Michelle Adams

Instructor of Music | Class Piano | Voice

(208) 282-3636

adammich@isu.edu

• B.Mus. 2001, Idaho State University
• M.Mus. 2003, Northern Illinois University

James Aho

Professor Emeritus

jamesaho@isu.edu

Ph.D., Washington State University, 1971
M.A., Washington State University, 1968

Laura Ahola-Young

Professor of Art

Office: Fine Arts Building 411

(208) 282-3229

lauraaholayoung@isu.edu

Website

Education:

MFA, San Jose State University (2001)

BFA, Minneapolis College of Art + Design (1998)

Courses taught:

• All levels of Painting and Drawing
• Anatomy

Clyde Anderson

University Business Officer

Office: Business Administration Building Room 244

(208) 282‐4599

clydeanderson@isu.edu

Elise Anderson

Instructor in English

Office: Online

eliseanderson3@isu.edu

MA in English (2016), Idaho State University

Mel Anderson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 229

melissaanderson@isu.edu

Dr. Scott Anderson

Professor of Music | Voice | Director of Choral Activities

(208) 282-2699

andescot@isu.edu

• B.A. 1982, Whitworth College
• M.Mus. 1984, Westminster Choir College
• D.M.A. 1993, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Tessa Anderson, MS

Assistant Lecturer

Office: Garrison Rm 422

208-282-3890

tessaanderson@isu.edu

B.A. (2006) and M.S. (2010) Idaho State University

Research Interests

Ching-E (Nobel) Ang

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Office: LA 246

208-282-3811

chingeang@isu.edu

Education

PhD, Philosophy (2009), University of Florida

MA, Philosophy (2004), University of Florida

BA, Philosophy (2001), National University of Singapore

My philosophical interests are in normative ethics, moral psychology, as well as certain areas of bioethics such as the ethics of stem cell research. Recently, I have also developed an interest in Continental philosophy, in particular, the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. I am currently trying to work out what a Sartrean ethics would look like.

Even though I enjoy thinking about philosophical problems, I enjoy thinking and talking about philosophical problems with other people even more. In particular, I very much enjoy teaching Introduction to Philosophy, and getting students to form a connection with the ideas and methods of different thinkers from different philosophical traditions.

I am also an avid chess player. I am keenly aware that there is a strong connection between chess and philosophy which draws me to both activities, but I have yet to really figure out exactly what that connection is. Perhaps this is a start: There is no room for existential angst within a chess game. All the pieces know what their roles are, and the end goal (checkmate) is always crystal clear!

Recent Publications

"Positive Freedom as Exercise of Rational Ability: A Kantian Defense of Positive Liberty", The Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 48, Issue 1 (March 2014), pp. 1-16, DOI:10.1007/s10790-013-9399-4.

"Procrastination as Rational Weakness of Will," The Journal of Value Inquiry, Volume 46, Issue 4 (2012), pp. 403-416, DOI: 10.1007/s10790-013-9357-1.

Courses Taught

4425/5525: Existentialism

4400/5500: Philosophy of Art

2230: Medical Ethics

1103: Introduction to Ethics

1101: Introduction to Philosophy

Erin Armstrong

Instructor of Music | Clarinet Choir

208-282-1423

armserin@isu.edu

Joined ISU faculty in 2016

• B. Mus 2003, Carnegie Mellon University
• M. F. A. 2008, California Institude of the Arts

Originally from New England, Erin Armstrong directs the ISU Clarinet Choir and  Clarinet FunTime Band. She is dedicated to eliciting emotionally charged performances from diverse groups and commissioning new works from risk-taking composers. From 2016 until the start of the pandemic, Erin led the ISU Civic Band. Erin plays clarinet and bass clarinet in the Idaho State-Civic Symphony. She holds degrees and certificates from Carnegie Mellon (BM clarinet ‘03), Masaryk University in Czech Republic, University College Cork in Ireland, the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies program, and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA sax/flute/clarinet ‘08). 

In Los Angeles, Erin conducted the Symphonic Band at Los Angeles City College, created and directed five elementary school music and two drama programs, and led one middle school instrumental program and another middle school marching band. She was the first recipient of the Dedication Award with Harmony Project Hollywood, where she taught private and group lessons on clarinet, flute, and saxophone. There, Erin often performed with her students at special events including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Circus Vargas, Jam in the Van with Chali 2na, and a TedX talk. 

Erin toured for two years as an actress/musician with the Caravan Stage tall ship circus theater in New Orleans, Holland, and Belgium. Other performance credits include guest didgeridoo soloist with the American Youth Symphony, appearances with the Aspen Festival Orchestra, and on Fox Network’s Glee. 

Erin is a founding member of Contemporary Los Angeles Winds and The Grand Pause Trio. She plays bari sax and clarinet in her husband’s Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra, and flute/clarinet in Burnt Hibiscus. Her poetry from Burnt Hibiscus and other escapades is available for purchase in handmade chapbooks. She works as an editor and member of the creative team with Winning On Stage and College Prep for Musicians. Along with Jon Armstrong, she is astounded daily by their hilarious children, Nora and Breen.

Jon Armstrong

Associate Professor of Music | Jazz & Commercial Music

(208) 282-3143

armsjona@isu.edu

Website

• B.A. 2006, University of Washington
• B.Mus. 2006, University of Washington
• M.F.A. 2008, California Institute of the Arts

Joined ISU Faculty in 2015

Jonathan Armstrong is a fiercely creative musician, composer, and educator living in Pocatello, ID where he serves as the Director of Jazz Studies at Idaho State University. His background is a mix of intensive academic training and extensive professional experiences on saxophones, bass, and electronic sampler. While living in Los Angeles, Jonathan maintained a busy performance schedule as a highly sought after musician. Along with frequent gigs and recording sessions, he played regularly with bands led by Bennie Maupin, Mike Barone, Vincent Gallo, Vinny Golia, and Dan Rosenboom. Jonathan also co-founded the critically acclaimed modern jazz quartet Slumgum and the cutting edge electronic psychedelic group Pitch Like Masses and has toured throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan.

As a composer, Jonathan has written music for dance, theater, film, television, and podcasts. In 2013, he formed the Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra, a 22 piece modern big band that is dedicated to realizing his daring long form compositions. These compositions are the culmination of his career incorporating sophisticated structures of modern classical music, complex rhythms and forms of world music, and expressive jazz solos.

Jonathan has been experimenting recently with compositions that combine improvisation with just intonation resonance and trance rhythms. Since moving to Idaho, he spends a lot of his time hanging with his wife and taking in the awesome and dynamic natural beauty.

Kurino Ashizawa

Adjunct Instructor, Japanese

(208) 282-3378

kurinoashizawa@isu.edu

Jodi Atkinson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 222

jodiatkinson@isu.edu

Brian Attebery

Professor of English (retired 2022)

brianattebery@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, American Civilization (1979), Brown University

MA, American Civilization (1976), Brown University

BA, English (1974), The College of Idaho

My first scholarly publication was on Emily Dickinson, but I soon turned away from canonical topics. Since that first effort, I have written on fantasy, science fiction, Disney films, utopias, children’s literature, gender, and interdisciplinarity–all dodgy topics for one reason or another. My article on Henry Nash Smith, Leo Marx, and the theoretical basis for their pioneering work in American Studies appeared in American Quarterly in 1996. Collaborators Ursula K. Le Guin,  Karen Joy Fowler, and I edited the groundbreaking Norton Book of Science Fiction; I also wrote a teacher’s guide to the volume. In 1991 I received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies a year later. I was named ISU’s Distinguished Researcher in 1997 and was given an award for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities by the Idaho Humanities Council in 2004. In the fall of 2006 I took over as editor of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, with graduate students in the ISU English Department serving as editorial assistants.

My most recent scholarly book, Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth again won the Mythopoeic Award for fantasy studies. Since 2016 I have been serving as editor of the Library of America's republication of the works of Ursula K. Le Guin From January through July of 2019 I was in Scotland as Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Fantasy at the University of Glasgow.

Books

Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home. Author’s expanded edition. Edited by Brian Attebery. New York: The Library of America, 2019.

Stories about Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Parabolas of Science Fiction. Ed. with Veronica Hollinger. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

Decoding Gender in Science Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Strategies of Fantasy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature: From Irving to Le Guin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

"Reinventing Masculinity in Fairy Tales by Men." Marvels & Tales 32.2 (2019).

"The Fantastic." The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction. Ed. Rob Latham. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 127-138.

"Structuralism and Fantasy." Cambridge Companion to Fantasy. Ed. Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 81-90.

"Teaching Gender and Science Fiction." Teaching Science Fiction. Ed. Peter Wright and Andy Sawyer. Teaching the New English Series. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011. 146-71.

"Elizabeth Enright and the Family Story as Genre." Children's Literature 37 (2009): 114-36.

"Patricia Wrightson and Aboriginal Myth." Extrapolation 46 (2005): 329-39.

"Dust, Lust, and Other Messages from the Quantum Wonderland." Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience. Ed. N. Katherine Hayles. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2004. 161-69.

"The Magazine Era: 1926-1960." The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Ed. Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. 32-47

Contributions to Reading Narrative Fiction, by Seymour Chatman. New York: Macmillan, 1993.

Awards/Honors

2019 Leverhulme Visiting Professorship in Fantasy Literature. School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies for Stories about Stories, 2015.

Distinguished Researcher, ISU, 1997

Master Researcher, ISU, 1991, 1995, 1996

Courses Taught

4492/5592: Folklore and Literature

4467/5567: Studies in Late 19th-Century Literature

4441/5541: History and Criticism of Children’s Literature

2277: Survey of American Literature I

2212: Introduction to Folklore

1115: Literature of the Fantastic

AMST 2200: Introduction to American Studies

Seminar in Genre: Utopia

Seminar in Pedagogy: Teaching Science Fiction

Jennifer Eastman Attebery

Professor of English (retired 2022)

jenniferattebery@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, Folklore and American Studies (1985), Indiana University

MA, Folklore (1974), Indiana University

BA, English (1973), College of Idaho

Having grown up in Idaho, I have always been fascinated with the peoples of the Western region, their many cultures and common history. Those interests led me to studies at Indiana University's Folklore Institute, and they have always guided my research and teaching. I am currently working on a research project exploring the historical and family legends told and written by the Swedish immigrants to the Western United States as narratives used to understand group origins and guide actions.

My previous projects have examined the meanings and functions of Scandinavian-American holidays (Pole Raising and Speech Making), vernacular writing of immigrants (Up in the Rocky Mountains) and horizontal timber construction (Building with Logs).

I served during 2011 as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Uppsala University and was also a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 1998 at University of Gothenburg. In 2016, I received the ISU Distinguished Researcher Award and in 2014 the ISU Achievement Award.

I joined the ISU Department of English and Philosophy in 1992 after having worked for many years at the Idaho State Historical Society. During my time with the historical society I completed Building Idaho: An Architectural History, which deals with both designed and vernacular architecture. The book won the Idaho Library Association Book Award for 1991 and a commendation from the American Association for State and Local History.

It has been my privilege to chair the Department of English and Philosophy from fall 2012 to spring 2018.

Books

Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration. Volume 3, Ritual, Festival, and Celebration series, ed. Jack Santino. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2015.

Up in the Rocky Mountains: Writing the Swedish Immigrant Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Building with Logs: Western Log Construction in Context. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1998.

Building Idaho: An Architectural History. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1991.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

"Scandinavianism in the Rocky Mountain West, Pragmatic and Programmatic." Swedes and Norwegians in the U.S., ed. Dag Blanck and Philip Anderson. Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011. 295-307.

"Peasant Letters Revisited," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 56.2-3 (2005):126-40.                                                                                                                      

"Swedish America in the Rocky Mountain West, 1880-1917: Folkloric Perspectives on the Immigrant Letter," Scandinavian Studies 77 (2005): 53-84.

"Swedish Immigrants and the Myth of the West," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 60.3 (2004): 179-93.

"Claiming Ethnicity: Implicit and Explicit Expressions of Ethnicity among Swedish Americans." Not English Only, ed. Orm Øverland. European Contributions to American Studies, no. 48. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2001. 12 28. Also published in American Studies in Scandinavia 32.1 (2000): 6-28.

Awards/Honors

Distinguished Researcher, ISU, 2016

Master Researcher, ISU, 2008, 2009, 2014

Outstanding Service, ISU, 2000

Achievement Award, ISU, 2014

Courses Taught

6000-level: Seminars in Interdisciplinary Studies, Vernacular Texts, and Ethnic Literature

4490/5590: Topics in Folklore (with focus on various genres and themes)

2212: Introduction to Folklore/Oral Tradition

Ryan Babcock

Senior Lecturer and Gallery Director

Office: Fine Arts Building 402C

(208) 282-6652

ryanbabcock@isu.edu

Education:

MFA, Idaho State University (2003)

BFA, University of Idaho (1998)

Courses taught:

• Introduction to Art
• 2D Design
• Survey of Art History 

Ralph Baergen

Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Human Subjects Committee

Office: LA 247

208-282-3371

ralphbaergen@isu.edu

Education

PhD, Philosophy (1990), Syracuse University

MPH (2008), Idaho State University

MA, Philosophy (1989), Syracuse University

BA, Religion (1983), University of Manitoba

Although my philosophical roots are in epistemology, over the last decade or so my interests have moved into medical ethics. Much of my work involves collaborating with people in other disciplines. For instance:

(2021) C. Owens, R. Baergen, “Pharmacy Practice in High-Volume Settings: Barriers and Ethical Responsibilities,” Pharmacy 9 (2), 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9020074.

(2013) C. Owens, R. Baergen, D. Puckett, "Online Sources of Herbal Product Information" American Journal of Medicine.

(2013) S. Lawyer, R. Baergen, B. Kuruvilla, "Ethical Conduct of Laboratory Experimental Research on Fear and Anxiety: Review and Recommendat ions." Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry vol. 15, no. 3.

(2013) R Baergen, W Woodhouse "Surrogates and Extra-Familial Interests," centerpiece of a special section in The Journal of Clinical Ethics.

Courses Taught

6600: Ethics in Healthcare

4460/5560: Theories of Knowledge

2230: Medical Ethics

1103: Introduction to Ethics

1101: Introduction to Philosophy

Vanessa Ballam

Professor of Theatre

Office: SPAC 240J

208-282-1457

ballvane@isu.edu

Website

• B.F.A. 2002, Utah State University
• B.A. 2003, Utah State University
• M.F.A. 2006, Indiana University

Vanessa Ballam has been performing professionally and teaching theatre around the
country for over twenty years. Vanessa currently serves as a Professor, and Head of
Acting in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Idaho State University and is the
Education Director and an Artistic Associate for Utah Festival Opera and Musical
Theatre.  She also serves as a Vice-Chair for The Kennedy Center American College
Theatre Festival - Region VII.  Vanessa has performed with companies around the
country such as Theatre Under the Stars, PCPA Theatrefest, The Utah Shakespeare
Festival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Anchorage Opera, Music Theatre West, Oregon
Cabaret Theatre, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre and Lyric Repertory
Company. 

Vanessa spent three years as a Resident Actor at the Pacific Conservatory of the
Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA where she oversaw the first-year acting program. 
She has also served as a visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Utah State
University.  Vanessa is the founding director of the annual Utah High School Musical
Theatre Awards the Utah affiliate for the NHSMTA – Jimmy Awards, and the Utah
Festival Conservatory of the Performing Arts.  A former Miss Utah, Vanessa was
honored with the Bert Parks talent award at the Miss America Pageant.  Vanessa is
married to Actor Stefan Espinosa and together they have two miraculous children.  She
is a proud member of Actor’s Equity & VASTA and received her M.F.A.in Acting from
Indiana University, and her B.A. and B.F.A. from Utah State University.

Kristi Ballif

Instructor of Music | Flute

kristinaballif@isu.edu

Website

• B.M. 2000, Brigham Young University
• M.M. 2002, Arizona State University
   

Joined ISU Faculty in 2021

Kristi Ballif teaches the flute studio at Idaho State University and performs as Principal Flute with the Idaho State Civic Symphony. She also teaches Flute Ensemble, Elementary Music Methods, and Music and the Humanities at Brigham Young University-Idaho. Prior to moving to Idaho, Kristi taught the flute studio at Colorado Mesa University and played with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra and the Western Colorado Flute Choir. As a performer, Kristi won the National Flute Association Convention Performer's Competition in 2012 and 2019 and has been a guest for the Music at Temple Square Concert Series and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She and her clarinetist husband have also performed together at the National Flute Association Convention, as well as the International Clarinet Association Clarinetfest. As a clinician, she has presented for the National Flute Association Convention, the Colorado Flute Association, the Colorado Music Educator’s Association Convention, and the Gateway Canyons Lecture Series. In addition to her classical flute studies, Kristi enjoys playing the Irish flute and Highland Bagpipes.

Kristi earned a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance from Brigham Young University in Provo, where she studied with Elizabeth Weissman. She then earned her Master of Music degree in flute performance from Arizona State University, studying with Trygve Peterson and Liz Buck. She is also certificated in the Kodály Method of teaching from the Organization of American Kodály Educators.

In her spare time, Kristi enjoys spending time in various art mediums, but especially in photography. She holds a Bachelor of Arts with an emphasis in photography from Brigham Young University-Idaho.

Elise Barker

Instructor in English

Office: LA 207-A

elisebarker@isu.edu

PhD in English and the Teaching of English (2014), Idaho State University

Tamra Bassett

Senior Lecturer, Spanish | Spanish for Health Professions Advisor

(208) 282-2766

tamrabasset@isu.edu

Lindsey Beckstead

Adjunct Instructor, French

lindseybeckstead@isu.edu

Aaron Beek

aaronbeek@isu.edu

Dr. Aaron L. Beek is a Minnesota native who has taught at nine universities in four countries.  He works principally on bandits and mercenaries, recruitment of ‘outsiders’ into the Roman army, ancient maritime history, and historiography, but also has side projects in pedagogy, political philosophy, and early Christian theology.  He also works as an editor on several projects.

Education

Ph.D. University of Minnesota

M.A., University of British Columbia

B.A., Macalester College

Research Interests: Greek and Roman History, Ancient Near East, Piracy and Banditry, Maritime History, Historiography, Ancient Comedy, History of Mercenaries, Ancient Religion

My research examines changes in what was considered criminal and illegitimate behavior in the Ancient Mediterranean over broad chronological scale, roughly from 500 BCE to 500 CE, with particular emphasis on banditry, travel, and warfare.  I work closely on the Hellenistic Period of Greece and the Middle Republic of Rome (that is, the third and second centuries BCE), but I also examine pirates, bandits, and mercenaries across a much wider chronological span. 

I argue that understanding the explicit and implicit biases of our source material is crucial to understanding the social dynamics of the ancient world.

Journal Articles

2022    “Augustine’s Pirate: The Conception of King and Bandit in Greek and Roman Political Philosophy” in Latomus 81.2 pp. 298-319.

2020    “Campaigning against Pirate Mercenaries: A Very Roman Strategy?” in Acta Classica, Supplement 10: Pillage, Piracy, Plunder: Appropriation and the Ancient World, ed. R. Evans and M. de Marre. New York: Routledge. pp. 97-114.

2019    “Legitimate Violence in Illegitimate Times” in Akroterion 64, pp. 65-90.

2016    “The Pirate Connection: Roman Politics, Servile Wars, and the East.” TAPA 146.1. pp.101-118.

Book Chapters

(forthcoming 2023) “A Rhetoric of Terrorism; A Rhetoric of Piracy” in Terrorism Through the Ages: Proceedings of The Many Faces of War conference (VI) ed. G. Wrightson.

2022 “Sailing to Find Utopia or to Found Utopia?” in The Ancient Sea: Utopia and Catastrophe in Classical Narratives and their Reception, eds. R. A. Clare and H. Williams. Liverpool University Press. pp. 81-100.

2022    “The Hostages’ Tales: The Effects of Prisoners’ Trauma in the Histories of Josephus and Polybius.” in Turmoil, Trauma and Tenacity in Early Jewish Literature eds. N. P. L. Allen and J. Doedens. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2021    “Penis Envy: Challenging God’s Covenant in the Hellenistic Debates over Epispasmos, Circumcision, and the Gymnasium in the books of the Maccabees” in Rhetoric in 2 Maccabees: Challenging God. eds. N.P.L. Allen and P. J. Jordaan, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 42-64.

2020    “Mercenaries and Moral Concerns” in Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History. eds. C. Whately and J. Chlup, New York: Routledge. pp.121-135.

2015    “Where Have All the Pirates Gone?” In Invisible Cultures: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives. eds. F. Carrer and V. Gheller, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 270-284.

Works in Progress/Under contract

 “Manpower, Mercenaries, and Multiculturalism”  

 “Bandits and Soldiers in Hellenistic and Roman Judea”

“The Magnification of Pompey”

“Pirates, Bandits and Mercenary Service as part of the ‘Manpower Pools’ of the Mediterranean.”

“No Triumphs for Pirates?”

“Rome and Timasitheus--A Frustrating Friendship for Livy”

 “Rethinking (and Repurposing) Graphic Novel: Opportunities for Pedagogy and Outreach”

Book Reviews

Review of Paul Johstono. The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 BC: An Institutional and Operational History.  for H-War, H-Net Reviews.

Review of Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, Sema Karatash, and Roman Roth, eds. Empire, Hegemony, or Anarchy? Rome and Italy, 201-31 BCE., for Classical Journal.

Review of Michael Taylor, Soldiers and Silver, for Ancient World Magazine.

Review of David Mattingly, et al. Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond for Classical Journal.

Review of D. Graham J. Shipley, The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese for BMCR.

Review of David Stuttard, Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens for H-War, H-Net Reviews.

Review of Mark Woolmer, A Short History of the Phoenicians for BMCR

Review of John Marston, Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion for Agricultural History

Review of Christian Marek, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World for Classical Journal

I also write for non-academic audiences, such as the magazine Ancient Warfare.

Representative Conference Papers

 “Strategies of Empire: Oblique Tactics, Illegitimate Foes, and Concessions to Soldiers” at the 16th International Congress of Classical Studies of the Fédération internationale des associations d’ètudes classiques (FIEC), (virtual, Mexico City, August 1-5, 2022)

“Links between Piracy and Mercenary Service in the Ancient Mediterranean” at the Eric Voegelin Institute, Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA, March 4, 2022).

“Founding an Isolated Utopia: Utopian and Colonial ideas in Classical and Postclassical Thought” at the 27^th International Conference of Europeanists (virtual, Iceland, June 21-25, 2021).

“King and Bandit in Greek and Roman Political Philosophy” at the 33rd meeting of the Classical Association of South Africa (Stellenbosch, South Africa, November 7-10, 2019).

“Freelancers in Warfare: Hellenistic Coping Strategies for Military Manpower” at the CAMWS-SS meeting (Winston-Salem, NC, October 18-20, 2018).

 “Manipulating Social Status, the Army, and Immigration in Late Antiquity” 2nd Research Forum of the Tübingen Center of Advanced Studies “The Micropolitics of Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages” (Tübingen, Germany July 19-20, 2018).

“The Violence Monopoly: Legitimacy, Imperialism and ‘the Other’.” at the Celtic Conference in Classics (Montreal, QC, July 19-22, 2017).

“Soldier, Mercenary, or Bandit?  Making Determinations of Legitimacy in the Ancient World.” at Massey University (Palmerston North, New Zealand, June 23, 2016).

“Military Protests and Mutinies in the Republic” at the Association of Ancient Historians (Tacoma, WA, May 5-7, 2016).

“The Historians’ Agenda for Pirates: Describing the Balearic Campaign,” at Classical Association of the Middle West and South, (Waco, TX, April 2-5, 2014).

Courses Taught at ISU:

HIST 4442: Witchcraft and Magic (Ancient)

HIST 1120: Topics in World History (Ancient Empires)

HIST 4446: Roman Emperors

Lawrence P. Behmer Jr., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Experimental Psychology

Office: Garrison Rm 417

208-282-2161

lawrencebehmer@isu.edu

Education

BA (2008) University of Portland

MS (2010) Western Washington University

PhD (2014) Washington State University

Postdoc (2014-2017) Brooklyn College of CUNY

Research Interests

I use EEG and TMS, as well as big data tools such as Amazon Mechanical Turk and computational modeling to investigate important questions about how learning, memory, and cognitive control intersect with our ability to plan and execute complex motor behaviors, such as playing a musical instrument. Specifically, I am interested in the serial order problem (how we successfully plan and execute actions in the correct order), the underlying cognitive processes which allow us to understand another person’s actions (associative sequence learning, mirror neurons), motor imagery, and the neural circuits involved skilled action sequencing. My research program is interdisciplinary, intersecting with computer science, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience, with distinct clinical and commercial applications for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs).

Dr. Behmer is accepting a new graduate student for admission in fall 2024.

Recent Publications

Behmer Jr., L. P. (submission under review). Mu-ERD during action observation and imitation reflects motor process and not mirroring. Journal of Motor Behavior.

 Behmer Jr., L. P., Jantzen, K. J., & Crump, M. J. C. (2023). Motor-Evoked Potentials for Early Individual Elements of an Action Sequence During Planning Reflect Parallel Activation Processes. Motor Control, 27(3), 498-517.

Kenny, R. P., Eaves, D. L., Martin, D., Behmer Jr., L. P., & Dixon, J. (2020). The effects of textured insoles on cortical activity and quiet bipedal standing with and without vision: An EEG study. Journal of Motor Behavior, 52(4), 489-501.

Behmer Jr., L. P., Jantzen, K. J., Martinez, S., Walls, R., Amir-Brownstein, A., Jaye, A., Leytze, M., Lucier, K., & Crump, M. J. C. (2018). Parallel regulation of past, present, and future actions during sequencing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 44(8), 1147-1152.

Behmer Jr., L. P., & Crump, M. J. C. (2017). Spatial knowledge during skilled action sequencing: Hierarchical versus nonhierarchical representations. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 79(8), 1435-2248.

Behmer Jr., L. P., & Crump, M. J. C. (2017). The dynamic range of response set activation during action sequencing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. 43(3), 537-554.

Behmer Jr., L. P., & Crump, M. J. C. (2016). Crunching big data with finger tips: How typists tune their performance towards the statistics of natural language. In M. N. Jones (Ed.), Big Data in Cognitive Science, Abindgon, UK: Talyor & Francis.

Behmer Jr., L. P., & Fournier, L. R. (2016). Mirror neuron activation as a function of explicit learning: Changes in mu-event related power after learning novel responses to ideomotor compatible, partially compatible, and non-compatible stimuli. European Journal of Neuroscience. 44(10), 2774-2785.

Eaves, D. L., Behmer Jr., L. P., & Vogt, S. (2016). Motor imagery content modulates mu and beta ERD during action observation: An EEG and behavioural study. Brain and Cognition, 106; 90-103.

Behmer Jr., L. P., & Fournier, L. R. (2014). Working memory modulates neural efficiency over motor components during a novel action planning task: An EEG study. Behavioural Brain Research, 260, 1-7.

Fournier, L. R., Behmer Jr., L. P., & Stubblefield, A. (2014). Interference due to shared features between action plans is influenced by working memory span. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 21(6), 1524-1529.

Mattson, P. S., Fournier, L. R., & Behmer Jr., L. P. (2012). Frequency of a feature occurring early in the action sequence influences binding among action feature codes.  Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 74(7), 1446-1460.

Jantzen, K. J., Seifert, M., Richardson, B., Behmer Jr., L. P., Odell, C., Tripp, A., & Symons, A. (2012). Dorsal stream activity and connectivity associated with action priming of ambiguous apparent motion.  Neuroimage, 63(2), 687-697.

Behmer Jr., L. P., & Jantzen, K. J. (2011). Reading sheet music activates the mirror neuron system of musicians: An EEG study. Clinical Neurophysiology, 122(7), 1342-1347.

Hope Benedict

hopebenedict@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Oregon

Amanda Bennett

Assistant Lecturer

Office: Frazier Hall 216C

208-282-1478

amandabennett@isu.edu

Education:

BA, Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Idaho State University; MA, Communication, Idaho State University

Emphasis:

Speech Communication; National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC)

Courses Taught:

Comm 1101: Principles of Speech, CMP 2261: Introduction to Advertising, CMP 3365: Ad Strategy Copywriting

Selected Publications

Knight, H. R., Hartman, K. L., & Bennett, A. (2019). Gun Violence, eSports, and Global Crises: A Proposed Model for Sport Crisis Communication Practitioners. Journal of Global Sport Management, 1-19.

Awards & Honors

Benny Award for Student Organization Advisor of the Year for her work with the NSAC team (2024)

Most Influential Teacher: ISU Women’s Volleyball Team (2018)

Katie Bettinger, LCSW

Visiting Social Work Field Liaison/Visiting Lecturer

Office: Skaggs Health Science Center | Office 666 | Meridian Campus

(208) 373-1729

katiebettinger@isu.edu

M.S.W. Northwest Nazarene University, 2019

Winston Black

winstonblack@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Toronto

Winston Black is a medieval historian specializing in science, medicine, and religion in medieval Europe and the Near East. He is the author of four books on medieval history and the history of medicine, and dozens of articles and reviews on related subjects. A native of Wisconsin, he now lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, and teaches online for ISU and other institutions.

*Samantha Blatt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: Graveley 157

208-282-4017

samanthablatt@isu.edu

Website

Bioanthropology Lab

Background

Dr. Samantha Blatt is currently an Assistant Professor at Idaho State University. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in biological anthropology with an emphasis on bioarchaeology and dental anthropology. Her research interests have focused on histological microstructures of dental and skeletal tissues, disease, growth and stress, ancient childhood in North America, forensic and archaeological taphonomy, diagenesis of teeth, microscopic imaging, and individualizing skeletal traits. She is particularly interested in biocultural perspectives to answer broad anthropological questions, using innovative methods (such as forensic genealogy and histology) to revitalize forensic cold cases and medicolegal investigations involving marginalized victims, has extensive experience with NAGPRA repatriation, forensic anthropology involving tribal, state, and federal agencies. Her work with museum collections and preservation offices includes analyses of 40,000 year old canids, shrunken heads, prehistoric and historic dental calculus, cannibalized remains from the Cook Islands, an Incan mummy, and more.

Community outreach, interdisciplinary engagement, and inclusion of descendant population voices and worldview is foundational to my research design, teaching, and personal advocacy. I believe in interactive, inclusive, and innovative learning approaches to accommodate diverse learning styles. Student research is paramount. I energetically invite students to work with me to hone their skills, learn new ones, and pursue their own research interests to grow as scholars and anthropology activists. Outside of campus life, I find time to enjoy archery, knitting nerd-inspired accessories, fishing, carving bone ornaments, perfecting my BBQ/smoking skills, collecting curious rocks, meandering through flea markets, and going on adventures with my bulldogs.

Blatt CV

Consulting Services: Archaeological and forensic search, recovery, excavation, and skeletal and dental analyses of human and faunal remains.

Dr. Kori Bond

Professor of Music | Piano Area Coordinator

(208) 282-2551

bondkori@isu.edu

• B.A. & B.S. 1992, Walla Walla College
• M.M. 1994, Northern Illinois University
• D.M. 1999, Indiana University

Anne Boyack

Instructor in English

Office: LA 227

anneboyack@isu.edu

MA in English (2022), Idaho State University

Adam C. Bradford

Dean of the Graduate School; Professor of English

Office: Museum Building 401

208-282-2490

adambradford@isu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of Iowa

M.A. Brigham Young University

B.A. University of Utah

Dr. Adam Bradford joins Idaho State University in the position of Dean of Graduate Studies. Since this is a full-time administrative position, he does not currently teach for the English and Philosophy department nor does he do general advising for our program.

Book

Communities of Death: Whitman, Poe, and the American Culture of Mourning, University of Missouri Press, 2014.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary.”  A Companion to American Poetry, edited by Mary Balkun, Paul Jaussen, and Jeffrey Gray, Wiley Blackwell, 2022.

"A Critical Congeries: Forty-Five Theses for Poe," Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation 52 (2019), 8-18.

“Any Peculiar Taste or Prepossession”?: Poe and the Antebellum Registers of Authorial Interpretation. In Poe Studies: History, Theory, Interpretation 51 (2018).

“Embodying the Book: Mourning for the Masses in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps.” Mickle Street Review: An Electronic Journal of Whitman and American Studies 21 (2016).

“The Collaborative Construction of a Death-Defying Cryptext: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.” Sentimentalism in Nineteenth-Century America: Literary and Cultural Practices. Eds. Mary De Jong with Paula Bernat Bennett. (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2013), 300-319.

Awards/Honors

James W. Gargano Award, Poe Studies Association, 2018.

Faculty of Distinction Award Nominee, Broward President’s Community Council, Florida Atlantic University; 2011.

Svetlana Brainard

Adjunct Instructor, Russian

svetlanabrainard@isu.edu

Dr. Patrick Brooks

Emeritus Faculty | Professor of Trombone

(208) 282-3147

broopatr@isu.edu

• B.M.E. 1980, University of Illinois
• M.Mus. 1985, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
• D.M.A. 1995, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Donald D. Brown

Professor

Professor, Art. 1956-1994

Michele R. Brumley, Ph.D.

Professor, Experimental Psychology - Associate VP of Research

Office: Administration Building 121E

208-282-4751 or 3205

michelebrumley@isu.edu

Website

B.A (1999) DePaul University; Ph.D. (2005)
University of Iowa; Postdoctoral Fellow
(2005-2007) The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Research Interests

My research program examines the development of coordinated behavior across ontogeny. This work involves experimental investigation of the role of neurobiological mechanisms, sensory feedback, and experience in the modulation of motor behavior. Currently, my lab is examining 1.) how locomotor behavior in the rat is controlled by the spinal cord and is shaped by sensorimotor experience, 2.) the relationship between the development of weight-bearing locomotion and the development of the musculoskeletal system in rats, and 3.) the relationship between the development of locomotor behavior, reflexes, and epigenetic activity in the spinal cord in rats. My lab team is a group of wonderful graduate and undergraduate students, who are committed to working as a collaborative team. My research has been funded by the NIH, the NIH INBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources, the NSF, and internal grants from ISU. My students and I collaborate with researchers in biological engineering, physiology, and molecular biology. In my administrative work, I work to facilitate research activities across the university.

Dr. Brumley will not be accepting students for fall 2024 admission.

Dr. Michele Brumley's Research on ResearchGate

Selected Publications (can be retrieved from ResearchGate or by contacting Dr. Brumley)

Swann-Thomsen, H.E., Mendez-Gallardo, V., Kollmeyer, L., Hunter, K., & Brumley, M.R. (2021). A preliminary investigation of high retinoic acid exposure during fetal development on behavioral competency and litter characteristics in newborn rats. Brain and Behavior, 11, e2253, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2253

Theodossiou, S. K., Pancheri, N. M., Martes, A. C., Bozeman, A. L., Brumley, M. R., Raveling, A. R., Courtright, J. M., & Schiele, N. R. (2021). Neonatal spinal cord transection decreases hindlimb weight-bearing and affects formation of Achilles and tail tendons. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 143, 06102, 1-9.

Swann-Thomsen, H.E., Viall, D.D., & Brumley, M.R. (2021). Intrathecal administration of the 5-HT2 receptor agonist quipazine elicits air-stepping behavior. Behavioral Pharmacology, 32, 259-264.

Williams, C., Sater, S., Burkhalter, C., Schoonen, S., Miller, J., Shrestha, D. Brumley, M.R., & Schiele, N.R. (2020). Low-cost, open-source, variable speed and incline treadmill for studying impacts of neonatal locomotion. HardwareX, 7, 1-18.

