College of Social and
Behavioral Sciences
ECONOMICS
Guncha Jumakuliyeva, a Summa Cum
Laude graduate supervised by Dr. Ihsuan service agency called CATCH (Caring Affirming Training
Children) in East London, South Africa.
Robin Wingo and Bill Anderson recruited and accompanied
Li, was a finalist in the student essay contest five students to the Bristol International Credit-Earning sponsored by the Federal Reserve Banks of
Atlanta, Dallas, Minneapolis, and St. Louis.
She received a scholarship to attend the
Exploring Innovation Conference in St.
Programme (BICEP) in Bristol, England for an intensive focus on comparative social policy ranging from law enforcement to public child welfare. The July program included lectures, mentorship by U.K. personnel, and site visits to agencies that implement government policy. Louis, Missouri to present her essay on community development finance, May
2011. She accepted a summer internship at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
ETHNIC STUDIES
Vang Xiong and Ethnic Studies’ undergraduate/graduate students attended a field trip to the Hmong Village and to the
International Flea Market, Saint Paul, July
13, 2011.
GOVERNMENT
Fred Slocum organized a field trip for his spring 2011 Public Opinion and Polling
Methods class. Victoria Fomina, Olatoye
Ogundepo, Max Rewitzer, Robert
Westmark , Jared Wittmers and Dr. Slocum visited Anderson, Niebuhr & Associates
(market research), and focus-group firm
Ascendancy Research, Inc., Twin Cities.
Twenty-seven MSW students worked with their academic advisors, practicum agency field instructors, field faculty, and the faculty teaching the concentration year macro practice course to design and implement projects which were presented as posters at the Third Annual Department of Social Work
MSW Student Capstone Forum, July 14, 2011.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Nina, Ashley, Jackie, Tiffany and Allison in Bristol, England
Sean Bloomfield and Sam Ebenreiter were two of four MSU students who spent a month “living off the land” in the high country of Montana. Their trip was highlighted in the Star Tribune and
Mankato Free Press .
SOCIAL WORK
Chris Black-Hughes (Social Work),
Sherrise Truesdale (Sociology &
Corrections) and sixteen students participated in an international servicelearning trip to South Africa. The group engaged in a service project for a youth
MSW Student Presents at the Third Annual Department of
Social Work MSW Student Capstone Forum
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College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Good News
ANTHROPOLOGY
Kate Blue worked with the Blue Earth County Sheriff’s
Department over the past months on multiple occasions with the recovery and identification of human remains associated with a missing person case in the area. She also worked with the Mankato City Police and the Nicollet County Sheriff’s
Department on other cases involving possible human remains that she was able to determine were non-human and therefore not of medico-legal significance.
Rhonda Dass attended the Higher Education Resource
Services (HERS) Denver Summer Institute for women’s leadership training, summer 2011
Rhonda Dass gave a Welcome Week presentation on the
Dakota and Mankato, August 19, 2011.
ECONOMICS
Vinnie Choe, Krausz, and Nam published, “Technical
Trading Rules for Nonlinear Dynamics of Stock Returns,” in the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting , April
2011.
Atrayee Ghosh Roy has been re-elected to serve on the
Executive Board of the Association of Indian Economic and
Financial Studies, May 2011.
Atrayee Ghosh Roy served as a referee for the Public
Finance Review , a refereed academic journal, June 2011.
Atrayee Ghosh Roy served as a referee for the International
Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Markets, a refereed academic journal, March 2011.
Ihsuan Li contributed to the 5 th edition of the Economics of
Macro Issues by D. Benjamin and R. Miller published by
Pearson Publishing, Summer 2011.
Ihsuan Li is co-authoring test bank questions, supplement to the Economics 3 rd edition of the Krugman/Wells textbook published by Worth Publishing.
Ihsuan Li served as judge to the Minnesota Economic
Association undergraduate student thesis competition, June
2011.
Ihsuan Li sponsored four student paper submissions to the
Minnesota Economic Association undergraduate student term paper contest, June 2011.
Ihsuan Li was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Merit
Award from the Economics Department in recognition for distinguished advising for ODE, and service to the undergraduate research conference, Spring 2011.
Richard Schiming was interviewed by KEYC-TV about the impact of the debt ceiling debate on the stock market,
August 8, 2011.
Richard Schiming’s article, “Tax Hikes Do Less Harm than
Government Cuts,” was published in the Mankato Free
Press , August 14, 2011.
