Tenured Associate Professor Research Articles

Engaging the Disengaged

Disengagement can be observed, measured, and,most of all, understood. A bad attitude does not have to be permanent or terminal. While the individual who is an RTW Grump may never become“Mr. Sunshine,” he can be realigned toward a more healthy skepticism to incremental or selective change. The RTW Grump can be approached in a manner that invites incremental engagement at strategic points. Disengagement represents an unnecessary disconnect from previously valued relationships. Making the leading contributors to disengagement (i.e., morale, changing value of work,patience, self-esteem) the foundation for the RTW plan increases the likelihood that a person, who for no apparent good reason should be able to return to work, actually becomes reengaged.

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema (1959–2013).

Presents an obituary for Susan Nolen-Hoeksema. Susan received her bachelor's degree from Yale University and her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her undergraduate and graduate school mentors were Irving Janis, Robert Sternberg, and Martin Seligman. Susan began her career at Stanford University, where she became a tenured associate professor in 1993, and moved to the University of Michigan, where she was promoted to the rank of professor and directed the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Susan joined the Yale University Department of Psychology in 2004 as a professor and served as its chair and director of graduate studies. Few words can capture Susan's masterful approach to research, which balanced creativity with pragmatism. A pioneer in the study of depression and a leading figure in research on sex differences in depression, she transformed clinical psychology with her research. Raised in the small town of Stonington, Illinois, Susan acquired a decency, kindness, and strength of character that lasted her lifetime. Despite her academic achievements and stature in the field, she treated everyone with respect and dignity. She was remarkable in her ability to support people through difficult circumstances, fairly treat all individuals, and be a kind and dedicated mentor and colleague to those of us fortunate enough to know her. Our field is richer for her presence, and her untimely death is a tragic loss. There could be no better colleague and friend. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

Markets, votes, and The Calculus of Consent

Like many others, I have had the privilege of having been both a student and a colleague of James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock. Unlike most of the others, my role as student/colleague did not follow the usual sequence, having joined a PhD program in economics, while I was a tenured Associate Professor at George Mason Law School.1 Most students become aware of the greatness of their teachers while (or after) taking their classes. In my case, the greatness of James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock preceded them, through their path-breaking book, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Their book has changed the paths of scholarship in many fields of research and has changed the way of thinking of many scholars, including my own. Prior to reading The Calculus of Consent, my academic perspective on democratic decision-making was hanging on a string between the two opposing views of Chicago scholars and their belief in the efficiency of political markets, and the less optimistic perspective of social choice theorists. Politics-like-markets metaphors formed an established foundation of much of the early work of the Chicago school of political economy.2 The thrust of this foundational hypothesis is that political markets are generally clearing, at least in the sense that, in equilibrium, no individual or group can improve his wealth (or utility) without reducing the wealth (or utility) of at least one other individual. The lessons of social choice theory

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Staying Stuck! The Case Manager's Predicament, Part 2

Kenneth Mitchell, PhD, received his PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. Professional contributions include tenured Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine; Director of Rehabilitation for the Ohio Industrial Commission; and Vice President, Health & Productivity Development for Unum US; and he currently serves as the managing partner of the WorkRx Group, Ltd. Address correspondence to Kenneth Mitchell, PhD, WorkRx Group, Ltd., 263 Bristol Woods Ct, Worthington, OH 43085 ([email protected]). This column is Part 2 of a three-part series. The author reports no conflicts of interest.

In Memoriam

Lawrence Julius (“Larry”) Hanks, Sr. (1954–2011), a tenured associate professor of Political Science at Indiana University, passed away at his Bloomington residence on Thursday, November 10, 2011 after a long and courageous battle against cancer.

Stoking the Research Fire: Three Views

Most academics are fired up for research right after graduate school, but after a few years on the job, the flame might wane. Perhaps you are over-burdened with service or administration and can't imagine finding time for a research project. Budget cuts may have you feeling overworked or uninspired. Perhaps you've achieved your goal of becoming tenured and you wonder what comes next. The purpose of this collection of essays, presented originally at a 2011 midwinter conference, is to share ways to stoke a passion for research. The perspectives included here represent three stages of academic life: tenure-track assistant professor, tenured associate professor, and full professor.

Interview: Revolutionizing personalized medicine with nanosensor technology.

