U n i v e r s i t y o f H o u s t o n

The College of Liberal Arts

and Social Sciences

Faculty Profiles

2000 - 2001

Contents

The University of Houston

The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

The Dean's Office

The African American Studies Program

The American Cultures Program

The Anthropology Department

The Department of Art

The School of Communication

The Department of Communication Disorders

The Department of Economics

The Department of English

The Department of History

The Department of Military Science

The Department of Modern and Classical Languages

The Moores School of Music

The Department of Philosophy

The Department of Political Science

The Department of Psychology

The Religious Studies Program

The School of Theatre

The Women's Studies Program

THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON

The University of Houston is Texas's premier urban research university. Established in 1927, the University was founded with the purpose of educating working adults. Today, the institution serves 32,000 students, who comprise the most ethnically diverse student body in the United States. Our undergraduates are equally divided among students of African American, Asian American, Hispanic, and European/Middle Eastern ancestry. Our campus embodies the energy, diversity, and excitement of Houston itself, now the nation's fourth largest city.

THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

With disciplines ranging from African American Studies to Women's Studies, Art to Theatre, , and Anthropology to Sociology, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences is the University's largest and most diverse college. Our College is responsible not only for preparing tomorrow's artists, creative writers, economists, historians, journalists, linguists, literary critics, philosophers, political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists, but also for providing all Houston graduates with communication and language skills, cultural awareness, and the capacity for sound ethical and aesthetic judgments. Our college is the intellectual, cultural, and artistic heart of the University.

Our curriculum aims to balance the academic and the applied. The Institute for Public History, the Institute for African American Policy Research, the Center for Mexican American Studies, our graphic design program, and our Department of Communication Disorders are among the many programs that offer our students the knowledge and vision necessary to live in a complex and changing multicultural environment. As national leaders in the use of new technologies in education, our departments teach our students how to use new communication technologies in innovative ways.

THE DEAN’S OFFICE

W. ANDREW ACHENBAUM (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1976) is Dean of the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication. A nationally recognized leader in the field of gerontology, he has served as a delegate and technical advisor to the White House Conference on Aging. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books, sixty journal articles, and more than seventy-five book chapters. His most recent books are Crossing-Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science and Dysfunctional Doctoring, co-authored with E.L. Radin. Previously a professor of history and senior research scientist in the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, he currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Aging.

STEVEN MINTZ (Ph.D., Yale University, 1979) is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Senior Associate Dean. One of the nation's leading authorities on the history of the American family, he is the author of A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture and co-author of Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. Also a specialist in the areas of slavery, reform, film history, and the application of new technologies to historical teaching and research, his books include African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery, America and its People, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty, Hollywood's America, Moralists & Modernizers, and Native American Voices. He serves as an editor of the New York University Press series on American Social Experience, and has been a historical consultant on the family to the Smithsonian Institution, the Minnesota Historical Center, and the New Jersey Historical Society.

ELIZABETH BROWN GUILLORY (Ph.D., Florida State University, 1980) is one of the nation's foremost African American playwrights, and a formidable role model for our students. The author of three books on African American women writers, she frequently delivers lectures at national conferences and institutions. Ten of her plays have been produced in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and elsewhere. She is currently completing a manuscript on migration, identity, and community in plays by African, Caribbean, and African American women. She organizes and directs the Houston Suitcase Theatre, a student theatre troupe, consisting of students of diverse ethnic backgrounds, that promotes theatre by people of color. In 1991, she was named Outstanding Professor by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, and Outstanding Professor in 1995 by the UH Council of Ethnic Organizations. In 1997, she received the Cooper Teaching Excellence Award.

AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

Founded in 1968, the UH African American Studies Program was one of the nation's first interdisciplinary programs to give students the opportunity to study the history, culture, and intellectual experience of peoples of African descent. The program supports a comparative, multidisciplinary program that includes cultural, economic, historical, philosophical, political, psychological, and sociological perspectives. Along with its academic mission, the program plays a pivotal role in the University's efforts to recruit students and build community partnerships. As a result of its academic programs and outreach efforts, the program has developed a strong base of community support and significant funding from the state legislature. In 1991, the Texas legislature made the program a line item in the state budget.

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LINDA REED (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1986), Director of the African American Studies Program, is a member of the History Department. She is an authority on the history of the civil rights movement, and has received prestigious fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the University of North Carolina, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia. Her prize-winning book, Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963, concentrates on the forgotten years of the civil rights movement, the period preceding the Montgomery bus boycott. The book examines a group of Southern white and black liberals who challenged the racial politics that denied blacks decent wages and a role in Southern politics. She is co-editor (with Darlene Clark Hine and Wilma King) of "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History, and she is currently completing a biography of the civil rights figure, Fannie Lou Hamer.

KAREN KLIEMAN (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1996) is a member of the History Department and Associate Director of the African American Studies Program. Her specialization is pre-colonial West Central Africa. An authority on the use of comparative historical linguistics for the reconstruction of comparative ancient history, her studies of hunter-gatherer societies draw on a wide range of non-traditional historical sources including language, culture, and archeology. Her expertise in Bantu languages and African cultures began with her service as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the University of Houston, she has established study abroad programs in Ghana and Trinidad, and created study abroad scholarships for students participating in these programs.

AMERICAN CULTURES

Comparative and transnational in outlook, the American Cultures Program cuts across national borders and treats the Americas as an interdependent region. Its courses analyze colonialism, migration, nationalism, post-colonial struggles, and literary and artistic traditions in the Western Hemisphere. Drawing on faculty from more than a dozen departments, the American Cultures Program combines the methods and perspectives of anthropology, art, communication, economics, history, literature, music, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology. Instructors pay particular attention to issues of class, gender, and cultural identity.

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STEVEN MINTZ (Ph.D., Yale University, 1979), Director of the American Cultures Program, is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and Senior Associate Dean. One of the nation's leading authorities on the history of the American family, he is the author of A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture and co-author of Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. Also a specialist in the areas of slavery, reform, film history, and the application of new technologies to historical teaching and research, his books include African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery, America and its People, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty, Hollywood's America, Moralists & Modernizers, and Native American Voices. He serves as an editor of the New York University Press series on American Social Experience, and has been a historical consultant on the family to the Smithsonian Institution, the Minnesota Historical Center, and the New Jersey Historical Society.

Department of Anthropology

With a strong emphasis on applied research and a special focus on Mexican American, Latin American, African, and African American studies, the Anthropology Department teaches more than 1,600 students a semester, and has the highest number of majors of any state-supported Anthropology Department in Texas. Its Master’s Program is the state’s largest. The Department is currently developing an innovative internship program in applied medical anthropology and has special expertise in the area of forensic anthropology.

Kenneth L. Brown (PhD Pennsylvania S 1975; Assoc Prof) Archeology, cultural ecology, historical archeology; Mesoamerica (klbrown@uh.edu)

Quetzil E. Casteneda (PhD SUNY Albany 1991; Asst Prof) Developmental anthropology, history of anthropology, ethnographic methods; Latin America (quetzil@uh.edu)

Janice Harper , a specialist in the emerging field of medical anthropology and recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright program, and the Social Science Research Council, is the author of a forthcoming book on environmentaql change and health in Madagascar. She is embarked on an innovative ethnographic study of asthma among Houston-area children. Based on extensive interviews with asthma suffers and their families, she examines how asthmatic children cope with their illness and the efficacy of public health programs.

Janis F. Hutchinson (PhD U Kansas 1984; Assoc Prof) Physical anthropology, human adaptation, human genetics, medical anthropology; Caribbean (jhutchinson@uh.edu)

Norris G. Lang (PhD U Illinois 1969; Assoc Prof) Psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, culture change; Latin America, US (nlang@uh.edu)

Susan J. Rasmussen (PhD Indiana 1986; Assoc Prof) Religion, cultural theory, symbolism and the arts; Africa (srasmussen@uh.edu)

Rebecca Storey (PhD Pennsylvania S 1983; Assoc Prof) Physical anthropology, human osteology, demography; Mesoamerica (rstorey@uh.edu)

Randolph J. Widmer (PhD Pennsylvania S 1983; Assoc Prof) Archeology, human ecology; North American Mesoamerica (rwidmer@uh.edu)

DEPARTMENT OF ART

The UH Department of Art offers programs in painting, sculpture (which includes ceramics and jewelry/metalsmithing), photography (which includes digital imaging), interior design, and graphic communication, as well as in art history and studio art (leading to teaching certification). Each year, two student exhibitions at the Blaffer Gallery, the University's on-campus art museum, highlight the works of graduating Master of Fine Arts students and of undergraduate and continuing graduating students. Education in the undergraduate studio programs centers on professionally-oriented studios with entrance to upper level courses by portfolio review. Our Master of Fine Arts graduates form the core of the visual arts in the metropolitan areas of southeast Texas. Beyond the campus, Houston provides a thriving visual arts culture, and art students benefit from frequent exposure to the city's museums, artists, collectors, critics, and galleries. Internships provide exposure to different professional communities, from museums to design firms, teaching, and arts administration.

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DANUTA BATORSKA (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1970) is a recognized authority on Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, a seventeenth-century Italian painter, decorator, designer of ephemeral projects, hydraulic engineer, and architect. Her monograph and catalogue raisonné on Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi is being published in Rome. She has also published extensively on the Italian Baroque and on Polish artists, and shortly will embark on a monograph on Polish women artists. With three degrees from UCLA, her master's level work was on Pre‑Columbian art history and her doctoral research focused on the Italian Baroque period.

HUEY BECKHAM (M.F.A., University of Southern California, 1984) heads the ceramic component of the sculpture area. He has exhibited ceramic works nationally and internationally, and is well known for mastery of the potting wheel and glaze techniques. He has given numerous workshops and lecture‑demonstrations at colleges, museums, and arts festivals, and is the recipient of several awards, including the Gold Award given by Graceland College, as well as Houston's Designers Crafts Purchase Award. He has received many commissions and his work has been the subject of several articles, including "My Ceramic Career," in The Houston Arts Publication.

CHERYL BRZEZINSKI‑BECKETT (M.F.A., Western Michigan University, 1984) is a faculty member in the graphic communication program. She also serves as Creative Director at Minor Design Group with clients including the Contemporary Arts Museum, the Friends of Hermann Park, the History Channel, the Society for the Performing Arts, and the Alley Theatre. Among her honors and awards are those given through the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), New York; The American Center for Design, Chicago; HOW; Print; and the Type Director's Club of New York. Brzezinski‑Beckett has served on the Texas Chapter of the AIGA and is currently a board member of AIGA Houston.

SUZANNE BLOOM (M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1968) and ED HILL (M.F.A., Yale University, 1960) are recognized pioneers in the field of electronic imaging. For 25 years they have collaborated with under the name of MANUAL. They are known for their elaborate multimedia installations as well as digitally manipulated still photographs. Their recent creative focus involves the relation of nature, culture, and technology. Their work has been shown in museums, galleries, biennials, and arts festivals in 66 cities, 24 states, and 11 countries. In 1998, they represented the United States in the 6th Bienal Internacional de Pintura in Cuenca, Ecuador, and simultaneously exhibited work in Buffalo, New York. Bloom is the recipient of two NEA artist fellowship grants in photography and video, and many other major grants and commissions in collaboration with Professor Hill. In 1997 Bloom and Hill established the website DIF, the Digital Imaging Forum (http://www.art.uh.edu/dif/), which features presentations of artists and students worldwide.

JACK HANNA (M.F.A., University of Illinois, 1970) specializes in architectural/design illustration. In addition to heading the junior interior design studio, Professor Hanna teaches perspective drawing, color rendering and orthographic drawing. He recently illustrated proposed interiors for the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston, hotels in Beirut, and several history museum interiors. He frequently participates in architectural concept charrettes on site with clients. Hanna has a formal education in industrial design and interests in anonymous design history and object design history by architects and craftsmen. His award-winning illustrations have been published in Landscape Architecture Magazine and Texas Architect. He served for two and a half years as Interim Chair of the Art Department.

RACHEL HECKER (M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1982) is area coordinator for the painting program. Before joining the faculty, she served as Associate Director of the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her one‑person exhibitions include “Rachel Hecker: Pleasure and Commerce” at the Contemporary Arts Museum, and “Dead Yankees” at Art Pace in San Antonio. Her work has been seen in numerous museum exhibitions and is represented in the collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the San Antonio Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and in Houston's Contemporary Art Museum. Hecker received a National Endowment for the Arts Award in painting in 1989. She is represented in Houston by Texas Gallery.

DAVID HICKMAN (M.F.A., Northern Illinois University, 1965) came to the University of Houston in 1969, and was instrumental in creating the Masters of Fine Arts program in 1975. He has served as president of the MidAmerica College Art Association, curated exhibitions, juried numerous shows, and been an examiner for the International Baccalaureate Programs in Texas. He recently completed a term as president of the Houston Society of Illustrators and was elected to the board of directors of Artists Bookworks Houston. His work is to be found in many private and public collections, and his awards include those from the Houston Area Exhibition (1974), the Houston Art League (1971), and The Art Institute of Chicago (1967). Hickman's course offerings include color theory, illustration and watercolor.

RICHARD HUTCHENS (M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1966) is the founder of the interior design major at the University of Houston, where he continues to teach and serve as area coordinator and academic advisor. He has held membership and local and national offices in the major professional design and design education organizations: ASID (American Society of Interior Designers), IIDA (International Interior Design Association), IDEC (Interior Design Educators Council). Professionally, he has executed design projects on both coasts and locations in between, has served on an interiors advisory board to the White House, and has had numerous installations published. Professor Hutchens brings to the classroom the combination of a strong design philosophy based on the Bauhaus tradition, and practical exposure to a broad spectrum of design installations. His long service to the Department includes terms as acting and associate chairman.

DAVID L. JACOBS (Ph.D., University of Texas, 1978) has combined literary theory and art history to develop an interdisciplinary approach to the rhetoric of photography. He studied photography with Minor White, Garry Winograd, and others, and has taught at the University of Cincinnati, Wayne State University, Arizona State, and the University of Texas at Arlington, and served as Chair of the Department of Art at the University of Houston from 1991 to 1996. Dr. Jacobs is the recipient of grants from the NEA and the NEH, and has sat on several NEH and NEA panels. His writing has appeared in leading art and scholarly journals, including Afterimage, New Art Examiner, and the Journal of American Culture. For five years he was editor of Exposure, the quarterly journal of the Society for Photographic Education. Dr. Jacobs served as co‑curator for a major traveling retrospective of the photographs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, which was accompanied by a book published by Rizzoli, Ralph Eugene Meatyard: An American Visionary. He is currently conducting research in the U.S. and England on the nineteenth century photographer, O.G. Rejlander, and completing his first novel.

PAUL KITTELSON (M.F.A., University of Houston, 1985) is area coordinator for the sculpture program. He is well regarded in the Houston art community for his outstanding accomplishments in the field of public art, and has achieved renown for the wit and irony that characterizes his sculptures. Whether working in the studio or on‑site in the community, Professor Kittelson has proven to be an effective artist in reaching his audience. His most recent solo exhibitions are "Too Good To Be True," Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, and "Double Delicious," Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston. "Passage," a permanent sculpture installation is on view at the University of Houston ‑ Downtown.

VAL LINK (M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1967) is an internationally recognized educator, artist, and gold and silversmith, whose work appears in the collections of fine arts and crafts museums and of private collectors. Professor Link established the jewelry and metalsmithing area in the Art Department in 1970, an undergraduate and graduate program that has produced numerous winners of national design competitions. He continues to head the jewelry/metalsmithing component of the sculpture program. His honors include the Master Teacher Award of the College of Humanities, Fine Arts and Communication.

JAMES MCDERMOTT (M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1971) is a member of the graphics faculty and has worked professionally as an illustrator. His courses include fundamentals of graphics and drawing for graphics and illustration. His service to the department includes undergraduate advising and service as a long-time member of the HFAC Undergraduate Studies Committee.

FIONA MCGETTIGAN (M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1993), a member of the graphic communications faculty, is also a partner in the Houston based design firm CORE Design Studio. McGettigan's work has been recognized in Metropolis Magazine, American Center for Design Journal, Interact UIA "Barcelona 96 Exhibition" in Spain, and has been cited in Communication Arts, International Design Magazine, and Cite. Projects with CORE Design Studio have included The Houston Framework, a comprehensive plan, tool kit and web site for the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County, along with various design projects (print and digital) for clients including The Museum of Medical Science, Rice Design Alliance and Lawndale Art Center. She serves on the board of AIGA/Houston and Lawndale Art Center, and has been a guest lecturer/critic at the University of Texas, Austin, and the Museum of Printing History, Houston.

H. RODNEY NEVITT, JR. (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992) works in the field of seventeenth‑century Dutch Art. His research is informed by a deep interest in the literary, social and cultural context of art. A former Chester Dale Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, he is the author of articles on Rembrandt and the Dutch portrait‑draftsman Gerrait de Heer. Professor Nevitt is currently completing a book on the imagery of courtship in Dutch Art during the first half of the seventeenth century. He serves as area coordinator for art history.

AARON PARAZETTE (M.F.A., Claremont Graduate School, 1990) has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Many of these exhibitions are accompanied by catalogues with essays by the country's most prestigious scholars and critics. Some of his most recent exhibitions include "Abstract Painting Once Removed" at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; "PostHypnotic" at the University of Illinois, Normal; and "Fabstraction" at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. These shows will travel to other venues around the country. Professor Parazette is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award and is a nominee for the prestigious 1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.

ANGELA PATTON (M.F.A., University of Houston, 1982), a member of the interior design faculty, combines expertise in design theory with a wide array of other interests. Her work is interdisciplinary in nature, both visual and theoretical. She is co‑founder of the UH Design Collaborative, an interdisciplinary initiative that integrates design principles and visual processing into other disciplines for the purpose of structuring intuitive reasoning and integrated thinking skills. Her visual work includes environmental projects such as an exhibit for the Children's Museum of Houston and work as a design consultant for the Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations held at Rice University in 1990. She founded a professional design studio, Constructions, for the design and production of jewelry and mixed media collages that have been marketed throughout the United States. Her interdisciplinary design history course, "The American Home Aesthetic," was featured in the Journal of Interior Design to exemplify new thinking in design history. Professor Patton served as Faculty Senate President in 1997.

W. JACKSON RUSHING (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1989), the new chair of the Department of Art, is a leading authority on the history and criticism of twentieth-century Native American art. He is also a specialist on modern and contemporary art, tribal, folk, and ethnic art, and art theory and criticism. He is the author of Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde: A History of Cultural Primitivism, co-author Modern By Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style, and the author of many exhibition catalogs, including, most recently, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century: Makers, Meanings, Histories. A former Vice President of the Native American Art Studies Association, Professor Rushing’s scholarship has received support from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Before coming to the University of Houston, he taught at the University of Maine and served as chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

AL SOUZA (M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, 1972) is past chair of the Department of Art and presently teaches painting on all levels. He recently returned from a year's residency at the Roswell Artist‑in‑Residence Program in Roswell, New Mexico. During the same period, he also held a Pollock‑Krasner Foundation Fellowship. In the summer of 1999, he participated in an international invitational exhibit and symposium at the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum in Innsbruck, Austria.

GAEL STACK (M.F.A., Southern Illinois University, 1972) is an internationally known painter whose work can be seen in public and private collections including the Musée de L'Echhevinagi in Saintes, France, the Guggenheim Museum, NYC, The Yale University Museum, The Menil Collection, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Krannert Museum, Champaign, Illinois, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In addition she has received two NEA Grants and a Tiffany Award. She was recently named Texas Artist of the Year, and a Moores University Scholar by the University of Houston. She serves as director of graduate studies for the Art Department.

