Faculty News - Spring 2008
Thickstun's Book Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education Lauded in The New Yorker
May 30, 2008
A book by Professor of English Margaret Thickstun is applauded in a
New Yorker magazine essay "Return to paradise, The enduring relevance of John Milton" by Jonathan Rosen (6/2/08). The essay, which celebrates the 400th anniversary of English poet John Milton's birth, examines the variety of books recently published to mark the occasion. In
The New Yorker author Rosen writes, "My favorite of all the recent Milton books, Margaret Olofson Thickstun's
Milton's Paradise Lost: Moral Education, points out how occupied with teaching and learning everyone—except Satan—is. (Milton's only real job, before his role as Secretary for Foreign Tongues, was as a teacher and tutor.)"
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Domack Presents in Namibia
May 28, 2008
Eugene Domack, the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies, presented an invited talk titled "Collapse of the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica: Climate Forcing, Sediment Record, and Biotic Consequences" to the Geological Survey of Namibia in Windhoek, Namibia, on Tuesday, May 27.
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Anechiarico '71 Writes Newsday Op-ed
May 27, 2008
An opinion piece written by Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico '71 appeared in the Sunday, May 25, edition of
Newsday. "Why strip a person's pension?" addressed the issue of whether or not a former New York schools superintendent who is serving prison time for stealing $2.2 million from the schools, should be receiving a pension from the state.
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Seventh Edition of Gilbert's The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality Published
May 27, 2008
A seventh edition of The American Class Structure in an Age of Growing Inequality (Pine Forge Press) by Professor of Sociology Dennis Gilbert was published in January, 2008. In the book Gilbert analyzes trends in income, wealth, earnings, occupation, housing, child rearing, social mobility and politics to reveal a consistent pattern of growing social inequality in the United States since the early 1970s. Why, Gilbert asks, is this happening? His answer rests on factors as varied as globalization and shifting patterns of American family life.
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Bayolo Awarded Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition From Cintas Foundation
May 22, 2008
Armando Bayolo, visiting assistant professor of music, was announced as the 2008 recipient of the Brandon Fradd fellowship in music composition from the Cintas Foundation, a foundation dedicated to the promotion of Cuban and Cuban-American art. The Brandon Fradd fellowship is a $15,000 award to be used for career development.
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Anechiarico '71 Publishes Book on World Cities and Corruption
May 22, 2008
Local Integrity Systems: World Cities Fighting Corruption, a book edited by Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico '71 with Leo Huberts and Frederique Six of the Free University of Amsterdam, was published in May by BJU Publishers of The Hague, Netherlands.
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Omori Lectures at Waseda University in Tokyo
May 21, 2008
Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori gave a lecture in Japanese at Waseda University in Tokyo on May 19. The talk was titled "Japanese Radio Shows from the Occupation Period." It focused on a variety of strategies that the GHQ/SCAP took in the wake of WWII, in order to rebuild the Japanese radio broadcasting system for promoting democracy. Omori's talk was part of the "Open College" lecture series at Waseda University titled "Popular Culture During the Occupation Period (1945-1952)."
Janack Delivers Keynote Speech at Bay Area Feminist Philosophy Seminar
May 20, 2008
Marianne Janack, the Sidney Wertimer Associate Professor of Philosophy, was the keynote speaker at the Bay Area Feminist Philosophy Seminar held at Mills College in Oakland. She was invited by Libby Potter, a former Hamilton faculty member.
Cafruny Presents Paper on Globalization and Europe
May 20, 2008
Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "Globalization and Europe" at a workshop on globalization and the state on May 19 at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University's Maxwell School.
Gold Attends Meeting of Feminism and Classics Conference
May 19, 2008
Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the fifth triennial meeting of the Feminism and Classics Conference, "Bringing It All Back Home," at the University of Michigan on May 8-11. She presented a paper titled "The Meanings of Silence: Keeping Women Out and In."
Anechiarico Delivers Keynote Address in Lisbon
May 19, 2008
Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law Frank Anechiarico delivered the keynote address last week at a conference on public integrity in Lisbon sponsored by the European Union's anticorruption agency during the week of May 12.
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Rabinowitz Presents at Feminism and Classics Conference
May 17, 2008
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented a paper, "Women for Sale on Attic Painted Pots," in a session she chaired titled "Out of the Margins: Women in Public Space" at "Bringing it All Back Home," the Feminism and Classics V conference, at the University of Michigan held May 8-11.
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Rubino Co-Authors New Book, Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization: Precursors and Prototypes
May 16, 2008
Carl A. Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, together with Alicia Juarrero, the author of
Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT Press, 1999), is the editor of a new book titled
Emergence, Complexity, and Self-Organization: Precursors and Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, May 2008).
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Vasantkumar Presents Paper at Stanford
May 15, 2008
Chris Vasantkumar, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, delivered a paper titled "Merely (About) Minzu?: Marginal Han, Whiteness Studies and the Symptoms of Social Difference in Contemporary Northwest China" at the first Critical Han Studies Conference at Stanford University April 25-27.
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Terrell Presents Paper at Medieval Congress
May 15, 2008
Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper titled "Politicizing the Past: State-Sponsored History in the Scotichronicon" at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies on May 10 in Kalamazoo, Mich. The paper discussed a lengthy 15th century Latin chronicle of world and Scottish history by Walter Bower, and analyzed Bower's proposal that the Scottish government should collaborate with historians in order to produce official histories capable of competing with English accounts of the past.
Goodale Publishes Two Chapters in Edited Volume
May 14, 2008
Nathan Goodale, visiting instructor in anthropology, published two chapters in Systèmes Techniques et Communautés du Néolithique Précéramique au Proche-Orient edited by Laurence Astruc, Didier Binder and François Briois. The chapters titled "Lithic Technology of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Late Natufian Occupations of 'Iraq ed-Dubb, Jordan," co-authored with Ian Kuijt, and "Chipped Stone Variability: An Overview of the PPNA Lithic Assemblage from Dhra', Jordan," coauthored with Ian Kuijt and Bill Finlayson, are representative of Goodale's research in the Near East on the origins of agriculture over the past seven years. The edited volume stems from the 2003 5th International Pre-Pottery Neolithic Lithic Workshop in Fréjus, France.
