Faculty Accomplishments
This website summarizes the professional accomplishments of Lyon faculty members from 2000 to 2004.
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Dr. Martha Beck Associate Professor of Philosophy |
Dr. Beck joined the Lyon faculty in 1996. Her areas of scholarship include Plato, Aristotle, ethics, and political philosophy. She currently serves as resident faculty mentor for Young House, the upper-class residence halls, and has chaired the Convocations Committee for several years. She has led two Nichols travel courses to Greece (May 2000 and May 2002) and has been a member of the Lyon College Flute Choir since 2001. Recent professional achievements include:
Books
• The Self-Corrective Development of the Concepts of Soul, Forms and Immortality in Three Arguments of the Phaedo. Edwin Mellen Press, August 2000.
Articles
• “Plato’s Crito as a Multidimensional Tragedy,” Philological Review, 2004.
• “On Reading Plato’s Dialogues as Adaptations of Tragedy,” Philological Review, 2004.
• “Irreconcilable: Plato and Contemporary ‘Analytic’ Interpretation,” Philological Review, 2004.
• “The Uses of Homer in Plato’s Ion,” Philological Review, 2003.
• “Virtue Without Fragility: Nussbaum”s Account of Detachment in Plato’s Republic, Crito and Phaedo,” Sophia, International journal for philosophical theology and cross-cultural philosophy of religion and ethics, June 2001.
• “Jung, Socrates and Diotima: The Ascent of Eros,” Proceedings of the Arkansas Philological Association, Fall 2000.
Professional Papers
• “Kaufmann’s Oedipus and Plato’s Socrates,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, November 2003.
• “Plato’s Crito as a Multidimensional Tragedy,” Arkansas Philological Society, October 2003.
• “Plato’s Crito as a Multidimensional Tragedy,” Minnesota Ancient Philosophy Circle, May 2003.
• “Kaufmann’s Oedipus and Plato’s Socrates: Tragedy and the Pursuit of Self-knowledge,” North Texas Philosophical Association, March 2003
• “Response to Jena Jolissaint’s A Life of Leisure and the Death of a Fool: Socrates and Tragedy,” Ancient Philosophy Society, April 2003.
• “Kaufmann’s Oedipus and Plato’s Socrates: Tragedy and the Pursuit of Self-knowledge,” Minnesota Ancient Philosophy Circle, April 2003.
• “Babette's Feast: Spirituality and Sensuality,” Arkansas Philological Association, October 2002.
• “Plato’s Ion: Socrates as Literary Critic” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, October 2001.
• “Nussbaum, Saxonhouse, and Piety in Plato’s Euthyphro,” Arkansas Philosophical Association, February 2002, the American Academy of Religion, March 2002, and the Ancient Philosophy Society, Denver, Colorado, April 2002.
• “Socrates as a Jungian Analyst,” Arkansas Philological Association, October 2000 and again to the Missouri Philological Association, April 2001.
• “Nussbaum on Eros in the Symposium,” Minnesota Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, April 2001.
• “Plato and Jung on Individuation,” Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, Chicago, April 2000.
• “Virtue Without Fragility: Nussbaum’s Account of Detachment in Plato’s Republic, Crito and Phaedo,” American Society for Philosophy, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Chicago, April 2000.
• “Sexist Oppression: A Developmental Description,” 28th Conference on Value Inquiry, Beaumont, TX, April, 2000.
• “Virtue Without Fragility: Nussbaum’s Account of Detachment in Plato’s Republic, Crito and Phaedo,” Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, Binghamton, NY, October 2000.
Book Reviews
• Review of Eros as Messenger: The Drama of Plato’s Symposium for State University of New York Press, January 2002.
• Review of and Foreword for The One: Plato’s Socratic Philosophy by Herold Stern for Edwin Mellen Press, fall 2001.
Awards and Honors
• "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" in 2002, 2004 and 2005
• Accepted as a Resident Scholar at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research for spring 2004.
• Accepted as a Studium Scholar at the College of St. Benedict for summer 2004.
• National Endowment for the Humanites: Summer Seminar: Aristotle on Meaning and Thought, University of San Diego, June- August 2003.
• Studium Scholar, College of St. Benedict, August 2003.
• Studium Scholar, College of St. Benedict, summer 2001.
