Democracy Every Day

Last summer, my momsold her house, and thesix of us kids divided

amongst ourselves the thingsshe would not be taking toher new apartment, i.e., mostof the furniture, paintingsand other household itemsthat had surrounded usgrowing up. One of the pieces I got was

a small red clay figure of aseated camel that I had alwaysliked, and which I rememberfrom my very early childhood.I wanted to be sure I knew thestory of these things that Inow have, so one Sundayevening I asked my momabout the camel. She had gotten it from a friend,Doro, when she was a college-age student inAmsterdam, around 1950. My Oma had wanted at least one of her three

daughters to go to housekeeping school, and, hertwo older sisters having successfully avoided thatfate, my mom took one for the team and spent ayear there (happy ending: she went on to get adegree in social work). Doro, similarly uninspired by housekeeping

school, became a friend and kindred spirit.Fortunately, it appears that there was enoughliberal education there for Doro to take an artclass, for which she sculpted this camel one daywhile observing a real one at the zoo. She gave itto my mom.As I understand it, Doro and her sister had

come to the Netherlands from Germany yearsearlier to live with their father’s parents. Theirmother was German and Jewish, and their fatherwas Dutch and not Jewish. I understand that at acertain point before the war they sent theirdaughters to the Netherlands to live with hisGentile parents, for safety. They died in theHolocaust. That’s about all I know. My mom and Doro bonded during that year

together in school, but didn’t stay in touchafterward. More than 65 years later, the camel isin my dining room in Salisbury, MD, and I tellmy kids this story.Though I was born in Canada long after “the

war,” it too has had a presence in my life almostas long as I can remember. Living under Germanoccupation for five years strongly affected bothmy parents, who were 11 and 15 when it started.

Like many who eitherexperienced or, in my case,have studied the history, thequestion “how could ithappen?” always remains. Ihave dug deeply into thehistory of Europe’s two majordemocracies, Britain andFrance, to understand howpeople viewed the rise ofextremism in the 1920s and1930s, and I like to think aboutwhat people might have donedifferently to avert catastrophe.One “lesson” one could

draw from all this is to takenothing for granted in life, andto live accordingly. But as aneducation professional with a

role to play in shaping students’ learningexperiences, I would emphasize instead that all ofthe above was a human catastrophe. Perhaps the ultimate paradox of the human

condition is that, even as we explore space andcure terrible diseases, we can treat one anotherterribly. Which is terrible, precisely because wecan do so much better as human beings. As I am always happy to repeat, our Salisbury

University mission charges us to “empower …students with the knowledge, skills and corevalues that contribute to active citizenship, gainfulemployment and lifelong learning in ademocratic society and interdependent world.”Regardless of where you stand politically, I thinkwe can all agree that we live in strange andanxious times, for a whole variety of reasons –not just nationally, but globally. If, as Winston Churchill famously stated,

democracy is the worst form of government –except for all the others – now is a good time forus to consider our University’s mission withrespect to citizenship with a renewed sense ofurgency and purpose. Now is a good time forgood people to do good things. We provide lots of opportunity for that,

because we teach and learn, and we care aboutour community. There are lots of ways to get andbe active, but one brand new way is PACE’s“Coffee, Cookies and Community” programMondays from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in our newGuerrieri Academic Commons (Room 302). Keep a copy of Panorama handy for other

opportunities to practice democracy every day.

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Fulton School DeanDr. Maarten Pereboom

By Dr. Maarten Pereboom, Dean, Fulton School of Liberal Arts

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The spring semester is rolling, but we arestill thankful for the wonderful studyabroad program that a combined group

of 19 communication arts and Spanish studentsled by Dr. Bryan Horikami and myselfexperienced this past January.Ecuador is a small but culturally diverse

country on the Western side of South Americathat has opened its doors to our SalisburyUniversity students for more than 20 years. This year, as in the past, our students lived

with local families and took intensive courses ofSpanish or communication at Centro deEstudios Interamericanos (CEDEI), our long-standing partner institution in the southerncolonial city of Cuenca. In fact, Ecuador was thefirst SU study abroad program founded in 1993by Professor Emeritus Dr. Gerald St. Martin.This year, the program began with a visit to

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, where we had achance to observe the contrast between thehistoric and new areas of the city. On one side,we visited cathedrals where gargoyles areiguanas, tortoises and other animals from theGalapagos; while in other neighborhoods, wesaw modern buildings competing with themajestic Pichincha and Cotopaxi volcanos.Then, we drove to Otavalo, famous for its

textiles and other handmade crafts, and one ofthe most prosperous indigenous communities inthe Americas. It was an educational experiencestopping at the Latitude Zero site and standingon both hemispheres at the same time. Afterthat, we flew to Cuenca, a UNESCO worldheritage site, where students began their life withtheir host families at 8,500 feet above sea level.In addition to daily classes, the next three

