Alumni Notes

ANTHROPOLOGY

Roberto Abadie (Anthropology, 2006) has a two-year post-doctoral position as Research Fellow at the Bioethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic. (posted 12-07)

Ana Aparicio (Anthropology, 2004) has published Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (University Press of Florida, 2006), a study of political activism among first- and second-generation Dominican-Americans in Manhattan's Washington Heights. (posted 6-06)

Ana Aparicio (Anthropology, 2004) accepted a position as assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern University  She is the author of Dominican Americans and the Politics of Empowerment (part of the New World Diasporas series edited by Kevin Yelvington, University Press of Florida, 2006), which received the 2006 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award Honorable Mention. She is also the co-editor of Immigrants, Welfare Reform and the Poverty of Policy (Greenwood, 2004). Currently she is working on a manuscript that focuses on the role of Latino youth in social and racial justice work. (posted 12-07)

Sylvia Atsalis (Anthropology, 1998), a primatologist at Chicago’s Brookfield Zoo, co-directed a research study on how female gorillas go through menopause. The results were written up in the January 3, 2006, Science Times section of the New York Times and on the National Geographic news website. The findings may not only improve the care of aging female gorillas but also shed light on the human female reproductive cycle. See alumna profile. (posted 3-06)

Karen Baab (Anthropology, 2007) has a two-year postdoctoral position at Stony Brook University starting in January 2008 in the Anatomical Science Department. (posted 12-07) 

Richard A. Bergl (Anthropology, 2006) is Curator of Conservation and Research, North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro, NC. (posted 12-07)

Sally S. Booth (Anthropology, 1997) teaches cultural history at the Ross School, East Hampton, NY. She is the recipient of the 2006 Cortney Sale Ross Award for teaching. She recently co-authored, with Jeffrey E. Cole (Anthropology, 1993) Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily (Lexington Books, 2007). (posted 12-07)

Julian Brash (Anthropology, 2006) is a tenure-track assistant professor of anthropology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Toledo, OH. (posted 12-07)

Terence Capellini (Anthropology, 2007) is working as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Licia Selleri at Cornell University Medical Center (studying Developmental Genetics) but will begin working in May, 2008 as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. David Kingsley at Stanford University (studying Evolutionary Developmental Biology). (posted 12-07)

Geraldine Casey (Anthropology, 2002), an assistant professor of anthropology at John Jay College, won a postdoctoral writing fellowship from the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, housed at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.  She was in residence in Montreal for the spring semester of 2006, working on a book manuscript under the direction of Nigel Rapport, Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Social Justice. (posted 6-06)

Elizabeth Chin (Anthropology, 1996), a professor of critical theory and social justice at Occidental College where she has been on the faculty for fourteen years, has been honored by the American Anthropology Association (AAA) with its prestigious Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. AAA, the world’s largest professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology, publishes nineteen peer-reviewed scholarly journals and conducts the largest annual meeting of anthropologist in the world. According to the association, Chin is being recognized for her role as an educator and mentor to students both inside and outside the classroom. A cultural anthropologist, she teaches courses concerned with children, the Caribbean (with emphasis on Haiti), consumerism, urban culture, and the anthropology of dance. She has led student groups on one study trip to Cuba and two to Haiti, developed a project to teach anthropological methods to fifth-graders, and designed curriculum for a gang intervention and prevention program. Her research topics include the consumer lives of inner city African American children, the cultural politics of the Barbie Doll, and traditional Haitian dance. She is now working with a professional company maintaining the legacy of Katherine Dunham, an African-American dancer who died recently. Chin has shared her views on anthropology and teaching through multiple commentaries on NPR’s “Tavis Smiley Show.” (See alumna profile.) (posted 12-07)

Jeffrey E. Cole (Anthropology, 1993) has been promoted to full professor of anthropology at Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, and currently serves as chair of the division of social sciences. He recently co-authored, with Sally S. Booth (Anthropology, 1997) Dirty Work: Immigrants in Domestic Service, Agriculture, and Prostitution in Sicily (Lexington Books, 2007). (posted 12-07)

Walter A. Ewing (Anthropology, 1997), a research associate at the Immigration Policy Center, published “Beyond Border Enforcement: Enhancing National Security Through Immigration Reform,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. V: 427. (posted 12-07)

Alcira Forero-Pena (Anthropology, 2004) has been teaching and doing research as a visiting professor at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG) for almost a year thanks to a Fulbright Scholar Grant (2006-07). In spring 2007 she devoted her time exclusively to conducting ethnographic research on the "Pan-Maya Movement," particularly on how, why, and when Guatemala indigenous women are articulated in this Movement. Her research looks at the role of education, broadly understood, and that of social practices and ideologies that may empower or challenge particular women and women's movements to exercise their agency as full human beings, citizens, and women. All this, in the light of more than ten years of the signature of the Peace Agreements that put an end to the horrific civil war that Guatemalans endured and amidst a climate of violence that has targeted mostly women, the poor, and the indigenous population. She has given a few lectures on "Interculturalidad" (interculturality), gender equality, and education reform at UVG's branch in the Highlands/Altiplano to mostly indigenous students of the area. (posted 5-07)

