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Dr. John C. Akers

Associate Director of the Success Initiative/Associate Professor
Success Initiative
Foreign Languages

Article on Sandburg publishes

An article by Dr. Jhon Akers on Carl Sandburg and a writing of his that was rejected by the Guitar Review has appeared in the Guitar Soundboard, the publication of the Guitar Foundation of America, volume xxxiii, nos. 3-4, 2007. Akers also recently presented several public performances of hsi work on Sandburg and his love of the Spanish classical guitar, including a new program titled "Sandburg's Wish" that includes Akers' own translations of Spanish language guitar-inspired poetry. Venues include the Free Library of Philadelphia, Pa. (April 2008); the Sumter Library, Sumter, S.C.; the Chapel at the Cliffs of Glassy Mountain; the Skye Ballroom in Bennettsville, S.C.; Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C.; and St. John in the Wilderness Church in Flat Rock, N.C. He will be one of the featured performers at Carl Sandburg Home, National Historic Site, on Memorial Day 2008.

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Dr. A.K. Anderson

Assistant Professor
Religion

Selected speaker for international conference

Dr. A.K. Anderson ’90 was one of the selected speakers at the “Religion in a Secular Age: A Conference with Charles Taylor,” held Dec. 12-14, 2007, in Adelaide, Australia.  Anderson’s paper for the conference, “Modernity, Simultaneity, and the Promise and Limitations of the Enestological Theodicy,” is a product of his work in the 2007 Community of Scholars program at Wofford.

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Dr. Laura H. Barbas Rhoden

Associate Professor
Foreign Languages

Publishes lead article in journal

Dr. Laura Barbas Rhoden has published an article in a peer-reviewed journal, "Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature."  The article is "Ecology, Coloniality, Modernity: Argentine Fictions of Tierra del Fuego," and it appears as the lead article in the March 2008 edition of the journal (Vol 41.1, March 2008, 1-18).  In the spring of 2007, Barbas Rhoden collaborated with Dr. Genny Ballard of Centre College to organize a panel on ecocriticism and Latin American literature at the ASLE conference hosted by Wofford College. She gave a talk titled "Where I Belong: Latin(o) American Narratives of People, Place, and Resistance in Piñata Books for Children." Drs. Ballard and Barbas Rhoden have collaborated on a publication related to their presentation (Fall 2007). Dr. Barbas Rhoden also prepared an invited book review for the Revista de Estudios Hispanicos. She reviewed the recently published collection of essays about Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias entitled Cien Años de Magia: Ensayos críticos sobre la obra de Miguel Angel Asturias (Preble-Niemi, Oralia, editor and intro).

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Dr. Kara Bopp

Assistant Professor
Psychology

Presents research on cognition

Dr. Kara Bopp presented research at the Cognitive Aging Conference in April 2008. The poster, titled “Memories Can’t Wait: Age-Related Working Memory Capacity Decrease is Tied (Mostly) to Retention, not Encoding,” was presented with Wofford College student co-authors TJ Bradford, Crystal Burnette and Leigh Anne Campbell.

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Dr. Begona Caballero

Assistant Professor
Foreign Languages

Presents poster on iPod use in classroom

Dr. Begoña Caballero and Dr. Dennis Wiseman presented a poster in the NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) conference in San Francisco in April 2008 on the use of iPods in the classroom.

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Dr. Alan D. Chalmers

Professor
English

Contributes essay to book

Dr. Alan Chalmers contributed an essay, "Scottish Prospects: Thomas Pennant, Samuel Johnson, and the Possibilities of Travel Narrative," to a book published in early 2007, "Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman," edited by Lorna Clymer and Robert Mayer. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007.)

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Laura H. Corbin

Director of News Services
Office of Communications and Marketing

Named City's outstanding volunteer in 2007

Laura Corbin was named the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year for the City of Spartanburg's Parks, Recreation and Special Events Department on Jan. 18, 2007. She is chair of the City's Special Events & Festivals Advisory Committee. Corbin also is marketing and publicity chair of Team Spartanburg Sports Council. She also is vice chair of the Friends of the Guardian ad Litem Program of Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties.

