Roberto Abadie (Anthropology, 2006) has a two-year post-doctoral position as Research Fellow at the Bioethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic. (posted 12-07)

Ana Aparicio (Anthropology, 2004) accepted a position as assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern University  She is the author of Dominican Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (part of the New World Diasporas series edited by Kevin Yelvington, University Press of Florida, 2006), which received the 2006 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award Honorable Mention. She is also the co-editor of Immigrants, Welfare Reform and the Poverty of Policy (Greenwood, 2004). Currently she is working on a manuscript that focuses on the role of Latino youth in social and racial justice work. (posted 12-07)

Karen Baab (Anthropology, 2007) has a two-year postdoctoral position at Stony Brook University starting in January 2008 in the Anatomical Science Department. (posted 12-07) 

Richard A. Bergl (Anthropology, 2006) is Curator of Conservation and Research, North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro, NC. (posted 12-07)

Sally S. Booth (Anthropology, 1997) teaches cultural history at the Ross School, East Hampton, NY. She is the recipient of the 2006 Cortney Sale Ross Award for teaching. She recently co-authored, with Jeffrey E. Cole (Anthropology, 1993) Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily (Lexington Books, 2007). (posted 12-07)

Julian Brash (Anthropology, 2006) is a tenure-track assistant professor of anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Toledo, OH. (posted 12-07)

Terence Capellini (Anthropology, 2007) is working as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Licia Selleri at Cornell University Medical Center (studying Developmental Genetics) but will begin working in May, 2008 as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. David Kingsley at Stanford University (studying Evolutionary Developmental Biology). (posted 12-07)

Elizabeth Chin (Anthropology, 1996), a professor of critical theory and social justice at Occidental College where she has been on the faculty for fourteen years, has been honored by the American Anthropology Association (AAA) with its prestigious Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. AAA, the world’s largest professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology, publishes nineteen peer-reviewed scholarly journals and conducts the largest annual meeting of anthropologist in the world. According to the association, Chin is being recognized for her role as an educator and mentor to students both inside and outside the classroom. A cultural anthropologist, she teaches courses concerned with children, the Caribbean (with emphasis on Haiti), consumerism, urban culture, and the anthropology of dance. She has led student groups on one study trip to Cuba and two to Haiti, developed a project to teach anthropological methods to fifth-graders, and designed curriculum for a gang intervention and prevention program. Her research topics include the consumer lives of inner city African American children, the cultural politics of the Barbie Doll, and traditional Haitian dance. She is now working with a professional company maintaining the legacy of Katherine Dunham, an African-American dancer who died recently. Chin has shared her views on anthropology and teaching through multiple commentaries on NPR’s “Tavis Smiley Show.” (See alumna profile.) (posted 12-07)

Jeffrey E. Cole (Anthropology, 1993) he has left Dowling College and, effective July 1, 2008, became a full professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Connecticut College. (posted 10-08) He recently co-authored, with Sally S. Booth (Anthropology, 1997) Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily (Lexington Books, 2007). (posted 12-07)

Eliza Darling (Anthropology, 2004) iscurrently on a Wenner Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007–08), writing a book called "The Sheltering Grove: Wilderness Gentrification in the Adirondack Park.” She recently began a three-year lectureship in the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and landed an Early Career Award from Goldsmiths to study country music in Britain and Ireland. The project is called "Fire on the Mountain: The Politics of Country Music in Britain and Ireland.” (posted 10-08)

Kirk Dombrowski (Anthropology, 1998) is an associate professor of anthropology at John Jay College and on the doctoral faculty of anthropology at the Graduate Center. With fellow Graduate Center alumnus Anthony Marcus, he recently became co-editor of Dialectical Anthropology, founded by Stanley Diamond in 1975. In academic year 2007–08 he won a number of grants: NSF Cultural Scholars Award (PI) “Stochastic Modeling of Injecting Drug User Network Factors in HIV Stabilization Dynamics,” $41,000 (one year); NIH/NIJ RO1(co-PI) “Structure of Methamphetamine Markets in NYC,” $475,000 (two years); NIJ (Multi-City Initiative(co-PI) “The Sexual Exploitation of Underage Children in New York City,” $64,000 (one year); NYCJS (co-PI) “Immigrant Victims of Violence in Nassau County New York,” $160,000 (two years); and NIJ Center for Court Innovation (co-PI) “Community Reactions to Philadelphia Community Courts,” $45,000 (one year). (posted 10-08)

Walter A. Ewing (Anthropology, 1997), a research associate at the Immigration Policy Center, published “Beyond Border Enforcement: Enhancing National Security Through Immigration Reform,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. V: 427. (posted 12-07)

Susan Falls (Anthropology, 2005) was recently appointedas a professor of anthropology at Savannah College of Art and Design. (posted 10-08)

Olga Fehér (Anthropology, 2009) coauthored the article “De Novo Establishment of Wild-Type Song Culture in the Zebra Finch,” which was published in the May 2009 issue of Nature. In the same issue, Fehér is profiled in the article “Making the Paper,” and her research is cited in “Birdsong normalized by culture.” (posted 11-09)

Khaled Furani (Anthropology, 2004) was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University, and published “Rhythms of the Secular,” American Ethnologist (May 2008). (posted 10-08)

Katy Gonder (Anthropology, 2000) was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, University at Albany—SUNY. (posted 10-08)

Edith Gonzalez de Scollard (Anthropology, 2008), formerly director of Education Programs at the Long Island Children's Museum, was appointed as associate director, Federal Programs, Government Relations and Strategic Project Development, American Museum of Natural History. (posted 10/08)

Reiko Mastuda Goodwin (Anthropology, 2007), a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan, collaborates with informatics scientists and epidemiologists on a project called “BioCaster," which alerts the general public regarding outbreaks of various infectious diseases in the world. She is also a scientist-in-residence in the Anthropology Department, Lehman College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Katrina Harvati (Anthropology, 2001), adjunct professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center and a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, is a prominent researcher on Neanderthals. The National Geographic(October 2008) featured an interview with her and a discussion of her work and that of other Neanderthal specialists. (posted 10-08) She was the subject of recent reports in the Greek daily press, including an interview with the Sunday magazine of the Kathimerini newspaper. International news organizations (Aol, Yahoo, MSN, USA Today) also reported on a paper Dr. Harvati and the Max Planck Institute team published in the Journal of Archeological Science. The subject of the paper was their discovery of a 40,000-year-old tooth that gives proof of Neanderthal mobility. The Neanderthal tooth was discovered on the Lakonis archeological site in Greece, where Dr. Harvati has been working since her days as a graduate student. (posted 2-08) In January, Dr. Harvati, along with an international team of scientists, was recognized by Time. The magazine named the team's recent research on the Hofmeyr early modern human fossil from S. Africa as one of the top ten scientific discoveries of 2007. The international team of scientists published their report, "Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and Modern Human Origins" in Science 315:5809 (12 January 2007): 226 — 229. A report can also be read in Science Daily. (posted 1-08) (See alumna profile)

G. Derrick Hodge (Anthropology, 2005) was appointed as a visiting assistant professor, Department of Sociology, University of Missouri—Kansas City. (posted 10-08)

Russell Hogg (Anthropology, 2008) is a postdoctoral student and lecturer, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine. (posted 6-08)

Larisa Honey (Anthropology, 2006) is visiting assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Lehman College, since the fall 2007 semester. (posted 12-07)

Rebbeca Jabbour (Anthropology, 2008), a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California—Berkeley, is currently working on outreach and education projects with the Human Evolution Research Center and the University of California Museum of Paleontology and continuing her research on skeletal variation in apes. (posted 10-08)

Patty Kelly (Anthropology, 2002), an assistant professor of anthropology at George Washington University, had an editorial appear in the Los Angeles Times on March 13, 2008: “Legalize prostitution: Paying for sex is common. Mexico has decriminalized it. So should the U.S.” (posted 4/7/08) In her ethnographic study Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel (University of California Press, 2008), she examines the personal histories and experiences of women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital city of Chiapas. By delving into the lives that would otherwise go unnoticed, Kelly documents the modernization of the sex industry in the city of Tuxtla during the neoliberal era and illustrates how state-regulated sex became part of a broader effort by the government officials to bring modernity to Chiapas, one of Mexico’s poorest and most conflict-laden states. (posted 3-08)

Donna J. Keren (Anthropology, 1987) is Senior Vice President, Research at NYC & Company, New York City’s official marketing and tourism organization, where she has been on staff since December 2002. She created and directs a comprehensive research and economic intelligence unit for the City’s travel and tourism industry. The Research and Analysis unit also functions as the office of record for vital statistics on New York City’s travel sector. Reports and analysis are available to NYC & Company member businesses, cultural organizations, elected officials, City and State agencies and key stakeholders. (posted 10-08)

Joshua Linder (Anthropology, 2008), since 2007, has been a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University. (posted 10/08)

Anthony Marcus (Anthropology, 1998), after a year as associate provost at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research (KIMP), has taken a position as an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, John Jay College, and will be editor in chief of Dialectical Anthropology, along with fellow alum Kirk Dombrowski.

Erin Martineau (Anthropology, 2006) was hired in December 2006 as Associate for Teaching, Learning, and Research within CUNY Academic Affairs—Undergraduate Education. He is co-editor, with Cheryl C. Smith and Judith Summerfield, of the forthcoming boom, “Transformative Spaces: Designing Creative Sites for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education” (Springer Publishing, June 2009). (posted 10-08)

Shannon McFarlin (Anthropology, 2006) has a position as a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University. (posted 12-07)

Eric McGuckin (Anthropology, 1997) is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University. His most recent publication is "Conspicuous Experience: Extreme Travel and Competitive Leisure in the 21st Century,” inLoisir et Liberté en Amerique du Nord (University of Paris Press, 2008). His dissertation title was"Postcards from Shangri-La: Tibetans, Tourism and the Politics of Cultural Production." (posted 10-08)

James McMahon (Anthropology, 1999) is an assistant professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center, School of Nursing. Prior to joining the URMC faculty in 2007, he was principal investigator at the National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI) in New York City. On May 12, 2008, he was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Colleague Award from the University of Rochester School of Nursing. The award is bestowed annually on the faculty member whose "help and guidance are frequently sought by individuals to enhance the quality of their endeavors in education, research, and/or practice." (posted 10-08)

Cameron L. McNeil (Anthropology, 2006) received the 2008 Mary W. Klinger Book Award from the Society for Economic Botany for Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao (University of Florida Press, 2007), an edited volume on cacao that she put together while a graduate student. Dr. Daniel F. Austin, Chair of the Awards Committee, said "Even for those of us who are addicted to chocolate, this book opens welcome new vistas. While many of us have worked in forests with wild Theobroma, and in areas of cultivation, most of us have a limited exposure to the cultural history of the plants. By bringing together distinct fields into one single resource, Dr. McNeil has done everyone a great service. The story of chocolate is as savory as the product!" The Mary W. Klinger Book Award was established in 1996 and is annually awarded by the Society for an outstanding book publication. The Society for Economic Botany is the largest international scientific organization fostering and encouraging research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people. (posted 4-08)

Rachel Nuger (Anthropology, 2008)has landed a tenure-track assistant professorship at Moorpark College in Moorpark, CA. (posted 10-08)

Janet Page (Anthropology, 1999) has been working on issues of food stamp participation, hunger, local agriculture, food security, and fitness with a number of nonprofits.Previously, she directed a food stamp participation project with the New Mexico Association of Food Banks. Currently, she is helping coordinate a Kellogg-sponsored networking project on food and fitness, and has just started as a strategic planner with St. Joseph Community Health on an obesity prevention initiative for one area of Albuquerque. She is also on the board of the Rio Grande Farmers' Guild and Cooperative, part of a nonprofit food stamp working group to improve food stamp policy in New Mexico, and is still an adjunct in the Department of Anthropology at University of New Mexico, where she is currently teaching a course on South America. (posted 10-08)

Sophia Perdikaris (Anthropology, 1998), a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archeology, Brooklyn College, and a member of the doctoral faculty in anthropology at the Graduate Center, was the keynote speaker at the Graduate Center’s student orientation on August 19, 2008.She works in Iceland and Barbuda and specializes in environmental archaeology and zooarchaeology. Most of her work has been in the Viking North Atlantic but she has added Barbuda as an extreme geographic comparison to the study and effects of global change.For the past eight years she has run successfully a Research Experience for Undergraduates Program funded by NSF Polar Programs and has taken both undergraduates and graduate students into the field. She held a named professorship for two years (Leonard and Claire Tow Professor) and is now (2008–11) an Honorary Fellow of the School of Science and Engineering, Department of Geoscience, University of Edinburgh, UK.She has two forthcoming publications: a chapter in a book entitled "Beyond the Catch" and a chapter ina UCLA edited volume "Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective."For the last five years, under a Gates Foundation-funded initiative called STAR— a partnership between Brooklyn and Erasmus High School—she has been teachinga series of seminars and workshops to high-school students preparing for college. She has alsobeen teaching for the Honors College for four years and gives regular seminars at AMNH (American Museum of Natural History) and Long Island Children's Museum. She is a great believer in outreach and in helping students become global citizens. (posted 10-08)

Andrea Queeley (Anthropology, 2008) was offered a second year as Zemurray Stone Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. (posted 10-08)

Gustavo Lins Ribeiro (Anthropology, 1988), professor of anthropology and director of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Brazil, was elected vice-president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). (posted 11-09)

Eric Sargis (Anthropology, 2000) was awarded tenure at Yale University. (posted 5-09)

Amy Schreier (Anthropology, 2008) has a postdoctoral fellowship in the Duke University Writing Program. (posted 6-08)

Jonathan Holt Shannon (Anthropology, 2001), recently promoted to associate professor at Hunter College, published Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria (Wesleyan University Press, 2006) in which he explores how music in Syria shapes debates about Arab society and culture. He was the recipient of the 2001 Malcolm H. Kerr Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Social Sciences. (posted 9-08)

Nelson Ting (Anthropology, 2008) has accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa.He will also be a principle investigator in the University of Iowa Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics. He will begin in fall 2008, and he received start up funds to build a program in molecular anthropology. He will have a genetics lab and will be conducting fieldwork. (posted 6-08)

Patricia Tovar (Anthropology, 1995) accepted a job offer at John Jay as an associate professor in the Anthropology Department. (posted 10-08)

Lawrence F. Van Horn (Anthropology, 1977) was awarded, on April 28, 2007, the prestigious Omer C. Stewart Memorial Award for "exemplary achievement" by the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. Dr. Van Horn is the fifteenth annual recipient of this award, which recognizes his current editorship of the internationally known journal, Applied Anthropologist, his book reviews and articles in various professional anthropological journals, and his ethnographic reports over the years as a U.S. National Park Service anthropologist of American Indians, African Americans, and other groups with cultural heritage links to what are now units of the National Park System. A long-time anthropology professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Omer Stewart (1908–91) was a pioneer in applied anthropology. (posted 12-07)

Bea Vidacs (Anthropology, 2002) has won a three-year post-doctoral fellowship from the Max Plank Institute, Halle, Germany. The wider project, of which hers is a part, is entitled “Economy and Ritual” and is being led by Chris Hann and Stephen Gudeman. Vidac's own study, involving six to nine months of fieldwork, will be a restudy of the Hungarian village where she previously did research on strategies of choosing godparents. (posted 1-09)

David Vine (Anthropology, 2006), an assistant professor of anthropology at American University, is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009). The book recently received a favorable review on the front page of the New York Review of Books. See: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22691. (posted 5-09)

Kee H. Yong (Anthropology, 2003), was appointed as an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, as of July 2008. (posted 10-08)

Jarret Zigon (Anthropology, 2006) currently holds a post-doc at the Max Plank Institute in Halle, Germany. Effective January 1, 2009, he will be an assistant professor ofsocial anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). He publishedMorality: An Anthropological Perspective (Berg Press, 2008) and a number of chapters in edited collections such as Health Capital and Sustainable Economic Development (CRC Press, 2008); Effective and Conclusive Narcology in the Epoch of HIV (Media Press, 2008), Reclaiming the Sacred (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, forthcoming), and The Anthropology of Moralities. He has also published articles in Anthropological Theory, vol.7, no.2 (2007) and Anthropology of Consciousness (forthcoming). (posted 10-08)

Benjamin Buchloh (Art History, 1994) joined Harvard’s History of Art and Architecture faculty in 2005 as Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art. He was the subject of a feature in the Harvard Gazette (October 27), titled “‘The Caesura of Civilization’: Why did visual arts ignore WWII Holocaust?” (posted 3-06)

John Cauman (Art History, 2000), Beth S. Gersh-Nesic (Art History, 1989), and Francis Naumann (Art History, 1988), collaborated on the exhibition “The Demoiselles Revisited”—twenty-four contemporary works of art by artists who were inspired by or who appropriated Picasso’s masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). The exhibition celebrated the 100th birthday of the painting and took place at Francis Naumann Fine Art, 22 East 80 Street, New York City, from November 16 through December 21, 2007. Dr. Naumann curated the show, Dr. Gersh-Nesic wrote the catalogue essay, and Dr. Cauman edited the essay. (posted 12-07)

Susan Chevlowe (Art History, 2003) has joined the Hebrew Home at Riverdale as chief curator and museum director, effective March 3, 2008. In her role, she will manage and enhance the Home’s contemporary art collection, and curate exhibitions of new work and rotating installations of the Home’s donated works throughout its nineteen-acre facility. In addition, she will direct all operational aspects of the Derfner Judaica Museum, which is to open in June 2009. Chevlowe will continue to teach at as an adjunct assistant professor in the Jewish Art and Visual Culture program at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A former associate curator at the Jewish Museum, New York, Chevlowe has organized numerous exhibitions since the 1990s, including Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, co-organized with Norman L. Kleeblatt; Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn, 1936-1962; Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections; Ben Katchor: Picture-Stories; and most recently The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography, featuring commissioned projects by thirteen important contemporary artists. The show traveled to the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Chevlowe has spoken on numerous panels and actively participates in conferences nationwide including the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies; the Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion, Center for Religion and Media, New York University; and No Direction Home: Re-imagining Jewish Geography at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Chevlowe was awarded the 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and the 1992 National Jewish Book Award. She serves as a member on the editorial advisory board for the Posen Library of Jewish Culture, the Association for Jewish Studies, the College Art Association, and the gallery committee for the Synagogue of the Arts. (posted 5-09)

Margaret C. Conrads (Art History, 1999), the Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, has recently completed a major reinstallation of the Museum's American art collection as part of their acclaimed expansion project. Now, reflecting more than twenty years of research, she is the lead author and co-editor of a two-volume scholarly catalogue, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (published by the Museum and University of Washington Press, 2007). To celebrate this achievement and also to share the team’s discoveries with the scholarly community and the interested public, she organized a one-day symposium on October 20 that brought together leading experts on specific painters in the collection. (posted 12-07)

David Dearinger (Art History, 1993), a curator of paintings and sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum, spoke in February before New York’s Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America. His topic concerned American writers who contributed to art criticism in the decades prior to the Civil War. (posted 3-07)

Virginia Fabbri Butera (Art History, 2002), chairperson of the art department and associate professor of art history at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ, received tenure in Spring of 2006 and has been appointed the director of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery at the college. (posted 5-07)

Lisa E. Farrington (Art History, 1997), author, art historian, curator, and faculty member for over ten years at Parsons’ New School for Design, published Creating Their Own Image (Oxford University Press 2005), the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day, including the fertile period of the Harlem Renaissance, the "New Negro Movement," and the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights Movement. The book also explores more recent stylistic developments, such as abstraction, conceptualism, and post-modernism. Dr. Farrington has served on the staffs of the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Marlborough Gallery, and has curated exhibitions on Haitian art and women’s art for the City University of New York, on fine art quilts for the U.S. State Department, and on African-American art for Parsons. In 2004 she also published a monograph on the artist Faith Ringgold (Pomegranate). (posted 3-07)

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic (Art History, 1989), art critic for About.com: Art History (an affiliate of the New York Times) and director of the New York Arts Exchange, published "The Demoiselles d'Avignon Revisited," a catalogue essay for the exhibition “The Demoiselles Revisited" (Francis Naumann Fine Art, 2007). (posted 10-08) She published André Salmon on French Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005), a translation of Salmon's La jeune peinture française and La jeune sculpture française with introduction and annotation. Dr. Gersh-Nesic and Prof. Jacqueline Gojard, of the University of Paris, Sorbonne III, provide further information on André Salmon at www.andresalmon.org. Dr Gersh-Nesic is director of the arts education service, New York Arts Exchange, and coordinator of public affairs for the Alliance Française de Westchester. She teaches art history for the School of Liberal Studies at Purchase College and for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at NYU. (posted 9-06)

