Publications:

Barbara M. Benedict.  “The Trouble with Things: Objects and the Commodification of Sociability.”  In Blackwell’s Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite, 343-354.  West Sussex: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2009.

Barbara M. Benedict.  Review of Fair Philosopher and the Female Spectator, Eliza Haywood. SHARP Newsletter 17, no. 4 (2009): 18-19.

Barbara M. Benedict.  “Self, Stuff, and Surface: The Rhetoric of Things in Swift’s Satires.”  In Swift’s Travels: Eighteenth-Century Satire and Its Legacy, edited by Nicholas Hudson and Aaron Santesso, 93-107.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Xiangming Chen and Jiaming Sun, eds. Empirical Approaches to Urban Sociology. New Delhi: Indo American Books, 2008.

Jack Dougherty. “Conflicting Questions: Why Historians and Policymakers Miscommunicate on Urban Education.” In Clio at the Table: Using History to Inform and Improve Education Policy, edited by Kenneth K. Wong and Robert Rothman, 251-62. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.

Jack Dougherty, Jesse Wanzer ’08, and Christina Ramsay ’09. “Sheff V O'Neill: Weak Desegregation Remedies and Strong Disincentives in Connecticut, 1996-2008.” In From the Courtroom to the Classroom: The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation, edited by Claire Smrekar and Ellen Goldring, 103-27. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2009.

Heidi J.C. Ellis, Steven A. Demurjian, and J. Fernando Naveda, eds. The Software Engineering Education: Effective Teaching and Learning Approaches and Practices.  Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008.

Fred Errington.  “Pacific Island Gastrologies:  Following the Flaps.”  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14, no. 3 (September 2008): 590-608.

Johannes Evelein, ed.  Exiles Traveling.  Exploring Displacement, Crossing Boundaries in German Exile Arts and Writings 1933-1945. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009. 

Scott Gac. “The Liberties of War.” Review of A Freedom Bought With Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II, Jennifer C. James.  American History 36, no. 4 (December 2008): 537-542.

Alden Gordon.  “Le Mécenat Artistique de la Marquise de Pompadour et du Marquis de Marigny.” In La Volupté du Goût: Painting in the Age of Madame de Pompadour, edited by Philippe Le Leyzour, 39-57.  Paris: Somogy, 2008.

Cheryl Greenberg. “History of Communities is the History of the Nation.” In Communities and Connections, edited by Ari Helo, 8-18.  Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press, 2008.

Christopher Hager.  “Gettysburg Address,” “House Divided Speech,” and “Rhetoric in Lincoln's Public Speeches.” In The Political Lincoln, edited by Paul Finkelman and Martin Hershock, 294-97, 332-36, 566-68.  Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008.

David E. Henderson and Susan K. Henderson.  “Acidity of Machine-Made Snow and its Effect on pH and Aluminum Speciation in New England Streams During Spring Thaw.”  Chemistry and Ecology 24, no. 5 (October 2008): 305-313.

Laura J. Holt, Brenna H. Bry, & Valerie L. Johnson. “Enhancing School Engagement in At-Risk Urban, Minority Youth through a School-Based Adult Mentoring Intervention.” Child & Family Behavior Therapy 30, no. 4 (December 2008): 297-318.

Kathleen Kete.  “Animal Rights.”  In The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier, 43-46.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Katherine Lahti.  “Futuristicheskoe Zhiznetvorchestvo: ‘Zhenskoe telo’ v tragedii ‘Vladimir Mayakovskii’” (“Futurist Life-Creation: The ‘Female Body’ in the Tragedy ‘Vladimir Mayakovsky’”). In Tvorchestvo V. V. Maiakovskogo v nachale XXI veka (The Work of V. V. Mayakovsky at the Beginning of the XXI Century), 107-114.  Moscow: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2008.

Paul Lauter.  “From Multiculturalism to Immigration Shock.”  The Journal of Transnational American Studies 1, no. 1 (2009).

Sonia Lee and Irene Assiba d'Almeida.  “L'Essai au Féminin en Afrique Francophone: Les Travaux d'Aminata Traoré et de Tanella Boni,” Culture Sud no. 172 (Janvier-Mars 2009): 111-121.