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Dr. G.R. Davis

Professor
Biology

Research presented at Southeastern Biologists conference

Dr. G.R. Davis conducted research with students Robynn Machechnie and Kishan Govind as part of the 2007 Community of Scholars summer program funded by the Fullerton Foundation. That research, which investigated the conditions that trigger binge eating in laboratory rats, was presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists hosted by Wofford College and Furman University in April 2008. Davis served as a member of the local arrangements committee for that meeting and had a third research poster presented there by Katie Isbell based on research conducted in the Biology 250 Introduction to Research course in the spring 2007. Davis is the 2007-2008 Wofford recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award sponsored by South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities.

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Dr. William E. DeMars

Chairman and Professor
Government

Presents paper, gives lecture

Dr. William DeMars presented a paper, "Tragic Idealism? Power Constructivism? Theorizing real NGOs," at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association March 26-29, 2008, in San Francisco. He also gave a lecture titled "NGO Agency: What is it? What is it good for?" on April 2, 2008, to graduate students in the masters of arts in international affairs program at the University of Miami. DeMars participated on two panels in Wofford's 2008 Symposium on Citizenship and Leadership: The Roundtable on "Poverty and Citizenship" on Saturday, April 12, with Dr. Cynthia Fowler and Mitch Kennedy of the City of Spartanburg, and the discussion of "New Leftist Leaders in Latin America" on April 21 with Dr. Nancy Mandlove.

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Dr. Christine S. Dinkins

Associate Professor
Philosophy

Edited recognized book

A book edited by Dr. Christine Dinkins, Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences, vol. V, Listening To The Whispers: Health Care Ethics In The 21st Century, with J.M. Sorrell. Nancy Diekelmann, series editors (University of Wisconsin Press, May 2006), was named by the American Library Association as an "Outstanding Academic Title" in the fall of 2007.

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Dr. Cynthia T. Fowler

Assistant Professor
Sociology

Publishes book chapter on public health initiatives

Dr. Cynthia Fowler published a chapter titled "National Public Health Initiatives that Integrate Traditional Medicine" in the book Human Health and Forests: A Global Overview of Issues, Practice and Policy, edited by Carol J. Pierce Colfer and published by Earthscan in spring 2008. On Nov. 6, 2007, Fowler as a fire commissioner for the Foothills Fire Support Area, which is in the northeast corner of Greenville County, where she lives.

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Dr. Ellen S. Goldey

Professor
Biology

Represents Wofford at poster session

Dr. Ellen Goldey along with Dr. Byron McCane represented Wofford College April 15, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at the poster session and reception of the SENCER’s Washington Symposium. SENCER – Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities – is a faculty development and science education reform program supported by the National Science Foundation. SENCER programs engage students in science and mathematics by focusing coursework on real world problems. This method extends the impact of student learning across the curriculum to the broader community and society. The Washington Symposium and Capitol Hill Poster Session is an annual gathering of invited educators, administrators, and students with mature SENCER projects who discuss next steps in improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and present their own successful course revisions and developments to their congressional delegations and all other interested parties. The poster by Goldey and McCane, “Integrating the Disciplines: Educating Citizens for Our Democracy,” highlights several examples of Wofford’s learning communities, which integrate science and humanities courses, in addition to other interdisciplinary initiatives. Goldey and McCane will represent the many Wofford professors who have been working to help students integrate, rather than compartmentalize, their knowledge. Quoting from the poster, “To become positive change agents, our graduates must value and integrate all disciplines. And we must show them how.”

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Dr. Karen H. Goodchild

Associate Professor
Fine Arts
Art History

Makes presentations

Dr. Karen Goodchild recently made several presentations, including "Get Thyself to Venus' Realm: Landscape as Medicine in the Renaissance" to the Renaissance Society of America annual conference in Chicago in April 2008.  She also delivered a paper to the Renaissance Society of America titled “The Artistic Rivalry between Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari,” in Miami, Fla., in March 2007.

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Dr. Robert C. Jeffrey

Professor
Government

Gives Constitution Day lecture

Dr. Rob Jeffrey gave the Constitution Day Lecture at Coastal Carolina University on Sept. 20, 2007.

