Professor Giordana Grossi (Psychology), in collaboration with Cordelia Fine (University of Melbourne), has recently published the chapter “The role of fetal testosterone in the development of ‘the essential difference’ between the sexes: Some essential issues.” The chapter, a critique of the fetal testosterone hypothesis aimed at explaining purported sex differences in cognition, is in the recently published book Neurofeminism: Issues at the Intersection of Feminist Theory and Cognitive Science, edited by R. Bluhm, A. Jacobson, and H. Maibom and published by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Campus News
- SUNY New Paltz student receives $10,000 scholarship from New York Women in Communications Foundation
- SUNY New Paltz employees recognized with SUNY Chancellor's Awards for Excellence
- Dr. Jeffrey Miller named Liberal Arts and Sciences 2011-2012 Teacher of the Year at SUNY New Paltz
- Danielle Brown named SUNY New Paltz class of 2012 valedictorian
- SUNY New Paltz to celebrate commencement
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Anthony Robinson (Professor Emeritus, English and director of Creative Writing) has published his seventh novel, The Floodplain (Codhill Press). Professor Louis Roper (History) has contributed a chapter to the newly released book Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America (Routledge). The book is a survey of colonial American history. Professor Roper’s chapter is titled, The Chesapeake Bay. Assistant Professor Benjamin Junge (Anthropology) and Emily Korona ’09 (Anthropology) co-authored “‘Another U.S. Is Necessary’: Perceptions of the World Social Forum Process by U.S. Civil Society Organizations,” recently published in Journal of Globalization Studies.
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Professor Emeritus Gerald Sorin (History) had nine publications in the spring semester 2011. These were four review essays in Haaretz (The Land): “Life on Sandpaper: A Memoir” by Yoram Kaniuk; “An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War,” by J. Hoberman, “The Other Shore,” a novel by Fred Skolnick, and “Alfred Kazin’s Journals,” ed. Richard Cook. He also did a fifth review essay for the foreword of “Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball.” Three articles on Abraham Cahan, Hannah Solomon, and Irving Howe were published in “Great Jewish Lives From History: Jewish...
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Assistant Professor Corwin Senko (Psychology) has published a new paper in Educational Psychologist, the American Psychological Association’s flagship journal for educational psychology. The paper is titled “Achievement goal theory at the crossroads: Old controversies, current challenges, and new directions” and is co-authored with Chris Hulleman (James Madison University) and Judy Harackiewicz (University of Wisconsin). The abstract is here. Assistant Professor Corwin Senko (Psychology), with Kim Belmonte ’11g (Psychology) and Anastasyia Yakhkind ’10 (Psychology), have published a new paper on the motivational factors shaping students’ beliefs about which teacher qualities are most essential. The paper is titled “How students’ achievement...
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Professor Jonathan Raskin (Psychology) has published two new articles in the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Aug 29, 2011) : “Evolutionary Constructivism and Humanistic Psychology” and (Aug 8, 2011) “On Essences in Constructivist Psychology.” These articles are available online now and will be released in print form soon. Assistant Professor Karl Bryant’s (Sociology & Women’s Studies) research was published in a chapter titled “Diagnosis and Medicalization” in PJ McGann, David J. Hutson (ed.) Sociology of Diagnosis (Advances in Medical Sociology, 2011, Volume 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.33-57. See http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?chapterid=1943025 Assistant Professor Aaron Haselton (Biology) has published a...
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Assistant Professor Aaron Haselton (Biology) has published the paper titled “Insulin Injection and Hemolymph Extraction to Measure Insulin Sensitivity in Adult Drosophila melanogaster” in the June 2011 issue of the peer reviewed Journal of Visualized Experiments. This multimedia article illustrates experimental techniques developed at the College that are used to investigate endocrine signaling in the fruit fly (the premier model organism for biological research). The paper was co-authored by Yih-Woei Fridell (University of Connecticut, Storrs). To read abstract, visit this website. Assistant Professor Benjamin Junge’s (Anthropology) research was published in the article “A fag by any other name: Social...
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SUNY Distinguished Professor Laurence M. Hauptman (History) is the author of the recently published, “The Tonawanda Senecas’ Heroic Battle Against Removal: Conservative Activist Indians” (SUNY Press, Albany, July 2011).
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Several New Paltz faculty members and students have contributed articles to the newest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach, which is a special issue dedicated to the Evolutionary Studies (EvoS) Consortium. This issue was edited by Adjunct Lecturer Rosemarie Chang (Psychology) and original Web master of the EvoS Consortium, Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) and director of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, Assistant Professor Jennifer Waldo (Biology) and David Sloan Wilson, director of Evolutionary Studies Consortium at Binghamton University. Articles with New Paltz affiliations include: “Nerveless Spider Genitalia and Other Evolutionary Wonders” by Rachael Carmen ’09 (Psychology) ’12g and Haley Dillon...
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Adjunct Professor Alice Andrews’s (Psychology) second volume of the annual journal The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture was published April 1. Andrews is founder and co-editor of the journal. Notable contributors are E.O. Wilson, Simon Baron-Cohen, Ruth Padel (Darwin’s great-great granddaughter) and New Paltz’s Associate Professor Andrew Higgins (English). “The Evolutionary Review offers a forum for evolutionary critiques in all the fields of the arts, human sciences, and culture: essays and reviews on film, fiction, theater, visual art, music, dance, and popular culture; essays and reviews of books, articles, and theories related to evolution and evolutionary psychology; and essays...