Mayo, J.N., Kauer, S.D., Brumley, M.R., & Bearden, S.E. (2020). Pericytes promote vascular density and improve locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury in male and female neonatal rats. Microcirculation, 27, e12646, 1-12.

Doherty, T.S., Bozeman, A.L., Roth, T.L., & Brumley, M.R. (2019). DNA methylation and behavioral changes induced by neonatal spinal transection. Infant Behavior and Development, 57, 1-9.

Swann, H.E. & Brumley, M.R. (2019). Locomotion and posture development in immature male and female rats (Rattus norvegicus): Comparison of sensory-enriched versus sensory-deprived environments. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 133, 2, 183-196.

Brumley, M.R., Strain, M.M., Devine, N, & Bozeman, A.L. (2018). The Spinal Cord, Not to Be Forgotten: the Final Common Path for Development, Training, and Recovery of Motor Function. Perspectives in Behavior Science, 41, 369-393.

Kristy Buffington, M.A.

Adjunct Lecturer

Office: Graveley Hall 156

208-282-2629

kristybuffington@isu.edu

Kristy Buffington teaches an introduction to the anthropology of disability course. In addition to teaching, she is the Post-Secondary Transition Coordinator for the Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and the Blind (IESDB) and directs the IESDB Post-Secondary Transition Program. IESDB post-secondary transition services are available statewide to deaf, hard of hearing, blind and visually impaired young adults, age 14-26, and Kristy spends much of her time traveling the state and meeting with students and their families. Additionally, she is the team lead for the Idaho Coalition on Transition with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth and the state liaison for the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes.

Before devoting her professional time to ISU and IESDB, she worked as a professional certified American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter for over twenty years. Outside of work, Kristy is married and has two teenage children. Her family loves animals and has a small zoo of rescues at their house, including four dogs, two cats, two rabbits, a bunch of fish and a frog. In her free time, she also likes to read and make glass mosaics.

Buffington CV

Jon Burnham, LCSW

Lecturer of Social Work

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 354

(208) 282-2655

jonburnham2@isu.edu

M.S.W., Northwest Nazarene University, 2003

Specialties: Juvenile Corrections • Sexual Offenders • Individual and Family Counseling • Grief and Loss • Trauma Informed Care

Morey Burnham

MA in Sociology Program Director/Assistant Professor of Sociology

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 125

(208) 282-3073

moreyburnham@isu.edu

Website

Ph.D., Utah State U, Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science & Management, 2014
M.S., Antioch University New England, Environmental Studies, 2008

Specialties: Climate Change Adaptation and Vulnerability • Agriculture • Water • Livelihoods

Kierra Burns

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 222

kierraburns@isu.edu

Dante Cantrill

Professor of English (retired 2005)

dantecantrill@isu.edu

PhD in English (1974), University of Washington

Nikyra Capson

Assistant Professor

Office: Frazier Hall 315

208-282-4260

nikyracapson@isu.edu

Having been born and raised in Idaho, I’m excited to be a part of the CMP department at Idaho State University. After getting my BA in Communications and a BFA in Fine Art, I went on to get my MFA in Studio Arts with an emphasis in digital arts. My work is centered around social media and the mental health issues it causes in some users. I teach Graphic Design and Typography and enjoy watching students find their artistic sides as they learn about visual communication.

 Selected Shows:

• We are All Contagious, UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery, Juried by Nato Thompson, New Bedford, Massachusetts

• In Love and Tech: Exploration of the Human Interaction in the Digital Age, eighteen fifteen, Juried by Anton Chavez and Amanda Fay, Austin, Texas

• enGENDERing Change: The Exhibition, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State University Juried by Dr. Ann Woods, The Public Book, and Dr. Alan Woods, Alamosa, Colorado

• The Biennial Project Biennial 2019, Juried by Kaveh Mojtabai, Jeannie Motherwell, Luis Manuel Otero Alcantara, Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, and Nonardo Perea, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

• Women’s Stories (Untold) - Text and Image, Midwestern Center for Photography, Juried by Linda Robinson, Wichita, Kansas

• “Clotheshorse,” Indianapolis Art Center, Juried by Kyle Herrington, Indianapolis, Indiana

Deirdre Caputo-Levine

Associate Professor of Sociology

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 359

(208) 282-1253

deirdrecaputolevi@isu.edu

Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook Department of Sociology, 2015
M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook Department of Sociology, 2008

Specialties: Prisoner Reentry • Punishment • Critical Criminology • Race and Ethnicity • Social Theory

Joseph Cardello

Adjunct Instructor, Japanese

josephcardello@isu.edu

Deirdre Carney

Instructor in English

Office: online

deirdrecarney@isu.edu

PhD in English and the Teaching of English (2017), Idaho State University

MA in English (1996), University of Nebraska-Omaha

D. Jasun Carr

Associate Professor and Minor Advisor Global Studies and Languages | Chair, Department of Global Studies and Languages | Chair, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology

Office: Frazier Hall 316

(208) 282-2995

jasuncarr@isu.edu

Education:

BS, Communication Processes, UW-Green Bay; MS, Electronic Media, Kutztown University; PhD, Mass Communication, UW-Madison

Emphasis:

Digital Media; Social Media; Media Psychology; Research Methods

Courses Taught:

CMP2202: Photo, Graphic, and Video Editing; CMP2203: Media Literacy; CMP3307: Social and Interactive Media Campaigns; CMP3309: Communication Inquiry; CMP3339: Web Design; CMP6601: Introduction to Graduate Research Methods; CMP6630: Communication Revolutions

Dr. Jasun Carr earned his PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His ongoing research interests focus on persuasion, consumer culture, and civic engagement; the interaction of source and generational cohort in new media; and the changing journalistic and persuasive practices within social media platforms. Currently he is in the beginning stages of developing a scale to clarify the measurement of "social media trust." In addition to teaching and research, he acts as webmaster and social media coordinator for the department.

Dr. Carr’s CV

Dr. Carr’s Website

Dr. Carr’s ORCID

Selected Publications:

Carr, D. J. (2018). Multitasking & Multiskilling. In Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh (Ed.), International Encyclopedia for Journalism Studies. (In Press)

Carr, D. J. (2018). Exploring the Role of Parasocial Relationships on Product Placement Effectiveness. American Communication Journal, 20(1), 31-45.

Carr, D. J. & Bard, M. (2017). Even a Celebrity Journalist Can’t Have an Opinion: Post-Millennials’ Recognition and Evaluation of Journalists and News Brands on Twitter. Electronic News, Online First, doi: 10.1177/1931243117710280

Carr, D. J. (2017). The Internet and Information Economy. In Robert Rycroft (Ed.), The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty. ABC-CLIO.

Carr, D. J., Barnidge, M., Lee, B. & Tsang, S. J. (2014). Cynics and skeptics: Evaluating the credibility of mainstream and citizen journalism. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 91(3), 452-470.

Awards & Honors

Faculty Senator - College of Arts & Letters

Political Communication Interest Group - Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication: Head (2016-17), Vice-Head (2015-16), Research Co-Chair (2013-15).

ISU Office of Research: ISU College of Arts & Letters Combined Subject Pool Pilot. (2018-June 2020)

ISU College of Arts & Letters: Faculty Travel Funds. (2017, 2015)

ISU Office of Research: Faculty Travel Funds. (2017)

Idaho Humanities Council Grant: Humanities Cafe 2015-16: Identity. (2015)

ISU College of Arts & Letters: Infrastructure Grant Proposal Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion DSLR Photography and Video Cameras. (2015)

*Elizabeth Cartwright, Ph.D.

Professor, Retired 2023

lizcartwright@isu.edu

Background

Elizabeth Cartwright is a retired Professor in the Department of Anthropology. Cartwright is an applied medical anthropologist and a registered nurse. She is the Director of the Hispanic Health Projects and the Latino Studies Program at ISU. Cartwright received her BSN from the University of Arizona in 1989 and her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1998. Awards from the Inter-American Foundation and from the University of Arizona funded her dissertation research on immigration and health issues among the Amuzgo Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico. 

During her time at ISU she received $1.9 million dollars in grant monies as the PI or the Co-PI on medical anthropology and community based participatory research projects. She is an instructor for the National Science Foundation, Short Courses on Research Methods online summer courses.

Cartwright is co-founder of Crescendos Alliance, Inc. a non-profit organization that works to create innovative solutions to health disparities in Latin America.

Cartwright CV

Peaches for Lunch: Creating and Using Visual Variables

Elizabeth Cartwright & Adam LaVar Clegg

To cite this article: Elizabeth Cartwright & Adam LaVar Clegg (2017) Peaches for Lunch: Creating and Using Visual Variables, Medical Anthropology, 36:6, 519-532, DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2017.1321643

Peaches for Lunch Vimeo Video

Tonya Charles

Instructor in English

Office: online

tonyacharles@isu.edu

MA in English (2008), Idaho State University

Dr. Hyeri Choi

Associate Professor of Music | Violin | Strings Area Coordinator

(208) 282-3355

choihyer@isu.edu

• B.M. 2006, Ewha Womans University (Korea)
• Certificate, 2007, Toho Gakuen School of Music Orchestra Academy (Japan)
• M.M. 2009, Eastman School of Music
• D.M.A. 2014, Eastman School of Music

Allan Christelow

Professor

Allan Christelow is a specialist in the history of Islam in North and West Africa. His field experience began as a high school English teacher in the North African country of Algeria in the early 1970s. He completed a doctoral dissertation on the history of Muslim courts in Algeria at the University of Michigan in 1977, and then spent five years teaching at Bayero University in Kano, the largest city in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, in West Africa. Christelow has published books on the application of Islamic law in both Algeria and Nigeria, and he has delivered invited presentations at many major U.S. universities, including Stanford, Notre Dame, Yale, and Northwestern, and in nine different countries, including Holland, Israel, Algeria, and South Africa. He has taught at Idaho State University since 1983. In 2011, the University Press of Florida published his book Algerians without Borders, which is a study of the experience of Algerian emigrants and refugees from the eighteenth century to the present.

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

Books

2011    Algerians without Borders: the Making of a Global Frontier Society, University Press of Florida, 2011

1994   Thus ruled Emir ‘Abbas: Selected Cases from the Records of the Emir of Kano’s   

          Judicial Council, Michigan State University Press (Runner-up, African Studies                                

            Association Text Prize, 1995)

1985   Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State in Algeria, Princeton University Press

          -summarized in Arabic, al-Masadir, 11:1, 2005, pp. 319-329

Edited Works

1997   Citizenship and Cultural Identity, an issue of the Idaho State University          

          Humanities Journal, Rendezvous

Articles

2009  “Persistence and Transformation in the Politics of Sharia, 1947-2003: in Search of

          an Explanatory Framework.”  In Richard Roberts, Shamil Jeppie, and Ebrahim   

          Moosa, eds.  Muslim Family Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

2006  Introduction to Nour Eddine Boukrouh, Islam sans islamisme: vie et pensée de

           Malek Bennabi,  Algiers: Éditions Samar. (also to be published in Arabic)

          “The Western Mediterranean in an American Mirror: The Algerine Spy in

         Pennsylvania,”  The Maghreb Review, 31:1-3 (2006), pp. 80-102.

2005  “Land, Commerce, and Royal Authority in Kano.” In Donald Crummey, ed., Land,

          State and Society in the History of Sudanic Africa, Red Sea Press.

           Articles on Algeria in Kevin Shillington, ed.,  Encyclopedia of African History,

           New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.

2004   “Mahkama-Algeria,” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden: E.J. Brill, Supplement  

          volume, fascicle 7-8, pp. 557-559.

 2004   “Bashir Ibrahimi and the Islamic Encounter with European Secular and Religious  

         Faiths,”  The Maghreb Review, 29: 1-4 (2004).   Also published in collection of 

         articles in Arabic on Ibrahimi, Beirut: Dar al Gharb al-Islami, 2005.

2002   “Islamic Law and Judicial Practice in Nigeria–an Historical perspective,” Journal  

           of Muslim Minority Affairs, 22:1, pp. 185-204

2001   “Recollecting Algerian Cultural History: the Work of Bilqasim Sa’adallah,” Institute 

          for the Study of Islam in the Modern World Newsletter, 5, May 2000, pp. 31-32;

          reprinted in al-Zahra (Monthly Newsletter of Al al-Bayt University, Mofraq,

           Jordan), Vol 8, No. 33, December 2001, pp. 33-35;

          --translated into Arabic in al-Basa’ir (Algiers), No. 78, 7-14 January 2002;

2000   “The Mosque at the Edge of the Plaza: Islam in the Algerian Colonial City,” The

          Maghreb Review, 25: 3-4, pp. 289-319.

           “Mai Tatsine” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, Leiden: E. J. Brill

         “Algeria: Arabism and Islamism,” “Algeria: Muslim Population, 1871-1954,”   

         “Algeria: Islamic Ideas and Movements in Colonial Algeria,” “Algiers,” “Algeria:

         Islamic Salvation Front and Civil War,” “Islamic Law, Post-colonial Africa” for

         Encyclopedia of African History, London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers

            “Re-envisioning Algerian Cultural History in the Imperial Age,” The Maghreb  

1999   “Louis Massignon et les intellectuels musulmans algériens: domination coloniale

            et absence de la confiance,” in Jacques Keryell, ed., Louis Massignon au coeur

            de notre temps, Paris: Éditions Karthala.

            “Islamic law in Africa,” in Nehemia Levtzion and Randall Pouwels, eds., History of    

           Islam in Africa, Ohio University Press.

1997   “In Search of One Word’s Meaning: Zaman in Early Twentieth Century Kano.” 

           History in Africa., 24, pp. 95-115.

1996   “Algerian Dimensions of France’s Middle East Policy, 1916,” in Leon Carl Brown

           and Matthew Gordon, eds., Franco-Arab Encounters, American University of

           Beirut Press.

1994   “Maitatsine” and “Mahkama” Encyclopedia of Modern Islam.  New York: Oxford

            University Press.

1992   “Malik Bennabi, an Islamic Humanist in the Twentieth Century,” The Maghreb

            Review 1-2, pp. 69-83.

            “The Muslim Judge and Municipal Politics in Colonial Algeria and Senegal,”

           (revised version) in Juan R. I. Cole, editor, Comparing Muslim Societies:

           Knowledge and the State in a World Civilization, University of Michigan Press,

           1992, pp. 133-162.

1991   “Legal Process and Social Order in Early Twentieth Century Kano, Nigeria,” Law

            in Colonial Africa, edited by Richard Roberts and Kristin Mann, London,

            Heinemann/Currey, 1991.

            “Women and the Law in Early Twentieth Century Kano,” in Catherine Coles and

            Beverly Mack, eds., Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century, University of

            Wisconsin Press, 1991, pp. 130-144.

1990   “Oral, Manuscript, and Printed Expressions of Historical Consciousness in

            Algeria,” Africana Journal, 15: 258-275.

1987   “Political Ends and Means of Transport in the Colonial North African Pilgrimage,”

            The Maghreb Review, 12: 3-4, pp. ;84-89.

            “Ritual, Culture, and the Politics of Islamic Reformism in Algeria,” Middle Eastern

            Studies 23:  2, pp. 254-273.

            “Property and Theft in Kano at the Dawn of the Groundnut Boom, 1912-1914,”

            International Journal of African Historical Studies, 20: 2, pp. 225-243.

1986   “Slavery in Kano, 1913-14–Evidence from the Judicial Records,” African

          Economic History, pp. 58-74.

1985   “Algerian Interpreters and the French Colonial Adventure in Sub-Saharan Africa,”

            The Maghreb Review, 10: 4-6, pp. 101-106.

            “Al-Makki Ben Badis,” Parcours: l’Algerie, les homes, et l’histoire, No. 5, Automne

            1985, pp. 14-21.

            “Records of the Emir’s and Alkali’s Courts in Kano, Nigeria,” Fontes Historiae

           Africanae, Nos. 9/10, pp. 35-40.

            “The ‘Yan Tatsine Distrubances in Kano, a Search for Perspective,” The Muslim

           World, 75: 2, pp. 69-84.

            “Religious Protest and Dissent in Northern Nigeria: from Mahdism to Quranic

           Integralism,” Journal, Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, 6: 2, pp. 375-393.

1983   “Algerian Islam in a Time of Transition, c.1880 - c.1930,” The Maghreb Review.

            8: 5-6,pp. 124-130.

1982   “Intellectual History in a Culture Under Siege: Algerian Muslim Thought in the  

            Late Nineteenth Century,” Middle Eastern Studies, 18:4, pp. 387-399.

            “The Muslim Judge and Municipal Politics in Colonial Algeria and Senegal,”

            Comparative Studies in Society and History, 24:1, pp. 3-24. 

1981   “Career Patterns of Algerian Muslim Magistrates in the Late Nineteenth Century,”

            The Maghreb Review, 6:1-2, pp. 36-39.

            “Al-Makki Ben Badis wa ba’d nawahi al-haraka al-wataniyya al-jaza’iriyya fi-l-qarn

            al-tasi’ ‘ashhar”  (Al-Makki Ben Badis and Some Aspects of the Beginning of the

            National Movement in Algeria), Al-Thaqafa, Vol. 22, No. 61, pp. 41-51.

1980   “Saintly Descent and Worldly Affairs in Mid-Nineteenth Century Mascara,

             Algeria,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 12:2, pp. 139-155.

1979   “An Inquiry into the Algerian Medjles Crisis of 1858,” Revue d’histoire

           maghrebine, 15-16, pp. 35-51.

1978   “Islamic Legal Documents as a Source for the Study of Colonial Algeria,” Middle

            East Studies Association Bulletin, 12:3, pp. 29-34.

            “Hawl bidaya al-nahda al-jaza’iriyya” katib li ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Majjawi”

            (Concerning the Begining of the Alberian Cultural Revival: a Pamphlet by ‘Abd

            al-Qadir al-Majjawi), Al-Thaqafa, Vol 9, No. 47, pp. 55-64.

Conferences, Guest Lectures

2008   “L’image britannique d’Abdel Kader: le Culte de l’Héros et les intérêts impériaux.”

           Conference on Abdel Kader, Oran, Algeria, 26-28 November

2005  “Toward an understanding of black communities in Algeria’s changing

          social patterns,”  African/Middle East Studies Association conference,

          Washington, DC.  November 19.

         “The Western Mediterranean in an American Mirror:  Peter Markoe’s

         The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania,”  Maghreb Review conference, Mansfield

         College, Oxford,  9 July

          “Malek Bennabi et deux visions mondiales anglophones en 1954:  les cas

          de Arnold Toynbee et Wendell Willkie,”  Conference on Malek Bennabi, Algiers

          22 September

2003   “Malek Bennabi et les frontières culturelles de l’ère globale,” International

           Colloquium on the Thought of Malek Bennabi, Algiers, 18-20-October

            “Bashir Ibrahimi and the Islamic Encounter with European Secular and Religious

            Faiths,” Maghreb Review Conference: “The Faith of the Other,” Mansfield

            College, Oxford, 6-8 July.

2002   “Persistence and Transformation in the Politics of Sharia, Nigeria, 1958-2002: in

           Search of an Explanatory Framework,” Conference on Muslim Family Law in

           Post-Colonial Africa, Centre for Contemporary Islam, University of Cape Town,

          11-14 March.

2001  “Islamic Judicial Councils and their Sociopolitical Contexts: a Trans-Saharan

           Comparison,” Conference on the Application of Islamic law in Courts,” Institute

           for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, Leiden, 26 October.

2000   “Islamic Law and Judicial Practice in Nigeria–an Historical Perspective,” African

           Studies Association, Nashville, November.

1998   “Algerian Islam in an Age of Empire, 1880-1920,” African Studies Association,

           Chicago, 31 October.

            “The Algerian Crisis: Historical Origins, Future Alternatives,” Chicago Council on

            Foreign Relations, March 16; also in depth interview, WBEZ–Chicago Public

1997   “Louis Massignon and Algerian Muslim Intellectuals: Colonial Domination and the

            Problem of Trust.”  Conference on Louis Massignon: The Vocation of a Scholar. 

           University of Notre Dame. 3 October.

            “Islamic law in Africa.”  Conference on Writing the History of Islam in Africa.  Van

            Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 18 June.

            “The Mosque at the Edge of the Plaza: Sacred Places, Urban Space, and the

            Colonial Heritage in Algeria.”  Mellon Colloquium, Northwestern University, 8

1996   “Citizenship in a Frontier Society: Muslims, Jews, and New French in Colonial

           Algeria,” Rocky Mountain World History Association, Salt Lake City, 1 November. 

           Published in Rendezvous (see above, edited works).

1995   “Islamic Law in Africa–basic themes,” Cambridge History of Islam in Africa panel,

           African Studies Association, Orlando, 4 November.

1993   “Presenting the Nigerian Shari’a Question; Brief Reflections on Bappa Mahmud’s

            Brief History, Northwestern University, African Humanities Center, Roundtable

           on Nigerian Historiography, 6 May.

1992   “Mosques, Communities, and the State in Algeria: a Long Term Perspective.” 

           Islam and Nationhood Conference.  Yale University.  12-14 November.

            “The Art of Biography in Postrevolutionary Algeria,” Maghreb Review

           Conference, London, July 10.

1991   “1492 and the Islamic World,” Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Regional Conference,

            Sun Valley, Idaho, May.

1991   “The Concept of Zaman in Early Twentieth Century Kano,” African studies

            Association, St. Louis, November.

1990   Chair and commentator for panel on North African history at Pacific Coast

           Branch of AHA, 10 August.

1989   Conference to plan volume of comparative studies on the Muslim world for

          Comparative Studies in Society and History, Ann Arbor, October.

            “Islamic Reformism in Colonial Algeria from 1900 to the Outbreak of the

            Revolution” (lecture); and “Islamic Legal Records and Social History in Algeria

            and Northern Nigeria” (seminar), at the University of Arizona, Tuscon, 11

1988   “Slavery, Law, and the Patriarchal Order in Northern Nigeria,” African Studies

            Association, Chicago, 29 October.

1987   “Orientalists, Islam, and Colonial Administration in the Maghrib and Northern

            Nigeria,” African Studies Association, Denver, 22 November.

            “Marriage, Murder and the Politics of Islamic Law Codification in Colonial Africa,”

            at “New Perspectives on Colonial Africa,” Spring Symposium, University of

           Illinois, Urbana, 29-31 March.

            “Political Strategies, Legal Sensibilities and Islamic Homicide Law in Northern

            Nigeria,” guest lecture at Stanford University, 5 March.

1986   Co-chair of panel on “Approaches to the Social History of Kano;”  paper–“Political

           Arena and Moral Theater: the Emir of Kano’s Judicial Council”–at African Studies

           Association Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, 30 October.

            Comment, Symposium on Religion in Africa, Brigham Young University, Provo,

           Utah, 23-25 October.

            “History as Future: prophetic discourse and historical consciousness in colonial

            Algeria,” Colloquium of Sonderforschungsbereich 214 on “Identity in Africa,”

            University of Bayreuth, 17-18 July.

            “Moyens de Transport et mobiles politiques dans le pélerinage nord-africain

            colonial,” Maghreb Review Conference on Trade, Transport and Communication

            in the Maghreb, Collège de France, Paris, 7-8 July.

1985   “Clio and Her Wayward Tropical Offspring: the Discipline of History and the

             Specialties of Area Studies,” at Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society National

             Conference, New York, 27-29 December.

            “Property and Theft in Kano on the Eve of the Groundnut Boom,” at African

            Studies Association, Middle East Studies Association Conference, New Orleans,

            22-25 November.

            “The Transformation of the Muslim Court System in Colonial Algeria: Reflections

            on the Concept of Autonomy,” at Colloquium on Social and Historical Contexts

            of Islamic Law, University of Exeter, England, 27-29 September.  Published in

            Social and Historical Contexts of Islamic Law, ed. Aziz al-Azmeh, London,

            Croom Helm, 1987.

1984   Comment, Panel on “Themes in Sudanese History,” African Studies Association

           Conference, Los Angeles, 26 October.

            “Three Islamic Voices in Contemporary Nigeria,” in Conference on Multiple

           Voices in Contemporary Islam, Social Science Research Council, New York, 25-

           27 May.  Published in Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning, ed.

           William Roff, University of California Press, 1987, pp. 226-253. 

            “Religious Protest and Dissent in Northern Nigeria: from Mahdism to Quaranic

           Integralism,” at Symposium on Islam in Twentieth Century Africa, University of

           Illinois, 2-3 April.  Published in Journal, Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, 6:2

           (July 1985) pp. 375-393.

            “The Muslim Courts in Colonial Nigeria under British Overrule,” at Conference on

            Islam in Africa: the Changing Role of the ‘Ulama, Northwestern University, 28-31

1982   “Contestation et répression dans les communes de pleine exercise pendant la

            crise de 1881,” at Colloquium on Nineteenth Century Resistance Movements,

           Algiers, 17 February–1 March 1982. 

Stephanie Mooers Christelow

Professor - Medieval History, European History; Historical geography

Andy Christensen

Associate Lecturer & Assistant Director ISU Bengal Debate

Office: Frazier Hall 325

(208) 242-6089

andychristensen@isu.edu

Education:

BS, Communication & Public Relations, University of Idaho; MA, Communication, Idaho State University

Emphasis:

Rhetoric, Speech, Debate

Courses Taught:

COMM 1101 - Principles of Public Speaking; CMP 2201 - Business and Professional Speaking; CMP 3305 Intercollegiate Debate

Professor Christensen is recovering from over two decades in captivity as senior management for one of the nation's top resorts, after which he sought to pursue his lifelong dream of teaching at the university level [he simply doesn't have the patience, or vocabulary, to work in a pre-collegiate setting]. As a member of the Bengal Faculty, he brings to the classroom a background of leadership, team building, passion, straight talk, and humor. Christensen values the desire to learn as well as to teach, and celebrates the notion that there really must be a better hobby than political criticism.

Awards & Honors

Graduate of Management Tools, Inc. Hospitality Management and Leadership Quality Institute

Former Executive Officer in Idaho for DeMolay International

Member of the Alpha Kappa Epsilon Corporation

Member of the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta

Member of Pi Kappa Delta Speech and Debate Association

Honorary member of the F.B.I. National Executive Institute

JoMax Christensen

Administrative Assistant

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 307

(208) 282-3377

josephchristensen2@isu.edu

Tate Christensen

Advising Coordinator

Office: LA 272

(208) 282-3119

tatechristensen@isu.edu

Vickie Christensen

Instructor in English

Office: Idaho Falls Campus

vickiechristensen@isu.edu

MEd in English (2006), Idaho State University

Dr. Eleanor Christman

Assistant Professor | Cello

(208) 282-1423

coxelea@isu.edu

• B.Mus. 2001, Indiana University
• M.Mus. 2003, University of Wisconsin
• D.M.A. 2009, University of Wisconsin

Joined ISU Faculty in 2014

Dr. Eleanor Christman is the Assistant Professor of Cello and Director of the Preparatory String Program in the School of Performing Arts at Idaho State University, where she teaches applied cello and various music courses.  She is also the principal cellist in the Idaho State Civic Symphony. 

Known for her rich, sensitive melodic lines, Ms. Christman has appeared in recital as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, both on faculty recitals and as a guest artist.  She has held faculty positions at Ripon College, Utah Valley University, the University of Utah Preparatory Division, and Salt Lake Community College.   As an orchestral musician she has performed with the Green Bay Symphony, Madison Symphony, Tallahassee Symphony, Choral Arts Philadelphia, and Ballet West.

On baroque cello Ms. Christman has performed nationally and internationally with such groups as the Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, Madison Bach Musicians, Utopia Early Music, Jeune Orchestre Atlantique, American Baroque Orchestra, and Great Basin Baroque. A proponent of new music, she has worked with composers John Harbison, David Ludwig, and Stephen Dembski, whose Suite for Solo Cello she premiered.

As a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, Ms. Christman is pursuing research on the relationships of function and expression and exertion and recovery in musicians.  Her research was presented at the Laban 2018 International Conference and published in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis: Contemporary Applications, by Colleen Wahl.

Ms. Christman's primary teachers include Irene Sharp, Helga Winold, Emilio Colón, and Uri Vardi.  She has also received instruction from Jaap ter Linden, Richard Aaron, Tanya Carey, members of the Audubon, Emerson, and Borodin Quartets, Bonnie Hampton, and Laurence Lesser.

Brandilyn Clawson

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: Idaho Falls Campus

brandilynclawson@isu.edu

Adam Clegg, M.A.

Adjunct Lecturer

Office: Graveley Hall 155

208-282-2629

adamclegg@isu.edu

Michelle Coates

Instructor in English

Office: Idaho Falls Campus

michellecoates@isu.edu

MA in English (2012), Idaho State University

Lisa Coffield

Adjunct Instructor, German

lisacoffield@isu.edu

Lisa Coffield, Adjunct Instructor, German. M.S. in Linguistic Anthropology (Idaho State University 2016), B.S. in Secondary Education, Emphases in German and French (Idaho State University 2009). She has been teaching at ISU since the Fall of 2010, and teaches first-year German. Lisa is certified to teach both German and French.

Scott Contor

Visiting Lecturer

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 356

(208) 282-4531

scottcontor@isu.edu

M.A., Idaho State University, 2012

Rachelle Cooper

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: Fine Arts Building 402D

208-282-3439

rachellecooper@isu.edu

Education:

• Bachelors in Fine art from Central Washington University
• Masters in Fine Art Idaho State University

Courses taught:

• Drawing
• Ceramics

Elisabeth Curtis

Marketing and Communications Coordinator

Office: Business Administration Building Room 241

208‐282-1080

elisabethcurtis@isu.edu

Breck Dalley

Instructor in English

Office: LA 258-D

jenniferdalley@isu.edu

MA in English (2021), Idaho State University

Theresa Gail Dial

Professor

Professor, Art. 1974-2008

Dillin Diggie

Instructor of Music

Office: Fine Arts 204A

208-282-4255

dillindiggie@isu.edu

Dillin Diggie is currently instructor of bassoon at Idaho State University and performs as
principal bassoon in the Idaho State Civic Symphony. He has also performed in various
ensembles within the Southeastern Idaho area, including the Idaho Falls Symphony.

He studied at Idaho State with Dr. George Adams and prior studying privately with Jan
Eddington. He has also participated in masterclasses with John Clouser and Amy Pollard.

In addition, Dillin works in language revitalization for the Shoshone-Bannock
tribes with a focus on the Bannock language. His experiences teaching bassoon also play a role
in this work as he is now a language teacher in training.

James R. DiSanza

Professor & Department Chair

Office: Frazier Hall 223

(208) 282-1242

jamesdisanza@isu.edu

Education:

BA, California State University Stanislaus; MA, San Francisco State University; Ph.D. Penn State University

Emphasis:

Corporate Communication & Leadership

Courses Taught:

CMP2201: Business & Professional Communication; CMP3320: Foundations of Leadership; CMP4422: Conflict Management; CMP4424: Management Communication; CMP5522: Conflict Management

Idaho State University was my first full-time, tenure-track job after getting my Ph.D. I suspected it would be a three or four year gig. Twenty-nine years later I'm still here and I wouldn't even consider leaving ISU. I am privileged to lead the finest group of faculty at this institution. You can't find a more "present" and caring group who throw themselves into their teaching and research. I often remind myself that most people go an entire career and are never be part of a creative team like this one.
My annual teaching schedule includes Foundations of Leadership, Conflict Management, Small Group Communication, and Business and Professional Communication. The greatest reward is watching students' improve their communication skills and the increased self-confidence that this improvement creates.
My research interests are in persuasive attack and defense. As part of a research team that includes John Gribas, Nancy Legge, Karen Hartman, Jasun Carr, and Zac Gershberg, we examine how organizations are attacked during a crisis and how they defend themselves using various image repair tactics. I enjoy bringing the findings of our research into the classroom for students' benefit.

Dr. Disanza’s ResearchGate

Selected Publications:

DiSanza, J. R., Hartman, K. L., Legge, N. J., & Gershberg, Z. (2018, in press). Adding narrative to the situational crisis communication theory: The case for crisis ‘Narrative Management’ in sport.

Gribas, J., Gershberg, Z, DiSanza, J. R., and Legge, N. L. (2017). Finding story in unexpected places: Branding and the role of narrative in the study of communication. In B. Attebery, J. Gribas, M. K. McBeth, P. Sivitz, and K. Turley-Ames (Eds.), Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education (pp. 91-110). New York: Routledge.

DiSanza, J. R., Carr, D. J. (2017). Corporate Communication. In Mike Allen (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods (pp. 264-266). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Gribas, J., DiSanza, J., Legge, N., Hartman, K., and Santee, C. (2016). Exploring the alignment of image repair tactics to audience type. In J. R. Blaney (Ed.), Putting Image Repair to the Test (pp. 41-61). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Legge, N. J., DiSanza, J. R., Gribas, J., & Schiffler, A. (2012). "He sounded like a vile, disgusting pervert. . ." An analysis of persuasive attacks on Rush Limbaugh during the Sandra Fluke Controversy. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 19, 173-205.

Awards & Honors

Outstanding Service Award nominee, 2011, 2014

Arthur Dolsen

Professor Emeritus

Office: 328 Business Administration

(208) 282-3911

arthurdolsen@isu.edu

Arthur Dolsen, Professor Emeritus. Ph.D. Classics (Trinity College, Dublin 1978), B.A. (University of British Columbia 1968). Dr. Dolsen teaches all levels of Latin offered by the university. He has also taught French and Russian extensively. His research interests include questions of ancient Greek history and rhetoric, in particular the works of Thucydides.

Carlen Donovan

Senior Lecturer in English

Office: LA 207-F

carlendonovan@isu.edu

EDUCATION

MA, English (2002), Idaho State University

BA, English (1997), Idaho State University

I’ve been a full-time lecturer in Idaho State’s English Department since 2002, and before that, an adjunct instructor for English and other departments since 1996.

My specialties as a lecturer include composition, film, and professional communication. I regularly offer writing classes online, and I’m currently working on earning Quality Matters certification for one those courses; my goal is to achieve “in-seat” effects in an online class. I’m also proud to be teaching one of the central courses for ISU’s just-launched Film Studies minor.

My other interests include visual rhetoric and typography, horror and science fiction film, and 20^th century female film directors.

My goal as a teacher is always to try to raise my students’ eyes to the horizon; I hope they can imagine employing the critical reading, thinking, and writing practices they begin to learn in my courses in settings beyond the university.

Courses Taught

3308: Business Communications

3307: Professional and Technical Writing

1175: Literature and Ideas

1126: Art of Film I

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

1101: Writing and Rhetoric I

William Donovan

Senior Lecturer in English

Office: LA 207-E

208-282-5817

williamdonovan@isu.edu

EDUCATION

MA, English (2007), Idaho State University

BA, American Studies (2002), Idaho State University

My teaching is designed to try to reach the variety of learning styles my students employ. Whether in the composition sequence or the introductory literature courses, I employ a system of reading, lecture, discussion, and application. I know, from my experience working as a tutor in a writing lab, that the lower the teacher/student ratio, the more effective the teaching and learning. With this in mind, I seek to increase the number of times a student can have more one-on-one time. Teaching and learning should be a self-reflective process. As an educator, this means that I need to be aware of what has been successful for my students in the past so that I can implement or improve upon this in the future; likewise, I need to be aware of what has not been successful so that I can drop or modify that technique for future classes.

Selected Awards and Honors

LDSSA Excellence in Education Award, 2014

CASE Professor of the Year nominee, 2014

Courses Taught

2210: American Cultural Studies

1175: Literature and Ideas

1115: Modern Irish Literature

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

1101: Writing and Rhetoric I

*John Dudgeon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director of CAMAS

Office: Graveley 164

208-282-3862

johndudgeon@isu.edu

Background

B.A., University of Colorado (1990); M.A., University of Washington (1998); Ph.D., University of Hawai'i (2008).

