pig Addendum." The UMAP Journal 26.4 (2005): 443-458. <http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/papers/pig+.pdf>.

This addendum expands upon earlier work by visualizing optimal play policies computed for a variety of jeopardy dice games, including Pass the Pigs.

Neller, Todd W., and Clifton G. M. Presser. The Game of Pig. <http://cs.gettysburg.edu/projects/pig>.

The game of Pig is a simple, fun, jeopardy dice game. The first player to reach 100 points wins. Each turn, a player rolls a single die as many times as desired until either the player (1) holds and scores the sum of the rolls, or (2) rolls a 1 and scores nothing. This website presents optimal play first computed at Gettysburg College. One can play an optimal computer player, see 3D visualizations of optimal play, and browse extensive game resources. Enjoy!

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Sarah M. Principato
Department of Environmental Studies

Principato, Sarah M., Áslaug Geirsdóttir, Gudrún Eva Jóhannsdóttir, and John T. Andrews. "Late Quaternary Glacial and Deglacial History of Eastern Vestfirdir, Iceland, Using Cosmogenic Isotope (³⁶C1) Exposure Ages and Marine Cores." Journal of Quaternary Science 21.3 (2006): 271-285.

In this article, Principato and her co-authors present the results of the first cosmogenic isotope exposure dating (³⁶C1) from Iceland. These ages help determine the glacial history for northwest Iceland, and the chronology is linked to their studies of marine core records.

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Rajmohan Ramanathapillai
Department of Philosophy

Ramanathapillai, Rajmohan. "The Politicizing of Trauma: A Case Study of Sri Lanka." Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 12.1 (2006): 1-18.

The paper discusses how militant groups transform traumatized people into perpetrators of violence through the use of trauma stories.

Ramanathapillai, Rajmohan. "Peace through War: The Contemporary Relevance of Hegel's Philosophy of War." Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 15.1 (2006): 21-42.

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Kathryn Rhett
Department of English

Rhett, Kathryn. "Tourist." Marginalia 1.2 (2005): 35-39.

"Tourist" is a personal essay about the role of the tourist.

Rhett, Kathryn. "Our So-Called Illustrious Past." Harvard Review 30 (2006): 84-89.

"Our So-Called Illustrious Past" is a personal essay about the speculations and vanities of genealogists.

Rhett, Kathryn. "Confession of Choice." The New York Times Magazine 25 June 2006: 78.

This is a personal essay about unexpected pregnancy.

Rhett, Kathryn. "Conception: A Personal History." River Teeth 8.1 (2006): 21-30.

This is a personal essay set in Gettysburg.

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Michael L. Ritterson
Department of German

Hanuschek, Sven. Elias Canetti (excerpt). Trans. Michael L. Ritterson. <http://www.litrix.de/buecher/sachbuecher/jahr/2005/canetti/buchbesprechung/enindex.htm >.

The excerpt recounts the years from 1939 to 1945 that Canetti spent in exile in England. Ritterson also translated the accompanying review of the book by Oliver Jahn.

Geier, Manfred. What Makes Intelligent People Laugh: A Concise Philosophy of Humor (excerpt). Trans. Michael Ritterson. Ed. Heike Friesel and Despina Kobothanassi. Goethe-Institut, Munich: Litrix, 2006. <http://www.litrix.de/buecher/sachbuecher/jahr/2006/menschenlachen/enindex.htm>.

This article includes the English translations of excerpts from, and the accompanying review of, Geier's book subtitled "A Concise Philosophy of Humor." The Goethe-Institut, a German cultural information agency, publishes online a continuing series of reviews and sample texts from current German fiction, non-fiction and children's literature, as an information service to the international publishing trade.

Assmann, Aleida. "Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature." Victims and Perpetrators: 1933-1945: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture. Trans. Michael Ritterson. Eds. Laurel Cohen-Pfister and Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner. Berlin: deGruyter, 2006. 29-48.

My work here is as translator of Aleida Assmann's chapter in the book co-edited by my department colleague Laurel Cohen-Pfister. Assmann is writing on cultural memory of the Nazi period, with particular reference to recent and contemporary writers Max Frisch, Günter Grass, Martin Walser, and Uwe Timm.