Snyder Awarded Grant From American Chemical Societies
May 14, 2008
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole L. Snyder and her collaborator X. Peter Zhang of the University of Southern Florida received a joint grant from the American Chemical Societies Petroleum Research Foundation to work on a project titled "Bio-Inspired Catalysts." As a part of this grant, Snyder and James Greisler '10 will spend eight weeks this summer preparing a number of carbohydrate analogs that will be coupled to porphyrins in Zhang's lab using a specialized process developed by the Zhang group.
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MacDonald Article Featured in Esopus
May 14, 2008
Scott MacDonald's interview with Peter Hutton was the lead feature article in the most recent issue of
Esopus, a twice-yearly arts magazine featuring perspectives on contemporary culture from a wide range of creative professionals. The article introduced a photo-essay version of Hutton's film
At Sea, which was shown at this semester's Nature/Place/Cinema symposium sponsored by Hamilton with Colgate University.
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McKee Article in Journal of Attention Disorders
May 13, 2008
An article by Assistant Professor of Psychology Tara McKee was published in the May issue of the
Journal of Attention Disorders which was a special issue focused on ADHD in adults. The paper was titled "Comparison of a Norm-Based Versus Criterion-Based Approach to Measuring ADHD Symptomatology in College Students." McKee studied self-reported ADHD symptomatology in college students using the College ADHD Response Evaluation.
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Barry Publishes in Environmental Justice
May 13, 2008
Joyce M. Barry, environmental studies lecturer, has published an essay in the inaugural issue (Spring 2008) of
Environmental Justice. Barry's article, "A Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens: Women's Activism, Environmental Justice, and the Coal River Mountain Watch" examines the environmental justice efforts of the Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) in Whitesville, West Virginia.
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Tewksbury Delivers Address at Virginia Tech's Department of Geosciences Graduation
May 13, 2008
Professor of Geosciences Barbara Tewksbury delivered the commencement address at Virginia Tech's Department of Geosciences graduation ceremony on May 10. The title of her address was "Insights from Apollo for Teaching and Learning Geoscience in the 21st Century."
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LARISSA Initiative Announced with New Web Site
May 12, 2008
Hamilton College is participating in the International Polar Year (IPY) via Larsen Ice Shelf System – Antarctica (LARISSA), a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded and Hamilton College supported initiative. The program has been launched and has established a
Web presence. LARISSA brings an international, interdisciplinary team together to address a significant regional problem with global change implications.
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De Swaan Exhibits at Kirkland Art Center
May 9, 2008
The drawing, painting, photography and printmaking of 14 locally based artists including Visiting Instructor of Art Sylvia de Swaan will be featured in an exhibition titled "Open Focus" at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton. The opening reception will be held on Sunday, May 11, from 3 to 5 p.m. The exhibition runs through June 4. Other artists in the exhibition include several Pratt at Munson-Williams-Proctor professors.
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Inaugural Dean's Scholarly Achievement Awards Honor Five Faculty Members
May 9, 2008
Five members of the Hamilton faculty were recognized for their research and creative successes through a new series of awards presented at the 2008 Class & Charter Day on May 9. The Dean's Scholarly Achievement Awards were instituted in three categories this year by Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo. Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, received the Career Achievement Award; Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin was awarded Early Career Achievement; and Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson, Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman and Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi all received the Notable Year Achievement awards.
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Teaching Awards Presented to Five Faculty Members at Annual Class & Charter Day
May 9, 2008
Hamilton College's highest awards for teaching were presented on May 9 to five faculty members. Professor of Biology Ernest Williams Jr. received the Christian A. Johnson Professorship; Associate Professor of Physics Brian Collett was awarded the Samuel & Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching; Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat received the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award; Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-Ja Chung was honored with the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award; and Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Mark Oakes received the Sidney Wertimer Award.
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Goldberg Publishes Paper on Art and the Authority of Excellence in Traditional China
May 8, 2008
Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg published a paper titled "Art and the Authority of Excellence in Traditional China" in
La question de l'art en Asie orientale, a publication of Le Centre de Recherche sur l'Extrême Orient de Paris-Sorbonne (CREOPS). Goldberg examined the relevance of the classical tradition of Confucian reflection for the aesthetic reception and historical understanding of the art of the scholar-painter in China.
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Urgo's Essay Published in Willa Cather: New Facts, New Glimpses, Revisions
May 8, 2008
Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo's essay, "Gorham Munson Falls Out with Cather: A Letter" was published in
Willa Cather: New Facts, New Glimpses, Revisions, eds. John J. Murphy and Merrill Maguire Skaggs (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson Press). The essay is based on a letter discovered by Urgo in a Drew University archive. Through a close reading of the 1934 letter from Cather to critic Gorham Munson, probably never mailed, Urgo reconstructs a previously undocumented aspect of Cather's relationship with her contemporaries.
Odamtten Presents Paper at African Literature Association Conference
May 8, 2008
Professor of English Vincent Odamtten presented a paper, "The Perils of Recovering Identities In 'Appier/Appiah Times" at the 34th Annual African Literature Association Conference held at the Macomb and Western Illinois University, April 22-27.
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Nathan Goodale Publishes in Edited Volume
May 8, 2008
Nathan Goodale, visiting instructor in anthropology, published a chapter in
Recent Advances in Paleodemography: Data, Techniques, Patterns, edited by Jean Pierre Bocquet-Appel. The chapter, titled "The Demography of Prehistoric Fishing/Hunting People: A Case Study of the Upper Columbia Area," considers the role of demography and the evolution of socioeconomic systems among hunter-gatherers. The volume stemmed from a session at the international conference the 25th World Population Congress, July 2005 in Tours, France. This publication represents the third related to Goodale's M.A. thesis research.
Yao Delivers Lectures at Cambridge and Sussex in the UK
May 7, 2008
Associate Professor of English Steven Yao spoke recently at Cambridge and Sussex Universities in England. At Cambridge, Yao presented a paper titled, "Ezra Pound's Cathay and the Languages of Anglo-American Modernism," as part of the international conference on Translations and Transformations: China, Modernity, and Cultural Transmission that was hosted there on May 1-3. While in the UK, Yao also gave an invited lecture at Sussex University in Brighton, where he spoke to the American Studies research seminar on "Asian American Verse and the Limits of Hybridity," a talk arising from his current book project of Chinese American poetry.