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Dr. Floyd Beckford Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ph.D. B.Sc. |
Dr. Beckford joined the Lyon faculty in 2001. He has served as faculty advisor of the student chapter of the American Chemical Society and as vice president of the faculty assembly. He also serves as a soccer referee for both high school and the Independence County Youth Athletic Association. His recent professional accomplishments include:
Articles
• Beckford FA, Darensbourg DJ, Reibenspies JH “Water-soluble organometallic compounds. 8. Synthesis, Spectral Properties and crystal Structures of 1,3,5-Triaza-7-phosphaadamantane (PTA) Derivatives of Metal Carbonyl Clusters: Ru3(CO)9(PTA)3 and Ir4(CO)7(PTA)5.” J. Cluster Sci. 2000, 11, 1.
Professional Papers
• “Synthesis, Characterization, and Coordination Chemistry of Diindolylmethanes,” with Danielle Rinke, Book of Abstracts, Arkansas Space Grant Symposium, April 2004.
• “Synthesis of Organometallic Ruthenium Complexes and their use as Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenation Reactions in Ionic Liquids,” poster presentation with Danielle Rinke and Timothy Voris, Arkansas Academy of Science, April 2004.
Book Reviews
• Reviewed three chapters for the new edition of the text book Environmental Chemistry by Colin Baird, published by W.H. Freeman.
Awards and Honors
• Arkansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network Summer Fellow, University of Arkansas, Summer 2003.
• American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund, Summer Research Grant, University of Toledo, 2002.
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Dr. Ronald Boling Associate Professor of English |
Dr. Boling joined the
Articles
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“Escaping Hitler in DeLillo's
White Noise." Philological
Review 28.2 (Fall 2002): 63-82.
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“Summer Shakespeare for
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“Anglo-Welsh Relations in Cymbeline,” Shakespeare Quarterly
51:1 (Spring 2000): 33-66.
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“Fletcher’s Satire of Caratach
in Bonduca,” Comparative Drama (Fall 1999): 390-406.
Professional Papers
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“Hitler Humor in DeLillo’s
White Noise”Arkansas Philological Association,
October 2001.
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“Fenton’s Guicciardini
and The Tempest” Third International Palermo
Conference: Shakespearean Intertextualities,
Book Reviews
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Review of Hamlet: New Critical Essays by Arthur F. Kinney for
Shakespeare Bulletin 20.4 (Fall 2002): 41-3.
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Review of MacBeth: Man and Myth by Nick Aitchison for Shakespeare Bulletin 19.2 (summer 2001) : 41-42.
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Review of Theater,
Court and City 1595-1610: Drama and Social Space in
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Review of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, James Schiffer,
ed., for Shakespeare Bulletin 18.2
(Spring 2000): 45-46.
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Review of Players
of Shakespeare 4, Robert Smallwood, ed., in Shakespeare Bulletin 17.4 (Fall 1999): 46-47.
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Dr. Catherine Bordeau Associate Professor of French Ph.D. The M.A. The B.A. The |
Dr. Bordeau joined the Lyon faculty in 1996. She is currently the supervisor for the language lab and the administrator for the Lyon-Poitiers exchange program, which enables Lyon students to study in France. She is an assistant faculty sponsor for the LyonCollege chapter of the Alpha Chi National Honor Society. Her recent professional accomplishments include:
Articles
• “Women’s Environmental Influence and Social Change in Rachilde’s La Marquise de Sade.” Romance Quarterly 50 (2003): 24–32.
Professional Papers
• “Gender and Energy in Théophile Gautier,” presented at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, St. Louis, Missouri, October 28-30, 2004.
• “Why Rachilde Was Not a Feminist” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2001.
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Dr. Sally Browder Associate Professor of Psychology |
Dr. Browder joined the
Book Chapters
“I thought you were mine”: A psychological review of Night
Mother, by Marsha Norman. Excerpted in
Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers (2nd
ed.)
Articles
“I’ve Made Up My Mind: Assumptions and Decision-Making
in Accounts of Caregiving Women.” Journal of Women and Aging 13, 2002.
Professional Papers
• “Listening Up: Incorporating Interview Material From Qualitative Research In A Psychology of Aging Course,” with M. Cody, Association of Gerontology in Higher Education, February 2004.
• “Depressive Symptoms Patterns in Primary Care Settings,” poster presentation with M. Cody at University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Summer Research Conference, July 2003.
Honors and Awards
• Arkansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network summer research grant, 2003.
• Arkansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network academic year research grant “Depressive Symptom Patterns Among Middle and Older Adults in Primary Care Settings,” 2003.
• Invited participant in National Institute of Aging Research Training Program in Psychology of Aging, Minneapolis, MN: February 2002; Duluth, MN: July 2002.