Fred Gross (Art History, 2005) is a professor of art history at Savannah College of Art and Design. (posted 10-08)

Brian E. Hack (Art History, 2007) presented a paper in September, 2007, entitled “Genius Imperiled: George Grey Barnard and the Billings Studio Eviction Controversy of 1930” for the symposium Artists in Their Studios, organized by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and held at the CUNY Graduate Center. In February 2008, he presented a paper entitled “Missing Links: The Spiritual Evolution of George Grey Barnard's The Two Natures" at the 96th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Dallas, Texas. He also curated and wrote the catalogue for the exhibition “Seeing Double: The Art of the Stereoview in Nineteenth-Century America” for the Art Gallery of Kingsborough Community College. (posted 10-08)

Beth Harris (Art History, 1997) and Steven Zucker (Art History, 1997) are the recipients of a gold award in the web category from AVICOM, the committee of the International Council of Museums, for Harris and Zucker’s website, smarthistory.org. This is an annual award. The site is a free multimedia web-book, debuting in 2005, and designed as an enhancement of—or, a substitute for—the traditional art history textbook. Smarthistory.org allows users to browse more than a hundred audio and video conversations about works of art by period, style, artist, or by scrolling through an image browser intended to resemble an art history textbook. A redesign of the site, launched on October 15, was funded by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Harris is an assistant professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Zucker is chair of the history of art department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. (posted 12-08)

Herbert R. Hartel, Jr. (Art History, 2002) published "Philip Evergood's The Story of Richmond Hill: Issues of Urbanism and Social Class in a New Deal Mural" in Source: Notes in the History of Art 26.2 (Winter 2007); in February 2008, he presented the paper "The Shaped Canvas in the 1930s: The Sculptural Paintings of Abraham Joel Tobias and Their Sources, Influences, and Expressive Techniques " at the 96th Annual Conference of the College Art Association in Dallas. He has contributed book reviews to The Art Book and H-ArtHist at www.ArtHist.net. In 2006 and 2007, he taught modern art at Brooklyn College and survey courses at Queens College, and continued teaching at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. (posted 10-08)

Hayden Herrera (Art History, 1981) co-curated “Frida Kahlo,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Elizabeth Carpenter of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. A distillation of a Kahlo centennial in Mexico City during summer 2007, the show displays forty-two of Kahlo’s small number of surviving paintings and a slew of photographs and will be in Philadelphia through May 18, 2008, then travels to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 14 – Sept. 28, 2008. Holland Cotter’s review of the exhibition, “The People’s Artist, Herself a Work of Art,” appeared in the New York Times on February 29, 2008. (posted 3-08)

Mitchell D. Kahan (Art History, 1983) is the recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize Robert P. Bergman Award. The Cleveland Arts Prize describes the purpose of the annual Bergman Award as recognition to a national or international figure "who has shown passionate leadership and opened his/her field more broadly, and whose life and activities communicate the joys, excitement, and deep human relevance of the arts." Dr. Kahan is also the recipient of the 2008 Leadership in Nonprofit Management Award from Case Western Reserve University's Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations. This award is given to a recipient in Northeast Ohio who demonstrates a record of leadership for staff, trustees and community and exemplifies good management, creativity and innovation. (posted 10-08)

Maud Lavin (Art History, 1989) professor and chair of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is the editor and coauthor of a new book of creative nonfiction University of Arizona Press (2008): The Oldest We've Ever Been: Seven True Stories of Midlife Transitions. (posted 10-08)

Valerie Ann Leeds (Art History. 2000) served as consulting curator to the 2008 Detroit Institute of Arts traveling exhibition, “Life’s Pleasures: The Ashcan Artists’ Brush with Leisure” and contributed an essay to the accompanying catalogue. Other catalogue essays authored were for several Gerald Peters Gallery exhibitions including: Harold Weston: A Retrospective; Charles Harold Davis in Retrospect: His Art and Career; Marguerite Zorach: A Life in Art; and Ben Schonzeit: Four Decades. Additional publications include: “A Conversation with Andrew Stevovich,” in Andrew Stevovich: Essential Elements (Hard Press Editions, 2007); “John Sloan: Still on the American Scene,” Fine Art Connoisseur, 4 (Nov/Dec 2007); and “The Ashcan Artists’ Brush with Leisure,” American Art Review 9 (Sept/Oct 2007). She spoke at the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, on Robert Henri Redefining American Portraiture in 2007; and participated in the 2008 symposia: Henri, Sloan, and Their New York at the New-York Historical Society; and Circa 1900 at the Detroit Institute of Arts. (posted 10-08)

Alan Moore (Art History, 2000) last year was a visiting assistant professor of contemporary art history and critical theory at the University of South Florida, Tampa. While there he hosted Earth First! activists at the USF Focus the Nation global warming teach-in. He published an introduction to Clayton Patterson, et al. eds., Resistance: A Social and Political History of the Lower East Side (Seven Stories Press, 2007); a chapter in Greg Sholette and Blake Stimson, editors, Collectivism After Modernism (University of Minnesota Press, 2007); and “Academic Entrepreneurialism: Eggheads Outside the Crate,” for Part graduate student e-zine. He gave talks at 16 Beaver Group; Northern Illinois University; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. (posted 10-08)

Elaine O’Brien (Art History, 1997), now at Sacramento State University, was associate curator of “Traces: Contemporary Romanian Art,” an international exhibition which displayed works in a variety of media by young artists who are redefining Romanian art. Belonging to the second generation after Ceausescu, the artists in Traces explore issues of changing identity with sincerity and irony. Traces was on view at the Centre International d`Art Contemporain in Pont Aven, France from July 12 to August 14, 2008; the Else Gallery in Sacramento, CA from September 2 to October 3; and the Selby Gallery, Sarasota, from November 14 to December 12. (posted 10-08)

Lisa Peters (Art History, 1995) published several works over the past two years, including “New Lane Scholarship in Review: A Rejoinder and Reply,” Association of American Art Historians Newsletter (April 2008); and three exhibition catalogues for New York’s Spanierman Gallery: Over Seven Decades: The Art of Gershon Benjamin (1899–1985), (2008), Burgoyne Diller and Hard-Edge Abstraction: Underpinnings and Continuity (2007), and Peter Poskas: New England Reclaimed (2007). She also gave the Burlingame Memorial Lecture, “J. Alden Weir and John H. Twachtman: Parallels, Convergences, and Friendship,” at Weir Farm Art Center, Wilton, Connecticut (March 6, 2008). (posted 10-08)

Joyce C. Polistena (Art History, 1997) publishedThe Religious Paintings of Eugène Delacroix 1798-1863: The Initiator of the Style of Modern Religious Art (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008). (posted 5-09)

Roger Rawlings (Art History, 2004) is chair of Cinema Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design. (posted 10-08)

Vanessa Rocco (Art History, 2004) is a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute and assistant curator at the International Center of Photography. She is currently serving as a curatorial advisor on the exhibition “The Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and Modern Photographic Utopia,” which opened at the MACBA, Barcelona in October 2008; the catalogue included an essay by Rocco about the integration of photography and architecture in Italian Fascist exhibitions. (posted 10-08)

Lowery Stokes Sims (Art History, 1995), former president of the Studio Museum in Harlem, was named one of three advisers to the $2.5 million New York City Cultural Innovation Fund to promote new directions in the arts. Grants from $50,000 to $250,000 will be awarded for new creative work in the visual, performing, and media arts that demonstrates an engagement with the issues shaping New York City’s future cultural and civic agenda. The projects will involve partnerships that connect cultural institutions with universities and the private sector, or that present new solutions for longstanding limitations on cultural expansion. (posted 8-07) She was selected by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland to curate an exhibition of art from CMA's permanent collection that will be shown in MOCA's main gallery space June 2-Aug. 20, 2006. Sims’ task demands that she select pieces to display from CMA's 40,000 artworks. (posted 3-07)

Kathleen Wentrack (Art History, 2006) was re-appointed as assistant professor in the Art and Photography Department at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York. Her essay “Double Trouble: Carolee Schneemann and Sands Murray-Wassink” appeared in Profeminist White Flowers, ed. Uli Aigner, (Städtische Kunsthalle München, 2007). In September, at the 2008 SECAC conference in New Orleans, she presented a paper entitled “Lost Stories, New Histories: Myth and Ritual in the Feminist Performance Art of Carolee Schneemann, Valie Export, and Ulrike Rosenbach.” (posted 10-08)

Lisa Young (Art History, 2008) is a professor of art history at Savannah College of Art and Design. (posted 10-08)

Xue-Ying He (Biochemistry, 1991), and Song-Yu Yang (Biochemistry, 1984; Biology, GC), with Manfred Philipp (Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Lehman College, GC), have analyzed a genetic mutation with a strong connection to developmental disability in humans. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists found that mutations to gene HSD17B10, which is required for normal brain development, can slow the activity of an enzyme HSD10 that processes many types of steroids and steroid modulators in the human brain. Their discovery opens a new approach to the prevention and treatment of developmental disability. (posted 11-09)

Richard Magliozzo (Biochemistry, 1981) is a full professor at Brooklyn College and is a member of the doctoral faculties in chemistry and biochemistry at the Graduate Center. He has a major grant from the National Institutes of Health ($1.7M) to study the physical biochemistry of a heme enzyme that is important in the treatment of TB infection and is critical to understanding the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. (posted 12-07)

Ira Schwartz (Biochemistry, 1975) was elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology, whose mission is to recognize scientific excellence and foster knowledge and understanding in the microbiological sciences. (posted 3-07)

Danyal B. Syed (Biochemistry, 1986) won the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) International Travel Fellowship. Dr. Syed is a consultant and laboratory director at William F. Ryan Community Health Center in New York City. A member of the AACC for the past twenty-eight years, Dr. Syed has served the New York Metro Section as chair, member of the executive board, and chair of the education committee. He has also served the Clinical Ligand Assay Society (CLAS) as president of the New York Metro Chapter and on the national board. He is a life member of the Pakistan Society of Chemical Pathologists. Dr. Syed plans to travel to his native Pakistan to visit public and private clinical laboratories in both urban and rural settings, to assess the quality of testing, and to promote the concepts of total quality management. He will also explore the possibility of starting a postdoctoral fellowship program in clinical chemistry at the University of Health Sciences in Lahore. (posted 8-07)

Song-Yu Yang (Biochemistry, 1984; Adj. Prof., Biology; Hed, Laboratory for Medical Chemistry, NYS Institute for Basic Research),  Xue-Ying He (Biochemistry, 1991), and Manfred Philipp (Prof., Lehman, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry), have analyzed a genetic mutation with a strong connection to developmental disability in humans. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The scientists found that mutations to gene HSD17B10, which is required for normal brain development, can slow the activity of an enzyme HSD10 that processes many types of steroids and steroid modulators in the human brain. Their discovery opens a new approach to the prevention and treatment of developmental disability. (posted 11-09)

Maureen J. Charron (Biology, 1987), renowned in the field of diabetes research, is a professor in the Departments of Biochemistry, of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health, and of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx. (posted 12-07)

Katherine Cohen (formerly Qi Cheng) (Biology, 1992) is Vice President of Intercell AG, Vienna, a leading International biotech company. At Intercell she is responsible for Corporate Development and Intellectual Property. Her areas of competence include M&A, business development, licensing as well as strategic planning and global IP protections. Dr. Cohen is an Honorary Professor at University of Applied Sciences, Austria and also a qualified European Patent Attorney. The subject of her dissertation at CUNY was molecular genetics. (posted 12-07)

Jorge A. Garces (Biology, 1996), in April 2006, was appointed vice president of product and platform development at Third Wave Technologies Inc., Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Garces joined the company in October 2005 from Genzyme Genetics where, as director of molecular research and development, he oversaw the technology and product development activities of laboratory staff in New York, Los Angeles, and Westborough, MA. Prior to that, he worked as an associate product manager and research and development scientist at Athena Diagnostics, and served at Proteome Inc. (posted 6-06)

Yong-Kyu Kim (Biology, 1994), assistant research professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, recently edited Handbook of Behavior Genetics (Springer, 2009). (posted 11-09) Kim is editor of Handbook of Behavior Genetics (Springer, 2009), a book designed for graduate students and scientists who are interested in studying human and animal behavior using quantitative and molecular genetic methods. The book has thirty-four chapters and internationally-known experts begin each chapter with an overview of a subject and discuss its latest issues, advances, and controversies, and emerging areas of importance. The book also identifies clear directions for the field in its next decade. See http://www.springer.com/biomed/human+genetics/book/978-0-387-76726-0. (posted 7-09)

Lawrence Kobilinsky, (Biology 1977) was among nine recipients of the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award, an honor open to members of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Alumni Association. An accomplished administrator, editor, writer, and teacher, Dr. Kobilinsky has been teaching at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice since 1975, holding high academic offices after 1988. Since 1981, he has been a member of the doctoral faculty in Ph.D. Program in Biochemistry at the Graduate Center. (posted 6-08)

Jorge Morales (Biology, 2005) is manager of the Electron Microscopy Center facility at City College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Caihong Qiu (Biology, 2004), after postdoctoral work at Einstein College of Medicine, has a position as technical director of the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory at the new Yale Stem Cell Center facility, Yale School of Medicine. (posted 12-07)

Richard Sorrentino (Biology, 2002), is an instructor at the University at Guyana. Until summer 2007 he was doing postdoctoral work at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston. (posted 12-07)

Zev Stern (Biology, 1986) published a review of Not By Chance! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution by Lee M Spetner (NY: Judaica Press, 1998) in Reports of the National Council on Science Education, a group that defends teachers and teaching of evolution in U.S. public schools. Dr. Stern’s doctoral and postdoctoral research focused on alcohol metabolism. He has been teaching high school biology in the New York City public schools for seventeen years. His primary interests are biochemistry and physiology of exercise, and, because of his religious background and practice, he has developed a side interest in evolutionary theory and its teaching.(posted 12-07)

Lu Zhimin (Biology, 1998), after doing a postdoctorate with Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute, is assistant professor at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston. (posted 12-07)

Douglas G. Perry (Biomedical Sciences, 1991), formerly professor of informatics and associate dean for graduate studies and research in the Indiana University School of Informatics, was appointed as founding dean of the College of Informatics at Northern Kentucky University. (posted 3-07)

Lewis J. Altfest (Business, 1978) was recently featured in two articles from the magazine Bottom Line Personal: “Attractive mutual funds with low minimum investments” (June 2009) and “The conservative investor” (August 2009). He was also quoted in an issue of Investment News (July 12, 2009) in the article “PPIP manager lineup wins praise,” speaking on the optimism surrounding the new asset managers selected for the government’s Public-Private Investment Program. (posted 11-09) President of the respected financial and investment firm L.J Altfest & Co., Dr. Altfest was the recipient of the coveted 2007 Charles R. Schwab IMPACT Award.  The presentation was made before thousands of attendees by Charles Schwab, Founder Chairman and CEO of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. at Schwab International’s IMPACT conference, in Las Vagas, Nevada.  As the recipient of the IMPACT Award, a $25,000 donation was made to Pace University’s Lubin School of Business to establish the Lewis J. Altfest Scholarship for students seeking to enter the fee-only financial planning field. (posted 10-08) He was named one of the Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors in the U.S. by Barron’s as well as by Reuters, and L.J. Altfest & Co. was named one of the top firms in the country by Wealth Manager and Financial Advisor magazines. (posted 2-08)

Harvey Blumberg (Business, 1975) was honored with a Ph.D. Alumni Association 2008 Alumni Achievement Award on May 7, 2008. A professor at Montclair State University for the past thirty years, he served as chairman of the Department of Finance and Quantitative Methods. He has also served as consultant for private firms and government agencies, including New York City Fire Department, as expert witness in substantial litigation proceedings, and took part in a research study for New York State’s Division of Human Rights. Among his impressive list of publications is a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, “Differences in Perceived Future Salary Levels by Male vs. Female Graduating Seniors.” Often quoted, it served as a wake-up call to both college administrators as well as to Human Resources personnel. (posted 4-08)

Alex Huang (Business, 2001) is CEO of Thermos, a global manufacturer of innovative insulated products, including food and beverage containers, soft coolers, and lunch kits. (posted 6-06)

Nora J. Rifon (Ph. D., Business, 1989) was promoted to professor of advertising at Michigan State University. This year she was awarded a $50,000 grant from Microsoft Research to study online privacy- and security-related behaviors in teens. The Microsoft research project is an extension of her work funded by a $400,000 CyberTrust award from the National Science Foundation, CISE division. Her recent work on Internet safety and privacy appears in the Journal of Consumer Affairs, Communications of the ACM, and Government Information Quarterly. (posted 9-06)

Shashi Kant Shah (Business, 1986) was among nine recipients of the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award, an award open to members of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Alumni Association. He was already a business executive when he obtained an M.B.A. (NYU, 1979) and his Ph.D. He is a tenured professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. (posted 6-08)

Keith Wilcox (Business, 2009) has accepted a position at Babson College, considered a top forty school by Business Week. He coauthored a paper that will appear in the Journal of Consumer Research in the fall.  The paper, which was previewed in Time and in the New York Times, offers evidence that the ready availability of healthy food actually makes people more likely to choose unhealthy options. As a doctoral student, he was awarded two years of tuition and $10,000 from the minority scholarship program at the GC. (posted 5-09)

Garo Armen (Chemistry, 1980), Chairman and CEO of Antigenics, was awarded the 2006 Albert B. Sabin Humanitarian Award by the Sabin Vaccine Institute. These annual awards honor individuals for their extraordinary contributions in alleviating human suffering. Antigenics is a biotechnology company working to develop treatments for cancers, infectious diseases, and autoimmune disorders. Dr. Armen cofounded Antigenics in 1994 with Pramod K. Srivastava, Ph.D. He is also the founder and chairman of the Children of Armenia Fund, a charitable organization established in 2000 that is dedicated to the positive development of the children and youth of Armenia. From mid-2002 through 2004, Dr. Armen also served as chairman of the board of directors of the pharmaceutical company Elan Corporation. (posted 9-06)

Charles J. Cante, (Chemistry, 1967) was promoted to Associate Dean and MBA Program Director for the Hagan School of Business at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. (posted 3-06)

Michael Dong (Chemistry, 1977), formerly Research Fellow/Group Leader at Purdue Pharma, is now Research Director at Synomics Pharma, Wareham, MA. He pioneered Fast LC and has over eighty publications in chromatography and analytical chemistry. He authored Modern HPLC for practicing scientists (Wiley, 2006) and co-edited Handbook of Pharmaceutical Analysis by HPLC(Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005), a concise reference guide used in the pharmaceutical industry on high-pressure liquid chromatography. (posted 3-07)

Myron Feinstein (Chemistry, 1967) has recently been appointed Director of Strategic Planning for the Motor Vehicle Commission of the State of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ. (posted 3-07)

Robert E. Hauser (Chemistry, 1976) is now Vice President of Formulation Development and Manufacturing for Biodel, Inc., a drug delivery company in Danbury, CT. He was a key player in developing three new products that have moved into global clinical trials.Prior to joining Biodel, Bob held senior operations management positions at Fujisawa USA, Stressgen Biotechnologies, Quintiles and Anderson Clinical Technologies. He is also retired from the U.S. Army Reserve, Medical Service Corps as a Lt. Col. (posted 6-08)

Georgia Tsouvala (Classics, 2008) completed her dissertation, “The social and historical context of Plutarch’s Erotikos,” under the supervision of Professor Ronnie Ancona, and currently holds a tenure-track position as assistant professor of history at Illinois State University. Previously, she taught classics courses at Hunter College (2001–03) and history courses as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Western Illinois University (2005–07). Most recently she was nominated by Illinois State University as the institution’s representative to the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. (posted 8-08)

Fazia Aitel (Comparative Literature, 2004) began a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Montana—Missoula in 2004. She teaches courses in comparative literature, twentieth-century Francophone literature, Anglophone literature, postcolonial studies, and film studies. (posted 12-07)

