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FACULTY RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Alyssa Anderson,
Assistant Professor
of Biology, has published two articles
in
Chironomus: Journal of Chironomidae
Research:
“A Time to Reflect and a Look to
the Future,” and “Benefits of Chironomid
Research: Perspectives from Undergraduate
Researchers,” the latter co-authored with N. J.
Roberts, T. I. Durnin, and W. M. Wollman, all
past or present NSU students.
Dr. Guangwei Ding,
Associate Professor of
Chemistry, collaborated on three articles in
2016: “Evaluating Winter Wheat (Triticum
aestivum L.) Nitrogen Status with Canopy
Spectrum Reflectance and Multiple Statistical
Analysis,” co-authored with Mei-chen Feng,
Jia-Jia Zhao, Wu-De Yang, Chao Wang, Mei-
Jun Zhang, and Lu-Jie Xiao, and “Impact of
Spectral Saturation on Leaf Area Index and
Above Ground Biomass Estimation of Winter
Wheat,” co-authored with Chao Wang, Mei-
Chen Feng, Wu-De Yang, Hui Sun, Zhuo-Ya
Liang, Yong-Kai Xie, and Xing-Xing Qiao,
were published in
Spectroscopy Letters,
and “Use
of Spectral Character to Evaluate Soil Organic
Matter,” co-authored with Chao Wang,
Mei-chen Feng, Wu-de Yang, Hui-qin Wang,
Zhi-hua Li, Hui Sun, and Chao-chao Shi, was
published in the
Soil Science Society of America
Journal.
Dr. Andrzej Duszenko,
Professor of English,
published an article titled “Abnihilization
of the Etym: Joyce, Rutherford and Particle
Physics” in the fall 2016 issue of the
Irish
University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies.
Dr. David Grettler,
Professor of History,
published an article titled “Activity for Body
and Mind: The Career of Nora Staael Evert,
Physical Therapy Pioneer” in the spring 2017
issue of
South Dakota History.
Grettler also
participated in the Northern Great Plains
History Conference in St. Cloud, MN, where
he presented a paper on James “Ackicitana”
King, the last Indian scout at Fort Sisseton,
SD.
Dr. Joshua Hagen,
the Dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences, co-authored a chapter
titled “Changing Modalities of Power in the
Twenty-first Century” in the book B
order
Politics: Defining Spaces of Governance and Forms
of Transgression
(Springer, 2017). Hagen also
published an article titled “Revisiting Pork
Spending, Place Names, and Political Stature
in West Virginia” in the journal
PAST: The
International Society for Landscape, Place, and
Material Culture,
and a book review of
The
Prehistory of Home
by Jerry D. Moore in the
journal
Material Culture.
The Gerda Henkel
Foundation also published an online interview
with Hagen titled “Organizing Space,
Creating Places: Interview with Joshua Hagen
on Architecture of the Nazi Regime.”
Dr. Alyssa Kiesow,
Associate Professor
of Biology, published an article titled
“Characterization and Isolation of
Microsatellite Loci for False Map Turtles” in
the spring 2017 issue of the
American Midland
Naturalist.
Dr. Peter Ramey,
Assistant Professor of
English, published an article titled “The
Riddle of Beauty: The Aesthetics of
Wrætlic
in Old English Verse” in
Modern Philology.
In
addition, Ramey published a book review of
Mercedes Salvador-Bello’s recent monograph,
Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book
Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata
(West
Virginia UP, 2015) for
Speculum,
a journal of
medieval studies.
Dr. Courtney Waid-Lindberg,
Assistant
Professor of Sociology, collaborated on
four articles. “Frontier Justice: Examining
Representations of Modern Rural Policing
on Television,” co-authored with Kristi
Brownfield, was published in the
Annual
Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research.
The remaining three articles were presented
at professional conferences: “Perceptions of
the Death Penalty,” co-authored with Steve
Geer and Rhonda R. Dobbs, was presented
at the 68th Annual Meeting of the American
Society of Criminology in New Orleans, LA
in November 2016; “Sexual Assault in the
Military,” co-authored with Brian Bengs, was
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Great
Plains Sociological Association in Sioux Falls,
SD in October 2016; and “Grindhouse and
Girl Gangs: The Globalization of Women’s
Violence in Fringe Films,” co-authored with
Greg DePies, was presented at the 66th
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study
of Social Problems in Seattle, WA in August
2016.