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| Dr. Manfred Steger | Dr. Manfred Steger will deliver the College ofArts and Sciences Fall Lecture, the highest College honor bestowed on a faculty member, tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Old Main Room, Bone Student Center. Steger's much-anticipated lecture—"From Market Globalism to Imperial Globalism: Ideology and U.S. Hegemony after 9/11"—will discuss some of the material he is working with for his latest book in progress, Pacifism in an Age of Global Terror. "Dr. Steger's research is among the most cutting-edge scholarship being produced in the College," said Dean Olson. "His work on globalization and on nonviolence are recognized around the world as significant contributions to our knowledge on these important subjects." The lecture is free and open to the public.
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Over 20 Bloomington-Normal community leaders have agreed to serve on the College's new Community Advisory Board. "One of my main objectives is to enhance the College's profile with external constituencies, and there is no better place to begin than in our own community," said Dean Olson. "The Board will serve to balance the internal input that I, as Dean, receive from department chairs, faculty, and the College Council, with perspectives of people from the community who have a keen interest in our endeavors and a vested interest in the results we produce." The Board will also provide a mechanism by which the activities of the College can be effectively communicated to the community, and, in turn, the College can benefit from the wisdom and experience of community leaders in the Bloomington-Normal area and the state of Illinois at large.
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Economists, from left:
Dr. Rati Ram,
Dr. James Payne, and
Dr. Rajeev Goel | The Department of Economics received national recognition recently from two disciplinary sources. The Department was ranked 5th in the nation for teacher quality and productivity—accompanying such schools as Indiana, Purdue, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin-Madison—according to a study by two assistant professors of economics at the University of Southern Mississippi. In "Ranking Institutions Based on Economic Education Scholarship," Melody Wo and M.C. Sunny Wong construct a ranking of economics departments worldwide based on teaching quality, measured by the number research contributions to the Journal of Economic Education—the leading education journal in the discipline. "We assume that schools with greater contributions to the economic education literature have a comparative advantage in teaching economics," said Wo and Wong. “Such recognition is a testament to the Department’s commitment to undergraduate education,” said Department Chair James Payne.
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Dean Olson fields questions
at a recent forum for
administrative professionals. | Last week, the College office continued to hear from various constituencies as it hosted forums for civil service employees, administrative-professionals, and students. The forums were created to open up lines of communication and as a means to draw on the collective wisdom of staff and students to discover ways to help the College operate more effectively and efficiently. Following the administrative-professionals forum, Linda Bowman, an academic advisor in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology said, "You cannot have shared governance if you don't share thoughts. I'm a big believer in shared governance—it is what makes ISU such a great place."
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History Master’s student James Amemasor, the department's first African graduate, has been awarded the university-level James L. Fisher Outstanding Thesis Award Competition for his thesis, “A Taste of Freedom: The Benjamin Major Collection of Letters from Emancipated American Slaves in Liberia 1836-1851.” Amemasor’s thesis will be entered in the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools regional competition. "This is original and timely research that will be read by scholars and policy analysts interested in the conflict in Liberia and African and African-American relations when it is published," said Professor Tony Adedze, who directed the thesis.
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| Dr. Richard Hughes | Dr. Richard Hughes is the History Department’s new history education specialist. Before obtaining his master’s degree in History from Wake Forest and his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 2002, he taught history, government, and economics for four years at Southern High School in Durham, North Carolina. While he was working on his Ph.D., he served for six years as the field coordinator of the University of Kansas Center for Economic Education. For the last three years Dr. Hughes has held a tenure-track position at Eastern Oregon University. His scholarly interests lie in the second half of the twentieth century. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: "The ‘Disco Sucks’ Movement of the 1970s: Popular Music and the Cultural Backlash," for the University ofFlorida Press, and "Tangled Up in the Sixties: Progressive Activism and the Pro-Life Movement," for the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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