Volume X111 Number 11

In This Issue On the Lighter Side BC’s Hidden Treasures Faculty Notes Scholarship in Action By Ron Howell, Journalism Collaborations

There’s a certain restlessness in Jeanne calling in life, she also desires the liberation of Theoharis’s voice, a restlessness that goes minds that are darkly closed to the injustices beyond the angst of a scholar struggling occurring around them. Her students will benefit. with her next book. Professor Theoharis, “In the fall, I’m going to be teaching a course Political Science, is, in fact, on sabbatical. She’s on race—as before, yes, but there will be a larger working on a biography of the late African component to it, given my interests now,” says American heroine Rosa Parks, who, one day in Theoharis, “[Recent events] have shown me how 1955, said she wasn’t going to take it anymore and the war on terror is being taken out on specific refused to give her Alabama bus seat to a white groups. I think [the course I teach] will include a rider, sparking the Civil Rights movement. unit on race and rights in post-9/11 America.” The night before we spoke with Professor Theoharis, in early April, she had traveled from her home in Brooklyn to CUNY Law School in Queens, where she talked about her latest cause, the plight of her former student, Pakistani- born Syed Fahad Hashmi, who is in his third year of solitary confinement at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Lower Manhattan. He’s been charged with helping another man provide “material support” to Al-Qaeda, in the form of raincoats, waterproof socks, and other similar materials. Every other Monday evening, Theoharis attends vigils outside the Detention Center, That impulse, to turn experience and Jeanne Theoharis, demanding a loosening of the harsh and restrictive history into material for study, is a driving Political Science conditions under which Hashmi is being confined. force in Theoharis’s scholarship. Take the book The trial was scheduled to begin in late April. she co-authored last year that gives voice to Theoharis hopes and strives for Hashmi to black and Latino youngsters criticizing their public receive humane treatment; but she also wishes schools. Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to relief for numerous others she believes are a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban suffering from the government’s overreaction in Education (New York University Press, 2009). Her the war against terror. Central to her principal love of learning—and the need to inject it with an

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amphetamine of action—stems from a beloved Her struggle, which continues today, was to mentor who taught sociology when she was a achieve workplace justice for immigrants. freshman at Harvard College back in the late ‘80s. Almost immediately upon coming to Brooklyn, “I learned to be a mentor myself, in some Muñoz began “looking for a place to make similar sense, from him,” she says of that professor, connections” and she volunteered at a Bushwick- Roderick Harrison. based community organization, Make the Road by Theoharis’s academic work has foundations Walking. (Three years ago the group merged with in the demographic changes of the past forty-five the Latin American Integration Center to become years, when periodic waves of immigration—from Make the Road New York–MRNY.) Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe—changed “I ran a computer class for immigrants, so they major cities and vast regions of the country. could learn the basics of computer; everything And how many localities of the nation, or from e-mail to MS Word to Excel to saving files,” even the world, have been as transformed as she says. Brooklyn? Globalization, in fact, is a reality that is Then, as she began to immerse herself in her wholesomely and beautifully evident in a stroll teaching, Muñoz realized how truly complex was along the verdant walkways of the Brooklyn the ethnic landscape of New York City, especially College campus. compared to Los Angeles, where to be black was to be African American, and to be Latino was to be Mexican. “There are so many sub-groups on the East Coast, and each group has different issues,” she explains. She tells of one of her core curriculum classes— People, Power and Politics—in which blacks were divided between native-born and immigrants, who disagreed totally on the issue of reparations. The African Americans said they alone deserved Carolina Bank compensation for slavery, and the Caribbean Muñoz, Sociology students took a more global view of the triangular transatlantic slave trade and its after effects. The complexity of the ethnic “All students in the class, immigrants and convergences in Brooklyn has tempered— native born alike, benefited tremendously from or maybe better put, made more this exchange,” Muñoz wrote last year in Radical thoughtful—the activism of Professor Teacher 84 (April 2009). Much of Muñoz’s Carolina Bank Muñoz, Sociology. activism is actually in the form of her scholarship, Before coming to Brooklyn College, Muñoz which is decidedly of the writing-is-fighting was in Los Angeles directing a project that strove variety: tight-fisted and ready to swing at the last to “make connections” between immigrant groups discovered injustice. and unions.

2 Activism takes many forms: anyone who Earlier this year, Muñoz received a Fulbright She does help students cope with heart- extends themselves for Visiting Scholars grant that will allow her to travel wrenching problems, keeping tabs on their the betterment of friend, to her native Chile where she will study the after well-being, their progress in class, their efforts to relative, or colleague is an effects of Wal-Mart’s takeover of the Chilean retail advance and finally—through hard work and good activist in spirit. chain, Líder. fortune ­—graduate and go on to employment or The piece in Radical Teacher follows her graduate studies. publication two years ago of Transnational Tortillas: She has come to believe, from her experience Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and in New York, that immigrants of color— the United States (Cornell University Press, 2008), documented or otherwise—tend to have an a call to arms against exploitation of vulnerable especially difficult experience in academic studies. Latino workers. Transnational Tortillas tells how a Mexican tortilla-making company took advantage Another campus activist is Mark Ungar, of its employees, in Mexico as well as in its Political Science, who practices an factory in California, creating divisions between activism that blends so naturally with his light- and dark-skinned women south of the discipline—international politics—that he border, and pitting undocumented workers against finds himself constantly on the go. documented ones in California. Here in New York, Muñoz has developed a special sensitivity to the sufferings of undocumented students, and has become active helping them in their search for stability and success. In Radical Teacher, she wrote of her shocking, eye-opening encounter with realities of life for many immigrants here. “On the first day of class, five students requested appointments to speak with me in Mark Ungar, private. All five students were undocumented and Political Science had family members who were undocumented,” she wrote. “They were hoping I could help . . . I “I’m considered an international activist had to explain that I was not a lawyer, nor was the working on international issues,” says Professor class about how to immigrate ‘legally,’ but about Ungar, who chairs the graduate program in the social process of immigration. political science and international affairs. “I’m very She adds: “Over the course of the semester, focused on policy and change at the political level.” several of my students saw their family members Ungar has become an expert on police deported; one student successfully evaded a behavior in the barrios of Latin American workplace raid by Immigration and Customs countries. Just prior to the first of two Enforcement.” conversations he held with us, Ungar had returned

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to the campus from the U.S. Immigration Court at Federal Plaza in Manhattan. There, he had testified on behalf of an eighteen-year-old woman from a small town in Honduras who has been seeking political asylum here. “Many people in her family were killed and she fled because of threats made on her life” he said. We later met up with Ungar just hours before he was to depart for Honduras. He was traveling on assignment from the United Nations to assess “the political control that the military has in the country,” following last year’s overthrow of Regine Latortue, Africana Studies Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. Because the U.N. must take a neutral stance Activism takes many forms: anyone who on the negotiations to settle the Honduras’ extends themselves for the betterment of Constitutional crisis, they turned to Ungar as an friend, relative or colleague is an activist impartial expert. in spirit. Among these, says Regine Latortue, Ungar’s globe-trotting assignments—a boon Africana Studies, are students, faculty members to students taking his courses—cover the role of and staff who have been sending money and the military in politics. goods to Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake Ungar’s third book, Policing Democracy: that killed a quarter million people. Professor Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin Latortue, who is Haitian, knows that activism, like America (Johns Hopkins University Press), is slated heroism, can be shown in ways that are quiet and for release this fall. unrecognized.

Student campaigns, seeking small amounts from large numbers of people, have raised more than $5,000 and two shipments of goods for Haiti, and more is coming, said Dave Bryan, special assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs. “Here, the students have been activists.”

