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Faculty News - Fall 2004Wilson Delivers Paper at West Coast Association for Asian StudiesNovember 29, 2004Professor of History Thomas Wilson delivered a paper titled "Ritual Spaces and Reverent Bodies in the Cult of Confucius" at the panel Ritual and Politics in Late Imperial Shandong, West Coast Association for Asian Studies, at the University of Washington, Seattle, in September. He also organized and served as discussant on a panel titled "Lineage Construction in Chinese Religions" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio in November. More ... Owen Presents Papers at Economics ConferenceNovember 29, 2004Ann Owen, associate professor of economics and director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, attended the Southern Economic Association Annual Conference in November in New Orleans. Owen presented two papers, "Is trade good for your health?" (with Stephen Wu, assistant professor of economics) and "Learning about learning: students' course choice" (with Elizabeth Jensen, professor of economics). She also was a discussant in a panel on undergraduate research in economics. Murtaugh Exhibits in Washington and ManhattanNovember 24, 2004Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh completed a series of works in paper for the Kittredge Gallery at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. The exhibition, "Color Coded," will run through November until late December 2005. Murtaugh gave a public lecture and gallery talk on November 3, and visited with studio art majors for critiques of their works in progress. Also, Chelsea Gallery, Thatcher Projects, featured her recent paper works and photographs at the AAF-Contemporary Art Fair at Pier 92 in Manhattan in October. AAF Contemporary Art Fair launched in New York City in 2002 under the name The Affordable Art Fair. This year more than 130 galleries from the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe exhibited established and emerging national and international artists working in a variety of media. More ... Adair Named New York State Professor of the YearNovember 18, 2004Hamilton College Women's Studies Professor Vivyan Adair has been named the 2004 New York State Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). She was selected from nearly 400 top professors in the United States. More ... Thickstun Presents Faculty Lecture on MiltonNovember 16, 2004Professor of English Margaret Thickstun presented a lecture titled "Moral Education in Paradise Lost" on Nov. 12 as part of the Faculty Lecture Series. Thickstun discussed what she has learned about Milton's poem from teaching it to college students. As she put it, the poem's characters all face some of the problems of adolescence, including newfound independence, peer pressure, sexual desire, pursuit of happiness and choice of life work. More ... Wheatley Gives Invited Lecture at PrincetonNovember 16, 2004Professor of English Edward Wheatley gave a lecture, "Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind: Medieval Constructions of a Disability," at the invitation of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University in November. The talk was part of the project for which he received the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships. Ravven Gives Conference Paper, Conducts Research on Navajo ReservationNovember 16, 2004Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven gave a paper at the international conference on "Kant and Maimonides: In Commemoration of the 1000 Years since their Respective Deaths," of the Hermann Cohen-Gesellschaft, The Academy for Jewish Philosophy and Arizona State University in October in Tempe. Her paper was titled "Maimonides' Non-Kantian Moral Psychology: Maimonides and Kant on the Garden of Eden and the Genealogy of Morals." More ... Adams Presents at National Communication Association ConventionNovember 15, 2004Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was an invited participant at the National Communication Association Convention in Chicago in November. He participated on a discussion panel that addressed the topic of "The Rhetoric of Political Comedy." Rabinowitz Presents Paper at Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies ConferenceNovember 13, 2004Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz presented a paper at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies conference, InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture at the Crossroads in November. She participated in a panel, "Queer Eye for Material Culture." Her paper was titled "Women in Attic Vase Painting: Bi-focality as Hermeneutic Device." Li Invited to Speak Before National Committee on U.S. - China RelationsNovember 11, 2004Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, was invited to speak before the National Committee on United States – China Relations in November in New York. Li, author of China's Leaders: The