Articles for the Spring 2008 edition of The Fount are now available.
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New Dean Named
In the last newsletter I spelled out the process through which a new dean would be selected. I am pleased to announce that the process has been completed and a new dean will begin on July 1, 2008. Actually the new dean is well known to The Citadel family. Winfred "Bo" Moore has been at The Citadel for 32 years. For those of you who may not know him let me tell you a little about him. Bo is from Cowpens, South Carolina and obtained his undergraduate degree from Furman University. He then attended Duke University for his M.A. and Ph.D. in history. After reserve officers training, he joined The Citadel as a faculty member in the Department of History in 1976. Bo's particular area of history is southern history and he has written extensively having published five books on the topic with another slated to appear later this year. He became Interim Head of the department in 1997 and Head in the fall of 1998. During his 11 years at the helm of the department, the Department of History has experienced extensive turnover due to retirements and Bo has done an outstanding job brining in highly qualified and energetic faculty.
A few things that he has already contributed as a leader in SHSS has been his role in the establishment of the minor in African American Studies and its later success in obtaining external funding. He has also been the driving force beyond the international studies minor in the school and setting up an exchange program with Royal Holloway University in England. Finally our very successful Southern Studies program was initiated by Bo.
In conclusion, I believe the process has been successful and we will be in good hands. I have really enjoyed working with Bo and look forward to having him as my dean. I have a great deal of personal respect for him and know you all will find him a pleasant and efficient leader.
On a personal note, I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of you for the support you have given me as the founding dean. At times I have felt like the floundering dean and have found you support invaluable as we have moved to this organizational scheme. I believe we are in good shape, and I am sure that Bo will take us to new heights. If you are on campus after July 1, please feel free to stop by and welcome him.
I will be returning to the classroom in the fall and am looking forward to having more contact with the students. Their energy and the excitement of sharing my knowledge with them is why I came to The Citadel in the first place.
Cadet Col. Chase Henderson Mohler of Beaufort, S.C., is the 2008 recipient of the Medal of the Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina Award.
The Medal of the Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina Award is given annually to the senior cadet officer who best exemplifies the combined qualities of a good soldier and a good citizen - characteristics of the patriots who fought to obtain America's freedom and which the Society pledges to perpetuate. These citizen-soldier characteristics are modeled after Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, a Roman farmer who became a successful general, and charter members of the Society of the Cincinnati, include George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Marquis de Lafayette.
Mohler is the regimental commander, the top ranking cadet who oversees the 2,000-member South Carolina Corps of Cadets. Majoring in Political Science - American Government, Mohler is a Citadel Scholar, is active in intramural sports and has consistently been honored for outstanding academic achievement while a cadet.
Cadet Col. Mohler is scheduled to graduate in May 2008. He is the son of Dr. Christopher and Janine Mohler of Beaufort.
Cadet Brittany Nagel of Minot, ND, a Political Science and Spanish major, was named Regimental Excecutive Officer for the 2008-2009 academic year.
List of Regimental Support Battalion
Cadet Jade Roy of Myrtle Beach, SC, a Political Science (International Service & Military Affairs) major, was named Commander.
Cadet Steven Verblaauw of Mahwah, NJ, a Criminal Justice and Spanish major, was named Executive Office.
Cadet Matthew Millar of Guntersville, AL, a Political Science and English major, was named P Company Commander
Cadet Jeffrey Creech of Greer, SC, a German and Political Science (International Service & Military Affairs) was named Palmetto Battery Commander.
Tom Thompson, Associate Professor of English, published an article, "Standardized Testing: Sabotaging Good Writing Instruction," in South Carolina English Teacher. He also presented two papers dealing with the assessment of student writing: one for the South Carolina Council of Teachers of English (in Kiawah in January), and one for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (in New Orleans in April). Drawing from material in those papers, he created and presented a workshop in March for middle school teachers in Berkeley County School District. Tom joined Betsey Carter to give presentations on "how to write a college-level research paper" to students at James Island Charter High School, Wando High School, and West Ashley High School.
