2005 Graduate Student Papers, Published Work, or Awards—
International, National, Regional, State

Anthropology
Bousman, Britt (mentor). Eric Oksanen. "On the Edge: Early Archaic Hill Country Hunter-Gatherers." Texas Archeological Society, Austin, TX
---. Laura Acuña. "Geophytes in the Archaeological Record: an Examination of Features with Evidence of Geophyte Remains." Texas Archeological Society, Austin, TX

Bousman, C. Britt (mentor), and Eric Oksanen. " The Transition from Paleoindian to Archaic Societies in the Southern Plains ." Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, UT

English
Allison, Libby, Miriam F. Williams (mentors) and Melonie McMichael. "Technology or Research in Programs: Where's the Line?" Proceedings, Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Lubbock, TX

Allison, Libby (mentor) and Julie Sebeck. "Ethics in Proposal Writing, Data Reporting, and Research Publishing." $300,000 proposal to the National Science Foundation

Cohen, Paul (mentor). Martha McCabe. Praise at Midnight. San Antonio, TX: Blue Swan Press

Evans, P. (mentor). Amy Eoff. “William Gibson’s Virtual Light : The Conversational Construction of Chevette Washington.” Selected for inclusion in The Gibson Mosaic . Yoke, Carl and Robinson, Carol, Eds. NY: Edwin Mellen Press

Gilb, Dagoberto (mentor). Owen Egerton. “The Martyrs of Mountain Peak.” Puerto del Sol, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
---. Roberto Ontiveros. “The Fight for Space.” Threepenny Review (Spring)

Hennessy, Michael (mentor). Erin Clair. "'Never Know Who Will Touch You Dead': Necrophilia, Sexual Ideology, and the Hades Episode of Ulysses." American Conference for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
---. Ryan Paul. "'His Confessions Would Be Long': Stephen Dedalus and the Trap of Confession." North American Joyce Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
--- Tracy Staton. "All Palaver: Language and Identity in 'The Dead.'" North American Joyce Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Lochman, Daniel T. (mentor). Jessie Herrada. "Gender Bending in Sidney's Arcadia: An Examination of the Parthenia and Argalus Subplot." Graduate Student Colloquium, San Marcos, TX

Lochman, Daniel T., and E. Skerpan-Wheeler (co-mentors). Ryan Paul. "'For from thy wombe a famous Progenee,' or 'By me the Promised Seed shall all restore': Spenser, Milton, and the Rehabilitation of Eve." Exploring the Renaissance: An International Conference, Pepperdine University and Huntington Library, Malibu, CA

Mejia, Jaime (mentor). Paul Velazquez. Scholar for the Dream Travel Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco , CA

Monroe, Debra (mentor). Darren Defrain. Salt Palace. Kalamazoo, MI: New Issue Press
---. Mary Powell. Galveston Rose. Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press

Morrison, S. (mentor). ---. Anina Moore. "The Devil's Body: the Other-Worldly as an Object." Texas Medieval Association, University of Houston, Houston, TX
---. Carol Macdonell. "Appropriation, Refiguration, and Authority in Medieval Women's Writing." Texas Medieval Association, University of Houston, Houston, TX
---. Charlene Gill. "Searching for a Voice: The Plight of the Female Pilgrim in Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale." From Plato to Potter: A One Day Student, Faculty, and Community Conference, The New UT Tyler Center for Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies and The College of Arts and Sciences. University of Texas, Tyler, TX
---. Heather Claytor. "Man, I Feel Like A Woman: Gender Performance in the Life of Joan of Arc." Texas Medieval Association, University of Houston, Houston, TX
---. Kimberly Blackburn. "Heloise: Attenuating Motherhood Through The Ethics of Intention." Texas Medieval Association, University of Houston, Houston, TX
---. Nadine Cooper. "Gender Paradox in Pilgrimage Literature." Texas Medieval Association. University of Houston, Houston, TX
---. Pam Iseminger. "Motherhood, the Mother Role, and the Leaky Female Body: A Corporeal Look at the Portrayal of Motherhood in The Book ofMargery Kempe." Texas Medieval Association, University of Houston, Houston, TX
---. Patrick McCord. "Trees and the Alestake: Signs of the Second Death in The Pardoner's Tale and Piers Plowman ." Texas Medieval Association, University of Houston, Houston, TX
---. Tobias Peterson. "The Spirit, the Mind, and the Word: The Trinity of Violence in Medieval Pilgrimage Literature." Graduate Symposium on Language and Literature, Special Topic: Violence and Recovery in Literature, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Morton, Deborah Balzhiser, and Tharon Howard (mentors). Brian Verhoeven. "User-centered Design & Online Communication." Going Public with Praxis, ATTW Convention, San Francisco, CA
---. Kathy Pringle. "Developing & Delivering Training." Going Public with Praxis, ATTW Convention, San Fransisco, CA
---. Lauren McLaughlin. "Online Mentoring: Collaborative Teams." Going Public with Praxis, ATTW Convention, San Fransisco, CA