Next Generation, talked about Chinese leadership transitions. The program, titled "China in Transition: Assessing Recent Political and Economic Developments," featured a panel including Li, Kenneth Lielberthal, visiting scholar at The Brookings Institute, and David Malpass, chief economist at Bear Stearns & Co., Inc. Rosmaita Presents Paper at Popular and American Culture Association ConferenceNovember 10, 2004Brian Rosmaita, assistant professor of computer science, presented a paper at the 15th annual conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association held in Buffalo in November. In his talk, Rosmaita argued that integrating disability studies into computer science can improve pedagogy, particularly for courses in Web design. He will be teaching an introductory-level course (CPSCI 107) based on this principle this spring. Kamiya Presents Paper at Atlantic Province Linguistic AssociationNovember 10, 2004Masaaki Kamiya, assistant professor in the department of East Asian languages and literatures, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Atlantic Province Linguistic Association at the University of Maine on November 5 and 6. In his talk, Kamiya argued that Japanese light verbs and verbal nouns (Sino-Japanese) cannot undergo the incorporation processes at LF, which is the logico-semantic interface of the human mind. The motivation of the previous theory to assume the existence of incorporation processes at LF is to guarantee that light verbs can obtain semantic features from verbal nouns. Masterson Publishes Article in American Journal of PhilologyNovember 10, 2004Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Mark Masterson published an article on the Roman architect Virtruvius in The American Journal of Philology (125.3 [2004]: pp. 387-416). Masterson explores Vitruvius' portrayal of his profession both through considering his placement in the Roman social hierarchy and through investigating the philosophical issues that attend pleasure and its enjoyment. He also gave two papers: "The Emperor Julian, Salutius and the Pederastic Intertext" at the Classical Association of the Atlantic States fall meeting in Philadelphia in October; and "Amphiaraus, Pluto, and Poetics in Statius, Thebaid 8" at the American Philological Association meeting in January in San Francisco. More ... Think Tank Features Government Professor Rob MartinNovember 5, 2004Government Professor Robert Martin was the featured guest at a Hamilton Think Tank in November, where he discussed "Presidents and Enemy Combatants: 1798 and 2001." More ... Friday Think Tank to Feature Professor Rob MartinNovember 4, 2004Government Professor Rob Martin will be the featured guest at Think Tank on Friday, Nov. 5, from noon - 1 p.m. in KJ 221. His topic is "Presidents and Enemy Combatants: 1798 and 2001." Lunch will be served. Think Tank is a weekly discussion forum for members of the Hamilton community. Fox Leads Discussion at Victims of Agent Orange BenefitNovember 4, 2004Diane Fox, translator of "A Story from the Corner of a Park," and Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Studies at Hamilton, led a discussion in November of current efforts in Vietnam to assist victims of Agent Orange. The film event, which took place at the ImaginAsian Theater in New York, benefitted the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA). VAVA was established in 2004 to assist victims of Agent Orange and to be their advocate in Vietnam and around the world. Fox also spoke at a brown-bag lunch at the Southeast Asia Center at Cornell University in September. Isserman Participates in University of Maine Conference for Maine TeachersNovember 2, 2004Professor of History Maurice Isserman was keynote speaker at the University of Maine History Department's 2004 conference for Maine middle and high school teachers held in Orono in October. The day-long event, titled "The 1960's: A Decade of Hope, Rage, & Change," featured talks and panel discussions on many aspects of one of the most influential periods in the lives of today's baby-boomers and the generations that followed. Isserman's talk was titled "Old Glory on Mt. Everest and Other Ironic Tales from the Sixties." The event, now in its 10th year, draws approximately 100 teachers to the Orono campus each year and serves as a forum for discussing and disseminating recent scholarship and ways of incorporating aspects of the new material into Maine's middle and high school curricula. More ... "Around the Seasons with Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast"November 2, 2004An extensive collection of American holiday prints from the mid to late 19th century, the collection of Hamilton College Religious Studies Professor Jay Williams, was on display at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, from November 17 to December 5. "Around the Seasons with Winslow Homer and Thomas Nast," a collection of wood block prints depicting the seasons beginning with Christmas, gave