{"id":4980,"date":"2012-11-06T22:17:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T04:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/facultyconversations\/provostseries\/"},"modified":"2017-03-06T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:47:46","slug":"provostseries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/lunchconversations\/provostseries\/","title":{"rendered":"Provost&#8217;s Sabbatical Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><div>\n<h3><span class=\"body\">Provost&#8217;s Sabbatical Series <\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"body\">The Provost&#8217;s Sabbatical Series recognizes the wide range of fascinating and impressive sabbatical projects in which our faculty are engaged.\u00a0 Each semester, Provost and Dean of the College Marci Sortor invites two faculty members to give short presentations about their scholarly\/professional work in a manner accessible to a general audience. Presenters are also asked to explain what they did to plan and prepare for their leaves, and how they have managed the transition back to the classroom (including ways in which they have integrated their sabbatical work with their teaching).\u00a0 Presenters are selected to highlight the diversity of sabbatical projects from recent faculty leaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">The Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts is responsible for managing the Provost&#8217;s Sabbatical Series. The <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty Life Committee<\/a> co-sponsors the series.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"body\">Sabbatical Series Presentations<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Fall 2016 &#8211; Spring 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db6f9f\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Jill Dietz, Professor of Mathematics \"    >Jill Dietz, Professor of Mathematics <\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db6f9f\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>For many years, <b>Jill Dietz&#8217;s<\/b> quest has been to understand properties of algebraic structures that can be detected in their substructures. A standard question in science (and other disciplines) is <i>How does an object break down into smaller parts?<\/i> And vice versa, <i>What are the building blocks of objects we care about?<\/i>\u00a0Whether we study cells, molecules, or algebraic structures, the quest is similar. Jill will introduce the abstract notion of a <i>group<\/i> (an example of an algebraic structure) with some hands-on examples, describe the kinds of questions she asks about them, and briefly report on her sabbatical projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db704e\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"DeAne Lagerquist, Professor of Religion \"    >DeAne Lagerquist, Professor of Religion <\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db704e\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><b>DeAne Lagerquist <\/b>had a year of &#8220;Sabbatical Travels: through time, space, and cultures.&#8221; Although the sabbatical was not precisely what she had planned, it was full and rewarding. Hours spent in archives reading the papers of St. Olaf grad and faculty member Gertrude Sovik yielded a paper that she presented at the University of Madras; it also provided material for further work. Unexpected invitations prompted further research and reflection on immigration, religion, American culture, and globalization particularly as manifested among Lutherans past and present. Actual travels &#8211; both in the USA and abroad &#8211; were personally enriching and informed her current teaching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7085\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Mary Cisar, Professor of Romance Languages - French\"    >Mary Cisar, Professor of Romance Languages - French<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7085\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><b>Mary Cisar<\/b>\u00a0designed her sabbatical leave to prepare to return to teaching and scholarship in French after thirteen years as Registrar. Her year alternated between extended stays in France and research and writing in Northfield.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db70b1\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Rick Goedde, Associate Professor of Economics - Management Studies\"    >Rick Goedde, Associate Professor of Economics - Management Studies<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db70b1\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<b>Rick Goedde<\/b>\u00a0discussed his research on helping people to manage their retirement money as a personal endowment. He also discussed the benefits of publishing on an investment-related website to get immediate, useful feedback.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Fall 2015 &#8211; Spring 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db70e9\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Mara Benjamin, Associate Professor of Religion\"    >Mara Benjamin, Associate Professor of Religion<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db70e9\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Mara Benjamin<\/strong> spent her sabbatical writing a book, The Obligated Self: Maternal Subjectivity and Jewish Thought, supported in part by an\u00a0NEH Fellowship.\u00a0Her project investigates the religious dimensions of maternal experience in the context of Jewish thought and tradition, while also rereading key categories in Jewish theology in light of the quotidian, material work of childrearing. Mara was a Visiting Scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City. As part of her scholarly research, she brushed up on her Talmud skills, working through texts regarding children, parents, and classical rabbinic understandings of parental obligation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7112\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Sharon Lane-Getaz, Assistant Professor in Education and Math, Computer Science, and Statistics\"    >Sharon Lane-Getaz, Assistant Professor in Education and Math, Computer Science, and Statistics<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7112\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Sharon Lane-Getaz<\/strong> will bring &#8220;Tales from my Sabbatical: A Few Short Stories.