fACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
March 2009 - present

The College of Arts & Sciences salutes St. Louis status-track faculty for their professional development activities. Guidelines can be found in the "Boyer Model" areas of integration, application, and teaching, as laid out in the Webster University Policy Handbook.

See the Celebration of Scholarly Achievement booklet (right) for worldwide faculty's research-related publications and presentations as well as grants, awards, and honors.

Submissions for the site are welcome and should be sent to barbaracarrow49@webster.edu.

Department of Behavioral & Social Sciences

Eric A. Goedereis, Assistant Professor and Academic Director, Gerontology Program

"Thinking about thinking: Using cognitive science for effective teaching" (with Heather H. Mitchell). Breakout panel discussion presented at the Webster University Fall Faculty Institute, The Lodge at Pere Marquette, Grafton, IL, October 2010

"Graduate study in the behavioral and social sciences." A panel discussion presented to the Webster University community, Nov. 2010 (speaker and organizer)

"Psychology 2950: Adult development and aging." Syllabus accepted for posting to the American Psychological Association Division 2 (Teaching of Psychology) Project Syllabus. Accessible at http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php?category=Developmental
Note: A syllabus accepted for posting to the Project Syllabus website has undergone peer review by at least two independent reviewers. Review forms and comments are available upon request.

Michael R. Hulsizer, Associate Professor and Chair

Executive Committee, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology (Division 48, American Psychological Association) 2009 - present

Danielle MacCartney, Assistant Professor

“The Effectiveness of Diversity Outreach Media,” Diversity Awareness Partnership, St. Louis, MO, 2010

“Public Use Data Sources,” in The Community Toolbox. Retrieved from http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1903.aspx, 2009

“Youth Violence Prevention: An Assessment of RAVEN” RAVEN, St Louis, MO, 2009

Heather H. Mitchell, Assistant Professor

"Thinking about thinking: Using cognitive science for effective teaching" (with Eric A. Goedereis). Breakout panel discussion presented at the Webster University Fall Faculty Institute, The Lodge at Pere Marquette, Grafton, IL, October 2010

Monica M. Moore, Professor

Presenter, “Academic Women, Clothing, and Identity: ‘What I Am And Am Not” (with Gwyneth I. Williams). Fall Faculty Institute, The Lodge at Pere Marquette, Grafton, IL, Oct. 2009

Linda Woolf, Professor

2010 Vice-President for International and Diversity Issues, Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2, American Psychological Association).

Executive Committee, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology (Division 48, American Psychological Association)

Editorial Board, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

Executive Board, Institute for the Study of Genocide

Editorial Board, H-Genocide, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, Michigan State University

Historian/Archivist, Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology (Division 48, American Psychological Association)

Program Committee, National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP)

Department of Biological Sciences

Gary D. Clark, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Nurse Anesthesia Program

2010  Outdoor Emergency Care Certification (OEC)
Appointed chair of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists Continuing Education Committee for 2011-12

Mary Preuss, Assistant Professor

Review editor of Frontiers in Plant Cell Biology, Feb. 2011 - present

Martina Steed, Assistant Professor, Nurse Anesthesia Program

Elected region 4 director of the Missouri Association of Nurse Anesthetists

English Department

Sheila Hwang, Associate Professor

What makes someone or something beautiful?” in Catalog for “Real Beauty” by Claudia DeMonte. Jeff Hughes, ed. St. Louis, MO: Webster University, 2011

Panel chairperson on “Jane Austen.” Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Wichita, Kansas, October 2010

Member-at-large (part of the Executive Council) of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. elected October 2010

Created a new course for non-majors on Fairy Tales (ENGL 1044: Topics in Literature: Fairy Tales, Spring II 2011)

Department of History, Politics, & International Relations

John Chappell, Professor

“Has World War I Become America’s New Forgotten War?”  Presentation to St. Clair County Illinois Public School Teachers as part of the Teaching American History Grant, The Impact of America’s Wars on Democracy, Social Reform, and America’s Identity, at Our Lady of the Snows Shrine Conference Center, June 2009