4 On the Lighter Side Who Knew? Howard Z. Zeng: Table Tennis Champ, Master Chef By Martha Corpus and Irwin Weintraub, Library

Howard Zhenhao Zeng is an associate professor of physical education and exercise science, and the author of dozens of articles and books on the science of physical education, sport pedagogy, sport psychology, and table tennis. He plans to publish two new books—Teaching and Learning in Physical Education Class Settings, and Teaching and Practicing of Table Tennis—later this year. But who knew that he was a master chef in China, who has prepared meals for dignitaries from all over the world—including former President Richard Nixon, former Canadian Premier Pierre Trudeau, and former Chinese President Deng Xiao Ping? Zeng is also a world-class table tennis player and still plays; he has a Ping-Pong table at home, the tale of his entry into the culinary arts. Among but few opponents. the jobs open to him as an athlete were elevator “In one second,” Zeng says, “I can hit the ball operator, receptionist, or training in a “trade.” He four times.” saw, at the age of eighteen, the importance of a Proficient in the various Ping-Pong play career, and “decided to become a cooker.” styles—offense, defense and a combination of Zeng took a place in a five-star hotel in Guilin, both—he was the head coach for the National a beautiful city on the River Li in southern China, Collegiate Table Tennis Team in the People’s famous for its landscapes, mountains and clear Republic. His team won the national table tennis rivers. There his art was carefully honed. At the championship three times! feet of a nationally renowned master chef (also Oddly, it was his status as a table tennis named Zeng), Howard learned by watching and champion that opened the door to a career in the listening. For the first three months he did not culinary arts. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao cook; he only watched the chef. Zedong closed China’s universities. Once students graduated from high school, they were sent off to the countryside to work the farms. However, as a national table tennis champion, Zeng’s status fell into the category of athlete. And therein lays

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DID YOU KNOW? Table tennis is the most popular racket sport in “The student-master chef relationship is very Deng Xiao Ping, China’s new president, was the world, with over 300 important,” he says. also a guest at a Zeng banquet. It was Ping who million active members After three months, he was ready to succeeded Mao and reopened China’s colleges, of governing associations participate with a team of chefs in preparing allowing national enrollment exams. Howard worldwide. meals for residents of the hotel and the many welcomed the opportunity to move on and finally dignitaries that visited—meals that often took six go to college. The general manager of the five-star to seven days to prepare. hotel in the Guilin complex told him, “I will not Chinese cooking is an art, says Howard. allow you to go. You are my favorite chef.” But the “Chefs must learn all the intricacies of the three call of academe was louder, and Zeng put aside his steps to prepare a meal: preparation, cutting, and chef’s toque and set off for college, and a career cooking. And each step must be performed with in academia. skill. A great chef may take several days to prepare However, his reputation preceded him. The the ingredients for a meal.” Brooklyn College Faculty Circle learned of his skills Cutting is a key element, involving proper use and invited him to prepare a Chinese banquet in of fingers and hands, and Zeng was reputed as Roosevelt Hall’s kitchen/restaurant facility. (Did among the best, gifted with the talent to precisely anyone know there was one?) He accepted cut each ingredient to ensure uniformity in the invitation and went to work: Zeng shopped cooking. along Avenue U for “fish, meats and produce. “It is not unusual [for a chef] to use ten Then, alone, I did the cooking—six ovens going at different bowls and a variety of cooking utensils once.” The result: a succulent, tasty, low-fat/ low- to make sure the meal meets his standards,” he cholesterol feast for eighty guests, who will never notes. forget the culinary experience. So what do you cook for a world leader? His transition from kitchen to classroom fulfills When President Nixon visited China in 1976, his dream, and he has little interest in pursuing Howard and the crew worked seven days to his former way of life. He chortles when recalling prepare a banquet. The menu featured a very friends remonstrating with him once he arrived special lamb, quite rare and tender, found only in in the United States: “Don’t you want to be rich? the mountains of southern China. In fact, all of the It takes ten years to get near your level as a chef,” restaurant’s dinners are prepared with ingredients urging him to become a professional chef, open taken from the surrounding farms, mountains, up a club, or, better yet, a chain of restaurants. and streams: ginger, special herbs, brown sugar, all “Ah,” Zeng sighs with a smile, “You cannot go natural and organic, untouched except for water back.” and air. Zeng also planned and prepared a meal for Pierre Trudeau, former prime minister of Canada, when he visited China in 1975.

6 = Spectacular = Great Hidden Treasures: BC’s Best Kept Secrets = Good = Average By Joe Fodor, Brooklyn College Foundation = Poor When word spread throughout the grounds that the College held a few rare, and to date, unacknowledged, historic gems strewn about the campus, many, no doubt natives of the borough, shrugged and asked, “Sez who?” So we sent our prize sleuth, noted tracker and collector of lost treasures, to investigate. Here are Joe Fodor’s findings, some of which are a composite of lore and legend.

Walt Whitman’s 1860 painting Walt Whitman by Charles Hine, located in the by Charles Hine Library’s Special Collections area, is the most obvious treasure. Students Historical Importance and faculty raised the money for the painting in a “Fill the Frame” campaign to mark the 1955 centennial of the Yawp publication of Leaves of Grass and the opening of Whitman Hall. Purchased Cuteness for $400 from Park Slope dowager Bertha Johnston, Whitman owned this painting until 1873, when he sold it to Johnston’s father. Look into the eyes of this dark painting and you will see Whitman as he saw himself.

John Hope Franklin made headlines (Farrer, Strauss and Giroux 2005), the John Hope Franklin’s in 1955 when he was appointed to owner disappeared into his house to Brooklyn Home chair the Brooklyn College History fix a drink and, after knocking it back in Department—apart from historically one gulp, came back out to show the Historical Importance black colleges, no African American had property. They agreed on a price, but ever headed an academic department Franklin found that no bank would loan Parking until then. But when Franklin went to him the money. South Brooklyn Savings buy a home in lily-white Flatbush, he Bank finally came through and Franklin’s found, that no realtor would see him. neighbors eventually warmed to him Cuteness Not until 1957 did he come across and his family. In 1964, he left Brooklyn an for a home at 1885 New York to join the University of Chicago faculty, Avenue and introduced himself to its but his old neighbors could count on owner. As Franklin recounted in his receiving an annual Christmas card. 2005 autobiography Mirror to America 7 Hidden Treasures

Steinbeck’s starfish adds a dash of written in a precise, slightly feminine literary élan to the college’s zoology script, has still not faded after seventy collection. Years ago, beloved Professor years. Handwriting analysis on the of Biology Priscilla Pollister (1903- label has not been done to absolutely 1992) told her students that the trio identify Steinbeck as its author, but until of Pisaster ochraceus specimens in then we will take the word of Professor the college’s zoology collection were Pollister. gathered off the California coast by Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck, and the Steinbeck’s Starfish label floating in the murky liquid on in 1939, an influential guide to the the bottom of the jar was written by Veracity coastal environment (with a forward John Steinbeck. Steinbeck and naturalist by Steinbeck) that is still in print, and Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts the two wrote Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Edibility (1897-1948) were very close friends, Journal of Travel and Research (1941). and Steinbeck modeled the character Though the jar holding the California “Doc” from Cannery Row (and its natives is old and the preserving Cuteness sequel, Sweet Thursday) after his friend. solution needs replacing, the label, Ricketts authored Between Pacific Tides

Our 100-million year old dinosaur encased in a sturdy wooden vault in tracks from the Glen Rose Dinosaur the geology lecture hall (3127 Ingersoll Trackway in Texas were discovered Hall). Plans are to make an airtight in a bed of limestone submerged in display case to preserve it from the the Paluxy River. Dug up in 1939 as elements. part of a WPA program by Roland T. Bird, the tracks are arguably the Dinosaur Tracks from the most famous in the world, and large Glen Rose Trackways panels of rock pocked with saurian prints are preserved at the University Historical Importance of Texas and the American Museum of Natural History. Brooklyn College Age Professor of Geology Erich Schlaikjer was also on the Glen Rose expedition, and as a courtesy to him a 3 x 4 foot Cuteness slab containing two footprints was delivered to the college and installed in 3123 Ingersoll Hall. The slab is now