Morton, Deborah Balzhiser (mentor). Annie Connelly. Douglas Teaching Award, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
---. Christy Mrozeck. Douglas Teaching Award, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
---. Keri Holder. Honorable Mention in Web Design, Society of Technical Communication, Seattle, WA
---. Yuanyuan Zhang. Colloquium on US China Relations, US Department of X, Washington , D.C.

Olson, M. (mentor). Marie Coffey. "From Page to Stage: Literary Transformation of Jean Webster's Daddy Long Legs ." International Children's Literature Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Peirce, Kathleen. (mentor). Carter Smith. Full tuition scholarship for doctoral study, Washington University , St. Louis, MO
---. Christopher Martin. Tuition scholarship for doctoral study, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Rosenberg, T. (Mentor). Brad Sharp. "Sympathy for Saladin Chamcha in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses." South Central Modern Language Association, Houston, TX
---. Nadine Cooper. "Rhymes and Reasonings: Subverting Time, Space, and Social Paradigm in Fire and Hemlock ." South Central Modern Language Association, Houston, TX

Skerpan-Wheeler, E. (mentor). Heather Claytor. "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Reflections on Shakespeare and Milton." Exploring the Renaissance, South-Central Renaissance Conference, Malibu, CA

Wilson, Nancy Effinger (mentor). Laura Kooris. "The Irish Jews." American Conference for Irish Studies, Houston, TX

Wilson, Steve. (mentor). Christine Grimes. "The Emasculated Male in Modern Irish Literature." American Conference for Irish Studies, Houston, TX
---. Lauren Dixon. "Patriarchal Structures in Poetry: Nikki Giovanni's 'Woman Poem.'" Women and Creativity Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
---. Stacey Swann. "Traditional Community or Transitional Community?: Reassessing Synge's The Aran Islands.” American Conference for Irish Studies, Houston, TX

Geography
Boehm, Richard (mentor). Audrey Mohan and Melody Warren. "Accelerated Ph.D. Program in Geographic Education at Texas State University-San Marcos." National Conference on Geographic Education, Birmingham, AL, and All-Texas Conference for Geographic Education, San Marcos, TX

Boehm, Richard (mentor), and Audrey Mohan. Invited Paper. "The North American Curriculum in Applied Geography and Regional Science." Applied Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union, North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Las Vegas, NV

Butler, David R. (mentor). Carol F. Sawyer. "Comparison of a Tree-Ring Chronology of Snow Avalanche Occurrence with a Historically Based Avalanche Record, Glacier National Park , Montana ." Southwestern Division Association of American Geographers, Fayetteville, AR
---. Carol F. Sawyer. "Snow-avalanches in Southern Glacier National Park, Montana: Revisiting a Historical Account Using Newspaper Reports.” Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO
---. Dawna L. Cerney. 3rd Place Award, Best Student Paper, Applied Geography Conference, Washington, D.C.
---. Dawna L. Cerney. "Digital Image Processing of Repeat Photographs: A Case Study from Glacier National Park, Montana." Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO
---. Dawna L. Cerney. "The Viability of Harvesting Native Prairie Community Seed from Three Donor Sites." Applied Geography Conference, Washington, D.C.
---. Emariana Taylor. "Geography Student Perceptions of Bats and Austin Bat Colonies." Southwestern Division Association of American Geographers, Fayetteville, AR
---. Lynn M. Resler. J. Warren Nystrom Award (Best Geography Dissertation), Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO
Curran, J.C. (mentor). Amanda Keen-Zebert. John Wiley Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Geography, Texas State University
---. Frank Engel. "Effects of Flood Control Structures on the San Marcos River, Texas." Flows for the Future, San Marcos, TX
---. Frank Engel. Honorable mention, Poster Presentation, Flows for the Future Conference, San Marcos, TX