viewers a glimpse of American celebrations more than a hundred years ago. More ... Boutin Presents Work at Computing ConferenceNovember 1, 2004Assistant Professor of Mathematics Debra Boutin presented her work, "The Structure of Locally Outerplanar Graphs," at The Eighteenth Midwest Conference on Combinatorics, Cryptography and Computing, held at the Rochester Institute of Technology in October. Boutin's results show that locally outerplanar graphs can be built from outerplanar subgraphs with just a few constraints. As an interesting corollary she proves that the more crossing a locally outerplanar graph has, the fewer edges it can have. Gold Presents Papers at Classical Association of Atlantic StatesOctober 31, 2004Professor of Classics Barbara Gold presented papers and responded to two panels, "Teaching Juvenal to a "Politically Correct" Generation" and "Integrating Feminist Perspectives into Latin Literary Studies" at the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, in Philadelphia, Oct. 7-9. She also gave an invited lecture "Which Juvenal? Rewriting Rome in the Early Empire" at Cornell University on October 22. Gold is the author of a book review of Kirk Freudenburg, Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal," in the International Journal of the Classical Tradition 10 (2003/04) 139-41. She also reprinted a review of Ann Carson, Eros the Bittersweet (originally published in American Journal of Philology) in Contemporary Literary Criticism 185 (2004). More ... Hamessley Presents Paper at Popular Music ConferenceOctober 29, 2004Associate Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented her paper "A Resisting Reading of an Appalachian Murder Ballad: Giving Voice to 'Pretty Polly'" at the International Association for the Study of Popular Music conference held at the University of Virginia/Charlottesville, October 14-17. She gave this paper on campus earlier this month at a Kirkland Project Brown Bag Talk. More ... Rabinowitz and Gold Organize Panel at Feminism and Classics MeetingOctober 29, 2004Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, organized a panel with Professor of Classics Barbara Gold at the 4th Feminism and Classics meeting at the University of Arizona in Tucson in May. Their panel was titled "Changing Lenses: The Politics and Discourse of Feminism in Classics." Rabinowitz's paper was titled "Women: Good to Think With?" New Recording of Music by Jay Reise '72 Includes Program Notes by Peter RabinowitzOctober 29, 2004"Devil in the Flesh and Other Pieces," the latest recording of music by Jay Reise, has appeared on Albany Records (www.albanyrecords.com). The CD has a number of connections to Hamilton College: Reise graduated from Hamilton in 1972 and later served on the Hamilton faculty; the program notes are by Comparative Literature Professor Peter Rabinowitz; and one of the works, Satori, received its world premiere at Hamilton in 1995, when it was performed by soprano Deborah Massell '80 and Sar-Shalom Strong, currently a lecturer in piano. The recording includes four works, all of which feature Marc-André Hamelin, widely regarded as the outstanding pianist of his generation. Also participating in the performances are bassoonist Charles Ullery (principal bassoonist of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra) and soprano Jody Karin Applebaum. Pellman to Perform Original Composition at ColgateOctober 28, 2004Professor of Music Samuel Pellman will perform his composition, Perelandra, on Friday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Colgate University Chapel. The sounds of this composition are digitally sampled and synthesized timbres performed with the assistance of control software running on a laptop computer. Synchronized with this live performance will be the projection of a video realization, by Lauren Koss ('00), of the work. The concert program will also include digital music by University of Chicago composer Howard Sandroff and by Colgate composers Mark Volker and Dexter Morrill. The performance is free and open to the public. More ... Rabinowitz Participates in Local Women and Careers ProgramOctober 28, 2004Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, participated in a local high school career event, the Women and Careers Program, at Proctor's Academy of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences in Utica on October 28. More ... Simons and Strohmeyer Present at EDUCAUSE MeetingOctober 26, 2004Janet Simons, faculty support specialist, and Kristin Strohmeyer, reference librarian/coordinator of instructional services, presented at the recent EDUCAUSE conference in Denver, Colo. Their presentation, "A Working Model of Proactive Interdepartmental Academic Support," discussed how instructional technologists, reference librarians, and oral communication experts at Hamilton provide coordinated academic support services that are tightly integrated into course designs. More ... Hamilton Hosts Conference