2007 College Authors G - N

This paper overviews Richard B. Cheney's political history, particularly his role in the Bush administration, in order to argue that he is the most powerful vice president in the history of America. Cheney's impressive resume prior to his vice presidency is summarized in order to show how a college dropout developed into arguably one of the most influential men in today's political scene. The paper then moves to focus on what makes Cheney's vice presidency unique and how he has significantly expanded the role of the vice president in ways that have never before been successfully attempted.

Gimbel, Steven, ed. The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded About Love and Haight. Chicago, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 2007.

Gimbel, Steven and Brendan Cushing-Daniels. "Keep Your Day Job: Tie Dyes, Veggie Burritos, and Adam Smith in the Parking Lot." The Grateful Dead and Philosophy: Getting High Minded About Love and Haight. Ed. Steven Gimbel. Chicago, IL: Open Court Publishing Company, 2007. 3-11.

This article examines the historical and cultural context of capitalism in the Deadhead community.

In this work, Glass considers some invariants of algebraic curves defined in characteristic two that have certain symmetry properties and shows that there is a relationship between the possible symmetries and the possible numerical invariants.

Strasbaugh graduated from Gettysburg College in 2005 and Chesney in 2007. In this paper the authors test the hypothesis that a familiar odor can provide pain relief. They found that newborns showed less distress when exposed to a familiar odor than when exposed to no odor or to an unfamiliar one.

Pierrat, Véronique, Nathalie Goubet, Karen Peifer, and Jacques Sizun. "How Can We Evaluate Developmental Care Practices Prior to Their Implementation in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit?" Early Human Development 83(2007): 415-418.

This paper proposes that multiple approaches be used to care for premature infants. In particular, it emphasizes the usefulness of an individually-based type of care focused on infants' readiness to receive medical and nursing procedures.

This article includes a review of a book titled "Zero to Sixty in Record Time: How to Build a Secondary Choral Program from Scratch" by Darlene DiFrances, along with reviews of a composition for mixed voices and two church choir selections, one for adults and the other for children.

Gratto, Sharon Davis. "Choral Reviews." PMEA News 71.4(2007): 58-59

The focus of this article is the repertoire selected for and performed by The National Multicultural Honor Choir, an auditioned group in which I sang at the March 2007 National Convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami, Florida. Selections included African American and Native American music; octavos from the Philippines, the Dominican Republic, Senegal, the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Middle East; and American folk music.

Gratto, Sharon Davis. "Music for the Holiday Season and Beyond." PMEA News 72.1(2007): 6 & 7.

This article is a review of eight choral works for the holiday season by several different publishers and with varied voicings.

Gratto, Sharon Davis. "Selected Compositions by Libby Larsen for Women's Choir and Treble Voices." PMEA News. 72.2(2007): 14-15.

This article was written following the 175th Anniversary Residency at Gettysburg College by composer Libby Larsen, who was commissioned to compose a choral work for the College Choir and Orchestra. Many of the compositions described in this review article were performed by the Gettysburg College Women's Choir during the spring 2006 semester and the 2006-2007 academic year.

This article is a study of the Quarrel of Ancients and Moderns acted out between the novel's two main characters, influenced by the philosophical differences between Augustine and Aquinas, and ultimately those between Plato and Aristotle.

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Scott Hancock
Department of History and Africana Studies

Boritt, Gabor S. and Scott Hancock, eds. Slavery, Resistance, Freedom. Oxford University Press, 2007.

This book tells the stories of the difference freedom made to African Americans, and to the United States as a whole, during the Civil War era. It explores how the struggle to realize the ideal of freedom shaped the lives of Americans, black and white, then and now.

 

 

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Jennifer Hansen
Department of Philosophy

Hansen, Jennifer. "There Are No Philosophers in Foxholes! But Maybe There Should Be . . ." AAPP Bulletin 14.1(2007): 2-5.