Chung Awarded Fellowship From Social Science Research Council
May 7, 2008
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung has received a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (SSRC-JSPS). While being affiliated at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, University of Tokyo, in 2008-2009, Chung will conduct research on performative, emotional and affective labor of Korean nightclub hostesses in Japan. Based on this research, Chung plans to work on two book projects in English and Japanese.
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Peter J. Rabinowitz Gives Paper at International Conference on Narrative
May 6, 2008
Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz delivered a paper, "Can a Sonata Have an Unreliable Narrator?: Focalization, Style, and Musical Rhetoric," at the International Conference on Narrative in Austin, Texas, on May 4. Intended as a contribution to the on-going theoretical discussions of the value of narrative theory in the analysis of music, the paper argued that the concept of the unreliable narrator—normally viewed as an essentially literary device without any musical equivalent—can illuminate the processes by which we listen to music and can increase our appreciation of music's expressive potential.
Kantrowitz Article Appears in American Mathematical Monthly
May 4, 2008
An article by Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 appears in the May 2008 issue of the
American Mathematical Monthly. The paper, "Yet another proof of Minkowski's inequality," co-authored with Michael M. Neumann of Mississippi State University, offers an alternative proof, based on convexity, to a celebrated, century-old inequality attributed to the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909).
Isserman Book Entered in 2009 Pulitzer Prize Competition
May 2, 2008
Fallen Giants - A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, has been entered for the Pulitzer Prize competition for 2009 (for books published in 2008) by Yale University Press. This comprehensive history of Himalayan mountaineering, which begins in 1890, includes the cultural and social influences involved in these expeditions. Isserman is the James L. Ferguson Professor of History, and Weaver is a professor of history at the University of Rochester.
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LI Interviewed on Foreign Exchange
May 2, 2008
The May 4 episode of
Foreign Exchange, a weekly international affairs series presented to the PBS system by Oregon Public Broadcasting, features Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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Krueger Publishes Essay in Newly Released Paperback Edtion
May 1, 2008
An essay by Professor of French Roberta Krueger has been published in the paperback edition of A
Companion to Chrétien de Troyes. Krueger's essay is titled "
Philomena: Brutal Transitions and Courtly Transformations in Chrétien's Old French Translation." Edited by Norris J. Lacy and Joan Tasker Grimbert, the book is published by Boydell & Brewer, Inc.
Jin to Serve as President of National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages
May 1, 2008
Hong Gang Jin, the William R. Kenan Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, will serve as president of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL) for 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. She was previously vice-president. Jin will work with an executive board of seven members and 18 delegate assembly representatives of different language associations.
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Murtaugh Lectures at Union College
April 30, 2008
Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh gave a lecture titled "Postmodern Ceramics" at Union College on April 29. The lecture included ceramic works that are hyper-real, utilize appropriation and are made in the age of post industrialization and technology.
Weldon Publishes in Behavioral Neuroscience with Four Alumni
April 29, 2008
Douglas Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology, with alumni Carlyn Patterson '06, Erica Colligan '06, Christina Nemeth '06 and Avery Rizio '09 recently published an article in
Behavioral Neuroscience. The paper reports an investigation of the superior colliculus, an area of the midbrain that might be involved in the detection of and reaction to significant events.
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Williams Gives Gallery Talk at Auburn's Schweinfurth Art Center
April 28, 2008
Jay G. Williams '54, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies, gave a gallery talk in conjunction with his "Emancipation and Denigration" exhibit at the Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, N.Y., on April 27. The exhibit explores the reality of life for many African Americans in post-Civil War America as seen through the eyes of political cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902). It is on display, as it was at Hamilton, with two collections of photographs on Civil War sites and the Underground Railroad by William E. Williams '73.
Guttman Awarded Grant From Canada Council
April 28, 2008
Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman has received a $20,000 grant for Mid-Career Professional Writers from the Canada Council to work on a third book of poems.
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Williams Lectures on Migration of Monarch Butterflies
April 27, 2008
Professor of Biology Ernest Williams gave a public talk in Clinton at the Kirkland Town Library on "The Remarkable Migration of Monarch Butterflies" on April 24. The event was sponsored by the organization Beavers: Wildlife and Wetlands. Williams is the co-author of
The Stokes Butterfly Book, published by Little, Brown and Co. His most recent book is
The Nature Handbook: A Guide to Observing the Great Outdoors, which is a field guide to patterns in nature and was released in 2005 by Oxford University Press.
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Kamiya Awarded Grant-in-Aid
April 26, 2008
Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya was awarded a $25,000, two-year, grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan. The primary investigator is Akemi Matsuya, Takachiho University, Japan. The title of the research is "Acquisition and Learning Processes of Negative Polarity Items and Quantifiers."
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Wilson Presents Lecture at University of Edinburgh
April 25, 2008
Professor of History Thomas Wilson gave an invited lecture at Old College, the University of Edinburgh, on April 21. His talk was titled "The Cultic Confucius." The lecture was part of "Faces of Confucius," an international lecture series of the Confucius Institute of Scotland.
Pellman to Present Selected Planets at Kirkland Art Center
April 25, 2008
Professor of Music Samuel Pellman will present his complete set of works titled
Selected Planets on Sunday,
April 27, at 2 p.m. at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton. These pieces, for digitally synthesized instruments, will be presented with video by Lauren Koss '00. Each planet of the solar system (including the recently demoted Pluto) is represented metaphorically by one of the works of the collection. There will be a modest admission charge. The show is not recommended for children under six.
Domack Appointed to Oneida Lake Watershed Advisory Council
April 25, 2008
Eugene Domack, the Joel W. Johnson Family Professor of Geosciences, has been appointed by the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board to the Oneida Lake Watershed Advisory Council, a panel of government, NGO, scientists and local planning board members. The OLWC meets every four months to review issues related to the development, environmental impacts, funding initiatives, and other concerns involving the Oneida Lake watershed.
