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Hello, everyone,
As I shared in the All-College meeting Thursday, the Provost recently praised the work of the faculty and staff in Arts & Sciences for supporting our students through the many challenges of the past two years. He sees what you are doing as really important and special, and I do too. Your amazing efforts are noticed and deeply appreciated, thank you all.
Along with helping our students through, you continue to make remarkable intellectual and creative accomplishments in our community and the world. Among many amazing accomplishments by our faculty, staff and students in this edition, I want to highlight our most recently promoted faculty members, Professor Sean McDowell and Senior Instructor Hidy Basta. We are very proud of both of you. Read on for many more accomplishments and activities in our vibrant academic lives.
Shared Governance
David V. Powers, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University
Dr. Sean McDowell in the English Department is promoted to Full Professor. Dr. McDowell joined Seattle University in 2002 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 is a scholar of early modern works, particularly metaphysical poetry and is a publishing poet himself. Among many roles at Seattle U, he served as Director of the University Honors program from 2012-2021, leading during the development of and transition to the three-track model we have today.
Dr. Hidy Basta, also in the English Department and Director of the Writing Center, is promoted to Senior Instructor. Dr. Basta joined Seattle University as the Writing Center Director in 2017. She led the Writing Center in enhancing services for graduate students through the pandemic, and serves as Board Member of the Pacific Northwest Writing Center Association.
John C. Bean, PhD, Emeritus Professor, English, and June Johnson, Associate Professor of English, have recently provided a two-month series of Zoom consultations for a five-person faculty team from Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT), Uzbekistan. The team’s goal was to create a new undergraduate course focused on sustainable development in Uzbekistan using American pedagogical strategies for fostering critical thinking and argument. Employing principles of backward design, the faculty team will adopt pedagogical strategies modeled in Johnson’s textbook “Global Issues/Local Arguments” and in Bean’s “Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom.” The request for these consultation sessions came from Uzbek Professor Zilola Ijobat, a 2019 participant in Seattle University’s Study of the United States Institute, funded by the US State Department and co-directed by Dr. Charles Tung (English) and Ken Allan (Art History). Professor Ijobat’s original request was for either Bean or Johnson to spend a month in Uzbekistan providing workshops in writing-across-the-curriculum, active learning pedagogy, and course design. Because of Covid, Professor Ijobat’s request was put on hold until 2022 when, under Dr. Tung’s leadership, it was re-imagined as consultation assistance for designing the new course. Simultaneously, Bean’s co-author for the 3rd edition of “Engaging Ideas” (Dan Melzer of UC Davis) provided six 50-minute digital workshops on writing across the curriculum for a larger group of professors at WIUT.
Andrew G. Bjelland, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Philosophy, published an op-ed in The Salt Lake Tribune, “Show tolerance for the religious orientation of American companies.”
Kathryn L. Bollich-Zeigler, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology, interviewed Laurie Santos, host of the Happiness Lab podcast for “Whatever Happened to Happiness?” as part of The Crosscut Festival.
Elizabeth Dale, PhD, Associate Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, published a chapter on “LGBTQ Philanthropy” in “Achieving Excellence in Fundraising, 5th Ed.” It is the leading publication of its kind for teaching the theory and practice of fundraising and the second time she authored this chapter for the textbook.
Theresa Earenfight, PhD, Professor, History and Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, appeared on the “Talking Tudors” podcast, discussing her book, “Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England.”
Christie Eppler, PhD, LMFT, Program Director and Professor, Couples and Family Therapy, was named co-editor of Springer's “Stepping into Socially-Just Teaching: Lived Experiences of Family Therapy Educators,” a forthcoming text (2023).
Rob Efird, Professor, Anthropology and Asian Studies, gave an invited lecture on April 15 at Willamette University entitled "Nature to Nurture: Nature Education and Urban Chinese Childrearing."
Maureen Emerson Feit, PhD, Director and Assistant Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, published “The Dissonance of 'Doing Good:' Fostering Critical Pedagogy to Challenge the Selective Tradition of Nonprofit Management Education.” Read more here.
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, PhD, Professor, Modern Languages and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies, published a chapter in “The Many Voices of the Los Angeles Novel” from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Haejeong Hazel Hahn, PhD, Professor, History and affiliated with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, and Film Studies, published “Feminism and Empire” in The Routledge Global History of Feminism, edited by Bonnie Smith and Nova Robinson, Abingdon, UK & New York: Routledge, 2022.