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Dr. Kirsten A. Krick-Aigner

Associate Professor
Foreign Languages

Organized Jewish literature program

Dr. Kirsten Krick-Aigner gave a talk, "Austrian Literature in the Context of the Book Discussion Series' Jewish Literature: Let's Talk About It': Performing Literature, Community Outreach, and Scholarship," at the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association conference, April 24-27, 2008, at the University of Washington in Seattle. Krick-Aigner, along with with Dean Oakley Coburn, received a grant to host a book discussion series "Let's Talk About It: Jewish Literature" at the Sandor Teszler Library" in Fall 2007. Some 15 participants from the Spartanburg community attended, and Krick-Aigner gave five lectures and led discussions. As outgoing president for the S.C. American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), Krick-Aigner organized and hosted a weekend conference on March 14-15, 2008, for 15 S.C. German teachers at Wofford College. Two Wofford German majors, Mary Beth Broadwater and Claudia Winkler, presented papers completed during the Community of Scholars program at Wofford in the summer of 2007 on topics of German culture. Krick-Aigner gave a paper on "Ingeborg Bachmann’s Treatment of Joseph Roth’s Trotta in 'Drei Wege zum See': Austrian 'Heimat', Exile, and Identity" at the Philological Association of the Carolinas (PAC) in Asheville, N.C., in March 2008. Two students in Wofford's German program, Claudia Winkler and John Wood, were awarded a Teaching Assistantship Fulbright Grant to Germany for 2008-2009.

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Dr. Eun-Sun Lee

Associate Professor and Director of the Chamber Players
Music
Fine Arts

Gives masterclass, plans recital

In February 2008, Dr. Eun-Sun Lee gave a masterclass and recital at Emory University with William Ransom, professor of piano at Emory University and director of Carlos Museum Concert Series. In May 2008, she is scheduled to perform a recital at the Lake Keowee Performing Arts Series with pianist Fabio Parrini. Since October 2007, the Southern Artistry Organization, based in Atlanta, Ga., is featuring Lee's CD, which helps promote music at Wofford for a Southeastern "Tour" of Museums.

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Dr. Daniel B. Mathewson

Assistant Professor
Religion



Essay 'Images of Disaster' published

Dr. Dan Mathewson's essay "Images of Disaster: Survival and the Impossible in the Artwork of Samuel Bak and the Book of Job" appeared in "Representing the Irreparable: the Shoah, the Bible, and the Art of Samuel Bak" in spring 2008. His article "Between Testimony and Interpretation: The Book of Job in Post-Holocaust, Jewish Theological Reflection" will be published in spring 2008 in the journal "Studies in the Literary Imagination." In 2008, he presented a paper titled "The Sanitized Apocalypse: Left Behind, Rated PG-13" at the 2008 conference of the Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion. In 2007, he led a Wabash Center roundtable discussion on the topic of teaching and technology at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Mathewson's and Professor Matt Cathey's 2008 Interim course, "January Smackdown," was featured in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and on Fox Carolina TV.

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Dr. Byron R. McCane

Albert C. Outler Professor and Department Chair
Religion

Represents Wofford at poster session

Dr. Byron McCane along with Dr. Ellen Goldey represented Wofford College April 15, 2008, in Washington, D.C., at the poster session and reception of the SENCER’s Washington Symposium. SENCER – Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities – is a faculty development and science education reform program supported by the National Science Foundation. SENCER programs engage students in science and mathematics by focusing coursework on real world problems. This method extends the impact of student learning across the curriculum to the broader community and society. The Washington Symposium and Capitol Hill Poster Session is an annual gathering of invited educators, administrators, and students with mature SENCER projects who discuss next steps in improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and present their own successful course revisions and developments to their congressional delegations and all other interested parties. The poster by Goldey and McCane, “Integrating the Disciplines: Educating Citizens for Our Democracy,” highlights several examples of Wofford’s learning communities, which integrate science and humanities courses, in addition to other interdisciplinary initiatives. Goldey and McCane will represent the many Wofford professors who have been working to help students integrate, rather than compartmentalize, their knowledge. Quoting from the poster, “To become positive change agents, our graduates must value and integrate all disciplines. And we must show them how.”