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Alicia Rolon
Department of Spanish

Rolon, Alicia. Historia, Ficción y Escritura: La Novela de Mempo Giardinelli entre 1980 y 1991. Buenos Aires: Quinque Editores, 2005.

Historia, Ficción, y Escritura explores the novelistic world of contemporary Argentinean author Mempo Giardinelli. The revision includes an appendix of an added long interview with the author.

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Brandon R. Roos
Class of 2008, History Major

Roos, Brandon R. "What is an ANZAC?: An American Response to Australian Warriors." The Gettysburg Historical Journal 5 (2006): 67-71.

This work was the culmination of a research project assigned to me in Dr. Birkner¿s Modern Australia history course. The research mainly included sifting through World War I era New York Times articles covering the fighting of the Australia New Zealand Army Corps or ANZAC. Out of this research grew a paper discussing the effect the ANZACs had on the United States as reflected in the uncovered Times articles. I submitted this paper for consideration for the Edwin T. Greninger Award in History and received the award during Fall Honors Day 2005. As a result, the paper was then published in the Gettysburg Historical Journal¿s Fall 2006 edition.

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Timothy J. Shannon
Department of History

Shannon, Timothy J. Introduction. " Seven Years' War in New York State." New York History 86.4 (2005): 413-416.

This brief article assesses the impact the Seven Years' War (also know as the French and Indian War) has had on America's historical imagination. Shannon guest-edited this special issue of New York History commemorating the war's 250^th anniversary.

Shannon, Timothy J. "The Indians of Pennsylvania." ExplorePAHistory. 2006. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. <http://www.explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=26>.

This web site is one of several narratives of Pennsylvania history included in ExplorePAhistory.com, an interactive web site for teaching and learning about Pennsylvania history sponsored by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

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Stephen M. Siviy
Department of Psychology

Siviy, Stephen M., Kelly A. Harrison, '06, and Iain S. McGregor. "Fear, Risk Assessment, and Playfulness in the Juvenile Rat." Behavioral Neuroscience 120.1 (2006): 49-59.

This work describes the extent to which predatory odors can affect play in juvenile rats. The results suggest that using predatory-odor induced reductions in play may be a useful model for gaining insight into the consequences of fear and anxiety in young animals.

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Dustin Beall Smith
Departments of English and Academic Advising

Smith, Dustin Beall. "Teacher, Time to Go." Writing on the Edge: A Journal about Writing and Teaching Writing 16 (2005): 83-91.

This essay shares his experiences teaching at Gettysburg College.

Smith, Dustin Beall. "Meeting at the Water's Edge." The Louisville Review 59 (2006): 188-192.

This personal essay is about killing a snapping turtle.

Smith, Dustin Beall. "Starting at the Bottom Again." River Teeth, A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative 7 (2006): 26-66.

The narrative recounts his personal experience with a Lakota (Sioux) medicine man on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Smith, Dustin Beall. "The Second Person." Hotel Amerika 5 (2006): 19-21.

This piece plays with comical issues of identity.

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Carolyn S. Snively
Department of Classics

Snively, Carolyn S. "Golemo Gradište at Konjuh, Republic of Macedonia: Prolegomena to the Study of a Late Antique Fortification." Niš and Byzantium IV. Niš, 2006. 229-244.

The article defines and describes the fortress located on the acropolis of the city, which is under excavation by Gettysburg College and the Museum of Macedonia.

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Barbara A. Sommer
Department of History

Sommer, Barbara A. "Cupid on the Amazon: Sexual Witchcraft and Society in Late-Colonial Pará, Brazil." Colonial Latin American Historical Review 12:4 (2006): 415-446.

In this article, Sommer explores how everyday interactions among the diverse populace of Amazonia created a corpus of common practices that contributed to a sense of shared regional identity and thwarted crown authorities' efforts to promote Portuguese national identity.

Sommer, Barbara A. "Cracking Down on the Cunhamenas: Renegade Amazonian Traders under Pombaline Reform." Journal of Latin American Studies 38.4 (2006): 767-791.

