BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

Penn State Altoona Chancellor Lori J. Bechtel (professor of Biobehavioral Health) was the primary author of the article "An interdisciplinary approach for the integration and diffusion of substance abuse prevention programs," which appeared in the July/August 2006 edition of the American Journal of Health Education.

Brian Black (associate professor of History and Environmental Studies) published two reference books with Greenwood Publishers: Nature and Environment in 19th-Century American Life and Nature and Environment in 20th-Century American Life. During summer 2006, Black also served as a panelist judging grant proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Todd Davis (assistant professor of English) is one of thirty featured poets in Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality. The anthology, which includes such writers as Pulitzer Prize winners Stephen Dunn and Charles Wright, and National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, was published by Bottom Dog Press. Davis' poems have also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Gray's Sporting Journal, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Appalachia, and The Evansville Review. 

Todd Davis' and Kenneth Womack's (professor of English) new book, Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture, has been released by Palgrave Macmillan. The book cover features "Cross Section No. 2" from Army Green Orchids by assistant professor of Visual Arts Rebecca Strzelec.

Lee Ann De Reus (associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Women's Studies) has been invited to serve as the guest coordinator of a special issue of the journal Family Relations. This special issue on transnational families will be published in October 2008. A paper by De Reus and co-author Libby Blume, professor of Psychology at the University of Detroit-Mercy, has been accepted for publication in the upcoming book Strengths and Challenges of New Immigrant Families: Implications for Research, Theory, Education and Service by Sage Publications. The title of their paper is "Transnational Families and the Social Construction of Identity: Whiteness Matters."

Penn State Altoona Assistant Professor of Marketing Tulay Girard and Assistant Professor of Information Systems Technology Jungwoo Ryoo co-authored a paper entitled, "Consumer Patronage Intentions in the Context of Internet Security and Perceived Risk." The paper was accepted for the 2006 International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Modeling and Analysis. 

"Deconstructing Haiku: A Dialogue," by Ian Marshall (professor of English) and Megan Simpson (assistant professor of English and Women's Studies) was published in the Summer 2006 issue of College Literature.

Dinty W. Moore (professor of English) had a story, "Wide Awake in Baton Rouge," reprinted in the recent Louisiana State University Press fiction anthology, Wide Awake in the Pelican State: Stories by Contemporary Louisiana Writers.

Sandy Petrulionis (associate professor of English) had two books published this year: To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord (Cornell UP) and More Day to Dawn: A New Walden for the Twenty-First Century (University of Massachusetts Press).