• Lyon College Chapter of Alpha Chi Teacher of the Year, 2000-2001.
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Dr. Paul Custodio Bube W. Lewis McColgan
Professor of Religion Ph.D. |
Dr. Bube joined the Lyon faculty in 2001 after serving as a professor of religious studies and chair of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas. He was honored in 1999 with the Kansas Wesleyan University Exemplary Teaching Award. He currently is the faculty sponsor for the Wesley Fellowship and serves as the college’s Technology and Learning Mentor. He also serves as a board member of Batesville Help and Hope. His recent professional accomplishments include:
Books
Conversations With
Pragmatism, edited by Paul Custodio Bube and
Jeffery Geller, Value Inquiry Book Series, Amsterdam/New York, 2003.
Articles
“The Role of the Family in In-Patient Care: A Mostly Modest
Proposal.” The
Internet Journal of Law, Healthcare and Ethics.
Professional Papers
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“Left Behind With Harry Potter” American Academy
of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting,
Book Reviews
Review of The Hidden
Key to Harry Potter: Understanding the Meaning, Genius, and Popularity of
Joanne Rowling's Harry Potter Novels by John Granger for the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture,
Volume III: Spring 2003.
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Dr. C. Ray Byler Assistant Professor of Computer Science B.S. California Institute of Technology |
Dr. Byler joined the Lyon faculty in 2003. He was previously employed as a software engineer for SNMP Research, Inc., in Knoxville, Tennessee. He has extensive military experience, having served in the United State Army for more than 20 years. He was an intelligence targeting officer in direct support of Operation Desert Storm for the largest Corps Artillery in the Army. He also served a Battalion Logistics Officer and Battalion Operations Officer for an Intelligence and Security Command battalion in Japan. His research interests are automatic text summarization, machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks.
Professional Papers
• “What is Money?,” Proceedings of the Mid-South College Computing Conference, April 2004.
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Dr. Thomas Carpenter
Assistant Professor of Education Ph.D. M.A. Fuller Theological Seminary B.S. |
Dr. Carpenter has been a visiting professor since the 2002-03 academic years, and became a permanent member of the Lyon community in 2005. He has served as coordinator of secondary education at Lyon and has been very active in the Black Students Association and on the Diversity Team. His recent professional achievements include:
Articles
• “A homeboy comes home,” Christian Recorder, 2004, Vol. 153, No. 12, p. 2-7.
Professional Papers
• “Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, 50 years later,” Conference of the Washington Alliance of Black School Educators, March, 2004.
• “Diversifying the workplace: The recruitment, certification and placement of African Americans at all levels of the public schools,” Washington Alliance of Black School Educators, Washington, 2000.
• “Where are the teachers of color? Examining the myths and realities of the minority teacher shortage,” National Association for Multicultural Education, Florida, 2000.
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Dr. Michael Counts Associate Professor of Theatre Ph.D. The |
Dr. Counts joined the Lyon faculty in 1992. He serves as Director of Holloway Theatre and adviser for the student Hyde Park Players and the Lyon chapter of Alpha Psi Omega. During the summers of 1997-2001 he directed AEGIS “Shakespeare Page to Stage,” a residential program for gifted high school students. His recent professional achievements include:
Performances
• Acted in a leading role in the New Play Development Workshop at The American Theatre in Higher Education national conference in August 2003.
Productions Directed
• The Importance of Being Earnest, Spring 2004.
• 5th of July, Fall 2003.
• Romeo and Juliet, Spring 2003.
• The Memory of Water, Fall 2002.
• Fen, Spring 2002.
• Joined at the Head, Fall 2001.
• The Year Boston Won the Pennant, Spring 2001.
• The Rivals, Fall 2000.
Professional Papers
• “In Right and Service of Their Noble Country,” Comparative Drama Conference, April 2004.
Awards and Honors
• Judge for preliminary rounds of Irene Ryan acting competitions, 2003.
• Medallion for service to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
• AEGIS grant for “Shakespeare Page to Stage” 1997-2001.
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Mrs. Cassie Creighton Associate Professor of Accounting Certified Public Accountant |
Mrs. Creighton joined the
Articles
“The Rise of a Great Market and the
Rebirth of the Accounting Profession.” Proceedings of the
Regional meeting of the American Accounting Association,
Professional Papers
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“Women and Other Minorities in Accounting”
Williamson Prize Lecture,
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Awards and Honors
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Dr. Gloria Everson Assistant Professor of Anthropology |
Dr. Everson joined the Lyon faculty in 2001. Originally from South Dakota, her area of research is Mesoamerican archaeology, which she has studied in South America. She has served as a freshman mentor and currently serves as faculty advisor to the Young Democrats. She has been a member of the Batesville chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens since 2001. Her recent professional achievements include:
Book Chapters
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“A Multipurpose Structure in the Late
Articles
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“Suburban
Organization: Minor Centers at La Milpa, Belize,” Perspectives
on Ancient Many Rural Complexity, Monograph 49, The Cotsen
Institute of Arachaeology, University of California,
Los Angeles, 2002.