David A. Auerbach (Comparative Literature, 1993) is a tenured Associate Professor of the Graduate Program in Translation, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, where he has been teaching since 2003. He is a member of the American Association of Art Editors. His published translations include Brazil: Body and Soul (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2001); The Aztec Empire (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York 2004); The Colonial Andes, Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004); Issues in the Conservation of Paintings (Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2005).; The Indigenous Cultures of Puerto Rico (Publications of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico, 2006); The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2006); Taínos: Ceremonial Objects (Publications of the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico, 2007); The Art and Architecture of Persia (Abbeville Press, New York, 2007), and Darcy Lange: Study of an Artist at Work (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K./ Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2009). (posted 1-09)

Chiara Bauzulli (Comparative Literature/Italian specialization, 2007), a lecturer in Italian at the University of Hawaii—Manoa, gave a talk at the 2008 AAIS Annual Conference, Taormina, Sicily, on "La noia come coscienza di se' nel pensiero di Giacomo Leopardi.” In 2006, at the Third Annual Robert Dombroski Conference, University of Connecticut, she gave a paper on "Christ Restarted from Ellis Island: Carlo Levi's Peasants and the Transoceanic Shore”; and in 2005, at the AAIS Annual Conference, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a talk on "La filosofia del dolore nell'opera di Anna Banti.” Forthcoming (2009) papers include "A book written 'per chi non sa': The Contents of the Form in Machiavelli's Principe” at the 55th Annual Meeting of the RSA (Renaissance Society of America), Los Angeles, CA; and "Lo specchio fra le ruote. I personaggi 'bloccati' nell'opera di Italo Svevo" at the 40th Anniversary Convention, NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association), University of Boston. (posted 10-08)

Chiara Bauzulli (Comparative Literature/Italian specialization, 2007), a lecturer in Italian at the University of Hawaii—Manoa, gave a talk at the 2008 AAIS annual conference, Taormina, Sicily, on "La noia come coscienza di se' nel pensiero di Giacomo Leopardi.” In 2006, at the Third Annual Robert Dombroski Conference, University of Connecticut, she gave a paper on "Christ Restarted from Ellis Island: Carlo Levi's Peasants and the Transoceanic Shore”; and in 2005, at the AAIS annual conference, a talk on "La filosofia del dolore nell'opera di Anna Banti.” Forthcoming (2009) papers include "A book written 'per chi non sa': The Contents of the Form in Machiavelli's Principe” at the 55th Annual Meeting of the RSA (Renaissance Society of America); and "Lo specchio fra le ruote. I personaggi 'bloccati' nell'opera di Italo Svevo" at the 40th Anniversary Convention, NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association). (posted 10-08)

Francesca Cadel (Comparative Literature/Italian specialization, 2002), a lecturer in the Department of Italian at Yale University and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Italian at Columbia University, published three books: Poeti con nome di donna, an anthology of women's poetry (Rizzoli-BUR, 2008), edited with Davide Rondoni; La lingua dei desideri. Il dialetto secondo Pier Paolo Pasolini (Manni, 2002); La langue de la poésie. Langue et dialecte chez Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–75) et Andrea Zanzotto (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2001); and numerous articles, reviews, and translations in such English and Italian journals as MHRA (London); Italian Poetry Review; Italica; Joker; Semicerchio:Rivista di Poesia Comparata; Journal of Italian Translation; Rethinking Marxism; SUD, Periodico di cultura arte e letteratura; YIP; Pagine: Quadrimestrale di poesia internazionale; La Rivista pascoliana; and Diverse Lingue. She has also presented papers at many national and international conferences. Among her awards are two Yale Griswold Grants for research, in 2003 and 2007. Her translation of Soul’s Labor by Franco Berardi (Bifo) is forthcoming with MIT Press. (posted 10-08)

Monica Calabritto (Comparative Literature, 2001) is an assistant professor in the Department of Italian Languages and Literatures, Hunter College. Her current research deals with the representation and perception of madness and deviance in early modern Italy. Her approach to madness is multidisciplinary, as she analyzes the notion of madness and its manifestations through medical and literary texts, and legal and social documents of the period. She is the review editor for H-Italy, an online journal that offers scholars a central source of information on Italian history. (posted 12-07)

Thomas J. Carabas (Comparative Literature, 1978), who uses the pen name E. D. Karampetsos, has published extensively on Greek subject matter. Forthcoming are On the Way to Ithaca (Pella Publishing) and a translation of "God's Dog" by Nanos Valaoritis in The Charioteer. His recent articles, essays, and fiction include "The Greeks" (with Stavros Anthony), in The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces (2005); and "Preface" and "Kyra Irini" in The Charioteer 43 (2005). In 2005 and summer 2006 he made presentations at the International Symposium of Philosophy, the joint conference of the National Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, and the Far West Popular and American Culture Associations. (posted 11-06)

Paolo Dal Ben (Comparative Literature/Italian specialization, 2001), an editor at L’Arena, a regional newspaper in Verona, is also as an adjunct professor on the faculty of arts and philosophy at the University of Verona, where he is teaching a class on the theory and techniques of multimedia journalism. He has a book forthcoming: Identità e nuovi media: Appunti per una autobiografia digitale (Rimini: Pazzini, 2008). (posted 10-08)

Giovanna De Luca (Comparative Literature/Italian Specialization, 2002), an assistant professor of Italian at the College of Charleston, has a book forthcoming: Il punto di vista dell’ infanzia nel cinema italiano e francese: rivisioni (Liguori, 2008). Her articles have appeared over the past three years in Forum Italicum, Italica, and Oggi in Italia, as well as in The Encyclopedia of Italian Studies, edited by Gaetana Marrone (Routledge, 2007). She has also presented conference papers at Exeter University and University of Oxford, UK; College of Charleston, S.C.; and at annual meetings of the American Association of Italian Studies and the American Association of Italian Teachers. In addition she has been an invited speaker at the College of Charleston and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Washington, D.C. Among her awards are three Research and Development grants from the College of Charleston, where she organized festivals of Italian film in 2005, 2006, and 2008. (posted 10-08)

Lisa Downward (Comparative Literature/Italian specialization, 2003) is a visiting assistant professor of Italian, Marist College. She has a forthcoming publication: New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman (2009) with co-author Giovanna Summerfield, for www.continuumbooks.com; and presented papers at the 2008 NeMLA annual convention and at the 2008 Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Convention. (posted 10-08)

Earl E. Fitz (Comparative Literature, 1977) is coauthor with Elizabeth Lowe of Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature (University of Florida Press), which was named a 2008 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Originally published in 2007 and now available in paperback, the book is dedicated to and includes a chapter on CUNY Distinguished Professor Gregory Rabassa. (posted 11-09) Dr. Fitz, his wife Julianne, and their son Ezra have been named “volunteers of the year” by Gilda’s Club Nashville, a free community resource for people with cancer and for their family and friends. (posted 12-08) Dr. Fitz, a recipient of a 2006 Alumni Achievement Award and a professor at Vanderbilt University, is co-author of Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature (University Press of Florida, 2007). The book is dedicated to and includes a chapter about CUNY Distinguished Professor Gregory Rabassa. Dr. Fitz's co-author is Dr. Elizabeth Lowe, also a graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature. (posted 1-08) Dr. Fitz was named a 2006 Alumni Fellow by the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. (posted 9-06)

Soledad Fox (Comparative Literature, 2001) is an associate professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. Recent publications include Constancia de la Mora in War and Exile: International Voice for the Spanish Republic, (Sussex Academic Press, 2006); “Análisis de Para una crítica de la violencia de Walter Benjamin,” Cultura Moderna. (Editorial Doble J, Sevilla) N.3. (2006); and “Flaubert, Don Quijote, and the Art of Imitation,” The New England Review 27:4 (2006). (posted 12-07)

Tecla Gaio (Comparative Literature/Italian specialization, 2007), currently teaching at a liceo in Italy, published a book of poems, Grandangolo (Cierre grafica, 2003) and several articles: “Nome di dea, invocata virtù. Un percorso nella poesia di Andrea Zanzotto,” Quinto quaderno di filologia, lingua e letteratura italiana; La virtù del nome (Università di Verona, 1996); and “Il nume, la donna, la madre in ‘Pasque’ di Andrea Zanzotto,” Studi Novecenteschi (a semi-annual review of contemporary Italian Literature) XIX: 43–44 (June–Dec1992). She has lectured at the University of Verona and at the West Branch of Beijing Education Institute; has presented her book of poems several times in Italy; and is writing about her experience of teaching Italian in China. (posted 10-08)

David Goldfarb (Comparative Literature, 1999) has given many papers in the United States and Europe on Russian and Polish literature. He has also published widely on the subject, including most recently the introduction to Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (Penguin Classics, 2008); introduction and notes to Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (Barnes and Noble Classics, 2007); introduction and notes to Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych” and Other Stories (Barnes and Noble Classics, 2004); “Gogol’s Cornucopia: Dead Souls and Arcimboldo,” American Contributions to the International Congress of Slavists, in Slavica (2003); “Gombrowicz’s Binoculars: The View from Abroad,” Framing the Polish Home (Ohio University Press, 2001); and “Expressionism and the Visual in Józef Wittlin’s Hymn of Hatred,” Between Lvov, New York, and Ulysses’ Ithaca. Józef Wittlin—Poet, Essayist, Novelist (Nicholas Copernicus University and Columbia University, 2001). Dr. Goldfarb began teaching in 1992 at Queens College, Hunter College, and New York University. From 1998-2007 he was an assistant professor in the Slavic Department at Barnard College, Columbia University. At the present time, he is teaching courses in Russian and East European culture at the Freie Universität Berlin. (posted 12-07)

Anja Grothe (Comparative Literature, 2000) is a project manager at Tivola Publishing, Munich, Germany. The German-based company has offices in New York, London, and Berlin. They produce a wide range of innovative interactive CD Roms that stimulate a child's curiosity, while encouraging smart play. The company has developed six distinct categories of software: Play and Learn, The World Around Us, Quest for Knowledge, Stories and Adventures, Crimes and Clues, and Games for Fun. (posted 12-07)

Max Henninger (Comparative Literature, 2004) has been living in Berlin since 2005, where he works as a translator. He has published in journals such as Pli, Italica, Annali d'italianistica, Italian Culture, and in edited volumes such as Stato di eccezione: Cultural Responses to the Rhetoric of Fear (edited by Elena Bellina and Paola Bonifazio, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle 2006) and Letteratura italiana degli Sessanta e Settanta (edited by Gillian Ania and John Butcher, Dante & Descartes, Naples 2007). He has also translated Nanni Balestrini's most recent novel Sandokan. Storia di Camorra into German (Assoziation A, Berlin 2007) and co-edited (with Giuseppina Mecchia and Timothy S. Murphy) a special issue of the journal Substance on contemporary French and Italian theory (#112). He is currently involved in several book projects: one on 1980s Italian cinema, one on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s throughout the world, and one on current debates in labor history. (posted 12-07)

Phyllida K. Link (Comparative Literature, M.A., 1987) has been a professor at St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, since 1986. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women 2006-07, 2007-08, Who’s Who in American Art (2007-08), Who’s Who in America, 2007, and Who’s Who in the World 2007. (posted 5-07)

Federico Luisetti (Comparative Literature/Italian Specialization, 2001), an assistant professor of Italian studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published the book Estetica dell’immanenza. Saggi sulle parole, le immagini e le macchine (Aracne, 2008); and various articles and book chapters: “Political Romanticism and Biopolitics in Giorgio Agamben and Carl Schmitt,” online http://biopolitica.cl; “Vedere nel cristallo. La forma del tempo nel cinema di Roberto Rossellini,” Atti del convegno internazionale sul neorealismo, A. Vitti, ed. (Metauro, 2008); and “Le macchinazioni di Athanasius Kircher,” Athanasius Kircher. L’idea di scienza universale, F. Vercellone and A. Bertinetto, eds. (Mimesis, 2007). He also gave papers at a number of U.S. and international conferences: “Vedere nel cristallo. La forma del tempo nel cinema di Roberto Rossellini,” Neo-Realism Revisited, Wake Forest University, Venice, 2008; “The Crystal-Image. The Form of Time in Roberto Rossellini’s Cinema,” Department of Romance Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2007; “Towards a Political Ontology of Delay,” European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy Joint Conference, University of Sussex, UK, 2007; “A Place of Passage: Reflections on Henry Bergson’s Philosophy of the Body,” Body Conference, University College of Dublin, Ireland, 2007; “Duchamp and Bergsonism,” King’s College, University of London, UK, 2007; and “The Place of Art,” Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, University of Kyoto, Japan, 2007. (posted 10-08)

Nicola Minott-Ahl (Comparative Literature, 2003) joined the faculty of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, as an assistant professor of English in 2004. (posted 12-07)

Jay Miskowiec (Comparative Literature, 1991) received the first Beca Nacional de Traducción Literaria from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia for his proposal to translate the novel El viaje triunfal, by Colombian writer Eduardo García Aguilar. In March, Miskowiec introduced his former dissertation supervisor Gregory Rabassa at the Brazilian Studies Association ceremony in New Orleans when Rabassa received its Lifetime Achievement Award. Miskowiec has edited four of Rabassa's translations for Aliform Publishing. (posted 12-08)

Luisa M. Perdigó (Comparative Literature, 1981), an associate professor of foreign languages and director of the Modern Foreign Languages program at Mercy College, has been nominated to the Marquis Who's Who in America, Who's Who of American Women, and Who's Who in the World.Her poetry has appearedin anthologies published by the International Who's Who in Poetry.(posted 6-08)

María Cristina Rodríguez (Comparative Literature, 1979), Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico—Río Piedras, published What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers (Peter Lang, 2005). (posted 3-07)

María Cristina Rodríguez (Comparative Literature, 1979) is currently coordinator of graduate programs in the Collage of Humanities at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. In April 2006 she was visiting lecturer in the Toluca Campus of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEM) and the Taller de Teoría y Crítica Diana Morán in Mexico. (posted 5-07)

Michael Rothberg (Comparative Literature, 1995) is an associate professor of English and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign. In this position, he has been active in Teachers for Peace and Justice and co-organized the Working Group on Globalization and Empire. His teaching and research interests include critical theory and cultural studies, Holocaust studies, postcolonial studies, and contemporary American literature. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and co-editor, with Neil Levi, of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (Rutgers University Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2003). He has contributed essays to Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community (University of Illinois Press, 2002), Trauma at Home: After 9/11 (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), and On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization, (SUNY Press, 2005). His articles in such journals as History and Memory, Cultural Critique, African American Review, and American Literary History range in subject matter from the writings of Toni Morrison and W.E.B. Du Bois to Holocaust video testimony and the sexual politics of fascism. He is currently completing a book entitled Multidirectional Memory: The Holocaust, Decolonization, and the Legacies of Violence. Selections from this book have appeared in The Yale Journal of Criticism, PMLA, and Critical Inquiry. (12-07)

Remy Roussetzki (Comparative Literature, 1999) is an associate professor of English at Hostos Community College and is on the doctoral faculty of the Ph.D. Program in French at the Graduate Center. His primary concentrations are 19th-century literature, comparative English and French Romanticism, aesthetics, and philosophy. His publications include articles in Criticism, A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts; Prose Studies, A Frank Cass Journal; Zeitsprunge, Early Modern Studies Journal; and Kritikos: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text, and Image. He presented a paper on Milton's Paradise Lost at the Jornadas da Escola de Causa Analitica (Rio De Janeiro) in summer 2001 and an essay on Rabelais at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (Cleveland 2001). He is currently working on three books: a memoir in French and two novels in English. (posted 12-07)

Caroline Rupprecht (Comparative Literature, 1999), an associate professor of comparative literature at Queens College, published Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (Northwestern U. P., 2006). She taught a course at the Graduate Center in Spring 2007. (posted 3-07) She is the author of articles on Djuna Barnes, Henriette Hardenberg, and Unica Zürn; the English translation of Zürn’s novella, Dark Spring; and a short story. She is currently pursuing research for her second book, on “The Figure of the Itinerant Pregnant Woman in Post-War Western European Avantgarde Literature and Film.” Dr. Rupprecht is the recipient of the Carolyn G. Heilbrun Prize for Best Dissertation in Women’s Studies; and of the South Central Modern Language Association’s Prize for Best Paper in Gender Studies. She teaches avant-garde literature and drama; translation; gender studies; and the history of psychoanalysis. And, she has been nominated twice for the Queens College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. (posted 12-07)

Deborah Sinnreich-Levi (Comparative Literature, 1987) is director of the Professional Communications Program and associate professor English and comparative literature at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. She received a $25,000 grant from the Engineering Information Foundation to improve the ability of engineering students to communicate their technical discoveries to non-technical audiences.

Canan Eren Atay (Computer Science, 2008) an instructor at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey, coauthored Bitemporal Databases: Modeling and Implementation (VDM, 2009) with GC computer science professor Abdullah Uz Tansel.  The book attempts to provide a solution to the problem that mainstream database systems cannot store temporal metadata. (posted 5-09)

William Calathes (J.D., CUNY Law School, 1986; Ph.D., Criminal Justice, 1987), a professor at the New Jersey City University since 1987, was among nine recipients of the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award, an honor open to members of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Alumni Association. He has served as consultant, legal advisor, program evaluator, and organizer to many national and international institutions and causes. He has also lectured and published widely and is on the Board of the International Rights Advocates. (posted 6-08)

Mary Cuadrado (Criminal Justice 1997) founded and is the new director of the Hispanic Addictions Studies Program, University of South Florida Sarasota/Manatee. This program was created with Louis Lieberman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. (posted 3-07)

Jim Drylie (Criminal Justice, 2006) was recently elected chairperson of the Department of Criminal Justice at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. He appeared in the 2009 film A Call for Valor. Along with J.M. Violanti, Drylie coauthored Copicide: Concepts, Cases, and Controversies of Suicide by Cop (Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 2008). (posted 11-09)

Joseph F. King (Criminal Justice 1999) won the 2008 Roberta Thornton Award, conferred by the Ph.D. Alumni Association. He is an associate professor in the Department of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration, at the John Jay College of CUNY.  In his earlier career, from 1968 until 2003, he was a special agent for the U.S. Customs Service and Chief of National Security Science in the Department of Homeland Security.  Even now he continues in his previous field as a consultant to several federal, state and city agencies on security matters.  Most prominent of these is his appointment as the counter terrorist advisor to the Public Security Division of CUNY.  This division is charged with the protection of all CUNY facilities and personnel.  Dr. King has produced “City Safe,” for CUNY Radio Podcast and has published several articles in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, as well as book chapters and technological teaching aids. He has given presentations, has appeared on panels, and has received multiple fellowships and awards. As can be expected, he is a member of numerous professional associations and organizations, and he is trying his best to keep us safe. (posted 10-08) An associate professor at John Jay College, Joseph King was honored with the 2006 Adele Mellen Prize “for distinguished contribution to scholarship” for his book, The Development of Modern Police History in the United Kingdom and the United States (Mellen Press, 2004). Mellen Press, a subsidiary of the Mellen Foundation, awards this prize annually for academic scholarship in the United Kingdom and the USA. (posted 3-07)

Thomas A. Kubic (Criminal Justice/Forensic Science, 2000), professor of forensic science and chemistry at the Graduate Center, presented “Examination of a 13-Year-Old Crime Scene for a War Crimes Trial, or, Is it Ever Too Late to Examine a Crime Scene?” at the National Institute of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation-sponsored Trace Evidence Symposium in Florida in August. (posted 11-09)

Edith Linn (Criminal Justice, 2004) published Arrest Decisions:What Works for the Officer?(Peter Lang, 2008).(posted 10-08)

Jesse Lee Maghan (Criminal Justice, 1988) Professor and Director of the Forum for Comparative Correction, was invited to join twelve academics from across the United States in a dialogue conference with political and religious leaders in Sudan under the auspices of US Academics, the Council for International Peoples Friendship, and the Sudanese American Friendship Society. He chronicled his experience in Sudan in Crime & Justice International (January/February 2007). (posted 10-08)

Andres F. Rengifo (Criminal Justice, 2007), assistant professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, has been appointed as Research Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he will examine public-policy initiatives in Latin America. (posted 11-09)

