Dean of Faculty’s Office
September 2008 Faculty Newsletter

Publications:

Raymond W. Baker. Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists (Arabic version). Amman, Jordan:  The Academic Center for Political Studies, June 2008 (originally published by Harvard University Press, September 2004).

Sarah Bilston. “It is Not What We Read, But How We Read: Maternal Counsel on Girls’ Reading Practices in Mid-Victorian Literature.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 30 (March 2008): 1-20.

Sarah Bilston. “Queens of the Garden: Victorian Women Gardeners and the Rise of the Gardening Advice Text.” Victorian Literature and Culture 36 (2008): 1-19.

Siobhan M. Knight,’07 and Daniel G. Blackburn. “Scanning Electron Microscopy of the Fetal Membranes of the Oviparous Corn Snake, Pituophis Guttatus (Colubridae).” Journal of Morphology 269 (2008): 922-934.

Daniel G. Blackburn. “The Creationist Assault on Rationality and Secularism.”  In Secularism and Science in the 21st Century, edited by Ariela Keysar and Barry A. Kosmin, 33-50.   Hartford: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, 2008.

William Butos. “Which Way Forward in Hayekian Social Theory: Evolution or Design?”  Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 26, no. 1 (2008): 221-233.

Kelly, J. G., & Janet Chang. “Pluralistic Inquiry for the History of Community Psychology.” Journal of Community Psychology 36, no. 5 (2008): 675-691.

David Cruz-Uribe, SFO and Cristian Rios. “Gaussian Bounds for Degenerate Parabolic Equations.” Journal of  Functional Analysis 255 (2008): 283–312.

Trishan de Lanerolle, Ralph Morelli, Danner N., Krizanc D., Parker G., and Izmirli O.  “Creating an academic community to build humanitarian FOSS: A progress report.” In Proceedings 5th International ISCRAM Conference, edited by F. Fiedrich and B. Van de Walle, Washington, DC, May 2008.

Pablo Delano. In Trinidad. Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, 2008.  Photographs by Pablo Delano, essays by Milla Cozart Riggio.

Kent D. Dunlap, Elizabeth A. McCarthy ’07, Denisa Jashari ’10. “Electrocommunication Signals Alone are Sufficient to Increase Neurogenesis in the Brain of Adult Electric Fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus.” Developmental Neurobiology 68 (2008): 1420-8.

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. 

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

Johannes Evelein. “Die Zeit der Bewahrer und Erhalter.  Hans Sahl, Exile and the Imperative of Memory.” In Preserving the Memory of Exile.  Festschrift for John Spalek, edited by Wulf Koepke and Jörg Thunecke, 151-164.  Nottingham: Edition Refugium, 2008.

Lucy Ferriss. “Uncle Charles Repairs to the A&P: Changes in Voice in the Recent American Short Story.” Narrative 16, no. 2 (May 2008): 178-192.

Lucy Ferriss. “The Mile High Club.” Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex edited by Ellen Sussman, 171-173. New York: Bloomsbury, June 2008.

Rena Fraden. Review of “The Regal Theater and Black Culture,” by Clovis E. Semmes.  Comparative Drama 42, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 231–234.

Eric A. Galm. “Baianas, Malandros and Samba:  Listening to Brazil through Donald Duck’s Ears.”  In Global Soundtracks: A World of Film Music, edited by Mark Slobin, 258-280.  Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2008.

Johnson, V.L., Laura J. Holt, Bry, B.H., & Powell, S.R. “Effects of an Integrated Preventive Intervention on Urban Youth Transitioning into High School.” Journal of Applied School Psychology 24 (2008): 225-246.

Sullivan, T.S., & Laura J. Holt. “PTSD Symptom Clusters are Differentially Related to Substance use Among Community Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence.” Journal of Traumatic Stress 21 (2008): 173-180.

James J. Hughes.  “Contours of Contemporary Biopolitics Found in 1920s British BioFuturism.” EMBO Reports 9, no. S1 (2008), S59–S63.

James J. Hughes.  “Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats.” In Global Catastrophic Risk, edited by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Ćirković, 73-90. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

James J. Hughes.  “Sex Selection and Women's Reproductive Rights.” In Should Parents Be Allowed to Select the Gender of Their Children? by Laura K. Egendorf, 31-40. Belmont, CA:  Gale Press, 2008.

Drew A. Hyland. Plato and the Question of Beauty.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008.

Ariela Keysar & Barry A. Kosmin. International Survey – Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists.  India 2007-2008 Summary Report.  Hartford: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, 2008.

Ariela Keysar & Barry A. Kosmin, eds. Secularism & Science in the 21st Century.     