Sonia Lee.  Review of Postcolonial Violence, Culture and Identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles, edited by Lorna Milne.  H-France Review 8, no. 131 (October 2008): 534-536.

Susan A. Masino and Jonathan D. Geiger.  “The Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy: Is Adenosine the Missing Link?” Epilepsia 50, no. 2 (January 2009): 332.

Lou Masur.  “Springsteen Can’t Save Us.” Salon (January 27, 2009).

Lou Masur.  “The American Character.” The Chronicle Review (January 16, 2009): B6-8.

Lou Masur.  “Downsizing Andrew Jackson.” Slate (November 10, 2008).

Clyde McKee.  “Connecticut.”  In Political Encyclopedia of U.S. States and Regions, edited by Donald P. Haider-Markel, 41-50.  Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008.

Ralph Morelli and Trishan de Lanerolle.  “FOSS 101: Engaging Introductory Students in the Open Source Movement.” In Proceedings of the 40^th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2009), edited by Sue Fitzgerald, Mark Guzdial, Gary Lewandowski, Steven Wolfman, & Thomas Cortina, 311-315.  Association of Computing Machinery, March 2009.

M. Silvina Persino. “Criaturas de aire y La Madonnita: la palabra como rehén.”  Revista Conjunto (Casa de las Américas, Cuba) 147 (abril-junio 2008): 52-58.

M. Silvina Persino. “Teatro Esquina Latina (Cali): multiplicación sostenible”. Telondefondo 4, no. 8 (Diciembre 2008).

M. Silvina Persino. “Los recuerdos de Rafael Urdaneta recordados por Néstor Caballero.”  In Más allá del héroe: antología crítica de teatro biográfico hispanoamericano, 153-58. Antioquía: Universidad de Antioquía, Colombia, 2008.

Martha K. Risser, J. Stabler, K.G. Holum, and F. H. Stanley, Jr. “The Warehouse Quarter (Area LL) and the Temple Platform (Area TP), 1996-2000 and 2002 Seasons.”  In Caesarea Reports and Studies. Excavations 1995-2007 within the Old City and the Ancient Harbor, edited by K.G. Holum, J.A. Stabler, and E.G. Reinhardt, 1-39.  Oxford: BAR International Series 1784, 2008.

Martha K. Risser.  “The Belt of Stephanos: Gold Belt Ornaments Found in Area LL, 1996 and 1998 Seasons.”  In Caesarea Reports and Studies. Excavations 1995-2007 within the Old City and the Ancient Harbor, edited by K.G. Holum, J.A. Stabler, and E.G. Reinhardt, 59-65.  Oxford: BAR International Series 1784, 2008.

Peter Rosenbaum. “The White Rose.” In The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, edited by Immanuel Ness, 3525-3526. Somerset: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Clare Rossini.  “Small Town Opera Company, Opening Night” and “Monsieur, Si Vous Plait.” Cave Wall #5 (winter/spring 2009): 15-17.

Clare Rossini.  “Hill of Doon.” Iowa Review (Winter 2008): 162-63.

Clare Rossini.  “The Writer as Revisionary.” In Words Overflown by Stars, edited by David Jauss, 403-413.  Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 2008.

Clare Rossini.  “Self-Portrait with Woman on Flowered Couch.”  In Wild Dreams: The Best of Italiana Americana, edited by Carol Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman, 214-215.  Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Todd Ryan.  “Bayle and Occasionalism.” In Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception, edited by Wiep van Bunge and Hans Bots, 35-50. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2008.

Craig W. Schneider and Christopher E. Lane.  “Notes on the Marine Algae of the Bermudas. 9. The Genus Botryocladia (Rhodophyta, Rhodymeniaceae), Including B. bermudana, B. exquisita and B. flookii spp. nov.” Phycologia 47 (2008): 614-629.

Craig W. Schneider and Michael J. Wynne. “Notes on the Marine Algae of the Bermudas. 10. Woelkerlingia sterreri sp. nov. (Rhodophyta, Wrangeliaceae), a First Record of the Genus in the Western Atlantic.”  Caribbean Journal of Science 44 (2008): 303-310.

Mark Setterfield.  “Is Inflation Targeting Inimical to Employment?”  In Unemployment: Past and Present, edited by Philip Arestis and John S.L. McCombie, 181-201. London: Palgrave, 2009.

