Faculty sabbatical leaves announced
The following Lawrence campus faculty members have been approved for sabbatical leaves during the 2009 fiscal year by the Kansas Board of Regents. They are listed by time (semester or academic year), topic and location.
Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, assistant professor of theatre and film and women's studies; academic year; conduct research and assemble manuscript for publication on Efusa Sutherland; Lawrence
Jane Aldrich, professor of medicinal chemistry; academic year; conduct research on transporters, opioid peptides and in vivo evaluation of compounds for drug abuse treatment; Augusta, Ga., and New York City
Barbara Anthony-Twarog, professor of physics and astronomy; fall semester; conduct collaborative spectroscopic analysis of studies of the Milky Way from 2003; Bloomington, Ind.
Cindy Berrie, associate professor of chemistry; spring semester; conduct experiments on the characterization of orientation and conformation of proteins at surfaces; Seattle, Wash., and Lawrence
Sally Cornelison, assistant professor of art history; fall semester; conduct research in Italy to complete a book on the history of the cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence; Lawrence and Florence, Italy
Susan Craig, art and architecture librarian; Oct. 5-Nov. 29 and March-June 13; update and expand the Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists active before 1945; Lawrence, Topeka, Wichita and Washington, D.C.
Christopher Drahozal, Rounds Distinguished Professor of Law; academic year; work on Restatement of the Law of International Commercial Arbitration, and a legal treatise of American law governing international arbitration; Lawrence
Tyrone Duncan, professor of mathematics; fall semester; conduct research on the theory and applications of bilinear equations with a fractional Brownian motion; Shanghai, China, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Warsaw, Poland, and Vienna, Austria
Ben Eggleston, assistant professor of philosophy; fall semester; conduct research on ethical issues of emerging genetic technologies for a paper on use of genetic information by insurance companies; Lawrence
Charles Eldredge, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Art and Culture; fall semester; research on North American landscape art between 1860 and 1940 and finalize a draft manuscript; Lawrence; Washington D.C., western United States and Canada
Megan J. Greene, assistant professor of history; fall semester; complete monograph on the of use public history venues by political actors in historical narratives and how they define identity; Lawrence and Taiwan
Andrea Greenhoot, associate professor of psychology; fall semester; develop a theoretical model of the origins of abuse-related memory disturbances and effects on adjustment and a subsequent paper for publication; Lawrence and Atlanta, Ga.
Bryan Haaheim, associate professor of music and dance; fall semester; compose a monodrama for ensemble of musicians, digital audio and video adapted from the writings of the 14th century Tibetan Buddhist master and scholar Longchenpa
Susan Harris, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture; academic year; finish book examining the effects of U.S. self-representation when the U.S. became a world power; New York City
William Harris, associate professor of English; academic year; write a poem a day for a compilation, research manuscripts, send poems, give readings and talk to editors and poets to improve poetry; New York City
Jon Havener, professor of design; fall semester; research Finnish teaching methods for metalsmithing and to cultivate and strengthen the exchange program between KU and the Institute of Design at Lahti University of Applied Sciences; Lahti, Finland
Peter Herlihy, associate professor of geography and Latin American studies; fall semester; conduct field research on the geography of indigenous land tenure in Mexico and property regime change in Mexican history; Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico, and Lawrence
Shirley Hill, professor of sociology; fall semester; finish data collection for and draft two chapters of the book "Narrowing the Gap in Education Attainment" and write the final manuscript for "Families in Class Perspective"; Lawrence and Olathe
Weizhan Huang, professor of mathematics; spring semester; develop efficient, dynamically adaptive mesh algorithms for numerical simulation of evolutionary problems arising from physical science; Canada, Germany and Lawrence
Yolanda Jackson, associate professor of psychology and applied behavioral sciences; spring semester; study of the issue of resilience and create and test an empirically based intervention for children exposed to maltreatment; Atlanta, Ga.
Christopher Johnson, associate dean and professor of music and dance; spring semester; complete a grant titled "Musical Development in Infancy and Early Childhood" and draft chapters for a book titled "Readings in Research Methods in Music Education and Music Therapy"; Portugal and United States
Michael Krueger, associate professor of art; spring semester; create large drawings and gouache paintings of American wars from the Revolutionary War to the Iraq War; Lawrence
Brian Laird, professor of chemistry; fall semester; conduct collaborative research on the development of atomistic simulation techniques for interfacial thermodynamics and dynamics; Davis, Calif.
Steven Lee, professor of psychology; fall semester; complete research and write a book titled "Ecobehavioral Consultation in the Schools: Theory and Practice for School Psychologists, Special Educators, and School Counselors"; Lawrence
Diane Loeb, associate professor of speech, language and hearing; fall semester; develop relationships with tribes and tribal schools in Kansas, Washington and Arizona, intervention units for Native American children and a grant proposal for literacy-based language intervention units; Kansas, Washington and Arizona
Burdett Loomis, professor of political science; fall semester; conduct research on Kansas politics from 1960 through the mid-1970s, ending in the 1974 U.S. Senate election between Republican Bob Dole and Democratic Representative Bill Roy; Lawrence and Washington D.C.
Erik Lundquist, associate professor of molecular biosciences; fall semester; conduct research on imaging and microscopy of the developing nervous system in real time and attend scientific conferences related to neural development; Lawrence
Elizabeth MacGonagle, assistant professor of history and African and African-American studies; fall semester; complete a portion of the book "Beyond Remembrance: History and Heritage at African Sites of Memory"; Lawrence
Beth Manolescu, assistant professor of communication studies; fall semester; prepare a manuscript titled "Arguing about Arts of Civic Advocacy in Enlightenment"; Scotland and Seattle, Wash.