&#8221; After spending months planning a project that was not funded by the NSF, what does one do? Sharon&#8217;s revised sabbatical plan included disseminating results from a couple of papers that were already underway, starting a lengthy paper on students&#8217; inferential reasoning, and getting married a couple of times&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db713b\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Tim Mahr, Professor of Music and Conductor, St. Olaf Band\"    >Tim Mahr, Professor of Music and Conductor, St. Olaf Band<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db713b\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Timothy Mahr&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0sabbatical work centered on a number of composition projects. He will present an overview of them all, and then focus on his new<em>Suite for Band<\/em>.\u00a0 Streaming a performance of the work by the St. Olaf Band from the recent Homecoming Concert will allow attendees to experience the work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7163\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Associate Professor of English\"    >Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Associate Professor of English<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7163\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>During her sabbatical,\u00a0<strong>Jennifer Kwon Dobbs<\/strong>\u00a0received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and Intermedia Arts to develop a second book provisionally titled\u00a0<em>Three-Legged Bird<\/em>. As part of this work, she published a mixed-media, mixed-genre chapbook\u00a0<em>Notes from a Missing Person<\/em>(Essay Press) drawing from her research on Korean unwed mothers&#8217; narratives. In addition to placing individual poems in journals and giving invited readings at universities, Jennifer also translated portions of South Korean poet Kim Ki-Taek&#8217;s fifth collection\u00a0<em>Crack, Crack<\/em>\u00a0and presented her translations at a session of Associated Writing Programs 2015 in Minneapolis. Missing teaching, she collaborated with AK Connection to design and led a community workshop for emerging voices that focused on imagining alternative histories, and culminated with participants&#8217; reading at Fox Egg Gallery in Minneapolis. Jennifer will read a selection of her translations of Kim Ki-Taek&#8217;s poetry and some poems from her second book manuscript.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2014 &#8211; Spring 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db718a\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Anne Groton, Professor of Classics\"    >Anne Groton, Professor of Classics<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db718a\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Anne Groton<\/strong>\u00a0spent her sabbatical awash in the ancient Greek alphabet: \u00a0she completed the 4th edition of her Beginning Greek textbook and a book (co-authored with Jim May) of 46 readings to accompany it. Occasionally she returned to the 21st century to learn about ways in which digital technology might enhance her work with Greek and Roman comedy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db71b1\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Robert Hanson, Larson Anderson Professor of Chemistry\"    >Robert Hanson, Larson Anderson Professor of Chemistry<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db71b1\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>When\u00a0<strong>Bob Hanson<\/strong>\u00a0started his third sabbatical, in 2006, he had no idea what he was getting into. Nine years later, his professional activities are focused on that work, and collaborations developed over the intervening years led to opportunities during his fourth sabbatical to travel to 20 destinations in seven countries and to give 25 presentations. It was a whirlwind that took him far out of his comfort zone, but to many new friends and even more opportunities. He will give some insight into how this all arose and how he was able work out a sabbatical plan that was both challenging and survivable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db71d8\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Edmund Santurri, Professor of Religion and Philosophy\"    >Edmund Santurri, Professor of Religion and Philosophy<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db71d8\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Edmund Santurri<\/strong>\u00a0spent his September-January sabbatical mainly writing three essays solicited for three scholarly volumes: &#8220;Agape as Self-Sacrifice: The Internalist View&#8221; for the volume Love and Christian Ethics: Engagements with Tradition, Theory and Society; &#8220;Human Corruption and the Possibility of Love: Dostoevskian Ruminations on Forgiveness&#8221; for the volume Virtue and the Moral Life; and &#8220;Augustinian Realism and the Morality of War: An Exchange&#8221; (co-authored) for the volume Augustine and Social Justice. He also spent some time preparing two new courses for 2014-15: &#8220;Narnia and Beyond: The Theology of C. S. Lewis&#8221; and &#8220;Roman Catholic Theology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db71fe\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Nancy Thompson, Associate Professor of Art History\"    >Nancy Thompson, Associate Professor of Art History<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db71fe\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>During her sabbatical,\u00a0<strong>Nancy Thompson<\/strong>\u00a0worked on a medieval art textbook and wrote essays exploring various aspects of the production and reception of stained glass in Italy in the 13-15th centuries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2013 &#8211; Spring 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7224\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Kathryn Ananda-Owens, Associate Professor of Music\"    >Kathryn Ananda-Owens, Associate Professor of Music<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7224\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><b>Kathryn Ananda-Owens<\/b>\u00a0spent her\u00a0sabbatical\u00a0with Wolfgang Amad\u00e9 Mozart, working on a book project,\u00a0More Than Mozart: The Art and Craft of the Mozartean Cadenza, which aims to teach classical pianists and other instrumental musicians the fine art of Mozart forgery.