November 6, 1998

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Clinical Professor of Law Evangeline Abriel’s article, "Ending the Welcome: Changes in the United States Treatment of Undocumented Aliens (1986 - 1996)" was published in the Rutgers Race and Law Review. Abriel was included in the Best Lawyers in America under the category of immigration law for 1999-2000.

Tunde Adeleke, associate professor of history, published a book, Unafrican Americans: Nineteenth Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission.

S.L. Alexander, assistant professor of communications, moderated a New Orleans Press Club forum in September with the candidates for the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Mary Garvey Algero, associate professor of law, made a presentation at the Legal Writing Institute’s Biennial Conference titled "Improving Legal Analysis: Teaching Techniques to Strengthen Students’ Application of Law to Fact." The conference was held at the University of Michigan. Also, Algero’s biography was published in Who’s Who in American Law 1998-99.

Edward B. Arroyo, S.J., editor of Blueprint for Social Justice, is coordinating a program on ethics in policy at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. He will divide his time between New Orleans and Washington, D.C., and continues to edit Blueprint for Social Justice.

Billie Salisbury Bala-douni, assistant director in the Institute for Ministry, published two articles in the 1998 interdisciplinary volume, Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies. The articles are titled "Christianity: Post Reformation" and "Saints." The volume provides the reader with discussions of some of the best books in over 500 topics and individuals in women’s studies.

Leigh Ann Barakett joined the Counseling and Career Services Center as a staff counselor.

John Biguenet, the Robert Hunter Distinguished Professor, has had his story, "Mama’s Boy," accepted for publication in The Denver Quarterly. His "Dawn at the Beach" is the cover essay in the current issue of Desire. His review of Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas has been accepted for publication by World. His story, "Battlefield in Moonlight" was reprinted in The Double Dealer Redur. Also, Biguenet served as judge of the 1998 national translation prize of the American Literary Translators Association. He read and lectured at the Fifth International Conference on the Short Story in English. He also served as the judge of the writing competition sponsored by Short Story Journal in conjunction with the conference. In addition, he read and lectured at Perfect Words: A Writers’ Conference of the Faulker Society. Biguenet has recently returned from London where he worked on the scripts of the screen version of "The Vulgar Soul" to be produced by State, Ltd. The film is based on Biguenet’s story of the same title that appeared in Granta last year.

Craig Bogar, athletic director of the Recreational Sports Complex, served as a panelist for a seminar titled "Utilizing Licensing to Generate Revenue" at the national convention of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in Tulsa, Okla.

Physics Professor Carl Brans, a Humboldt Prize recipient, is in Germany until December. While there, he has attended the 40th anniversary celebration of the French Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (The Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies) in the Parisian suburb of Bures-sur-Yvette and a mathematical physics meeting.

Doris Brown was hired as an administrative assistant in capital campaigns.

Rogene A. Buchholz, the Legendre-Soule Professor of Business Ethics and professor of business ethics, and Sandra B. Rosenthal, professor of philosophy, published an article, "Toward an Ethics of Consumption: Rethinking the Nature of Growth," in Business of Consumption: Environmental Ethics and the Global Economy. They also presented a joint paper titled "Pragmatism and Other Business Ethics Theories" at a special session on Business Ethics at the World Congress of Philosophy in Boston in August. They presented two papers: "Pragmatism as a Philosophy for Emerging Democracies" at the Polish Institute for American Philosophy in May and "Toward a New Model of Community" at the ninth annual conference of the International Association of Business and Society in Hawaii in June. Buchholz published an article, "The Ethics of Consumption Activities: A Future Paradigm-" in Journal of Business Ethics.

Bernard Cook, professor of history, contributed articles on "The Ardeatine Caves," "The Duke of Aosta," "Ugo Cavaliero, " "Hans Frank," "The French Occupation of the Ruhr," "Rodolfo Graziani" "Hitler," "The Interallied Control Commission for Germany," "The Italian Wartime Government, " "Robert Ley," "The Rhineland, " "The Maginot Line," "The Saar," "Fritz Sauckel," "Hjalmar Schacht," and "The Yugoslavian War of National Liberation" to World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia edited by David T. Zabecki and published by Garland Press. He also gave a talk in September on "Agricultural Labor Organizations and Producers’ Cooperatives in Louisiana" at the Black Church Institute sponsored by the Greater New Orleans Foundation, in Hammond. He presented an invited paper in October on "The United States and Romania During World War I and the Peace Settlement: Divided Counsels" at an international colloquium on The End of the First World War and the New Political and Military Architecture of Europe at the University of Cluj-Napoca, sponsored by the Romanian government.

Assistant Professor of Art History Irana D. Costache, who is on academic leave this year, presented "The Truth in Painting or in Text-" and co-chaired a panel discussion on "Art, Art History, Criticism and Theory: A Group Portrait" at the annual Southeastern College Art Association meeting. In September, she presented "The Work of (Art) Historians in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" at the Conference on Computers in Art History at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Next semester, she will co-chair a panel discussion titled "We’ve Come a Long Way, [From Being a] Baby! The Performativity of Women in the Arts and the Academy" at the Women’s Caucus for the Arts in Los Angeles.