This is the target article for the Bulletin and all other articles are responses to this piece. I point out the inherent difficulties of being a Philosopher in the sub-discipline of Philosophy of Psychiatry, namely why it is hard to win respect from Psychiatrists when one is not a clinician. I also point out how I think Philosophers can be helpful to Psychiatry, even if they are not clinicians.

Hansen, Jennifer. "Response to Commentaries." AAPP Bulletin 14.1(2007): 17-19.

This reaffirms my position that philosophers have an important role to play in clarifying the conceptual and ethical issues that arise out of psychiatry.

Hansen, Jennifer and Ann Cahill, eds. French Feminists: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. 4 vols. London: Routledge, 2008.

This is a four volume anthology that collects the most important secondary articles on the French Feminist Thinkers: Simone de Beauvoir, Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, and Julia Kristeva. The editors, as well as Lidia Anchisi, write helpful introductions to each volume.

Anchisi, Lidia HwaSoon and Hansen, Jennifer. "Introduction: Simone de Beauvoir." French Feminists: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory. Vol. 1. Eds. Jennifer Hansen and Ann Cahill. London: Routledge, 2008. 1-4.

This is an introductory essay to the work of Simone de Beauvoir, geared toward a broad audience. The authors also frame the importance of the collected essays in the volume.

This book focuses on the importance of having former civil war adversaries construct a diversity of power-sharing and power-dividing arrangements if civil war settlements are to prove stable. 

Six experiments examined the hypothesis that representations of divinity would be linked to higher levels of vertical space. The experiments found support for such predictions in implicit associations, encoding processes, memory, and personal perception. The convergence of the results is significant in highlighting the manner in which representations of divinity rely on metaphor-linked processes related to vertical perception. In sum, it appears that the phrase Glory to God in the Highest is not merely the title of a common hymnal, but is a phrase that reveals an important truth about our thoughts, memories, and social judgments concerning divinity-related concepts.

Using archival sources and interviews with former German prisoners of war, this article explores the contradictions between the bracero program for Mexican laborers and the temporary program using German prisoner of war laborers in the United States during World War II.

Heisler, Barbara Schmitter. "The Sociology of Immigration: From Assimilations to Segmented Assimilation, from the American Experience to the Global Arena." Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines. Ed. Caroline Brettell and James Hollifield. Routledge, 2008. 83-112.

This chapter surveys past and present theoretical developments in the sociology of migration with an eye toward a more interdisciplinary approach. It represents a major revision and update of the chapter in the first edition (2000) of the same book.

As a part of Hendrix's ongoing research on fish parasites, this article describes a new and unusual genus that is parasitic in the large catfish of Lake Malawi. The article also provides new host records for several other previously described parasites found in cichlid fishes in this lake.

This book documents the problems that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students might encounter on campus, and provides advice on how LGBT students can select the best-fit college or university for them.

Hinrichs, Donald W. My Life, Our Lives: Shared Experiences Through Poetry.
Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., 2007.

The poems in this book span a period of 47 years. However, most were written in the 1960s and since 1998. The subject matter ranges from celebration of the family to the wonders of nature, especially the ocean. However, many aspects of life from shopping malls and cell phones to war and social inequality inspired a verse or two. Readers will find much in common with what is an expression of the author's experiences.

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Alice Huff
Musselman Library

Ciocco, Ronalee and Alice Huff. "Mission IM-Possible: Starting an Instant Message Reference Service Using Trillian." Computers in Libraries 27.1(2007): 26-31.

This article discusses our experience setting up an electronic-based reference service in 2004. The service uses Trillian software and provides Gettysburg College students with reference assistance through the three major instant messaging providers (AIM, Yahoo, and MSN Messenger).

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Brett JoAnn Jackson
Class of 2008, Political Science and History Majors

Jackson, Brett JoAnn. "History as a Story: Political Science at Gettysburg College." The Political Science Journal (Gettysburg College) 1(2007): 15-33.

