, Assistant
Professor, Department of History, Director of African Studies in the Global and Regional Studies Program
Prof. Field has recently published a
new book, "Isabelle of France: Capatian Sanctity and Franciscan
Identity in the Twentieth Century" with University of Notre Dame Press,
October 2006
In addition, Prof. Field will have an
article published in the 2006 volume of "Mediaeval Studies" entitled
"Reflecting the Royal Soul: The Speculum Anime Written for Blanche of
Castile".
Prof. Field will also be conducting
research in Paris for a new project on a recently discovered "Life of
Isabelle of France" written around the year 1521 by an important but
little studied Franciscan named Robert Messier.
Shirley J. Gedeon, Associate
Professor, Department of Economics, GRS faculty member
During the summer of 2006, Prof. Gedeon
was in residence at the American Institute for Economic Research to
conduct a grant-funded study of the conduct of domestic monetary policy
under a currency board regime. This study will provide a basis
for her sabbatical research on the effectiveness of the Bosnian
currency board on addressing issues of financial fragility of their
domestic economy.
Prof. Gedeon also plans to attend an
8-week intensive language program in Croatian/Bosnian at Indiana
University, and spend the following spring/summer semester of 2008 in
residence at the Economics Institute of Sarajevo.
Jonathan Huener, Associate
Professor, Department of History, GRS faculty member
Prof. Huener published, with co-editor
Francis R. Nicosia, an anthology entitled "The Arts in Nazi Germany:
Continuity, Conformity, Change". The volume was based on the Center for Holocaust Studies' Third Miller
Symposium held at UVM in April 2004.
Tom Macias, Assistant
Professor, Department of Sociology, GRS faculty member
In September of 2006,
Prof. Macias published "Mestizo in America: Generations of Mexican
Ethnicity in the Suburban Southwest" with University of Arizona
Press. This book addresses the question "how much does ethnicity
matter to Mexican Americans today, when many marry outside their
culture and some can't even stomach menudo?" Available through
the University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona.
Abby
McGowan, Assistant Professor, Department of History, GRS faculty member
In the summer of 2006, Prof. McGowan
spent two weeks in London conducting research for a soon to be
completed manuscript "Material Changes: Crafts and Development in
Colonial India" as well as for an invited paper on colonial-era rug
weaving which she presented at a conference at Columbia University
entitled "The Art of Exchange: Circulation of Visual Culture in
Colonial India".
Prof. McGowan is currently finishing
her manuscript and then hopes to travel to India this summer to begin
research on her next project which will look at the transformation of
the material and meaning of domestic space in early 20th century
western India.
Jeanne
L. Shea, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, GRS faculty member
Recent Publications:
Prof. Shea has been busy throughout 2006 and 2007 with several
publications, conference presentations and invited scholarly
lectures. Her 2006 publications incude:
Conference Abstract: "Efficacy,
Evidence, and the Authentic Natural Other: Menopause, Midlife Aging,
and Western Encounters with East Asian Alternatives," Complementary
Therapies in Medicine, forthcoming.
Conference Report: "Authenticity, Best Practice, and the Evidence
Mosaic: The Challenge of Integrating Traditional East Asian
Medicine into Western Health Care," International Association for the
Study of Traditional Asian Medicines Newsletter, in press.
"Cross-Cultural Comparison of Women's Midlife Symptom-Reporting: A
China Study" (sole author), Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry: An
International Journal of Comparative Cross-Cultural Research, September
2006(30:3): 331-362 (peer-reviewed).
"Older Women and the Sexual Liberation Movement in China" (sole
author), Women of China Magazine, November 2006 (by editorial
invitation).
"Parsing the Ageing Asian Woman: Symptom Results from the China Study
of Midlife Women" (sole author), Maturitas: The European
Menopause Journal, August 2006(55:1):36-50 (peer reviewed).
"Applying Evidence-Based Medicine to Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Debate and Strategy" (sole author), Journal of Alternative and
Complementary Medicine, April 2006 (12:3):255-63 (peer reviewed).
"Chinese Women's Symptoms: Relation to Menopause, Age and Related
Attitudes" (sole author), Climacteric: The Journal of the International
Menopause Society, February 2006(9:1):30-39 (peer reviewed).
"Midlife Women's Symptom Reporting in China" (sole author), American
Journal of Human Biology, Mar./Apr. 2006(18:2):219-222 (peer-reviewed).
"Sexual 'Liberation' and the Older Woman in Contemporary Mainland
China," Modern China: An Internatinal Quarterly of History and
Social Science, January 2005(31:1): 115-47.
Conferences:
Presenting a paper in fall 2007 at New Departures in the Cultural Study
of Medical Anthropology and the Medical Humanities, Conference at Fudan
University in Shanghai marking the establishment of the first medical
anthropology program in China, October 20-21, 2007.
Presenting a paper in fall 2007 on "Social and Cultural Perspectives on
HPV and Vaccinations," at Cell to Society Seminar, organized by the
Clinical Translational Science Center at the Unviversity of Vermont,
October 4-5, 2007.
Presented a paper this spring on "Efficacy, Evidence, and the Authentic
Natural Other: Menopause, Midlife Aging, and Western Encounters
with East Asian Alternatives," at conference on Authenticity, Best
Practice and the Evidence Mosaic: The Challenge of Integrating
Traditional East Asian Medicines into Western Health Care at University
Of Westminster in London, organized by Prof. Volker Scheid, April
19-20, 2007.
Luis A.
Vivanco, Director, Global and Regional Studies Program,
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Prof. Vivanco announces the publication of his most recent
books:
"Green Encounters: Shaping and Contesting Environmentalism in
Rural Costa Rica", (Berghahn Books, 2006) and "Tarzan was an
Ecotourist...And Other Tales in the Anthropology of Adventure",
co-edited with Robert J. Gordon (Berghahn Books, 2006).
Denise
J. Youngblood, Professor, Department of History, GRS faculty member
Prof. Youngblood has just published her new book:
"Russian War Films: On the Cinema Front, 1914-2005", University
of Kansas.
Gregory Gause, Professor, Political Science, GRS faculty member
Prof.
Gause has been awarded the Fall '07 Dean's Lecture Award from the
College of Arts
and Sciences.
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