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i n honor of RETIRING FACULT Y April 21, 2021
A thank you to our writers
These remarkable biographies are a testament to the wonderfully warm,
collegial relationships at IU Bloomington.
Profiles within this publication were written by colleagues of the retiring
faculty members. Each conveys beautifully the dedication, contributions, and
spirit of the individual. Each displays an intimate knowledge of the faculty
member’s body of work. And each reveals the depth of admiration these
incredible scholars and teachers have inspired.
I offer my most sincere thanks to our writers for taking the time to craft
these thoughtful and detailed biographies. You have done a great service to
the IU Bloomington community in honoring the service of your friends.
Lauren Robel
Provost, Indiana University Bloomington
R e t i r i n g Fa c u lt y / 1H O NORI NG
Frank Acito Eileen D. Friel Noy Kay
Professor of Marketing, Kelley School Professor of Astronomy Clinical Professor of Applied Health
of Business College of Arts and Sciences Science, School of Public Health
Alfred C. Aman Jr. Greg Kitzmiller
Kari Ellen Gade
Roscoe C. O’Byrne Professor of Law, Distinguished Lecturer in Marketing,
Maurer School of Law Provost Professor of Germanic Studies, Kelley School of Business
College of Arts and Sciences
A. James Barnes Marc Lame
Kathrine Glass
Professor of Public and Environmental Clinical Associate Professor of
Affairs, O’Neill School of Public and Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Kelley Environmental Affairs, O’Neill School
Environmental Affairs School of Business of Public and Environmental Affairs
Robert Botne Lisa McHugh Goerner Annie Lang
Professor of Linguistics, College of Arts Clinical Associate Professor Distinguished Professor of
and Sciences of Audiology, Speech, Language, Communication Science, College of Arts
and Hearing Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
and Sciences
G. Keith Chapin
Edward Linenthal
Clinical Associate Professor
Diane Goldstein
of Kinesiology, School of Public Professor of History, College of Arts
Health-Bloomington Professor of Folklore and and Sciences
Ethnomusicology, College of Arts
Professor of Curriculum and Instruction,
and Sciences
School of Education Richard Lippke
Professor of Criminal Justice, College
Gretchen Horlacher
Bruce Douglas of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Music (Music Theory),
Senior Lecturer in Earth and
Jacobs School of Music
Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts William Ludwig
and Sciences
Professor of Music (Bassoon),
Eileen Julien
Jacobs School of Music
Alyce Fly Professor of Comparative Literature
and of French and Italian, College
Professor of Applied Health Science, John McDowell
of Arts and Sciences
School of Public Health
Professor of Folklore and
Ethnomusicology, College of Arts
Thomas Kaufman
Steven Franks and Sciences
Distinguished Professor of Biology,
Professor of Linguistics and of Slavic
College of Arts and Sciences
and East European Languages and Linda McKinley
Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics,
College of Arts and Sciences
2 / Indiana University BloomingtonSusan Middlestadt Martin Siegel Stanley Wasserman
Professor of Applied Health Science, Professor of Informatics, Luddy Rudy Professor of Psychology, Statistics,
School of Public Health School of Informatics, Computing, and Sociology, College of Arts and
and Engineering Sciences
Richard Nash Professor of Instructional Systems
Technology, School of Education Vivian Winston
Professor of English, College of Arts
and Sciences Fettig/Whirlpool Distinguished Lecturer
Helena Soini in Accounting, Kelley School of Business
Tina Newberry Senior Scientist in Chemistry, College
of Arts and Sciences Elisabeth Wright
Associate Professor of Painting,
Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Professor of Music (Harpsichord,
Design Carol Spencer Fortepiano), Jacobs School of Music
Director, Hoosier Court Nursery
Sandra Owen Daria Zieminska
Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Rex Stockton Senior Scientist in Physics, College
Kelley School of Business of Arts and Sciences
Chancellor’s Professor of Counseling
and Educational Psychology, School
Cynthia Reichard of Education
Senior Lecturer in Law, Maurer School
of Law Khashayar Tonekaboni
Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanley Ritchie of Optometry, School of Optometry
Distinguished Professor of Music
(Violin, Historical Performance), Sue M. C. Tuohy
Jacobs School of Music
Senior Lecturer Emerita in Folklore
and Ethnomusicology, College of Arts
Kip Schlegel and Sciences
Professor of Criminal Justice, College
of Arts and Sciences Virginia Vitzthum
Professor of Anthropology, College
Gregory Schrempp of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Folklore and
Ethnomusicology, College of Arts Christine Von Der Haar
and Sciences
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, College
of Arts and Sciences
R e t i r i n g Fa c u lt y / 34 / Indiana University Bloomington
F R A N K AC I TO
In 1976, Frank Acito arrived at Indiana vexing challenges. The models and
University to begin a 45-year career as a frameworks developed by faculty who
distinguished researcher, esteemed taught in these programs, in turn, were
teacher, gifted administrator, and valued used in Kelley undergraduate and graduate
colleague at the Kelley School of Business. programs and inspired multiple scholarly
Frank came to IU from New York after research initiatives.
receiving a bachelor’s degree in Electrical In 2006, Frank joined the Office
Engineering from Cornell University, and of the Dean, serving as associate dean of
M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the State academic programs for three years and
University of New York at Buffalo. Frank then as associate dean for technology from
has had an exceptional career, with 2009 to 2011. During this period, he
leadership roles in the Kelley School’s introduced numerous pedagogical and
Department of Marketing, doctoral research innovations, always with an eye
program, and dean’s office, and research towards cutting edge technology and data
and teaching contributions that span the analytics. These innovations include
fields of marketing, business analytics, and supporting the purchase of syndicated
decision sciences. databases and introducing new data
Frank’s research focuses on marketing mining tools into the curriculum.