Eileen Doll and Blanca Anderson, associate professors of Spanish, are advisors of Mu Kappa, the local chapter of the national Spanish honor society, Sigma Delta Pi. Mu Kappa received the distinction of being designated Capitulo de Honor y Mérito for the 1997-98 term. The award is given based on activities undertaken by Loyola’s Mu Kappa chapter last year. Only 20 chapters nationwide received this distinction.

Stephen J. Duffy, professor of religious studies, presented "Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic Understandings of Salvation: A Comparative Study" during a conversation between Southern Baptist and Roman Catholic theologians sponsored by the National Council of Catholic Bishops. The dialogue was held in Louisville, Ky., in September.

Shannon Duplanatis was hired as an accounting clerk and teller in the Bursar’s Office.

Jeffrey Easterby was hired as a university police officer.

Mary Goodman joined the Department of Human Resources as an employment clerk.

Mark Grote, chair of the visual arts department, will be visiting artist at Gasworks in London for four months in early 2000.

Anne Hornsby, visiting assistant professor of sociology, presented a paper, "Implementing the Colombia Healthcare Reform: Managed Care in Cali," at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Chicago in September.

Stamos Karamouzis, assistant professor of computer science in City College, has been awarded a two-year Louisiana Educational Quality Support Fund (LEQSF) research grant for investigating the applicability of the case-based reasoning methodology for predicting students class performance. He also attended and chaired a session on developing ethical computing policies at a conference in Washington, D.C.

Michael Ledet, visual arts instructor, produced two recently released, limited editions for the Historic New Orleans Collection. Ledet designed the slipcase edition for Haunter of Ruins: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin, originally co-published by Bullfinch and The Historic New Orleans Collection. Ledet designed both the book and slipcase edition of Complementary Visions of Louisiana Art: The Laura Simon Nelson Collection at the Historic New Orleans Collection published by the Historic New Orleans Collection.

M. Isabel Medina, associate professor of law, discussed gender discrimination at First Monday 1998: Bringing Human Rights Home Alliance for Justice Conference, sponsored by the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center. Medina presented a paper, "A Matter of Fact: Hostile Environments and Summary Judgement," to the Loyola Women’s Studies First Monday Speaker Series. She also has been invited to participate in a day-long round table discussion by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Socioeconomics and Law during the AALS annual meeting in New Orleans in January. Medina will visit the University of Miami, Florida Atlantic, and Florida International universities to recruit students for Loyola’s law school.

Edward J. McCaughan, assistant professor of sociology, attended the Latin American Studies Association XXI International Congress in Chicago where he presented a paper, "Social Justice in Cuba: Promises and Pitfalls," and chaired a panel on Cross-Border Organization in the Age of Globalization. Also, he published an article, "La Virgen Meets the Salsa Police," an analysis of the changing representations of national and ethnic identity by Mexican and Chicana feminist and cultural workers. The article appears in the summer 1998 issue of Peace Review, a journal of the University of San Francisco.

Vicki L. McNeil, associate vice president for student affairs, served as a guest speaker at the New Orleans Chapter of Freedom’s Foundation. Her topic was "College Students Today-Tomorrow’s Leaders."

William Neilson, associate professor of law, spoke at the Loyola Estate Planning Conference about the "Tax Court Practice and Procedure for the Estate Lawyer Including Provisions of the 1997 Taxpayer Relief Act and 1998 IRS Reform Act."

Rosary O’Neill, professor of drama and speech, was one of the local writers awarded a fellowship to participate in Perfect Words: A Writer Conference sponsored by the Faulkner Society in New Orleans in September. O’Neill was one of 12 writers selected to participate in Ernest Gaines’ Advanced Creative Writer’s Seminar at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette. This summer, O’Neill participated in the Advanced Playwriting Seminars conducted by William Packard and Julie McKee at the Herbert Berghoss Studios in New York City.

Alex Reichl, assistant professor of political science, presented "Reconstructing Community in New Orleans Public Housing" at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in September.

Natalie Simon was hired as a senior development officer for capital campaigns in the College of Business Administration.

Robert Thomas, Loyola Chair in Environmental Communications, participated on a panel to discuss "Real Research and Journalism: Worlds Apart" at the annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Journalist and he appeared on a one-hour PBS show regarding the state of environmental journalism in America. The telecast was shown on WTCI in Chattanooga, Tenn. Also, Thomas published a paper, "Environmental Journalism" in U.S. Universities La Voix de la Planète, a publication of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists.

Keith Vetter, professor of law, attended the XV World Congress of Comparative Law and the 1998 meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law held in conjunction with the World Congress in Bristol, England, this summer. Vetter is director of the American Society of Comparative Law. Also this summer, Vetter addressed the faculty of the University of Edinburgh Law School in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the differences between the Roman inspired Spanish law of slavery in Louisiana and the common law of slavery applicable in the rest of the United States.