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Northern State University 1200 S. Jay St. Aberdeen, SD 57401-7198 www.northern.edu Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Aberdeen, South Dakota Permit No. 77 COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Dr. Elizabeth Haller published an article titled “Perception and the Suppression of Identity in Villette” in the July 2010 issue of Brontë Studies and was invited by the editor of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory to join the journal’s review board as a Charlotte Brontë scholar. She also published four entries on Willa Cather’s O Pioneers (vol. 1) and four entries on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll ’s House (vol. 2) in the threevolume Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature published by Facts on File, Inc., 2010. Dr. Haller completed a requested honorarium review of LIT Anthology for the publishers Wadsworth/Cengage Learning and an honorarium review of The Online Editor’s Handbook for the publishers Pearson, Ally & Bacon. She was also invited by the Editorial Assistant for the Communication, Film and Theatre list at Pearson Publishing to review their upcoming first edition of The Online Editor’s Handbook. Dr. Jon Schaff published three articles: “Alexis de Tocqueville, Willa Cather’s My Antonia and the Tragedy of American Progress” in Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship, Brian Danoff and Joe Herbert eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books), and “Lincoln Symposium Introduction” and “Technology, Slavery, and Labor: Lincoln’s Lectures on Discoveries and Inventions” in Perspectives on Political Science. He also presented a paper titled “Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Self-Interest” at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association. Dr. Steven Usitalo published a book review of Robert Collis’s The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism, and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725 (University of Turku Press, 2007) in Eighteenth-Century Studies. His article “Lomonosov: Patronage and Reputation at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences” is scheduled for publication this year in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. In November 2010, Dr. Usitalo attended the conference of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in Los Angeles, where he delivered a paper titled “Electricity and Scientific Sainthood: The Case of Georg Wilhelm Richmann”; and in January 2011, he attended the conference of the American Historical Association in Boston, where he was the discussant for the panel on “The Occult and Court Politics in Russia and Central Europe, Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries.” Dr. Usitalo was the recipient of the Nora Staael Evert Award for 2010/2011. NORTHERN STATE UNIVERSITY Aberdeen, South Dakota Stay in touch with your school visit www.northern.edu/alumni/

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