Celebrating Faculty Scholarship
Scholarship and scholarly activity take many forms. Below are listings of publications--both in print and forthcoming, presentations, and other discipline-appropriate activities of Covenant College faculty from 2008 through early 2009. Every effort was made to be inclusive in acknowledging the academic activities of Covenant College faculty members. The intent of this celebratory publication is to acknowledge the many ways in which faculty contribute to their academic disciplines beyond the classroom. In addition to excellent teaching and mentoring, Covenant College is delighted to have so many faculty members involved in scholarly pursuits. This page is updated every two years; it will be updated next in 2011.
Phill Broussard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics (2000)
Grant
The National Science Foundation awarded a grant of $178,935 to Covenant College for the construction of a laboratory dedicated to researching thin film growth and characterization under the direction of Dr. Phill Broussard
Toni Chiareli, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology (2007)
Publications
Chiareli, Antonio A. Tentative Title: Occupy, Resist, and Produce: The Landless Movement and the Grassroots Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil. (manuscript revision in progress).
Chiareli, Antonio A. and Matthew Vos: "Race and Ethnic Relations," Sociology: A Christian Approach for Changing the World, ed. Cynthia Tweedell. Marion, IN: Triangle Publishing, (February 2009).
Diana Cochran, M.A.
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages (2003)
Publication
Fostering Spiritual Development Through Entering Unamuno's San Manuel Bueno, mártir with Anna Wiersema (student) presented at the North American Christian Foreign Language Association conference in San Diego to be held March 27-29, 2009, on the campus of Pt. Loma Nazarene University.
Steve Corbett, M.Ed.
Assistant Professor of Community Development (2007)
Publication
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself with Brian Fikkert, forthcoming in July, 2009, Moody Publications.
Bill Davis, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy (1997)
Publications
"Thomas Reid on Moral Disagreement," in Thomas Reid on Ethics, edited by Roeser (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
"Reid's Tradition of Inquiry: A Grateful Response to Cuneo," Journal of Scottish Philosophy, vol. 6, no. 1 (Mar. 2008), pp. 105-111.
Bill Dennison, Ph.D.
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (1993)
Publications
The Young Bultmann: Context for His Understanding of God, 1884-1925. American University Studies Series 7, Theology and Religion. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
"Reason, History, and Revelation: Biblical Theology and the Enlightenment," in Resurrection and Eschatology: Theology in Service of the Church: Essays in Honor of Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., ed. Lane G. Tipton and Jeffery C. Waddington (Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, 2008), 340-360.
Jim Drexler, Ph.D.
Dean of Social Sciences and the Master of Education program, and Chair of the Education Department (2004)
Publication
Editorial Contributor to Small Schools and Urban Youth: Using the Power of School Culture to Engage Students, by Gilberto Q. Conchas and Louie F. Rodriguez, Corwin Press (2008).
Presentations
"Spiritual Warfare and Christian Schooling" paper presented as a Featured Speaker at the ACSI regional conferences in Anaheim, California, November, 2007, Birmingham, January, 2008, and the CSI Administrators Conference in St. Louis, July, 2008.
"Stress in Leadership" workshop presented at ACSI Regional Conferences (Anaheim, California, November, 2007, Greensboro, NC, October, 2006, Birmingham, AL, February, 2007, Dallas, 2008)
"The Three R's of Classroom Management" workshop presented at ACSI Regional Conferences (Anaheim, California, November, 2007, Greensboro, October, 2006, Birmingham, February, 2007, Dallas, 2008)
Jeff Dryden, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biblical Studies (2007)
Publications
"1 Peter," "2 Peter," & "Jude" in the Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2009.
Kevin Eames, Ph.D.
Director of Institutional Research (2003)
Publications
Eames, K. J. (2008). History of research on faith, prayer, and medical healings, in Miracles: God, Science, and Psychology in the Paranormal. J. Harold Ellens (ed.). Greenwood-Praeger.
