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  • Should Non-Natives Practice Indigenous Religions?

    Spirituality & Health, November/December, 2008.  In this personal reflection, I discuss the ethical complexities of being a white woman of European ancestry who is a student of indigenous spirituality.

  • Story and Healing in Action: New Methods for Fostering Heart-to-Heart Dialogue about Race

    Co-authored with John Alexander, Multicultural Education, Volume 11, No. 2 (Winter, 2003): 49-54.

  • The Phenomenology of Violence and Imaginal Portal to Healing: Combining Academic and Indigenous Perspectives to Promote Community Healing from Violence and Oppression

    Co-authored with Roberta Culbertson, Director, Institute on Violence and Survival, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Conference Proceedings for Continuity and Change: Perspectives on Science and Religion, sponsored by the Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia, PA, June 8-11, 2006.  For a PDF file of the article, click: Metanexus PDF on The Phenomenology of Violence and Peace

  • A Day in the Life of Thomas Baggett: Peacemaking, Technology & the Making of International Intellectual Community

    Published in Change, Jan/Feb, 2001.

  • Seminar on Shamanism and Violence: Academic and Practice Perspectives

    A report on the seminar held on March, 2006 and sponsored by the Center on Violence and Community at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities bringing together scholars, healers, teachers, and others to discuss how shamanic perspectives can help us understand and ameliorate violence.  For a copy of the report, click here:  Seminar on Shamanism and Violence: Academic and Practice Perspectives (2006)

  • Interconnection, Technology and the Future: The Road to Effective Uses of Instructional

    Published in the Journal of Language Learning Technologies, 2001.

  • A Shrine of Healing: Cherokee Practices and Spiritual Integration

    Published in Wildfire: A Journal of Native American Culture, Fall, 1996.

  • The Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Translations

    Published in IRIS: A Journal About Women, Spring, 1986.

  • Change and Creativity in the High-Technology Fast Lane

    Published in IALL Journal, Vol. 30, No 3, 1998.

  • The Effect of Hybrid Courses on Student Learning and Classroom Practice: A Case Study from UVA

    Co-authored with Emily Scida, CALICO Journal, 2006.“Integrating Multiple Technologies Into Humanities Teaching and Research,” published under former name Rachel E. Saury in the Proceedings of the E-Learn World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education, October, 2005.

  • Center Focus: Delivering technology through collaboration at the University of Virginia

    Published in College and University Media Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring, 1999): 49-68, 1999.

  • Creating a Psychological Foundation for the Evaluation of Pre-Packaged Software in Second Language Learning

    Published in ED-MEDIA Conference Proceedings, 1998.