Isserman to Speak at Columbia on 1968 Student Strike
April 24, 2008
Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, has been speaking about the significance of the 1968 Columbia University student strike, led by the 1960s radical group Students for a Democratic Society. On Saturday, April 26, he will be on a panel titled "The Legacy of the Student Movement" at Columbia University, part of a three-day 40th anniversary commemorative event titled "Columbia 1968 and the World."
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Sciacca to Participate in NEH Summer Institute
April 23, 2008
Associate Professor of Russian Franklin Sciacca has been accepted into a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for this summer. He will participate in the three-week program "Sources for Russian and Soviet Visual Cultures, 1860-1935: Study, Teaching, and Education" at The New York Public Library (NYPL).
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Trivedi Presents Paper at Association of Asian Studies Conference
April 23, 2008
Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi attended the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies in Atlanta on April 2-6. Trivedi presented a paper, "Workers' Choices and Public Health: Maternity and Maternal Care in Bombay, 1920-1940," on a panel focused on the significance of Bombay in Indian history. Her paper explored views of government officials, social reformers and labor organizers to argue that far from being 'too superstitious' or 'too ignorant,' mill women made use of modern Western medical care when it was available to them. Through a comparison of records of Wadia Maternity Hospital, Bombay, and the Textile Labour Association, Ahmedabad, the paper demonstrated that physicians more so than union leaders approached mill women as patients capable of making good health decisions.
Jin Awarded $994,700 Grant From Department of Education
April 22, 2008
Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been awarded a four-year $994,700 grant from the Department of Education's Fulbright Hayes Group Projects Abroad program.
The proposed project, The ACC Intensive Language Training Program for Students and Language Professionals, has three components. It will create 12 new full-year scholarships, enabling more students to join the ACC's existing advanced language and culture study aboard program; provide four new fellowships for ACC's post-study abroad field studies program; and establish a new summer Chinese language teachers' institute for 10 K-12 teachers.
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Buchman To Be Interviewed on WCNY Classic FM
April 22, 2008
Assistant Professor of Music Heather Buchman will be interviewed on WCNY, Classic FM radio, with Bill Baker on Thursday, April 24, at noon. On Saturday, April 26, she will conduct the Society for New Music on a program of live film scores, with film, at the Everson Gallery in Syracuse. This program is the opening event of the 5th annual Syracuse International Film Festival. Classic FM, Central New York's only classical music radio stations, can be heard on WCNY-FM, 91.3 Syracuse, WUNY-FM, 89.5 Utica, and WJNY-FM, 90.9 Watertown. Listen live at
http://wcny.org/.
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Helmer Presents "Virtues" at Communication Centers Conference
April 22, 2008
Jim Helmer, Oral Communication Lab coordinator, gave a presentation at the National Association of Communication Centers conference April 18-19 at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. In his talk, titled "The Canons Reloaded: the Seven Cardinal Virtues of Oral Presentation," Helmer described his work on creating a set of posters aimed at teaching fundamental oral presentation concepts and skills to support Hamilton's goal of communication excellence across the curriculum.
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Terrell Presents Paper at NEMLA Convention
April 21, 2008
Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell presented a paper on April 12 at the Northeast Modern Language Association convention in Buffalo. Titled "'In duabus quasi divisam insulis': Imagining Scotland's Borders in the Middle Ages," the paper discussed the symbolic resonance of the Anglo-Scottish border in a range of sources including medieval historical writing, popular poetry and government documents.
Lacsamana Receives AAUW Postdoctoral Fellowship
April 21, 2008
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Anne E. Lacsamana has been awarded a $30,000 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship based on her book project
Revolutionizing Feminism: The Philippine Women's Movement in the Age of Terror. According to the AAUW, the selected fellows are a group of "exceptional women whose work promises to enhance such diverse disciplines as biology, philosophy, and anthropology."
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Lakshmi Presents Paper at Midwest Victorian Studies Conference
April 21, 2008
Aishwarya Lakshmi, assistant professor of English, presented a paper at the Midwest Victorian Studies Conference in Chicago, April 18-20. The conference was on the theme of "Unexplored Empire," and Lakshmi's paper was titled "Colonial Aesthetics: The Worlding of the Event of 1857," in which she explored how the Indian Revolt of 1857 was made part of British aesthetic discourse.
Trivedi Attends Annual Meeting of ASIANetwork, Serves on Executive Board
April 17, 2008
Associate Professor of History Lisa Trivedi traveled to San Antonio, Texas, in March to attend the annual meeting of ASIANetwork, an organization of 170 liberal arts colleges with Asian Studies Programs. Trivedi is currently serving as a member of the executive board of the organization for a period of three years. She has just begun a term as the chair of the Membership Committee which is responsible both for retaining members and identifying new members. This summer Trivedi will also contribute to the organization as a writer of grants, including one ASIANetwork plans to make to the Mellon Foundation.
McEnroe Receives Appointment in Athens
April 17, 2008
John McEnroe, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Arts, was recently appointed senior associate member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This summer in Athens he will launch a new research project investigating architecture and social identity in Crete from the Classical period through Early Byzantine. Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the major research center for American scholars in Greece, and a forum for international collaboration.
Goldberg Presents on Asian Art Study Day at Colgate
April 17, 2008
Associate Professor of Art History Stephen Goldberg was a speaker at Asian Art Study Day in Colgate University's
Picker Art Gallery with Colgate professors Padma Kaimal and Robert Hung-Ngai Ho on Saturday, April 12.
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Murtaugh Exhibits Sculpture at The Red House in Syracuse
April 16, 2008
Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will exhibit sculpture in her solo exhibition "The Sweetest Battle" at The Red House in Syracuse. A reception will be held on Thursday, April 17, from 5 - 8 p.m. and Murtaugh will give an artist talk at 7 p.m. in the gallery. This exhibition explores the sport of boxing as a metaphor for the act of interpreting art. Notions of temptation and desire are elicited by colorful candy like sculptures that challenge the viewer to imagine the potential of our senses.