weeks offered many activities that would be

difficult to replicate here on campus. We visitedmuseums and attended presentations on topics,such as alternative medicine and on theEcuadorian migration phenomenon. We alsohad traditional Ecuadorian cooking and danceclasses. A service project making a mural at apre-K facility and a hanging garden at a localschool were great opportunities for ourstudents to spend time chatting with localchildren and teenagers. On weekends, we strapped on our boots for

field trips in the Andes, sometimes at 14,000 feethigh above sea level. We hiked parts of the Incatrail and in the Cajas National Park, and wewent to Inga Pirca, the most importantarcheological site in Ecuador. One special moment was our stay in the

indigenous community of Saraguro, supportingsustainable tourism. That weekend, the groupparticipated in a “limpia,” a cleansing ceremonythat had an emotional impact on many of us. In addition to all these activities, the

communication arts group visited local TVand radio stations and learned about differentmass media practices that take place in thispart of the world. We all finished the programwith a visit to Guayaquil, the largest port cityin the country. For this group of adventurous students, their

time abroad may become the most memorableexperience of their college years. In spite of thechallenges of living in a country so differentfrom the U.S., the support and friendliness ofEcuadorians made our experience unforgettable. And now, we say “thank you” in Kichwa, the

indigenous local language: “YupaychaniEcuador!”

Living at 8,500 ft. Above Sea Level: Programs in Ecuador By Dr. Carolina Bown

Alex Stoner (Sociology) serves as leadinstructor for a new course, IDIS 280:Food Systems and Sustainability. The

course meets Mondays 7-8:30 p.m. during spring2017 semester and is team-taught by members ofthe Fulton School Sustainability Committee. The course content consists of a series of

lectures and discussions led by SU facultymembers from a variety of disciplines, along withguest speakers and community members. Classlectures are open to all, and community membersare encouraged to attend. The course is designed to facilitate an

exploration of the relevant, complex and, attimes, volatile topic of food and sustainability inthe 21st century. Areas of focus include foodwaste, food and culture, inequality in the

production, distribution and consumption offood, the impact of local food systems on social,and environmental sustainability and more. Join us for our remaining discussions this

semester:■ March 13: Agriculture and Immigrant Laborin the U.S. – Amy Liebman (MigrantClinicians Network)

■ March 27: “Are You Going To Eat That?:Why Almost Half of All Edible Food EndsUp as Saste and How We Might WasteLess” - Dr. Sarah Surak (ENVR/POSC)

■ April 3: Eric Leibgold (BIOL)■ April 10: Jay Martin (local/alternativeagriculture)

■ April 17:Memo Diriker (Director of theBusiness, Economic and CommunityOutreach Network at SU)

■ April 24: Steven Levitsky (Vice President of Sustainability at Perdue Farms, Inc.)

■ May 1: Food at SU – Owen Rosten(Director of Dining Services at SU) andWayne Shelton (Director of CampusSustainability and Environmental Safety at SU)

■ May 8: “Changing the Meat We Eat: HowConsumer Demand Is Driving SustainabilityWithin Animal Agriculture” – Chad Clem(Director of R&D at Applegate Farms)

■ May 15: Gabby Cammarata (ConcernedCitizens Against Industrial CAFOs)

An Invitation to Learn: Food Systems and Sustainability

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Reflections from a RetiringProfessor: Dr. James HatleyAfter devoting nearly three decades of

one’s professional life to an institution ofhigher learning, one does not leave its

precincts without feeling both thankfulness andregret, often intertwined. The human condition is such that the sweet

and the bitter are not so easily disentangled.This is certainly true for me too, but in mywords today, I am happy, as I should be, to focusin the main on gratitude. Let me begin by thanking my colleagues

across the campus – whether still among us ordeparted – who have persistently fostered overthe years a culture of scholarly discernmentpaired with public commitment characteristic ofour life here. You have made it possible for me togo on some fascinating intellectual and, dare Ieven say it, spiritual adventures. One of these began in the mid ’90s when June

Brittingham, a librarian at the EasternCorrectional Institution (ECI) located nearCrisfield, called early one morning. She hadheard about me from Drew Leder, a colleague atLoyola University, whose book, The Soul Knows noBars, recounted his residency at a maximum-security prison in Baltimore discussingphilosophical questions with those confined there. June asked whether something like that might

happen here on the Eastern Shore as well. Afterinviting Drew to give a presentation to thecampus community about his work with inmates,I accompanied him along with severalphilosophy majors to sit in on a class he wasinvited by June to teach at ECI. The effect on the students was electrifying. In

short order, they put together a program of bookdiscussion groups still active to this day.Witnessing students engage with inmates in

wide-ranging dialogue over questions, such aswhat constitutes a life well-lived or whether thearc of history tends toward justice, has been oneof the most inspiring moments of my academiccareer. I am thankful to all involved in theDepartment of Philosophy for keeping thisexperiment alive and kicking.Yet another adventure, begun in the early ’90s,

is still being pursued as I move to emeritus statusin the Department of Environmental Studies.Having arrived here as faculty member inphilosophy, I worked first with ecologist JoanMaloof to revivify the environmental studiesminor and then later with Joan, as well asenvironmental economist Jill Caviglia-Harris andenvironmental historian Michael Lewis, totransform the minor into a full-blown major withits own department of which I became aninaugural member in 2012. Environmental studies now provides both