JUDITH STEINHOFF (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1990) is a specialist in Italian Gothic art. Her articles have appeared in international art history journals such as The Art Bulletin, Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, and (forthcoming) in Renaissance Studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the impact of the Black Death of 1348 on Sienese painting. Another aspect of Dr. Steinhoff's current research is more explicitly methodological in its focus: the formation and reception of the prevailing paradigm for understanding fourteenth‑century Italian art. Her recognition as a gifted teacher includes the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Harvard‑Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University.

BILL THOMAS (M.F.A., University of Houston, 1993) is a photographer, writer, curator, and coordinator of the photography program. Prior to coming to UH, he was program director of photography and digital imaging, and director of the Dows Gallery for two years at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Professor Thomas is a recipient of an artist award from the NEA, and also the Cultural Arts Council of Houston. He was selected as a Fellow of the American Photography Institute at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and awarded an Artist Fellowship by the Houston Center for Photography. His own work has been exhibited nationally, and most notably locally at the Contemporary Arts Museum as part of the Texas triennial, TEXAS: Between Two Worlds, in 1993‑94. Thomas' photographic series SUICIDE is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the University of Houston, and the Harry Ransom Collection, University of Texas, Austin.

THE SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION

In the United States, more people are now engaged in the creation and distribution of information than in any other area of employment. We use, learn from, and enjoy a continually expanding array of communication technologies: television, radio, print, audio and visual recordings, and now the World Wide Web. The School of Communication is a leader in print and electronic communication, and has three computer labs available for graphic design, photojournalism, public relations, advertising, computer video production, World Wide Web sourcing, and journalistic writing. Our faculty members include some of the country's leading authorities on journalism and public relations, the history of film, intercultural communication, and the impact of mass communication on social behavior.

The School of Communication is dedicated to understanding the effects of modern media in our lives, and to preparing students to work in certain traditional and developing media industries. The School offers programs in Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising, Media Production, Media Studies, Corporate Communication, and Interpersonal Communication. These programs offer theoretical and analytical approaches to telecommunications and media studies, as well as applied courses of study in journalism, television and video production, public relations, and graphic design.

In addition to obtaining traditional media jobs as reporters, broadcast journalists, advertising copywriters, and public relations counselors, our graduates increasingly find employment as graphic designers, Internet providers, and creators of emerging electronic media. Our alumni actively support the School, providing scholarships and assisting students with career advice, and over 200 employers in the Houston area seek our students as interns.

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DAVID F. DONNELLY (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1991) conducts research and teaches courses in the social and cultural impact of technological innovations, communication policy and technological forecasting. He is the co‑director of the International Telecommunications Research Institute, and the creator of the Media Futures Archive and the Media Libel Project. He has contributed to six books on media and has published in such journals as Communication Research, Informatics and Telematics, The Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, and New Telecom Quarterly.

WILLIAM DOUGLAS (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1981) works in the areas of relationship development and television and the family. He has contributed to three books and his research has appeared in such journals as Human Communication Research, Communication Monographs, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Communication Research, and the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. A former director of the School of Communication, he serves on the editorial boards of a variety of journals has been twice honored with teaching awards.

MARK GIESE (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1996) conducts research on the social impact of computer‑mediated communication, the history of communication technologies, the role of media technologies in cultural competency and media literacy, and the political economy of mass media and telecommunications systems. He has published articles in Research in Philosophy and Technology, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and First Monday, (http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_4/index.html) and has contributed a chapter to Cyberspace and Communication: Social Interaction in an Electronic Environment. Dr. Giese spent nearly ten years as a video professional working as a producer, writer, director and editor for Texas Instruments.

MARTHA J. HAUN (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1971) is an internationally recognized authority on parliamentary procedure and meeting management. She has numerous articles on parliamentary subjects and currently edits the national Parliamentary Journal. In 1998, she was the recipient of the first H.L. Ewbank Distinguished Parliamentary Service Award from the national Commission on American Parliamentary Practice. For more than a decade she has edited the Texas Speech Communication Journal and served on the state executive committee. She is past national executive director of Phi Beta National Professional Fraternity for the Creative and Performing Arts, and past national president of the Professional Fraternity Association. (website: http://www.uh.edu/crc).

WILLIAM HAWES (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1960) is a specialist in media history, criticism, and production. He has produced more than 500 television programs and is creator/producer of the School's senior workshop series, now in its 32nd year on television. He has produced a dozen short films, and has managed three radio stations. He has authored two books on television history, one of which is Public Television: America’s First Station, and two textbooks about performing on camera. His current projects include a three‑volume history of early American television drama and development of the KUHT/KUHF historical archive.

ROBERT L. HEATH (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1971) is an internationally recognized authority on issues management and public relations. He has written seven books, two of which, Rhetorical and Critical Approaches to Public Relations and Strategic Issues Management, each won the PRide Award from the Public Relations division of the Speech Communication Association. Dr. Heath is a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Public Relations Research and Education and, in 1992, won the Pathfinder Award from that Institute. In 1998, he was awarded the Jackson, Jackson, & Wagner Award for Excellence in Behavior Science Research from the Public Relations Society of America.

GARTH S. JOWETT (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1972) is the author of Film: The Democratic Art, widely acknowledged as the standard social history of movie going in America, and co‑author of Movies as Mass Communication, Propaganda and Persuasion, and Children and the Movies: Media Power and the Payne Fund Controversy. He has also authored numerous articles and book chapters on the subjects of film, propaganda, and popular culture. Dr. Jowett serves as the series editor for the Sage Foundations of Popular Culture Series, as advisory editor for Cambridge University Press’s series on the History of Mass Communications, and is also on the editorial boards of several communication and film journals. Dr. Jowett taught previously at Carleton University in Ottawa and the University of Windsor, Ontario, and was Director of Social Research and Policy Development for the Canadian Government Department of Communications.

JAESUB LEE (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1992) is an authority on the development and maintenance of human relationships in organizations, and has published widely in such journals as Western Journal of Communication, Management Communication Quarterly, and Southern Communication Journal. He teaches organizational, group, intercultural, business and professional communication, and research methods. Prior to joining the School of Communication, he taught at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

JAY M. MOWER (M.B.A., Stanford Business School, 1964) teaches advertising principles, copy, media and campaigns courses. Under his aegis, University advertising teams have performed well in district and national competitions, winning the American Federation of Advertising national championship in 1994. Prior to joining the University in l992, he was an extraordinarily visible professional in advertising and marketing. He led the introduction of several new products generating over $200 million in annual sales at the Coca‑Cola Company, where he served in various capacities, including Vice President of Marketing, of Business Development and of Strategic Planning. He has been honored with the Effie and POPAI awards for his work in advertising and promotion.

ROBERT B. MUSBURGER (Ph.D., Florida State University, 1984) is a specialist in media production and media studies. He spent twenty years as a producer/director in commercial and public radio and television. His research, publishing, and teaching areas concentrate on animation, video, and audio production. He is the author or co‑author of three books on media production: Introduction to Media Production from Analog to Digital, Single-Camera Video Production, and Electronic News Gathering. His works have been translated into Spanish and Chinese. He has been nominated for an Emmy and has won five awards for his half‑hour radio program, IMAGES, aired on commercial radio in Houston for the past fifteen years.

BETH OLSON (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992) conducts research on the psychological and sociological effects of media consumption. She has published articles in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, Applied Communication Research, Mass Comm Review, Sex Roles, and Southwestern Mass Communication Journal on a number of topics, including the portrayal of families in television situation comedies, newspaper competition and gender representation, and news coverage of the women's movement. She teaches electronic newswriting, research methods, media effects, and gender and media courses. Dr. Olson spent six years working in radio and television news.

MICHAEL RYAN (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 1971) has published or presented more than 100 articles, book reviews and commentaries in a wide range of forums and publications, including Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, The Quill, Public Relations Quarterly, the Houston Chronicle, Health Education Quarterly, The Scientist, Journalism & Mass Communication Monographs, Journal of Communication, Feedback, Newspaper Research Journal, Journal of Black Studies and Columbia Journalism Review. He has served as an editorial consultant for more than a dozen journals and book publishers. He taught previously at Temple University in Philadelphia and at West Virginia University.

FREDERICK SCHIFF (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1970) does research on news organizations and ideological conflict. He has published articles in leading scholarly journals of critical studies, international communication, and journalism education, including Critical Studies in Mass Communication, International Communication Bulletin, Middle East Journal, Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Research on Language & Social Interaction, and Sociological Perspectives. He worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent for nearly 10 years in the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe. He is writing a book on the newspaper industry, based on the first‑ever national survey of publishers and senior executives.

TED STANTON (M.S., Columbia University, 1952), the Director of the School of Communication, teaches courses in newswriting, editing and opinion writing, and communication law and ethics. He came to the University of Houston in 1982 after twenty-seven years as a journalist, including thirteen as an editor and writer at The Wall Street Journal in New York and twelve as managing editor of the daily newspaper in Moscow, Idaho.

LES SWITZER (Ph.D., University of Natal, South Africa, 1971) has teaching and research interests in journalism and media studies, development studies, cultural studies and Southern Africa studies. He has nine years of experience as a working journalist in three countries (U.S., Britain, South Africa) and twenty-six years of teaching in universities in the U.S. and in Europe and Africa. The co‑founder and co‑director of the Center for Critical Cultural Studies, he has written six books and numerous book chapters, articles and essays in scholarly journals, and edited a conference proceedings. His books include South Africa’s Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960, Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa, Media and Dependency in South Africa, and The Black Press in South Africa and Lesotho, 1836-1976. He has received more than thirty individual grants and awards for his research activities, as well as a Fulbright Senior Scholar award and a Distinguished Faculty Recognition Award from the Houston City Council.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

The Department of Communication Disorders provides both academic training and clinical services. Communication Disorder’s courses explore the nature and development of speech, language, and hearing, and the treatment of specific disorders. The Department has two major goals: to improve the identification, prevention, and treatment of communication impairments and to provide pre-professional and professional training in audiology, speech-language pathology, and speech and hearing science. Our training programs culminate in supervised practicum experiences in clinical settings.

A vital community resource, our Communication Disorders clinic provides speech, language, and hearing services to families throughout the Texas Gulf Coast region who are seeking appropriate evaluation and treatment for communication and language disorders.

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CONNIE BARKER (Ph.D., University of Florida, 1997) has been a certified audiologist since 1979. She was on the faculty at the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, providing academic and clinical instruction and supervision in aural rehabilitation. Upon entering the doctoral program for audiology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Professor Barker taught academic and clinical classes at the undergraduate and graduate level in diagnostic audiology, hearing aids, basic sign language, audiologic management and parent‑infant training for hearing impaired children. She joined the University of Houston Department of Communication Disorders in 1997. Her research interests are auditory and visual perception of speech and efficacy of treatment techniques for audiology management.

LYNN S. BLISS (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1971) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Disorders. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and is a Fellow of the American Speech‑Language‑Hearing Association. She is also a site visitor for the Council on Academic Accreditation of the American Speech Language‑Hearing Association. Her areas of expertise are normal and impaired language development. She has published over 25 articles in the field of speech‑language pathology. Before coming to the University of Houston in 1997, she served for many years as chair of the Department of Communication Disorders at Wayne State University.

MARY CURL (M.A., University of Houston, 1983) is clinical coordinator of the University of Houston speech-language and hearing clinic. Her areas of expertise are supervision, adolescent language‑learning disabilities and communication abilities. She has worked in schools, hospitals, rehabilitation facilities and private practice. She is the recipient of the Tina E. Bangs Service Award presented by the Houston Association for Communication Disorders, an organization that she has served as president and treasurer.

SUSANN DOWLING (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1976), a fellow of the American Speech‑Language‑Hearing Association, is an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of supervision and clinical training. She was the recipient of the national Supervisor of the Year Award and has written a seminal book on supervision, Implementing the Supervisory Process: Theory and Implementation. She also has expertise in phonology and its disorders in both children and adults, and has published extensively in these areas.

FRAN HAGSTROM (Ph.D., Clark University, 1994) is a specialist in developmental theories of communication and mind as they apply to normal development and disabilities across the life span. She has published in the areas of language acquisition, school failure, and dementia. Professor Hagstrom has close ties to the Centers for Disabilities Studies at Vanersborg University College of Health Sciences in Vanersborg, Sweden, and at the University of Linkoping in Linkoping, Sweden. Graduate students from the Department of Communication Disorders have accompanied her to Sweden to participate in joint research ventures. She conducts a developmental clinic that addresses school failure with Dr. Jerome Rosner in the College of Optometry at the University of Houston, and is on the Board of Directors for the Joy Development School, which grew out of this clinic and serves children with special educational needs. Professor Hagstrom taught at Smith College before joining the Department of Communication Disorders in 1995.

Department of Economics

With its strengths in applied research and international trade, the Economics Department is well-positioned to meet the needs of Houston as a world trading center and a port of entry from Latin America. With Houston a world center for the health, oil and gas, and chemical industries, the Department is currently undertaking major new initiatives in the areas of health economics, industrial organization, and government regulation.

John Antel,Ph.D., UCLA (Chairman) Labor, Econometrics

Richard Bean, Ph.D., Washington American Economic History, Public Choice

Michael Ben-Gad. Ph. D, Chicago Macroeconomic Theory, Public Finance

Alok Bhargava, Ph.D., London School of Economics Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, Development Economics

Steven G. Craig, Ph.D., Pennsylvania (Undergraduate Director) Public Sector Economics, Public Choice, Applied Microeconometrics

W. Davis Dechert, Ph.D., Cornell Microeconomics, Mathematical Economics

Thomas R. DeGregori, Ph.D., Texas Economic Development, History of Technology relating to Economic Development

Dinlersoz, Emin, PhD., Rochester Industrial Organization

Nicholas J. Feltovich, Ph.D., Pittsburgh Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Industrial Organization

Paul R. Gregory, Ph.D., Harvard Soviet Economics, Comparative Economics, Economic History

Chinhui Juhn, Ph.D., Chicago Price Theory, Labor Economics

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem, PhD., Brown Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, International Economics

Janet E. Kohlhase,Ph.D., Pennsylvania Urban Economics, Regional Economics, Environmental Economics

Thomas H. Mayor, Ph.D., Maryland Applied Microeconomics, Law and Economics

Christian Murray, Ph.D., Washington Time Series Econometrics, Macroeconomics

David H. Papell, Ph.D., Columbia (Graduate Director) International Economics, Macroeconomics, Time Series Econometrics

Roy J. Ruffin, Ph.D., Northwestern International Trade Theory, Price Theory

Roger Sherman, Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon Industrial Organization, Regulatory Economics

Barton A. Smith, Ph.D., Chicago Urban Economics, Public Finance, Real Estate Economics, Regional Economics

Peter Thompson, Ph.D., University of Florida Economic Growth, International Economics

Nathaniel Wilcox, Ph.D., Chicago Decision Theory, Experimental Methodology in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Industrial Organization

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

With over 500 majors and nearly 8,000 students enrolled each semester, English is among the University's largest departments. Its special strengths include a Creative Writing Program, which is widely recognized as among the best in the country, as well as clear strengths in Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian, and American literature. The Department has made African American, Mexican American, comparative, environmental, and post-colonial literature areas of special emphasis.

The Creative Writing Program has a faculty whose honors include Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and MacArthur Awards, and a graduate program that is among the most selective in the country. InPrint, Inc., a non-profit organization, provides fellowships to UH creative writing students, and also underwrites the Houston Readings Series, which brings nationally and internationally renowned novelists and poets to Houston. InPrint is currently raising funds to support two endowed chairs in Creative Writing.

The Department of English is a national leader in developing community outreach programs to foster the study of African American and Mexican American literature in public schools. The Department's innovative Common Ground project, which has received over $800,000 in support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and local corporations, has worked with area high school teachers to enhance the teaching of works by writers of color.

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HOSAM ABOUL-ELA (Ph.D., University of Texas) brings international and comparative perspectives to literary and cultural studies. His current research looks at the postcolonial interest in William Faulkner among Latin American and Arab theorists and fiction writers.

MARGOT BACKUS (Ph.D., University of Texas) writes and teaches in the areas British, Irish and ethnic and Third World literature with a specialization in gender studies and queer theory. She has published numerous articles on gender and sexuality in twentieth century British, Irish, and North American literature and film, and her book, The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality and Child Sacrifice in the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order, published in 1999 by Duke University Press, won the Michael Durkan Prize for the most distinguished first book in any field in Irish Studies.

DOROTHY BAKER (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1982), the Director of the American Cultures Program, received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Her teaching and research focus on early and ante-bellum American literature. She is the author of Mythic Masks in Self-Reflexive Poetry (1986) and Poetics in the Poem (1996), and many essays on the work of Cotton Mather, Hannah Webster Foster, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson. She is currently completing a book entitled Magnalia Dei/Terribilia Dei: Cotton Mather and America's Gothic Fiction. Vice President of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, she has received research and travel grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, and a UH Teaching Excellence Award in 1995.

JOHN BERNARD (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1970), who holds a joint appointment with the Honors College, is a Renaissance scholar who has divided his interest between English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the literature and culture of the European Renaissance. In addition to a book on Spenserian pastoral, Ceremonies of Innocence (Cambridge University Press, 1989) and an edited collection of essays on Vergil, Vergil at 2000 (AMS Press, 1986), he has published articles on various Renaissance subjects in PMLA, ELH, New Literary History, Modern Philology, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Modern Language, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and other journals. He has been a member of the MLA Delegate Assembly, an officer of the Western States Association of Faculty Governance and the Texas Conference of Faculty Governance Organizations, and has served as president of the Faculty Senate. He has been awarded an NEH Younger Humanist Fellowship for study in Italy, and has been an exchange professor at the University of Strasbourg, France. He has won the UH Faculty Teaching Excellence, the Honors Program's Distinguished Service, and Mortar Board's "Top Prof" awards. His present research focuses on representations of the reading process in sixteenth-century texts.

HARMON BOERTIEN (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1975) teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics. He has taught at Texas A&I University and University of Texas at Austin as well as the University of Houston. His teaching and research interests are in English syntax, morphology, and semantics, and he has presented numerous conference papers and published articles on topics in these areas. He also served as a consultant to Houston area law firms on questions of interpretation of disputed document language. He has held a number of administrative positions in the English Department including Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, and, from 1994 to 1998, English Department Chair.

ELIZABETH BROWN GUILLORY (Ph.D., Florida State University, 1980) is one of the nation's foremost African American playwrights, and a formidable role model for our students. The author of three books on African American women writers, she frequently delivers lectures at national conferences and institutions. Ten of her plays have been produced in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and elsewhere. She is currently completing a manuscript on migration, identity, and community in plays by African, Caribbean, and African American women. She organizes and directs the Houston Suitcase Theatre, a student theatre troupe, consisting of students of diverse ethnic backgrounds, that promotes theatre by people of color. In 1991, she was named Outstanding Professor by Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, and Outstanding Professor in 1995 by the UH Council of Ethnic Organizations. In 1997, she received the Cooper Teaching Excellence Award.

KATHLEEN CAMBOR (M.A., University of Houston, 1987) is director of the Creative Writing Program. Her short fiction has appeared in many magazines including American Short Fiction, Southwest Review, and The Graywolf Annual. Her first novel, The Book of Mercy, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, was awarded the Janet Heidigger Kafka Prize for Best Book of Fiction by an American Woman, and the Steven Turner Prize for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1996, was one of five finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award. She is a recipient of a Transatlantic Review Award from the Henfield Foundation, a Creative Artist Program Artist Award from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston, and a residency at Yaddo. She has read her work throughout the United States and in Europe, and has also lectured on compassion and the art of medicine. She is a member of the Author's Guild and the Texas Institute of Letters. Her new novel, Gone, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the fall of 2000.

ANN CHRISTENSEN (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1991) teaches and writes in the field of early modern studies. She is working on abook, Business and Pleasure: Domesticity and Capitalism in Early Modern England, a study of sixteenth- and seventeenth century representations of housework and paid labor in the context of nascent capitalism. Her published articles concern drama by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Heywood as well as Jonson's poetry and film adaptations of The Taming of the Shrew. These essays, along with book reviews, can be found in SEL, Exemplaria, Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Philology, Comparative Drama, Literature & History (special issue on Historicizing Shakespeare), and Postscript (a special issue on Shakespeare and Film). A recipient of an NEH research grant, she has also received the Distinguished Teacher Award of the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication.