Hartford: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, 2008.

Frank Kirkpatrick. Episcopal Church in Crisis: How Sex, the Bible, and Authority are Dividing the Faithful. Westport: Praeger, 2008

Barry A. Kosmin & Navarro-Rivera, Juhem. “The Salience of Secular Values and

Scientific Literacy for American Democracy.”  In Secularism & Science in the 21st Century edited by Ariela Keysar & Barry A. Kosmin, 173-190. Hartford: Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture, 2008.

Susan A. Masino and Geiger, J.D. “Are Purines Mediators of the Anticonvulsant/ Neuroprotective Effects of Ketogenic Diets?” Trends in Neurosciences 6 (June 2008): 273-278.

Louis P. Masur. “Flag Hasn’t Always Been on a Pedestal—or a Pin.” Hartford Courant, August 24, 2008.

Louis P. Masur. Review of Daring to Look by Anne Whiston Spirn. Los Angeles Times Book Review, May 25, 2008.

Louis P. Masur. “A New View of Abu Ghraib.” Review of Standard Operating Procedure by Errol Morris. The Chronicle Review, B20-21, May 16, 2008.

Ralph Morelli, Trishan de Lanerolle, Heidi Ellis, N. Danner and J. Iyengar.  “Workshop on Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software.” Proceedings of the 38th Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2008), Portland, OR, March 2008, DVD.

Ralph Morelli, Trishan de Lanerolle, and J. Iyengar.  “Workshop on Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software.” Journal of Computing Sciences in Small Colleges 23, no. 5 (May 2008): 5-6.

Ralph O. Moyer, with M. Barsan, I. Butler, D. R.F. Gilson, W. Zhou, H. Wu, and T. Udovic. “Raman, FTIR, Photoacoustic –FTIR and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Spectra of Alkaline Earth and Lanthanide Salts of Hexahydridoruthenate(II), A₂RuH₆ (A=Ca,Sr,Eu) and Their Deuterides.” J. Phys. Chem. A (2008): 6936.

Ralph O. Moyer, with S. M. Antao, B Toby, F. Morin, and D. R. F. Gilson. “Neutron Powder Diffraction and Solid-State NMR Studies of Ca₂RuD₆ and the Stability of Transition Metal Hexahydride Salts.” J. of Alloys and Compds. 460 (2008): 138.

Olivier J.-C. Nicaise, with Denmark, S. E.; Nakajima, N.; Stiff, C. M.; Kranz, M. “Studies on the Bisoxazoline- and (–)-Sparteine-Mediated Enantioselective Addition of Organolithium Reagents to Imines." Adv. Synth. Catal. 350 (2008): 1023.

Beth E. Notar. “Producing Cosmpolitanism at the Borderlands: Lonely Planeteers and 'Local' Cosmopolitans in Southwest China.” Anthropological Quarterly 81, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 615-650.

M. Silvina Persino. “Memoriales, Museos, Monumentos: La Articulación de Una Memoria Pública en la Argentina Postdictatorial.” Revista Iberoamericana 74, no. 222 (enero-marzo 2008): 53-69.

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

Livio Pestilli. “Shaftesbury's 'amusements...morally turned':  Naples 1711-1713.” In Napoli is the World: Proceedings of the Neapolitan Art and Culture from Humanism to the Enlightenment, International Conference, June 19-21, 2003. Pisa-Rome: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2008.

Miguel D. Ramirez. “Are Foreign and Public Capital Productive in the Mexican Case?” Economics Department Working Paper No. 49, Department of Economics, Yale University, (May 2008): 1-33.

Miguel D. Ramirez and Hari Sharma ‘08. “Remittances and Growth in Latin America: A Panel Unit Root and Panel Cointegration Analysis.” Economics Department Working Paper No. 51, Department of Economics, Yale University (June 2008): 1-38.

Miguel D. Ramirez and Hari Sharma ‘08. “Remittances and Growth in Latin America: A Panel Unit Root and Panel Cointegration Analysis.” Applied Econometrics and International Development 8, no. 2 (May-August 2008).

Miguel D. Ramirez.  Review of Living Standards and the Wealth of Nations: Successes and Failures in Real Convergence, ed. by Leszek Balcerowicz and Stanley Fischer. Journal of Regional Science 48, no. 3 (August 2008): 677-682.

Gary Reger. “On the Road to India with Apollonios of Tyana and Thomas the Apostle.” Mediterranean Historical Review 22 (2007): 257-271.

Peter Rosenbaum.  “Das Dilemma der Einsprachigkeit. Über Mary L. Pratts 'Sprachstudium und Universität: Gegen das Handicap der Einsprachigkeit.” Sprachdienst 2 (2008): 112-117.