8 she scoured Geology Department’s home in 3131 the world Ingersoll Hall. There you will find a and amassed mastodon tooth. Combine that with more than ten the mastodon leg in the paleontology thousand rock lab and Brooklyn College can boast of samples, including having 10 percent of an entire dinosaur. a substantial collection of Biren and Belsky fluorescent Geology Collections minerals from northern New Minerality Jersey’s famous Franklin mines. Edibility Guillermo Rocha, The Helen Antine Biren senior college lab technician with the Mineralogy Laboratory in 4315 Department of Geology, is in the midst Cuteness Ingersoll Hall is the legacy of Geology of reorganizing the collection so that Professor Helen Biren, who taught at it can be used by students. In the Brooklyn College from 1928 (when meantime, mineral lovers would be she taught at the Brooklyn extension well served to visit the museum quality of Hunter College) until her retirement specimens from the Howard Belsky, in 1976. An indefatigable collector, ’79, Collection, now on display in the

Is there a Stuart Davis mural in under future Brooklyn College faculty Stuart Davis Mural in the old faculty lounge in Boylan Hall? member Burgoyne Diller, who was then Boylan Hall If there is, it is one of the great hidden the supervisor of the Mural Division of treasures on campus. It is so well the WPA Federal Art Project. In those Veracity hidden that nobody we’ve talked to has days, the faculty lounge was next to ever seen it, and no photos of it exist. the President’s Office on the second Mystery But every so often, researchers working floor of Boylan Hall, and the residents on the Stuart Davis papers at Harvard’s of these rooms have long wondered if Houghton Rare Book Library—where the paneling or paint on the walls might Modernist credentials the Brooklyn College mural is listed conceal a modern masterpiece. Others, among his many works—will call asking some might term them cynics, are for it. During the 1930s, Davis (1892– convinced that the mural never existed. 1964) worked as a mural painter

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condition; his Platypus poisonous spurs are clearly visible Edibility behind his hind legs. Threatened in the wild by fishing Rarity and pollution, platypoda are Cuteness protected by law in Australia, where it has been illegal to kill them since 1904. Associate One of the greatest treasures in the Professor Jennifer Basil explains that college’s zoology collection is a stuffed Australia allows only two specimens to duck-billed platypus. His duck leave its borders each year: “You just bill is held on with a piece of black can’t get one of these anymore.” electric tape, but the rest of the brown, eighteen-inch-long animal is in excellent

drama was filmed Organ from in Manhattan’s The Guiding Light Chelsea Studios. Irna Phillips, the Utility creator of The Guiding Light, was the first Sentimentality to recognize the power of Historical Importance Fans who have been mourning the loss melancholy organ of the soap opera The Guiding Light last accompaniment to scenes of domestic fall after a record-breaking seventy- unhappiness. Awaiting repairs before two-year run on radio and television, it can be fully functional again, this may want to leave a flower or two on organ was once an integral part of the Conn Organ in the basement of the dramatic goings on at the Cedars Gershwin Hall. Donated by alumnus Hospital and the murders, infidelities, Himan Brown, ’35, the organ provided and betrayals that were common the transition music for The Guiding among the Spaulding, Lewis, and Light from 1968 to 1988, during the Cooper families of Springfield. period when the popular daytime 10 The Conservatory of Music has Percussion Collection long had an exceptional percussion department, and, hidden in the vaults Noisiness of Gershwin, it also has a substantial collection of percussion instruments, including a bass marimba, a celesta (a Edibility small piano that plays bells inside), and a set of tuned gongs. Also included Cuteness are enough cow bells to outfit a small herd, and a collection of canastas, claves, bells, and bongos. There are more unusual items: a wind machine, several log drums, and a “lion’s roar”—a drum with a cord stretching out from the center that a performer rubs with a wet cloth to approximate the sound of an enraged lion (or any angry beast). Music Education major Patrick O’Reilly (left) shows the proper form for getting the most out of the belly of a lion.

The women’s bathrooms in Boylan, or when the snow exceeds three Female Urinals in Gershwin and Whitehead Halls inches in depth, according to the U.S. Whitehead and contain a curiosity that may or may Weather Bureau.” The women’s urinals Gershwin Halls not qualify as a hidden treasure: (which the Faculty Newsletter will forgo women’s urinals. During decades depicting in order to preserve their Veracity when this may have been thought of mystery) were designed so that skirt- as a “liberating idea,” these porcelain wearing women could step over the artifacts date from a time when narrow conveniences and micturate Mystery women were forbidden to wear without the fuss of a standard “shorts, slacks, ‘toreadors,’ ‘pedalpushers,’ commode. Confirmed reports have Parking jeans, etc.” at Brooklyn College. The been trickling in to the our offices that exception, found in the 1963 version these appliances are common in other of the college’s rulebook, The Pointer, countries, but they are rarely seen in was for days “when the temperature American bathrooms. falls below 20 degrees Fahrenheit,

11 “pour services rendus a la Culture Francaise” (for Faculty Notes services rendered to French culture).

Kenneth Axen, Health and Nutrition Sciences, Stephan Brumberg, School of Education, created the pen-and-ink illustrations in Craving for wrote “The Education of Jewish, Protestant, and Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Catholic Children in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Mood Alteration (Sage, 2010). New York City,” in The American Jewish Archives Journal V LXI, no. 2 (2009)

Daniel Campos, Philosophy, wrote “The Framing of the Fundamental Probability Set: A Historical Case Study on the Context of Mathematical Discovery,” in Perspectives on Science 17, no. 4 (2009). He also wrote “Imagination, Concentration, Generalization: Peirce on the Reasoning Abilities of the Mathematician,” in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 45, no. 2 (2009).

Roberta Chapey, Speech Communication Arts Jennifer Ball, and Sciences, was elected to the Board of the Art History National Aphasia Association, and attended the all-day quarterly board meeting, in February, at Jennifer Ball, Art History, wrote “Medieval Pit- the American Heart Association Headquarters Looms: Filling the Evolutionary Gap,” in Anayemata in New York. The meeting focused on the Evrtika: Early Christian, Byzantine and Armenian importance of training first responders to Studies in Honor of Thomas F. Mathews (Mainz, recognize the signs and symptoms of stroke and Germany: Philipp von Zabern GmBH, 2009). aphasia.

Carolina Bank Muñoz, Sociology, was awarded Robert Cherry, Economics, is the author of “A the Fulbright Visiting Scholars grant to study the Response to Mathur and Hassett’s Commentary impact of the 2009 purchase of Chile’s Líder on Taxes,” in Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity retail chain by the American retail giant Wal-Mart. (November 23, 2009). She will also be teaching two courses at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile. Patricia Cronin, Art, wrote “The Second Life of Harriet Hosmer,” in The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Alberto Blasi, Modern Languages and Review 17, no. 1 (January–February, 2010). She Literatures, has been awarded the Chevalier dans received a grant from the Anonymous Was a l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight in Order Woman Foundation in December. of Academic Palms) by the French government

12 James Davis, English, is the author of “There In February, “Inanna-Euphrates Survival Song” a Has Been an Inward Change: In Search of Eric multimedia composition by Douglas Geers, Walrond,” in Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Conservatory of Music, was performed by Beren Modernity, Culture (Ashgate, 2010). Tuna, at the Orient Meets Okzident Festival, in Basel, Switzerland. Geers’s “Inanna’s Descent” Scott Dexter, Computer and Information was performed by Maja Cerar, at the New York Science, presented “Toward a Poetics of Code,” at City Electroacoustic Music Festival at the CUNY a March workshop on “The Computational Turn,” Graduate Center in March. at Swansea University’s Research Institute in the Arts and Humanities, Swansea, Wales. Nicolas Giovambattista, Physics, presented a talk on “Hydration and Phase Behavior of Water Flutist Claire Chase recorded composition in Nano-Scale Confinement” to Lehigh College’s “16” (New Focus Records, 2009), by Jason Chemical Engineering Department, in Bethlehem, Eckardt, Conservatory of Music. In November, Pennsylvania, in November, and to the Physics his musical composition, “Testing Against” was Department of Yeshiva University, in New York, in performed by the Ensemble Alternance, Centro February. Candiani in Venice, Italy. He received a $4,000 recording grant from the Alice M. Ditson Fund Kenneth A. Gould, Sociology, presented, the at Columbia University (2010). Among his keynote address, “Getting at Environmental Justice: recent presentations are “Harmonic Organization Science, Discourse, and Action,” to the Nature, and Rhythmic Elaboration in ‘16,’” Manhattan Ecology & Society Colloquium, CUNY Graduate School of Music, New York, in January; and in Center, in March. He produced the cover photo February, “Harmonic Organization and Rhythmic for Por Uma Sociología Pública (Alamaeda, 2009). Elaboration in ‘16,’” at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Alexander Greer, Chemistry, wrote “Singlet Oxygen Delivery Through the Porous Cap Joshua Fogel, Economics, contributed “Health of a Hollow-Core Fiber Optic Device” in Care,” to Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Journal Physical Chemistry B, 113 (2009). He Viewpoints, and Voices 1 (M. E. Sharpe, 2010). In also wrote “Singlet Oxygen as a Reagent in November, he presented “Designer Clothing Organic Synthesis” In the Handbook of Synthetic Purchases over the Internet: Longitudinal Analysis Photochemistry (Weinheim, 2010). His book review over Three Months,” at the 21st Greater New of Oxidation of Organic Compounds by Dioxiranes York Conference on Behavioral Research, St. (Wiley, 2009) appeared in Angewandte Chemie Francis College, Brooklyn, New York. International Edition 49, no. 2 (December 2009).

