FACULTY NEWS
Faculty Accomplishments and Activities Spring 2008
Dr. Joshua G. Behr continues his research on utilization patterns through the interviewing of patients within the Emergency Department at the region's major trauma center. Most recently, Dr. Behr has completed a series of four Community Health Reports focusing on four geographic locations: the Historic Triangle (James City County, York County, & Williamsburg), Newport News, Hampton, and the Peninsula. These reports include the reporting and analysis of regional health survey data as well as the ArcGIS mapping of chronic diseases and conditions on the peninsula in an effort to identify patterns related to community and environmental health.
Dr. Jie Chen was appointed Guest Professor of Comparative Politics, the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China (a ten year appointment). He published "China's Middle East Policy Since the Post-Mao Reform (with Chunlong Lu) in Yunhan Zhu and Qinggou Jia (eds.) Rise of China: From the Perspective of International Relations Theory in 2008 and he has an article "The Role of Private Entrepreneurs in China's Political Change" (with Bruce Dickson) forthcoming in The China Quarterly.
During the Fall 2007, Dr. Chris Drake published "Ten Years of Extraordinary Change in Indonesia" in Education About Asia, vol.12:2 (Fall 2007) and she was invited to give the senior lecture for the College of Arts and Letters entitled "Challenges: A Geographer's Perspective."
Dr. David Earnest received a $10,000 grant from the International Studies Association to convene a venture research workshop at the association's annual convention in San Francisco in March. The workshop, titled "Complexity Science in International Relations" brought together scholars from Europe, Africa and North America from disciplines as diverse as biology, economics, philosophy and political science.
During the Spring 2008, Dr. Kurt Gaubatz presented a paper on European Integration at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association in San Francisco (March) and he co-authored a paper on graduate education in modeling and simulation for the Spring Simulation Multi-Conference in Ottawa (April). He has also received a fellowship from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies to attend a seminar on Counterterrorism strategies in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Mr. Aaron Karp published "Semi-Automatic: Destruction of Surplus Small Arms," in Survey 2008 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and he has a forthcoming article entitled "The Arms Trade" in the International Encyclopedia of Peace (Oxford University Press). He also presented two papers abroad - "The Changing Context of Missile Proliferation and Defense" at a conference sponsored by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin and "Non-State Actors, War and Technology" at a conference sponsored by Harvard University Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Geneva.
Dr. Hua Liu had three manuscripts accepted for publication during Fall 2007 - "Seasonal Variations in the Relationship Between Landscape Pattern and Land Surface Temperature in Indianapolis, United States" in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, "Scaling Effect on the Relationship Between Landscape Pattern and Land Surface Temperature: A Case Study of Indianapolis, United States" in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, and "The Spatial Variations of Urban Land Surface Temperatures: Pertinent Factors, Zoning Effect and Seasonal Variability" in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
During the Spring 2008, Dr. Jesse Richman published "Uncertainty and the Prevalence of Committee Outliers" in Legislative Studies Quarterly and Trading Away Our Futures (Pittsburgh: Ideal Taxes Association) (with co-authors Raymond Richman and Howard Richman.
It was another very busy year for Dr. Simon Serfaty who gave numerous talks both in the U.S. and in Europe. He published two books Architects of Delusion: America, Europe, and the Iraq War (University of Pennsylvania Press) and A Recast Partnership? The Institutional Dimensions of Transatlantic Relations (CSIS Press, editor and contributor). He also published two articles "A Bad War Gone Worse," The Washington Quarterly (2008) and "Une Alliance Globalisee?" Europe's World (June 2008).
Dr. Glen Sussman published "Comparing the Environmental Policies of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush," White House Studies 7 (2007) and was an invited speaker at the 2008 Byrd Symposium held at James Madison University to discuss the findings of this article. He also published "The Virginia General Assembly: Campaign 2007," Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine 13 (2007). He has a book chapter "The Science and Politics Problem: Global Warming, Climate Change and Hurricanes" forthcoming in James Elsner, ed. Hurricanes and Climate Change (Springer Publishers).
Dr. Corliss Tacosa gave two talks about Russian politics, "A Report Card on President Putin for ODU's Institute for Learning in Retirement and "A Russian Update" presented at Christopher Newport University.
It was another productive year for Dr. Steve Yetiv who published The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1972-2005 (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
