John Harms Receives Missouri State University Foundation Award for Service
John Harms, a long-standing member of the sociology faculty, received the prestigious Missouri State Foundation Award for Service in August 2008. Each year, the University presents two such awards to faculty. Dr. Harms has numerous recent service accomplishments including a leadership role on the University Compensation Committee during the time when Missouri State was implementing a merit-based system for determining faculty pay increases. In addition, John served as President of the Missouri Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) as well as President of our local chapter of the AAUP. In our Department, Harms’ record demonstrates an extraordinary amount of service and leadership including extensive work as the Sociology Program Coordinator as we lay the groundwork for an emphasis on public sociology.
Christy Titus is Recognized for Five Years of Service to the Department and University
Christy Titus, Department Receptionist, received recognition for five years of service at Missouri State University. As many of you know, Christy is the first contact for anyone either entering or calling the Department Office. She provides excellent “customer service” for students, others on-campus, people interested in our Department, and faculty needing assistance with copying course materials and various other tasks. We really appreciate having Christy work with us and congratulate her for spending the past five years in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology.
Suzanne Walker and Robin Amonker Article Selected for Award
Suzanne Walker, Suzanne Dollar (School of Social Work), and Robin Amonker’s recent article, “Population Characteristics and Health Service Use by Latino Immigrants in Southwest Missouri,” published in Great Plains Research, was selected as the winner of the Leslie Hewes Award for best social science article published during 2007 in that journal.
Mike Carlie Presented the Missouri State SUCCESSability Award and Speaks to Several Professional Groups Regarding His Gang Research
Mike Carlie received the SUCCESSability Award at Missouri State University. This award recognizes faculty for creating a welcoming and accessible environment for disabled students. For the past several years, students with disabilities expressed a desire to recognize outstanding faculty and staff for creating a positive environment at Missouri State. Students, exhibiting disability pride, feel it is important to identify exceptional faculty and staff who incorporate principles of universal design. The proactive efforts of these award winners and nominees assure everyone has full access to university life. This award goes to a faculty or staff member who goes above and beyond to make sure the educational environment is accessible for students with disabilities.
Dr. Carlie also was invited to speak about his research on the gang problem. He was the keynote speaker at the New York conference “Find Your Voice: A Community Response to Gangs” In Niagra Falls, NY. This conference was organized by the Niagara County Youth Bureau, the Niagara County Juvenile Justice Task Force, the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, and the State of New York Police Juvenile Officers Association.
In addition, Dr. Carlie was invited by the Missouri Juvenile Justice Association to speak during their 2008 conference at Lake of the Ozarks. He was joined in his presentation by Native American Indian gang specialist Keahi Souza, Director of the Social Work Department at an Albuquerque elementary/middle school with 150 students representing some 54 tribes.
Bill Meadows Involved with Passage of the Code Talkers Recognition Act of 2007
Bill Meadows was involved in the passage of recent federal legislation. During September 2004, Bill joined representatives of the Choctaw, Comanche, Meskwaki, Lakota, and other tribes before a United States Senate committee hearing on the role of Native American Code Talkers in the United States Military Forces. On December 13, 2007, H.R. 4544, The Code Talkers Recognition Act of 2007, was introduced to the 110th Congress. The bill passed the House of Representatives by voice vote on September 25, 2008, and by unanimous consent in the Senate on September 30, 2008. On October 15, 2008, President George W. Bush signed H.R. 4544 into law.
Bernie McCarthy Appointed to Various Criminal Justice Boards
Bernie McCarthy was appointed to Advisory Board of the Turkish Institute for Security and Democracy (TISD) in Washington D.C. He also was appointed as a constituent member of the U.S. State Department Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), and the State of Missouri Higher Education Subcommittee of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
Faculty Publications
Bill Meadows' third book, Kiowa Ethnogeography, was released by the University of Texas press in December 2008. This work provides an ethnographic, linguistic, and semantic examination of over 400 Kiowa geographic place names, their structure, and socio-linguistic changes over a two hundred year period.
Tim Knapp's chapter, “From Zenith to Nadir: The Story of Springfield’s Largest Manufacturing Plant,” appears in an edited book, The Queen City: Explorations of Springfield’s Uncharted History, to be published in 2009 by the University of Missouri Press.
Mike Carlie’s article, “Why Gangs Form” appeared in the Law Enforcement Executive Forum, a journal sponsored by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board Executive Institute.
