November 2006
Faculty/Staff in the News

Karen Brink, Director of Human Resources, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Missouri College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (MCUPA). MCUPA is a consortium of higher education human resource professionals in the State of Missouri whose focus is on education, leadership and professional development of the membership, as well as the advancement of human resources in higher education. She will serve a two-year term.

Thomas Howell, Professor of History and Chair, has a professional book review of The American Discovery of Tradition accepted to be published in Louisiana History, Fall 2006.

Elizabeth Sperry, Associate Professor of Philosophy, just had a book review published in the National Catholic Reporter. The URL for the online version is http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006c/081106/081106v.htm

Mark Walters, Professor of English, has had a poem, "Rest Stop" published in the Spring 2006 issue of Cottonwood.

Dr. Rychetta Watkins, assistant professor of English, has had an article, "Translating Fanon: African American and Asian American appropriations of colonialism" accepted for publication in a forthcoming collection, Post-Colonial Theory in Asian-American Literature, ed. Kathryn Sugg.

Professor of English Dr. Ian Munro's "Mapping the Postcolonial Metropolis: Lagos as setting and subject in four Nigerian novels" has just come out in Representing Minorities: Studies in Literature and Criticism, a collection edited by Larbi Touaf and Soumia Boutkhil, Cambridge Scholars Press, October 2006.

Two of Dr. Munro’s reviews were also published recently: a review of Zakaria Lahlou’s "The Opposite Program" appears in the current issue of World Literature in Review, and a review of two republished works, Edith Wharton’s In Morocco and Richard Harding Davis’s The Exiles, appears in the current issue of The Journal for Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies.

Men’s Basketball Coach Larry Holley served as Grand Marshall of Liberty’s Fall Festival Parade in Liberty on September 23