JAMES CLEGHORN (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1974) has been twice elected a "Top Prof" by the Mortar Board Society. In the 1970s, he was co-director with Sylvan Karchmer of the UH Creative Writing Program, faculty advisor of the UH literary magazine (at the time, Harvest), faculty director for the Writers' Club. He has published poems in over thirty magazines, including The Massachusetts Review, The Formalist, The Midwest Quarterly, Descant, and The Cape Rock, as well as in two anthologies, East Coast Poets and Working from Silence. He is also interested in non-fiction nature writing, garnered from extensive notebooks he has kept in places like Maine, Montana, and the Big Bend area of Texas.

MARIANNE COOLEY (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1972) taught at Texas Tech University and the University of California, Davis, before joining the faculty at the University of Houston. Her research and teaching interests focus on history of the English language, phonological analysis and theory, and theories and materials for teaching English to speakers of other languages. Most recently she has published on eighteenth-century literary attestations of African American English and has designed a new course on African American English. Her publications have appeared in Diachronica, The Journal of English Linguistics, American Speech, and Glossa. She has served as ESL Coordinator and director of lower division studies in the English Department, and has been a participant in the UH/HCC Ford Foundation Partnership Grant and the Texas Core Curriculum Conference. Her interest in TESOL and international studies has led to her participation in the USIA/Fulbright Istanbul English Teaching Seminar and the Polish Association for Studies in English.

TERRELL F. DIXON (Ph.D., Indiana University) served for many years as chair of the English Department and as the founding director of the Scholar’s Community, an innovative initiative to build a learning community among commuter students. His scholarship focuses on literature and the environment, and especially on the urban environment.

CHITRA DIVAKARUNI (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1994), an award-winning poet and novelist, was born in India. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, was awarded the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She has since written two best selling novels, The Mistress of Spices and Sisters of My Heart, and four poetry collections, including Leaving Yuba City. Her writing has received extraordinary praise. The Wall Street Journal wrote: "Ms. Divakaruni emphasizes the cathartic force of storytelling with sumptuous prose...she defies categorization, beautifully blending the chills of reality with rich imaginings. " USA Today said: "Her literary voice is a sensual bridge between worlds. India and America. Children and parents. Men and women. Passion and pragmatism."

MARK DOTY (M.F.A., Goddard College, 1980) is the author of five books of poetry, including My Alexandria, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Philip Levine and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Britain's T.S. Eliot Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Atlantis was named a Notable Book of the Year by both the New York Times and the American Library Association, and received the Gingham Poetry Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and a Lambda Literary Award. His latest collection, Sweet Machine, was also named Notable Book of the Year by the American Library Association. His memoir, Heaven's Coast, won the PEN Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction, and was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, which described the book as "a terrifying and elegant document of the age of AIDS." The Washington Post said, "If one book survives the AIDS epidemic, it will be this one." A second memoir, Firebird, is forthcoming in 1999. Doty's poems have appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The Nation and other magazines. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Whiting, Ingram Merrill and Rockefeller Foundations, and is a two-time recipient of poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

TED ESTESS (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1972) is Dean of the Honors College where he holds the Jane Morin Cizic Chair in the Humanities. He has built the Honors Program from a small program into an interdisciplinary college of 1100 students. He has held visiting positions at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, and at the University of Montana. The author of a book on Elie Wiesel, he has also published on the work of Samuel Beckett and on novelists such as Walker Percy, Mary Gordon, William Kennedy, and Joseph Heller. He has recently completed a volume of non-fiction entitled Fishing Spirit Lake, a portion of which has been published in Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion. A recipient of the University's Teaching Excellence Award, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the C.G. Jung Center, the KIPP Academy, the Holocaust Museum Houston, and the Houston Center for the Humanities and Public Policy. Nationally known for his work in the American Academy of Religion and the National Collegiate Honors Council, Estess has served as President of the Southwest Region of the American Academy of Religion and as Program Chair of the Arts, Religion, and Literature Section of the AAR. He is a Fellow of the Society for Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, and is a frequent lecturer and consultant at high schools, colleges, and universities.

TAMARA L. FISH (Ph.D., University of Texas, 1998) is a specialist in composition, rhetorical theory, and writing pedagogy. She is currently completing a history and critical assessment of the theory of and empirical research on writing instruction. Her manuscript builds on her dissertation, which examined the influence of feminist scholarship upon the field of rhetoric and composition.

PETER GINGISS (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1973) specializes in sociolinguistics and computers and composition. He has published in both linguistics and composition. He is currently working on a book on Jewish languages. Dr. Gingiss has served as director of the English computer writing lab since its founding in 1988, and has been instrumental in its development and improvement. He also uses his technological expertise to develop and maintain the English Department’s webpage. From 1989 to 1991, he served as founding director of the Humanities Teaching Institute for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. He has chaired the college faculty council and its personnel committee. In 1998, he was awarded the college’s Distinguished Service Award. He has taught minority literature during summers as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

MARIA C. GONZALEZ (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1991) is a leading authority on Mexican American writers, Chicana feminism, sexuality, and pedagogy. The author of Contemporary Mexican American Women Novelists: Toward a Feminist Identity, she is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Devouring Institutions: The Life and Work of Kathy Acker, and is completing a book-length manuscript on Chicana lesbian writers and queer theory. She is an officer of the National Women's Studies Association and a member of the editorial boards of NWSA Journal and The Journal of Lesbian Studies. In addition, she has served three terms on the Faculty Senate and served as director of graduate studies for the English Department, and member of the Graduate and Professional Studies Council. She was named Outstanding Professor by the English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta.

ELIZABETH GREGORY (Ph.D., Yale University, 1989) is the author of Quotation and Modern American Poetry: “Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads” (1996), which focuses on the work of T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore. She is also the author of a number articles on modernism and an essay on Homer, entitled "Unraveling Penelope: The Construction of the Faithful Wife in Homer's Heroine," (Hellos, 1996). Her current project is Why Tell?: Situating the Confessional Mode in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She teaches courses on British and American modernism, contemporary poetry, ancient and classical literature, feminist criticism, cultural criticism and American literature since 1860. Since 1995, Professor Gregory has been the Director of the Women's Studies Program. As Director, she has expanded the program and developed the Women's Archive and Research Center (WARC). The archive component of the WARC collects the papers of Houston area women's organizations and records oral histories of women who have made history in Houston. The research element of the WARC provides scholarships and fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students, funds a postdoctoral fellowship in Women's Studies, and awards grants for faculty research.

PAUL GUAJARDO (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995) began at the University of Houston as a Visiting Scholar in Mexican American Studies in the Fall of 1996. He was awarded a Mexican American Studies Research Fellowship for his research on a book-length project, Reassessing Richard Rodriguez. His teaching interests include Mexican American literature, minority literature, Victorian literature, and the novel.

WYMAN H. HERENDEEN (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1976), Chair of the English Department, is an active scholar in various aspects of Renaissance studies. His interests also extend into earlier periods, including classical literature and culture, and into later periods, such as nineteenth century art and popular culture in England and France. He has published in many areas of the English and Continental Renaissance, including an award-winning book on the relationship between literature, the physical landscape, cultural mythology, and the construction of place: From Landscape to Literature: The River and the Myth of Geography. He has also published on Petrarch and Freud, Spenser, Milton, and Ben Jonson, among others. He has received research grants from the Huntington Library, the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Social Sciences, Humanities Research Council of Canada. Active in many scholarly organizations, he has held various executive offices in the John Donne Society, the Barnabe Riche Society, and the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, and has been a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Renaissance Studies at the University of Toronto. Before coming to Houston he served for five years as Head of the English Department at the University of Windsor, and for three years on the Academic Appraisal Committee of the Ontario Council of Graduate Studies.

EDWARD HIRSCH (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1979), a literary critic and poet, is one of our University's most honored faculty members. A recipient of a $295,000 "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar and former director of the Creating Writing Program, he is the author of books and poetry including Sleepwalkers, The Night Parade, and On Love. His writing has received national and international awards, including the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, Lyndhurst Prize, the Rome Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Texas Institute of Letters Award in Poetry, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is poetry editor of Wilson Quarterly, editorial advisor for poetry for DoubleTake magazine, and is a contributing editor to Triquarterly and the Paris Review. He contributes regularly to American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review. His most recent book is How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry.

W. LAWRENCE HOGUE (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980) received his Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature, with an emphasis in American literature, ethnic literature, and critical theory. He taught at the University of California at Irvine before coming to the University of Houston in 1988. He has published two books, Discourse and the Other: The Production of the Afro-American Text (Duke, 1986) and Race, Modernity, Postmodernity: A Look at the History and Literatures of People of Color Since the 1960’s (SUNY 1996). His current project, tentatively title Beyond Racial Victimization: Celebrating African American (Male) Differences, examines works of literature excluded from the standard canon of African American literature, works that transcend the representation of the African American as a victim or as a devalued Other. Professor Hogue regularly teaches undergraduate courses in postmodern fiction and graduate seminars in critical theory and postmodern fiction.

NATALIE M. HOUSTON (Ph.D., Duke University, 1998) joined the UH faculty in the Fall of 1998. She specializes in literature of the Victorian period, and is currently engaged in revising her dissertation manuscript, Capturing the Moment: A Cultural History of the Victorian Sonnet, which examines how Victorian poets adapted the older poetic form to represent their modern experience. While at Duke University, she coordinated the Teaching Assistant Development Program at the Duke University Center for Teaching and Learning and also served as a mentor and instructor in Duke's University Writing Program.

DAVID JUDKINS (Ph.D., Michigan State University), a specialist in early seventeenth-century English literature, offers courses in Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, postcolonial literature, and travel literature. On two occasions he has taught with the University of Pittsburgh’s “Semester at Sea” study abroad program, traveling around the world with students on the S.S. Universe-Explorer. His books include Ben Johnson’s Non Dramatic Works and An Astute Student’s Guide to Study Abroad.

JAMES KASTELY (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980), a nationally recognized expert in the history and theory of rhetoric, is the author of Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition: From Plato to Postmodernism. He has published in PMLA, College English, The Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Philosophy and Literature, Style, Mosaic, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Essays in Theatre, Twentieth Century Literature, and Nineteenth- Century Literature. Before coming to UH, he taught for thirteen years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he won the Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching, that school's highest teaching prize. Chosen as Outstanding Professor by the graduate students of the English Department, he directs the department's lower division studies program and offers courses in the history of rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, history of composition, history of literary criticism, modern literary theory, and theory of the novel. His teaching is a continual inquiry into the ethical and political implications of discourse, and he has worked to restructure of the training of teaching assistants and help them create their professional identity as teachers.

CARL LINDAHL (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1980) is a nationally recognized authority in medieval folklore, folktales and legends, festivals and celebrations, folklore fieldwork, and the ways in which folk cultures seek and exercise covert power. Among the folk cultures he has explored are French Americans (Cajuns, Creoles, Canadians, and Caribbeans) and the regional cultures of East Texas, Appalachia, and the Ozarks. His many books and articles have received national recognition. Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana was named the Louisiana Humanities Book of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. He has received the Alcee Fortier Award from the American Folklore Society, and has won a University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award.

DAVID MAZELLA (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1996) specializes in eighteenth-century British literature. As a member of the Department's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, he helped to design and teach the now-required gateway course for the major, Introduction to Literary Studies. His article about the development of this course and its implications for curricular reform appeared in Profession '98, the MLA's official forum for professional issues. He has also written on Laurence Stern, Thomas Hobbes, and George Lillo. He is now writing a book on the cultural history of cynics and the concept of cynicism in eighteenth-century British culture. He also has research interests in Scottish literature and the Scottish Enlightenment, particularly the poetry of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. He has been a research fellow at the Thomas Reid Institute, University of Aberdeen ('98), and received the 1999 University of Houston Cooper Teaching Excellence Award. In 1997, Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, named him Teacher of the Year.

CYNTHIA MACDONALD (M.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1970) has published six collections of poetry since 1972: I Can’t Remember, Living Wills, New and Selected Poems, Alternate Means of Transport, (W)holes, Amputations, and Transplants. Living Wills was chosen as a “Notable Book of the Year” by the New York Times. Renowned poet Anthony Hecht wrote of her most recent book, “Cynthia MacDonald’s poems are quite extraordinary in their range and daring. She is brilliantly versatile in adopting the views, attitudes, or moods of fictive persons or actual persons different from herself, and she does so with delicate empathy.” In 1980, she came to the University of Houston from Johns Hopkins University, where she was Full Professor, as a consultant to the English Department to help plan a Creative Writing Program. Two years later, she became the Program’s first Director. The Program is now ranked second in the nation by US News and World Report. Her grants include three from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in recognition of her achievements as a poet, the Esther B. Farfel Award, the highest recognition of excellence that the University bestows, and the O.B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library.

JOHN MCNAMARA (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1968) is a classics and philosophy student who eventually became a scholar and teacher of medieval languages and literatures. He regularly teaches graduate courses in Old and Middle English, and he has conducted independent study courses in Old Norse/Icelandic, Old and Modern Irish, and Medieval Latin. His recent research and publications have been on Old English, Anglo-Latin, and Middle Scots literature and folklore (including saints’ lives). He is also co-editor (with Carl Lindahl, University of Houston, and John Lindow, University of California, Berkeley) of the Medieval Folklore Encyclopedia, which is scheduled to be published in Spring, 2000, and he serves on the editorial board of the journal of Medieval Folklore Studies. In addition, Professor McNamara has taught numerous graduate courses in literary theory and criticism, with a special interest in rhetorical and cultural studies. He has twice won the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award, and he has also been awarded HFAC's Master Teacher Award.

DAVID MIKICS (Ph.D., Yale University, 1988) has wide-ranging intellectual interests. Trained in Renaissance literature and culture, he also writes on modern fiction and poetry, continental philosophy, postmodern theory, the myths of mass culture, and Caribbean history and literature. His published work includes The Limits of Moralizing: Pathos and Subjectivity in Spenser and Milton (Bucknell University Press, 1994), “Derek Walcott and Alejo Carpentier: Nature History and the Caribbean Writing,” in Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community (eds. Zamora and Faris), and “Poetry and Politics in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” forthcoming in Raritan. His current book project, on the German philosophical bases of Emerson’s work, has inspired him to spend several months in Germany doing research and becoming fluent in German.

WILLIAM MONROE (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1982) is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the Honors at the University of Houston. A native Houstonian, he attended Duke University and transferred to the University of Texas where he completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. After working as a news writer and editor in East Texas, he entered the doctoral program at the University of Chicago, and wrote his dissertation under the direction of Wayne C. Booth. His publications include articles on Willa Cather, Flannery O’Connor, T.S. Eliot, and Vladimir Nabokov. He has also written a play, with the collaboration of the historian Thomas R. Cole, dealing with end-of-life issues and Alzheimer’s disease entitled, Primary Care. Since 1994, he has directed “Commom Ground,” a summer teachers institute focusing on multicultural literature. He is also coordinator for the Houston Teachers Institute, a partnership with the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute and the Houston Independent School District, and director of the Project for the Study of Values in Civic Life and the Professions, a colloquium series. His most recent publication is Power to Hurt: The Virtues of Alienation, a book about the transformative power of reading. He is currently at work on a book about the life and works of Flannery O’Connor entitled “Flannery O’Connor and the Problem of Evil.”

ROBERT PHILLIPS (M.A., Syracuse University, 1962), a John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar, is a prize-winning poet, fiction writer, critic and teacher. He has received an Award in Literature and Creative Writing from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a CAPS Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a National Public Radio Fiction Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Enron Teaching Excellence Award, fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Djerassi Foundation, among others. He has lectured widely and was recently chairman of the National Book Awards for poetry. He is author and editor of twenty-seven books, three of which were named a "Memorable Book of the Year" by the New York Times. He has been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, in German, Italian, and Russian, and soon SerboCroation. Breakdown Lane, his most recent book of poems, was runner-up for The Poets' Prize. He is Councilor of the Texas Institute of Letters.

JAMES H. PICKERING (Ph.D., Northwestern University) served as Dean of the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication and as Provost and as President of the University of Houston. An authority on American literature, his books include Mr. Stanley of Estes Park, The Blue Hollow: Estes Park, the Early Years, 1859-1915, and The World Turned Upside Down: Prose and Poetry of the American Revolution.

JAMES PIPKIN (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973), a former Dean of the College, specializes in British literature from 1798 to the present, the English Romantic movement, autobiography, American cultural studies, and multicultural literature. He is the editor of English and German Romanticism: Cross-Currents and Controversies, and articles on William Wordsworth, various studies of literature and other liberal arts, and American multicultural literature. His current research includes American autobiography and sports. He has been honored as a Mortar Board “Top Prof” at the University on five occasions. He was also elected by the faculty to Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and by the students to Sigma Tau Delta National English Honor Society. A pioneer in the field of university-school collaboratives, he co-founded the "Common Ground" program, the largest university-school partnership program in the country. He raised more than $800,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Houston corporations in support of this program, and continues to serve as special advisor to the Houston Teachers Institute and as consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

DUDLEY W. REYNOLDS (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1996), an applied linguist, specializes in the acquisition of written discourse patterns by adult and child learners of English as a second language. He has presented numerous papers at local and national conferences such as TESOL and the American Association of Applied Linguistics, and has published in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, TESOL Quarterly, World Englishes, and English Language Teaching. He has also conducted workshops and professional development seminars on the teaching of second language writing for area ESL teachers. He serves as the graduate advisor for students in the department’s Masters in Applied English Linguistics program and co-chairs the department's ESL Committee. He teaches courses in the areas of second language acquisition, language assessment, materials development, and introductory linguistics.

IRVING N. ROTHMAN (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1967), a specialist in the works of Daniel Defoe, conducts research in Restoration and eighteenth century English literature and in neo-classical patterns in early American literature. He has published on Defoe in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America and is General Textual Editor of the works of Defoe being published by LSU University and AMS Press. His publications in the period include studies of Thomas Chatterton's play Aella, Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Burlington," Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and Henry Fielding's prose imitation of Spenser's epithalamium in Joseph Andrews. He is an authority on the poetry of an early American Federalist Magazine, The Port Folio, published in Philadelphia, under the anti-Jeffersonian editor Joseph Dennie. Also a specialist in technical and professional writing, he offers a course on Technology and Literature, and serves as editor of the annual report and other publications for key scientific institutes on campus, including the Energy Laboratory, the Institute for Space Systems Operations (ISSO), and the Environmental Institute of Houston (EIH).

LENORA P. SMITH (Ph.D., Rice University, 1992) has been the coordinator of lower division studies since the summer of 1993. In this capacity, she administers the freshman and sophomore writing program. Her research and teaching interests, which reflect her involvement with the writing program, focus on improving writing skills through collaboration among students, and between the university and the community. She has received the support of university grants, the first in 1994, to fund a year-long peer tutoring program in the English Department computer writing lab, and the second, written in conjunction with Terrell Dixon in 1997, to create a service learning component for a sophomore environmental literature course. She is currently incorporating a service learning component into the Composition I course and plans to expand the service learning program, in which students engage in writing for non-profit agencies. Her area of specialization is modern British literature.

DANIEL STERN, Cullen Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing Program, is the author of nine novels, four collections of short stories, a play and several screenplays. His novel, Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die, won the International Prix du Souvenir awarded by Elie Wiesel. In 1990 he won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award for literary distinction for his book of short stories Twice Told Tales. He has won the Paris Review's John Train Humor Award, several O'Henry Prizes for his short stories, and the Texas Institute of Letters’ Brazos Prize for the best short story of 1996. His new book of stories, One Day's Perfect Weather, will appear in September, 1999, and another collection, In the Country of the Young, in 2000. His work has also appeared in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. He was a cellist with Charley Parker's band and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, as well as a senior executive at Warner Bros., CBS television, and McCann-Erickson advertising. He has taught at Wesleyan University, New York University, Harvard University, and has lectured at the Sorbonne. At the University of Houston, Professor Stern has added several courses to the curriculum including “Literature of the Holocaust” and one on the “History and Craft of the Short Story.”