strategy, research methods, and the In 2011, Frank became a founding
application of research methods to co-director of the Kelley School’s Institute
management decisions. He has published He chaired or served as a member of 18 for Business Analytics (IBA), one of the
over 20 refereed journal articles, with dissertation committees during his career first such institutes in the country. The IBA
many appearing in top marketing and and oversaw the Kelley School’s doctoral was created in response to heightened
business journals including the Journal of program from 2002 to 2006. corporate interest in advanced data
Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Frank has an exceptional record of analytics. During his term as co-director
Research, the Journal of Consumer service in supporting the Kelley School in from 2011 to 2016, Frank attracted over a
Research, the Academy of Management various administrative roles during the last dozen corporate partners to its advisory
Journal, and Decision Sciences, and in 30-plus years. He served as chair of the board, and contributed to the design of the
distinguished special interest journals such Department of Marketing from 1987 to undergraduate, M.B.A., and executive
as Multivariate Behavioral Research and 1988 and again from 1991 to 2002. His business analytics curricula. His unique
Industrial Marketing Management. His leadership style was a natural extension of ability of broad as well as deep thinking—
scholarly work with Kelley faculty and who he is as a person. He always placed along with extraordinary creativity and
doctoral students reflects his keen intellect, the long-term interests of the department camaraderie—provided a remarkable
integrity, collegiality, and rigor. ahead of his own. Frank cared deeply momentum in the school’s analytics
Frank shared his love of research and about developing his colleagues and initiatives. In recognition of his
data analysis with his students, teaching ensuring that the department always had accomplishments, Frank received Kelley
various marketing research and business the dynamic culture and wherewithal to School Service Awards in 2012 and 2013.
analytics courses across multiple recruit and retain the finest talent in the The Kelley School is a rich story of
programs. He was one of the first Kelley nation. During this period, he established lives transformed through teaching,
faculty to teach in the Kelley Direct Online the Center for Education and Research in research, and outreach. If an academic
M.B.A. program, an innovative online Retailing and created a state-of-the-art institution is fortunate, there will be a few
program launched in 1999 and named classroom to support the instruction of precious leaders who come along and
M.B.A. Program of the Year by Poets & data analytics. commit themselves to serving their
Quants in 2021. He created a pioneering Another way that Frank supported colleagues and students, changing us for
course in digital marketing that anticipated the Kelley School was by cultivating the better and forever. Frank Acito is one
many of the profound changes we have relationships with many of the finest of those rare leaders. Through his years of
seen in the field of marketing. Frank’s companies in the world. These steadfast commitment, Frank has become
teaching accolades include an M.B.A. relationships led to several important a co-author of the Kelley story and of the
Teaching Excellence Award in 1991 and an executive programs that brought notoriety life stories of those who had the
Innovative Teaching Award in 2011 for to the Department of Marketing and to the opportunity to work with him. Frank has
developing the Kelley Executive Partners school. They advanced our teaching skills, played a central role in shaping who we are
Certificate in Business Analytics. provided career opportunities for our today, and in creating the foundation for
Frank has shown an enduring students, informed faculty research what we are yet to become.
commitment to doctoral student agendas, and generated additional
education. He taught a popular doctoral resources for the department. Frank was a Ray Burke
seminar, Statistics for Research, for many pioneer in what today is widely known as Vijay Khatri
years, and received Distinguished Teaching “problem-based learning.” He applied Dan Smith
Awards from the Doctoral Student cutting-edge marketing strategy theory to
Association in 2002, 2005, and 2006. help companies solve some of their most
R e t i r i n g Fa c u lt y / 5ALFR ED C. AM AN JR.
Fred Aman always thought he would be campus and at other distinguished political process. He is a leading voice
a law professor someday because of his universities throughout the world. in arguing that crucial sectors of
inspiring teachers, whose work he admired Fred’s decanal accomplishments were globalization should be brought back
in college (the University of Rochester) significant. He organized the law school’s within the scope of democratic reform.
and law school (the University of Chicago). first independent capital campaign with One of his particular interests is how
So, although he was enjoying life as a two main goals: making it possible for vulnerable domestic groups are harmed
practicing attorney in Atlanta and students to receive a legal education by global market approaches.
Washington, D.C., when the opportunity regardless of economic need, and In addition to his leadership of the
arose for a teaching position at Cornell establishing chairs and professorships to law school, Fred has other longstanding
Law School, he seized it with enthusiasm. attract and retain top-flight faculty. Fred affiliations. He is a former trustee and
Thus began a remarkable career in expanded the faculty by adding a dozen current life trustee at the University of
teaching, research, and administration that distinguished scholars with expertise in a Rochester. He has served as a visiting
spanned six decades, including nearly wide range of fields. He also attracted professor at several globally renowned
30 years as a faculty member at Indiana world-class international faculty as visiting institutions, including Christian-Albrechts-
University’s Maurer School Law, 11 of professors. He reshaped the school’s Universität at Kiel, Universidad Carlos III
them as dean. Master in Laws program, which grew to be de Madrid, Université Panthéon-Assas
When Fred applied for the one of the largest in the nation; founded (Paris II), and as a Fulbright Distinguished
deanship, he was attracted to IU because the school’s Doctor of Juridical Science Chair in Comparative Constitutional
of its academic stature and its history program; and gave life to the Ph.D. in Law and Administrative Law, Trento (Italy)
of interdisciplinary legal studies. and Social Sciences. He also established School of Law.
The university’s overall direction the law school’s Distinguished Service Fred’s skills incorporate not only the
complemented his work as a pioneering Award, which recognizes alumni who have persuasive, but also the percussive. He is
scholar in global legal studies and demonstrated exceptional service to the an accomplished percussionist, having
comparative administrative law, two fields community and the school. served as the director of music at McQuaid
that were in relative infancy in the early Fred is a highly respected and globally High School (Rochester, New York) and
1990s, and which Fred helped bring to the recognized scholar, with his work in studied with jazz luminaries such as
forefront. The collegiality of the faculty and administrative and transnational law being William Randy (Cozy) Cole. He was a
the leadership and wisdom of then- truly remarkable. His scholarship includes featured arranger-composer at the
Chancellor Ken Gros Louis further numerous articles, casebooks, edited Eastman School of Music’s 1966
contributed to Fred’s decision to join the volumes, and chapter contributions, and Arrangers’ Holiday concert, and more
law school in 1991. he has been invited to speak at hundreds of recently, has appeared as the percussionist
As dean, Fred recognized the rapid conferences. He is the co-author (with his for The Greenhouse Effect, the Karl
globalization of society and the exciting wife, Carol Greenhouse, professor emerita Sturbaum Quartet, and the Fred Aman
opportunities it presented for law and legal of anthropology at Princeton University) of Trio. Law school graduates and their
education. Building on his own scholarship the leading casebook on transnational law, families have been entertained by his
and on the university’s interdisciplinary Transnational Law: Cases and Problems performances at the school’s annual
strengths, he introduced several programs in an Interconnected World. His casebook commencement party.
aimed at preparing lawyers for a changing on administrative law, Administrative Law Although Fred’s emeritus status as
world, including joint degrees, study and Process, is in its fourth edition. Fred Roscoe C. O’Byrne Professor of Law marks
abroad programs, and new law journals. has also written extensively on the the end of an era, his legacy will live on.
