Faculty News 2003-2004, Vol. 2
Published
Laura Ciolkowski's review of Michael Wood's The Road to Delphi, her review of William Pritchard's Shelf Life and her review of C. S. Nicholls' biography of Elspeth Huxley recently appeared in The New York Times Book Review. Her reviews can also be found in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and The New Yorker.
Jennifer Natalya Fink’s novel, BURN, was published in the fall of 2003 by Suspect Thoughts Press. It has received praise from Lilith magazine and was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award.
Scott Hightower had his second collection, “Natural Trouble” published by Fordham University Press in the fall of 2003.
Paul Jurmo’s article, “Out of the Ivory Tower: College Students Get Involved in Adult Literacy,” appeared in the September 2003 issue of the Literacy Assistance Center’s Literacy Update. Read this piece.
Antonio Lauria-Perricelli’s "Nationalism in the Mediterranean: A Review" was recently published in IDENTITIES: Studies in Culture and Power (10(3): 399-407).
Working Knowledge: Work-Based Learning and Education Reform, recently published by RoutledgeFalmer, was co-authored by Gallatin Professor David Moore and Thomas R. Bailey and Katherine L. Hughes of Columbia University’s Teachers College. The book reports on a multi-year study of experiential learning among high school and college students.
Chris Packard's essay, "Self-Fashioning in Sarah Goodridge's Self-Portraits" was published in Common-Place, a publication of the American Antiquarian Society.
Laura Slatkin’s article, "Measuring Authority, Authoritative Measures: Hesiod's Works and Days" appears in The Moral Authority of Nature (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Judith Sloan and co-author Warren Lehrer’s book of stories, commentary, photographs, and sounds on new immigrants and refugees was published by W. W. Norton in September of 2003.
Susan Weisser penned notes and introductions for editions of Persuasion and Jane Eyre that were published by Fine Press in 2003.
Seen & Heards
Wendy Brawer spoke at Visions of Possible Worlds at the Politecnico di Milano, a science and technology university in Milan, in November of 2003.
Gene Cittadino spent a week at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, where he was invited to lead a session in a Dibner Institute workshop on "The Human Dimensions of Ecology." Participants included natural scientists, historians, philosophers, social scientists and students from the U.S. and Europe. In addition, he recently signed a contract with the Johns Hopkins University Press to write a book on the history of ecology for undergraduates. He also completed an article for the journal Isis entitled "Expert Testimony and the Red River Boundary Dispute: Environmental Science and the Supreme Court."
In October of 2003, Professors Steve Hutkins, Michael Dinwiddie and Stacy Pies attended the annual conference of the Association for Integrative Studies (AIS) in Detroit. The theme of the 2003 conference was Integration, Collaboration, and Partnership: Expanding the Scope of Interdisciplinary Studies. Hutkins was on a panel that focused on “Long-Standing Interdisciplinary Studies Programs,” while Dinwiddie and Pies were joined by Gallatin alumna Aku Kadogo (BA ’76) on a panel entitled “Opportunities and Challenges: The Interdisciplinary Arts Program in the University.”
Antonio Lauria-Perricelli was a member of the "Puerto Rico in the 1930s" panel on "Honoring the Work of Nigel Bolland: Revisiting Caribbean Labor," at the Caribbean Studies Association’s 28th Annual Conference in Belize in May of 2003.
In October of 2003, Patricia Lennox delivered a paper at England’s Shakespeare's Children/Children's Shakespeare conference, sponsored by the University of Surrey at Roehampton. Also, Lennox was the organizer and leader of a seminar on “Shakespeare, Gender and the Movies,” for the 2003 Shakespeare Association of America Conference.
Julie Malnig was recently elected to the position of Editorial Board Chair for The Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), which publishes Dance Research Journal. At a recent meeting of CORD she participated in a roundtable discussion on "The Tensions Between Spirituality and the Social Construction of the Body."
David Moore presented a workshop on "Ethnographic Research in Experiential Education" at the annual meeting of the National Society for Experiential Education, held in Minneapolis in October of 2003. Later that month he visited the New College at the University of Alabama, meeting with students and faculty and delivering an address titled "(De)Constructing Alternativeness: Conceptions of Innovation in Higher Education."
Sara Murphy delivered a paper entitled "Not a Story to Pass on: Sexual Violence, Historical Trauma, and the Problem of Guilt," at Guilt: A Conference on Law and Humanities at the University of New England in June of 2003.
This past fall, Robin Powell offered seminars as part of the New York Hospital for Special Surgery’s community education program. She also performed a dance that she choreographed for the hospital’s September 11th memorial service.
Barnaby Ruhe was flown to Roubaix by the French Government to paint portraits for 24 hours non-stop as part of a massive art event in December of 2003. Ruhe also appeared on Ripley's Believe it or Not in a special segment on his boomerang career.
In the fall of 2003, Susan Weisser delivered a lecture entitled, "Was Jane Eyre a Feminist?" at Barnes and Noble, and also served as moderator for the Barnes and Noble Online Book Club in a discussion of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Kudos
Asale Angel-Ajani won an award for her non-fiction essay "We Survived," in the international writing contest: Women's Voices in War Zones in June 2003. This piece and other essays from the contest were set to a dance performance in San Francisco in August. Her article, "A Question of Dangerous Races" was recently published in the journal, Punishment and Society 5(4).
George Shulman received a grant to establish a faculty humanities workshop on "American Literature and Political Theory" with Ross Posnock, a colleague from NYU’s College of Arts & Science.
Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer are winners of The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York’s 2003 Award for Innovative Use of Archives for their book, Crossing the BLVD. The award recognizes an individual or organization for use of archival material in meaningful and creative ways, making a significant contribution to a community or body of people, and demonstrating the relevance of archival materials to its subject. Sloan also received an NYU Faculty Service Learning Grant to bring the singing group “The Raging Grannies and Their Daughters” from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom into a collaboration with her Advanced Character Acting class for the 2003 fall semester. In addition, Sloan and some of her Gallatin students were guests on New York Public Radio’s The Brian Lehrer Show.
Steven Smith recently attained the rights to the movie The Independent starring Janeane Garofalo and Jerry Stiller, which he will be turning into a Broadway musical.
Advisers
Sharon Badal recently coordinated Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival for the second year in a row. In Fall 2003 she began her full-time faculty position at the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Film and Television.
Lonnie Carter's play, The Romance of Magno Rubio, which was produced by the Ma-Yi Theatre Company last season, won eight OBIES for writing, directing and ensemble acting. The production just finished 14 performances at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila and will be performed this coming season at the Laguna Playhouse in L.A. and the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. Loy Arcenas will direct all the productions. The Romance of Magno Rubio was named one of the best plays of the Off-Broadway season by The New York Times.
Daniel Meltzer has published commentary columns on domestic and international affairs, as well as on social issues, in various newspapers this year, including Newsday and The Baltimore Sun. These have also been distributed nationwide by the Associated Press and the Chicago Sun Syndicate. His memoir essays, Lost, (in Fourth Genre), and We Were Brooksie (in Maisonneuve, Canada) were both published in September, and his short story, ?The Two Yettas,? is included in this year's Southern California Anthology (USC).