Mark Setterfield (with Louis-Philippe Rochon).  “The Political Economy of Interest Rate Setting, Inflation, and Income Distribution.”  International Journal of Political Economy 37, no. 2 (2008): 5-25.

Mark Silk.  “Cascadian Civil Religion from a North American Perspective.” In Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia, edited by Douglas Todd, 105-114.  Vancouver, Canada: Ronsdale Press, 2008.

Edward Peter Stringham and Bryan Caplan.  “Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes.” Journal of Alternative Dispute Resolution 7, no. 4 (October 2008): 29-50.

Edward Peter Stringham. “Commerce, Markets, and Peace: Richard Cobden's Enduring Lessons.” The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty 58, no. 8 (October 2008): 28-33.

James Trostle. “Cultural Epidemiology.” In International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Vol II, edited by H. Kristian Heggenhougen and Stella Quah, 48-56.  San Diego: Academic Press, 2008. 

Gail Hilson Woldu.  The Words and Music of Ice Cube.  Westport: Praeger Books, 2008.

Peter Yoon, with C.M. Coviello, L.H. Sibul.  “Source Separation and Tracking for Time Varying Systems.”  IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 44 (2008): 1198-1214.

Conference Papers/Presentations:

Zayde Antrim.  “Power and Place in the Early Mamluk Empire.” University of Chicago, January 16, 2009.

Zayde Antrim.  “Connectivity and Creativity: Representations of Baghdad’s Centrality, 3rd/9th to 5th/11th Centuries.” International Symposium on Baghdad (Madinat al-Salam) in Islamic Civilization, Istanbul, November 7-9, 2008.

Barbara M. Benedict.  “What do you see? The Informal Practices of Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”  Reformation to Reform Seminar for Oxford University, February 23, 2009.

Barbara M. Benedict.  “Collecting Ambivalence: Books and Things in Eighteenth-Century British Culture.”  Northeastern Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Geneva, New York, October 30-November 1, 2008.

Lin Cheng, B. Henty, F. Bai and D. Stancil.  “Doppler Spread and Coherence Time of Rural and Highway Vehicle-to-Vehicle Channels at 5.9 GHz.” IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2008, New Orleans, November 30-December 4, 2008.

David Cruz-Uribe.  “The Kato Problem for Degenerate Elliptic Operators.” Universita di Napoli, Naples, Italy, January 14, 2009.

Trishan de Lanerolle, Ralph Morelli, Ingrid Russell, Sarah Thayer ’10, Rachel Foecking ’11, Myles Garvey.  Panel session: “Engaging Students in the Free and Open Source Movement through Civic Engagement.”  Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, Keystone, CO, October 2008.

Anthony D. Dell'Aera.  “An Econometric Interpretation of the Constitution: Reassessing Charles Beard’s Thesis and the Connecticut Ratification Vote.” The Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, November 2008.

Anthony D. Dell'Aera.  Panel chairman/discussant:  “Reconsiderations of Democracy and Liberalism in American Political Thought.”  The Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, November 2008.

Heidi J.C. Ellis, G.W. Hislop, A.B. Tucker, and S. Dexter.  Panel: “Using Open Source Software to Engage Students in Computer Science Education.”  SIGCSE 2009, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Chattanooga, TN, March 2009.

Heidi J.C. Ellis, J. Beck, V.L. Almstrum, and M. Towhidnejad.  “Best Practices in Software Engineering Project Class Management.”  SIGCSE 2009, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Chattanooga, TN, March 2009.

Heidi J.C. Ellis, Ralph A. Morelli, and G.W.  “WIP: Challenges to Educating Students within the Community of Open Source Software for Humanity.” The 2008 Frontiers in Education Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 2008.

Heidi J.C. Ellis and A.J. Budd.  “Spanning the Gap Between Software Engineering Instructor and Student.”  The 2008 Frontiers in Education Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 2008.

Lucy Ferriss.  “The Outside World and Conflicting Truths in Memoir.” Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, February 12, 2009.

Luis Figueroa.  “Haussmann in the Tropics? The Transformation of Urban Space and the Construction of Colonial Modernity in San Juan, 1935-1960.”  Latin American Studies Program, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, November 11, 2008.

