January Professional Notes
02/06/2018
A round-up of awards, presentations, papers and the other professional achievements of SLU faculty, staff and students.
FACULTY AND STAFF
Awards and Fellowships
Nursing instructor Sarah Oerther, Ph.D., has been profiled as a Rising Star as part of Modern Healthcare’s 2018 Excellence in Nursing Winners showcase.
The Saint Louis University Museum of Art (SLUMA) and Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) have both been named as finalists in the running for St. Louis Magazine’s A-list readers’ poll.
Ajay K. Jain, M.D., associate professor and medical director, Pediatric Liver Transplant Program in the Department of Pediatrics's Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, received the 2018 Harry M. Vars Award from the the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN), an interdisciplinary organization whose members are involved in providing clinical nutrition therapies. Jain also received a $10,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the 2017 ASPEN Research Workshop. The "Gastric Bypass: Role of the Gut" conference focused on research evaluating gut-derived signals in modulating outcomes in bariatric surgery.
Appointments
Nancy Weaver, Ph.D., associate professor of behavioral science and health education, has been named associate dean for academic and faculty affairs in the College for Public Health and Social Justice. Weaver began her tenure at SLU in 1999 and has crafted a portfolio of research projects at the intersection of health communication and positive parenting. She received the Terry Leet teaching award from the college in 2013 and served as its faculty assembly president from 2013 to 2015.
Brian Boutwell, Ph.D., associate professor of criminology and criminal justice, has been named to the newly-created associate dean for research and corporate partnerships in the College for Public Health and Social Justice. Boutwell will lead the expansion of traditional research funding as well as the development of corporate partnerships that will provide new more flexible funding streams for research and training.
Anne Sebert Kuhlmann, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral science and health education, has been named as the College for Public Health and Social Justice’s Master of Public Health Education program director. Sebert Kuhlmann has been instrumental developing the college’s global health concentration and has received numerous grants in support of her research.
Panels and Discussions
Mary Ann Gould, Ph.D., associate professor of communication, took part in a panel discussion about civil rights and how institutions respond to social unrest on Thursday, Jan. 18, sponsored by CSPRC, a network of communication professionals from nonprofit organizations that was held at the Missouri History Museum. In discussing the nature of oppression, Gould encouraged attendees to ask of their employers, “How are we creating a space for people to tell their own stories?”
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of the French poet and art critic, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Sandy Hamrick, Ph.D., of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, organized a panel, “A Singular Way of Seeing,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium held at the University of Virginia, in November 2017. Her own contribution to the panel was “Eugénie Gautier: the Woman Who Paints Like a Man in Baudelaire's Salon de 1845.” A revised version of the paper is due to appear in L'Année Baudelaire in 2018.
Publications
Claudia Karagoz, Ph.D., of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, published an essay, “‘A Bad Mother and a Small Heap of Bones’: Maternal Indifference in Alessandro Capone’s L’amore nascosto (2007).” In Italian Motherhood on Screen, edited by Giovanna Faleschini Lerner and Maria Elena D’Amelio.
Sydney Norton, Ph.D., of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, published two encyclopedia entries, Sydney Norton published two encyclopedia entries, “Hannah Höch” and “Ernst Uthoff,” in the online Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (London: Taylor and Francis, 2017).
Performances
Gudrun Olafsdottir, SLU Madrid's professor of voice and choir conductor, sang with the Sonor Ensemble, conducted by Luis Aguirre, on Monday Feb. 5, the Auditorio 400 of the Reina Sofía Museum of Contempoary Art in Madrid. She performed the piece "Guerra" (War) by prolific Spanish composer Jesús Torres. The song’s lyrics are inspired by a poem by Miguel Hernández. The members of Sonor Ensemble are members of Spain's National Orchestra (Orquesta Nacional de España).
Presentations
Zdenko Mandušić, Ph.D., of Languages Literatures and Cultures, attended the 49th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, held in Chicago, in November 2017, where he delivered the paper, “The Social Factors of Film Production and Discourse during Khrushchev’s Thaw.”
Jean-Louis Pautrot, Ph.D., of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, attended the International Colloquium “Pouvoirs du son/sons du pouvoir: politique et esthétique du sonore,” held at Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, Amiens, France, in November 2017, where he delivered the paper, “De la musique au son chez Pascal Quignard.”
Sydney Norton, Ph.D., of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, presented “The Making of an Exhibition,” at the McKendree University Brownbag Series on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2017.
Workshops
The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures’s Kelly Lovejoy, Ph.D., Sheri Anderson-Gutiérrez, Ph.D., and Christina García, Ph.D., gave a workshop, “Connecting learners of Spanish to local immersion opportunities through service,” at the Annual Convention of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in Nashville, Tennessee, in November 2017.
STUDENTS
Publications
Tori Herrera, a doctoral student in American Studies published a research essay, “Bracelets, Boots, and Babes: The Esquire Man and Music Festivals,” in The Activist History Review.