Dixon, R. (mentor). D. Occeana-Guiterrez. "Characteristics of Disasterous Tropical Cyclones in the Philippines." Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO

Dunham, Sue, Mark Fonstad(mentor), Sharolyn Anderson, and Kevin Czajkowski. “Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery to Monitor the Response of Vegetation to Drought in the Great Lakes Region.” GIScience and Remote Sensing 42.3, 185-201

Earl, Richard (mentor). Jay Snyder. Elected, Student Director of the Water Resources Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.

Estaville, Lawrence (mentor). Edris Montalvo. "Latino Political Influence in the Texas Panhandle Plains, 1980- 2004." Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO
---. Michelle Campbell. "California and Texas Budgets--A Turn of the Century Look at Spending for Corrections in Relationship to Drug Arrests: A Proposal." Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers, Fayetteville, AR
---. Mikaila Bell, Alecia Brettschneider, Edris Montalvo, and Carl Schmiedeskamp. Geography Student Research Symposium, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Fonstad, M. (mentor). Jay Parsons. Graduate Student Paper Competition Award. “Benefits and Limitations of Watershed Modeling with Cellular Automata Theory.” Water Resources Speciality Group, Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO
---. M. M. Conyers. “A Regional Evaluation of Channel Roughness Estimates in Streams of the Southern Sangre de Cristo Range, New Mexico.” Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO

Giordano, Alberto (mentor). Lynda Manning-Schwartz. SSHA-Rockefeller Graduate Student Travel Award, Social Science History Association, Portland, OR

Hanford, E. J., F. Benjamin Zhan (mentor), Yongmei Lu, and Alberto Giordano. "Chagas Disease in Texas." Proceedings, International Medical Geography Symposium, Fort Worth, TX

Hanford, Elaine J., F. Benjamin Zhan (mentor), Yongmei Lu, and Alberto Giordano. "The Need for Bio-Geographic Research on Chagas Disease in Texas ." International Medical Geography Symposium, Fort Worth, TX

Hettenhausen, Michael P., and R. Denise Blanchard (mentor). "Spatial and Demographic Differences between 'Physically Active" and "Inactive " Cities: Considerations for Urban Planners." Tobin, Graham A. and Burrell Montz, eds. Papers of the Applied Geography Conferences 28, 273-282

Jordan, David, and Mark Fonstad(mentor). “Two-Dimensional Mapping of River Bathymetry and Power using Aerial Photography and GIS on the Brazos River, Texas.” Geocarto 20.3, 1-8

Keen-Zebert, Amanda, and Joanna C. Curran (mentor). "Spatial and Temporal Variation of Sediment Transport Capacity in Mixed Alluvial-bedrock Rivers." International Gravel-Bed Rivers Workshop and Conference , Leinz, Austria
---. "The Spatial Distribution of Sediment in Two Mixed Alluvial-bedrock Rivers in Central Texas." Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO

Lu, Yongmei (mentor). Shing Lin. Second place award, student poster competition. "A GIS Exploration of the Environmental Equity and Health in the Houston-Galveston Area of Texas." Applied Geographic Conference, Washington, D.C.