I am an assistant professor of anthropology and Director/research scientist at the Center for Archaeology, Materials and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS) at Idaho State University. I consider myself an interdisciplinary bioarchaeologist; since coming to ISU I have partipated as affiliate faculty within ISU’s Program for Environmental Science (2010-2011), the Department of Biological Sciences (2011-2012), and the Molecular Research Core Facility (2010-present). I currently serve as Affiliate Curator of Archaeology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History. In addition to my teaching and mentoring responsibilities, I direct and coordinate research activities in the ISU Ancient DNA Extraction Laboratory (ADEL), and also lead the trace element research group in the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Isotopic and Elemental Analysis (ILIEA), a division of CAMAS. I utilize my laboratory affiliations to direct student research and teach advanced methods in bioarchaeology, archaeological chemistry (with a focus on elemental and isotopic biogeochemistry), and microfossil and residue analysis. Please see my Ongoing Research section for a list of the projects I'm actively working on, including those of my current M.S. students.

Dr. Randy A. Earles

Emeritus Faculty Former Department Chair and Associate Dean for the College of Arts & Letters | Professor of Music

earlrand@isu.edu

• B.Mus. 1974, University of Houston
• M.Mus. 1976, University of Houston
• D.M.A. 1991, University of Oklahoma

*Sarah Ebel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: Graveley 156

208-282-3689

sarahebel@isu.edu

Dr. Sarah Ebel is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in studying the intersection between governance, adaptation, and social change, analyzing the relationships between individuals, institutions, and the ecosystem at different scales in marine socio-ecological systems undergoing environmental change. Her work focuses on understanding opportunities for the transformation of governance and adaptation in a rapidly changing oceanscape in southern Chile. She is also research personnel on a National Science Foundation EPSCoR grant, “Genes to the Environment: Modeling, Mechanisms, and Mapping (GEM3) at Idaho State where she examines the adaptive capacity of socio-ecological systems in Idaho. Through these research programs, she seeks to understand the complex factors which facilitate or impede individual and institutional adaptation in communities dependent upon natural resources. Her intention with this work is to inform environmental governance and adaptation pathways to achieve resilient socio-ecological systems.

Outside of work, she spends most of her time outside with her husband, daughter, and dogs, and is an avid fly fisherman, mountain biker, and gardener. Dr. Ebel received her Ph.D. from the University of Maine in Anthropology and Environmental Policy. She loves working with students, and if you are undergraduate or graduate student interested in environmental anthropology, environmental policy, Latin America, the Western USA, and natural resource management, please feel free to reach out.

Ebel CV

Thomas E. Eckert

Adjunct Lecturer

Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd Floor

thomaseckert@isu.edu

Shawn Edrington

Assistant Professor of Art

Office: Fine Arts Building 415

208-282-2534

edrishaw@isu.edu

Website

Education:

• MFA, Boise State University (2018)

• BA, Idaho State University (2015)

Courses taught:

• Printmaking
• Digital Design
• Drawing
• Sculpture

Sarah Emert, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology

Office: Garrison Rm 409

208-282-1221

sarahemert@isu.edu

Website

B.S. (2011) University of Arizona

M.A. (2016) University of Alabama

Ph.D. (2020) University of Alabama

Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2023) University of Arizona

Research Interests

Dr. Emert’s research focuses on behavioral sleep medicine and the examination of sleep as a function of psychological well-being and health outcomes. Specific areas of focus include: (1) epidemiology of sleep disorders across the lifespan and special populations (e.g., older adults, college student athletes), (2) measurement invariance among groups (e.g., college students, college student athletes, clinical samples, general population) for sleep and mental health symptomology and disorders; (3) mechanisms of change of insomnia treatment and subsequent development of insomnia-related intervention, including evaluation, modification, and dissemination, (4) factors and processes contributing to the development of insomnia (e.g., insomnia identity) and related effects on therapeutic processes and client outcomes, (5) impacts of comorbid correlates on insomnia development and treatment outcomes (e.g., chronic pain, anxiety, physical illness), and (6) sleep health  including neurobehavioral and biological effects of nonrestorative sleep and sleep pathology.

Lab Website: https://sarah-emert.weebly.com/

Dr. Sarah Emert’s Publications on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9E42JqcAAAAJ

Dr. Emert is accepting a new graduate student for admission in fall 2024.

Selected Publications

Emert, S. E., Taylor, D. J., Gartenberg, D., Schade, M. M., Roberts, D. M., Nagy, S. M., ... & Buxton, O. M. (2023). A non-pharmacological multi-modal therapy to improve sleep and cognition and reduce mild cognitive impairment risk: Design and methodology of a randomized clinical trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials, 107275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cct.2023.107275

Taylor, D. J., Huskey, A., Kim, K. N., Emert, S. E., Wardle-Pinkston, S., Auerbach, A., ... & Milord, T. (2023). Internal consistency reliability of mental health questionnaires in college student athletes. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 57(10), 595-601. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2021-105136

Emert, S. E., Gunn, H. E., Molzof, H. E., Dietch, J. R., & Lichstein, K. L. (2021). Appraisals of insomnia identity in a clinical sample. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 145, 103943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103943

Haynes, P. L., Burger, S. B., Kelly, M., Emert, S., Perkins, S., & Shea, M. T. (2020). Cognitive behavioral social rhythm group therapy versus present centered group therapy for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder: A randomized controlled pilot trial. Journal of affective disorders, 277, 800-809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.09.009

Haynes, P. L., Skobic, I., Epstein, D. R., Emert, S., Parthasarathy, S., Perkins, S., & Wilcox, J. (2020). Cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with negligible change in subjective and objective sleep. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 18(6), 809-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2019.1692848

Petrov, M. E., Emert, S. E., & Lichstein, K. L. (2019). Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder features and response to behavioral therapy for insomnia among patients with hypnotic-dependent insomnia. Behavioral sleep medicine, 17(6), 740-752. https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2018.1483369

Emert, S. E., Tutek, J., & Lichstein, K. L. (2017). Associations between sleep disturbances, personality, and trait emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 107, 195-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.11.050

Molzof, H. E., Emert, S. E., Tutek, J., Mulla, M. M., Lichstein, K. L., Taylor, D. J., & Riedel, B. W. (2018). Intraindividual sleep variability and its association with insomnia identity and poor sleep. Sleep medicine, 52, 58-66. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.sleep.2018.08.014

Tutek, J., Mulla, M. M., Emert, S. E., Molzof, H. E., Lichstein, K. L., Taylor, D. J., ... & Bush, A. J. (2019). Health and demographic discriminators of an insomnia identity and self-reported poor quantitative sleep. Sleep Health, 5(3), 221-226. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2019.01.009

Mulla, M. M., Lewis, J. A., Hamilton, J. C., Tutek, J., Emert, S. E., Witte, T. H., & Lichstein, K. L. (2017). The role of perceived sleep norms in subjective sleep appraisals and sleep-related illness behavior. Journal of behavioral medicine, 40, 927-941. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-017-9867-6

Gibette Encarnación

Assistant Professor of English

Office: LA 232

208-282-2537

gibettee@isu.edu

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy in English, University of Kansas, 2022

Master of Arts in English, Andrews University, 2013

Bachelor of Arts in English, Walla Walla University, 2010

My work centers on contemporary American literature, particularly that by Latinx and Afro-Latinx writers.  My major research concern is in exploring transnational connections forged by immigrant communities between the United States and their nations of origin.  I seek to place the U.S. in a larger global context and trace worldwide cultural and literary influences on American identity.

My current research project connects Dominican diasporic literature written in the U.S. to the literature and history of the Dominican Republic.  I examine how major tragedies in the nation’s past have shaped the history of the nation and how in turn that history has shaped modern culture and particularly the racial identity of Dominican citizens at home and abroad.  I argue that tragedies are only memorialized in the collective psyche when they affect the nation’s White-identifying population, which serves to further marginalize Blackness from group identification and belonging.

My teaching objectives are to expand the definition of what is considered literature and question who can speak to the canon of American cultural character. I seek to give every student in the classroom texts where they can see themselves and their genuine struggles reflected.  In my classes we are all equally tasked with taking on the authority to speak back to the field of literary and cultural studies and argue for the changes that we want to see. 

Courses Taught

2210: American Cultural Studies

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

Terry Engebretsen

Associate Professor of English (retired 2014)

terryengebretsen@isu.edu

PhD in American Studies (1982), Washington State University

Linda Enloe, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Emeritus, Experimental Psychology

lindaenloe@isu.edu

B.A. (1969), University of Georgia;
M.S. and Ph.D. (1973), The Ohio State University.

Research Interests

Research interests include physiological and comparative psychology.

Scott E. Evans

Professor

Professor, Art. 1986-2015

Jonathan Fardy

Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of Art History

Office: Fine Arts Building 417

208-282-2488

jonathanfardy@isu.edu

Website

Education

PhD, Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario

MA, Art History, Bowling Green State University

BA, Art, Framingham State College

Research:

My research investigates the aesthetic strategies that underwrite the constitution and argumentative structure of theories of art and politics from the 1960s to the present. My recent work has been particularly focused on the work of François Laruelle. A complete list of my publications can be found here: https://idahostate.academia.edu/JonathanFardy

Current Book Project:

Art/Work: Experiments in Materialist Aesthetics (Manuscript in Progress)

Published Books:

2023: Fardy, J. Ideology and Interpellation: Anti-Humanism to Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic).

2022: Fardy, J. The Real is Radical: Marx after Laruelle (Bloomsbury Academic).

2020: Fardy, J. Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic).

2020: Fardy, J. Althusser and Art (Zero Books).

2018: Fardy, J. Laruelle and Non-Photography (Palgrave Pivot).

Recent Articles:

2022: Fardy, J. "The Object of Non-Aesthetics," in The Object as a Process: Essays Situating Artistic Practice, eds. Stephen Shmidt-Wulffen and German A. Duarte (Transcript Verlag/Columbia University Press).

2021: Fardy, J. “Photographism in Althusser’s Theory of Ideology (Notes Toward a Non-Philosophical Investigation),” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (26.6): 135-144.

Courses Taught:

• All levels of Art History 

Jonathan Fardy, Ph.D.

Chair and Associate Professor of Art

Office: Fine Arts, Building #11, Room 417

(208) 282-2488

jonathanfardy@isu.edu

Website

Education:

PhD, Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario

MA, Art History, Bowling Green State University

BA, Art, Framingham State College

Research:

My research investigates the aesthetic strategies that underwrite the constitution and argumentative structure of theories of art and politics from the 1960s to the present. My recent work has been particularly focused on the work of François Laruelle. A complete list of my publications can be found here: https://idahostate.academia.edu/JonathanFardy

Current Book Project:

Fardy, J. Works of Art:  Experiments in Materialist Aesthetics

Published Books:

2023: Fardy, J. Ideology and Interpellation: Anti-Humanism to Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic).

2022: Fardy, J. The Real is Radical: Marx after Laruelle (Bloomsbury Academic).

2020: Fardy, J. Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic).

2020: Fardy, J. Althusser and Art (Zero Books).

2018: Fardy, J. Laruelle and Non-Photography (Palgrave Pivot).

Recent Articles:

2022: Fardy, J. "The Object of Non-Aesthetics," in The Object as a Process: Essays Situating Artistic Practice," eds. Stephen Shmidt-Wulffen and German A. Duarte (Transcript Verlag/Columbia University Press).

2021: Fardy, J. “Photographism in Althusser’s Theory of Ideology (Notes Toward a Non-Philosophical Investigation),” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (26.6): 135-144.

Courses Taught:

• All levels of Art History 

Dr. Carmen Febles

Associate Professor, Spanish 

(208) 282-1014

carmenfebles@isu.edu

Carmen Febles is an Associate Professor of Spanish Language and Latin American Cultures in the Department of Global Studies and Languages with a specialization in 18th and 19th century Mexico and Cuba at Idaho State University. Broadly speaking, Dr. Febles is interested in distance and difference – in points of articulation across Spanish-speaking geographies, social hierarchies, genres and time periods. Her literature and culture publications include “Exploring the limits of transculturation: Pérez Firmat’s a Cuban in Mayberry:, “Erinia: Matas entre lo policial y lo fantástico”, “El pasado presente: La canonización del pasado americano como acto patriótico en la obra de Fray Servando Teresa de Mier”.

A secondary area of focus is language, culture and healthcare. To that end, Dr. Febles has presented and published research related to the care of refugees living in the United States, and has also produced work on the experiences of Latinx patients and care providers in Idaho. Recent work explores the delivery of pre-hospital emergency care to Limited English Proficiency Latinx individuals in Idaho. Dr. Febles is currently examining the articulation of health and medical practices and policies vis-à-vis national identities and the ways in which they intersect with cultural, racial and gendered experiences and knowledges of place and body.

Landen Fergus

Instructor in English

Office: LA 258-D

landonfergus@isu.edu

MA in English (2022), Idaho State University

Dr. Nell Flanders

Assistant Professor | Director of Orchestral Activities

nellflanders@isu.edu

• B.M. 1994, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
• M.M. 1996, University of Akron
• M.M. 2015, Mannes College of Music- The New School
• D.M.A. 2020, Peabody Conservatory of Music- Johns Hopkins University

Joined ISU faculty in 2022

Nell Flanders received a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance with a minor in piano performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, OH, a Master of Music degree in violin performance from the University of Akron and a Master of Music in orchestral conducting from Mannes College- The New School in New York City, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. 

Active as a conductor, violinist, violist, and educator, Nell Flanders brings her dynamic musicality to performances in a wide variety of genres, from orchestral classics to contemporary music, tango, blues, and period instrument baroque. She is the Director of Orchestral Activities/Assistant Professor at Idaho State University, where she leads the Idaho State-Civic Symphony and the ISU Chamber Orchestra. 

From 2018-2021 she held the position of Georg and Joyce Albers-Schonberg Assistant Conductor with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, conducting the PSO in ballet, popular classics, and holiday concerts and creating highly successful online educational programs. Dr. Flanders’ opera credits include the premiere of a set of one-act operas by composer Daniel Felsenfeld with The Secret Opera, Kamala Sankaram’s The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace with New Camerata Opera, and serving as Assistant Conductor with Peabody Opera Theater. She is a regular conductor and violinist with The Chelsea Symphony in New York City, with whom she will appear this season in performances at Merkin Concert Hall and the DiMenna Center.

Dr. Flanders travels frequently to Panama to work with both professional and student ensembles. She was the conductor of the Symphony and Repertory Orchestras at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division from 2014-2021. Previous academic positions include the University of Maryland- Baltimore County, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College- City University of New York, University of Chicago, and Utah State University. 

Joshua Fox

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: LA 249

208-282-4564

joshuafox@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, Philosophy (2021), University of Chicago

BA, Philosophy and Fundamentals (2013), The University of Chicago

My research focuses on human well-being. In order to approach this topic, I study historical debates about life’s value. In understanding why philosophers have taken particular doubts about life’s value seriously, I hope to learn more about what is involved in living well.

The central historical figures in my research are Mill, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. However, I am interested in historical and contemporary ethics quite broadly, and have also published on the thought of Plato and Amarya Sen.

In my teaching, I have the privilege of introducing students to many of the same ethical questions that I find so gripping.

Selected Publications

“Does Schopenhauer Accept Any Positive Pleasures?” (Forthcoming). European Journal of Philosophy.

“Schopenhauer on Boredom” (2022). British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30, 3: 477-495.

“The Freedom-Based Critique of Well-Being’s Exclusive Moral Claim” (2021). The         Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 22, 4: 647-662.

“Two Pessimisms in Mill” (2021). Utilitas 33, 4: 442-457.

“Gratitude to Beautiful Objects: On Nietzsche’s Claim That ‘the Beautiful Promises          Happiness’” (2020). The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 51, 2: 169-187.

“Complex Wisdom in the Euthydemus” (2020). Apeiron 53, 3: 187-211.

Current Courses

2299: Life and Death

1103: Introduction to Ethics

Luke Fredette

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 258-F

lukefredette@isu.edu

Dr. Diana Livingston Friedley

Professor of Music | Voice

(208) 282-2611

lividian@isu.edu

• B.Mus. 1987, Westminster Choir College
• M.Mus. 1991, Indiana University
• D.M.A. 2002, Rutgers University

Dr. Geoffrey Friedley

Instructor of Music | Voice | Music History

(208) 282-3864

friegeof@isu.edu

• B.A. 1987, Lawrence University (English)
• B.Mus. 1987, Lawrence University (Trombone)
• M.A. 1991, Eastman School of Music (Musicology)
• M.Mus. 1997, Rutgers University (Voice)
• D.M.A.  2014, University of Utah (Vocal Performance)

Erika K. Fulton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology

Office: Garrison Rm 404

208-282-3247

erikafulton@isu.edu

Website

Education

B.A. (1998) Haverford College

M.A. (2010) California State University, Long Beach

Ph.D. (2015) Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Interests

I have broad research interests in metacognition (thinking about one's cognition), including metamemory and metacomprehension, and cognitive aging. I work to identify the cues on which metacognitive judgments are based, evaluate the reliability of these cues, and understand individual differences (including aging) in metacognitive judgment accuracy.

Dr. Erika Fulton’s Publications on Research Gate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erika_Fulton)

Lab Website: https://erikafulton.weebly.com/

Dr. Fulton is accepting new graduate students for admission in fall 2024.

Recent Publications

Huber, B. N., Fulton, E. K., & Gray, D. (2022). Meta-prospective memory accuracy in young adults with and without depressive symptoms. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 1-12. 

Madison, Erin M., and Erika K. Fulton. "The influence of summary modality on metacomprehension accuracy." Metacognition and Learning 17.1 (2022): 117-138.

Fulton, E. K. (2021). How well do you think you summarize? Metacomprehension accuracy in younger and older adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(4), 732-740.

Celia Gallup

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 258-B

celiagallup@isu.edu

Dr. Thom Ritter George

Professor Emeritus of Music Past Director of Idaho State-Civic Symphony

• B.Mus. 1964, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
• M.Mus. 1968, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
• D.M.A. 1970, Catholic University of America

Joined ISU Faculty in 1983. Retired in 2007.

Dr. George conducted the Idaho State Civic Symphony in more than 190 programs featuring a wide repertoire and many internationally recognized soloists. He was a frequent performer at the White House during his years as composer/arranger for the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C. Upon completing his doctoral degree, he was appointed music director and conductor of the Quincy, Illinois, Symphony Orchestra until 1983, when he accepted the position at ISU. 

Dr. George has composed more than 350 works. Many of his works are recorded and many have won prestigious awards, including the Edward B. Benjamin Prize, the Howard Hanson Award, and the Seventh Sigvald Thompson Award. He is also a recipient of annual awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) since 1965. His compositions are published by Boosey and Hawkes, Southern Music Company, and Tuba-Euphonium Press, among others.

Recently completed scores include Orpheus, a large choral-orchestral score that received its premiere in April 2005, Psalm 121 for choir, and a Trio for flute, bassoon, and piano which was featured at the 2002 International Double Reed Society's conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Dr. George is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, ASCAP, National Band Assocation, American String Teachers Association, and the American Symphony Orchestra League. He is listed in many references including Who's Who in America, the World Who's Who of Musicians, and Bernard Garaude's Dictionary of Conductors. Dr. George received the Excellence in the Arts Award from Idaho Gov. Phil Batt in 1998, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Pocatello Mayor Roger Chase in 2005.

Zac Gershberg

Associate Professor

Office: Frazier 310

(208) 282-3272

zacgershberg@isu.edu

Education:

BS, Cinema, Sports Communication, Ithaca College; MA, Communication, Hawaii Pacific University; PhD, Communication Studies, Louisiana State University

Emphasis:

Journalism, Media Studies

Courses Taught:

CMP1110: Media Writing; CMP2203: Media Literacy; CMP3310: Multiplatform Storytelling; CMP3311: Business and Political Reporting; CMP3382: Political Communication; CMP3312: Screenwriting; CMP4410: Mass Media History, Law, & Ethics; CMP4418: Feature Writing; CMP6630: Media and Culture

The range of courses I teach reflects how media necessarily intersect with our lives — economically, technologically, and politically. From newspapers and magazines to social media, as well as movies and television, we shouldn't just be consumers. We are, first and foremost, citizens of a democracy who must critically process and effectively negotiate the contemporary frenzy of communication all around us. That can be challenging but also exciting and full of opportunities. For students in my courses — and multiplatform journalism majors, in particular (who often go on to work across the media landscape spanning news, entertainment, sports, and politics) — that means nurturing a creative, polished professionalism armed with creativity, knowledge, and responsibility.

Research-wise, I examine journalism, media, and politics. I recently co-authored a book, The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion, published by the University of Chicago Press.

I have experience working as a journalist in Hawaii covering news, sports, and travel, and I spent some time in script development in Hollywood. I used to host a monthly program, Know Your Media, on our campus NPR affiliate, KISU-FM, and serve as one of the college’s pre-law advisors as well as a liaison for our exchange program with Karlstad University, in Sweden, where students can attend with a department scholarship.

Recent Publications:

Payton Gibbs

Visiting Assistant Lecturer

Office: Frazier Hall 220

paytongibbs@isu.edu

Fredi Giesler

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 322

(208) 282-1236

ednagiesler@isu.edu

Ph.D., University of Washington, WA, 2002
M.S.W., University of Washington, WA, 1991

Specialties: Prevention Science • Social Welfare Policy • Child and Family Welfare • Housing

Kristina Glick

Assistant Lecturer

Office: Fine Arts Building 404

(208) 282-2858

kristinaglick@isu.edu

Education:

MFA, East Carolina University (2007)

 Courses taught:

• Introduction to Art
• Metals and Jewelry

Janne Goldbeck

Professor of English (retired 2006)

goldh@isu.edu

PhD in English (1972), University of Oklahoma

Susan Goslee

Associate Professor of English

Office: LA 217

208-282-2470

sgoslee@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, Literature and Creative Writing (2007), University of Utah

MFA, Creative Writing- Poetry (2001), University of Alabama

BA, Psychology (1993), Swarthmore College

Current project

My current project emphasizes the role of fantasy in systems that transport and de-humanize their subjects. More specifically, I use the lyric to study coerced or violent displacement—from the flooding in the development of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s, to extraordinary rendition by the CIA, to child trafficking—and an understanding of systemic exploitation informs my approach to this topic. Appalachia figures prominently in the manuscript-in-progress as a case study of oppressive systems’ mechanisms.

I think the lyric, in particular, is well-suited for such destabilizations because systems that call attention to themselves, such as patterns of rhythm and sound, compose this form. Since the lyric spotlights its own machinery, it is able to interrogate the systemic.

This project grows out of issues explored in my completed poetry manuscript “Welcome to Kingdom City,” which has most recently been a semi-finalist for the 2017 Brittingham and Pollak Prizes, the 2016 Pleiades Editors’ Prize, and the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. For the poem series that anchors the manuscript, I use a derelict private game park, Ligertown, that ran in the 1990s in southeastern Idaho to explore humans’ contradictory response to fierce creatures and how their muteness (relative to human speech) enables such different reactions. Other poems examine isolation and imprisonment in other forms.

Recent Publications

"Poem" Stirring: A Literary Collection

"Wark, R., and Peck, C. 1982. Behavioral consequences of early visual exposure to contours of a single orientation. Developmental Brain Research. Oct Vol 5 (2): 218-221" Stirring: A Literary Collection

“Ligertown: Elegy” Western Humanities Review

“Ligertown: Welcome to Kingdom City” Western Humanities Review

“Ligertown: The schoolyard lion” Juked: Online

“Ligertown: Introduction” Permafrost: Online

“Ligertown: Responding Officer” Permafrost: Online

“Interregnum” Volt

“Extraordinary rendition, 2004” The Southampton Review

Editorial Position

Poetry Editor at Prompt Press (promptpress.org)

Faculty Advisor

Black Rock & Sage, ISU’s student journal of creative works (blackrockandsage.org)

Teaching Interests

Creative writing: poetry and prose, Literary Magazine Production, Creative Writing in the Schools, 19^th Century British Literature

Specializations

Creative writing: poetry

National and campus literary magazines

ISU Awards and Honors

Distinguished Teacher, 2012

Outstanding Service, 2010

Courses Taught

6662: Graduate Seminar in Creative Writing

4494: Senior Seminar in Creative Writing

4466/5566: Early Nineteenth-Century Literature: British

4409/5509: Literary Journal Production

4406/5506: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

4405/5505: Creative Writing in the Schools

3306: Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop

2268: Survey of British Literature II: 19th Century to Present

2206: Creative Writing Workshop

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

Drusilla Gould

Adjunct Lecturer

Office: Graveley Hall 155

208-282-2629

drusillagould@isu.edu

Dr. José Eduardo Villalobos Graillet

Assistant Professor, Spanish

josevillalobosgra@isu.edu

Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2022

José Eduardo Villalobos Graillet is an Assistant Professor of Spanish who specializes in Modern Peninsular Literature and Culture, with a focus on visual culture (film and television). He has authored the book La Celestina y el cine. Censura y recepción (1969-1996) (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2023). His current research includes studying the international film and televisual adaptations of La Celestina; the censorship and reception of the Spanish film Las melancólicas (1971) directed by Rafael Moreno Alba; and the representation of cannibalistic gastronomy in La semana del asesino (1972), directed by Eloy de la Iglesia and The Horror of Dolores Roach (2023) directed by Aaron Mark.

At Idaho State University, Dr. Villalobos Graillet teaches various courses for the Spanish undergraduate program, including Elementary Spanish, Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Introduction to Hispanic Literature, and Survey of Spanish Literature and Culture. For the graduate program in Spanish, he teaches courses such as Film and Franquismo, The Cinema of Almodóvar, Gastronomy in Hispanic Film and Literature, Spain’s Contemporary History through Graphic Novels, Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, Film Adaptation, Rural Spain, Spain in Eurovision, and Contemporary Spanish Cinema.

Dr. Villalobos Graillet’s website: https://hispanismo.cervantes.es/hispanistas/284495/villalobos-graillet-jose-eduardo

Darci Graves

MSW Director/Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Director/Assistant Professor of Social Work

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 353

(208) 282-3383

darcigraves@isu.edu

MSW - Boise State University, 2011
Ph.D. in Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education - Washington State University, 2019

Specialties: Anti-Poverty Social Work Practice • Social Policies on Poverty and Homelessness • U.S. Gun Culture • Qualitative and Arts-Informed Research Methods

Iris Gray

Adjunct Instructor

Office: Fine Arts 310

208-282-6652

Tamisha Green

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 160-A

tamishagreen@isu.edu

Caleb Greenwell

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 258-F

calebgreenwell@isu.edu

John Gribas

Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities, Professor for CMP

Office: Business Administration Building Room 247

(208) 282‐5801

johngribas@isu.edu

John Gribas

Professor & Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities

Office: Business Administration 247

(208) 282-5801

johngribas@isu.edu

Education: 

BS, Secondary Education, Eastern Montana College; MA/PhD, Communication Studies, University of Kansas

Emphasis:

Corporate Communication & Leadership

Courses Taught:

CMP3308: Groups and Communication; CMP4420: Advanced Leadership Communication

I grew up the son of a self-employed carpenter in northern Montana and attended Eastern Montana College (now MSU-Billings) as a first-generation college student. I began my career as an educator working with junior high and high school students in Billings, Montana, teaching art, language arts, theatre, English, and speech communication, and I coached competitive debate. I moved to the Midwest, earned my PhD in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas in 1993, and have been at ISU since 1996.

As a scholar, I am interested in exploring how language choices impact human thought and action. In particular, I am fascinated with ways people use metaphor to refer to themselves as organized groups. My interest in groups and communication really comes from many years of participation with educational, community, and professional summer repertory theatre. I love downhill skiing, remodeling my home, and, most of all, spending time with my family.

Selected Publications:

Jamie Gross

Administrative Assistant

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 307

(208) 282-2170

jamiegross@isu.edu

Yidan Guo

yidanguo@isu.edu

Website

Courses taught:

• Drawing

Sally Hageman

Assistant Professor of Social Work

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 350

(208) 282-3676

sallyhageman@isu.edu

Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 2019
M.S.W., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA, 2007

Specialties: Social Determinants of Health • Financial Capability Asset Building (FCAB)/Financial Social Work (FSW) • Public Health Social Work

Christopher Halsted

christopherhalste@isu.edu

*Richard Hansen, Ph.D.

Affiliated Researcher

Office: Graveley 153

208-436-9185

hansric2@isu.edu richardhansen4@isu.edu

Website

Background

Dr. Richard D. Hansen is a specialist on the early Maya and is the Director of the Mirador Basin Project in northern Guatemala. He has been conducting archaeological research and scientific studies in northern Guatemala for 38 years. He is an Affiliate Research Professor at Idaho State University, after serving as an Adjunct Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Utah from 2014 to 2021. He was formerly Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University for 8 years and was Senior Scientist at the Institute for Mesoamerican Research at ISU. Prior to that, he was Assistant Research Scientist (Level IV) at the UCLA Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics for 12 years. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Anthropological Research and Environmental Studies (FARES), a non-profit scientific research institution based in Idaho. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Archaeology from UCLA in 1992 as a National Graduate Fellow, a Jacob Javits National Fellow, the UCLA Hortense Fishbaugh Memorial Scholar, the UCLA Distinguished Scholar (1988), a Fulbright Scholar (Guatemala) (1989-1990), the UCLA Outstanding Graduate Student (1991), and the UCLA Chancellor's Marshall with highest honors (1992). He previously held a double major B.S. degree (cum laude) in Spanish and Archaeology from Brigham Young University in 1978, and a M.S. degree in Anthropology in 1984. He has published 3 books (2 as series editor), and is the editor of three more volumes currently in preparation. In addition, he has published 196 papers and book chapters in scientific and popular publications and has presented more than 400 professional papers and technical reports in scientific formats and symposia throughout the world. He has conducted and/or directed archaeological research in Israel, the U.S. Great Basin, U.S. Southwest, and Central America.

Hansen CV

Dr. Hansen was recently named as “one of 24 individuals that changed Latin America” by Bravo Association, Latin Trade Magazine, Dec. 2013). He was awarded the highest civilian award possible in Guatemala, the Gran Cruz of the Order of Quetzal on March 9, 2017 in the National Palace of Guatemala by President Jimmy Morales and Minister Jose Luis Chea and again, on the summit of Danta Pyramid at El Mirador a week later. He received the prestigious “Orden de la Monja Blanca) (highest civilian award possible) from the Ministry of Defense of Guatemala in November 2019. He was named the 2014 Kislak Lecturer at the U.S. Library of Congress, and was honored as the“Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” of the “Ordre des Arts et Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture in 2012. He was awarded the prestigious “Orden del Pop” by Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala in 2012. He was awarded the highest Idaho State University Achievement Award 2009 and was named Environmentalist of the Year in Latin America 2008 by the 161,000 members of the Latin Trade Bravo Business Association. He was awarded the National Order of the Cultural Patrimony of Guatemala by Guatemalan President Oscar Berger in December 2005. He was the founder of the renowned Dialogue of Civilizations Conferences hosted by the National Geographic Society, with recent conferences in Guatemala, Turkey, and China and more scheduled for India and Egypt. Hansen was the co-founder of the Guatemala-China Association for Culture, Tourism and Sports based in Guatemala City. Hansen’s research in the remote rainforests of northern Guatemala currently involves scholars from dozens of universities and research institutions from throughout the world. As a project, his team has currently published 322 scientific papers, abstracts, and book chapters, and 1209 technical reports and scientific presentations, and his project has mapped and excavated in 51 ancient cities in the Mirador Basin.

Mirador Basin Project Publications

   Hansen’s studies have identified some of the largest and earliest ancient cities in Central America, and his work has been an important contribution to the developmental history of Maya civilization. His work and conservation programs have been crucial in the conservation and protection of 810,000 acres of tropical forest in Guatemala. He was the Co- organizer of the major Maya exhibit from June to October 2011 at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, entitled Maya: From Dawn to Dusk. His work has recently been featured in 36 film documentaries, including National Geographic Specials, the Learning Channel, the Discovery Channel, Discovery Channel 3Net, ABC's 20/20, 60 Minutes Australia, ABC’s Good Morning America, ABC’s Primetime Live, CNN International Untold Stories, CNN Global Challenges, The History Channel, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) of London, Russia 1 Television, Alstom Foundation Films, Timeline Films (London), WGBH Television, Storybook Productions of Germany, Guatevison, and recent five episodes on Discovery Channel (“Expedition Unknown” and “After the Hunt”) (May-June 2018, Sept. 2019). He was the principal consultant for Mel Gibson’s movie, Apocalypto and CBS Survivor, Guatemala and participated with Morgan Freeman in “The Story of God”. Dr. Hansen and his wife, Jody, live with their children in Idaho and Guatemala.

Dana Harker

Instructor in English

Office: Online

danaharker@isu.edu

MA in English (2011), Idaho State University

Karen L. Hartman

Professor

Office: Frazier Hall 221

(208) 282-3233

karenhartman@isu.edu

Education:

BA, Communication Studies, Furman University; MA, Speech Communication, University of South Carolina; PhD, Rhetoric and Public Address, Louisiana State University

Emphasis:

Corporate Communication, Public Relations, Sport Communication

Courses Taught:

COMM1101: Public Speaking; CMP1110: Media Writing; CMP2241: Introduction to Public Relations; CMP3346: Public Relations Writing; CMP3347: Sport Communication; CMP4446: Public Relations Campaigns; CMP4440: Sport Public Relations; CMP6630: Crisis Communication

My research interests revolve largely around the role of sport in the United States and how language and public relations efforts frame athletes, organizations, and laws. I have authored over a dozen peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and book reviews and my work has been published in the Journal of Communication Studies, International Journal of Sport Communication, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Academic Exchange Quarterly, and the edited volume The ESPN Effect: Academic Studies of the Worldwide Leader in Sports.

I teach eight different courses in our department that largely include the courses in the public relations curriculum, as well as a sport communication elective and a graduate seminar on crisis communication. One of my favorite things about teaching is seeing the transformation within students when they move a topic from a mere curiosity to something that becomes inspirational and fulfilling in their lives.

Beyond the classroom I enjoy marveling at the Pocatello scenery, playing with my daughter, and eating greasy bar food while watching sports. Go Bengals!

Selected Publications:

Hartman, K. (2016). How did this end up on my doorstep? In D. Tucker & J. Wrench (Eds.), Casing Sport
Communication (pp. 196-203). Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt.

DiSanza, J., Gribas, J., Legge, N., Hartman, K., & Santee, C. (2016). Exploring the Alignment of Image
Repair Tactics to Audience Type. In J.R. Blaney (Ed.), Putting image repair to the test: Quantitative
applications of image restoration theory (pp. 41-61). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Hartman, K. (2015). ESPN’s mythological rhetoric of Title IX. In J. McGuire & G.
Armfield (Eds.), The ESPN effect: Academic studies of the worldwide leader in sports (pp. 97-109). New
York: Peter Lang.

Hartman, K. (2014). The “most evil thing about college sports”: The one-year scholarship and a
former NCAA athlete’s personal narrative. International Journal of Sport Communication, 7, 425-440.

Awards & Honors

Keynote Speaker for Idaho State University’s National Girls and Women in Sport Day. (2015)

Dr. Thom Hasenpflug

Professor of Music | Percussion | Composition

(208) 282-3636/3705

hasethom@isu.edu

• B.A; B.A. 1989, Ithaca College
• M.M. 1993, Ithaca College
• D.M.A. 1996, University of Colorado

Joined ISU Faculty in 2003

Dr. Thom Hasenpflug is nationally recognized as a unique performer and educational voice, while his compositions for percussion receive international recognition and are played all over the world. 