Jacqueline Helfgott, PhD, Professor, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics and Director, Crime & Justice Research Center, co-authored “Measurement of Potential Over- and Under-policing in Communities” with Loren T. Atherley, MACJ, and Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics faculty members Matthew J. Hickman, PhD, and William S. Parkin, PhD, published in “Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. Loren Atherley, the lead author, is also the Director of Performance Analytics and Research at the Seattle Police Department and a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology.
Other reports include:
She was interviewed on KING 5 News for “Victims say Seattle-based charity bail group should stop freeing people charged with violent crimes.”
She is also featured in “Crime is up in Seattle. So why are city residents less fearful?” in The Seattle Times.
Audrey Hudgins, EdD, Clinical Associate Professor, Matteo Ricci Institute, contributed to the analysis and writing of “Análisis de contexto migratorio - Primer semestre de 2021,” a report produced by the Investigativo-Teórica Dimensión of and for the Red Jesuita Con Migrantes Centroamérica-Norteamérica. The report was published on October 6, 2021 and is available here.
Alexander Mouton, MFA, Chair and Associate Professor, Art, Art History, and Design, attended CODEX VIII International Art Book Fair & Symposium in Berkeley, CA. His artist book, “Reconfigured Families” (2020) was purchased for the Rhode Island School of Design Fleet Library. A second artist book, “To A Place of Time, Held Within Four Walls” (2022) was purchased for Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Reconfigured Families follows the experience of one 21st century family, sometimes referred to as the “postmodern family” or even the “brave new family,” using my family as a case study. The sequence of images was made over the six-year period 2009—2015. During this time, I also learned of other parent/child configurations who traverse geographies to juggle career and family, moving between Seattle and Hong Kong; Berlin and Bonn; Columbus, OH and Melbourne, Australia; Los Angeles and London; and Boston and Berkeley, CA, to name just a few configurations.
To A Place of Time, Held Within Four Walls is a limited-edition box of thirteen different related photo books, each exploring the unique possibilities of combining and juxtaposing images and texts according to its particular structure. How can new historical perspectives on the synergy between Hitler and Stalin’s terror resonate in the contemporary moment? My personal experience of loss led me in 2016 to seek a deeper understanding of this history through a direct experience of select locations in Eastern Europe. As I photographed locations of mass killings such as the Bikernieku forest outside Riga, Latvia and the Ponary woods south of Vilnius, Lithuania, I was struck by the way the Soviet and Nazi overlap carried over into the physical environs. It was as if upon the Bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow where millions were killed, socialist block buildings sprouted up like mushroom rings to support the utopian vision of a new ‘socialist man’. Yet this vision, now itself fifty years old, is an ideological ruin in the flesh of the built environment. And new nationalisms are on the march. Indeed with the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the 2021 US Capitol attack, this question is more pertinent now than ever.
Carmen Rivera, MA, Criminal Justice, Criminology & Forensics, was featured in 425 Magazine’s “The List.”
Nova Robinson, PhD, Associate Professor, International Studies and History, published a volume she co-edited, “The Routledge Global History of Feminism,” edited by Bonnie Smith and Nova Robinson, Abingdon, UK & New York: Routledge, 2022.
James Sawyer, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Public Service, published “Are LDS ‘True Believers’ more likely to fall for conspiracy theories?”, an op-ed in The Salt Lake Tribune.
Tom Taylor, PhD, Acting Chair and Associate Professor, History, and affiliated with International Studies, is publishing a new book in June, “Modern Travel in World History”, (New York: Routledge, 2022). It is part of their “Themes in World History” series. This book focuses on both the evolving nature of travel, from land and sea routes in the 1500s, to the domination of planes and cars in the modern world and the important stories of travellers themselves. Taking a global perspective, the text places travel within the larger geopolitical, social, religious, and cultural developments throughout history. It emphasizes not only the role of technology innovation in the ways people travel but also how those changes affect social structures and cultural values. Tom Taylor explores the journeys of well-known travellers as well as ordinary people, each with different perspectives through the lens of gender, social class, and cultural background, and considers how fictional travellers define the importance of travel in the modern world. Why people set out on the sojourns they did, what they experienced, who they met and how they understood these cross-cultural encounters are important to not only understanding the travellers themselves but the world they lived in and the world their travels made. Several maps help illustrate important routes and destinations.
