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Spring 2002

The quarterly report of Hamilton College faculty members' scholarly activities is available in PDF format: Spring 2002.  Current activities appear by date below.

Faculty News - Spring 2002



Derek Jones Publishes Paper in Review of Development Economics

May 31, 2002
Derek Jones, The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, published "Ownership and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from Estonian panel data," in the June issue of Review of Development Economics. Jones co-authored the paper with Niels Mygind of the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

Frechette Publishes Article in Anthropology News

May 31, 2002
Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, published an article in Anthropology News, "The Normative Dynamics of International Assistance." The article appeared in the March 2002 issue and was also featured on the American Anthropological Association's Web site.

Wheatley Publishes Entry on "The Nun's Priest's Tale"

May 31, 2002
Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley has published an entry on "The Nun's Priest's Tale" in Sources and Analogues of The Canterbury Tales, Vol. 1. He has also been a member of the project's editorial advisory board, on which he will continue to serve for the second volume.

Sanchez-Casal Co-Authors Volume on Feminist Pedagogy

May 31, 2002
Associate Professor of Spanish Susan Sanchez-Casal co-authored a pedagogy, 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference which was published by Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, June 2002. With co-editor Amie A. Macdonald (formerly of Hamilton's Philosophy department and now at CUNY John Jay College in Manhattan) she wrote the introductory theoretical essay to the volume, titled "Feminist Reflections on the Pedagogical Relevance of Identity." She also authored the second chapter, titled, "Unleashing the Demons of History: White Resistance in the U.S. Latino Studies Classroom."

Ravven Writes on Hegel

May 31, 2002
Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven wrote "Further Thoughts on Hegel and Feminism" for Owl of Minerva: The Journal of the Hegel Society of America, 33:2, Spring/Summer 2002.

Chambliss Book Translated into Japanese

May 31, 2002
Sidney Wertimer Professor of Sociology Dan Chambliss' book, Beyond Caring: Hospitals, Nurses, and the Social Organization of Ethics (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1996), has just been translated and published in Japanese by the Japanese Nursing Association Publishing Company.

Vincent Odamtten Gives Paper at African Literature Association

May 31, 2002
Professor of English Vincent Odamtten gave a paper at the San Diego annual meeting of the African Literature Association, titled "Ghanaian Poetry at Century's End: The Question of National and Transnational Identities."

Hong Gang Jin Consults with United Nations' Chinese Program

May 31, 2002
Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin was invited as a consultant to evaluate the United Nations' Chinese Program, which offers one of the U.N.'s official languages. She helped evaluate the existing program and revised the curriculum. In addition, she designed the teacher evaluation system for the program and wrote the written examination and teaching demo. guidelines for recruiting new instructors in the Chinese Program at the United Nations. At the beginning of this year, she also traveled to the United Nations to give an invited lecture on "Evaluation and Assessment of Instructor's Performance," and helped recruit a new director for the Chinese language program at the U.N.

Martin Awarded NY Historical Society Fellowship

May 31, 2002
Assistant Professor of Government Robert Martin was awarded a visiting research fellowship at the New York Historical Society to research the emergence of the early American public sphere. Also, he gave a paper titled "Bridging the Gap: Habermas, Post-Modernism, and the Early American Public Sphere" at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference in April. Martin also served as a featured panelist at Utica College's All-College Conference on Citizenship and Patriotism.

Derek Jones Named Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

May 31, 2002
During the summer (and the first part of his year of leave from Hamilton) Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has accepted an invitation to be visiting professor from July 1 - Sept. 30 at the Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

Reynolds on Sabbatical in Ireland

May 30, 2002
Patrick Reynolds, associate professor of biology, has been on sabbatical at The Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute National University in Galway, Ireland. He has been researching Irish coastal fauna. Reynolds also recently contributed several articles to the Encyclopedia of Oceanography and Marine Sciences.

Kantrowitz Lectures at Functional Spaces Conference

May 30, 2002
Robert Kantrowitz, associate professor of mathematics presented a lecture, "Irrotational and rotational square roots," about square roots of invertible elements of Banach algebras at the Fourth Conference on Function Spaces at Southern Illinois University.

Pierce Published Article in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

May 30, 2002
Associate Professor of Psychology Gregory Pierce published an article, "The social context of coping with prostate cancer," in the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology.