He has presented performances, clinics, residencies, and master classes at many universities, high schools, festivals, and Percussive Arts Society conventions and chapter days. A prize-winning composer, he has been commissioned by some of the field’s leading percussionists. His percussion quartet, Bicksa, remains one of the most widely-programmed collegiate percussion works of the past 30 years. International performances of his works have occurred in Vienna, London, Barcelona, Moscow, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Dublin, Brazil, Venezuela, Sweden, and other locales by various percussionists of note.  Perhaps of equal importance, he has embraced working with music programs in the local high schools of Idaho, from Idaho Falls to Boise. He is a member of the College of Arts and Letters Liberal Arts High team, and serves as a regional clinician to public schools on demand.

Currently a Professor of Music at Idaho State University, Dr. Hasenpflug has been the recipient of ISU faculty recognition awards for both Outstanding Researcher (2013, 2017) and Outstanding Service (2010), and most recently received the award for Distinguished Researcher (2022). As a resident of Pocatello, Idaho, he serves as Principal Timpanist of the Idaho State Civic Symphony. He has furthermore performed as a member of numerous symphonic organizations, including as principal in the South Dakota Symphony, as a sub in Boise Philharmonic, and in symphonic and freelance capacities with artists as diverse as Bela Fleck, Peter Cetera, the Moody Blues, Blood Sweat and Tears, and many others.

He received his degrees in percussion and composition from Ithaca College and the University of Colorado. He has held prior teaching posts at Drake University, the University of South Dakota, Emporia State University, and the summer Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts. His principal teachers have included Gordon Stout and Doug Walter for percussion, and Greg Woodward, Dana Wilson, and Joe Lukasik for composition.

Thom Hasenpflug has percussion works published through K.P.P. (a division of Malletech – MPI), Alfred Music, Bachovich Music, Tapspace, and C. Alan Publications, former publishers Go Fish Music and Penn Oak Press, as well as his own label, “Hasenworks.” He is a proud product endorser of Salyers Percussion (sticks and mallets), Remo Drumheads, Sabian Cymbals and as a performing artist for the Yamaha Corporation of America. 

He has a wife and as of this writing four bunny rabbits; Originally from New York, he has lived in Pocatello, Idaho, since 2003. He enjoys cooking, skiing, poker, craft breweries, Mexico, and fantasy sports.

Linda Hatzenbuehler, Ph.D., ABPP

Associate Vice President & Executive Dean Emeritus, Division of Health Sciences

lindahatzenbuehler@isu.edu

B.A. (1969), John Carroll University;
M.S. (1971) and Ph.D. (1977), Kent State University.

Research Interests

Research interests include forensic psychology; assertive communication. Dr. Hatzenbuehler is the Dean of the College of Health Professions and, therefore, only works part-time in the department.

Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler

ronaldhatzenbuehl@isu.edu

Earning M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history at Kent State University, Ron Hatzenbuehler taught at ISU from 1972 until his retirement in 2013 (emeritus professor, 2014). His books include: Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership and Partisanship in the Early Republic (1983 [with Robert L. Ivie]); ‘I Tremble for My Country’: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry (2006) and Jefferson, Lincoln, and the Unfinished Work of the Nation (2016).  In 1994, he was honored as ISU’s Distinguished Teacher, and in 2008 he received the Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities Award, given annually by the Idaho Humanities Council. He lives in Pocatello, Idaho, with his wife Linda.

Gesine Hearn

BA in Sociology Program Director/Professor of Sociology

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 360

(208) 282-4947

gesinehearn@isu.edu

Ph.D., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2006
R.N., Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1987
M.A., Eberhard-Karls-Universitat, Tubingen, Germany, 1993

Specialties: Medical Sociology • Sociology of Health and Illness • Families

David Heath

Senior Lecturer, Spanish

(208) 282-2056

davidheath@isu.edu

David Heath, Senior Lecturer, Spanish. David Heath, Senior Lecturer MA Latin American Studies (University of Kansas), BA Spanish (Idaho State University). Mr. Heath teaches first and second year Spanish, and has taught Spanish for Health Care. He is also an Early College Program liaison for several area high schools and is the coordinator for Spanish 101-102. Mr. Heath lived in Puerto Rico for two years and has an interest in the Spanish-speaking cultures of the Caribbean.

Zackery Heern

Associate Dean for Social and Behavioral Sciences, Professor - Middle East, Islam, World History

Office: Business Administration Building Room 249

(208) 282-3211

zackeryheern@isu.edu

Zackery Mirza Heern

Associate Dean for the Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Arts and Letters, Professor of History - Middle East, Islam, World History

Office: LA 333

208-282-2379

zackeryheern@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Utah, History
M.A., University of Utah, Middle East Studies
B.A., UCLA, History 

Research and Teaching Interests

Middle East, Islam, World History, Iran, Iraq, Shiʿism, Bábí and Bahá’í studies, Arabic, Persian

Books

The Emergence of Modern Shi‘ism: Islamic Reform in Iraq and Iran. London: Oneworld Publications, 2015.

Shi‘i Law and Leadership: The Influence of Mortaza Ansari. Saarbrucken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010. 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“The Bāb and ʿAlī Muḥammad, Islamic and Post-Islamic: Multiple Meanings in the Writings of Sayyid ʿAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī (1819– 1850),” Religions, 2023.

“Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr (d. 1980),” The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, Edited by Kate Fleet, et. al. Leiden: Brill, 2022: 23-28.

“Muḥammad Bāqir al-Majlisī (d. 1110/1698),” The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, Edited by Kate Fleet, et. al. Leiden: Brill, 2022: 84-90.

“Shiʿi Educational Traditions and Systems in Early Modern Iraq and Iran,” in History of Early Modern Educational Thought. Edited by Cristiano Casalini, et. al. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

“Muḥammad Bāqir Khwānsārī (1811-1895),” The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, Edited by Kate Fleet, et. al. Leiden: Brill, 2020: 97-98.

“Ijtihad and Anti-Ijtihad in Shiʿi History,” in Ijtihad and Taqlid: Past, Present, and Future. Birmingham: Al-Mahdi Institute, 2019.

“Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Kalbāsī (1766–1845),” The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, Edited by Kate Fleet, et. al. Leiden: Brill, 2019: 79-80.

“Āyatallāh Abū l-Qāsim Kāshānī (1882–1962),” The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three, Edited by Kate Fleet, et. al. Leiden: Brill, 2019: 90-92.

“Three Sources of Shiʿi Knowledge and Authority: Texts, Reason, and Mysticism in Islamic Intellectual History,” Journal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies. Winter-Spring 2018 Vol. XI, No. 1-2, pp. 43-78.

“One Thousand Years of Islamic Education in Najaf: Myth and History of the Shi‘i Hawza,” Iranian Studies. Vol. 50, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 415-438

“Thou Shalt Emulate the Most Knowledgeable Living Cleric: Redefinition of Islamic Law and Authority in Usuli Shi‘ism,” Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies. Vol. VII, No. 3, Summer 2014, pp. 321-344.

“Minority Religions in the Middle East: 1250-1920,” in Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, Edited by Andrea L. Stanton, et. al. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2012, pp. 159-162.

Selected Public-Facing Articles

“Who are the Bahaʾis and why are they so persecuted?” The Conversation, 2017.

“Iran’s Presidential Elections and Renewed Efforts to Release Bahaʾi Leaders,” Muftah, 2017.

“Understanding the Emergence of Modern Shiʿism,” Your Middle East, 2015.

“Iranian Ayatollah Defends Bahaʾi Rights and Goes Head-to-Head with the Regime,” Your Middle East and Iran Press Watch, 2014.

“Empty Charm or Game Changing Substance? How to Read Iran,” World Affairs Journal and Your Middle East, 2013.

“Propaganda of Death Becomes Reality for Bahaʾis in Iran,” Your Middle East, 2013.

“Iran’s Human Rights Crisis and the Bahaʾi Faith,” Your Middle East, 2013.

Courses Taught

ARBC 1101 Elementary Arabic I
ARBC 1102 Elementary Arabic II
HIST 1102 World History II
HIST 2254 Middle East History and Culture
HIST 4419/5519 History of World Religions
HIST 4476/5576 Modern Middle East
HIST 4454/5554 Modern Iraq and Iran
HIST 4474/5574 Islam in the Modern World
HIST 4440/5540 History of Revolutions
HIST 4491 Seminar
HIST 6600 Proseminar

Hal Hellwig

Professor of English

Office: LA 207-D

208-282-2610

haroldhellwig@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD in English (1985), University of California, Los Angeles

MA in English (1976), California State University, Fullerton

BA in English (1972), State University of New York, Buffalo

I’m a recognized Mark Twain scholar, having published a book on his travel works, and I present conference papers on his work internationally and nationally.  I have a book contract with Lexington Books for Film Noir Genres, which will be in press in 2022 or early 2023. 

A definition of film noir tends to circle around the notion that an individual (usually male) finds himself lost in an urban setting, beset by corrupt or criminal characters, seduced by a devious woman (the stock character, femme fatale), and attempts to right wrongs committed in that film.  The setting can include a diseased large urban area--Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York the usual cesspools of humanity--with these cities described in terms of a labyrinth or maze, which the protagonist needs to navigate to survive. It rains a lot, daylight scenes are rare, and the city is filled with dark creatures of the night.

I argue that film noir depends a good deal on the literature embedded in American culture well before the immediate experiences and influences of the 1930's, that American literature of earlier periods- to those writers deriving from the Transcendentalist period- helped created the environment for film noir.  Film noir evolved from a literary tradition to a set of film adaptations that focus on the isolated self in society and transformed itself into a convention-bound set of genres much different from the defective detective or manipulated male found in classic films such as Out of the Past, The Big Sleep, or Double Indemnity.   These new genres include science fiction in television and movies; comedy in television; Western in movies and in television; forensic science in television; and an assortment of urban crime shows in television.

I have expanded my work on travel to about 45 American writers, artists, and sculptors who traveled to or lived in Italy, primarily Venice, with a focus on their secular appropriation of religious concepts.

I spent some time in 2017 at the Vittore Branca Center, a residential center sponsored by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini (an educational/cultural institution based on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore), working in the Nuova Manica Lunga, a library with extensive material on art history, on the culture of Venice, on music, on theatre, and on literature.  I have also presented conference papers on the topic of the influence of Italian culture on American literature, one in Venice.  My latest article on this research interest appeared in the fall of 2021.

I have expertise in the fields of rhetoric and composition, with publications in those areas, and with administrative experience as the Director of Composition (nearly nine years). I have been the General Editor of a previous self-study accreditation report for ISU.  I am a Consulting Editor for The Explicator (over ten years). Some of my former students have done well (employed as university professors, business executives, technical writers); one recently (2019) received a $1,000 award for his entry in the Norton Writer's Prize contest (a national recognition).

Book

Mark Twain's Travel Literature: The Odyssey of a Mind. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press (2008).

Film Noir Genres.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (late 2022, or early 2023)

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

"Innocence at Home": The Cultural Influence of Italy on Mark Twain's Life,” Mark Twain Journal, Volume 59, Number 2, Fall 2021.  77-105.

“Frasier: A Film Noir Comedy,” Journal of Popular Film and Television. Volume 48, Issue 1. 2-12. 2020.

Book Review: Mark Twain Annual, Volume 16, 186-189. On Wonder and Irony with Henry James and Mark Twain in the Venice Ducal Palace. Rosella Mamoli Zorzi. Venice: Supernova, 2018.

Book Review: South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association. Vol. 34, No. 2. Summer 2017. On Faulkner and Film, edited by Philip Lurie and Ann J. Abadie, introduction by Philip Lurie. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. 72-75.

“William Blake’s Jerusalem and the Los Angeles of Film Noir,” Philosophy and Literature, Volume 38, Number 1, April 2014.

"Venice and the Decline of the West: Henry James, Mark Twain, and the Memorials of the Past," Henry James Today, John Carlos Rowe, editor, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014.

Recent Presentations

"Venice, Italy, and the Influence on Twain's Life and Satire on Capitalism," 'Humor in America' conference sponsored by the American Humor Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle of America. Chicago, Illinois. July 12-14, 2018.

"'Innocence at Home': Mark Twain's Italian Villa, Stormfield, and the Cultural Influence of Italy on Quarry Farm." The Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. Elmira College, New York. August 5, 2017.

"Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad: Among the Monuments of Time." Presented to the faculty and students at the University of Venice. April 10, 2017. Ca'Bernardo, Sala B. Organizzato da Daniela Ciari Forza. Universta Ca'Foscari Venezia. Dipartimento di Studie Linguistici e Culturali Comparati.

"Venice: Mark Twain, A Vulgar Tourist Among the Phantoms of Poetry and Romance." Mark Twain Special Session. Dallas, Texas: South Central Modern Language Association Convention, November 3, 2016.

"Classroom Example of Twain's Following the Equator as a Digital Edition." Program arranged by the Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions, a session entitled "Pedagogy and Digital Editions." Vancouver: Modern Language Association Convention. January 2015.

"'Innocence at Home': Stormfield, Quarry Farm, and Mark Twain's Amanuensis of Time." The Seventh International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. Elmira College, New York. August 2, 2013.

"Venice: Confluence of Images, Myth, and Vision," Henry James, Mark Twain, and Globalization. Program arranged by the Mark Twain Circle of America and the Henry James Society. Boston, Massachusetts: Modern Language Association Convention, January 4, 2013.

Courses Taught

English 6666: Nineteenth Century Literature - Travel Literature

English 6627: Major Authors - Mark Twain

English 6621: Place in Detective Fiction (partially online)

English 3353: The West in American Literature

English 3308: Business Communications (both classroom and online)

English 3307: Professional and Technical Writing (both classroom and online)

English 1126: Art of Film I

English 1102: Writing and Rhetoric II (both classroom and online)

Michael Helman

Instructor of Music | Horns

(208) 282-3636

helmmic2@isu.edu

• B.Mus. 2001, Columbus State University
• M.A. 2004, University of Iowa

Dr. Shandra Helman

Professor of Music | Clarinet & Saxophone| Woodwind Area Coordinator | Chair of the Music Department

(208) 282-3024

helmsha2@isu.edu

• B.Mus. 2000, Lawrence University
• M.A. 2004, University of Iowa
• D.M.A. 2008, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Helman Music

D'Addario

Joined ISU Faculty in 2008

Kelsie Hendrickson, Ph.D.

kelsiehendrickson@isu.edu

Kelsie Hendrickson, PhD, ABPP is a licensed psychologist who specializes in OCD, anxiety, tics/Tourette syndrome, and eating disorders. She earned her doctoral degree from Idaho State University (go Bengals!). Dr. Hendrickson provides assessment, treatment, and consultation services at St. Luke’s Health System (Twin Falls, Idaho). She also enjoys teaching undergraduate courses and provides clinical supervision to graduate students. Dr. Hendrickson serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (ABCCAP) and is actively involved in the Idaho Psychological Association advocating for greater access to mental health services and training programs. Her research interests include behavioral economics, mindfulness, and eating behavior; she has published several peer-reviewed articles on these topics.

*Richard Holmer, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

richardholmer@isu.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Background

Rick Holmer is professor of anthropology at Idaho State University where he has taught since 1983. He earned a Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Utah and has conducted archaeological research in Mexico, Samoa, the American Desert West, and Alaska.

Holmer CV

Meg Holmes

Promotions Director and Business Manager, School of Performing Arts

Office: PAC 313

(208) 282-6452

megstover@isu.edu

Anthony Hoskin

Criminology Program Director/Professor of Sociology

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 363

(208) 282-2576

anthonyhoskin@isu.edu

Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1999

Specialties: Interpersonal Violence • Biosocial Criminology • Quantitative Methods

Allison Huerta, LMSW

Title IV-E Child Welfare Scholars Coordinator

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 321

(208) 282-2851

allisonhuerta@isu.edu

Susan Hughes

Instructor of Music | Oboe

(208) 282-2194

hughsusa@isu.edu

• B.M.E. 1985, Idaho State University

Joined ISU Faculty in 2001

Ms. Hughes has held the principal oboe chair with the Idaho State Civic Symphony since 1990. She is a founding member of the City Creek Winds and has been a featured soloist with Idaho State University Wind Ensemble and the Idaho State Civic Symphony. She has also performed with the Idaho Falls Symphony Orchestra as an oboist and on English Horn. Her chamber music experience includes performances with the Teton Chamber Orchestra, the Snake River Chamber Orchestra and The Sun Valley Summer Symphony. Susan has also played in orchestras supporting many popular artists such as Kurt Bestor and Chris Botti.

She is currently instructor of oboe at Idaho State University and has maintained a presence in the state as a studio teacher and clinician. Her private students have been successful in state and regional festivals, honor groups and competitions. Several of her students are pursuing advanced training in preparation for careers in performance and education.

Susan has participated in Master classes with John Mack, Robert Stephenson, Martin Schuring and Carolyn Hove. In addition to her studies as a performer, Susan has studied Body Mapping with founder Barbara Conable and oboist Dr. Stephen Capland.

Marjanna Hulet

Instructor in English

Office: BA B18

marjannahulet@isu.edu

MA in English (1992), Idaho State University

Kristine Hunt

kristinehunt@isu.edu

Education

MA Idaho State University

Education
MA, Idaho State University, Historical Resources Management
BA, University of California, Irvine, English 

Research Interests

Race and gender in US history; Holocaust studies; material culture and historical architecture; the intersection of history and genealogy

Publications

Master’s thesis, “‘Everybody Has a Bungalow Hope’: Housing and Occupation in the US West, 1920,” 2017

“‘Our Bungalow Dreams’: Housing and Occupation in the US West, 1920,” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Volume 78 (2016).

Cartography and Digital Projects

“The Holocaust Across the Globe: Cartography, Genealogy, History,” an ArcGIS StoryMap, in progress

Cartographer, “Lands of Hawise of Bacqueville in Dorset, 1086,” and “11th Century Donations to the Abbey of Montivilliers by Pays de Caux Property Holders” maps for Dr. Stephanie Christelow, “French Women in Early Norman England: The Case of Hawise of Bacqueville,” presentation at Conquest: 1016, 1066 Conference, University of Oxford, July 2016

Cartographer, “Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s Wartime and Postwar Travels, 1918–1923,” in Erika Kuhlman, The International Migration of German Great War Veterans: Emotion, Transnational Identity, and Loyalty to the Nation, 1914–1942, Palgrave, 2016.

Courses Taught

HIST 1101, History in Film

HIST 1111, US History to 1865

HIST 1118, US History and Culture

HIST 2201, Women in US History

Ann Hunter

Professor Emeritus

annhunter@isu.edu

Ph.D., University of North Texas, 1991
M.A., University of North Texas, 1986

Bethany Schultz Hurst

Professor of English

Office: LA 156

208-282-3542

bethanyhurst@isu.edu

EDUCATION

MFA, Creative Writing (2003), Eastern Washington University

BA, English (2000), Colorado State University

"To be haunted — one need not be a house" —Emily Dickinson

In my poetry, I aim to employ lyric form to explore the ways in which the contemporary United States West, in particular, may be haunted by the ideologies that drove 19th-century white settlement and continue to justify land-use policy today. Of the lyric form, Helen Vendler notes that “we are drawn in by the architecture of the poem—the manner in which its parts are arranged, so as to make a structure that reflects emotional intensity.” Because of the lyric’s relationship to both interiority and artifice/construction, I think of it as an ideal formal approach for investigating the impact of collective cultural imaginations on built environments.

Book

Blueprint and Ruin. Southern Indiana Review Press, 2022. Michael Waters Poetry Prize.

Miss Lost Nation. Anhinga Press, 2014. Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, selected by Richard Blanco. Finalist, 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

Selected Recent/Forthcoming Poems in Journals

"Exposure," Southern Humanities Review

"The Birds Are Always in the Corn," Terrain.org

"Donner Party," "Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria," and "Mylar," South Dakota Review 

“Keepsake” Grist

“what now have you been eating?” Image

“Notes on Pet Monkeys and How to Manage Them: Classification, Cage Items, Ailments, Concluding Observations” The Florida Review

“Evensong (O Bewildering Picture)” Ecotone

“Exile Queen” New Ohio Review

“Broken Water Main” Split Rock Review (Pushcart Prize Nomination)

“No Season for Figs” and “Parable” Ploughshares 

“Notes on Pet Monkeys and How to Manage Them: General Management” Juked (Pushcart Prize Nomination)

"Seascape with Evacuating Animals" Gulf Coast

Selected Awards/Honors

Humboldt Prize for Poetry. The Florida Review, 2020

Runner-up, Auburn Witness Prize for Poetry. Southern Humanities Review, 2020. 

Idaho Commission on the Arts Literary Fellowship, 2017

Finalist, Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Claremont Graduate College, 2016

The Best American Poetry 2015

Master Researcher, ISU, 2015

Outstanding Service, ISU, 2011

Distinguished Teacher, ISU, 2008

Courses Taught

6662: Creative Writing Seminar: The Political Poem

4494: Senior Seminar: Creative Writing

4408/5508: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop: Prose

4406/5506: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry

3306: Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop

2206: Introduction to Creative Writing Workshop

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

1101: Writing and Rhetoric I

Lexii Jackson

Administrative Assistant II

Office: Business Administration Building Room 248

208‐282‐3204

jackalex@isu.edu

Jona Jacobson, DSW, LCSW

Visiting Lecturer

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 319

(208) 282-4056

jonajacobson2@isu.edu

D.S.W., 2022

M.S.W., Walla Walla University, 2016

Ronald James

ronaldjames@isu.edu

Jihae Jang

Office: Fine Arts 310

208-282-6652

jihaejang@isu.edu

Courses taught:

• Introduction to Art

Ines W. Jindra

BASW Program Director/Associate Professor of Social Work

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 349

(208) 282-3369

ineswengerjindra@isu.edu

Website

MSW, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
PhD, Department of Education and Educational Psychology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Specialties: Narrative Biographical Interviews • Homelessness and Poverty • Faith-based Organizations, Religion, and Spirituality 

Victor Joe, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, Experimental Psychology

victorjoe@isu.edu

B.S. (1965), Lewis & Clark College;
M.S. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972), University of Montana.

Research Interests

Research interests include psychology of conservatism, learned helplessness, and dispositional forgiveness.

Alan Johnson

Professor of English

Office: LA 212

208-282-2198

alanjohnson@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, English (1998), University of California, Riverside

MA, English (1988), University of Virginia

BA, English (1984), Southern Illinois University

My expertise is in postcolonial literature and theory, with an emphasis on India, where I was raised. Like my colleagues, I teach a variety of other courses besides my specialty, such as postcolonial ecocriticism, history of the novel, religion and literature, major figures (Rushdie, Naipaul), , literary theory, comparative literature, national literatures, writing about literature, honors humanities, first year writing, and an honors  class on Hindi (Bollywood) film. In 2010 I was a Fulbright-Nehru lecturer in India, focusing on “globalization and the place of literature,” and I've traveled throughout India for research, conferences, and talks. My current project, for which I received a 2016-17 Fulbright-Nehru research award, is an interdisciplinary study of depictions of forests in Indian literature. My interdisciplinary interests have taken me to conferences around the U.S., such as ASLE and RMMLA, as well as to India, Sri Lanka, Singapore, the Philippines, England, France, and Canada, and to literary festivals in India. I currently serve as the university’s Fulbright Program Adviser.

Books- Academic

 India’s Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation. London: Bloomsbury, January 2023. 

Postcolonial Literature Today, co-edited with Jagdish Batra (New Delhi: Prestige, 2015).

Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement (Univ. of Hawai'i, 2011).

Books- Novel

Family Plot (as A. G. Johnson), Vishwakarma Publishers, India. Mystery novelist Sujata Massey calls it “an accomplished” novel that “meld[s] the beauty and rich history of South India with a puzzling crime. I quickly fell under the spell of Johnson's elegant writing and innate understanding of local voices, history and hill station life.”

Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Da Gama to Ghosh, and Points in Between: Littoral Forests and Cultures of Trade.” Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism inaugural issue (Singapore), August 2021. 18-41.

“Shadows of Enchantment in Indian Forest Fiction: Mahasweta Devi’s “The Hunt” and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey,” in Dwellings in Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth, ed. Bénédicte Meillon (France), Rowman & Littlefield, Nov. 2020.

“'Mera Joota Hai Japani': Memory, Context, Play," in Osmania Journal of English Studies (Hyderabad, India), 2019 issue, pp.1-14.

“Teaching Amitav Ghosh in an Upper Division Single Author Course,” Teaching Amitav Ghosh MLA series volume, ed. Gaurav Desai and John Hawley; April 2019

“Fraudulence, Knowledge, and Post-Imperial Geographies in John Le Carré’s Fiction: A Cavellian Postcolonial Reading,” by Alan Johnson, in Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding, ed. Garry L. Hagberg. Springer, Nov. 2018, 265-292    https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-97466-8

“Narrative Identities in India’s Global Age,” in Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education, ed. Brian Attebery et al. Routledge, 2017. 47-67

“‘Going Jungli’: Flora Annie Steel’s Wild Civility,” Flora Annie Steel: A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib, ed. Susmita Roye, University of Alberta Press, 123-160

“Cross-cultural Humanities,” Rendezvous: Journal of Arts & Letters 43:1 & 2, special issue on State of the Humanities, ed. S. Sieber and A. Petit, Spring 2017: 9-18

"Sacred Forest, Maternal Space, and National Narrative in Mahasweta Devi's Fiction," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 23:2 (Summer 2016): 506-525

“Landscapes of Terror and Nation in Hindi Film: The Case of Dil Se,” Weber—The Contemporary West, special South Asia Focus issue, ed. Michael Wutz, T. Vijay Kumar, and Kerstin Schmidt, 32:2 (Spr/Sum 2016): 35-48

“Local Writing is World Writing: Reflections on Literary Studies in a Global Age,” The Atlantic Critical Review (India) 13:2 (April-June 2014): 1-15

“The American Hero’s Passage to India: Geography, Frontier Myths, and Planetary Perspectives,” Writing Today (India) 1:2 (Jan. 2014): 1-12

“Ghosts of Irish Famine in J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature (London) 46:2 (June 2011): 275-92

“The Savage City: Locating Colonial Modernity,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 25.4 (2003): 315-32

"Culture, Metaphor, Art: The Context of Beauty,” Rendezvous: Idaho State University Journal of Arts and Letters 36:1 (Fall 2000): 23-36

“Club Members?: Reading John Masters’s Bhowani Junction,” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (London), Summer 2000: 3-26

Other Publications

“Wasteland, Forest, and Emplacement: The Promise (and Peril) of Narration,” Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis, ed. Shruti Das; New Delhi: Authors Press, 2016. 21-39

"Anglo-Indians and Globalization," The Way We Are, ed. L. Crumb and D. Van Veldhuisen (New York: CTR Inc., 2008): 252-56

"Picturing Violence in an Age of Technological Reproduction," Literature in Times of Violence, ed. G. R. Kataria and S. Mandal. Delhi: Prestige Books, 2008

Awards/Honors

Fulbright-Nehru awards to India, 2010 (lecturer) and 2016-17 (researcher)

Idaho Humanities Center award for research in India, 2014

Two sabbaticals, as well as several Idaho State University grants

Outstanding Researcher, ISU, 2012

Courses Taught

Postcolonial, comparative, and world literatures; graduate seminars in literary theory, religion and literature, history of the novel, and politics and the novel; major figures; national literatures; introductory literature; senior seminars on such topics as ecocriticism; first year writing; Honors Humanities; and Honors short course on Hindi film

Additional information, including some papers, CV, is available at Academia.edu and at alangjohnson.wordpress.com.

Colin Johnson

Assistant Professor

Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-2540

colinjohnson@isu.edu

Website

Ph.D. Brown University, 2017

Dr. Colin Johnson's research is at the intersection of international migration and development, incorporating human security, political demography, and ethnic conflict. His empirical expertise is in post-communist Eurasia, including field experience in the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. 

Dr. Johnson received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2017 and then taught as a UCIS Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Political Science at the Universit of Pittsburgh from 2017-2019.

Curriculum Vitae

Elisa Johnson

Assistant Lecturer

Office: Frazier Hall 216E

208-282-5444

elisajohnson@isu.edu

Emphasis:

Speech Communication

Courses Taught:

Comm1101 Principles of Speech; CMP 2209 Persuasion; CMP 3308 Groups and Communication; ROAR 1199 First Roar

Margaret Johnson

Professor of English; Director of Composition- Sabbatical Fall 2023

Office: LA 235

208-282-2531

margaretjohnson@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, English (1998), University of Oregon

MA, English (1990), San Jose State University

BS, Business Administration - Accounting (1986), University of California, Berkeley

I work in the fields of rhetoric and composition, postmodern fiction, and film studies.  In the area of rhetoric and composition, my work focuses on pedagogical issues; in postmodern fiction, I deal mostly with issues of style and form.  My research in film deals primarily with genre studies and queer theory.  I regularly teach courses in all three areas.

Selected Publications

My work has appeared in the following publications: Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film-Philosophy Quarterly, Popular Culture in Libraries, Genre, The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film, and CEA Forum.  I have an article in the book The Geographical Imagination of Annie Proulx: Rethinking Regionalism (edited by Alex Hunt), and I wrote the Instructor’s Manual for The Shape of Reason, 3rd edition. My book Literary Studies: A Practical Guide was co-authored with Tison Pugh.

Courses Taught

6642: Seminar in Oral/Popular Culture: Film Adaptation

6632: Seminar in Teaching Literature

6631: Seminar in Teaching Writing

6627: Seminar in Major Literary Figures: John Barth and Don DeLillo

6625: Seminar in a Literary Period: The Problem(s) of the Postmodern

6610: Careers in English

4493: Senior Seminar in Professional Writing

4492: Senior Seminar in Literature: The Problem of Fiction

4469/5569: Contemporary Literature: Postmodernism

4431/5531: Teaching and Writing Projects

4401/5501: Advanced Composition

3323: Genre Studies in Drama

3308: Business Communications

3305: Art of Film II: Romantic Comedy

2278: Survey of American Literature II

2268: Survey of World Literature II

2267: Survey of World Literature I

1126: Art of Film I

Paula Jull

Professor Emeritus

paulajull@isu.edu

Emphasis:

Visual Communication & Graphic Design

Paula Jull specializes in graphic design, book arts, and photography. Professor Jull earned an MFA in printmaking at Indiana University's School of Fine Arts and is a founder of the Pocatello Book Arts Group and has exhibited in many regional and national exhibits. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Special Collections Departments of the Virginia Commonwealth University, the Otis College of Art, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Utah. Her books are also featured in 500 Handmade Books, 2nd ed., 500 Handmade Books, Volume 2, and Handmade Books, Studio Series, all published by Lark Crafts Press.

Edward F. Kammerer, Jr.

Assistant Professor

Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-2799

edwardkammerer@isu.edu

Website

Ph.D. Northeastern University, 2014

Dr. Edward Kammerer joined the Political Science Department in 2019. He taught previously at Northeastern University, Skidmore College, and Occidental College. His research and teaching interests are centered on the role of the court system in public policy change, with a particular focus on LGBT rights. He is particularly interested in the role of framing and storytelling in the arguments litigators use in the courts. He also researches political science pedagogy, with a particular focus on simulations in the classroom.

Curriculum Vitae

Holly Kartchner

Director of Outreach & Retention

208‐282‐5362

hollykartchner@isu.edu

Ananda Keator

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: SPAC 240G

(208) 282-2783

keatanan@isu.edu

M.F.A. 2018, University of Texas

Joined ISU Faculty in 2019.

Ananda Keator earned her MFA from University of Texas at Austin in 2018 in Costume Technology . Previous to that her work had been seen in many places including Miami, DC and New York City.  Some of her past favorites include "Elmer Gantry" for Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va, "Figure in the Distance" an original ballet piece choreographed by Tom Mattingly for Richmond Ballet and "Moonlight and Magnolias" for Actors Playhouse Theatre in Miami. 

John Kijinski

Professor of English (retired 2007)

PhD in English (1985), University of Wisconsin

Jeehoon Kim

Associate Professor of Social Work

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 320

(208) 282-4868

jeehoonkim@isu.edu

Ph.D., University at Albany, NY, 2011
M.S.W., University at Albany, NY, 2003
M.H.E., Seoul National University, 1997

Specialties: Aging and Family Studies • Macro Practice • Social Policy • Quantitative Research Method

Kenneth Kim

Assistant Professor

Office: Frazier Hall 219

208-282-5673

kennethkim@isu.edu

Education:

BA, Mass Communication, Korea University; MA, Communication, Korea University; PhD, Mass Communication (advertising emphasis), University of Florida

Emphasis:

Advertising, Strategic Communications, Framing

Courses Taught:

CMP 2203: Media Literacy; CMP 2261: Introduction to Advertising; CMP3365: Advertising Strategy and Copywriting; CMP 3367: Media Analytics, CMP 4406: National Student Advertising Competition

Dr. Kim teaches advertising subjects at ISU. His research focuses on the cognitive effects of various advertising tactics, with an emphasis on strategic message use and its impact on persuasiveness in health promotion and political advertising. Dr. Kim's scholarship has been recognized with the Best Paper Award from the International Journal of Advertising, as well as top paper awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Alumni Fellowship Award from the University of Florida.

Selected Publications:

• Kim, K. E., & McKinnon, L. M. (2023). An Experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Negative Campaign Messaging: Will Outcome Framing Work for Partisans in Polarized Politics? Journal of Creative Communications. 18(1), 26-39. 
  
  
• Kim, K. E. (2021). Free Flu Shots vs. Herd Immunity in Flu Vaccination Advertising: The Interaction of Attribute Type and Message Sidedness on Flu Vaccination Judgment. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing. 15(2), 298-311. 
  
  
• Kim, K. E., & Patnode, R. (2021). Sports Media versus News Media: Perceptions of Media Bias in Coverage of the NFL National Anthem Protest in 2017. Journal of Sports Media. 16(1), 1-19. 
  
  
• Kim, K. E., & McKinnon, L. M. (2020). Framing financial advertising: message effectiveness in intertemporal choice. Journal of Marketing Communications. 26(3). 328-342
  
  
• Kim, K. E. (2020). Stealing Thunder in Negative Political Advertising: The Persuasive Impact of One-sided and Two-sided Negative Messages on Partisan Individuals. Journal of Creative Communications. 15(1), 7-18. 
  
  
• Kim, K. E. (2019). The hostile media phenomenon: Testing the effect of news framing on perceptions of media bias. Communication Research Reports. 34(1), 35-44. 

Awards & Honors

• College of Business Research Grant, Murray State University (2022)
• Research Sabbatical Award, Xavier University (2019-2020)
• Top Paper Awards: The Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) (2018/2012/2011)

Kathleen King

Professor of English (retired 2007)

kathleenking@isu.edu

PhD in English (1984), University of Nebraska – Lincoln

William L. King

Professor of Philosophy (retired 1994)

PhD in Philosophy (1968), Stanford University

Kellee J. Kirkpatrick

Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of American Politics and Public Policy

Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-2550

kelleekirkpatrick@isu.edu

Website

Ph.D. University of Kansas, 2012

Dr. Kellee J. Kirkpatrick earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kansas where she concentrated her studies in American politics and public policy. She also earned a graduate certificate in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from KU. Dr. Kirkpatrick has a diverse educational background including a master's degree in Strategic Communications and undergraduate degrees in Public Relations, Print Journalism, and Vocal Performance. 