The 1750 Treaty of Madrid prompted Portuguese civil and ecclesiastical authorities to strengthen crown control of Amazonia. The Lisbon Inquisition collaborated by prosecuting the infamous Pedro de Braga, a powerful interethnic intermediary, who was condemned for practicing indigenous rites and accepting multiples wives from tribal chiefs.

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Deborah A. Sommer
Department of Religion

Sommer, Deborah A. "Chinese Religions in World Religions Textbooks." Religious Studies Review 31.1/2 (2005): 4-8.

The article is part of a special multi-author essay titled Religion's Between Covers: Dilemmas of the World Religions Textbook. It critiques the ways Chinese religions are presented in world religions textbooks and "educational" multimedia resources produced by corporate mega-publishers. All too often, those works are created by generalists who propagate outdated, inaccurate, sexist, and orientalist views.

Sommer, Deborah A. "Ming Taizu's Legacy as Iconoclast." Ming Studies 50 (2004): 91-106.

The article explores how the iconoclastic reforms of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first ruler of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), were both executed and circumvented by scholars and officials in succeeding generations.

Sommer, Deborah A. "Decentering Imperial Women: Confucian Fertility Rites in the Ming Dynasty." Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan 12.2 (2005): 17-29.

This article contrasts the central position that women played in imperial fertility rites in the classical era with the tangential role they held in such rites in the fifteenth century. The editor of the Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies is Tahera Aftab, formerly of the Department of Religion at Gettysburg College.

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Ralph Sorensen
Department of Biology

Eichenlaub-Ritter, Ursula, Ulrike Winterscheidt, Edgar Vogt, Ying Shen, Hans-Rudolf Tinneberg, and Ralph Sorensen. "2-Methoxyestradiol Induces Spindle Aberrations, Chromosome Congression Failure, and Nondisjunction in Mouse Oocytes." BOR Papers in Press. 17 Jan 2007. The Society for the Study of Reproduction. <http://www.biolreprod.org/cgi/rapidpdf/biolreprod.106.055111 >.

This paper presents that 2-Methoxyestradiol, a metabolite of 17ß estradiol, dose-dependently induces spindle aberrations, chromosome congression failure and the spindle checkpoint; aneuploidy is dramatically increased in oocytes escaping meiotic arrest.

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Eileen Stillwaggon
Department of Economics

Stillwaggon, Eileen. "Reducing Environmental Risk to Prevent HIV Transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa." Africa Policy Journal 1 (2006): 36-56.

This is the inaugural issue of the journal, which is published by the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. The article focuses on cost-effective policies, both in the health sector and in development programming in general, that would reduce the risky environment in which HIV and other diseases are spread.

Stillwaggon, Eileen. "AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty: Environmental Determinants of Vulnerability." International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability 1.2 (2005).

Stillwaggon, Eileen. "Determinants of the HIV Pandemic in Developing Countries." The HIV Pandemic: Local and Global Implications. Eds. Eduard J. Beck, Nicholas Mays, Alan W. Whiteside, and José M. Zuniga. New York: Oxford UP, 2006. 50-64.

Stillwaggon, Eileen. "The Ecology of Poverty: Nutrition, Parasites, and Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS." AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses. Ed. Stuart Gillespie. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006. 167-180.

Hotez, Peter J., David H. Molyneux, Eileen Stillwaggon, Zvi Bentwich, and Jacob Kumaresan. "Neglected Tropical Diseases and HIV/AIDS." The Lancet 368.9550 (2006): 1865-1866.

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Joseph Strausbaugh
Class of 2007, History/Music Major

Strausbaugh, Joseph. "The Influence of the Pennsylvania Mainline of Public Works." The Gettysburg Historical Journal 5 (2006): 18-30.

