About Our People
Caitlin Corning (History) published her book World History: A Short, Visual Introduction through Fortress Press. The book is a short survey of the last two millennia of world history. The focus is the political, economic, social and cultural events that provide context for the history of Christianity, with the emphasis primarily on Europe and the Middle East after the 16th century. It has been written as a companion volume to a church history textbook or course.
Tom Head (Economics) traveled to Philadelphia Oct. 3-5 for a meeting of the Nobel Peace Prize Nominating Task Group, on which he serves. This body first came to be in 1947, when the American Friends Service Committee and the British Friends Service Council accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of all Quakers. As Nobel Laureates, these Quaker bodies are able to nominate a candidate for the peace prize to the Oslo committee. Each year, the AFSC and Britain’s Quaker Peace and Social Witness take advantage of this opportunity through a long and careful deliberative process of discernment to select and recommend a peace prize nominee.
Jim Steele (Business) conducted a concurrent workshop titled “Is China in Your Business Plan?†at the Northwest Human Resource Management Association Conference & Trade Show in Portland on Oct. 5.
Security Services would like to highlight the impressive number of students and staff who have been trained and certified in the American Heart Association Heartsaver First Aid/CPR/AED classes that Mark Stone has taught over the past two years. He also teaches the Basic Life Support (BLS) courses that are required for the PsyD and nursing students. All told, 98 people have been certified in the Heartsaver course and 145 have been certified in the BLS course. In addition, he has given AED training to 42 students and staff and first aid training to 23 other students and staff. This summer alone, 86 staff, faculty and students were certified. Contact Mark (mstone@georgefox.edu) if you would like to be certified, especially if nobody in your department is.
Ed Higgins (English) has been named assistant editor of the Irish-based award-winning international quarterly Brilliant Flash Fiction. Previously, he had been a consultant for the online journal and also a writing contest judge for its January 2015 issue. Assistant editor duties include reviewing/recommending publishable fiction submissions and passing those shortlisted on to the editor.
Phil Smith (Christian Studies) will read a paper, “The Peril (or Promise) of Hope,†at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy on Oct. 10 at North Idaho College.