Peter Rosenbaum.  “Holocaust Memorial Debates in Comparative Perspective.” Review of Holocaust-Rezeption und Geschichtskultur. Zentrale Holocaust-Denkmäler in der Kontroverse. Ein deutsch-österreichischer Vergleich by Holger Thünemann. Idstein: Schulz-Kirchner Verlag, 2005. H-German (June 2007).

Clare M. Rossini. “And in Acadia.” In An Easy Gravity: Poems for Elton Glaser, 13.  Akron, Ohio: University of Akron 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.

Wynne, M.J. and Craig W. Schneider. “Colaconema basiramosum Sp. Nov. (Colaconemataceae, Rhodophyta) from the Sultanate of Oman, Northern Arabian Sea.” Cryptogamie, Algologie 29 (2008): 69-80.

Craig W. Schneider, A.A. Parpal, C. Hunt and R. Ratan. “Anoxic Propagule Survival in Vaucheria (Vaucheriales, Heterokontophyta) from New England Riparian Sediments.” Rhodora 110 (2008): 217-224.

Mark Setterfield and Gilberto Lima. “Inflation Targeting and Macroeconomic Stability in a Post Keynesian Economy.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 30, no. 3 (2008): 435-61.

Mark Setterfield and Dany Lang. “Stability, Equilibrium, and Realism: a Response to Sardoni.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 30, no. 3 (2008): 491-5.

Mark R. Silk and Andrew Walsh. One Nation, Divisible: How Regional Religious Differences Shape American Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, July 2008.

Mark P. Silverman. “Quantum Condensates in Extreme Gravity:  Implications for Cold Stars and Dark Matter.”  International Journal of Modern Physics D 17, nos. 3 & 4 (2008): 603-609.

Edward Peter Stringham, Peter J. Boettke, and J.R. Clark, J.R. “Are Regulations the Answer for Emerging Stock Markets? Evidence from the Czech Republic and Poland.” Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance 48, no. 3 (August 2008): 541-566.

Edward Peter Stringham. “Deception in Markets: An Economic Analysis edited by Caroline Gerschlager.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 67, no. 2 (August 2008): 536-538.

Bryan Caplan and Edward Peter Stringham. “Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes.” Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9, no. 2 (July 2008): 503-528.

Edward Peter Stringham and Nicholas A. Snow. “The broken trailer fallacy: Seeing the unseen effects of government policies in post-Katrina New Orleans.” International Journal of Social Economics 35, no. 7 (2008): 480-489.

Benjamin Powell and Edward Peter Stringham. “Housing.” In The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, edited by David Henderson. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008.

Edward Peter Stringham. “Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas E. Flanagan." Public Choice 136, no. 1 (July 2008): 245-247.

Edward Peter Stringham. “The PayPal Wars by Eric M. Jackson.” Review of Austrian Economics 21, no. 1 (2008): 99-101.

Tom Means and Edward Peter Stringham. “Playing the Expensive Name Game.” Los Angeles Business Journal, June 16, 2008.

Tom Means and Edward Peter Stringham. “Affordable housing laws do the opposite.” San Francisco Business Times, May 30, 2008.

James A. Trostle, A. Hubbard, J. Scott, W. Cevallos, S. Bates, J. Eisenberg. “Raising the Level of Analysis of Food-Borne Outbreaks:  Food-sharing Networks in Rural Coastal Ecuador.”  Epidemiology 19 (2008): 384-90.

Erik M. Vogt. “Exception in Zizek's Thought.” Taking Exception to Exception: Special Issue Diacritics 37 (2008): 2-3.

Erik M. Vogt, translator, Slavoj Zizek. Der Mut, den ersten Stein zu werfen. With an extensive afterword by Erik Vogt. Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2008.

Conference Papers/Presentations:

Zayde Gordon Antrim. “‘Abode of the Prophets’: Geography as Hagiography in al-Muqaddasī’s Tenth-Century Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm.” Landscapes of the Saints: Hagiography and Land in the Near East and Europe, ca. 500-900 Colloquium, Princeton University, March 28-29, 2008.

E. Kathleen Archer. "Group Exams as Learning Tools." American Society for Microbiology 15th Annual Conference for Undergraduate Educators, Beverly, MA, May 30-June 1, 2008.

Raymond W. Baker. “U.S. Policies and Centrist Islamist Movements.” Conference on the Muslim World and the West, Emerging Avenues for Convergence. The International Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 28–30, 2008.

Raymond W. Baker. “U.S. Policies and the Islamic World.”  Eastern Mediterranean University, Center for Strategic Studies, The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, March 20–21, 2008. 