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Chung Presents Paper at Association for Asian Studies
April 16, 2008
Haeng-ja Chung, assistant professor of anthropology, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta on April 3-6. She delivered a paper titled "Neoliberalism and its Economic Impact in Japan: Mizushóbai and Fúzoku Industries." She discussed how the adult entertainment industry was transforming along with the larger economic restructuring in Japan where neoliberalism became pervasive. Chung argued that the adult entertainment industry was expanding and estimated to have 42 billion dollars' impact per year on the Japanese economy.
Kantrowitz Presents at MAA Seaway Section Meeting
April 15, 2008
Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz '82 presented results from his recently-published paper "Is the Optimal Rectangle a Square?" (co-authored with Michael M. Neumann) at the spring 2008 meeting of the Seaway Section of the Mathematical Association of America. The talk discussed how geometric properties such as concavity, log-concavity, and symmetry of the graphs of the underlying functions may be applied to ensure uniqueness of solutions to various optimization problems.
Adams Presents Paper at Conference in Slovenia
April 15, 2008
Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams presented a paper at the Second International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and the Pedagogy of Empowerment: Thinking and Speaking a Better World, April 11-13 at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. His paper was titled "Stasis, Debate, and Accountability."
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Keller Presents Paper, Chairs Panel at Study of Nationalities Conference
April 15, 2008
Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller recently attended the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities at Columbia University, where she participated in a panel discussion of Adeeb Khalid's book
Islam After Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia, and chaired a panel on "Ethnicity, Family, and Gender" in Soviet Central Asia.
Krueger Presents Paper at Renaissance Society of America Meeting
April 15, 2008
Roberta Krueger, the Burgess Professor of French, gave a paper titled "Representing Authority in the Chantilly Manuscript of Marguerite de Navarre's La Coche" at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago on April 3. Krueger examined the richly illuminated manuscript prepared in 1541 for the Queen of Navarre to illustrate a love debate poem that she dedicated to the mistress of her brother, King François 1er.
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Raybeck Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer
April 14, 2008
Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Douglas Raybeck was interviewed for a
Philadelphia Inquirer article,
"Puncturing pols online," that appeared in the Sunday, April 13, issue of the paper. The piece addressed how members of the "proletariat," via Internet submissions, are helping define how a wide range of voters see the presidential candidates, in contrast to past campaigns during which opinions were formed via the quips and jokes of professional television pundits.
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Kamiya Presents Paper at University of Warsaw
April 14, 2008
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Masaaki Kamiya presented at Generative Linguistics in Poland 6 on April 5-6, at the University of Warsaw. The presentation was titled "Covert movement, reconstruction and edge phenomena in nominalizations" (with Angeliek van Hout at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and Thomas Roeper at University of Massachusetts).
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Marcus Presents Paper at Sidney-Tilburg Conference
April 14, 2008
Russell Marcus, the Chauncey Truax Post-Doctoral Fellow of Philosophy, presented a paper on Intrinsic Explanation at the Sidney-Tilburg Conference on Reduction and the Special Sciences, in Tilburg, the Netherlands, on April 10. The Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS) is devoted to the study of logic and philosophy of science in all its forms.
Peck Selected to Participate in NEH Humanities Institute in Barcelona
April 13, 2008
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anjela Peck has been accepted to a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute titled "The Medieval Mediterranean and the Origins of the West."" This four-week program is for college faculty who study the Middle Ages through the lens of the Mediterranean. It is limited to 24 college faculty members and will take place in July in Barcelona, Spain.
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Ortabasi Organizes Panel and Presents Paper at Association for Asian Studies
April 12, 2008
Melek Ortabasi, assistant professor of comparative literature, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta on April 3-6. She gave a talk titled "Teaching Children to Do Things With Words: Yanagita Kunio and the Postwar Education Debate," which dealt with the work of well known ethnologist Yanagita Kunio's work as chair of the editorial board on a series of language textbooks widely adopted in Japanese schools after WWII.
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Haley Interviewed on Jamaica News Radio Program
April 11, 2008
Danielle Roper '06 arranged for Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley to be interviewed on "The Evening Edition," a radio program in Kingston, Jamaica, that does socio-political commentary on local, regional and international news.
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Wilson Presents Three Papers
April 11, 2008
Thomas Wilson has presented three papers in March and April. He presented "Gods of the Analects" at the ASIANetwork conference in San Antonio on March 16. He gave an invited talk at the University of Michigan titled "Confucian Rites and the Reorienting of Modern Ritual Theory" on March 25 and a paper titled "A Confucian Theory of Gods" at the "Comparing Gods" panel at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Atlanta on April 4.
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Owen Presents at the American Enterprise Institute
April 11, 2008
Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented "Is Free Trade Good for Your Health?" at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on Thursday, April 10. Discussants included Paul Wolfowitz, a visiting scholar at AEI, and Jeremiah Norris, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The moderator was Roger Bate, a resident fellow at AEI. Owen and Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu co-authored "Is Trade Good for Your Health?" which was published in the
Review of International Economics.
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David Rivera Presents at Midwest Political Science Association
April 10, 2008
David W. Rivera, lecturer in government, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association held in Chicago on April 3. Titled "The Militarization of the Russian Elite under Putin: How Wide and How Deep?" and co-authored with Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera, the paper examined the dominant paradigm for understanding contemporary Russia, which views Russia as a "militocracy" or "neo-KGB state."
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Owens-Manley Contributes to Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
April 10, 2008
Levitt Center Associate Director for Community Research Judith Owens-Manley has contributed an entry, "Bosnian Americans," in a new reference book,
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society edited by Richard Schaefer and published by Sage Publications. Owens-Manley is co-author of
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Arthur Publishes Article on Social Movements in Organizations
April 10, 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur wrote an article for
Sociology Compass titled "Social Movements in Organizations." The article reviews the literature on social movements that exist within organizations like colleges, religious orders, corporations and governmental agencies from disparate academic fields and outlines the main questions within this area of research, with the aim of introducing students and scholars to this area of research and its possibilities.
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Ananth Presents at The Association for Asian Studies
April 10, 2008
Priya Ananth, visiting assistant professor of Japanese, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta, April 3-6. She gave a poster presentation titled "Form-Meaning Association in toki 'when' clauses in Japanese -- A corpus analysis of native speakers' data."