Pierce Publishes Article in Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology

May 30, 2002
Associate Professor of Psychology Gregory Pierce published an article, "Issues in the study of stress and coping in rehabilitation settings," which appeared in the Journal of Rehabilitation Psychology.

Shields Publishes Article in JACS

May 30, 2002
Professor of Chemistry George Shields published an article, "Absolute pKa Determinations for Substituted Phenols," in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Shields co-authored the paper with Hamilton undergraduate Matthew Liptak '03.

Tejerina-Canal Spends Sabbatical Organizing ALDEEU Symposium

May 30, 2002
Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina-Canal spent his sabbatical organizing and directing the "International Encounter 2001: Una odiesa del espacio…entre raices, catedrales y rascacielos," which took place at the University of Leon in July. It was the second ALDEEU (Spanish Professional in America) symposium Tejerina-Canal organized, with 18 sessions and more than 60 panelists. He also delivered a paper, "Antruido y las vacas locas," at the symposium.

Tejerina-Canal Published Article in El Nuevo Horizonte

May 30, 2002
Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina-Canal published an article "A una parte del cristal: Profesionales españoles en Estados Unidos" in Carmen Flys Junquera and Juan E. Cruz Cabrera ed. El nuevo horizonte: España/Estados Unidos (El legado de 1848 y 1898 frente al nuevo milenio),(Madrid: Universidad de Alcalá, Biblioteca de Estidios Norteamericanos, 2001). This is part of the 1848 and 1898 commemoration of the Guadalupe-Hidalgo and Paris treaties among USA, Mexico and Spain. His article is part of the selected proceedings of the international conference that took place in five different sites: San Juan, Puerto Rico, Quezon City, Phillipines, Berkeley, Miami, and Madrid. He was guest speaker in Madrid as former president of ALDEEU (Spanish Professionals in America).

Odamtten Presents Lecture at Syracuse University

May 30, 2002
Professor of English Vincent Odamtten gave a lecture in connection with the 45th anniversary celebration of Ghana's Independence titled "The Legacy of Kwame Nkrumah: Neocolonialism and Morality in an Age of Terror" at Syracuse University.

Cheng Li Publishes Papers

May 30, 2002
Professor of Government Cheng Li wrote two academic articles, one titled "China's Road Ahead: Will the New Generation of Leaders Make a Difference?" which was published in The Brown Journal of World Affairs (Spring 2002) and the other, "Hu's Followers: Provincial Leaders with Backgrounds in the Youth League," appeared in the China Leadership Monitor, a quarterly journal published by Stanford University.

Cheng Li Lectures on China's Leadership

May 30, 2002
Professor of Government Cheng Li was invited to lecture at Columbia University, Wellesley College, Bard College, the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, Asian Society of Texas, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. For the third time, he has been invited as a lecturer to participate in the mid-career training program for U.S. government officials involved in the China field.

John O'Neill Invited Participant at Two Conferences

May 30, 2002
At a conference titled "Talking Towards Techno-Pedagogy Reunion" at Mount Holyoke College in April, a team from Hamilton College consisting of Kristin Strohmeyer (Burke Library); Janet Simons (Information Technology Services); Colleen Fenity, '02; and Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English John H. O'Neill reported on the seminar "Jane Austen: Text and Film," which the team developed under a program sponsored by the Mellon Foundation. At the "Collaborating with Technology" conference held at Union College in May, O'Neill was an invited participant in a panel discussion of the use of technology in interdisciplinary courses.

John O'Neal Publishes Article, Delivers Papers

May 30, 2002
Professor of French John O'Neal published an article, "Parole, désir et savoir: Le récit interpolé chez Diderot dans Jacques le fataliste," in Sciences, musiques, Lumières. Ed. Sylvain Auroux, Pierre Chartier, Ulla Kölving, and Irène Passeron. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre international d'etude du dix-huitième siècle, 2001, pp. 185-94. O'Neal also presented two papers, "The Poetics of Confusion in Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles," at the International Conference on Diderot in Los Angeles in April, and "La confusion subversive dans La Double Inconstance de Marivaux," at the International Conference on Marivaux in Montpellier, France in March.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Co-Edits New Book

May 30, 2002
Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the editor of a new book, Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World,. The book, co-edited with Lisa Auanger, was published by the University of Texas Press this spring. Rabinowitz wrote the introduction and a substantial article, "Excavating Female Homoeroticism: The Evidence from Greek Vase Painting." Rabinowitz also gave two talks in the spring semester, based on her new work on Greek vase painting and the representation of women. In June, she presented "Women's `Support Groups' on Attic Vase Painting," at the Classics Association of Canada; she gave the Rexine Lecture in Classics at COLAGE in April, titled "Reading Anachronistically?: Feminist Criticism and Ancient Greek Vase Painting.