Eames, Kevin J. (in press). The Puritan's Prozac: Soul care within a deterministic theological framework, in Healing Power of Spirituality and Religion, . J. Harold Ellens (ed.). Greenwood-Praeger.
Brian Fikkert, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Economics (1997)
Publication
When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself with Steve Corbett, forthcoming in July, 2009, Moody Publications.
Richard Follett, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History (2001)
Publications
"After Emancipation: Thomas Fowell Buxton and Evangelical Politics in the 1830s," in Parliamentary History, Vol. 27, Issue 1 (February 2008), 119-129.
Review of John Wolffe, The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney, Vol. 2 of A History of Evangelicalism, ed. David W. Bebbington and Mark Noll. In Fide et Historia, forthcoming.
Cliff Foreman, Ph.D.
Professor of English (1986)
Publication
A Slovak translation of my essay "What Did Shakespeare Believe?" was published in Ako sa vám páci Shakespeare? Anton Vydra, Andrej Demuth, eds., Trnava, Slovakia: 2008.
Jay Green, Ph.D.
Professor of History (1998)
Publications
Co-editor, Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation (South Bend, Ind.: The University of Notre Dame Press, Forthcoming).
"The Christian Historian as Public Servant: A Critical Exploration of Historical Analogies in Civic Discourse," in Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation (South Bend, Ind.: The University of Notre Dame Press, Forthcoming 2008).
Review of Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952 in The Journal of American History (forthcoming)
Presentation
Discussing Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East by Rashid Khalidi as part of a roundtable discussion "The Roots of the Middle East Crisis: A Discussion of Recent Books," Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History," Bluffton College, Bluffton, Ohio, September 19, 2008
David Hoover, Ph.D.
Professor of Management (1988)
In December, 2008, achieved the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification. Since 2001, just over 50% of those taking the exam have passed. Dr. Hoover joined the ranks of the 16% of the Society of Human Resources Management's 250,000+ members who hold that certification based on passing the exam and meeting experience qualifications.
John Hunt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science (2006)
Publications
John M. Hunt "A Practical State Machine Project" ACM Southeast Conference 2009, Clemson, SC, USA,
March 19-21, 2009.
John M. Hunt "Object Oriented Design, the Very Big Picture" The Journal of Comuputing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 24 Number 2, December 2009 (accepted).
Presentations
John M. Hunt "Object Oriented Design, the Very Big Picture" The Journal of Comuputing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 24 Number 2, December 2009.
John M. Hunt "Competence and Character: Pedagogical Considerations for Preparing Students to be Professionals" ACM Southeast Conference 2008, Auburn, Alabama, USA, March 28-29, 2008.
Scott Jones, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies (2005)
Publications
Review of Tremper Longman III and Peter Enns, eds., Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2009.
"Moabite Stone." Pages 126-28 in Volume 4 of The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. 5 vols. Ed. K. D. Sakenfeld, et al. Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon, 2009.
Review of Samuel E. Balentine, 2008, Job, Koinonia 19: 80-83.
Presentations
"Job 28 as Poetry." Keynote address, Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA, April 2-4, 2009.
"Job 28 as Mashal," presented at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 24, 2008.
Kelly Kapic, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Theological Studies (2001)
Publications
Kelly M. Kapic and Bruce McCormack, ed., Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic History of Recent Theological Reflection [working title] (Grand Rapids, Baker Academic, forthcoming). Manuscript due Dec. 2010.
Kelly M. Kapic and Randal Rauser, Everyday Saints: Voices From the Past: 100-1500 AD [working title] (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, forthcoming). Manuscript is due between Dec. 2009-Dec. 31st 2011. This manuscript will accompany the second volume, and thus both must be published either simultaneously or within six months of one another.