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Barry Presents Paper on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Activism
April 9, 2008
Joyce M. Barry, environmental studies lecturer, presented a paper titled "Gender, Class and Environment: Women's Grassroots Activism Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia" at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association conference.
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Li to Discuss Olympics on Diane Rehm Show
April 9, 2008
Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, will be a guest on the nationally syndicated
Diane Rehm Show on Thursday, April 10, at 10 a.m. The topic of the program will be the Beijing Olympics. Li is the editor of the recently published book,
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Chung Presents Two Papers at AsiaNetwork
April 9, 2008
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung presented two papers at the Annual AsiaNetwork Conference in March at Trinity University in Texas. In "How to Introduce Controversial Issues in the Classroom: Case Study of a 'Sex Work and Emotional Labor' Course," Chung argued that dialectic Socratic Method would be effective for covering controversial issues in a classroom. Based upon her teaching experience at Hamilton and Colorado College, Chung confirmed that the dialectic teaching method encourages students to engage in critical thinking and reflexivity.
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Purdy Publishes Article in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
April 8, 2008
McCullough Visiting Professor of Political Philosophy Laura Purdy's article "Bioethics of New Assisted Reproduction" has been published in the
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, a Wiley enterprise with both a hardcopy and online version. The article provides an overview of moral issues inherent in a variety of new reproductive technologies, focusing centrally on in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
Goldberg and Viveiros '08 Present Emerson Research at ASIANetwork
April 8, 2008
Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg and Michael Thomas Viveiros '08 presented the results of their collaborative work, supported by an 2008 Emerson Summer Research Grant, at the 2008 Annual Conference of ASIANetwork hosted by Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, on March 16.
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Omori Presenter for the 20th-Century Media Research Institute in Tokyo
April 8, 2008
Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori presented a paper at the 43rd meeting of the 20th-century Media Research Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, on April 5. The talk was titled "Two Radio Shows from the Occupation Period; Japan's First Quiz Show 'Hanashi no izumi' and a Satirical Variety Show 'Nichiyô goraku-ban'."
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Buchman Awarded Grant From League of American Orchestras
April 7, 2008
Heather Buchman, assistant professor of music and director of the Hamilton College Orchestra, has been awarded a Women Conductors Grant from the League of American Orchestras. This new grant program is for projects and activities intended to support the artistic growth and professional development of women conductors of exceptional talent. Buchman will use these funds to continue her studies this summer at the International Academy of Advanced Conducting after Ilya Musin in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Terrell Publishes Article in Romance Quarterly
April 7, 2008
Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell published an article titled "Competing Gender Ideologies and the Limitations of Language in Le Roman de Silence" in the Winter 2008 (vol. 55) issue of
Romance Quarterly. The article discusses an Old French romance whose heroine--named Silence--passes as male and becomes a preeminent knight and minstrel.
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Lehmann Presents at International Studies Association Conference
April 7, 2008
Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann presented a paper at the annual International Studies Association conference in San Francisco on Friday March 28. In "Slippery Perch: the Precariousness of the Petrochemical Basis of American Hegemony" Lehmann argued that American hegemony grew from exceptional statecraft based on its overwhelming oil resources after WWI and has begun its steady transition and relative stagnation due to merely adequate statecraft and declining resource base since WWII.
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Bedient Publishes in Computer & Graphics
April 5, 2008
Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient and his co-author Michael Frame of Yale University recently published a paper titled "Carrying Surfaces for Return Maps of Averaged Logistic Maps" in
Computers & Graphics. The logistic map is a well known example of a chaotic system.
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Isserman to Participate on MLK Panel
April 3, 2008
A panel discussion to commemorate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 40th anniversary of his death will feature historians and community advocates including Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History.
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Purdy Publishes Paper in Taking Responsibility for Children
April 3, 2008
Laura Purdy, the McCullough Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philosophy, published a paper titled "Could There be a Right Not to be Born an Ocutuplet" in
Taking Responsibility for Children, edited by Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle (Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2007).
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Cafruny Presents Paper on U.S. Power
April 2, 2008
Alan Cafruny, Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, presented a paper titled "The Imperial Turn and U.S. Power: Decline or Retrenchment" at the Annual Convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco on, Wednesday, March 23.
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Smythe Teaches Taxonomy Workshop in Japan
April 2, 2008
Ashleigh Smythe, visiting assistant professor of biology, co-taught a workshop on the taxonomy and identification of free-living marine nematodes at Kyoto University's Seto Marine Biological Laboratory in Shirahama, Japan, March 21-24. The workshop was sponsored by the NaGISA Project, an international Census of Marine Life field project.
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Williams Presents at Recent Conferences
April 2, 2008
Chad Williams, assistant professor of history, presented at two recent conferences. On March 27 Williams delivered a paper titled "A Mobilized Diaspora: The First World War, Military Service, and Black Soldiers as New Negroes" at The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters, a three-day international conference held at the University of Connecticut.
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Pellman Attends Performance of His Digital Composition Dancing in the Dark
April 2, 2008
Professor of Music Samuel Pellman recently attended a performance of his digital composition
Dancing in the Dark, choreographed by Missy Pfohl Smith of Hobart College, at a concert at the Hochstein School in Rochester, N.Y. The concert, titled Vision of Sound, includes choreography and compositions by several New York artists and will be repeated on Saturday, April 5, at 3 p.m. in Wellin Hall.
Boutin Gives Talk at SIAM Meeting
April 2, 2008
Associate Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin gave a talk titled "Determining Sets, Resolving Sets, and the Exchange Property" at a section meeting for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) held at the University of Central Florida March 14-15. In her talk Boutin described two types of subsets of a network that capture its symmetries. Further she discussed when such subsets are analogous to a basis, a set that is fundamental to other areas of mathematics.
Nancy Rabinowitz Presents Paper at British Classical Association
April 1, 2008
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a paper, "Viewing Courtship Again" in a panel titled "Sex and the City" at the annual meeting of the British Classical Association in Liverpool on March 29.
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Bayolo's Great Noise Ensemble Named Best Chamber Group by D.C. Music Association
April 1, 2008
The Great Noise Ensemble, a group focusing on the performance of contemporary classical music founded and directed by Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo, has been named Best Chamber Ensemble of 2007 by the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA).