ETHNIC STUDIES
Faculty members completed a workshop to offer all courses online for the Graduate Diversity Certificate Program.
Welcome Ethnic Studies Faculty Members
Dalton Crayton is a first year pre-doctoral fellow and Vang
Xiong is a second year pre-doctoral fellow working in the department fall semester.
GEOGRAPHY
Jose López-Jiménez provided a two-week GIS and Spatial
Analysis training during the summer break to the staff of the
Census Information Center at the University of Puerto Rico-
Cayey.
Jose López-Jiménez conducted a brief seminar at the
National Institute of Health sponsored BRIC workshops of
Cayey’s Interdisciplinary Research Institute as an introduction to Geographic Information Systems for students and instructors collaborating with this institute, May 20 and
26, 2011.
GOVERNMENT
Jeffrey Bumgarner signed a contract to author a new book,
“Case Studies in Domestic Terrorism: Successes, Blunders, and Lessons Learned,” which will be published by Charles
C. Thomas Publisher LTD, Springfield, IL.
Christian Dobratz presented a training lecture, “The
Cumulative Effects of Stress-Recognition, Intervention, and
Survival,” at the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association, Chicago, IL, April 2011.
Christian Dobratz was interviewed by Westword
Newspaper , Denver, CO, for a June 22, 2011, article titled
“Teaching Cops How to De-stress for Success.,”
Christian Dobratz was interviewed by the Las Vegas Review
Journal
, for an article titled, “Las Vegas Police Sergeant’s
Book Explores Depression, Suicide,” announcing the new book, My Life for Your Life , written by Clarke Paris.
Christian Dobratz also wrote a review/endorsement for the book that was printed with the text.
Christian Dobratz is conducting a book review for Pearson
Prentice for a Pearson Criminal Justice text that focuses on the subject of Police Patrol.
Christian Dobratz is completing a Criminal Justice Entry on the topic of “Police Officer Stress” for Wiley Publishing.
Fred Slocum’s chapter, “With God on Our Side: Moral and
Religious Issues, Southern Culture, and Republican
Realignment in the South,” was published in, Painting Dixie
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Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became
Republican, edited by Glenn Feldman and published by the
University Press of Florida, 2011.
Fred Slocum presented, “Authoritarianism: An ‘Equal
Opportunity’ Influence on Various Policy Preferences in the
South?” (co-authored with Scott Huffmon) and chaired three panels, at the Southern Political Science Association conference, New Orleans, LA, January 5-8, 2011.
Fred Slocum was interviewed August 12, 2011, by KEYC-
TV for a story on the August 11 debate between Republican presidential candidates before the straw poll on August 13 in
Ames, IA.
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Good News
Anxiety in Japan,” in the Journal of Cross-Cultural
Psychology.
Vinai Norasakkunkit and Uchida, Y. will publish,
“Psychological Consequences of Post-industrial Anomie on
Self and Motivation among Japanese Youth,” in the Journal of Social Issues.
Vinai Norasakkunkit and Uchida, Y. will publish,
“Marginalized Japanese Youth in Post-industrial Japan:
Motivational Patterns, Self-perceptions, and the Socialfamily Origins of Shifting Values,” in Values, Religion, and
Culture in Adolescent Development.
Fred Slocum completed the report of results from a telephone survey he conducted with his Public Opinion and
Polling Methods students for the City of Janesville’s
Economic Development Authority. In April 2011, Slocum and his students interviewed a sample of Mankato and North
Mankato residents about their perceptions of Janesville.
Fred Slocum attended the Southwestern Social Science
Association conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 16-19, 2011 and the Midwest Political Science Association conference,
Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2011.
Toivonen, T., Vinai Norasakkunkit , and Uchida, Y. published, “Unable to Conform, Unwilling to Rebel? Youth,
Culture, and Motivation in Globalizing Japan,” in Frontiers in Cultural Psychology.
Vinai Norasakkunkit, Uchida, Y., & Fukuchi, N. presented,
“Connecting Emotional Experiences to Culturally Relevant
Motivations: A Situation Sampling Study between the
United States and Japan,” at the Symposium of the
International Society of Research in Emotions Conference,
Kyoto, Japan, July 29, 2011.
