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Faculty Achievements
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November 2009 |
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EXHIBITS
 Pablo Delano. “Inside Honduras” photography exhibit, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, October-November, 2009.
Pablo Delano, professor of fine arts, is exhibiting a series of photographs drawn from a book project undertaken in collaboration with the director of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History, historian Dr. Darío A. Euraque, who is also a professor of history and international studies at Trinity. Delano and Euraque are investigating the nature of the people of Honduras with an emphasis on the contributions of ethnic minorities and indigenous groups. They believe that historical and contemporary Honduran reality lies at the intersection of all its component ethnicities. Euraque and Delano traveled extensively in Honduras. However, the coup d’état of June 28 put a stop—for now—to their work in the field. Nevertheless, they remain committed to continuing the project and seeing it through to publication.
PUBLICATIONS
 Daniel G. Blackburn, Kristie E. Anderson ’10, Amy R. Johnson ’03, Siobhan R. Knight ’07, and Gregory S. Gavelis ’08. “Histology and Ultrastructure of the Placental Membranes of the Viviparous Brown Snake, Storeria dekayi (Colubridae: Natricinae).” Journal of Morphology 270, no. 9 (September 2009): 1137-1154.
Daniel Blackburn, the Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology, has published a paper with four Trinity students in the Journal of Morphology, the foremost journal in the field. The paper is coauthored by Kristie E. Anderson ’10, Amy R. Johnson ’03, Siobhan R. Knight ’07, and Greg S. Gavelis ’08. Amy Johnson completed medical school at the University of Massachusetts, and is now conducting a residency in pediatrics at the University of Chicago; Greg Gavelis is studying marine biology in graduate school at the University of Oregon; Siobhan Knight is teaching biology in private school; and Kristie Anderson, who is graduating this year, plans to attend veterinary school. These students offer fine examples of how Trinity undergraduates in the natural sciences draw on their research experience in launching careers in biology and medicine. |
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 Xiangming Chen, ed. Shanghai Rising: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global Megacity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. (The simultaneous Chinese edition was published by the Century Publishing Group and People’s Press of Shanghai, 2009.)
Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Sociology and International Studies Xiangming Chen edited a collection of articles on Shanghai. Now at the beginning of the 21st century, the joint impact of global forces and state power has turned Shanghai into a dynamic megacity. Shanghai’s remarkable growth in economy, infrastructure, and global presence has prompted questions about the Shanghai “miracle.” This collection places the city’s unprecedented rise in a rare comparative examination of U.S. cities, as well as with Asian megacities Singapore and Hong Kong, providing a nuanced account of how the Shanghai’s politics, economy, society, and space have been transformed by macro- and micro-level forces.
 Cheryl Greenberg. To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression. Lexington: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History Cheryl Greenberg’s newest book covers the range of African Americans' experiences during the 1930s. it explores employment issues, the New Deal's effect on African Americans, family and community changes, and how the coming of war affected the population. The book straddles the particular, with examinations of specific communities and experiences, and the general, with explorations of the broader effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political organizing.
 Louis P. Masur. Runaway Dream: Born to Run and Bruce Springsteen’s American Vision. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Louis Masur, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values at, released his new book, which chronicles the making of Springsteen’s most prolific album, Born to Run, celebrating its themes of youth, escape, and possibility. Springsteen wanted Born to Run to be the greatest rock record ever made. It was an extraordinary ambition, and Masur shows just how much grit, as well as genius, went into realizing it. Runaway Dream offers a tour of the trials and triumphs of Springsteen’s work. In addition to the story of the album itself, Masur places Born to Run within American cultural history, showing why the girls, hot rods, and Jersey nights of the album still resonate, even for listeners born years after its release.
 Thomas Mitzel, Kwame Frimpong, Joe Wzorek, Claire Lawlor, Katharine Spencer. “Use of N-MethylFormamide as a Solvent in Indium Promoted Barbier Reactons En Route to Enediyne and Epoxydiyne Formation: Comparison of Rate and Stereoselectivity in C-C Bond Forming Reactions with Water.” J. Org. Chem 74 (2009): 5861.
Thomas Mitzel, associate academic dean and associate professor of chemistry, published an article about his research on synthetic organic chemical transformations. He uses a particular metal, indium, to help promote transformations. Throughout the past 10 years, he has shown that indium-metal promoted reactions are effective in a myriad of organic transformations, and that the use of water, and other aqueous solvents, help these reactions proceed at a faster rate and higher yield of product than traditional “organic” conditions. In this paper, Mitzel compares a new solvent, N-methylformamide, to water with respect to indium-metal promoted reactions. This paper focuses on the use of NMF to form enediynes and epoxydiynes, compounds that have shown to possess anti-carcinogenic properties when incorporated into natural product skeletal structures.
 Okey Ndibe and Chenjerai Hove, eds. Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa. London: Adonis Abbey and Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute, July 2009.
Okey Ndibe, Allan K. Smith Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Creative Writing Program, co-edited this collection of testimonies by various writers and scholars who have experienced, or explored, Africa's conflicts, including how the disruptions shape artistic and literary production. The book is divided into two broad categories: in one, several writers speak directly about the impact wars and conflicts have had in the formation of their experience and work; in the second, a number of scholars articulate how particular writers have assimilated the horrors of wars and conflicts in their literary creations. The result opens the window into an essential, but until now sadly unexplored, facet of the cultural and political experience of African writers.
 Michael J. Panik. Regression Modeling: Methods, Theory, and Computation with SAS. Boca Raton:Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009.
Visiting Professor of Mathematics Michael Panik’s book provides an introduction to a diverse assortment of regression techniques using SAS to solve a wide variety of regression problems. The text presents the popular ordinary least squares (OLS) approach before introducing many alternative regression methods. It covers nonparametric regression, logistic regression (including Poisson regression), Bayesian regression, robust regression, fuzzy regression, random coefficients regression, L1 and q-quantile regression, regression in a spatial domain, ridge regression, semiparametric regression, nonlinear least squares, and time-series regression issues. Requiring only basic knowledge of statistics and calculus, the book discusses how to use regression analysis for decision making and problem solving. Panik shows readers the power and diversity of regression techniques without overwhelming them with calculations.
 Susan Pennybacker. From Scottsboro to Munich: Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Presenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, this new book from Susan Pennybacker, Borden W. Painter, Jr., '58/H'95 Professor of European History, follows a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. Pennybacker positions race at the center of the British, imperial, and transatlantic political culture of the 1930s—from Jim Crow, to imperial London, to the events leading to the Munich Crisis—offering a provocative new understanding of the conflicts, politics, and solidarities of the years leading to World War II. She uses a wide variety of archival materials drawn from Russian Comintern, Dutch, French, British, and American collections. Literary and biographical sources are complemented by rich photographic images.
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