\u00a0 Her\u00a0Provost\u2019sSabbatical\u00a0Series presentation will introduce the performer\u2019s dilemma that inspired her research, the methods by which she delved into the mind of a centuries-old musical genius, her pedagogical approach to Mozart forgery, and her strategies for sustaining authorial focus in a basement office on sunny days.\u00a0 Ananda-Owens will also take up lessons learned about the proper pacing of asabbatical, from the ideal time to take a vacation to the shocking ability of book proposal drafts to induce writer\u2019s block.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db724a\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Anna Kuxhausen, Associate Professor of History\"    >Anna Kuxhausen, Associate Professor of History<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db724a\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><b>Anna Kuxhausen<\/b>\u00a0spent the first six months of her\u00a0sabbatical\u00a0acting as midwife to her book manuscript. \u00a0After a protracted labor, her book,\u00a0From the Womb to the Body Politic: \u00a0Raising the Nation in Enlightenment Russia,\u00a0was born in March of 2013. \u00a0Anna will speak about her experience of the editorial process, in which she had to let go of her \u201cbaby\u201d in order to see her book to completion. \u00a0 Anna will also share some of the practical strategies she learned regarding manuscript preparation, including how to manage the copy-editing process, securing publication rights from museums and archives, and working with printing press deadlines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db726f\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Anantanand Rambachan, Professor of Religion\"    >Anantanand Rambachan, Professor of Religion<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db726f\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><b>Anant Rambachan<\/b>\u00a0completed a book-manuscript project,\u00a0<i>A Hindu Theology of Liberation<\/i>:\u00a0<i>Not-Two is Not One.<\/i>\u00a0He has two aims for the book. The first is to offer a systematic reconstruction of the Hindu non-dual (<i>advaita<\/i>) tradition. The second is to employ the insights of the the non-dual tradition to address selected issues of significance, including patriarchy, homophobia, and caste. For each issue, he offers a critique and suggests grounds for their overcoming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7293\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Doug Casson, Associate Professor of Political Science\"    >Doug Casson, Associate Professor of Political Science<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7293\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Doug Casson<\/b>\u00a0used his\u00a0sabbatical\u00a0to focus on early modern debates concerning civility and religious insult. As a Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College in Oxford and a Fulbright Fellow in Erlangen, Germany, he spent a lot of time in archives, seeking to uncover the ways in which religious toleration emerged, not as the result of a separation of religious arguments from the political sphere, but rather as a contested norm within theological and scriptural debate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2012 &#8211; Spring 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db72b9\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Mike Fitzgerald, Professor of History\"    >Mike Fitzgerald, Professor of History<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db72b9\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Mike Fitzgerald&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0main project was the draft of a book, &#8220;Emancipation and Reconstruction in Alabama.&#8221; To supplement his other research, he worked with teams of St. Olaf students and professors (through the Center for Interdisciplinary Research-CIR) to provide statistical and mapping support for the project, using historical census data newly made available at the University of Minnesota. Mike will talk about the ins and outs of using statistics students to help pursue one&#8217;s hunches about the evidence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db72df\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Tina Garrett, Associate Professor of Mathematics\"    >Tina Garrett, Associate Professor of Mathematics<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db72df\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Tina Garrett\u00a0<\/strong>used her sabbatical to focus on two projects in combinatorics, as well as on her transition into the position of North American Director of the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics (BSM). The first project investigated a new class of number called the Legendre-Stirling numbers and the second project focused on a problem in dynamical systems. In joint work with Prof. Kendra Killpatrick at Pepperdine University, she found a new class of numbers called Generalized Legendre-Stirling numbers and proved many theorems related to that discovery. These new numbers possess deep mathematical beauty but Tina also has some fun visual interpretations to show. And for the less mathematically inclined, the process of transitioning to North American Director of BSM comes with photos and stories of living in Hungary with only a limited command of the Hungarian language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7302\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Jolene Barjasteh, Associate Professor of French\"    >Jolene Barjasteh, Associate Professor of French<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7302\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>Part of\u00a0<strong>Jolene Barjasteh&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0sabbatical in Fall 