Chris Armen

Visiting Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Paper:

Co-authored “DiaSketches” presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Smart Graphics, Hawthorne, NY, June 2002.

BARBARA M. BENEDICT

Charles A. Dana Professor of English Literature

English

Book Chapter:

“Truths Universally Acknowledged: Classy Irony in Jane Austen” in Method and Truth: The Search for Norms Across the Disciplines, Berel Lang (ed.), Trinity College Publications, 2, pp. 127-140.

Lectures:

“Unburied Bodies and Empirical Eyes” presented at the Friday Forum Lecture Series, The Graduate Center, CUNY, April 2002.

“Resentment Never Dies: Ghostly Grievances” presented as the plenary speech for the Aphra Behn Society Conference, Daytona Beach, FL, October 2001.

“The Mad Scientist: The Creation of a Literary Stereotype” presented as the plenary speech for the Conference on Science and the Imagination, Shreveport, LA, November 2001.

“The Want Ads: Advertising and Narrative Desire in Haywood and Defoe” presented at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Colorado Springs, CO, April 2002.

“Rising Above Worldly Cares in the Hot Air Balloon” presented at the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, South Padre Island, TX, February 2002.

Awards and Grants:

Recipient of The Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship for scholarly edition of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey for Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Nomination of two essays for the Clifford Prize, 2001.

JOSEPH D. BRONZINO

Vernon Roosa Professor of Applied Science

Applied Science

Books:

Co-authored Biomechanics: Principles and Applications, CRC Press, 2002.

Co-authored Biomaterials: Principles and Applications, CRC Press, 2002.

Articles:

J. Bronzino, et al., “Increased hippocampal NE levels are associated with tetanizatiion of the medical perforant pathway in the freely moving adult male rat” in Hippocampus 11, pp. 423-429, 2001.

J. Bronzino, J.Y. Oh, E. ROSOW ’86, J. Enderle, and L. Eisenfeld, “The design and development of a biosensor to measure the concentration of meconium in amniotic fluid” in Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology 35, pp. 46-56, 2001.

Co-authored “The effect of interburst intervals on measures of hippocampal LTP in the freely moving adult male rat” in Experimental Neurology, 170, pp. 371-374, 2001.

J. Bronzino, et al., “Effects of prenatal protein malnutrition and neonatal stress on CNS responsiveness” in Developmental Brain Research, 132, pp. 23-31, 2001.

J. Bronzino and J.H. BLAISE ’94, “Transition from long-term depression to long-term potentiation as a function of stimulation frequency in the freely moving rat” in Proceedings of the Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 41-42, 2002.

J. Bronzino, A.A. Robinson, S.S. GOURI SURESH ’03, D.J. Aloi, D.A. Fortin, J.H. BLAISE ’94, “A GUI Software suite for data acquisition and analysis of evoked field potentials: Applications in biomedical and electrophysiological research” in Proceedings of the Northeast Bioengineering Conference April 2002, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 123-124, 2002.

Paper:

“Ontogeny of LTD/LTP Transition in the Hippocampal Formation” presented at the Winter Conference on Neuronal Plasticity, February 2002.

Lectures:

“The Evolution of BEACON” presented at Wesleyan University, October 2001.

“Effect of Neonatal Stress on Hippocampal Plasticity” presented at Boston University, November 2001.

“Evolution of Biomedical Engineering/BEACON” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Adademy of Science Engineering CASE, May 2002.

“Biotechnology–An Engine of Regional Economic Development” presented at the Symposium on Opportunities in Biotechnology for the Hartford Region, Central Connecticut State University, May 2002.

Grant:

Recipient of a renewal grant from the National Science Foundation for “Ontogeny of frequency dependent hippocampal synaptic plasticity in the freely moving rat.”

Moisés R. Castillo

Visiting Assistant Professor

Modern Languages and Literature

Paper:

“Principio y fin de las comedias de indio: El Nuevo Mundo, de Lope, y La aurora en Copacabana, de Calderón” presented at XXII Asamblea y Congreso General de la Asociación de Licenciados y Doctores Españoles en Estados Unidos (ALDEEU), Universidad de Granada, Spain, July 2002.

KATHLEEN CURRAN

Associate Professor

Fine Arts

Paper:

“Henry Hobson Richardson, Trinity Church, and the Birth of the Richardsonian Romanesque” presented at the symposium “The Making of Trinity Church Boston,” Boston Public Library, November 2001.

Grant:

Recipient of a Graham Foundation publication grant for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for a forthcoming book, The Romanesque Revival.

Fellowship:

Recipient of a Smithsonian Institution Libraries Residential Fellowship.

Jack Dougherty

Assistant Professor

Educational Studies Program

Grant Awarded:

Recipient of a National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship for research on “Cities, Suburbs, and Schools: An Historical Case Study of Metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut,” 2002-2003.

KENT DUNLAP

Associate Professor

Biology

Articles:

“Hormonal and body size correlates of electrocommunication behavior during dyadic interactions in a weakly electric fish” in Apteronotus leptorhynchus, Hormones and Behavior 41, pp. 187-194, 2002.