One of the journals, the Indiana Journal of globalization of administrative law He and Carol endowed the Alfred C. Aman
Global Legal Studies, an interdisciplinary, (Administrative Law in a Global Era), and Chair in Administrative Law in 2020,
peer-reviewed journal, has become a on the privatization of traditionally public which will be held by a distinguished
paragon of international scholarship in functions such as welfare administration scholar with a commitment to work
this field. Founded in 1992, the journal and prisons. In much of his work, Fred has focused on helping the poor and
was the first peer-reviewed legal journal in argued that private citizens can reclaim a marginalized communities.
the United States published by a university voice in taming economic markets by
press. The Journal also sponsors an shouldering some of the work that Austen Parrish
annual symposium on the IU Bloomington governments once would do through the
6 / Indiana University BloomingtonA. JA MES BAR NES
When Jim Barnes came to Indiana the American College of Environmental
University in 1967 as an assistant Lawyers.
professor of business law after graduating He continued to teach his SPEA
from Harvard Law School, he began an graduate environmental law class as well
odyssey that included teaching in three as a class in Professional Ethics he
IU professional schools over 34 years and developed for the SPEA Executive
serving 12 years as the dean of the School Education Program. He was a generous
of Public and Environmental Affairs mentor to students, for whom his
(SPEA, now the O’Neill School). Since experience in agency administration and
1970, he has also co-authored with Kelley law was invaluable. He modeled the
School of Business colleagues a leading strength of the O’Neill School as a scholar
business law textbook now in its grounded in realities of implementation.
eighteenth edition. Jim’s odyssey included In this way, he further burnished the
a 19-year hiatus in Washington, D.C., environmental policy and management
where he witnessed and participated in expertise he had assembled as dean.
history when he helped form and held Jim also took on a full-time teaching
senior positions in the Environmental load in the Maurer School of Law, teaching
Protection Agency (EPA). He has also held Introduction to Environmental Law, a
senior positions in the Department of unique advanced environmental law and
Justice and the Department of Agriculture. practice class he created, and the
A native of Michigan, Jim got a time, SPEA was a “system school” with semester-long Lawyering in the Public
closeup introduction to Indiana state faculty and programs on six IU campuses. Interest class/internship program in
government in the summer of 1967, when As dean, Jim prioritized expanding Washington, D.C., that he developed. His
he managed eight law students and two IU the school’s reach and recruiting ability to bridge doctrinal law with practice
faculty members in a study of the Indiana outstanding faculty members, seeking experience was a major attraction for law
trial courts. The study, conducted for the what he termed “triple threats” who had students, who also benefitted from his
Indiana Judicial Study Commission, was the potential to be excellent in research, mentorship for job placement success.
subsequently used by the state legislature teaching, and public service. During his His IU career was capped this year with
as the basis for making a number of tenure, he doubled the size of the the publication of the fourteenth edition of
changes in the trial court system. environmental faculty, gaining a first place his second co-authored textbook, Law for
Jim quickly became a popular teacher, ranking for the environmental policy and Business; the pending publication of the
and in 1969 he was one of two untenured management program; initiated a eighteenth edition of his co-authored
faculty members to receive the nonprofit management program on the textbook, Business Law: The Ethical,
campuswide Class of 1969 Distinguished Bloomington and IUPUI campuses, which Global, and Digital Environment; and the
Teaching Award. One of his first articles, quickly became the top-ranked program in pending publication of his co-edited
“The Law, the Credit Card, and the Coming schools of public affairs; and substantially history of the EPA, Fifty Years at the
of the Cashless Society” in the American increased the number of female faculty. Environmental Protection Agency:
Business Law Journal, and republished in He launched the Center on Urban Policy Progress, Retrenchment, and
the New Jersey State Bar Journal, proved and the Environment, the Bowen Opportunities, in which he contributed the
to be prescient. Center (health), the Midwest Center of first chapter, on the formation of the EPA.
His involvement in Indiana politics, the National Institute for Global Jim’s interdisciplinary background
and with the (unsuccessful) campaign for Environmental Change, and the served the O’Neill School and Indiana
the Senate of William Ruckelshaus, led in Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute. University well, and his legacy is reflected
1969 to Ruckelshaus asking Jim to join his A Superfund mediator who tackled in the school’s diverse, dynamic,
staff in the Civil Division of the U.S. complex environmental disputes and committed, and energetic faculty. As dean,
Department of Justice, where he had been litigation, Jim foresaw the growing need his support of each faculty member’s
appointed assistant attorney general. In for collaboration and dispute resolution pursuits was critical to the school’s
1970, Jim moved with Ruckelshaus to the skills in governance. As a leader, he used interdisciplinary identity and significantly
EPA to serve as his chief of staff, and Jim consensus building to herd cats—faculty enhanced its stature. He displayed a
later returned to the agency in 1983 to across social sciences, environmental unique ability to be fair and open-minded
serve as its general counsel and science, and law. He built a culture of to diverse perspectives, to enthusiastically
subsequently, in 1985, as its deputy interdisciplinary research collaboration. support new initiatives, and to balance
administrator. The EPA experience placed When he retired from the deanship in the multiple, and often contradictory,
environmental law and policy at the center 2000, Jim was named a Sagamore of the demands of his position. We wish him the
of the rest of his professional life. Wabash by Governor Frank O’Bannon for best during his well-deserved retirement.