Luis Figueroa.  “De Joyinglé a la Roosevelt, un paso es: la construcción de los espacios urbanos de la modernidad puertorriqueña, siglos XIX y XX.”  Annual Meeting of the Association of Puerto Rican Historians, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Guayama, Guayama, Puerto Rico, November 7, 2008.

Luis Figueroa.  “La sed de paradigmas en la interpretación de la Avenida Roosevelt como emblema de la modernidad colonial de San Juan, Puerto Rico: Benjamin, Foucault, Harvey, y Lefebvre.” Puerto Rican Studies Association Biannual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 1-4, 2008.

Sheila Fisher.  “Not Long for This World: Chaucer’s Dead Women and the Fate of Poetry.” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 29, 2008.

Alden Gordon. Session chair:  “Eighteenth-Century Art, Decorative Art and Architecture: Shattering the Nineteenth-Century Image of the Eighteenth Century.” Annual Meeting of the College Art Association of America, Los Angeles, February 2009.

Alden Gordon. “Art public, art privé: La Vie Intime et Le mécénat artistique de la marquise de Pompadour.” Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France, December 2008.

Alden Gordon.  Session chair:  “The historiated Portrait and the Painting of Manners: Ambiguities between Genre and Portraiture.” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Meeting, Geneva, New York, October 2008.

Cheryl Greenberg.  “Black-Jewish Relations: Why Should Americans Care?” Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, February 12, 2009.

Cheryl Greenberg.  “Black-Jewish Relations and the Future of American Liberalism.” 92nd St. Y, New York, January 29, 2009.

Cheryl Greenberg.  “The History of Liberal Coalition Building: Lessons for Our Time.” Americans at the Pulpit and in the Public Square: A Conversation on Race, Religion and Rhetoric in a Diverse America Conference, New Orleans, LA, January 18, 2009.

Cheryl Greenberg.  “Black-Jewish Relations: Multiple Perspectives and the State of the Field.”  Association for Jewish Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 22, 2008.

Christopher Hager.  “The War and the Will to Write: John M. Washington’s Slave Narrative."  Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Minneapolis, November 2008.

Christopher Hager.  “Reading Marginal Literacy.”  Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008.

Karen Humphreys.  “The Fall of the Empire in Barbey's Les Diaboliques: ‘Notre décadence littéraire...’”  Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Nashville, TN, October 18, 2008.

Jean-Marc Kehrès.  “The Enlightenment and the Politics of Migration.” Annual Meeting of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., November 7-9, 2008.

Kathleen Kete.  “Genius and Politics in Post-Revolutionary France.” Western Society for French History, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, November 2008.

Frank Kirkpatrick.  Led a workshop “Preaching and Teaching About Homosexuality in the Christian Churches Today” (based on his book The Episcopal Church in Crisis), Hartford Seminary, February 26, 2009.

Katherine Lahti.  “Some Thoughts on Psoy Korolenko," Moscow in Russian Culture Conference, Wesleyan University, Middletown, September 20, 2008.

Katherine Lahti.  Presenter on panel entitled:  “The Construction of Gender in Early Soviet Literature and Film.” AAASS (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies) Convention, Philadelphia, November 21, 2008.

Paul Lauter.  Paper presented for panel entitled “The 100th Anniversary of Jack London’s Novel The Iron Heel.”  Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008.

Paul Lauter.  “Teaching, Research, and Tenure.”  Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, December 27-30, 2008.

Sonia Lee.  “African Cinema in the Classroom.”  Five College African Studies Conference, Smith College, Northampton, MA, February 28, 2009.

Dan Lloyd.  “So Many Variables, So Little Time:  Oversimplification in fMRI.”  Dana/Hastings Center Working Group on Interpreting Neuroimaging, University of Pennsylvania, January 2009.

Dan Lloyd, with Salla Hakkola.  “Thoughtful and Thoughtless Sounds from the Edge of Music.”  Voices and Noises:  Exploring the Materiality of Sound, Institute for Art Research, University of Helsinki, November 2008.

Dan Lloyd.  “Radical Temporality:  From Husserl to Cognitive Neuroscience.”  The Clock’s Time, the Brain’s Time and the Mind’s Time Conference, European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities, Munich, October 2008.