Lin, Shing, and Yongmei Lu (mentor). "Evaluating Local Non-stationarity When Considering the Spatial Variation of Large-scale Autocorrelation." Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO

Petersen, James F. (mentor). Nancy N. Middlebrook. "The Core of World Regional Geography: A Common Content." National Council for Geographic Education, Birmingham, AL

Tang, J.M., L. Wang, (mentor), and S. W. Zhang. “Investigating Landscape Pattern and Its Dynamics in 1990-2000 of Daqing , China Using Remote Sensing and GIS.” International Journal of Remote Sensing , 26.11, 2259-2280

Thompson, Matthew, and Joanna C. Curran (mentor). "The Influence of Land Use/Land Cover of Riparian Environments on Channel Change in Mixed Alluvial Bedrock Rivers: a Comparative Study Between the Medina and Guadalupe Rivers." Association of American Geographers , Denver, CO

Tiefenbacher, John P. (mentor), and Lauren Z. Maples. "Presentation: Weathering the Storm: A Study of Shelter Insufficiency in the Jarrell, Texas Tornado of 1997." Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO

Tiefenbacher, John P. (mentor), and Xueqin (Elaine) He. "Presentation: Regional Resistance to Weather Disasters in the United States, 1996-2001." Applied Geography Conference, Washington, D.C.

Tiefenbacher, John P. (mentor), and Steven Gray. Fellowship, National Network for Environmental Management Studies Fellowship Program, United States Environmental Protection Agency

Walker, S. (mentor). P. Rodriguez. "Using ToGRA to Assess Students’ Attitude toward Geography." American Association of Geographers, Denver, CO

Wang, L. (mentor). Tang, J. M. Third place, Space Imaging Award, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Baltimore, MD
---. Jose L. Silvan. Second runner-up, winning paper and oral presentation, University Consortium of Geographic Information Systems, summer assembly
---. Xuelian Meng. Student travel award, University Consortium of Geographic Information Systems, summer assembly

Zhan, F. B. (mentor), G. Wu, J. Silvan, Z. Yao, and X. Meng. "GIS for Sustainable Water Resource Management in the Rio Grande Basin – Development of Geodatabases and Acquisition of Land Use Land Cover Data.” Technical report, Texas Center for Geographic Information Science, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX

Zhan, F. Benjamin (mentor). Jose L. Silvan. "Neural representation of polygon layers." UCGIS Summer assembly <http://www.ucgis.org/summer2005/studentpapers/silvan05.pdf>

Zhan, F. Benjamin (mentor), Yongmei Lu, Alberto Giordano, and E.J. Hanford (student). "Development of a Specification for a Border Disease Surveillance System in Relation to Migrating Workers, Disease Vectors, and Drug Resistant Disease in the Mexico-Texas Border." Border Health Initiative Project Task Report, Brooks City-Base Foundation, Inc.
---. "Geographic Information System (GIS) as a Tool for Disease Surveillance and Environmental Health Research." Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Orlando, FL
---. "Initial Database Development for a Border Disease Surveillance System in Relation to Migrating Workers, Disease Vectors, and Drug Resistant Disease in the Mexico-Texas." Border Health Initiative Project Status Report, Brooks City-Base Foundation, Inc.

History
Bynum, Victoria (mentor) and Beverly Tomek. "'From Motives of Generosity, as well as Self-preservation':

Thomas Banagan, Colonization, and Gradual Emancipation Movement." American Nineteenth Century History 6.2, 121-147

Bynum, Victoria (mentor). Kimberly Esiso. $2,500 Fellowship, Young Women's Alliance Foundation

Garner, Lydia (mentor). William R. MacKenzied. "Racial Democracy: The Impact of the African Slave Trade on Brazilian Identity and Thought." World History Association of Texas, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX

Garner, Lydia (mentor). Meaghan Dell. "Analysis of Methodologies: Regarding Economic Elites in Latin America." World History Association of Texas, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX

Hartman, Gary (mentor). Deirdre Lannon. Scholarship for graduate research paper, Western Swing Society of the Southwest
---. Jack Kinslow Scholarship for graduate research paper, Western Swing Society of the Southwest

Pohl, James (mentor). Robert Marshall. “The C.S.A. Submarine Hundley. ” Daughters of the Confederacy, Austin, TX
---. William McWhorter. $1000 Research Award. United States Army Military Research Center, Carlisle Barracks, PA