In 1988, following the retirement of his contributions to the state. His honors
founding dean Chuck Bonser, Jim returned include election as a fellow of the National Lisa Blomgren Amsler
to IU as the second dean of SPEA. At the Academy of Public Administration and of Philip Stevens
R e t i r i n g Fa c u lt y / 7ROBE RT B OT N E Robert Botne achieved the degree of administration. Botne chaired the Doctor of Philosophy of Language and Department of Linguistics. His work as a Linguistics from Northwestern University linguistic researcher and documenter also in 1981. After completing a stint in the shows up in his service to the university, Peace Corps in the Congo, he grew to with his relentless drive to organize the love Africa and has spent years in putatively unorganizable IU faculty. Rwanda doing language fieldwork, his During his tenure as chair, he herded the professional love. His professional life was faculty together to execute several major punctuated with massive and exhaustive curricular changes, and the department documentation of the Bantu languages of continued to grow in new ways—no small the region in which he immersed himself. feat considering the overall growth pattern He joined Indiana University’s Department of the college at that time. of Linguistics in 1983 as a tenure track Botne received an award for his assistant professor and was eventually contributions to African linguistics promoted to associate professor in 1997, research and African language teaching at then to professor in 2007. In the context of the forty-eighth Annual Conference on the linguistic discipline, Bob’s particular African Linguistics. Robert Botne has research in the linguistic sciences has distinguished himself as a scholar, a focused on how verbal tense and aspect are master teacher and a program builder. divided up and marked in African The hallmarks of his work at IU have been languages, especially in the Bantu A master teacher, Bob contributed persistence, vision, and sheer hard work. languages of East Africa. He was the first immensely toward the Department of Bob has many different interests, Africanist linguist to develop cognitive Linguistics’ graduate and undergraduate but one strikes us in particular. He has schemas and detailed semantic analysis of education. He chaired numerous doctoral grown into a master gardener, creating motion verbs “come” and ”go,” those dissertations and developed and taught remarkable bonsai pieces, living testimony marking progression and movement, in the courses on Field Methods in Linguistics, to his patient care and persistence. The eastern Bantu language of Chindali. He Introduction to African Linguistics, Bantu tending of bonsai is an apt analogy for his also developed a lexical semantics and Structure, Morphology, Languages of the professional life and service to this typology that compares achievement verbs World, and Historical Linguistics. In university. His dedication to the growth of such as “die” verbs in 18 Bantu languages. recognition of his teaching prowess, Botne language science and teaching, especially His most recent publication is Remoteness won various awards including the Teaching concerning the continent of his affection, Distinctions, in which he elucidates the Excellence Recognition Award and the Africa, here at Indiana University has been capacity of languages to express Trustees Teaching Award. a long process. Even as he withdraws from grammatically not only the simple tense With respect to service to Indiana regular teaching responsibilities, his last relations of past and future, but also University, very few faculty come close to few years have witnessed his continued many finer distinctions indicating the Botne’s meritorious contribution to the dedication to creating a life-filled piece of distance or “degree of remoteness” from Department of Linguistics and to the art in which students can find a place to the deictic center, typically the time of African Studies Program curricular learn about language and about African utterance where a speaker is situated. development and program planning and languages, with his establishment of a His published books and monographs administration during his 37 years of fellowship fund for these young scholars. include grammatical descriptions of many service. He pioneered African languages His mark on the university is indelible, and Bantu languages, the most compete being coordination, introducing language we have been privileged to witness it. individually published works on Lusaamia pedagogy materials development, an (Uganda and Kenya), Chimpoto African languages teaching newsletter, and Samuel Obeng (Tanzania), and Chindali (Malawi); its undergraduate and graduate studies. Kenneth de Jong dictionaries on Chichewa (Malawi), He served on the Executive Committee of Chindali (Malawi), Lega (Congo), and both the Linguistics department and the Saafi-Saafi (Senegal); and narratives of African Studies Program, contributing Chindali life and culture. considerably to both units’ program 8 / Indiana University Bloomington
G . K E I T H C H A PI N
Dr. Keith Chapin retired from the Affairs Office of the IU Athletic
Department of Kinesiology on December Department. Dr. Chapin was, without
31, 2020, after 45 years in the education question, a master teacher.
field. During that time, he positively In addition to his academic work,
impacted the lives of thousands of students Dr. Chapin was also the campus director
through his work as a public-school for the federally funded National Youth
teacher and then as a university professor. Sports Program, which Indiana University
Dr. Chapin graduated from Miami hosted for two summers. The program
University in 1974, where he had two relied upon Dr. Chapin’s leadership skills
primary accomplishments. His first was to and expertise in youth development and
graduate with a degree in the field he sport to offer a summer program for
loved, physical education. The second was underserved youth in the community.
to meet his future wife, Monica. The two Students gained sports and life skills while
became a “Miami Merger” who have being hosted on campus by Dr. Chapin and
traveled the last five decades together. his team of instructors.
After graduation Dr. Chapin began Dr. Chapin’s academic career
working in the Trenton, Ohio, schools, has been one of service and commitment
where he taught for 13 years. In addition to students. He led the Physical Education
to offering an innovative curriculum to his Teacher Education program in the
students, he also coached football, Department of Kinesiology by example and
basketball, and soccer. He returned to Recreation (later the School of Public with a caring spirit. His colleagues in that
Miami University for advanced study and Health-Bloomington) and the School of program and in the department will miss
received his Master of Arts degree from his Education. In that role, he taught 17 his genial spirit and kind words. Although
alma mater in 1987. different classes and was the mentor and Dr. Chapin is retiring, his influence in
That experience in graduate education student teaching supervisor to hundreds of education will remain. Dr. Chapin’s
inspired Dr. Chapin to continue his students over his 25 years at Indiana outstanding legacy will be carried forward
education, and the Chapin family moved University. He traveled to all points of the not only by the many Indiana University
to East Lansing, Michigan, so that he could Midwest in service to our students and students he mentored over the years but
pursue studies in youth development with their home communities. When you also by the students that each of these
a focus on coaching. He graduated with his consider that each of those student professionals will impact in the years to
Ph.D. in Physical Education and Exercise teachers was in turn a teacher in charge of come. Thank you, Dr. Chapin, for a job
Science from Michigan State University in hundreds of students, his impact was truly well done! We wish Dr. Chapin, his wife,
1995 and accepted a position at Indiana life-altering for generations of students. Monica, and their family all the best for a
University the following year. Despite that His mentoring was also influential; during healthy and happy retirement!