Perena Gouma, PhD, is a Fulbright Scholar and tenured Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the State University of New York Stony Brook, NY, USA. Dr Gouma is a lead researcher in sensor technology, and recently developed a new nanomedicine tool called the 'Nanosensor Device for Breath Acetone Detection', which makes it possible to instantly detect and monitor disease by simply exhaling into a handheld device. Dr Gouma received a BS degree in Applied Physics from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, a MS in Advanced Engineering Materials and an MPhil in Organizational Management, both from the University of Liverpool (UK), and a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Birmingham (UK).

Commentary: Academia: A Poetic Memoir

A sociological maxim is that one sees from a particular position. As my position in academia changed, I saw differently. In this piece, I offer brief descriptions of my experience in four positions—Untenured Professor, Tenured Associate Professor, Full Professor and Professor Emeritus—and illustrate those with poems written during each of those positions.

Elinor Ostrom: uncommon

I first met Elinor Ostrom in the early 1970s. I was an assistant professor at Washington University, St. Louis, and she was a recently tenured associate professor at Indiana University who traveled to St. Louis from Bloomington on a regular basis to ride around dicey urban neighborhoods in police cruisers. Her research focused on metropolitan governance with special emphasis on the delivery of urban services of which police protection was a prime example. She was a member of the recently founded Public Choice Society (indeed, her spouse Vincent was a founding member) and was an adherent of the rational choice approach to social phenomena that later came to be identified under the banners of the Rochester School, the Virginia School, and the Bloomington School. But Elinor Ostrom was an uncommon scholar, and this shall be the theme of my brief contribution to this collection.

The Quality of Dental Faculty Work‐Life: Report on the 2007 Dental School Faculty Work Environment Survey

This report is the third in a series of articles on the dental school work environment commissioned by the American Dental Education Association's Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education. The report is based on the most extensive research to date on faculty satisfaction in the dental school environment. The purpose of the study was to assess faculty perceptions and recommendations related to work environment, sources of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and professional development needs. More broadly, the study intends to provide insight into the "change readiness" of dental schools to move forward with curricular improvements and innovations. Findings are based on 1,748 responses from forty-nine U.S. dental schools obtained during the time frame of February to April 2007. The total number of respondents constituted 17 percent of all U.S. dental school faculty. The average response rate per school was thirty-six (21 percent). To elucidate the data in terms of issues related to the quality of faculty work-life based on demographics, the authors compared perceptions of various aspects of the work culture in academic dentistry among faculty with different academic ranks and academic degrees and by other variables such as age and gender, tenure versus non-tenure appointments, and full- versus part-time status. Quantitative and qualitative analyses show that the majority of faculty members described themselves as very satisfied to satisfied with their dental school overall and with their department as a place to work. Tenured associate professors expressed the greatest level of dissatisfaction. Opportunities for and support of professional development emerged as an area requiring substantially more attention from dental schools. The authors of the study suggest that dental school leaders use these findings to assess their individual dental school's work environment and to plan changes as needed.

The History of Rhetoric & Public Affairs : A Salute to Fred Bohm

The History of Rhetoric & Public Affairs: A Salute to Fred Bohm Martin J. Medhurst, Editor With the publication of volume 11:1, Rhetoric & Public Affairs begins its second decade of service. Much has happened in the last ten years, including the deaths of two of our founding board members—Wayne C. Booth and Edwin Black—and the retirement of the man whose vision and foresight made R&PA possible in the first place, Dr. Fredric C. Bohm. This seemed as good a time as any to reflect on the first decade of the journal and to celebrate the career of Fred Bohm, a man who did more perhaps than any other single person—in his role as director of Michigan State University Press from 1990 to 2007—to support the rhetorical renaissance of the last part of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Fred retired as director of MSU Press in July 2007. During the preceding 18 years, he and I worked on a number of projects that have, I think it is fair to say, changed the face of rhetorical studies. This is my tribute to Fred. The story of Rhetoric & Public Affairs really begins in 1988, for it was in that year that I left the University of California, Davis, to take a position as a tenured associate professor at Texas A&M University. One condition of my hiring at TAMU was that I take over the direction of a national conference on communication and technology. A grant had already been secured, the conference planning had already begun, and several people had already been invited to participate before I arrived in College Station. This was not an auspicious beginning. Even so, with the help of my colleagues Alberto Gonzalez and Tarla Rai Peterson, we pulled a conference together for the spring of 1989. It featured such notables as James Carey, Bruce Gronbeck, Tom Benson, Tom Frentz and Janice Hocker Rushing, Stan Deetz, Robert Hopper, and several other top-flight scholars. Part of my marching orders (and at Texas A&M they were marching orders) was to secure publication of the conference results, preferably in the form of a university press book. Upon the advice of my colleague Bob Ivie, I called Dr. Fredric Bohm. Fred was, at that time, the director at Washington State University Press. [End Page 1] Fred and I hit it off immediately and the first result of that relationship was Communication and the Culture of Technology (Washington State University Press, 1990). In the same year that the book appeared, Fred left Washington State to become director of the press at Michigan State University. Fred and I continued to stay in contact and I soon began to discuss with him the possibilities for starting a new quarterly journal. My motives were simple: I was becoming ever more dissatisfied with the Quarterly Journal of Speech and what seemed to me to be the emerging marginalization of public address and rhetorical criticism in the field at large. In 1991, I drafted a full-blown proposal for a new journal and sent it to Fred. At the same time that I was floating the idea of a journal to Michigan State, Bob Ivie and I were trying to interest Texas A&M University Press in a book series on rhetoric and public affairs—to no avail. This was in 1991, less than a year before President George H. W. Bush decided to place his presidential library at Texas A&M. Timing, as they say, is everything. Having been turned down by the folks then in charge at TAMU Press, I turned back to Fred Bohm and Michigan State. Instead of pushing for the journal, I rewrote the proposal to feature a book series in rhetoric and public affairs. The journal idea was just a little too raw, with too many questions not yet answered and too few people convinced that there was a need for another journal in rhetoric. A book series, on the other hand, was a more manageable enterprise. I sent the revised proposal to Fred in the fall of 1992. He approved the new series early in 1993. By this time...

