Faculty Activities Distinguished Professor Ervand Abrahamian (History) gave the Annual Lecture on Iranian Studies at St. Anthony's College, Oxford University, on May 29. His lecture was on "The U.S. Media, Samuel Huntington, and September 11." Professor Mimi Abramovitz (Social Welfare) authored the forward to a national report "Failing Our Families," on the impact of welfare reforms, put out by Grass Roots Organizing for Welfare Leadership (GROWL). The report is a state-by-state index of anti-poverty programs under welfare reforms and it gives an unprecedented analysis of the reforms' impact on discrimination and restricted opportunity. Professor Emeritus Harry Beilin (Developmental Psychology) received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Jean Piaget Society on June 8 "for a distinguished body of scientific work that contributed significantly to the understanding of cognitive development." Roscoe Brown, director of the Center for Urban Education Policy, received an honorary doctorate from Tuskegee University in April at the second annual Tuskegee Airman convocation. Brown was one of the African-American fighter pilots during WWII known as the Tuskegee Airmen and made history in combat before beginning his career as an educator. He delivered a speech about his war experiences and the legacy of the Airmen upon receiving the honorary degree. Professor Vincent Crapanzano (Anthropology, Comparative Literature) is a recipient of the Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin. Crapanzano was selected for his project "The Imaginative Horizon: Toward an Anthropology of the Imagination" to be a Fellow in the fall of 2002. Professor Eric Delson (Anthropology, Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences) was quoted in a news story in the March 22 issue of Science about the description in Nature of a new million-year-old human cranium from Ethiopia. The authors of the article reported an analysis agreeing with Delson's view that Homo erectus was a single widespread species known across Africa and Asia from around 2 million to less than half a million years ago. Assistant Professors Mario DiGangi (English) and Dimitri Karabali (Physics) were two winners of the fifth annual Feliks Gross Endowment Award, named in honor of the founding president of the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. (Also winning the award was Talia Schaffer, who is on the English faculty of Queens College.) The award honors emerging scholars with the rank of assistant professor for their research and scholarly achievements. Besides winning a prestigious teaching award at Indiana University, DiGangi has an impressive publishing record, including the book The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press). Karabali is an outstanding researcher in the field of analytic theoretical particle physics who has already made important contributions and has over 1,300 citations in the citation index. Professor Ronald A. Farrell (Sociology) has been named director of the four-year-old Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at City College. He succeeds Distinguished Professor Paul L. Wachtel (Psychology). Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who graduated from City College in 1958, is on the advisory board of the center. Professor Michelle Fine (Psychology, Urban Education) received an honorary doctorate from Bank Street College of Education at the college's commencement on May 23. In 2000, Fine was a contributing writer to Bank Street's study Small Schools: Great Strides. Professor Mary Gibson (Criminal Justice, History) was a winner in the 106th annual Rome Prize Competition of the American Academy in Rome and will be a fellow there in 2002-2003. Gibson was the winner of the National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellowship. Associate Professor Ellie M. Hisama (Music, Women's Studies) has received a 2002-2003 Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation for her book project, "Popular Music and the Politics of Sound." Professor Philip Kasinetz (Sociology) was interviewed about the impact of the events of September 11th on immigrants and immigration in New York City on "New York Voices," a PBS series broadcast on March 27. Professor Isaias Lerner (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures) spoke on Don Quixote, Second Part at Sarah Lawrence College on April 4, 2002. He also spoke on "Roberto Matta and Don Quixote" at the Haim Chanin Fine Arts opening of "Roberto Matta: Don Qui 1605-1985" on April 6. On April 23 he lectured on "Los libros de Cervantes" at the Graduate Center in a celebration of Cervantes' anniversary co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes and the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures. Kathleen D. McCarthy (Director, Center for the Study of Philanthropy; History) participated in January in the first meeting of the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy, a global network of experts convened by the Bertelsmann Foundation in Germany to examine the current and future activities of foundations worldwide. Her research on civil society in the U.S. was also featured in a recent report of The Democracy Collaborative, an international study group coordinated by Benjamin Barber at the University of Maryland. Professor Emerita Charlotte Muller (Economics, Sociology) presented a paper on the "Economic Status of Older Women" at the NGO (Nongovernmental organization) World Forum, accompanying the UN's 2nd World Assembly on Aging, held in Madrid. Her paper was based on a study of 56 countries that was conducted at the International Longevity Center-USA, Ltd., where Muller is co-director of research. Professor Gerardo Piña-Rosales (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures) published the book Confabulaciones. Estudios sobre artes y letras hispánicas (ALDEEU, 2001), with R. Corbalán and N. Toscano. He also published the following articles: "La poesía existencial y visionaria de José Corrales" in Círculo. Revista de Cultura, Vol. XXIX, 2001; "El exilio como condición humana: la obra narrativa de Roberto Ruiz" in Homenaje a Enrique Diez Canedo, Cauce (University of Seville), 2001; "El cine desmitificador y subversivo de Luis Buñuel" in Revista Baquiana (Miami), 2000-2001; "Seis retratos de Ramón Gómez de la Serna," a prologue to El imperativo ekfrástico en la prosa de Ramón Gómez de la Serna by Carmen Fernández Klohe (ALDEEU, 2002); "Entre el pincel y la pluma: el principio ekfrástico en la poesía de Rafael Alberti" in Rafael Alberti, ed. de Pedro Guerrero Ruiz, Universidad de Murcia, 2002. He recently presented the paper "Gibraltar, puerta del Al-Andalus" at the International Colloquium on Islamic Civilization in Al-Andalus and its Aspects of Tolerance," Center for the Study of Al-Andalus, Rabat (Morocco), in March. Distinguished Professor Frances Fox Piven (Political Science, Sociology) received an honorary degree and delivered the keynote address to graduate students at the commencement of The College of Saint Rose in Albany on May 11. Professor Harriet F. Senie (Art History) published The ŒTilted Arc' Controversy: Dangerous Precedent? (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), as well the essays "Perpetual Tension: Considering Richard Serra's Jewish Identity" in Complex Identities: Jewish Consciousness in Modern Art (Rutgers University Press, 2001) and "Public Art in Transition" in Points of Departure: Art on the Line (Philadelphia: Main Line Art Center, 2001), and a catalogue, Re-Cast: Postmodern Classical, for an exhibition at the Olympic Tower lobby, co-authored with students at City College. She recently coordinated the symposium A Postmodern Look at Classical Casts: Curators, Educators, and Artists, held in March by the Alexander Onassis Cultural Foundation, and lectured on "Lessons from the Past: Memorials and Meaning in the U.S." at the conference The Desire to Remember: Contemplating Art Memorials, held in March at NYU. She spoke on "The ŒTilted Arc' Controversy" in April as part of the Writers Talks series at the Urban Center for Books. Professor Jon-Christian Suggs (English) was invited by the American Bar Foundation to present a seminar on the African American literary critique of American law on April 30 in Chicago. His book, Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life (2000), will be re-released in a paperback revision early in 2003. On May 3, Suggs was a respondent to the keynote addresses by Martha Crenshaw (Wesleyan University) and John Esposito (Georgetown University) at the conference on "Terrorism and 9/11: Religion, Politics, and Justice" held at John Jay College as part of the Jack and Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholar Program. Professors at John Jay College recently celebrated the publication of the Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment by Sage Publications. Professor Larry Sullivan (Criminal Justice) and Richard Curtis, another John Jay professor, edited about a third of the 425 articles, and 24 others wrote entries on topics including "women who kill," "video and computer games," and "whistle blowing." Grants Awarded Following is a list of grants received from February through May, 2002. In February The Graduate Center received 5 awards totaling $547,955; in March it received 15 awards totaling $776,593; in April, 13 awards totaling $804,748, and in May, 11 awards totaling $688,782. Below is a list of principal investigators and awards received through the Office of Sponsored Research during this period. February Patricia Clough (Center for the Study of Women and Society), Rockefeller Foundation: Facing Global Capital, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique ($380,000) Jane Gerber (Institute for Sephardic Studies), Maurice Amado Foundation: Assessment and Evaluation of the Summer Teacher Training Institute in Sephardic Studies ($62,700) Kathleen McCarthy (Center for the Study of Philanthropy), Charles Stewart Mott Foundation: International Community Foundation Fellows Program ($96,255) Tracey Revenson (Social-Personality Psychology), PSC-CUNY Emergency Grant: Personality and Physiological Predictors of Mental and Physical Symptoms in the Aftermath of 9/11 ($4,000) Brian Schwartz (Institutional), The Little River Foundation: Scholarship Account ($5,000) March Helen Birenbaum (Frank Stanton/Andrew Heiskell Center for Public Policy in Telecommunications and Information Systems), Citigroup Foundation: The Role of Information Technology in the Education of Disadvantaged Students ($150,000 increase) Theodore Brown (CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development), CUNY Workforce Development Initiative: Support for the CISDD ($24,815 increase) Kenneth Erickson and Leonard Markowitz (Political Science), Comparative Politics: Journal of Comparative Politics ($18,000) Bert Flugman (Center For Advanced Study in Education), MPR Associates, Inc.: Technical Services ($218,035) Robert Haralick (Computer Science), North Shore-Long Island Jewish Research Institute: Identification of Cytokines and Inflammatory Mediators in Acute Asthma ($32,000) Peter Manuel (Music), The Society for Ethnomusicology: Support for Editing the Journal Ethnomusicology ($5,000) Kathleen McCarthy (Center for the Study of Philanthropy), Anonymous: Institutionalization Grant ($200,000); LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas: International Fellows Program ($17,500); Fund for the City of New York: Coalition for New Philanthropy in New York ($5,000) Mike Wallace (Gotham Center for New York City History), The Solow Art and Architecture Foundation: Film Seeing the Lower East Side Architecture with Hope Cooke ($1,000); New York Community Trust: Development of a Web Site for the Gotham Center ($35,000) Sally Webster (Art History), Henry Luce Foundation: American Art at the Crossroads ($25,000) Thomas Weiss (Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies), Dag Hammarskjold Foundation: A Future-Oriented Intellectual History of the UN ($4,637); Various: United Nations Intellectual History Project‹Book Roy-alties ($606); Carnegie Corporation of New York: Ralph J. Bunche Centenary Commemoration Project ($40,000) April Stephen Brier (Institutional), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: The Digital Dance Library ($166,000) Deborah Coates (Psychology‹Developmental), William T. Grant Foundation: Conference on African Descent Youth Living in the United States ($9,250) Glenis Long (Speech and Hearing Sciences), PSC-CUNY out of cycle: The Impact of the Cochlear Fine Structure on the Use of DPOAES as a Clinical Tool ($4,000) Kathleen McCarthy (Center for the Study of Philanthropy) AXA Foundation: Coalition for New Philanthropy ($50,000); Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers: Coalition for New Philanthropy in New York/New Ventures ($100,000); Metropolitan Life Foundation: Support for Volunteer Guide Series ($25,000); Surdna Foundation: The Coalition for New Philanthropy ($75,000) Susan Saegert (Center for Human Environments), South African Housing Ministry: Conference on Housing ($40,197) Brian Schwartz (Physics), National Science Foundation: A Symposium Associated with the Opening of the Play Copenhagen in Washington ($19,301) Richard Schwartz (Speech and Hearing Sciences) PSC-CUNY out of cycle: Phonological Organization of the Lexicon in Specific Language Impairment ($4,000) Dennis Sullivan (Mathematics), National Science Foundation: Algebraic Topology and Quantum Field Theory ($207,000) Mike Wallace (Gotham Center for New York City History), Ford Foundation: The Future of the City of New York ($100,000) Sally Webster (Art History), Charles Stewart Mott Foundation: American Art at the Crossroads ($5,000) May Adrienne Fried Block and John Graziano (Music), National Endowment for the Humanities: Music in Gotham: The New York Scene, 1863-1875 ($98,684) Joshua Brown (Center for Media and Learning), National Endowment for the Humanities: Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom ($250,000) Lia DiBello (Center For Advanced Study in Education) New York City Transit Authority: Conceptual Training for RSMIS (S2K) Pilot and Rollout ($150,000) Adele Kupfer (Center For Advanced Study in Education), Consolidated Edison Co. of New York: Project STIR ($5,000) William McClure (Linguistics), Japan Foundation: 12th Annual Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference ($4,623) John Mollenkopf (Center for Urban Research), Russell Sage Foundation: The Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York ($25,000) Susan Saegert (Center for Human Environments), METIS Associates Inc.: CHE Payroll Account ($9,738); Clinton Seed Fund: Proposal to Evaluate the Physical and Financial State of the Co-ops ($49,737) Lucien Szpiro (Mathematics), National Science Foundation: Arithmetic Geometry of Diophantine Problems ($61,000) Jim Tsiamstiouris and Robert Goldfarb (Speech and Hearing Sciences), Malcolm Fraser Foundation: Fellowship ($25,000) Mike Wallace (Gotham Center for New York City History), Various: Seeing New York ($10,000) Student Activities This year the Ph.D. Program in Art History had more student winners of national grants and fellowships than ever before in the history of the department. The following students received the following awards for the 2002-2003 academic year: Angela Herren, Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research; Dara Kiese, Fulbright Fellowship to Germany; Karen Lemmey, Smithsonian Institution Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Luce Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at National Gallery of Art Summer Fellowship; Deborah Lewittes, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Art History Fellowship to London, renewal for second year; Todd Magreta, J. Paul Getty Museum Internship; Caterina Pierre, Pro Helvetia (Arts Council of Switzerland) Research Fellowship, Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women Fellowship; Yasmin Ramirez, Social Science Research Council Fellowship; Sarah