Dr. Kirkpatrick's research agenda examines issues of women’s health and reproductive policy and specifically focuses on questions that concern how and why governments regulate private, social issues. Her research often explores how policy evolves at the intersection of morality and economic interests.  Because these issues are often the focus of public attention, her research examines how interest group activity and media frames influence public opinion, political behavior, and the policy process. Dr. Kirkpatrick has published her work in academic journals including Policy Studies Journal, Politics, Groups and Identities, and Climate.

Dr. Kirkpatrick has extensive teaching experience at several universities including the University of Kansas, Texas A&M University, the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and now Idaho State University. She has taught courses in American politics, state politics, public policy, research methods, media and politics, women in politics, health policy, reproductive politics, and grant writing. She enjoys engaging students in the research process and has co-authored several conference papers and journal articles with her undergraduate and graduate students. She is currently the adviser of the Political Science Club and the Alpha Phi Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society. 

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

• The Presidency
• Political Parties and Interest Groups
• Women and Politics
• Media and Politics
• Reproductive Politics and Policy
• Health Politics and Policy
• Public Policy Theory
• State and Local Politics
• Research Methods
• Grant Writing

Select Publications

1. Strategery, Narratives, and Reading the Public: Developing a Micro-Level Theory of Political Strategies within the Narrative Policy Framework. (with James W. Stoutenborough). Policy Studies Journal (Forthcoming).
2. If ‘This is What a Feminist Looks Like,’ I Don’t Like It. (with James W. Stoutenborough). In The Hollywood Connection, ed. Heather E. Yates and Tim Hill. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 59-85 (Forthcoming).
3. The 'Not Yet Pregnant': The Impact of Narratives on Infertility Identity and Reproductive Policy." In Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Eduation, eds. Brian Attebery, John Gribas, Mark K. McBeth, Paul Sivitz, and Kandi Turley-Ames. New York, NY: Routledge, 111-128 (2017).
4. What Butterfly Effect? The Contextual Differences in Public Perceptions of teh Health Risk Posed by Climate Change. (with James W. Stoutenborough, M. Jeremy Field, and Arnold Vedlitz). Climate 3(3): 668-688 (2015).
5. Climate Scientists and Environmental Interest Groups: The Intersection of Expertise and Advocacy. (with Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz). Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2(1): 120-134 (2014).
6. Giving Girls a Shot: An Examination of Mandatory Vaccination Legislation. (with Alesha E. Doan). Policy Studies Journal, 41(2): 295-318 (2013).
7. Confidence in the Press: The Impact of Political Events on an Individual's Confidence. (with James W. Stoutenborough). Public Opinion Pros, www.publicopinionpros.com, April (2007).

Thomas Klein

Professor of English; Director of Undergraduate Studies in English

Office: LA 242

208-282-2893

thomasklein@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, Medieval Studies (1998), University of Toronto

MA, Medieval Studies (1992), University of Toronto

BA, Medieval Studies and the Epic (1990), Kenyon College

Diploma, Italian Language and Culture (1989), Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy

As a philologist, I'm interested in early medieval writing, and how knowledge is represented in physical form. Recently, I have written a series of articles on Anglo-Saxon riddles and inscribed objects, including the Franks Casket, the Staffordshire Hoard, and the Vindolanda tablets.

I enjoy teaching all my classes, from Composition to Old English. I find that there is always occasion for shared inquiry and discovery in the classroom, and I feel fortunate to be able to work with students and colleagues at ISU, as well as the larger community in Pocatello.

Selected Publications

“Old English Wlitan and Wlatian: Poetic Verbs of Looking (and Seeing),” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, (September 2023).

“'Savage' and 'Medieval' in C. S. Lewis’s The Discarded Image," Neophilologus: Journal of Modern and Medieval Language and Literature (March 2023).

"Does preverbal Old English ge- have semantic or aspectual force?: evidence from the Dictionary of Old English." Studia Neophilologica (January 2022).

“Pater Occultus: The Latin Bern Riddles and their Place in Early Medieval Riddling,” Neophilologus: Journal of Modern and Medieval Language and Literature (July 2019).

“Old and New Technologies of Asynchronous Communication: Virtual Narratives and ‘Presence’”.  In Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education, ed. Attebery, Gribas, McBeth, Sivitz, and Turley-Ames (Routledge, 2017).

"The Metaphorical Cloak of Exeter Book Riddle 83, 'Ore / Gold / Metal'," ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews (June 2015).

"Of Water and the Spirit: Metaphorical Focus in Exeter Riddle 74." Review of English Studies (February 2015)

"The Non-Coherence of the Franks Casket: Reading Text, Image, and Design on an Early Anglo-Saxon Artifact." Viator (Summer 2014).

"The Inscribed Gold Strip in the Staffordshire Hoard: The Text and Script of an early Anglo-Saxon Biblical Inscription." Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History (2013).

"Dialect and Word Choice in Old English: Two Case Studies with Old English Perception Verbs." Anglia: Journal of English Philology (2012).

"Anglo-Saxon Literacy and the Roman Letters on the Franks Casket." Studia Neophilologica (May 2009).

"The Ghostly Voice of Gossip in Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.'" The Explicator (Summer 2007).

"Stanc æfter stane (Beowulf, l. 2288): Philology, Narrative Context, and the Waking Dragon." Journal of English and Germanic Philology (January 2007).

"Six Colour Words in the Pearl Poet: Middle English Blake, Blayke, Blaht, Blo, Blwe and Ble." Studia Neophilologica (Spring 2000).

"The Old English Translation of Aldhelm’s Riddle Lorica." Review of English Studies (1997).

"In Praise of Bald Men: A Translation of Hucbald’s Ecloga de calvis." Comitatus (1996).

"Words for the Colour Orange in Italian." Quaderni d’italianistica (1994).

Awards/Honors

Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Idaho State University, 2022

Master Teacher, Idaho State University, 2017

Courses Taught

6662: Seminar in Medieval Literature: Medieval Women Mystics

6625: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Middle Ages

4491: Senior Seminar in Literature

4490/5590: Topics in Folklore: Riddles and Charms

4487/5587: History of the English Language

4486/5586: Old English

4473/5573: Chaucer

4462/5562: Medieval Literature: Dream Visions of the Later Middle Ages

4462/5562: Medieval Literature: Epic and Romance

4461/5561: Classical Literature: Myth and Epic

3323: Genre Studies in Prose Fiction: The Short Story Sequence

2281: Introduction to Language Studies

2280: Grammar and Usage

2267: Survey of British Literature I

2211: Introduction to Literary Analysis

1175: Literature and Ideas

1115: Themes in Literature: Love and Death

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

1101: Writing and Rhetoric I

HONS 1101: Honors Humanities I

Dr. Thomas E. Kloss

Professor of Music | Associate Director of Athletic Bands | Coordinator for Music Education | Associate Department Chair

(208) 282-4626

klosthom@isu.edu

• B.M. 1997, 1998, University of Arizona
• M.M. 2005, Arizona State University
• Ph.D. 2011, Arizona State University

Awards:

• 2023 - Benny Award for Faculty of the Year
• 2023 - Outstanding Faculty Advisor of the Year
• 2017 - Distinguished Service Award
• 2016 - College of Arts and Letters Faculty Excellence Award

Rudolph S. Kovacs

Professor

EDUCATION:

1975 - M.F.A. in Textile Design in Weaving University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

1972 - B.F.A. with a major in Ceramics & a minor in Weaving Ohio University, Athens, OH

1995 - Fondazione Lisio Arte Della Seta – Jacquard Weaving Firenze, Italy (1996-2002)

1997 - Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles – Jacquard Weaving Montreal, Canada (1997-2011)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1980 - 2004 - Idaho State University, Professor of Art

2004 - 2012 - Idaho State University, Chair and Professor of Art

2012 - Present - Idaho State University, Professor Emeritus of Art

• • • Penland School of Crafts
    • Appalachian Center for Crafts
    • Present - Idaho State University, Professor Emeritus of Art
      • Penland School of Crafts
      • Appalachian Center for Crafts
      • Paper Book Intensive

SELECTED GRANTS / AWARDS:

2016          Friends of Dard Hunter Conference: Earth / Paper / Sky – Santa Fe, New Mexico (October 20-23, 2016) Material As 

                  Metaphor: “Homage to the Spiral Jetty: Woven Forms”

2015          Artist Fellowship (honorary) Idaho Commission on the Arts

2004          Artists Retreat – Invitation to work for a week at Penland School of Crafts in celebration of the seventy-fifth 

                  anniversary in March with one hundred leading artists working in different mediums in crafts.

2002          Artist Fellowship, Idaho Commission on the Arts

1992          Artist Fellowship, Idaho Commission on the Arts

1992          University of Wyoming Art Museum - (purchased) as part of its permanent collection "Ceremonial Cloth: Inca Trail"

1991-92     Distinguished Researcher Award Idaho State University

1991          "Fourth Annual - National Fiber Arts Competition and Exhibition" - (First Place Award) BASF Fibers and the Creative 

                  Arts Guild, Dalton, GA

1984          Member of the 1984 China Delegation of Textile Designers, U.S.A.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / COLLECTIONS:

2016          Friends of Dard Hunter Conference: Earth / Paper / Sky – Santa Fe, New Mexico – October 20-23, 2016

                  Material As Metaphor: “Homage to the Spiral Jetty: Woven Forms”

2015          “Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition”

                   Willard Arts Center, Idaho Falls, Idaho – June 12 – August 1, 2015

                    Prichard Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho – August 8 – October 5, 2015

                    Visual Arts Center at BSU, Boise, Idaho – January 20 – February 18, 2016

2011           “Selected Work From Two decades 1990-2010 Idaho Artist Rudy Kovacs” The 814 Gallery- Salt Lake City

2010            2010 Idaho Triennial – Boise Art Museum – Boise, Idaho

2007            2007 Idaho Triennial – Boise Art Museum – Boise, Idaho

2006            “About Jacquard” – The Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles – Montreal, Canada

2005             Permanent Collection, Paper    Crosses, Mark Miller, Scottsdale, AZ

2005            Permanent Collection, Red and Black Silk Weaving, Barney E. and Nancy Gesas – Salt Lake City, UT

2004            “The Nature of Crafts and the Penland Experience” – July 3, 2004 – January 30, 2005 – The Mint Museum – 

                     Charlotte, NC

2003           “Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibition”

                     Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho – Moscow, Idaho – January 24 – February 26, 2003

                     Friesen Galleries – Nampa, Idaho – May 24 – July, 2003

                    Jean B. King Gallery, Herrett Museum – Twin Falls, Idaho – September 9 – October 25, 200

                    Lewis Clark Center for Arts and History – Lewiston, Idaho – November 7 December 13,2003

2002            “An Academic Celebration of Idaho Artists – John B. Davis Gallery – Mind’s Eye Gallery / Transition Gallery – Idaho

                    State University – Pocatello, ID

2001            “The De-Constructed West” – Millennium Arts Center, Washington, D.C. – December 6, 2001 – January 31, 2002

RESEARCH / SCHOLARSHIP ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION:

Black Canyon – spring 2003 issue (Gallery – Fellowship: by Barbara Garrett)

The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience (My Work was included in this exhibition and the accompanying book – Larks Books of Asheville, NC)

Catalogue: Rudy Kovacs, Curator and Denise M. Bowen, Symposium Coordinator,

An Academic Celebration of Idaho Artists: A Collection of art by faculty of Idaho’s public colleges and universities – 2002

Big Sky Journal - Arts Issue 2002

Fiberarts, Jan/Feb 1996 issue, Profile: Rudy Kovacs: Weaving Spiritual Journey

Erika Kuhlman

Professor - American Studies, gender studies; history of sound

erikakuhlman@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Washington State University

Books

The International Migration of German Great War Veterans. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Of Little Comfort: War Widows, Fallen Soldiers, and the Remaking of the Nation after the Great War. New York: NYU Press, 2012.

Reconstructing Patriarchy after the Great War: Women, Gender, and Postwar Reconciliation Between Nations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate Over War, 1895-1919. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.                 

A to Z of Women in World History. New York: Facts on File.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Gender and Resistance.” In Gender and the Great War, edited by Susan Grayzel and Tammy Proctor. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.

“Anonymity, Transnational Identity, and A German Deserter’s War Experience.” In Modernism and War, edited by Nanette Norris. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016.

"American Doughboys and German Fräuleins: Sexuality, Patriarchy, and Privilege in the American-Occupied Rhineland, 1918-1923." Journal of Military History 71 (October 2007): 1077-1106.

Awards

Dr. Kuhlman has twice been named an ISU Outstanding Researcher.

Courses Taught

HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 2201 Women in U.S. History
HIST 3308 Industrialization and Reform in the United States
HIST 4425 Women in the North American West
HIST 4437 Families in Former Times
HIST 4439 Women in History

Garth Lambson

Instructor in English

Office: Online

garthlambson@isu.edu

MA in English (2012), Idaho State University

John Landers, Ph.D.

johnlanders@isu.edu

Dr. Landers is a licensed clinical psychologist, having obtained his formal training at Brigham Young University and Idaho State University. Throughout his two decades of professional experience, his focus has always been on understanding and predicting human behavior, though the application of his knowledge has been quite varied. He has specialized in predicting high risk behaviors through understanding the psychological factors leading to such behavior as well as providing recommendations regarding how to mitigate future risk. He has held a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy since 2008, providing consultation across the globe to partner countries regarding behavioral science applications for mitigating the risk of insider threat behavior in the nuclear industry. Dr. Landers has been called upon to present internationally on a regular basis with experience training colleagues from all of the populated continents of the world, being recognized as an expert with unique knowledge and experience. He is employed remotely through Oak Ridge National Laboratory and works with other scientists to address critical concerns facing our nation. Prior experience includes working in private practice in the community, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, and federal prison. Dr. Landers also has forensic practice and teaches as an adjunct professor for Idaho State University.

Kathleen Lane

Emeritus Faculty | Voice Studio

(208) 282-2423

lanekath@isu.edu

• B.M.E. 1978  University of Montana
• M.Mus. 1988  Yale School of Music

Dawn Lattin

Senior Lecturer in English

Office: LA 207-B

208-282-5481

dawnlattin@isu.edu

EDUCATION

MA, English (2001), Idaho State University

BA, English (1997), Idaho State University

I earned my B.A. and M.A. in English at Idaho State University. My M.A. thesis concerned the Renaissance play, The Revenger's Tragedy (ca. 1605), and its context in the development of Early Modern "anatomy theaters." At Idaho State University, I enjoy teaching Introduction to Literature and composition courses at all levels.

My additional training includes College Reading and Learning Association Composition Tutoring certificates and training in a variety of web applications. I was among the first of our lecturers to offer composition online.

In 2016, I earned my Teaching Online Certificate through Quality Matters (QM), a nationally recognized professional development and peer review program designed to certify the quality of online and hybrid courses. In 2018, I also earned my Quality Matters Peer Reviewer certification and currently serve on QM peer review committees to review courses for other institutions, while in 2023, I was certified as a QM Master Course Reviewer, which allows me to chair peer review teams and work more closely with faculty and instructional designers in the peer review process as they create online learning environments where students can succeed.

In 2019, I completed eISU’s Quality+ program, and after participating in an extensive QM peer review process, taught ISU’s first QM-certified online course, English 1102: Writing and Rhetoric II. In 2022, both my online Literature and Ideas (English 1175) and Professional and Technical Writing (English 3307) earned their QM certifications. 

Courses Taught

3308: Business Communications

3307: Professional and Technical Writing

1175: Literature and Ideas

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

1101 and 1101-Plus: Writing and Rhetoric I- Plus

Dr. Marin Laufenberg

Teaching Assistant Professor of Spanish and Director of Spanish MA Program

marinlaufenberg@isu.edu

Marin Laufenberg received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017). She has taught classes focusing on Spanish language, composition and conversation, Hispanic literature, and Spanish for the health and social services. She believes that by learning a language, you acquire a new window to understanding cultures and people. In her teaching, she likes using theatrical techniques, like role playing and dialogue creation. Dr. Laufenberg studies contemporary Latin American literature with a focus on Southern Cone performance and theatre. Her dissertation investigated the role of humor and laughter in dealing with trauma and violence in Argentine theatre. In addition to researching theatre, she also has extensive experience in the praxis of theatre as a member and co-founder of the UW-Madison Spanish language theatre group Teatro Décimo Piso. She has lived and studied abroad in Spain, Panama, and Argentina. In her free time, Dr. Laufenberg enjoys hiking with her family, cycling, whale watching, and exploring the tide pools along the coast of the Pacific Northwest.

Sonja Launspach

Professor of English

Office: LA 220

208-282-2237

sonjalaunspach@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, Linguistics (1998), University of South Carolina

MA, Linguistics (1995), University of South Carolina

BA, German Language and Literature (1982), Washington University

BFA, Graphic Design (1982), Washington University

Research Interests

I am a sociolinguist and as a sociolinguist, I study how language is used in everyday contexts and social situations. My research interests include conversation analysis, discourse analysis, narrative, dialect studies and studying writing through a linguistics lens. I've recently become interested in the intersection between linguistics and pedagogy. I teach the linguistics courses for our majors, courses in the TESOL certificate program and co-direct the interdepartmental linguistics minor.

Book

Launspach S., & Aull, L. (2020). A Case-based Approach to Argumentative Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Selected Publications

2021 "Conflicting ideologies: Language diversity in the composition classroom." In G. Clements & M. Petray (Eds.), Linguistic Discrimination in U.S. Higher Education: Power, Prejudice, Impacts, and Remedies. Routledge.

2017 "Making the Case: The case method, motivation, and the teaching of argument." Co-author, Angela Petit. Teaching English in the Two Year College 44:4.

2017 "Stories and objects: Narrative and the construction of connective links in the American quilting guild." Book chapter in Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education. (Eds.) Brian Attebery, John Gribas, Mark K. McBeth, Paul Sivitz, and Kandi Turley-Ames. New York: Routledge.

2016 "Exemplar narratives: Resources for maintaining solidarity and upholding group standards in an American Quilting Guild." Text and Talk 36:2. 179-197.

2013 "'That really was a good method for beginners:' How narratives are used to situate objects and techniques in a quilting guild." Narrative Inquiry. Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 262-282.

2012 "The journey to Idaho: The use of oral history tapes and census data to trace the history of dialect features." Idaho Yesterdays. Vol. 53, No. 1 & 2.

2008 "The Role of Talk in Small Writing Groups: Building declarative and procedural knowledge for basic writers." Journal of Basic Writing. Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 93-117.

2003 "Compliments and self deprecatory assessments: A quilter's resource in the co-construction of performance events." RASK International Journal of Language and Communication. No. 18, Spring 2003.

2000 "Literal or Loose Talk: The Negotiation of Meaning on an Internet Discussion List." Words on the Web: Computer Mediated Communication. Ed. by Lyn Pemberton and Simon Schurville. Exeter, UK: Intellect Ltd.

2000 "Beyond Grammar: Linguistics in the Composition Classroom" with Martha Thomas. In our Own Voice: Graduate Students Teach Writing. Ed. by Tina Good and Leanne Warshauer. New York: Allyn Bacon.

Courses Taught

6685: Seminar in Linguistics

6681: Theory of Second Language Acquisition

6680: Introduction to Linguistics

4488/5588: Introduction to Sociolinguistics

4484/5584: Rotating Topics in Linguistics

4480/5580: Varieties of American English

2281: Introduction to Language Studies

2280: Grammar and Usage

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

1101: Writing and Rhetoric I

David Lawrimore

Associate Professor of English

Office: LA 233

208-282-2308

davidlawrimore@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, English (2015), University of Florida

MA, English (2010), University of Florida

BA, English (2005), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

My research investigates the relationship between various literary forms and political ideologies in early and nineteenth-century American literature. My primary focus is the American novel before 1820, especially its publication and circulation history, its multiple points of connection to other genres, and its role in the class and partisan conflicts of the early national period. I have a secondary focus in abolitionist ideology and its influence on a variety of popular nineteenth-century subgenres, including African American autobiography and temperance narratives. My other main interests include critical theory, history of the book, race and empire studies, gender studies, and secondary English education. I am currently revising my book manuscript The Natural Aristocracy: The Early American Novelist as Intellectual for publication by an academic press. The first book-length study of the early American novel’s crucial role in the volatile class and partisan conflicts of the early national period, The Natural Aristocracy reads canonical and non-canonical novels in tandem with writings in other genres to illuminate the political and social conservatism of much early US literature.

My teaching investigates similar dynamics in early and nineteenth-century American literature, and my courses often problematize accepted traditions, ranging from literary canons, such as the American Renaissance, to social formations, such as industrial capitalism. I began my teaching career in 2006 as a high school English teacher. Since then, first as a graduate instructor at the University of Florida and now as a professor at Idaho State University, I have designed over twenty and taught over thirty undergraduate and graduate courses in literature, composition, and secondary education. I have tutored student athletes, sat on committees for M.A. and Ph.D. theses, and chaired Ph.D. dissertations. I am also committed to “teaching teachers,” and I have both mentored student teachers and taught courses in English pedagogy.

Publications

Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Canonization and Its Discontents: Narrative of the Life in the Context of Douglass’s Intellectual Development" in Critical Insights: Frederick Douglass, edited by Jericho Williams. Ipswitch: Salem Press. Forthcoming Fall 2020.

“Temperance, Abolition, and Genre Collision in Whitman’s Franklin Evans.” Studies in American Fiction 44.2 (2017): 185-209. 

“The Novelist as Intellectual: William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy, Reconsidered.” American Literature 88.4 (2016): 695-722.

“Conflict Management: Jeremy Belknap’s Committed Literature.” Early American Literature 50.2 (2015): 359-384.

Select Reviews and Review Essays

“Network, Book, Page: Compacting Early American Book History.” Early American Literature. 55.3 (2020): 801-819.

Review of Surveyors of Customs: American Literature As Cultural Analysis. Studies in the Novel, by Joel Pfister. Studies in the Novel.

Select Web-Based Publications

“Desire and Didacticism in Ira & Isabella.” Just Teach One Web: January 2019. 900 words.

“Rosa and the Role of Female Education in the Early Republic.” Just Teach One Web: January 2018. 900 words.

“Teaching Collaborative Authorship with The Female Review.” Just Teach One Web: August 2017. 900 words.

“Genre, Format, and Nosebleeds, Reconsidered.” Common-Place: Just Teach One. Web: May 2016. 900 words.

“All of the Didacticism, None of the Scandal: Questioning the Canon with The Factory Girl.” Common-Place: Just Teach One. Web: August 2014. 900 words.

Courses Taught

ENGL 6625: Studies in a Literary Period: "Digital Archives and the Early American Novel"

ENGL 6621: Seminar in a Major Literary Genre: "Antebellum Slave Narratives"

ENGL 6621: Seminar in a Major Literary Genre: "American Novels Before 'The Novel'"

ENGL 6612: Introduction to Graduate Studies in English

ENGL 4466/5566: Studies in Early Nineteenth-Century Literature: "The Writer as Activist"

ENGL 4465/5565: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature: "Origins of the American Novel"

ENGL 4433: Methods of English Education

ENGL 3327: Special Topics in Genre: "Antebellum Slave Narratives"

ENGL 3311: Literary Criticism and Theory

ENGL 2278: Survey of American Literature II: 1860 to the Present

ENGL 2277: Survey of American Literature I: Contact to 1860

ENGL 2211: Introduction to Literary Analysis

ENGL 1175: Literature and Ideas: "Cultures of Capitalism"

ENGL 1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

HONS 1102: Honors Humanities II: "Coming-of-Age Narratives"

Steven R. Lawyer, Ph.D

Professor, Clinical Psychology - Director of Clinical Training

Office: Garrison Rm 424

208-282-2142

stevenlawyer@isu.edu

Website

B.A. (1995) Western Michigan University

M.S. (1997) Auburn University

Pre-Doctoral Clinical Internship (2001-02), University of Mississippi Medical Center

Ph.D. (2002) Auburn University

Postdoctoral Fellowship (2002-04), National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center, Medical University of South Carolina

Research Interests

Dr. Lawyer's Discounting and Risk-Taking lab focuses on how choices that people make in their day-to-day lives impact their health and well-being. He uses procedures based in behavioral economics, with a particular focus on delay discounting and probability discounting, to understand the psychological and contextual factors that influence human health problem behaviors such as sexual risk-taking, obesity, and substance abuse. He also is interested in trauma and anxiety and evidence-based approaches to ethical research practices.

Dr. Lawyer will not be accepting students for admission in fall 2024.

Recent Publications

Mahoney, C. T., Lawyer, S. R., Pemberton, S. E., & Marchant, K. M. (2022). A laboratory examination of risky sexual behavior among female sexual trauma survivors. Journal of Traumatic Stress. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22866

Lawyer, S. R., Holcomb, B., & Prihodova, K. (2021). Immediate and delayed reactions to laboratory exposure to a trauma-related cue. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1177/1556264621996102

Lawyer, S.R., Prihodova, T., Prihodova, K., Rasmussen, E., Doubkova, N., & Preiss, M. (2021). Steeper Delay Discounting for Potentially Real versus Hypothetical Cigarettes (but not money) in Czech Republic Smokers. The Psychological Record. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-021-00464-z

Lawyer, S. R. & Jenks, C. (2020). Emotion suppression decreases delay discounting for monetary outcomes. The Psychological Record, 70, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-019-00361-6

Mahoney, C. T., & Lawyer, S. R. (2018). Domain-specific relationships in sexual measures of impulsive behavior. Archives of sexual behavior, 47(6), 1591-1599. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-018-1210-y

Smith, K., Lawyer, S.R., & Swift, J. (2018). A meta-analysis of nonsystematic responding in delay and probability discounting. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 26, 94-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pha0000167

Lawyer, S. R., & Mahoney, C. T. (2018). Delay discounting and probability discounting, but not response inhibition, are associated with sexual risk taking in adults. The Journal of Sex Research, 55, 863-870. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1350627

Nancy J. Legge

Professor

Office: Frazier 401

(208) 282-3771

nancylegge@isu.edu

Education:

BA, Speech Communication, Wayne State University; MA, Speech Communication, Indiana University; PhD, Speech Communication, Penn State University

Emphasis:

Rhetoric

Courses Taught:

COMM1101: Principles of Speech; CMP2209: Persuasion; CMP3302: Image Management; CMP4483: Rhetoric of Popular Culture; CMP4487: Rhetorical Theory; CMP4488: Rhetorical Criticism; CMP6630: Graduate Seminar

“Speak out! Your voice should be heard.”
“Speak out and suffer the consequences!”
These opposing points of view reflect an important premise: democracy and rhetoric are intricately intertwined. As democracy thrives so, too, do opportunities for speaking (orally or in writing), also called “rhetoric.” Conversely, when democracy declines, so does rhetoric. Logically, then, when democracy is threatened, the need for rhetoric intensifies, but the risks inherent in speaking out also increase. These are foundational premises for my research and teaching. My work is characterized by the assumption that what’s relevant is inherently worth investigating and analyzing.
As a researcher, I am interested in investigating the rhetorical dimensions of issues in popular culture including sports, politics, and music. As a member of a research team in the CMP Department we are consistently engaged in understanding issues related to image, crisis, and persuasive attack in sports, organizations, and politics.   
As Journal editor for Relevant Rhetoric: A New Journal of Rhetorical Studies, I am dedicated to publishing scholarship that creates a bridge between “academics” and “community.” The Journal publishes essays on current issues analyzed from a variety of rhetorical perspectives that create new insights for both an academic and lay audiences. The Journal has a large international audience from diverse backgrounds with varying levels of education. The success and appeal of the Journal is due to its accessibility in language, its development of relevant and contemporary issues, and its free access.
As a teacher, I work to ensure that students understand three components of rhetoric: (1) Rhetoric is relevant. Understanding the relevance of rhetoric helps make people aware, tolerant, and willing to be analytical of the world around them. (2) Rhetoric is precious. That is, words should be spoken with care and reflection; there are consequences for speaking. Students come to appreciate that opportunities to speak should not be taken for granted and they should think strategically. (3) Rhetoric is honorable. That is, we should be thoughtfully critical of ideas and tolerant of others’ voices. Students have opportunities to both practice and analyze the art of rhetoric. Through analysis of rhetorical artifacts in history and in popular culture, students learn to evaluate beyond the standard “up/down” simplicity embedded in our culture to reach understandings about the complexity of audience, context, content, and layered meanings. The result is citizens who are critical citizens and critical consumers of messages.

Selected Publications:

DiSanza, J. R., Hartman, K. L., Legge, N. J., Gershberg, Z. (in press). Adding Narrative to the Situational Crisis Communication Theory: The Case for Crisis 'Narrative Management' in Sport. In Andrew Billings, W. Timothy Coombs, and Kenon Brown (Ed.), Reputational Challenges in Sport. New York: Routledge.

Gribas, J., Gershberg, Z., James, D. R., Legge, N. J. (2017). Finding Story in Unexpected Places: Branding and the Role of Narrative in the Study of Communication. In Brian Attebery, John Gribas, Mark K. McBeth, Paul Sivitz, and Kandi Turley-Ames (Ed.), Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education (pp. 91-110). New York: Routledge.

Gribas, J., DiSanza, J., Legge, N., Hartman, K. L., Santee, C. (2016). "Exploring the Alignment of Image Repair Tactics to Audience Type." In J. R. Blaney (Ed.), Putting Image Repair to the Test: Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory (41-61). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

DiSanza, J. R., Legge, N. J. (2016). The Rhetoric of Persuasive Attack: Continuing the Development of a Taxonomy of Strategies and Tactics. Relevant Rhetoric: A New Journal of Rhetorical Studies, 7, 1-16.

Awards & Honors:

Master Teacher (2009)

Twice nominated for Carnegie Teacher of the Year

Journal Editor, Relevant Rhetoric: A New Journal of Rhetorical Studies

Matthew Levay

Associate Professor of English; Director of Graduate Studies

Office: LA 239

208-282-2895

matthewlevay@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, English (2009), University of Washington

MA, English (2004), University of Washington

BA, English (2002), Vanderbilt University

My research and teaching focus on twentieth-century literature and culture, with emphases in modernism, theories of the novel, literary genres, popular print culture, and comics studies. I am broadly interested in connections between the avant-garde and the popular, and my work often features genre fictions, comics, and periodicals that explicitly or implicitly blur the lines between popular and experimental form, asking how those works complicate our understanding of cultural capital, aesthetic value, and generic convention.

My first book, Violent Minds: Modernism and the Criminal (Cambridge University Press, 2019), constructs a genealogy of criminality in modernist fiction in England and America from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s, examining a range of modernist authors who explored new modes of psychological representation through the figure of the criminal, and who drew upon works of criminal anthropology and detective fiction in order to develop those representations.

I’m currently at work on two new book projects. The first, Time and Again: Modernism and the Form of the Series, examines how and why serial forms have played an underappreciated yet pivotal role in shaping modernist aesthetics, and how experimentation with forms of seriality allowed writers, cartoonists, and filmmakers to manipulate their audiences’ experience of narrative time, characterization, and plot, affirming the experimental imperatives of modernism within a media ecology saturated with serial forms.

The second project, The New Old Style: Anachronism in Contemporary Comics (under advance contract, University of Nebraska Press, “Encapsulations: Critical Comics Studies” series), asks why so many recent cartoonists adopt the visual registers of the early twentieth century, producing work meant to appear much older than it actually is.

I also have an abiding interest in editing and academic journals; I am the Co-Editor, with Elizabeth Sheehan, of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies (Penn State University Press), and I serve on the Advisory Committee for PMLA. In Spring 2022 I was in Poland at the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center, where I served as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences.

*Complete CV available online at matthewlevay.com

Selected Honors and Awards

Fulbright US Scholar Award, Distinguished Chair in Humanities and Social Sciences, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Poland, Spring 2022.

Idaho State University Outstanding Master Teacher Award, 2021.

Modernist Studies Association Research Travel Grant, Winter 2019.

Idaho Humanities Council Research Fellowship, Spring 2016.

Harvard University Certificate of Teaching Excellence (six-time recipient 2010-2013).

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2011. Awarded through the Erle Stanley Gardner Endowment for Mystery Studies.

Book

Violent Minds: Modernism and the Criminal (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Edited Journal Issues

“Modernism in Comics,” essay cluster for Modernism/modernity Print Plus (forthcoming).

“Comics in 21^st-Century American Life,” co-edited special issue of the New Americanist 2.1 (May 2023).

“Seriality,” special issue of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 9.1 (2018).

Recent Articles and Book Chapters

“Vintage Seth,” Modernism/modernity Print Plus (forthcoming).

“Little Tommy Lost and the Anachronistic Comic,” Comics and Modernism: History, Form, Culture, ed. Jon Najarian (University Press of Mississippi, 2024)

“Crime Fiction and Criminology,” The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. Janice M. Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Andrew Pepper (Routledge, 2020), 273-281.

“Modernism’s Opposite: John Galsworthy and the Novel Series,” Modernism/modernity 26.3 (September 2019): 543-562.

“On the Uses of Seriality for Modern Periodical Studies: An Introduction,” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 9.1 (2018): v-xix.

“Repetition, Recapitulation, Routine: Dick Tracy and the Temporality of Daily Newspaper Comics,” Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 9.1 (2018): 101-122.

“Preservation and Promotion: Ellery Queen, Magazine Publishing, and the Marketing of Detective Fiction,” The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture, ed. Alfred Bendixen and Olivia Carr Edenfield (Routledge, 2017), 101-122.

Courses Taught

6635: Graduate Seminar in Teaching ("Teaching Comics")

6632: Graduate Seminar in Teaching Literature (“Teaching Difficult Literature”)

6625: Graduate Seminar in a Literary Period (Modernism)

6612: Introduction to Graduate Studies in English

6610: Careers in English

4472/5572: Major Authors (James Joyce's Ulysses)

4469/5569: Contemporary Literature

4468/5568: Early Twentieth-Century Literature

3327: Special Topics in Genre: Comics

3323: Genre Studies in Fiction

3311: Literary Criticism and Theory

2268: Survey of British Literature II

2211: Introduction to Literary Analysis

1126: The Art of Film I

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

HONS 1102: Honors Humanities II

HONS 1101: Honors Humanities I

Carl Levenson

Professor of Philosophy (retired 2016)

carllevenson@isu.edu

PhD in Social Thought (1980), University of Chicago

Sarah Liftawi

Visiting Criminology Lecturer and Field Director

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 318

(208) 282-5385

sarahliftawi@isu.edu

Dr. Marcia Lloyd

Professor Emeritus of Dance

(208) 282-3173

lloymarc@isu.edu

• B.S. University of Central Missouri
• M.A. University of Wyoming
• Ed.D. University of Utah

ISU Faculty from 1976 - 2001

Dr. Marcia Lloyd is an Idaho dance educator and an accomplished writer for dance who travels the world sharing and teaching dance education. She has published many articles about dance education including “Pioneering dance education: Forging a pathway for the future” (in the book “Perspectives on Dance Education” in 2017). Her book “Creative dance: A manual for teaching all ages” was published in 2014 by the University of Malaya Press in Kuala Lumpur. She taught at ISU for 25 years before retiring in 2001. She taught many forms of dance, but specialized in creative dance. She created a dance minor at ISU that includes dance technique, theory and dance education courses. She was also a visiting professor of dance at several Malaysian universities from 1977 to 2015 and was a Fulbright professor of dance to the University of Malaya and Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1999. In 2017, Lloyd received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Dance Education Organization.

Bruce Loebs

Professor Emeritus

bruceloebs@isu.edu

Emphasis:

Rhetoric

Dr. Bruce Loebs received his PhD from the University of Oregon. After five years of teaching and coaching debate at California State University at Hayward, he came to ISU as department chair in 1969, a position he held for 36 years. He taught courses in rhetoric including COMM 1101, Argumentation, American Public Address, the Rhetoric of Hitler and Churchill, and Rhetorical Issues.