Fred Slocum was chief organizer for the Department of
Government’s Kessel Memorial Lecture. Myron Orfield,
Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota – Twin
Cities and Executive Director of the Institute on Race and
Poverty, delivered his address, “Ending Racial Segregation in the 21 st Century,” March 28, 2011.
Vinai Norasakkunkit presented, “Unpackaging Cultural
Differences in Social Anxiety: The Role of Self-construal,
Self-enhancing Social Cognition, and Holistic Attention,” at the Workshop On Culture, Self, and Social Relationships,
Kyoto Japan, June 28, 2011.
HISTORY
Rachael Ball presented, “Concessions in the Corrales :
Selling Food and Drink in the Playhouses of the Early
Modern Spanish Atlantic World,” at the Pacific Coast
Branch of the American Historical Association meeting,
August 11-13, 2011.
Vinai Norasakkunkit presented, “Caught between Culture and Society: The Motivation of Marginalized Japanese
Youth and What it Represents,” at the Workshop:
Accommodating Culture into Psychological Research: A
Forum of Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychologist, Hyogo,
Japan, June 25, 2011.
PSYCHOLOGY
Karla Lassonde was invited to present to the summer school of the Marie Curie Training Network on Language,
Cognition & Gender in Berlin, Germany, June 16-22.
Vinai Norasakkunkit, Toivonen, T., and Uchida, Y. presented, “The Social Psychology of Changing
Motivational Processes: ‘Hot’ Institutions vs. ‘Cool’ Youth in Globalizing Japan,” at The Future of Work for Young
Adults: A Workshop on Youth, Early Careers and
Motivation, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford,
UK, March 7, 2011.
Karla Lassonde, Chelsea Gloth, and Karissa Borchert’s article, “Windowless Classrooms or a Virtual Window
World: Does a Creative Classroom Environment Help or
Hinder Attention?” was published in Teaching of
Psychology , August 2011.
Vinai Norasakkunkit & Uchida, Y. presented a poster titled,
“Self and Motivation Among ‘Cultural Dropouts’:
Psychological Consequences of Post-industrial Anomie
Among Marginalized Japanese Youth,” at the Society of
Personality and Social Psychology meeting, San Antonio,
TX, January 27, 2011.
Karla Lassonde presented, “Male-based Occupations and the Limits of Gender-neutral Language: When Firefighter
No Longer Means Male,” at the Society for the Scientific
Study of Reading meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL, August 2011.
Vinai Norasakkunkit , Kitayama, S., and Uchida, Y. will publish, “Social Anxiety and Holistic Cognition: Selffocused Social Anxiety in the U.S. and Other-focused Social
Park, J., Haslam, N., Kashima, Y., Uchida, Y., and Vinai
Norasakkunkit presented a poster titled, “Close to You,
Close to Human: Empathy Reduces Self-humanizing,” at the
Society of Personality and Social Psychology Meeting, San
Antonio, TX, January 29, 2011.
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College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Good News
Emily Stark’s article, “Using John Grisham’s The Innocent
Man to Create a Significant Learning Experience for
Undergraduate Students in a Psychology and the Law
Course,” was published in American Psychology-Law
Society Newsletter , 2011.
Steve Buechler’s new book , Understanding Social
Movements: Theories from the Classical Era to the Present , was prominently displayed at the American Sociological
Society meetings, August 2011, Las Vegas and is now available from Paradigm Press.
Welcome Psychology Faculty Members
Susan Anderson is joining the psychology department in a fixed term position. She is a doctoral candidate in Cognitive and Biological Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Barbara Carson was invited to join Blue Earth County’s
“Blueprint for Safety: An Interagency Response to Domestic
Violence Crimes” committee.
Paul Prew presented, “Incorporation of the Sarayaku:
Ecological and Social Challenges,” at the Society for the
Study of Social Problems meeting, Las Vegas, NV, August
19-21, 2011.
Dr. Kathy Bertsch will be teaching in the school psychology doctoral program in a tenure track position. She comes to us from the Heartland Education Agency in Iowa, where, from
1999 to this summer, she worked as a school psychologist, staff development specialist, and school psychology program assistant. She completed her Master’s Degree in clinical psychology at Minnesota State Mankato and went on to earn her Ph.D. in school psychology from Western Michigan
University.
Paul Prew data from his article, “World-economy Centrality and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A New Look at the Position in the Capatilist World-system and Environmental
Pollution,” will be used in the Geography textbook, “Human
Geography: People, Place, and Culture,” to create a map of core, semi-periphery and periphery nations in the world economy.