Brett Garland had three articles accepted for publication:
- “Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Prisons: An Examination of Psychological Staff, Teachers, and Unit Management Personnel,” forthcoming in Criminal Justice and Behavior (with co-authors William McCarty from the University of Illinois-Chicago and Ruohui Zhao, a Chinese scholar).
- “The Evolution of Community Corrections: The Enduring Influence of the Prison,” forthcoming in Prison Journal (with co-author Eric Wodahl from the University of Wyoming).
- “Racial Disproportionality in the American Prison Population: Using the Blumstein Method to Address the Critical Race and Justice Issue of the 21st century,” forthcoming in Justice Policy Journal (with co-authors Cassia Spohn from Arizona State University and Eric Wodahl).
David Byers (with co-authors Craig Smith from ENTRIX, Inc., and Cynthia Craven from the University of Nebraska) published, “Bison Exploitation in the Wyoming Basin at the Middle/Late Holocene Transition: A View from the Graham Ranch Site,” in the Plains Anthropologist. Byers also published, “Did Climatic Seasonality Control Late Quaternary Artiodactyl Densities in Western North America?” appearing in the August 2008 edition of Quaternary Science Reviews (with various co-authors from the University of Utah, University of Wisconsin, and University of Texas).
Marty Prosono’s article, “Fascism of the Skin: Symptoms of Alienation in the Body of Consumptive Capitalism,” appeared in Current Sociology.
Mike Stout's article, "Code of Silence: Students' Perceptions of School Climate and Willingness to Intervene in a Peer's Dangerous Plan," appears in the Journal of Educational Psychology (with co-authors Amy Syvertsen and Constance Flanagan, both of Penn State University).
Bill Meadows' chapter, "North American Indian Code Talkers: Current Events and Research," appeared in the edited book, Aboriginal Peoples and Military Participation: Canadian and International Perspectives.
Faculty Receive Funding for Various Projects
Bill Wedenoja received a Missouri State University Faculty Research Grant for the project, “Terrestrial and Underwater Surveys for Archeological Sites in Bluefields, Jamaica,” for $4,350.
Suzanne Walker and Liz Sobel received a Missouri State University Curriculum Grant for the project, “Development of Archaeological and Biological Anthropology Teaching Lab,” for $7,269.
The following Department Faculty received Fall 2008 Incentive Grants from the College of Humanities and Public Affairs:
- David Byers- $5,000 for “Funding Request for Fieldwork at the Mountaineer Folsom Site, Gunnison, Colorado.”
- Brett Garland and Aida Hass- $5,000 for “Public Perceptions of Issues in Juvenile and Adult Corrections in the Midwest: An Examination of Attitudes in the State of Missouri.”
- Karl Kunkel- $9,760 for “Upgrading the CATI System at CSSPPR.”
- Diane Leamy- $517 for “Equipment Purchase of ‘Drunk Buster Goggles’ to Enhance Classroom and Community Presentations.”
- Bill Meadows- $997 for “Military Societies in Plains Indian Ledger Book Art: A Kiowa Example.”
- Bill Meadows, Neal Lopinot (Center for Archaeological Research), Dustin Thompson (Center for Archaeological Research), and Chris Barnhart (Biology Department)- $1,800 for “Accelerator-Mass-Spectronomy Dating of Archaeological Remains.”
- Liz Sobel- $9,800 for “Increased Student Involvement in Archaeological Lab Research on Ozarks Prehistory.”
- Ivy Yarckow-Brown- $2,525 for “Public Affairs in the Profession: 1st Annual MSU Criminology & Criminal Justice Conference.”
The following Department Faculty received Spring 2008 Incentive Grants from the College of Humanities and Public Affairs:
- Bill Meadows, Kitty Roberts (Center for Archaeological Research), and Neal Lopinot (Center for Archaeological Research), “Flotation Analysis of Botanical Samples from Late Archaic Karnak Sites,” for $1,500.
- Mike Stout, John Harms, and Tim Knapp, “Springfield/Greene County Social Capital Community Survey,” for $8,500.
- Margie Buckner, “Travel Subsidy for Faculty and Student Fieldwork in Guinea Bissau,” for $2,600.
- Karl Kunkel, “Focus Group Assessment of Using a Revised Blended Pedagogical Approach in CRM 415,” for $1,500.
- Holly Jones (CAR) and Liz Sobel, “Remote Sensing Training for Consulting, Research, and Teaching,” for $2,844.