Faculty Activities

Professor Mimi Abramovitz (Social Welfare, Women's Studies) delivered the keynote address, "Welfare Reform in the United States: Gender Matters" at a conference entitled Why Gender Matters in Child Welfare and Protection at the University of Huddersfield, Great Britain, in April. In May, she gave a talk on "Linking Welfare Reform and Child Welfare" at the University of Washington-Takoma; held a seminar on "Welfare Reform and Racism" at the University of Washington-Seattle; and gave a keynote address on "Dismantling the Welfare State: Neither Accidental Nor Simply Mean Spirited" at the same university. Abramowitz also presented a paper entitled "Women, Social Reproduction and the Neo-Liberal Assault on the Welfare State" at the 13th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at Scripps College in Claremont, California in June.

Associate Professor Juan Battle (Sociology) participated in a session on social justice philanthropy at a European Foundation Centre conference in Budapest, Hungary.

Distinguished Professor Raquel Chang-Rodriguez (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages) lectured at Eoetvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary, on the subject of "Guaman Poma de Ayala, cronista del Peru" and at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Madrid, Spain, on "Cruzando culturas y atravesando territorios en La Florida del Inca (1605)." She also participated electronically in a symposium organized by the University of San Marcos and the Academia Diplomatica, both in Lima, Peru, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's chronicle about Hernando de Soto's 1539 expedition to La Florida.

Professor Marc Edelman (Anthropology) presented a paper on "Global Trade Rules and Smallholding Agriculture: Problems for Sustainability" at the Queen Elizabeth House 50th Anniversary Conference on "New Development Threats and Promises" at Oxford University in July.

Professor Joyce Gelb (Political Science, American Studies, Liberal Studies, Women's Studies) served as a Visiting Professor in the Sociology Department at Shanghai University in Shanghai, China from mid-June to July.

Professor Gertrud Lenzer (Sociology) and the Brooklyn College Children's Studies Program and Center she directs were featured in the CUNY TV program, "Study with the Best," in June. Lenzer also organized and chaired the Annual Charles Lawrence II Memorial Lecture Series, which in fall 2004 featured a talk on The Limits of Social Policy and the Changing Character of Social Science in the United States: Comparing 1904 and 2004.

Professor Emeritus Robert E. Lipsey (Economics) presented a paper on "Factor Prices and Factor Substitution in U.S. Firms' Manufacturing Affiliates Abroad," co-authored by Maria Borga, at the Annual Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association in Istanbul, Turkey in May. In June, he participated in a meeting of the Academic Advisory Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank's Research Centre in Frankfurt am Main. Lipsey's paper 'The Impact of Inward FDI on Host Countries: Why Such Different Answers?", co-authored with Fredrik Sjoeholm, was published by the Institute for International Economics in the volume Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Development, edited by Theodore H. Moran, Edward M. Graham, and Magnus Blomstroem.

Professor Kathleen McCarthy (History) participated in a session on "Setting the Framework for Philanthropy within the Caribbean Region" at the Caribbean Conference on Philanthropy in Kingston, Jamaica in February. McCarthy also hosted a three-day conference, "Funding Change: International Perspectives," in May with the assistance of Sociology Professor Juan Battle (Sociology).

Professor Tracey A. Revenson (Psychology, Certificate Program in Women's Studies) presented her Presidential Address, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Context Matters in Health Psychology," at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association in August in Washington, D.C. Revenson had served as President of the Division of Health Psychology of the APA from 2004–2005.

Professor Natalie J. Sokoloff's (Criminal Justice, Sociology, Certificate Program in Women's Studies) book Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender & Culture has been published by Rutgers University Press. Sokoloff was the recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award at John Jay College for 2004–2005.

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