appointment, Dr. Chapin never did fully his tenure at Indiana University, two of his
rid himself of his affinity for green and former students were named National Donetta Cothran
could occasionally be heard to offer an Teacher of the Year. Dr. Chapin received David Koceja
occasional “Sparty On” when a big game the Teaching Excellence Recognition
was at hand. Award from Indiana University, and was
Dr. Chapin held a joint appointment the recipient of several Favorite Professor
at Indiana University, serving both the awards presented jointly through the
School of Health, Physical Education, and Varsity Club and the Athletic Academic
R e t i r i n g Fa c u lt y / 9B RUC E D OUG L A S
There is little in the world that gives Bruce Science, which he directed from 1996– undoubtedly loved by more G429 students
Douglas more joy than sharing the beauty 2011. During his tenure at IU, Bruce than any other faculty during the last
and elegance of geological processes with taught two of our most important 34 years. One year a student artist drew a
students in the field. Over the past 34 courses—an introductory earth system caricature of Bruce, perfectly capturing his
years, Bruce has shared that passion and science course and an advanced structural iconic mustache. The students surprised
his remarkable skills as a field scientist geology course—to generations of IU Bruce at the final field exam, wearing the
with over 2,000 students at IU’s famed students. Bruce has been a stalwart of the newly created Bruce Douglas t-shirts. They
Judson Mead Geologic Field Station tectonics and geophysics research groups, lovingly presented Bruce with a t-shirt,
(IUGFS) in the Tobacco Root Mountains of engaging faculty colleagues and graduate which he promptly donned without a word,
southwestern Montana. In Bloomington, students with his interdisciplinary wearing his trademark Douglas smile—
Bruce has been a leader in undergraduate research skills. a typical example of Bruce’s calm,
education, introducing thousands of IU Perhaps his most important unflappable personality. Some pretty
students to the geological wonders of pedagogical contributions were at IUGFS, remarkable things happen with students in
planet Earth. The hallmarks of his teaching where Bruce spent every summer since the field and when things got serious,
are his clarity, patience with students of all 1986. Bruce exemplified the IUGFS Bruce demonstrated those same traits. No
abilities, breadth of scientific interests, his traditions, values, and teaching excellence matter how difficult the situation, Bruce
caring nature, and his uncanny ability to every day at IUGFS. When Bruce arrived at always exercised impeccable judgment
convey complex, four-dimensional the field station in 1986, he brought new with first priority always given to students’
thinking to students. ideas and fresh perspectives about safety. He was able to take good care of
Bruce joined the IU faculty in 1986, structural geology—and about teaching individual students while making sure
after completing a Ph.D. at Princeton geology in the field. Learning geology in a everyone else kept learning. Even under
University and a postdoctoral position at new field area was easy; changing a duress, he exemplified best practices for
the University of Colorado. His research curriculum that had been taught the same teaching in the field: stay calm, reassure
interests are broad and far ranging, from way for 37 years proved to be far more the students, pretend like nothing
field studies of intensely deformed challenging. Thanks to Bruce’s creativity exceptional is happening, and keep
structures in the Cordilleran mountain and perseverance, he created another moving forward.
ranges of British Columbia to the IUGFS tradition: a recognition that the Bruce has been a great friend and
microscopic evidence of strain in mantle curriculum must evolve to stay at the mentor to faculty and students, both in
rocks coughed up by South American leading edge of field geoscience education. Bloomington and at the Field Station.
volcanoes. He built a laboratory for Bruce served in many IUGFS Generations of students have benefitted
studying rock fracture mechanics to study leadership roles, including academic from his intelligence, generosity of spirit,
the conditions that control the behavior of director and executive director. Regardless kindness, selflessness, friendship, and
geologic faults. However, his greatest of the role, his true passion was teaching. quiet good humor. His great contributions
teaching and research passions have No matter how many hours he dedicated to to geoscience education will be deeply
always centered around the Tobacco Root non-academic duties, he always gave the missed here in Bloomington and at
Mountains. There, working with graduate students more than 100 percent of his time the IUGFS.
students from IU and other universities, he and energy. The students who watched We know that Bruce and Lisa plan
examined the structures associated with Bruce in the field and the Deiss Lodge to travel, including visiting their children
mountain-building, landscape evolution, between 6:30 am and 10:30 pm were on the West Coast more often in this next
and geological hazards. He branched into inspired by his seemingly inexhaustible phase of life. We, all his colleagues and his
pedagogical research on the unique aspects supply of energy. Bruce seldom showed former students, send Bruce our best
of student learning in the field. Working any signs of his accumulated sleep wishes for a joyful and fun retirement.
with colleagues at the UNAVCO deprivation during G429. No student or We hope that Bruce’s deep connections
Consortium, he’s contributed to the field station visitor ever saw an inkling of with the Field Station will frequently take
creation of a remarkable new set of Bruce’s exhaustion—although late at night him back to his “second home” in the
curricular materials using state-of-the-art his colleagues might find him asleep, Tobacco Root Mountains.
technologies from the emerging fields sitting upright at his desk in front of a
of space geodesy and terrestrial laser mountain of grading. Jim Handschy
scanning. Bruce turned his Bruce is a legend to former Michael Hamburger
interdisciplinary skills toward academic students. He is remembered as a patient,
administration with the creation of the knowledgeable teacher who can hike uphill
joint B.S. program in Environmental faster than most of them. He is
10 / Indiana University BloomingtonA LYC E F LY
Alyce earned her Bachelor of Science Alyce is known by her colleagues as to IU, the school, and the department.
