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Catherine Baker, Track, Rice University
No full textCatherine Baker running, wearing her Rice track uniform. At the top "A.I.A.W. All America" is typed, with "A.I.A.W" crossed out in pencil and "A.I.A.W. Division I" written underneath it. The bottom of the photograph reads "Catherine Baker" and "800 meters 1981." The phrase "800 meters" is crossed out in pencil and "Track" is written underneath it. "Marge Sass Photography" is printed on the bottom right side of the photograph. Original resource is a black and white photograph.A.I.A.W. All Americ
Rice University Owls track runner Catherine Baker Nicholson
No full textBlack and white photograph of Rice University Owls track and field athlete Catherine Baker Nicholson, class of 1981, headlining her achievement into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame.Caption reads: When Catherine Baker Nicholson is asked to what she attributes her success on the track, she most likely responds, “It must be in the genes”. You see her father, Walter Thane Baker, is a four-time Olympic medalist. Thane won the gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games in the 4 X 100-meter relay, silver in the 100 meters, and a bronze in the 200 meters. Four years earlier he won the silver in the 200 meters. And daughter Catherine shared in her father’s love of track and desire to excel. In fact, both Catherine Baker and Thane Baker will be sharing the magnificent honor of being inducted into their respective school’s athletic hall of fames in the same month. Catherine Baker accepts her prestigious induction from Rice this event, while her father was one of the eight inaugural inductees into the Kansas State Hall of Fame earlier this month in Manhattan. Catherine Baker came to Rice University in 1978 not knowing if there was a women’s track team. During her freshman season she participated in intramurals for Brown College. The following year Rice sported a women’s track squad and Catherine lettered. But it wasn’t until her junior season when Victor Lopez was hired as women’s track coach that thing started happening. Even though he was receiving only part-time salary, Lopez spent all of his time with the team. He designed a workout program for each runner and watched over them night and day. The hard work paid off in Baker’s senior season (1981) as the team placed sixth nationally in AIAW Division II competition. Catherine was national champion in the 800 meters in 1981 in Division II, qualifying her for the Division I meet where she placed fifth. She still has the fourth-best 800 time in school history with her 2:07.34 time at the AIAW Division I Championships May 29, 1981 in College Station. She is married to Lt. Commander Charles “Chuck” Louis Nicholson (B.S., mechanical engineering, Rice, ’81) and lives with her husband and soon-to-be-one year old son, William Thorbjorn Nicholson. Catherine Baker Nicholson received her Rice B.A. (history) in 1981 and a doctorate of jurisprudence from the University of Texas School of Law in 1985. She just recently finished a clerkship with the Honorable Peter W. Bowie, Bankruptcy Judge, Southern District of California. Her present work plans will be put on hold, however, as she and her family move to Monterrey, Calif. while her husband pursues his master’s degree in electrical engineering. One of the pioneers of the Rice women’s track team, probably the most successful Owl team of the past decade, Catherine Baker Nicholson, is a deserving member of the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame. And she is equally proud that her shining moment tonight will be shared by her family, and two guiding forces during her athletic career, her father, Walter Thane Baker, and her Rice coach, Victor Lopez.Rice Athletic Hall of Fam
Book review: the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s by Catherine Baker
No full textIn The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Catherine Baker provides an up-to-date account of the varied interpretations of the origins, causes and consequences of the conflicts. In inviting readers to reconsider a number of assumptions regarding the Yugoslav Wars and indicating where further research is required, this book is an excellent overview that adeptly traverses a wide range of topics, writes Lenneke Sprik
Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit: An interview with Catherine Baker
Full text linkIn this interview, conducted over two rounds in August 2019 and January 2020, post-Cold War historian and cultural studies scholar Catherine Baker reflects on how she situates her work within the growing literature on intersections between postcoloniality and postsocialism, and the commitment to centering a lens of ‘race’ in postcolonial/postsocialist studies that drove her, in an environment of rising ‘xeno-racism’ in the UK, to revisit the theoretical standpoints of her previous work in the project that became Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial? (2018). The interview continues by exploring how a transnational feminist ethics has influenced her positionality as a white Western and Anglophone woman working at a university in the Global North/West, and the prospects of feminists fighting for a future while having to fight for the recent past not to be erased
Bridging postcoloniality, postsocialism, and “race” in the age of Brexit: An interview with Catherine Baker
Full text linkIn this interview, conducted over two rounds in August 2019 and January 2020, post-Cold War historian and cultural studies scholar Catherine Baker reflects on how she situates her work within the growing literature on intersections between postcoloniality and postsocialism, and the commitment to centering a lens of ‘race’ in postcolonial/postsocialist studies that drove her, in an environment of rising ‘xeno-racism’ in the UK, to revisit the theoretical standpoints of her previous work in the project that became Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial? (2018). The interview continues by exploring how a transnational feminist ethics has influenced her positionality as a white Western and Anglophone woman working at a university in the Global North/West, and the prospects of feminists fighting for a future while having to fight for the recent past not to be erased
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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