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Dr. Larry T. McGehee

Professor Emeritus
Religion

Honored with scholarship in his name

Dr. Larry McGehee and his wife, Betsy, were honored at Homecoming 2007 by the announcement of gifts exceeding $50,000 to establish the Elizabeth Boden and Larry Thomas McGehee Endowed Scholarship, annual earnings from which will be used to purchase textbooks and other research materials for financially pressed Wofford students selected by a three-person faculty-staff committee. The announcement was made at the reunion party for Religion 340 young alumni (1999-2006).

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Dr. Stephen A. Michelman

Associate Professor
Philosophy

Publishes book

In February 2008, Dr. Stephen Michelman published "Historical Dictionary of Existentialism" (Scarecreow Press), an A-Z reference guide for scholars and students alike. The book explains the ideas of existentialist philosophers and documents the historical and cultural contexts in which they arose.

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Dr. Cecile Nowatka

Associate Professor
Psychology

Paper in press

Dr. Cecile Nowatka has a paper in press, "Psychological Effects on Physicians of Poor Outcome versus Malpractice," for the Southern Medical Journal.  Co-writers are Suneet P. Chauhan, Vidya B. Chauhan and John C. Morrison.

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Dr. David W. Pittman

Assistant Professor
Psychology

Publishes article on research on neural coding of taste

Dr. Dave Pittman and three Wofford College students published a research article titled "Orosensory detection of fatty acids in obesity-prone and -resistant rats: Strain and sex differences." in the peer-reviewed journal Chemical Senses in spring 2008. This is the second publication resulting from student research conducted in the Pittman laboratory during the 2006 Community of Scholars summer research program. Additionally, Pittman was recognized for his eminent contributions to the field of feeding behavior through the invitation to contribute a chapter reviewing his research on the taste of dietary fat in a forthcoming volume of Frontiers in Neuroscience titled "Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects." Research on the neural coding of taste is ongoing in the Pittman laboratory with two students conducting research projects examining the effect of anti-anxiety drugs on taste signals during the 2008 Community of Scholars summer research program.

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Dr. Philip Racine

Kenan Professor of History
History

Publishes book

Dr. Philip Racine recently published his book, "Gentleman Merchants: A Charleston Family's Odyssey, 1828-1870," an edition of the correspondence of the Gourdin-Young families (University of Tennessee Press, 2008, 800+ pages).

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Dr. Alliston K. Reid

Professor
Psychology

Chairs conference, edits journal

Dr. Alliston Reid served as program chair for the annual conference of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (SQAB), held in Chicago, in May 2008. He served this same role for the 2007 conference in San Diego. Reid also has completed his second year as editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Behavioural Processes. In April 2008, he was invited to be honorary president of a conference in behavior analysis held in Guadalajara, Mexico. The Mexican society paid all of his expenses to the conference, where Reid gave an hour-long Presidential Address in Spanish titled “Adaptación a contingencias cambiantes.” This presentation described some of the research he and his students at Wofford have completed in the past few years and presented a new mathematical model of behavior. Reid also was co-author on two other research presentations at that conference. By May 2008, Reid had published an article in Behavioural Processes titled “Completing the Scientific Method Circle.” In 2007 he and his students published “Resurgence of complex behavioral units” in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, and “It’s the non-arbitrary metrics, stupid!” in Behavioural Processes. He also presented a research paper at the Association for Behavior Analysis, held in Chicago in May 2008, titled “Sequential analysis of behavior patterns using non-stationary Markov models.” Reid presented in July 2007 a research paper titled “Resistance to change within response sequences” at a joint meeting of the Psychonomics Society and the Experimental Psychology Society in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Dr. Timothy J. Schmitz

Associate Professor
History

Presents paper, chairs panel

Dr. Tim Schmitz presented a paper titled "No Rest for the Dead: Miracles Attributed to Hernando de Talavera" at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 27, 2007. He also chaired a panel titled "Enacting Religious Reform in Early Modern Spain."

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Dr. John L. Seitz

Professor Emeritus
Government

Publishes 3rd edition of book

Dr. Jack Seitz recently published the 3rd edition of "Global Issues: An Introduction" in summer of 2007 by Blackwell Publishers. Previous editions of his book were translated into Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese.

