Accomplishments - February, 2021
Allison Joseph, English, presented her works during a virtual “Spoken & Heard” series Feb. 18 at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio. The seasonal series features award-winning authors, poets and singer/songwriters from around the country.
“Jean-Jacques Lebel and French Happenings of the 1960s: The Erotics of Revolution” by Laurel Jean Fredrickson, art history and visual culture, will be published next month by Bloomsbury Visual Arts. The book combines an overview of Lebel’s coming-of-age among surrealists and his rupture with the movement, and it illustrates the development and significance of French happenings in relation to cultural and political changes of the 1960s.
Stacey McKinney, Jennifer McKinnies and Sandra Collins, School of Health Sciences, will be presenting their research “Cost Effectiveness in Providing Preventative Dentistry for Children in the United States” at the annual Western Economic Association International Conference this summer in Honolulu.
“Measuring Egyptian Women’s Vulnerability to Sexual Harassment Threat: Reliability and Validity Evidence” by Hussein Hassan Soliman, social work, and Jennifer Koran, counseling, quantitative methods, and special education, and Amal Abdelmonem, Quatar University, was published in January 2021 by Helwan University’s Egyptian Journal of Social Work. The study developed an instrument to assess Arab women’s perception of the threat of sexual harassment.
The Arbor Day Foundation’s January/February 2021 newsletter recognized the university’s Virtual Tree Tour. The newsletter reaches 1 million members, donors and partners who support Arbor Day Foundation programs.
Omid Kamran Disfani, School of Management and Marketing, provided his thoughts recently about understanding liability-only car insurance and how credit scores influence car insurance for moneygeek.com.
Kenneth Stikkers, philosophy and Africana studies, recently presented a series of seven virtual lectures on “African American Intellectual History, from Middle Passage through Du Bois,” for the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw in Poland. The series was part of an ongoing collaboration between SIU’s Africana studies and philosophy departments and the university in Warsaw.