K. Dunlap, P. PELCZAR ’00, and R. Knapp, “Social interactions and cortisol treatment increase the production of aggressive electrocommunication signals in male electric fish” in Apteronotus leptorhynchus, Hormones and Behavior 42, pp. 97-108, 2002.

K. Dunlap and L. OLIVERI ’04, “Retreat site selection and social organization in captive electric fish” in Apteronotus leptorhynchus, Journal of Comparative Physiology A 188, pp. 469-477, 2002.

Paper:

K. Dunlap and J. LARKINS-FORD ’02, “Evolution in the structure of electrocommunication signals within a genus of electric fish, Apteronotus” presented at Gordon Conference on Neuroethology, Oxford, England, August 2002.

Lectures presented at:

University of Virginia, Department of Neuroscience, October 2001.

Wesleyan University, Department of Biology, November 2001.

Johannes Evelein

Assistant Professor

Modern Languages and Literature

Articles:

“Max Knight—Max Kühnel” in Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933, Bd.3.2, John M. Spalek, Konrad Feilchenfeldt, and Sandra Hawrylchak (eds.), Munich, Saur, pp. 234-245, 2001.

“Ethics, Consciousness, and the Potentialities of Literature—Teaching Narratives of Exile” in Realms of Exile: Diasporas, Nomadism and Eastern European Voices, Domnica Radulescu (ed.), Lanham, Lexington Books, pp. 15-28, 2002.

“‘Versäumst, die Pflicht des Mannes zu erfüllen’: Kunst als Ich-Kult im Frühwerk Lion Feuchtwangers.” Abschied vom Mythos Mann. Kulturelle Konzepte der Moderne, Karin Tebben (ed.), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 215-230, 2002.

“‘Erinnern heißt finden’—Gedächtnis-und Erinnerungsproblematik in Soma Morgensterns Flucht in Frankreich.” Soma Morgensterns verlorene Welt,  Kritische Beiträge zu seinem Werk, Frankfurt am Main, Lang, pp. 100-112, 2002.

Papers:

“Mapping Exile—Reflections on the Topography of Exilic Imagination” presented at Exils/Exiles: International Colloquium, The European Research Centre, Kingston University, Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, U.K.

“Cities, Islands, Idylls: German Exile Narratives and the Spatial Conception of Displacement” presented at the German Studies Association, Washington, DC.

LESLEY FARLOW

Assistant Professor

Theater & Dance

Paper:

“Mediating Medea” presented at the International Association of Philosophy and Literature annual conference, Rotterdam, Holland, June 2002.

Performances:

“Sextet No. 1”:

            Mt. Holyoke College, October 2001

            Artbank In Shelburne Falls, MA, December 2001

            Bennington College, April 2002

            Thorne’s Market Theatre, Northampton, MA, May 2002.

      “Matchbox”:

“Fertile Ground” Series, Thorne’s Market Theatre,

Northampton, MA, March 2002.

Guest performer, “Dreamlife of Bricks” by Martha Bowers,

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Addams, MA,

June 2002.

Grants:

New England Foundation of the Arts, for bringing Bridgman / Packer Dance Co. to Trinity, Fall 2001.

Dance USA, for bringing David Dorfman Dance to Trinity, Spring 2002.

Northampton Arts Council, for her own work, Fall 2002.

LUCY FERRISS

Writer-in-Residence

English

Book:

Nerves of the Heart, Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2002.

Articles:

“Not so Fast, Not So High” in New York Times, July 2002.

“The Difficulty of Translation” in Ann Arbor, Michigan Quarterly Review, Summer 2001.

“The Rules,” a short story, Summer 2002.

Paper:

“Hemingway & Dialogue” presented at the Pedagogy Forum, Associated Writing Programs, March 2002

Ellison Banks Findly

Professor

Religion and Asian Studies

Articles:

“The Housemistress at the Door: Vedic and Buddhist Perspectives on the Mendicant Encounter” in Jewels of Authority: Women, Text, and the Hindu Tradition, Laurie Patton (ed.), New York, Oxford University Press, pp. 13-31, 2001.

“The Lives and Contributions of Mughal Women,” a chapter in The Magnificent Mughals, Zeenut Ziad, ed., Islamabad, Oxford University Press, 2001.

“Borderline Beings: Plant Possibilities in Early Buddhism” in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 122.2, pp. 252-263, 2002.

Guest Lecture:

“The Kilesas in Vipassana Meditation” presented at Kripalu Institute, New York, December 2001.

Mark Franklin

John R. Reitemeyer Professor

Political Science

Articles:

“The Future of Election Studies,” edited with Christopher Wlezien, in Special Issue of Electoral Studies, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 157-364, May 2002.”

“Reinventing Election Studies” with Christopher Wlezien, in Electoral Studies, 21:2, pp. 359-364, May 2002.

“How Structural Factors cause Turnout Variations at European Parliament Elections” in European Union Politics, 2:3, pp. 309-328, October 2001.

“The Dynamics of Electoral Participation” in Elections and Voting in Global Perspective 2, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, Laurence Leduc, Richard Niemi, and Pippa Norris (eds.), pp. 148-168, 2002.

