Dean of Faculty’s Office
March 2007 Faculty Newsletter
Publications:
Zayde Antrim, “Making Syria Mamluk: Ibn Shaddad’s Al-‘Alaq al-Khatirah,” Mamluk Studies Review 11, 1 (2007): 1-18.
Barbara Benedict, “Encounters with Objects: Advertisements, Time, and Literary Discourse in the Early Eighteenth-Century Thing-Poem,” Eighteenth-Century Studies vol. 40, no. 2 (Winter 2007): 193-207.
Barbara Benedict, “Displaying Difference: Curious Count Boruwlaski and Staging Class Identity,” Eighteenth-Century Life vol. 30, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 82-110.
Tim Curran, Adam B. Lesser ’06 and Richard S. H. Yoon ‘05, “Turn Conformations in a Metallacyclictripeptide and a Metallacyclictetrapeptide Induced by Tungsten-Alkyne Coordination,” J. Organometallic Chem., 692, 1243-1254 (2007).
Heidi J. C. Ellis, “An Assessment of Self-Directed Learning in a Software Engineering Course,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 50, No. 1 (February 2007).
Verdi, K., Heidi J.C. Ellis, and Gryk, M. R., “Conceptual-level workflow modeling for NMR and other scientific experiments,” BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:31 (30 Jan 2007).
Karen Humphreys, “ ‘Collages Communicants’: Visual Representation in the Collage-Albums of Max Ernst and Valentine Penrose,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 10.4 (Fall/Winter 2006): pp. 377-387.
Drew Hyland, “First of all Came Chaos.” In Heidegger and the Greeks: Interpretive Essays, edited by Drew A. Hyland and John P. Manoussakis, 9-22. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Abbigail Garrity ‘07, A., Pearlson, G., McKiernan, K., Dan Lloyd, Kiehl, K., Calhoun, V., “Aberrant 'default mode' functional connectivity in schizophrenia,” American Journal of Psychiatry, 164:30 (March 2007).
Dan Lloyd, マインド・クエスト 意識のミステリー , the Japanese translation of Radiant Cool, Kodansha Ltd., 2006.
Theresa Morris, “Internal and External Sources of Organizational Change: Corporate Form and the Banking Industry,” The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 48 (January 2007): pp. 119-140.
Miguel Ramirez, “Does Foreign Direct Investment Enhance Private Capital Formation in Latin America?” The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol.40, No.1 (Fall 2006): pp.81-97.
Miguel Ramirez, “An Empirical (Pooled) Analysis of Latin America’s Poor Investment Performance During the 1980-1999 Period.” In Progress in Economics Research, Vol. 10, edited by Albert Tavidze, 115-136. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2006.
T. Hõim and David Robbins, “Isomorphisms into section spaces of Banach bundles,” Quaestiones Math. 30 (2007), 97-113.
T. Hõim and David Robbins, “Section spaces of Banach bundles which generalize some function spaces,” Siberian Adv. Math. 16 (2006), 71-81.
Todd Ryan, “Bayle’s Critique of Lockean Superaddition,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 36(4), 2006.
Saunders, G.W., C.E. Lane, Craig W. Schneider and G.T. Kraft (2006). Unraveling the Asteromenia peltata species complex with clarification of the genera Halichrysis and Drouetia (Rhodymeniaceae, Rhodophyta). Canadian Journal of Botany 84: 1581-1607.
Mark Setterfield, “Thirlwall’s Law and Palley’s Pitfalls: a reconsideration.” In Growth and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of A.P. Thirlwall, edited by Philip Arestis, John McCombie, and Roger Vickerman, 47-59. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006.
Mark Setterfield, D. Lang, “History versus equilibrium? On the possibility and realist basis of a general critique of equilibrium analysis,” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 29, 2 (2006–07): pp. 191-209.
Eisenberg J.N., Cevallos W., Ponce K., Levy K., Bates S., Scott J., Hubbard A., Viera N., Segovia R., Espinel M., Trueba G., Riley L., Jim Trostle, “Environmental change and infectious disease: How new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:19460-19465, 2006.
Jim Trostle, “Pathways to Promote and Guide the Use of Sexual and Reproductive Health Research,” In Turning Research into Practice (TRIP): Suggested Actions from Case-Studies of Sexual and Reproductive Health Research. Geneva: World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, 2006, pp. 44-47.
Conference Papers/Presentations:
Carol Any, "Can We Still Teach Loose Baggy Monsters? War and Peace versus Point and Click," International Symposium on New Directions in the Humanities, Columbia University, February 26, 2007.