Raymond W. Baker. “Education and the Islamic World: Centrists Scholars of Renewal and Reform.” Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey, March 17, 2008.

Barbara M. Benedict. “Ways of Reading/ Reading Ways: Books and Manners in Jane Austen’ts Novels.” Evidence of Reading/Reading Evidence Conference, University of London, July 28, 2008.

Barbara M. Benedict. “Script to Print: Preserving Authority and Authenticity in Early Published Miscellanies.” Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Manuscripts OnLine, Cambridge University, July 3-4, 2008.

Barbara M. Benedict. “Reading Identity: The Representation of the Library in Eighteenth-Century Culture.” South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, April 2008.

Daniel G. Blackburn and A.F. Flemming.  “Specializations for Placentotrophy in African Skinks and Their Evolutionary Implications.” Reproduction in Reptiles: From Genes to Ecology. Sixth World Congress of Herpetology, Manaus, Brazil, August 2008.

Daniel G. Blackburn and M.B. Thompson.  “Reproduction in reptiles: a retrospective and prospective vision.”  Reproduction in Reptiles: From Genes to Ecology. Sixth World Congress of Herpetology, Manaus, Brazil, August 2008.

Daniel G. Blackburn, Kristie E. Anderson '10, Siobhan M. Knight '07, Amy R. Johnson '03, and Gregory S. Gavelis '08. “Functional Morphology of the Placentae in the Viviparous Thamnophine Snake Storeria dekayi.” Sixth World Congress of Herpetology, Manaus, Brazil, August 2008.

Gregory S. Gavelis ‘08, Daniel G. Blackburn, Kristie E. Anderson ‘11, and Kent D. Dunlap.   “Placentation in the Viviparous Lizard Sceloporus jarrovi is Unusually Specialized.”  Sixth World Congress of Herpetology, Manaus, Brazil, August 2008.

J. Harry Blaise. “Stress in Neonates Changes Plasticity in Adult Hippocampo-Amygdalar Neural Circuits.” The 17th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience, Asilomar, CA, June 1-4, 2008.

William N. Butos. “Politics Without Romance: Buchanan and Tullock.” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Milwaukee, August 14-17, 2008.

William N. Butos. “Hayek, Polanyi and the Economics of Science.” Foundation for Economic Education, Advanced Colloquium on Austrian Economics, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, August 3-8, 2008.

William N. Butos. “Keynes, Hayek and the Market System.” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Atlanta, February 7-10, 2008.

Moisés Castillo. "La conquista de México de Antonio Enríquez Gómez." XXVIII Asamblea y Congreso General de la Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores en los Estados Unidos (ALDEEU), Universidad de Córdoba, Spain, July 2008.

Janet Chang & Le, T. N. “The Impact of Multiculturalism on Academic Achievement among Asian American and Hispanic Youth. Multiculturalism in Educational Settings: Understanding Outcomes for Ethnic Minority Youth and Implementing Diversity Initiatives Symposium, Annual Convention of the Asian American Psychological Association, Boston, August, 2008.

Xiangming Chen. “Between Strategic Choice and ‘Natural’ Evolution: The Advantages and Challenges of Regionalization in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta.” Shanghai Forum, Shanghai, May 25-27, 2008.

Timothy P. Curran and Emma L. Handy. “A 310-Helix Single Turn Enforced by Crosslinking of Lysines with 1,1'-Ferrocenedicarboxylic Acid.” 4th International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry, Missoula, MT, July 9, 2008.

Whitney E. Smith ‘07, Peter C. Hendrickson ‘09 and Timothy P. Curran. “Conformational Behavior of Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Mono(Alkynylpeptide)-Tungsten Complexes.” 4th International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry, Missoula, MT, July 8, 2008. 

Neena T. Chakrabarti ‘09, Craig Yennie ‘06 and Timothy P. Curran, “Metallacyclicpeptides Made via Coordination of Tungsten to Two Side Chain Alkynes.” 4th International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry, Missoula, MT, July 8, 2008.

Jack Dougherty, with Jesse Wanzer ’08 and Heather Moore ’08. “Black and Latino Magnet School Choice: A Mixed-Methods Neighborhood Study in Urban Connecticut.” American Educational Research Association, New York City, March 2008.

Brett T. DiBenedictis ’07 and Kent D. Dunlap. “Low Frequency Electric Signals: Possible Role in Intraspecific and Interspecific Electrocommunication.” Gordon Conference on Neuroethology, Oxford, England, August 2008.

Heidi J.C. Ellis, Ralph A. Morelli and G.W. Hislop. “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.

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

Heidi J.C. Ellis and G.W. Hislop. “Fostering the Community of Software Engineering Educators.” 21^st Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Charleston, SC, April 2008.

