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FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS In 2009 Charles Prebish published Destroying Mara Forever: Buddhist Studies Essays in Honor of Damien Keown. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications. Co-Edited with John Powers. His own contribution to the study is "Mahayana Ethics and American Buddhism: Subtle Solutions or Creative Perversions?" He recently published a refereed article entitled "North American Buddhist Studies: A Current Survey of the Field." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 30, 1-2, 2007 (2009), 237-266. He also served as Guest Editor for this special edition of the journal. He has three forthcoming chapters: "American Buddhism: Buddhist Pioneers," in The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, edited by Philip Goff (Oxford: Blackwell); "American Buddhism Since 1965," in The Cambridge History of Religions in America, edited by Stephen J. Stein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); and "Family Life and Spiritual Kinship in American Buddhist Communities," in New Perspectives in American Buddhism, edited by Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge (Albany: State University of New York Press). In March 2009, he presented a paper entitled "Pratimoksa Expansion and the Rise of Buddhist Sectarianism" at the American Oriental Society annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In November 2009 he will present a paper entitled "Vision Quest: Wrestling with Ultimacy" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Montreal; and in March 2010 will be one of the featured speakers at the international "Buddhism Without Borders" conference at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. His topic will be "Buddha in Mormon Land: American Buddhist Challenges in a Dominant Mormon Culture." Prebish continues as a member of the Editorial Board of Buddhist Studies Review, on the National Editorial Advisory Board of Religious Studies Review, and the Advisory Board of H-Buddhism. He also serves as Co-Editor of the Routledge World Religions Textbook Series and the Journal of Buddhist Ethics eText Project. In August 2009 Norm was elected to the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. In 2008-2009 Norm was elected the Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University. Among his projects in Oxford was a paper, "he never failed to serve his God, before he served his country," Burghley, the Law and the Newly Protestant State" given in the Religion in Britain Seminar, Oxford University, June 4, 2009. In July 2008 Dr. Jones stepped down as Director of Religious Studies and began his sabbatical. Elected a Senior Visiting Research Fellow by Jesus College, Oxford University, he will spend the academic year 2008-9 in Oxford. Jesus College has a number of fellows who are leading students of the English Reformation, and Jones will be working with them and with their research students. He intends to write a book whose working title is "Managing Elizabethan England," an exploration of how the Elizabethan regime managed to prevent a religious civil war at a time when all of its neighbors were convulsed by them. This book grows out of the work he did for his book The English Reformation, Religion and Cultural Adaptation. His most recent book is Local Identities in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Co-edited with Daniel Woolf. London: Palgrave, 2007. In 2009 Philip Barlow contributed an essay to the “Roundtable on Massacre at Mountain Meadows” in Dialogue: a Journal of Mormon Thought 42, No. 1, Spring 2009, 114-127. He has six forthcoming chapters: "Regions," in The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, edited by Philip Goff (Oxford: Blackwell); “Demographics” and “Geographical Approaches,” in Encyclopedia of Religion in America, edited by Charles Lippy and Peter Williams (Washington D.C.: CQ Press); “Joseph Smith,” “Brigham Young,” and “Latter-day Saints” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, edited by Robert Benedetto (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press). He also has a forthcoming book review of Will Bagley and David L. Bigler, Innocent Blood: Essential Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre (Norman, OK, Arthur H. Clark Co.) to appear in the Western Historical Quarterly. In May 2009 he responded to two papers presented at the annually meeting of the Mormon History Association (Lavina Fielding Anderson, “Mother Tongue: KJV Language in Smith Family Discourse”; “Kyle R. Walker, “‘As Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: The Publication of the 1840 Edition of the Book of Mormon”). In August 2009 he presented a paper, “Sacred Space: the Cambridge Longfellow Chapel,” at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City. In July Barlow accepted an invitation to join the Mormon Chapter of the new Foundation for Interreligious Diplomacy. He continues as a member of the Board of Directors for the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, the Board of Directors for the Dialogue Foundation, and as a member of the Steering Committee for the Consultation in Mormon Studies in the American Academy of Religion. Alexa Sand is currently on leave (until December 2009), as an ACLS Charles