Kirsten Moana Thompson, PhD, Professor and Director, Film Studies, presented an invited keynote talk, “The Doors of Perception: Color, Surrealism and Disney Animation”, on March 12, 2022 at The Third International Symposium for Color, Science and Art, The International Research Center for Color, Science and Art, Tokyo Polytechnic University (TPU), Japan. She also reviewed Deborah Walker-Morrison’s book, “Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire,” in Projections, 16.2 (August 2022).
Charles M. Tung, PhD, Professor and Chair, English, presented the conference paper, “Modernist Clockwork and the Rescaling of Historical Possibility,” at the Modernist Studies Association Digital Conference, April 6, 2022. The paper was part of three panels on modernism and technology featuring contributors to the forthcoming volume, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and Technology.
Zachary D. Wood, PhD, Assistant Professor, Institute of Public Service, was interviewed for “ ‘Another tool for the toolkit’: Can social housing initiative help make Seattle more affordable?” on Dave Ross’s KIRO News Radio podcast. Read it here or listen here.
Loren Atherley, BA, Criminal Justice ’07 and MACJ ’10, is featured in the GeekWire story, "Seattle Police Department testing brain stimulation headband as part of wellness research effort." He is the Director of Performance Analytics & Research at Seattle Police Department and a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology.
Haleema Bharoocha, BA, Sociology ’18, will attend University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy the number one ranked school in public policy analysis to earn her Masters in Public Policy. Read her LinkedIn announcement.
Jessica Boling, BSW ’07, has been named Assistant Deputy Executive Director of the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.
Jonathan Choe, BA Humanities in Teaching and Philosophy ’00, is entering the Jesuit community.
Melissa Laramie, BSW ’00, has been named Gwinnett County Public Schools chief communications officer.
Lauren Morgan, MACJ ’16, is featured in “Doctoral candidate Lauren Morgan balances criminal justice research with training as elite water skier,” University of Missouri–St. Louis Daily.
Heather Mumby, BA, Political Science ’95, is running as an incumbent for the Big Fork, Montana school board.
David Rue, MFA in Arts Leadership ’17, was part of a student-hosted series capturing “Artist Mental Health Stories” produced by KNHC-C89.5, operated by professional staff and students of Nathan Hale High School’s electronic media course. Listen here.
Alexandra Woolacott, MAP ’17, was featured by the Seattle Times for “Are you feeling ‘climate distress’? Here are one therapist’s tips on how to manage.”
Braelyn Scheer, a second-year political science major, was elected to serve as SGSU president for the 2022-2023 academic year. Christina Beavers, a second-year psychology major, was elected as the College of Arts and Sciences Senator
CurveCon 2022, presented by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, featured work by SU students on topics of women, gender, and sexualities. Students from all colleges and majors presented poetry, videos, policy proposals, academic research papers, visual art, and performance pieces. The program can be found on their website.
Serena Cosgrove, Associate Professor, International Studies, and Marissa Olivares, professor of Sociology at UCA in Managua, Nicaragua, received a Fulbright Scholar in Residence award to bring Marissa to Seattle University to teach in International Studies during the 22-3 academic year. Watch for more details soon.
After a national search, the Arts Leadership program is pleased to welcome James Miles as our newest full-time tenure-track faculty member. James is currently teaching at SU as a guest instructor and will begin his full-time position in September. James has asked that we share this information with you.
James Miles is excited to join the faculty of Seattle University, after having served as the Chief Executive Officer at MENTOR Washington, and the Executive Director of Arts Corps. Originally from Chicago, by way of New York City, Miles was inspired to foment change after seeing so many children that looked like him, get disregarded and treated like criminals by our educational systems. His acclaimed TedX Talk focuses on his mission to narrow achievement gaps using the arts as a tool to navigate inequitable educational systems. Miles is a Mayoral Appointee to the Seattle Arts Commission, a Trustee on the Board of the Frye Museum and MoPOP, and on the advisory board of SXSW EDU. A former accountant, model, actor, and adjunct professor at NYU, Miles has facilitated workshops and designed curriculum for the New Victory Theater, Disney Theatrical Group, Village Theatre, Arts Impact, Denver Performing Arts Center, Impact Schools, and others. A graduate of Morehouse College and Brandeis University, James has presented at SXSW EDU, NYU Shanghai, Harvard GSE, EdTechXEurope, Google, UAEM North America, UAEM Europe, National Guild, ITAC, and provided professional development to teachers and leaders across the world. His work has been featured by Complex Magazine, National Guild, Seattle Times, KOMO, KEXP, Pie News(Australia) NPR, CBS, NBC, US Department of Education, and ASCD. James is a consultant with Continua Consulting, and is the co-founder of LeadersDontLead.com, a leadership coaching agency. Learn more about James Miles and his work at www.freshprofessor.com.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend
All tenure-track or tenured faculty in humanistic fields are eligible to be nominated by SU for the NEH Summer Stipend Program, which provides $6,000 stipends to support faculty in developing scholarly products over the summer. Two nominees are allowed per institution. Prospective nominees must notify OSP of their intent to apply by June 15, 2022, with an internal application deadline of July 1, 2022. More detail about SU’s nomination process for the NEH summer stipends is available on the Limited Submission Opportunities webpage. Note that non-tenure track faculty are also eligible to submit to the NEH Summer Stipend program as independent scholars outside of SU’s limited submission process. See the NEH Summer Stipends webpage for more details, including about eligibility.
