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Elephant Corner

Education

Former Academic Employment

Temporary Positions

March 2003:  Visiting Professor, Department of Zoology, Yangon University, Yangon, Burma (Myanmar).

November 2002-February 2003:  Elephant researcher, Kyet Shar, Magu, and Myaing Hay Wun Logging Camps, Burma (Myanmar).

August-November 2002:  Teaching English and conducting faculty workshops, New Hong Hu First Middle School, 1 East Wenquan Road, Hong Hu City, Hubei Province, 433200, People's Republic of China.

July-Sept. 2000:  U.S.I.A.-sponsored American Studies specialist, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (8 weeks).

1998: Visiting Professor, Instituto Superior de Ciencias Medicas, Santiago de Cuba (5 weeks).

1995-96: Senior Fulbright Scholar, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (10 months).

1978-79: Individual National Research Service Award (from the National Institutes of Health--1 year).
 
Undergraduate Courses Taught (Number of Semesters)

As a Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Psychology (2) / Genetics (3) / Biology (1).

As a Member of a Team:  Science and Religion (1) / Third World Perspectives (1) / Development of Western Culture (1).

As a Single Instructor or as a Coordinator of a Team: Biology Today (1) / What is Science? (2) / Changing Life on Earth (introduction to biology) (4) / Animal and Human Nature (1) / Health Concepts and Strategies (4) / Atoms & Stars (an introduction to astronomy, physics, and the nature of science) (7) / Introduction to the University and its Libraries (1) / The Cold War and American Politics (1) / Practical Mathematics: Concepts and Applications (3) / The History and Concepts of Mathematics: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (5) / Living in the Environment (human ecology) (5) / Critical Thinking (5) / Case for Interdisciplinarity (1) / Written Communication Skills (freshman composition) (5) / Developmental Reading and Writing (1) / Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar (3) / Interdisciplinary Core Seminar (6) / Senior Seminar (2) / Intermediate Reading & Writing (4) / Media in America (2) / Elephants: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (1), Senior Essay/Project (4), Capstone Project (2), World War I as a Turning Point (1), Senior Seminar:  Around the World in One Semester (1), Computers & Society (2).

100% Online Courses

• ISP 3510: Intermediate Reading & Writing (2)
• Interdisciplinary Core Seminar (1)

Graduate Courses Taught

• Interdisciplinary Core Seminar (3)
• Aging (1)

Free Instructional Hypertexts:

Sounds of English /  English Reading & Writing  /  Introduction to Biology /  Computers & Society  /  Critical Reading   /  Reading and Writing   /  Freshman Introduction to College and Interdisciplinarity  /  A Historical Introduction to Astronomy, Physics, and the Nature of Science  /  Around the World in One Semester (interdisciplinary geography)  /  World War I  (interdisciplinary history) / 

Faculty Workshops

• American Studies (conducted in Nepal)
• Interdisciplinarity (Cuba and Nepal)
• Research Methodologies (Cuba, Myanmar, Nepal)
• Teaching of Science (Cuba, Myanmar, Nepal)
• Teaching of English (Cuba, Nepal, China)