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publications include “I Am a Recording. I Don’t Age,” Black Clock, no 11 (Fall 2009–Winter 2010) and “Shadowy Hush Twilight: Two Collaborations,” Chicago Review 55, no. 1 (Winter 2010).

For his research on personality traits and political behavior, Shang E. Ha, Political Science, received a junior faculty research grant from Sunkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, in December. Shang E. Ha, Political Science Olympia Hadjiliadis, Mathematics, presented a stochastic analysis workshop, “Drawdowns, Christian Grov, Health and Nutrition Sciences, Drawups, and Applications,” in January at Charles received $448,000 for a three-year NIH study, University, Prague. In December, she delivered the “HIV Risk and Venues for Meeting Sex Partners.” following papers: “Quickest Detection in Coupled He published “Sexual Compulsivity, the Internet, Sensor Networks,” at the International Institute and HIV: A Focus on Gay and Bisexual Men,” in of Electrical Engineers (IEEE) Conference on Focus: A Guide to AIDS Research and Counseling Decisions and Control, in Shanghai; “Sequential 24, no.1 (2009). He presented “Loneliness and Detection in 3D Computer Vision,” a workshop HIV-Related Stigma Explain Depression Among on change-point detection at the Neural Science Older HIV-Positive Adults,” and “Drug Trajectories and Information Systems Conference (NIPS) in Among Club-Drug-Using Young Adults Recruited Vancouver, British Columbia; and “Betting On Through Time-Space Sampling” to the American Drawing Down Before Drawing Up,” at Columbia Public Health Association meeting in Philadelphia, in University in New York. November.

Annie Hauck-Lawson ’74, Health and Nutrition David Grubbs, Conservatory of Music, Sciences, the new president of the Association performed five concerts throughout Japan in for the Study of Food and Society, presented January. Artist Angela Bulloch’s “Hybrid Song Box her narrative, “My Little Town: A Brooklyn 4,” with a soundtrack by Grubbs, was purchased Girl’s Food Voice,” at the September Brooklyn for the permanent collection of the Musée Book Festival, at the Dreamland Pavilion, and at National d’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, where the Development Conference in October at it went on display in January. Anthony McCall’s Kingsborough Community College.” She joined solid-light film Leaving (with Two-Minute Silence), a panel of farmers and urban agriculturalists with a soundtrack by Grubbs, was exhibited at the to discuss the late-season tomato blight and Sean Kelly Gallery in New York in December, and the 2009 tomato harvest, hosted by Food at Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, in Systems Network at Brooklyn Ethical Culture, January–February. His latest CD release is Hybrid in September. She discussed a half-century of Song Box 4 (Blue Chopsticks, 2009), and his recent

14 urban agricultural practices with contemporary Margaret King, History, is the author of The applications at the March Umami Food and Art Venetian Intellectual Tradition in Early Modern Venice: Roundtable at Solar One in New York, in March. 1400-1797 (Brill, 2010). She is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies Online: Renaissance Amy E. Hughes, Theater, wrote “Spectacles of and Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2010) Insanity: The Delirium Tremens on the Antebellum in which her annotated bibliography, “Venice,” Stage,” in the Journal of American Drama and appears. Theatre 22, no. 2 (Spring 2010). In January, she completed a research residency, funded by a Jay Sandra Kingan, Mathematics, is the author of T. and Deborah Last Fellowship, at the American “A Computational Approach to Inequivalence in Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts; Matroids” in the peer-reviewed proceedings of and she presented “Specters of Insanity: The the 40th Southeastern International Conference Delirium Tremens Reprised and Recycled on on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, the American Stage,” at the American Studies Congressus Numeratium 198 (2009). In March, Association (ASA) Conference, Washington, D.C., she gave an invited presentation, “Inequivalence in November. in Representable Matroids,” to a special session on Matroid Theory at the American Mathematical Herman Jiesamfoek, School of Education, Society Meeting, in Lexington, Kentucky. contributed “Effects of Globalization on the Arts Practices of the Bush Negro People of Suriname,” Globalization, Art, and Education (National Arts Education Association, 2009).

Janet Elise Johnson, Political Science, gave an invited talk, “Women Against Domestic Violence in Putin’s Russia,” to Duke University’s Center for the Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies conference, “Russian Futures: Contexts, Challenges, Trends,” in Durham, North Carolina, in February. In November, she presented, “Assessing Gender Justice Under Putin,” at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in Boston. Her article, “Foreign Intervention Aaron Kozbelt, Psychology, wrote “Maybe, Herman Jiesamfoek, and Violence Against Women,” appeared in the Maybe Even Probably, But Not Necessarily: School of Education International Studies Encyclopedia (Blackwell, 2010). Response to Martindale,” in Empirical Studies of the Arts 27, no. 2 (October 2009).

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Jerome Krase, Sociology (emeritus), The following articles were written by contributed the chapter, “A Visual Approach Nicola Masciandaro, English: “Anti-Cosmosis: to Multiculturalism,” to Beyond Multiculturalism Black Mahapralaya,” in Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal (Ashgate, 2009). His recent articles include: Theory Symposium 1 (Createspace, 2010), a work “Contested Terrains: Visualizing Globalization he also edited; “Becoming Spice: Commentary in Global Cities,” in Home, Migration, and the as Geophilosophy,” in Collapse 6 (January 2010); City: Spatial Forms and Practices in a Globalizing “Individuation: This Stupidity,” in Postmedieval 1 World, Open House International 34, no.3 (2009); (April 2010); and “Eros as Cosmic Sorrow: Locating and “Kein Mix,” in Kulturaustausch 3 (2009). In the Limits of Difference in Julian of Norwich’s September, he presented “Seeing Community in a Divine Shewings and The Cloud of Unknowing,” in Multicultural Society: Teaching about the Peopling the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (April of Global Cities,” at the European Sociological 2010). He presented the following papers: “The Association’s 9th annual conference, in Lisbon, Sorrow of Being,” to the New York University Portugal. His paper, “Ethnic Crossroads: Visualizing English Medieval Forum, in November; “The Urban Narratives,” was the keynote address at Truth of Commentary,” to the New Directions in the Places of Diversity: Social Formats, Institutional Medieval Scholarship Roundtable, in November, Settings, Virtual Representations conference at and “Non potest hoc corpus decollari: Beheading the Center for Diversity Studies, University of and the Impossible,” to the Medieval Club of New Cologne, in Germany, in October. York, both located at the CUNY Graduate Center; and “Anti-Cosmosis: Black Mahapralaya” to the Dominick A. Labianca, Chemistry (emeritus), Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium at has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Public Assembly, Brooklyn, New York, in December. Forensic Toxicology, the official journal of the Japanese Association of Forensic Toxicology. Paul McCabe, School of Education, wrote “The Use of Antidepressant Medications in Early Mindy Lewis, English, edited Dirt: The Quirks, Childhood: Prevalence, Efficacy, and Risk,” in Journal Habits, and Passions of Keeping House (Seal Press, of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology 5 (2010). 2009) and wrote “Two Tongues,” in Arts & Letters 23 (Spring 2010). Eleanor Miele, School of Education, went to Washington D.C. in February to testify before the “Monsoons, Islands and Eddies: Their Effects on Commerce, Justice, and Science Subcommittee Phytoplankton in the Indian Ocean,” by of the House Committee on Appropriations John Marra, Geology, appeared in Indian Ocean Hearings on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability Mathematics (STEM) Education. Her testimony is (American Geophysical Union, 2009). included in the written record of the hearing and can be accessed via the subcommittee website.