2011 was devoted to collaboration with her colleague in History, Dolores Peters, on an article about French FLAC, &#8220;Not an Extravagance: Reflections on Using French Texts to Teach French History,&#8221; that has been accepted for publication by The French Review in fall 2013. Under the umbrella of Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum (FLAC), a long-standing interdisciplinary program at St. Olaf, she and Dolores have collaborated in the development and teaching of a French language component for a survey course in modern French History. The article outlines the institutional and departmental contexts for the creation of French FLAC in History, offers advice on the selection of appropriate original-language texts, shares samples of learning aids, and offers reflection on the long-term contributions of FLAC to student learning and the vitality of St. Olaf&#8217;s French and History programs. In her presentation, Jolene will focus primarily on French materials she has developed for the language component and how teaching in the program has had an impact on both her teaching in other courses and her research agenda.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7327\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"John Schade, Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies\"    >John Schade, Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7327\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>John Schade&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0sabbatical concentrated on three major activities, including development of international collaborations, forging ahead with a new research direction, and progressing towards a better understanding of the potential impacts of climate change on ecosystems on campus. He worked on a proposal with Kathy Tegtmeyer-Pak to develop collaborations between Asian Studies and Environmental studies (funded in May), that included a trip to Japan and China to begin to link curriculum and research directions with their faculty and students. He traveled to Cranfield University in the UK to learn laboratory techniques and develop curricular ideas that will culminate in a course proposal this fall to bring students there to study science and society. He also began collaborating with Jean Porterfield to develop projects using molecular approaches to study biogeochemistry that have informed our understanding of microbial communities in wetland soils. Last, John worked with students on three manuscripts based on research studying the effects of snow depth and changing precipitation patterns on microbial activity that have some bearing on our understanding of the potential impacts of climate change on our natural lands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2011 &#8211; Spring 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db734b\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Irve Dell, Associate Professor of Art and Art History\"    >Irve Dell, Associate Professor of Art and Art History<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db734b\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Irve Dell<\/strong>\u00a0will discuss planning, re-planning, actualizing and digesting his last sabbatical. Wishbones, microphones and puppets \u2013 means to the same ends.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db736f\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Elizabeth Leer, Associate Professor of Education\"    >Elizabeth Leer, Associate Professor of Education<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db736f\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Elizabeth Leer<\/strong>\u00a0had three major sabbatical goals: completing graduate coursework (and passing the new licensing exam!) for the MN K-12 Teaching of Reading license, becoming familiar with recent developments in young adult literature, and, perhaps most importantly, refreshing her secondary school classroom teaching experience. Her own experience as a secondary school English teacher was 13 years old \u2014 and consequently her teaching stories and examples were at least thirteen years old, as well! To enhance her effectiveness as a teacher educator, Elizabeth spent sustained time teaching both 7th graders and 10th graders, reacquainting herself with the joys and challenges of secondary school teaching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7393\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Jeanine Grenberg, Professor of Philosophy\"    >Jeanine Grenberg, Professor of Philosophy<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7393\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Jeanine Grenberg\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0primary sabbatical activity was writing a book manuscript about Immanuel Kant\u2019s moral philosophy. She argues that Kant\u2019s philosophy \u2014 often thought to be very tech-y, expert, and difficult to understand \u2014 is in fact a successful effort to articulate philosophically what each of us can find in our own moral experiences, and especially in our experience of conscience. She will also talk about how she planned for her sabbatical, her experience of applying for (and not getting\u2026) external funding, and how she envisions that her writing will affect her teaching in the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db73b7\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Greg Muth, Associate Professor of Chemistry\"    >Greg Muth, Associate Professor of Chemistry<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db73b7\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Greg Muth\u00a0<\/strong>will give a brief view into three of the projects he worked on during his sabbatical year: \u201cGreen and Growing\u201d summarizes his exploration, with EPA-Gro fellow Ben Auch (\u201912), into the growth and analysis of green algae for the purpose of alternative sources of oil to be used in liquid transportation fuels. \u201cInventions and Outreach\u201d \u2013 Alternative energy turned out to be an excellent avenue to get elementary school students excited about science. The sabbatical provided time and two grants to invent hands-on modules to demonstrate solar, wind and bicycle power for a new generation