Richardson, Smithsonian Institution Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; and Claire Zimmerman, Fulbright Fellowship to Germany, Social Science Research Council Fellowship. Alla Borzova (Music D.M. A.) received a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship of $15,000 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. These fellowships, endowed in 1978 by the CBS foundation, are given to "mid-career composers of exceptional gifts." Christopher Leslie (English) presented the paper "ŒThe World's Wisest Philanthropist': Charles Davenport and American Eugenics" at a meeting of the Northeast American Studies Association in Boston and the paper "Robert Heinlein and the Crossing of Impenetrable Borders" at the McGill University Symposium on Language and Literature in Montreal. Diego Hidalgo (Political Science), who is president of the Foundation for International Relations and Exterior Dialogue (Fundación para las Relaciones internacionales y Diálogo Exterior), has been awarded the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Mérito Civil of Spain. This award was introduced by King Alfonso XIII in 1926 to reward "the civic virtues of government officials and the extraordinary service of Spanish citizens and foreigners that contribute to the well being of the nation." Ian Maloney (English) was selected to present a paper at this year's convention of the Modern Language Association. The paper, focusing on the CUNY Writing Fellows program, is entitled "The Writing Fellows Program: Increased Funding, Job Training, and Marketability, and Decreasing the Time to Degree Completion." The CUNY Writing Fellows initiative was launched in 1999 as part of a resolution to improve student's writing skills throughout the CUNY system. Fellows, who are doctoral students, are selected through a competitive application process. There are currently over 100 Fellows working at the 17 undergraduate CUNY colleges and the School of Law at Queens college. Hugh McGowan (Criminal Justice), a retired member of the NYPD's Hostage Negotiation Team, was featured in the article "Men Who Save Lives" in the May 2002 issue of Men's Journal. Joe Pascarella (Criminal Justice) received a Fulbright Award for Lecturing and Research in Finland. He will be at the Police College in Espoo, Finland, from January through May of 2003. Nandini Sikand (Anthropology) was part of a panel discussion, "Twentieth-Century Mirrors: American Through the Eyes of Independent Filmmakers," at the Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library in March. The panel was part of the month-long program "The Feminist Presence in Filmmaking." Steven Torres (English) is the author of the mystery novel Precinct Puerto Rico, recently published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. Pamela Wridt (Environmental Psychology) was awarded a Dissertation Fellowship from the Association of American Geographers to support research for her dissertation, "The Historical Geography of Childhood in Yorkville and East Harlem: 1940s to 2000s." Jarrett Zigon (Anthropology) was the winner of a Fulbright-Hays Award of $36,000 from the U.S. Department of Education to travel to Russia for a twelve-month research project in 2002-2003. The title of his research topic is "Constructing Morality in the New Russia." In Memoriam Judith Huggins Balfe Judith Huggins Balfe, professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, died in March at the age of 64, after a long battle with cancer. Her interdisciplinary work focused on the sociology of arts and culture and her many publications included the book Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Arts Patronage (1993), as editor and contributor; and Passing It On: The Inheritance of Summer Houses (1999), as author. After graduating from Wellesley college, she began her career teaching at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Newark Museum, and later earned her master's and doctorate degrees from the New School for Social Research and Rutgers University, where she taught until 1985, when she joined the faculty of the College of Staten Island. She was appointed to The Graduate Center's faculty in 1989. Robert S. Dombroski Robert S. Dombroski, Distinguished Professor of comparative literature at The Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, died on May 10 in Paris from complications following open-heart surgery. He was 63. Referred to as "the foremost expert in Italian Modernism" by the American Association of Italian Studies, Dombroski was known in particular for groundbreaking studies of Pirandello and Gadda, and for scholarship that was deeply attuned to the social and historical realities of literary works. After receiving a Ph.D. from Harvard, Dombroski traveled to Florence on a Fulbright, where his encounter with Italian culture had a lasting impact on his career. He began teaching at the University of Chicago, before moving to the University of Connecticut in 1971, where he taught Italian and comparative literature. In 1994, Dombroski was appointed a Distinguished Professor at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, where he became director of the Italian specialization of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature. There will be a series of events commemorating his life, both in Italy and the U.S., in the fall.