Dr. Raymond Frontain, professor of English, recently presented a paper at an international conference commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible. The conference was held at The Ohio State University, May 5 -7. Dr. Frontain’s paper was entitled “Passing the love of women’: Anglo-American Sexual Codes and the King James Translation.”
Dr. Clayton Crockett’s book Radical Political Theology (Columbia University Press, 2011) has been shortlisted for the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Constructive-Reflective Study of Religion. Crockett is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Dr. Brent Ruswick, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, is the author of an article, “Just Poor Enough: Gilded Age Charity Applicants Respond to Charity Investigators,” in the July 2011 edition of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
David Welky’s op-ed piece entitled “When the Levee Doesn’t Break” was recently published in The New York Times. Welky, an associate professor of history, is also the author of the forthcoming book “The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937.”
The Natural State of America Selected for the Fifth Annual Little Rock Film Festival
The Natural State of America was selected for the Made in Arkansas program at the fifth Annual Little Rock Film Festival. The documentary was written and produced by Dr. Brian Campbell, UCA Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and co-directed by three UCA Digital Film Program alums, Terrell Case, Corey Gattin, and Timothy Wistrand. The film previously won the Society for Applied Anthropology’s 2011 Annual Film competition.
“The Natural State of America” highlights a four decade effort to prevent herbicide use in the Arkansas Ozark National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service has sprayed herbicides in the Ozark National Forest for years for their vegetative management. Recently, a rural electric cooperative that covers much of the Ozarks has started spraying to maintain their power line right-of-ways.
The film follows concerned residents, environmental activists, and organic farmers as they battle their rural electric cooperative in order to protect the region’s organic farms, wells, springs, and the Buffalo River, the first National River in the United States, from being contaminated by herbicides.
The film trailer and information about the film cast, crew, and subject can be viewed at http://naturalstateofamerica.com/ and you can receive updates on local screenings if you “like” the film at http://www.facebook.com/NaturalStateofAmerica.__
Sociology Students Present Research at Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Symposium
Eight University of Central Arkansas sociology students presented research at the 32nd Annual Arkansas Sociology and Anthropology Undergraduate Symposium. The event, hosted by the Department of Sociology/Anthropology of Hendrix College was held April 22 in the Mills Center on the Hendrix campus. Students presenting research:
Tanya Petrovic, “Advertising in the Media: Targeting Gender and Race”
Alyx VanNess, “June Cleaver as the Twenty-First Century Woman: The Perceived Female in Modern Home and Lifestyle Magazines”
Brittany Zielstra, “Rap Music and Videos: How Women are Portrayed in the Popularized Genre of Rap”
Kyle Moix, “Still Pullin’ on those Bootstraps: American Attitudes Toward Poverty”
Hillary Williams, “Woman in a Fighter’s Body: Gender Identity and Negotiation in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu”
Kristen Sobba, “Age in relation to Abortion views: A Comparative Analysis on GSS and UCA Data”
Cathrine Schwader, “Steaking a Claim: the Symbolic Meaning of Meat and the Importance of Vegetarianism”
Kathy Hill, “UCA Sociology Club: Horticulture Project at the Women’s Shelter of Central Arkansas”