Prof. Scott Lucas had three articles appear in print during the Fall 2007 semester. In September, his article on the contributors to the sixteenth-century political poetry collection A Mirror for Magistrates appeared in the on-line Reference Group section of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In October, his short article "The Visionary Genre and the Rise of the 'Literary': Books Under Suspicion and Early Modern England" was published in the Journal of British Studies. Finally, in December, Prof. Lucas' essay "'Let None Such Office Take, Save He That Can For Right His Prince Forsake': A Mirror for Magistrates, Resistance Theory, and the Elizabethan Monarchical Republic" appeared in the collection The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England (Ashgate Publishing, 2007). In addition, Prof. Lucas delivered two papers at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Fall 2007, "Spenser and the Medieval Church" and "Reformation Historiography in the Long Fifteenth Century: Edward Hall's Chronicle." In the Spring 2008 semester, he delivered the paper "Early Modern Celebrity Culture: Henry VIII in Edward Hall's Chronicle" at the New College (Florida) Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Prof. Tom Thompson published an article, "Standardized Testing: Sabotaging Good Writing Instruction," in South Carolina English Teacher. He also presented two papers dealing with the assessment of student writing: one for the South Carolina Council of Teachers of English (in Kiawah in January), and one for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (in New Orleans in April). Drawing from material in those papers, he created and presented a workshop in March for middle school teachers in Berkeley County School District. Prof. Thompson joined Betsey Carter to give presentations on "how to write a college-level research paper" to students at James Island Charter High School, Wando High School, and West Ashley High School.
Michael Livingston spoke at the Induction of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. into the South Carolina Academy of Authors on 8 March 2008, and will speak again about Mr. Rigney's literary legacy at Daniel Library on 8 April. Prof. Livingston has also had two short stories published recently: "A Very Young Man with Largely Clipped Wings" in Shimmer Magazine 2.4, and "The Angel of Marye's Heights" in Paradox Magazine 11.
Professor Michael Barrett's book, Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands was published in January by the Indiana University Press.
Professor Kurt Boughan presented a paper at the annual conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and conducted research at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda Maryland.
Professor Joelle Neulander conducted research in Paris for a book project entitled "Selling Fame: Celebrity, Gender and Popular Culture in Interwar France." Professor Christopher Wright, faculty advisor to the Middle Eastern Studies Student Association, organized a two-part lecture series on modern Arab-Israeli relations.
Professor Marcus Cox coordinated The Citadel's co-sponsorship with the College of Charleston of a major conference on "Ending the International Slave Trade: A Bicentenary Inquiry." The Southern Studies Program sponsored a lecture by Tim Tyson of Duke University on "Why the History of the Civil Rights Movement is (Mostly) All Wrong" and by Earle and Merle Black of Rice and Emory Universities on "Reflections on the Changing Politics of the South."
On March 11, 2008 at 6:30pm in Copeland Auditorium, Grimsley Hall, The Citadel's Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi and the Modern Languages Department hosted "Una noche con nuestros novelistas/A night with our Novelists." The department's own Drs. Alan Cambeira and Eloy Urroz discussed their recent novels, and select books were available for sale and signing. This event was open to the public, and a reception followed in the Greater Issues Room of Mark Clark Hall.
The Citadel's Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi inducted six new student members and one honorary members on March 4, 2007 at 7:00pm during its annual ceremony in the Greater Issues Room of Mark Clark Hall. Conducted by Valentín Boza (Chapter President) and James Chamberlain (Secretary), Drs. Del Mastro and Segle (Chapter Advisers), the ceremony initiated the following active members: Louis Doelling, Alexander Johnson, Bryan Kant, Robert Kozakiewicz, Lana Moore and Michael Warwick. Dr. Alfred Finch, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, was inducted as an honorary member for his outstanding support of Sigma Delta Pi's mission.
From January 29-February 8 the Modern Languages Department, Sigma Delta Pi and Daniel Library proudly hosted the Escuincles Project, an art exhibit and initiative of the South Carolina Hispanic Leadership Council. Click here for details about this project. Access to the exhibit was free to the public in Daniel Library. Download announcement flyer.
At noon on December 7, 2007, The Department of Modern Languages' German Section and Daniel Library hosted the dedication of the James C. O'Flaherty Collection of Hamanniana and Nietzscheana. Click here for further details and pictures.
The Citadel's Tau Iota Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, hosted an awards ceremony on November 15 for its third annual South Carolina Spanish Teacher of the Year award. Mrs. Renée Love of Gaffney High School was crowned the 2007 S.C. Spanish Teacher of the Year and was presented a cash award of $1000 courtesy of the Harvey, Casterline & Vallini law firm and Stewart Title. Runners-up were Mrs. Brenda Barron of Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach and Mrs. Maelda Chalk of Hilton Preparatory School. The Francis Marion Hotel provided complimentary lodging the night of the ceremony and breakfast the following morning to all three finalists and their spouses. At the ceremony's conclusion, Dr. Del Mastro and Chapter President Valentín Boza inducted Mr. Daniel Vallini (Spanish minor, 1995) into Sigma Delta Pi's prestigious Order of the Discoverers for his exemplary support of the Spanish program at The Citadel.
