faculty accomplishments Assistant Professor of Religion Maeve Callan’s book, The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish: Vengeance and the Mythologies of Heresey in Medieval Ireland, has been accepted for publication by Cornell University Press and should be available within the next year.
then building, Iowa Realty into the state’s largest real estate firm. Along the way, he became one of the area’s leading developers, a foremost figure in the Iowa Democratic Party, and a prominent community philanthropist. amazon.com/The-Real-DealLife-Knapp/dp/0615852793.
Associate Professor of Music Dave Camwell’s arrangement of Corelli’s La Follia has been published by Jeanne Publishing. Camwell also released two CDs on the Teal Creek Music label— Timescape and Sonoroso. Another CD, Xplorium!, will be released on the Innova label later this year. Camwell has also been a guest artist at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Furman, North Carolina-Greensboro, North Carolina-Charlotte, Western Carolina, Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Wyoming, Colorado State and Colorado-Boulder.
This summer, Peter Taggart, adjunct professor of history, taught a four-part lecture series in the Ray Society at Drake University entitled, “The Civil War – Without the Battles,” on the philosophical, theological, social, economic and cultural causes of the American Civil War and its continuing after effects on American society. Taggart also presented a lecture on the “History of Free Masonry on the American Frontier” as part of the Des Moines Scottish Rite Consistory’s continuing University of Free Masonry Historical Lecture Series.
In May, Rosemary Link, associate vice president for academic affairs, made a presentation to the International Human Rights Conference at the Sanskrit University of Karnataka, India, titled: “The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Implications for Education.” Dr. Link made this presentation to faculty, students and colleagues, including the group of Simpson students participating in the May term travel abroad course exploring global citizenship in India, based in Bangalore and Mangalore.
Tracy Dinesen, associate professor of Spanish, co-edited Volume XXVIII, the 2012 edition of Revista Monográfica, a special edition which focused on the works of Alicia Giménez Barlett. Giménez Barlett is a bestselling author of Spanish detective fiction who writes the Petra Delicado series, the longest running fiction series with a female protagonist. In addition, Dr. Dinesen published an article, “The Consequences of a Marriage: Petra Delicado in Nido vacío and El silencio de los claustros,” in the 2012 Revista Monográfica. The article focuses on the compromise needed in order to balance work and family life for the main character, Petra Delicado, and how this compromise debunks the stereotype of the modern working woman.
“A Test for Slope Heterogeneity in Fixed Effects Models,” an article co-authored by Simpson College Assistant Professor of Economics, Oleksandr Lugovskyy, Ph.D., along with Ted Juhl, University of Kansas, was accepted for publication in June by Econometric Reviews. In August, a second co-authored article, with Alexandre Skiba, University of Wyoming, titled, “The Distance Effect is Not Disappearing, Just Poorly Estimated,” was accepted for presentation at the Missouri Valley Economic Association Meeting in October. Professor of History and Director of the Iowa History Center, Bill Friedricks’s book, The Real Deal: The Life of Bill Knapp was published in August. The biography examines Knapp’s rise from his poor southern Iowa farm beginnings to establishing, and
Jennifer Ross Nostrala ’85, department chair and professor of theatre arts, has been appointed to serve on the Board for StageWest Theatre in Des Moines. Last spring during his sabbatical, Paul Craven ’94, associate professor of computer science wrote and published a textbook about computer programming called, Program Arcade Games With Python and Pygame. The paper version is available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and an e-book is also available through Amazon Kindle.
Nathaniel R. Boulton ’02, adjunct professor of management, completed the Isle of Man marathon in the United Kingdom, his 12th marathon in the past 12 months. David Richmond, professor of art, is the president of The Iowa Bonsai Association. Richmond organized the Bonsai exhibition at the 2013 Iowa State Fair and also won a third place ribbon for his tree which is a literati style, Juniperus chinensis, ‘Shimpaku.’ The Waltham Philharmonic performed Instructor of Music, James Poulsen’s orchestral work, Heartland Poem, May 4, in the Boston suburbs. The work has also been performed by the Des Moines and Dubuque Symphonies. Waltham has also programmed Poulsen’s Five Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, for Tenor and Orchestra, for a concert this fall. The Poe cycle is also being performed this fall at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, one of the country’s largest and most prestigious music programs. Mr. Poulsen made 30 appearances with various jazz groups this summer, including the Ottumwa Symphony, the Ballyhoo Foxtrot Orchestra, Soya Vista Jazz Band, John Morgan Orchestra, Steve Charlson Trio, the Max Wellman Quartet and his own jazz quartet. Kate Lerseth, instructor of education, completed her Ph.D. at Iowa State University in Curriculum and Instruction. She also presented at the International Reading Association Annual Convention in San Antonio on the topic of “Identity Development in Pre-Service Teacher Candidates.” As part of his sabbatical, Nick Proctor, professor of history, travelled to nearly a dozen institutions, including three universities in China and one in Japan, to teach faculty how to use the Reacting to the Past game-based pedagogy. Justin Brown, assistant professor of biology, published his work on spinal cord processing and pain in the journal, PAIN. Brown also attended the 7th Annual Summer Neuroscience Workshop at the University of Missouri.
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