In Memoriam

Lloyd Davis, a Graduate Center alumnus, passed away in August. Davis received his Ph.D. in English at The Graduate Center in 1991. After teaching briefly at Queens College, Davis returned to Australia and taught as an Associate Professor in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at Queensland University in Brisbane. He was Head of that school at the time of his death and considered a worldwide expert in Shakespeare. Davis authored or edited such books as Sexuality and Textuality in Henry James; Guise and Disguis: Rhetoric and Characterisation in the English Renaissance; Tools for Cultural Studies; Introducing Cultural & Media Studies, with Tony Thwaites and Warwick Mules; Structures and Strategies: An Introduction to Academic Writing with Susan Mckay; and Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance. He also published a number of articles on the subjects of Renaissance literature and drama and 19th-century literature, and won the national Australian Universities' Humanities Teacher of the Year Award in 1999.

Barbara Heller, a longtime Graduate Center employee, passed away in August. Barbara was principal investigator for numerous research and development projects for the Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE); she worked at CASE for more than 20 years on a range of projects concerning societal and educational problems and designing solutions to them. With funding secured from federal, state, city and foundation sources, she developed and implemented initiatives on cooperative education; mathematics education at the secondary and post-secondary level; self-help regarding math anxiety and the uses of mathematics in everyday life; computer-assisted guidance and distance learning; education in correctional institutions; consumer education for women; international business education; substance abuse programs for college students; services for parents of children with disabilities; and training out-of-license mathematics and science teachers in the public schools. Barbara was also a mentor to numerous Graduate Center students whom she involved in her work.

John P. Sabini, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a Graduate Center alumnus, passed away in July. Dr. Sabini's primary research interests were human emotions—particularly jealousy, embarrassment, shame, and envy—as well as character ascriptions and sexual behavior; expression of moral condemnation; the formation, dissolution, and replacements of moral norms; and gossip. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from The Graduate Center in 1976 and had taught at Penn for 29 years until his death.

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