Cadet J.D. Lathers (French, '08) has been accepted into the International Studies Graduate Program at Johns Hopkins University.
Cadet Jared S. Newman (Spanish, '08) was named Editor of The Citadel's Spanish journal El Cid for the spring 2008 issue.
Charles "Chip" Knisley (Spanish, '06) spent four weeks in the fall of 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he completed a TEFL course in order to teach English to Spanish speakers.
Professor Sara Fernández Medina (Ph.D., Texas Tech University) will join our faculty as an Assistant Professor of Spanish beginning August 2008.
Dr. Eloy Urroz was one of a select group of international scholars, writers and artists invited to participate in the 19th annual International Cervantes Colloquy to be held November 4-8, 2008 in Guanajuato, Mexico.
On March 13, 2008, the journal Studies in Twentieth and Twentieth-Century Literature invited Dr.Cathy Jellenik to serve as a guest reader.
Dr. Zane U. Segle attended the workshop "Language and Culture for International Business" from February 21-23, 2008 at the University of Memphis.
Professor Eloy Urroz's latest novel, Fricción, was published in February 2008 by Alfaguara, Mexico.
Professor Mark P. Del Mastro participated in the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS) Annual Council and Board Meetings in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 13-16, 2008. In addition to serving as Sigma Delta Pi's official representative to the ACHS, Dr. Del Mastro is also an elected member of the ACHS Board.
Dr. Del Mastro edited the 2008 hard copy edition of Sigma Delta Pi's national Ritual.
Professor Del Mastro accepted an invitation from the Modern Languages and Cultures Department of Virginia Military Institute to serve as an external reviewer for their language programs. Dr. Del Mastro will visit Lexington, Virginia for this purpose on April 2-4, 2008.
On February 6, 2008, Dr. Guy Toubiana launched his 18th Century online encyclopedia: Enlightenment and Revolution.
Dr. Katya Skow's article "Camillus vnd Emilia in Germany: A Modern Novel Before its Time" has been accepted for publication by Germanic Notes and Reviews.
In January 2008, Dr. Juan Bahk's article "La Influencia del Jaiku Oriental en la Literatura Hispánica" was accepted by the Italian literary journal Studi Ispanici of Milan, Italy to be published late in 2008.
Dr. Katya Skow's article "Of 'Superweibern' (Superbroads), 'vermieteten Männern' (Rented Men), and 'Champagner-Diäten' (Champagne Diets): Hera Lind and the New German Women's Novel" will be published in the January 2008 issue of Popular Culture Review.
On 15 January 2008, the 7th issue of Decimonónica was published. Dr. Del Mastro is founding Co-Director of this refereed, online journal of 19th century Hispanic cultural production. Decimonónica was also named co-Journal of the Month in January by The Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Senior French and history major John Daniel Lathers has been awarded a US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to learn intermediate Turkish this summer at the American Research Institute in Ankara. (Summer 2007 he applied a Citadel Star of the West International Summer Scholarship to a course in elementary Turkish at Fatih University in Istanbul.) Mr Lathers has been admitted to the master's program at Johns Hopkins' Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy.
The Citadel Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice served as a co-host of the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Domestic Security Conference Feb. 28-29. This is one in a series of conferences that explore the convergence of crime and terrorism. The conference was open to Citadel students, faculty and staff.
Highlights of the conference included a keynote address from Lt. Gen. Frank Libutti, Citadel Class of 1966. Libutti is the former New York Police Department deputy commissioner for counterterrorism and under secretary for information analysis and infrastructure protection directorate at the Department of Homeland Security. He spoke at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28 at the Embassy Suites in downtown Charleston.
The lunch speaker on Friday, Feb. 29 was terrorism analyst Peter Bergen. Bergen is CNN's on-air analyst and author of "Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden." Bergen is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama Bin Laden. Bergen's speech will take place in the Regimental Commanders Riverview Room.