The edition of the Political Science Journal falls within the Department's 50th anniversary year. Such a milestone compels reflection, and this paper represents an historical inquiry into the maturation and character of Political Science at Gettysburg College during its first half-century. The work was a product of a Historical Methods class, and is thus cited in accordance with the stipulations of the historical discipline. It traces, through interview and primary-source analysis, the origins of Political Science as a field of study and its fifty-year evolution from the time it became a recognized College department in 1957 to its current status as the second most popular major on campus.

Jackson, Brett JoAnn. "Revealing Zion's Daughters: Women in Puritan Jurisprudence." The Gettysburg Historical Journal (Gettysburg College) 6(2007): 13-24.

This article focuses on the jurisprudential treatment of women in the Puritan era. It is commonly assumed that the legal status of American women has progressed linearly from a near total repression to modern day equity. In this narrative of sequentially gained status, Puritan law has stood as the exemplar of America's most oppressive treatment of women under the law, but this characterization is simply not true.

Caldey Varients, a theme and variations for viola and orchestra, was commissioned by the Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra in celebration its 10th anniversary season. The premier took place on September 9, 2007 with violist Mary Hammann of the NY Metropolitan Orchestra as soloist. The inspiration for the music came from a 2006 visit to Caldey Island off the southwest coast of Wales.

Jordan, Brian Matthew. "A Beautiful Dream Realized: John S. Rice and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg." Adams County History 13 (2007): 5-26.

The article appreciates the leadership of John S. Rice, Gettysburg College '21, who served as the chairman of the Pennsylvania State Commission, in organizing the event. This final reunion of veterans of the Civil War in part took place on the Gettysburg campus and featured the dedication of the Eternal Flame Peace Memorial. It is based in large part on the Papers of John S. Rice, recently catalogued by the Adams County Historical Society. It won the Edwin T. Greninger '41 Award in History.

 
This article describes how several Caribbean authors talk about sexuality in their writings and points to the use of violence perpetrated against women in Raphael Confiant's novels specifically.

Eleutherodactylus coqui, a small frog native to Puerto Rico, was introduced to Hawaii in the late 1980s, presumably as a hitchhiker on plant material from the Caribbean or Florida. The severity of the frogs' songs has led to a hypothesis that the presence of the frog on or near a property results in a decline in that property's value. The objective of this study is to measure the damage costs from the coqui's loud mating songs through a hedonic pricing model. We find that the per-transaction reduction in value appears to be about 0.16%, holding constant district, acreage, financial conditions, zoning, and neighborhood characteristics.

Burnett, Kimberly, Brooks Kaiser, and James A. Roumasset. "Economic Lessons from Control Efforts for an Invasive Species: Miconia calvescens in Hawaii." Journal of Forest Economics 13.2-3(2007): 151-167.

Once established, invasive species can rapidly and irreversibly alter ecosystems and degrade the value of ecosystem services. Optimal control of an unwanted species solves for a trajectory of removals that minimizes the present value of removal costs and residual damages from the remaining population. The shrubby tree, Miconia calvescens, is used to illustrate dynamic policy options for a forest invader. Potential damages to Hawaii's forest ecosystems are related to decreased aquifer recharge, biodiversity, and other ecosystem values. We find that population reduction is the optimal management policy for the islands of Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii. On the island of Kauai, where tree density is lower and search costs higher, optimal policy calls for deferring removal expenditures until the steady state population is reached.

Burnett, Kimberly M. and Brooks Kaiser. "Models of Spatial and Intertemporal Invasive Species Management." Proceedings of the US EPA Valuation for Environmental Policy: Ecological Benefits, April 23-24, 2007 16.3(2007): 1-28. http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eerm.nsf/vwRepNumLookup/EE-0505?OpenDocument

This paper focuses on spatial and intertemporal modeling of invasive species problems.

Kaiser, Brooks. "The Athenian Trierarchy: Mechanism Design for the Private Provision of Public Goods." Journal of Economic History 67.2(2007): 445-480.