Cheng Li Awarded United States Institute of Peace Grant

May 29, 2002
Professor of Government Cheng Li received a research grant from the United States Institute of Peace, an independent institution established by the U.S. Congress to promote peaceful resolution of international conflicts.

Rojas Lectures at American Academy of Religion

May 29, 2002
Mary V. Rojas, visiting professor in religious studies and a Grinnell Consortium Fellow, has been granted a second year at Hamilton. In April, she gave a lecture to the Regional Academy of American Religion titled, "She Bathes in a Sacred Place: Didactics of Scratching Sticks in Native American Women's Rites of Seclusion." (Session: "Construction of Women's Religious Identity")

Odamtten Presents at African Studies Conference

May 29, 2002
Professor of English Vincent Odamtten attended an International Conference on The State of the Art(s): African Studies and American Studies In Comparative Perspective, at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana where he gave a presentation on "Pedagogy and the Challenge of Developing an Africana Studies Program in a Small Liberal Arts Institution" which is to be published as part of the conference proceedings.

Boutin Publishes in Congressus Numerantium

May 29, 2002
Assitant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin published an article "The Isometry Dimension and Orbit Number of a Finite Group," with Michael Albertson,in Congressus Numerantium 150 (2001), pp.79-85.

Oerlemans Book Published

May 28, 2002
A book by Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans, Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature, was published in March by the University of Toronto Press.  More ...

Pillow Publishes Paper, Will Chair Program for 2003 Meeting

May 28, 2002
Kirk Pillow, assistant professor of philosophy, published "Versions and Forgeries: A Reply to Kivy" in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 60 (Spring 2002). In April, he was selected to be program chair for next spring's American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia. In May, he and Krystyn Schmerbeck '02 presented their summer 2001 Emerson Grant research to an audience of Hamilton alumni in New York City.

Krueger Publishes Papers, Speaks at Cornell

May 28, 2002
Professor of French Roberta L. Krueger has published "Beyond Debate: Gender in Play in Old French Courtly Fiction" in Debating Gender from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance, edited by Thelma Fenster and Clare Lees (Palgrave Press, 2002). She also published "'Nouvelles choses:' Social Instability and the Problem of Fashion in 'Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry,''The 'Menagier de Paris,' and Christine de Pizan's 'Livre des Trois Vertus,'" in Medieval Conduct edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark (University of Minnesota Press, 2001). This year Krueger was an invited speaker at Cornell University for Quodlibet, an organization of graduate students in medieval studies, to whom she presented "Christine's Treasure: Household Economies in the 'Livre des Trois Vertus.'" She also gave a paper titled "Dysfunctional Families in Christine de Pizan's 'Cite des Dames'" at the annual Romance Languages convention at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Krueger was elected to a three-year term as a member of the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee of the Modern Language Association. This group sets the agenda and brings forth business at annual meetings of the Delegate Assembly, MLA's legislative body.

Miller Publishes Papers and Organizes Symposium

May 21, 2002
Professor of Biology Sue Ann Miller coordinated and co-authored the publication, "From college to clinic: Reasoning over memorization is key for understanding anatomy." This special invited article appeared in the April 2002 issue of The Anatomical Record - The New Anatomist. Miller co-organized a symposium, "How do we cultivate, locate and admit ideal medical students?" that was part of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) 2002 meetings in New Orleans in April. An abstract of her presentation, "Connecting liberal arts students with what is important for a career in medicine" was published in the FASEB Journal. She was invited to make a separate presentation about her teaching of Vertebrate Development (Biol. 333), and that abstract, "Constructive inclusion of developmental anatomy in an undergraduate course teaches mental imaging skills," is also published in the FASEB Journal. Miller has also been busy this spring reviewing manuscripts for the journals Clinical Anatomy and The Anatomical Record and a variety of grant proposals for the Sigma Xi, Grants-in-Aid of Research program.  More ...

Major Publishes Article in Classical and Quantum Gravity

May 20, 2002
Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major published an article, "Modelling Space with a Atom of Quantum Geometry, in Classical and Quantum Gravity 19 (2002) 2211-2227. Major published the article with Michael Seifert, Swarthmore '01, now at University of Chicago.

