May 14, 1999

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Evangeline Abriel, clinical professor of law, made a presentation on the local immigration and refugee issues to the Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant and Refugee Issues (GCIR) in April during the organization’s national meeting in New Orleans.

Tiina Allik, associate professor of religious studies, was awarded a $10,000 training grant from the American Psychoanalytic Association to do research on the nature of therapeutic change in human persons. Allik also was accepted into the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute. She will begin classes in the fall of 2000.

Paulina Bazin, part-time instructor of modern foreign languages and literatures, presented a paper “Continuing Assessment of Basic Adult ESL” at LaTESOL ’99 in Baton Rouge in April.

Paul Bealer joined the University Police as a police officer.

Catalina Bogdan, part-time assistant professor of art history, continues her eight years of activities in Romania. She is conducting an interdisciplinary program intended to improve education in art, art history, aesthetics, political science, and philosophy at the University of Bucharest, Fine Arts Institute, and the School of Architecture. She also has been a guest on three television and two radio shows. Additionally, Bogdan exhibited work of her computer-based imaging at Loyola in the general community. She also lectures on computer-based imagining. Her second book, The Semiotic of Visual Language, was published and is expected to have the same positive response as her first, Brancusi and the Funeral Monument at Targu Jiu. The University of Colorado Publishing Press will republish both books.

Dorothy H. Brown, professor emerita of English in City College, authored a book review of Honoring the Ancestors: An African Cultural Interpretation of Black Religion and Literature that was published in Christianity and Literature. The work is an interdisciplinary study of African-American culture and religious practices with particular emphasis on open ritual and sacred music by Donald H. Matthews of Saint Louis University.

Jason Burnett joined physical plant as a mechanic.

Jeannette Conner joined the Office of Academic Enrichment as an academic counselor.

Bernard Cook, professor of history, gave a talk on the Kosovo crisis to the high school students at Metairie Park Country Day School. He also was invited to participate on a panel on the crisis by the Tulane Law School Student International Law Association. During Mardi Gras he was invited to give a series of lectures as a guest professor at the University of Rome on American labor history. Also, the U.S. Information Agency invited Cook to present a lecture at the University of Palermo. His article, “Armenia and Azerbaijan,” was published in Current World Conflicts and Confrontations (Salem Press, 1999), edited by Charles F. Bahmueller.

Michael Cowan, professor in the Loyola Institute for Ministry, presented a seminar to the Department of Politics at Queens University in Northern Ireland titled “Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in the U.S. and Northern Ireland: A Comparative Perspective.” While there, Cowan also addressed the Church Forum of Omagh on ministry to those who have suffered bereavement and injury as the result of partisan violence.

Matthew Dabdoub was hired as a part-time dispatcher in University Police.

Vander Darden was hired in University Police as a police officer.

Cynthia Ecklund joined the law library as a catalog assistant.

Barbara C. Ewell, professor of English, gave a plenary address at the fifth Kate Chopin conference in April which celebrated the centennial of The Awakening, at Northwestern State University in Natchi-toches. Ewell also presented a paper, “What Chopin Saw in New Orleans,” at the South Central Women’s Studies Association meeting at Newcomb Center for Research on Women in March. As part of the conference, she organized a Kate Chopin tour of New Orleans and a centennial. The five-course meal replicated Edna Pontellier’s dinner party in The Awakening and featured 19th-Century dishes mentioned in Chopin’s fiction. Ewell also participated in a panel honoring the centennial of The Awakening at the Tennessee Williams Festival.
Ewell’s students in Introduction to Literary Forms participated in an online chat session with the distinguished playwright Arthur Miller sponsored by Penguin Books in April. Approximately 60 students from five universities around the country participated in the live exchange with Miller, whose play, Death of a Salesman was being studied in Ewell’s class this semester. Finally, Ewell will be featured in “Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening,” a short documentary airing on PBS on June 23 at 9:30 CST. Louisiana Public Broadcasting produced the half-hour documentary.

Rosetta Francois joined the law library as a circulast assistant.

Marc Guidry, instructor in City College, wrote a book, Crueel Goddes that Governe: Divine Counsel in the Knight’s Tale, which will be published next year in Quidditas, a journal devoted to European medieval and Renaissance literature. His article focuses on Chaucer’s use of the “counsels of the gods” topos in the Knight’s Tale, which has been overlooked by Chaucerian scholars. Guidry will also be presenting a paper entitled “From the Melibee to the Merchant’s Tale: Chaucer’s Satire of Court Counsel” at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies in May.

Bobby Marzine Harges, professor of law, spoke on the topic “Blueprint for Effective ADR” at the annual meeting of the Magnolia Bar Association in Biloxi in April.

Don Hauber, associate professor of biological sciences, and Dana Pellegrin, A’93, a former student, co-published an article in the April 1999 issue of Aquatic Botany titled “Isozyme Variation Among Populations of the Clonal Species, Phragmites Australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steudel.” The work was based on Pellegrin’s undergraduate honors thesis research.

Craig S. Hood, associate professor of biological sciences, presented two papers at the annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists, held at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. One of his papers, titled “Fluctuating Asymmetry in Mandibular Form in Louisiana Populations of the Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus,” was presented with Loyola undergraduate student co-author, Nga T. Vu. A second paper, “Ontogeny and Allometry of body shape in the Blacktail Shiner, Cyprinella venusta,” was presented in collaboration with co-author Tulane Professor David C. Heins. Hood was a co-author on a third paper, “Female Body Shape Variation within and among three species of Darters,” presented by Tulane Professor Michael J. Guill.
Hood also presented a public lecture titled “On the Natural History of Bats” to the New Orleans Chapter of the Sierra Club at its monthly meeting.

Isabel Medina, associate professor of law, was a guest on the “Our Story Productions” radio talk show on radio station WBOK in April. The topic of the show was the proposed changes to the Louisiana public meetings law to curtail public discussion during meetings of the Orleans Parish School Board and the First Amendment. Medina will participate in a “Web Policy Panel” at the Omni Royal Orleans for the CASE conference, “Public Relations and Publications in Cyberspace,” in May. Medina also will participate in a panel on Diversity in the Legal Profession at the 1999 annual meeting of the Louisiana Bar Association in Sandestin, Florida, in June.

Cecilia Montenegro was hired in the Monroe Library as a technical services assistant.

Mark D. Rubinfeld, assistant professor of sociology, presented a paper, “The Case for a Sociology of Popular Culture,” at the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Annual meeting in San Diego.

Denise Smith joined the law library as a circulation assistant.