The liturgical system in Classical Athens (479-322) privately provided public goods, including naval defense. We use it to evaluate mechanism design policies and to address uncertainties in the historical record by adding predictive economic theory to research by ancient historians. We evaluate the system's success at meeting the conflicting goals of efficiency, feasibility, and budget balance by analyzing the Athenian citizens' incentives within a game of asymmetric information. In the game, multiple equilibria occur; citizens may or may not volunteer for duty or avoid it. We relate the game theoretic findings to historical events.

Kaiser, Brooks, Kimberly Burnett, and James Roumasset. "Invasive Species Control Over Space and Time." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 39(2007): 125-132.

This article examines optimal spatial and intertemporal control of the invasive plant Miconia calvescens in Hawaii.

A comic story about a man (who does not talk) and his hand puppet (who does) being pulled over by a police officer.

Kovaleski, John. "Me, Myself and My Puppet and a Bully." MAD Magazine 479(2007): 39.

A comic story about a man (who does not talk) and his hand puppet (who does) meeting up with a bully. 

This article is a personal essay about child custody.

Kupperman, Kim Dana. "Review of Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation." Brevity. An Online Journal of Brief Nonfiction. 2007. Brevity. .

This work is a mini-review of Temple Grandin's book Animals in Translation.

Kupperman, Kim Dana. "Eight." Nightsun. Ed. Dinty Moore. 26(2007): 49-53.

This article is a personal essay about writing.

The chapter places the 2006 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race between Republican Rick Santorum and Democrat Bob Casey, Jr., within the context of Pennsylvania politics and the political forces buffeting the nation in 2006.

Heberlig, Eric S. and Bruce A. Larson. "Party Fundraising, Descriptive Representation, and the Battle for Majority Control: Shifting Leadership Appointment Strategies in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1990-2002." Social Science Quarterly 88.2(2007): 404-421.

The article explores the impact of new party fundraising requirements on the advancement of women and racial minorities within each party's leadership organization in the U.S. House.

This article examines the current scholarship mapping the social, economic and political exclusion of women of African descent in Brazil, as well as explores the reasons behind the paucity of basic data and research in this field until very recently.

Fred Leebron and Kathryn Rhett wrote companion essays about money and marriage for this anthology of 22 wide-ranging personal essays. They were interviewed about the essays for two radio shows: Oprah & Friends (Jan. 17, 2007) and NPR's "Talk of the Nation" (Jan. 30, 2007).

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Carl Leinbach
Department of Computer Science

Leinbach, Carl, and Patricia Leinbach. Forensische Mathematick fur den Unterricht. Trans. Joseph Boehm. Linz: bk teachware, 2007.

This is a collection of Mathematical explorations set in a forensic context. Scenario's describing modifications and amalgams of some of Pat's cases as Adams County Coroner are presented. They are then analyzed for their mathematical content and the student is guided through the mathematical exploration. After the analysis a "Coroner's Summary" is given. The work was translated to German and is available for mathematics classrooms in Austria and Germany. 

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Dina Lowy
Department of History

Lowy, Dina. The Japanese "New Woman": Images of Gender and Modernity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

This book examines the image of the New Woman in Japan as it was revealed, discussed, and debated in popular newspapers and magazines in the 1910s.

 

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Yahya Mete Madra
Department of Economics

Özselçuk, Ceren, and Yahya Mete Madra. "Economy, Surplus, Politics: Questions on Slavoj Zizek's Political Economy Critique of Capitalism." Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Zizek and Consequences. Eds. Fabio Vighi and Heiko Feldner. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 79-108.

This is a revised and extended version of our conference presentation from the Fall 2006 at the Cardiff University. This is a continuation of my collaborative effort with Ceren Özselçuk to think the intersection between contemporary psychoanalytical thinking and Marxian and institutionalist economic approaches. An earlier paper came out in 2005 in the journal Psychoanalysis, Society, Culture.

