October 25, 2009
Shelley Haley, professor of classics and Africana studies, and director of the Africana studies program, published an essay in Prejudice and Christian Beginnings: Investigating Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies. The essay is titled "Be Not Afraid of the Dark: Critical Race Theory and Classical Studies." The book was edited by Laura Nasrallah and Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza of the Harvard Divinity School and was published by Fortress Press, an imprint of Ausberg Fortress. More ...
October 20, 2009
Andrew Dykstra, assistant professor of mathematics, gave a colloquium talk to the mathematics faculty at the University of Denver on Oct. 15. The talk was titled "Very Weakly, Loosely, and Vaguely Bernoulli." It focused on classes of dynamical systems that exhibit random behavior, but whose behavior is not quite as random as a simple coin toss. More ...
October 18, 2009
Jinnie Garrett, professor of biology, recently published an article "Resources and strategies to integrate the study of ethical, legal and social implications of genetics into the undergraduate curriculum" in the 2009 edition of Advances in Genetics. This article was co-authored with Dr. Kathleen Triman, a professor of biology at Franklin and Marshall College. More ...
October 17, 2009
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States held in Wilmington, Del., on Oct. 8–10. The paper, Drained into the New Trench”: Classical Reception and the Poetry of Reginald Gibbons," studies Reginald Gibbons’ collection of poetry, Creatures of a Day (2008), as an act of classical reception and contributes to scholarship by introducing an audience to a newly formulated theory and method for interpreting practices of classical reception called “The Poetics of Distinction.” More ...
October 16, 2009
Shelley Haley, professor of classics and African studies, and director of the Africana studies program, participated in the fall meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) on Oct. 8-11. She, along with professors Nancy Rabinowitz and James Wells, participated on a panel titled "How to Manage Difficult Conversations in Classics Classrooms" and she was the presider for a session titled "Practical Pedagogy." Haley was also was elected 2nd vice-president of CAAS. More ...
October 14, 2009
Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, has been named co-editor (along with Herman Schwartz, University of Virgina) of the International Political Economy Yearbook Series for the term 2010-2014. The series is sponsored by the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association and is published by Lynne Rienner Press. More ...
October 13, 2009
Masaaki Kamiya, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, presented a paper titled "EPP, D-linking and Grammaticality Judgments" at the Mid-America Linguistics Conference at the University of Missouri at Columbia on Oct. 9 and 10. He collaborated with Akemi Matsuya of Takachiho University, Tokyo. More ...
October 11, 2009
Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman and Burgess Professor of French Roberta L. Krueger published their article "Utica Greens: Central New York's Italian-American Specialty" in the Summer 2009 edition of Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture. Based on interviews with local residents, the article traces the history and significance of one of Utica's signature dishes. This article is based on a paper Krueger and Guttman gave last year at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. More ...
October 11, 2009
Associate Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali was invited by the Maysles Institute to give a talk on Oct. 8 in Harlem, N.Y. This Harlem-based community organization is hostiing a month-long awareness campaign about the Congo. It includes a series of film screenings accompanied by special events, panel discussions and performances about the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. More ...
October 10, 2009
Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, recently published two articles. His "Making Theories Out of Water," was an invited essay for Ethnographies Revisited, an anthology of invited essays on "how leading qualitative researchers crafted key theoretical concepts found in their major book-length ethnographies," (Anthony Puddephatt, ed., Routledge). The second article, "A Neglected Necessity in Liberal Arts Assessment," was reprinted in Handbook on Assessment in Higher Education, (Chris Shreiner, ed., by IGI Global). More ...