“Electoral Participation” in Controversies in Voting Behavior, 4th edition, Washington, DC, CQ Press, Richard Niemi and Herbert Weisberg (eds.), 2001.

“European Elections and the European Voter” in European Union: Power and Policy-Making, 2nd Edition, London, Longman, Jeremy Richardson (ed.), pp. 197-213, 2001.

Papers:

“The Tally of Turnout: How the Changing Character of Elections Drives Voter Turnout Variations in Established Democracies” presented at the Congress of the European Consortium for Political Research, Canterbury, England, September 2001.

“The Economy and the Vote: Electoral Responses to Economic Conditions in 15 Countries” prepared with Wouter van der Brug and Cees van der Eijk and presented at the Congress of the European Consortium for Political Research, Canterbury, England, September 2001.

“Naive Political Science and the Paradox of Voting” prepared with Michael Fotos, III for the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 2002.

“Learning (not) to Vote: The Generational Basis of Turnout Decline in Established Democracies” prepared with Bernard Wessels and presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2002.

Guest Lectures:

“The Voter Turnout Puzzle” presented at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, April 2002.

“The Voter Turnout Puzzles” presented at the Fulbright Brainstorm Conference, Lisbon, February 2002.

“The Voter Turnout Puzzle and National Elections in Europe” presented at the Harvard University Center for European Studies Visiting Scholars’ Seminar, November 2001.

Suzanne Gleason

Assistant Professor

Economics

Articles:

Suzanne Gleason, et al., “Potential Influence of Acute CT on Inpatient Costs in Patients with Ischemic Stroke” in Academic Radiology, pp. 955-964, October 2001.

Suzanne Gleason, et al., “The Costs of Care of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Provided in a Diabetes Clinic Versus a General Medicine Clinic” in Journal of General Internal Medicine, 16 (Suppl 1), 200 (Abstract), 2001.

ALDEN GORDON

Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Art History

Articles:

Co-authored “The Picture within the Picture: The Lost 1750 Boucher Portrait of Madame de Pompadour Rediscovered” in Apollo, CLV, No. 480, pp. 21-30, February 2002.

“Marigny et le Goût à la Grec” in Connaissance des Arts, numéro hors série, Madame de Pompadour, February 2002.

“L’influence du marquis de Marigny sur Madame de Pompadour” in Madame de Pompadour et les arts, Xavier Salmon, Helge Seifert, Humphrey Wine (eds.), Paris, RMN, (exhibition catalog, Versailles, Musée du Château de Versailles; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung), 2001.

“Un Homme de l’Ancien Régime: Denon au milieu des voyageurs-amateurs, courtisans et diplomats au cours de ses premières années à Paris” in Actes du Colloque Denon, Daniella Gallo (ed.), Paris, Musée du Louvre et Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2001.

"The Longest Enduring Pompadour Hoax: The Case against the Memoirs of Madame du Hausset" in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture, Elise Goodman (ed.), Wilmington, University of Delaware Press, 2001.

Papers:

“The Houses and Collections of the Marquis de Marigny” presented at The Wallace Collection, London, December 2002.

“The Image of Madame de Pompadour” presented at the National Gallery of Art, London, December 2002

“Objects from the Collection of Madame de Pompadour and the Marquis de Marigny in The Wallace Collection” presented at the French Porcelain Society, London, The Wallace Collection, December 2002.

“Madame de Pompadour: Images of a Mistress. Study Day” presented at the National Gallery of Art, London, November 2002.

“Archaeological Espionage and the Urgency to Publish Images of the Early Discoveries of Herculaneum and the Bay of Naples” presented at the Conference Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum, University of Pennsylvania, October 2002.

Lectures:

“Seventeenth Century French Art and the Politics of Religion and Monarchy” presented at The Wadsworth Atheneum, October 2002.

“The Order of French Parade Rooms in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and their Appropriate Furnishings” presented at Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama), September 2002.

“Art For Living: The Decorative Arts And The Social Transformation Of France 1680-1880” presented at The Wadsworth Atheneum, June 2002.

Lecture presented at the Chief Executives Organization, European Coastal University, June 2002.

Karl Haberlandt

Professor

Psychology

Papers:

K. Haberlandt, J. THOMAS ’02, H. MILNER ’01, “Accuracy and response time patterns in serial order recall” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, November 2001.

K. Haberlandt, J. THOMAS ’02, H. MILNER ’01, H. LAWRENCE ’02, and T. KROHN ’02, “Transposition errors in serial order recall” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 2002.

K. Haberlandt and J. THOMAS ’02, “Asymmetry of transposition errors in immediate serial recall” presented at the Conference on Short-term/Working Memory, Quebec, Canada, July 2002.

Grants Awarded:

Faculty Research Leave for “Memory search in serial recall,” 2002-2003.

Three-Year Faculty Research Expense Grant for “Inhibition in serial recall,” 2002-2005.

Faculty research assistant for “Retrieval dynamics in serial recall.”