Upcoming OSP Events Faculty and Staff Learning
Essentials of Proposal Development, May 26, 12:30-1:30 p.m. via Zoom (link provided in advance.) Thinking of pursuing external funding in the coming months? Get yourself in grant-writing shape with this session focused on the core principles of effective proposal development and writing. Participants will gain insight into all aspects of the proposal process including critically reviewing funding announcements, developing project aims that respond to sponsor objectives, and crafting compelling proposal narratives. Please RSVP here by May 24 and/or direct any questions to OSP by email.
Save the Date – Faculty Convocation: Provost’s Celebration of Faculty Scholarship and Achievements. May 19, Reception 4:30-5 p.m., Program 5-6:30 p.m. Father LeRoux Conference Center (STCN 160.) Please join Provost Martin in celebrating the myriad accomplishments of our faculty this year through a new annual event that will recognize our McGoldrick and Provost’s Award winners, Faculty Emeriti, anniversary milestones, and achievements in scholarship! Questions may be directed by email to Nancy Carroll.
OSP is here to help you in planning for your summer scholarship! Curious about pursuing external funding this summer? Let us help you! CAS’s Sponsored Research Officer Sarah Bricknell is available to offer their expertise and support at all stages of research and proposal development, including exploring potential funding opportunities, early ideation and conceptualization of project aims, and developing well-specified budgets and compelling proposal narratives.
BLOOM: 2022 Digital Design Senior Showcase
Through May 13
Vachon Gallery, Fine Arts Building
As an exhibition, BLOOM creates the environment for this year's cohort to communicate their individual paths of growth that led to the existence of the tight-knit community of designers whose work is featured. BLOOM as a theme for the showcase represents growth, creativity, and the coexistence of individual experiences. For many of our designers, this showcase will become part of their portfolios, an opportunity to build connections with professionals in the field, and a chance to have their friends and family finally view a culmination of all the work they have created in the two years of what our program calls “design bootcamp." This exhibition will also be available via a digital showcase.
Embodiment: Gender in The Expanse
Through June 15
Hedreen Gallery
May 24, 6 p.m.: Public Conversation with Professor Jodi O’Brien and Artists Natalie Krick, Barry Johnson, Hanako O’Leary, and Rafael Soldi in Wyckoff Auditorium, Seattle University
Curated by Arielle Simmons. With vulnerability and empathy, artists Natalie Krick, Barry Johnson, Hanako O’Leary, Rafael Soldi, Kali Spitzer and Anthony White explore the expanse of gender with their practice. Expectations of gender and sexuality shape our social landscape. Acknowledging that gender is performative, rather than anatomical, how does our physical embodiment contribute to our gender identity? How can we engage the socially constructed qualities of our gender identity, if at all? Approaching themes that are essential to our sense of self, Embodiment examines the relationship between our internal truth and external positionality. Each of these artists inspires and encourages us to bravely self-determine. Learn more here.
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
May 11-15, various times,
Lee Center for the Arts
Presented by Seattle University Theatre. Directed by Sunam Ellis. Dying tragically on her wedding day, Eurydice is prematurely plunged into the underworld. Reunited with her father there, she struggles to remember her past life and love. Filled with fantastical characters roaming a surreal landscape, this contemporary retelling of the traditional Orpheus myth, recenters the hero's journey on the heroine, in a touching, darkly comic examination of loss and love. More information here.
