USM Public Affairs

KATHLEEN ASHLEY, professor of English, presented a paper entitled “Chivalric Performance in its Urban Bourgeois Context: The Pas d’Armes of the Fontaine des Plours, Chalon-sur-Saone, 1449-1450” at a conference on Performance at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.  Ashley also recently had her chapter, “Hugging the Saint: Improvising Ritual on the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela,” published in the book “Push Me, Pull You: Physical and Spatial Interaction in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art” (Vol. 2), edited by Sarah Blick and Laura Gelfand (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011).

AMANDA BEAL, Lewiston-Auburn College graduate, had her article, “By Land and By Sea,” published in the Winter/Spring 2011 Special Food Issue of the Maine Policy Review.

PAUL CHRISTIANSEN, associate professor of music, and MATTHEW KILLMEIER, associate professor of media studies, published an article entitled “Wolves at the Door:  Musical Persuasion in a 2004 Bush-Cheney Advertisement” in the electronic journal MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research (Vol. 27, No. 50).

KAREN CROTEAU, professor of exercise, health and sport sciences, and GEORGE TOWLE, women’s cross country/track coach, had their article, “Pedometer-Determined Physical Activity of Western Kenyan Children,” published in the August 2011 issue of the Journal of Physical Activity and Health.  Viji Suresh, a graduate of USM’s Nurse Practitioner program, is a co-author.  Croteau also presented “Pedometer-Assessed Physical Activity and Health Status of Inpatient Nursing Staff” at the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual meeting this summer in Denver, Colo.

MELANIE DRANE, USM Stonecoast MFA alumna (‘05), received a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which is given annually to six women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers.

SUSAN FINERAN, associate professor of social work, gave a poster presentation on “The Harm of Sexual Harassment: Adolescent Health, Well-Being, and Engagement In School and at Work” at the Summit on Gender-Based Violence Among Young People in Washington D.C. on April 6-7.

WILLIAM GAYTON, professor of psychology, and USM student CHRISTINE PEURA, bachelor of science in psychology, presented a research poster entitled “An Investigation of Gender and Age Effects on Self-Efficacy and Outcome Expectations of Positive Psychology Interventions” at the May 2011 meeting of the Association for Psychological Science in Washington D.C.

JOSEPH GRANGE, professor emeritus of philosophy, recently had his book, “Soul: A Cosmology” published by SUNY Press (2011).

REZA JALALI, coordinator of multicultural student affairs, had his children’s book, “Moon Watchers,” named a finalist in the children’s book category at the 2011 Maine Literary Awards ceremony in July.

SUSAN JARMUZ-SMITH, doctoral student of school psychology, had her article, “Parent Involvement in Education,” published in a recent issue of Communiqué Online.  In August, Jarmuz-Smith presented a poster at the American Psychological Association Convention titled “Applying Functional Thinking to Parent Engagement and Participation in Education.”  She was recently appointed to the Maine Advisory Council on Education of Children with Disabilities by Maine’s Education Commissioner.