Donald Marquis, professor of philosophy; academic year; complete a book about the morality of killing in uncontroversial cases and the implications of the best theory for the ethics of abortion; Lawrence
Craig Martin, chair and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; spring semester; collaborate on projects regarding morphological and physiological adaptations of tropical epiphytes and desert succulents to stressful environments; Lawrence, South Africa, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Germany, Chile and England
Yoonmi Nam, associate professor of art; fall semester; conduct research and complete a collection of 10 large-scale ink paintings based on an ongoing investigation of two 17th century Chinese painting manuals; Seoul, South Korea, and Lawrence
Holly Nelson-Becker, associate professor of social welfare; spring semester; work on a project integrating aspects of the mental and spiritual health of older adults resulting in a book for social works on the topic; Chicago
Naima Omar, associate professor of African and African-American studies; fall semester; conduct collection of data, visit of archival resources in Tunisia and write a chapter of a book manuscript tentatively titled "Two Presidents, Two Voices, One People"; Tunis, Tunisia, and Lawrence
Steven Padget, associate professor of architecture and urban planning; academic year; conduct a year-long observation and participation in the design process of BNIM; Kansas City, Mo
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, professor of mathematics; fall semester; conduct research and education in stochastic adaptive control; Budapest, Vienna, Zurich, Prague, Warsaw, Shanghai, Beijing and Sydney
Mark Richter, professor of molecular biosciences; fall semester; study relationship of structure and function of proteolytic enzymes in tryposomal parasites responsible for insect-mediated diseases in tropical areas to develop novel drugs targeting the parasites; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tracy Russo, associate professor of communication studies; fall semester; work on the development of an instrument to measure Organizational Attachment; Lawrence and Overland Park
Anne Schofield, professor of American studies and women's studies; academic year; complete a book exploring economic, social differentiation and the idea of respectability in the U.S.; Lawrence and Oxford, England
Roberta Schwartz, associate professor of music and dance; spring semester; conduct preliminary research for a monograph on "city blues" of Chicago in the 1930s; Chicago, New Orleans and Cheltenham, England
Margaret Severson, associate professor of social welfare; spring semester; study the social costs of female and ethnic incarceration in the U.S. and select countries of the European Union; Lawrence and Florence, Italy
Elaine Sharp, chair and professor of political science; fall semester; assess theoretical development in policy studies and its application in urban programs in the United States; Lawrence
Saul Stahl, professor of mathematics; spring semester; research the properties of the notions and mass and center of mass in non-Euclidean geometry and create a capstone course and textbook focused on the notion of a Riemann surface; Lawrence
Milena Stanislavova, associate professor of mathematics; spring semester; conduct research on stability and the long-term behavior of infinite-dimensional dynamical systems and work on open questions in nonlinear dynamics; Sofia, Bulgaria
Atanas Stefanov, associate professor of mathematics; spring semester; conduct collaborative research on long-term behavior for magnetic Shroedinger equations and their application to quantum mechanics; Lawrence and Sofia, Bulgaria
Holly Storkel, associate professor of speech, language and hearing; spring semester; examine language processing and memory in clinical population of preschool children; Bloomington, Ind., and Lawrence
John Swindell, professor of design; spring semester; research Kustom Kulture since 1950, particularly the creative re-shaping of mass-produced American cars and parallel art movements; California, Michigan, Nevada and Kansas
Ward Thompson, associate professor of chemistry; spring semester; develop an approach for simulating chemistry and spectroscopy inside aqueous reverse micelles; Lawrence and Paris, France
Bruce Twarog, professor of physics and astronomy; fall semester; research the high-dispersion spectra of stars in NGC 6253 to determine the elemental abundances of Fe, C, O and Li, and collect photometry of potentially metal-rich stars; Bloomington, Ind.
Erik Van Vleck, professor of mathematics; spring semester; conduct research on traveling waves in models of biological systems and on approximation of stability spectra; Amsterdam, Atlanta, Auckland, Bari, Berlin, Madrid, Newcastle and Nottingham
Eric Vernberg, professor of psychology and applied behavioral sciences; fall semester; conduct clinical intervention research in the development and implementation of a model for treating children with serious emotional disturbance; Lawrence
Michael Vitevitch, associate professor of psychology; spring semester; conduct research examining the mental lexicon, ending in a publication in a peer-reviewed research article and a proposal for external funding; Buffalo, N.Y., and Cleveland, Ohio
J. Douglas Walker, professor of geology; fall semester; conduct field research on the geology of the eastern California shear zone and Garlock fault zone and conduct lab work with geochemical methods for establishing the ages of uranium-bearing minerals; Lawrence and Cambridge, Mass.
Scott Watson, professor of music and dance; spring semester; write a two-volume orchestral workbook for tuba and record and release professional solo tuba recording; Lawrence
Graham Wilson, associate professor of physics and astronomy; academic year; work on a DZero experiment when the DZero detector is most capable of discoveries and work toward final publications on the complete post-2000 upgraded DZero detector data-set; Batavia, Ill.
Theodore Wilson, professor of history; fall semester; research the presence of Americans in Britain from 1940-1945 and the response of Americans and Britons to each other; Lawrence, London, Cambridge, Montgomery and New Orleans
John Younger, professor of classics; spring semester; finish a manuscript on women and girls in pre-history Greece titled "The Female Experience in Prehistoric Greece"; Lawrence and Athens
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