William M. Mace.  “How the Ecological Treatment of Optical Occlusion Makes William James’ Radical Empiricism Work.”   Mind, Brain, Culture and Consciousness Special Interest Group, Whitney Center, Yale University, October 21, 2008.

Susan A. Masino.  “Regulation of Adenosine:  A Link Between Metabolism and Neuronal Excitability.”  Winter Conference on Brain Research, Copper, CO, January 24-30, 2009.

Clyde McKee, “Alternative Attitudes and Strategies for Reforming Connecticut’s Voting System.”  Hartford Registrars of Voters, Hartford Public Library, February 18, 2009.

Kevin McMahon.  “Richard Nixon and the Electoral Consequences of Supreme Court Decisions.” Symposium on the Role of Presidential Leadership in Advancing Civil Rights, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, DC, January 30, 2009.

Kevin McMahon.  “Richard Nixon’s Constitution in the Streets.” Conference on American Constitutional Development, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, October 17-18, 2008.

Joan Morrison, with James F. Dwyer and James D. Fraser.  “Why Do Non-Breeding Crested Caracaras in Florida Form Groups?” Raptor Research Foundation Annual Meeting, Missoula, MT, September 2008.

Joan Morrison, with Isabel G.W. Gottlieb ’09, Frances M.L. Thomas ’10, Connor Wells ’09, and Kyle E. Pias ’07.  Poster presentation: “Ecology of an Urban Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) Population.”  Raptor Research Foundation Annual Meeting, Missoula, MT, September 2008.

Susan Pennybacker.  “Political exile in postwar London: the South Africans.” Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Seminar, Department of History, Princeton University, December 2008.

Susan Pennybacker.  Commentator: “Race, National Identity and the Image of America in the Postwar British Imaginary.”  Northeast Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Boston College, November 2008.

Livio Pestilli.  “Bernini's Unpopularity in Late Baroque Rome in Theory and in Practice.” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 19-21, 2009.

Miguel D. Ramirez.  “Economic and Institutional Determinants of FDI Flows to Latin America: A Panel Cointegration Study.”  Eastern Economic Association Meetings, February 28, 2009.

Miguel D. Ramirez.  “A Critical Assessment of the Washington Consensus Reforms in Latin America.”  Department of Economics and Government, Connecticut College, February 10, 2009.

Sarah Raskin.  “Prospective Memory and Medication Adherence Across Three Age Groups.”  International Neuropsychological Society, Atlanta, February 11-14, 2009.

Sarah Raskin, Carolyn Edwards (presenter) ’08 and Robert Astur.  “Memory Impairment Associated with Intimate Partner Violence.”  Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, March 21-24, 2009.

Milla Cozart Riggio. “Playing Devil in Trinidad.”  Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Mini-encuentro and Board Meeting, University of Chicago and Northwestern University, October 25, 2008.

Martha K. Risser and Michael Zimmerman ’99.  “Western Terra Sigillata Wares at Caesarea Maritima.”  2008 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Boston, November 22, 2008.

Todd Ryan.  “Fontenelle, Leibniz et la défense baylienne de l’occasionalisme.” Bayle, Historien et Critique de la Philosphie, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, October 22-24, 2008.

Michael Sacks.  “Puerto Rican Population Growth and Spatial Relocation in the Hartford and Springfield Metro Areas.” Puerto Rican Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 1-4, 2008. 

Mark Silk, with Mark Massa. “Anti-Semitism and Anti-Catholicism in America: Some New Thoughts on Old Hatreds,” Gasson Lecture, Boston College, November 17, 2008.

Mark Silk, with John C. Green. “Anti-Mormonism and the Romney Campaign; or, Did Evangelical Hostility Sink Mitt’s Ship?” American Academy of Religion, Chicago, November 3, 2008.

Mark Silk.  “Region, Religion, and the 2008 Presidential Campaign.” Religion and Politics: Local and Global Seminar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, October 6, 2008.

Edward Peter Stringham.  “Czech Your Premises: Are Regulations the Answer for Stock Markets in Transition?” Suffolk University, Boston, November 13, 2008.

Edward Peter Stringham.  “Hans Sennholz Memorial Plenary Lecture.” Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Grove City College, Pennsylvania, October 31, 2008.