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Associated Press and InsideHigherEd.com Detail Hewitt Research
April 1, 2008
A national study that examined faculty influence on the political views of college students and that found no evidence of faculty indoctrination was the subject of an
Associated Press article and another in
InsideHigherEd.com. Hamilton Assistant Dean of Faculty for Institutional Research Gordon Hewitt and Mack Mariani, a government professor at Xavier University, were the study's authors.
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Peter J. Rabinowitz's Before Reading Reprinted Electronically
April 1, 2008
Having sold out one hardback and two paperback editions, Comparative Literature Professor Peter J. Rabinowitz's Before
Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation has been reissued in the "Open Access Initiative" of Ohio State University Press.
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Krueger Presents Paper at Colgate
March 31, 2008
Roberta Krueger, professor of French and Burgess Chair of the French Department, spoke at a Medieval Colloquium on Interpreting the Middle Ages: Manuscript, Text, Exegesis at Colgate University on March 28. Her paper was titled "A medieval love debate in a Renaissance court: Marguerite de Navarre's
La Coche." Krueger examined the interplay of text and image in a manuscript of the poem that was illustrated in 1541 according to the author's explicit instructions.
Chang Publishes in Journal PLoS ONE
March 31, 2008
Assistant Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang co-authored a paper titled "The pathway to detangle scrambled genes" in the journal
PLoS ONE. This interdisciplinary, collaborative research attempted to decipher pathways for piecing correct DNA segments together in protozoan ciliates.
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Hsiung Wins 2008 Emerging Scholar Award at Association for Asian Performance
March 29, 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese Yuwen Hsiung's paper "Emotion, Visuality, and Subjectivity: Meng Jinghui's Urban Play Rhinoceros in Love" won the 2008 Emerging Scholar award. She is invited to present her paper during the AAP conference in Denver in July and the paper will be published in the
Asian Theatre Journal.
Odamtten is Keynote Speaker at Ghana Society Meeting
March 29, 2008
Professor of English Vincent Odamtten gave the keynote speech on the occasion of Ghana's 51st Anniversary Celebration on March 15 at the Gordon Student Center, Onondaga Community College. The speech, "Ghana: Democracy and Sustainable Development – An African Example" was based on Odamtten's observations during his recent sabbatical in the West African country.
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Isserman Article in Reviews in American History
March 26, 2008
In an
article titled "Do millions of cats equal millions of radicals?" in John Hopkins University Press'
Reviews in American History (Volume 36, Number 1, March 2008, pp. 103-107), Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, reviewed Julia L. Mickenberg's
Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States.
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Anechiarico Led Panel on Corruption Control
March 26, 2008
Frank Anechiarico, Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, chaired a panel at the annual meetings of the American Society for Public Administration in Dallas in March on "World Cities Fighting Corruption," based on a book he is co-editing with colleagues in Amsterdam. At the invitation of the department of political science at Vaxjo University in Sweden, he delivered a lecture on "The Problem of Corruption Control" during the week of March 24.
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MacDonald Presents Paper at Society for Cinema and Media Studies
March 26, 2008
Visiting Professor of Film History Scott MacDonald presented a paper, "Pragmatic--A Tentative Taxonomy of Boston Area Filmmaking," at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies on March 7 in Philadelphia. He was also involved in curating and was the host for the opening event for "Facing Realities: Dialogues in Boston Documentary Filmmaking," an on-going series of events focused on Boston filmmaking.
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Tampio Serves as Panel Chair at Western Political Science Conference
March 25, 2008
Nicholas Tampio, visiting assistant professor of government, served as the chair and discussant on the "Multiple Modernities" panel at the 2008 Western Political Science Association Conference held in San Diego on March 20 to 22. Tampio's comments focused on how the emerging field of comparative political theory transforms Leo Strauss's image of the three waves of modernity.
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Guttman to Give Reading in Ottawa
March 23, 2008
Naomi Guttman, associate professor of English, will give a poetry reading in The Factory Series at the Ottawa Art Gallery on Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m.
Major Publishes Article in Classical and Quantum Gravity
March 19, 2008
Associate Professor of Physics Seth Major published an article in
Classical and Quantum Gravity (Class. Quantum Grav. 25 (2008) 065003). The article titled "On the q-quantum gravity loop algebra" shows that "that portrait is not me!" or more technically, the kinematic algebra of q-deformed loop quantum gravity (the person) is not represented by the Temperley-Lieb algebra (the portrait).
Kinnel Presents Lecture at Boston College
March 19, 2008
Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin B. Kinnel visited the Boston College Chemistry Department at the invitation of Jason Kingsbury, '97, now an assistant professor there. At Kingsbury's suggestion Kinnel prepared a retrospective talk, which he titled "Adventures and Lessons from Three Decades of Natural Products Chemistry: Some Finished and Unfinished Business." In the audience were Hamilton graduates Kevin Brown, '02, and Ming Chan, '05, both graduate students in chemistry at B.C. Also in attendance were Danielle Massee, '07, now at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and Elita Pastra-Landis, professor of chemistry at Wheaton College and mother of Tanya Pastra-Landis, '98.
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Owen Interviewed on Fed Interest Rate Cut
March 19, 2008
Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was quoted on Wednesday, March 19, in a National Public Radio
Morning Edition segment and in a
Christian Science Monitor article, both of which addressed this week's Federal Reserve interest rate cut.
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Walker Participates in Numerous Middle East Conferences
March 18, 2008
Edward Walker, M.A., Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Global Political Theory, participated in a seminar at the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University on Jan. 10 on how the Arab-Israeli conflict affects U.S. regional interests. He also participated in a two-day conference sponsored by the National Intelligence Council and the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research on Feb. 21 to consider the likely progression of events in the Middle East as they affect U.S. policy out to 2025.
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Ellingson and Videras Approved for Tenure by Board
March 18, 2008
Two Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the College's Board of Trustees during the March meeting. The Board granted tenure to Stephen Ellingson, sociology, and Julio Videras, economics. The granting of tenure is based on recommendations of the vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and the committee on appointments, with the president of the College presenting final recommendations to the board. Ellingson and Videras will receive the title of associate professor on July 1.