Abby Stein (Criminal Justice, 2000), who teaches in the interdisciplinary studies program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, published Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime (The Analytic Press, Inc., an imprint of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). Her article, "An octopus in the bathtub: The slippery nature of female sex offending," appears in the sixth issue of Sex Offender Law Report, volume 7. On November 16, 2006, she will present a paper entitled "Maximum Perversion" to the Sexual Abuse Service of the White Clinic. In addition to teaching at John Jay, Dr. Stein is currently a postdoctoral fellow, seeing patients at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. (posted 11-06)

Sue Grady (Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2005) is an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State University. (posted 12-07)

David J. Verardo (Earth and Environmental Sciences, 1992) is Paleoclimate Program Director, Lower Atmosphere Research Section, Directorate for Geosciences, National Science Foundation and an Environmental Scientist for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Technical Support Unit, Washington, D.C. (posted 12-07)

Herman Berliner (Economics, 1970), Lawrence Herbert Distinguished Professor of Economics, provost, and senior vice president for academic affairs at Hofstra University, was honored in October 2008 by the renaming of the university’s Chemistry and Physics Building to Herman A. Berliner Hall. Funds for the hall were donated by Hofstra alumnus and trustee Alan J. Bernon, who wanted to acknowledge the Hofstra provost’s positive influence on his business career. (posted 11-09)

Frank Braconi (Economics, 2001), chief economist for the New York City's Comptroller's Office and formerly executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, was quoted several times in the New York Times with regard to NYC's housing and transportation policies. (See alumnus profile.) (posted 9-06)

John Bridges (Economics, 2002), Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany, recently received the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Bernie O’Brien New Investigator Award. As of July 1, 2006, he will assume a position as Assistant Professor of Health Economics at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. (posted 6-06)

Frank J. Fabozzi (Economics, 1972) has been appointed Professor in the Practice of Finance in the School of Management at Yale University and will be the recipient of the 2007 C. Stewart Sheppard Award given by the CFA Institute. His recently published books include Financial Econometrics: From Basics to Advanced Modeling Techniques (Wiley 2007), Financial Modeling of the Equity Market: From CAPM to Cointegration (Wiley, 2006), Introduction to Structured Finance (Wiley, 2006), Collateralized Debt Obligations: Structures and Analysis (Wiley 2006), and Trends in Quantitative Finance (Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, 2006). His book Robust Portfolio Optimization and Management will be published by Wiley in May 2007. He is a member of the Princeton University Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. (See alumnus profile.) (posted 3-07)

Susan Garavaglia (Economics, 1993) was appointed Senior Director of Outcomes Research, part of the Medical Affairs organization at Medco Health Solutions. (posted 9-06)

Sara Markowitz (Economics, 1998), who wrote a dissertation under the supervision of Distinguished Professor Michael Grossman, taught at New Jersey Institute of Technology from 1998–2000 and at Rutgers University—Newark from 2000–08. Starting in August 2008, she will be an associate professor of economics at Emory University in Atlanta. (posted 8-08) She was the author of "The Effectiveness of Cigarette Regulations in Reducing Cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12527). (posted 6-07)

H. Naci Mocan (Economics, 1989), an economist at Louisiana State University, was quoted in “Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate,” a front page article by Adam Liptak in the New York Times. (posted 12-07)

Nick Poulios (Economics, 1987) is now Vice President of Pricing and Reimbursement Strategy and Outcomes Research for Elan Pharmaceuticals in La Jolla, California. He also heads a musical-artistic production company in Los Angeles with two CDs published under his indie label Niko. (posted 3-07)

Inas Rashad (Economics, 2004) has coauthored an article, “Fast-Food Restaurant Advertising on Television and Its Influence on Childhood Obesity” in the Journal of Law and Economics (November 2008). She is an assistant professor of economics at Georgia State University. (posted 12-08)

Richard J. Torz (Economics, 1993) an associate professor of economics at St. Joseph’s College, New York, participated in the 2007 Northeast Business and Economics Association (NBEA) Conference. At this conference, he organized, chaired, and along with various member of the EU-EMU Working Group, participated in two panel sessions on current issues and concerns regarding the recent and potential future expansion of the European Union (EU), the recent and potential future expansion of the economic and monetary union (EMU) with the EU, and the potential effects on the euro of the recent and any potential future expansion of both the EU and the EMU. (posted 4-08) As a result of his interest in European Union (EU) and European Monetary Union (EMU) issues, he recently organized the EU-EMU Working Group, which is comprised of academics from various colleges, universities, and organizations who all seek to engage in research on the EU and EMU. The group presents panel sessions on EU and EMU issues and concerns at a number of conferences during the year. (posted 12-07)

Anne Zissu (Economics, 1988) has been named an associate professor and chair of the department of business at New York City College of Technology. She and her husband, Charles Stone (Economics, 1989), who is an associate professor of finance at Brooklyn College, have their first patent pending for a method of computing the life extension risks of investing in senior life settlements. Zissu and Stone are the coauthors of The Securitization Markets Handbook: Structures and Dynamics of Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities (Bloomberg Press, 2005). (posted 12-08)

MaryAnn Sorensen Allacci (Educational Psychology, 2006) teaches in New York and New Jersey. She is also co-founder of Projects for Environmental Health, Knowledge, and Action, Inc. Her new book is Neighborhood Characteristics and Asthma Emergency Visits: Using Geographic Information Systems and Multilevel Analysis to Identify Underlying Community Factors (VDM, 2009). (posted 5-09)

Timothy Cleary (Educational Psychology, 2001) was awarded an Early Career Award of $9,051 from the Society for the Study of School Psychology (SSSP) for the period of July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008 to conduct a study entitled "Improving the Motivation and Academic Success of Urban Minority Youth: An Initial Investigation of the Efficacy of the Self-Regulation Empowerment Program (SREP).” (posted 6-07)

Adele Eskeles Gottfried (Educational Psychology, 1975), Professor of Educational Psychology at California State University—Northridge, was awarded the honor of inaugural Fellow of the American Educational Research Association to be conferred at the next annual convention in April, 2009, San Diego. She is also the co-author with C. Hudley, of Academic motivation and the culture of school in childhood and adolescence (Oxford University Press, 2008). (posted 10-08)

Amy Schmidt (Educational Psychology, 2000), as Executive Director of Higher Education Research, NYC College Board, oversees all the research efforts that involve the SAT Reasoning Test, the SAT Subject Tests, and the PSAT/NMSQT. She has served as a member of the board of directors of the Association of Test Publishers; and is an active member of the American Educational Research Association, the National Council on Measurement in Education, and the American Psychological Association. Her publications include journal articles and research reports on test score validity and score comparability, and book chapters on statistics used for college admission testing and on subgroup differences in test scores. (posted 3-07)

Irvin Schonfeld (Educational Psychology, 1980), a professor of psychology at City College, edits the Newsletter of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology. (posted 2-09) In 2006, he published a chapter in Handbook of Workplace Violence (Sage), covering the epidemiology, theories, and prevention of school violence. (posted 3-07)

Shiela Strauss (Educational Psychology, 1996) has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to conduct a series of workshops and seminars in Israel regarding the institutional response to the hepatitis C virus (HCV) among drug users. (posted 3-07)

Greta Winograd (Educational Psychology, 2005) received a 2007–08 postdoctoral research grant from the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53 of the American Psychological Association) for $5,000 to study "Childhood Emotional, Behavioral, and Learning Challenges and Adult Role Function/Attainment: I. Mental Health & School Service Use; II. Home & School Environment." She is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship in psychiatric epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, where she is funded by a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) training grant. This fall, Greta will join the faculty at SUNY New Paltz as an assistant professor of psychology. (posted 6-08)

Amos A. Avidan (Engineering, 1980), senior vice president, Bechtel Corporation, was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer. Avidan was cited for his “contributions to the understanding, scale-up, and commercialization of fluid-bed reactors, liquefied natural gas facilities, and gasification plants.” (posted 11-09)

Drs. Savvas Xanthos (Mechanical Engineering, 2004), Juan Agui (Mechanical Engineering, 1998), and Minwei Gong (Mechanical Engineering 2006), and Yiannis Andreopoulos, the Michael Pope Professor of Energy Research, won the prestigious Charles Sharpe Beecher Prize awarded to the best paper on aerospace by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in Great Britain. The research paper describes the development of a new experimental technique to measure vorticity in turbulent flows--a quantity characterizing the amount of rotation or spinning in air which is responsible for disturbing airplane flights or causing transport of pollutants in the atmosphere. The prize was bestowed on Prof. Andreopoulos on October 20, 2008, in London, during the annual meeting of the Institution. (posted 12-08)

Mewburn H. Humphrey (Engineering, 1977) was recently promoted to the senior executive position of Assistant Director in the new Project Management Department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. (posted 11-06)

Svetlena Bochman (English, 2005) accepted a position as Assistant Director, Writing Center, Stern College/Yeshiva University; she is also adjunct assistant professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. (posted 3-06)

Svetlana Bochman (English, 2005) is director of her own business, Bochman Tutoring, which does admissions consulting and provides help with graduate school exams (GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT). (posted 3-07)

Edward M. Burns (English, 1983), Professor of English at William Paterson University of New Jersey, is the editor of a new volume of letters on James Joyce, A Passion for Joyce: The letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen (UCD Press, 2008).  A Passion for Joyce contains all of the extant letters exchanged by the renowned Joyce scholars Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen. The letters have been carefully annotated by Dr. Burns so that the reader can follow how the authors’ ideas are absorbed into their published writings. (posted 10-08) Professor Burns’ books include A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The ‘Finnegans Wake’ Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen (University College Dublin Press, 2001), and he is co-editor of Textual Cultures. His work on Gertrude Stein is discussed extensively in Janet Malcolm’s award-winning book, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (Yale University Press, 2008). (posted 8-08)

Jonathan Burton (English, 1999), an associate professor of English at West Virginia University, published Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579-1624 (U. of Delaware Press, 2005) and co-edited a collection entitled Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, August 2007). (posted 3-07)

Margaret Cezair-Thompson (English, 1990) won the first annual Essence Literary Award in Fiction for her novel The Pirate's Daughter (Unbridled Books, 2007), a sleeper hit of the fall season. The award is the latest in a string of kudos for this independent press title. The Pirate's Daughter was the number one Book Sense Pick for October 2007 and earned rave reviews from national publications such as People, The Washington Post, and USA Today, as well as from booksellers across the country. The paperback rights for the novel have been sold to Random House. Inspired by Hollywood star Errol Flynn’s accidental arrival in Jamaica in 1946, this lively novel spans two generations of women whose destinies become inextricably linked with the star. Cezair-Thompson tells the story of a vanished era, of uncommon kinships, forbidden passions, betrayal, and atonement in a paradisiacal, tropical setting as a mother and daughter find their way in a colonial nation that is struggling to rise to the challenge of independence. Margaret Cezair-Thompson is the author of an acclaimed previous novel, The True History of Paradise. Born in Jamaica, West Indies, she teaches literature and creative writing at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. (posted 2-08)

Dexter Cirillo (English, 1979) has published Southwestern Indian Jewelry: Crafting New Traditions (Rizzoli, 2008). She is the former Alice Poindexter Fisher. (posted 12-08)

Stacey Lee Donohue (English, 1995), Professor of English at Central Oregon Community College, was given the 2008 Faculty Achievement Award by the faculty of Central Oregon Community College. Presented annually since 1986, the award recognizes excellence in teaching.  Professor Donohue was also recently elected by members of the Modern Language Association to serve on the Delegate Assembly representing Community Colleges, and last fall, she received the National Community College Humanities Association's Distinguished Humanities Educators Award for exemplary contributions to the discipline. Donohue described her first teaching job as an "instant love." When she was ready to find a tenure track position, she chose to apply exclusively to community colleges: "I enjoy the students at community colleges: their energy, motivation, and commitment (going to school while still living other lives).” Through membership in the Modern Language Association and the Community College Humanities Association, she has worked to counter prejudices against community college students and teachers. One component of her teaching style is including enough flexibility in her curriculum to allow the class "personality" to influence the course structure and content. "I strongly believe that the ability to think, read critically, write clearly, and appreciate the aesthetic, political, social, and historical implications of our literature are skills and processes that make living life more interesting and engaging, and I hope that belief is reflected in my teaching style," says Donohue. A member of the COCC faculty since 1995, she has been one of the first to adopt new teaching methods and technologies, teaching a number of different courses online and in hybrid mode—with highly satisfied students, according to Kathy Walsh, vice president for instruction at the college. (posted 6-08)

Robert M. Dowling (English, 2001), assistant professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, will publish a book based on his dissertation: Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (University of Illinois Press, fall 2006). His Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work will be published in the fall of 2007. (posted 3-07)

Cheryl J. Fish (English, 1996), associate professor of English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to lecture and conduct research in the area of environmental justice and North American studies at University of Tampere in Finland during the 2006–07 academic year. The focus of Fish's lectures abroad will be on eco-criticism and environmental policies considered through the examination of American novels and films that deal with environmental issues. She recently published “Environmental Justice in Literature and Film,” in Approaches toTeaching North American Environmental Literatures, Eds. Laird Christensen et al (MLA), and “Place, Emotion and Environmental Justice in Harlem: June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller's 1965 'Architextural' Collaboration,” in Discourse: A Journal of Cultural and Media Studies. (posted 5-09)

Barbara Milberg Fisher (English, 1980), professor emeritus of English at the City College of New York, will have her memoir In Balanchine's Company: A Dancer's Memoir published (Wesleyan University Press, October 2006). Dr. Fisher draws on her 1946-58 years as a dancer with George Balanchine in whose company she rose from corps de ballet to soloist and lead dancer (Swan Lake, Illuminations). Upon retiring from dance at age thirty-one, she embarked on a career in English literature. (posted 9-06)

Rob Friedman (English, 1993), associate professor of humanities and information technology at New Jersey Institute of Technology, is an NSF Graduate Teaching Fellow and principal investigator on the project Computation and Communication: Promoting Research Integration in Science and Mathematics (C2PRISM). (posted 11-09) Dr. Friedman is the director of the B.S. in Science, Technology and Society program. His publications, which reflect his interests in nineteenth-century American studies and information technologies in education, include Principal Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management: Critical Research Models (2008), Hawthorne's Romances: Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry (2000), and Collaborative Learning Systems: A Case Study (2008). Author and co-author of numerous journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters, he has led and managed over $6M in research funding. Currently, he is the principal investigator on Computation and Communication: Promoting Research Integration in Science and Mathematics (C2PRISM), one of New Jersey's most recently funded NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) projects. The program supports fellowships and training for doctoral students in science, computing, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to interact with teachers and students in Newark high schools, bringing their doctoral research into the classroom while improving their communication and teaching skills and enriching STEM content and instruction for their high school partners. Writing projects underway include Intervals of Inspiration: Measurement, Metaphor and 19th-Century America, a study of the confluence of science, technology, and environmental expression in texts by Thomas Jefferson, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Adams and a series of articles accepted by First Monday, beginning with "A Socio-technical Vision of Democratic Knowledge Exchange." With co-author Brian Whitworth, Massey University Auckland, New Zealand, these articles discuss of the reasons for and the creation of an open electronic knowledge exchange system for discipline-based and meta-disciplinary scholarship, including narrowing the application/theory gap; resolving the rigor/relevance dilemma; exposing innovation in research; and challenging the dominance of SME editorial control by facilitating an open source ethos that engages the entire research community. (posted 7-09)

Daniel Gabriel (English, 1986), a member of PEN American Center and a part-time lecturer in the Livingston College Honors Program at Rutgers University, published Hart Crane and the Modernist Epic: Canon and Genre Formation in Crane, Pound, Eliot, and Williams (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007). Other published works include Sacco and Vanzetti and Columbus, both book-length poems on historical subjects. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry New York, Gnosis, and Gnosis Anthology, among others. Theatrical productions of his work include Sacco and Vanzetti, and the plays The Four Seasons of Salt, Exits, Snowbound, and The Fortunate Instant, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” He also contributed to “How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet?”: The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser (Palgrave, 2001). (posted 3-07)

Josh Gosciak (English, 2002) published his dissertation as a book, The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians, (Rutgers University Press, 2006) in which he discusses the life and works of this complex poet, novelist, journalist, and short story writer who became one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance. (posted 3-07)

Lisa Green (English, 2002), an English teacher at the Masters School, a private secondary school in Dobbs Ferry, New York, published an essay in Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (University of New Hampshire Press, 2007). (posted 12-07)

George Guida (English, 1998), an associate professor of English at New York City College of Technology, published New York and Other Lovers: Poems (Smalls Books, 2008), his second volume of poetry. Its subjects are love, loss, and a great city that engenders and amplifies both of the former. Guida's first volume of poetry, Low Italian (Bordighera Press) appeared in 2006. Other publications include The Peasant and the Pen: Men, Enterprise and the Recovery of Culture in Italian American Narrative (Lang, 2003) and the short story "Rome," in the current issue of J Journal 1.1 (Spring 2008). Further information about New York and Other Lovers is available at georgeguida.com and amazon.com. (posted 10-08)

Christine E. Hutchins (English, 1999) has accepted a position at Marymount Manhattan College for Fall 2008. Her article “Chaucer and the Problem of ‘Recreative’ Poetry in Renaissance England” has been accepted for publication in The Ben Jonson Journal. Thearticleis part of abook project on Chaucer and Elizabethan poetics.She is also working on a book of creative nonfiction/prose poetry/memoir,“Yellow Flower Dream: A Memoir of Teachers and Teaching.” She extends many thanks to the Graduate Center and its faculty forrigorous training and enduring friendships, and especially her professors, who provided so much help and support as she worked on and completed her Ph.D. , particularly Angus Fletcher, Rich McCoy, Martin Stevens (now deceased but whose spirit and influenceremains), and Pam Sheingorn. (posted 8-08)

Carol Siri Johnson (English, 1995), has received tenure and now is an associate professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her book, The Language of Work: Technical Communication at Lukens Steel, 1810 to 1925, was published in 2009 by Baywood. (posted 11-09) Her notable articles include "The Evolution of Illustrated Texts and its Effect on Science" in Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, "The Steel Bible: A Case Study of 20th Century Technical Communication" in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication and “The Analytic Assessment of Online Portfolios in Undergraduate Technical Communication: A Model” in the Journal of Engineering Education. (posted 7-09)

Brian Keener (English, 1995), professor and chair of the English Department, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, published John Updike's Human Comedy: Comic Morality in The Centaur and the Rabbit Novels (Peter Lang, 2005). Mr. Updike read the book and wrote Professor Keener a gracious letter describing it as "one of the best" critical works on him. (posted 3-07)

James King (English, 2007), an assistant professor of English at Salisbury University in Maryland, has received a Fulbright grant to study the literature of the African diaspora in Ghana during the spring 2010 semester. He had previously earned a $20,000 Henry C. Welcome fellowship from the Maryland Higher Education Commission to organize a student trip to Ghana in 2008. The students explored sites related to the history of slavery in the coastal and central regions of Ghana. (posted 5-09)

Patricia Laurence (English, 1989) was invited to Shanghai and Beijing in September to give talks about her book, Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism and China (University of South Carolina Press, 2003), recently translated into Chinese by the Shanghai Bookstore Press. The book sketches the romance between Julian Bell and Ling Shuhua, writer and painter, during the time Bell was at Wuhan University, 1935–37, and details the cultural and aesthetic relationship between Bloomsbury figures and the Crescent Moon group, an Anglophone Chinese literary group. Talks were given at the Shanghai China Forum, Fudan University, East China Normal University, and the Beijing Bookworm. She is now writing about contemporary Chinese writers and a biography of Elizabeth Bowen. (posted 10-08)

David Lawrence (English, 1976) is a boxing teacher and conditioning coach at Gleason’s Gym.  He published his fifth book of poems, Lane Changes (Four Way Books, 2007). (posted 5-09)

Christopher Leslie (English, 2007), an instructor of humanities and new media at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn NY, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Universität Potsdam, Germany, during the 2008–09 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. As part of Potsdam’s American Studies Program, Dr. Leslie will teach courses about American literature, internet culture, and science fiction. Dr. Leslie is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world. (posted 6-08)

Amy Levin (English, 1989) is a professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where she also is director of Women's Studies and coordinator of Museum Studies. Although her academic homes—English and Women's Studies—are in the building directly behind the one where the shooting occurred during the week of February 11, 2008, she was not hurt. (posted 3-08)

Bennett Lovett-Graff (English, 1995) begins a new appointment as Publisher of Digital Initiatives at the National Archive Publishing Company, a business formed in November 2005 that helps major research institutions build digital libraries of their own. (posted 3-07)