Sanchez-Casal Receives Award at Class and Charter Day

May 17, 2002
At Hamilton's Class and Charter Day Awards Ceremony, Associate Professor of Spanish Susan Sanchez-Casal was awarded the Samuel and Helen Lang Excellence in Teaching Prize. Sanchez-Casal is a Hewlett Grant recipient for 2002, and participated in the residential summer Institute on diversity moderated by Esther Kingston-Mann, June 2-6, at Eagle Rock Conference Center in Hamilton, NY. Her proposal for the grant was based on developing an integrated pedagogical approach for teaching the freshman seminar course at Hamilton, College 130: Coming of Age in America: Narratives of Difference.

Rubino Interviewed by The Record (NJ)

May 16, 2002
Carl Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics at Hamilton, was interviewed by The Record for an article about the origins of Star Wars heroes and villains. "You see Star Wars and you read Virgil, and you see the similarities right away," says Rubino, who uses Star Wars in his classes.  More ...

Luciano Article Published in Henry James Review

May 16, 2002
Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano's article "Invalid Relations: Queer Kinship in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady was published in Henry James Review 23.2 (Spring 2002). Luciano also gave a paper, "Benito Cereno as Counter-Monumental Narrative," at the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature's conference in April.

Tejerina-Canal Gives Paper

May 15, 2002
Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina-Canal delivered a paper, "La super/ficción the G.T.B. (y La saga/fuga de J.B.)" at the 55th annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, at the University of Kentucky in April. He also chaired a session on "Memory, Nostalgia and Dialogism."

Derek Jones Serves as External Examiner

May 14, 2002
On May 14, Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was an External Examiner for Panu Kalmi who was a candidate for the Ph.D. at the Copenhagen Business School. The Ph.D. defense topic was "On the (In)stability of Employee Ownership: Estonian Evidence and Lessons for Transition Economies." (In many Scandinavian countries the Ph.D. defense is a public procedure lasting for a couple of hours.)

Hinks Speaks about Antislavery: Images and Ideology

May 13, 2002
Assistant Professor of History Peter Hinks participated in "Freedom, Race, and Bondage: A Conference in Honor of David Brion Davis" held at Yale University, May 7-9. Hinks was on a panel, "Antislavery: Images and Ideology," and presented a paper titled "Timothy Dwight, Slavery, and Race."

Tobin Op-ed In Philadelphia Inquirer

May 13, 2002
Hamilton College President Eugene M. Tobin wrote an op-ed titled "Mix of ideas is another aspect of diversity on college campuses," that appeared in the May 13 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tobin argued that "purely representational diversity can never be the only means for achieving the plurality of ideas necessary for a meaningful college education and for a fulfilling life."  More ...

Silversmith and Brewer Publish Articles in Journal of Luminescence

May 12, 2002
Associate Professor of Physics Ann Silversmith and Associate Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer had two articles published in the Journal of Luminescence. Both articles were based on research done with Hamilton students. The titles of the articles are "Fluorescence line-narrowing and decay dynamics in sol-gel glasses containing Eu3+" by A.J. Silversmith, D.M. Boye, R.E. Anderman* and K.S. Brewer; and "Red-to-green upconversion in Er-doped SiO2 and SiO2/TiO2 sol-gel silicate glasses" by D.M. Boye, A.J. Silversmith, J. Nolen*, L. Rumney*, D. Shaye*, B.C. Smith*, and K.S. Brewer.

Derek Jones Presents Research at WIDER Conference

May 11, 2002
Derek Jones, The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented "The Nature and the Determinants of the Adoption of New Information Technologies: Evidence from Medium Sized Establishments in Upstate New York," (with Colgate University Professor of Economics Takao Kato and Hamilton College Associate Professor of Economics Jeffrey Pliskin,) at the WIDER Conference on the New Economy in Development. Jones was also a discussant for three papers on diffusion of new technologies presented at the conference May 10-11 in Helsinki.

Goldberg Presents Paper at International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts

May 11, 2002
Associate Professor of Art Steve Goldberg presented a paper, "The Primacy of Gesture: Phenomenology and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy," at the International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics and the Fine Arts, World Phenomenology Institute at Harvard Divinity School on May 11.  More ...