students and faculty a venue sustaining trulymultidisciplinary conversation, one in which theintertwining of disciplines is not confined to asingle school of our university but embraces all ofthem – from business and education to scienceand the humanities, not to mention the arts. This leads to the last adventure I’ll mention

here. In 2009, anthropologist Deborah Bird Roseinvited me to Australia to address a symposiumat Macquarie University focusing on how thenewly emerging field of environmentalhumanities might respond to the developingglobal crisis of mass species extinction. Thediscussion there led directly to the founding of aworking group initiating a series of scholarlyprojects, including the publication this year of acollection of essays, titled Extinction Studies: Storiesof Time, Death and Generations.

I note with both pride and gratitude that myessay on the extinction of the Honshu Wolf,which kicks off the volume, was written whilehiking the Kumano Kodo in Japan withstudents from Salisbury University. We werethere, thanks to our international studiesprogram, as well as to a contact I had madethrough my work in extinction studies, to learnabout eco-spirituality in the Shinto and ShingonBuddhist religious traditions. That I came to write my paper in this way

highlights how our university institutes ascholarly culture that actively embracescultivating insights gained through one’steaching, through the questions and passions andexperiences that arise in day-to-day congresswith one’s students. I am thankful to all of you in the Salisbury

University community for having provided methe opportunity to share in the sustaining of ourunique culture of teaching, scholarship andservice for these last three decades. As for myregrets, plenty of time to work on these now thatI am retiring!

Sabbaticals (Spring 2017)Rich Bowler, HISTDr. Bowler will use his sabbatical to advance hisresearch on physiocracy and economic reform inthe German territory of Baden during the 18th century. It will give him the necessary timeto travel to the Baden State Archive in Germanyand prepare his research for publication inscholarly journals. He plans to finalize an articleon the chief architect of Baden’s physiocraticexperiment, Johann August Schlettwein (1731-1802). This research began during his last sabbatical in 2010, but it requires a visit tothe University of Jena in Germany, whereSchlettwein was for a time professor ofphilosophy and economic science. Thissabbatical also will enable Dr. Bowler to

carry out research on Schlettwein’s patron and territorial lord, Karl Friedrich of Baden(1728-1811).

Thomas Boudreau, CADRDr. Boudreau’s sabbatical will be used tocomplete a book manuscript titled Law of Nations:Legal Order in a Violent World, his third on thesubject of international law. Dr. Boudreau hasalready published three law articles on theconcept of the Law of Nations; one in 1994 for asmall legal magazine and the other two morerecently in peer-reviewed journals, including“The Law of Nations and John Locke’s SecondTreatise: The Emergence of the Fiduciary LegalOrder During World War II” published by The Journal Jurisprudence, Vol 15, September, 2012,and “The Modern Law of Nations: Jus Gentiumand the Role of Roman Jurisprudence inShaping the Post World War II InternationalLegal Order” in the law journal The Digest (2012).

Due to the positive reception to these articles,especially from scholars overseas, he is eager tofinish this book.

Tim Dunn, SOCIDr. Dunn’s sabbatical proposal will focus on twoprojects. The first project is a revision to his well-received book The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1982: Low Intensity ConflictDoctrine Comes Home (1996). Given several newinitiatives over the past decades to secure theborder offering additional material on this issue isof paramount importance. To accomplish thiswork, Dr. Dunn will use government documentsand investigative journalist accounts, and do fieldwork and interviews in the border region. Thesecond project will focus on creating ananthology on the sociology of human rights. Dr.Dunn taught a topics course on this subjectwherein he experienced firsthand the need for acollection of the key works by Gideon Sjoberg. In

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Departmental ReportsARTJess Cross has herpiece “Anatomy” in the2017 WheatonBiennial: PrintmakingReimagined at Beard& Weil Galleries,Watson Fine Arts,Wheaton College, inNorton, MA. Theexhibition is March 1-April 10 with a gallerytalk on Wednesday,April 5, at 6 p.m.

Jinchul Kimwill have his workincluded in the groupexhibition titled“Spring Sonata:Works by the HanMee ArtistsAssociation” at theHarmony HallRegional Center inFort Washington fromMarch 27-May 19.Kim also serves on theboard of thisWashington D.C.-based KoreanAmerican Artistorganization. He alsorecently completed the portrait of Dr. RayThompson, co-founder of the Nabb Center,which will be displayed at the Edward H.Nabb Research Center.

John Mosher is exhibiting one of his videoartworks, “Chromaspheric Wanderer,”simultaneously at VisArts in Rockville and at theMuseum of Contemporary Art in Bogata,Columbia. This exhibition, titled “Frame andFrequency 3,” ran January 17-February 19.

Victoria Pass was awarded an ExploratoryResearch Grant from the Hagley Center for theHistory of Business, Technology and Society. Shespent a week at the Hagley Library inWilmington, DE, over the winter break exploringcollections of fashion and textile industryperiodicals, as well as the archive of Geist &Geist, Inc., a New York-based knitwear companyin operation from the 1920s-1978.

