casnewsletterspring19

Spotlight DR. ERIN FOUBERG, professor of geography, earned her undergraduate degree in international law from Georgetown University before earning master’s and doctoral degrees in geography from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Fouberg taught at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia FACULTY DR. GUANGWEI DING, associate professor of chemistry, collaborated on two articles in 2018: “Physicochemical and Microbiological Assessment of Soil Quality on a Chronosequence of a Mine Reclamation Site,” co-authored with Junjian Li, Z. Xin, J. Yan, H. Li and J. Chen, was published in European Journal of Soil Science; and “Monitoring and Evaluation in Freeze Stress of Winter Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) through Canopy Hyperspectrum Reflectance and Multiple Statistical Analysis,” co-authored with Meichen Feng, Xiaoli Guo, Chao Wang, Wude Yang, Chaochao Shi, Xueru Zhang, Lujie Xiao, Meijun Zhang and Xiaoyan Song, was published in Ecological Indicators. DR. JOSHUA HAGEN, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, co-edited the book “The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity,” published by Rowman & Littlefield. As part of this edited volume, Dean Hagen co-authored two chapters: “The City as Palimpsest: Narrating National Identity through Urban Space and Place” and “The City as Crucible: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity into the Twenty-first Century.” He also published the chapter “Historic Preservation in Nazi Germany: Practices, Patterns, and Politics” Research and Publications in “Heritage at the Interface: Interpretation and Identity” published by the University Press of Florida. Additionally, Dean Hagen revised the third edition of his annotated bibliography “Borders and Boundaries” for Oxford Bibliographies, published book reviews in Geographical Review, Journal of Historical Geography, Historical Geography, and The AAG Review of Books, as well as three blogs for the websites Zόcalo Public Square, Global Urban History and OUPBlog by Oxford University Press. DR. BENJAMIN HARLEY, assistant professor of English, published two articles in 2018: “Sounding Intimacy” in The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and “Community Remix in Progress” in the journal Present Tense. Dr. Harley also gave a presentation titled “The Symposium on Sound, Rhetoric, and Writing” at a conference co-hosted by Belmont University and Middle Tennessee State University in September. DR. ALYSSA KIESOW, professor of biology, published an article titled “Comparison of Northern Flying and Red Squirrel Phylogenies with Focus on the Insular United States” in the Prairie Naturalist. The article was written in collaboration with H. B. Britten. Dr. Kiesow also collaborated on two presentations: “South Dakota Working in STEM for Equity (SD-WISE): A System, Institutional, and Individual Level Approach to Policy Change,” co-authored with J. Long, M. Redlin, J. Eduful, C. Anderson, R. Miskimins, P. Mabee, A. Podhradsky, P. Rowland, and A.Surovek, was presented at the Great Plains Sociological Association Annual Conference; and “Cultivating Science in the Classroom: An Opportunity for Change,” co-authored with J. Mitchell and M. Fritz, was presented at the PULSE 2018 Midwest and Great Plains Regional Network Conference. DR. GINNY LEWIS, professor of German, has contracted with Peter Lang Publishing to author a book entitled “The Novels of Zsigmond Móricz in the Context of Literary Realism.” Lewis has written several articles on this prominent Hungarian novelist, and has also translated three of his novels from Hungarian into English. Her book on Móricz will appear at the end of the year 2020. DR. JON D. SCHAFF, professor of political science, authored a book titled “Abraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy.” The book will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in July; it is currently available for pre-order on Amazon. Dr. Schaff also participated in a symposium at Mercer University titled “The Ratification Debate: Federalists and Anti-Federalists”; he gave a presentation on Lincoln’s statesmanship as both a synthesis of and improvement of Federalist and Anti-Federalist thought. The presentation will be published in 2020 in an edited volume of the conference presentations. for several years before returning to her home state to teach at South Dakota State University and eventually joining Northern in 2007. Since then, Dr. Fouberg has taught a range of human and physical geography classes, assumed the position of director of the Honors Program, was promoted to professor, and received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award. Dr. Fouberg’s research focuses on geography education. The Journal of Geography in Higher Education recognized her research with the 2015 Prize for Promoting Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Dr. Fouberg is first author for two college level textbooks: “Understanding World Regional Geography” and “Human Geography: People, Place and Culture,” both published by Wiley. Dr. Fouberg is also interested in political geography and has been a regular co-editor and contributor to the “Atlas of American Elections.”