degree in Biology (1981) and her Ph.D. in someone with an intense personal Alyce served as chair of the Indiana
Nutritional Sciences (1991) from the commitment to do her best at everything Nutrition Council (2017–19), as a board
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. she takes on. According to one of Alyce’s member for the Society for Nutrition
In the Indiana University Department of research collaborators, Dr. Pengcheng Education and Behavior Foundation
Applied Health Science, Alyce has held the Xun, in the Department of Epidemiology (2017–18), as co-chair of the Membership
positions of assistant professor (1992–99), and Biostatistics, “she takes her job very Committee for the Society for Nutrition
associate professor (1999–2019), and seriously with a very strong work ethic. Education and Behavior (SNEB;
professor (2019–20). She also held the I often receive her comments, suggestions, 2013–17), as director-at-large for SNEB
post of interim assistant chair for the and feedback on my drafts after midnight, (2013–16), as secretary/treasurer for the
Department of Epidemiology and even around 2 a.m.” Such a deep American Society for Nutrition, Nutritional
Biostatistics (2013–14) and associate dean commitment would often come at the Sciences Council (2012–14), as treasurer
academic program administration/ expense of sleep. According to Melissa for the Indiana University Chapter of
administrative fellow (2001–04) in the Greives, one of the faculty in the Sigma Xi, and as chair of the Division of
School of Health, Physical Education, and Department of Applied Health Science in Higher Education, Society for Nutrition
Recreation (now the School of Public the area of nutrition and dietetics, “she Education (2004–05). Recognizing her for
Health-Bloomington). really did put her heart and soul into this dedication and her examples of tireless
Having started in the Department of whatever she did and I know the students service, the Indiana University School of
Applied Health Science in 1992 as an greatly benefited from this (and I’m sure Public Health-Bloomington awarded Alyce
assistant professor, Alyce has focused her IU did as well from her service on various with the Distinguished Service Award
research and teaching on a variety of committees).” Dr. Krisha Thiagarajah, in 2016.
important nutrition-related areas, another faculty member in the Department Faculty have also expressed their
including measurement of food intake in of Applied Health Science, shared that, “If sentiments regarding Alyce’s deep affection
children, dietary fatty acids and immunity, Dr. Fly was working on a project, she made for students and other individuals.
antioxidants and oxidant stressors it a point that she was available any time, According to Melissa Greives, “her greatest
(including oxidative stress in response to a including late in the evening. I had worked quality is how much she cares. She
high fat meal), bioavailability of minerals with her on some projects until midnight. genuinely cared about students, IU, and
and carotenoids, measurement of She worked with other faculty members in her co-workers.” When one of her nutrition
biological markers, factors related to other departments and they talked about faculty member colleagues was in
mothers’ decisions to exclusively her dedication to the job.” Dr. Camille rehabilitation after her knee surgery, Alyce
breastfeed, and obesity and health. Her Morse added, Alyce was “willing to go the took the time to visit her. Melissa noted
research and other works have been cited extra mile, she works long hours, that she “would always ask about my kids
2,307 times, according to Google Scholar. weekends, vacations.” and even sent them birthday gifts. I was
Nine of her papers have been cited at least An illustration of her personal also very impressed with her commitment
100 times. One common scholarly metric commitment is Alyce’s dedicated service to seeing students succeed in the classroom.
of her impact, the h-index (Alyce can to the institution and to the profession. She genuinely cared about student’s
currently boast an h-index of 19), will Specifically, Dr. Morse remarked about learning and their success (again—her
continue to grow even after her retirement. Alyce’s professionalism and her dedication caring quality).” Dr. Thiagarajah added,
“As a student, I was once hospitalized and
she visited me and helped me too. Also, I
heard from others she helped too during
their difficult time.” Indiana University has
recognized Alyce’s affection for students
multiple times, as she was a recipient of
the Trustees Teaching Award in 2002,
2012, and 2016.
Although she retires from Indiana
University with the title Professor
Emeritus of Applied Health Science,
effective August 1, 2020, Alyce has taken
on a new adventure: She has assumed the
department chair role in Nutrition and
Health Science at Ball State University.
Eric R. Walsh-Buhi
R e t i r i n g Fa c u lt y / 1 1STEV EN FR ANKS
Steven Franks came to IU for the 1987–88 language data. When he began his career, Description of the Slavic Languages). In
academic year and has served 33 years in a Slavic linguistics in the United States was 1992 Franks and I founded the Journal of
50/50 joint appointment shared by the dominated by people trained in Slavic Slavic Linguistics, which has become the
Department of Linguistics and the departments (which flourished during the leading U.S. academic journal in this field.
Department of Slavic and East European Cold War, when their languages were of Franks then served as editor or co-editor
Languages and Cultures (formerly Slavic considerable strategic importance and for 23 of the subsequent 25 years (with one
Languages and Literatures). His hiring was resources were disproportionately short stint as associate editor), finally
serendipitous: both departments started allocated to Slavic programs). Today, his stepping down at the end of 2017. Few
searches in 1986–87 for junior tenure- scholarly model—theory applied to data, such productive scholars stick with this
track faculty, but the College of Arts and with very impressive results in terms of kind of under-rewarded activity for so
Sciences cancelled both searches after they insights into data and systems, but also long, but it is a sign of his enduring
were underway. Franks had applied for into enhancements of the theory—has commitment to the field. While serving as
both positions, and was ideal for each. So become the norm in our field, and most vice president of the American Association
the two chairs got together and pitched a Slavic linguistics research is done within of Teachers of Slavic and East European
joint appointment to the College, which linguistics departments. His first Languages (AATSEEL), he perceived that
wisely agreed. It was the perfect fit for monograph, Parameters of Slavic Slavic linguists had become less involved
Steven Franks, whose education (B.A. Morphosyntax (Oxford, 1995), advanced with this society due to the changing
Princeton, 1977; M.A. UCLA, 1979; Ph.D. the brilliant and innovative idea that in nature of Slavic linguistics. His reaction?