Wilson, James (mentor). Carlos Blanton. "The Campus and the Capitol: John B. Connally and the Struggle Over Texas Higher Education Policy, 1950-1970." Southwestern Historical Quarterly 108, 469-97

Modern Languages
Echeverria, Miriam (mentor). F. Bueno. "La Historia Globalizada: Entretejidos de la Memoria en Diarios de Motocicleta." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Couer d’Alene, ID

Political Science
Hinojosa, M. (mentor). P. Z. Stockburger. "Complex Determination: Why Mexico Won't Privatize Pemex.” ILASSA Student Conference, Austin, TX

Holtzman, Richard (mentor). John D. Culver. Paper Presentation, Southwestern Political Science Association ---. Thomas Derek Levisay. Presentation, House Committee at the Texas State House of Representatives, Austin, TX

Shields, Patricia (mentor). Amy Jones. McGrew Public Policy Research Award, Central Texas Chapter, American Society for Public Administration
---. Debra Farst. "The Role of Downtowns in Smaller Cities." Texas State Conference, American Society for Public Administration, Austin, TX
---. Kim Gunn. Winner, Local Government Management Fellows Internship. International City Managers Association
---. Nina Shealey. "Economic Development Incentives." Texas State Conference, American Society for Public Administration, Austin, TX
---. Rachael Pitts. "Development Sprawl in Texas." Texas State Conference, American Society for Public Administration, Austin, TX
---. Van Jobe. "Austin and Economic Development." Texas State Conference, American Society for Public Administration, Austin, TX

Shields, Patricia, and Hassan Tajalli (mentors). Rachael Pitts. "Development Sprawl in Texas." American Society for Public Administration: CenTex Chapter and Texas Certified Public Manager Program, Austin , TX
---. Stephen Spacek. "Do Mess With It!: A Sociological Study of Littering and the Role of Southern and Nearby States." Southeastern Conference on Public Administration, Little Rock, AR

Wright, Walter (mentor). Anna Bartkowski. "Recent Dallas Court of Appeals Ruling on Enforceability of Mediated Settlement Agreement." Alternative Resolutions 14.2, 9, 13
---. Diana Alexander. "Ernst & Young Report on Contractual Arbitration in Lending-Related Disputes.” Alternative Resolutions 14.2, 14, 21
---. Lisa Weatherford. Book Review: "Emerging Systems for Managing Workplace Conflict: Lessons from American Corporations for Managers and Dispute Resolution Professionals." Alternative Resolutions 14.4, 27-28
---. Lisa Weatherford. "Carrie Menkel-Meadow Examines the Ethics of Ignoring the Past in Mediation." Texas Mediator 20.2, 5-6, 21
---. Ralph Rodriguez. "Determining Separability of Arbitration Clauses in (Arguably) Void Contracts: Responsibility of Judge or Arbitrator?" Alternative Resolutions 14.4, 16-17
---. Shawn Ellison. "California Court Finds That Settlement Judge/Mediator Exceeded His Authority." Alternative Resolutions 14.2, 10-11
---. Shannon Briones. "Plaintiff's Taxable Income Includes Portion of Recovery Paid to Attorneys as Contingent Fee." Alternative Resolutions 14.2,12-13, and Texas Mediator 20.2, 13, 17

Psychology
Czyzewska, M. (mentor). M. H. Pasiminio. "Alcohol Expectancies and Heavy Drinking in Female College Students: a Comparison Between Freshman and Senior College Women." Southwestern Psychological Association, Memphis, TN

Davis, John M. (mentor). R. Brian Cano and Catherine A Bower. "North American Psychology: A Bibliography and Overview." Southwestern Psychological Association, Memphis, TN

Sociology
Majumdar, Debarun, Audwin L. Anderson (mentor), and Carla McQueen (student). "The Moderating Effects of Friends' Substance Usage on the Relationship Between Risky Sexual Behavior and Sexual Self-Efficacy Among African-American Adolescents.” Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, LA

Brownson, Connie, and Harold Dorton (mentor). "At the Margins of the Minors: Good Girls, Bad Girls, and Baseball beyond the Big Leagues.” Popular Culture Review 19