*Chris Loether, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Office: Graveley 265

208-282-4859

chrisloether@isu.edu

Dr. Loether is the Director of the American Indian Studies Program, Director of the Linguistics Program, and Co-Director of the Shoshoni Language Project. Dr. Loether specializes in Uto-Aztecan, Celtic, Germanic and Semitic languages. He has worked specifically with the Western Mono, Owens Valley Paiute, Shoshoni and Welsh languages. His other specialties include sociolinguistics, ethnopoetics, lexicography, language revitalization, and the ethnology of California and Great Basin Indians.

Loether CV 2012

Brianna Lords

Instructor in English

Office: Idaho Falls Campus

briannalords@isu.edu

MA in English (2023), Idaho State University

Dr. Eddie Ludema

Assistant Professor of Music | Trumpet

Office: FA 318

(208) 282-3479

eddieludema@isu.edu

• B.Mus. University of Utah
• K.A. Freiburg Hochschule für Musik
• M.M. Indiana University
• D.M.A.  Indiana University

Eddie is Assistant Professor of Trumpet, Music Theory and Tech at Idaho State University. He’s principal trumpet with the Idaho State Civic Symphony and performs with the Portneuf Brass Quintet and the ISU New Music Faculty Ensemble. He and Prof. Jon Armstrong formed and co-direct the acoustoelectric Video Game Music Ensemble as a part of the exciting Commercial Music Program at Idaho State. He works with the trumpet studio, trumpet ensemble, brass ensemble and teaches music theory, music technology and improvisation. Prior to moving to beautiful Pocatello, he taught at Indiana State University and was an associate instructor at Indiana University. He was principal trumpet with the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and Terre Haute Symphony and was the Jazz Ensemble director at Indiana State. He’s performed with the Utah Symphony, The Orchestra at Temple Square (Utah), the ORSO Rock Orchestra (Germany), the Classical Music Festival Orchestra (Austria), the Carmel (Indiana) Symphony, and the Indiana University New Music Ensemble. He was a founding member of the Mirari Brass Quintet and toured internationally with the ISU (Indiana State University) Faculty Ambassador Brass Quintet. He produces the “Anthony Plog on Music” podcast (give it a listen!) and - as a professional coder (some would say “hacker”) - has built the intonation practice app “Dr. Drone” (a collaboration with Dr. Jason Sulliman) and the “Set Class Calculator” for his music theory students. He received doctoral and masters degrees from Indiana University with John Rommel, an Artist’s Diploma with Anthony Plog at the Freiburg Music Conservatory (Germany), and a bachelor’s with Nick Norton at the University of Utah. He also performed on masterclasses with Wolfgang Guggenberger, Frits Damrow, Karl Schuhwerk, Bernhard Bär, Allan Dean, Josef Eidenberger, Stanley Friedman, Balázs Nemes, Steven Verhaert, and Allen Vizzutti.

Eddie loves teaching and learning - learning from wonderful people around the world who he’s been blessed to work with; and teaching by helping students broaden their perspectives and artistic power while assisting them in their process of discovery. In addition to his musical life, he’s a foodie on a never-ending hunt for the best tamales, lasagnas and Käses-Spätzle (everything the spicier the better.) He and his lovely wife, Beth – a vocalist, oboist, and incredible music educator - thoroughly enjoy life with their hilarious little boy, Hendrik… who in his young age has become a coder and can sing nearly every tune from the Super Mario Bros. series – up two octaves.

Donna L. Lybecker

Professor of International Relations, Environmental Politics, and Comparative Politics

Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-3331

donnalybecker@isu.edu

Ph.D. Colorado State University, 2003

Donna L. Lybecker joined the Department of Political Science in 2007. Her teaching and research focus on Comparative Politics and International Relations, emphasizing Environmental Politics, Borders, and Latin America. In particular she looks at the shifting role and perceptions of the US-Mexico border, water issues among the Western states and more recently the role language and narratives play in policy development. 

Courses Recently Taught:

• Introduction to International Relations
• Introduction to Comparative Politics
• Environmental Politics and Policy
• The Politics of Borders
• The Politics of Central America
• Seminar in Global Politics

Dr. Lybecker has published in academic journals such as Policy Studies Journal, Review of Policy Research, Environmental Politics, and Politics & Policy, and co-authored two books, Great Debates in Environmental History with B. Black (2009), and Cases in International Relations: Pathways to Conflict and Cooperation with G. Hastedt and V. Shannon (2014). She was named the Distinguished Teacher at ISU in 2013 and received the Outstanding Service Award in 2017.

Outside of ISU, Dr. Lybecker is a member of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) National Advisory Committee, and an Associate Editor for the Social Science Journal and an Editorial Board Member for the International Journal for Sustainable Society. In addition, she is the Chair of the Selection Committee for The Bert & Phyllis Lamb Prize in Political Science.

Select Publications (* denotes graduate student co-author)

1. Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and Jessica M. Sargent. 2022. “Agreement and Trust: In Narratives or Narrators?” Chapter 4 in Narratives and the Policy Process: Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework. Edited by Michael D. Jones, Elizabeth Shanahan, and Mark K. McBeth. Bozeman, Montana State University. Pp. 90-112. org/10.15788/npf4
2. Mark K. McBeth, Donna L. Lybecker, and Jessica M. Sargent*. “Narrative Empathy: A Narrative Policy Framework Stud of Working-Class Climate change Narratives and Narrators,” World Affairs (forthcoming Fall 2022).  Available online first (July 28, 2022) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00438200221107018
3. Donna L. Lybecker. 2020. “Old West, New West, and the Next West,” Chapter 1 in The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands, Ericka Wolters and Brent Steel, eds. University of Oregon Press.  3-15.
4. Wolters, Erika Allen, Donna L. Lybecker, Frances Fahy, and Monica L. Hubbard. 2019. “Willingness to support environmental actions and policies: A comparative study,” Social Science Journal. (Available online 31 May 2019: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0362331919301004)
5. Li Huang, Felix Hiefent Liao, Kathleen A. Lohse, Danielle M. Larson, Michail Fragkias, Donna L. Lybecker, Colden V. Baxter. 2019. “Land conservation can mitigate freshwater ecosystem services degradation due to climate change in a semiarid catchment: The case of the Portneuf River catchment, Idaho, USA,” Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 651 (Part 2): 1796-1809.
6. Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, Adam Brewer*, and Carine De Sy*. “The Social Construction of a Border:  The US-Canada Border.”  Journal of Borderlands Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4: 529-547.
7. Mark K. McBeth and Donna L. Lybecker. 2018. “The Narrative Policy Framework, Agendas, and Sanctuary Cities: The Construction of a Public Problem.” Policy Studies Journal (Symposium: Advances in the Narrative Policy Framework), Vol. 46(4): 868-893.
8. Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and James W. Stoutenborough. “Do We Understand What the Public Hears?  Stakeholders’ Preferred Communication Choices for Discussing River Issues with the Public,” Review of Policy Research, Vol. 33, No. 4:  376-392.
9. Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, Maria A. Husmann*, and Nicholas Pelikan*. “Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the US-Mexico Border on YouTube,” Policy and Internet, Vol. 7, No. 4:  497-525. 

Donna L. Lybecker, Mark K. McBeth, and Elizabeth Kusko*.  2013. “Trash or treasure: recycling narratives and reducing political polarization,” Environmental Politics.  March 2013:  Vol. 22, No. 2:  312-332

Shannon Lynch, Ph.D.

Professor, Clinical Psychology

Office: Garrison Rm 421

208-282-2110

shannonlynch@isu.edu

B.A. (1992), Tufts University;
M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (1999), University of Michigan;
Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2001), Victims of Violence Program, Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School.

Research Interests

My research interests focus broadly on individuals’ experiences of and recovery from interpersonal violence. Currently, my research team is conducting a series of projects examining incarcerated women's and youth’s trauma exposure, mental health, treatment/programming needs, and factors influencing current functioning as well as reintegration into the community and reoffending. I am interested in understanding how mental health and trauma and marginalization intersect to increase the risk of becoming involved with the criminal legal system and reoffending. Finally, my team is also examining how emotion regulation and shame are associated with trauma exposures and subsequent mental health problems in multiple populations.  

My clinical interests are in trauma treatment, interpersonal treatment, couples, and general individual and group treatment.

Dr. Lynch is anticipating accepting a new graduate student for admission in fall 2024.

CV Lynch F23

Selected Publications

*denotes current or former students co-authors

Lynch, S. M., *Weber, S., *Kaplan, S. & *Craun, E. (2023) Childhood and adult sexual violence exposures as predictors of PTSD, dissociation, and substance use in women in jail. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. First published June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/10538712.2023.2226132

*Richner, D. C., & Lynch, S. M. (2023). Sexual health knowledge and sexual self-efficacy as predictors of sexual risk behaviors in women. Psychology of Women Quarterly. First published May 2023.  https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843231172183

*DeCou, C., Lynch, S. M., *Weber. S, *Richner, D., *Mozafari, A., *Huggins, H. & *Perschon, B.  (2023). On the association between trauma-related shame and symptoms of psychopathology: A meta-analysis. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 24(3), 1193-1201. First published October 2021. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380211053617

DeHart, D.D. & Lynch, S.M. (2021). Women’s and Girls’ Pathways through the Criminal Legal System: Addressing Trauma, Mental Health, and Marginalization. San Diego, Cognella. ISBN: 978-1-5165-3446-3

*Weber, S. & Lynch, S.M. (2021). Understanding the relations among adverse childhood experiences (ACE), substance use, and reoffending among detained youth. Child Abuse & Neglect, 120. 105211. First published July 2021.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105211

*Mahoney, C.T., Lynch, S.M. & Benight, C.C. (2019). The indirect effect of coping self-efficacy on the relation between sexual violence and PTSD symptoms. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. First published Oct 2019.   https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519881525

*Konecky, E. & Lynch, S.M. (2019). Cumulative trauma exposure, emotion regulation, and PTSD among incarcerated women. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 32 (5), 806-811.  https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22435

*DeCou, C. R., *Mahoney, C., *Kaplan, S. & Lynch, S. M . (2019). Coping self-efficacy and trauma-related shame mediate the association between negative social reactions to sexual assault and PTSD symptoms. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 11 (1), 51-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000379

Lynch, S. M., DeHart, D., Belknap, J., Green, B., Dass-Brailsford, P., *Johnson, K.J. & Wong, M.M. (2017). An examination of the associations among victimization, mental health, and offending in women. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 44, 796-814. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854817704452

Lauren MacDonald

Assistant Professor - Latin American History

Office: LA 335

208.282.3784

laurenmacdonald@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests

Religion, Colonial Latin America, The Caribbean, and the Atlantic World. 

Recent Publications

“The Cemí and the Cross: Hispaniola Indians and the Regular Clergy, 1494-1517,” in The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century, edited by Ida Altman and David Wheat (University of Nebraska, 2019).

Major Grants

Omohundro Institute Short-Term Research Fellowship, Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2019)

Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, The John Carter Brown Library (2018)

Kislak Fellowship for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2017)

Fulbright Research Fellowship, Spain, Institute of International Education (2013)

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education (2011)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Portuguese, U.S. Department of Education (2010)

Courses Taught 

HIST 1101: World History I

HIST 1105: Foundations of Europe

HIST 2251: Latin American History and Culture

HIST 3307: Early North America                         

Kevin Marsh

Professor - Idaho and the American West; Twentieth-Century U.S. History; environmental history

Office: LA 334

208-282-2379

kevinmarsh@isu.edu

Dr. Marsh’s complete CV

Research Interests

Debates over public resources in the American West, especially groundwater development in the American West and on urban water management in Idaho.

Books       

Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books (series editor William Cronon). Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2007.

Idaho: The Heroic Journey, co-authored with Katherine Aiken and Laura Woodworth-Ney. (Boise: Idaho State Historical Society, 2006).

Articles and Book Chapters               

“Crossing Divides: An Environmental History of Idaho.” In Idaho's Place: Rethinking the Gem State's Past, edited by Adam M. Sowards, 44-72. Seattle: University of Washington Press and Moscow, ID: Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies, 2014.

“Rooting for the Home Team, Wherever Home Might Be: Community and Identity in Sports.” Idaho Humanities, Fall 2014.

“‘Save French Pete’: Evolution of Wilderness Protests in Oregon.” In Natural Protests: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism, eds. Michael Egan and Jeff Crane, 223-44. New York: Routledge, 2009.    

“The Ups and Downs of Mountain Life: Historical Patterns of Adaptation in the Cascade Mountains,”     Western Historical Quarterly 25, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 193-213.                    

“‘This is Just the First Round': Designating Wilderness in the Oregon Cascades, 1950-1964.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 103, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 210-233.

Awards

Dr. Marsh has twice been awarded for ISU Outstanding Public Service.

Courses Taught                           

HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture                   
HIST 3309 Modern United States
HIST 4423 Idaho History                   
HIST 4427 North American West
HIST 4432 U.S. Environmental History
HIST 6610 Proseminar - Environment & Society  

Anthony Martin

Professor

Professor, Art. 1977-2015

Erin Martin, M.A.

Adjunct Lecturer

Office: Graveley 155

208-478-6863

erinmartin@isu.edu

 Martin CV

JoAnn Martinez, LCSW

Social Work Field Director/Lecturer

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 348

(208) 282-4749

joannmartinez@isu.edu

M.S.W., Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID, 2010

Specialties: Effectiveness of Treatment Courts • Trauma Informed Practice • Macro Practice • Intersection between mental health, substance abuse, trauma and criminal justice • Veterans • Crisis Intervention for Teams • Cultural Awareness

Mark K. McBeth

Director of the MPA Program | Professor of Political Science

Office: Graveley Hall 304, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-2740

markmcbeth@isu.edu

D.A. Idaho State University, 1992

Dr. Mark K. McBeth has been on faculty in the Department of Political Science since January, 1995. His research focuses on the Narrative Policy Framework, environmental policy, public administration, and pedagogy.

An edited book on the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), Narratives and Policy Processes: Applications of the Narrative Policy Framework in Public Policy Analysis (co-edited with Michael D. Jones and Elizabeth A. Shanahan) is being published in summer 2022 as an open access book from Montana State University Press. He is a co-author  on the NPF chapter in the fifth edition of Sabatier and Weible's Theories of the Policy Process appearing in 2022. He is also a co-author on a NPF chapter in Methods of the Policy Process published in 2022. His most recent research has appeared in Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Journal, World Affairs, Policy & Politics, Journal of Borderland Studies, Journal of Political Science Education, PS: Political Science and Politics, Teaching Public Administration, and the Journal of Public Affairs Education. 

In his post-doctoral career, Mark has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator on twenty-three grants and contracts. Mark is also a co-author (with Randy S. Clemons) of Public Policy Praxis: A Case Approach for Understanding Policy and Analysis (4th edition, Routledge, 2020), a book that has been on the textbook market since July, 2000 and is now in its fourth edition.

In 2020, he was recognized as a “Distinguished Researcher” at ISU. In 2011 and 2015, he was recognized as an "Outstanding Researcher" at ISU. In 2005, he was recognized as a "Distinguished Teacher" at ISU and was recognized as a “Master Teacher” in 2001.

 Courses Recently Taught

• Public Organizational Theory
• Intergovernmental Relations
• Public Policy Analysis
• Public Personnel Management
• College Teaching Seminar
• Introduction to Politics and Critical Thinking

For more information, on Dr. McBeth’s publications go to his:

Google Scholar page, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lKRic-kAAAAJ&hl=en

and 

ResearchGate page, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark-Mcbeth 

Cameron McCoy

cameronmccoy@isu.edu

Dr. Cameron McCoy is a native of Washington, D.C. and teaches courses in 20th and 21st century U.S. history. Dr. McCoy has taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Brigham Young University, and currently in residence at the United States Air Force Academy. His manuscript tentatively titled, Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism (University Press of Kansas, projected publication 2022), chronicles the lives and experiences of many of the first African American Marines during their military service in the American South and abroad from 1945 to 1975. His work is distinctive because it examines the limitations of military integration and the critical failure of leadership on the part of many Washington and Marine officials during the Cold War era, which led to distinct forms and practices of systemic racism. He also focuses on rare aspects of military life during this period: the psychological effects of institutionalized racism and the emergent Black Power and Civil Rights movements, which served as a significant catalyst for several 21st century cultural diversity programs in the Marine Corps. He earned his doctorate in U.S. history at the University of Texas at Austin after receiving a master’s in military history at Texas A&M University, and his bachelor’s in International & Area Studies at BYU.

In addition to being an assistant professor and teaching courses on U.S. Race Relations, the Great Wars, Modern Warfare Studies, and Foreign Policy, Dr. McCoy also serves in the Marine Corps Reserves as an infantry officer. He has held several positions of command while serving multiple combat tours and deployed to various countries in support of Operations IRAQI and ENDURING FREEDOM.

Publications:

Books

Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2022 (under contract).

Book Chapters

Co-Authored Chapter, “We Are AAMRI: Redefining Black Male Excellence at the University of Texas at Austin,” Recruiting, Retaining, and Engaging African American Males at Select Prestigious Research Universities: Challenges and Opportunities in Academics and Sports (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2018).

Journal Articles

“Shifting Tides: A Clarion Call for Inclusion and Social Justice.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 51.3 (Fall 2018): 201–208.

Reviews

Review of Downs, Matthew L. and M. Ryan Floyd, eds., The American South and the Great War, 1914–1924 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018). Pp., vi, 256. U.S. Military History Review 7 (Spring 2021).

Review of Taylor, William A. The Advent of the All-Volunteer Force: Protecting Free Society. Critical Moments in American History proposal. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2021.

Review of Cude, Michael R. Woodrow Wilson: The First World War and Modern Internationalism. Seminar Studies Series proposal. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2021.

Review of Keene, Jennifer D. The United States and the First World War (Second Edition). Seminar Studies Series proposal. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2021.

Review of Jackson, Ashley, Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018). Pp., xiv, 432. Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review 50 (September 2019): 73.

Review of Adams, Michael C. C., The Best War Ever: American and World War II. Second Edition (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015). Pp., xvii, 161. H-Net Review [H-War]: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=44294.

Review of Sides, Josh, L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). Pp., xiv, 288. Not Even Past Reviews, December 2012. http://www.notevenpast.org/read/la-city-limits-african-american-los-angeles-great-depression-present-2003

Digital Projects

“The Marines of Montford Point and their Struggle for Legitimacy in Jim Crow America.” Rowan Technology, New York, NY.

https://builder.rowan.nyc/#/projects/243/pages/8484/edit (2017).

“Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief & Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations,” Keystone Battle Series: Marine Corps History Division, Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia (2017).

Entries

“Frederick C. Branch,” Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013 “Edgar R. Huff,” Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013 “Gilbert H. Johnson,” Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013 “Montford Point, North Carolina,” Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013

“USMC Ammunition and Depot Companies,” Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S. Military: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013

Op-Ed Articles

“Kaepernick’s Attempt to Provide a Voice for the Voiceless is Almost Silenced,” Deseret News: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865691301/Letter-Kaepernicks-attempt-to-provide-a-voice-for-the-voiceless-is-now-almost-silenced.html (18 October 2017).

Sarah McCurry

Emerita

(208) 282-3192

sarahmccurry@isu.edu

Sarah McCurry, Emerita. Sarah did her undergraduate work at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and her graduate work at the University of California at Los Angeles. She studied in Mexico and lived in Santiago, Chile for six and a half months.

Jennifer McDonald, Ph.D.

Associate Lecturer, Experimental Psychology

Office: Garrison Rm 408

jennifermcdonaldc@isu.edu

B.A. (2011) California State University Channel Islands
M.S. (2014) Idaho State University 
Ph.D. (2018) Idaho State University

Research Interests

Accurate Interpersonal Perception of Values, Mindfulness, and Positive Psychology

Selected Publications

*Colman, D. E., *Echon, R., *Lemay, M., *McDonald, J., *Smith, K. R., *Spencer, J., & *Swift, J. K. (2016). The efficacy of self-care for graduate students in professional psychology: A meta analysis. Training and Education in Professional Psychology 10, 188-197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tep0000130 *all authors contributed equally

 McDonald, J., & Letzring, T. (2016). Judgment of personal values and personality traits: Accuracy and its relation to visibility. Journal of Research in Personality, 65, 140-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.10.009

Kaylee McKay

Marketing and Communications Specialist

208-731-0004

kayleemckay@isu.edu

Dr. Jenna McLean

Assistant Professor of Music | Applied Voice | Commercial Music

208-282-2423

Jennamclean@isu.edu

Website

• B.M. in Vocal Performance - University of Wyoming
• M.M in Jazz Studies - University of Northern Colorado
• DMA in Jazz Studies - University of Northern Colorado

Joined ISU Faculty in 2023

Janneli Miller, Ph.D.

Adjunct Lecturer

Office: Graveley Hall 156

208-282-2629

jannelimiller@isu.edu

Dr. Janneli F. Miller holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of Arizona (2003), receiving a Fulbright for her dissertation fieldwork. She was a homebirth midwife for 15 years before completing her PhD, which focused on the birthing practices of the Tarahumara in N. Mexico. She has worked with the Hopi, Navajo and Apache in addition to the Tarahumara, with a specific interest in culturally appropriate reproductive health care service delivery. During her academic career she received a postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, and also taught at various institutions including Northern Arizona University, Western State Colorado University, Fort Lewis College as well as Coconino and Pueblo Community Colleges.  She is a firm believer in experiential education, and to this end designed and carried out a Binational Ethnographic Field School (2003-05) during which students were able to work side by side with indigenous Hopi, Navajo, Tarahumara and Cora, completing sustainable development projects. She has also taught in China, India, S. Africa, Chile, Costa Rica and Spain as part of the University Study Abroad Consortium and International Honors Program.  Currently semi-retired, Miller lives in SW Colorado and enjoys pursuing as many outdoor activities as she can.

*Kirsten Green Mink, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: Graveley 157

208-282-1062

kirstenmink@isu.edu

 Background

   My background is in North American archaeology and have worked in the Southwest, Great Basin, Pacific Northwest, and California. I discovered my interest in human remains while still in undergrad and pursued an MA and PhD at the University of Montana in Physical Anthropology with a focus on Forensics and Bioarchaeology. My dissertation brought me to Mesoamerica and the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance (BVAR) project. The focus of my dissertation was to use a comprehensive stable isotope analysis on both tooth and bone material from burials at the site of Cahal Pech. The chemical data along with mortuary data showed patterns in mobility among some elite Maya of the Classic period. My current research is looking at the role of Sulfur in the lives of the Classic Maya and to identify socio-political connections with other sites outside the Belize River Valley based on Strontium isotope values. I am particularly interested in understanding individual movement using bone and tooth chemistry. I am the project osteologist for BVAR and have continued research with the project.

   I took on Forensic Anthropology because of my background in human remains analysis and my expertise in bioarcheological excavation. I worked as the Forensic Anthropologist for the State of Montana for four years. I am passionate about working with indigenous communities on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples movement. I also work with law enforcement on forensic casework and trainings.

Green Mink CV

Pete Molino

Office: 2222 Teton Plaza, Idaho Falls, ID 83404

208-705-6757

molipet2@isu.edu

Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Co-founder and President of Access Point Family Services. Thirty years of professional practice experience focusing on working with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.  I’m married to one of the best BCBAs in Idaho, Holly Molino. I have four wonderful children. My oldest daughter graduated from Smith College with her Master’s in Social Work and worked in Boise. My second oldest graduated from Boise State and is an EMT at the University of Utah Neurology Department. My oldest son started his first year at Cornel Law School, and my youngest son (and our last kid at home) is a Senior in High School.

Tracy Montgomery

Associate Professor of English (retired 2013)

tracymontgomery@isu.edu

DA in English (1987), Idaho State University

Dr. William F. Montgomery

Instructor of Music | Music Theory & Aural Skills

(208) 282-3636

montwill@isu.edu

• B.M. 2014, Idaho State University
• M.M. 2016, University of Nevada, Reno
• Ph.D. 2019, Louisiana State University

Anne E. Mullin

Associate Professor of English (retired 2000)

PhD (1991), University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Rosemary N. Myers

Assistant Professor of English (retired 1999)

MA (1953), University of Arkansas

Suraiya Nasrin

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 222

suraiyanasrin@isu.edu

Mark Neiwirth

Instructor of Music | Piano

(208) 282-3864

neiwmark@isu.edu

Home page for Mark Neiwirth

Craig Nickisch

Professor Emeritus

nickcrai@isu.edu

Craig Nickisch, Professor Emeritus. Ph.D. BS South Dakota State University, MA Northwestern University, PhD University of Nebraska.  Fulbright Scholar.  Taught German, Spanish, and the FL Methods Course.  Master Teacher, Awards for Outstanding Research and Outstanding Public Service.  

Raphael Chijioke Njoku

Professor - African History and Culture

Office: LA 344

208-282-4164

raphaelnjoku@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Dalhousie University

Research Interests

African intellectual history, African social and political history, African philosophy, culture and development, democratization, social movements and comparative politics

Books

West African Masking Tradition and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals: History, Memory, Symbols, and Transnationalism. NY: Rochester University Press, 2020.

United States and African Relations: 1400 to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020.

Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations, coedited with Toyin Falola. Indiana University Press, October 2017.

The Igbo in an Age of Globalization: Reflections on Culture, Language, and Social Reordering, coedited with Chima J. Korieh. Glassboro, NJ: Goldline and Jacobs, 2016.

The History of Somalia. Westport: ABC-CLIO, Press, 2013.

Africa and the Wider World, coedited with Hakeem Ibikunle TIjani and Tiffany Fawn Jones. Boston: Pearson/Macmillan, 2010.                   

African History, coedited with Chima J. Korieh, Iowa: University Readers, Inc., 2010.                   

War and Peace in Africa: History, Nationalism, and the State, coedited with Toyin Falola. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.                   

Missions, States, and Colonial European Expansion in Africa, coedited with Chima J. Korieh. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Culture and Customs of North Africa: Morocco. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005

African Cultural Values and Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1966. New York: Routledge, 2006. 

Articles and Book Chapters                        

“The Conflation of Race and Propaganda in the Mobilization of Africans for World War II,” Journal of Asian and African Studies -JAAS (2021): 1-15.

“Nationalism, Decolonization, and Exilic Diplomacy: A Study of Kabaka Mutesa II of Uganda and Sultan Mohammed (Ibn Youssef) V of Morocco, 1940s-1963,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History – JCCH (Spring 2021):  1-27.

"Igbo-Ukwu." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press. Article published in March 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.585.

"Onitsha Market Literature: Narrating Identity and Survival in a Colonial African City." In Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education, edited by Brian Atterberry et al. 31-46. New York: Routledge, 2017.

"Introduction." Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 7-16.

"Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth-Century Niger Delta." In Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 99-122. 

"The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference.". Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016), 265-284. 

“The Ahiara Declaration and the Faith of Biafra in a Postcolonial/Bi-Polar World, 1967-1970.” In Toyin Falola and Ogechukwu Ezekwem (eds.), Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War (London: James Curry, 2016), 62-80.

“Interrogating Discursive Constructions of African Political History: From the Precolonial to the Postcolonial,” in Kenneth Omeje (ed.), The Crisis of Postcoloniality in Africa (Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2015), 29-44.

"Eastern Nigeria and the Rise of a New Class of Ogaranyas (Wealthy Men) in the Late Nineteenth-century: A Biography of Chief Igwebe Odum of Arondizuogu (c.1860-1940)." Journal of African Economic History 36 (February 2012): 27-52.

"Neoliberalism in Microcosm: A Study of Precolonial Igbo of Eastern Nigeria." MBARI: The International Journal of Igbo Studies 1, no.1 (2008): 45-68.

"Civil Society and Igbo Traditional Politics: A Historical Survey of Age Grades, Secret Societies, Social Clubs, Women's Organizations, and Town Unions since 1900." International Journal of African Studies 6, no. 2 (2008): 15-28.

"Civil Society in the Islamic Kingdom of Morocco." Journal of International Review of Politics and Development 5, no.2 (2007): 37-53.

"Don C. Ohadike: The Man, His Intellectual Legacy and African Historiography." Journal of Dialectical Antropology 10, no. 4. (August 2007): 32-50.

"Deadly Ethnic Violence and the Imperiative of Federalism an Power-sharing: Could a Consociation Hold in Rwanda?" Journal of Commonwealth Comparative Politics 43, no. 1 (March 2005): 82-101.    

Awards

Named an ISU Outstanding Researcher, 2017.

Library Residency Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington, 2009.

Victor A. Olurunsola Endowed Research Award for Young Scholars, 2007.

Eleanor Young Love Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2006.

NEH’s Schomburg Center Residence Fellowship, 2006-7.

West African Research Council Grant, 2001.

Government and Opposition Essay Prize, 2001.

Courses            

HIST 1120 Global History Since 1500                   
HIST 2255 African History and Culture                   
HIST 4491 Seminar
IS 3300 Travel and Study Abroad
IS 3350 International Symposium
IS 4493 Senior Thesis

Melissa Norton

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Office: LA 245

208-282-2274

manorton@isu.edu

Education

MA, Philosophy (1985), Claremont Graduate School

BA, Religion and Philosophy (1981), Whitworth College

Norton received a BA in Religion and Philosophy from Whitworth College in 1981 and an MA in Philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in 1985.  Her interest is in the history of philosophy.  She has worked on Plato in the ancient period, Hume and Kant in the early modern period, and Wittgenstein in 20th century analytic philosophy.

Norton teaches Introduction to Philosophy (both in class and on line), Introduction to Ethics, Logic, and Philosophy of Religion.

Steven Oberg

stevenoberg@isu.edu

Jacob Orse

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: Idaho Falls Campus

jacoborse@isu.edu

Patricia Overy

Financial Technician

Office: Business Administration Building Room 239

208‐282‐3360

patriciaovery@isu.edu

J. B. Owens

Emeritus Faculty

B. “Jack” Owens received his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1972). He studied with Robert Kingdon and Domenico Sella, who introduced him to the research questions and methodologies of the French Annales School (l’École des Annales). The movement takes its name from the first version of its signature journal, Annales d'histoire économique et sociale, founded at the Université de Strasbourg in 1929 by two young professors, Marc Bloch (1886-murdered 1944) and Lucien Febvre (1878-1956). During the first semester of graduate school (fall 1966), Owens read the emblematic Annales work, Fernand Braudel’s La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l'époque de Philippe II (1949; 1,160 pages of French!). Quickly recognized as a serious graduate student, Owens receive Ford and Fulbright grants to continue his dissertation research in Spain (Toledo and Granada). He selected East Asian history as his PhD minor, which afforded him the opportunity to discover the second continuing influence on his research and teaching, Joseph R. Levenson’s Confucian China and Its Modern Fate: A Trilogy (1968).

Institutional and global financial crises wiped out Owens’s first two tenure-track positions at New York University (1971-73) and Lehigh University (1973-75). Therefore, he and his growing family arrived battered and disoriented in Pocatello in July 1975, and he spent the rest of his academic career at ISU, where he taught European, Latin American, and World history.

Owens received a large research grant from the U.S.-Spanish Joint Committee for Educational and Cultural Affairs (the successor to Spanish Fulbright research grants) and spent three semesters (1978-79) in Murcia, Spain. The Universidad de Murcia published his first book, Rebelión, monarquía y oligarquía murciana en la época de Carlos V (1980), and a companion monograph on the members of Murcia’s city council between 1500 CE and 1650 (1981). Owens is currently substantially revising the book and translating it into English.

While in Murcia, Owens headed the history department of the regional research institute, which eventually became the regional section of the Fundación Pablo Iglesias of Spain’s major socialist party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE). He organized group research on the workers’ movement in the transition from fascism to a parliamentary democracy, publishing two articles (in English) on the Spanish Communist Party (PCE). Because the institute’s director, a Senator, served on the Senate committee on the drafting of the 1978 constitution, Owens followed the process closely. This experience, and subsequent research in the 1990s, provided the basis for his world history course on establishing countries and other political units on the basis of a written constitution (late 18th century to 1996).

Back in Pocatello for the fall semester 1979, Owens established a plan for a special library collection named for his predecessor (and officemate), which in 1981 became the Glenn E. Tyler Collection in the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Science. Owens served as (uncompensated) founding director until 2008. Upon his death in August 1987, Tyler left his personal library to ISU; it consisted of about 22,000 volumes, including a rich collection of rare books, which became the basis of the Oboler Library’s collection of 16th-18th century works. Tyler’s bequest increased the library’s total monograph collection by about 14%. Because the library had no budget to process so large a gift, Owens spent well over 100 volunteer hours sorting the books in the library’s basement and wheeling them on carts to the acquisition department. For this contribution to the university, Owens received a special commendation from the Faculty Senate in 1989.

In 1991, Owens served on a department committee to create a graduate program in comparative and world history, which the administration would never send to the State Board. However, Owens increased his activities within world and world systems research and teaching organizations, and as a result, he created an upper-division world history course on the planetary Hispanic Monarchy, which included the global domains of the Crown of Portugal, of the First Global Age (1400-1800). He applied for and received a six-week grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to participate in a summer seminar in 1995 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, “Rethinking Europe/Rethinking World History, 1500-1800.” While there, he also wrote a draft of a future book (published in 2005) and created the design for a future multidisciplinary research project (funded in 2007).

Ronald Hatzenbuehler introduced Owens to information management using computers, and he presented his first paper in this area in 1986. In 1994 (pre-browser), Owens expanded this research to distance learning, work for which he received in 1996, the “Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology” from a national organization. From 1997 to 1999, he coordinated an ISU interdisciplinary project, funded by the State Board, involving faculty members from anthropology, health professions, and history to develop computer-mediated, distance education programs.

In the Annales vision, to achieve the comprehensive (“total”) history for which the movement called in the 1960s, a researcher had to integrate information about the economic, social, and cultural environments, and Owens felt frustrated because he did not know how to do that. In spring 1998, colleagues in historical geography, members of an online research discussion group, recommended that he explore geographic information systems (GIS) as a possible method. ISU had established a GIS center in January of that year, and Owens participated in his first GIS workshops in June. Over the summer, he wrote his first GIS paper, entitled “Where in the World’s History is Murcia?”, turning it into a successful funding proposal, which took him to Spain during the spring semester 1999.

In the Crown archive of Castile, in the castle of Simancas, Owens discovered some of the reports of a secret 1565 investigation into smuggling networks along the border between the Kingdom of Castile and that of Valencia (the latter was a separate country), much of it taking place within the Kingdom of Murcia (roughly the territory of the modern provinces of Albacete and Murcia). At the urging of ISU’s research office, Owens obtained a senior NEH summer research grant to pursue additional sources about these smuggling operations. He returned to Pocatello in August 2000 with approximately 3,000 pages of documents and the perfect research project for displaying the capabilities of GIS. Owens probably already held the university record for the greatest number of research grants obtained from ISU research committees, but based on this early success, the faculty research committee provided him with a series of timely grants, which allowed him to extend this work. At the centennial graduation ceremony in 2002, Owens received the Distinguished Researcher award.

Owens worked with department colleagues to design and begin the first GIS-based graduate program in History anywhere in the world (2002-2008). They addressed History’s vulnerabilities, which could (and did) lead to cuts in university funding and of entire history departments throughout the U.S. and the World. Timely funding from ISU’s office of research allowed Owens to collaborate with the multidisciplinary Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI), which was initially founded to use GIS to organize information on Buddhism throughout Asia before becoming a global project.

This strong institutional support allowed Owens to obtain a full NEH fellowship (2004-2005) and the only fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation ever given to a faculty member at any of Idaho’s universities by that time (2005-2006). In addition to many articles, he published another book, ”By My Absolute Royal Authority”: Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age, in 2005.

