Scholarly Publications & Presentations

scholarship: a scoping view to advance sport management research,” published in the European Sport Management Quarterly; published "The Other side of the Picture: The wave of ‘Orientalism’ and the FIFA 2022 World Cup" in the DER Journal (Norwegian Arab platform); and the blogpost “The Imaginative Muslim World in the Eyes of Western Sport Management Academia” with the North American Society for Sport Management.

involves changing methodological features that are rarely empirically compared with the previous design. This paper presents an example of how typical methodological changes can differentially elicit congruency effects across age groups.” conference in berlin , germany : Vice President and Dean of Faculty John Sisko presented a paper, “On the Role of Nous in Anaxagoras’ Cosmogony,” at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, July 20, 2022. narcissism and war : A study by Assistant Professor of Political Science John P. Harden received widespread media attention. race , religion and gender in sport : Umer Hussain, assistant professor of business and sports management, focuses his research on understanding the intersection of race, religion and gender in the sporting context.

The two-day conference involved eight invited presenters, representing top international universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Humboldt and McGill. The presented papers will be published in Human and Divine Nous from Ancient to Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy and Religion (Brill, 2023), being edited by Dr. Ilaria Ramelli of Cambridge University.

Sisko says Anaxagoras (500-428 BC) published only a single treatise and that treatise has not survived in its entirety. Just 22 fragments survive as quotations in treatises written by other Greek philosophers. Together, these fragments amount to just 118 lines of text, he says. This will be Sisko’s seventh published paper on Anaxagoras.

“Looking Like a Winner: Leader Narcissism and War Duration” was published in September 2022 in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. It was shared around the world and he subsequently was interviewed by outlets such as Newsweek, Salon, International Business Times and IFLscience.

He also was quoted in the articles “How Can We Predict a Nuclear War,” published in Newsweek magazine; and “Narcissism and War,” published by Political Violence at a Glance, run through the UC Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation.

• He co-wrote “The Muslim community and sport new chemical process : Associate Professor of Chemistry Patrick Willoughby has a paper published by ACS Publications. Two of the student co-authors are Ripon College alumnae: Sierra Thein ’22 of Oostburg, Wisconsin, a chemistry major; and Abbigail Grieger ’22 of Fargo, North Dakota, a chemistry-biology major. The paper describes a collaboration between Ripon College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison which started while Willoughby was on sabbatical.

• He was quoted in “Will Players Help Raise Awareness About the Horrors Surrounding the World Cup?” published in The Nation International; in an article published by Play the Game; and in “The Untold Stories of Qatar and the FIFA World Cup,” about the controversy surrounding the World Cup being hosted in November in Qatar, the first Middle Eastern County to do so.

• He presented a research paper focusing on Pakistani-born English cricketer Azeem Rafiq at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) annual conference in Las Vegas Nov. 9-12; and two research papers to which Hussain contributed were presented by his co-authors at the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) annual conference held in Melbourne and hosted by the Swinburne University of Technology.

“In this study, we discovered a new chemical process for synthesizing amino acids by using two enzymes,” Willoughby says. “The two enzymes work together to make previously unreported amino acids. The enzymes are grown in bacteria cells, and the cells are used directly as the catalyst just like any other chemical.

“In addition to being a green and sustainable process, this study provided fundamental organic chemistry insights into how one of the enzymes was working.” faculty - alumni collaboration : An article by Professor of Psychology Kristine A. Kovack-Lesh, “Inconsistent flanker congruency effects across stimulus types and age groups: A cautionary tale” was published last summer in the journal “Behavior Research Methods.”

“The flanker task is a common measure of selective attention and response competition across populations, age groups, and experiential contexts,” the abstract states. “Adapting it for different uses often addressing gender - based violence : Associate Professor of English Ann Pleiss Morris has a chapter in the book Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Addressing Gender-Based Violence in the Classroom, published in summer 2022. Her chapter is titled “The New Spectators: Facilitating Conversations Between Early British Women Writers and Twenty-First Century Students.” faculty - student paper on bioone . org : Associate Professor of Biology Robin Forbes-Lorman and Miye Aoki-Kramer ’20 of Seattle, Washington, had a paper published on BioOne.org, a database of research in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. The paper is titled “Litter sex composition has sex and context-specific effects on juvenile play behavior in Sprague-Dawley rats.” slate . com podcast : Sarah Frohardt-Lane, associate professor of history and director of the Environmental Studies Program, spoke on the podcast “One Year: 1942” that came out on slate. com Oct. 20, 2022. She talks about her research on rubber rationing during World War II. historical expertise : Professor of History Rebecca Matzke was a commentator on the panel “The Social World of Jack Tars: The Royal Navy and British Maritime Culture 1815-1940” at the North American Conference on British Studies annual meeting in Chicago Nov. 11-13, 2022. insight through poetry : Associate Professor of English Megan Gannon has two poems published in the fall 2022 issue of The Heartland Review literary magazine. The poems are titled “Dispatch from a Familiar Fairy Tale”; and “Dispatch on the Golden Ratio.” presenting wisconsin art : Rafael Francisco Salas, professor of art and chair of the Department of Art and Art History, was the guest curator for an exhibit for the Museum of Wisconsin Art. “Strange Lands: The work of Tom Antell, Chris T. Cornelius, and Sky Hopinka” ran Oct. 7, 2022, through Jan. 8, 2023, at the museum’s satellite location inside Saint Kate — The Arts Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. teaching religion online : Brian Smith, professor emeritus of religion, has a paper in the journal “Teaching Theology and Religion,” published by the University of California Berkeley. “Teaching Religion Online to Nontraditional Students” describes the work he did for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh while also teaching full time at Ripon College. He says that three-fourths of those enrolled in undergraduate programs today are nontraditional students. He has taught online world religion courses for nontraditional learners since 2004 (64 courses, totaling more than 1,000 students) at UW-Oshkosh. His work also positively informed his classroom teaching at Ripon because he incorporated online discussions by his students at Ripon to enhance student participation. quad alliance : Professor Emeritus of Politics and Government Martin Farrell spoke about the Quad Alliance Oct. 4 for the Great Decisions lecture series at Mead Public Library in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The informal alliance between the United States, India, Japan and Australia is committed to a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region.

Kovack-Lesh’s collaborators included Chelsea Grahn Andrews ’15 of Madison, Wisconsin, who majored in psychobiology at Ripon and received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Rebecca Leuenberger ’19 of Racine, Wisconsin, who majored in psychobiology at Ripon and received a degree in nursing from Rush University.

The book addresses gender-based violence and how educators, mentors and public facilitators can address the subject in teaching spaces, curricula, texts and conversations with greater care and understanding.

Aoki-Kramer was a biology major with minors in educational studies and chemistry. She now teaches eighth-grade science and sixth-grade environmental studies in the Seattle Public School District.

She also presented the talk “More than Rosie the Riveter: U.S. Women in World War II” Dec. 7, 2022, at the Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Public Museum. Matzke is a longtime member of the Oshkosh Public Museum’s Board.