of Minority FellowsOctober 25, 2004Through the weekend of October 22, Hamilton College played host to the annual conference of the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence at Liberal Arts Colleges (CSMP), of which Hamilton is a member. Consortium schools provide pre- and post-doctoral fellowships to new scholars from underrepresented groups. Two dozen fellows from around the country, along with administrators from member schools, attended panels presenting the current scholarly work of the fellows, as well as panels on life at a liberal arts college and the faculty hiring process. Hamilton faculty Todd Franklin (Philosophy), Barbara Gold (Classics), Penny Yee (Psychology), and Kirk Pillow (Philosophy) led a lively discussion, "On Being a Faculty Member at a Liberal Arts College." Owen Discusses Presidential Candidates and EconomicsOctober 23, 2004Ann Owen, director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and associate professor of economics, led a discussion about the economic proposals of presidential candidates Bush and Kerry at the first Levitt Center Think Tank lunch of the semester. While the candidates recognize the same economics-related issues as important, Owen said, they sometimes have very different approaches to solving them. Owen is a former Federal Reserve economist. More ... Shields Publishes Paper With Hamilton StudentsOctober 22, 2004George Shields, the Winslow Professor of Chemistry, has published a paper in the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry with Meghan Dunn '06 and Emma Pokon '04. Their article is titled "The ability of the Gaussian-2, Gaussian-3, Complete Basis Set-QB3, and Complete Basis Set-APNO model chemistries to model the geometries of small water clusters." This paper, which is a study of the structures of water clusters that are important in the earth's atmosphere, is the second publication for Meghan and the third for Emma. Emma is currently enrolled in law school at the University of Vermont, where she is pursuing environmental law. Meghan is a junior chemistry major at Hamilton. More ... Goldberg Lectures in Ohio and HawaiiOctober 22, 2004Associate Professor of Art History Steve Goldberg presented two lectures on the environment at a conference on "Environment, Culture, and Development in East Asia" held at Ohio Wesleyan University in October. The first was titled, "Mapping the Human-Nature Relationship in Traditional and Contemporary Chinese Painting;" the second, "The Human-Nature Relationship in Japanese Architecture and Gardens." More ... Cryer Cast in Role for Our Lady of 121st StreetOctober 22, 2004Assistant Professor of Theater Mark Cryer has been cast in Our Lady of 121st Street, a production by the Redhouse Theatre in downtown Syracuse. It opened on Oct. 22 and runs through Nov. 13. Contact Mark Cryer for tickets, (315) 859-4916, e-mail mcryer@hamilton.edu. Kamiya Presents Paper at Michigan Linguistics Society MeetingOctober 19, 2004Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Michigan Linguistics Society at the University of Michigan. In his talk, Kamiya argued that noun phrases of natural languages obtain morphological case markings (including attributive adjectives and determiners) freely at the phonetic form of the computational system of the human mind. For evidence, Kamiya offered the historical change of case-marking of Japanese attributive adjectives and the initial production of Japanese children's attributive adjectival constructions. In addition, Kamiya examined why English lost its case marking on attributive adjectives that were rich in Old English. More ... Frechette Conducts Chinese Culture WorkshopOctober 19, 2004Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies Ann Frechette conducted a Chinese culture workshop for families adopting children from China on October 17 at the Children's Museum in Boston. She lectured on China's ancient history, modern history, Chinese language, and families, festivals and food. Frechette's lectures provide opportunities for her to conduct surveys and interviews for a book she is writing on China-U.S. adoptions and the disparities in the adoption process among different Chinese provinces. John Adams and Joshua Huling '05 Present Poster in SpainOctober 19, 2004Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams and Joshua Huling '05 presented a poster at the 7th Annual International Workshop on Presence at Polytechnic University of Valencia in Valencia, Spain, October 13-15. The poster, "Video Cellphones, War, and Vidblinks: Exploring the Rhetorical Constraints of Time and Place," was also authored by Instructional Technology Specialist Janet Simons. The goal of the PRESENCE 2004 conference is to bring together academic researchers in the area of media and presence, content and technology developers, and interested commercial parties so they can meet, share experiences, present research and exchange ideas. More ... Garrett Publishes Article in BioScienceOctober 