Posted on May 19, 2000

Michelle Chilcoat, assistant
professor of French, has published an article, “The Legacy of
Enlightenment Brain Sex” in the journal The Eighteenth Century
(Volume 41, No.1, 2000). Also, she is presenting a paper titled
“Francois Ozon's 'Sitcom' and the Treatment of
Homosexuality” at the “Rhetoric of the Other” conference at
the University of Quebec in Montreal.

David Gerhan, professor and
head of public services at Schaffer Library, has published “When
Quantitative Analysis Lies Behind a Reference Question” in the Winter
1999 issue of Reference and User Services Quarterly, the principal
professional journal for reference librarians. The article addresses the
specialized retrieval challenge that academic reference librarians face:
students' coursework-related needs for statistical data.

Yana Hashamova, assistant
professor of Russian, gave a talk, “Imagining Russia: Glory, Majesty,
Honor?” recently at the Symposium on Russia After Yeltsin at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For more information, see http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/reec/symposium00.htm.
Also, her paper “Winnie: The Woman Who Is Not-All? Beckett's 'Happy
days'” is to appear in a collection titled Literature and
Psychoanalysis
(Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada: Lisbon,
2000, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Literature and
Psychoanalysis).

Robert Hislope, assistant
professor of political science, is contributing a chapter to an edited
volume, Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Politics, to be published by
Praeger. He delivered a paper, “Explaining Post-Communist Ethnic
Conflict: Patterns and Theories,” at the 58th Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago recently. Also, he was
awarded a grant by the National Research Council to study cross-border
Albanian networks (legal and illegal) in Macedonia and the impact this has
on Macedonian stability and regional security. He will travel to Macedonia
in November.