16 Tamara Mose Brown, Sociology, presented Sharon Anne O’Connor-Petruso, School of the following papers: “Competing Spaces: How Education, wrote “Embedding Asynchronous and West Indian Childcare Providers Negotiate Public Synchronous Technologies and Sourceware into and Private Space,” at the Dreamland Pavilion, Curricula,” in Globalization: Technology, Literacy and Kingsborough Community College, in October; Curriculum (Pearson Custom, 2010). “Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Relations,” to By invitation, Brigid O’Keeffe, History, presented the Mother Symposium, sponsored by Women’s “Pornography or Authenticity? Performing Studies Quarterly, in February in New York; and ‘Gypsiness’ on the Early Soviet Stage, 1921–1939” at “Going from Deh to They: Translating West Indians the University of Alaska, Anchorage, in September. in Ethnography,” to the Eastern Sociological She delivered her paper, “The Self-Edited Life of a Society, Boston, in March. For her research on Sometimes Gypsy: A. V. Germano, 1893–1955” at aging Jamaicans, she was awarded a Leonard and the Columbia University Russian History Workshop Claire Tow Faculty Travel Fellowship, a Faculty in October, as well as at the annual meeting of the Fellowship Publication Program fellowship, and a American Association for the Advancement of Slavic PSC-CUNY grant for 2009–2010. Studies in Boston, in November.

Janet Moser, English, wrote “The Uncommon In February, the Amistad Award was conferred in Common Reading Programs: The Freshman upon Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Political Common Reading Program at Brooklyn College,” Science, for her contributions to international in Currents in Teaching and Learning (Spring education at the 7th Annual Amistad Award 2010). She presented “Using Canonically Difficult Ceremony, Central Connecticut State University, Literature as Models for Writing in Freshman in New Britain, Connecticut. She delivered the Composition,” at the New Jersey College English evening’s keynote address, “The Relevance of the Association, in March. AMISTAD to the Ralph Bunche, Wangari Maathai, and Barack Obama Nobels.” In March, she Roni Natov, English, is the author of “Pastoral presented “Human Rights of Women and Girls in and Healing: The Image in the Imagination,” Global African Communities,” for the Committee in Deep into Nature: Ecology, Environment, and on the Status of Women’s Deliberations fifteen Children’s Literature (Pied Piper, 2009). She years after the Beijing Platform of Action, at contributed “Reaching Across Cultural Fault Riverside Church, in New York. Her additional Lines: Empathy in Kate DiCamillo’s The Tale of papers include: “Girls to Women: Responses Despereaqux and The Miraculous Journey of to Social and Ecological Challenges in Okrika,” Edward Tulane” to Relevant Across Cultures in presented to the Center for African Studies, Modern Fantasy for Young Readers (Wroclaw, Office of Undergraduate Education, International 2009). Programs, and Comparative Literature at the film screenings of An African Movie and Dialogue and Ecologies in the Balance?, at Rutgers University,

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Livingston, New Jersey, in February; and “African Romeo and Juliet and Antony and Cleopatra,” Experiences: Development Through Education,” was reprinted (from Renaissance Drama, 2003) a panel discussion on the role of education in in Harold Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations: Africa’s long-term development, sponsored by William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, New Thomson Reuters Black Employee Network and Edition (Chelsea House, 2009). In October, she The New York Times African Heritage Affinity presented “From Athens to England: Kyd, Revenge Group, at the Thompson Reuters building, New Tragedy, and the Idea of a Public Theater” at the York, also in February. CUNY Graduate Center, in New York.

Priya Parmar, School of Education, is special Hervé Queneau, Economics, is the author of guest editor of “The Politics of Education” issue the following articles: “On the Persistence of the for SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, Gender Unemployment Gap: Evidence from Eight and Society (Summer 2010). She wrote “Does OECD Countries,” in Applied Economics Letters 17 Hip Hop Have a Home in Urban Education?” in (2010); and “Further Evidence on the Dynamics 19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City (Peter of Unemployment by Gender,” and “Regarding Lang, 2010) and “Cultural Studies and Rap: The the Unemployment Gap by Race and Gender Poetry of an Urban Lyricist” in Taboo: Turn to Face in the United States,” both in Economics Bulletin the Strange Essays on Culture (Peter Lang, 2010). In 29, (2009). At the January annual meeting of the March, she presented “Lyrical Minded: Enhancing Labor and Employment Relations Association, Literacy Through Popular Culture and Spoken Refereed Papers Competition, Atlanta, he Word Poetry,” at Hip Hop, The Spoken Word, and presented “Evidence Regarding the Persistence in Youth Conference, at McGill University, Montreal. Gender Unemployment Gaps Across Countries.”

Vanessa Y. Pérez Rosario, Puerto Rican and “Neuropsychological Approaches to the Latino Studies, is the recipient of the Career Assessment of Judgment and Problem-Solving Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, Skills in Older Adults with Amnestic-MCI and Mild 2010–2011 funded by the Andrew Mellon Alzheimer’s Disease” was presented by Laura A. National Fellowship Foundation and administered Rabin, Psychology, to the Cognitive and Behavioral by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Neurology Group, Clinics Hospital of the São Paulo Foundation. For the Spring 2010 semester, she is Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Brazil, a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Puerto in March. Her paper, “Introduction of a Journal Rican Studies, Hunter College. Excerpt Activity Improves Psychology Students Performance in Undergraduate Statistics,” was Tanya Pollard, English, wrote “Enclosing presented to the Eastern Psychological Association the Body: Tudor Conceptions of Skin,” in A Meeting, in Brooklyn, New York, in March. Companion to Tudor Literature and Culture, 1485- 1603 (Blackwell, 2010). Her article “‘A Thing Like Death’: Poisons and Sleeping Potions in

18 “Par craincte de tomber en ceste vulgaire et Satyrique mocquerie: Monstrosity as a Satire of Humanity in 16th Century France,” a paper by Bernd Renner, Modern Languages and Literatures, was presented to the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) in Tempe, Arizona, in February. He published La Satire dans tous ses états: Le ‘meslange satyricque’ à la Renaissance Française (Droz, 2009).

Laura Reigada, Psychology, presented the following papers: “Assessment and Intervention with Adolescents with Chronic Physical Illness and Co-occurring Psychopathology, Anxiety, and Depression: Implications for Children with IBD,” to the CUNY Graduate Center, Developmental Viraht Sahni, Physics Psychology Colloquium, in October; “The Referral Process: Pediatrician Referrals of Anxious Youth to the American Physical Society meeting in for Mental Health Services,” to the Association of Pittsburgh, in March. He is the author of Quantal Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies in New York, Density Functional Theory II: Approximation Methods in November; and “Assessing Mental Health Issues and Applications (Springer-Verlag, 2009). in Your Pediatric Practice,” to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Pediatric IBD Center in New Maria R. Scharrón-del Río, School of York, in March. Education, is the author of “Puertorriqueña como yo” in Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Children: Teachers At the Annual Meeting of Psychology of Talk about Language and Learning (Peter Lang, Mathematics Education–North America, 2010). Laurie Rubel, School of Education, presented “Middle and High School Students’ Thinking “Love/Desire,” a photography exhibit by about Sample Size: An In and Out of School Doug Schwab, Art, ran through March 26 at Perspective.” The conference took place at Gallery 364, in Brooklyn, New York. Earlier, in Georgia State University, Atlanta, in September. December, he joined two group shows at Gallery 364, “Photographers Choice”; in January, he Viraht Sahni, Physics, wrote “Quantal Density participated in “Dreamers Rendezvous, Volume 8,” Functional Theory of the Density Amplitude” in at the A-Forest Project Gallery in New York. Physical Review A 80 (2009). His paper, “Basic Variables in Density Functional Theory in the Presence of a Magnetic Field,” was presented

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Peter Taubman, School of Education, won the “Outstanding Book Award,” given by Division B of the American Educational Research Association, the largest organization for educators in the country. The book honored was Teaching by Numbers: Deconstructing the Discourse of Standards and Accountability in Education (Routledge Press 2009).