LORRAINE STOCK (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1975) has published widely in medieval studies. Her research crosses disciplinary boundaries and includes articles on the illustrators of Froissart's Chroniques, Piers Plowman, Chaucer, gender in medieval romance, cultural primitivism and the idea of the "wild man." Active in professional organizations at the regional and national levels, she serves on the editorial board of Medieval Perspectives and the executive council of the Southeast Medieval Association. She has also served as an adjudicator for the Jacob R. Javits Graduate Fellowships, administered by the U.S. Department of Education.

GEORGE TRAIL (Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1969) wrote his dissertation on D.H. Lawrence's poetry and served for many years on the editorial staff of the D.H. Lawrence Review. He is responsible for the poetry sections of D.H. Lawrence volumes in the Annotated Secondary Bibliography Series on English Literature in Transition, and has published articles on Lawrence's poetry and criticism. Specializing in British and American literatures from mid- to late Victorian through high Modernism, he has published articles on Whitman, Rossetti, Aubrey Beardsley, Hardy, Durrell, and George Orwell. Most recently his interests have turned to composition and rhetoric, with an emphasis on rhetorical analysis. Harcourt Brace publishes his Rhetorical Terms and Concepts: A Contemporary Glossary. Reading Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader is scheduled to appear in 2000. He was awarded the Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication Distinguished Teacher award in 1993 and an Enron University of Houston teaching award in 1994 for his work in undergraduate instruction.

LYNN VOSKUIL (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994) specializes in the literature and culture of Victorian Britain. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity, which explores the period’s habitual use of the theatre to conceptualize the ethical, political, and epistemological concerns of middle-class culture. Her essays, which have appeared in ELH: A Journal of English Literary History, Feminist Studies, and Modern Philology, focus on the cultural connections among popular fiction, theatre criticism, and medical treatises in the middle and late Victorian years. Her teaching explores the textures of the Victorian culture by synthesizing a wide range of texts and genres, from archival documents to well-known masterpieces. In addition, she has taught several undergraduate seminars, including "The Nation's Stage: Britain and Her Theatre," "Social Ills, Novel Cures," and "The 1860s." Her graduate seminars include "The English Novel Since 1832," "Victorian Studies/Cultural Studies," and "Victorian Cultural Criticism and the New Public Intellectual."

ROBERTA WELDON (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1974) specializes in American literature before the Civil War, and is particularly interested in early nineteenth-century American fiction. She has published articles on the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in such journals as American Transcendental Quarterly, Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Studies in Short Fiction, and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal. She is currently at work on a book on gender, death, and Hawthorne's fiction. She has been named Outstanding Professor in the English Department by Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society and “Top Prof” by the Mortar Board Honor Society. She has also received the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award and the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication Distinguished Teacher Award.

LINDA WESTERVELT (Ph.D., Rice University, 1976), an authority on modern fiction, has published on Henry Adams, John Barth, Henry James, and Thomas Pynchon, and is the author of Beyond Innocence or the Altersroman in Modern Fiction. She has been a leader in efforts to expand the literary canon to encompass multicultural literatures. Her current study provides comparative readings of canonical and noncanonical works of fiction that share common themes and literary strategies but contrast in other respects.

BARRY WOOD (Ph.D., Stanford University), a specialist of American literature, teaches courses in His books include The Magnificent Frolic and Malcolm Lowry: The Writer, His Critics.

THOMAS WOODELL II (Ph.D., University of Florida), a specialist in linguistics, offers a variety of courses that involve the study of language and the history of the English langauge. His scholarship looks at the application of linguistics to such topics as the law, medicine, the workplace, and gender.

PATRICIA LEE YONGUE (Ph.D., UCLA, 1972) is a specialist in the writings of Willa Cather, Emily Dickinson, and Ernest Hemingway. She has received the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Prize for the best essay published in The Southern Humanities Review. Four times she has been named Mortar Board "Top Prof"; she has also received the Sigma Tau Delta Award for Teacher of the Year, and has served as Director of Upper Division Studies of English.

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI (M.A., Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland, 1970) is an Associate Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program since 1988 who teaches a graduate poetry workshop, and a literature course every spring semester. A native of Poland who is now a resident of Paris, he was an active dissident in Europe during the seventies, and he maintains a scholarly interest in the political and philosophical aspects of totalitarianism. Currently co-editor of Zesyty Literackie in Paris, he is a writer of international repute, with work that has been widely anthologized and published in Polish, English, French, Hebrew, Italian, German, Swedish, and Greek. He has published A Thin Line, The Perfect Pitch, Solidarity, Solitude, Tremor: Selected Poems, Canvas, Two Cities, and Mysticism for Beginners. He has won a Guggenheim, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, an Echoing Green Foundation Prize, a Berliner Kunstleprogramm Fellowship (West Berlin), the Kurt Tucholsky Prize (Stockholm), the Prix de la Liberte (Paris) and the Koscielski-Foundation Prize (Geneva).

LOIS PARKINSON ZAMORA (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1977) is a leader in the comparative study of literature of the Americas. Her books include Writing the Apocalypse and The Usable Past, both of which examine the nature of historical imagination and its representations in contemporary U.S. and Latin American fiction. She has also edited collections of essays, including Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community with Wendy B. Faris (Duke 1995) and Contemporary American Women Writers. Her recent book, Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America 1866-1994, co-edited with Wendy Watriss, was recognized as the best new art book of 1994 by the Association of American Publishers. Her current project is an interartistic study of Latin American expressive forms to be titled The Inordinate Eye. Professor Zamora was Dean of the College from 1996 to 1999. During her administrative tenure, she encouraged the creation of The Forum on Law and Humanities, The Institute for Family, Health, and Human Values, The Women’s Resource Center, The Junior Faculty Forum, and the Communication Skills Center, as well as study abroad programs in Mexico, Ghana, and Trinidad.

SHERRY LUTZ ZIVLEY (Ph.D., Tulane University, 1973) has published on John Barthe, John Donne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Hughes, D.H. Lawrence, and schizophrenic narrators in novels and poetry, including the works of Margaret Drabble and Sylvia Plath. She has served as Assistant Chair of the English Department and Director of Undergraduate Studies. She is currently writing a study of the phenomenology of dwelling spaces in a variety of short stories, novels, and films.

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

The History Department faculty have compiled a record of accomplishment that places them at the forefront of such fields as African American history, Civil War and military history, medieval history, Mexican history, and Mexican American history. The faculty includes nationally recognized authorities on the history of business, the family, law, medicine, and psychoanalysis. The Department’s Ph.D.’s have received appointments at DePauw University, California State University campuses at Los Angeles and Sacramento, Texas A&M, and the Universities of Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

The History Department has received two Challenge Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first established the Program in Humanities and the Professions, including endowed interdisciplinary chairs that combine History and Business and History and Law. The second Challenge Grant provided for graduate fellowships, library acquisitions, and an endowed chair in African American history. It is rare for a department to receive even one challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Two-time recipients are extraordinarily rare.

Through its initiatives in Public History and the Program in Humanities and the Professions, the Department of History has established strong ties to the Houston community and distinguished itself in community service. The Institute for Public History, founded in 1984, develops internships and conducts a wide range of research for the benefit of the public. It has directed major research projects for METRO, Houston's public transit agency, Harris County Commissioners Court, the Houston Bar Association, Hilton Hotels, and Manchester Terminal Corporation. Grants, contracts, and internships have exceeded $500,000. The Institute for Public History's community outreach activities include the Tenneco Distinguished Lecture Series, Tenneco Lectures in Ethics and the Professions, and the Houston-Galveston Public History Roundtable. It also sponsors a wide array of symposia and conferences on urban affairs and the environment.

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W. ANDREW ACHENBAUM (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1976) is Dean of the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication. A nationally recognized leader in the field of gerontology, he has served as a delegate and technical advisor to the White House Conference on Aging. He is the author or co-author of thirteen books, sixty journal articles, and more than seventy-five book chapters. His most recent books are Crossing-Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science and Dysfunctional Doctoring, co-authored with E.L. Radin. Previously a professor of history and senior research scientist in the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, he currently serves as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Aging.

RICHARD J.M. BLACKETT (M.A., University of Manchester, England, 1973), the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and African American Studies, is a leading authority on antislavery. In such books as Beating Against the Barriers and Building an Antislavery Wall, he has located antislavery in a transatlantic context and has underscored the central role of African American abolitionists in the struggle against slavery. Each Spring, he and Professor Linda Reed sponsor the Black History Workshop, which brings advanced graduate students and junior faculty from both sides of the Atlantic to the University of Houston to present the latest historical research on a pivotal historical topic.

ROBERT BUZZANCO (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1993) is one of the country's most accomplished younger diplomatic historians. His first book, Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era, won the Stuart Bernath Prize for the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. Political Science Quarterly declared that "No serious student of the Vietnam War can afford to miss this challenging and superbly researched book." His most recent book, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life, examines America’s role in the Vietnam War, and the ways in which our involvement radicalized and altered social and political life in the United States.

R. ANDREW CHESNUT (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1995), a specialist in Brazilian history, is a leading authority on Latin American religions. His first book, Born Again in Brazil, examines the Pentecostal boom in Brazil. He has received several grants, including a Fulbright Grant, to support his research. He is currently completing a study of Afro-Brazilian religions.

LAWRENCE CURRY (Ph.D., Duke University, 1971), a specialist in recent American history, is in his twenty-third year as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies of the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication. His research has focused on the U.S. Senate during World War II, and he offers courses in all periods of American history. He was awarded a University Teaching Excellence Award in 1978, the Honors College Distinguished Service Award in 1996, and the University’s Cooper Industries Teaching Excellence Award in 1997. Associate Dean Curry has been centrally involved in developing and implementing the University’s undergraduate curriculum, and he is universally recognized as the repository of the University’s institutional memory.

HANNAH S. DECKER (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1971) is an internationally recognized authority on German and Austrian history. Her first book, Freud in Germany: Revolution and Reaction in Science, established her reputation as one of the leading historians of psychoanalysis. In subsequent articles, she turned to the broader social, political, and cultural context in which psychoanalysis emerged. This research culminated in the publication of Freud, Dora and Vienna 1900, which attracted extraordinary praise. The New York Times described the book as "a fascinating portrait of a woman, her family and her analyst--a portrait that has all the drama of fiction and all the emotional resonance of real life.” Professor Decker has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, a University Teaching Excellence Award in 1983, and a University Research Excellence Award in 1990.

CLIFFORD EGAN (Ph.D., University of Colorado, 1969) is an expert on the diplomatic history of the early United States. He is the author of Neither Peace Nor War: Franco-American Relations, 1803-1812, which traces relations between the United States and Napoleonic France in the ten years following the Louisiana Purchase. He is now writing a study of the Embargo of 1807. He has served on the program committee of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and as secretary and treasurer of the Southwest Association for Canadian Studies.

SARAH FISHMAN (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987), a leading authority on Vichy France, is the author of We Will Wait: The Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945. Her study challenges previous assumptions about the catalytic nature of modern war in changing the status of French women. Professor Fishman has co-edited France at War: Vichy and the Historians, and published a number of important articles on Vichy France, including “Grand Delusions: The Unintended Consequences of Vichy France's Prisoner of War Propaganda,” in The Journal of Contemporary History. She is a recipient of a University Research Excellence Award, and is currently completing a study of French youth during World War II.

JOSEPH GLATTHAAR (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1983) has compiled a record of accomplishment that places him at the forefront of Civil War history. His first book, The March to the Sea and Beyond, was a pioneering attempt to reconstruct the lives and experience of common soldiers. It received three major national prizes: the Bell Irvin Wiley Award of the National Historical Society; the Fletcher Pratt Award; and the Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of the Confederacy. His second book, Forged in Battle, examines race relations within the Union army, and established Glatthaar as the leading authority on black troops in the Civil War. For the second time, he received the Bell Irvin Wiley Award, as well as the American Society of Military History award for the best book in military history. In 1991-1992, he held the prestigious Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professorship at the Army Military History Institute in the U.S. Army War College. A former Department Chair, Professor Glatthaar has recently published Partners in Command, a study of military leadership during the Civil War, which, like his previous books, was a main selection of the History Book Club. Harvard University Press will publish his next book, Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians in the American Revolution.

JOHN MASON HART (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1970) is a pioneer in the application of social history methodologies to Mexican history. A reviewer declared Professor Hart's first book, Anarchism and the Mexican Working Class, to be "indispensable to students of the Mexican Revolution." His magnum opus, Revolutionary Mexico, won three major awards, and attracted truly extraordinary praise. One scholar wrote that it reflected a "much broader range of source collections than ever seen before by historians of nineteenth and twentieth century Mexico." In a review in The New York Times, Carlos Fuentes described Hart's book as a "probing and passionate inquiry" that captured the "true dynamics" of the revolution and "transcends the superficialities that characterize the literature on the revolution." Professor Hart's latest project is an examination of the diplomatic, economic, and political interaction between the U.S. and Mexico from 1868 to 1940. To support completion of this project, Professor Hart received a year-in-residence at Princeton's Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, and a senior fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and received the first research fellowship in our Center for the Americas. Professor Hart, a winner of a University Teaching Excellence Award, is the backbone of the Department's Latin American history graduate program.

FRANK L. HOLT (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1982), is a noted authority on classical antiquity and one of the University of Houston's most honored teachers. He is the author of Alexander the Great and Bactria--The Formation of a Greek Frontier in Central Asia and editor of W.W. Tarn's The Greeks in Bactria and India. His many scholarly articles have reached an unusually broad audience in such journals as Archaeology, History Today, and Newsweek. An expert on ancient coins, he is the director of the Center for Ancient Numismatics at the University of Houston. Professor Holt's most recent book is Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria.

KARL ITTMANN (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987), a British social historian, is the author of Work, Gender, and Family in Victorian England, an examination of the connections between the changing social structure of Bradford, a town in West Yorkshire, and the onset of fertility decline. Professor Ittmann's pioneering essays linking demography to changing work processes and workers' culture, and have appeared in such journals as The Journal of Social History and International Labor and Working Class History. He is currently completing a history of the discipline of demography.

RICHARD JACKSON (Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1985), an authority on French coronation practices, was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton in 1991-1992, where he completed a critical edition of French coronation texts. He is the North American secretary-treasurer of Majestas, an international society for the study of imperial, papal, and royal rulership. He was awarded the degree of Docteur honoris causa en Lettres et Sciences Humaines from the University of Reims in 1975, and in 1993, was inducted into membership by the Société de l'Histoire de France. He is the author of Vive le Roi!: A History of the French Coronation Ceremony from Charles V to Charles X and Ordines Cononationis Franciae, the first reliable modern edition of medieval coronation orders and texts.

SUSAN KELLOGG (Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1980), an internationally known scholar in the fields of colonial Mexican history, ethnohistory, and women's history, combines the skills and methods of anthropology and history. Her studies of Indian wills and legal records have had a major impact upon historical studies of early colonial Mexico. She is the author of Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, and co-author of Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes. She has also co-authored Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. She is a former book review editor of Ethnohistory, and the author of numerous scholarly articles in such journals as Social Science History, Ethnohistory, The Americas, and The Radical History Review. Her research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library and an Evelyn Green Davis Fellowship at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute.

KAREN KLIEMAN (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1996) is Associate Director of the African American Studies Program. Her specialization is pre-colonial West Central Africa. An authority on the use of comparative historical linguistics for the reconstruction of comparative ancient history, her studies of hunter gatherer societies draws on a range of non-traditional historical sources including language, culture, and archeology. Her expertise in Bantu languages and African cultures began with her service as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the University of Houston, she has established study abroad programs in Ghana and Trinidad, and created study abroad scholarships for students participating in these programs.

JAMES KIRBY MARTIN (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1969), Distinguished University Professor, is one of the nation's leading authorities on the American Revolution. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, including Benedict Arnold, Men in Rebellion, In the Course of Human Events, A Respectable Army, and Drinking In America. As former Chair of the History Department, he created the Public History Program and co-authored the grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities that established two endowed chairs in History and the Professions. He serves as general editor for New York University Press's series on American Social Experience, and served as chairman of the American Historical Association's Dunning and Beveridge Prize Committee. Professor Martin plays a central role in the Department's graduate program in United States History.

MARTIN V. MELOSI (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1975), Distinguished University Professor, is past president of the National Council on Public History and the American Society for Environmental History, and director of the department's Institute for Public History. He is a leading authority on environmental, urban, and public policy history. He was a visiting professor at the Institut Francais d'Urbanisme of the University of Paris, and received a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study “The Consequences of Growth: Technology, Environment, and the City-building Process." His many books include Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America, Coping with Abundance, Garbage in the City, Pollution and Reform in American Cities, Comparative Environmental Management in the Americas: Social, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives, and Urban Public Policy: Historical Modes and Methods.

STEVEN MINTZ (Ph.D., Yale University, 1979) is John and Rebecca Moores University Scholar and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research. One of the nation's leading authorities on the history of the American family, he is the author of A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture and co-author of Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. Also a specialist in the areas of slavery, reform, film history, and the application of new technologies to historical teaching and research, his books include African American Voices: The Life Cycle of Slavery, America and its People, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty, Hollywood's America, Moralists & Modernizers, and Native American Voices. He serves as an editor of the New York University Press series on American Social Experience, and has been a historical consultant on the family to the Smithsonian Institution, the Minnesota Historical Center, and the New Jersey Historical Society.

THOMAS O'BRIEN (Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1976), Chair of the History Department, is one of the country's foremost authorities on Latin American economic history. He is a recipient of the Robertson Prize and the author of The Nitrate Age and Chile's Crucial Transition, and The Revolutionary Mission, which charts the social, political, and economic consequences of the intrusion of American corporate culture into various Latin American societies, including the rise of multi-class "populist" movements in many regions during the 1930s. His most recent book is The Century of American Capitalism in Latin America. An expert on the application of social theory to historical analysis, he plays a central role in the Department’s graduate program in Latin American history.

HYLAND PACKARD (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1970), an expert on twentieth-century U.S. cultural and intellectual history, currently serves as the University's Director of Academic Advising. A specialist on the cultural and intellectual life of the 1920s, he is writing a biography of the American journalist, editor, and social critic Francis Hackett.

ROBERT PALMER (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1977), Cullen Professor of History and Law, is a prize-winning authority on the legal history of medieval England. His books include The County Courts of Medieval England, which received the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, and The Whilton Dispute, 1264-1380. He is also co-author of Liberty and Community: Constitution and Rights in the Early American Republic, a major contribution to the debate over the intent of the Constitution and the nature of American government. His most recent book, English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381, examines the transforming effects of the plague on English law. Professor Palmer holds a joint appointment with the University of Houston Law Center.

CATHERINE PATTERSON (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994), an authority on early modern England, came to the University of Houston from the University of Chicago and Harvard University with a strong reputation as a teacher and a scholar. Contributing to the Department’s strengths in legal and urban history, she has completed Urban Patronage in Early Modern England, to be published by Stanford University Press, on the dynamics of political patronage in seventeenth-century English society. Her work examines the meaning of ritual and the ways in which a person-centered, rather than a bureaucracy-centered, government can prove effective. One of her scholarly articles was named the best essay submitted to the British journal Midland History.

JOSEPH PRATT (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1976), Cullen Professor of History and Business, is a nationally-known expert on American business and public policy. A specialist on the energy industry and regional economic development, his many books include The Rise of the Corporate Commonwealth, Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston, and But Also Good Business: Texas Commerce Banks and the Financing of Houston and Texas. Professor Pratt holds a joint appointment with the University of Houston's College of Business Administration, and is the Director of the Scholars Community, a program to enhance the quality of undergraduate education at the University of Houston.