Drew A. Hyland

Charles A. Dana Professor

Philosophy

Papers:

“Oh my Friend, What is a Friend? Derrida’s Reading of Plato” presented at the International Philosophical Seminar, Castelrotto, Italy, July 2001.

“Against A Platonic Theory of Forms” presented to the Society For Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Baltimore, MD, October 2001.

“It’s a Good Day to Die” presented at Collegium Phenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, July 2002.

Guest Lecture:

“Technology and Human Nature: Who’s In Charge Here?” presented at Washington and Lee University, March 2002.

Frank Kirkpatrick

Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Professor 

Religion

Panelist:

The Society for Philosophy of Religion (annual meeting), respondent for Ron Hall, “Christian Perspectives on our National Tragedy,” February 2002.

Guest Lectures:

Trinity Center for Collaborative Teaching and Research, Author Series: “The Ethics of Community,” Trinity College, April 2002.

Panelist, “Stem Cell Research: Ethical Implications,” Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, October 2001.

Guest lecturer/discussant for class “Church and Community,” Drew Theological Seminary, led by Dr. William Elkins, December 2001.

Guest lecturer, “Philanthropy and Justice,” St. John’s Episcopal Church, December 2001.

Invited speaker, Affirmation Series, The Episcopal Diocese of Utah, “Redeeming Politics,” April 2002.

ROBERT KIRSCHBAUM

Professor

Fine Arts

Solo Exhibition:

“Jerusalem Gates” presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2001.

Group Exhibitions:

“From Transfer to Content” presented at ArtWorks Gallery, New Bedford, MA, 2002.

“Sacred Spaces” presented at Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, 2002.

“NorthEast Prints” presented at Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, 2001.

Guest Lecture:

Presented at Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, in conjunction with the exhibition, “Sacred Spaces,” 2002.

Panelist:

Fulbright South Asia Peer Review Panel for the 2002-2003 Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Washington, DC.

Berel Lang

Professor

Humanities

Book:

Editor, Method and Truth: The Search for Norms across the Disciplines, Trinity College, p. 181, 2002.

Articles:

“Heidegger and the Jewish Question” in T. Lott and J. Ward (eds.), Philosophers on Race, Cambridge: Blackwell, pp. 205-221, 2002.

“Misinterpretation as the Author’s Responsibility” in J. Golomb and R. Wistrich (eds.), Nietzsche: Godfather of Fascism? Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 47-65, 2002.

“‘Not Enough’ vs. ‘Plenty’: Which Did Pius XII Do?” in Judaism, 50, pp. 48-52, 2001.

“‘A Few Cheap Tears’: Novick on the Holocaust in American Life” in Jewish Social Studies, 7, pp. 149-158, 2001.

“Moral Issues of Restitution” in Sh’ma, pp. 2-3 June 2002.

Paper:

“Memory and History in the Holocaust” presented at the Philosophical Society for the Study of Holocaust and Genocide, Baltimore, October 2001.

Guest Lectures:

“From the Particular to the Universal—and Back” presented at DePauw University, October 2001, and at University of Virginia, February 2002.

“Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust” presented at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, March 2002, and at Claremont McKenna College, April 2002.

“Misinterpretation as the Author’s Responsibity: Nietzsche’s fascism, for instance” presented at University of Colorado, April 2002.

Grant Awarded:

Ina Levine Scholar in Residence, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, September 2001-June 2002.

Eugene E. Leach

Professor

History and American Studies

Papers:

“Art of Association,” series of discussions of civic engagement, Connecticut Humanities Council, December 2001 (Guilford) and April 2002 (Simsbury).

“Globalizing America” presented at the Fifth Congress of the Americas, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico, October 2001.

Guest Lectures:

“E Pluribus Unum: Multiculturalismo en los Estados Unidos de America,” Cursillo (short course) presented at la Universidad Americana de Managua, Nicaragua, May 2002.

Lectures presented at la Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela: “La primera guerra mundial y la sociedad de masas,” “La globalizacion y sus criticos,” “The American Dream,” “Todos somos asimilacionistas ahora,” and “Globalizing America,” July 2002.

SONIA LEE

Professor

Modern Languages and Literature

Article:

“La Poésie comme Terre d’Asile dans L’oeuvre de Tahar Bekri” in Présence Francophone, N58, pp. 0-28, 2002.

Papers:

“Le Cinema de L’Integration” presented at the African Literature Association, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, April 2002.

“La Littérature, Cheval de Troie du Savoir” presented at the Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones, U. of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, May 2002.

Lecture:

“I Write therefore I am: African Women’s Essays” presented at Trinity College, Spring 2002.

Dan Lloyd

Professor

Philosophy

Articles:

“Functional MRI and the study of human consciousness” in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14: pp. 818-831, 2002.

“Studying the mind from the inside out” in Brain and Mind, 3: pp. 243-259, 2002.

Papers:

“Consciousness and Functional Brain Imaging: Methods and Applications,” workshop presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Barcelona, June 2002.

“Vision, as seen from within” presented at the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science, Boston University, March 2002.

“Community Learning at Trinity College in Hartford: Faculty Perspectives” (and other presentations) at the National Community Learning Conference, Trinity College, October 2001.