Rubino on Star Wars In Christian Science Monitor

May 10, 2002
Edward North Professor of Classics Carl Rubino was interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor article about Star Wars (May 10.) Rubino compares Star Wars' Luke Skywalker's relationship with Yoda to heroic warrior Achilles, who also "had tutors with mysterious powers." Rubino said, "There is something in those ancient mythological themes that resonates with people."  More ...

Jin and Xu Organize Second Chinese Language Teaching Conference

May 7, 2002
Hamilton Professors of Chinese Hong Gang Jin and De Bao Xu organized the Second Conference on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching in the 21st Century (TCLT2.) It was co-sponsored by Hamilton College and Yale University and was held in New Haven, June 7-9. This followed the successful Conference on Technology and Chinese Language Teaching (TCLT1) held at Hamilton in June, 2000. TCLT2 had more professionals attend and more universities/colleges participated (both from the US and overseas).

Rabinowitz Gives Paper, His OSU Series Publishes Two Books

May 7, 2002
Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz gave a paper titled "'I Never Saw Any of Them Again': Series, Sequels, and Character Identity," at the International Conference on Narrative on April 12. Two more books have come out in the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative series that Rabinowitz co-edits for Ohio State University Press: Breaking the Frame: Metalepsis and the Construction of the Subject by Debra Malina, and Narrative Dynamics: Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames, edited by Brian Richardson.  More ...

Owens-Manley Presents Research at Service-Learning Colloquium

May 7, 2002
Associate Director of Community Research in the Levitt Center Judy Owens-Manley presented her research at a May Colloquium for Service-Learning Practitioners held at Franklin & Marshall College, in Lancaster, Pa. The colloquium was an opportunity for practitioners to share syllabi, compare notes, engage in philosophical discussions and develop a repertoire of best practices for various aspects of service-learning programs. Owens-Manley presented "Evaluation of Community Programs and Services" as a part of a session on research in service of community.  More ...

Derek Jones Presents Research on Changing Employment Practices and Quality of Jobs

May 4, 2002
Derek Jones, The Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, presented "Changing Employment Practices and the Quality of Jobs: Evidence from Case Studies of Medium-Sized Manufacturing Establishments in Central New York" at a joint conference of the Rockefeller and Russell Sage Foundations. The conference, "Evidence from the Future of Work Case Studies, Industrial Restructuring and Its Impact on Low Skilled Workers," was held May 2-3 in New York City. Jones presented the paper with Colgate University Professor of Economics Takao Kato and Colgate University Professor of Sociology Adam Weinberg.

Owens-Manley Publishes Article in Social Work

May 3, 2002
Associate Director of Community Research in the Levitt Center Judy Owens-Manley published an article with Professor Jan Hagen, School of Social Welfare, SUNY/Albany, titled "Issues in Implementing TANF in New York: The Perspective of Frontline Workers" in the April issue of Social Work. The authors conducted focus groups with frontline workers in two counties in upstate New York to study their functions, the interaction of welfare and domestic violence, and the process of decision making at the front line using case vignettes.

Gold Elected Officer of Association

May 3, 2002
Professor of Classics Barbara Gold was elected president of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States for 2002-03 at the organization's recent spring meeting.

Barbara Tewksbury Awarded NSF Grant

May 1, 2002
Hamilton College is one of four institutions that will receive money from a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will fund a five-year project, titled "On the Cutting Edge," which is designed to improve the quality of undergraduate geoscience education. Barbara J. Tewksbury, the Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Geology, has been awarded more than $70,000 from the grant for 2002, and will receive additional funding each year for the next five years.  More ...

Rosolowski Awarded Fellowship

May 1, 2002
Tacey A. Rosolowski, scholar in residence, has been awarded a James Renwick Senior Fellowship in American Craft by the Renwick Gallery, a division of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. One Renwick Fellowship is awarded competitively each year, allowing the recipient access to Smithsonian collections, archives, and research staff. Rosolowski has received the Fellowship to support her research on contemporary adornment and its relation to culture. Her fellowship period will begin in January, 2003.

Aronoff Elected to Governing Council of I.S.P.P.

May 1, 2002
Assistant Professor of Government Yael Aronoff was elected to the Governing Council of the International Society for Political Psychology, 2002-2004.

Frechette Serves on MacArthur Foundation Committee

April 30, 2002
Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, served on the committee for the MacArthur Foundation-Social Science Research Council's Global Security and Cooperation fellowships in April.