Heidi J.C. Ellis, Ralph A. Morelli and G.W. Hislop. “Support for Educating Software Engineers Through Humanitarian Open Source Projects.” 21^st Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Charleston, SC, April 2008.

Frederick Errington and Deborah Gewertz. “One Supersize Does Not Fit All:  Flap Versus Mac in the Ethics of Personal Consumption.” Ethical Consumption:  Consumers and Producers, Markets and Ethics, 2008 Meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 26-30, 2008.

Diana Evans with Robert D. Wrinkle, J.L. Polinard, and James Wenzel. “Confidence in the Courts: A Latino Perspective.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 6, 2008.

Lucy Ferriss.  Reading from “The Woman Who Bought the Sky,” with remarks on historical fiction and contemporary culture. Red Cinder Creativity Center, Na´alehu, Hawaii, May 2008.

Lucy Ferriss. Reading from “The Woman Who Bought the Sky.” Ragdale Writers’ Colony, Lake Forest, IL, March, 2008.

Ellison Banks Findly. “Lao Buddhist Monks and the Metta Dhamma Project.” Korean Buddhist Studies Association, Seoul, Korea, May 16-18, 2008.

Eric A. Galm. “Conectando el Pasado, Presente y Futuro en la Música Popular Brasileña.”  Festival del Caribe, Santiago de Cuba, July 2008.

Cheryl Greenberg. “Attitudes toward Intermarriage and Group Self-Identity.” Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies, Helsinki, Finland, May 2008.

Cheryl Greenberg. “What American Liberals Can Learn from the Civil Rights Movement.” Master’s Programme in English, University of Uppsala, Sweden, April 2008.

Cheryl Greenberg. “Race and Politics in the Pre-Postethnic United States.” Center for North American Studies, University of Tampere, Finland, April, 2008.

Christopher Hager.  “Literacy's Incubators: New Orleans, the Sea Islands, and the Writing of Emancipation.” 6th Biennial Conference on Race & Place in the American South, University of Alabama, April 2008.

Thomas S. Harrington.  “Obsessions Trasvassades: Contribucions Catalanes al Repertori Arquitectònic de l’Uruguai.” Fundació Catalunya-Amèrica, Barcelona, Spain, June 28, 2008.

Thomas S. Harrington.  “L’arxiu amagat del Catalans de l’uruguai.” Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, June 19, 2008.

Thomas S. Harrington.  “Barcelona, Ciudad de Traducciones: El Caso de La revista Estudio.” City Lights. Literary Constructions and Urban Space in the Iberian Peninsula, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 25, 2008.

David E. Henderson.  Introduced “Constantine and the Council of Nicaea,” the new Reacting to the Past course book, co-authored with Frank Kirkpatrick. Reacting to the Past Conference, Barnard College, New York City, June 18-20, 2008.

Laura J. Holt & Kranitz, L.S. “Pulling from the Abyss: Motivating Smokers to Quit After a Relapse.” Building Tobacco-Free Communities, Waterbury, CT, April 8-9, 2008.

James J. Hughes.  “Millenialism and Apocalytpicism.” Global Catastrophic Risks, Oxford University, July 18, 2008.

James J. Hughes.  “Humanist Bioethics.” World Humanist Congress, Washington, DC, June 6, 2008.

James J. Hughes.  “Buddhism and Evolution.” Evolution in the 21st Century, Madison, WI, April 17, 2008.

Jean-Marc Kehrès.  “De l’usage politique de l’épistolarité: Madame de Genlis et l’éducation de Marianne dans La Feuille villageoise (1790).”  XVIth Annual Conference of the Australian Society for French Studies, Melbourne, Australia, July 14-17, 2008.

Jean-Marc Kehrès.   “Diderot’s Conversation with a Christian Lady:  The Philosophe as Spiritual Adviser.” Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society: “Secularism and the Enlightenment,” Claremont College, CA, June 15-18, 2008.

Ariela Keysar.  “Measuring Secularity and Segmenting the Secular Population in the United States.” Identifying Indicators for Secularism, Jerusalem, August 7, 2008.

Barry A. Kosmin, conference co-chair. Identifying Indicators for Secularism: Joint Conference - ISSSC and the The Guttman Center of The Israel Democracy Institute, The Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, August 7, 2008.

Barry A. Kosmin, conference co-chair. Secularism and the Enlightenment: Claremont-McKenna College and ISSSC Joint International Research Conference, Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont, CA, June 16-18, 2008.

Barry A. Kosmin.  “Keynote Address.” Release of the Summary Report of the International Survey Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists - India 2007-08, New York, June 5, 2008.

