The document summarizes presentations, research projects, exhibitions, awards and field work by faculty and students at Marymount College. It describes projects and presentations by Professors Ogilvie, Brophy, Earle, Masri and Royal as well as exhibitions by Professor Vanderpool. It also lists current research projects by Professors McMahon, Ogilvie, Zanca, Royal, Earle, Sellar, Vanderpool, Levonian, Masri and Royal. Student research projects and award nominees are also mentioned. Photos show Professor Earle working in the field and research by Professor Zanca and an exhibition by Professor Vanderpool.

1. Marymount
Scholarship

2. Public Presentations
Prof. Andrew Ogilvie (English) presented
Pragmatism, Dewey, and Service Learning:
Reconsidering Community and Democracy in
the Composition Classroom in April
2011, Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Michael Brophy, President, presented
Critical Leadership Challenges at Two-Year
Institutions: Reflections from the Perspective of
the President at University of Wisconsin –
Madison.

3. Public Presentations
Dr. Duncan Earle (Global Studies) presents
Bad to Think: The Power of the Border of
Inferiorities in April 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Melanie Sellar (Library / Information Literacy)
presents Service Learning: Bringing the World
into LIS Education in May 2011, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada.

4. Public Presentations
Dr. Ghada Masri (Global Studies) presents
(In)Security, Surveillance and Halal Tourism in
April 2011, Seattle, Washington.
Prof. Carlos Royal (Sociology) presents three
papers, including “Intergenerational
Transmission of Gender Role Ideology”, in
November 2011 in Los Angeles, California.

5. Exhibitions
Dr. Jennifer Vanderpool’s (Media Arts)
exhibition Sagoberättelser (Fairy Tales) was
recently on view at the Designarkivet in
Nybro, Sweden.
Dr. Jennifer Vanderpool (Media Arts) is
currently exhibiting Bayou Garden, an
installation with animation and audio at Mount
Saint Mary’s College, March 8 – April 17, 2011.

6. Current Research
The Greatest Mystery in American Literature: Who was Emily Dickinson’s
Master? – Patrick McMahon (English)
Pragmatism, Dewey, and Service Learning: Reconsidering Community and
Democracy in the Composition Classroom – Andrew Ogilvie (English)
A Darkness Visible: American Catholics in the South and the Coming of the
Civil War – Ken Zanca (Phil & Rel Studies)
The Parental Role: The Influence of Biological Versus Blended Family
Structure for Parents of Adult Children – Carlos Royal (Sociology)

7. Current Research
Zapatista Viability: By What Measure? - Duncan Earle (Global Studies)
Too Close for Comfort: Jewish Communities and Their Hold on the
Holocaust – Karen Feiner (English)
Treating a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder from a Gestalt Therapy
Perspective – Brad Hess (Psychology)
Service Learning: Bringing the World into LIS Education – Melanie
Sellar (Library / Info Literacy)

8. Current Research
CORE Survey: A Quantitative Study - Brad Hess (Psychology)
Uprising of Hope; Accompanying the Zapatistas on their Journey to
Alternative Development – Duncan Earle (Global Studies)
Poll Everywhere: A Review – Melanie Sellar (Library / Info Science)
Bayou Garden (Installation with Animation & Audio) – Jennifer
Vanderpool (Media Arts)

9. Current Research
A Royal Pain: The Comic Spirit in George MacDonald's "The Light Princess –
Greg Levonian (English)
Wanton, Galería Sextante, Bogotá, Colombia. May - June 2011 – Solo
Exhibition - Jennifer Vanderpool (Media Arts)
Librarians Without Borders Get Their Hands Dirty – Melanie Sellar (Library /
Info Science)
Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Ideology – Carlos Royal
(Sociology)

10. Current Research
Stepping into a New Role: Quality of Parent-Child Relationships in
Stepfamilies – Carlos Royal (Sociology)
Goodbye Paris, Hello New York: Consuming ‘Liquid’ Modernity – Ghada
Masri (Global Studies)
(In)Security, Surveillance and Halal Tourism – Ghada Masri (Global
Studies)

11. Student Scholar Award Nominees
In-depth Review on the Biological Factors of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as well as
Treatment Options and Diagnosis of Disorder – Mary Kate Morrow
Hinduism – Megan Crawford
The Psychological and Physiological Effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – Emma Bennett
Physical Fast, Spiritual Feast – Karyn Whitesides
Legos and iRobot: Building Value through Partnership – Austin Peterson and Stefnie Huth
Cocoa Genome Case Study – Shahryar Shahrestani
Energy Distribution of Hydrogen Power for Future Automobiles – Frank Sanchez

12. Awards
Professor Jennifer Vanderpool’s exhibition “Sagoberättelser”
(Fairy Tales) was recently on view at the Designarkivet in
Nybro, Sweden. She was honored with an International Cultural
Grant from the Swedish Arts Council.

13. In Pictures
Dr. Earle converses in Tzotzil, a Maya language from Southern
Mexico, with a young Chamula woman about the uses and growth cycles
of a common weed, once sacred to their ancestors, called Amaranth.

14. In Pictures
Ken Zanca’s latest research project is to collect and edit primary documents on the
Catholics in the South just before the Civil War. Some pictures of leading Catholic
bishops in the South who were important articulators and justifiers of the Southern
cause: (right) Bishop John P. Lynch, Diocese of Charleston and (left)Bishop John
McGill, Diocese of Richmond, VA.

15. In Pictures
Jennifer Vanderpool’s “Fairy Stories” is an installation that includes
sculptures, animations and even the artist's selection of material from Design
Archives' collections, where she has been particularly interested in drawings and
textiles
made ​by the designer Peter Condu (1945-1986).

16. In the Field
Melanie Sellar will be joining 26 other Librarians Without Borders volunteers for a service
trip to the Miguel Asturias Academy in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in April/May 2011. This
is the second year of the partnership which focuses on the development of the library at the
Academy and the support of literacy in the community.

17. In the Field
Here Dr. Earle is training a team of Congolese foresters how to use a clinometer
to measure the size of the towering jungle trees, in order to measure their
potential as a carbon offset--an environmental service that seeks to protect the
rainforest that now has a global market .