Brooke Rogers presents his paper “BringingStudent Experience to Bear in FoundationsProjects” at the Foundations in Art: Theory andEducation (FATE) national conference. Thesession, titled “Pack ’em In - Using the 4 Cs(Composition, Craft, Concept and Context) inEvery Assignment,” is part of “Beyond the Core”at the Kansas City Art Institute, April 6-8.

COMMUNICATION ARTS

David Burns spoke via Skype to a group of elitejournalists in India. Burns was as an invitedspeaker in Andrew Sharma’s Fulbrightjournalism class of mid-career professionals fromaround the world. He discussed topics rangingfrom journalism ethics, the prevalence of fakenews, government press agency, interviewing tipsand best journalism practices in an atmosphere ofincreased nationalism. As a part of his Fulbrightaward, Sharma is currently teaching in India atthe Indian Institute of Mass Communication inNew Delhi.

Jennifer Cox published an article about usingphoto elicitation as a journalism technique inMediaShift, titled “Remix: How to Attack InherentBias with Photo Elicitation.” The article wasbased on a class activity she completed with herstudents, taking them kayaking while requiringthem to capture photos of the experience. Thefull story is available online athttp://mediashift.org/2016/12/breaking-bias-photo-elicitation/

Chrys Egan and colleagues published aninnovative new theory on diverse leadershipdevelopment in Theorizing Women & Leadership: NewInsights and Contributions from Multiple Perspectives,titled “Capacious Model of Leadership IdentitiesConstruction.” The model illustrates fluidity ofleadership identities over time and contextthrough systems and influences that areparticularly salient for women.

Egan also has two chapters in the 2017 secondedition of Intercultural Communication for GlobalEngagement by Kendal Hunt. In the first edition in2015, she published the chapter “InterpersonalInteractions across Cultural Boundaries:Communication, Diversity, and CulturalAwareness in the Age of Globalization,” whichshe revised for the second edition, along withadding a new chapter “Engaging InterculturalCommunication: Interpersonal and InterculturalLeadership.”

CONFLICT ANALYSIS & DISPUTERESOLUTION

Toran Hansen presented “Paying it Forward:Restorative Justice at Home and School” at thebi-annual Circle of Restorative Initiatives for

Maryland Conference at Howard CommunityCollege in Baltimore on November 17.

Ignaciyas Keethaponcalan’s research paper,titled “Living in Perpetual Fear? The State,Society, and Ethnic Relations in Post-War Sri Lanka,” was published in the edited bookGlobalization and Cultural Pluralism, Challenges andPossibilities. The book was published by AkanshaPublishing House, New Delhi (2016).Keethaponcalan also made a presentation, titled “Genicide and Post-War Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: Issues and Dilimmas,” at theinternational conference on post-war justice on December 1 at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

James Hatley presented two papers in Octoberat the annual conference of the Society forPhenomenology and Existential Philosophy: “InPraise of the Cenezoic Achivement: a Responseto Thom Van Dooren’s Flightways” and “TheGlory of Signification: a Response to Jill Stauffer’sEthical Loneliness.” Both are being published,respectively, by the journals Resilience and PhilosophyToday. A third paper Hatley delivered at thisconference, “Salmon Creation: A Midrash,” cannow be read on his Geoaesethics Blogsite.

Hatley also presented his paper “Silos ofDestruction: Dwelling Oneirically in aWeaponized Landscape” in November at thebiennial meeting of the Association for the Studyof the Environment, Literature and Culture inSydney, Australia. During his time in Australia,Hatley also traveled to Perth at the invitation ofCurtin University’s Centre for Culture andTechnology to serve as a senior scholarresponding to papers presented at a symposiumon Speculative Ethnology, as well as attending asymposium afterward of the Extinction StudiesWorking Group contemplating its next collectionof essays.

HISTORY

Céline Carayon will travel to New Orleans inApril to present a paper titled “‘One SingleNation’: Sacred Gestures and French ColonialClaims in Northern Brazil” at the AnnualMeeting of the Organization of AmericanHistorians. This paper draws on her largerresearch on communication, practice and colonialencounters in the early French Atlantic world,which will appear in print in a book now undercontract with the Omohundro Institute of EarlyAmerican History and Culture for the Universityof North Carolina Press (forthcoming 2018).

Aparajita Mukhopadhyay recently reviewedR. Prasad’s Tracks of Change: Railways and EverydayLife in Colonial India in Reviews in History (the Journalof the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK).Her forthcoming article, “Contesting NationSpace: Railway Travel in Colonial India,” willappear in Mobility in History Blog(http://t2m.org/publications/mobility-in-history-blog/), where she has been appointed bookreview editor. Mobility in History Blog is anonline publication of the InternationalAssociation for the History of Transport, Trafficand Mobility.