Madra, Yahya Mete, and Fikret Adaman. "Marxisms and Capitalisms: From Logic of Accumulation to Articulation of Class Structures." Twentieth Century Marxism: A Global Introduction. Eds. Daryl Glaser and David Walker. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. 212-229.

This is a broad introduction to Marxist economic theories of value, capitalism, imperialism, household, and anti-systemic social movements.

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E. Phillip Mattox
Department of Visual Arts

Mattox, E. Phillip. "Domestic Sacral Space in the Florentine Renaissance Palace." Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates. Eds. Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, Flora Dennis and Ann Matchette. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 36-51.

This article is one among seven chapters in the book, Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior. In keeping with its title, the book brings together recent research and new perspectives on domestic life and its settings in Renaissance Italy. Among the most under-studied of these settings is the household chapel.

Based upon an array of unpublished archival material, as well as canon law sources, the focus of this chapter is upon Florence, not only on account of its place in the Renaissance and the resources there for research, but also because that city is the location of the most famous domestic chapel of the Italian Renaissance, the one in Palazzo Medici (1446-58). Because this chapel is, in fact, a rare and splendid survivor it has fostered misperceptions about the frequency and form of sacral space before the rulings of the Council of Trent on domestic chapels (1562). The example in Palazzo Medici also provides occasion to present an overview of pre-Tridentine sacral space mainly from the fifteenth-century years of Medici rule. The chapels reconstructed in this chapter illustrate the remarkable flexibility and variety that had been allowed in the creation, furnishing, and use of domestic sacral space in the Florentine Renaissance palace prior to the religious upheavals of the sixteenth century.

The findings in this book and chapter have, in part, already been used to assemble the exhibit held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London from October 2006 into January 2007, "At Home in Renaissance Italy."

Two studies examine the link between affect and vertical space with reference to potential cross-modal effects. We found that word evaluations biased subsequent judgments of low-and high-pitch tones in a metaphor-consistent manner (e.g., participants were faster to identify high-pitch tones following positive vs. negative evaluations).

Robinson, Michael D., Brian P. Meier, Benjamin M. Wilkowski, and Scott Ode. "Introversion, Inhibition, and Displayed Anxiety: The Role of Error Reactivity Processes." Journal of Research in Personality 41.3(2007): 558-578.

Three studies examined the personality-related correlates of tendencies to slow down following errors in choice reaction time tasks. The results showed that such tendencies were related to phobic-like fear and displayed anxiety, but only among individuals low in extraversion.

Meier, Brian P, Martin Sellbom, and Dustin B. Wygant. "Failing to Take the Moral High Ground: Psychopathy and the Vertical Representation of Morality." Personality and Individual Differences 43.4(2007): 757-767.

In two studies, we found that participants low in psychopathy (i.e., the extent to which an individual is cold and callous) used vertical position to encode moral and immoral concepts, but participants high in psychopathy did not. These results indicate that morality is partially represented by the vertical dimension, but not for individuals with little concern for moral behavior.

Meier, Brian P., Michael D. Robinson, and Benjamin M. Wilkowski. "Aggressive Primes Activate Hostile Information in Memory: Who is Most Susceptible?" Basic and Applied Social Psychology 29.1(2007): 23-34.

Research reveals that aggressive primes (e.g., violent movies) activate hostile information in memory. However, it is unclear whether this is true of all people or whether the activation of hostile information differs by trait aggression. In three studies, we found that aggressive primes activate hostile information in memory particularly for individuals low (rather than high) in trait aggression.

Meier, Brian P., Michael D. Robinson, L. Elizabeth Crawford, and Whitney J. Ahlvers. "When ‘Light' and ‘Dark' Thoughts Become Light and Dark Responses: Affect Biases Brightness Judgments." Emotion 7.2(2007): 366-376.

Four studies showed that metaphors that link positive affect to brightness and negative affect to darkness are "alive" at encoding. For example, participants judged words with a positive (negative) meaning as brighter (darker) in color than they actually appeared. Affective thought led individuals to violate input from visual perception when making brightness judgments.