Mark Ungar, Political Science, wrote Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010). He is the author of “Policing Youth in Latin America,” an article in Youth and Violence in Latin America (Palgrave, 2010), and “Human Rights and Police Reform in Argentina,” in Policing María R. Scharrón-del Río, “Learning to Like Foods” by L. Bartoshuk of the Insecurity (Lexington Books, 2009). The Inter- School of Education University of Florida, an interview with Anthony Sclafani, ’66, Psychology, was published in American Development Bank (IADB), Washington, the President’s Column of the American PAPS commissioned him to write “The Current State Observer 23, no.3. (2010). His invited talk, “Oral of Community Policing in Latin America and the and Post-oral Carbohydrate Chemosensation Caribbean,” a report published by the bank in and Preference,” at the First Beijing International December. Meanwhile, he traveled to Honduras Meeting on Research in Taste and Smell in Beijing, in March and April, under the aegis of the United was presented in November. He was invited Nations, to write a report assessing security to present, “Flavor Preferences Conditioning in policy and the roles of the military and other the Gut” at the Pavlovian Society meeting in security forces since the 2009 coup. His recent Burlington, Vermont, in October. Another invited presentations include: “Violence, Crime, and talk, this one on “Food Preferences Determined Democracy,” at the Annual University Lecture, by Nutrient Sensing in Mouth and Gut,” was Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, in March; presented to the Department of Psychology at and “Community Policing in the U.S. and Latin Florida State University, in March. America,” at the International Symposium on Community Policing, National Police of Colombia, Dina Sokol, Computer and Information Science, in Bogotá, Colombia, in November. wrote “TRedD: A Database for Tandem Repeats over the Edit Distance,” in Database: the Journal of Albena Vassileva, English, presented “Reference Biological Databases and Curation (March 2010). Beyond Cognition, Language Before Thought: The Meaning of Postmodernism’s Nonsemantic Poetry,” at the 107th Annual Conference of the Pacific Ancient and Medieval Language Association

20 (PAMLA), at San Francisco State University, in November.

Deborah J. Walder, Psychology, wrote “Is There a Role for Cognitive Therapy in the Bereavement Process?” a review of Cognitive Grief Therapy: Constructing a Rational Meaning to Life Following Loss (Norton, 2010), in Death Studies 34, no.3 (March 2010).

Marjorie Welish, English, read and discussed from her recent poetry, Isle of the Signatories (Coffee House Press, 2008), at the Yale Working Group of Contemporary Poetry, Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Barbara Winslow, School of Education and Peter Taubman, Women’s Studies, presented, “Teaching U.S. School of Education Women’s History in the High Schools,” at two major academic events: The National Council for the Social Sciences Annual Conference, Atlanta, in November; and the November National Association of Women’s Studies Annual Conference, also in Atlanta.

Howard Z. Zeng, Physical Education and Exercise Science, wrote Pedagogical Behaviors of Physical Educators (LAP Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, 2009).

Sharon Zukin, Sociology, published Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Oxford University Press, 2010). The book was featured in an article in The New York Times (February 21); The New Yorker and The Brooklyn Paper (both, March 1); and on the Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC Radio (March 3).

21 Our Faculty works together Samir Chopra, Philosophy, and Scott Dexter, Collaborations Computer and Information Science, wrote, “The Freedoms of Software and Its Ethical Uses,” Israel Abramov, Psychology, and James Gordon, in Ethics and Information Technology 11, no. 4 Hunter College, co-wrote “Color Vision Panel (December 2009). Tests: A Metric for Interpreting Numeric Analytic Indices,” in Optometry and Vision Science Constantin Cranganu, Geology, collaborated with 86 (2009). With Gordon and Hoover Chan, students on the following articles: with E. Bautu, Eastwind Associates, San Francisco, he co-wrote “Using Gene Expression Programming to Estimate “Color Appearance Properties of the Uniform Sonic Log Distributions Based on the Natural Appearance Diagram Derived from Hue and Gamma Ray and Deep Resistivity Logs: A Case Saturation Scaling,” in Attention, Perception, & Study from the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma,” in Psychophysics 71 (2009). the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering 70 (2010); with M. A. Villa, M. Saramet, and N. Zakharova, “Petrophysical Characteristics of Source and Reservoir Rocks in the Histria Basin, Western Black Sea,” in the Journal of Petroleum Geology 32, no. 4 (2009); and with B. Nitzov, Atlantic Council, Washington, D.C., he contributed “Natural Gas Production from Gas Hydrates: An Economic Perspective,” in Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii “Al. I. Cuza” Iasi, Geologie LV, no.1 (2009).

Joshua Fogel, Economics, collaborated with Benjamin W. Van Voorhees, Josephine Landback, Micah Prochaska, Justin Ellis, and Karoline Joshua Fogel, Dmochowska, all University of Chicago; Sachiko Economics A. Kuwabara, Johns Hopkins University; Tracy Gladstone, Wellesley College; John Larson, Illinois Institute of Technology; Scott Stuart, University Kathleen V. and Kenneth Axen, both Health of Iowa; Jackie Gollan and Mark Reinecke, and Nutrition Sciences, wrote “Longitudinal Northwestern University; Carl Bell, University of Adaptations to Very Low-carbohydrate Weight- Illinois-Chicago; and Nathan Bradford, Anderson reduction Diet in Obese Rats: Body Composition Area Medical Center, Anderson, SC, on “From and Glucose Tolerance,” in Obesity (January 2010). Prototype to Product: Development of a Primary Care/Internet-based Depression Prevention Intervention for Adolescents (CATCH-IT)”

22 in Community Mental Health Journal 45, no. 5 (October, 2009). He co-wrote “Correlation Between an E-mail-based Board Review Program and American Board of Pediatrics General Pediatrics Certifying Examination Scores,” in Medical Education Online 14 (2009) with Erik E. Langenau and Henry A. Schaeffer, Maimonides Infants and Children’s Hospital, available online. He wrote “Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements of Prescription Medications over the Internet,” in Paul M. Forlano, the Health Marketing Quarterly 26, no. 4 (October Biology 2009) with Daniel Novick,’09, and “Depression Information on the Internet for Asian Americans,” Journal of CyberTherapy & Rehabilitation 2, no.3 (Fall Hershey H. Friedman, Economics, and Linda W. 2009) with Elham Nehmad, ’08. Friedman, Baruch College, published “The Global Financial Crisis of 2008: What Went Wrong?” In Kolb, Other student collaborations include: “Student Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Perceptions of Writing Skills Learned from and Our Economic Future (Wiley, 2010). With Yehuda Writing a Marketing Research Paper,” Business Klein, Graduate Center, he wrote “Respect for Quest (2010), with Nina Kholodenko,’06, available God’s World: The Biblical and Rabbinic Foundations online; and “Weight Problems and Spam E-mail of Environmentalism,” in the International Journal of for Weight-loss Products,” in the Southern Medical Business and Globalisation 4, no.2 (2010). Journal 103, no.1 (January 2010), with Sam Shlivko, ’08. With Benjamin W. Van Voorhees, University In collaboration with P. J. Rossky, University of of Chicago; David Paunesku, Stanford University; Texas, Austin, and P. G. Debenedetti, Princeton and Carl C. Bell, he coauthored “Differences in University, Nicolas Giovambattista, Physics, Vulnerability Factors for Depressive Episodes wrote “Effect of Temperature on the Structure in African American and European American and Phase Behavior of Water Confined by Adolescents,” in the Journal of the National Hydrophobic, Hydrophilic, and Heterogeneous Medical Association 101, no.12 (December, 2009). Surfaces,” in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113, no. 42 (October 2009). With S. V. Buldyrev, Yeshiva Paul M. Forlano, Biology, wrote “Neuroanatomical University; F. Saija, S. Prestipino and G. Malescio, all Distribution of Androgen Receptor mRNA in of University of Messina, Messina, Italy; C. A. Angell, Vocal, Auditory and Neuroendocrine Circuits Arizona State University; H. E. Stanley, Boston in a Teleost Fish” in the Journal of Comparative University; and L. Xu, Tohoku University, Miyagi, Neurology 518, no. 4 (February 2010) with Japan, he wrote “Unusual Phase Behavior of Margaret Marchaterre, David Deitcher, and One-component Systems with Two-scale Isotropic Andrew Bass, all of Cornell University. Interactions,” in Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 21, no. 50 (December 2009). He also wrote