Barry A. Kosmin, conference chair. Teaching Conference on Secularism and the Enlightenment, Lenox, MA, May 20-22, 2008.

Paul Lauter. “Using Literary Texts to Teach about Immigration.” Stratford Public Schools, March 5, 2008

Paul Lauter. “Immigration and Multiculturalism.” In a class on Current Issues in Education and Social Sciences, St Joseph’s College, March 12, 2008.

Paul Lauter. “On Anthologies, Particularly the Heath Anthology of American Literature.” American Literature Association Meeting, San Francisco, May 23, 2008.

Sonia Lee.  “L'Emergence de l'essai au féminin en Afrique francophone: témoignages et engagements d'Aminata Traoré.” Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Annual Convention, Limoges, France, June 29, 2008.

Sonia Lee. Secretary and presenter, “Femmes:les écrits de la révolte et de l'affirmation.” Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Annual Convention, Limoges, France, June 29, 2008.

Dan Lloyd. “Two Cultures but One Epistemology: Novels and Empirical Science.” International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Helsinki, Finland, August 2008.

Dan Lloyd. “Music of the Hemispheres.” Fiera Editoria Scientifica Trieste (FEST), the International Science Media Fair, Trieste, April 2008.

Dan Lloyd. “Time, Narrative and the Brain.” Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland, March 2008.

David Mauro (co-authored by John Georges and Yan Wang). “On Graphs with Non-Surjective  L(2,1) – Labellings.” MathFest 2007, Mathematical Association  of America, San Jose, CA, Aug. 3–5, 2007.

John D. Mertens, Kalitan, D. M., and Petersen, E. L.: “Determination of the Rate of H + O₂ + M →HO₂ + M (M = N₂, Ar, H₂O) from Ignition of Syngas at Practical Conditions.” 32nd International Symposium on Combustion, Montreal, August 5, 2008.

John D. Mertens, Mussmann, S. S., Kalitan, D. M., and Petersen, E. L.: “A Chemical Kinetics Model for the Fast Ignition of Syngas at Lower Temperatures and Higher Pressures.” Western States Section of the Combustion Institute Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 17, 2008.

Harland Prechel and Theresa Morris. “The Effects of PAC Contributions and Corporate Characteristics on Financial Malfeasance in the Largest 500 U.S. Parent Companies.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 1-4, 2008.

Ralph O. Moyer, with M. Barsan, I. Butler, and D. R. F. Gilson. “Vibrational Spectra of Ca₂IrH₅ and Ca₂IrD₅.” 91st Canadian Chemistry Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 24-29, 2008.

Olivier J.-C. Nicaise, with Julia A. Schneider & Crystal L. Rose.  “Diastereoselective Addition of Chiral Ketone Enolates to Benzyne: Asymmetric Synthesis of Biologically Active Benzocyclobutenols.” 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, April 6–10, 2008.

Beth E. Notar. “Issues of Representation: American Anthropologists View Southwest China.” Kunming Technical University, Kunming, China, July 2008.

Beth E. Notar. “Performing Nationalities in Yunnan.” Whitman College in China Program, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, June 27, 2008.

Beth E. Notar. “Shijie zhuyi yu Dali de Yangrenjie (Cosmopolitanism and Foreigner Street in Dali).”  Yunnan University History Department, Kunming, China, May 27, 2008.

Beth E. Notar. “Hello Dali: Travel and Transformations of Place in Dali, Yunnan.” Duke University in China program, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China, April 15, 2008.

Beth E. Notar. “Fieldwork in China.” School for International Training (SIT) in Kunming, China, Yunnan Nationalities University, April 1, 2008.

Beth E. Notar. “In Praise of the Inauthentic? Chinese Minority Performances in New England.” When the Ethnic Goes Popular: Celebrity, Authenticity, and Visions of Ethnicity from Yunnan, Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, April 2008.

Beth E. Notar. “Popular Culture Representations of Dali, Yunnan and their Material After-Effects (Liuxing wenhua biaoshu de houguo: Yunnan, Dali de ge'an yanjiu).” Research and Reflections on Ethnology/Anthropology: Case Studies (Minzu xue/renlei xue ge'an yanjiu yu fansi), Symposium on Ethnology and Anthropology of Yunnan Province and China (Yunnan yu Zhongguo de minzu xue/renlei xue xueshu yantao hui), Kunming, Yunnan, China, March 22, 2008.

Susan Pennybacker. Graduate Students’ Symposium Respondent, Early 20^th-Century Black Radicalism: Anticolonialism, Marxism and National Liberation in International Context, Africana Studies Department, Brown University, April, 2008.