Pablo Delano, “In Trinidad: Photographs from Trinidad, West Indies,” Rutgers University, February 2007.
Heidi Ellis and Ralph Morelli, Trishan de Lanerolle ’05, Jonathan Damon ’07 and J. Raye, “Can Humanitarian Open-Source Software Development Draw New Students to CS?” SIGCSE 2007, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, KY, March 2007.
Heidi Ellis, “New Paradigms for Introductory Courses,” a panel discussion, SIGCSE 2007, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Covington, KY, March 2007.
Fred Errington, “Pacific-Island Gastrologies: Following the Flaps,” Meetings of the Association for the Social Anthropology of Oceania, Charlottesville, VA, February 21-25, 2007.
Dianne Hunter, “Late-Twentieth-Century Ophelias on Film: Faithfull, Bonham-Carter, Winslet,” New York University Common Ground Arts Festival, February 23, 2007.
Kathleen Kete, “Georges Cuvier and his éloges: The Construction of the Scientific Self in Postrevolutionary France,” Society for French Historical Studies, 2007 Annual Conference, Houston, TX, March 15-17, 2007.
Barry Kosmin, “Surveying the Contemporary Free Market of Religious and Nonreligious Americans,” Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World & The Gould Center for the Humanities, Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont, CA, March 7, 2007.
Kevin McMahon, “The Party of Lincoln’s Last Stand: How Republican Senators Denied Nixon His Southern Strict Constructionist,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 8-10, 2007.
Kevin McMahon, “How FDR Paved the Way to Brown v. The Board of Education,” University of Chicago Law School lecture series commemorating 40th anniversary of Thurgood Marshall’s appointment to the Supreme Court, February 2007.
Miguel Ramirez, chaired and acted as a discussant in the session entitled “Studies in Latin America and Asia;” presented the paper “A Panel Unit Root and Panel Cointegration Analysis of the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America, 1980-2002,” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economics Association, New York, February 25, 2007.
Miguel Ramirez, “Is Foreign Direct Investment Productive in the Latin American Case?” Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China, January 13, 2007.
Martha Risser, “Sacred Space at Isthmia during the Late Archaic and Classical Periods: The Ceramic Evidence,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA, January 5, 2007.
Todd Ryan, “Bayle and Occasionalism,” Pierre Bayle, le Philosophe de Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, December 7-8, 2006.
Mark Setterfield, “The rise, decline and rise of incomes policies in the US during the post-war era,” Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, February 2007.
Mark Setterfield, “Post Keynesian interest rate rules and macroeconomic performance: a comparative evaluation,” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, February 2007.
Mark Setterfield, “Is inflation targeting the enemy of employment targeting?” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, February 2007.
Mark Setterfield, “Evaluating comparative macroeconomic performance: a populist approach,” Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, February 2007.
Performances/Exhibits:
Pablo Delano, “DRUM TRINIDAD: Skin and Steel,” one-person photo exhibit, Taller Boricua Gallery, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, NYC, December 2006-January 2007.
Pablo Delano, “Trinidad al descubierto,” one-person photo exhibit, Fabià Puigserver Gallery, Teatre Lliure, Barcelona, Spain, November-December 2006.
Judy Dworin choreographed and Lesley Farlow performed in “Time In,” with the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble, Women of the Cross, and women from the York Correctional Institute, Central Connecticut State University, February 1-2, 2007.
Bob Kirschbaum’s paintings were included in “India: Proximities of Distance,” The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, October 27 - December 20, 2006.
Bob Kirschbaum’s paintings were included in “New Acquisitions: Watercolors, Drawings and Prints,” The New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, 2006.
Grants/Fellowships:
David Branning, Connecticut Space Grant College Consortium, NASA grant, "A New Circuit Board for Counting Simultaneous Pairs of Photons," $6,000, Summer 2007.
Dan Lloyd, Fulbright, Helsinki Collegium of Advanced Study, Spring 2008.
Kevin J. McMahon, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2007, for research for his book, Nixon's Court: The Silent Majority and the Conservative Counterrevolution That Was.
Clare Rossini, individual artist fellowship, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, $2,500 to support the creation of new poems.
Honors & Awards:
Luis Figueroa, Puerto Rico Chapter of the International PEN Club, third prize for best non-fiction book published in 2005, for Sugar, Slaver and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico.
Lawrence Gluckman, 2006 College Level Coaches Recognition Award, Joy of Sculling Coaches Conference.
Other Professional Accomplishments:
Barry Kosmin, reappointed as a Senior Associate at the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University, 2007-10.
Joan Morrison was elected secretary of the Raptor Research Foundation.