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“Enhanced Surface Hydrophobicity by Coupling of Shang E. Ha, Political Science, coauthored the Surface Polarity and Topography,” in collaboration following: “Enough Already About ‘Black Box’ with P. G. Debenedetti, Princeton University; and P. Experiments: Studying Mediation Is More Difficult J. Rossky, University of Texas, in Proceedings of The than Most Scholars Suppose,” in Annals of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States American Academy of Political and Social Sciences of America 106, no. 36 (September 2009). 628 (2010) with John G. Bullock and Donald P. Green, Yale University; and “Personality and Kenneth Gould and Tammy L. Lewis, both Political Attitudes: Relationships Across Issue Sociology, presented “The Environmental Injustice Domains and Political Contexts,” in American of Green Gentrification: Socioecological Change Political Science Review 104 no.1 (2010) with Alan in the Neighborhoods of Brooklyn,” at the 2010 S. Gerber, Gregory A. Huber, David Doherty, and Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conor M. Dowling, all of Yale. Conference, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in February. Olympia Hadjiliadis, Mathematics, Tobias Schaefer, Christian Grov, Health and Nutrition Sciences, the College of Staten Island and the Graduate coauthored “Sexual Behavior Among HIV+ Older Center; and H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, Adults,” with Sarit Golub, Hunter College; and Julia collaborated on “Quickest Detection in Coupled Tomassilli, CHEST, for Research on Older Adults Sensor Networks,” at the Proceedings of the 48th with HIV: An In-depth Examination of an Emerging IEEE International Conference on Decisions and Population (Nova Science, 2009) With Danielle Control, in Shanghai, in December. Ramo, Kevin Delucci, both of the University of California, San Francisco; and Jeffrey T. Parsons, Curtis D. Hardin, Psychology, collaborated Hunter College, he contributed “Typology of with John T. Jost, New York University; Laurie Club Drug Use Among Young Adults Recruited A. Rudman, Rutgers University; Irene V. Blair, Using Time-space Sampling,” to Drug and Alcohol University of Colorado, Boulder; Dana R. Carney, Dependence 107, nos. 2-3 (March 2010). He also Columbia Business School; Nilanjana Dasgupta, co-presented, with Michael Smith, Susquehanna University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Jack University, “A Social-Cognitive Analysis of Young Glaser, University of California, Berkeley on Men’s Involvement with Internet Prostitution,” to “The Existence of Implicit Prejudice is Beyond the Eastern Psychological Association meeting in Scientific Doubt: A Refutation of Ideological Brooklyn, New York, in March. and Methodological Objections and Executive Summary of Ten Studies No Manager Should Alexander Greer, Chemistry, and Craig Townsend, Ignore,” in Research in Organizational Behavior Johns Hopkins University, coauthored “A 29 (2009). He co-wrote, with Kasumi Yoshimura, Conserved Lysine in β-Lactam Synthetase Assists Graduate Center, “Cognitive Salience of Ring Cyclization: Implications for Clavam and Subjugation and the Ideological Justification of U.S. Carbapenem Biosynthesis” in ChemBioChem 10 Geopolitical Dominance in Japan,” in Social Justice (2009). Research 22 (2009).

24 Annie Hauck Lawson, Health and Nutrition, with Jerome Krase Sociology (emeritus) and Timothy filmmaker Ian Cheney (King Corn, Big River and Shortell, Sociology, presented, “Spatial Semiotics Truck Farm), spoke on Brooklyn Food Transport of Difference in Urban Vernacular Neighborhood,” at the Proteus Gowanus Gallery at Kingsborough at the European Sociological Association, Lisbon, Community College in December. Portugal, in September.

Margaret King, History, is coeditor, with Albert Dominick A. Labianca, Chemistry (emeritus), and Rabil, Jr., of the text series The Other Voice in Early Edward F. Fitzgerald, consultant to Attorneys on Modern Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2009) Alcohol Law and Science, co-wrote the chapter, consisting of translations from Latin, Italian, French, “Improper Attacks on the Competency and German, Spanish, Polish, and Russian of works Integrity of Defense Experts: Time to Draw the by and about women of the fifteenth through Line,” in Intoxication Test Evidence, second edition eighteenth centuries; 50 titles were published (Thomson Reuters/West, 2009). between 1996–2008 and an eventual 75 titles are planned with University of Chicago Press. Paul McCabe, Education, coedited the following books with Steve Shaw, McGill University: Sandra Kingan, Mathematics, and co-PIs Pediatric Disorders: Current Topics and Interventions Anthony Clement and Jun Hu, also Mathematics, for Educators; Genetic and Acquired Disorders: received a $32,500 CUNY award for Improving Current Topics and Interventions for Educators; and Undergraduate Mathematics Learning. The goals Psychiatric Disorders: Current Topics and Interventions of their project, “The Gap Project: Closing Gaps in for Educators (Corwin Press and the National Gateway Mathematics Courses,” are to determine Association of School Psychologists—NASP, the gaps in knowledge that exist between high 2010). Last March, he presented two papers at school and college level pre-calculus students and the NASP convention in Chicago: “Are School to develop and test methods for closing these gaps. Psychologists Prepared to Advocate for LGBT Mark Kobrak, Chemistry, and doctoral student Youth?,” with Florence Rubinson, School of Hualin Li, wrote, “Electrostatic Interactions Education, and “Educators’ Behavioral Intention in Ionic Liquids: The Dangers of Dipole and to Advocate for LGBT Youth,” with Rubinson Dielectric Descriptions,” in Physical Chemistry and Eliza Dragowski, School of Education. and Chemical Physics 12 (2010) and, “A Molecular McCabe, Rubinson, Dragowski, and Graciela Dynamics Study of the Influence of Ionic Charge Elizalde-Utnick, School of Education, delivered a Distribution on the Dynamics of a Molten Salt,” in paper, “National Survey of School Psychologists’ Journal of Chemical Physics 131 (2009). Advocacy for LGBTQ Youth,” at the New York Association of School Psychologists convention Aaron Kozbelt, Psychology, and Joanna Serafin, in White Plains, New York, in November. With Graduate Center, wrote “Dynamic Evaluation of Brooklyn College graduate student Darren Siegel, High- and Low-creativity Drawings by Artist and McCabe wrote “Gauging Media Influence on Non-artist Raters,” Creativity Research Journal 21, Adolescent Suicide Rates,” in Communiqué 38, no. no. 4 (November 2009). 4 (2009).

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Laraine McDonough, Psychology, Tina Rovito Tamara Mose Brown, Sociology, and Erynn Masi Gomez, doctoral student in CUNY’s Cognition, de Casanova, University of Cincinnati, collaborated Brain and Behavior program; and Ira Cohen, on “Mothers in the Field: How Motherhood Psychology Department Chair, College of Staten Shapes Fieldwork and Researcher-Subject Island, presented their research on “The Effect of Relations,” Women’s Studies Quarterly 37, nos. 3 Teaching Attending to a Face on the Emergence and 4 (December 2009). They co-led a panel discussion on “Representing the Language of the Other: Translation in Ethnography,” at the Eastern Sociological Society, in Boston, in March.

Mim L Nakarmi, Physics and Bo Cai, physics doctoral student, presented “Investigation of Threading Dislocation in AlN by TEM” at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Portland, Oregon.