M. Silvina Persino. “Teatro Esquina Latina (Cali): multiplicación sostenible.” XVII Congreso Internacional de Teatro Iberoamericano y Argentino, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, August, 2008.

M. Silvina Persino. “El teatro como herramienta de inclusión social en la Argentina.” VII Conference/Festival Latin American Theatre Today, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, March 26-29, 2008.

John Platoff. “Mozart writes a sequel: Figaro, Paisiello’s Barbiere di Siviglia, and Operatic Life in Vienna.” Opera and Society Interdisciplinary Conference, College of Fine Arts, Boston University, April 18, 2008.

Miguel D. Ramirez. “Is Public Investment Productive in the Argentine Case: A Cointegration Analysis, 1960-2001.” 2008 Eastern Association Meetings, Boston, March 2008.

Miguel D. Ramirez. “Endogenous Growth Models.” 2008 Eastern Association Meetings, Boston, March 2008.

Miguel D. Ramirez. “Trade in Frontier Technology.” 2008 Eastern Association Meetings, Boston, March 2008.

Gary Reger.  “Economic Regionalism in Theory and Practice.” Les marches de la céramique dans le monde grec (VIIIe – Ier s. av. J.-C.), Université libre de Bruxelles, June 19-21, 2008.

Clare M. Rossini. Poetry reading at Hamline Summer Writers Conference, July 2008.

Clare M. Rossini. Poetry reading at Left Bank Gallery, Essex, CT, August, 2008.

Barry R. Schaller. “Free Speech in the Digital Age.” Constitution Day Lecture, Sacred Heart University, September 17, 2008.

Barry R. Schaller. “Neuroscience in the Courtroom.” Neuroscience for State Judges Conference, MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project (with the National Judicial College), Dartmouth University, September 13, 2008.

Barry R. Schaller. “Bioethics and Law.” Yale Bioethics Center, April 2008.

Barry R. Schaller. “Constitutional Law and Public Policy.” Sacred Heart University, April 2008.

Craig W. Schneider and C.E. Lane. “Updated Morphological and Molecular Investigations of the Genus Botryocladia (Rhodophyta, Rhodymeniaceae) in Bermuda, Including Three New Species.” 47th Northeast Algal Symposium, University of New Hampshire, Durham, April 2008.

Mark Setterfield. “Path Dependency, Hysteresis and Macrodynamics.” 5th International Conference: Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, July 2008.

Mark Setterfield. “The Cost Channel of Monetary Transmission in a Post Keynesian Macrodynamic Model of Inflation and Output Targeting.” 5th International Conference: Developments in Economic Theory and Policy, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, July 2008.

Mark Setterfield. “A Keynes-Kalecki Model of Cyclical Growth with Agent-based Characteristics.” Analytical Political Economy Workshop, Queen Mary, University of London, London, May 2008.

Mark R. Silk. “Think Locally, Act Globally.” Conference on Media, Spiritualities and Social Change, University of Colorado and Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, June 5, 2008.

James A. Trostle.  “Medicines on the Road: The Social Life of Diarrhea Remedies in Northern Coastal Ecuador.”  University of Massachusetts - Amherst, April 7, 2008.

James A. Trostle.  “Roads, Networks, and Infections: Toward an Epidemiology of Social Relations.”  American Ethnological Association, Wrightsville Beach, NC, April 5, 2008.

James A. Trostle.  “Roads, Remedies, and Resistance: How Medicines Move in Northern Coastal Ecuador.” Society for Medical Anthropology Annual Meeting, Memphis, March 28, 2008.

James A. Trostle.  “Antibiotic Resistance and Diarrhea Remedies in Northern Coastal Ecuador.”  George Washington University, Washington, DC, March 13, 2008.

Erik M. Vogt. “Where did the Subject (of Politics) Go?” ISSEI, Finland, August 2008.

Erik M. Vogt. “Kunstüberschreibungen.” Panel on Contemporary Art, Austria, June 2008.

Homayra Ziad. “Illuminationist Trends in the Religious Thought of the Naqshbandi Scholar Khwaja Mır Dard of Delhi (d. 1785).” American Oriental Society Annual Meeting, March 14-17, 2008.

Performances/Exhibits:

Pablo Delano. “Merging Cultures.” Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT, April 18–August 10, 2008.

Eric A. Galm.  Featured performer with “Mixashawn.” Feet to the Fire Festival, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, May 2008.

Gerald Moshell. Stop the World, I Want to Get Off and Birds of Paradise (stage and musical director). The Cornerstone Playhouse, Wakefield, RI, July 2008.

Gerald Moshell. Broadway at the Towers II: Phoebe Madden and Friends (director and pianist). The Towers, Narragansett, RI.