19, 2004Professor of Biology Jinnie Garrett published an article in the October 2004 issue of BioScience (Vol 10, 942-949, 2004) titled, "A Three-Tiered Approach to Enhance Undergraduate Education in Bioethics." This work is the result of a collaboration with Lori Zaikowski, chair of chemistry at Dowling College. The article discusses various mechanisms for including bioethics throughout the science curriculum and include two recent developments in the curriculum at Hamilton College: the intensive introductory course Bio115 (Biology: Fundamentals and Frontiers) and the sophomore seminar Soph220 (Forever Wild: The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondack Park). More ... Omori Presents Paper at Modernist Studies AssociationOctober 18, 2004Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature Kyoko Omori presented a paper and organized a panel at the Modernist Studies Association conference held in Vancouver in October. She gave the paper, "Marketing Modanizumu: New Youth Magazine, Vernacular Modernism and Detective Fiction," and was organizer of "The 'Others' of East Asian Modernisms: Literati, Detectives, and Kung Fu Masters." Omori also received a Freeman Foundation Research Grant in Asian Studies in July, and was referee for Japan Review and Comparative Literature. More ... Jay Williams Guest Curator of Nast Exhibit at Fenimore Art MuseumOctober 14, 2004Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Religious Studies Jay Williams is the guest curator of the Thomas Nast exhibit at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. The exhibit, "Christmas with Thomas Nast," which features woodblock prints of Santa Claus from Williams' private collection, was formerly on view at Hamilton College in 2001. The exhibit is open through December 31. For more information call 1-888-547-1450 or www.fenimoreartmuseum.org. Guyot-Bender and Morgan Elected Co-Editors of Women in French NewsletterOctober 13, 2004Associate Professors of French Martine Guyot-Bender and Cheryl Morgan have been elected new co-editors of Women in French (WIF) newsletter and bibliographies. The first issue they edited, Fall 2004, includes Guyot-Bender's annotated bibliography on 30 French "popular" women novelists from 1990 to 2004 (this bibliography was selected before she became co-editor). Guyot-Bender was also invited to teach at the University of Oregon in fall 2004. More ... Major Presents Papers in U.S. and IrelandOctober 13, 2004Assistant Professor of Physics Seth Major delivered research papers in the U.S. and Ireland recently. In October he presented "Physics and Quantum Gravity" at Amherst College and "Loop Quantum Gravity: An introduction" at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In July Major presented "Quantum Geometry Phenomenology: A Discrete Machian Model" at the GR17 conference in Dublin, Ireland. Ravven Appointed Member of Feminist Ethics Project at BrandeisOctober 12, 2004Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven was an invited participant at the Feminist Ethics Project Colloquium, Oct. 10 and 11 at Brandeis University. At the meeting, Ravven was appointed to full membership in the project. More ... Sciacca Participates in Forum of Publishers in UkraineOctober 7, 2004Associate Professor of Russian Frank Sciacca travelled extensively through Ukraine during September. In L'viv he participated in the "Forum of Publishers" and discussed two books that he edited for Rodovid Press (Kyiv): Ukrainian Icons: 13th-18th Centuries from Private Collections (2003) and Hanna Shabatura: Paintings (2004). He also conducted research at Pochaiv Dormition Monastery (Ternopil' region), Pechersk Monastery (Kyiv), Rivne Museum of Icon Painting and the Museum of the Book (Ostrih). Sciacca was also invited to participate in a series of expeditions conducted by the Honchar Museum of Ukrainian Folk Art (Kyiv). The group travelled to remote corners of the Chernihiv, Vynnitsia, Volyn', Rivne and Khmel'nyts'ki regions collecting artifacts for the museum and interviewing "naive"/folk artists. More ... McKee Publishes Article in Journal of Applied Social PsychologyOctober 6, 2004Assistant Professor of Psychology Tara McKee was invited to give a colloquium for the psychology department at Bucknell University in February. The talk was titled "The Role of Coping Styles in the Parenting of Children and Adolescents with Externalizing Problems." She also published an article in February based on research she had started as an undergraduate: Ptacek, J.T., Leonard, K., & McKee, T.L. (2004): "I've got some bad news…": Veterinarians' recollections of communicating bad news to clients. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 366-390. McKee and Elizabeth Schroth '04 were invited to give a presentation to special education students at New Hartford High School on what the students needed to think about to prepare themselves to transition to college. More ... Simon Receives Distinguished Scholar AwardOctober 6, 2004Professor of Philosophy Bob Simon was honored with the Distinguished Scholar Award by the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. The Distinguished Scholar Award is given to one researcher each year and was instituted to honor an individual for outstanding scholarship over a minimum of five years. More ... Orvis Presents Paper at Oxford UniversityOctober 5, 2004Professor of Government Steve Orvis was invited to present a paper, "Do Institutions Matter? Explaining Institutional Survival and Impact in Kenya," at the Conference on the Political Economy of Kenya, St. Anthony's College, Oxford University, in May. Photograph By Kinnel Used on Cover of The Biological BulletinOctober 5, 2004A photograph by Robin Kinnel, the Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry, appears on the cover of The Biological Bulletin (August 1, 2004, Volume 207, Issue 1), published by the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass. The image is of the aeolid nudibranch Phestilla sibogae. Kinnel took the photo in 1982 when he was enrolled in a photography course for biologists at the University of Hawaii. He had been working on the organism and ended up taking many pictures of the creature. The picture was taken in a side-lighted studio aquarium using ASA 25 film, f11, 1/60th of a second. Murtaugh Exhibits in Washington, D.C., and CaliforniaOctober 4, 2004Ceramic work by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh was presented and discussed by Margaret Boozer at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C., in September. The panel discussion focused on the situation and perspectives of ceramic sculpture in Mexico and the United States. Also, her solo exhibition was featured at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, Calif., last summer. An artist talk accompanied "The Termination of the Production of Writing" in August. The exhibit was previewed in the June issue of Artweek. More ... Frechette Publishes in Asian AnthropologyOctober 4, 2004Ann Frechette, the Luce Junior Professor of Asian Studies, published "Sexuality, the Media, and Intercountry Adoption: Recent Changes in China-U.S. Adoption Policy," in Asian Anthropology, volume 3, August 2004. She was invited to serve, for the third year in a row, on the screening committee for the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Field Research program. Frechette also presented a paper, "Cultural Heritage in the China-U.S. Adoption Process: Parental Intentions, Aspirations, and Rationalizations," on a panel on transracial adoption at the Boston Asian Students Intercollegiate Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in October. More ... de Swann Presents Slide Lecture, Exhibits Work in RomaniaOctober 3, 2004Lecturer in Art Sylvia de Swaan presented a slide lecture in September on process and editing in relation to her long-term photographic projects at Chester College. She also exhibited work at Periferic Biennal, at the Vector Foundation, Iasi, Romania, and at "Un-staged" international group exhibition, Amsterdam, Netherlands. de Swaan has also been invited to serve on the board of directors of Light Work, an international residency and exhibition program for photographic arts in Syracuse, N.Y. More ... Britton Presents Conference PaperOctober 1, 2004Dee Britton, visiting instructor in sociology, presented a paper for the 2004 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association held in San Francisco in August. The paper was titled "Memory in Stone: From 'Lest you forget' to 'We won't forget'" and examined memorials and public policy implications in memorialization projects. Guttman Publishes Two PoemsSeptember 30, 2004Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman published two poems, "Katie Flower" and "Two Rivers," in Connecticut Review, Spring, 2004. Jensen Co-Authors ArticleSeptember 30, 2004Professor of Economics Betsy Jensen co-authored an article with Jean R. Sternlight titled "Using Arbitration to Eliminate Consumer Class Actions: Efficient Business Practice or Unconscionable Abuse?" The article was published in the Winter/Spring 2004 volume of Law and Contemporary Problems, a Duke University School of Law journal. Co-author Sternlight is the Saltman Professor of Law and director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Boyd School of Law. More ... NPR to Air Count Basie ProfileSeptember 30, 2004Jazz Archive director Monk Rowe and the Hamilton College Jazz Archive were used as resources for an eight-part series on the life and music of jazz great Count Basie that will air on NPR weekly though November 13. The series' producer, Jim Luce, said, "Without the help of the resources of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, it would have been difficult or near impossible for me to make the Count Basie Centennial Radio Project rich in first-person detail. It is this very detail that makes it possible for the new generation of Americans