Kelly M. Kapic and Randal Rauser, Everyday Saints: Voices From the Past: 1500-Today [working title] (Grand Rapids, Zondervan, forthcoming). Manuscript is due, between Dec. 2009-Dec. 31st 2011. This manuscript will accompany the first volume, and thus both must be published either simultaneously or within six months of one another.
Kelly M. Kapic, God So Loved He Gave [working title]. Publisher Contract has not yet been sought, but research and chapters are well underway. This is a project supported and promoted by Generous Giving, for whom I work as a consultant, and with the great assistance of Justin Borger, who is helping with the work. Publisher contract will be sought after more of the project is complete.
Kelly M. Kapic and Sinclair Ferguson, Faithful Worship: An Introduction to Systematic Theology [working title] (Downers Grove: IVP, forthcoming). This will be a college-level or beginning seminary level systematic theology - approximately 200,000 words. Manuscript in progress.
Kelly M. Kapic, "Psalm 22 and Matt. 27:46//Mk. 15:34," in Michael Allen and Geoff M. Ziegler (eds.), Theological Commentary (London: T & T Clark, 2011).
Kelly M. Kapic, with Tim Cooper, Alan Spence, Carl R. Trueman, Brian Kay, "State of the Field: ‘John Owen Unleashed: Almost,'" Conversations in Religion and Theology, 6:2 (2008), 226-257.
Presentation
Kelly M Kapic, "The Spirit as Gift: Explorations in the Pneumatology of John Owen." Conference at Westminster College, Cambridge University, UK, Aug. 19-22.
Brandon Kreuze, D.M.
Associate Professor of Music (2004)
Composition
Alliances, for Wind Quintet Premiere performance given by the University of Montana Contemporary Music Ensemble at the College Music Society Pacific Northwest/Rocky Mountain SuperRegional Conference in April, 2008
Larry Mehne, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry (1989)
Publications
"Cyclometallated PtII and PdII Complexes with a Trithiacrown Ligand", Daron E. Janzen, Donald G. VanDerveer, Larry F. Mehne, Demétrio A. da Siva Filho, Jean-Luc Brédas, Gregory J. Grant, Dalton Trans., 2008, 1872-1882.
Received permission to bring a supplementary textbook, Chemistry, a Gift of God by Russ Maatman, back in to print. A preliminary version was printed locally for use last fall and is available in the Tuck Shoppe.
Jeff Morton, M.F.A.
Professor of Art (2000)
Exhibition
"Navigating the Nebulous," The Renaissance Art Center, Dixon, TN, 2008
Scott Quatro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Management (2006)
Publications
Gilley, J.W., Gilley, A., Quatro, S.A. and Dixon, P. (editors) (2009) The Praeger Handbook of Human Resource Management. Praeger Publishers: Westport, CT.
Quatro, S.A. (2008) In Defense of Profit Maximization: Christian Religiosity as Support for Milton Friedman's Provocative Claim, in Quatro, S.A., and Sims, R. (editors) Executive Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the C-Suite. Information Age Publishing: Greenwich, CT.
Quatro, S.A., and Sims, R. (editors) (2008) Executive Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the C-Suite. Information Age Publishing: Greenwich, CT.
Will Stern, M.Ed.
Assistant Professor of Physical Education (2000)
Publication
Fitness for a Lifetime (5th Edition) coauthored with W. Leroy Fanning a basic Concepts book (Wrote 5 chapters, did all of the design work, and layout.), Hunter Textbooks, Winston-Salem, NC, 2008
Ken Stewart, Ph.D.
Professor of Theological Studies (1997)
Publications
Joint editor with Michael Haykin, The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities, (Leicester: IVP, March 2008) In addition to co-editing, I have supplied a chapter, ‘The Evangelical Doctrine of Scripture: 1650-1850: A Re-examination'. The U.S. edition will follow from Broadman, Nashville, in Oct. 2008 with the altered title, The Advent of Evangelicalism. (In progress)
InterVarsity Press (U.S.A.) in Jan. 2008 accepted a proposal for a book entitled Ten Myths About Calvinism. This work is in progress. Publication will follow in late 2009.