Cornell, 1985) combined both syntactic comparative study of grammatical He founded the Slavic Linguistic Society,
theory and traditional Slavic linguistics. phenomena across the spectrum of Slavic devoted to bringing together linguists of all
Over the years Franks has maintained languages, we initially assume that their countries and all theoretical persuasions,
a vivid double presence, taking on a grammatical structures are fundamentally without the language-teaching orientation
full slate of service responsibilities the same, and then identify seemingly of AATSEEL. This association now holds
simultaneously in both departments. He small variables (“parameters”) that differ an annual conference alternating between
withstood this heavy load by dint of his from one Slavic language to another and North America and the rest of the world.
extraordinary work ethic and drive to that then send out tendrils throughout the Franks organized the first annual meeting
achieve in both research and collegiality. grammatical system and trigger multiple here at IU in 2006, and we celebrated his
He served two terms as chair of each cascading differences in surface form. retirement by holding the 15th annual
department, first in linguistics (1998– This approach has endured through 25 meeting here in September 2020.
2004) and later in Slavic (2008–12). While years of subsequent theoretical progress in Franks and his wife Karen (an IU
he lamented the reduction in his research generative syntactic theory and is taken for advisor) raised three exceptional children
productivity during those periods, his CV granted today; but the underlying insight (Julia, Elizabeth, David) in Bloomington.
lists 22 articles and book chapters belonged to Franks. They have been active participants in the
published during his 6 years as linguistics On top of everything else, Franks has community through university, synagogue,
chair, plus 2 co-authored monographs and exerted a huge impact on the field of Slavic and other cultural institutions. They have
3 co-edited volumes. We should all be so linguistics and how it is practiced in the always been generous in supporting local
productive! As someone who has worked United States. His focus on the importance organizations, and Franks arranged a hefty
with Franks on a variety of joint projects of linguistic theory, which has become retirement donation to the Summer
myself, I can attest that he does not dominant in the field, is exemplified by the Language Workshop to fund students
delegate the lion’s share of the work on any series of conferences and proceedings studying its languages (as he did himself
project to his collaborators. Both volumes under the rubric Formal several times between 1973 and the
departments prospered during his Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, now in present). Steven and Karen plan to remain
stewardship, and in each case he stepped its 29th year. Franks has co-edited no in Bloomington, and I know Steven Franks
down having left a major, positive imprint fewer than seven of these volumes, and has will remain an active participant in the
on the culture of the program. organized the conference three times in IU linguistic community for years to come.
As a research linguist, his major Indiana over the years. I cannot count how
impact lay in his pioneering work on many times he has been an invited plenary George Fowler
applying the most rigorous general speaker at these conferences (or at the
theories and frameworks to Slavic European spinoff series called Formal
12 / Indiana University BloomingtonE I L E E N D. F R I E L
Astronomer Eileen Friel retired in 2020 processing of gas and stars varies with
from a rich and varied career marked by location in the galaxy. Eileen continues to
major research accomplishments as well as work with students to measure detailed
extraordinary contributions in the areas of abundances and motions of stars in Milky
service, education, and scientific Way clusters, and she and her
leadership. During her four decades in collaborators have published a series of
astronomy, Eileen served in several studies combining data from the Gaia
leadership positions, including as director satellite and ground-based telescopes to
of multiple observatories, executive officer further elucidate the chemical abundance
of the Astronomical Sciences division at trends and structure of the galaxy.
the National Science Foundation (NSF), At IU, Eileen made major
and associate dean for natural and contributions as a teacher and advisor.
mathematical sciences and research in the She created new undergraduate and
IU College of Arts and Sciences. Along the graduate courses in galactic astronomy and
way, Eileen has been known to students three new graduate seminars, including a
and colleagues for her excellence as a seminar on career development that is now
scientist and mentor, her unfailing a regular offering. Eileen continued to
generosity and integrity, and her calm, demonstrate her outstanding talent for
patient presence. mentoring, serving as research advisor for
Eileen graduated in 1978 with a B.S. several undergraduate and graduate
in Physics with highest honors from the training, and equity and diversity. She students and serving on many Ph.D.
College of William and Mary, the only created the prestigious NSF Astronomy & committees. Former students praise
woman in a class of 40 majors. She Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship Eileen’s flexible, supportive style and her
completed a M.A.St. at the University of program, which proved so successful that ability to both encourage and challenge her
Cambridge in 1979 before entering the other NSF divisions replicated it. Eileen students; many of them credit her with
astronomy and astrophysics Ph.D. also sustained steady research productivity inspiring them to follow their chosen
program at the University of California, (a tremendous feat, given the demands of career paths.
Santa Cruz (UCSC). There, Eileen became her position) and maintained ties to Eileen performed key service roles
an expert in galactic astronomy and stellar academia, holding adjunct faculty throughout her career and especially
populations, focusing on measuring the appointments at Boston University and the during her 10 years in Bloomington. Her
properties of stars and star clusters in the University of Virginia. In 2009 Eileen department roles included director of
Milky Way Galaxy and then comparing became director of Lowell Observatory in graduate studies and chair. Some of her
them to models in order to gain insight Arizona, where she developed a visionary most impactful service involved IU’s
into the galaxy’s structure and origin. After strategic plan that included expansions of research telescope, the WIYN Observatory.
completing the Ph.D. in 1986, Eileen held staff and programs. In 2011, IU’s Eileen served as chair of the WIYN Science
postdoctoral fellowships in Hawaii, Department of Astronomy was thrilled to Steering Committee and on the WIYN
Canada, and France. recruit Eileen as a faculty member. Board of Directors. Her university service
In 1991, Eileen became the director Eileen is one of the world’s experts on includes the College of Arts and Sciences
of Nantucket’s Maria Mitchell Observatory the stellar populations in the Milky Way tenure committee, faculty advisory council
(MMO), named for the first professional galaxy, and especially the population of for the Center of Excellence for Women in
woman astronomer in the United States. open star clusters. Careful measurements Technology, and associate dean in the
The MMO runs an undergraduate research of the ages, compositions, and motions of College. Her service to the United States
internship program that has influenced the open clusters can be used as a “fossil and international astronomical community
careers of many astronomers, especially record” of the galaxy’s evolutionary history. spans her career, and includes numerous
women. While at MMO, Eileen expanded In 1995, only nine years after her Ph.D., proposal reviews and external reviews.