Naomi Guttman Awarded Grant

April 30, 2002
Assistant Professor of English Naomi Guttman has been awarded an Individual Artist's grant from The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Last April, she gave a poetry reading with alumna Karlen Chase ('99) at the Catskill Mountain Foundation's Performing Arts Center in Hunter, NY. Guttman also participated in a multicultural Canadian poetry reading at the New England Modern Language Association convention in Toronto and chaired a poetry panel there.

Redfield Lectures in Paris

April 30, 2002
Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics Robert Redfield spoke on "Lattice-ordered fields of quotients" at Technische Universität Darmstadt and Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Redfield presented a similar talk to an audience of mathematicians from Angers, Le Mans, and Paris at the equipe de Logique Mathématique de l'Université Paris 7.

Ravven Co-Edits Book

April 29, 2002
Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven edited a book, Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy (State University of New York Press) with Lenn Goodman of Vanderbilt University. She also contributed to the preface and wrote the essay, "Spinoza's Rupture with His Hints for Jewish Modernity," for the volume.

Gapp and Williams Present at the Northeast Natural History Conference

April 29, 2002
Professors of Biology David Gapp and Ernest Williams made presentations at the Northeast Natural History Conference VII, held at the New York State Museum in Albany, on April 25-26. Williams made a presentation coauthored with Theodore W. Valenti '01 and Daniel H. Catlin '01 titled "Behavior of Frosted Elfins in Lupine Patches." Gapp made a presentation coauthored with Katie Lee '03, Sarah McNeil '04, Angela Pagano '02 and Hannah Stahle '03 titled "Snapping Turtle Nest Destruction by Another Snapper." David and Pearl Gapp also made a presentation titled "Diabetes in the Common Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina: an Update."

Elgren Publishes Paper in Journal of the American Chemical Society

April 22, 2002
Associate Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor of Chemistry Timothy Elgren recently published "Sol-gel Encapsulated Horseradish Peroxidase: A Catalytic Material for Peroxidation," in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Elgren co-authored the paper with Hamilton undergraduates Mauro Castro '99 and Robert Parker '04.

Kantrowitz and Bedient Co-organized Mathematics Conference

April 22, 2002
Associate Professor of Mathematics Rob Kantrowitz and Professor of Mathematics Richard Bedient co-organized the Ninth Annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference held in April. This conference brought more than 400 students and faculty from universities and colleges in New York and New England to Hamilton's campus.  More ...

Goldberg Presents at ASIANetwork Annual Meeting

April 21, 2002
Associate Professor of Art Steve Goldberg was both chair and presenter at a plenary session titled "The Future of Asian Studies" at the annual meeting of the ASIANetwork. A consortium of over 150 liberal arts colleges, ASIANetwork is committed to strengthening the study of Asia on its campuses. Goldberg is also a member of the ASIANetwork board of directors.

Campbell Presents Paper to PSA

April 20, 2002
In April, Visiting Instructor of Government Kristin Campbell presented a paper titled "Struggling to Set the Campaign Agenda: Candidate Strategy and Campaign Dialogue in Senate Elections" at the annual Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.

Goldberg Directs NEH Workshop

April 11, 2002
Steve Goldberg, associate professor of art and department chair, directed a National Endowment for the Humanities workshop titled "Representing Excellence: The Authoritative in South and East Asian Art and Literature" at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., April 11-14. He also presented "Art and Articulation: The Embodiment of Excellence and Authority in Asian Cultures" and "Images as Metaphors of Authority in Social Context: India and China" on April 11 and 12 respectively.  More ...

Georges Publishes Article in Economics Bulletin

April 11, 2002
Associate Professor of Economics Chris Georges published an article titled "An Efficiency Wage Model With Persistent Cycles" in Economics Bulletin, Vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-6.

Kodat Awarded McIntosh Flexible Fellowship

April 9, 2002
Catherine Gunther Kodat, associate professor of English and American studies, has been awarded a Millicent C. McIntosh Flexible Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The fellowships are awarded to especially promising, recently tenured faculty members in the humanities at liberal arts colleges.  More ...

Goldberg Participates in Association of Asian Studies Panel

April 6, 2002
Art History Professor Steve Goldberg discussed Chinese political scientists and historians as a member of a panel addressing "Chinese Historians in the United States: Dilemmas of Reform in 21st Century China." The panel was held in April at the 2002 annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in Washington, D.C.