Jess Cross, “Anatomy” (2016). Screen Printed Enamel on FusedGlass. 12x12”

Jinchul Kim, “Many Times Over” (2017). Oil on canvas. 24x44

John Mosher, “Chromaspheric Wanderer”

Jinchul Kim, Dr. Ray Thompson”(2017). Oil on canvas. 27x20"

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MODERN LANGUAGES &INTERCULTURAL STUDIES

Carolina Bown presented a paper, “CulturallySituated Leadership in the Andes,” with colleagueJeffrey McClellan from Frostburg State Universityat the First ILA’s Topical Conference in Lima,Peru. Bown presented and discussed her bookchapter, “Sumak Kawsay among IndigenousWomen of Ecuador,” at the InternationalLeadership Association’s (ILA) 18th AnnualGlobal Conference in Atlanta. This chapter ispart of the book Creative Social Change: Leadership fora Healthy World, internationally published byEmerald. Additionally, Bown collaborated as apeer reviewer in The Journal of Contemplative Inquiryand wrote an expert’s report on Ecuador’seconomic and political situation as part of thedefense of an Ecuadorian teenager facingdeportation in New York.

Sally Perret presented a version of her project,"Creating Space for Creative Spaces: ArtisticResponses to Neoliberal Capitalism in Spain," atthe Modern Language Association Conference inJanuary. She has also created a course abroadrelated to her research, which she will offer for thefirst time this summer. There will be two sections:one in English (MDFL 399) and one in Spanish(SPAN 309).

Aurélie Van de Wiele and Claire Keworganized Tournées Festival, a French film festivalon campus from February 6-March 9, thanks to agrant from the French-American CulturalExchange Foundation.

Aurélie Van de Wiele also published a bookreview of Étude sur la poésie contemporaine by RégisLefort in the journal The French Review.

MUSIC, THEATRE & DANCE

Paul Pfeiffer will perform his own one-manplay Apology for the Life of an Actor. Pfeiffer’s finalSU performance will be May 20 in the BlackBox Theatre. The performance will benefit theDirector’s Fund, established by Pfeiffer to fundspecial projects in the Bobbi Biron Theatreprogram.

Kara Dahl Russell performed her soloperformance, “The Mystery of Christmas,” at theSouth Coastal Library in Bethany Beach, DE, inDecember. The program included readings andsongs, with music from the 1500s to today playedon both lever harp and pedal harp. She alsoperformed at Historic Poplar Hill Mansion for the

house tour and played at the Ocean CityConvention Center for the Ocean City “Mayor’sOpen House” on January 1.

John Wesley Wright and other soloists from theAmerican Spiritual Ensemble provided music forthe 2017 Academy ofPreachers/Preacherpalooza! conference held inLexington, KY, in January. Wright was also guestsoloist for Martin Luther King Jr. programs inYellow Springs and Marion, OH, and leader ofworkshops at several Ohio prisons.

Leslie Yarmo is in New York City working onthe television series Homeland, starring ClaireDanes and Mandy Patinkin. Max ArchimedesLevitt is Yarmo’s sabbatical replacement in thedepartment. He is designing costumes for Cabaretand The Old Maid and the Thief and teachingCostuming and Theatre Crafts.

PHILOSOPHY

Timothy Stock was invited to RyersonUniversity (Toronto, Ontario) as a part of afaculty lecture series hosted by the Department ofPhilosophy. He led a research seminar on Levinas’phenomenology and gave a public lecture, titled“(A Very) Weak Messianism: the Comic as PublicPhilosophy.” His chapter “How Humor HoldsHostage: Exposure, Excession and Enjoyment in aLevinas Beyond Laughter” is featured in the 2017collection Beginning with our Simplest Gestures: Levinasand Comedy from Duquesne University Press. Stockalso led a public seminar on the “Mysteries ofMemory” for the Fulton Adventures inHumanities speaker series on February 18.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Mike O’Loughlin addressed the U.S. electoraland new presidential landscape with two columnsin The Daily Times, of Salisbury, and in a Fulton

School Colloquium on October 11. Thecolloquium was titled “Dispelling Ideology: Marx,Marcuse and Chomsky and the 2016 PresidentialElection.” The columns included “Trumpism: AModern American Fascism?” and “Is Trump aMorally Legitimate President?”

Eric Rittinger’s research paper, “Arming theOther: American Small Wars, Local Proxies, andthe Social Construction of the Principal-AgentProblem,” was accepted for publication inInternational Studies Quarterly, the flagship journal ofthe International Studies Association. He alsopresented his paper, “Introducing Students to IRthrough the Game of Diplomacy,” at theInternational Studies Association’s AnnualConvention in Baltimore.

PSYCHOLOGY

Lance Garmon presented a paper at the annualconference of the Association for MoralEducation in Cambridge, MA, in December. Thepaper was part of a symposium exploring “Facesof Moral Exemplarity: Celebrities, Ordinary Folk,and Personal Heroes” and was titled “Mergingthe Perception of Fictional Moral Heroes andReal People Portraying Them: The Convergenceof Hermione Granger and Emma Watson.”

Suzanne Osman has an article in press with thepeer-reviewed journal Violence and Gender, called“Rape, Other, or No Sexual PerpetrationExperience Predicting College Men’s Empathywith a Rapist.” This article is co-authored by herstudent, Ruby Orth.