Owens returned to Pocatello in late April 2006 and discovered that the European Science Foundation (ESF) had issued a call for multinational, multidisciplinary funding proposals for a research program named “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading” (TECT). Because the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) supported the program, Owens could apply. In the end, he created the largest project, among the successful five, in number of collaborating researchers and academic disciplines represented, with its strength in History, Geographic Information Systems, and Mathematical Modeling (of complex, nonlinear systems): it is known as the DynCoopNet Project (“Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Commercial Networks in the First Global Age [1400-1800]”). Suddenly, much of Owens’s research and teaching came together to permit him to craft the complicated ESF proposal in only five weeks; all of the other successful project directors worked on theirs for months. Most importantly, the submission of the proposal convinced ISU’s administration to grant the history department a new position, which was necessary for the start of the GIS-based graduate program, a component of DynCoopNet.

Owens’s innovative ideas attracted the attention of NSF’s director, who saw the DynCoopNet Project as a manifestation of what he called “transformative research” (tr). As a result, the agency encouraged Owens to submit a funding proposal in one of the tr categories. Working with geographer May Yuan, he submitted “Understanding social networks within complex, nonlinear systems: geographically-integrated history and dynamics GIS” (SOCNET). The NSF director’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) administered the grant as part of the agency’s tr Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program. One major SOCNET product is A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Training Manual for Historians and Historical Social Scientists (plus exercise data sets and free GIS software), which has continued to be downloaded by researchers and students in countries around the world.

Owens’s NSF award for the DynCoopNet Project was $394,000 for three years (2007-2010), the largest amount ever given to an individual historian. The total SOCNET grant was $1,761,897 (for four years, extended to five; 2009-2014), the largest NSF award ever given to a project headed by a historian. Most importantly, in the midst of an ISU budget crisis, these large grants brought “Indirect Costs” money to the history department to support the research-related travel and research of Owens’s departmental colleagues. During one academic year in which ISU budgeted for all history travel only $1,800, Owens’s NSF grants provided about $28,000 and probably saved at least one departmental teaching position.

Starting in 2015, Owens was developing another NSF funding proposal, but it was delayed by health problems and checked permanently by the pandemic because he could not travel sufficiently to recruit for the necessary multidisciplinary team. Thus, he published elements of the research design as “If I Forget Thee, O Murcia” and (with Vitit Kantabutra of ISU’s engineering program) “A Research Design for a World History of the World.” These and other articles related to his research career are available on Owens’s Academia.edu page (http://idahostate.academia.edu/JBJackOwens). A long (over 20,000 words) book chapter appeared in April 2021 in Oxford, England, with the title “Markets in the Shadows, Trade Diasporas, and Self-Organizing Trading / Smuggling Networks,” which represents his continuing work on 16th-century smuggling. Owens is currently writing an article for the Italian historical journal Storica about the emergence in the 1560s of cooperation among elite families who controlled a hugely disproportionate share of the economic and political resources of the Castilian City and Kingdom of Murcia.

Owens and his wife, Grace, are long-time human rights activists. Indeed, they met at Oberlin College, which opened in 1832 as the first higher-education institution to admit women and people of color on the same basis as white males. Starting with the abolition movement, the faculty and students have long been recognized for their role in struggles for civil and human rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the speaker at Grace’s graduation. They have received awards for their work, the most important of which was the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award given to Grace, a Highland High School Spanish teacher, at the national convention of the National Education Association (NEA) in Los Angeles in 1987. The event recognized her courageous leadership in dealing with fascist and white supremacist organizing in Idaho and the NW. Jack Owens is a long-time member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) --since secondary school-- and he has held leadership positions with the Pocatello Branch since shortly after arrival in 1975. He is thought to be the only person to have marched twice in the March on Washington in August 1963. At the Branch’s MLK banquet in 1995, he was presented with the Lifetime Civil Rights Service Award from the Branch, the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, and the ISU Black Student Alliance. Together, Grace and Jack were given in 2000 the Cole Award of the Ecumenical Ministry of Idaho State University (for exemplary lives in defense of human and civil rights).

Since junior high, Owens has loved soccer (world football). Thus, he jumped into helping its founders build the Gate City Youth Soccer League (GCYSL), and he led the negotiations with School District #25 to establish soccer as a secondary school competitive program. He served as faculty director of ISU’s Soccer Club, and he assisted the two co-captains to start the first special, traveling team for boys 13-16 in 1983. When he returned from a research year in Spain (1983-84), he was appointed head of Idaho’s Olympic Development Program in soccer. Under the umbrella of the GCYSL, he created the Girls Soccer Association in 1985 to provide girls with intensive coaching and playing experiences in preparation for the new secondary school girls soccer teams. The national association named Owens “Girls Coach of the Year for 1987.” Until fall 1990, he dedicated many hours to coaching teams and officiating matches. However, when ISU finally started the women’s soccer program in 1998, he contentedly served as an enthusiastic fan. That support lasted until after the 2009 season, when ISU transferred Owens west to ISU-Meridian, where he had an office until May 2019. He arranged a home office and nearby satellite library just in time for the pandemic.

Terry Ownby

Professor

Office: Frazier 416

(208) 282-6453

terryownby@isu.edu

Education:

BS, Media + Photography + Geography, Missouri State University; MA, Media Communication, Webster University-Saint Louis; PhD, Visual Media Studies, Colorado State University-Fort Collins

Emphasis:

Visual Communication and Photo Media

Courses Taught:

ART2210/CMP2250: History and Appreciation of Photography; CMP2251: Intro. To Photography; CMP3352: Photo Communication; CMP3355: Studio Photography; CMP4455: Photo Media; CMP4457: Advanced Photography; CMP6630: Critical Visual Methodologies

I am a visual storyteller. My career has been diversified, challenging, and above all, FUN! Over the years and before turning to full-time academics, I have accomplished editorial and food advertising photography, shot and directed corporate video productions, served as a military photojournalist and public affairs chief for an Army division (both stateside and overseas), and mentored hundreds of emerging visual communication professionals.

During my professional career, I won multiple ADDY Awards and worked with clients such as: Tyson Foods, Land O' Lakes, Bass Pro Shops, Copper Mountain Resort, and Colony Brands, to mention a few. My commercial work has been published in magazines such as Better Homes & Gardens, Southern Living, McCall's, Ladies Home Journal, TV Guide, and Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, among others. Lastly, I have worked in broadcast and TV operations for a local PBS station, which included producing several on-air promo pieces.

Here at Idaho State University, I'm an associate professor in the Communication, Media, & Persuasion department and I teach in our Visual Communication program. As an undergrad teacher, my area of responsibility is the Photo Media track and I manage the program’s first fully-equipped photography studio. I provide a variety of face-to-face and online photo media courses, field experience, and professional studio application for our photo majors. Also, I conduct graduate seminars on critical visual methodologies.

My research interests include: Atomic West Photography: Photography and Nuclear Zones in USA West; Visual Semiotics: Personal Identity through Visual Images; Vernacular Snapshots: Road Trip Identity and Photo Media; and 19th Century Photographic History: American Photography in the Pacific Northwest. Additionally, I have presented my research at conferences in Cyprus, Sweden, and Turkey, as well as in the U.S.

So, as you can see, I haven't always been an academic! I've had full careers in corporate advertising and in the military. And just to mix things up a bit, I farmed my wine vineyard in Wisconsin for several years. What a ride!

Dr. Ownby’s CV

Dr. Ownby’s Website

Dr. Ownby’s Blog

https://atomicphotographers.com/photographers/terry-ownby/

Dr. Ownby’s Academia.edu page

Selected Publications

Ownby, T. (2017). Gulf-08 with Bluebird House #20. Juried Group Exhibit. Midwest Center for Photography: Topographies, Wichita, KS.

Ownby, T. (2017). Shepard’s Wagon in Snow. Juried Group Exhibit. 1650 Gallery: Snow & Ice 2017, Los Angeles, CA.

Ownby, T. (2017). Atomic Amnesia: A Mashup of Photo Media, Cartography, and Satellite Imagery. Presented at the GeoMedia 2017 Conference, Karlstad, Sweden,

Ownby, T. (2017). Photographing the Wunderkammer: A Personal Journey of Art Making and Meaning. In C. Mieves and I. B. Wonder (Eds.) Contemporary Art Practice (pp. 271-283). London: Routledge.

Ownby, T. (2015). Reconstructing Silent Voices in Southern Photographic History. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts & Letters in the South, 52(4), 11-27.

Awards & Honors

Member, Atomic Photography Guild

Carrie Page

Management Assistant

Office: Business Administration Building Room 251

208‐282‐3053

carriepage@isu.edu

Pamela Park

Professor Emerita

pamelapark@isu.edu

Pamela Park, Professor Emerita, French. French Literature (CUNY 1979), License in French (University of Nancy 1974) B.A. French (Fordham University 1972).

Sarah Partlow Lefevre

Professor & Director, James M. & Sharon E. Rupp Debate Society

Office: Frazier 407

(208) 282-5962

sarahpartlowlefev@isu.edu

Education:

BA, English, University of Utah; MA, Communication Studies, University of Kansas; PhD, Communication Studies, University of Kansas

Emphasis:

Rhetoric & Debate

Courses Taught:

CMP2205: Argumentation; CMP3305: Intercollegiate Debate; CMP4404: Gender and Communication; CMP6630: Drama of Human Symbol Use

Sarah Partlow Lefevre, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion and has been the Director of Debate at Idaho State University since 2001. Dr. Partlow Lefevre began her involvement in debate in 1991 at the University of Utah where she completed her undergraduate degree. She then pursued both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication Studies at the University of Kansas where she was an Assistant Debate Coach. Coaching highlights from her time at ISU include: two 3rd place finishes in Public Forum Debate at Pi Kappa Delta Nationals, First Place in British Parliamentary Debate at Pi Kappa Delta Nationals, multiple First Round At Large Bids to the National Debate Tournament, 3rd Place at Cross Examination Debate Association Nationals, Second Speaker at both the NDT and CEDA national tournaments among hundreds of other awards and acclamations. She was a member of the NDT Committee for several years and served as President of the Cross Examination Debate Association. Dr. Partlow Lefevre is currently the Director of the National Debate Tournament and serves on the Board of the Women’s Debate Institute.

Rupp Debate Society

Rupp Debate Blog

Selected Publications:

Partlow Lefevre, S. T. (2018) Recovering the Potential of Argument in the Public Sphere: Moms Demand Action and Threats of Gendered Violence in the Gun Control Debate. In (ed.) Randall A. Lake . Routledge.

Eckstein, J., & Partlow Lefevre, S. T. (2017). Since Sandy Hook: Strategic Maneuvering in the Gun Control Debate. Western Journal of Communication, 81(2), 225-242.

Awards & Honors:

The George Ziegelmueller Award honoring  a faculty member who has distinguished himself or herself in the communication profession while coaching teams to competitive success at the National Debate Tournament

The Lucy Keele Award for outstanding service to the debate community

The Rebecca Galentine Award recognizing debate service, community building, and competitive success.

The Rupp Debate Society has won hundreds of awards with Dr. Partlow Lefevre at the helm, including: 3rd place Overall Division II at Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament, 3rd Place Debate Division I at Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament, 3rd Place Public Forum Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament, 3rd Place Public Forum Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament, 1st Place British Parliamentary Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament, Second Speaker CEDA Nationals, 2nd Speaker NDT Nationals, 3rd Place CEDA Nationals.

Sam Peer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology - Acting Department Chair, Associate Director of Clinical Training

Office: Garrison Rm 425

208-282-1215

samuelpeer@isu.edu

Pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Residency–Child Track, Medical University of South Carolina/Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center (2017–2018)

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Central Michigan University (2018)

M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Central Michigan University (2016)

B.S. in Psychology, Wilmington University (2011)

Research Interests

My research focuses predominately on reducing child mental health disparities through the refinement, dissemination, and implementation of evidence-based prevention and clinical treatment programs, particularly Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT; www.pcit.org) and its transdiagnostic applications (e.g., disruptive behaviors, trauma, anxiety, autism, depression) and developmental adaptations (e.g., PCIT for children ages 7–11). Pursuant to those goals, my research also addresses mixed-methodological innovations, developmental cascades, child maltreatment, measurement development and validation, dissemination and implementation science (particularly validating the Community-Based Learning Collaborative model), and therapist factors related to child and family mental health utilization and outcomes. 

Dr. Peer will be accepting a new graduate student for admission in fall 2024.

ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samuel_Peer

Lab: Science-based Transdiagnostic Research and Interventions for Parenting Effectively and Safely (STRIPES) Lab

Selected Publications

Marriott, B. R., Peer, S., Wade, S., & Hanson, R. F. (2023). Therapists’ perceived competence in delivering Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy during statewide learning collaboratives. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-023-09847-2

Are, F., Saunders, B., Peer, S., Ralston, E., & Hanson, R. F. (2022). Trauma-related knowledge and practice changes among brokers in a community-based learning collaborative. Research on Social Work Practice, 32(6), 624–634. doi:10.1177/10497315211032615.

Espeleta, H. C., Peer, S., Are, F., & Hanson, R. F. (2021). Therapists’ perceived competence in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client outcomes: Findings from a community-based learning collaborative. Child Maltreatment, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595211003673

Lachance, K., Stetinova, K., Rieske, R., & Peer, S. (2021). Repetitive Behavior Scale for Early Childhood (RBS-EC): Psychometrics and developmental effects with a community sample. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01166-x

Helseth, S. A., Peer, S. O., Are, F., Korell, A., Saunders, B. E., Schoenwald, S., & Chapman, J., & Hanson, R. F. (2020). Sustainment of trauma-focused and evidence-based practices following Learning Collaborative implementation. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-020-01024-3.

Hanson, R. F., Saunders, B. E., Moreland, A. D., Peer, S. O., & Fitzgerald, M. (2019). Statewide implementation of child trauma-focused practices using the Community-Based Learning Collaborative model. Psychological Services, 16, 170–181.

Briegel, W., Peer, S. O., Dell'armi, M., & Niec, L. N. (2018). Building resilience through PCIT: Assessing child adaptive functioning and parent-child relationship quality. In L. N. Niec (Ed.), Handbook of parent-child interaction therapy: Innovations and applications for research and practice (pp. 341–358). New York, NY: Springer.

Hanson, R., Saunders, B., Peer, S., Ralston, E., Moreland, A., Schoenwald, S., & Chapman, J. (2018). Community-Based Learning Collaboratives and participant reports of interprofessional collaboration, barriers to, and utilization of child trauma services. Children and Youth Services Review, 94, 306–314.

Solomon, D., Åsberg, K., Peer, S., & Prince, G. (2016). Cumulative risk hypothesis: Predicting and preventing child maltreatment recidivism. Child Abuse & Neglect, 58, 80–90.

Triemstra, K. T., Niec, L. N., Peer, S. O., & Christian, A. S. (2016). Influence of conventional masculine gender role norms on parental attitudes toward seeking psychological services for children. Psychology of Men & Masculinity. doi: http://dx.doi.org.cmich.idm.oclc.org/10.1037/men0000055

Barnett, M. L., Niec, L. N., Peer, S. O., Jent, J. F., Weinstein, A., & Gisbert, P., & Simpson, G. (2015). Successful therapist-parent coaching: How in vivo feedback styles relate to parent engagement in parent-child interaction therapy. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 14, 1-8.

Tiano, J. D., McNeil, C. B., & Peer, S. O. (2015). Maternal and paternal treatment acceptability and parenting behaviors: A comparative study. In K. Alvarez (Ed.), Parent-child interactions and relationships: Perceptions, practices and developmental outcomes (pp. 91-110). New York City, NY: Nova Science Publishers. 

Niec, L. N., Acevedo-Polakovich, I. D., Abbenante-Honold, E., Christian, A. S., Barnett, A. S., Aguilar, G., & Peer, S. O. (2014). Working together to solve disparities: Latina/o parents’ contributions to the adaptation of a preventive intervention for childhood conduct problems. Psychological Services, 11, 410-420.

Cathy Peppers

Senior Lecturer in English

Office: TAB 277- Idaho Falls Campus

208-282-7778

cathypeppers@isu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in English, University of Oregon

M.A. in English Lit. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Bowling Green State University

B.A. in English and Political Science, Macalester College

During my first eight years at ISU, I taught a range of courses in the English department, from developmental composition through creative writing and a variety of literature courses. Drawing on some prior professional experience, I also taught a few courses in public relations for the then-Mass Communication department.

My next ten years were housed in the College of Business, where I created and taught courses that developed into one unique core Management department course in critical analysis and creative problem solving. I won the College of Business Outstanding Teacher award in 2012, and an ISU Outstanding Teacher award in 2015.

Now I'm back in the English department, based in Idaho Falls where for the past few years I've been teaching a range of courses that allows students to complete a Professional Writing minor, along with other coursework, on the Idaho Falls campus.

Courses Taught

4407: Special Topics in Professional Writing

3324: Genre Studies in Nonfiction

3308: Business Communication

3307: Professional and Technical Communication

2211: Literary Analysis

2210: American Cultural Studies: Science in American Culture

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

Corinna Percy

Assistant Lecturer in English

Office: LA 207-C

208-282-4657

corinnapercy@isu.edu

Education

PhD, English and the Teaching of English (2019), Idaho State University

MA, English (2014), Idaho State University

MPS, Publishing (2009), George Washington University

BA, English (2007), Brigham Young University-Idaho

I earned my MA and PhD in English from Idaho State University. My dissertation examined the history and literature of the World War II era that depicts the lives of marginalized soldiers and discussed how these soldiers created their own forms of masculinity that adapted, resisted, or repackaged it differently from the privileged, white concept in America. My past teaching experiences include courses such as Rhetoric and Writing I and II, Ethnic American Literature, and Gender in Literature. My courses focus on critical reading and thinking, particularly addressing the intersections of history, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and the hierarchies of power associated with social constructs.

As an instructor, I aim to help students develop confidence in their own critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. In composition classes, I like to draw on students’ own experiences as sources for conversation, writing, and research and encourage them to see each step of the writing process as a dynamic way to develop their own ideas and express their individual strengths.

Publications

“‘I Hear You Just Fine’: Disability and Queer Identity in Yuki Fumino’s I Hear the Sunspot.” The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies. Vol. 1, 2020, pp. 35-75.

“A Hair Closer to Freedom: Retellings of Rapunzel as Self-Rescuer.” The ALAN Review, vol. 45, no. 3, Summer 2018, pp. 72-81.

“Reformers, Racism, and Patriarchy in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s The Squatter and the Don.” The Explicator, vol. 75, no. 2, 2017, pp. 112-117. 

Courses Taught

3308: Business Communications

1175: Introduction to Literature

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

1101: Writing and Rhetoric I

1100: Academic Speaking and Writing for International Students

Jeffrey Petersen

Assistant Professor

jeffreypetersen3@isu.edu

Tom Pfister

Senior Lecturer in English (retired 2022)

thomaspfister@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, English (1996), University of Wisconsin, Madison

MFA, Printmaking (2007), Idaho State University

MA, English (1987), Northwestern University

MS, Advertising (1980), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

BA, English(1977), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

I have been teaching at ISU since 1996. Currently, I teach English 1101, 1101P and 1102. I completed a scholarly (unpublished) manuscript titled “The Age of Delicacy: Sensibility, Imagination, and Taste in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” I now devote my energies to producing works of fiction. I recently completed a four-novel series based on three generations of my Norwegian ancestors: “From Castle to Cottage,” “From Cottage to Castle,” “The Melbys of Minneapolis,” and “A House Afire.” Other unpublished novels include “Not the Marrying Kind,” “A Mistake in Marriage,” and “My Life in Ballet.” I have also written a volume of short stories and a trilogy of novelettes titled “Women with History.” At the moment, I am drafting another trilogy titled “Women Out of Love.”  In my spare time, I enjoy printmaking and gardening.   

Recent Courses Taught

1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

1101: Writing and Rhetoric I

1101P: Writing and Rhetoric I Plus

Tabitha La Force

Philanthropic Advisor

Office: Business Administration #5 Room 240

208-282-1404

tabithalaforce@isu.edu

Chris Pickett

Associate Professor of Art

Office: VOART 106

(208) 282-3693

chrispickett@isu.edu

Website

Education:

MFA the University of Florida

BFA the University of Tennessee

Courses taught:

• All levels of Ceramics

Donald Pierson

Professor Emeritus

donaldpierson@isu.edu

D.S.W., University of California, 1984
M.S.W., Tulane University, 1971

Rick Pongratz, Ph.D.

Office: Graveley Hall 363

208-282-2130

rickpongratz@isu.edu

Rick Pongratz, Ph.D. is Director of ISU’s Counseling and Testing Service. He oversees comprehensive mental health services for college students.  Rick has served as PI or co-Investigator on several state-funded grants pertaining to prevention of mental health problems, coping with stress related to COVID-19, and HIV prevention. Rick has taught a number of different courses for the Department of Psychology, including but not limited to: Advanced Ethics, Human Sexuality, Fundamentals of HIV, and Theory and Method of Adult Therapy II. Rick’s areas of interest include college student mental health, diversity issues, and ACT and IPT treatments.

Amy Jo Popa

Senior Lecturer

Office: Fine Arts Building 402B

(208) 282-3341

amypopa@isu.edu

Education:

MFA, Sculpture, Idaho State Univeristy (1998)

BFA, Sculpture, New Mexico Highlands University (1994)

Courses taught:

• Introduction to Art

Sharon Premkumar

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 153

sharonpremkumar@isu.edu

Anne Preston

Adjunct Faculty

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts

(208) 282-2170

Erin B. Rasmussen, Ph.D.

Professor, Experimental Psychology

Office: Garrison Rm 411

208-282-5651

erinrasmussen@isu.edu

Website

B.S. (1994), Utah State University;
M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2001), Auburn University.

Research Interests

Dr. Rasmussen's research interests are broadly in the area of behavioral economics and behavioral pharmacology. Specifically, she has two laboratories (human and animal) that are dedicated to examining behavioral economic and neural correlates of behaviors and decision-making involved in obesity. Her human work focuses on sociocultural factors that influence food-based behavioral processes related to obesity. Her animal work is centered around how dopaminergic, endocannainoid, and opioid neurotransmitter systems affect the value of food reinforcement in diet-induced and genetic rodent models of obesity and binge eating. She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for her research. She was elected president of the Association for Behavior Analysis International for a three year term (2019-2022) and has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Learning & Behavior, and Perspectives on Behavior Science. She is also coauthor of the 7th edition of the textbook Behavior Analysis and Learning: A Biobehavioral Approach (2023; with C. Clay, D. Pierce, and C. Cheney) and Women in Behavior Science: Observations on Life Inside and Outside of the Academy (2023; with R. Retfeldt and T. Cihon).

You can also access some of  Dr. Rasmussen's recently published studies.

Dr. Rasmussen's personal webpage

Dr. Rasmussen will be accepting one students for fall 2024 admission.

*Elizabeth A. Redd, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Director of American Indian Studies

Office: Graveley 163

208-282-1153

lizkickham@isu.edu

 

Liz Kickham CV

*Katherine Reedy, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Chair

Office: Graveley 151

208-282-6137

katherinereedy@isu.edu

Dr. Reedy received her PhD from the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College) in Social Anthropology in 2004 with an emphasis on arctic cultures, natural resource economies, and environmental policy. Dr. Reedy is a sociocultural anthropologist conducting ethnographic research primarily in the communities of the Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Island Chain, and Pribilof Islands. Her primary research is investigating the role of traditional commercial and subsistence economies in the construction and maintenance of indigenous Aleut/Unangax̂ identity and village sustainability. Research projects have spanned topics involving indigenous rights and representations of identity, Aleut/Unangax̂ culture and history, ecological anthropology, ethnohistory, economic development, subsistence and commercial fisheries, local knowledge of food harvesting and ecology, oil and gas development, energy development, and environmental and fisheries policymaking. In addition to ongoing ethnographic work, current projects investigate the marine historical ecology of the Pacific cod fishery and the integration of marine energy resources into the existing infrastructure of coastal communities. Dr. Reedy accepts graduate students with interests in any area of inquiry related to indigeneity and applied anthropology. Raised on a farm in Idaho, and having raised two sons in Pocatello, her family enjoys downhill skiing, hiking, fishing, snowmachining, urban farming, and travel adventures.

Reedy CV

Robert Rieske, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology - Clinic Director

Office: Garrison Rm 426

208-282-4192

robertrieske@isu.edu

Website

B.S. in Behavioral Science (Psychology Emphasis), Utah Valley University (2008)

M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Louisiana State University (2012)

Pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Residency (2014-2015), Nationwide Children's Hospital/Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Louisiana State University (2015)

Dr. Rieske will NOT be accepting any graduate students for admission in fall 2025.

Research Interests

Development and validation of assessment measures and improving understanding of autistic symptomology across the lifespan and cutting across gender.

Identifying and reducing barriers to ASD evaluations, particularly for underserved and marginalized populations.

Examining the importance of parental support and affirmation of gender-diverse identities for those with autism.

Assessment and treatment of anxiety and related problems in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorder (IDD/ASD).

Risk/protective factors in the development of comorbid psychopathology (e.g., anxiety, feeding problems, and challenging behaviors) in individuals with IDD/ASD.

Interdisciplinary and interprofessional education and collaboration, particularly in the context of assessment and service provision to neurodiverse populations.

Selected Publications

Bigham, M., Keister, D., Johnston, S., & Rieske, R. (2023). Comprehensive Assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders. In J. L. Matson (Ed.) Handbook of Applied Behavioral Analysis for Children with Autism: Clinical Guide to Assessment and Treatment. Switzerland, Springer International Publishing.

Lachance, K., Štětinová, K., Rieske, R. D., & Peer, S. (2022). Repetitive Behavior Scale for Early Childhood (RBS-EC): Psychometrics and developmental effects with a community sample. Submitted to Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

Rieske, R. D. (Ed) (2019). Handbook of Interdisciplinary Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorder. Switzerland, Springer International Publishing.

Rieske, R. D. & Matson, J. L. (2019). Parental age at conception and the relationship with severity of autism symptoms. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, DOI:10.1080/17518423.2019.1645222

 Rieske, R. D., Matson, J. L., & Davis III, T. E. (2013). The moderating effects of autism symptomatology on anxiety symptoms. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 25, 517-531.

 Rieske, R. D., Matson, J. L., Davis III, T. E., Konst, M. J., Williams L., & Whiting, S. E. (2013). Examination and validation of a measure of anxiety specific to children with autism spectrum disorders. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 16, 9-16.

Barbara Wood Roberts, Ph.D.

Office: Museum Building 401

(208) 282-4911

bwr@isu.edu

Education

BA (1987) Harvard University

MSHE (2011) Purdue University

MA (2013) Idaho State University

MS (2018) Idaho State University

PhD (2018) Idaho State University

Research Interests

Dr. Roberts' research focuses on quantifying intercultural competence and other topics related to equity and inclusivity.

Selected Publications

Letzring, T. D., Colman, D. E., Krzyzaniak, S. L., & Roberts, B. W. (2020). Realistic accuracy model. In Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality Psychology (Volume 1: Models & Theories). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Invited encyclopedia entry.

Roberts, B. W., & Colman, D. E. (2016). What is c Factor, and where can I get it? The
Inquisitive Mind. 

Mark Roberts, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, Clinical Psychology

markroberts@isu.edu

Research and clinical interests include pre-adolescent oppositional/conduct disorders, parent training, sibling conflict, and socialization theory.

Mark Roberts Vita 2019

Selected Publications

"Family interventions with disruptive children: Six challenges", an invited address given to the Parenting & Families Special Interest Group of the Association of Behavior and Cognitive Therapies, Atlanta, Nov 2019.  Parenting SIG ABCT 2019

Roberts, M.W. (2008). Parent Training. A chapter in M. H. Herson & A.M. Gross (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Psychology, Vol II: Children and Adolescents (pp. 653-693). John Wiley & Sons: New Jersey.

Sarah Robey

Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies - Twentieth-Century U.S. History; History of Science and Technology; History of Energy

Office: Pocatello Office: LA 340

208-282-5675

sarahrobey@isu.edu

Set up a time to meet with Dr. Robey here.

Education

Ph.D. Temple University

Research Interests

History of nuclear science and technology; history of energy; history of the Cold War; citizenship; 20th-century American cultural history; civil defense, disasters, and emergency management.

Books

Atomic Americans: Citizens in a Nuclear State, Cornell University Press, 2022.

Book Chapters

“‘Limitless Power at Man’s Command’: Sponsored Films, Science Education, and Visions of the Nuclear Future in the 1950s,” in Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre, eds., American Energy Cinema, West Virginia University Press, 2023.

Digital Media Projects

Duck and Cover: The Civil Defense History Podcast.

Selected Articles and Book Reviews

“From Raindrop to Field: Irrigation History in Idaho, 1870-1970,” with Laura Woodworth-Ney, Historic Context Survey, Idaho State Historic Preservation Office, forthcoming.

"Secret Histories of the Bomb," Review of Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atomic Bomb, by Peter Watson, and Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space, by Mark Wolverton, Nature 562 (October 18, 2018), 342-343.

Review of Farm Hall and the German Atomic Project of World War II: A Dramatic History, by David C. Cassidy, Physics in Perspective 20 (September 2018), 305-313.

Research Fellow, Idaho Humanities Council, 2022-2023.

Podcast Grant, The Reinventing Civil Defense Project, Stevens Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018.

Swiss National Science Foundation Exploratory Grant, 2017.

Courses Taught                           

HIST 1112 U.S. History since 1865
HIST 1118 U.S. History and Culture
HIST 2291 Introduction to Research
HIST 4409/5509 Modern United States
HIST 4418/5518 History for Teachers
HIST 4433/5533 History of Energy in the Modern U.S.
HIST 4434/5534 The Atomic Age
HIST 4440/5540 History of Revolutions
HIST 4467/5567 Cold War Culture in the U.S.
HIST 4491 History Seminar
HIST 6605 Introduction to Graduate Studies in History
HIST 6620 Research and Writing Seminar

Michael Roche

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Office: LA 252

208-282-3160

mikeroche@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D., Philosophy (2013), University of Wisconsin, Madison

M.A., Philosophy (2008), University of Wisconsin, Madison

B.A., Philosophy (2004), University of Utah

B.S., Psychology (2004), University of Utah

I tried not to become a philosopher. My older brother was in a PhD program in philosophy when I began my undergraduate education. And I wanted to be different. I soon found, however, that I was both more interested in, and better at, my philosophy classes than all the others. I especially appreciated philosophy’s vast range of topics: mind, language, knowledge, metaphysics, right and wrong, religion, death, meaning, etc. This is ultimately what caused me to surrender to philosophy! I moved from Utah to Wisconsin in 2005 to pursue a PhD in philosophy. After spending one year at Illinois Wesleyan and five years at Mississippi State, I was lucky enough to join the faculty at Idaho State in the fall of 2019.

I specialize in the philosophy of mind. Broadly speaking, this area of philosophy investigates the nature of the mind and its relationship to the physical world. Central questions include: What does it mean to have a particular belief or desire or intention? Is the mind identical to the brain? Can consciousness be explained in purely physical terms? Can machines have minds? Is psychology an autonomous science, or will it ultimately be reduced to neurobiology or physics? What kind of access do we have to the contents of our minds?

My published research has, to this point, primarily focused on this last question, which typically falls under the heading of ‘self-knowledge’. I am attracted to a view according to which we have a way of knowing about our own minds that relies on neither behavioral nor situational evidence about ourselves, and which—somewhat paradoxically—involves turning our attention away from the mind and towards the world. This view denies that distinctively first-personal self-knowledge requires anything like an “inner eye”; all that is required is the ability to think about the world. The publications noted below are on this topic.

I regularly teach introduction to philosophy, which I really enjoy. It allows me to expose students to the aforementioned wide variety of topics within philosophy. Nearly every student is gripped by at least one of these! I am also looking forward to teaching upper-level courses in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and other areas.

My personal website contains additional information about my teaching experience and research: https://sites.google.com/site/rochephilo/.

Selected Publications

Articles

“Introspection, Transparency, and Desire”, Journal of Consciousness Studies 30, 3 (2023) 132-154.

“Authority Without Privilege: How To Be a Dretskean Conciliatory Skeptic On Self-Knowledge”, Synthese 198 (2021) 1071–1087. (w/ William Roche)

"Dretske on Self-Knowledge and Contrastive Focus: How to Understand Dretske’s Theory, and Why It Matters" Erkenntnis 82 (2017) 975 - 992. (w/ William Roche)

“Knowing What One Believes – In Defense of a Dispositional Reliabilist Extrospective Account” American Philosophical Quarterly 53 (2016) 365 - 379.

“Physicalism and Supervenience: A Case for a New Sense of Physical Duplication” Erkenntnis 81 (2016) 669 - 681.

“Causal Overdetermination and Kim’s Exclusion Argument” Philosophia 42 (2014) 809 - 826.

“Povinelli’s Problem and Introspection” Review of Philosophy and Psychology 4 (2013) 559 - 76.

“A Difficulty for Testing the Inner Sense Theory of Introspection” Philosophy of Science 80 (2013) 1019 - 1030.

Book Reviews

Alex Byrne’s Transparency and Self-Knowledge (2018), Philosophical Psychology, forthcoming.

Quassim Cassam’s Self-Knowledge for Humans (2014) Philosophical Quarterly 68 (2018) 645 - 647.

Declan Smithies and Daniel Stoljar’s, eds., Introspection and Consciousness (2012) Philosophical Quarterly (2016) 66 203 - 208. (w/ William Roche)

Courses Taught

4435/5535: Metaphysics

4430/5530: Philosophy of Science

4420/5520: Philosophy of Mind

4410/5510: Philosophy of Language

2201: Introduction to Logic

1101: Introduction to Philosophy

Chad Rodgers

Lecturer and Technical Director

rodgcha2@isu.edu

Evan Rodriguez

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Office: LA 250

208-282-2345

evanrodriguez@isu.edu

Website

Education

PhD, Philosophy and Classics (2016), Yale University

BA, Philosophy and Classical Culture & Society (2008), Haverford College

I received my PhD from Yale’s Philosophy and Classics program in 2016, after first falling in love with both subjects in the liberal arts context at Haverford College. My work uses philosophical and philological tools to help us understand ancient texts, to put them in conversation with modern problems, and to put us in conversation with each other.

Selected Awards

(2021). CHS academic year fellowship and 8-week residency. Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies.

(2021). IHC Research Fellowship, Idaho Humanities Council.

(2020). NEH Summer Stipend. National Endowment for the Humanities.

(2019). Conrado Eggers Lan Prize for Best Dissertation in Platonic Studies (for dissertations awarded between January 2014 and July 2018). International Plato Society.

Selected Publications

(2023). Problems of Being. The Cambridge Companion to the Sophists: 200-224.

(2022). A Long Lost Relative in the Parmenides? Plato’s Family of Hypothetical Methods. Apeiron 55 (1): 141-166.

(2020). Structure and Aim in Socratic and Sophistic Method. History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis 23(1): 143–166.

(2020). ‘Pushing Through’ in Plato’s Sophist: A New Reading of the Parity Assumption. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 102(2): 159–188.

(2020). Aristotle's Platonic Response to the Problem of First Principles. Journal of the History of Philosophy 58(3): 449–469.

(2019). Untying the Gorgianic ‘Not’: Argumentative Structure in On Not-Being. Classical Quarterly 69(1):87-106.

(2019). More than a Reductio: Plato's Method in the Parmenides and Lysis. Études Platoniciennes 15.