LINDA REED (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1986), the Director of the African American Studies Program and a specialist on the history of the civil rights movement, has received prestigious fellowships from the University of North Carolina, the University of Michigan, and the University of Virginia. Her prize-winning book, Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963, concentrates on the forgotten years of the civil rights movement, the period preceding the Montgomery bus boycott. The book examines a group of Southern white and black liberals who challenged the racial politics that denied blacks decent wages and a role in Southern politics. She is the editor (with Darlene Clark Hine and Wilma King) of, "We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History, and she is currently completing a study of the civil rights figure, Fannie Lou Hamer.

GUADALUPE SAN MIGUEL (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978) is the nation's leading authority on the Hispanic struggle for educational equality in the United States. He is the author of Let All of Them Take Heed: Mexican Americans and the Quest for Educational Equality, and is currently completing an ambitious comparative study of the history and politics of Hispanic education. Before joining our faculty, he taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

BAILEY STONE (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1972) is a nationally-known expert on the era of the French Revolution. He is the author of three major works on revolutionary causation: The Parlement of Paris, 1774-1789, The French Parlements and the Crisis of the Old Regime, and The Genesis of the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Interpretation. He has also published articles in such prestigious journals as French Studies and The Journal of Modern History. A central figure in the modern European history graduate program, Professor Stone directs the Department’s colloquia.

LANDON STORRS (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1994), a specialist in U.S. women's history, combines the skills of a political and a social historian in her studies of the Progressive and New Deal eras. She is the author of the forthcoming book entitled Civilizing Capitalism, which examines the National Consumer League, the most influential civic organization in the area of labor and welfare reform, and its role in the formulation of "fair labor" standards. She shows that far from being an effort to co-opt working class militance or an effort to impose middle class standards of domesticity on the working class, the Consumer League sought to expand governmental responsibility for citizens' welfare.

TYRONE TILLERY (Ph.D., Kent State University, 1981), a leading authority on twentieth-century African American history, previously taught at Wayne State University and the University of Oregon. He is the author of Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity, which offers a thoughtful, incisive, and original interpretation of the life and works of the black Jamaican poet. His book is at once a biography that probes the roots of McKay's complex personality and an exploration of the dilemmas faced by twentieth-century African American intellectuals. A former executive director of the Detroit chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Professor Tillery is currently completing a study of race relations in Detroit since World War II.

SALLY N. VAUGHN (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1978), the director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, is a leading figure in the study of medieval England. An authority on Anglo-Norman political and religious history, she is the author of The Abbey of Bec and the Anglo-Norman State, 1034-1136 and Anselm of Bec and Robert of Meulan, and founder of the Charles Homer Haskins Society. Her scholarship has received widespread acclaim, and she has won two major scholarly awards, the Bethel Prize and the John Ben Snow Prize.

ERIC WALTHER (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1988), a respected specialist in Southern history, is the author of The Fire-Eaters, the most thorough study yet written on the southern leaders responsible for secession. This book has earned many positive reviews. The New York Times praised it as "lucid, finely researched,” and as a valuable group biography and intellectual history of the roots of the Confederacy. Dispelling the notion that the fire-eaters were impetuous hotheads, Professor Walther convincingly demonstrates that these individuals shared fundamental values with their fellow white Southerners. Professor Walther is currently completing a biography of the ante-bellum politician William L. Yancy of Alabama.

EMILIO ZAMORA (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1983) is one of the nation's foremost experts on Mexican American labor and community history. His prize-winning book, The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas, reconstructs the attitudes and culture of the Mexican American working class and finds a communal ethic that differs strikingly from the more individualistic orientation of the middle class. The Southern Historical Association gave him the first H.L. Mitchell Award, recognizing the year's most distinguished book on the history of the Southern working class. The Texas Historical Commission also honored his book with the T.R. Fehrenbach Award. This prize, one of the most prestigious offered in the State of Texas, recognizes "outstanding original research, study, and publication in the field of Texas history." In 1993, the Western Historical Association awarded him the 1993 Bolton-Kinnaird Award for his article "The Failed Promise of Wartime Opportunity for Mexicans in the Texas Oil Industry,” which appeared in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Professor Zamora also co-edited Chicano Discourse, a volume that brings together scholarship in Chicano studies. His research has been supported by prestigious fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES

For more than a quarter century, the Center for Mexican American Studies has helped Houston gain a better appreciation of Mexican American culture and history. Established in 1972, the Center advances the educational and intellectual development of the Mexican American and broader Latino community by designing and teaching courses, undertaking research projects, and engaging in a broad spectrum of public service activities. It also publishes monographs and sponsors research, conferences, and lectures.

The Center has four major components: teaching, research, recruitment and retention, and community service. The program also promotes student leadership through a wide range of activities. Today, with Hispanic enrollment at the University of Houston approaching 5,000, the program offers over 50 courses per year.

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TATCHO MINDIOLA (Ph.D., Brown University, 1978), a leader in Houston's Hispanic community and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies, has developed the Center into one of the premier academic programs in the country. Under his leadership, the Center has established a minor in Mexican American Studies, a Visiting Scholar's Program, and a Faculty Research Fellowship and Graduate Student Fellowship Program. He has also established nationally-known recruitment and retention programs, including the Urban Experience and Hispanic Family College Program. Professor Mindiola has served as political analyst for KTRK-TV, Channel 13, and wrote a regular column for the Houston Post. An Associate Professor of Sociology, he has written on the Mexican-American family and on the demographics of Texas, and is the editor of Chicano-Mexicano Relations.

DEPARTMENT OF MODERN AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES

In the interconnected world of the twenty-first century, the most successful individuals will be those who understand and respect the languages and cultures of peoples across the globe. A knowledge of foreign languages and cultures will be essential to success in such diverse fields as foreign service, business and law, scientific research, and engineering. A recent study by the Rand Corporation and the College Placement Bureau found that cross-cultural competence, including knowledge of a second and third language, is one of four qualities most sought after by employers. At the University of Houston, students can develop expertise in French, German, Greek, Italian, Chinese, Latin, Spanish, and Russian.

Classical languages and cultures are also under the aegis of this Department. The importance of ancient Greek and Latin has not diminished. Knowledge of these foundational languages makes accessible many aspects of science, literature, medicine, law, theology, and philosophy, as well as providing the basis for the study of modern European languages.

Our language program gives students access to multimedia technology designed to enhance language and cultural proficiency. These include interactive video, laser discs, CD-ROMs, and a wide variety of computer software. Our program also offers opportunities to travel and study in France, Mexico, Spain, China, Italy, and Germany.

A source of special pride is our initiatives in Latin American and U.S. Hispanic literature. Since its founding in 1991, the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project has engaged in a concerted effort to identify, locate, preserve, make accessible, and publish Hispanic literary works dating from the colonial period to the 1960s. Supported by the Rockefeller, Ford, and Mellon Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, the project hosts an annual conference that brings together leading scholars from the United States and Latin America to analyze the Hispanic literary and cultural past.

Arte Público Press is the oldest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by U.S. Hispanic authors, and is a showcase for Hispanic literary creativity, arts, and culture. Established in 1979, the press has published Obie Award-winning playwright Luis Valdez, the dean of Mexican American literature Rolando Hinojosa, and best-selling author Nicholasa Mohr, among others.

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RICHARD ARMSTRONG (Ph.D., Yale University, 1993) did his graduate work in classical and medieval literature and literary theory with the support of a Mellon Fellowship. He taught at the College of William and Mary and Gettysburg College before coming to Houston. His research interests include the history of literary and aesthetic theory, the history of translation (particularly of classical texts), the performance of Greek drama, the reception of classical culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and psychoanalysis. He is currently writing a book titled, A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis: Studies in Freud and Classical Culture, which relates Freud's life and work to his interests in classical culture and contemporary archaeology. As a teacher he is keenly interested in the application of new technologies to language teaching and the study of ancient cultures.

ANADELI BENCOMO (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1999) is a specialist in contemporary Latin American literature. Her publications have appeared in various scholarly journals and deal with the "Boom" and "Post-Boom" literature of Latin America, as well as Latin American modern chronicles and twentieth century Mexican narrative. Her most recent scholarship focuses on literary-journalist chronicles of Mexico in the last decades. Her research has been funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bank of Mexico.

KARIMA BENREMOUGA (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1995) comes from St. Mary’s College of Maryland where she served as an Instructional Technology Specialist. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor of French and ESL at Emporia State University. While at Emporia, she also served as the Director of the ESL/Bilingual Endorsement Program. She was a member of the Research Management Team to oversee a U.S. Office of Education grant of $340,000. Her research interests are in multicultural education, language/ESL methodology, distance learning, linguistics, and computer-assisted language learning. Her most recent research was published in TESOL’s Technology in the Classroom (1999). In addition to the directorship of the Foreign Language Lab, she also teaches graduate-level course in related language and technology fields.

VALENTINI PAPDOPOULOU BRADY (Ph.D., Univeristy of Queensland, Australia), a professor of French, is an authority on modern critical methods and theory; the 18^th, 19^th, and 20^th century French novel and theatre; and psychoanalytic and archetypal perspectives on literature. She is the author of Love in theTheatre of Marivaux: A Study of the Factors Influencing Its Birth, development, and Expression.

SANDRA CELLI-HARRIS (M.A., University of Houston), Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, a specialist in Italian language and literature.

LUISETTA CHOMEL (Ph.D., Rice University, 1975) is the prime mover of the Italian Studies Program. Since arriving at the University in 1972, she has shaped the curriculum in Italian, created new courses, promoted Italian culture through collaboration with other Departments, and organized lectures and symposia. Her research focuses on D'Annunzio. She has written The Female Gender in D’Annunzio’s Theatre. She is currently undertaking a study of motherhood in D'Annunzio's works, and is also investigating the reception of his writings in American newspapers during the first quarter of the twentieth century.

SAMMY CIMERHANZEL-NESTLERODE (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1968) holds a doctoral degree in foreign language curriculum and instruction, and a specialty in second language acquisition and second language teaching pedagogy. She serves as Director of Spanish Teacher Education and has had a leadership role in the national movements of “Teaching for Language Proficiency” and the "ACTFL Standardization Project." She currently serves as one of ten members of the Foreign Language Teacher Education Team charged with developing state standards for foreign language teacher preparation and professional development. Along with courses in Spanish teaching methodology, she also teaches courses in Spanish language, Spanish oral proficiency, and Mexican culture and literature. Her publications include Spanish language textbooks and pedagogical articles. Her large body of scholarly research in foreign language curriculum development and instruction has been funded through NEA grants, EESA Title II Higher Education grants, HEI grants, and OERI grants from the U.S. Department of Education. She has received several Teacher Excellence Awards and listings in Who's Who in American Education and in the World's Who's Who of Women.

RODOLFO J. CORTINA (Ph.D., Western Reserve University, 1971) is an authority on the oral and written traditions of Caribbean and Hispanic peoples. He has over a dozen books to his credit, including Cuban American Theatre and, most recently, Hispanic American Literature: An Anthology and Cultural Factors Affecting Healthcare: AIDS, Domestic Violence, and Family Planning in Houston and in Mexico. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. Professor Cortina serves as Interim Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Studies and Director of the University's Center for the Americas.

EUGENE M. DECKER, III (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1968) holds a Ph.D. in medieval French literature and has taught graduate courses in all periods of French literature. His primary academic interests are the French Enlightenment and the relation of the humanities and the arts to modern life. He organized two interdisciplinary agricultural projects in Haiti, projects that involved the arts and the humanities as well as the sciences. He is active in the field of ethics, especially ethics in higher education. He is also active in civic and environmental affairs, is on the board of trustees of a national higher education foundation, and has been elected to membership in the Société Europiene de Culture in Venice, Italy.

LEE DOWLING (Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1982) specializes in Latin American colonial literature and is presently completing a monographic study of Juan Suárez de Peralta, a sixteenth‑century Mexican chronicler. In 1984 she received an NEH Summer Stipend, and in 1987 and 1996 she participated in NEH seminars on the colonial period. She has published articles on colonial literature, twentieth‑century poetry, the short story, linguistics, and Spanish language pedagogy, and she designed and taught the University's first Spanish course in literary theory. She served for approximately seven years as Spanish Graduate Advisor. In 1990‑91 she received a University Teaching Excellence award.

SANDY FRIEDEN (Ph.D., Universität-Gesamthochschule Siegen, Federal Repulic of Germany, 1982) has taught courses in German film at the University of Houston since 1982. A past board member of Women in German, she focuses on film, autobiography, and women's writings, and she has published books and articles on those topics, including Gender and German Cinema: Feminist Interventions. Vol. I & II (lead editor), and Autobiography: Self Into Form. She directs the University’s Distance Learning program, and has also been responsible for numerous presentations and publications in the field of distance learning.

CLAUDINE GIACCHETTI (Ph.D., Rice University, 1981), a specialist in 19th‑century French literature, is the author of Maupassant: espaces du roman (Droz, Geneva, 1993). She is currently working on a manuscript on l9th century children's literature in France. She has taught courses on women writers, including a televised graduate course, and she also teaches French for business‑related professions. She has directed the UH summer program in France and is Director of the Houston Exam Center for the Paris Chamber of Commerce. She is President elect of the Houston Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French.

HILDEGARD F. GLASS (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1992) specializes in late‑nineteenth and early‑twentieth‑century German literature and cultural history. She is the author of Future Cities in Wilhelminina Utopian Literature, which examines the cultural significance of imaginary urban configurations and the interdependence of literature, art, architecture and urban planning between 1871 and 1914. Her current research focuses on historical narration in the contemporary German historical novel and on the turn‑of‑the‑century avant garde writer and artist Paul Scheerbart. Professor Glass is the director of the German Program and is a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher of language, culture, and literature.

MANUEL J. GUTIERREZ (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1989) specializes in Spanish linguistics. After working for two years at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, he came to the University of Houston in 1991. He has conducted research on phenomena of linguistic change in several dialects of the Spanish-speaking world. Of particular importance are his studies on processes of language change currently taking place in the Spanish spoken in the United States because of its contact with English. He has published articles in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the book Ser y estar en el habla de Michoacan, Mexico (UNAM 1994).

PEDRO GUTIERREZ REVUELTA (Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 1984) specializes in contemporary Spanish literature and thought, and creative writing. He has published four books of poetry, We (1981), MoonLove (1982), Complejas perspectivas (1988), and Accidentes y otros recursos (1990). His play, The Blue Eustachian Tube: Farce in 1992 Scenes, based on the life of Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dali, premiered in Houston. He co‑published Astonishing World, a bilingual edition of Spanish laureate poet Angel Gonzalez, and has done extensive research and writings on contemporary Spanish poets and Pablo Neruda. He is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

MARIO INGLESE (Ph.D., University of Palermo, 1981), Visiting Professor of Italian, wrote his dissertation on Italo Svevo and James Joyce. In Italy he has a permanent position as professor of English at a public high school, and also works at the University of Palermo in the fields of English literature and teaching methods. He has published articles for journals in Palermo, Milan and Oxford, and is currently working on a manual for the teaching of English to Italian art students. He has been awarded several scholarships by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Universities of Palermo and Oxford, and the European Community. After winning a public competition sponsored by the Italian Foreign Ministry he was sent to Houston as "Lettore" of Italian. He also assists the Consulate General of Italy in the promotion of Italian language and culture in the region.

NICOLAS KANELLOS (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1974), Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Literature, is the author of many historical and reference works on Hispanic culture. He has won national and international acclaim for his research and publications on Hispanic American writers. He is the founder and director of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, which locates, preserves, and publishes primary sources by Hispanics from the colonial period through 1960. He is the founder of Arte Público Press, the largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by U.S. Hispanic authors and a widely recognized showcase for Hispanic literary arts and creativity. His works include the Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States, funded by more than $200,000 in grants from the Spanish Ministry of Culture. This four-volume reference work has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Denali Press Award, presented to reference works of outstanding quality and significance. Professor Kanellos’ many books include The Hispanic-American Almanac, Hispanic Firsts, and Thirty Million Strong: Reclaiming Our Hispanic Legacy.

PAUL MANDELL (Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1996) is a specialist in Spanish applied linguistics and second language acquisition. He received his M.A. in Hispanic literature from Emory University in 1988. His research findings have appeared in diverse linguistic journals and have focused on phenomena related to second language acquisition. He has published articles about the V-movement parameter in Spanish, task-based instruction in the teaching of writing in the second language classroom, and the use of grammaticality judgment tests in second language acquisition research. He is presently working on a book about universal grammar and second language learners of Spanish.

CARLOS MONSANTO (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1966) specializes in Latin American Modernism, and has taught Latin American culture and civilization for forty years, thirty at the University of Houston. He is currently Coordinator of HACER, the largest and most successful after‑school Fine Arts program in Houston. His work has been recognized by some of the most prominent scholars in the field, including Homero Castillo, Alfredo Roggiano, Edmundo de Chasca, Fernando de Montesinos, Arturo Torres Rioseco, and Fernando Alegria. He is an Honorary Member of TFLA and HATFUL, and has received the Pete Enisworth Award as Volunteer of the Year for M.D. Anderson Hospital and the Willie Velázquez Award given by Channel 48, Telemundo.

CARY VOLKNER NATHENSON (Ph.D., Washington University, 1996) specializes in 20th century German culture. His teaching and research focus on film of the Nazi era, the Weimar Republic, the German Democratic Republic, and contemporary Austria and Germany. He has also published on how to integrate the teaching of culture in elementary German language classes. Currently, he is writing a book on the Austrian writer Joseph Roth and modernity, as well as translating several of that author's journalistic texts in order to make them accessible for the first time to an English audience.

WILLIAM J. NOWAK (Ph.D., Princeton University, 1993), a specialist in sixteenth‑ and seventeenth‑century Spanish literature, focuses his research on the interplay of literary representation and the construction of identity in early modern Spain. He is currently completing a manuscript on picaresque narrative styles in early modern Spain. He taught at Boston College before coming to the University of Houston in 1994. The recipient of MCL's Teaching Excellence Award for tenure‑line faculty in 1996, he offers courses on Spanish literature from the Middle Ages through the early modern period, as well as on Spanish language and culture. He has also served as director of MCL's summer program in Salamanca, Spain.

JULIAN OLIVARES (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1977), formerly senior editor of Arte Público Press and editor of The Americas Review, is the author of numerous articles and editions (Tomas Rivera, Cuentos Hispanos de los Estados Unidos) of Chicano literature. He is presently concentrating his research in Golden Age literature. He is the author of The Love Poetry of Francisco de Quevedo (Cambridge, 1983; trans. La poesía amorosa de Francisco de Quevedo [Siglo XXI, 1995]), and numerous articles on Renaissance and Baroque lyric poetry, amd is considered one of the pioneers in the area of women's literature of the Golden Age. With co‑editor Elizabeth S. Boyce, he published a critical anthology of female secular and sacred lyrics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with an extensive critical introduction: Tras el espejo la musa escribe: Lírica femenina de los Siglos de Oro (Siglo XXI, 1993). He will soon complete a critical edition of the Novelas Amorosas y ejemplares, by Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor. He is editor of Caliope, Journal of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry.

DENNIS PARLE (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1976) focuses his teaching and research primarily on the areas of the teaching of Spanish to adult learners and Spanish for business. He is interested in the application of second language acquisition research to current foreign language teaching pedagogy. He is also interested in current events in the Hispanic world as they relate to present economic conditions and the potential for business development.

DORA POZZI (Ph.D., Oxford University, 1971) has taught Classics in Argentina and the United States. Her scholarly works, in English and Spanish, have been published by university presses in both countries. Her life‑long interest in the ancient Greek theatre and the function of the dramatic chorus is reflected in her latest book, which addresses a play by Sophocles, The Women of Trachis, using interdisciplinary contemporary approaches. Her next project is an exploration of ritual as discourse in Greek drama. She has received the College of Humanities, Fine Arts, and Communication’s Distinguished Teacher Award and the University's Cooper Teaching Excellence Award.