Guest Lectures:

“Functional MRI and the study of human consciousness,” the New Perspectives in Functional Brain Imaging Award Lecture, presented at Dartmouth College, July 2002.

“With time in mind: Explorations of the neural foundations of consciousness” presented at Connecticut College’s Department of Philosophy, April 2002.

Grant Awarded:

New Perspectives in Functional Brain Imaging Research Award, awarded by the Functional MRI data center and Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002.

KENNETH LLOYD-JONES

Professor

Modern Languages and Literature

“Peitho Perverted: Humanist approaches to the Power of Persuasion, when Good Speech is used for Bad Ends: (I) the case of Aretino” presented at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, Los Angeles, CA, April 2002.

“Peitho Perverted: Humanist approaches to the Power of Persuasion, when Good Speech is used for Bad Ends: (II) the case of Erasmus” presented at the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, Los Angeles, CA, April 2002.

William Mace

Professor

Psychology

Guest Lectures:

“Background of the Ecological Approach with special emphasis on William James’ ‘Radical Empiricism’ and E.B. Holt’s ‘Realism’; “Focusing on the goal of perceiving the Environment (as opposed to ‘merely perceiving,’ without regard to ‘what’”; “The importance of occlusion, with special focus on 1968 film by Gibson, Reynolds, Wheeler and Kaplan”; and “Perceiving Existing surfaces as a substitute for perceiving the ‘present,’ and “Pictures and indirect perception.” Seminars presented at the graduate program in education at the University of Tokyo, August 2002.

“The (still) hidden role of occlusion in the ecological approach to cognition,” and “Occlusion and the importance of perceiving persistence.” Lectures presented at the University of Tokyo Conference Center and Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, respectively, August 2002.

A.D. MACRO

Hobart Professor of Classical Languages

Classics

Book:

Co-authored with HELEN LANG, Proclus: On the Eternity of the World (de Aeternitate Mundi), University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001.

Thomas Mitzel

Associate Professor

Chemistry

Article:

T.M. Mitzel, C. Palomo ’00, and K. Jendza, “The Versatility of a-Chloropropargyl Phenyl Sulfide Affords High Stereo- and Regioselectivities in Indium Promoted Coupling Reactions Under Mild Conditions” in J. Org. Chem., 67, pp. 136-145, 2002.

Seminars:

Co-authored “Synthesizing the Carbon 42 Cage” presented at the NSF-REU, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, July 2002.

Co-authored “T. Formation of Coupling Products en route to Fullerene Precursors” presented at the NSF-REU, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, July 2002.

Co-authored “Synthetic Work Toward Fullerene Cage Precursors” presented at the NSF-REU Meeting as part of the Reaction Mechanisms Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June-July 2002.

“Chemistry Can Be a Ball of Fun” presented at the NSF-REU Meeting, Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN, June 2002.

Paper:

Co-authored “T. The Utilization of a Wittig Reaction in the Synthesis of the C42 and C60 Cage” presented at the NSF-REU Meeting as part of the Reaction Mechanisms Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, June-July 2002.

Grant Awarded:

NSF REU grant for “A Dispersed REU Site,” 2002-2005.

THERESA MORRIS

Assistant Professor

Sociology

Paper:

“Unimization Matters: An Analysis of Post-World War II Strikes” presented at the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, 2002.

Panelist:

Panelist, Preparing Future Faculty Conference, Texas A&M University, 2001.

JOAN MORRISON

Assistant Professor

Biology

Article:

Co-authored “Natal dispersal of the Crested Caracara in Florida” in the Journal of Raptor Research 36 (3), pp. 203-206.

Paper:

“Turnover and Dispersal of Crested Caracaras (Caracara cheriway) in Florida” presented at the annual meeting, Raptor Research Foundation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, October 2001.

Grant awards:

Non-Game Program, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Project #NG00-001 for “Population Viability Analysis for Florida’s Crested Caracaras.”

Trinity College Faculty Research Grant for “Avian Community Structure and Habitat Associations in Urban Parks and Reserves.”

RALPH O. MOYER, JR.

Scovill Professor of Chemistry

Chemistry

Article:

Co-authored “Raman Spectroscopy Studies on M2RuH6 where M=Ca, Sr, & Eu” in J. of Alloys and Compounds, 330-332, 296, 2002.

Hugh Ogden

Professor

English

Poems published:

“Lyric” in The Fourth River: Nature and Culture, May 2002.

“By The Granite Stone In The Aspen Grove” in Lynx Eye, IX, #2, p. 67.

“Understanding” in Freshwater, p. 59, 2002.

“To The Members Of The Metropolitan District Water Commission, The Glastonbury Town Council, And The Town Planning And Zoning Commission” in The Glastonbury Citizen, L, #20, p. 29.

“Making The Day Endure” in The Malahat Review, #137, p. 75, December 2001.

“Northwest Maine, September, 2001” in September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond, William Heyen, ed., Etruscan Press, pp. 292-3, 2002.

Joseph L. Palladino

Associate Professor

Engineering

Articles:

Co-authored “A paradigm for quantifying ventricular contraction” in Proc. Int. Conf. On Life Sci. Slovenian Biophysical Soc., Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia, p. 94, 2001.