Ian S. Maloney (English, 2004) was appointed assistant academic dean at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, New York. He continues to serve as an assistant professor of English. Dr. Maloney’s first book Melville’s Monumental Imagination was published by Routledge in 2006. He has contributed introductions to two new volumes for Barnes and Noble’s Library of Essential Reading: Herman Melville’s Israel Potter and Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days. (posted 12-07)

Michael Mandelkern (English, 1996) is dean of the Literature and Languages Division at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. (posted 6-06)

Douglas A. Martin (English, 2007), a poet and novelist, published his third novel, a semi-autobiographical account of class, sexuality, and race in the American South: Once You Go Back (Seven Stories Press, 2009). (posted 11-09) In 2008 he published a new collection of poetry, In the Time of Assignments (Soft Skull Press, 2008). Dr. Martin teaches writing in the MFA Writing Program at Goddard College and at the New School for Social Research. He has published two novels, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother (2006) and Outline of My Lover (2000); a book of stories, They Change the Subject; and two earlier collections of poetry. His writing has been anthologized in SLAM; Bend, Don't Shatter; Dangerous Families: Queer Writing On Surviving; Best Gay Erotica (2000, 2002, 2003); and Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. It has also been adapted in part by the Forsythe Company for their multimedia ballet and live film Kammer/Kammer, performed worldwide. Martin was interviewed by Lena Dunham, a filmmaker and creative writing student at Oberlin College, for Bookslut 69 (Feb 2008), an online literary journal. His dissertation, “When She Does What She Does: Intertextual Desire and Influence in Kathy Acker’s Narratives,” won the Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture. (posted 2-08)

D.H. Melhem (English, 1976) writer, activist, and educator, will be featured in four new poetry anthologies this year: Inclined to Speak (Univ. of Arkansas Press), Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton), Long Island Island Sounds (NSPS Press), and another forthcoming from Norton later this year. She has had poetry acceptances from And Then, Asbestos, and Big City Lit, with whom she celebrated the publication in a reading at Cornelia Street Cafe on March 19. Late last year her poetry appeared in Banipal and Offshoots, both published abroad. Her review-essay of Poems from Guantanamo, poetry written by detainees, appeared in the March issue of Socialism and Democracy, an internationally oriented scholarly journal. Her short novels, Stigma & The Cave (Syracuse University Press, 2007) will receive a review in the magazine's July 2008 issue. Other reviews appear in Home Planet News and American Book Review. (posted 4-08) D.H. Melhem had a number of activities in October: she read from her new book, Stigma & The Cave (two short novels) (Syracuse University Press, 2007) at Barnes & Noble, Long Beach, CA; spoke about writing and publishing the book at Scandinavia House as part of the IWWG Big Apple Conference; and gave a reading at a symposium on “The Status of the Artist and Writer in New York,” cosponsored by Pen & Brush, Inc. and the International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG). (posted 12-07)

Jean Murley (English, 2004) is assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College.  Her first book, The Rise of True Crime: 20th Century Murder and American Popular Culture (Praeger, 2008), was nominated for an Edgar Allen Poe Award by the Mystery Writers of America. She wrote her dissertation on true-crime narratives under the supervision of Professor Marc Dolan. (posted 5-09)

Maggie Nelson (English, 2004), who is on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Valencia, California, published Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). The book covers collaborations between poets and painters in the 1950s and 1960s; the complex role played by the “true abstraction” of the feminine in the work of John Ashberry, Frank O’Hara, and James Schuyler; the intricate weave of verbal and visual arts throughout the postwar period, from Abstract Expressionism to Pop to Conceptualism to feminist and queer performance art; and the unfolding, diverse careers of women of the New York School—Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles—from the 1970s to the present. Dr. Nelson has published several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes, and two nonfiction books. (posted 12-07)

Dr. Ruth Prigozy (English, 1969) and Jeanne Thomas Fuchs (French, 1977) co-edited Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend (University of Rochester Press, May 2007). (posted 4-08)

Diane Simmons (English, 1994), a professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, published The Narcissism of Empire:Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Works of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and Isak Dinesen (Sussex Academic Press, 2007). (posted 12-07)

Anya Taylor (English, 1970), professor emerita of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, recently published her fifth book, Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law against Divorce (Palgrave, 2005). (posted 3-07)

Sylvia Tomasch (English, 1985), professor of English, Hunter College, completed a three-year term as Chair of the Hunter College English Department (2002-05) and has begun an appointment as Director of Academic Affairs of the CUNY Honors College. She is also 2006 Chair of the Executive Committee of the Chaucer Division of the Modern Language Association. (posted 3-07)

Steven Torres (English, 2002), an instructor of English at Manchester Community College, has published his fourth novel, Missing in Precinct Puerto Rico (St. Martins Press, 2006). (posted 9-06)

Barbara Ungar (English, 1995), an associate professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, won the Gival Press Poetry Award for her second full-length collection, The Origin of the Milky Way (Gival Press, 2007), which will be published in November 2007. (posted 12-07)

Charles Whitney (English, 1977) received the 2008 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for his book, Early Responses to Renaissance Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2006). In addition, he also recently received the Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He is a professor of English at UNLV. (posted 12-08)

In Memoriam

Barbara Stern (English, 1965), one of the first two people to earn a doctorate at the Graduate Center, died in January 2009 as the result of a long illness. Dr. Stern joined the faculty at Rutgers Business School—Newark and New Brunswick in 1986, serving as chair of the Marketing Department from 1998–2005, and vice-chair from 2006–08. Her application of literary theory to the analysis of advertisements, consumer behavior, and marketing text was revolutionary and completely changed perspectives on the marketing field. The author of over one hundred articles, her research appeared in such publications as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Advertising, Pyschology and Marketing. She served on numerous editorial boards, including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Advertising; founded and was co-editor-in-chief of Marketing Theory, and co-edited the Routledge Press series on “Interpretive Marketing Research.” In 1997, the American Academy of Advertising acknowledged her work with its “Outstanding Contribution to Research” award. (posted 5-09)

Davida Brautman (French, 1975) was honored with a Ph.D. Alumni Association 2008 Alumni Achievement Award on May 7, 2008. She has been teaching French literature at the Milburn High School of New Jersey. To her teaching duties involving teenagers, she has added adults at the Middlesex County College and other centers for adult education. After obtaining her degree, she was the recipient of several scholarships, one on French Africa and the other on Pierre Laval, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Vichy Government in France during World War II who was executed for treason. Earlier she had a scholarship at the University of Montreal and began an additional career, which has lasted until today, as a literary critic. She has published sixty book reviews, three movie reviews, and for ten years served an as assistant pedagogical editor for the French Review. In addition, she was the McGill French Children’s Book Critic, won the best teacher’s award from Tufts University and the University of Chicago, presented papers, such as “Women in French Literature,” in Quebec, Canada, “Sembène” in Lyons, France, and at several local conferences. To the literature she has added French Film Studies, and was in charge of “Les Cabotins,” a French theatre troupe she created. She was instrumental in bringing the National French Contest into the State of New Jersey and administered it for two decades. On the French AP Literature website, she is featured with fifteen movie and book critiques, as well as five articles on French literature. (posted 4-08)

Jeanne Thomas Fuchs (French, 1977) and Dr. Ruth Prigozy (English, 1969) co-edited Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend (University of Rochester Press, May 2007). Dr. Fuchs also presented a paper at the Graduate Center Symposium held on October 23, 2007, in honor of the late Professor Alex Szogyi: "Haute Cuisine and High Drama: Vatel, the Man and the Movie." (posted 4-08) Dr. Fuchs had an article on George Sand in the Lincoln Center Theater Review’s Fall/Winter, 2006, issue which was devoted to Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia. (posted 3-07)

Alison Baird Lovell (French, 2005) held a two-year position as a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Stanford University and took an assistant professorship in the Department of Humanities and Classics at Ohio Wesleyan beginning Fall 2007. (posted 12-07)

Rosa Alvarez Perez (French, 2005), before she graduated, began working at Bryant University in the English and Cultural Studies Department, which includes all the modern foreign languages. She is lecturer and coordinator of the Language Program and has been in charge of developing language and culture courses across the languages. (posted 12-07)

Animesh Rai (French, 2007) was a visiting assistant professor of French at the Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, during the 2006–07 academic year and is currently teaching in the Department of Foreign Languages at the College of Saint Rose in Albany. (posted 12-07)

Sami Repishti (French, 1977) delivered a lecture on "Jews in Albania, A Story of Survival" on February 21, 2007. The lecture is part of the Spring 2007 Holocaust Studies Program, organized jointly by the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Graduate Center. The author stressed the holocaust years and explained why, during WW II, every Jew in Albania was saved by the local population." (posted 8-07)

Frank Rosengarten (French 2000) is the author of Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society (Jackson University Press of Mississippi, 2008. (posted 10-08)

Adelia Williams (French, 1989) is a professor of modern languages and cultures, and associate dean for academic affairs at Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, NY. She has been teaching French, Italian, and interdisciplinary humanities courses at Pace since 1989. Her publications are in cross-disciplinary topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies, and in undergraduate general education and its assessment. Her most recent publication is “NSSE and the Pace University Sophomore-Experience Survey,” E-Source for College Transitions, National Resource Center on the First Year Experience and College Transitions, University of South Carolina 4:1 (September 2006): 1-3. (posted 5-07)

Dean Wilson (French, 2007) for the last few years has been working to set up a film studies program at the invitation of the Vietnamese government. He expects to continue there another two years. His title is Consultant to the Film Studies Program, Faculty of Literature, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam. (posted 12-07)

Hilario Barrero (Hispanic and Luso-Brasilian Literatures and Languages, 2000) an associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College and the recipient of a 2005 Feliks Gross Endowment Award, is the editor and translator of Otherwise (Pre-textos, Valencia, Spain), a bilingual anthology with poems by Jane Kenyon. His is the first translation of Kenyon into Spanish. (posted 6-07)

Jésus S. Bottaro (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 2005), an assistant professor of literature and foreign languages at Medgar Evers College, published El Teatro Politico de Protesta Social en Venezuela, 1969–1979 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008). The book examines the social and cultural causes of the decline in political theatre in Venezuela during the second half of the twentieth century. Bottaro focuses primarily on four representative plays: La trampa de los demonios (1977) by César Rengifo, La guerrita de Rosendo (1976) by Gilberto Pinto, La farra (1974) and La empresa perdona un momento de locura (1978) both by Rodolfo Santana. The forward was written by Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, distinguished professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at City College and the Graduate Center. (posted 3-08)

Susan Byrne (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 2004) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, beginning July 1, 2008. Currently an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, her publications include: El Corpus Hermeticum y tres poetas españoles: Francisco de Aldana, fray Luis de León y San Juan de la Cruz (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2007), as well as articles in a number of journals. She’s now working on legal and historical elements in the works of Miguel de Cervantes. (posted 3-08)

Carmen Fernández Klohe (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, 1999), associate professor at St. John's University, has published a book, Rosa Chacel y las artes plásticas (Lewiston and Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006). (posted 6-06)

Dolores M. Koch (Spanish, 1986) is an independent scholar and literary translator. She has co-written, with the composer Jorge Martin, the libretto of Before Night Falls, an opera based on the memoirs of the same title by the novelist Reinaldo Arenas, which she translated into English (Viking 1993) and which was filmed by Julian Schnabel (2000). Her translation into English of Luis Miguel Rocha’s novel La muerte del Papa (Madrid: Santillana 1986) will be published in the U.S. as "The Last Pope" (Putnam 2008). Dr. Koch presented a paper "Doce recursos para lograr la sonrisa en el microrrelato" at the IV International Congress of Minifiction, held in November 2006 at the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and published online "Doce recursos mas para hacernos sonreir" in Madrid (www.literaturas.com) and in Mexico (http://cuentoenred.xom.uam.mx). In 2006 Dr. Koch also wrote a twelve-week online workshop on "Como escribir microrrelatos (hiperbreves)" for Taller de Escritura Literaria (Madrid), directed by Marta Sanuy (www.literaturas.com/escuela/3.curso_06.htm). She is a regular reviewer, for Publisher’s Weekly Criticas, of bestsellers translated or written in Spanish, audiobooks, and dictionaries. (posted 12-07)

Nechama Kramer-Hellinx (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian, 1988) is the author of "Life and Contribution for the Cause of Zion of Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy of Hamadan (Iran)," which appeared in Etsi: Revue de Généalogie et d'Histoire Séfarades, 32:9 (mars 2006). Halevy, a famous Zionist who lived first in Iran and later in Israel, wrote books of Jewish poetry and served as a judge and ambassador for Israel. The article is a continuation of an earlier article, "The Genealogy of Rabbi Menahem Shemuel Halevy of Hamadan (Iran)," Etsi: Revue de Généalogie et d'Histoire Séfarades, 30:8 (septembre 2005). (posted 11-06)

Eduardo Lago (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 1995), a professor of Spanish at Sarah Lawrence College, has been awarded Spain’s oldest and most prestigious literary award, the Premio Nadal, for his first novel LLámame Brooklyn (Call me Brooklyn) (Ediciones Destino, 2006). (See alumnus profile.) (posted 3-07)

Alister Ramírez Márquez (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 2004), professor of Latin American Literature and Spanish at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, recently published a novel, Los Suenos de los Hombres los Fuman las Mujeres (Planeta Editoriale, 2009). An earlier novel, Mi Vestido Verde Esmeralda (Stockcero, 2006), was awarded the International Literary Prize by Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile; an English translation will be available in 2010. (posted 11-09)

Juan Carlos Mercado (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 1991) was named chairman of the foreign language department at City College, CUNY, in 2000. From 2000 to 2005, the department experienced a renaissance, growing to 200 full-time foreign language majors and twenty-three tenured faculty members, including three distinguished professors. The growth of the department and Mercado’s impact were discussed in “Foreign Language Department at CCNY on the Move,” Hispanic Outlook (5/23/2005): 14-15. (posted 3-07)

Maria Moran-Vasquez (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 2004), senior academic coordinator in the division of social science at City College, published Subversion y creatividad en los cuentos escritos por mujeres del Caribe hispanico (Edwin Mellen, 2007). In this study, she sustains that women writers of the Spanish Caribbean have a distinct style and a very particular narrative discourse that differs from the male discourse that has traditionally dominated the literary realm of this region. (posted 3-07)

Alister Ramírez Márquez (Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literature, 2004), professor of Latin American Literature and Spanish at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, recently published a novel, Los Suenos de los Hombres los Fuman las Mujeres (Planeta Editoriale, 2009). An earlier novel, Mi Vestido Verde Esmeralda (My Emerald Green Dress) (Ediciones Ala de Mosca, 2003; Stockcero, 2006), was awarded the International Literary Prize by Círculo de Críticos de Arte de Chile; an English translation will be available in 2010. Dr. Márquez has also published Andrés Bello: crítico (Ediciones Ala de Mosca, Bogotá, 2005). (posted 11-09)

Beatriz Rivera (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, 2003), an assistant professor in the Arts and Humanities Division at Penn State University, published Do Not Pass Go, her third novel (Arte Publico Press, 2006). (posted 9-06)

Beatriz Rivera (Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 2003), an assistant professor at Penn State University, is the recipient of the 2006 International Latino Book Award and a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Fiction Prize for her novel Do Not Pass Go. The awards were announced in May 2007 at Book Expo America, New York City. (posted 12-07)

María del Carmen Saen-de-Casas (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 2006) is an assistant professor in the Languages and Literatures Department at Lehman College. Her academic interests are Spanish literature of the Golden Age, particularly historiography and theatre, and she is doing research on the Castilian chronicles of Emperor Charles V. (posted 12-07)

Gloria Waldman (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 1978) is a professor emerita of theatre at York College. (posted 10-08) She performed in Christopher Cabaret in New York City in June 2007. (posted 12-07)

Benjamin Alexander (History, 2005) is a full-time lecturer at Towson University, Towson, Maryland. (posted 12-07)

Karen Altfest (History, 1979) was named one of the “50 Most Distinguished Women in Wealth Management” by Wealth Manager magazine in April 2009. She authored two articles which were published in AAII Journal: “Due Diligence: 10 Steps to Avoiding Ponzi Schemes and Financial Fraud” (April 2009), and “Surviving a Loss: Smart Steps for Coping with Widowhood” (August 2009). (posted 11-09) Vice President of L.J. Altfest & Co., a respected financial and investment advisory firm in New York City, she was featured in an article in Financial Planning (December 2007) that focused on how she uses her fine-tuned interviewing skills to solve the issues and concerns of her predominantly female client base. In addition, she appeared on ABC World News with Charles Gibson discussing how financial advisors are working to allay current fears about the market. She also recently presented a financial makeover in the anniversary issue of the New York Daily News’ Money section; and in recognition of combining the business world with academia, she received the Roberta Thornton Award from the Graduate Center. (posted 2-08) Dr. Altfest had the honor of being the second person ever featured in the "Spotlight On" column of the September 25 issue of Investment News, a weekly print publication that serves the entire financial services industry. Its goal is to provide investment advisors and other financial professionals with a view of the market. "Spotlight On" is a new feature that is being published as a web supplement. (posted 11-06) Karen was featured in the December 2005 issue of Money magazine in “Swinging for the Fences,” the “Money Makeover” article. (posted 3-06)

Paula Wheeler Carlo (History, 2001) received the 2006 Award for Teaching and Leadership Excellence from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. She was promoted to Associate Professor, Department of History, Political Science, and Geography, Nassau Community College, where she is a tenured faculty member. Her scholarly publications include Huguenot Refugees in Colonial New York: Becoming American in the Hudson Valley (Sussex Academic Press, 2005). (posted 3-06)

Laura Chmielewski (History, 2007) is an assistant professor of history at SUNY—Purchase. (posted 12-07)

Clifford D. Conner (History, 1993) published A People's History of Science (Nation Books, 2005). (posted 6-06)

Jonathan Epstein (History, 2006) is a substitute assistant professor at John Jay College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Gene F. Fein (History, 2007) is the director of Academic Service for Enrollment at Fordham University and adjunct professor at SUNY—Purchase. (posted 12-07)

Laura Fishman (History, 1979), professor of history at York College, was recently elected chairperson of the Departmentof History and Philosophy at York College. In May 2009, she presented her paper, “From Canada to Brazil: A Comparative Analysis of Seventeenth-Century French Missionary Texts,” at the annual conference of the French Colonial Historical Society. (posted 11-09)

Scott Gac (History, 2003) published Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform (Yale University Press, 2007). (posted 6-07)

Esther Gitman (History, 2005) has a postdoctoral fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (posted 12-07)

Hilary-Anne Hallett (History, 2005) is an assistant professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. (posted 12-07)

Anne Hayes (History, 2004) has published a revision of her dissertation entitled Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930 (Routledge Press, 2006). (posted 9-06)

Gerald S. Henig (History, 1971), a professor at California State University—East Bay since 1971, was among nine recipients of the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award, an honor open to members of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Alumni Association. A professor emeritus of history since 2005, he has written many articles and books and even a TV series on the Civil War and its aftermath, as well as articles on Jewish Americans during the 1970s and 1980s. (posted 6-08)

Steven S. John (History, 2007) is an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College and CCNY’s Center for Worker Education. (posted 12-07)

Robert J. Johnson, Jr. (History, 2007) is an assistant professor (liberal arts) at the Culinary Institute of America. (posted 12-07)

Jacob Kramer (History, 2007) is an assistant professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Jeffrey A. Kroessler (History, 1991) received his M.L.S. from Queens College in 2004 and in September 2005 was appointed associate professor in the Lloyd Sealy Library at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. (posted 3-07)

Teresita Levy (History, 2007) is an assistant professor in Latin American Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