The Global South and the Environment: Essays in Memory of Marian A.L.Miller

I always looked up to Marian Miller as a role model in my own academic work. Marian was just that much further along in her career and was working on similar issues as myself. She was one of the arst scholars to effectively merge studies in international development, international relations, political economy, and the environment. She was blazing an interdisciplinary path that a number of us were to follow. Marian’s background was in international relations and international political economy. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and she was a tenured Associate Professor of political science at the University of Akron, in Ohio, teaching courses on international development and global environmental politics. I was fortunate to get to know Marian in the mid-1990s through discussions we had following panels on global environmental issues and the Global South at the International Studies Association annual meetings. As a relatively new faculty member myself in 1997, I invited Marian to come to speak at my university. Her book, The Third World in Global Environmental Politics,1 had just won the Sprout Award for the best book in international environmental affairs. I was very proud to have had Marian address students and faculty at my university, and she drew a huge crowd. I continued my friendship with Marian, sharing research ideas and sources on topics we were both researching. I also had the privilege of working with Marian on the Global Development Section of the ISA, which she chaired in 1998–99. Marian was also part of the founding editorial team of Global Environmental Politics, along with Peter Dauvergne as Editor, and Marian, myself, and Paul Wapner as Associate Editors. Marian was very dedicated to her work in these endeavors.

My 65 years in acoustics

My entry into acoustics began as research assistant to Professor F. V. Hunt at Harvard University. I received my doctorate in 1940 and directed the Electro-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard from October 1940 until September 1945. In 1947, I became a tenured associate professor at MIT, and, with Richard H. Bolt, formed the consulting firm Bolt and Beranek, that later included Robert B. Newman, becoming BBN. My most significant contributions before 1970 were design of wedge-lined anechoic chambers, systemization of noise reduction in ventilation systems, design of the world’s largest muffler for the testing of supersonic jet engines at NASA’s Lewis Laboratory in Cleveland, speech interference level, NC noise criterion curves, heading New York Port Authority’s noise study that resulted in mufflers on jet aircraft, and steep aircraft climb procedures, and publishing books titled, Acoustical Measurements, Acoustics, Noise Reduction, Noise and Vibration Control, and Music, Acoustics and Architecture. As President of BBN, I supervised the formation of the group that built and operated the ARPANET (1969), which, when split in two (using TCP/IP protocol) became the INTERNET (1984). Since then, I have written two books on Concert Halls and Opera Houses and have consulted on four concert halls and an opera house.