Michele Schlehofer was awarded a $1,980Grant-in-Aid from the Society for thePsychological Study of Social Issues (APADivision 9) for the ACCEPT (Acceptance ofChildren and Early Parenting Trajectories)Project, which will explore parental acceptanceprocesses and early parenting decisions amongparents of transgender and gender non-conforming children.

Schlehofer also was recently appointed to serveas co-chair of the Public Policy Committee forAPA Division 44 (Society for the PsychologicalStudy of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and TransgenderIssues). In this capacity, Schlehofer will be leadingthe committee in the development of materialsand providing consultations based on empirically-demonstrated best practices to governmentofficials and psychologists in states that are facinganti-LGBT ballot issues.

Theatre Program Welcomes New Faculty

Members of the Theatre Program arepleased to welcome SebastianTrainor, a theatre historian and

director, who will join the faculty as an instructorand director.As a scholar, Trainor writes revisionist “secret

histories” of historical theatre events. This is partof his ongoing effort to amend misleadingaccounts that are commonly associated with someof the most celebrated performances of the past2,000 years.

As a director, he especially enjoys productioncollaborations that aim to “re-invent” classic playsfrom the Western canon. His goal is to refashion ina 21st century idiom – with 21st century tools andsensibilities – some of the forgotten performanceconventions of historical theatre eras. Trainor holds a master’s degree in theatre

directing from the California Institute of the Arts,and will receive his doctorate in theatre history,theory and criticism from the University ofWashington in June.

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When Dr. Maarten Pereboom, dean ofthe Fulton School of Liberal Arts,learned he won the Fulbright

Fellowship Award back in December, heremembers being pleasantly surprised. Being selected as one of 11 higher educationadministrators across the country in a rigorouslyselective process, Pereboom will travel to variouslocations in India for a higher education seminarfrom March 17- April 4. “It was a neat feeling because Fulbright is a

very prestigious program, and I am very engagedas somebody who’s very interested in making surethat our experience here [at Salisbury University]is as global as it can be and really embraces thetotal diversity of human culture,” he said. The Fulbright-Nehru International Education

Administrators Seminar seeks to help U.S.international education professionals createpowering connections with societal, cultural andhigher education systems of other countries. For Pereboom, this fellowship award is a realvalidation of the things that he cares about deeply

as a dean, both personally and professionally.“I have been so interested in expanding the

international dimensions of our programs,”Pereboom said. “But I’m thinking in terms of ourcurriculum and making sure the curriculumembraces all diversity of the human experienceacross time and across places.” Pereboom hopes to interact with SU’s Indian

counterparts while on this trip and to get to knowthe Indian higher education system better. “I hope to come away with a better sense ofhow we can move forward with developing aninstitution-to-institution relationship that wouldideally provide for the exchange of studentswhere we could send students to India and wecould have more students come to Salisburyfrom India,” Pereboom said.Pereboom grew up in Canada and has traveled

all over the world to places, such as England,Paris, The Netherlands, Ecuador, Argentina,Japan, China and India.In his previous trips to India, Pereboom visited

Mumbai and Pune with SU’s study abroad

programs. The locations he will be traveling toduring the seminar include Aminabad,Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. “I’m just very interested because of my general

curiosity in world cultures, the differences andhow these parts of India will be very differentfrom each other and different from what I’ve seenbefore,” Pereboom said. Pereboom credits his passion for traveling and

experiencing other cultures back to his days asan undergraduate when he first wanted to travelto Germany.He remembers asking his parents if he could

go and being worried that they would say nobecause, at the time, the country was divided asEast and West Germany. Much to his surprise,they were willing to support his endeavors.“They said ‘nothing teaches like travel,’”

Pereboom said. “This is something that I think isso incredibly important that you certainly hope,and I hope for our students, that they have thatkind of curiosity and interest and just the desire towant to experience something totally different.”

Dean Pereboom Awarded FulbrightFellowship Award By Kimberly Moseman

this work, Dr. Dunn plans to add a comparativeoverview of Sjoberg’s most significant humanrights works as they relate to emergingsociological works on this issue. This anthologywill be an important contribution to thediscipline as a whole but especially to therelatively new subfield of the sociology ofhuman rights (established as an ASA section in2009) as there is nothing like this published todate in the field.David Johnson, ENGLDuring this sabbatical, Dr. Johnson will beginworking on his new book project on cinephilia –a project that has emerged from his recent workco-editing For the Love of Cinema: Teaching OurPassion In and Outside of the Classroom (forthcomingfrom Indiana University Press) and from hisprevious book on Dr. Johnson’s cinematic love,Richard Linklater (University of Illinois Press).Examining what he describes as “the passionatelove of cinema as it manifests, within cinemastudies, in a particular style of writing often set incontrast to more conventional styles ofscholarship,” Dr. Johnson’s project will have amajor impact on cinema studies as well as thepublic intellectual discourse on cinema.Karl Maier, PSYCDr. Maier has proposed two sabbatical projects,both of which will expand his work on stress,emotion and health to explore these factors inthe context of climate change. His first projectentails analyzing longitudinal data from hiscurrent research protocol on stress-related health

