Meena Alexander (English) has a new book of poetry Quickly Changing River (TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press, 2008). She gave a reading at the Associated Writing Programs conference in New York City as part of the CUNY Gala reading and participated in a panel of Asian American women poets entitled "Mother Tongue" in January. She read from her work at East Stroudsberg University and at New York University's Asian Pacific American Center in February. In March she read in Venice, at the triennial conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literatures, "Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights Through Postcolonial Cultures." She will also take part in a plenary session entitled "Writing Through Cultures of Terror." In June she will read from her new book at the Poetry Festival in Parma, Italy. Alexander has been named a 2008 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Ronnie Ancona (Classics) lectured on Catullus at the Bryn Mawr College Classics Colloquium in February (see http://www.brynmawr.edu/classics/posters2008/ancona.html) and will also present this work at Temple University in April. Her comments on teaching Catullus from the beginning stages of Latin through the Ph.D. level appeared in the October 2007 edition of ELitterae, an eNewsletter for Latin teachers. A wiki has been established for her Catullus textbook at: http://writingpassion.pbwiki.com/. She currently edits the new advanced-level Latin textbook series, Bolchazy-Carducci Latin Readers, concise scholarly introductions to Latin authors, genres, and topics; the first volume will be appear later this year. She presented a paper for a panel on Catullus at an American Philological Association meeting in Chicago.

Howard Chernick (Economics) published an op-ed piece titled "Cleaning Up This Mess Won't Be Pretty." See the website www.theglobeandmail.com.

Mitchell Cohen (Political Science) has contributed to an international symposium on "1968" in the Spring issue of Dissent Magazine. He delivered the Gold Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz on March 10; his topic was "Israel, Anti-Semitism, and the Left." He also lectured on this theme at the Taube Center of Stanford University on March 11. His essay titled "Auto-Emancipation et Anti-Semitism" appeared in the French journal "Controverses: Revue d'idees" in February 2008. It appeared earlier in English in Jewish Social Studies and in Italian in the monthly publication Reset. Professor Cohen was interviewed in February by Reset about the call to boycott Israel at the Turin and Paris bookfairs; see http://www.resetdoc.org/EN/Mitchell-cohen-interview.php.

Michelle Fine (Psychology, Urban Education) has received a number of honors and awards. The Adolescent Girls Taskforce of the National Institute of Drugs and Alcohol has named her its first Featured Scientist. She received the fifth annual Social Justice Action Award at the Winter Roundtable on Cross-Cultural Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. And she was presented with the Willystine Goodsell Award from Research on Women and Education at the American Educational Research Association annual meetings in New York.

Joyce Gelb (Political Science) is co-editor of the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies at http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk.

Hugo Kaufmann (Economics, European Union Studies Center) was invited to give a lecture at the Columbia University—SIPA seminar series on business and business cultures in the European Union. The title of his lecture, given in October 2007, was "Convergence! What Convergence? Vive la Différence!" He gave another invited lecture at the international law weekend of the American Foreign Law Association's October 2007 session on "The European Community at 50: Successes, Setbacks and New Challenges." The title of the presentation was "Euro, Euro Ueber Alles."

Marnia Lazreg (Sociology) published Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad with Princeton University Press in December 2007. She gave talks about it at Maison Française, Columbia University, and the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Society, Northwestern University, Evanston, in February; the Institute for Middle East Studies, Elliott Center for International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC; the International Human Rights Center at the Graduate Center, and the Left Forum Conference, in March. She has also been interviewed by nineteen radio stations across the nation, including the Maryknoll syndicated network.

Katherine Manthorne (Art History) published the essay "John Sloan, Moving Pictures, and Celtic Spirits" in Seeing the City: John Sloan's New York (Delaware Art Museum/Yale University Press, 2007), the catalogue for an exhibition that took place at the Delaware Art Museum from October 20, 2007, to January 20, 2008. The exhibition is in Pennsylvania until April 27, Chicago until September 14, and will end in North Carolina on January 4, 2009.

Peter Ranis (Political Science; Emeritus) reviewed The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights by Maria Lorena Cook in Perspectives on Politics (APSA), Vol. 6, No. 1 (March, 2008); and The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighborhood by Lindsay DuBois in American Ethnologist, Vol. 33, No. 3 (August, 2006). He was interviewed by Pacifica Radio Station KPFA (San Francisco) on the "Against the Grain" program concerning "U.S. Workers Under Siege," on December 4, 2007.

Stanley Renshon (Political Science) published "McCain's Dilemma: Rebel or Leader" in The Politico on March 3, 2008 (http://www.politico.com). His column is titled "The Political Mind."

Liat Seiger (Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences) published chapters in the following books: Language and Communication: Disorders in Children, 6th edition, edited by D.K. Bernstein and E. Tiegerman-Farber (Pearson Education, 2008), with Diana Almodovar; The Handbook of Child Language Disorders edited by R. Schwartz (Psychology Press, 2008); Early Childhood Special Education, 0 to 8 Years (Merrill, 2007), with Deena Bernstein.

Stephen Steinberg (Sociology) published Race Relations: A Critique (Stanford University Press, September 2007). The book was featured in the "Research & Books" column of the Chronicle of Higher Education in November 2007.

Deborah Walder (Psychology) published "Neurocognition and Conversion to Psychosis in Adolescents at High Risk", along with V. Mittal, H. Trotman, A.L. McMillan, and E.F. Walker, in Schizophrenia Research.

Henry Wasser (Sociology; Emeritus) and Solidelle Fortier published Higher Education in Europe and the United States of America: A Diverse Collection of Essays (University Press of America, 2007). Wasser is executive director of the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences.

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