the student research opportunities, Eileen published a now-classic invited She held important roles in the American
secured NSF funding for the program, and Annual Review of Astronomy & Astronomical Society (AAS), including
founded a similar program at an Astrophysics article on the Milky Way being elected to the AAS Council.
observatory in Chile to provide students open cluster population. The work The IU astronomy faculty, students,
with additional research opportunities. described in the article, combined with and staff express our heartfelt gratitude to
In 1996 Eileen joined the NSF subsequent studies that she and her Eileen for her contributions to our
Astronomy Division, serving first as a students carried out, has yielded a department. Eileen is a valued mentor,
program director and then executive surprisingly complex picture of galactic colleague, and friend and we will miss her
officer, managing a $200M budget, evolution that poses a challenge to gracious, positive presence in the
providing scientific and administrative theoretical models. Eileen and her department. We congratulate her on a
leadership for the division, and guiding collaborators demonstrated that the remarkable career and wish her a happy
several major projects to fruition. Eileen chemical abundance trend in the Milky and rewarding retirement.
played a central role in creating programs Way’s open cluster population changes
that emphasized education, student markedly at large radii, suggesting that the Katherine Rhode
R e t i r i n g Fa c u lt y / 1 3K A R I E L L E N G A DE
Kari Ellen Gade, Provost Professor in Kari is one of the five founding in the Department of Germanic Studies.
the Department of Germanic Studies, is a editors, alongside dozens of contributing She inspires intense devotion in her
towering figure in the study of Old Norse editors, of what is known familiarly students, and she has shepherded dozens
language and literature, a beloved and worldwide among scholars of the Middle of graduate students through to the
inspiring teacher and mentor of both Ages as “The Skaldic Project,” a team- doctorate, serving on dissertation
graduates and undergraduates, and a coordinated effort, the most tangible committees in her home department as
hard-working administrator in her product of which is the series of massive well as in English, history, linguistics, and
department with a deft touch. volumes titled Skaldic Poetry of the comparative literature. She is a demanding
Although she teaches nearly all the Scandinavian Middle Ages, published by teacher who is passionately devoted to
earliest-attested Germanic languages, Brepols, the distinguished Belgian her students.
including Gothic, Old High German, and publishing house that is home to some of She is equally devoted to the welfare
Old Saxon, her particular passion is Old the best medieval scholarship that has of her department, including serving two
Norse. The poets and scholars of medieval been produced over the past half-century. terms as chair of the department and a
Norway and Iceland have left us a rich When the last of the nine volumes is total of 16 years as director of graduate
trove of three main varieties of literature: completed within the next few years, this studies, in addition to much mentoring
sagas, works in prose chiefly concerning will be the standard, encyclopedic edition and work on committees both in her
the kings and earls of Norway and of skaldic verse, including introductions, department and in the wider university.
prominent Icelandic families; the two skald biographies, editions, translations, Kari hails from Sandefjord in Vestfold,
eddas, in prose and verse, representing critical apparatus, and commentaries on Norway, about 60 miles southwest of Oslo.
pre-Christian myths, heroic legends, and a all surviving works of skalds, nearly 6,000 She attended the University of Oslo,
key to versecraft; and skaldic poetry, praise stanzas. Kari is the linchpin of this group majoring in German linguistics and
poems composed mainly by Icelanders effort, since her philological expertise minoring in sports and English. (In her
(skalds) at the courts of Norwegian kings empowers her to check and correct the youth she played baseball, and she remains
and potentates, and essential to the work of all other editors in regard to a fiendishly avid badminton player.)
reconstruction of early Scandinavian matters of language and poetic form. She earned her doctorate in Germanic
history. Her 1995 book The Structure of Old Norse philology and Old Norse philology at the
Although Kari has published dróttkvætt Poetry established her as the University of Minnesota in 1986 under the
pioneering studies on all three genres, she foremost authority on the monumental direction of Anatoly Liberman. She joined
is best known for her indispensable complexities of the dróttkvætt meter of the faculty of Indiana University in 1986,
contributions to the study of skaldic verse. skaldic poetry. As the great scholar Russell though for the first two years in the
Many of these poems were passed down Poole said in his review of the book, “The position she was a Mellon Fellow at
orally from an age long before writing on originality and thoroughness of Gade’s Stanford University. Though other schools
parchment was introduced to Scandinavia, methodology, her awareness and synthesis tried to lure her away, she has remained
but they conform to such stringent of pertinent work by other scholars, and devoted to IU Bloomington.
demands of poetic meter, alliteration, her ability to communicate lucidly to the Her students remember with
rhyme, and syntax that any corruption of reader are an inspiration throughout.” particular fondness the many times she
the verse in the course of oral transmission The Skaldic Project, however, is much has hosted monthly meetings of Hit
is usually detectable, so that they are more than a comprehensive edition, since íslenzka þing, the oldest Old Norse reading
generally a reliable source of information it is a deeply impressive online presence group outside of Europe, serving her
on the preliterate past. (skaldic.abdn.ac.uk/m.php?p=skaldic) amazing Norwegian meatballs and plenty
The complexities of skaldic poetic that represents one of the most spectacular of good cheer. She is a lover of good food,
form and diction are such that study of achievements in the digital humanities good wine, and good company, and her
such compositions is inevitably a daunting including, in addition to all the good will and good humor are infectious.
task. Kari is essential to this area of information in the print edition, various
scholarship, being the acknowledged supplementary databases, such as a Robert D. Fulk
authority worldwide on Old Norse complete lexicon and more than 27,000
philology. Philology represents the array of images of manuscript leaves, enabling
disciplines required to be mastered by editors to work from their home
editors of texts in historical languages, institutions rather than in manuscript
disciplines that include historical archives in Scandinavia.
linguistics, manuscript studies Kari is the recipient of numerous
(paleography, codicology, stemmatics), teaching awards, including recognition as
poetic meter, cultural history, and others, Outstanding Professor by the Indiana
and so it is unsurprising that it is a University Student Union and a Trustees
discipline mastered by so very few. Teaching Award, along with many awards
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