factors and climate change using differentstatistical analysis software and a differentstatistical approach (structural equationmodeling), and preparing both a manuscript forsubmission to a peer-reviewed journal and aprofessional conference presentation. His secondproject entails writing a manuscript outlining theBiopsychosocial Ecology Model, a theoreticalmodel he developed that outlines the dynamicinterrelations environmental, biological,psychological and social factors have on physicaland mental health. Dr. Maier’s BiopsychosocialEcology Model has received preliminary supportfrom scholars in the field and has the potential tosignificantly impact how the field of healthpsychology conceptualizes the relationshipbetween social and environmental issues andhealth. A paper outlining the model has beeninvited for publication in a special issue ofPsychosomatic Medicine, a top peer reviewedjournal in the field. This paper presents anopportunity to position Dr. Maier as the expert inthis area.Judith Pike, ENGLDr. Pike will use her sabbatical leave to researchher new book project Charlotte Bronte’s Silver-ForkNovellas of the 1830s. She will conduct a thoroughstudy of the major silver-fork authors of the early19th century, along with other authors whoinfluenced young Charlotte, which will requirevisits to various libraries. Dr. Pike also will usethis sabbatical to become a Romanticist bybecoming proficient in the key Romantic figuressuch as Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott and others.

John Wright, MTDDr. Wright will pursue several projects involvinga combination of different activities. He will tournationally and internationally with the AmericanSpiritual Ensemble for its 23rd season as well aspursue solo and guest artist opportunities. Dr. Wright will also visit various cities to becomecurrent on new shows and productions and thechallenges they pose to traditional pedagogy fortraining singers. He will gain clarity on theauditioning process and changing expectationsfor young performers today and broaden hisknowledge of what competitions and viablesummer programs exist for undergraduates. Healso plans to pursue recording diverse repertoireincluding spirituals. Leslie Yarmo, MTDDr. Yarmo plans to take a full-year sabbatical tofurther her exploration of the depiction of Jewsin Medieval and Renaissance art in terms ofevolving Christian perceptions and to frame thework in book form for publication. Her research,centered on the use of the color yellow andbased on the selling of saffron by Jewish tradersin the Middle Ages, has revealed some quiteinteresting facets of European culture and theevolution of ethnic identity in modern history.This research requires visiting various archivesand collections in New York, Germany, Israeland Ferrara, Italy. She will also use the archivesin Modena, Mantua and Rome.

Sabbaticals (Spring 2017) continued

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Humanities Series Continues with “Cabaret in Context”

Model UNClub MakesSecond Trip to Conference

Drs. Victoria Pass,Leanne Wood and Tom

Goyens present aninterdisciplinary seminarSaturday, April 1, on“Cabaret in Context:Culture and PoliticsBetween the Wars.”The seminar is part of

the Adventures in Ideasseries, a Fulton Schoolinitiative co-sponsored by the Whaley FamilyFoundation to allow community members tolearn about a wide range of relevant humanitiestopics from our faculty. This seminar was planned to coincide with the

opening of the musical Cabaret in the Black BoxTheater in Fulton Hall on March 30. Presenters Pass, Wood and Goyens explore the

tumultuous politics and vibrant culture ofGermany and Europe following the “Great War.”Historian Goyens introduces the socio-

political climate of the Weimar period, and artand design historian Pass shares some of the

vibrant visual and fashion culture that emergedfrom the period including Dada and theBauhaus and the emergence of the “NewWoman.” Music historian Wood shares thehistory of Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, both as aproduct of the 1960s and as a perenniallyprovocative Broadway revival. Two other Adventure in Ideas seminars were

presented this academic year: “Exploring theAfrican American Experience in MarylandHistory” with Drs. Creston Long and AstonGonzalez, and “Mysteries of Memory” with Dr. Timothy Stock. The Salisbury University Model United

Nations club engaged in three days ofintense diplomatic negotiations with

hundreds of other college students from aroundthe world in November. Representing Pakistan at the National Model

United Nations conference in Washington, D.C.,Alex Aiosa, McRae Arceo, Kristina Stull,Mahmoud Yousif, Derek Rhoten and KarinaNorwood sat on three different UN committees,where they addressed a range of internationalissues. These included the impact of cyberwarfare on global security, the challenges ofcoordinating cross-border drug control and theproblem of spurring economic development inpost-conflict areas. This was the club’s second year attending the

conference, which is sponsored by the NationalCollegiate Conference Association and the OsgoodCenter for International Studies. Eric Rittinger,assistant professor in the Political ScienceDepartment, serves as the club’s faculty advisor.

GRANT DEADLINEREMINDER

The Fulton Faculty Grantdeadline is May 7 for

presentations and researchbetween June 1 and September 30, 2017.

The SU Model UN Delegation (from left) Derek Rhoten, Alex Aiosa, McRaeArceo, Dr. Eric Rittinger, Kristina Stull, Karina Norwood and Mahmoud Yousif.