James LePree (History, 2008), adjunct assistant professor at City College, has produced a number of articles. “Two Recently-Discovered Passages of the Pseudo-Basil’s De admonitio ad filium spiritualem (Admonition to a Spiritual Son) in Smaragdus’ Expositio in regulam s. Benedicti (Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict) and the Epistolae of Alcuin” appeared in the on-line journal, The Heroic Age, Vol. 11 (2008). “The Spiritual Sources of Dhuoda’s Liber manualis” appeared in Magistra, a Journal of Women's Spirituality (Summer, 2008). His English translation of a fifth-century spiritual work, Pseudo-Basil’s Admonitio ad filium spiritualem (Admonition to a spiritual son), will appear in The Heroic Age, Vol. 13 (January 2010); this first English translation from Latin is based on the text edited by Paul Lehmann in 1955. Also to be published in this issue is Dr. LePree’s article "Spiritual Sources in the Writings of Bishop Hincmar of Reims." Dr. LePree will be guest editing Vol. 16 of The Heroic Age (forthcoming 2010–11), which will be dedicated to studies of the Carolingian theologian and author Alcuin of York. Dr. LePree has also contributed eleven entries to the new Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (March 2010) and has contributed an article on a ninth-century French noblewoman of learning, Dhuoda of Septimania, for the two-volume work Landmarks in Feminist Thought, ed. Tiffany Wayne (forthcoming, ABC-CLIO, late 2010). (posted 11-09)

James LePree (History, 2008), adjunct assistant professor at the City College, has made the first English translation of Smaragdus’s fifth-century spiritual work, Commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict, which will appear online in No. 13 of The Heroic Age: a Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe. (posted 11-09)

Simon Middleton (History, 1998), who teaches early American history at the University of Sheffield has published From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). The work connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America. (posted 6-06)

Eugene D. Miller (History, 1992), Assistant Director, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, The Graduate Center, is co-director of the Center’s Donor Research Project and co-author of the Center’s Pathways for Change: Philanthropy Among African American, Asian American, and Latino Donors in the New York Metropolitan Region (2005). In 2005 he made three presentations: “Reaching Out to Donors of Color” at the Council on Foundations’ Fall Conference for Community Foundations; “Pathways for Change” at Long Island Philanthropy Day; and, with Dr. Felinda Mottino, “New ‘Old Boy’ Networks and Community Uplift” at the 34th Annual Conference for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. (posted 3-07)

Walter Penrose (History, 2006) is an assistant professor at San Diego State University. (posted 12-07)

Stanislao Pugliese (History, 1997), a recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award in 2001, was a visiting fellow at Oxford University. He is full professor of history at Hofstra University, is the editor of The Legacy of Primo Levi, and has recently translated Ignazio Silone's Memoir from a Swiss Prison. Currently, he is writing a biography of Silone for Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (posted 11-06)

Alejandro Quintana (History, 2007) is an adjunct assistant professor at Lehman College and Hunter College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Carol Quirke (History, 2005) is an assistant professor in American Studies at SUNY College at Old Westbury. (posted 12-08)

Bruce L. Ruben (History, 1997) won the 2008 Roberta Thornton Award, to be conferred by the Ph.D. Alumni Association on November 10. In his lifetime, he earned several degrees which reflect the two worlds in which he moves with great skill and dedication. As early as 1975 at Indiana University, he received a B.A. in music, with distinction, followed by an M.A.in religious studies.  Moving north in 1981, he earned another bachelor’s, this time in sacred music at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; this was followed by two years of courses in psychology at the New School for Social Research; and he ended up at the Graduate Center with a Ph.D. in history.  During his years of eclectic studies, he worked at Hunter College as a lecturer and, later, as a professor of history; for several years he taught similar courses at the Hebrew Union College, and managed to combine academics with a cantorial career in music.  He is the author of several books, of articles, has given lectures, papers, and served on committees, appeared on television, composed concerts, and has given selected musical performances.  His honors are numerous and he is now the Director of the School of Sacred Music. At the same time, he is still a cantor. (posted 10-08)

Gertrude Schneider (History, 1973), President of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Alumni Association, was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Arts and Sciences on May 22, 2006. The award was signed by the president of Austria after a petition by the minister for education science and the arts. (posted 6-06)

William Seraile (History, 1977), a professor emeritus of African and African American studies at Lehman College, delivered a presentation entitled "Bringing African American History into the Mainstream: Pioneers Who Challenged the Historical Profession to be More Inclusive" at Central Washington University, his alma mater, on April 23. (posted 5-09)

Maryjane Shimsky (History, 2007) is community relations director in the office of Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky. (posted 12-07)

Nancy Siraisi (History, 1970) received a MacArthur “Genius” Award in September 2008. She was a professor of history at Hunter College (1970–2003) and on the doctoral faculty (1976–2003). She is the author of several books, including Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils (1981), Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine (1990), and History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning (2007). (posted 10-08)

Joe Sramek (History, 2007) is an assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. (posted 12-07)

Clarence Taylor (History, 1992) is a professor of history and Black/Hispanic studies, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY, and he is on the doctoral faculty in history at the Graduate Center. Among his books are The Black Churches of Brooklyn from the 19th Century to the Civil Rights Era (Columbia University Press, 1994), a reworking of his dissertation; Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle To Integrate New York City Schools (Columbia University Press, 1997); and, Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century (Routledge, 2002). Before coming to Baruch, he taught at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, and Florida International University. His research interests are the modern civil rights and black power movements, African-American religion, and the modern history of New York City. His current projects are a history of the New York City Teacher’s Union and an edited book entitled “Civil Rights in New York City.” (posted 12-07)

Richard Van Nort (History, 2007) is an adjunct assistant professor at York College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Branko F. Van Oppen De Ruiter (History, 2007) is a substitute assistant professor at Hunter College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Christolyn A. Williams (History, 2007) is an associate professor at Westchester Community College, SUNY. (posted 12-07)

Daniel Wishnoff (History, 2007) is an assistant professor at Suffolk County Community College, SUNY. (posted 12-07)

Martin Woessner (History 2006) is a postdoctoratal fellow at the Center for Worker Education, The City College of New York, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Frances Madeson (Liberal Studies, M.A., 1994) adapted her satirical novel Cooperative Village (Carol MRP Co., 2007) as a one-woman show. It was performed recently at a conference of the Intellectual Freedom Roundtable of the New York Library Association in Saratoga Springs, New York. This show is based on her 2007 novel of the same title. (posted 12-08) She also performed twelve shows herself in a four-week run at the Church Street School for Art and Music. In addition, three benefit performances were given for Books Through Bars, New York Coalition to Expand Voting Rights, and the Gotham Center for New York City History. Excerpts are available on YouTube (www.carolmrp.com/show) and she is in the process of booking the show for single engagements in theaters, libraries, and community groups throughout the United States. (posted 8-08) The novel is carried by 164 independent bookstores, including Barnes & Noble, in forty states, from Homer, Alaska, to Canton, Georgia. It has also been embraced by public libraries in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Missouri, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York (NYC, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk, Ulster, Rockland, Dutchess, Westchester), and Oregon. The National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) in NYC has put Cooperative Village on its book club list this month—a particular honor since March is women's history month. Ms. Madeson has completed a script for a one-woman show of Cooperative Village and is actively seeking a performance venue in NYC. Ultimately, she hopes to take it on the road. (posted 3-08) Ms. Madeson's public readings from Cooperative Village and her political activities were the subject of a full-page article in the Park Slope Courier, “It takes a ‘Cooperative Village’ to tell this satirical post 9/11 tale.” (posted 2-08) Madeson began a book tour in fall 2007 and has read at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Olsson’s Books Dupont Circle, Rapture Café and Books, Bluestockings, A Radical Bookstore, and in “Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose,” a literary reading series that takes place in local laundromats. Rated 5-stars on Amazon, the book is sold in over 100 independent bookstores nationwide including Barnes & Noble and Revolution Books. Madeson’s plays—The Candle Lit, A Purim Tango, Shylock’s Heart, and Levin’s Eulogy— have been produced or read at the Cleveland Public Theatre, the Jewish Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, and other venues. (posted 12-07)

Jay Pecora (MA, Liberal Studies, 1997) recently completed his Ph.D. in educational theatre at NYU and is currently assistant professor in the drama department at SUNY Potsdam. (posted 9-06)

Margaret R. Saraco (Liberal Studies, M.A., 1994) earned an M.A. in Teaching Middle Grade Mathematics from Montclair State University’s College of Math and Science. (posted 12-07)

Edwin Battistella (Linguistics, 1981) has published Do You Make These Mistakes in English? The Story of Sherwin Cody’s Famous Language School (Oxford University Press, 2008). He is a professor of English at Southern Oregon University. (posted 12-08) Dr. Battistella was named interim provost of Southern Oregon University in Ashland, OR. (posted 12-07)

R. Clyde Coreil (Linguistics, 1992), a professor of English as a second language at New Jersey City University has published an volume he edited, Imagination, Cognition and Language Acquisition: A Unified Approach to Theory and Practice (New Jersey City University, 2007), which is dedicated to Lev Vygotsky. The thirty articles in this 169-page anthology attempt to find a quantitative basis that would modify ideas of the imagination from primarily an intensity of thought to a more quantified mental process that combines parts of two or more concepts to yield a third. This process is recursive and the dividing and recombination of these parts is infinite. The articles in this book explore different aspects of this process. In 2003, Dr. Coreil edited a sister anthology, Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner and New Methods of College Teaching. According to Dr. Coreil, these books, together, constitute a watershed of thought concerning imagination and education at all levels—kindergarten through college. (posted 2-08)

Ellen Perecman (Linguistics, 1980), Executive Director, Council for Canadian-American Relations, published A Handbook for Social Science Field Research: Essays and Bibliographic Sources on Research Design and Methods (Sage, 2006). (posted 3-07)

Debbie (Mandelbaum) Seymour (Linguistics, 1995), a program specialist at Laureate Education, Inc., co-edited, with Harriet Luria and Trudy Smoke, Language and Linguistics in Context: Readings and Applications for Teachers (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005). The book is about first- and second-language acquisition, the history of language and language change, and literacy. (posted 3-07)

Hossein Abbaspour (Mathematics, 2003) is an assistant professor at the University of Nantes, France. He published, with professor emeritus Martin Moskowitz, the book Basic Lie Theory (World Scientific, Singapore, 2007), a subject at the center of mathematics. (posted 12-07)

Miguel A. Arcones (Mathematics, 1991), Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, SUNY Binghamton, has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). An induction ceremony for all 2008 Fellows took place July 14, 2008, at the IMS Annual Meeting/World Congress in Singapore. Professor Arcones received the award for contributions to probability and mathematical statistics including the bootstrap, U-statistics, M-estimators, Gaussian processes, limit theorems, empirical processes and large deviation theory; and for extensive editorial work. Each Fellow nominee is assessed by a committee of his/her peers for the award. In 2008, after reviewing forty-seven nominations, seventeen were selected for Fellowship. Created in 1933, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics is a member organization which fosters the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability. The IMS has 4500 active members throughout the world. Approximately 5% of the current IMS membership has earned the status of fellowship. (posted 8-08)

Ephraim Feig (Mathematics, 1980) is senior director at Motorola. Previously he was CTO and Chief Marketing Officer of Kintera, a company he helped take public in 2003, and before that, spent twenty years at IBM. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Service Computing, this year’s Program Chair of IEEE Services Computing Conference, and serves on the board of directors of the San Diego Symphony. He also serves on advisory boards at UCSD and USD. He holds twenty-seven US patents and has published over one hundred technical papers. He has taught at eight universities, including Columbia University, the City College of NY, and University of California—San Diego. (posted 12-07)

Mohammad Tabanjeh (Mathematics, 2000) is an associate professor of mathematics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Virginia State University. Dr. Tabanjeh has written several proposals in various areas such as improving success rate in college algebra and enhancing more mathematics majors in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and he is also working on establishing a new program in actuarial science. Despite the teaching load of four courses, he has been actively working on collaborative research in mathematics with colleagues from the Graduate Center.

Kyle Adams (Music, 2007) won the 2007 Barry Brook Award for his dissertation "A New Theory of Chromaticism from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Eighteenth Century." (posted 12-07)

Murray Boren (Music, D.M.A., 2002) was hired as House Composer at Lyon & Healy West, a renowned harp manufacturer.  He retired from a tenured academic position in 2007. 

L. Poundie Burstein (Music, 1988) received the Society for Music Theory’s Outstanding Publication Award for his article “The Off-Tonic Return in Beethoven’s Op. 58 and Other Owrks,” published in Music Analysis (2005). He is a professor of music at Hunter College. (posted 12-08)

L. Chandler Carter (Music, 1995) is associate professor of music at Hofstra University.  His opera, “Strange Fruit,” was performed by the Harlem School of the Arts.  The performance was reviewed by the New York Times on March 2. (posted 5-09)

Allen Cohen (Music DMA-Composition, 1996) wrote a critical introduction to a new edition of Anatoly Lyadov’s “From the Apocalypse, Op. 66” (Repertoire Explorer/Musikproduktion Hoeflich, 2000). He was appointed to the board of directors of the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music in spring 2008. Two of his compositions had their premieres in October 2008: “Sculpture Garden Suite” by the University of Nebraska Brass Quintet, Lincoln, Nebraska; and “Trio del Gatto for flute, violoncello, and guitar” by the Arcas Trio, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. (posted 12-08) He co-authored with Steven L. Rosenhaus Writing Musical Theater (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), a complete guide covering the entire process of creating the modern musical, from finding and working out the initial idea, through the writing of both songs and libretto, to the ways in which writers can market a finished show and get it produced. (posted 3-06)

Helen Greenwald (Music, 1991), New England Conservatory of Music, specializes in nineteenth-century opera, especially Italian opera. A musicologist, cellist, and translator, she is considered one of the leading people in the field of opera research and speaks and writes regularly for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York Opera. Her principal areas of research include vocal music of the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. Her articles have appeared in such journals as 19th-Century Music, Acta Musicologica, Music & Letters, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Current Musicology, the Mozart-Jahrbuch, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, the Music Library Association’s Notes, Studi musicali toscani, Newsletter of the Résource Internationale d’Iconographie Musicale, and Cambridge Opera Journal. She has presented papers in the international forum, including the 1991 International Mozart Congress (Salzburg), the 2001 Verdi Congress (Parma), the Royal Music Association, the British Society for Music Analysis, the biannual British 19th-Century Music Conference, the Salzburg Symposium, the American Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory, the New England Conference of Music Theorists, the Music Theory Society of New York State, and the Modern Language Association. She is co-editor of the critical edition of Rossini's Zelmira (Fondazione Rossini/Ricordi, 2005) and is currently working on the critical edition of Verdi’s Attila. Most recently, Greenwald was contributing curator and consultant to the international exhibition "La Scena di Puccini", shown September 2003–February 2004 at the Fondazione Ragghianti in Lucca, Italy. (See alumna profile.) (posted 12-07)

Sarah Grunstein (Music, D.M.A. in Performance, 2005), an acclaimed pianist and an assistant professor of music at the College of the Holy Cross since 2002, recently returned from a concert and teaching tour in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In Italy, she performed Bach’s Goldberg Variations at the XIV International Music Festival at Rocca Grimalda; at Durham University, England, she presented a lecture-recital “Playing the Changing Face of Chopin’s Score” in which she investigated Frederic Chopin as improviser; in Norway she presented a master-class for the Piano Forum at the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo; in New Zealand, as Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at the University of Auckland, she presented classes, master-classes, studio teaching, piano classes, and a recital featuring Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, and Schumann; in Australia, she gave a master-class at Monash University, Melbourne. Her international career has included concerts in the U.S., Austria, Hungary, Italy, and the United Kingdom. In Australia, she has appeared as soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the State Orchestra of Victoria, and the Melbourne Musicians. At Holy Cross she founded and leads the monthly student-faculty performance forums, has presented colloquia on her eighteenth-century fortepiano, founded the Annual Chamber Music Festival, and is co-director of the Chamber Music Program. Grunstein has received acknowledgement from the Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute as the first professor to bring college students to Carnegie Hall’s Professional Training Program. She has led study tours to the Frederic Historic Piano Collection where she has created and directed festivals featuring Holy Cross students performing on historic instruments. She has also recently been elected as the first board member in performance for the Northeast Region of the College Music Society. (posted 8-08)

Fernando Hashimoto (Music, DMA, 2008) is professor of percussion at the University of Campinas, Brazil, where he is founder and director of the GRUPU, the university’s percussion ensemble. He also plays the timpani in the Campinas Symphony Orchestra. On May 16 and 17, 2009, he performed as percussion soloist in the world premiere of Brazilian composer Germano Fonseca’s Concerto for Vibraphone and Orchestra. (posted 5-09)

Barbara Heyman (Music/Ph.D., 1989) received a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship to support research for “A Catalog of the Complete Works of Samuel Barber.” It is one of fifty grants awarded for the “We the People Project,” a special category to advance the understanding of American culture. (posted 3-07)

Mark Howell (Music, 2004), director of Winterville Mounds Park and Museum, Greenville, Mississippi, spoke at Grand Village of the Natchez Indians about his discoveries in Mayan music found during research in Guatemala. (posted 6-07)

Lisa Johnson (Music/DMA-Performance, 1992) was appointed Director of the Music Program at the New York State Council on the Arts. A woodwind musician, she is a performer in chamber music and musical theatre, has been a dean at the Mannes College of Music for the past decade, has been a tenured faculty member at Clarion University, and has taught at SUNY Purchase. (posted 3-07)

Stephen Kalm (Music/Vocal Performance, DMA, 2000) was appointed dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Montana in Missoula. He had been serving as interim dean since the retirement of Shirley Howell in May 2008. Kalm joined the UM faculty in 1994 and served as chair of the music department from 2002 to 2008. He is an award-winning vocalist and opera singer. (posted 5-09)

Susan Kagan (Music, 1983) retired from the music faculty of Hunter College in December 2006 and has since been engaged in recording the complete piano sonatas and sonatinas of Ferdinand Ries (Beethoven's student) for Naxos Records. Volume I was released in March 2008. (posted 4-08)

Sylvia Kahan (Music, 1993) was the compiler, narrator, and pianist for a Music in Midtown concert at the Graduate Center in October 2007. The concert featured works by Fauré, Poulenc, Ravel, Stravinsky, and de Polignac that were performed at the music salon of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac. Dr. Kagan’s book, Music’s Modern Muse: A Life of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac (University of Rochester Press, 2003, 2nd printing 2006) was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as an “important new study” and will appear in French translation in 2008. A second book, Edmond de Polignac and the Discovery of Octatonicism, is forthcoming from University of Rochester Press. Sylvia is a regular lecturer on French opera at New York City Opera. She serves as Chair of the New York Chapter of the American Musicology Society and is a professor of music at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, where she is a member of both the piano and musicology faculties. (posted 12-07)

Benjamin Lapidus (Music, 2002) has published Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changüí (Scarecrow Press, 2008). This is the first in-depth study of changüí, a form of music and dance similar to American blues and native to Guantánamo, Cuba. Lapidus has published previously in Ethnomusicology, in Latin Beat, and in the Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. He is an assistant professor of music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. (posted 12-08)

Nicholas Milton (Music/D.M.A.-Performance, 2004) has been appointed chief conductor and artistic director of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in Sydney, Australia, for a three-year term commencing in January 2007. (See alumnus profile.) (posted 3-07)

Mauricio Molina (Music, 2006) won the 2006 Higini Anglès Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Frame Drums in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula.” (posted 12-07)

Steven Nuss (Music/Ph.D., 1996), associate professor and chair of the music department at Colby College, Maine, engages undergraduates in teaching impoverished children of subsistence farmers in the Himalayan region between Nepal and Bhutan. The undergraduates, one third of them music majors, spend three weeks teaching at Gandhi Ashram, a K-8 school founded by a Catholic priest from Canada. Music, which is integral to the local culture, is fundamental to the curriculum and every child, about 250 of them, is given a violin. The Colby students "gain a greater appreciation for the struggles of fellow human beings," said Nuss, and realize that "they have the power to make a difference in the lives of those people." A PBS report on the school aired August 19, 2005. (posted 3-07) With Sevin Yaraman (Music, 1998) (see below), he presented papers at Shatter Heaven’s Roof: A Symposium on the History, Poetry, and Sonic Worlds of Mystical Islam in April 2009. (posted 5-09)

Carol Oja (Music, 1985) served as acting chair of Harvard’s standing committee of the history of American civilization last fall. To Prelude, Fugue & Riffs she contributed “Wonderful Town and McCarthy-Era Politics,” and to Harvard Library Bulletin “Time Travel with Nadia Boulanger. She published a foreword to Ruth Crawford Seeger’s World: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music. For the “Musical Theatre in 1957” conference at the University of Kansas she gave the keynote address, “On the Edge of the Sixties: American Musical Theater at a Crossroads.” She was an invited participant in “Research on Orchestras” at Princeton’s Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, and at the University of Michigan she presented a paper, “West Side Story and The Music Man: Whiteness, Immigration, and Race in the late 1950s.” During 2008-09, while on leave from Harvard, Oja is a resident fellow at the Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College. At Harvard she is the William Powell Mason professor of music. (posted 12-08)

Antoni Piza (Music, 1994) is director of the Foundation for Iberian Music and an adjunct faculty-member at the GC. For his edited volume, J.B. Sancho: Pioneer Composer of California (Palma de Mallorca: Universitat de les Illes Balears, 2007), the Historical Society of Southern California presented him with the Norman Neuerburg Award for outstanding writing in early California history. Juan Bautista Sancho (1772 or 1776–1830), the book’s subject, brought some of the first samples of eighteenth-century European music to California, including sacred plain chant, sacred polyphony, and opera excerpts and instrumental arrangements with basso continuo. He also co-wrote a curious Interrogatorio, reporting on the conditions of the natives, their social customs, their local flora, and even their music. (posted 5-09)

Cathy Ragland (Music/Ph.D., 2005), after teaching last year in the Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia, is now an assistant professor in music and the arts at Empire State College/SUNY in Hartsdale, NY. She also has a book forthcoming: Ni Aquí Ni Allá (Neither here nor there): Música Norteña and the Mexican Working-Class Diaspora (Temple University Press, Fall 2008). The book is based on her dissertation which won the 2006 Barry Brook Award.

