College of Arts and Sciences Faculty News: November 2022

Alexandra L. Adame, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology, recently published the article “Self-In-Relation: Martin Buber and D.W. Winnicott in Dialogue.” It was selected for a special issue of The Humanistic Psychologist called "Being and Becoming: Celebrating Women in Humanistic Psychology."

Gretchen Frances Bennett, MFA, Adjunct Professor, Art, Art History, and Design, with Seattle University as her home institution, completed a research Fulbright Core Scholar award to the Slovak Republic in 2021-22.

Dominic CodyKramers, MFA, Associate Teaching Professor, Performing Arts and Arts Leadership designed the sound for Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, featuring the acting and music talents of Dean Powers' son, Hersh. Last month’s entry left out the ticket link; the play runs through November 20. 

Rashmi Chordiya, PhD, Assistant Professor, and Larry Hubbell, PhD, Professor, Institute of Public Service co-authored “Fostering Internal Pay Equity Through Gender Neutral Job Evaluations: A Case Study of the Federal Job Evaluation System” in the peer-reviewed publication, Public Personnel Management. The article focuses on fostering internal pay equity in organizations through gender neutral job evaluations. We argue for a more nuanced operationalization of the pay equity principle that goes beyond 'equal pay for equal work' and includes 'equal pay for work of equal value'. This article highlights the overlooked and undervalued job factors that are commonly associated with female-dominated jobs and contribute towards pay inequities. Gender neutral job evaluations can help us achieve pay equity across organizational jobs that may be different in substance and are of equal value to the organization.

Serena Cosgrove, PhD, Associate Professor, International Studies, and her co-author, Isabeau J. Belisle Dempsey, BA, International Studies and Spanish, ‘19, are happy to share the news that their book, Imagining Central America: Short Histories, has just been published by the University of Cincinnati Press. The book provides readers with regional analysis and context of Central America as well as country-by-country histories for Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. We’ll be having a book launch in early 2023.  Learn about the book.

Elizabeth Dale, PhD, Associate Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, was quoted in two Forbes articles

• "Here’s How Much More MacKenzie Scott Has Donated To Charity Than Ex-Husband Jeff Bezos"
• "The Mystery Of MacKenzie Scott: How And Why She Picks Certain Nonprofits Is A Puzzle, Even To Them"

Fade Eadeh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology, co-authored "Teaching Agents to Understand Teamwork: Evaluating and Predicting Collective Intelligence as a Latent Variable via Hidden Markov Models" which was published in Computers in Human Behavior, a top multidisciplinary journal in psychology. The article shows a new method for predicting future behavior in teamwork based on past behavior, which will allow for AI to (eventually) appropriately time interventions. The full article is available for free for a limited time. here.

Christie Eppler, PhD, LMFT, Program Director and Professor, Couples and Family Therapy, co-authored "COVID-19 and clinical training: Diverse interns’ perspectives and collaborative recommendations" in the Journal of Feminist Family Therapy.

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, PhD, Professor, Modern Languages and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies, had various invitations this last summer and fall following the launch of her three books in the last two years.

In July and August, she presented at the prestigious "A Orillas del Órbigo," reading event in León, Spain. While in Spain, she also had the opportunity to keynote at the Annual Film Festival in Vega de Riego, León, held this year in honor of the Chicanx homeland "Aztlán."

In August and September, Dr. Gutiérrez y Muhs was invited to give presentations at the UJED in Durango, Mexico featuring her two recently published collections, “In Xochitl in Cuicátl,” a Latinx/Chicanx anthology (Madrid) she co-edited and her fully bilingual collection “¿How Many Indians Can We Be? ¿Cuántos indios podemos ser?”  (2021, 2022)

In November, Dr. Gutiérrez y Muhs presented at the "El Mundo Zurdo Conference," the annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, celebrating the work of theorist and writer Gloria Anzaldúa. 

She is the new President of "Seattle Escribe,” the largest group of Spanish-speaking writers in the northwestern United States. In addition to an array of classes and workshops and the promotion of community participation in cultural events, “Seattle Escribe” is the only writer's organization in the United States to have created a residency for writers who write in Spanish.  And the first residency was held this last September at Mineral School, near Mt. Rainier. The residency is named after Seattle University Adjunct Professor Claudia Castro Luna, MFA, former poet laureate of the state of Washington.

Sam Harrell, MSW, Instructor, Social Work, co-authored “The Case for Mandatory Reporting as an Ethical Dilemma for Social Workers” with Stéphanie Wahab in Advances in Social Work, Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022): Re-Envisioning the Social Work Profession, Education, and Practice.

Hye-Kyung Kang, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Social Work and Director, Master of Social Work, published “Re-Envisioning Social Work Education Building and Living a Social Justice-focused Clinical Social Work Curriculum” in Advances in Social Work, Vol. 22 No. 2 (2022): Re-Envisioning the Social Work Profession, Education, and Practice.

Sean McDowell, PhD, Associate Professor, English, published the essay “Edward Herbert within the fellowship of plain speakers” in Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters, ed. Greg Miller and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Manchester University Press). In addition, his poem “Mustard Jug” was recently published in the Welsh journal, Scintilla.

Christopher Paul, PhD, Professor, Communication and Media, contributed chapter 10, "Playing to Win," for the new edited collection, "EA Sports FIFA: Feeling the Game."

Patrick Schoettmer, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor, Political Science, has been busy during this election cycle.

• Election 2022 Political Roundtable, KBTC,
• Balance of power in Washington State Senate rides on key races, KOMO News
• Why do so many judges run for reelection unopposed?, KUOW

Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa, PhD, Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, has a new book, "The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life" available for pre-order on the UC Press website.

Kirsten Moana Thompson, PhD, Professor and Director, Film Studies, and Theiline Pigott-McCone Endowed Chair (2022-24) wrote a blog post for "Colour and Film" about her experiences at the 6th International Conference Colour in Film in Kinemathek Lichtspiel, Bern, Switzerland.  "The Dark History Of Candyman" on MSN.com quotes her paper, "Strange Fruit: Candyman and Supernatural Dread."

Charles M. Tung, PhD, Professor, English, organized the session “World Brain, Planetization, and Virality” at the Modernist Studies Association 22nd Annual Conference. His paper, “Modernism’s Homo Progressivus and the Virus 2022,” connected H.G. Wells’s fantasy of the “world brain” and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary vision of a globally-networked “Homo progressivus” to the cruel libertarian epistemological optimism satirized by the “I did my own research” meme.

Kevin D. Ward, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Public Affairs Program, published “Exploring Nonprofit Advocacy Research Methods and Design: A Systematic Review of the Literature" with coauthors from the University of Washington and University of Oregon in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Review, the top journal for nonprofit research.

Matt Whitlock, PhD, Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies, released a book, "Critical Theory and Early Christianity." Whitlock authored and edited the book, which includes seven chapters from Whitlock and contributions from ten international scholars. The book looks at early Christianity through the lenses of four modern theorists: Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler. It examines topics outside of the typical categories of biblical studies, but certainly related to the New Testament and its reception history: grass roots movements, revolutions, capitalism, Marxism, gentrification, fascism, national anthems, one-language bias, technological simulation, political protests and violence, gender fluidity, drag, and mattering bodies, both human and non-human.