The “Leland Starnes and the SalisburyState Theatre” exhibit reception washeld on February 9 with more than 60

people in attendance. Many alumni came out to remember the

golden age of theatre as former actors under hisdirection. Even current and retired faculty, as wellas community members, came out for the tripdown 1970s memory lane in SSC theatre. Starnes directed theatre at Salisbury State

College during the ’70s. The exhibit includedplaybills, digitized film, video, photographs,posters and everything that went into Starnes’productions.

Claire Mahn ’81, David Dickson ’77, Jan Bellistri ’83, Mary Starnes (widowof Dr. Leland Starnes), Barbara Wagner ’74 and Steve Culver ’91.

Leland StarnesRemembered at Reception

The Philosophy Department hosts the 37thannual SU Philosophy Symposium in ConwayHall 153 on Saturday, April 8, from 9 a.m. to3:30 p.m. This year’s topic is “Just Kids? What

Philosophy Can Do for Children, and WhatChildren Can Do for Philosophy.” The day-longevent features several distinguished speakers, inaddition to participants from Wicomico Countyschools who have been working in collaborationwith Dr. Cristina Cammarano from thePhilosophy Department.During the morning session, speakers

participate in round-table style discussion inwhich they share their experiences and offerinsight into the value of philosophy in public K-12 education, along with the benefits and thechallenges. Speakers attending include Dr. ClaireKatz from Texas A&M University, Dr. MeganLaverty from Columbia University and Dr. Michael Burroughs from Penn State.Following lunch, a panel of local educators

and students discuss the SU Philosophy inSchools program with K-12 students inWicomico County, then open the discussion tothe audience.Lunch and breaks will be provided.

Attendance is free and open to the public.

37th AnnualPhilosophySymposium

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Anew program designed to preparestudents for work in the nonprofit sectoris available now at SU: the Certified

Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential, anationally recognized certification in themanagement of nonprofits.The program, offered thanks to the

partnership with the Nonprofit LeadershipAlliance, is open to undergraduate students fromany major. Pursuit of the certificate should notadd to the time required to graduate as allrequirements for the major and the certificatecan be accomplished as part of the student’soverall course of study. The first cohort is able to enroll this March to

begin in fall 2017.Requirements:■ IDIS 280: Topic: Nonprofit LeadershipAlliance: Hybrid course that meets weeklyon Tuesdays (2 credits)

■One elective course*: Electives mayinclude: CADR 401, CADR 404, CMAT300, FINA 311, MKTG 330, MKTG 331,MKTG 336, MGMT 320, MGMT 325,SCED 101 (3-4 credits)

■ AMI: Participation in at least one AllianceManagement Institute (AMI) conferenceheld annually in January

■ Evidence of leadership and ofaddressing Alliance competencies:Through participation in the SU studentUnited Way organization and/or otheractivities

■ Internship: 300 hours completed at a501(c) (3) (nonprofit organization) (6 credits)*Some of these electives may have specific or additionalrequirementsStudents completing the program gain access

to a network of nonprofit career resources andreceive the CNP credential. CNP certificateholders are quite successful in obtaining work inthe nonprofit sector. The certificate is evidence of outstanding

preparation for entry-level positions bynonprofits, including the YMCA and YWCA,Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Catholic Charities,the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, and Habitat forHumanity. For more information, contact the SU

Campus Director Dr. Carolina Bown atcdbown@salisbury.edu and visit the nationalwebsite at www.nonprofitleadershipalliance.org.

Nonprofit LeadershipCertification

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German Guitar Duo Are Artists-in-Residence

The Aachen Guitar Duo joins SU this spring term as visiting artists-in-residence.

This residency program, created by Dr. Danielle Cumming and sponsored by theDepartment of Music, Theatre and Dance withthe Center for International Education, providesSU students the opportunity to work withemerging international performers in a musicaland cultural exchange.The Aachen Guitar Duo formed in 2013

while Julian Walter-Nussberger and MartinFriese were students at the esteemedConservatory in Aachen, Germany (theHochschule für Musik und Tanz). Since thentheir performances have earned them top prizesin several European competitions.The duo will perform a concert in the Black

Box Theatre in Fulton Hall on Tuesday, April 11, at 12:30 p.m. The concert is free, and the public is invited.

Fulton Faculty Colloqu iaFulton colleagues present the fruits of their

research and service work during the springFulton Faculty Colloquia (FFC) series.

Meeting on designated Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m.in Conway Hall 152, the work presented focusesprimarily on work of faculty returning fromrecent sabbaticals. For questions or suggestions regarding the FFC,

contact Associate Dean Darrell Newton atdmnewton@salisbury.edu.Upcoming topics include:■ Philosophy as Education: How Can ItHelp Our Communities?April 18, Dr. Cristina Cammarano, assistantprofessor of philosophy

■ Creating Space for Creative Spaces:Contemporary Artistic Responses toNeoliberal Capitalism in SpainMay 16, Dr. Sally Perret, assistant professor ofmodern languages