The Geneva publisher, Labor et Fides, approved on Aug. 26th, 2008, a proposal for a co-edited volume with Jean D. Decorvet, Ph.D. cand. (Wheaton) The Genevan Réveil in International Context. Co- publication of this volume in Francophone Europe and North America will be sought. Essays due in June, 2010.
InterVarsity Press (U.S.A.) on August 12th, 2008, gave preliminary approval (pending the submission of a first chapter) for a volume tentatively entitled Awakenings in Christian History. This volume, when published, will supersede the classic 1979 volume by Richard Lovelace (Gordon Conwell), Dynamics of Spiritual Life: A Theology of Renewal.
‘Loss and Recovery', A review essay of: Catherine Gidney, ‘A Long Eclipse: The Liberal Protestant Establishment and the Canadian University: 1920-1970'; A. Donald MacLeod, ‘An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy: W. Stanford Reid' (both McGill-Queens University Press) and Donald MacLeod, ‘C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Discovery of the University' (IVP, 2007) in Books and Culture, July/August, 2008, pp. 24-26
‘Newman versus Newman: The Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864) and later Biographical Memoir Compared' Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology in Vol. 26.1 (2008) pp. 57-67
‘Evangelicals and Patristic Christianity: 1517 to the Present' in The Evangelical Quarterly, LXXX (2008) no. 4, pp. 307-21
‘Six Caveats for those Flirting with Monasticism' A review essay of Scott A. Bessenecker, The New Friars, (Downers Grove: IVP, 2006), Dennis E. Okholm, Monk Habits For Ordinary People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2007), Karen E. Sloan, Flirting with Monasticism: Finding God in Ancient Paths (Downers Grove: IVP, 2006)) in Books and Culture, November, 2008
‘Calvinism and Missions' in the Presbyterian Record
Martin I. Klauber and Scott M. Manetsch, eds. The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions. (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2008), in the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology (forthcoming).
Garth M. Rosell, The Surprising Work of God: Harold John Ockenga, Billy Graham, and the Rebirth of Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008) in the Westminster Theological Journal (forthcoming, Spring 2009)
John M. D'Elia, A Place at the Table: George Eldon Ladd and the Rehabilitation of Evangelical Scholarship in America. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) in the Westminster Theological Journal (forthcoming, Spring 2009).
Collin Hansen, Young, Restless, and Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008) in Presbyterion (forthcoming)
John J. Murray, Catch the Vision:Roots of the Reformed Recovery (Darlington, U.K.: Evangelical Press, 2008) in Presbyterion (forthcoming).
A. T. B. MacGowan, The Divine Authenticity of Scripture, (Downers Grove: I.V.P. 2008) in Presbyterion (forthcoming Spring 2009)
Presentation
‘Calvinism and Missions: The Contested Relationship Reconsidered' presented in the Nov. 2008 annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Nov. 19-21, Providence, Rhode Island.
Bill Tate, Ph.D.
Professor of English (2007)
Publications
"The Ending End of All Earthly Learning." Case Magazine (Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education) (forthcoming).
Review of Theresa M. DiPasquale, Refiguring the Sacred Feminine: The Poems of John Donne, Aemilia Lanyer, and John Milton (Duquesne University Press, 2008). Christianity and Literature (forthcoming).
Presentations
Chair for "Trinity and Text," the Conference on Christianity and Literature Session at SAMLA, November 7, 2008.