Other conference speakers included Domingo Herraiz, director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance; George Kelling, co-author of "Fixing Broken Windows;" Judith Miller, former New York Times investigative reporter and chiefs and state police superintendents from states located along the Interstate 95 corridor.
Topics covered gun trafficking and the potential for terrorists, like criminals, to exploit our interstate highway system and will also include a panel on intelligence sharing and the war on terror.
Women who have succeeded in education and government will share their stories during Women's History Month at The Citadel.
"Women as Leaders: Lessons Learned for Success" was kicked off and will become an annual symposium event sponsored by The Citadel Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice.
The symposium and panel discussion was 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13 in Graham Copeland Auditorium in Grimsley Hall. It was free and open to the public.
Panelists included women in leadership from local governmental agencies as well as The Citadel, Medical University of South Carolina and Trident Technical College. Panelists are:
Dr. Steve Nida, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology, participated in the National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Psychology, which was held in June on the campus of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. The goal of the conference, sponsored by the American Psychological Association, is to examine critical issues and concerns in undergraduate education in psychology and the important changes that have occurred since the last such conference in 1991. This conference established the guidelines that will direct the developmental course of undergraduate education in psychology over the next two decades. Dr. Nida was one of 56 participants in this conference, having been selected from approximately 250 applicants.
Dr. Conway Saylor, Professor of Psychology, received the Psi Chi Regional Faculty Advisor Award for 2007-2008 in the Southeastern Region. In recognition of winning the award Dr. Saylor received a check for $500.00. She will also receive an award plaque at the Psi Chi Program which will take place at the 2008 Southeastern Psychological Association Convention.
Senior Psychology major Cadet Dirk Wooten was recognized as one of several winners selected from a group of 62 presentations that were part of the Psi Chi Undergraduate Research competition, held at the recent meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association in Charlotte, NC. Cadet Wooten's paper was titled "Procrastination and ADHD: Is There a Connection?" Professor Steve Nida served as Cadet Wooten's mentor for this project.
Steve Nida, Professor of Psychology, attended the annual meeting of the Association of Heads of Departments of Psychology in Atlanta in November. There he delivered a presentation dealing with "what he had learned during his first five years heading The Citadel's Psychology Department."
The Clinical Counseling Masters Program in Psychology hosted its fall Field Placement Site Expo in October. Representatives from six sites where our graduate students receive clinical training were available to answer questions, and approximately 20 students attended.
Graduate students Hallie Clark and Faraday Davies will accompany Dr. Johnson, Clinical Counseling Program Director and Professor of Psychology, to the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in Philadelphia in mid-November. This meeting is the most extensive presentation of empirically-supported psychotherapies in the world. Dr. Johnson will attend a workshop on treating combat-related stress in soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The South Carolina Psychological Association and The Citadel Chapter of PSI CHI (The National Honor Society in Psychology) co-sponsored the SCPA "Academic Day" at The Citadel Mark Clark Buyer Auditorium on October 9, 2007. The event brought nearly 200 students and faculty from 12 SC colleges and universities to The Citadel campus for workshops, speakers, graduate school displays, a Psychology trivia bowl, and keynote speaker Russell Barkley, an internationally acclaimed ADHD researcher. Our cadet Psychology Bowl team members distinguished themselves and the Psychology program by taking second place in the 10-team competition. SHSS support of this event was acknowledged and greatly appreciated.
Dr. Timothy Hanchon, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented research at the American Psychological Association's 2007 National Convention in San Francisco in August. The title of his paper was "The Relations among Perfectionism, Achievement Motivation, and Psychological Adjustment."
The Psychology Department continued its active involvement in community service this fall. The Halloween Buddy Dance on October 29th was the largest on record, bringing more than 200 adults with disabilities to the Alumni Center for an energetic evening of dancing and refreshments. Nearly 100 cadets and graduate student volunteers insured that our visitors would have a safe and happy night. The next morning a dozen cadet and graduate student volunteers again combined their energies to prepare and serve lunch at the Crisis Ministries shelter for homeless men, women, and children. The next service event will be the collection of hats, gloves, socks, and toiletries for Crisis Ministries. Donations can be placed under the department Christmas tree between November 28th and December 10th.
On November 29, Dr. Kipling Williams, Professor of Psychology at Purdue University, presented the Psychology Department's annual Leverett Lecture, titled "Ostracism." This event honors the late Dr. Pat Leverett, who was a faculty member in the department of Psychology from 1995 until his death in 2005.