Cheng Li Named Wilson Fellow

April 5, 2002
Hamilton College Professor of Government Cheng Li, one of the nation's foremost authorities on Chinese leadership, has been named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow for the 2002-03 academic year. Li will spend his fellowship year in Washington studying Chinese leadership changes and the implications for U.S.-China relations.  More ...

Frechette Presents at Asian Studies Conference

April 5, 2002
Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, presented a paper, "Poverty Reduction or Population Transfer: Competing Interpretations of a China-Tibet Resettlement Project," at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The presentation was part of a panel on "Amdo-Gansu in China's Political Imaginaries."

Gane Presents Paper at African Literature Association Meeting

April 4, 2002
Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane presented a paper, "Unspeakable Injuries in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Zoe Wicomb's David's Story," as part of a panel titled "South African Literature: Gender and Nation Formation" at the 28th annual meeting of the African Literature Association in San Diego.  More ...

Jennifer Borton Publishes in Anxiety, Stress, and Coping

April 2, 2002
Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton published an article, "The Suppression of Negative Self-Referent Thoughts," in Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: An International Journal Vol. 15, No. 1, 31-44. (The article appeared in the March 2002 issue.)

Gane Publishes Essay in Modern Fiction Studies

April 2, 2002
Assistant Professor of English Gillian Gane wrote the lead essay in the March 2002 issue of Modern Fiction Studies, a special issue on Postmodernism and the Globalization of English guest-edited by Michael Bérubé. Her essay is titled "Migrancy, the Cosmopolitan Intellectual, and the Global City in The Satanic Verses" and is accessible on Project MUSE.  More ...

Peter Rabinowitz Elected Officer

April 1, 2002
Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz was elected second vice-president of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. He will serve as first vice president in his second year and president in his third year.

Carter Honored by Society of Architectural Historians

April 1, 2002
Professor of Art Rand Carter will be honored by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) at a special reception this month at the society's annual meeting in Richmond, Va. Preceding this meeting, Carter will attend the International Friends of Schinkel (FOS) meeting, also in Richmond. He is one of two founding members of FOS, an organization dedicated to the study of the 19th century neo-classicist designer, architect, and urbanist. Carter represented the FOS and gave the opening and closing addresses at an international congress at the faculty of architecture of the Universidad Pedro Enriquez de Urena in the Dominican Republic in November. He will speak at a FOS conference co-sponsored by the faculty of architecture of the University of Catania in Siracusa, Sicily, in June.

Palusky Participates In Group Show

April 1, 2002
Robert Palusky, the John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Art, is one of several artists whose work is featured in a show titled "Exploring the Human Spirit in Glass" at the Habatat Galleries in Boca Raton, Fla.  More ...

Patrick Reynolds Publishes Chapter in Advances in Marine Biology

April 1, 2002
Patrick Reynolds, associate professor of biology, published a chapter, "The Scaphopoda" in Advances in Marine Biology volume 42: 137-236.

Peter Rabinowitz Edits Series for Ohio State Press

March 31, 2002
Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz is series co-editor of the Theory and Interpretation Series at Ohio State University Press. The latest book published is, "Invisible Author: Last Essays" by the novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose.

Owen Presents Paper at SUNY Binghamton

March 31, 2002
Assistant Professor of Economics Ann Owen presented, "Is Trade Good for Your Health?" at SUNY Binghamton. This paper was co-written by Assistant Professor of Economics Steve Wu.

Tejerina-Canal Edits Book

March 27, 2002
Professor of Spanish Santiago Tejerina–Canal has edited a book, Del rascacielos a la catedral: un regreso a las raices (University of Leon Press, 2001), an interdisciplinary volume dealing with Leonese, Spanish, Latin American, Hispanic and American issues on politics, medicine, biotechnology, art, natural sciences, pedagogy, linguistics, women and cultural studies, economics, history and literature. Besides serving as editor and translator, Tejerina-Canal also contributed to the volume with a welcome note, introduction to the international symposium, the prologue and final article of the book, "Entre Napoleon y Ortega: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester."

Stevens' Book in New York Review of Books

March 26, 2002
Sociology Professor Mitchell Stevens' book, Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (Princeton University Press) is reviewed in the latest edition (April 11) of the New York Review of Books. The book was reviewed by Howard Gardner, who teaches psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Hinks Speaks at Yale University

March 25, 2002
Hamilton College Professor of History Peter Hinks gave a talk, "To Give Them Liberty and Stop Here is to Entail Upon Them a Curse: Slavery, Emancipation and Yale, 1775-1817," in March at Yale University.  More ...