Co-authored “Ventricular pumping and heart muscle dynamics,” an invited paper in Proc. SIAM Life Sciences Conf., Boston, MA, MS17, p. 94, 2002.

Co-authored “A paradigm for quantifying ventricular contraction” in Cell. Mole. Biol. Letters 7(2), pp. 331-335, 2002.

Co-authored “Biophysics of ventricular function” in Proc. 6th Int. Congress European Soc. Noninvasive Cardiovasc. System Dynamics, Budapest, Hungary, 2002.

Papers:

Co-authored “A paradigm for quantifying ventricular contraction” presented at Slovenian Biophysical Society, International Conference on Life Sciences 2001, Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia, September 2001.

Co-authored “Ventricular pumping and heart muscle dynamics,” an invited paper, presented at Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Life Sciences 2001 Conference, Boston, MA, March 2002.

Co-authored “Biophysics of ventricular function” presented at 6th International Congress of the European Society for Noninvasive Cardiovascular System Dynamics, Budapest, Hungary, June-July 2002.

Guest Lecture:

“Quantifying Ventricular Contraction” presented at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, October 2001.

Interview:

“The Heart Equation,” a radio interview with David Czapp, WNPR Morning Edition Science Desk, March 2002.

Grants Awarded:

Recipient of a grant from the Danish Heart Foundation, (post-doc renewal) for research collaboration in cardiovascular dynamics with Michael Danielsen, 2000-2001.

Recipient of a NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Core Funding Grant, Cardiovascular Dynamics in Space Flight and Microgravity, 2002.

Susan Pennybacker

Associate Professor

History

Paper:

“George Padmore in Europe in the 1930s” presented to the European Social Science History Association, The Hague, Netherlands, March 2002, and at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados, September 2002.

Guest Lectures:

“Anti-fascism, anti-colonialism and transatlantic racial politics in the 1930s” presented at the Imperial Metropolis Seminar, Raphael Samuel Center, University of East London Docklands, London, England, December 2001.

Seminar on the Black Atlantic presented at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, New Brunswick, NJ, March 2002.

Fellowship:

Research and Writing Fellowship for “From Scottsboro to Munich: Racial Politics in Britain in the 1930s,” Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, Humanities Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, spring and summer 2002

John Platoff

Professor

Music

Article:

“Truth, Value, and Style: Mozart and Salieri” in Method & Truth: The Search for Norms Across the Disciplines, Berel Lang (ed.), Hartford, CT, pp. 161-70, 2002.

Paper:

“Why Two ‘Revolutions’? John Lennon’s Ambivalence and the Politics of Musical Reception” presented at the National Meeting, American Musicological Society, Atlanta, GA, November 2001.

MIGUEL RAMIREZ

Professor

Economics

Chapter:

“Foreign Direct Investment in Chile: An Empirical Analysis” in Politics and Economics in Latin America, F.H. Columbus (ed.), New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., pp. 109-134, 2001.

Articles:

“The Mexican Regulatory Experience in the Airline, Banking and Telecommunications Sectors” in Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 657-681, 2001.

“Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico during the 1990s” in Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 409-423, 2002.

“Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico and Chile: A Critical Appraisal” in Latin American Business Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 55-82, Fall 2001.

“Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico and Chile” in Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America: Its Changing Nature at the Turn of the Century, Werner Baer and William R. Miles (eds.), New York: The Haworth Press, 2001.

Papers:

“Foreign Direct Investment in Chile and Mexico: An Analysis of Major Determinants” presented at the 53rd International Economic Conference, Paris, France, March 2002.

“Does FDI Enhance Labor Productivity Growth in Chile?” presented at the 52nd International Atlantic Economic Conference, Philadelphia, PA, October 2001.

Lecture:

“The Tragedy of the Argentine Economy” presented at the World Affairs Council, The Hartford Club, Hartford, CT, February 2002.

Honors and Awards:

Nominated to serve on the board of directors of the Eastern Economic Association.

Served as associate member of the Latin American Research Institute, Lake Forest College, Chicago, IL, 2001-2002 academic year.

Sarah A. Raskin

Associate Professor

Psychology and Neuroscience Program

Article:

S. Raskin, et al., “A program for neuropsychological investigation of deep brain stimulation in movement disorder Patients: Program development, feasibility and preliminary data” in Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology, 13, 2001. 

Papers:

“Novel Measures of Prospective Memory” presented at the International Neuropsychological Society, Chicago, IL, 2001.

“Long-term Effect of Prospective Memory Training” presented at the International Neuropsychological Society, Toronto CA, 2002.

“Prospective Memory Training: One Year Follow-Up” presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, 2002.

“Cognitive Rehabilitation: Lessons for Multiple Sclerosis” presented at the International Society for Multiple Sclerosis, Taormina, Sicily, 2002.

Lectures:

“Assessment of Mild Brain Injury” presented at Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT, October 2001.

“Treatment of Mild Brain Injury” presented at Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT, October 2001.

“Treatment Approaches to Mild Brain Injury” presented at the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA, May 2002.