Bruce Saylor (Music, 1978), who is on the Graduate Center’s doctoral faculty, won a 2008–09 ASCAPLUS Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. (posted 12-08)

Daniel Sonenberg (Music, 2003), a composer and professor at the University of Southern Maine, is preparing his first opera “The Summer King,” about the famous catcher and home-run hitter of the Negro Baseball Leagues, Josh Gibson, known as the “Black Babe Ruth.” American Opera Projects, the Brooklyn-based organization dedicated to developing new operas, has been an important partner for him and presented staged readings of two scenes from the opera in August and September 2007. The Wall Street Journal gave the reading a favorable review (September 5, 2007, p. D8) and the online version of the review includes a video clip. (posted 12-07)

Sabra Statham (Music, 2009) was awarded a faculty fellowship by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities at the University of Virginia in 2009. Working with UVA scholars and Documents Compass, an NEH-supported digital development consulting group, Statham developed a pilot online digital archive of letters by American composer George Antheil. (posted 11-09)

Alexander Stewart (Music, 2000), an associate professor of music at the University of Vermont, published Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz (University of California Press, 2007). (posted 6-07)

Gregg Wramage (Music, 2006) was awarded the 2008 EAMA Prize by the European American Musical Alliance, for his recent orchestral work, "La tristesse durera.” This first annual award is a cash prize of $10,000. In addition, a recording of "La tristesse durera" by Robert Ian Winstin and Millennium Symphony is scheduled to be released this month, on the first volume of  ERM Media's, "Made in the Americas" CD series, thanks to the support of the Copland House Sylvia Goldstein Award. See http://www.ermmedia.org (posted 10-08)

Sevin Yaraman (Music, 1998) and Stephen Nuss (Music, 1996) presented papers at Shatter Heaven’s Roof: A Symposium on the History, Poetry, and Sonic Worlds of Mystical Islam in April.  Yaraman is assistant professor of art history and music at Fordham University.  Nuss is associate professor of music at Colby College. (posted 5-09)

Eric Banks (Philosoply, 2000) is an assistant professor of philosophy at Wright University, Ohio. (posted 12-07)

Maureen Eckert (Philosophy, 2004) co-edited with Robert B. Talisse (Philosophy, 2001) A Teacher’s Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn (Lexington Press, 2009), a collection of thirteen essays by Cahn’s colleagues and former students, presented in his honor on the occasion of his twenty-fifth year as professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. The chapters focus on topics that have been central to Cahn’s philosophical work, such as the teaching of philosophy, the responsibilities of philosophy professors, the nature of happiness, and the concept of the good life. Eckert is assistant professor of philosophy at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and Talisse is associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. (posted 11-09)

Carrie Figdor (Philosophy, 2005) was appointed as an assistant professor of philosophy, University of Iowa. (posted 12-07)

Nada Gligorov (Philosophy, 2007) was appointed as an assistant professor of medical education, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. (posted 12-07)

Russell Marcus (Philosophy, 2007) was appointed Chauncey Truax Postdoctoral Fellow, Hamilton College. (posted 12-07)

Fritz McDonald (Philosophy, 2006) was appointed as an assistant professor of philosophy, Oakland University, Michigan. (posted 12-07)

Mehul Shah (Philosophy, 2004) is an assistant professor of philosophy at Iona College, New York. (posted 12-07)

Mark Sheehan (Philosophy, 2004) is Research Fellow, Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences, Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. (posted 12-07)

Dena Shottenkirk (Philosophy, 2005) is Program Leader, MFA Program (Fine Arts Section), Glasgow School of Art and Vice President, Giotto Fund (Institutional Art Investment). (Posted 12-07)

Robert B. Talisse (Philosophy, 2001), co-edited with Maureen Eckert (Philosophy, 2004) A Teacher’s Life: Essays for Steven M. Cahn (Lexington Press, 2009), a collection of thirteen essays by Cahn’s colleagues and former students, presented in his honor on the occasion of his twenty-fifth year as professor of philosophy at the City University of New York. The chapters focus on topics that have been central to Cahn’s philosophical work, such as the teaching of philosophy, the responsibilities of philosophy professors, the nature of happiness, and the concept of the good life. Eckert is assistant professor of philosophy at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and Talisse is associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. (posted 11-09) Talisse's primary research field is contemporary political philosophy, especially democratic theory. Talisse is the author of several books, including Democracy After Liberalism (Routledge, 2005), A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy (Routledge, 2007), and Pragmatism: A Guide to the Perplexed (Continuum, forthcoming). His essays have appeared in a variety of journals, such as Argumentation, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Review, Episteme, Harvard Review of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Social Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Teaching Philosophy, and Transactions of the C. S. Peirce Society. He is presently finishing a book on the role of religious belief in democratic politics. (12-07)

William (Bill) J. Vitek (Philosophy, 1989), an associate professor of philosophy at Clarkson University, delivered the Van Sickle Endowed Lecture at Clarkson University's convocation on Sunday, August 26. His lecture "Curiosity, Education, and the Still Unlovely Human Mind," was based in part on the book that all first-year students read over the summer, The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Vitek has taught at Clarkson for twenty years. His research and writings are focused on the intersection between social practices and the environmental, cultural, and historical contexts in which they occur. His current focus is on the substantial cultural and social changes that will be necessary—in our lifetimes—to live without easy access to cheap, carbon-based energy in the form of oil, natural gas, and coal. He is the author of one book; the co-editor of two books; and the author of popular essays and articles on professional ethics, agriculture, community, and public life. He is currently editing his second book with Wes Jackson, titled The Virtues of Ignorance, and is also writing a book of his own essays, titled “Toss the Paddle! Finding Our Way Out of Carbon Creek.” He is a currently a visiting scholar with the Center for Humans and Nature and at the Land Institute. Vitek has won numerous teaching and advising awards at Clarkson and received Clarkson's Phalanx Award, for "outstanding leadership qualities and quality participation in organizations with Clarkson and the Potsdam community." He co-founded and directed Clarkson's Environmental Science and Policy Program, and organized and directed Clarkson's Year of Sustainability in 2001. Vitek is also a jazz pianist. He co-wrote and co-produced three award-wining collections of jazz nursery rhymes. He currently performs with bassist Dan Gagliardi. They recently released "A Fine Line," a collection of jazz classics. (posted 8-07)

Scott Walden (Philosophy, 1994), currently visiting scholar in the department of philosophy at New York University, won the 2007 Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography, a prize established by the Canadian government in 1986 through an endowment to the Canada Council for an annual prize awarded to the best professional artist in photography competing for a Canada Council project grant. The $8,000 prize is awarded in addition to the recipient’s grant. Walden’s photographic work deals with memory and place and his images have been exhibited widely in Canada and the United States, as well as being reproduced in Prefix Photo, CVPhoto and Maclean’s Magazine. He is also the editor of Photography and Philosophy: New Essays on the Pencil of Nature (Blackwell, 2007), and author of Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities (Lynx Images, 2003). (posted 8-07)

Jamie Weinstein (Philosophy, 2005) is visiting professor (for two years) in gender studies at Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts. (posted 12-07)

Josh Weisberg (Philosophy, 2007) was appointed as an assistant professor of philosophy, University of Houston. (posting 12-07)

In Memoriam

Beth Hassrick (Philosophy, 1997) passed away in June 2007.

Peter J. Delfyett (Physics, 1988), a leading researcher in ultrafast optics, was elected President-Elect of the National Society of Black Physicists at the society’s annual conference in Boston. Dr. Delfyett is the University Trustee Chair Professor of Optics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics at the University of Central Florida. He will serve as President-Elect for one year, President for two years, then Past-President for one more year. (posted 3-07)

Lloyd Makarowitz, (Physics 1974) was among nine recipients of the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award, an award open to members of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Alumni Association. He has been the chairperson of the Physics Department at Farmingdale State College for the past sixteen years. (posted 6-08)

Ashok Puri (Physics, 1982), a distinguished professor of physics at the University of New Orleans, was awarded the “2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).” The award is presented by the President of the United States on the recommendation of the National Science Foundation. (See alumnus profile.) (posted 3-07)

Bruce Altschuler (Political Science, 1980), a professor of political science at SUNY Oswego, has published an article, “A Look Back at the Steel Seizure Case,” in the Journal of Supreme Court History, vol. 33, no. 3 (November 2008). (posted 12-08) Dr. Altschuler presented a paper, “Selecting Presidential Nominees by National Primary: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?" at the American Politics Group conference, held January 3–5, 2008,  at the University of London. The paper was then published in The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, 5:4 (2008) and can be found at: http://www.bepress.com/forum/vol5/iss4/art5. On January 10, the Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion's website printed an entry discussing the article, entitled "Ultra Tuesday: Scholar Calls for a National Primary," which can be found at: http://chronicle.com/blogs/elections/?id=1387. (posted 2-08) Professor Altschuler, a member of SUNY-Oswego's political science faculty since 1976, won the 2007 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activity. He is the author of four books and a widely interviewed expert on the presidency, polling, and American politics.(posted 5-07) He published “Learning the Art of Policy Management,” White House Studies 5:2 (2005): 195-214; and his “Scheduling the Party Conventions,” is forthcoming in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Dec 2006). (See alumnus profile.) (posted 3-06)

Michael Engel (Political Science, 1979), who retired in 2004 from Westfield State College, Massachusetts, is running as an Independent for the 2010 election for Massachusetts’ First Congressional District. (posted 11-09)

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith (Political Science, 1990), dean of the Honors College at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, has been named the first Provost of Radford University, Radford, Virginia. A specialist on Caribbean and Inter-American security, crime, terrorism issues, and the illegal drug trade, he has written three books and edited or co-edited another four, most recently Caribbean Security in the Age of Terror (2004). (posted 6-06)

Jeffrey Kraus (Political Science, 1988), professor and chair of the department of government and politics at Wagner College, has been appointed associate provost. (posted 8-07)

Christopher Malone (Political Science, 2002), an associate professor of political science at Pace University, New York City, and since summer 2007, director of the Pforzheimer’s Honors College on Pace’s New York City campus, published Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North (Routledge, 2007). (posted 12-07)

J. Patrice McSherry (Political Science, 1994), a professor of political science and director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Long Island University, Brooklyn campus,

J. Patrice McSherry (Political Science, 1994), associate professor of political science at Long Island University and Brooklyn College and an expert on violence and repression in Latin America, received the 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award in May from the GC’s Ph.D. Program in Political Science. At the ceremony, she delivered the lecture “Counterterror Wars and Human Rights: From Operation Condor to the Present.” A Fulbright scholar in Argentina in 1992, she is the author of Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina (1997) and Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America (2005; Spanish trans., 2009) and has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including the New York TImes, Newsweek, Jornal do Brasil, and Television Cataluna. Her chapter “América Latina, Estados Unidos y la Guerra Fría,” appears in Roberto García Ferreira, ed., La Guerra Fría en América Latina (University of the Republic, Uruguay, 2009).”‘Industrial Repression’ and Operation Condor in Latin America,” appears in Marcia Esparza et al, eds., State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Dirty War Years (Routledge, 2009). In March 2009, she was interviewed about Operation Condor on Oklahoma Public Radio, and was invited to the University of Oklahoma to give a talk entitled “Operation Condor and the Strategy of Counterterror in Latin America.” With her colleague Marcia Esparza, professor of sociology at John Jay College, McSherry discussed violence and repression in Latin America on Criminal Justice Matters on CUNY TV in September 2009. (posted 11-09) Dr. McSHerry won the David Newton Excellence in Teaching Award in April 2008. Her article "Death Squads as Parallel Forces: Uruguay, Operation Condor, and the United States," Journal of Third World Studies, XXIV:1 (Spring 2007), was translated and published in Uruguay in Cuadernos de la Historia Reciente 3, in September 2007. Her research has been used as a resource in several recent human rights trials in South America. (posted 6-08) Professor McSherry received a three-month Fulbright grant, her second, for fieldwork in Uruguay in summer 2005. Her first Fulbright covered a year of study in Argentina in 1992. This new study extended her previous research on the covert repressive program Operation Condor by focusing on the protagonism of the Uruguayan regime of the 1970s in Condor. (posted 3-07)

Vernon Mogensen (Political Science, 1993), an associate professor of political science at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, edited Worker Safety Under Siege: Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World (M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 2006). (posted 11-06)

Rochelle G. Saidel (Political Science, 1992), founder and director of Remember the Women Institute (www.rememberwomen.org), edited Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story (Syracuse University Press, 2007), a new expanded edition of the memoir by Gemma La Guardia Gluck, sister of New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The original memoir, My Story (1961), has long been out of print. The Centro Primo Levi for Italian Jewish Studies at the Center for Jewish History, New York City, organized a special program for April 24, 2007, to launch the book. Dr. Saidel was a research fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem for the fall 2006 semester. She is the author of The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp (University of Wisconsin Press, 2004), Never Too Late to Remember: The Politics Behind New York City's Holocaust Museum and The Outraged Conscience: Seekers of Justice for Nazi War Criminals in America; and she curated an exhibit on Ravensbrück for the Florida Holocaust Museum. Dr. Saidel is also a senior researcher at the Center for the Study of Women and Gender, University of São Paulo, Brazil. A citizen of Israel and the United States, she divides her time among Jerusalem, New York, and São Paulo. (posted 3-07)

Jeffrey D. Straussman (Political Science, 1975) is the new dean of the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany. (posted 9-06)

Stephen White (Political Science, 1980) (See alumnus profile.) (Posted Fall-05)

Michael Abrams (Psychology/Experimental,1987) has co-authored a third book with Albert Ellis, the founder of cognitive beharior therapy: Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives (Sage, 2008). This is the final book and only college textbook authored or co-authored by Dr. Ellis. (posted 8-08)

Lakshmi Bandlamudi (Psychology/Developmental, 1994) Anthem Press will publish her dissertation, The History of Understanding and the Understanding of History: A Dialogue with Epic Heroes and Heroines in 2010. (posted 11-09)

Adam Brickman (Psychology/Neuropsychology, 2004) won the Cattel Prize from the New York Academy of the Sciences for the best psychology dissertation in the country. His dissertation, which was mentored by Joan Borod, was entitled: "Neuropsychological Functioning and Neuromorphometry in Non-Kraepelinian and Kraepelinian Schizophrenia?" (posted 6-06)

Caitlin Cahill (Psychology/Environmental, 2005) was featured in "Renaissance Scholars," an online article in APA's GradPsych 3:3 (Sept 2005) that discussed the new interdisciplinary nature of some science programs. As a graduate student, Dr. Cahill taught an environmental psychology class at Barnard College; and she has just begun a tenure track position at the University of Utah in an interdisciplinary department of family and consumer studies, where the effect of social, economic, political, and physical environments on families and consumers is investigated. (posted 9-06)

Suzanne M. Clerkin (Psychology/Neuropsychology, 2009) et al.,  “Guanfacine Potentiates the Activation of Prefrontal Cortex Evoked by Warning Signals,” was published in and highlighted on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Biological Psychiatry. The cover image shows areas in the brain that had increased blood flow when participants were alerted to the fact that a target stimulus was imminent. The article derives from her dissertation, which examined the role played by noradrenergic receptors in the prefrontal cortex during human attentional processing. Dr. Clerkin completed her work in Dr. Jeffrey Halperin’s laboratory at Queens College. (posted 11-09)

Thomas Diamante (Psychology/Industrial and Organizational, 1987), senior vice president at Corporate Counseling, a human capital consulting firm located in mid-town New York, was selected to serve on the board of directors for ENACT, Inc., a non-profit focused on social, emotional, and intellectual development of at-risk New York City schoolchildren. (posted 11-09)

Robyn Fivush (Psychology/Developmental, 1983) holds an endowed chair at Emory University as Samual Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology. (posted 3-07)

Alwyn D. Gilkes (Psychology/Social-Personality, 2004) published The West Indian Diaspora: Experiences in the United States and Canada (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2007), a book based on his dissertation. An immigrant himself, his research interests include immigrant acculturation, educational success and achievement, and resilience. (posted 8-07)

Ronnie Halperin (Psychology, 1978), an associate professor of psychology in the School of Natural and Social Sciences at SUNY–Purchase, received the 2007 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, which recognizes superior service contributions by teaching faculty. She teaches courses in physiological psychology, experimental psychology, abnormal psychology, drugs and behavior, psychobiology of mental disorders, behavior statistics and introduction to psychology. She conducts research at a residential treatment center for boys in which she looks at outcomes as they are related to various approaches to treatment as well as to child characteristics. She also has a scholarly interest in the psychobiology of mental disorders. She is Presiding Faculty Officer of the Purchase College Senate. (posted 12-07)

Jessica Kindred (Psychology/Developmental, 2005) had her dissertation Belonging(s)at Work: Psychological Ownership at the End of the Industrial Age published by VDM Verlag in 2009. (posted 11-09)

Bradley G. Klein (Psychology/Biopsychology, 1983), an associate professor of neurobiology in the department of biomedical sciences and pathobiology at Virginia Tech’s College of Veterinary Medicine, is co-editor-in-chief and neurophysiology section co-author of the recently published fourth edition of Textbook of Veterinary Physiology (Saunders, 2007), the most widely used veterinary physiology text in the world. (posted 12-07)

Beatrice Krauss (Psychology/Social-Personality, 1979) has been appointed Executive Director of the Hunter College Schools of the Health Professions (SHP) Office of Research and Grant Support in addition to her directorship of SHP's Center for Community and Urban Health. Research Publications include "Who wins in the status games? Violence, sexual violence, and an emerging single standard among adolescent women," Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1087 (November, 2006), 56-73, co-authored with J. O'Day, et al. Dr. Krauss was also recently appointed as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and its Health Psychology Division. (posted 4-08)

Richard M. Lerner (Psychology, 1971) is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts University. His books include The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescents from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years (Crown Publishing Group/Random House, 2007); the four-volume Handbook of Child Psychology, 6th edition (Wiley, 2006), co-edited with William Damon of Stanford University; and Approaches to Positive Youth Development (Sage, 2007), co-edited with Rainer Silbereisen of the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. The Good Teen presents new evidence that adolescents who show the characteristics of positive youth development—competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring—are less likely to be involved in risky behaviors, such as drinking, drug use, or bullying. Rich also received the Society for the Study of Human Development’s Mentor Award at its fifth biennial meeting at the Pennsylvania State University in October, 2007. The award is given to a human development scholar who is dedicated to and has had influence on the careers and professional development of students and colleagues. (See alumnus profile.) (posted 12-07)

Kenneth Levy (Psychology, 1999), a full-time faculty member at Penn State University, has distinguished himself in the past few years in the area of clinical psychology, winning several honors in his field, among them the 2008 Early Career Award/American Psychological Foundation, Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of the American Psychological Association; 2008 Early Career Award, Society for Psychotherapy Research; and 2008 Professor of the Year, Psi-Chi, The Pennsylvania State University Chapter. (posted 1-09)

David Livert (Psychology, 2004), assistant professor of psychology at Penn State Lehigh Valley, was awarded a Penn State Research Collaboration Fellowship for the summer 2009.  He will work with Dr. Susan Mohammed, of Penn State, University Park, to study teamwork and timing in professional kitchens. (posted 5-09)