Ryskamp Fellow; she is working at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France on a book related to medieval religious education and visual culture. She has already presented some of her research related to this project in papers delivered at the Medieval Academy of America’s annual meeting in Chicago, and at the Medieval Association of the Pacific’s annual meeting in Albuquerque (both in March, 2009): the papers were titled, respectively, “The Morality of Space in Early Manuscripts of La Somme le Roi,” and “Princely Visions: Teaching Visual Literacy, ca. 1300.” Dr. Sand recently had two articles accepted for publication. The first, “Vindictive Virgins: animate images and theories of art in some thirteenth-century miracle stories,” will appear in the journal Word & Image; while the second, “The fairest of them all: reflections on some fourteenth-century mirrors,” will appear in the two-volume collection, Push Me, Pull You: Interaction, Physicality, and Devotional Practices in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art. Forthcoming, (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010). Dr. Sand was selected for a 2009 NEH Summer Seminar on Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Medieval World: Literature, History, and Art, which was held in Prato, Italy, in June and July of 2009. In
addition, she was recently elected as a councilor for arts and humanities
for the Council on Undergraduate Research, a national organization
dedicated to promoting and understanding the role of undergraduate
research in higher education. In 2009 Steve Siporin was named a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He will be a visiting professor there Spring semester, 2010. Professor
Siporin is the translator from Italian for a dual language book
entitled Gli ebrei di Pitigliano [The Jews of Pitigliano]
by Angelo Biondi, due out in 2009 or 2010. Siporin delivered a paper
entitled “Where Does the Parokhet Belong?” at the quadrennial
meeting of the World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, Israel,
August, 2009. He also plans to present a paper entitled “The
Kashrut Con Game: Keeping Kosher in Prison” at the annual
meeting of the American Folklore Society, October, 2009, in Boise,
Idaho, where he is also an invited discussant in a panel discussion
honoring National Heritage Fellow Eva Castellanoz and an invited
respondent on a panel about Vardis Fisher’s Idaho Lore. Dr. Michael Sowder is currently on sabbatical, working on a collection of father-son poems, a collection of Buddhist poems, and a spiritual memoir. His essay, “'All This Searching for the Kingdom of Heaven’: Spiritual Quest in the Poetry of David Bottoms” is forthcoming in the essay collection, William Walsh, ed., Pocket Charms Against Oblivion: The Poetry of David Bottoms. Mercer UP. An encyclopedia essay on Walt Whitman appeared in The Student’s Encyclopedia of Great American Writers: 1830-1890. Chicago: Facts on File. A craft essay, “Creating Voice in Poetry and Prose” appeared on the creative writing website, Shelia Bender, ed. Writing It Real. www.writingitreal.com. Four poems appeared in Legal Studies Forum (Spring, 2009), and his poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He served as a visiting writer at two writers’ conferences: The National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Ogden, Utah, in April, and the Red Rock Writers Workshop, Saint George, Utah, in March. Sowder was faculty advisor for Utah State’s Religious Studies Club for the academic year 2008-2009. His essay, “Poet in Grizzly Gulch,” appeared in the fall 2008 issue of the upscale Salt Lake City magazine, The Wasatch Journal. Recounting a mountaineering-training course in the mountains above Alta, Utah, the essay explores the aesthetics of the Taoist/Buddhist-inflected poetry of Tang Dynasty China and the eighteenth-century, Euro-American cult of the sublime. Dr. Richley Crapo has recently completed a book manuscript on the anthropology of the Judeo-Christian scriptures and another on the civilizations of the Aztecs and their neighbors. He willl be seeking publishers for these books this year. He is currently working on a manuscript for a text on the anthropology of Mormonism, which he plans to complete this year. As
a member of the anthropology faculty, he continues to teach Anthropology
of Religion. Dr. Steven Shively earned his doctorate in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A faculty member at USU, he teaches courses in English education and American literature. Among his specialities are the Harlem Renaissance and religious themes in the writings of Willa Cather. Shively, Steven B. "My Antonia and the Parables of Sacrifive." Reprinted in Willa Cather's My Antonia: Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations. New Edition. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008, 95-104. Bloom's Literary Criticism series is one of the most widely used sources of scholarship on major literary works and authors. Originally published in Willa Cather and the Culture of Belief. Ed John J. Murphy. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 2003. 51-62 He
is currently doing research for an essay titled "Willa Cather,
The Episcopal Church, and Aestheticism," for a proposed volume
of essays on Willa Cather and Aestheticism.