to really get an idea about the man and his music...In an era when our cultural treasures of the 20th century need to be archived, treasured and celebrated, it is the work of the Hamilton College Archives that makes it possible for broadcasters like us to hone our craft. Thanks to Monk Rowe and the Hamilton College Jazz Archive for helping to make it possible." Adams Participates in ConferenceSeptember 29, 2004Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams was a presenter at the National Communication Association Convention held in Miami in November. The topic of the roundtable discussion on citizen discourse was "Rhetoric and Concord." Derek Jones Awarded Two GrantsSeptember 29, 2004Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, has been awarded two new grants. The first, from the National Council for Eurasian and East European research, is for a project titled "Economic Performance and Human Resource Management Policies: Econometric Evidence from the Baltics." The second grant was from the William Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan for a project titled, "Insider Econometrics: Evidence for the Balkans." More ... Jin Elected President of Chinese Language Teacher's AssociationSeptember 29, 2004Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin has been elected president of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association (CLTA). She will assume the presidency in November. Jin served for two years on the organization's board of directors and was elected as vice president of CLTA and chair of the CLTA annual conference in 2003. CLTA is an internationally recognized organization for Chinese language and culture professionals. It has more than 500 members from the U.S. and other parts of the world at higher education and pre-college education levels. More ... Terrell Presents Paper at CornellSeptember 29, 2004Katherine Terrell, visiting assistant professor of English, presented a paper, "'Writtin in the Langage of Scottis Natioun': Politics and Poetry in Douglas's Eneados" at the Society for the Humanities Colloquium at Cornell University in September. Thickstun Publishes ArticleSeptember 27, 2004Professor of English Margaret Thickstun published an article, "Milton among Puritan Women: Affiliative Spirituality and the Conclusion of Paradise Lost" that appeared in Religion and Literature, 36.2 (Summer 2004). Miller Presents Research to Federation of American Societies of Experimental BiologySeptember 27, 2004Professor of Biology Sue Ann Miller presented research done with student collaborators in two reports to the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) in Washington, D.C., in April. She has also been appointed to the executive committee of the board of directors of Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society. More ... Kodat on Research Fellowship at University of OxfordSeptember 27, 2004Associate Professor of English Catherine Gunther Kodat is on a visiting research fellowship at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, where she will be in residence through the end of the fall term. She has also been named a visiting senior member of Linacre College of the University of Oxford. Kodat also published a review/essay, "High Art in Low Times," in Boston Review (October/November 2004, pp. 37-39). It assesses two recent books on Cold War culture: David Caute's The Dancer Defects and Frances Stonor Saunders' The Cultural Cold War. More ... Goldberg Lectures at East-West Center in HawaiiSeptember 27, 2004Associate Professor of Art History Steve Goldberg delivered two lectures: "Visual Art and the Question of Authority in China" and "Courtier, Samurai, Priest, and Chönin: the Arts of Japan," at the Institute on Infusing East Asian Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum, Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai'i, on July 27. Wu Publishes Article on Portfolio Choice and Health StatusSeptember 27, 2004Assistant Professor of Economics Steven Wu published the article "Portfolio Choice and Health Status", in Journal of Financial Economics, June 2004, pp. 457-484. Wheatley Appointed Visiting Scholar at CornellSeptember 27, 2004Professor of English Edward Wheatley has been appointed a visiting scholar at Cornell University for 2004-05. He also presented a paper titled "Blindness, Sexuality, and the Queer Gaze in Le Garcon et l'Aveugle" at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, in July. Mason Develops Business Conversation Skills WorkshopSeptember 27, 2004Director of Education Studies and Director of the Oral Communication Center Susan Mason is designer/developer/author of Developing Effective Business Conversation Skills, a two-day educational program for managers, supervisors, team leaders and business professionals. Published by the American Management Association, it was introduced on Oct. 4 in New York. This program will also be offered in Washington and Chicago before the end of the