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Dr. Richard Phillip Stone II

Archivist
Sandor Teszler Library

Presents paper

Dr. Phillip Stone '94 presented a paper titled "Developer-in-Chief: The Evolving Role of South Carolina Governors in Economic Development, 1950-1962" on Nov. 2, 2007, at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Richmond, Va.

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Chris Strauber

Reference and Web Services Librarian
Sandor Teszler Library

Gives online presentation

Chris Strauber gave an online presentation on the Zotero citation manager via OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) on Jan. 23, 2008. Zotero, designed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, is a free citation manager that works as part of the Firefox Web browser. It allows researchers to keep track of bibliographies, notes, even copies of articles and pictures, all within the browser window. The presentation, "Mark of Zotero: Two clicks to citation management" with audio and video, is archived online at http://www.opal-online.org/archivelis.htm. More information about the software is also available on the library Web site.

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Dr. Philip G. Swicegood

Associate Professor
Accounting and Finance

Interviewed in Herald-Journal

Dr. Philip Swicegood was interviewed by the Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, S.C.) in February 2008 in an article about the federal economic stimulus plan. See the article at GoUpstate.com.

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Dr. Clayton J. Whisnant

Associate Professor
History

Essay translated, published

Dr. Clayton Whisnant had an essay translated and published with a Hamburg-based journal (Zeitgeschichte in Hamburg).  The essay, titled “Zwischen Verfolgung und Freiheit: Homosexuelle Männer in Hamburg in den langen fünfziger Jahren” (which translates as “Between Persecution and Freedom: Homosexual Men in Hamburg in the long 1950s"), was published in March 2008.  He also was guest editor, along with Dr. Daniel Walther at Wartburg College in Iowa, for a special issue of The Journal of the History of Sexuality titled “Masculinity and Homosexuality in Germany and the German Colonies, 1880-1945.”  Besides editing much of the issue, Whisnant wrote the introduction, titled “Gay History in Germany: Future Directions.”  The journal was published in January 2008.  

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Dr. Nancy Williams

Assisant Professor
Philosophy

Essay to appear in journal

Dr. Nancy Williams’ essay, “Affected Ignorance and Animal Suffering: Why the Lack of Extensive Debate about Factory Farming May Put Us at Moral Risk,” will appear in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics in August 2008. In April 2008, she presented a paper at the 31st Annual Southeastern Women’s Studies Association titled “Female Slave Narratives and Spatial Metaphors,” in North Carolina. Williams’ 2008 Interim course, Have a Cow! Don’t Eat One: Exploring Vegetarianism, was featured in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and some of her recipes appeared in “A Taste of Wofford Interim 2008,” a publication featuring recipes from cooking classes offered that interim. Williams also was invited to speak about ethical vegetarianism at Greenville Technical College in February 2008. You can find her editorial, “Fight global warming by being a vegetarian,” in the Nov. 7, 2007, issue of the Greenville News.

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Dr. Ana Maria Wiseman

Associate Dean of the College and Director of Programs Abroad
Academic Affairs
Foreign Languages

Chairs Conference for IES

Dr. Ana Maria Wiseman, in 2007, began serving as chair of the Conference for IES (The Institute for the International Education of Students), one of Wofford College's study abroad partners. During the three-year term, her responsibilities will include planning the annual conference for the membership, appointing committees for the consortium, serving on the Academic Council, and serving on the IES Board of Directors. Wiseman has worked with IES in many positions, including being the Amsterdam Center director, serving on the Academic Council and the Curriculum Committee, and serving on many evaluation committees and new program design committees.

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Dr. Dennis M. Wiseman

Chairman and Professor
Foreign Languages

Attends conferences, presents poster session

Dr. Dennis M. Wiseman attended the Association of American Colleges and Universities Conference on "Integrative Designs for General Education and Assessment" in Boston in February 2008. He also presented a poster session, "Use of iPods in Advanced Language Courses," at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) Conference in San Francisco in April 2008. He will attend the Global Studies Conference in May 2008 at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Annual Conference for Administrators of Departments of Foreign Languages in June 2008 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. He will complete his fifth Assault on Mount Mitchell bicycle race on June 9, 2008. He also will attend the Teagle Collaborative (Wofford, Converse, UNC-Asheville, Agnes Scott) in Asheville, N.C., June 11-13, 2008.