The paper discusses the Pennsylvania Mainline of Public Works, which was a combination of railroad, canals, and inclined planes built to stimulate better transportation, and thus greater commerce, between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, bureaucracy, poor design, and poor management stymied Pennsylvania's system and after just 25 years in operation, it was slowly shut down by the Pennsylvania Railroad, costing the Commonwealth about $58 million. Nonetheless, it helped to spur internal development, particularly of Western Pennsylvania, and led to such engineering achievements as the Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Staple Bend Tunnel, America's first tunnel. The Mainline also left an impression on those that traveled it, like Charles Dickens, when he visited the United States. Finally, because of the system's inability to efficiently transport goods and people, it guaranteed that the commercial base on the East Coast would be New York City and not Philadelphia.

James Udden
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies

Udden, James. "The Stubborn Persistence of the Local in Wong Kar-wai." Post Script 25.2 (2006): 67-79.

This article explores the question of Hong Kong's most famous director and his relationship to Hong Kong itself. Normally considered a global filmmaker who has eradicated any traces of having come from the commercial film industry in Hong Kong, this article argues that some of the most salient features of Wong's aesthetic, most of all his unusual manipulations of camera speeds, are really inventive transformations of longstanding local practices.

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Elizabeth Richardson Viti
Departments of French and Italian

Viti, Elizabeth Richardson. "Passion Simple, 'Fragments Autour de Philippe V.,' and L'Usage de la Photo: The Many Stages of Annie Ernaux's Desire." Women in French Studies 14(2006):

This article examines three texts by Annie Ernaux in which her wish to speak openly about female desire becomes more and more defiant. Because women may enjoy their sexuality as long as they do not talk about it, Ernaux's impertinence provokes a male response to each text. Unintimidated, Ernaux coopts the traditional male stance, which objectifies woman through the male gaze, and places man in nothing more than a supporting role in her personal theatre where female desire is always center stage.

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Michael R. Wedlock
Department of Chemistry

Gimbel, Steven, and Michael R. Wedlock. "Report on an Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Philosophy of Chemistry." Journal of Chemical Education 83.6 (2006): 880.

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Janelle Wertzberger
Musselman Library

Leigh, Jennifer S.A., Cynthia Gibbon, and Janelle Wertzberger. "They Click! Information Literacy and Undergraduates in an Introduction to Management Class." Teaching Information Literacy Skills to Social Sciences Students and Practitioners: A Casebook of Applications. Eds. Douglas Cook and Natasha Cooper. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2006. 175- 185.

Undergraduates in an introductory Management course (MGT 111) are introduced to a broad spectrum of information literacy skills. They meet with academic librarians twice in a classroom setting. Students learn specific research techniques during the first session; in the second session, they discuss social and ethical information issues as they pertain to the publishing industry. Pairing a primarily tools-based session with an analytical discussion allows students to synthesize information literacy concepts with their discipline.

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Kevin D. Wilson, PhD
Department of Psychology

Wilson, Kevin D., and Martha J. Farah. "Distinct Patterns of Viewpoint-Dependent BOLD Activity During Common Object Recognition and Mental Rotation." Perception 35 (2006): 1351-1366.

Wilson, Kevin D. "Implementing an Undergraduate Laboratory Course in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging." Teaching of Psychology 33 (2006): 268-271.

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Randall K. Wilson
Department of Environmental Studies

Wilson, Randall K. "Collaboration in Context: Rural Change and Community Forestry in the Four Corners." Society and Natural Resources 19 (2006): 53-70.

The article presents a framework for examining the way place-specific, socio-environmental contexts are reflected in the diverse form and structure of community-based forestry projects in the Four Corners region of the United States.

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John R. Winkelmann
Department of Biology

Winkelmann, John R., Frank Bonaccorso, and Deanna Byrnes. "Home Range, Territoriality, and Flight Time in the Black-bellied Fruit Bat, Melonycteris melanops (Pteropodidae)." Journal of Mammology 86 (2005): 931-936.

This work shows that in Papua New Guinea, adult black-bellied bats defend patches of banana flowers from other adults of the same sex, but sometimes share these food resources with consorts of the opposite sex.

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Charles J. Zabrowski
Department of Classics

Zabrowski, Charles J. "Folktale Motifs in Herodotus: Historic Myths in Rhythmic Prose (Headless Thieves and Handy Reminders, Peppered with a Dash of Voyeurism)." Journal of the Research Institute for Integrated Brain Studies 1 (2005): 123-141.

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