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Rohrbach Presents Paper at Romanticism Conference in Bologna
March 16, 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of English Emily Rohrbach presented a paper at the supernumerary meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in Bologna, Italy, March 12-15. The conference brought together the North American and Italian Romanticism associations at the University of Bologna to explore issues of (trans)national identities and reimagined communities.
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Isserman Op-ed on 5th Anniversary of Iraq War in Observer-Dispatch
March 15, 2008
"In the past five years, we have filled the equivalent of 40 percent of the graves in the American cemetery at Omaha Beach. Some of our political leaders say they would be willing to have us fight on in Iraq 100 years … To what end?" wrote Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, in an
opinion piece in the
Observer-Dispatch on March 16.
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Li Presents at Mt. Holyoke and Chicago Council on Global Affairs
March 14, 2008
Both Mt. Holyoke and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosted presentations by Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, during the week of March 3. "The Emerging Leadership in China: Policy Priorities" was Li's topic at the March 6 presentation in Chicago at which he discussed the 11th National People's Congress and subsequent senior leadership changes. Li shared his thoughts on the policy priorities of the China's new leadership and how the country's economic policy might unfold as well as possible eventual successors of President Hu Jintao.
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Klinkner Quoted by CBSNews.com and Gannett News Service
March 14, 2008
A CBSNews.com article,
"Primary Collars Updated," examined examples of presidential candidates successfully using attack ads against opponents that incorporated barbs originally launched during primary races. Several of these were from a blog written by Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students.
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Composition by Woods to be Performed by Cleveland Chamber Symphony
March 13, 2008
A composition by Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods will be performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony on April 5 at the Allen Theater in Cleveland. Woods provided the score for his piece titled Ghetto Savant. The performance will be part of the Cleveland Music School Settlement annual benefit and the only piece featuring the Chamber Symphony alone.
Owen Interviewed on Marketplace
March 12, 2008
Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen commented on the most recent Federal Reserve decision in an interview titled
"New plan could risk confidence in Fed" on American Public Radio's
Marketplace. The broadcast addressed the Fed's plan to fix the credit crunch. Owen observed that if the Fed's plan fails, there is a risk that the public will lose confidence in the Fed precipitating serious long-term consequences.
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McConnell Interviewed by Associated Press
March 12, 2008
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Shelley McConnell was interviewed by the Associated Press and quoted in a March 10 article titled
"Venezuela reopens embassy in Colombia as war talk gives way to pragmatism." McConnell, who was a senior associate director of the Carter Center Americas Program before coming to Hamilton, commented on the crisis precipitated by the incursion of Columbian troops into Ecuador in pursuit of a FARC leader.
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Hamessley Publishes Articles Featuring Stereoscopic Images
March 11, 2008
Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley recently published two articles that feature stereoscopic images of musical instruments. The first, "Within Sight: Three-Dimensional Perspectives on Women and Banjos in the Late Nineteenth Century," 19th-Century Music 31 (2007): 131-63, focuses on the relationship between images of women playing banjos and depictions of the new woman.
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Ortabasi Co-Authors Article
March 8, 2008
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi co-authored an article with Dr. Charlotte Eubanks (Penn State) for the
ADFL Bulletin (38.3/39.1, Spring/Fall 2007), the journal for the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. The article discusses the issues surrounding the study of less commonly taught languages (such as Asian languages) in the context of comparative literature.
O'Neal Edits Rousseau Volume for Voltaire Foundation in Oxford
March 7, 2008
Professor of French John C. O'Neal has edited a volume of essays on Rousseau for
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (
SVEC), a publication of the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford, England. Titled
The Nature of Rousseau's 'Rêveries': physical, human, aesthetic, the volume brings together the work of international specialists to explore new approaches to the defining feature – the 'nature' – of the
Rêveries. In essays which range from studies of botany or landscape painting to thematic or stylistic readings, authors re-examine Rousseau's intellectual understanding of and personal relationship with different conceptions of nature.
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Guttman to Give Poetry Reading at Colgate
March 6, 2008
Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman will give a reading and sign copies of her book of poems,
Wet Apples, White Blood, at the Colgate University Bookstore on Thursday, March 6, at 4:30 p.m.
Murtaugh Exhibits Work at Pittsburgh Gallery
March 5, 2008
Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh recently completed the installation Swallows for the invitational exhibition "Part Clay. Part Object." at the Brewhouse Space 101 Gallery in Pittsburgh, Pa. The piece is constructed of more than 400 thermoplastic filled porcelain spoons which cascade down a 12-foot tall gallery wall.
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OSU Series, Co-Edited by Peter J. Rabinowitz, Publishes 25th Book
March 5, 2008
The Ohio State University Press series ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative") that Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan has just published its 25th volume: Richard Walsh's
The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction. A provocative critique of many of narratology's favored assumptions, the book offers radically new ways of thinking about such concepts as narrator, voice, and especially fictionality.
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Reynolds Co-Authors Chapter in Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca
March 5, 2008
Associate Dean of Faculty and Biology Professor Pat Reynolds is the co-author of a chapter in the new book
Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca (University of California Press, March 2008). Co-author Gerhard Steiner is a long-time collaborator of Reynolds' from the University of Vienna, Austria. Their chapter is titled "Scaphopoda."
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Georges Publishes Two Papers in Computational Economics
March 4, 2008
Professor of Economics Chris Georges published two papers in computational economics. "Bounded Memory, Overparameterized Forecast Rules and Instability" was published in
Economics Letters in February. A companion paper, "Staggered Updating in an Artificial Financial Market" has been published online in the
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Both use agent-based modeling to study the impact of learning by traders on market volatility in an artificial financial market.
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Ortabasi Publishes Book Chapter
March 2, 2008
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Ortabasi is the author of a chapter in
Japanese Visual Culture, ed. Mark MacWilliams, (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2008). Ortabasi's chapter, "National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress" examines director Kon's fictional film about a retired film actress. The film, which has been described as a "love letter" to the history of Japanese cinema, re-presents that history in an animated format. By doing so, Kon effectively redefines the popular anime medium as an authoritative cultural force, ready to be entrusted with the telling of national histories.