Thomas Emanuel Feuchtwang

Thomas Emanuel Feuchtwang, an emeritus professor of physics at Pennsylvania State University, died 10 August 2000 in Boynton Beach, Florida, following a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease.Emanuel’s life was exciting, both scientifically speaking and otherwise. Born in Budapest on 21 May 1930, he moved to Palestine and what would subsequently become the State of Israel, whose independence he fought for in 1948. Five years later, he came to the US as a student. He earned all of his degrees in electrical engineering: a BEE from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1953, an MS from Caltech in 1954, and a PhD in microwave theory from Stanford University in 1959.The following year, Emanuel joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral fellow in the physics department. His research involved theoretical collaborations with the experimental group on color centers, headed by Charles P. Slichter, and the group on the Mössbauer effect, headed by Hans Frauenfelder. In 1962, he moved to the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he worked with Bill Peria on surface-lattice-dynamical effects in low-energy electron diffraction. Emanuel came to Penn State as a tenured associate professor in 1965; he remained at the university for the rest of his career. His initial research interests were in electron emission and tunneling phenomena. He developed, in his inimitable style, a rigorous tunneling theory that avoided the transfer Hamiltonian formalism. He also worked extensively on electron spin polarization in field emission and photoemission. While at Penn State, Emanuel held numerous visiting academic and industrial appointments, both nationally and internationally, including the following: Cornell University; Westinghouse Laboratories in Pittsburgh; Tel Aviv University; the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa; the University of Hawaii at Honolulu; and Cambridge University.The major emphasis of Emanuel’s research during the latter part of his career was on electronic and atomic properties of surfaces and, in particular, the scanning probe microscopy and spectroscopy that were made possible by the development of the scanning tunneling microscope and its derivatives. Much of this research was related to the issues of what exactly could be learned from these initial experiments with an STM and what potential information might be gleaned from future experiments.Emanuel was also an accomplished scholar outside of science. He read Western and Near Eastern literature extensively, and was versed in the classical and contemporary histories of the same regions. He spoke English, French, German, and Hebrew and studied Aramaic. He also was a serious biblical scholar.Emanuel approached many nonscientific problems with the same intensity and persistence that he brought to his research. One of his greatest passions was his unswerving support of the State of Israel. Yet he retained a deep understanding and respect for Arab culture and history.Emanuel was a remarkable scientist, who stimulated and was admired by physicists worldwide. He leaves behind, among colleagues and friends, memories of his broad scientific, intellectual, and cultural interests. Thomas Emanuel Feuchtwang PPT|High resolution© 2001 American Institute of Physics.

Resisting from the Margins: The Coping Strategies of Black Women and Other Women of Color Faculty Members at a Research University

This article argues that women of color, despite their marginalized position in the academy, need not consider their place as one of deprivation solely. In light of their considerable successes, a study was conducted to address two questions: How have academic women of color managed to cope, professionally and personally, given their marginalized position; and how have they used their position as a point and place of to racism, sexism, and classism? Secondary analyses of survey and interview data from faculty women of color at a major U.S. research university revealed that these women's strategies addressed five major areas: organizational barriers, institutional climate, lack of respect from one's colleagues, unwritten rules governing university life, and mentoring. I am located in the margin. I make a definite distinction between that marginality which is imposed by oppressive structures and that marginality one chooses as site of resistance-as location of radical openness and possibility. (hooks, 1990, p. 153) Numerous academic women of color have documented their individual experiences of living and working on the margins in their professional careers. hooks describes this marginalization experience as being part of the whole but outside the main body (hooks, 1990, p. 149). Other researchers have documented the finding that women of color encounter more barriers to professional socialization and success in the academic workplace than do their White female counterparts (Aguirre, 2000). Aguirre cited, for example, National Center for Education Statistics data which showed that African, Latina, Native, and Asian American women together comprised only 4% of the full-time instructional faculty at colleges and universities in the United States in 1993, with Black women constituting 2.2% of this group. White women, by contrast, comprised 29% of full-time faculty. Furthermore, women of color comprised 7% of all tenured associate and full professors in the 1993 U.S. professorate, with Black women again constituting more than half or 3.7% of this tenured group compared to White women, who constituted 32% of the nation's tenured associate and full professors. In terms of personal and professional fit into the culture of the academy, the experiences of many Black women, especially those employed at predominantly White institutions, are characterized by alienation, isolation, and social marginalization (Aguirre, 2000; Alfred, 2001). For Black women and other women of color in the academic workplace, marginalization often translates into a feeling of invisibleness. Because their research is frequently viewed as insignificant, these women often receive little or no support for their intellectual pursuits, especially when their work centers on racial, ethnic, and/or gender issues (Cox & Nkomo, 1990; Park, 1996; Reyes & Halcon, 1988). Such experiences may also result in their being disproportionately assigned to teach classes or perform duties that fulfill a service component as opposed to their being asked to teach courses required for the major or serve on committees that are critical to the functioning of the institution (Aguirre, 2000). Marginalization is further evidenced when Black faculty women are forced, either covertly or overtly, to compromise their gender and/or racial/ethnic identities and when their White colleagues hold unrealistic expectations, insisting that they be shining examples of their group and somehow different from other Blacks and other women (Aguirre, 2000). Despite being located on the margins-an unsafe and risky position for any member of an oppressed group-Black women and other women of color need not consider their place in the academy as one of deprivation solely. hooks (1990) has maintained that it should instead be viewed and used as a site for developing a community of resistance (p. 149). As she explained, [M]arginality [is] much more than a site of deprivation; in fact . …