Panelist for “Mr. Truman Meets Hiroshima on the Future of Nuclear Weapons, 1945-2020,” a live videoconference and webcast between the Harry S Truman Library and Museum and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, at the Harry S Truman Library and Museum, March 1, 2010

Moderator for “Torture: Two Perspectives,” a live webcast sponsored by Veterans for Peace at Eden Seminary, August 7, 2010.  Interviewed Woody Powell, a Korean War veteran; Andy Duffy, an Iraq war veteran; and Justine Sharrock, author of Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things

Amanda Rosen, Assistant Professor

"Special Envoys," a talk in the Webster Great Decisions seminar series

"The Future of US Climate Change Policy," a talk for the Webster community

Participated in two panel discussions in the St. Louis community on environmental issues, one for Green Drinks St. Louis on "Women and the Environment" and the other on "The Story of Stuff" for Missouri Conservation Voters

NPR interviews on two occasions for broadcasts and articles on climate change policy in the United States. Both interviews aired nationally on Marketplace. 

Co-editor of a new blog called Active Learning in Political Science

Participated in the Simulations and Role Play workshop at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Teaching and Learning Conference

Served as a panel chair and discussant at APSA Midwest and Midwest Political Science Association

Invited to participate in 3 focus groups on teaching by Pearson Education (one in St. Louis, another at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, and a third at APSA)

Fellow in the Institute for Human Rights

Developed two new courses for the department, INTL 3500 Environmental and Energy Security and INTL 3600 International Security

Redesigned the department’s online version of INTL 5100 Research Methods in Political Science

Warren Rosenblum, Associate Professor

"Trolley idea needs an overhaul." Article published in The St. Louis Beacon, August 26, 2009

"The Blum Affair: Truth and Fantasy in East German Cinema," Lecture and Discussion at the St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, December 2009

"There are no lessons in history," Last Lecture Series. Webster University SGO, March 2010

History of Human Rights, a new interdisciplinary course in History and Human Rights at Webster University

"The Earthquake in Haiti," Discussion Leader, Juvenile Detention Center for St. Louis City (JDC), February 2010

"The Haitian Revolution," Lecture and Discussion, JDC, April 2010

Imagining Architecture, Group Leader, JDC, Summer 2010

Member, Exhibits Committee, St. Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center (HMLC), 2009-Present

Member, Design Team, exhibit and learning annex on genocide in the contemporary world, HMLC, 2009-Present

Organizer (with Mike Hulsizer), partnership between Webster University & the HMLC

Manuscript Reviewer: University of Michigan Press; Journal of Women's History; Central European History; Comparative Studies in Society and History

Editorial Associate, Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique in Social Theory

Gwyneth I. Williams, Professor

Presenter, “Academic Women, Clothing, and Identity: ‘What I Am And Am Not” (with Monica M. Moore). Fall Faculty Institute, The Lodge at Pere Marquette, Grafton, IL, Oct. 2009

Chair, Panel: “Substantive Representation,” Midwest Political Science Association Convention, Chicago, IL, April 2010

Peer Reviewer: Patterson, Thomas E., We the People: A Concise Introduction to American Politics. 9th ed., (New York: McGraw- Hill, 2010)

Department of International Languages & Cultures

Paula Hanssen, Assistant Professor and Chair

Interview in the newspaper Rheinpfalz's article about St. Louis and the study of German

Helped coordinate the Japanese Student Association's Hope for Japan program in April 2011

Department of Nursing

Mary Ann Drake, Associate Professor

Assisted in development of Innovative Strategies in Education website for the Asociation of Community Health Nurse Educators (2009-11)

Philosophy Department

Kate Parsons, Associate Professor

“I Believe in Wrinkles,” invited essay published in catalogue of  “Real Beauty" exhibition by Claudia Damonte, Hunt Gallery,Webster University, January-February 2011

Reviewer for the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, November 2010.

Invited panelist for St. Louis Green Drinks discussion on “Is Environmentalism Women’s Work?” November 17, 2010

Review for The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Fall 2010

Department of Religious Studies

Chris Parr, Professor

Co-director of a monthly poetry reading series,•chance operations•, at Duff's Restaurant in the St. Louis Central West End. Website: http://chanceoperationsstl.blogspot.com