" ‘The Man Behind the Curtain': The Hidden Center in Early Modern Perspective." Keynote Address for Revelations: Discoveries in Sacred & Secular Literature & Art (English Graduate Student Association Conference, Baylor University, April 18-19, 2008)
Panel Participant, Revelations: Discoveries in Sacred & Secular Literature & Art (English Graduate Student Association Conference, Baylor University, April 18-19, 2008)
" ‘Something in Us Like the Catbird's Song': Richard Wilbur on the Truth of Poetry" (Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, April 10-12, 2008; the paper was awarded the Daub-Maher Memorial Prize for best essay read at the conference)
Oliver Trimiew, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (1988)
Presentation
Association of African American Studies: The Bible and Martin L. King, Jr., 2008, Baton Rouge, LA
Matt Vos, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology (2000)
Publications
Vos, M. S. (2008). Exploring McDonaldization, in Ritzer, G. The McDonaldization of Society 5, Instructor's Resources. Los Angeles, CA: Pine Forge Press.
Vos, M. S. (June, 2008). Excellence: The Emperor's New Clothes, Phi Delta Kappan, 89, 10.
Vos, M. S. (Summer, 2008). To Dance with a Child (adapted and reprinted), LifeLines, 15, 2.
Vos, M. S., and Chiareli, A. (2008). Race and Ethnic Stratification (ch. 8), in Sociology: A Christian Approach for Changing the World, 2nd edition, Marion, IN: Triangle Publishing. (in press)
Vos, M. S. (Winter, 2008). Seeing the Unseen, The Christian Sociologist.
Presentation
Southern Sociological Society Annual Conference, Richmond, VA, The Role of the Small College in Enchanting a Disenchanted World. April, 2008.
Jim Wildeman, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of English (1983)
Publications
A Simple Writing Manual (An English Composition Textbook), The University Press of the South, New Orleans, LA, 2008
The Valedictorian of Summer School (a novel),. The University Press of the South, New Orleans, LA, 2008.
Presentations
"Questioning Postmodernity (And Reviving "Traditional" Humanistic Values?) Through an Introduction To Poetry" Southeastern Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Wingate, NC, April 2008
Robyn Wilkes, M.M.
Visiting Instructor of Music
Publications
"Music of the Weird" and "Pop Culture in Fundraising Efforts," The Woman Conductor
Presentations
"History of Rock Music as a General Music Course in Secondary Education" at the Boston University Regional Seminar in Savannah, GA in January, 2009.
Pre-concert lecture on March 10, 2009, for the Chattanooga Choral Arts Society
Judging & performance-related activities
Sight Reading judge for the Georgia Music Educators District 9 Concert Band and Orchestra Festival in March 2008.
Judge at the Columbia, Tennessee Marching Band Competition on September 27, 2008.
Judge at the Traveler's Rest Marching Band Competition in Nashville, TN on October 4, 2008.
Guest conductor for the Middle Tennessee State Band and Orchestra Director Association Honor Band in January, 2009.
Bruce Young, Ed.D.
Associate Professor of Education (2004)
Publication
Oobleck: A constructivist science lesson from a Christian perspective. Teaching With Compassion, Competence, Commitment, 2(1), 47-53. (2008).
Presentation
The Math Classroom as a Place of Worship, ACSI Educator Convention, Birmingham, AL, January 25, 2008.
Dan Zuidema, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry (2005)
Publications
"A Novel Method of Reducing Ketones Using Sodium Hydroxide in Isoropanol." D.R. Zuidema, K.J. Wert, S.L. Williams, S.T. Chill, K.L. Holte, N.K. Kokes, and R.C. Mebane. Submitted to Synthetic Communications, January 2009.
"Conversion of Aldoximes into Nitriles with Raney Nickel in Refluxing 2-Propanol." D.R. Zuidema, A.L. Dennison, R.C. Mebane, E.Y. Park. Synthetic Communications, 2008, 38, 3810.
Presentations
"A Novel Method of Deoxygenating Aromatic Ketones Using Raney Nickel in 2-Propanol." D.R. Zuidema, R.C. Mebane, K.J. Wert, S.L. Williams. Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Nashville, TN. November, 2008.
"Recent Developments in Pyrone Natural Product Photochemistry." Presented at the Chemistry Departmental Seminar at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN. March, 2008.
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