Current Courses

4460/5560: Theory of Knowledge

3305: History of Philosophy: Greek Reason and Christian Faith

2299: Life and Death

2220: Philosophical Issues in Religion

2210: Introduction to Asian Philosophies

1101: Introduction to Philosophy

Abraham Romney

Associate Professor of English; Interim Director of Composition Fall 2023

Office: LA 225

208-282-2119

abrahamromney@isu.edu

EDUCATION

2013, Ph.D., University of California-Irvine, Department of Comparative Literature

2008, MA, University of California-Irvine, Department of Comparative Literature

2007, MA, University of Oregon, Department of English

2005, BA, Brigham Young University-Idaho, English with a minor in Spanish

I study histories and theories of rhetoric, with a few different research areas, including 19^th century rhetoric in Latin America and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and the teaching of writing. Before coming to ISU, I worked at Michigan Technological University as the Director of their Composition Program and an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition. Prior to directing composition, I was director of the Michigan Tech Multiliteracies Center. I am delighted to be back closer to my roots in Idaho and look forward to continuing my work at Idaho State University. 

Awards/Honors

“Human-Centered Engineering Initiative.” Co-PIs: Mary Raber, Oren Abeles, Nancy Barr, and Marika Seigel. National Endowment for the Humanities Connections Planning Grant. 2019.

Research Enhancement Fund Scholarship and Creativity Grant, Michigan Technological University. 2016.

Research Fellowship, International Society for the History of Rhetoric. 2014.

William G. Jackson Center for Teaching and Learning Blended Learning Grant Program, Michigan Technological University. 2014-2015.

Selected Publications

Hamlin, Brett and AJ Hamlin, Tori Claudette Reeder, Josh Chase, Mary Raber, Laura Vidal-Chiesa, Modupe Omolara Yusuf, Abraham Romney, Marika Seigel. “Work-In-Progress: Leveraging Interdisciplinary Topics in First-year Engineering” 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference & Exposition, July 26-29, 2021

Romney, Abraham “A Comparative Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Indigenous Rhetorics in the Americas.” Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics. Ed. Keith Lloyd. Routledge, 2021.

Romney, Abraham. “Spectacular Crisis: Rhetorics of Representation in Venezuela.” Rhetorics of Democracy in the Americas. Eds. Adriana Angel, Nancy Gómez, and Michael L. Butterworth, Penn State Press, 2021.

Romney, Abraham. “Affective Witnessing in the Visual Documentation of Suffering” Symposium on Global Contexts for Rhetorical Witnessing. Rhetoric Review. 30.4(2020): 369-442.

Seigel, Marika and Joshua Chase, Silke Feltz, William DeHerder, Karla Kitalong, Abraham Romney, and Kimberly Tweedale. “Monstrous Composition: Reanimating the Lecture in First-Year Writing Instruction.” College Composition and Communication (forthcoming June 2020).

Courses Taught

ENGL 4407: Topics in Professional Writing [perhaps indicate topic]

ENGL 3307: Technical and Professional Writing

ENGL 1101: Writing and Rhetoric I

Gretchen Rowe

Instructor in English

Office: TBD

gretchenrowe@isu.edu

MA in English (2022), Idaho State University

Katrina Running

Professor of Sociology

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts 362

(208) 282-5571

trinarunning@isu.edu

Website

Ph.D., University of Arizona, AZ, 2013
M.A., University of Arizona, AZ, 2009 - Sociology
M.A., University of Arizona, AZ, 2007 - Political Science

Specialties: Climate Justice & Inequality • Social & Environmental Sustainability • Social Research Methods • Gender

Shin Kue Ryu

Associate Professor of Public Administration, Public Policy, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics.

Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-2487

shinkueryu@isu.edu

Ph.D. George Mason University, 2016

Shin Kue Ryu’s research interests include politics and sustainable development goals, strengthening public sector capacity building in developing country contexts, and infrastructure development implementation frameworks. His specific interests include expansion of equal access to government services in development country contexts, water and sanitation infrastructure policies in Asia and the Pacific countries, and the role of politics in achieving sustainable development goals.

Dr. Ryu was the principal researcher for WaterAid’s comparative sanitation case studies of Malaysia, Singapore, and South Korea. The research serves to demonstrate that universal access to sanitation can be achieved within a single generation. A research that was much needed in light of the failing to meet the Millennium Development Goal on sanitation, which signaled a need to depart from the status quo. The research has been cited as a solution to Asia’s challenge on sanitation by the Asian Development Bank’s flagship report, the Asian Water Development Outlook 2016.

Dr. Ryu also brings professional experience of having worked at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC. His experiences involve being the researcher for the World Bank’s Public-Private Partnership Reference Guide 2.0 and Delivering Universal and Sustainable Water Services: Partnering with the Private Sector – Guidance Note. He is also the co-author of OECD Public-Private Partnerships: The Relevance of Budgeting publication, which was presented at the OECD Senior Budget Officials Meeting.

Interests in his research has often translated to invited talks, as he has been a special guest presenter at Asian Development Bank, Korea Environmental Institute, and Sungkyunkwan University’s Water Institute among others. In 2017, he will be speaking at the World Toilet Association to deliver a plan on how to tackle the global sanitation challenge.

Dr. Shin Kue Ryu received his PhD from the Schar School of Policy and Government in George Mason University, where he also received the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award for his dissertation. He received his MSc from Queen Mary University of London and his MA from Washington University in Saint Louis. He also received his BA from Washington University in Saint Louis.

Karliana Sakas

Visiting Assistant Professor

karlianasakas@isu.edu

Karliana Sakas is a scholar of the early modern Spanish empire, with a particular focus on the intersection between history and fiction. Her research interests include the literature and cultures of colonial Latin America and early modern Spain, indigenous narratives of the Spanish exploration of North America, and historical fiction. She has published articles in the Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, and eHumanista.

Taiwo Salako

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 222

taiwosalako@isu.edu

Richard Samuelson

Instructor in English

Office: Idaho Falls Campus

richardsamuelson@isu.edu

PhD in English and the Teaching of English (2020), Idaho State University

Jessica Sargent

Adjunct Faculty

Office: C.H. Kegel Liberal Arts

(208) 282-2170

jessicasargent@isu.edu

Patricia Schmidt

Instructor in English

Office: LA 207-A

patriciaschmidt@isu.edu

MA in English (2015), Idaho State University

Roger Schmidt

Professor of English

Office: LA 271

208-282-2374

rogerschmidt@isu.edu

EDUCATION

PhD, English (1989), University of Washington

MA, English (1985), University of Washington

BA, English (1980), University of Washington

My primary specialty is Eighteenth-century British literature. I enjoy the poetry of Pope, Johnson’s Rambler essays and Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Hogarth’s prints, eighteenth-century typography, the history of manners, and the history of medicine. Beyond the eighteenth century, I enjoy literature in translation, particularly Japanese and Russian; the study of writing technologies, especially calligraphy, letterpress, and the history of the book; and film studies, with an emphasis on film history.

My interest in the study of writing technologies has led to studying eighteenth-century books at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. as part of Rare Book School; to a residence at Chawton House Library in England as a Research Fellow where I lived in the Old Stables and taught  myself to “forge” Jane Austen’s handwriting; to teaching students to write with dip-pens and quills; to developing the VisCom Experimental Print Lab in collaboration with Paula Jull from the Department of Communication, Media and Persuasion where students can work with traditional hand-crank letterpresses; to being a founding board member of the Pinyon Jay Press;  and to establishing at Oboler Library the Samuel Johnson and his Circle collection of rare books and prints housed in Special Collections. Each semester I have my students, from first-year to graduates, work with this collection, particularly the rare prints. Among these prints are William Hogarth’s Marriage a la Mode (1745), a current focus of my research into the history of medicine.

In addition to developing the Samuel Johnson and his Circle Rare Book Collection, I helped create the interdisciplinary Film Studies Minor that is housed in the Department of English and Philosophy. My main interest is in film history, particularly film noir. I am excited at the forthcoming development and expansion of this program.

I am delighted to work with graduate students on eighteenth-century topics. That said, I have directed a wide range of Master Theses, Doctoral Papers, and PhD Dissertations, over such authors as Shakespeare, Sterne, Austen, Emily Bronte, Hawthorne, Chopin, H.H. Brackenridge and Philip Freneau, and the Japanese writer, Koda Rohan; on subjects such as the Ballets Russes’ 1912 production of Daphnis and Chloe, Humanist Pedagogy, the rhetoric of medical case studies, and using eighteenth-century poetry in first-year composition classes; I have also directed MA creative theses in poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction (memoir), and a graphic novel.

Awards/Honors

Rare Book School (University of Virginia): The Eighteenth-Century Book, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., July 2017

“To What Shall I Compare this Life?” An essay listed in “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014,” Best American Essays 2015. Editor Robert Atwan

Chawton House Library Fellow, in conjunction with University of Southampton, UK, 2013

Idaho Humanities Council Grant, 2012

American Society of Eighteenth-century Studies 2011 Innovative Course Design Award

Distinguished Teacher, ISU, 2011

Master Teacher, ISU, 1995

Selected Publications

“Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: Sleeping and Waking in the Eighteenth-Century” In Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment. Routledge. (August 2020)

“To What Shall I Compare This Life,” (essay) Raritan (Spring 2014) 95-106.

“A Literary History of Teeth,” Raritan (Winter 2010) 23-42.

Water & Mountain: Two Tales by Koda Rohan; translated by Tsutomu Naga and Roger Schmidt Rendezvous (Vol. 40, No. 1) 2009.

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard.” Raritan (Winter 2006, Vol. XXV, No. 3) 47-69.

“Kant’s Last Cup.” Chapbook. Pocatello, ID: Blue Scarab Press, 2006.

“A Trip to Maldon,” in Pilgrims and Natives. Rendezvous (Fall 2005, Vol. 38, No. 2) 59-62.

“Caffeine and the Coming of the Enlightenment,” Raritan (Spring 2003, Vol. XXIII, No. 1) 129-149.

The Manufacture of Glass: Essays. Rendezvous (Spring 2001, Vol. 35, No. 2)

Courses Taught

6631: Seminar in Teaching Writing

6627: Seminar in Major Literary Figure (Jane Austen, Samuel Johnson)

4499/5599: History of Writing Technologies; Calligraphy

4491: Senior Seminar (Forging Jane Austen)

4477/5577: Shakespeare in Performance

4472/5572: Proseminar in Major Literary Figure (Samuel Johnson, Jane Austen, Chekhov and Tolstoy; Arthur Conan Doyle)

4465/5565: Eighteenth-Century Literature

4456/5556: Comparative Literature: Russian Literature; Japanese Literature

3324: Genre Studies in Non-Fiction

3305: Art of Film II (Film Noir; The Films of Alfred Hitchcock)

2267/2268: British Literature I & II

2257/2258: World Literature I & II

1126: Art of Film I

1115: Major Themes in Literature: Russian Literature

All levels of Composition

H. Wayne Schow

Professor of English (retired 1999)

PhD (1970), University of Iowa

Dr. Norm Schroder

Professor Emeritus of Theatre

(208) 282-3173

schrnorm@isu.edu

• B.A. 1978, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
• M.A. 1988, Bowling Green State University
• Ph.D. 1994, Bowling Green State University

ISU Faculty from 1999 - 2021

Erin Seaward

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: Online Instructor

erinseaward@isu.edu

Cameron Sedlacek

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 258-A

cameronsedlacek@isu.edu

Jackie Sedlacek

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 258-A

jackiesutherland@isu.edu

Neelam Sharma

Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in Communication

Office: Frazier Hall 216 D

(208) 282-3471

neelamsharma@isu.edu

Education:

BC, Commerce, Panjab University; MA, Mass Communication, Panjab University; PhD, Public Communication and Technology, Colorado State University

Emphasis:

Journalism, Media Psychology, International Communication, Research Methods

Courses Taught:

CMP 1110: Media Writing; CMP 2241: Introduction to Public Relations; CMP3311: Business and Political Reporting, CMP 3309/5509: Communication Inquiry, CMP 4403/5503: Mass Communication & Society, CMP 6601: Communication and Media Studies

Selected Publications:

Awards & Honors

• Senior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), 2023-2025. 
• Professional Freedom & Responsibility (PF&R) Chair - International Communication Division- (AEJMC)- 2022-2023
• Kopenhaver Center Fellow, 2021: The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, AEJMC.
• Teaching Chair- Entertainment Studies Interest Group - Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC)- (2021-22).
• Faculty Senator - College of Arts & Letters (2021-2024).
• ISU Office of Research: Internal Small Research Grants (2021) $2000.
• ISU College of Arts & Letters- Travel Grant (2020, 2021, 2022).
• CAL course release award (Spring 2022; Spring 2023)
• Graduate Instructor of the Year (2014-2015), Department of Journalism and Media Communication, CSU, Spring 2016.
• Young Journalist of the Year Award, 2005. Press Club, Chandigarh (India).

Daniel Shelden

Associate Lecturer

Office: Frazier Hall 216A

208-282-4936

danielshelden@isu.edu

Mark Singer

marksinger@isu.edu

I am an historian of European Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages whose teaching ranges from the beginnings of civilization through the mid-seventeenth century and from Europe to Asia. I teach ancient, medieval, and early modern European and world history, and I also have taught American history from the beginning of European exploration through the Reagan presidency. My historical research focuses on early medieval Northern Europe and issues of conversion, Christianization, and cultural change, while my broader interests generally touch on questions of religion, social structure, and cultural identity and transmission. I also have a particular interest in medieval manuscript studies.

Education:
M.A. and Ph.D. in History, minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
B.S. in History, minor in English, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, New Mexico
A.A.S. in Media Communication, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas

Publications: 
“Reflecting on the Dead: Productive Relations and Changing Burial Practices in Early Medieval England.” Forthcoming, Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 23 (2021).
Review of Saint Aldhelm’s Riddles, translated by A.M. Juster. Journal of Folklore Research (8 December 2016), http://www.jfr.indiana.edu/review.php?id=2054.
“An Early English Plenary Missal: the Flyleaves of MS Bodley 386.” Manuscripta 57:1 (2013). doi:10.1484/J.MSS.1.103474

Suparna Sinha

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 153

suparnasinha@isu.edu

James Skidmore

Associate Professor of Philosophy; Department Vice Chair; Director of Philosophy

Office: LA 253

208-282-2392

jimskidmore@isu.edu

Education

PhD, Philosophy (2000), University of Minnesota

BA, Philosophy (1993), Washington State University

BA, English (1992), Washington State University

My main philosophical interests are in ethical theory, and in particular Kantian and utilitarian moral theory. In my dissertation I focused on Kantian theories and their inability to accommodate moral obligations toward non-human animals. I argued, and continue to argue, that their failure in this regard constitutes a serious theoretical problem. My interests are now gradually turning toward the project of developing and defending a plausible consequentialist theory (an approach that traditionally defines morally right action as action that maximizes overall, long-run value; utilitarianism is an example of such an approach). Since a crucial first step is to define consequentialism in a plausible way, my current work examines how, and how not, to do this. From here my goal is to contribute to the defense of such a theory. Since I believe there is little hope of doing so through conceptual analysis or argument a priori, my concern is to examine the extent to which a consequentialist theory can accommodate various considered judgments that are widely shared at the level of practice—in particular, features of our moral practice that appear to be thoroughly non-consequentialist in nature.

While these topics are the focus of my research, my teaching continues to be in many ways the most rewarding part of my job. I regularly teach lower-division courses in Introduction to Ethics, Introduction to Philosophy, and Bioethics. I also teach upper-division courses in Ethical Theory, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law. When schedules permit, I enjoy teaching courses on special topics—recent examples include Philosophy of War and Terrorism and an Honors Seminar: Lying and Deception.

Selected Publications

"Does ‘Ought’ Imply ‘Might’? How (not) to Resolve the Conflict between Act and Motive Utilitarianism." Philosophia 46 (2018), 207-221.

“Skepticism about Practical Reason: Transcendental Arguments and Their Limits.” Philosophical Studies 109 (2002), 121-141.

“Duties to Animals: The Failure of Kant’s Moral Theory.” Journal of Value Inquiry 35 (2001), 541-559.

--Reprinted in Applied Ethics, Dimock and Tucker (eds.),Thomson Nelson (2004), 160-176.

--Reprinted in Environmental Ethics, Botzler and Armstrong (eds.), McGraw-Hill (2003).

Awards/Honors

Master Teacher, ISU, 2011

Courses Taught

4450/5550: Ethical Theory

3353: Philosophy of Law

2230: Medical Ethics

1103: Introduction to Ethics

1101: Introduction to Philosophy

POLS 3313: Political Philosophy

Denzell S. Smith

Professor of English (retired 1991)

PhD (1965), University of Minnesota

*Charles A. Speer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Curator of Anthropology at Idaho Museum of Natural History, Director of Graduate Studies

Office: Graveley 162

208-282-4906

charlesspeer@isu.edu

Dr. Speer is not accepting new eISU (online) graduate students for the 2023-2024 school year.

Background

  I was born and raised in South Texas. I received my PhD from the University of Texas at San Antonio in Ecological Anthropology in 2013. Following graduation, I served as a post-doctoral researcher at Texas State University in the Department of Anthropology and worked primarily with Clovis Period materials from the Gault Site. My research focuses on geochemical analysis of knappable stone to determine mobility patterns of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. My current work focuses on sourcing Paleoindian and Protohistoric artifacts from the American Southwest. For this research, it is integral to engage Native American perspectives as they relate to indigenous knowledge of ecological resources and archaeological findings.
  My other research areas focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the Peopling of the New World, lithic technology, experimental archaeology, ancient craftmanship, and GIS predictive modeling. My greatest goal is to be a positive influence and mentor to students! I have been an avid flintknapper and prehistoric skills enthusiast for over 20 years. I personally enjoy fishing, hunting, hiking, and kayaking.

Speer CV

Dr. Alan E. Stanek

Professor Emeritus and Past Department Chair

• B.M.E. 1961, University of Colorado
• M.Mus. 1965, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
• D.M.A. 1974, University of Michigan

joined ISU Faculty in 1976. Retired in 2001

In addition to his administrative duties Dr. Stanek was responsible for teaching clarinet, clarinet performance literature, woodwind methods for music education majors, coaching chamber music ensembles, and supervising student teachers. From 1976 to 1980 he was the Conductor/Music Director of the Idaho State Civic Symphony. He served as principal clarinetist of the Idaho State Civic Symphony from 1980 until his retirement in 2001, and the Pocatello Municipal Band for thirty-six years.

Dr. Stanek is an active member of the International Clarinet Association, serving as its President from 1996 to 1998 and Historian for the association 2003 to 2016. He has performed internationally in France, Belgium and Hungary in addition to guest artist appearances at ICA ClarinetFests® held at major universities in the United States. He is the author of numerous articles about clarinet performance and literature and has published reviews of various conferences, new clarinet music and recordings in the association's quarterly journal The Clarinet. His article entitled Clarinet Solo Preparation: A Course of Study and a Review of Recommended Solo Literature is published electronically on The Online Clarinet Resource.

Dr. Stanek was honored with the Governor's Award for Support of Arts Education in October 1998, was inducted into the Idaho Music Educator's Hall of Fame in January 2006, and received the President’s Medallion Award for outstanding accomplishments, exceptional service and personal generosity which reflect the admirable principles and ideals which bring distinction to Idaho State University in 2017.  More recently, the International Clarinet Association awarded Honorary Membership to Dr. Stanek for Lifetime Achievements in Performance, Teaching and Professional Service at its annual ClarinetFest in July 2019.

Marie Stango

Director Of Graduate Studies, Director of History Education, and Assistant Professor - 18th- and 19th-Century U.S.; Women, Gender, and Sexuality; African American and African Diaspora studies

Office: LA 331

208-282-2379

mariestango@isu.edu

Make an appointment to meet with Dr. Stango here.

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan (2016)
M.A., University of Michigan (2012)
B.A., New York University (2009)

Research Interests

Slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World; women, gender, and sexuality; African American and African Diaspora studies; 18^th and 19^th century U.S. History; unfreedom in American History; American Empire

Selected Fellowships and Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2019-2020

American Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 2015-2016

Mellon Public Humanities Fellowship, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (Detroit, MI) and the University of Michigan, 2015

Ruth R. and Alyson R. Miller Fellowship in Women’s History, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2013-2014

Frances Lewis Fellowship in Gender and Women’s Studies, Virginia Historical Society, 2013-2014

Travel Grant, John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History, Duke University, 2013-2014

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellowship in African American History, Library Company of Philadelphia, 2013-2014

Current Projects

Second Black Republic: Freedom and Family in the Making of Liberia, book manuscript in preparation.

Courses Taught

HIST 1111 U.S. History to 1865
HIST 3307 Early North America
HIST 4418 U.S. History for Teachers

Amanda Stevens

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Office: LA 214

amandastevens@isu.edu

*Anthony Stocks, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

anthonystocks@isu.edu

Stocks CV

Collete Stosich

colletestosich@isu.edu

Courses taught:

• Painting

James W. Stoutenborough

Associate Professor of American Politics and Public Policy
Affiliate Faculty of Environmental Science and Management

Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor

(208) 282-2643

jamesstoutenborough@isu.edu

Website

Ph.D. University of Kansas, 2010

Dr. James W. Stoutenborough joined the Department of Political Science at Idaho State University in May, 2014, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Dr. Stoutenborough is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy.

Dr. Stoutenborough's research and teaching interests included public policy, U.S. state politics, public opinion, and political psychology with a substantive interest in science and technology issues like climate change and renewable energy. His research can be found in both the institutional and behavioral paradigms, which he believes need to be better integrated.

From an institutional perspective, Dr. Stoutenborough examines why institutions (normally, U.S. states) reach particular policy decisions. This is typically achieved using the theory of policy diffusion. Through this research, Dr. Stoutenborough has identified two new approaches to policy diffusion (organizational diffusion with Dr. Kellee J. Kirkpatrick and a hybrid model of diffusion), both of which are currently under peer-review.

Within the behavioral paradigm, he is currently researching individual-level behavior as it pertains to political attitude formation, problem identification, agenda setting, and policy adoption. Specifically, his research examines how risk perceptions, knowledge, trust, and various attitudes influence aspects of the policy process.

Dr. Stoutenborough believes that once social scientists understand the motivations behind individual behavior, they can begin to better understand how institutional forces influence the policy process. For example, he is currently working on a project with Dr. Douglas Oxley that identifies the causal reasoning used by individuals during the policy diffusion process. This understanding of individual behavior better allows policy scholars to understand how individuals process new information and reach policy decisions. With this knowledge, policy scholars can examine how institutional differences influence this information processing.

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

• Introduction to American Government (Undergraduate)
• Politics & Film (Undergraduate)
• Comparative U.S. State Politics (Undergraduate)
• Voting & Public Opinion (Undergraduate & Graduate)
• Science & Technology Policy (Undergraduate & Graduate)
• Research Methods (Undergraduate & Graduate)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods (Graduate)
• State & Local Politics (Graduate)
• Environmental Policy (Graduate)
• Public Policy Process (Graduate)

Select Publications

1. Robinson, Scott E., James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. Forthcoming. Understanding Trust in Government: Environmental Sustainability, Fracking, and Public Opinion in American Politics. New York: Routledge.
2. Robinson, Scott E., James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. Forthcoming. “Assessing Public Support for Government Policy: Comparing Experimental and Attitudinal Approaches.” In Sabastian Jilke, Oliver James, and Gregg Van Ryzin (Eds.), Experiments in Public Administration Research: Challenges and Contributions. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. ?-?.
3. Liu, Xinsheng, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. Forthcoming. “Bureaucratic Expertise, Overconfidence, and Policy Choice.” Governance ().
4. McBeth, Mark K., Donna L. Lybecker, James W. Stoutenborough, Sarah N. Davis, and Katrina Running. Forthcoming. “Content Matters: Stakeholder Assessment of River Stories or River Science.” Public Policy and Administration ().
5. Mahafza, Zachary B., James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. Forthcoming. “The Role of Proximity in Problem Identification: Risk of Water Scarcity in Texas.” Water Policy ().
6. McBeth, Mark K., Donna L. Lybecker, and James W. Stoutenborough. 2016. “Do Stakeholders Analyze their Audience? The Communication Switch and Stakeholder Personal versus Public Communication Choices.” Policy Sciences 49(4): 421-444.
7. Stoutenborough, James W., Scott E. Robinson, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2016. “A Respone to “Word Choice Matters: Comment on Stoutenborough et al. 2016, ‘Is “Fracking” a New Dirty Word?” Energy Research & Social Science 20(October): 10-13.
8. Lybecker, Donna L., Mark K. McBeth, and James W. Stoutenborough. 2016. “Do We Understand What the Public Hears? Stakeholders’ Preferred Communication Choices for Discussing River Issues with the Public.” Review of Policy Research 33(4): 376-392.
9. Stoutenborough, James W., and Arnold Vedlitz. 2016. "The Role of Scientific Knowledge in the Public’s Perceptions of Energy Technology Risks." Energy Policy 96(September): 206-216.
10. Stoutenborough, James W., Scott E. Robinson, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2016. “Is ‘Fracking’ a New Dirty Word? The Influence of Word Choice on Public Views toward Natural Gas Attitudes.” Energy Research and Social Science 17(July): 52-58.
11. Stoutenborough, James W., Arnold Vedlitz, and Xin Xing. 2016. “Are all Risk Perceptions Created Equal? Comparing General Risk Assessments and Specific Risk Assessments Associated with Climate Change.” Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal 22(1): 50-70.
12. Stoutenborough, James W. 2015. “Stakeholders’ Preferred Policy Solution: Comparing Strategies to Address Degraded Levees.” Water Policy 17(6): 1093-1107.
13. Bromley-Trujillo, Rebecca, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2015. "Scientific Advocacy, Environmental Interest Groups, and Climate Change: Are Climate Skeptic Portrayals of Climate Scientists as Biased Accurate?" Climatic Change 133(4): 607-619.
14. Stoutenborough, James W., and Arnold Vedlitz. 2015. “Knowledge, Information, and Views of Climate Change: An Examination of Coastal Stakeholders along the Gulf of Mexico.” Climate 3(4): 983-998.
15. Stoutenborough, James W. 2015. “Revisiting River Management Options: Stakeholders, Levees, and the Public Policy Controversies of Degraded Infrastructure.” Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 6(2): 239-257.
16. Stoutenborough, James W., Kellee J. Kirkpatrick, M. Jeremy Field, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2015. “What Butterfly Effect? The Contextual Differences in Public Perceptions of the Health Risk Posed by Climate Change.” Climate 3(3): 668-688.
17. Liu, Xinsheng, Arnold Vedlitz, James W. Stoutenborough, and Scott E. Robinson. 2015. “Scientists’ Views and Positions on Global Warming and Climate Change: A Content Analysis of Congressional Testimonies.” Climatic Change 131(4): 487-503.
         - Featured in:
              - Nature Climate Change 5(6): 515 (2015).
              - Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, September 1, 2015.
18. Stoutenborough, James W., Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2015. “How to Win Friends and Influence People: Climate Scientists’ Perspectives on their Relationship with and Influence on Government Officials.” Journal of Public Policy 35(2): 269-296.
19. Stoutenborough, James W. 2015. “Cheap and Clean: How Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming.” Review of Policy Research 32(6): 747-748.
20. Stoutenborough, James W., Liu Shi, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2015. “Probing Public Perceptions on Energy: Support for a Comparative, Deep-Probing Survey Design for Complex Issue Domains.” Energy 81(March): 406-415.
21. Stoutenborough, James W., Arnold Vedlitz, and Xinsheng Liu. 2015. “The Influence of Specific Risk Perceptions on Public Policy Support: An Examination of Energy Policy.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 658(1): 102-120.
22. Stoutenborough, James W., Robert N. Fette, Arnold Vedlitz, and Carol Goldsmith. 2014. “Understanding the Communication of Climate Change Risk: Climate Scientists’ Perspectives of Media Sources and Policy Makers.” Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 5(4): 365-384.
23. Stoutenborough, James W., Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2014. “Public Support for Climate Change Policy: Consistency in the Influence of Values and Attitudes over Time and Across Specific Policy Alternatives.” Review of Policy Research 31(6): 555-583.
24. Bromley-Trujillo, Rebecca, James W. Stoutenborough, Kellee J. Kirkpatrick, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2014. “Climate Scientists and Environmental Interest Groups: The Intersection of Expertise and Advocacy.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 2(1): 120-134.
25. Stoutenborough, James W., and Arnold Vedlitz. 2014. “The Effect of Perceived and Assessed Knowledge of Climate Change on Public Policy Concerns: An Empirical Comparison.” Environmental Science & Policy 37(March): 23-33.
26. Stoutenborough, James W., and Arnold Vedlitz. 2014. “Public Attitudes toward Water Management and Drought in the United States.” Water Resources Management 28(3): 697-714.
27. Stoutenborough, James W., Xinsheng Liu, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2014. “Trends in Public Attitudes: The Influence of the Economy and Climategate on Risk, Information, and Public Policy.” Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy 5(1): 22-37.
28. Stoutenborough, James W., and Arnold Vedlitz. 2013. "Public Attitudes toward Water Management and Drought in Texas." Texas Water Journal 4(2): 47-61.
29. Mumpower, Jeryl L., Liu Shi, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2013. “Psychometric and Demographic Predictors of the Perceived Risk of Terrorist Threats and the Willingness to Pay for Risk Management Programs.” Risk Analysis 33(10): 1802-1811.
30. Stoutenborough, James W., Shelbi G. Sturgess, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2013. “Knowledge, Risk, and Policy Support: Public Perceptions of Nuclear Power.” Energy Policy 62(11): 176-184.
         - Featured in Advances in Engineering, February 4, 2015.
31. Bies, Angela, Deanna Green Lee, Charles Lindsey, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2013. “Citizens, Nonprofits and Climate Change Policy.” Nonprofit Policy Forum 4(1): 5-28.
32. Robinson, Scott E., Xinsheng Liu, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz. 2013. “Explaining Popular Trust in the Department of Homeland Security.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 23(3): 713-733.
33. Tucker, Justin A., James W. Stoutenborough, and R. Matthew Beverlin. 2012. “Geographic Proximity in the Diffusion of Concealed Weapons Permit Laws.” Politics & Policy 40(6): 1081-1105.
34. Stoutenborough, James W., and Matthew Beverlin. 2008. “Encouraging Pollution-Free Energy: The Diffusion of State Net Metering Policies.” Social Science Quarterly 89(5): 1230-1251.
35. Stoutenborough, James W., and Donald P. Haider-Markel. 2008. “Public Confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court: A New Look at the Impact of Court Decisions.” Social Science Journal 45(1): 28-47.
36. Kirkpatrick, Kellee J., and James W. Stoutenborough. 2007. “Turn of Events: Public Confidence in the Media.” Public Opinion Pros, April. (an open access journal that no longer exists)
37. Stoutenborough, James W., Donald P. Haider-Markel, and Mahalley D. Allen. 2006. “Reassessing the Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on Public Opinion: Gay Civil Rights Cases.” Political Research Quarterly 59(3): 419-433.

Justin Dolan Stover

Chair of History and Associate Professor - Modern European History; Irish History

Office: LA 337

208-282-1227

justindolanstover@isu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin   

Research Interests

Modern European history; transnational history of nationalism, war & revolution; environmental history of war; modern Ireland, Britain & France; First World War; interwar Europe.             

Representative Publications

Enduring Ruin: Environmental Destruction during the Irish Revolution (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2022).

"Political Ecology in Nationalist Literature, 1880-1922,” in The Cambridge History of Irish Literature and the Environment, ed. Malcolm Sen, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 134-49.

"The Transformation of the Irish College, Paris: War, Education, and Administration, 1870-1918," in Forming Catholic Communities: Irish, Scots and English College Networks in Europe, 1564-1918, ed. Liam Chambers and Thomas O’Connor (Leiden, Netherlands/Boston, MA: Brill, 2017), 304-22.

"'Shattered Glass and Toppling Masonry': War Damage in Dublin and Paris," in Paris - Capital of Irish Culture: France, Ireland and the Republic, 1798-1916, ed. Pierre Joannon and Kevin Whelan (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2017), 175-87.

"Families, Vulnerability and Sexual Violence during the Irish Revolution," in Perceptions of Pregnancy: From the Medieval to the Modern, ed. Jennifer Evans and Ciara Meehan, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 53-69.

"Violence, Trauma, and Memory in Ireland: The Psychological Impact of War and Revolution on a Liminal Society, 1916-1923" in Jason Crouthamel and Peter Leese, eds., Aftershock: Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of War (Switzerland: Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 117-40.

"La Bretagne et l’Insurrection de Pâques 1916," En Envor: revue d’histoire contemporaine en Bretagne, no. 7 (February 2016).

"Redefining Allegiance: Loyalty, Treason and the Foundation of the Irish Free State" in Mel Farrell, Jason Knirk, and Ciara Meehan, eds., A Formative Decade: Politics, Economics and Identity in Ireland, 1921-32 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press), 108-31.

"Irish Political Prisoner Culture, 1916-23" in CrossCurrents, 64:1 (March 2014), 90-106.

"Periphery of War or First Line of Defense? Ireland Prepares for Invasion, 1907-15" in Fancia., vol. 40 (Paris, Deutsches Historisches Institut, 2013), 385-96.

"Terror confined? Prison violence in Ireland, 1919-21" in David Fitzpatrick (editor), Terror in Ireland, 1916-1923 (Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2012), 219-35.

Courses               

HIST 1106 Modern Europe
HIST 1120 Global History: War and Revolution
HIST 2291 Introduction to Research
HIST 4424 The French Revolution & Napoleon
HIST 4443 Environmental History of Ireland
HIST 4445 Modern Irish History
HIST 4466 World War I
HIST 4468 World War II and the Holocaust
HIST 4491 Seminar
HIST 6600 Graduate Seminar: War and Violence in the Modern World
HIST 6600 Graduate Seminar: The Irish Revolution

Graduate Supervision            

I welcome all graduate student subject proposals in modern European history, particularly those relating to the First World War, organized violence, environmental history of war, post-colonialism, and nationalism.

Michael Stubbs

Senior Lecturer in English

Office: LA 157

208-282-3603

michaelstubbs@isu.edu

DA, English (2008), Idaho State University

MA, English (2005), University of Alaska, Fairbanks

BA, English (2002), Brigham Young University

I find it funny to be living and teaching in Pocatello, Idaho. I was raised nearby in Twin Falls, and one time swore to leave behind small town life, sagebrush, and deserts forever because, from the beginning, I loved the study of literature for its vision of far off lands, foreign cultures, new ideas, and adventures. So I left home and read about ancient Greeks, Romans, Vikings, philosophers, adventurers, and scholars. I was never disappointed. The study of literature was exciting, challenging, and never-ending.

As I read, I wanted to develop my own ability to write just as well, so as an undergraduate student, I took as many writing classes as I did literature classes. Learning to write well was not easy, but that is what made it worthwhile. Because I had to work hard in order to improve as a reader and a writer, today I make my students work hard to ensure their improvement. When I finished my undergraduate studies, I didn't know what I wanted to be doing beside reading and writing, and so I kept going to school after I finished my bachelor's degree.

In the master's program at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, I was introduced to a new set of writers — nature writers, or environmental writers. These people showed me that reading and writing about what is familiar, reading and writing about home, can be just as intriguing as those far off places. This led me to look closer to home to continue my study of English. At Idaho State University, I continued to study literature and environment. In the doctor of arts program, I was able to add the interdisciplinary subjects of politics and history to my study of nature and art. Discussions about the history, the politics, and the artistic representations of place are continually fascinating to me, and I encourage the students in my composition courses and in my literature courses to reconsider their views of nature and place as they discover new ways of reading and writing. I am happy to call Idaho "home," and I am happy to teach the ways of reading, writing, and thinking that have shown me new ways of understanding.