The Confluence Project by Dr. Matthew Reynolds
May 12, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Wyckoff Auditorium
Dr. Reynolds, Whitman College, Art History and Visual Culture Studies, will speak about his book project on Maya Lin's Confluence Project, a series of earthworks installed along the Columbia River that confronts issues of climate change and habitat depletion in the Pacific Northwest —a transformation brought about by over two centuries of contact between peoples, species, water systems and industrial development. Sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History and Design and supported by the Pigott Family Endowment for the Arts. No RSVP required.
Master of Arts in Psychology 40th Anniversary
May 15, 12:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Father LeRoux Conference Center (STCN 160) and online
Share memories and fellowship, in-person and online. The Master of Arts in Psychology (MAP) Program in Existential Phenomenological (EP) Psychology began to train therapists in a radically new philosophical healing model in 1981. The art and human science of existential-phenomenological therapy offered a deeply humanistic and experiential relational framework for creating apprenticeships with meaning making in the therapeutic journey for therapist and patient. Learn more and register here.
"Heavenly Learning”: Jesuit Science in Imperial China
May 16, 2022, 4 p.m., Reception, 4:30 – 6 p.m., Lecture
Father LeRoux, S.J. Conference Center, Student Center 160
Florence C. Hsia, PhD, Professor of History of Science, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison will deliver the 3rd Peter L. Lee Endowed Lecture in East Asian Culture and Civilization. Presented by Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences and Asian Studies. RSVP here.
Putin Confronts the Free World: A Discussion with General Barry McCaffrey
May 16, 6:30 p.m.
Pigott Auditorium
Seattle University’s “Conversations” series continues with General Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret.), a national security and terrorism analyst for NBC News and Gary Locke, former US ambassador to China and former Washington governor. He will be interviewed on stage by Larry Hubbell, professor, Joni Balter, journalist, and several students. Information and registration here.
The Case of the Missing Lightning Bat by Victor D. Evans
May 17, 6 p.m.
Casey Commons
The Communication and Media Department presents the 2022 Sharon James Lecture, featuring Dr. Victor Evan’s new middle grade book. “The Case of the Missing Lighting Bat,” a new mystery that is one of very few featuring a middle grade, LGBTQ African-American character. Dr. Evans will read from the book, discuss with Dr. Caitlin Carlson, and sign copies following the event. About the book: Life hasn’t been entirely fair to Evan Sinclair, or ‘Sissy Sinclair’ as most of his classmates like to call him, but now it’s seventh grade - and the universe owes him. A missing baseball bat, belonging to star player Jayden Stevens, provides him with the perfect chance to put his love of detective shows to good use. His objective? Find the lucky “lightning bat” and score himself a place with the most popular kids in school: The Untouchables. RSVP here.
BFA Exhibition
May 19 - June 12
Vachon Gallery
Information coming soon.
Songs of Life: Seattle University Choirs Spring Concert
May 20, 8 p.m.
St. Joseph Parish, 18th & Aloha, Capitol Hill
The Seattle University Choirs (Dr. Leann Conley-Holcom, Director; Dr. Lee Peterson, Assistant Director) are pleased to return to the beautiful St Joseph Parish for our final concert of the 2021-2022 academic year. Ticket information to come here. Sponsored by the Department of Performing Arts and Arts Leadership. Follow the choirs on social media to stay informed about upcoming events. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
Black in Blue: Lessons on Leadership, Breaking Barriers, and Racial Reconciliation
May 23, 4 p.m.
Stuart T. Rolfe Community Room
Carmen Best, former Seattle Police Chief, talks about her new book. Sponsored by the SU Crime and Justice Research Center.
Jesuits and the Promotion of the Common Good in Latin America
May 26, 4 p.m.; reception to follow
Wyckoff Auditorium
Fr. Jorge Salcedo MartÍnez, S.J. delivers the 2022 William F. LeRoux, S.J. Endowed Lecture.
Honors Show
June 9 - 11
Lee Center for the Arts
Information coming soon.
Commencement 2022
June 12
Climate Pledge Arena
Information here.
Blue is Our Color
June 23-October 8
Hedreen Gallery
Information coming soon.
Monday, May 13 at 5:00 PM
Tuesday, May 14 at 12:00 PM
Wednesday, June 5 at 12:00 PM
Wednesday, June 12 at 12:00 PM
Wednesday, June 12 at 12:30 PM
Wednesday, June 26 at 6:00 PM