year. More ... Weldon Participates in College and University Planning SymposiumSeptember 27, 2004Douglas Weldon, Stone Professor of Psychology, participated in a symposium at the Society for College and University Planning in Toronto in July. The symposium was titled Similarities and Differences - Three Institutions Plan New Facilities, and his presentation included a summary of the planning decisions regarding the new Science Center. The other institutions represented were St. Lawrence University and Syracuse University. DeMuth, Students Travel to NicaraguaSeptember 21, 2004Danielle DeMuth, visiting assistant professor of women's studies, led a trip with five students to Nicaragua in August. The trip, facilitated by Witness for Peace, focused on the impact of globalization and U.S. foreign policy on women's lives. Sarah Mattingly '05, Liz McPhillips '05, Latoya Malcolm '06, Wangechi Thuo '06 and Caroline Beaudrias '06 traveled with DeMuth. More ... Xu Publishes Second Edition of Edited Linguistic SeriesSeptember 20, 2004Chief-edited by De Bao Xu, associate professor of Chinese and James Huang, professor of linguistics at Harvard University, the second edition of Contemporary Linguistic Theory Series (12 volumes) is being published by China Social Sciences Publishing House in Beijing, 2004. More ... David Presents Keynote Address at Local Racial ForumSeptember 17, 2004Assistant Dean of Students for Multicultural Affairs Marc David presented the keynote speech at a workshop sponsored by the YWCA Racial Justice Department on Sept. 17. The workshop, "A Community's Journey Towards Racial Harmony," was the third community dialogue sponsored by the organization. David's lecture was titled "Beyond Power and Privilege: Practical Solutions for Improving Race Relations in America." More ... Isserman Textbook on Lewis & Clark Expedition PublishedSeptember 17, 2004Professor of History Maurice Isserman is the author and an editor of a new textbook, Across America: The Lewis & Clark Expedition (Facts on File, 8/04). According to the publisher, the book "opens with President Thomas Jefferson's receipt in August 1805 of a wagonload of animal skins, dried plants, insects, an Indian bow and many other items that Meriwether Lewis had sent him four months earlier. Around that same time, Meriwether Lewis and three other members of the Corps of Discovery crossed the Continental Divide at Lemhi Pass and realized that the expedition still had far to go to reach the Pacific Ocean. With full coverage of the events leading to the Corps of Discovery's formation and its gripping adventures to the Pacific and back, this book details these explorers' travels and trials." More ... Kevin Grant's Exploration in the Age of Empire, 1750-1953 PublishedSeptember 16, 2004Associate Professor of History Kevin Grant is the author of a new reference book, Exploration in the Age of Empire, 1750-1953 (Facts on File, Aug., 2004), part of a series which is edited by Professor of History Maurice Isserman and John Bowman. According to the publisher's Web site: "Concentrating on the 18th through the 20th centuries, this comprehensive reference provides full coverage of European exploration and imperial expansion in Africa and Asia. Three major themes—motive, the influence of changing ideas on the conduct and understanding of exploration, and the impact of exploration on the politics of the European empires—are integrated into seven chapters and an epilogue." The book "examines the way in which all the great explorers who served the European empires of the modern era became popular celebrities, unlike their predecessors, and illustrates the roles of explorers as propagandists." More ... Cheng Li Publishes Paper in China Leadership MonitorSeptember 16, 2004Cheng Li, the William R. Kenan Professor of Government, published the paper, "Cooling Shanghai Fever: Macroeconomic Control and Its Geopolitical Implications," in issue No.12 (Fall 2004) of the China Leadership Monitor. More ... 'Doc' Woods to Conduct Suite Funk Jazz ConcertSeptember 13, 2004Associate Professor of Music Michael "Doc" Woods will conduct the Central New York Jazz Orchestra in "Suite Funk" on Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 9 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The first major jazz production of the season, the concert will feature new and experimental Big Band music. Free and open to the public. Three Faculty Members PromotedSeptember 8, 2004Three Hamilton College faculty members have been promoted to the rank of professor. Acting on the recommendations of the departments of mathematics, psychology and English and the Committee on Appointments and with the approval of President Joan Hinde Stewart, Associate Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz, Associate Professor of Psychology Gregory Pierce and Associate Professor of English Edward Wheatley were promoted, retroactive to July 1. More ... |
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