About Our People
Melanie Springer Mock’s (English) new book, Just Moms: Conveying Justice in an Unjust World, is being released April 6 by Barclay Press. The book is an anthology she edited with George Fox alumna Rebekah Schneiter, and includes her essay, “The Economics of Bouncy Balls,†as well as essays from faculty members Lisa McMinn (Sociology), Amy Lutz (Education) and Polly Peterson (ELI), among others.
Melanie also was published in this spring’s Oregon Humanities journal, which ran her short piece “A Losing Record.†The entry is an account of her secret past of playing on the high school basketball team with the longest losing streak in Oregon’s history, and how that made her, in her words, a “horrible coach†for her son’s third-grade team.
Paul Otto (History) presented a lecture, “Beads of Power: A Short History of Wampum,†at Houghton College in Houghton, N.Y., on March 22. Otto spoke as part of a Houghton lecture series.
Ed Higgins’ (English) poems “The Letter†and “divorce final†were recently republished in a theme issue for a Japanese-forms online journal, Romance Under a Waning Moon. Ed also published his poem “desert night†in the spring issue of the online journal Thoughtsmith, and his poem “Silent Prayer†appeared in the April-June issue of the online Numinous Magazine. In addition, Ed was one of five featured poets at the 11th Annual Silverton Poetry Festival “Feast of Poets” event held at Silver Falls Vineyards in Sublimity on April 3.