GARY REGER

Professor

History

Article:

“The Mykonian Synoikismos” in Revue des études grecques 103, pp. 157-181, 2001.

Paper:

“The Manufacture and Distribution of Perfume” presented at the Hellenistic Economies 2 Conference, University of Liverpool, July 2002.

Grant:

Recipient of a grant from the Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation.

Martha Risser

Associate Professor

Classics

Book:

Corinthian Conventionalizing Pottery, Princeton, American School of Classical Studies, 2001.

Article:

“Terra Firma” in Method and Truth. The Search for Norms Across the Disciplines, Berel Lang (ed.), Hartford, Trinity College, 2002.

DAVID ROBBINS

Seabury Professor

Mathematics

Articles:

“Modules over commutative C*-algebras and the BSE condition” in Houston J. Math. 28, pp. 159-168, 2002.

“Some extremal properties of section spaces of Banach bundles and their duals” in International J. Math & Math. Sci. 29, pp. 563-572, 2002.

Paper:

Co-authored “A note on the space of weakly continuous sections of a Banach bundle,” presented at the 4th conference on function spaces, Edwardsville, IL, May 2002.

Michael Sacks

Professor

Sociology

Grant Awarded:

Recipient of Trinity College Faculty Research Leave and One-Year Expense Grant for “Changing Economy and Population in An ‘Inelastic’ City and Its Suburbs: Patterns of Inequality in the Hartford Region, 1980-2000,” 2002-2003.

Craig Schneider

Charles A. Dana Professor

Biology

Articles:

C.W. Schneider, M.E. Dunphy ’01, D.C. McDevit ’01, and C.E. LANE ’99, “The survival of Vaucheria (Vaucheriaceae) propagules in desiccated New England riparian sediments” in Rhodora 103, pp. 416-426, 2001.

C.W. Schneider and D.C. McDevit ’01, “Are earthworms a possible mechanism for airborne dispersal of the alga Vaucheria?” in Northeastern Nat., 9, pp. 225-234, 2002.

C.W. Schneider and D.C. McDevit ’01, “The survival of Vaucheria (Vaucheriaceae) propagules in New England riparian sediments after repeated freeze/thaw cycles” in Rhodora 104, pp. 161-169, 2002.

Papers:

C.W. Schneider, C.E. Lane ’99, and G.W. Saunders, “Using DNA to revisit a few Bermudian red algae of uncertain taxonomic placement” presented at the 41st Northeast Algal Symposium, Durham, NH, April 2002.

“Why is seaweed endemism so low in Bermuda?” presented at the 41st Northeast Algal Symposium, Durham, NH, April 2002.

MARK SETTERFIELD

Associate Professor

Economics

Book:

The Economics of Demand-Led Growth: Challenging the Supply Side Vision of the Long Run, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2002.

Papers:

“Globalization, distributional conflict and inflation” presented at the Globalization, Regionalism, and Economic Growth conference, Downing College, Cambridge, UK, April 2002.

“The Phillips curve and U.S. macroeconomic performance” presented to the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA, March 2002.

“Neo-Kaleckian growth dynamics and the state of long run expectations” presented at conference on Old and New Growth Theories, Pisa, Italy, October 2001.

Lecture:

“An Index of Macroeconomic Performance” presented at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, January 2002.

BARBARA SICHERMAN

Kenan Professor of

American Institutions and Values

Articles:

“Reading and Middle-Class Identity in Victorian America: Cultural Consumption, Conspicuous and Otherwise” in Reading Acts: U.S. Readers’ Interactions with Literature, 1800-1950, Barbara Ryan and Amy Thomas (eds.), Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, pp. 137-160, 2002.

“Alice Hamilton” in Women Building Chicago, 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary, Rima Lunin Schultz and Adele Hast (eds.), Bloomington, Indiana University Press, pp. 345-347, 2002.

Lecture:

“Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now,” the University Lecture, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, University of Wisconsin at Madison, March 2002.

Mark P. Silverman

Professor

Physics

Book:

A Universe of Atoms, An Atom in the Universe, Springer-Verlag, New York, ISBN 0-387-95437-6, 2002.

Articles:

Co-authored “Coherent Degenerate Dark Matter” in Classical & Quantum Gravity, Vol. 18, L103-L108, 2001.

Co-authored “Dark Matter as a Cosmic Bose-Einstein Condensate and Possible Superfluid” in General Relativity & Gravitation, Vol. 34, pp. 633-649, 2002.

“Power, Reaction, and Excitement...in an AC Circuit” in The Physics Teacher, Vol. 40, 302-307, 2002.

“No-Shows Spoil Meeting Sessions” in Physics Today, Vol. 54, p. 79, September 2001.

Paper:

Participated in the Gordon Research Conference on Quantum Mechanics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, June 2002.

Guest Lectures:

“The Magnificent Universe,” the Simsbury Scholars Lecture, Simsbury High School Simsbury, CT, May 2002.

“Physics Is Not Dull!” the REU Lecture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 2002.

“Shedding Light on Dark Matter in the Universe,” the Sigma Xi Lecture at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, November 2001.