GUADALUPE C. QUINTANILLA (Ed.D., University of Houston, 1976), former Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Houston, is nationally recognized as an expert in teaching conversational Spanish. She offers courses in Hispanic folklore, women's literature, and Spanish for Spanish speakers. She has written several manuals to teach conversational Spanish and published two books, including El espiritu siempre eterno del méxico-americano. Dr. Quintanilla's research has focused on effective cross‑cultural communication. She has received several teaching excellence awards. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan appointed Professor Quintanilla co-chair of the National Institute of Justice and in 1984 named her an alternate delegate to the United Nations. In 1991, President George Bush appointed her to the World Conference on International Issues and Women's Affairs.

ANDREW SMALL (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1991) specializes in the history of French poetry, the history of literary criticism, and the relationship between literature and the visual arts. He has published a book comparing self‑portraiture in the works of Montaigne and Rembrandt (1996), and is currently working on a manuscript tentatively called Poietique. It examines Oiseaux, a book published jointly by the French poet Saint‑John Perse (Nobel prize for poetry, 1962) and Georges Braque, one of the foremost painters of the 20th century.

MARIA ELENA SOLINO (Ph.D., Yale University, 1993), a specialist in modern peninsular Spanish literature, is currently completing a book titled Women and Children First: The Novels of Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gaite, Ana Maria Moix, and Esther Tusquets, a study of the intertextual dialogue with fairy tales that gives shape to the works of these leading Spanish authors. She has published a number of articles, both in the United States and Spain, on contemporary Spanish women writers, as well as pieces on gender studies and Spanish film. Prior to joining the faculty of the University in Houston in 1995, Professor Soliño was Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

NINA S. TUCCI (Ph.D., Rice University, 1980) taught for five years at Rice before joining the French faculty at the University of Houston. Her research focuses on the impact of Oriental thought on French Literature of the twentieth century, and on the application of Jungian theory to literary texts. She has published several articles in these areas. Professor Tucci developed an academic and an internship program for the French Study Abroad Program in Bourges, France. Drawing on her training at the Yale School of Music, she also created a French language and diction curriculum for the Houston Opera Studio, a program for young artists affiliated with the Houston Grand Opera. In addition she has served as diction coach for Houston Grand Opera productions in French and Italian and has instructed some of the world's leading opera singers for appearances in opera houses around the world.

HARRY WALSH (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970) holds university degrees in Russian literature, general linguistics, and history. His principal research interests lie in three areas: the languages and peoples of Russia and northern Eurasia; the linkages between modern Russian fiction and philosophy, history, religion, and the social sciences; and comparative and historical phonology. He is the editor of Phonology and Speech Remediation and the author of articles appearing in such journals as Slavonic and East European Journal, Clio, Canadian Slavonic Papers, American Speech, Slavic and East European Journal, Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, The Rocky Mountain Review, Comparative Literature Studies, Russian Language Journal, Canadian‑American Slavic Studies, Journal of the Chinese Association of World Nationality Problems, American Studies, and South Central Review.

SHARON XIAOHONG WEN (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1991) has published more than a dozen articles on the acquisition of Chinese as a second/foreign language, Chinese language pedagogy, psycholinguistics, and Chinese grammatical structures. Her publications include a textbook on Chinese expository writing and a multimedia program on listening comprehension for students of Chinese at the intermediate and advanced levels. She was awarded the Sydney Karofsky Teaching Prize for Junior Faculty at Bowdoin College, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and the Advisory Board of CET Academic Program. She also serves as the Director of Education of the Chinese Schools Association of USA.

ROBERT ZARETSKY (Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1989) holds a joint appointment with the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the Honors College. His first book, Nimes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-1944, and several articles deal with France under the Vichy regime, while his current research is an ethnographic and historical study of la course camarguaise, a form of bullfighting specific to the Camargue region of southern France. He has co-edited France at War: Vichy and the Historians, completed a translation of a book by Tzvetan Todorov on the concentration camps of Communist Bulgaria (to be published in 1999 by Penn State Press), and has proposed to Penn State the translation of a second book by Todorov‑‑Frele Bonheur: Un essai sur Rousseau.

THE MOORES SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Housed in a stunning new facility made possible by the extraordinary generosity of UH alumni John and Rebecca Moores, the Moores School of Music features an internationally recognized faculty, magnificent performing ensembles, and one of the largest opera companies in the Southwest. The Moores School's orchestra, chorus, band, jazz, wind ensembles, and opera theater attract national and international audiences.

The new Moores School building showcases a colorful mural by Frank Stella and contains an 800-seat opera house, sixty practice rooms, fifty faculty studios, a music library that includes listening facilities, computer work stations, and more than 23,000 LPs, including 8000 jazz recordings. The building also houses a music education center, an electronic composition laboratory, a recording studio, four large ensemble rehearsal halls, and a sprawling student lounge.

In addition to providing a comprehensive education for University of Houston students, the School offers intensive training for gifted young musicians through the annual Helen and Immanuel Olshan Texas Music Festival and other preparatory programs. The School is involved in the musical life of the city at every level, from public schools and community organizations to major performing arts groups. A significant proportion of UH music graduates perform in Houston’s operas and symphonies, teaching as well as serving in leadership roles in schools and churches and as administrators in the performing arts.

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COMPOSITION/ THEORY/ HISTORY STUDIES

PAUL A. BERTAGNOLLI (Ph.D., Washington University, 1998), music history, received his doctorate in musicology from Washington University; an M.M. in Clarinet Performance from Yale University, and an M.A. in Music Criticism from McMaster University in Canada.

MATTHEW DIRST (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996), a specialist in musicology and director of Collegium Musicum, is the first American to win major international prizes in both organ and harpsichord. He received first prize in the American Guild of Organists' National Young Artist Competition and second prize in the Warsaw International Harpsichord Competition. His publications include a number of articles on the music of J. S. Bach. He is the author of The Bach Project: From Organist to Icon, 1750‑1850, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

JAMES GARDNER (D.M.A., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982), music literature, is Associate Director of the Moores School of Music. He is former concertmaster of the Wilmington, North Carolina Symphony and a former member of the Fort Worth Symphony and the Arkansas Symphony. He received his B.M. degree in violin performance from Oklahoma City University, his M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has also studied at the University of North Texas.

MICHAEL HORVIT (D.M.A., Boston University, 1959), composition and theory, has received awards from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has received commissions from the Houston Ballet, the Houston Symphony, the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber Brass, and the Esterhazy String Quartet. His works have been published by C.F. Peters, Shawnee, Southern, and Transcontinental. He has also co‑authored theory texts published by Wadsworth.

TIMOTHY KOOZIN (Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1988), theory, an internationally known specialist in music instructional technology, is co‑author of the Norton CD‑ROM MasterWorks, an application for music theory, history and appreciation published by W. W. Norton. He has recently published articles in Perspective of New Music, Contemporary Music Review, College Music Symposium, Notes, and Computers in Music Research.

BARBARA ROSE LANGE (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1993) a specialist in the music of Hungary and Southeast Asia, received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology. She has published articles in Ethnomusicology, The World of Music, Journal of American Folklore, and MLA Notes. She has received a Fulbright research grant and a Mellon Fellowship as well as research support from the International Research and Exchanges Board.

ROBERT NELSON (D.M.A., University of Southern California, 1970), composition and theory, studied with Ingolf Dahl and Halsey Stevens and opera production with Walter Decloux. The former music director and composer‑in‑residence of the Houston Shakespeare Festival, he has composed numerous scores for film and television. He is co‑author of a number of widely adopted music theory textbooks. His musical theater works include "A Room with a View," libretto by Buck Ross, "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyville," libretto by Kate Pogue, and "Tickets, Please" and "The Demon Lover," librettos by Sidney Berger.

REYNALDO OCHOA (D.M.A., Rice University, 1991) has been a performer, conductor, producer and orchestrator for commercials, jingles, recordings, television projects and motion pictures. He has received commissions from the Houston Symphony and Paragon Brass Ensemble, and served as co‑principal trumpet with Dallas Symphony.

HOWARD POLLACK (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1981) is the author of numerous books, reviews, and articles including entries for Aaron Copland and Walter Piston in the forthcoming New Grove Dictionary. His latest book, Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, published by Henry Holt, has been called "a model of the biographer's art” and "the definitive study of Aaron Copland's life and work." Professor Pollack is currently writing on a study of the Mexican composers Chávez and Reveultas.

ROBERT THOMAS SMITH (D.M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1999) joins the Moores School from the University of Texas, where he served as assistant director of the New Music Ensemble and director of the Composers Concert Series. He was a Fulbright Grant recipient and studied with Peter Sculthrope in Sydney, Australia where he also taught at Australia's University of Wollongong. Professor Smith has been a Fellow at the Center for Composition Studies at the Aspen Music Festival, and has professional associations with the American Composers Forum, ASCAP, the Australian Music Center, the American Music Center, the National Association of Composers, and the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.

JOHN L. SNYDER (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1982), music theory, previously served on the faculties of Nicholls State University, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Oklahoma State University. He has published many articles in leading professional journals and presented many papers at scholarly meetings and symposia in regional, national and international venues. A former president of the Texas Society for Music Theory, he is a member of Editorial Advisory Committee for Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum.

DAVID ASHLEY WHITE (D.M.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1978), composition and theory, the Director of the Moores School of Music, is one of the foremost composers of sacred music in the United States. His numerous publications include hymns that are found in major American and international denominational hymnals. His own collection of hymns, Sing, My Soul, was published in 1996. He is also the composer of many secular works, particularly chamber music and songs. He received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Houston, and his D.M.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin. His works have been published by E.C. Schirmer, Selah, Southern, Shawnee, Paraclete, Augsburg, Concordia, and St. James Music Press.

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KEYBOARD STUDIES FACULTY

ROBERT BATES (Ph.D., Stanford) comes to the Moores School from Stanford University where he served as University Organist. He received his Ph.D. in Musicology from Stanford and his M.M. in Organ Performance from Southern Methodist University. Previously, he served as Professor of Organ at the Conservatoire de Marlye-le-Roy, France. His recent recordings include "Brahms: The Complete Organ Works," "The Splendor of Oaxaca Cathedral," "Battle in Berkeley," "Daguin and the French Noel," and "The Three Organs of Memorial Church at Stanford University."

ROBERT BREWER (M.M., Indiana University), organ, harpsichord, has given solo organ recitals throughout United States and Europe, including at Westminster Abbey and the Vatican. He is the Music Director of the Houston Masterworks Chorus, former Artistic Director of the Concert Chorale of Houston and St. Paul's Chamber Music Society, and Organist/Choirmaster at St. Paul's United Methodist Church. A noted vocal coach, choral clinician, collaborative artist, chamber musician, and keyboard soloist, he received his M.M. degree from Indiana University.

ROBERT BROWNLEE (M.A., Brigham Young University, 1955), piano, a past winner of the Young Artist Auditions of National Federation of Music Clubs, has performed throughout the United States, Mexico, England and Switzerland and at Texas Music Festival. He received his B.M. degree from the Oberlin Conservatory and completed graduate studies at the University of Oklahoma and Brigham Young University.

HORACIO GUTIERREZ, M. D. (B.M., Juilliard School of Music) M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor of Piano and a leading concert artist, performs regularly in recital in all major music capitals, and has been a soloist with the world's most distinguished orchestras. His large discography includes a 1991 Grammy nomination. He has received an Emmy Award for television and appeared at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

TIMOTHY HESTER (M.M., Juilliard School of Music, 1983), piano, collaborative studies, received his M.M. in Piano Performance from Juilliard and his B.M. in Piano Performance from the University of Houston. As a soloist, he has performed with the Houston Symphony, the Shreveport Summer Festival Orchestra, and the Colorado Philharmonic. He has collaborated with Ransom Wilson, Eugenia Zuckerman, Sidney Harth, Reiko Watanabe, Paula Robison, and Moores School artists, and has recorded with Paula Robison on the Music Masters label. His recent engagements include the Bargemusic Series, the OK Mozart Festival, and the Ojai Festival.

BETTY SHAW (M.A., Columbia University, 1954), piano pedagogy, is a clinician, performer, and author who holds offices in several professional organizations. She studied with Robert Pace at Columbia University, where she received her M.A. She has created many programs for educational television.

ZOYA SHUHATOVICH, piano, staff accompanist, previously served on the faculty of the Gorky State Conservatory and gave solo recitals and chamber music appearances throughout Russia. Since joining the Moores School, he has collaborated with many leading Houston artists.

ABBEY SIMON, Cullen Professor of Piano and an internationally recognized concert artist, has held recitals in all major music capitals and has appeared with the world's leading orchestras. One of the most recorded classical artists of all time, his recordings have been published on the Philips, EMI, and Vox Turnabout label. His many awards include the Walter Naumburg Prize, the National Orchestral Award, and the Harriet Cohen Medal.

RUTH TOMFOHRDE, piano, has performed as a solo artist, chamber music performer and accompanist for singers and instrumentalists. She was named Collegiate Teacher of the Year by the Texas Music Teachers Association and Teacher of the Year by Houston Music Teachers Association. Awarded a Teaching Excellence Award by the University of Houston, her students have been winners in local, regional and national competitions.

NANCY WEEMS (M.M., University of Texas at Austin, 1976), piano, has received top prizes at the International Recording Competition, U.S. Artistic Ambassador Program. She presents concerts and master classes throughout the United States and in Europe, Mexico, Asia, and Central America. She was the recipient of 1991 Texas Music Teachers Association Collegiate Teacher of the Year and the 1995 University of Houston Enron Teaching Excellence Award. Her recordings appear on the Bay Cities and Albany labels.

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MUSIC EDUCATION FACULTY

ROBERT MAYES (M.M.E., Texas Tech University, 1974), the Director of the Cougar Marching Band, the Cougar Brass Concert Band, and the Wind Ensemble II, is the former director of bands at University of Wyoming and assistant director of bands at Texas Tech. Under his direction, the University of Houston bands have performed in France, Ireland, and Japan, as well as at numerous sporting events throughout the United States.

SAMUEL MILLER (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1972) taught previously in public schools in Maryland, Michigan and at the University of South Florida, where he was also Coordinator of Music Education. His numerous publications include articles, research collections, monographs and books. He serves on the editorial boards of four major research journals and is advisor for several other publications. He has held significant committee memberships and professional offices at the state and national levels.

MARIANNE JACKS (M.M.E., University of Houston, 1963) received her B. A. degree from Judson College and her M.M.E. from the University of Houston. A member of the Music Education faculty since 1966, she coordinates music student teaching. She has wide experience as a clinician in schools.

BETSY COOK WEBER (D.M.A., University of Houston, 1995), the Associate Director of Choral Studies at the Moores School, served for seven years as Associate Director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. She has been active at local and national levels as a conductor and clinician. Several editions of her choral works are in current publication. She received degrees from North Texas State University, Westminster Choir College, and the University of Houston.

STEVE WERPY (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1995) is an expert in quantitative research with interests in motivation and aesthetic musical experience. He taught K‑12 band, choir, and classroom music for fourteen years in three states and in Canada before joining the Moores School.

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VOCAL PERFORMANCE FACULTY

JANE BECKER, soprano, is a recitalist and concert performer who has been a soloist at Lincoln Center. She was the winner of the Second Annual Worldwide Audition Competition and has received the Finlandia Foundation's Award for Artistic Excellence. She has also been a Fulbright scholar and received an IT&T International Fellowship. Professor Becker is a specialist in clinical therapy for vocal disorders.

DEBRIA BROWN (B.S., Xavier University, 1958), mezzo‑soprano, has appeared in over forty major roles and made regular appearances with orchestras and at music festivals throughout the United States and Europe under conductors such as Solti, Santi, Levine, and van Karajan. She has appeared in world premieres of operas by such composers as Bernstein, Ligeti, Floyd, Ward, and Carlson. Her many honors include awards from the Amistad Arts Committee, Rheinhardt Seminar (Vienna), as well as a Citation for Artistic Contribution from the U.S. Congress. Professor Brown has also appeared as a dramatic actress of stage, film, and television in English and German. Her recordings of Maderna's Satyricon appear on the RAI label. She has also recorded Creole folk songs arranged by Robert Nelson.

KATHERINE CIESINSKI (M.M., Temple University, 1973), mezzo‑soprano, has appeared in leading operatic roles in the world's major opera houses and has been a soloist with major orchestras. She has been artist‑in‑residence at festivals in the U.S., France, Austria, Finland, and Italy. She has also served as director of the Vocal Workshop for International Composition Seminar at the Royaumont Foundation in France; as director of Close Encounters, a vocal chamber music institute for the Texas Music Festival; and as regular clinician at the International Symposium on Care of the Professional Voice. Her many recordings appear on such labels as Erato, Decca, Music Masters, Columbia, and CRI. She received a Grammy nomination for her performance of the role of Paulina in "The Queen of Spades" with Ozawa and Boston Symphony on BMG. She currently serves as vocal area coordinator at the Moores School.

JOSEPH EVANS (M.M., North Texas State University, 1973), tenor, has appeared as a leading tenor at La Scala, Ireland's Wexford Festival, the English National Opera, the Welsh National Opera, the Opera de Nantes, Orleans, and Nancy, La Fenice, the Theatre de Geneve, and the New York City Opera. For eight seasons he has performed with the Houston Grand Opera; he has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic, and the orchestras of Cleveland, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo, as well as with companies in San Diego, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Boston, and Cleveland. His recordings appear on the Sony Classics, CBS Masterworks, Cybellia, and Gasparo labels.

ISABELLE GANZ (D.M.A. Eastman School of Music) has performed as vocal soloist with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, the Portland, Maine Symphony, and the Slovak Radio Orchestra. A specialist in Sephardic music, she has made recent solo appearances in Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Bonn, Tel Aviv, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles, and New York. Her recordings appear on Opus One, Mode, Aulos, Leonarda, Global Village, Spectrum, Master Musicians' Collective, Prestige/International and L.R.P. Records.

HAL LANIER (M.M., University of Michigan, 1992), vocal coaching, diction, received his M.M. degree from the University of Michigan. His professional affiliations include the Houston Grand Opera, the Opera Company of Boston, the Opera New England, Wolf Trap, Texas Opera Theater, and the Atlanta Opera. A longtime collaborator with Cesare Siepi, he is the composer of original scores for theater and dance with premieres at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center and on National Public Radio.

SHARON RADIONOFF (Ph.D., Michigan State University), vocal performance pedagogy, is a singing voice specialist and Director of the Sound Singing Institute. She is an active lecturer, researcher, and author of numerous articles. A member of the voice care team at the Texas Voice Center, she is also professional fellow at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Arts Medicine Center in Philadelphia.

ROBIN RESO (M.M., University of Houston, 1987), mezzo‑soprano, has extensive international performance experience as concert artist, recitalist, opera, and in early music. She has performed as a soloist with I Cantori di New York, Connecticut Pro Musica, the Masterworks Chorale of New Jersey, the St. Louis Bach Society, the Banchetto Musicale of Boston, the J. S. Bach Society of Houston, Banff Festival Orchestra, Canada, the Houston Masterworks Chorus, Banff Opera Centre, and New York's Queens Opera.

JUSTIN WHITE (M.M., University of Houston, 1993), baritone, has had leading roles with many major opera companies in United States and abroad, including the New Israeli Opera (Tel Aviv), the Connecticut Opera, the San Antonio Opera, and the Skylight Opera Theater. A former resident artist with the Orlando Opera, he has made concert appearances with the Houston Grand Opera, the San Antonio Symphony, and the San Angelo Symphony. He also performed in the world premiere of Carlisle Floyd's Soul of Heaven. He was first place winner in the Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actors Tournament of the Houston Tuesday Musical Club competition, and regional winner, Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions.