Sharon Anne O’Connor-Petruso, School of Mim L. Nakarmi, Education, and Fabio Girelli-Carasi, Modern Languages Physics and Literature, coedited Globalization: Technology, Literacy & Curriculum (Pearson Custom, 2010). With Barbara Rosenfeld, School of Education, she wrote, “Effective Strategies for Integrating Technology and of Joint Attention Behavior in Young Children the Tools of Web 2.0 in the Curriculum when Limited with Autism Spectrum Disorders,” at both the by Budget, Infrastructure, and Shelf Life,” in The Journal Association for Behavior Analysis International for Computing Teachers (Fall 2009). Rosenfeld and Annual Convention in Phoenix, in April, and at O”Connor-Petruso co-presented “Web 2.0: What the International Meeting for Autism Research Works and What Doesn’t: Experience from the in Chicago, in May . McDonough and Melody Trenches,” at the annual convention of the Association Goldman, doctoral student in the Cognition, Brain of Educational Communications and Technology and Behavior program; and Katalin Weinhoffer, (AECT), in Louisville, Kentucky, in October. Brooklyn College undergraduate student, presented “The Abilities of Children with Autism David Owen, Psychology, with Bonnie Berger, Spectrum Disorder and Specific Language Lynn Darby, and Robert Carels, all of Bowling Impairment to Use Semantic and Social Context Green State University, are the authors of to Infer and Recall Novel Words” at the annual “Implications of a Behavioral Weight Loss Program meeting of the Eastern Psychology Association in for Obese Sedentary Women: A Focus on Mood March, in Brooklyn, New York. Enhancement and Exercise Enjoyment” in the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 8 (2010). Along with Arthur Reber, Psychology

26 Robert Moses Shapiro, Judaic Studies, translated and coedited The Warsaw Ghetto Oyneg Shabes- Ringelblum Archive: Catalog and Guide, with Tadeusz Epsztein, the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of History, with an introduction by Professor Samuel D. Kassow of Trinity College (Indiana University Press in association with the United (emeritus); and Stephen Weiss, Adams State States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish College, Alamaso, Colorado, Owen presented Historical Institute in Warsaw, 2009). “The Reinvestment Scale: Can Participants be The Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum Archive was clandestinely compiled Primed to Score Higher?” at the 2010 APS Annual between 1940 and 1943 to document the Nazi German annihilation of Convention, in Boston. the nearly 500,000 Jews crowded together into the notorious Warsaw Ghetto. On January 27, 2010, the International Day of Holocaust The American Anthropological Association Remembrance proclaimed by the United Nations, a copy of Shapiro’s Archeology Division awarded the 2010 Gordon R. book was formally presented by Arthur Berger, vice-president of Willey prize to the Brooklyn College anthropology the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, to Robert Kupiecki, team of Sophia Perdikaris, Thomas McGovern, ambassador of Poland to the United States. The new guide to the Oyneg Orri Vésteinsson, Adolf Fridriksson, Mike Church, Shabes-Ringelblum Archive is expected to promote and facilitate much Ian Lawson, Ian A. Simpson, Arni Einarsson, Andy new research on the Warsaw Ghetto and related topics. Dugmore, Gordon Cook, Kevin J. Edwards, Amanda M. Thomson, W. Paul Adderley, Anthony Newton, Gavin Lucas, Ragnar Edvardsson, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Y. Orbach, NICHD; Oscar Aldred, and Elaine Dunbar, for the article and D. Rothenburg, North Carolina State University, “Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: presented “Discussion of Secrets, Threats, and Fears Historical Ecology of Human Impact and Climate in Investigative Interviews with Children.” Fluctuation on the Millennial Scale.” The prize is awarded for the “most outstanding archaeology Laura A. Rabin and K.E. Nutter-Upham, both of article” appearing in the American Anthropologist Psychology, and J. Fogel, Economics, presented during the past three years (2007–2009), which “Academic Procrastination: The Role of Self- innovatively applies archeological data to a Reported Executive Function,” at the International problem of gene ral anthropological interest. Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico, in February. At the March Eastern Margaret-Ellen Pipe, Psychology, with K. Thierry, Psychological Association Meeting in Brooklyn, Rutgers University, wrote “The Susceptibility of New York, Rabin collaborated on “Associations Young Preschoolers to Source Similarity Effects: Between Disordered Eating and Attitudes Confusing Story or Video Events with Reality,” Toward Cosmetic Surgery in a Diverse Sample Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2009). of Undergraduate Women” with C. Carrion, Pipe and T. Patterson, University of Otago, New Psychology; and S. Weinberger-Litman and K. Zealand, wrote “Exploratory Assessments of Child Galek, both of the Maria and William G. Spears Abuse: Children’s Responses to Interviewer’s Research Institute, New York. Questions Across Multiple Interviews,” in Child Abuse & Neglect 33 (2009). To the Marchmeeting Barbara Rosenfeld and Lisa Novemsky, Education, of the American Psychology-Law Society, held in presented “Social Networking Obliterates Vancouver, British Columbia, Pipe, along with L.C. Etiquette: Thumbs Drum in Rise of Multitasking Malloy and M.E. Lamb, both from University of Rudeness,” at the annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association,

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Coeditors Martha Monaghan Corpus Irwin Weintraub Rocky Hill, Connecticut, in October. The paper was school leadership, and education students be published in the 40th Northeastern Educational more effective resources within local schools Committee Research Association Conference Proceedings in light of this tragedy. The workshops were Joe Fodor 2009. held in the Brooklyn College Student Center Rennie Gonsalves in January and February. Scharrón-del Río Robert Jones, Jr. Florence Rubinson and Paul McCabe, both co-led, with Jill S. Hill, Avy A. Skolnik, and Julien Ronald O. Howell School of Education, co-wrote “Helping To Almonte, all from Teachers College, Columbia Kathleen McSorley Improve the School Climate for LGBTQ Youth University, “Community Sovereignty: Ethical and Jerry Mirotznik and Their Families,” in The School Psychologist 27 Epistemological Intersections,” at the 27th Annual Jeanne Theoharis no. 4 (2009). Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education at Teachers College in February. Anthony Sclafani, ‘66 and K. Ackroff, Psychology, contributed the chapter, “Oral and Post-oral Dina Sokol, Computer and Information Science, Determinants of Dietary Fat Appetite,” in Fat in collaboration with Frederick Adkins, Indiana Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post-ingestive Effects University of Pennsylvania; Zhongyuan Che, Penn (CRC Press, 2009). Sclafani, Ackroff and Y. Yiin, State University; and Kristin Pfabe, Nebraska a doctoral Psychology student at the Graduate Wesleyan University, wrote “Finding Repeats Center, coauthored “Post-oral Infusion Sites that Within Strings,” in DIMACS Educational Module Support Glucose-conditioned Flavor Preferences Series 09-2 (November, 2009). in Rats,” in Physiology and Behavior 99 (2010). Mark Ungar, Political Science, with Ana Laura To the 10th Annual National Network for Magaloni, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Education Renewal (NNER) Conference, in Económicas, Mexico City, coauthored “La Mano Seattle, María R. Scharrón-del Río and Haroon Dura: Current Dilemmas in Latin American Kharem, both School of Education, co-presented Police Reform” and “Latin America’s Prisons: A “The Struggle to Make Democracy Work in Crisis of Criminal Policy and Democratic Rule,” East New York,” in October. Scharrón-del Río, in Criminality, Public Security and the Challenges to in collaboration with Lynda Sarnoff, Florence Democracy in Latin America (University of Notre Rubinson, Ada Dragowski, and Menes DeJoie (all Dame Press, 2009); and “Human Rights and of the School of Education), Brooklyn College’s Police Reform in Argentina,” in Policing Insecurity Haitian Bilingual/ESL Technical Assistance Center (Lexington Books, 2009). (HABETAC), and New York City’s Department of Education Office of School and Youth Howard Z. Zeng, Raymond W. Leung, and Development, organized two workshops in Michael Hipscher, all of Physical Education and response to the Haitian earthquake disaster. These Exercise Science, wrote “An Examination of events—“Supporting the Haitian community: Teaching Behaviors and Learning Activities in Crisis Intervention Workshop” and “Working Physical Education Class Settings Taught by Three with Children in Crisis: Responding to the Different Levels of Teachers,” for the Journal of Haitian Earthquake Disaster—were developed Social Sciences 6 (February 2010). to help school counseling, school psychology, 28