“The Universe: Where Did It Come From? Where Is It Going?” the Ideas a la Mode Lecture at Trinity College, October 2001.

Stacey Alba D. Skar

Senior Lecturer in Spanish

Modern Languages & Literature

Book:

Voces híbridas: La literatura de chicanas y latinas en Estados Unidos. Santiago, Chile, RIL (eds.), 223 pages, 2001.

Articles:

“Tiempo femenino y maternidad: La construcción de una subjetividad femenina en la poesía chicana” in La poesía hispánica de los Estados Unidos: Aproximaciones críticas, Lilianet Brintrup, Juan Armando Epple, and Carmen de Mora (eds.), Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla—Secretariado de Publicaciones, pp. 69-87, 2001.

“Jacobo Timerman’s Preso sin nombre, celda sin número and the Reconstructing ‘I’” in MACLAS: Latin American Essays from the Middle Atlantic Conference on Latin American Studies 14, 2000, pp. 13-26, published in fall 2001. (Awarded James H. Street Prize for best article by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies)

Paper:

Conference paper: “La casa en llamas: (Des) construcciones de una geografía doméstica en la narrativa de Rosario Ferré” presented at the XII Congreso Internacional de Literatura Femenina Hispánic, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2001.

Guest Lecture:

“Pedagogía y tecnología en la educación norteamericana” the VI Foro Internacional por el Fomento del Libro y la Lectura, Centro de Altos Estudios Literarios y Sociales Chaco, Resistencia, Argentina, 2001.

Monica van Beusekom

Assistant Professor

History

Book:

Negotiating Development: African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office du Niger, Social History of Africa Series, Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann, 2002.

Paper:

“The Idea of ‘Community Development’: Ethnographers, Nationalists, and Colonial Policymakers in French Soudan, 1920s-1960s” presented at the Fifth International Conference on Mande Studies, Leiden, June 2002.

ERIK VOGT

Visiting Associate Professor

Philosophy

Books:

Zugaenge zur Politischen Aesthetic, Vienna, Turia+Kant, 2002.

Edited, translated and wrote introduction for Was heisst Kontinentalphilosophie in den USA. Eine internationale Debatte ueber Hermeneutik, Dekonstruktion und Feminismus, Vienna, Turia+Kant, 2002.

Translated Klinische Einfuehrung in die Lacansche Psychoanalyse by Bruce Fink, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2002.

Translated Motor Mensch by Anson Rabinbach, Vienna, Turia+Kant, 2001.

Articles:

“The Limits of Understanding: Frank and Lyotard” in Lyotard: Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime, (Hugh J. Silverman (ed.), New York and London: Routledge, 2002.

“Kontinental-Drift in den USA” in Was heisst Kontinentalphilosophie in den USA? Eine internationale Debatte ueber Hermeneutik, Dekonstruktion und Feminismus, Erik Vogt (ed.), Vienna, Turia+Kant, 2002.

“Representing Austria: Hofmannsthal’s Aesthetic Politics” in Festschrift fuer Kurt Rudolf Fischer, L. Nagl (ed.), Frankfurt, New York, Peter Lang, 2001.

“Re-marking Racism” in Postmodern Productions, M. Nonhoff (ed.), Berlin, Argument Verlag, 2001.

Papers:

“Zizek and the Political” presented at International Philosophical Seminar, Italy, July 2002.

“Derrida, Schmitt, Zizek” presented at Globalization and Beyond, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, June 2002.

“Textualizing Film” presented at International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Rotterdam, June 2002.

Lectures:

“Walter Benjamin’s Theory of Cinema” presented at Wadham College, Oxford University, February 2002.

“Giorgio Agamben’s Conception of Aesthetics” presented at New College, Oxford University, November 2001.

Andrew Walsh

Associate Director, Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life; Visiting Assistant Professor

Religion

Paper:

“Tracking the Media’s Coverage of the Clerical Sexual Misconduct Scandal” presented at the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Chicago, August 2002.

Guest Lecture:

“Islam and the American Media” and “Understanding How the Media Covers Religion in America” presented at the Center for Islamic Studies, Youngstown State University, October 2001.

GAIL WOLDU

Associate Professor

Music

Article:

“Debussy, Fauré, and d’Indy and Conceptions of the Artist: the Institutions, the Dialogues, the Conflicts” in Debussy and His World, Jane Fulcher (ed.), Princeton University Press, pp. 235-253, 2001.

Paper:

“Intersections of Art and Religion in the Work of Vincent d’Indy” presented at the 44th Annual National Meeting, College Music Society, Santa Fe, NM, November 2001.

Keynote Address:

“‘It’s All About the Benjamins’: Hip Hop and the Commodification of

a Culture,” the keynote address for Black History Month, delivered at Occidental College, February 2002.

Cathleen Zucco-Teveloff

Lecturer

Mathematics Center

Papers:

“Making Connections: The Joy of the Scavenger Hunt” presented at the Eastern Regional Conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Somerset, NJ, October 2001.

“Using the World Wide Web to Turn Students onto Learning Statistics” presented at the International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics in Baltimore, MD, November 2001.