Radiology 2000: ann S. Fulcher, MD, appointed senior deputy editor

HomeRadiologyVol. 217, No. 1 Next From the EditorRadiology 2000: Ann S. Fulcher, MD, Appointed Senior Deputy EditorAnthony V. ProtoAnthony V. ProtoAnthony V. ProtoPublished Online:Oct 1 2000https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.217.1.r00oc491MoreSectionsFull textPDF ToolsImage ViewerAdd to favoritesCiteTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked In References 1 Proto AV. New deputy editors. Radiology 1998; 206:3-4. Link, Google ScholarArticle HistoryPublished in print: Oct 2000 FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited ByRadiology 2003: Ann S. Fulcher, MD, Completes Her Service as Senior Deputy EditorAnthony V. Proto, 1 July 2003 | Radiology, Vol. 228, No. 1Recommended Articles RSNA Education Exhibits RSNA Case Collection Vol. 217, No. 1 Metrics Altmetric Score PDF download

Comment: The State of British Economics

I read the three articles in this symposium with great interest, having been quite involved in at least some of these topics as an economist on the other side of the Atlantic. I will both comment on how the world is similar or different in US academic economics, and will also feel freer than did the authors to speculate on underlying causal factors behind the data. Having chaired the American Economic Association's Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) for three years, I first read Booth and Burton's article. I was struck by how similar the numbers appeared in the United Kingdom and the United States. Table 1 presents the results reported from CSWEP's annual departmental questionnaire, which is sent to all PhD-granting institutions in the United States. As the table shows, women constitute about 6% of full professors, 15% of tenured associate professors, and 28% of untenured assistant professors. Even recognising differences in the definition of academic positions between the United States and the United Kingdom, these numbers are remarkably similar to those shown in Table 1 of Booth and Burton for full-time staff. Furthermore, as in the United Kingdom, the proportion of women is somewhat lower in the topranked departments. In recent years, between 25 and 34% of those receiving PhDs in economics have been female in the United States, also similar to the UK numbers in Table 4 of Booth and Burton. In the United States, the share of women in academic positions decreases at every level in economics. The share of female assistant professors is lower than the share of women graduating with a PhD, the share of women promoted to associate professor is lower than their share among assistant professors, and the share of female full professors is lower than among associates. While this is partly due to the 'pipeline problem', in which a disproportionate share of female PhDs are younger, it is not entirely due to this. I recently tried to model the expected flow of women up through the academic ranks, from 1980 forward, given information in each year on the share of women receiving a PhD, and assuming that women should enter academic work and move upward at the same rate as men. My evidence showed that women are not advancing as rapidly as men, and that the smaller shares in associate and full professor tenured jobs is not just a pipeline issue, but also due to women dropping out of academic economics at a higher rates at each point. Of course, the key question is 'Why do women drop out of (or fail to be promoted in) academic economics at a higher rate?' At least three issues are frequently raised. First, women disproportionately choose to specialise in more applied fields in economics. Not only is this work less valued in academic

Occupational feminization, occupational decline? Sociology’s changing sex composition

In recent years, research and popular wisdom have often linked the feminization of sociology with discussions of sociology's decline. In light of these concerns, this article examines recent data on the influx of women into sociology's graduate programs and academic positions, women’s position in the field, and the health of the field itself. The data show that women have made notable progress moving into academic sociology's recruitment pool, and lower level academic positions. As well, the gender gap in earnings has narrowed, real annual earnings continue to increase, and underemployment and underutilization continue to decline. All these are strong indicators that the field is on the upswing, and women's position in it improving. Despite these successes, gender boundaries remain in the sociological workplace. Women are not represented in the numbers one would expect in the tenured associate and full professor ranks, and all races have not benefited equally from the declining earnings gap. Intellectual boundaries also persist, as men and women often operate in different sociological spheres.