Phebe Jensen is an Associate Professor of English. Her book, Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare’s Festive World, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Her research has focused on the intersection of Protestant and Catholic culture in the celebratory world of early modern England. In 2007 she was an invited plenary speaker at a symposium sponsored by the Clark Library in Pasadena, California, entitled “Redrawing the Map of Early Modern Catholicism”; she is contributing an expanded version of the paper she delivered there, on Catholic recusant household culture and the celebration of Christmas, to a volume of essays forthcoming from the University of Toronto Press. In 2008 Jensen was an invited plenary speaker at the Louisiana Shakespeare Association’s Inaugural Conference, Shakespeare and Mardi Gras, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She also presented a paper on the post-Reformation survival of medieval festive customs at the “Renaissance Medievalisms” panel of the Modern Language Association’s Annual Conference in San Francisco in December 2008. Professor Jensen is currently teaching an upper-division course in the English department entitled “Literature and Cultural Difference: The English Reformation.” Glass-Coffin, Bonnie 2009 "Balancing on Interpretive Fences or Leaping into the Void: Reconciling Myself with Castaneda and the Teachings of don Juan" IN Betsy Hearne and Robert Seelinger Trites, eds., A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women's Lives. U. ILlinois Press, pp. 57-67 Organized weekend workshop with internationally respected teacher/shamanic healer don Oscar Miro-Quesada entitled "Sacred Space, Urban Grace: Connecting Spirit of Place with People of Soul," USU, Sept 5-7, 2009 Bonnie
Glass-Coffin, first became known beyond the academic world of anthropology
with publication of her book, The Gift of Life: Female Spirituality
and Healing in Northern Peru (University of New Mexico, 1998), which
explores the roles of women as healers and shamans in their communities.
In her research and writings, she explores the concepts of healing,
shamanism, plant medicines, and gender in Peru, how Andean spiritual
traditions are guiding the emergence of intentional spiritual communities
in the United States, and the theoretical/practical implications
of being a spiritual activist/scholar working in an academic setting.
Christine
Cooper-Rompato: Christine Cooper-Rompato is an Assistant Professor
of English. She received her PhD in Medieval Studies in 2004 from
the University of Connecticut. She specializes in both medieval
hagiography and later medieval English literature. Dr.
Richard Sherlock Research Academic Year 2008-2009 Papers:
Mormon Theology: How do we know it?, American Academy of Religion,
Nov 2008 ___________________________ Publications: Out: “Natural Law needs Divine Law” in Larry Arnhart Darwinian Conservatism 2nd ed with response essays Imprint Academic 2009 “Must Ethics be Theological? A Response to the New Pragmatists” Journal of Religious Ethics 2009 “Square Two and the Future of Mormon Thought” Square Two; A Journal of Mormonism and the Public Square fall 2008 peer reviewed on line “The Church was Right: The Case Against Gay Marriage” Square Two: A Journal of Mormonism and the Public Square Winter 2009 ___________________________ “Eternal Man: The Core of Mormonism” chapter for volume on new religions edited by Morgan Luck for Cambridge The Atonement book edited by Richard Sherlock and Jacob Baker for a series Perspectives in Mormon Theology to be published by Greg Koffod Books. I will write a lengthy, synthetic introduction. ___________________________ Still in Process: Mormonism and the Moral Life - approx. 400 pages - 1st draft about 60% done
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