Edward Peter Stringham.  “To What Extent are Economic Value and Cost Subjective?”  New York University, October 27, 2008.

James Trostle.  “Medicines on the Road in Coastal Ecuador.”  University of Iowa, Iowa City, October 2008.

James Trostle, William Cevallos, Joseph Eisenberg. “From Risk to Transmission:  a Contribution of Anthropology to Diarrheal Disease Epidemiology.”  International Epidemiological Association meeting, Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 2008.

Homayra Ziad.  “Khwajah Mir Dard’s Contribution to the Debates on tawḥīd in Eighteenth-century North India.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2008.

Performances/Exhibits:

Pablo Delano, “Para no olvidar” (“So as Not to Forget”), Galería H2O, Barcelona, Spain, March 3-28, 2009.

The Trinity Samba Ensemble (with Eric Galm) was a featured performing group at Samba Rio Benefit for the Brazilian & American Youth Cultural Exchange, Chester, CT, February 14, 2009.

Robert Kirschbaum will have two pieces exhibited in “Everywhere/Nowhere: The Spiritual Temperament in Current American Art,” held in conjunction with The International Festival of Sacred Arts, Siri Fort Auditorium, New Delhi, India, February 21, 2009 and at the American Center in New Delhi, April 2009.

Grants/Fellowships:

David Branning, “Four-Fold Coincidence Logic for Photon Counting with Universal Control,” CT NASA Space Grant Consortium Faculty Research Grant, $19,208, Summer 2009.

David Cruz-Uribe, travel award to visit Universita di Napoli, Italy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) 1,250 Euros, January 3 - January 18, 2009.

Maria J. Krisch, “Investigations of Unique Photochemistry at the Liquid-Vapor Interface,” Cottrell College Science Award, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, $44,541, 2009-2010.

Susan Masino, “Neuroprotection and Huntington's Disease:  Metabolic Manipulation of Mitochondria, Purines and Glia,” CHDI (Cure Huntington’s Disease Initiative), $73,000, October 1, 2008-September 30, 2009.

Sarah Raskin, Co-PI, “Alcohol Use in College Students:  Cognition and fMRI.” The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), funding to Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Trinity College and Central Connecticut State University, $266,812 (total project budget:  $3.068 million), September 2008-September 2013.

James Trostle, Wetherhead Resident Scholar, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, $20,000 plus facilities, academic year 2009-10.

Honors & Awards:

Lucy Ferriss’s essay “Uncle Charles Repairs to the A&P: Changes in Voice in Recent American Short Fiction” has been chosen as the winner of the annual prize for Best Essay in Narrative.

Samuel Kassow has been named the Leon I. Mirell Visiting Professor at Harvard for the fall semester.

Kathleen Kete’s (ed.) book, A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire (1800-1920), Volume 5, and the series in which it is included (A Cultural History of Animals.  General editors Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl.  Oxford: Berg, 2007) has received the Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 award.

Sarah Raskin and Susan Masino were named finalists for the Connecticut Technology Council’s 2009 Connecticut Women of Innovation awards, Raskin in the Academic Innovation and Leadership category and Masino in the Community Innovation and Leadership category.

Abigail Salerno’s dissertation, “Seeing Blindness: Cinema's Sensory Disabilities,” was awarded honorable mention for 2008 by The Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

George Suitor was selected by his peers as the 2008 NESCAC Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year.

Other Professional Accomplishments:

Eric Galm served on the Local Arrangements Committee for The Society for Ethnomusicology’s 53rd Annual Meeting, Wesleyan University, Middletown, October 25-28, 2008, organizing a Latin American concert, featuring a performance by the Trinity Samba Ensemble, and participating in a recording that was broadcast to the society at the business meeting.

Alden Gordon was selected to participate in the Royal Collections Studies Course in the United Kingdom in September 2008.

Paul Lauter is chairing a new committee of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) that is developing a study of Master’s degrees.

Ralph Moyer has been reelected Secretary of the Connecticut Valley Section of the American Chemical Society.

Seth Sanders has been appointed to be editor of the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions.

Seth Sanders has been appointed to the steering committee of the “Orality, Textuality and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible” unit in the Society of Biblical Literature.

Homayra Ziad was elected as a board member of the Islam Steering Committee of the American Academy of Religion, November 2008.