PATRYK WROBLEWSKI (B.M., Northwestern University, 1980) baritone, comes to the Moores School from the Musical College at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is a former member of the Lyric Opera Center for America Artists, the San Francisco Opera's Young Artists Program, and a First Place Winner in the Luciano Pavorotti Competition. Wroblewski has numerous recording and film credits and has performed leading roles with the New Israeli Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, the Dublin Grand Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Teatro Colon (Bogota, Columbia), the Puerto Rico Opera, and the New York City Opera.

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STRING FACULTY

EMANUEL BOROK (M.M., Gnessin Institute, Moscow, Russia), violin, is concertmaster with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and former concertmaster, Moscow Philharmonic and the Boston Pops. He has made solo appearances with orchestras in Switzerland, Israel, Italy, Canada, France, Latin America, United States, and has performed chamber music with Emanuel Ax, Peter Frankl, Yfim Bronfman, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Lynn Harrell.

ANDRZEJ GRABIEC (M.M., Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, 1972), violin, is concertmaster with the American Sinfonietta of the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra and former concertmaster with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Polish National Radio and Television Symphony, and the Wichita Symphony Orchestra. He was a prizewinner at the Wieniawski and Thibaud International Competitions, and a member of the Polish Radio Trio, the Mozart Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Fairmount String Quartet, and the Trio NOVA. He is on the faculty of the Sarasota Music Festival, and his recordings appear on Summit and Vifon.

FREDELL LACK (Performance Diploma, Juilliard School of Music), C. W. Moores Professor of Violin was Laureate at the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium International Competition and winner of the Brooklyn Academy Young Artists Award. She has made more than twenty European tours, thirty-five broadcasts for the BBC in England, and seven for Radio RIAS in Germany. She has been soloist with many major orchestras including Halle Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw, the Stockholm Philharmonic, the symphonies of Berlin, the Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Houston, and the New York Philharmonic. Her recordings appear on Vox, CRI, Bay Cities, Centaur and Albany.

ALBERT MUENZER, violin, was a member of the NBC Staff Orchestra in Chicago for sixteen years, and served for eleven years as associate concertmaster of the Houston Symphony. He was also concertmaster with the Houston Ballet Orchestra, the Houston Pops, and many freelance groups.

RITA PORFIRIS (M.M., Juilliard School of Music), viola, has been a member of the Houston Symphony since 1995. She has served as principal with the Indianapolis, New World Symphony, and Schleswig‑Holstein Orchestras, and has also performed with the Radio‑Sinfonie Orchestra Berlin, the Baroque Orchestra Berlin, and the Plymouth String Quartet. She is recipient of the Prix Mercure and prizewinner at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and the William Primrose Viola Competition. She has given recitals and solo appearances at Merkin Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Salzburg Mozarteum. Her recordings appear on Opus One and Modern Masters.

DAVID TOMATZ (Ph.D., Catholic University of America, 1966) is the former Director of the Moores School of Music. He previously served as chair and professor of cello of the Music Department at the University of Wyoming and as a member of the Western Arts Trio. He has performed at many international cello congresses, on international trio tours, and solo concerts. His recordings have been published by Laurel. He has served as General Director and performer at the Texas Music Festival, and is currently Vice President and President‑elect of the National Association of Schools of Music.

LAWRENCE WHEELER (B.M., Juilliard School of Music, 1971), viola, was principal with Pittsburgh Symphony and soloist with the Minnesota, Icelandic, UNAM, Mexico City, and Texas Chamber Orchestras, as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has performed recitals in New York, London, Stuttgart and at two international viola congresses. He has also performed on NPR and BBC, and has served as guest principal with Dallas and Houston Symphonies. He has taught at Meadowmount, Encore, and the Texas Music Festival, and given frequent Houston recitals and chamber music performances.

LASZLO VARGA (Artist Diploma, Franz Liszt Royal Academy of Music, Budapest), cello, is an internationally recognized soloist, recording artist, and master teacher. Professor Varga was principal with the Budapest Symphony and the New York Philharmonic for eleven years under Mitropoulos and Bernstein. He has been featured soloist, chamber musician, and master teacher at festivals including Aspen, Chautauqua, and Shreveport; and a member of the Lener and Canadian String Quartets, Trio Concertante, the Borodin Trio and the Crown Chamber Players. He has made numerous recordings for Vox, Decca, RCA, Chandos, Columbia, Decca, CRI, Period, and Musicelli.

DENNIS J. WHITTAKER (M.M., Northwestern University), double bass, was winner of the 1987 Gary Karr Solo Competition. He is principal with the Houston Grand Opera, and is active as substitute bassist with Houston Symphony and as an upright and electric bassist in jazz and pop ensembles. He is on the faculty of the Texas Music Festival.

BEATRICE SCHROEDER ROSE (Performers Certificate, Mannes School), harp, was principal with Houston Symphony for thrity-one years. She has performed many seasons with the Houston Grand Opera, the Houston Ballet, and the Houston Pops. Her background includes musical shows, recordings, radio, television, and also solo performances throughout the United States, Canada, and Italy. She is founder and director of the nationally televised Houston Harp Ensemble and author of Lyon & Healy's Guide for Teachers and Students.

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WIND/ BRASS/ PERCUSSION FACULTY

Woodwind

CLAIRE JOHNSON (B.M., Juilliard School of Music), flute, is a noted pedagogue formerly on faculties of East Texas State University and Richland College. She currently serves on the faculty of Southern Methodist University, as well as University of Houston. She presents numerous master classes and pedagogy workshops in the United States and abroad, and is a member, the National Flute Association Flute Pedagogy Committee. She studied flute with Arthur Lora at Juilliard and composition with Paul Hindemith at Yale.

JOHN THORNE, flute, is associate principal with the Houston Symphony and former principal, San Antonio and Florida West Coast Symphonies. He has performed chamber music with DaCamera, the Florida Wind Quintet, Julius Baker, Jean‑Pierre Rampal, and Paula Robison. He has also performed at the International Festival de Musique in France and Grand Teton Music Festival. He is on the faculty of the Pacific Music Festival in Japan.

ROBIN Z. HOUGH (D.M.A., University of North Texas, 1976), oboe, is principal with the Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera orchestras and former principal with the Fort Worth Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. An active recitalist and chamber performer, Professor Hough is member of Winds of Texas, and is a frequent performer at the Texas Music Festival.

ALECIA LAWYER (M.M., Juilliard School of Music), oboe, a soloist, recitalist, recording artist throughout United States and Europe, she has been principal oboist with Orchestra X, and the Brazos Valley Symphony. A member of CirrusArts contemporary ensemble, she has also made concerto appearance under Rostropovich and recordings with the Sorbonne Orchestra.

ANNE LEEK, oboe, is associate principal with the Houston Symphony and a former member of the Pittsburgh Symphony. She was winner of the Geneva International Music Competition, has been a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, and made European duo tours with Christoph Eschenbach. She has concertized and recorded with the Boston Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony, and has made recordings on DGG, Koch Schwann, and Gramola.

TOM LEGRAND (B.M., Curtis Institute of Music) clarinet, is associate principal, Houston Symphony and a former member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He previously served on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and is a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra.

JEFFREY LERNER (M.M., Juilliard School of Music, 1952), clarinet & saxophone, has performed with The New York City Opera and the New York Goldman Band, and has been principal with the Texas Opera Theater, the Houston Ballet Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra. He currently performs for Houston Grand Opera and is an active recitalist and member of Winds of Texas. He serves on the faculty of the Texas Music Festival.

KAREN WYLIE (M.M., University of Houston, 1994), saxophone, received her B.M. degree from Northwestern University, where she studied with Fred Hemke, and her M.M. degree from the University of Houston. A former member of "The Fairer Sax," an all‑female English saxophone quartet that toured extensively, she is an active teacher and freelance performer in the Houston area.

MARILYN CHAPPELL (M.M., University of Texas at Austin, 1976), bassoon, is principal with the Houston Grand Opera and contrabassoonist with the Houston Ballet Orchestra. A member of Winds of Texas, she was a former member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Austin Chamber Players. Professor Chappell serves on the faculty of the Texas Music Festival.

KAREN PIERSON (M.M., University of Southern California), bassoon, is a member of the Houston Symphony and was previously a member of the Omaha, Flint, and Ann Arbor Symphonies. She received performance degrees from University of Michigan and University of Southern California, and served on the faculty of the University of Texas, Austin.

JEFFREY ROBINSON, bassoon, is a member of the Houston Symphony and was previously a member of the Rochester Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, and the Santa Fe Pro Musica. He has been a soloist with the New Mexico Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, and the University of New Mexico Orchestra, and performs regularly with Zephyr Quartet, and the Greenbriar Consortium. He has also performed at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Oregon's Sun River Festival.

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Brass

JAMES AUSTIN (B.M., Eastman School of Music, 1959), trumpet, is a member of the Moores Brass Quintet. He was principal for the Houston Symphony for seventeen years, and also was principal for Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Houston Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he performed solo cornet under Frederick Fennel in the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He has made numerous recordings for Mercury Records.

JIM VASSALLO (M.M., University of Houston, 1979), trumpet, is principal for the Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera Orchestras. He is one of Houston's most active freelance musicians and has performed at the Grand Teton and Colorado Music Festivals. A member of the Moores School Brass Quintet, he serves on the faculty of the Texas Music Festival.

NOE MARMOLEJO (M.M., University of Houston, 1985), trumpet, is an active jazz and classical trumpet performer and an active adjudicator and clinician in Houston area. A former conductor of the Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet Orchestra, he is director of the Jazz Institute of the Texas Music Festival, as well as festival brass ensemble coach.

NANCY GOODEARL (M.M., Northwestern University, 1981), horn, has been a member of the Houston Symphony since 1981. She is a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and of Winds of Texas, and tours with the Summit Brass Ensemble, Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She has been a soloist at the International Women's Brass Conference and former extra horn with the Chicago Symphony.

PHILIP STANTON (M.M., Catholic University of America), horn, is a member of the Houston Symphony and a former member of the United States Navy Band. He previously served on the faculty at Michigan State and Sam Houston State Universities.

BRIAN KAUK, trombone, is principal with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and the Houston Ballet Orchestra, and performs with the Houston Symphony. He is also a member of the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra and Utah Festival Opera.

MICHAEL WARNY (B.M., University of Houston, 1984), trombone and euphonium, tours internationally with the Texas Opera Theatre, the Paragon Brass Ensemble, and the Chicago Chamber Brass, as well as with the Houston Symphony and Houston Ballet. He is an active freelance performer and a current member of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Theatre Under the Stars. He studied with the Empire Brass Quintet at Tanglewood and the Summit Brass, with which he has also performed at the Keystone Institute.

MARK BARTON (M.M., Baylor University), tuba and euphonium, is a member of the Moores Brass Quintet, Cy‑Five Brass Quintet, the Woodlands Symphony, the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and he also performs with Houston Symphony. He is a former member of the Waco and San Antonio Symphonies, the Ambient Brass Quintet, Tower Brass, and the Baylor Faculty Brass Quintet. He received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from Baylor University.

WILLIAM ROSE (Performance Certificate, Juilliard School of Music), tuba and euphonium, was principal tubist for twenty-eight years for the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera. He was a member of the Navy Band during World War II and a performer with Goldman Band, CBS Symphony, and United Nations Symphony in New York City. He is the author of Studio Class Manual for Tuba and Euphonium and is designer of two Rose model mouthpieces.

FRANK WOODRUFF (M.M., University of Houston, 1975), tuba and euphonium, an active freelance performer in the Houston area, was a member of the Houston Ballet Orchestra for nine years and of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra for twenty-two years. He is a member of the Houston Brass Ensemble and music director and conductor of the Pasadena Philharmonic Society Orchestra. He also serves as area coordinator for "Tuba Christmas" Percussion. He received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the University of Houston.

BLAKE WILKINS (M.M., University of Southern California, 1993) has received degrees in percussion and composition. Between 1993 and 1997, he was percussionist and substitute principal timpanist for the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. A specialist in solo marimba, orchestral percussion, percussion ensemble, steel drum band, and contemporary music performance, he is also active as composer. Two of his works for large percussion ensemble are available on Albany Records.

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Ensembles

CHARLES HAUSMANN (D.M.A., University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1984), Director, Choral Activities, is director of the Houston Symphony Chorus. He has made many appearances as choral clinician and guest conductor, and has performed chorus preparation for Robert Shaw, Christoph Eschenbach, Helmuth Rilling, Roger Wagner, Neville Marriner, Edo De Waart and many others. His choirs have received acclaim at major American music conventions and at festivals in the United States, Mexico and Europe. He is co‑author of a textbook on choral music and has written articles for several music journals.

PETER F. JACOBY Music Director, Edythe Bates Old Moores Opera Center, has been conductor and coach for numerous performances including those at the Moores School, Staatsoper Studio, and the Zurich Opera. He received his B.A. in music from the University of Wyoming with additional study at Cleveland Institute of Music; he received his graduate diploma from the Akademie in Vienna.

FRANZ ANTON KRAGER (M.M., University of Michigan, 1978), Conductor, Moores School Symphony Orchestra, is former music director of the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra and Brazos Sinfonietta. He has served as guest conductor of the orchestras of Honolulu, Interlochen, Austin, and Round Top, the Kazan National Philharmonic, Florida West Coast Symphony, and Musicfest International Orchestra in Wales. He is Director of Orchestral Studies at the Texas Music Festival.

BUCK ROSS (M.F.A., University of Minnesota, 1979), Producer/Director, Edythe Bates Old Moores Opera Center. His directoral credits include the Sacramento Opera, the Des Moines Metro Opera, the Chattanooga Opera, the Ashlawn Festival Opera, the Texas Opera Theater, and the Houston Symphony. He received his M.F.A. in stage direction under H. Wesley Balk from the University of Minnesota and has been visiting professor at Bucknell University, where he received a B.A. degree in music and theater.

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

The Department of Philosophy not only teaches students how to think clearly, systematically and independently, it also challenges them to examine basic assumptions, values, and commitments across the entire range of human knowledge. Courses are offered in traditional areas including ethics, philosophy of mind, and theories of knowledge, and also in such innovative fields as feminist philosophy and the integration of computers into the study of logic. Philosophy interacts vigorously with other departments and fields of study, among them art, cinema, medical ethics, language and linguistics, law, and science.

In recent years, the Philosophy Department has established an interdisciplinary program in Cognitive Science. The Cognitive Science Initiative fosters a science of human perception, language, and cognition through the interaction of investigators from computer science, engineering, optometry, philosophy, and psychology.

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WILLIAM AUSTIN (Ph.D., Yale University, 1966) specializes in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science, and also teaches courses in logic (both deductive and inductive) and decision theory. He is the author of two books, including The Relevance of Natural Science to Theology and Waves, Particles, and Paradoxes. His most recent paper is "Explanatory Pluralism," (1998), and he is working on a textbook tentatively titled Religions and Sciences: Varieties of Faith and Understanding. Professor Austin won the Templeton Award in 1996 for his course on science and religion.

GREGORY BROWN (Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1980), a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy and the history and philosophy of science, has published a number of important papers on Leibniz and on Descartes. He won the 1986 Leibniz Society Essay Competition in 1986 for his paper "Compossibility, Harmony, and Perfection in Leibniz." His latest paper, "Who's Afraid of Infinite Numbers: Leibniz and the World Soul," will be published this year. Brown maintains the department's web page and currently serves as director of graduate studies. He is working on a paper on Darwin and Hume.

CYNTHIA FREELAND (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1979), a specialist in ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle), aesthetics, and feminist philosophy, is editor of Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle, which appeared in 1998, and co‑editor of Philosophy and Film, published in 1995. At present she is writing The Naked and the Undead: Philosophy, Feminism, and the Appeal of Horror, which will be published by Westview Press in 1999, and she also has a book on aesthetics in the planning stages with Oxford University Press. Dr. Freeland has lectured widely abroad and has previously taught or been a visiting scholar at Duke, Mt. Holyoke, Harvard, the Universities of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and the Australian National University. She has received a University Teaching Excellence Award, was the founding director of the Women's Studies Program at UH from 1991‑95, and served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research from 1995‑98.

JAMES GARSON (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1969) is an expert on logic, specializing in quantified modal logic and formal semantics. His article on quantified modal logic in the Handbook of Philosophical Logic is the standard reference in the field. He has also published on topics in artificial intelligence, especially natural language processing. More recently his work has focused on issues in cognitive science and the philosophy of mind, especially where these are related to language. The implications of connectionist modeling and dynamical systems theory for understanding the mind are an important theme in most of this later work. Professor Garson is a popular teacher and has won a University Teaching Excellence Award in 1987. He has developed computer software to help his students learn logic. This software is described in a number of publications.

ANNE JAAP JACOBSON (D.Phil., Oxford University, 1975) is the founding chair of UH's Cognitive Science Initiative. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including two prize fellowships at Oxford University and others from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation. She has published on philosophy of mind, epistemology, feminist philosophy and the history of early modern philosophy. A former president of the Northeast American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies, she is the editor of Feminist Interpretations of Hume, which is forthcoming from Penn State University Press. In addition to her appointment in Philosophy, she is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders. She is currently developing "Houston Studies in Cognitive Science," a web journal. Her recent work is on topics including mental representations and the reconception of reason.

BREDO JOHNSEN (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972) specializes in epistemology, and his research focuses on skeptical issues and problems, both historical and contemporary. He has defended radical skepticism against numerous contemporary attacks, including the private language argument, contextualism, and Hilary Putnam's argument against the "brains in a vat" hypothesis. He has also written on such issues as the nature of the given and its relation to foundationalism, the justification of induction, the skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, Plantinga's defense of the rationality of religious belief, Richard Rorty's assault on traditional epistemology, and issues in the philosophy of mind including Daniel Dennett's views on consciousness and David Lewis's theory of mental states.

JUSTIN LEIBER (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1967) is a leading authority on the philosophy of language and cognitive science. One of his books, Noam Chomsky: A Philosophic Overview has been widely reviewed, translated, and excerpted. Of it Chomsky writes, "It is the book that I would recommend to people who ask me what I'm up to." Of Professor Leiber's Invitation to Cognitive Science, Daniel Dennett writes, "Cognitive science, like every other field, has developed its own set of official myths about how it grew and what it is about. With vigorous and independent scholarship and many original observations, Leiber cuts back and forth across the familiar scenes, providing new perspectives that illuminate where we are and suggest where we might go next." Professor Leiber has also published several novels, an acclaimed dialogue, and a number of journal articles on philosophy and cognitive science matters.

WILLIAM NELSON (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1971), a specialist in political and moral philosophy, also teaches philosophy of law and medical ethics. He is the author of On Justifying Democracy and Morality: What's In It for Me? A Historical Introduction to Ethics. He has also published a number of articles on democracy, on rights in law and morality, and on issues about social justice. His research interests include the relationship between moral and legal rights as well as issues in contemporary liberal political theory. He has held a visiting appointment at the University of Illinois, and is currently the Philosophy Department's chair.

DAVID PHILLIPS (Ph.D., Cornell University, 1992) specializes in ethics. His two main research foci are metaethics and the challenge of egoism in the British moralists. He has published articles in a number of journals, including American Philosophical Quarterly, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Department of Political Science

Comparative politics, international relations, political theory, public policy,

Susan Collins, a specialist in political theory, is an authority on Artistotle’s moral and political thought and its implications for modern liberal democracy. She is editor of Action and Contemplation and of The Ends of Politics.

Rebecca Morton, an economist by training, is an authority on the electoral process, campaign contributions, and voter turnout. A high-level formal modeler, she has also been a creative exponent of the empirical testing of formal models. She recently published Learning by Voting, which exams sequential choices in presidential primaries and other elections, and Methods and Models, a guide for political scientists who confront the issues posed by empirical analysis and formal models.

Keith T. Poole, who holds the Kenneth L. Lay Endowed Professorship, is an authority on Congressional roll call voting and political methodology. His scholarship has revised our understanding of partisan alignment and ideological polarization in Congress, coalition formation, and national policy making.

