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WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES STUDENT NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS OF THE 2009 WOMEN'S STUDIES ESSAY CONTEST!
Introduction to Women's Studies Division
1st Place: Kara Kerr, “Tale as Old as Time: Gender in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,” for Professor Adams
Undergraduate Non-Intro Division
1st Place: Rosie Frihart, “Heaven or Hell: Women and Feminine Morality in Nineteenth Century Literature,” for Professor Bradley
Graduate Division:
1st Place: Kate Thomas, “Standing on the Shoulders of their Sisters,” for Professor Wilson
WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES FACULTY NEWS
Joanne Davis (Psychology)
Dr. Davis' publications in the past year were:
Davis, J.L. (2008). Treating post-trauma nightmares: A Cognitive Behavioral Approach. Springer Publishing Company.
Borntrager, C., Davis, J., Bernstein, A., & Gorman, H. (in press). A cross-national perspective on bullying. Child Youth Care Forum.
Byrd, P.M., & Davis, J.L. (in press). Violent behavior in female inmates: Possible predictors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
Newman, E., & Davis, J.L. (2008). Acute interventions for trauma-related problems. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 21, 501-502.
Davis, J.L., & Borntrager, C.F. (2008). Criminal victimization. In G. Reyes, J. D. Elhai, & J.D. Ford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of psychological trauma. Hoboken, New
Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
Davis, J., Newman, E., & Siebenmorgen, M.K. (April, 2009). Mitigating the effects of sexual assault and rape. Poster presented at the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology Oklahoma Health Research Conference, Oklahoma City, OK.
Davis, J.L., Rhudy, J.L., Pruiksma, K.E., Byrd, P.M., Williams, A.E., McCabe, K.M., Bartley, E.J., Avant, E. M., & Wiedeman, R. (2008). Treating Nightmares in Trauma-Exposed Persons: Psychological and Physiological Outcomes from a Randomized Clinical Trial. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, Chicago, IL.
Her invited workshops and presentations were:
Davis, J.L., & Rhudy, J.L. (2008). Treatment for chronic nightmares in adults with PTSD. Invited workshop presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Preventing, Assessing & Treating Child, Adolescent and Adult Trauma. Honolulu, Hawaii
Davis, J.L. (April, 2009). Treatment for Chronic Nightmares in Adults with PTSD: From Case Study to Randomized Clinical Trial [X3]. Invited presentation to the Psychology Department, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
Davis, J.L. (April, 2009). The cycle of domestic violence. Keynote address to the Surayya Anne Foundation, Tulsa, OK.
Lara Foley (Sociology)
Dr. Foley gave talks this past year at University of Oklahoma and the Bartlesville Women’s Network on the status of WGS in academia. Her publications included the co-authored article “Believe in Birth: Midwifery as an Established Sect” accepted at Community, Work and Family to be published in 2010. Also, her co-authored book Gendering Bodies was positively reviewed in Choices, Contemporary Sociology, and Gender and Society.
Dr. Foley gave a lecture on domestic violence to third year medical students at the University of Oklahoma and participated on a televised panel at Rogers State University on the topic of global awareness. She served on the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women, the Action Board of Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma and the board of the Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
Heidi Holeman Kamm (Alexander Health Center)
Heidi Holeman Kamm, PhD, obtained professional licensure as a health service psychologist in the state of Oklahoma (11/2008) and continues full-time clinical work, specializing in LGBTQ and diverse populations, through the University of Tulsa Alexander Health Center Counseling & Psychological Services Center. In addition, she continues to teach the Psychology of Diversity and Foundations of Psychology as an adjunct professor with the TU Psychology Department.
Holly Kruse (Communication)
Over the past academic year Dr. Kruse presented her research on online gambling and domestic space at the International Communication Association in Chicago, her research on gender and interactive media environments at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Copenhagen, and her research on the Internet and notions of locality in independent music production at the Experience Music Project Pop Conference in Seattle. She organized and participated in a roundtable on hierarchies of value in Internet research at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, and participated in the Feminist Working Group workshop at the Experience Music Project conference. She served on the awards committee of the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association and continued to serve as the discussion list manager for the Association of Internet Researchers.
Dr. Kruse’s article "Betting on News Corporation: Interactive media, gambling, and global information flows" appeared in the journal Television and New Media in spring 2009, and her article " Local identity and independent music scenes, online and off" is forthcoming in the journal Popular Music and Society. She has two book chapters in press: one on domesticity and Internet gambling in the collection Online Territories: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space, and one on local music scenes and the Internet in the collection Sound, Society, and the Geography of Popular Music. She recently completed the manuscript for her second book, titled Racing to the Wire: New Media and the Redefinition of Space, which is under review at a university press.
Lamont Lindstrom (Anthropology):
Dr. Lindstrom co-authored a forthcoming book about Australia/US connections titled Osa Johnson: A Modern Girl from Coast to Coast and served as president of the University of Tulsa Faculty Senate.
Laura Stevens (English):
Dr. Stevens won two teaching awards, the University Faculty Teaching Award and a Mortar Board Honors Society “Scotch and Smokes” Teaching Award. She received a Gilcrease Faculty Summer Fellowship for summer 2009.
Dr. Stevens gave three invited talks or seminars:
“The Virgin Mary and Violated Mothers in British Anti-Catholicism.” English Faculty Seminar, University of California, Davis, May, 2009
“Cotton Mather's Women: Biblical Exemplarity, Gender and the New England Way.” Conference on Religious Transformation in the Early Modern Americas, Washington University, St. Louis, April, 2009
“Esther and Obedience in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” University of Colorado and Boulder, December, 2008
Dr. Stevens has an article forthcoming this year: “The Souls of Highlanders, the Salvation of Indians: Scottish Mission and Eighteenth-Century British Empire,” in Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of Early America’s Religious Landscape, edited by Mark A. Nicholas and Joel Martin, forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press.
Jan Doolittle Wilson (History):
Dr. Wilson submitted her most recent article “Disunity in Diversity: The General Federation of Women’s Clubs and Racial Politics, 1900-02” to the Journal of Women’s History. It is currently under external review. She has also begun work on a documentary history of abortion law/policy in the United States since the Roe decision.
Dr. Wilson participated in two conferences this academic year. She presented her work “Disunity in Diversity: The General Federation of Women’s Clubs and Racial Politics, 1900-1902” at the Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri, in September 2008. At the annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference in June 2008, Dr. Wilson delivered a paper titled “Individual Rights as Social Rights: Women’s Health Activism and Public Responsibility in One Local Community” and participated in a roundtable discussion on the challenges and possibilities of transforming a Women’s Studies certificate or minor program into a major program.
Women's and Gender Studies students and faculty, please email your news to
holly-kruse@utulsa.edu