Joan Lucariello (Psychology/Developmental, 1985), a professor at Boston College, is director of graduate studies in Developmental Psychology. (posted 3-07)

David Marks (Psychology/Neuropsychology, 2003), a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center, published an article in Neuropsychology from his dissertation research that was among the most downloaded of all articles published in APA journals in 2005. (posted 6-06)

Nicole Schaefer McDaniel (Environmental Psychology, 2007) had her dissertation published as a book: Children Talk about Their New York City Neighborhoods—The Role of Subjective and Objective Neighborhood Evaluations in Understanding Child Health (VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2007). This study moves beyond traditional research by examining children's views of their inner-city New York City neighborhoods to inform on the neighborhood attributes most important to them. The research then explores the relationship between different neighborhood measurements (children's and parents' evaluations of neighborhood conditions, census data, and neighborhood observations by outside raters) and their association with children's health. The study answers questions such as "what is the relationship between subjective and objective neighborhood measures" and "whose ratings of neighborhood characteristics matter most to children's health." The book is directed towards scholars and researchers in urban health, urban planning, child development, and interdisciplinary studies. (posted 12-07)

Laurence Miller (Psychology/Experimental Cognition, 1988) has published Practical Police Psychology: Stress Management and Crisis Intervention for Law Enforcement, (Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 2006), which, in addressing the psychologically complex world of modern policing, analyzes both the unusual and the everyday challenges faced by all law enforcement personnel, from the street cop to the departmental brass, and provides practical guidelines and strategies for improving the effectiveness and quality of policing in the real world. (posted 3-07)

Harriet S. Mosatche (Psychology/Developmental, 1977), is the author of Where Should I Sit at Lunch? The Ultimate 24/7 Guide to Surviving the High School Years (McGraw-Hill, 2006), a sequel to the award-winning Too Old for This, Too Young for That! Your Survival Guide for the Middle-School Years (Free Spirit, 2000), now in its ninth printing. In the last year, Dr. Mosatche has been quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, The Boston Globe, and other newspapers and been interviewed on CBS News and various radio shows. (posted 11-06)

Bernard A. Polnariev (Psychology/Developmental, 2006) has been named the director of Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) at LaGuardia Community College. (posted 12-08)

Carol Reich (Psychology/Developmental, 1986) is the President and Founder of Beginning with Children Foundation, Inc. and on the board of the Graduate Center Foundation. (See alumna profile.) (posted Spring-06)

Linda Sapadin (Psychology, 1986) published Now I Get It! Totally Sensational Advice for Living and Loving (Outskirts Press, 2007), a collection of sixty-two of her columns offering readers savvy counsel for enriching their lives, enhancing their relationships, and overcoming self-defeating patterns of behavior. (posted 3-07)

Lynn A. Schaefer (Psychology/Neuropsychology, 2002), a neuropsychologist at the Rusk Institute at NYU Medical Center, was awarded the Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in May 2007. (posted 12-07)

Jeffrey S. Shaw (Psychology, 1985) has just published a children's book, Two Stories About Kirmayir: A Very Cute Teddy Bear (Author House, 2007), suitable for adults as well as children. Two more books about Kirmayir are due out soon, to be followed by Dr. Shaw's self-help book, 250 Life Principles To Allow You To Be Happier and More Successful, based on his over fifteen years of work as a clinical psychologist in New York City. (posted 4-08)

Dr. Maury Silver (Psychology/Social, 1977) was among nine recipients of the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award, an honor open to members of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Alumni Association. He is an accomplished writer, editor, and teacher and has been at Yeshiva University since 1999. (posted 6-08)

Andrew Tatarsky (Psychology/Clinical, 1986), a New York City psychologist, will work with the Polish, Ukranian, and Chilean governments to implement a substance abuse treatment method he developed, known as harm reduction psychotherapy. (posted 5-09)

Karen Weinberg ( Psychology/Industrial and Organizational, 1988) runs the 3-Corner Field Farm in Shushan, NY, with her husband, Paul Borghard. The farm consists of a sheep dairy, a creamery, pastured-lamb production, and sheepskin processing. Three of the farm’s cheeses received awards last summer from the American Cheese Society. Those and other cheeses are available at New York City’s Greenmarket at Union Square on Wednesdays and Saturdays. (posted 12-08)

In Memoriam
Estelle R. Friedman (Psychology, 1980) passed away in January 2007. She was eighty-one. After earning her Ph.D., she taught psychology at Quinnipiac University and was active in the New England Psychological Association. In addition to her academic pursuits, she played the guitar and sang and was an avid performer of folk songs. She helped found the New Haven Folk Music Society with her husband Nate Friedman. She was also the author of a novel, a world traveler, and an adventurous spirit at large. (posted 3-07)

Gloria Bonilla-Santiago (Social Welfare, 1986), the Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of Urban Studies at Rutgers University—Camden, received the 2007 National Mujer Award from the National Hispana Leadership Institute. According to NHLI president Marissa Rivera-Albert, Professor Bonilla-Santiago was selected on the basis of her “exceptional record in education, leadership, and public service,” as well as her “passion for helping (the) community.”  Other awards include the American Association for Higher Education’s Outstanding Latina Faculty in Higher Education Award; the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Medal from the Camden County Board of Freeholders; the Good Neighbor Award from the American Red Cross (Camden County chapter); and a New Jersey Department of Community Affairs award for contributions to the development of Latino/Latina leaders in the State of New Jersey. She is the author Hispanic Women Leaders Breaking Ground and Barriers: Developing Effective Leadership (Marin, 1992) and Organizing Puerto Rican Migrant Farmworkers: The Experience of Puerto Ricans in New Jersey (Peter Lang, 1988). (posted 12-07)

Rosalie J. Russo Gleicher (Social Welfare, DSW, 2002), adjunct professor in the Human Services Department, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, published an article based on her dissertation: “MSW programs: Gatekeepers to the field of developmental disabilities,” Journal of Social Work Education 44:2 (Spring/Summer, 2008). (posted 10-08)

Eva M. Bronstein-Greenwald (Sociology, 1984), President, We Belong: Inclusion in Fairfield County, an organization that promotes the inclusion of children with special needs, is the recipient of the American Red Cross "Unsung Hero" award for Community Service. (posted 3-06)

Lynn S. Chancer (Sociology, 1989), an associate professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, Bronx, has published Before High-Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes (University of Chicago Press, 2005). (posted 3-06)

Melissa Ditmore (Sociology, 2002) has edited the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work (Greenwood Press). She is a research consultant based in New York and Bangkok. (posted 9-06)

Randal Doane (Sociology, 2003) is assistant dean of studies and interim coordinator of the Office of Undergraduate Research at Oberlin College. (posted 12-08)

Thurston (Thad) Domina (Sociology, 2006) accepted a tenure-track position as an assistant professor in the School of Education, University of California at Irvine. (Advisor: Paul Attewell.) While a research associate in the Office of Population Research, Princeton University, he published “The Geography of Educational Segregation,” Inside Higher Ed (Jan 19, 2007) and “Brain Drain and Brain Gain: Rising Educational Segregation in the United States, 1940–2000,” City & Community 5:4 (Dec 2006), a publication of the American Sociological Association. (posted 3-07)

Ariel Ducey (Sociology, 2004) authored Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training (Cornell University Press, 2008). (posted 11-09). An assistant professor of sociology at the University of Calgary, Dr. Ducey published Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training (Cornell University Press, 2009). (posted 5-09)

Stephen Duncombe (Sociology, 1996), who teaches the history and politics of media and culture as an associate professor at the Gallatin School, New York University, published Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy (New Press, Fall 2006). He is also the author of Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture (Verso, 1997), the editor of the Cultural Resistance Reader, and co-author with Andrew Mattson of The Bobbed-Haired Bandit: A Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York (Random House, 2007). (posted 3-07)

Steve Garlick (Sociology, 2007) accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Victoria in Canada. (Advisor: Patricia Clough.) (posted 3-07)

Joan Goldstein (Sociology, 1978) is featured in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 (University of Illinois Press, 2006), the first comprehensive directory to document the founders and leaders of this second wave women’s movement. Dr. Goldstein, who was also on the editorial committee, entered the CUNY Graduate Center sociology program after having served as the first national coordinator for the Women's Health Task Force for NOW, and as founding member of the National Women's Political Caucus. As part of Women’s History Month celebrations at Mercer County Community College, New Jersey, she spoke on “Looking Back: My Life as a Feminist.”(posted 3-07)

Steven Gorelick (Sociology, 1995) Steven Gorelick (Sociology, 1995), professor of film and media studies at Hunter College, delivered the opening address at a conference held by the Academy of Critical Incident Analysis at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.  (posted 5-09) Gorelick was named a Fulbright scholar by the German Fulbright Commission and joined the 2007 German Studies Seminar during the summer. The seminar, which involved travel, meetings, and study with colleagues and counterparts throughout Germany, focused on the role of Germany in a changing Europe. The grant was provided under the Executive Agreement of the U.S. and German governments. Gorelick is a professor of film and media studies at Hunter College, CUNY. (posted 3-07)

Miriam Greenberg (Sociology, 2005), has accepted a position as an assistant professor (tenure track) in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Santa Cruz. (posted 6-06)

Rachel Grob (Sociology, 2006) has accepted a position as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and also, Faculty, Master's Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. (posted 6-06)

Colin Jerolmack (Sociology, 2009) is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Scholar at Harvard University. Upon completing this postdoctoral fellowship in January 2010, he will take a position as assistant professor of sociology and environmental studies at New York University. (posted 5-09)

Dae Young Kim (Sociology, 2001) (See alumnus profile.) (posted Fall-05)

Tania Levey (Sociology, 2006) accepted an assistant professorship in sociology (tenure track) at York College, CUNY. (posted 6-06)

Veronica Manlow (Sociology, 2005) accepted a tenure-track position in Brooklyn College's Economics and Business Department. (Advisor: William Helmreich.) (posted 3-07)

Randy Martin (Sociology, 1984), a professor of art and public policy at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, co-edited The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Dance Canon (Wesleyan University Press, 2007), a collection of ten essays that aims to document some of Nikolais's work and his approaches to creating it, and to situate his work in the esthetic context of twentieth-century America. The book's contributors are from diverse disciplinary backgrounds including American studies, dance, music, performance studies, and sociology. Professor Martin is the author and editor of several other books, including Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics. (posted 6-07)

Micki McGee (Sociology, 2002) accepted a tenure-track position in sociology at Fordham University. (Advisor: Stuart Ewen.) (posted 3-07)

Stephen Sleigh (Sociology, 1991) is president of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), Champagne, IL. (posted 6-06)

Fredericka Bell-Berti (Speech and Hearing, 1973), professor and chair of the Department of Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theatre at St. John's University in Jamaica, NY, has been elected a member of the executive council of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). She took office on 6 June 2007. Dr. Bell-Berti has been active in the ASA for many years. She served as chair of the Committee on Education in Acoustics (1994-97) as well as a member of several committees including Speech Communication, Prizes and Special Fellowships, and Medals and Awards. Bell-Berti's research interests are rooted in understanding how speakers coordinate the movements of speech articulators—the tongue, lips, jaw, and larynx—in order to produce speech. She has also studied how people who are learning to speak a new language learn to produce the sounds of that new language that may not occur in their own native language. She was a research associate at Haskins Laboratories in Connecticut from 1973–77 and 1980–2000. She also served as an assistant professor at Montclair State University from 1972–79, and as an adjunct assistant professor at Queens College, CUNY in 1975. Dr. Bell-Berti is a fellow of the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association. (posted 8-07)

Linda Burnett Carozza (Speech and Hearing Sciences, 1995) was appointed Director of the Ruth Samadbeck Communication and Learning Center, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Marymount Manhattan College, NYC. Her article “The Need for Mentorship in the Minority Professoriate,” was cited among the fifty most frequently cited articles in the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education as of October 2005. (posted 3-06)

Mira Goral (Speech and Hearing, 2001) (See alumna profile.) (posted Fall-05)

Diane Kewley-Port (Speech Sciences, 1981) was elected vice president of the Acoustical Society of America. She is a professor of speech and hearing sciences at Indiana University. (posted 12-08)

Patricia B. Launer (Speech and Hearing, 1982) won an Emmy Award in 2002 for writing/producing/hosting "Center Stage" on KPBS-TV. See http://www.patteproductions.com/. (posted 3-07)

Doron Milstein (Speech—Language—Hearing Sciences, 2001) received the Hofstra University College of Liberal Arts and Science 2008 Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award. (posted 10-08)

Theatre Revue, published by the Ph.D. Program in Theatre

Emelise Aleandri (Theatre, 1984) was interviewed in February 2008 about Venice and Carnevale along with Dott. Francesco Talo, the newconsul general of Italy; Renato Miracco, the new director of the Italian Cultural Institute; and Carolina Perego, executive pastry chef for Cipriani Restaurants. The interview will air and be available for listening at http://www.letstravelradio.com. (posted 2-08) Dr. Aleandri published The Italian-American Immigrant Theatre of New York City: 1746-1899 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006), which chronicles all phases of entertainment in which Italians participated, from circus acts to street musicians, opera, melodrama, puppetry, and vaudeville. She is artistic director of Frizzi & Lazzi The Olde Time Italian-American Music & Theatre Company, which recreates nineteenth-century immigrant entertainments, and is also a board member of the Medici Foundation. (posted 9-06)

Michael Peter Bolus (Theatre, 2004), is editor-in-chief of the online MODERN MASK. The recently published third issue features reviews, commentaries, and interviews covering a diverse array of subjects including photographer Dave LaChapelle, British artists Gilbert and George, the HBO series "ROME," novelist William Styron, composer Jean Sibelius, musician Monika Jalili, and British playwright Tom Stoppard. See www.modernmask.org. (posted 5-07) An adjunct professor of theatre studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (where he teaches courses in ancient Greek theatre and an introduction to theatre studies), he appeared in a guest starring role on "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" in May, 2006. His latest play, Pound of Flesh, was produced under his direction at both the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles. (posted 11-06)

Alexis Greene (Theatre, 1987), with Shirley Lauro, co-edited Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women (The New Press, 2009).  She has previously published several books, including The Story of 42nd Street (Back Stage Books, 2008), Lucille Lortel: The Queen of Off-Broadway (Limelight, 2004), and Women Who Write Plays: Interviews with American Dramatists (Smith and Kraus, 2001). (posted 5-09)

Susan Horowitz (Theatre, 1988) aka “Dr. Sue,” submitted her thirty second video, “Funny, You Don’t Look Like Ben Franklin,” as an entry in the Psoriasis Cure Now Contest—Humor Track. The video can be viewed at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-f1jy-lwJA. Even though she doesn’t have psoriasis, she was happy to participate in a contest that supports a good cause—and making the video was a real challenge! (posted 8-08) Dr. Horowitz is a professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College, comedian, singer-songwriter, and author of Queens of Comedy (based on interviews with Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, etc.), Read with Me (Children’s Book of the Month Club), the poetry book I Am Loved, and recorded songs, performed at the New York Comedy Club, New York City, on October 6, 2007. She hosts the Internet Show: Creative Conversations with Dr. Sue: www.creativeconversations.com and has appeared on Good Day New York, MTV, NBC, E! Entertainment, WOR, and BBC Radio. (posted 12-07)

George Kovacs (Theatre, 1981) is currently communications consultant to the Hippocrates Health Institute and the Aesthetic and Neuronal Research Institute, among other places. For more than thirty years, he taught communication arts/speech, English/writing, and theatre/drama at various institutions in Florida, New York, and internationally. Formerly chair of liberal arts and law and interim academic dean at Briarcliffe, Dr. Kovacs has written twenty books, including Literal Literacy:What Every American Needs to Know First; Literal Literacy II: What Every American Needs to Know Second (Edwin Mellen, 1993); and Hoops Zen: The Spiritual Beauty of Basketball (Edwin Mellen, 1993). (posted 3-07)

Joanna Rotté, (Theatre, 1983) recorded four audio books of texts by Pema Chodron, an American-born Buddhist nun: Comfortable With Uncertainty; The Places That Scare You; Start Where You Are; and The Wisdom of No Escape. Their publisher is Shambhala Press. She teaches in the department of theater at Villanova University. (posted 12-08) Dr. Rotté was among nine recipients of the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award, an award open to members of the Graduate Center’s Ph.D. Alumni Association. A professor of theatre and former department chair of the graduate program at Villanova University, she is a member of Actors’ Equity and is an accomplished actress, director, author, and playwright. (posted 6-08)

Mark Sacharoff (Theatre, 1967) had his adaptation of Turgenev’s The Bachelor performed in June by the Resonance Ensemble in New York City. (posted 11-09)

Shauna Vey (Theatre, 1998), at the March 2006 Mid-America Theatre Conference, received the Robert A. Shanke Research Award, a cash prize and probable publication in Theatre History Studies, for a paper on cross-dressing performers in antebellum circus and minstrelsy. (posted 3-07)

Maurya Wickstrom (Theatre, 2001), associate professor of drama at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, teaches practical courses in acting, directing, and performance art, as well as history and theory. She will be teaching at the Graduate Center for the second time in spring 2007. Her work is primarily in the area of performance and global capital, and Routledge has published her book, Performing Consumers: Global Capital and Its Theatrical Seductions. She is also functioning as a placement officer for Graduate Center theatre students. She helps prepare students for the job market, assisting them in active searches and everything in-between, including at least one mock interview or mock job talk per semester. (posted 9-06)

In Memoriam

Bruce S. Kirle (Theatre, 2002) died on Wednesday, August 1, 2007. A lecturer in music theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, his contributions to the field included Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Progress (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006). (posted 12-07)

Jennifer Adams (Urban Education, 2006) is a tenure-track assistant professor of science education, Department of Education, Brooklyn College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Gillian Bayne (Urban Education, 2007) is a tenure-track assistant professor of science education at Lehman College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Janice Bloom (Urban Education, 2006) is a tenure-track assistant professor of education studies, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. (posted 12-07)

Lori Chajet (Urban Education, 2006) is a coordinator of research and training and an instructor of education studies at the Institute for Urban Education, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. (posted 12-07)

Rosalina Diaz (Urban Education, 2006) is a tenure-track associate professor of educational foundations, Department of Liberal Arts and Education, Medgar Evers College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Michael Dumas (Urban Education, 2007) is an assistant professor of social and multicultural foundations, College of Education, California State University—Long Beach. (posted 12-07)

Christopher Emdin (Urban Education, 2007) is an assistant professor of science education in the Department of Science, Mathematics, and Technology at Teachers College, Columbia University. (posted 12-07)

Kecia Hayes (Urban Education, 2006) is a senior program officer at New Visions for Public Schools. (posted 12-07)

Pamela Althea Joyce (Urban Education, 2006), published School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice (Peter Lang Publishing, 2008). The book, intended for teachers, parents, school administrators, and the general public, explores five years of her experiences in teaching minority students at an urban/suburban high school, and offers new low-cost ways and long-term plans for closing the achievement gap. Joyce is a reading specialist at Montclair High School in New Jersey, as well as an urban education consultant. (posted 12-08) Dr. Joyce is the author of School Hazard Zone: Beyond the Silence/Finding a Voice (Peter Lang Publishing, 2008). She spoke in March of this year at McGill University on the focus of her book, "Awakening Hibernating Minds/Reframing the Achievement Gap." She is currently collaborating with Dr. Wayne Madsen, author of The Misadventures of Inspector Moustachio, on a culturally responsive children's book series. (posted 4-08)

Tricia Kress (Urban Education, 2006) is a tenure-track assistant professor of leadership in urban schools, Department of Leadership in Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston. (posted 12-07)

Edward Lehner (Urban Education, 2007) is a tenure-track assistant professor for special education in the Education Department, College of Staten Island, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Catherine Nolan (Urban Education, 2007) is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Education, Mercy College. (posted 12-07)

Wesley Pitts (Urban Education, 2007) is a tenure-track assistant professor of science education, Division of Education, Department of High School and Middle School Education. (posted 12-07)

Rupam Saran (Urban Education, 2006) is a tenure-track assistant professor in math education, Department of Childhood Education, Curriculum, and Instruction, Manhattanville College. (posted 12-07)

Emily Schnee (Urban Education, 2007) has a postdoctoral position in MetroMath at Rutgers University. (posted 12-07)

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