Refereed Journal & Book Essays

1. A new behavioral bioassay for an analysis of sexual attraction and pheromones in insects. Journal of Experimental Zoology 192: 271-275 (1975).
2. Cell lineage analysis of kynurenine producing organs in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetical Research 26: 63-72 (1975).
3. Gynandromorph analysis of some aspects of sexual behaviour of Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behaviour 25: 555-566 (1977).
4. Cell lineage analysis of germ cells of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature 265: 729-731 (1977).
5. A study of germinal mosaicism in Drosophila melanogaster. Wilhelm Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology 182: 203-211 (1977).
6. On the interpretation of mutagenically-induced mosaicism in Drosophila. Genetics 86: 779-787 (1977).
7. (Nissani, M. & Lipow, C.). A method for estimating the number of primitive cells which give rise to Drosophila imaginal discs. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 49: 3-8 (1977).
8. (Nissani, M. & Liu, C. P.). Experiments with the maroon-like mutation of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetical Research 29: 159-170 (1977).
9. (Nissani, M. & Fellinger, K.). A method for studying tissue specificity of maternally affected Drosophila mutants: mosaic analysis of cinnamon. Developmental Biology 66: 117-127 (1978).
10. (Nissani, M. Brink, N. & Nissani H.). The site of function of the Y chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster males. Molecular and General Genetics 165: 221-224 (1978).
11. An experimental paradigm for the study of conceptual conservatism and change. Psychological Reports 65: 19-24 (1989).
12. A hands-on instructional approach to the conceptual shift aspect of scientific discovery. Journal of College Science Teaching 19: 105-107 (1989).
13. A class exercise for teaching the genetic code. The Science Teacher 56 (No. 3): 76-78 (1989).
14. A cognitive reinterpretation of Stanley Milgram's observations on obedience to authority. American Psychologist 45: 1384-1385 (1990).
15. (Nissani, M. & Hoefler-Nissani, D. M.). Experimental studies of belief-dependence of observations and of resistance to conceptual change. Cognition and Instruction 9: 97-111 (1992).
16. Psychological, historical, and ethical reflections on the Mendelian paradox. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 37: 182-196 (1994).
17. (Nissani, M., Maier, C. L. & Shifrin, N.). A guided discovery exercise for introductory physics labs. The Physics Teacher 32: 104-107 (1994).
18.   Conceptual conservatism: an understated variable in human affairs? Social Science Journal 31: 307-318 (1994).
19.   Phases of the moon: a guided discovery activity for clarifying the nature of science. Science Activities 31 (#3): 26-29 (1994).
20. The plight of the obscure innovator in science. Social Studies of Science 25: 165-183 (1995).
21. An experiential component in teaching philosophy of science. Teaching Philosophy 18: 147-154 (1995).
22. Fruits, salads, and smoothies: a working definition of interdisciplinarity. Journal of Educational Thought 29: 119-126 (1995).
23. Conceptual conservatism in literature. Literary Studies (a Nepali journal) 15: 22-37 (1996).
24. Dancing flies: a guided discovery illustration of the nature of science. American Biology Teacher 58 (#3): 168-171 (1996).
25. The greenhouse effect: an interdisciplinary perspective. Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 17: 459-489 (1996).
26. The apprenticeship approach to writing instruction. Visible Language 30 (#3): 284-313 (1996).
27. Can the persistence of misconceptions be generalized and explained? Journal of Thought 32 (#1): 69-76 (1997).
28. Ten cheers for interdisciplinarity. Social Science Journal 34 (#2): 201-216 (1997).
29. Brass-tacks ecology. The Trumpeter, 14 (#3): 143-148 (1997).
30. Media coverage of the greenhouse effect, Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 21: 27-43 (1999).
31. Can taste aversion prevent bruxism?   Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 25 (#1), March 2000, 45-56. 
32. A bibliographical survey of bruxism with special emphasis on non-traditional treatment modalities.  Journal of Oral Science, 43 (2): 73-83  (2001).
33. Theory of Mind and Insight in Chimpanzees, Elephants, and Other Animals? Chapter 7 of:  Comparative Vertebrate Cognition.  Rogers, Lesley J & Kaplan, Gisela (eds.), pp. 227-261 (January 2004).  [No. 4 of Series:  Developments in Primatology:  Progress and Prospects.  Russell H. Tuttle, Series Editor.]  Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers: New York.
34. (Nissani, M., Hoefler-Nissani, D. Lay, U T., & Htun, U W.)  Simultaneous Visual Discrimination in Asian Elephants.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 83: 15-29 (2005).
35. Do Asian elephants apply causal reasoning to tool use tasks? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 31: 91-96 (2006).
36. (Nissani, M., Hoefler-Nissani, D.)  Absence of Mirror Self-Referential Behavior in Two Asian Elephants.  Journal of Veterinary Science, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2006).  
37. Nissani, M. 2008.  Elephant Cognition: A Review of Some New Experiments.  Gajah: Journal of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group, in press.

United States Patent 6,164,278, December 26, 2000.  Taste-Based Approach to the Prevention of Teeth Clenching and Grinding.

Lives in the Balance: The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1991 (1992), 323 pages.  