Christopher Wlezien (Ph.D., Iowa, 1989), the Director of UH’s Institute for the Study of Political Economy, conducts research in the areas of American and comparative politics, political behavior, public opinion, political institutions, and public policy.

His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Analysis, and various other journals and edited volumes. He is currently developing a "thermostatic" model of public opinion and policy and examining the dynamic interrelationships between preferences for spending and budgetary policy. He has served on the Planning Committee of the American National Election Study and is a member of the editorial boards of Social Science Quarterly and Electoral Studies.

Department of Psychology

The Department’s graduate programs are among the highest ranked in the United States. Its Clinical Neuropsychology track ranks in the top five in the country. Its Clinical program ranks first out of forty clinical and professional programs in Texas and among the top 10 percent nationally. Its doctoral Industrial/Organization or Social Psychology program ranks in the top ten in the nation. More than 1,500 undergraduates are pursuing either a B.A. or B.S. in Psychology.

Currently, the Department’s faculty are engaged in research projects totally over $30 million, placing the Department in the top third of all research doctoral programs in the country. These projects include investigations of the children of battered women; traumatic brain injury; early intervention for children with reading problems; and AIDS and drug prevention among students.

CLINICAL FACULTY

Julia Babcock, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Domestic Violence, Psychophysiology and Observation of Couples' Interactions, Couples' Therapy, Efficacy of Domestic Violence Interventions

Melanie P. Duckworth, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Behavioral Medicine, Psychophysiological Assessment, Impact of Violence on Children

H. Julia Hannay, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Clinical Neuropsychology Training

Neuropsychological Test Development, Penetrating and Closed Head Injury, Psychophysics, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Animal Models of Head Injury

Dale L. Johnson, Ph.D.

Professor

Primary Prevention, Developmental Psychopathology, Family Resource Development, Mentally Ill Persons in the Community

Ernest N. Jouriles, Ph.D.

Professor

Child and Marital Problems, Parenting Issues, Family Violence

Marco J. Mariotto, Ph.D.

Professor and Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies

Observational Measurement, Clinical Assessment, Methodology

Paul J. Massman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dementia, Verbal Learning and Memory, and Visuospatial Processing

Gordon L. Paul, Ph.D.

Cullen Distinguished Professor

Assessment, Treatment, Methodology, Mental Health Systems

Lynn Paul Rehm, Ph.D., ABPP

Professor and Director of Clinical Training

Depression, Self-Management and Psychotherapy Research

John P. Vincent, Ph.D.

Professor, Department Chairman and

Director of the Victims' Resource Institute

Psychotherapy, Marriage-Family, Behavioral Assessment

DEVELOPMENTAL FACULTY

Gerald Gratch, Ph.D.

Professor

History of Psychology, Cognitive Development

Beth Manke, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and

Co-Director of Developmental Training

Behavioral Genetics, Child Social Development

Susan Nash, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Behavioral Medicine

Mary J. Naus, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and

Co-Director of Developmental Training

Memory Development, Cognition and Emotion, Health Psychology

Alexander W. Siegel, Ph.D.

Professor

Adolescence, History of Psychology, Developmental Theory

INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONAL FACULTY

James Campion, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Industrial Organizational Training

Recruitment, Selection, Training

Barbara Ellis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Item Response Theory, Cross-Cultural Testing and Measurement, Job Analysis

Sylvia J. Hysong, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Interviewing and Personnel, Management of Technical Populations, and Group Dynaminics in Extreme Environments

Allan P. Jones, Ph.D.

Professor

Organizational Climate and Culture, Small Groups

H. G. Osburn, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Personnel Psychology

Lois E. Tetrick, Ph.D.

Professor

Motivation, Occupational Health and Stress, Compensation

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE FACULTY

Bruno G. Breitmeyer, Ph.D.

Professor

Perception, Attention, and Cognitive Neuroscience

Joseph P. Carbonari, Ed.D.

Professor and Associate Dean

Substance Abuse, Path Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis

David J. Francis, Ph.D.

Professor

Statistical Models for Longitudinal Data, Structural Equation Modeling, and Exploratory Data Analysis, Learning Disabilities

Merrill Hiscock, Ph.D.

Professor

Neuroscience

Richard A. Kasschau, Ph.D.

Professor

Memory, Teaching of Psychology

Roy Lachman, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Neural Networks, Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science

SOCIAL FACULTY

Linda K. Acitelli, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Close Relationships

Richard I. Evans, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor and Director of Social Psychology Program

Health Psychology, Social Influence Models in Prevention of Addictive and Other Health Threatening Behaviors

C. Raymond Knee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and

Director of the Interpersonal Relations and Motivation Research Group

Interpersonal Relations and Motivations

Kirsten M. Poehlmann, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Health Psychology, Psychophysiology, Overachievement

Richard M. Rozelle, Ph.D.

Professor

Program Evaluation and Methods

RESEARCH FACULTY

Gerald Harris, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

TYAP Executive Director, Victims' Resource Institute

Renee McDonald, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Family Violence

Christopher Schatschneider, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Early Reading Development, Research Design and Statisitics

Cynthia Vincent, J.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Juvenile Crime, Impact of Violence on Children

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

The Religious Studies Program offers analytical and comparative approaches to the study of world religions. The Religious Studies minor is an interdisciplinary curriculum including such topics as religion and the problem of evil, religion and personality, and historical studies of world religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Asian religions.

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MICHAEL WYSCHOGROD (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1953 and D.H.L., Seton Hall University, 1983), Director of the Religious Studies Program, is one of the nation's leading authorities on Christian-Jewish relations. Before coming to Houston, he served for twenty years as Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Baruch College of the City University of New York. He has written on the Bible, the Holocaust, and the philosophers Maimonides, Sartre, and Martin Buber. His books include Understanding Scripture: Explorations of Jewish and Christian Tradition; Kierkegaard and Heidegger: The Ontology of Existence, and his magnum opus, The Body of Faith: God and the People of Israel.

LYNN MITCHELL (Ph.D., Rice University, 1979), a specialist in Christianity, is Religious Studies program coordinator and Resident Scholar in Religion. Before coming to the University of Houston, he was a faculty member at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He has also been Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Religion at Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Religion. He is the author and editor of seven books on religious ethics, gender and religion, and other topics, including Walking in the Light: How Christians Face Ethical Issues, The Christian Vision and Public Ethics, Gender and Ministry, Incorporating Children into the Life of the Church, and All God’s Children are Adopted.

Department of Sociology

The Department focuses heavily on racial and ethnic inter-group relations, especially within an urban context. It is making major initiatives in the areas of medical sociology and applied, policy-oriented analyses of urban institutions. The Department is home to two leading research centers, The Center for Immigration Research and The Sociology of Education Research Group, which have recently brought in more than $2 million in grants and contracts. The department has extensive undergraduate and graduate internship programs that have placed students in more than fifty community agencies.

Janet Saltzman Chafetz (Ph.D., Texas, 1969), a leading authority on the sociology of gender, is the author or editor of ten books, including, most recently, The Handbook of the Sociology of Gender (1999) and Religion and the New Immigrants: Continuities and Adaptations in Immigrant Congregations (2000).

RUSSELL L. CURTIS, JR. (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1968), conducts research and offers courses in the areas of socialization, social movements and collective behavior, organizations, social psychology, and the sociology of sport. He is the author of Collective Behavior and Social Movements and of scholarly articles on such topics as illegal drug use, juvenile justice, sports films, and college admissions.

A. GARY DWORKIN (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1970), a nationally-known expert on the sociology of education, conducts research on such topics as public school teacher burnout, student drop out behavior, and racial and ethnic relations. His books include Blending of Races: Marginality and Identity in World Perspective; Female Revolt: Women’s Movements in World and Historical Perspective; Giving Up on School: Student Dropouts and Teacher Burnouts; Hispanics in Houston; and Minority Report: An Introduction to Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Relations.

HELEN ROSE EBAUGH a noted authority on the sociology of religion, is president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is the author of such books as Becoming an Ex: The Process of Role Exit; Out of the Cloister: A Study of Organizational Dilemmas; Religion and the New Immigrations; and Women in the Vanishing Cloister: Organizational Decline in Catholic Religious Orders in the United States.

KARL ESCHBACH (Ph.D., Harvard, 1993), a leading demographer, received a prestigious NICHD Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin. He has published on such topics as the racial identification among Mexican Americans and Native Americas; Mexican immigration to the United States; and immigrationa nd racial and ethnic inequality.

JACQUELINE MARIA HAGAN (Ph.D., University of Texas, 1990), Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Research, conducts research in the areas of international migration and public policy, demography, and racial and ethnic relations. She has published on such topics as Mexican and Central American immigration and the use of foreign workers by American corporations.

JOSEPH A. KOTARBA His books include Chronic Pain: Its Social Dimensions and Existential Self in Society.

JON LORENCE (Ph.D., 1982), an authority on the sociology of work, conducts research on social stratification, race and ethnic relations, and the sociology of occupations. His current research examines the effect of teacher characteristics on students’ academic achievement.

R. SCOTT PHILLIPS (Ph.D., University of Georgia), a specialist in criminology, wont he American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Law graduate student competition. He is completing a book that uses interviews with prisoners at Georgia’s Lee Arrendale State Prison to assess contemporary theories about he factors motivating interpersonal violence.

THE SCHOOL OF THEATRE

With such American theatre giants on the faculty as three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, the legendary director Sir Peter Hall, the Tony Award-winning producer Stuart Ostrow, and the Broadway designer Kevin Rigdon, the UH School of Theatre is one of the strongest theatre schools in the country.

For students and faculty alike, the professional theatre scene in Houston is part of UH's draw. The School's Musical Theatre Lab, a professional workshop for original musical theatre, offers students the opportunity to work with major choreographers and directors. The School of Theatre plays an active role in the Houston community, with the Houston Shakespeare Festival and the Children's Theatre Festival presenting professional productions every summer. The Theatre's graduates have become major figures in the world of acting. School of Theatre alumni include Randy and Dennis Quaid (The Right Stuff, Days of Thunder, Of Mice and Men), Loretta Devine (Dreamgirls, Waiting to Exhale), and many others.

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EDWARD ALBEE is one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century. Included among his more than 25 works are Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, and Three Tall Women. He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and a Tony Award and has received a Presidential Arts medallion. Beyond prizes, Mr. Albee’s work has determined the course of the theatre in the late twentieth century, and redefined the playgoer’s experience of dramatic performance as such.

SIDNEY BERGER (Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1964), Director of the School of Theatre, is also the founder and producing director of the Houston Shakespeare Festival and co‑founder and producer of the Children's Theatre Festival. He co‑founded the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America and served as its first president. He has directed over ninety productions on the UH campus, as well as over twenty productions for the Shakespeare Festival, including King Lear, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth. He has also directed throughout the city, notably at the Alley Theatre, where he served as associate artist, with such productions as T Bone 'N Weasel, All in the Timing, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. As artistic consultant at Stages Repertory Theatre, he directed Edward Albee's All Over, The Substance of Fire, A Kind of Alaska, and A Delicate Balance, with Jerome Kilty. At Theatre Under the Stars, he directed the fortieth anniversary production of My Fair Lady with Noel Harrison. Dr. Berger serves on the board of London's Shakespeare's Globe and is the recipient of the Mayor's Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Performing Artist. He received the University's Esther Farfel Award and was recently named a Moores University Scholar. In 1997 Dr. Berger was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Theatre.

CAROLYN HOUSTON BOONE (M.F.A., University of Houston, 1982), a leading director and professional actress, has received acclaim for her innovative conceptual approaches to Shakespeare in the plays she has directed for the Houston Shakespeare Festival. She has directed over twenty productions and has received both a University Teaching Excellence Award and the College’s Distinguished Teacher Award. She studied with the Royal National Theatre’s Acting Programme. She is currently creating a one-woman show entitled William’s Women and is completing a two-act play, D/2.

BRIAN BYRNES (M.F.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1995), one of the nation's foremost experts in stage fight choreography, has earned the title of Fight Director from the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), one of the highest ranks within the internationally recognized organization. His credits include New York and regional theatres around the country, and he regularly shares his knowledge of stage combat and historical swordplay at national and international conferences and seminars. He serves as chair of the SAFD Health and Safety Committee, and is an Associate Editor for the SAFD journal The Fight Master. His professional affiliations include the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, Actor's Equity Association, and AFTRA/SAG.

LINDA DORFF (Ph.D., New York University, 1997) is a theater historian and a leading authority on the plays of Tennessee Williams. She taught at Oberlin College before joining the UH faculty, and has offered courses on such topics as contemporary women playwrights and modern drama

SIR PETER HALL joined the faculty of the School of Theatre in the Fall of 1999. A graduate of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, he created the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960, and directed it for ten years. For the Company, he directed eighteen plays at Stratford including The War of the Roses, which developed into a seven-play history cycle that marked the Shakespeare Quartercentenary in 1964. In 1973, he was appointed Director of the Royal National Theatre, and held the post for fifteen years, overseeing its move into its new three-theatre building on London’s South Bank. On leaving the RNT, he launched the Peter Hall Company with productions of Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave and The Merchant of Venice with Dustin Hoffman. Eighteen productions followed, including An Ideal Husband, The Master Builder, Hamlet, Lysistrata, and A Streetcar Named Desire with Jessica Lange, playing in the West End, Broadway, and Europe. Sir Peter Hall has directed over forty operas all over the world. He has also directed both TV and film. His diaries about the opening of the new Royal National Theatre were published in 1983, and his autobiography, Making an Exhibition of Myself, was published in 1993.

DEBORAH KINGHORN (M.F.A., Trinity University, 1981), a specialist in voice and dialects training for actors, is currently involved in establishing the Arthur Lessac Institute for Voice Studies, designed to train voice teachers and to provide research opportunities for voice specialists. Professor Kinghorn's activities in the Houston community include serving as company voice and dialect coach for the Tony‑award winning Alley Theatre. A gifted teacher, Professor Kinghorn received the University's Enron Teaching Excellence Award in 1995.

JONATHAN MIDDENTS (M.F.A., Florida State University, 1974) is an authority in the areas of stagecraft, design, stage lighting, sound, scenic painting, and stage management. He serves as the School of Theatre production manager. His scenic design, lighting design, and sound design work are seen regularly on the University of Houston Mainstage, at UH‑Downtown, the Children's Theatre Festival and Houston Shakespeare Festival professional seasons, and at other Houston‑area theatres. Professor Middents received an M.F.A. in Theatre Design, and prior to joining the UH faculty in 1983 held positions as designer/technical director at UH‑Clear Lake, the University of Texas at Austin, and Indiana State University.

STUART OSTROW was Frank Loesser's protege, and became Vice President and General Manager of Frank Music Corp., the Broadway co‑producers of The Most Happy Fella, The Music Man, and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Ostrow's award‑winning solo original Broadway productions include M. Butterfly, 1776, Pippin, La Bete, The Apple Tree, The Robber Bridegroom, and Really Rosie. He is also the original Broadway director of Here's Love, associate director of Chicago, and author of Stages. His book, A Producer's Broadway Journey, was published by Praeger Publishers in 1999.

KEVIN RIGDON is an internationally recognized designer of scenery and lighting for the stage. His work on Broadway includes The Grapes of Wrath, for which he received two Tony nominations, two Drama Desk nominations, and the American Theatre Wing Design Award. He also did the original productions of David Mamet's Speed the Plow, The Old Neighborhood, and Glengarry Glen Ross, the revivals of A Streetcar Named Desire, Our Town (Drama Desk nomination), The Caretaker, and productions of GHtl 10, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu, and Buried Child. His work has appeared in London on the West End, at the Royal National Theatre, and the Barbican Center, in Tel Aviv for the Cameri Theatre, and in Perth and Sydney, Australia. His many regional theatre credits include Steppenwolf Theatre, the Alley Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Lincoln Center Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, the Ford Theatre, the Kennedy Center, the Old Globe Theatre, the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, the Atlantic Theatre, and Shakespeare Repertory Theatre. Additional credits include a number of Off Broadway productions, national tours, lighting for dance, museum exhibits, and consulting on new theatres. He has received six Joseph Jefferson Awards, and the L.A. Weekly Award.

CLAREMARIE VERHEYEN (M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, 1978) is principal costume and make‑up designer. During her thirty years as a theatre artist, she has designed over 300 productions including drama, opera, dance, high‑fashion, film, video, television, circus and commercials. In addition to her academic and commercial work in Houston she has served as an executive member and president of the Houston Theatre Network, an active member and portfolio commissioner of the National United States Institute for Theatre and Technology, and is a vice‑president for the United States Institute of Technical Theatre, Southwest Region. She regularly offers Commedia Mask workshops and symposiums in Houston, and is a consultant for the University of Houston's costume rental operation. She has advanced fashion millinery training, and recently went to Italy to research the original techniques for the creation of Commedia dell arte Masks. She has been the featured costume designer at the Texas Education Theatre Association's conventions and is the recipient of their University Educator of the Year Award.

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The Division in Dance

VICTORIA LOFTIN (M.Ed., University of Houston, 1987) is Artistic Director of the performing company of the Theatre School’s Division of Dance, and an award‑winning choreographer who specializes in the holistic integration of somatics into dance technique and the creative process. Her choreography has been performed in many settings nationally and internationally. She is a pioneer in the area of community arts collaboration. As a highly respected teacher of dance technique and choreography, Professor Loftin is involved in the training of dancers who have continued on to careers in the professional dance community.

KAREN STOKES (M.F.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1994), a choreographer with numerous professional credits, danced in New York City and abroad with David Gordon/Pick Up Co., Larry Clark's Triple Threat Company, and Stephan Koplowitz & Co. Professor Stokes has performed in such distinguished venues as The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. She has also performed in musical theater in A Chorus Line, My Fair Lady, Music Man, and Candide. Since 1988, Professor Stokes has choreographed and directed over 20 original works. These works have been performed in Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Cleveland, and New England. Renowned choreographer Dan Wagoner states: "Her choreography is promising and rich, demonstrating that Stokes knows well how to work from the intuitive and artistic side." In 1997, Stokes co-founded Travesty Dance Group with colleagues Kimberly Karpanty and Rebecca Malcolm. Professor Stokes received a Distinguished Scholar Award from UCLA and was one of two dancers selected nationally to participate in the National Endowment for the Arts pilot program "The Arts Corps."

WOMEN'S STUDIES

The Women's Studies program places gender at the center of inquiry. Our courses examine the contributions and status of women; explore the diversity of women's experiences; and consider the way that class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age shape the female experience. Students examine gender roles in the United States and around the world; how they developed and why they are changing; as well as how ideas about gender shape the arts, humanities, and the social and natural sciences.

Established in 1991, the Program offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate minor with courses drawn from the humanities, fine arts, and social and medical sciences. In Women's Studies, students find a supportive community and close interaction with faculty.

The Women's Archive and Research Center collects the papers of Houston area women's organizations. The archive also preserves Texas women's histories. The research center supports scholarly work on women's issues through speakers, conferences, research grants, and a year-long postdoctoral fellowship. Another special initiative is the Mary Comeaux Women's Resource Center, which provides support services for returning women students and information on health care, day care, scholarships, and university and community programs for women.

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ELIZABETH GREGORY (Ph.D., Yale University, 1989) is the author of Quotation and Modern American Poetry: “Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads” (1996), which focuses on the work of T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore. She is also the author of a number articles on modernism and an essay on Homer, entitled "Unraveling Penelope: The Construction of the Faithful Wife in Homer's Heroines" (Hellos, 1996). Her current project is Why Tell?: Situating the Confessional Mode in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. She teaches courses on British and American modernism, contemporary poetry, ancient and classical literature, feminist criticism, cultural criticism and American literature since 1860. Director of the Women's Studies Program since 1995, Professor Gregory has focused on expanding the program and on developing the Women's Archive and Research Center (WARC).