Faculty Scholarship Members of 2008

Release Date:  April 25, 2008
 
 
 
The Office of the Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs has announced that the following members of the Malone College faculty have been awarded research grants for the summer of 2008.
 
Sean Benson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, plans to make final revisions to his essay, “Private Men’s Expositions: Hermeneutics in Twelfth Night.” He also plans to work on a second book tentatively titled, Othello as Domestic Tragedy.
 
 
Diane Chambers, Ph.D., professor of English, will continue a project on Canadian writer Margaret Laurence.
 
Eb de Oliveira, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, will continue work involving an empirical study to test students’ attitudes toward American vs. foreign instructors and establish a number of personalities, social contact, and belief factors related to student affect toward foreign instructors.
 
Barb Drennan, Ph.D., professor of art, will be preparing past drawings and creating new work that will be exhibited in both the Canton Museum of Art and  Malone Faculty exhibits scheduled for fall 2008, as well as researching and creating a system for charting color mixing samples.
 
David Entwistle, Psy.D. associate professor of psychology & counselor education, will continue his research on a current study being done titled, Coping, Compliance, and Adjustment among Adolescent Cystic Fibrosis Patients at Akron Children’s Hospital.
 
Maria Lai-Ling Lam, Ph.D. associate professor of business administration, plans to build upon her previous studies with Chinese expatriates in the United States and China regarding business negations. This study is designed to exam the perceptions of Chinese executives about corporate social responsibility in some leading American and Japanese multinational enterprises and to explore possible strategies for these foreign Multinational Enterprises to successfully handle their corporate social responsibility in China.
 
Shawn Floyd, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy, will continue his scholarly writing on virtue and its relationship to pedagogy. He will use the summer to develop a book proposal for Baylor University Press’s “Religion and Higher Education Series.”
 
Scott Waalkes, Ph.D., associate professor of international politics, plans to complete his book tentatively titled, The Fullness of Time in a Flat World: Globalization and the Liturgical Year, to be published by Cascade Books in their Theopolitical Visions series. 
 
Duane Watson, Ph.D., professor of New Testament studies, will continue to edit a five volume set entitled, the History of Biblical Interpretation. The set covers the history of the interpretation of the Bible from 400 B.C.E. to the present. It is being published by William B. Eerdmans.  
 
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