Faculty Publications and Presentations


Spring 2013

For more lists of faculty publications and presentations, see the individual faculty profiles.

 

Dr. Bill Boerman-Cornell, associate professor of education

Published, “Ten restful books to get your imagination working again this summer.” Christian Educators Journal. April. Pages 25-27.

Published, “More than Comic Books.” Educational Leadership. March. Pages 73-77.

 

Dr. David Brodnax, associate professor of history

Presented, “Almost Free: African Americans in Dubuque, 1830-1900.” University of Dubuque, Dubuque, IA, April 2013.

 

Dr. Brad Breems, professor of sociology

Awarded, the Outstanding Alumna Research Award with Dr. Laura Zumdahl ’02, and the Professor of the Year Award, Trinity Christian College, 2013.

 

Professor Cini Bretzlaff-Holstein, assistant professor of social work

Awarded, Social Worker of the Year Award through the NASW-IL Calumet District.

 

Dr. Mary Lynn Colosimo, professor of psychology

Presented, “Teaching Therapists through Mindfulness Practices:  Recent Research,” Trinity Christian College Psychology Renewed Conference, April 13, 2013.

 

Dr. Michael DeVries, professor of psychology

Organized and spoke at the Psychology Renewed Conference held on April 13, 2013, Trinity Christian College. The topic of the conference was “Mindfulness in Life and Clinical Practice.” DeVries’ opening remarks focused on the theme of “Grafting Mindfulness Practices into a Christian Worldview.”

 

Dr. Karen Dieleman, associate professor of English

Published, “A Politics of Just Memory: Elizabeth Barrett and the Greek Christian Poets.” Journal of Browning Studies 3 (2012): 5-32.

 

Professor Rick Hamilton, assistant professor of business

Presented, “Health Care Reform and You,” Loop Ministries, Midweek Forum, January 9, 2013.

 

Dr. Mackenzi Huyser, Dean for Faculty Development and Academic Programs

Published, with Burwell, R., ”Practicing Hospitality in the Classroom.” The Journal of Education & Christian Belief, Volume 17, Issue 1, 9-24.

 

Dr. Mauricio Nava Delgado, assistant professor of Spanish

Presented, with Professor Faith Marie Nava, “Juan Rulfo y Elena Poniatowska: una vislumbre de género a la literatura mexicana.” Congreso Internacional de Literatura Hispánica  (CILH) celebrated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, March 2013.

 

Dr. Dave Klanderman, professor of mathematics

Published, with Webster Moore, M., Maxwell, M., and Robbert, S., “Creating Problems and Their Solutions:  Service Learning Through Trinity Mathematics Triathlons, Math Nights, and Math Centers.”  PRIMUS:  Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, 23(6), 1-9.

 

Dr. Mark Peters, professor of music

 

Reviewed, Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain, by Susan Boynton. Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 70 (2013).

 

Dr. Aron Reppmann, associate professor of philosophy

Presented, “Gregory of Nyssa’s Non-Substantialist Ontology and His Platonist-Christian Synthesis.” May 24, 2013, at the North American Patristics Society annual conference in Chicago.

 

Dr. Sharon Robbert, professor of mathematics

Awarded, for distinguished college or university teaching of mathematics in recognition of extraordinary successful teaching. Illinois Section of the Mathematical Association of America. 2013.

 

Dr. Yudha Thianto, professor of theology

Published, “The Formula of Baptism and the Equality of the Godhead: Joseph Bingham (1668-1723) and the Trinitarian Controversy in Late-Stuart England,” in Dennis Jowers and H. Wayne House, eds., The New Evangelical Subordinationism? Perspectives on the Equality of God the Father and God the Son, Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2012), 182-212.

 

Professor Ryan Thompson, assistant professor of art

Published, “The Dark Flight of Micrometeorites” and photo, Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life, edited by Elizabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse (Punctum Books).