Dr. Eric Sprankle will be teaching in the clinical psychology Master’s program and undergraduate program in a fixed term position. He holds a Psy.D. in clinical psychology from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and is currently completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the
Center for Sexual Health at the University of Minnesota
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
SOCIAL STUDIES/ STUDENT RELATIONS
James Robertson’s article, “The ‘Turning-out’ of Boys in a
Man’s Prison: Why and How to Amendment the Prison
Litigation Reform Act,” was published in the Indiana
[University] Law Review , 2011.
James Robertson’s article, “Recent Legal Developments:
Correctional Case Law,” was published in the Criminal
Justice Review, 2011.
Clark Johnson presented with colleagues, Angie Bomier and Connie Miller, “Supporting Students on Academic
Probation: A Decentralized Approach,” at the NACADA
North Central Region 6 Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada, May 19, 2011.
SOCIAL WORK
James Robertson’s article, “Do the Clothes Make the Man,” was published in the Correctional Law Reporter, June-July
2011 .
James Robertson’s article, “First Amendment Retaliation
Claims: No Longer ‘One of the Dirty Secrets of American
Corrections,” was published in the Correctional Law
Reporter, June-July 2011. David Beimers and Gatlin, E. had the article, “Supported
Employment in Rural Setting: Implications for Mental
Health Practice,” accepted for publication in the Journal of
Rural Mental Health.
SOCIOLOGY
Afroza Anwary presented, “Collective Rape of Women by
State Agency in Bangladesh,” at the Hawaii International
Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, Hawaii, May31-
June 4, 2011.
Afroza Anwary chaired the Sociology Session at the Hawaii
International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu,
Hawaii, May 31-June 4, 2011.
James Robertson had his article “‘Frequent Fliers’ and
Other Disruptive Mentally Disordered Inmates,” was published in the Correctional Law Reporter, June-July 2011.
Leah Rogne’s published the essay, “The Pruning,” in
Migrations: Poetry and Prose for Life’s Transitions
(Wildwood River Press), August 2011.
Leah Rogne’s letter to the editor, “Minnesotans Should Be
Wary of Costly Project,” was published in the
Star Tribune ,
August 17, 2011.
Leah Rogne’s op ed, “Division Puts FM in Trap,” was published in the Forum (Fargo, ND), May 22, 2011.
Afroza Anwary presented, “The State Sponsored Gang Rape of Women and Social Construction of Hegemonic
Masculinity in Bangladesh,” at the American Sociological
Association meetings, Las Vegas, NV, August 20-23, 2011.
Leah Rogne testified at a Corps of Engineers Clean Water
Act hearing in Fargo, ND on the proposed Fargo-Moorhead
Metro Flood Control Plan, June 1.
Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, and Simon Gottschalk’s co-authored book, The Senses in Self, Culture, and Society , was recently released by New York: Routledge, 2011.
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Dennis Waskul is the editor of a book series titled,
“Interactionist Currents,” for Ashgate.
URBAN & REGIONAL STUDIES
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Good News
Phillip Vannini, Dennis Waskul, Simon Gottschalk, and
Toby Ellis-Newstead’s article, “Making Sense of Weather:
Dwelling and Weathering on Canada’s Rain Coast,” was published in, Space and Culture , 2011.
Miriam Porter presented, “Global Solutions: Experience in a
Vastly Different World” at the International Conference on
New Directions in the Humanities at the Universidad de
Granada in Granada, Spain, June 2011.
Miriam Porter’s paper, “Global Solutions: Experience in a
Vastly Different World,” was published in the International
Journal of the Humanities , Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 169-176.
Janet Cherrington attended the Government Finance
Officer’s conference, San Antonio, TX, May 2011.
Miriam Porter conducted field research on local governments in Spain and Morocco, June 2011.
Advising “U” is pleased to re-introduce our staff. These individuals will be advising SBS students on general education, the diverse cultures requirement, and general graduation requirements. They will each work with SBS students who are on academic probation. They will also help address the various requests for information and assistance by our students and help with open houses,
Career day, and other student programming in Advising
“U”.
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Ajia Collins (Non-profit leadership and
Gerontology)
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Katlyn McKenzie (Psychology)
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Nicole Enfield (Psychology)

Heather Venem (an intern from Counseling and
Student Personnel)
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