Mark E. Kehren, Ph.D., associate professor of history and international studies, was recently named a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar. He is one of 16 interdisciplinary university professors who participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar called “The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants and their Homelands” at the University of California, Los Angeles from June 15 through July 17, 2015. Kathrin A. Parks, Ph.D., associate professor of sociology, published several entries in C. Gallagher and C. Lippard (editors), Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic, Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2014. (Refereed). Entries were: “Anti-racism,” “Commoration Movement,” “Eminent Domain,” “Hypersegregation,” “Juneteenth Celebration,” “Matched-pairs Housing Audits,” “Post-Race Civil Rights America,” “Reverse Redlining” and “Urban Renewal.” David Cochran, Ph.D., professor of politics, published “What Slavery, Ordeals, Duels and Lynching Can Teach Us About Abolishing War” in Waging Nonviolence (May 8, 2015) and a review of “Becoming Catholic: Finding Rome in the American Religious Landscape,” by David Yamane, in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (June 2015). He also presented “Abolitionist Rather Than Pacifist: Understanding the Vatican’s Position on War since Gaudium et Spes” at the University of Notre Dame’s March 2015 conference marking the 50th anniversary of Vatican II’s document Gaudium et Spes.
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Cochran and John Waldmeir, Ph.D., professor of religious studies, co-edited The Catholic Church in Ireland Today, published by Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield. The book includes chapters by Waldmeir on competing theological visions at the 2012 Dublin Eucharistic Congress and Andrew Auge, Ph.D., professor of English, on Irish missionaries and shifts in Irish Catholicism. The book is based on a symposium held at Loras in March of 2014. Waldmeir and Cochran also published an article describing the book in the online Culture section of The Irish Times on February 17, 2015. Carl Tebon, head baseball coach, won his 400th game as head coach at Loras College on March 27, 2015, versus Coe College, making him the second active coach in the Iowa Conference to achieve this milestone. Kevin Koch, Ph.D., professor of English, was awarded the Loras College John Cardinal O’Connor Chair for Catholic Thought for 2015–2016. The working title for his research project is “A Celtic Christian View of Nature: Observing the Driftless Land through a Celtic Lens.” He also published a video essay, “Chasing Black Hawk, Studies in Midwestern History” (June 2015) on the Web and presented “Sacred Place: The Landscape of Memory” at the North American Review Bicentennial Creative Writing and Literature Conference on June 11, 2015. Hilarie Welsh, Ph.D., assistant professor of education published “An Award-Winning Community College Instructor’s Approach to Teaching and Learning” in The Community College Enterprise, 21(1), 66–78. Dan Neebel, associate professor of engineering and computer science, presented “Engineering an Integrated STEM Education for Teachers” at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference in Seattle, Washington in June 2015. James Pollock, Ph.D., associate professor of English, edited “The Essential Daryl Hine: Selected by James Pollock,” published by The Porcupine’s Quill, in Ontario, Canada. His poem “Sailing to Babylon” was also reprinted in the anthology “Earth and Heaven: An Anthology of Myth Poetry,” edited by Amanda Jernigan and Evan Jones, and published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside, in Ontario, Canada (2015). Michael D. Gibson (MA ’91), Loras College Archivist, was reappointed by Iowa Governor Terry E. Branstad to a three-year term on the Iowa Historical Records Advisory Board (IHRAB). The board works to improve the care of historical records by individuals and by private and governmental organizations; encourages cooperative projects among statewide institutions; promotes local records management programs; and reviews the condition of historical records. Gibson has served on the board for the past 25 years.