FACULTY NEWS
Faculty Accomplishments and Activities Spring 2009
Dr. David Earnest presented two papers to the International Studies Association annual convention in New York City, February 2009. In April, the Center for Social Complexity at George Mason University invited him to give a talk on agent-based modeling methodologies. This Spring, the ODU Division of Student Affairs named him a recipient of its "Shining Star" award that recognizes a faculty member's contributions to student's academic, professional, and personal success.
While on research leave during Spring semester, Dr. Kurt Gaubatz worked on two book projects: one on the laws of war and another on statistical computing. His article "City State Redux: Optimal State Size in an Age of Globalization" was published in New Global Studies (v3, 2009). In February, he was invited to present his work on the law of armed conflict at the Fletcher School and at a joint faculty seminar for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Law School at Harvard University. He also presented a paper on "Domestic Politics and War" at the 2009 annual meeting of the International Studies Association in New York.
Included among Mr.Aaron Karp's publications: an edited book, Inconspicuous Disarmament (Taylor and Francis, 2009), "Arms Trade and Traffic " in Nigel Young, ed., the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace (2009), and "Man, State, and War: Three Faces of Small Arms Disarmament" in Small Arms Survey (2009).
Dr. Jonathan Leibhad two journal manuscripts accepted for publication: "Identity, Banal Nationalism and License Places in North America" in Geographical Review and a co-authored paper, "Sustaining the 'Societal and Scriptural Fence': Cultural, Social and Political Topographies of Same Sex Marriage in Alabama" in the Professional Geographer. He was also awarded an ODU College of Arts and Letters Summer Research Grant for Summer 2009.
Dr. Hua Liu was a co-recipient of a Summer 2009 fellowship for her work on "Integrating Remote Sensing Data and Inundation Oceans Models to Map Coastal Areas and Improve Flood Predictions" sponsored by ODU's Office of Research Summer Experience Enhancing Collaborative Research (SEECR) program ($17,000). She also published two co-authored articles: "Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Relationships between WNV dissemination and Environmental Variables" in International Journal of Health Geographics (v7, 2008) and "Combining Remote Sensing Data and an Inundation Model to Map Tidal Mudflat Regions and Improve Flood Predictions: A Proof of Concept Demonstration in Cook Inlet, Alaska" in Geophysical Research Letters (v36, 2009).
In May, ODU's Ambassador-in-Residence and Lecturer in Political Science and History, Ambassador Bismarck Myrick participated in Commencement activities at the University of Tampa with Commencement speaker, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman elected President of an African country.
Eminent Professor Dr. Simon Serfaty published "No Time for a Time Out in Europe" in Current History (March 2009) and "An Opportune Moment for a Shared Euro-Atlantic Security Strategy " in CSIS Brzezinski Papers (May 2009) and was a guest speaker on numerous occasions including "From Bush to Obama: How Much Change, How Much Security" at the George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies, Wilson Center (in May); "NATO and Russia" at the Potomac Institute, Washington, DC (in May); and "For a Tricontinental Transatlantic Initiative" at the International Forum, Skhirat, Morocco (in May).
Dr. Glen Sussman published a co-authored article "President George W. Bush: 'Pale Green Responses to the Environment?" in the American Review of Politics (v29, 2008/2009) and has a forthcoming article "Choosing a New Direction: The Presidential Election of 2008" to be published in White House Studies.
The department was delighted to learn that Dr. Don Zeigler received the 2009 Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education from the Association of American Geographers (AAG). It is the highest award the AAG gives for achievements in geography education.
