Spotlights
Faculty and Staff Successes, November 2014
November 03, 2014
Kelly Clark, Visiting Professor of Religious Studies and Honors, published multiple articles in recent months: “Knowledge and the objection to religious belief from cognitive science,” in The Roots of Religion: Exploring the Cognitive Science of Religion and “Atheism and Analytic Thinking,” in The Science and Religion Dialogue: Past and Future. Clark has also published a number of blogs in the Huffington Post including “Islamophobia Ripped From the Headlines.”
Randa Elbih, Visiting Professor of Liberal Studies, represented GVSU in panel discussion for the American Educational Studies Association in Toronto, Canada. The panel discussion was entitled: “Intersections of Faith in Education: The Often-Silenced Connections of Faith, Education, and Global Religions in Diversity Work.” Elbih also presented “Muslim American Students’ Identities and Sense of Belonging in Post 9/11 and Neo-Liberal Capitalism” and was awarded the Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grant from the Center for Scholarly and Creative Excellence.
Coeli Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of Honors and Middle East Studies, wrote an article, “Said Matters,” published in Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, and edited a book, Muhammad in History, Thought and Culture, published by ABC-CLIO.
Richard Hiskes, Professor of Political Science and Honors, gave a keynote address, “Human Dignity and the Intergenerational Promise of Environmental Human Rights,” at a European Science Foundation Conference in the Netherlands.
Zulema Moret, Professor of Latin American Studies and Modern Languages and Literatures, wrote a book titled, La Mujer de Piedra.
Mambo Mupepi, Adjunct Professor of African/African American Studies, published his book titled, British Imperialism in Zimbabwe: Narrating the Organizational Development of the First Chimurenga (1883-1904).
Melissa Peraino, Director of Educational Outreach in the Center for Adult and Continuing Studies, was appointed to the Ottawa County Workforce Development Board for a three year term beginning in January 2015.
Marilyn Preston, Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, was awarded the competitive Catalyst Grant-In Aid award by the GVSU Research and Development Committee for her project title “Conceptualizations of Sexual Identity during the Transition to Adulthood.”
Melanie Rabine, Writing Center Coordinator in the Fred Meijer Center for Writing and Michigan Authors, presented "'Me Encanta Escribir' Writing Support and Linguistic Diversity" at the 20th Annual Michigan Writing Center's Association Ideas Exchange on October 25th at Lansing Community College.
Patrick Fuliang Shan, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History, published his book titled, Taming China’s Wilderness: Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier Society, 1900-1931.
Karen Zivi, Associate Professor of Political Science and Honors, was selected to attend the Global School on Socio-Economic Rights Course: Sexual and Reproductive Rights Litigation at Harvard University. She wrote an article, “Performing the Nation: Contesting Same Sex Marriage Rights in the United States,” published in the Journal of Human Rights.