Archive of Previous Faculty Activities and Accomplishments
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2007 Calendar Year

 

Felicia Hardison Londré, Curators’ Professor of Theatre, had three books published during the calendar year 2007. Published in January, The Enchanted Years of the Stage: Kansas City at the Crossroads of American Theater, 1870-1930 (University of Missouri Press), was recognized in the Kansas City Star as one of the “Top 5 in 2007: Theater” (23 December 2007), as well as one of the 100 Noteworthy Books of 2007 (18 November 2007). November brought publication of the Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism (with James Fisher, Scarecrow Press), and in December came her play Duse and D’Annunzio published in book form in a Korean translation by UMKC alum Sujin Kang, with a new introductory essay by Londré in English.

Felicia Londré also gave three lectures at the University of Hawaii in April, a paper at the Association Française des Etudes Américaines in May, nightly ShowTalks at the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival in July, the Kimball Lecture in October, and already has three invited lecture engagements on the Shakespeare authorship in April and June 2008.

Rosalyn Bertram, Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, has been asked to serve by Governor Matt Blunt's office on the Missouri Child Abuse Review Panel. She will be responsible for reviewing appeals of decisions of the Children's Division.

Max Skidmore, Professor of Political Science, has co-edited a new book of essays, Politics and Language, that considers the political effects of language usage.  Professor Skidmore also has a contract with Rowman and Littlefield for a new book, tentatively titled, American Security:  Protecting and Expanding Social Security.  He hopes to have the book out in 2008. 
 

Katie Kline, Director of the Greater Kansas City Writing Project (GKCWP), has helped to establish a new National Writing Project (NWP) site in southern Missouri. Katie, and other GKCWP teachers, have been running satellite programs in the Springfield area and mentoring teachers/administrators there. As a result of that great work, the Ozark Writing Project has been officially chartered by the NWP and joins the nearly 200 established sites across the country. Because of the NWP's commitment to the highest of standards for professional development programs, very few new sites have been chartered in recent years. This is a huge coup for the state of Missouri, and Katie and the entire GKCWP crew deserve a tremendous round of applause!
 

Associate Professor Jimmy Adegoke of the Geosciences Department has been awarded a grant from the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration for his project "Integrated assessment of environmental and socio-economic change in the Niger Delta region of Niger: A field research project."
 
 

Deborah Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology, was the recipient of the Gerontological Society of America’s 2007 Civic Engagement in an Older America Paper Award competition at the Senior level for her paper, “Examining the Volunteer Patterns of Mid-and Later-Life American Couples.”  She was recognized during the Civic Engagement in an Older America Symposium at the GSA’s Annual meeting in November in San Francisco. 
 

Michael Pritchett (Associate Professor of English) has a new novel, The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis, that was named a Booksense Pick for November.  It was also mentioned during “The Book Doctors” on Walt Bodine in October 2007, and Michael was featured in an article in UNews.  His novel has also received praise from The Kansas City Star, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Robert Olen Butler, Charles Baxter, and Margot Livesey.   It was reviewed by the Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner. 

The Art & Arts History Department has a web page devoted for their current faculty news.

Peter Morello received the "Heart of America Silver Award, 2007"  (Television's Top 100 Markets) for Best Public Service Documentary. This was for his work on "Profiles of Black Success: Kansas City's Untold Story."  Gold went to John Holt, anchor at Channel 4.

 

UMKC currently has 2 of the top Criminal Justice and Criminology researchers in the country.

Recent research published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education focused on the research productivity of criminal justice and criminology professors. The authors of the research utilized the number of manuscripts published in the top-tiered CJC journals between 2000 and 2004 as an indicator of productivity. Sixty-one (61) of the 1,215 criminal justice researchers were identified as being in the 95th percentile or higher, which the authors called “star” researchers. In order to be classified as a “star” researcher, the individual had to publish at least three (3) manuscripts in these prestigious journals. Both Alex Holsinger and Ken Novak are among those in the 95th percentile or higher. Ken published 3 articles in top tiered journals during this time period, and Alex published 4 (plus, Alex has published an additional 4 articles in these top tiered journals since 2004!).

CITE: Steiner, B. and J. Schwartz. 2007. “Assessing the Quality of Doctoral Programs in Criminology in the United States.” Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 18(1): 53-86.

 


 

UCDA Design Education Committee.

 

Connie Peterson (The University of Iowa)

UCDA board member and committee chair

319-335-8035

connie-peterson@uiowa.edu

 

Guenet Abraham (University of Maryland Baltimore County)

410-744-5188

gueni@earthlink.net

 

Leif Allmendinger (Northern Illinois University)

Currently UCDA Design Educators Summit co-chair

815-899-3085

leif@niu.edu

 

Paul Tosh (University of Missouri-Kansas City)

Currently UCDA Design Educators Summit co-chair

816-645-4145

toshp@umkc.edu

 

The role of the Design Education Committee is to recommend programs and policies to the UCDA board in relation to design educator's (members and non-members) and how we can better serve the design education field.

Currently, for the design educator, UCDA offers:

  • design educator's listserve (members and non-members)

  • "education" track/department in UCDA's Designer magazine

  • "education" track at the UCDA Design Conference

  • UCDA Design Educators Summit (next one scheduled for June 2008)

 

FOR DISCUSSION:

 

Because we did not have the Design Educators Summit this year, we need to come up with something to appeal and attract design educator's. Suggestion that the UCDA board thought of included:

  • do a call for papers (to be reviewed by a peer review panel (committee?)) for a published journal on Design Education. Specific topic or theme can be determined by the committee. Articles can also be published in designer magazine.

  • since the 2008 UCDA Design Educators Summit does a call for papers (and sometimes a call for posters) we should discuss whether we should do this in conjunction with that call (picking some for papers, some for presentation, some for both, etc.) or keep it separate (making it look like we are offering more).

[Note: we are at an advantage that both co-chairs are also serving on this committee this year).

 
   
 
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