Meier, Brian P., David J. Hauser, Michael D. Robinson, Chris Kelland Friesen, and Katie Schjeldahl. "What's ‘Up' With God? Vertical Space as a Representation of the Divine." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 93.5(2007): 699-710.

Six experiments examined the hypothesis that representations of divinity would be linked to higher levels of vertical space. The experiments found support for such predictions in implicit associations, encoding processes, memory, and person perception. The convergence of the results is significant in highlighting the manner in which representations of divinity rely on metaphor-linked processes related to vertical perception. In sum, it appears that the phrase Glory to God in the Highest is not merely the title of a common hymnal, but is a phrase that reveals an important truth about our thoughts, memories, and social judgments concerning divinity-related concepts.

Meier, Brian P., Verlin B. Hinsz, and Sarah R. Heimerdinger. "A Framework for Explaining Aggression Involving Groups." Social and Personality Psychology Compass 1.1(2007): 298-312.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2007.00015.x

This review provides a framework for explaining aggression involving groups when groups act as a source or target.

This research investigated the influence of brief exposure to the color red on performance in achievement settings. The results suggested that seeing the color red induces avoidance motivation in an achievement setting, and undermines performance on a variety of different tasks (anagrams, analogies, and math problems).

Moller, A.C. and E.L. Deci. "Control." Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Vol. 1. Eds. R.F. Baumeister and K.D. Vohs. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007. 182-185.

This article is a concise review of the psychological literature on the concept of control.

Moller, A.C., E.L. Deci, and R.M. Ryan. "Self-Determination Theory." Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Vol. 2. Eds. R.F. Baumeister and K.D. Vohs. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007. 806-810.

This article is a concise review of self-determination theory.

This article, "Currents of Liberty, Seas of Change," explores the experiences of African American sailors in the days of the Early Republic. Using firsthand accounts of black sailors and their white counterparts, Montgomery examines the paradox represented by the Atlantic Ocean, a force which presented an insurmountable barrier between enslaved African Americans and their homelands and, simultaneously, provided a rare opportunity for equality. Black seamen frequently found a degree of liberty in the rigorous discipline of shipboard life and became inspiring models of empowerment to their own people, undermining the efforts of slaveholders to create a docile labor force.

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Virgil Dixon Morris
Department of History

Yamasaki, Toyoko. Two Homelands (Futatsu no Sokoku). Trans. V. Dixon Morris. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007.

This work was a best-selling novel in Japan and the basis of a televised drama series. It is the story of the Amo family of Los Angeles, caught in the conflict between their adopted country of the United States and their ancestral land of Japan during World War II and the occupation that followed.

 

 

 

Norman, Matthew. "Edward Coles." Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World. Vol. 1. Ed. Junius P. Rodriquez. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. 132-134. 

Norman, Matthew. "Hiram H. Kellogg." Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World. Vol. 2. Ed. Junius P. Rodriquez. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. 324-325.

Norman, Matthew. "Morris Birkbeck." Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World. Vol. 1. Ed. Junius P. Rodriquez. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. 73-74.

Norman, Matthew. "Roberts Vaux." Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World. Vol. 2. Ed. Junius P. Rodriquez. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. 549-550.

The struggle to abolish slavery is one of the grandest quests--and central themes--of modern history. These movements for freedom have taken many forms, from individual escapes, violent rebellions, and official proclamations to mass organizations, decisive social actions, and major wars. Every emancipation movement--whether in Europe, Africa, or the Americas--has profoundly transformed the country and society in which it existed.

Norman, Matthew. "From an 'Abolition City' to the Color Line: Galesburg, Knox College, and the Legacy of Antislavery Activism." Journal of Illinois History 10.1(2007): 2-26.

This essay is an examination of race relations and the legacy of anti-slavery activism in a west-central Illinois town. I explore how a city, once notorious for its commitment to abolition, came to practice racial segregation by the early twentieth century. It is featured as the cover article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Illinois History.