Films

1. (with Donna Nissani).  The Inner Life of Elephants:  Experiments in Myanmar and Detroit (2004).  Entire film (in 17 parts) / Read or download film script

1. Nissani, M. & Lohani, Shreedhar P. Adventures in English: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Teaching of English, Kathmandu: Ekta Books (1999, third printing), 388 pages (of which over one-third especially written for this book; a compulsory college English text used throughout Nepal).

Flax-Golden Tales  is accompanied by two cassettes CDs:

• A Pronunciation Guide.
• Stories and Poems on tapes (a collaborative effort of M. Nissani, S. Lohani, D. M. Hoefler-Nissani, and P. Chase; also available online at http://www.is.wayne.edu/mnissani/esl/).

Reprinted or Translated Essays

• Fruits, salads, and smoothies: a working definition of interdisciplinarity, in: Association for Integrative Studies Newsletter, 18 (#1): 4-7 (1996).
• Review of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience, in: Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, sixth edition, edited by Behrens, Laurence and Rosen, Leonard J. New York: Longman, pp. 379-384 (1997).
• The greenhouse effect (a condensed, updated, and revised version of #25 above). In: T. Goldfarb (Ed.). Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Environmental Issues. Guilford, CT: Dushkin (7^th edition, 1997). Also published in 8^th edition, 1999.
• Cuando el Splint Fracasa: Una aproximación no tradicional al tratamiento del bruxismo (translation of "When the Splint Fails").  The Orthodontic Cyberjournal (http://www.oc-j.com/).
• The plight of the obscure innovator in science.  Infinite Energy: The Magazine of New Energy Technology, 6 (#35): 32-40 (2001).
• When the splint fails: non-traditional approaches to the treatment of bruxism (www.oc-j.com/june00/Splint1.htm).  The Orthodontic Cyberjournal (http://www.oc-j.com/).

Presentations (last 10 years only)

• (with Donna Nissani).  Do Elephants, Chimpanzees, and Dolphins Think?  (Reflections on an Unfortunate Paradigm Shift in the Experimental Study of Animal Behavior).  XXXth Ethological Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 15-23, 2007.
• (with Donna Nissani).  Are Elephants Conscious?  XXIXth Ethological Conference, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-27, 2005.
• (with Donna Nissani).  Do Chimpanzees and Elephants Know that People See? XIXth Congress of the International Primatological Society (abstract 0311 of the proceedings). August 4-9, 2003, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
• The Plight of the Obscure Innovator in Science.  The International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Conference, July 7-10, 1999, Oaxaca, Mexico.
• Why Has the Single Most Important Root of Environmental Decline been Neglected During the Past Forty Years? Society for Human Ecology, IX International Conference, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 15-18, 1997.
• Conservation Biology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Congress of the Mesoamerican Society of Biology and Conservation, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 23-7, 1997 (abstract of talk appeared in Mesoamericana, 1997, Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 17).
• The Insights of Literature. The Eighth Annual Conference, Literary Association of Nepal, Kathmandu, February 15-16, 1996.

Book Reviews

Robert Theobald, Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium. Gabriola Island, BC Canada: New Society Publishers, 1997. The Workbook, vol. 23, Summer 1998, pp. 80-81 (also reprinted in Counterpoise Magazine).

Sharon Beder, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea, 1997. The Workbook, vol. 23, Summer 1998, pp. 82-83.

John Hart, Walking Softly in the Wilderness. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1998. The Workbook, vol. 24, Fall/Winter 1998, pp. 112-3.

Jason Salzman, Making the News. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998. The Workbook, vol. 24, Fall/Winter 1998, pp. 132-3.

Jane M. Healy.  Failure to Connect:  How Computers Affect our Children's Minds.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. The Workbook, vol. 24, Summer 1999, pp. 52-3.   (Also reprinted in Point, Fall 1999, Vol. 10, #97).

Cokinos, Christopher. Hope is the Thing with Feathers. The Workbook, vol. 25, Spring 2000, pp. 26-7.

Current Projects
 

Do Elephants, Dolphins, and Chimpanzees Think? The Human Condition and the Future of Humanity (such as they are!)

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