Professor David Richardson (Biology) co-authored a paper titled, “Ecosystem effects of a tropical cyclone on a network of lakes in northeastern North America.” The authors examined the effects of the fall 2011 storms (Irene and Lee) on regional lake physical and biological processes, including in a few reservoirs (Ashokan and Rondout) in our backyard. The article is available online here and in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Professor Giordana Grossi (Psychology), in collaboration with colleagues at Bangor University (Guillaume Thierry, Nicola Savill, and Enlli Thomas), has published the article “Electrophysiological cross-language neighborhood density effects in late and early...
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Professor David Elstein (Philosophy) published an article titled “Beyond the Five Relationships: Teachers and Worthies in Early Chinese Thought” in Philosophy East and West (July 2012). The article examines the debate about the political status of virtuous people in early Chinese philosophy. Professor Greta Winograd (Psychology) co-authored “Children on the Autism Spectrum: Grandmother Involvement and Family Functioning” with Alison Sullivan and Jay Verkuilen (City University of New York, Graduate Center) and Marian C. Fish (Queens College). The article was published in the September 2012 issue of Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. Read the abstract here. Professor Corwin...
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Eve Waltermaurer (Sociology) published a paper titled, “Justification of Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review” in the journal Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 2012, 13 (3): 167-175. Sarah Wyman (English) published “Beyond the Veil: Indeterminacy and Iconoclasm in the Art of Robert Hayden, Janet Kozachek, and Tom Feelings” in The Comparatist, 36: 2012. Anne Gorrick (Accounting Services) has published I-Formation (Book 2), her third full-length book of poetry, with Shearsman Books (Bristol, UK). She has also recently published work in several electronic and print journals.
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Professor Emeritus Gerald Sorin (History) has had four review essays published in the monthly Books section of the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz (The Land): “Unlikely Collaboration,” by historian Barbara Will, who exposes the fascist background and activities of Gertrude Stein (Dec. 1, 2011); “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank,” short stories by Nathan Englander (March 2012); “Breaking and Entering,” a novel by Eileen Pollack (April 2012); and Bernard Avishai’s Promiscuous, a literary and historical analysis of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint (June 2012). In June, Sorin also delivered a talk, “Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge,” at the...
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Professor Benjamin Junge (Anthropology)has published the article, “Ngos as Shadow Pseudo-Publics: Grassroots Community Leaders’ Perceptions of Change and Continuity in Porto Alegre, Brazil,” in American Ethnologist.
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Professor David Elstein (Philosophy) has published an article “Mou Zongsan’s New Confucian Democracy” in Contemporary Political Theory 11.2 (May 2012): 192-210). Although not well known in the US and Europe, Mou is considered the most important Chinese philosopher of the 20th century. This article examines how he argues for democracy from a Confucian perspective and why he thinks it is important for Chinese people to develop democracy from their own philosophical traditions. It is the first publication in English on Mou’s political thought. The full abstract is here.
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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.
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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...