Frechette Conducts China Culture Workshop

March 24, 2002
Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, conducted a China culture workshop for 60 families adopting children from China.  The workshop took place in March at the Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts.  Attendees came from throughout New England.  For the workshop, she lectured on "4000 Years of Chinese Civilization," "China's Modern History," "The Chinese Language," "Language, Nation, and Ethnic Relations," and "Families, Festivals, and Food."  This is the third in a series of workshops she has been conducting with China Adoption with Love (CAWLI), the country's largest adoption agency specializing in China. CAWLI is also helping her to gather the information for a second book project, "The Invisible Red Thread: Concepts of the Family in an Interconnected World."  More ...

De Swaan Presents at National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education

March 21, 2002
Sylvia de Swaan, a lecturer in the art department, was a presenter at the 39th National Conference of the Society for Photographic Education. De Swaan led a session in portfolio review and also spoke on her work, including "Memorabilia," photographs interwoven with journal entries from her travels in East Europe in 1999, and "Return," an autobiographical body of work. The conference was held last month in Las Vegas.

Haley Recounts Ides of March Myth

March 20, 2002
Hamilton College Professor of Classics Shelley Haley tells of a strange occurrence each year on the Ides of March at Caesar's tomb in Rome. Haley is an expert on Cleopatra and Ancient Rome.  More ...

Four Faculty Members Granted Tenure

March 18, 2002
Four faculty members from the English, theatre & dance, Africana studies and sociology departments were approved for tenure by the college's board of trustees during their recent meeting. 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 of trustees.  More ...

Goldberg Presents Lecture at Agnes Scott

March 14, 2002
Associate Professor of Asian Art History Steve Goldberg presented a plenary lecture, "Chinese Calligraphy in an Age of Globalization," at Considering Asia: Indentity, Community, Ecology, sponsored by Asia Studies Development Program with the support of the Luce Foundation, held at Agnes Scott. He also presented a paper, "On Chinese Calligraphy," at the Atlanta College of Art.

Frechette Co-presented Think Tank

March 8, 2002
Ann Frechette, Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies and assistant professor of anthropology, organized and co-presented with Jenny Taransky ('03) a Think Tank on Sexuality, the Media, and International Adoption:  How an Insurance Ad Can Influence International Policy," in March.

Goldberg Presents at Augusta State University

March 5, 2002
Stephen Goldberg, associate professor of art and department chair, presented "The Chinese City as Cosmic Correlative" and "Imaging the Great Transformation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy," as part of the Cullum Lecture Series at Augusta State University in Augusta, Ga., on March 5.

Pellman's Electronic Music Class Profiled

March 5, 2002
Music Professor Sam Pellman's Music for Contemporary Media class was featured in a Utica Observer-Dispatch article on March 3. Arts and entertainment writer Jonas Kover interviewed Pellman and listened to students' compositions. Pellman is currently working on the second edition of his textbook, An Introduction to Electroacoustic Music.

Adair Participates in NYC Bar Association Panel

March 5, 2002
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies Vivyan Adair was an invited panelist for a New York City Bar Association forum on TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) reauthorization in March. Adair discussed the 1996 welfare reform legislation with fellow panelists Martha Davis of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund; Verna Eggleston, commissioner, Human Resources administration; Mark Kissinger, Governor Pataki's department of Human Services; and Wendy Mink, professor, Smith College.  More ...

Haley Lectures for Historical Society

March 4, 2002
Classics Professor Shelley Haley delivered a lecture titled "Unsung Heroes" for the Oneida County Historical Society, in celebration of Women's History Month, in March. The topic concerned women who have contributed significantly to society but have not received the recognition they deserve.  More ...

Shields Brings Students to Sanibel Symposium

March 1, 2002
Professor of Chemistry George Shields brought five undergraduates with him to an international conference in quantum chemistry, in St. Augustine, Florida. The students, Jaime Skiba '02, Matthew Liptak '03, Lorena Hernandez '03, Chantelle Rein '03, and Emma Pokon '02, each gave a poster presentation of their research. In addition, Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow Steve Feldgus made a presentation of his work with David Kelland '04.

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