of scientists. \u201cThe Global Perspective\u201d \u2013 During the second six months of the leave, Greg and his family lived in a small city in central Costa Rica, where they studied, made friends and embraced the cultural similarities and differences between the fast-paced US lifestyle and the \u201cpura vida\u201d lifestyle of Central America. Greg will share some of the projects and perspective from this adventure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2010 &#8211; Spring 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db73dd\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Mary Trull, Associate Professor of English\"    >Mary Trull, Associate Professor of English<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db73dd\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Mary Trull\u00a0<\/strong>spent most of her research time analyzing how the Scientific Revolution impacted women\u2019s poetry in seventeenth-century England.\u00a0 She focused on Lucy Hutchinson, a fiercely partisan Puritan and Republican and\u00a0the first known English translator of the whole of Lucretius\u2019s\u00a0<em>De rerum natura,\u00a0<\/em>which conveyed an atomistic worldview to early modern Europeans. Literary critics have assumed that the fervently religious Hutchinson, who calls Lucretius an \u201cAtheist Dog,\u201d thoroughly repudiated atomism. However, Mary argues that Hutchinson\u2019s epic poem on the Book of Genesis,\u00a0<em>Order and Disorder,\u00a0<\/em>melds atomism with a Calvinist view of nature, providing an example of the remarkable flexibility with which the new natural philosophy was integrated into apparently non-scientific \u2014 or even anti-scientific \u2014 works of the period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7401\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Tom Williamson, Associate Professor of Anthropology\"    >Tom Williamson, Associate Professor of Anthropology<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7401\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Tom Williamson\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0sabbatical project continues his research on colonialism, violence, and mental health in Malaysia. \u00a0Part of the sabbatical included archival work on the colonial history of medicine in several different institutions in London, including the British Library, the Wellcome Institute, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For this luncheon, Tom will summarize the parameters of his project, explain how the new research fits into it, and provide a few observations on the sabbatical experience itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7425\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Tim Howe, Associate Professor of History\"    >Tim Howe, Associate Professor of History<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7425\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Tim Howe\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0sabbatical was largely devoted to a new book project about the historiography of Alexander the Great.\u00a0 The traditions about Alexander have puzzled historians and biographers since Alexander\u2019s lifetime but so far most scholarly attention has focused on analyzing and synthesizing the existing Roman-era sources.\u00a0 Tim\u2019s project looks backwards, beyond the five Roman-era authors \u2014 all of whom were writing more than 300 years after Alexander\u2019s death \u2014 to focus on the fragmentary sources (some of which have only recently emerged from the sands of Egypt) that originated either during or just after Alexander\u2019s lifetime.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Two related questions drive the research: to what extent is Alexander\u2019s story as we now have it a product of the distortions and agendas of both Alexander and his Successors?\u00a0 To what extent did both Alexander and those charismatic individuals eager to justify their claims on his territory \u201cinvent\u201d the Alexander mythos?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db744a\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies\"    >Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db744a\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak\u00a0<\/strong>used her sabbatical to research civic engagement and higher education in Japan.\u00a0 She spent 10 months as a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, courtesy of a Fulbright research scholar award, during which time she interviewed around 70 people at 17 different universities.\u00a0 With her research, she seeks to contribute to our understanding of democratic citizenship in Japan.\u00a0 She will present two papers at conferences this month, at the University of Copenhagen and the University of London; two other papers are in the works.\u00a0<em>I see the project as tying together my teaching and research interests \u2013 it grew out of my prior research and teaching on immigration and citizenship, and my involvement in the College\u2019s academic civic engagement program.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2009 &#8211; Spring 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db746f\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Karil Kucera, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies\"    >Karil Kucera, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db746f\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Karil Kucera<\/strong>\u2018s sabbatical project, \u201cMarking Time at Baodingshan,\u201d was a reconsideration of the Buddhist site of Baodingshan in the western Chinese province of Sichuan<br \/>\n<em>Time. Universal or unique? Constructed or lived? Timelessness. Does time have a particular shape or look? Are there different kinds of time? Does time mean different things to different people at different times? Through analysis of the carved images and texts at Baodingshan, I looked at time through the lens of place, by the thoughts and actions of the people who passed through it and the things that comprise it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db749a\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Chuck Huff, Professor of Psychology\"    >Chuck Huff, Professor of Psychology<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db749a\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Chuck Huff\u00a0<\/strong>spent his sabbatical at the Jesuit Hochschule f\u00fcr Philosophie, M\u00fcnchen, working on the question, How do people construct lives of worth and service?