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APPENDIX 4: Research in Support of the University’s Diversity Plan Framework to Foster Diversity Homepage Division of Arts & Humanities Sandra Petrulionis (Assistant Professor of English) is completing a book on the abolitionist activities of Henry David Thoreau. Heather McCoy (Assistant Professor of French) works on the literature and culture of the Mahgrib in North Africa. Jerry Zolten (Assistant Professor of Speech Communication & American Studies) is wrapping up a book on African-American gospel group, The Dixie Hummingbirds, which will be published by Oxford University Press. Megan Simpson (Assistant Professor of English) Two encyclopedia articles forthcoming in A Companion to Twentieth Century American Poetry (Facts on File, Inc.) on women poets: Wanda Coleman (African American) and Beverly Dahlen. One article on Chinese American poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge delivered at the National Women's Studies Association Convention in June 2001. One paper on African American poet Nathaniel Mackey to be delivered at the Midwest Modern Language Association Meeting in November 2001. Mary Lou Nemanic (Assistant Professor of Communications) is completing a book that examines issues of ethnicity and popular culture in the northern Minnesota region known as the Iron Range. Roselyn Costantino (Associate Professor of Spanish& Women’s Studies) is finishing a book on Latina performance artists in twentieth-century Mexico. Mary DeJong (Associate Professor of English & Women’s Studies) pursues research on nineteenth-century American women writers. Division of Business and Engineering Sohail Anwar (Associate Professor of Engineering) and Stephen Fokuo (Instructor in Engineering) are pursuing collaboration with University of Science and Technology in Ghana. The project is in the curricular development and stage. Division of Education, Human Development, and Social Sciences Kay Chick (Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction) has two research projects related to gender issues and is beginning a third one. The first was on gender and children's literature choices, and examined the differences in the types of books that males and females choose to read in elementary and secondary grades. The second study was on gender role development and child care, and analyzed the interactions between caregivers and children in a child care center to see if caregivers reinforced gender stereotypes. The first study was published last year and the second was just accepted for publication.
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