Gerald Moshell (pianist). Phoebe Sings Broadway.  with Phoebe Madden. Compact Disc.

Grants/Fellowships:

Lynette Boos, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, funding to attend undergraduate faculty summer program, Analytic and Algebraic Geometry at the Park City Mathematics Institute, Park City, UT, July 2008.

Kent D. Dunlap, Fulbright Scholar Award, Research at the Clemente Estable Institute for Biological Research, Montevideo, Uruguay, $5,200, Spring 2009.

Heidi J.C. Ellis, Co-PI (with Michael Gryk, PI, University of Connecticut Health Center), “CONNJUR: A Software Integration Platform for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy,” NIH-BDMA (R21), $173,894 (total project budget: $1.85M), September 2008 – August 2012.

Eric A. Galm, Greater Hartford Arts Council Community Events Grant, SambaFest 2008, $2,000, May 2008.

Christoph Geiss, “Collaborative Research: RUI: Landscape-level Controls on Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Wetland Responses to Climate Change in the Southern Canadian Arctic,” National Science Foundation (Ecosystems Science Cluster) $79,000 (total project budget: $730,000), 2008-2011.

Maria J. Krisch, “Photochemistry of the liquid-vapor interface,” Camille and Henry Dreyfus Faculty Start-up Award, $30,000, 2008-2012.

Dan Lloyd, Fulbright Fellowship, Lecture/Research Grant, Collegium for Advanced Study, University of Helsinki, Finland, January–June, 2008.

Kevin J. McMahon, Faculty Enrichment Grant, International Council for Canadian Studies, $4,750, summer 2008.

James A. Trostle, PI.  “Collaborative Research: Agricultural Antibiotics and Human Health: A Multiscale Ecological Approach to the Development and Spread of Antibiotic Resistance.”  National Science Foundation, Ecology of Infectious Diseases, $184,000 (total project budget: $2,488,000), 2008-2011.

James A. Trostle, co-author and PI. “Environmental change and diarrheal diseases: A natural experiment.” National Institutes of Health, Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, $260,000 (total project budget: $3,197,000), 2008-2012.

Honors & Awards:

J. Harry Blaise was elected Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

J. Harry Blaise was elected President of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Pre-Engineering Program, Inc. (CPEP).

Neena T. Chakrabarti ‘09, Craig Yennie ‘06 and Timothy P. Curran, poster presentation “Metallacyclicpeptides Made via Coordination of Tungsten to Two Side Chain Alkynes” received the Best Poster Award at the 4th International Symposium on Bioorganometallic Chemistry, Missoula, MT, July 8, 2008.

Judy Dworin’s performance piece “The Witching Hour” received the Award of Merit with Connecticut Landmarks for innovative presentation of Connecticut history, Connecticut League of History, as well as the national Award of Merit for Leadership in History, American Association of State and Local History.

Francisco Goldman’s 2007 book The Art of Political Murder: Who killed the Bishop? won the 2008 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression TR Fyvel Book Award.

Susan A. Masino was named the “Annette and Kingsbury Browne Volunteer Conservationist of the Year” by The Trust for Public Land.

Mary Sandoval is serving as a Research Member of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California for their Fall 2008 Program in the Analysis of Singular Spaces. 

Barry R. Schaller received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and delivered the commencement address at Quinnipiac University School of Law on May 11, 2008.

Other Professional Accomplishments:

Raymond W. Baker was appointed to the Board of Directors, International Council of Middle East Studies (ICMES), International Law Institute (ILI), Washington, DC, September 2008.

Jennifer L. Bowman has achieved the credential of Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA).

Xiangming Chen co-organized the international conference “The Diversity and Dynamics of Global City-Regions: Asian and European Cases Compared,” Fudan University, Shanghai, May 31-June 1, 2008.

Xiangming Chen organized the sessions “Post-Communist Social Dynamics: A Cross-National Perspective” and “Cross-National Sociology.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August 1-4, 2008.

Lucy Ferriss was a fellow at the Red Cinder Creativity Center, Na´alehu, Hawaii, May 2008; the Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, Wyoming, April 2008; and the Ragdale writers’ colony, Lake Forest, IL, March, 2008.

Paul Lauter organized two sessions (and chaired one) of the Society for the Study of Working-Class Literature at the American Literature Association Meeting, San Francisco, May 23-24, 2008.

Paul Lauter participated in the Association of Departments of English Summer Seminar, Santa Fe, June 23-26, 2008. 

James A. Trostle has been named a Member, Expert Panel, Thematic Reference Group on Environment, Agriculture and Infectious Diseases, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), World Health Organization.