<br \/>\n<em>As an empiricist, I try to approach this question by first identifying some people in the category and then learning from their life stories as they tell them to me in extensive interviews.\u00a0 As a pragmatist, I have concentrated on the topic \u201cmoral exemplars in computing\u201d in part because NSF is interested in helping me answer this question about this particular population.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db74d7\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Rika Ito, Associate Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies\"    >Rika Ito, Associate Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db74d7\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Rika Ito\u00a0<\/strong>used her sabbatical to complete several small projects.\u00a0 She wrote and presented an article on the vowel production of bilingual Hmong Americans in the Twin Cities, comparing their phonology to the local white middle-class speech norm; and conducted additional acoustic analysis using the acoustic analysis software PRAAT for alternative analysis.\u00a0 She also presented papers with students that were the culmination of their Magnus the Good collaborative research projects (2007-08); presented at ACTFL on pedagogy, and prepared ILO for the Japan Studies concentration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id69e7db0db7509\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Beckie Judge, Associate Professor of Economics\"    >Beckie Judge, Associate Professor of Economics<\/div><div id=\"target-id69e7db0db7509\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p><strong>Rebecca Judge\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0sabbatical leave took her back to Argentina where, together with Tony Becker, she continued her on-going research exploring the impact of U.S. farm subsidies on agricultural production in other countries of the Americas.\u00a0 Because Argentina relies on its agricultural exports to raise revenue for its federal government, Beckie and Tony were able to document how, by lowering the world price of agricultural commodities, U.S. farm subsidies indirectly reduce revenues to both the Argentine farmer and the Argentine government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2008 &#8211; Spring 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karen Cherewatuk, Professor of English<\/p>\n<p>Paul Zorn, Professor of Mathematics<\/p>\n<p>Mary Griep, Associate Professor of Art and Art History<\/p>\n<p>Steve Reece, Professor of Classics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2007 &#8211; Spring 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cindy Book, Professor of Exercise Science<\/p>\n<p>Bob Hanson, Professor of Chemistry<\/p>\n<p>Chris Chiappari, Associate Professor of Anthropology<\/p>\n<p>Kim Kandl, Associate Professor of Biology<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2006 &#8211; Spring 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Phyllis Larson, Professor of Japanese and Asian Studies<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Nordstrom-Loeb, Associate Professor of Sociology<\/p>\n<p>Eric Cole, Professor of Biology<\/p>\n<p>Anne Sabo, Associate Professor of Norwegian<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2005 &#8211; Spring 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrea Een, Music<\/p>\n<p>Charles Taliaferro, Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>Jeane DeLaney, Associate Professor of History<\/p>\n<p>Dan Hofrenning, Associate Professor of Political Science<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall 2004 &#8211; Spring 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bob Jacobel, Professor of Physics<\/p>\n<p>Karen Peterson Wilson, Associate Professor of Theatre<\/p>\n<p>Mary Titus, Associate Professor of English<\/p>\n<p>Mark Pernecky, Associate Professor of Economics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\"><strong>Fall 2003 &#8211; Spring 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Henry Kermott, Professor of Biology<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Mary Carlsen, Associate Professor of Social Work<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Paul Humke, Professor of Mathematics<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Meg Ojala, Associate Professor of Art and Art History<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dana Gross, Associate Professor of Psychology<\/p>\n<p>Charles Wilson, Professor of Religion<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional information about planning sabbaticals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elie Dolgin, \u201cScoring on Sabbaticals.\u201d The Scientist: Magazine of the Life Sciences, volume 23, issue 8, p. 58. \u2014 Posted by permission at \u201cTomorrow\u2019s Professor\u201d \u2013 go to\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.stanford.edu\/%7Edept-ctl\/cgi-bin\/tomprof\/postings.php\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cgi.stanford.edu\/~dept-ctl\/cgi-bin\/tomprof\/postings.php<\/a>\u00a0and enter 971 in the search box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Top of page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><!-- #BeginEditable \"RightColumnContent\" --><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/pages\/facultyconversations\/\">Faculty Conversations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- #EndEditable --><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Array<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":4751,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4980","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4980"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7843,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4980\/revisions\/7843"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/cila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}