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“Survey and Excavation at La
Professional Papers
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“Comparison of Sampling Strategies at La
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“Internal and External Boundaries at La Milpa” Society of American Archaeology,
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“Committing Archaeology to Integrating Research
and Presentation: A Case Study from
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Dr. Barry Gehm Assistant Professor of Biochemistry |
Dr. Gehm joined the Lyon faculty in 2003. Born in Paducah, Kentucky, Dr. Gehm came to Lyon from Chicago, where he was a research assistant professor at Northwestern University Medical School. At Lyon, he continues his research into estrogen and its relationship with cancer. His recent professional achievements include:
Articles
• “Estrogenic Effects of Resveratrol in Breast Cancer Cells Expressing Mutant and Wild-type Estrogen Receptors: role of AF-1 and AF-2" B.D. Gehm, A.S. Levenson, H. Liu, E.J. Lee, B. M. Amundsen, M. Cushman, V. C. Jordan & J. L. Jameson, Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 88:223-234 (March 2004).
• “Adenovirus-directed expression of dominant negative estrogen receptor induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells and induces regression of tumors in nude mice,” with E.J. Lee, M. Jakacka, W.R. Duan, P.Y. Chien, F. Martinson, J.L. Jameson. Molec. Med., 7: 773-782, 2001.
• “Dominant negative ER induces apoptosis in GH4 pituitary lactotrope cells and inhibits tumor growth in nude mice,” with E.J. Lee, M. Jakacka, W.R. Duan, P.Y. Chien, F. Martinson, J.L. Jameson. Endocrinology, 142: 3756-3763, 2001.
• “Estrogen receptor binding to DNA is not required for its activity through the non-classical AP1 pathway,” with M. Jakacka, M. Ito, J. Weiss, P.Y. Chien, J.L. Jameson. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 13615-13621, 2001.
• “EGF activates highly selective estrogen-responsive reporter plasmids by an ER-independent pathway,” with J.M. McAndrews, V.C. Jordan, J.L. Jameson. Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 159: 53-62, 2000.
Professional Papers
• “Development of an Estrogenicity Bioassay Based on Transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans,” Arkansas Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network Research Day Symposium, July 2004.
Awards and Honors
• National Institutes of Health’s IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence bridge funding, “Signaling by Non-Classical Ligands of Estrogen Receptor: Novel Approaches to Detection and Mechanism.”
• Avon Foundation Pilot Project Grant 2002-2003. “Estrogen Receptor Action at AP-1 Sites: Use of Selective Dominant Negative Mutants to Assess Role in Breast Cancer.”
• Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, Idea Award 1999-2002. “Resveratrol as an Estrogen: Mechanisms and Implications for Breast Cancer.”
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Dr. Bradley Gitz The William Jefferson Clinton Professor of International
Politics |
Articles
• “Explaining Gorbachev and the Soviet Collapse,” The Midsouth Political Science Review, 2000, Vol. 2.
Book Chapter
• “A New Kind of Empire” in The Two Koreas H.W.Wilson, 2004.
Professional Papers
• “The Genealogy of the Bush Doctrine,” International Studies Association–West, October 2003.
• “The Bush Doctrine and the New World Order” Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2003.
• “Why and How We Now Fight” Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, March 2002.
• “American Military Force after the Cold War: Lessons from the Gulf War and Kosovo,” Georgia Political Science Association, Hilton Head, SC, February 2001.
• “Salvaging Realism,” Southwestern Social Science Association, Galveston, TX, March 2000.
• Discussant for “Comparative Politics” panel, Arkansas Political Science Association, Little Rock, AR, February 2000.
Book Reviews
• Review of The New Electoral Politics of Race by Matthew J. Streb for the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (Vol 34, No. 2, August 2003), pp. 151-152.
• Review of Southern Politics in the 1990s edited by Alexander P. Lamis for the Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies (Vol 31, No.2, August 2000), pp.164-166.
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Dr. Anthony Kurt Grafton Associate Professor of Chemistry |