Ann Golob (Anthropology, 1982) was named the new LI Index director at Rauch, a group whose research has been the driving force behind public policy in recent years. (posted 6-06)

Reiko Mastuda Goodwin (Anthropology, 2007), a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan, collaborates with informatics scientists and epidemiologists on a project called “BioCaster," which alerts the general public regarding outbreaks of various infectious diseases in the world. She is also a scientist-in-residence in the Anthropology Department, Lehman College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Johanna Gorelick (Anthropology, 2005) is manager of public programs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, located in the former United States Custom House in Lower Manhattan. Dr. Gorelick was mentioned in "Finding Beauty in Usefulness" (New York Times, Friday, September 22, 2006) a review of the opening of the Diker Pavilion for Native Arts and Cultures at the museum's George Gustav Heye Center; Dr. Gorelick selected seventy-seven examples of objects from the museum's collection for the cases in the Diker Pavilion: clothing, tools, musical instruments, games and sports equipment, masks, and pottery representing cultures throughout the Western hemisphere. (posted 11-06)

Katerina Harvati (Anthropology, 2001), was the subject of recent reports in the Greek daily press, including an interview with the Sunday magazine of the Kathimerini newspaper. International news organizations (Aol, Yahoo, MSN, USA Today) also reported on a paper Dr. Harvati and the Max Planck Institute team published in the Journal of Archeological Science. The subject of the paper was their discovery of a 40,000-year-old tooth that gives proof of Neanderthal mobility. The Neanderthal tooth was discovered on the Lakonis archeological site in Greece, where Dr. Harvati has been working since her days as a graduate student. (posted 2-08) In January, Dr. Harvati, along with an international team of scientists, was recognized by Time. The magazine named the team's recent research on the Hofmeyr early modern human fossil from S. Africa as one of the top ten scientific discoveries of 2007. The international team of scientists published their report, "Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa, and Modern Human Origins" in Science 315:5809 (12 January 2007): 226 — 229. A report can also be read in Science Daily. (posted 1-08) Harvati is adjunct associate professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center and senior researcher, department of human evolution, Max-Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, German, was invited, with Eric Delson, professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center and Lehman College, to write a News & Views commentary for Nature about an article reporting new dates for the last known Neanderthals in Europe. They were interviewed about this work by the New York Times, Science, Associated Press, Reuters, New Scientist, NPR (All Things Considered), Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the WHYfiles (University of Wisconsin online), Bloomberg news, CNN Radio, LiveScience (online) and other media outlets. Dr. Harvati's book Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives (co-edited with T. Harrison of NYU) will appear later this year in the book series Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (Springer), edited by Dr. Delson and Ross MacPhee, adjunct professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center, and curator in the department of mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History. (See alumna profile) (posted 9-06)

Patty Kelly (Anthropology, 2002), an assistant professor of anthropology at George Washington University, had an editorial appear in the Los Angeles Times on March 13, 2008: “Legalize prostitution: Paying for sex is common. Mexico has decriminalized it. So should the U.S.” (posted 4/7/08) In her ethnographic study Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel (University of California Press, 2008), she examines the personal histories and experiences of women who work in the Zona Galactica, a state-run brothel in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital city of Chiapas. By delving into the lives that would otherwise go unnoticed, Kelly documents the modernization of the sex industry in the city of Tuxtla during the neoliberal era and illustrates how state-regulated sex became part of a broader effort by the government officials to bring modernity to Chiapas, one of Mexico’s poorest and most conflict-laden states. (posted 3-08)

Larisa Honey (Anthropology, 2006) is visiting assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Lehman College, since the fall 2007 semester. (posted 12-07)

Erin Martineau (Anthropology, 2006) is Associate for Teaching, Learning, and Research in the Office of Undergraduate Education, CUNY Central Office (80th Street). (posted 12-07)

Shannon McFarlin (Anthropology, 2006) has a position as a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology at George Washington University. (posted 12-07)

Cameron L. McNeil (Anthropology, 2006) received the 2008 Mary W. Klinger Book Award from the Society for Economic Botany for Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A Cultural History of Cacao (University of Florida Press, 2007), an edited volume on cacao that she put together while a graduate student. Dr. Daniel F. Austin, Chair of the Awards Committee, said "Even for those of us who are addicted to chocolate, this book opens welcome new vistas. While many of us have worked in forests with wild Theobroma, and in areas of cultivation, most of us have a limited exposure to the cultural history of the plants. By bringing together distinct fields into one single resource, Dr. McNeil has done everyone a great service. The story of chocolate is as savory as the product!" The Mary W. Klinger Book Award was established in 1996 and is annually awarded by the Society for an outstanding book publication. The Society for Economic Botany is the largest international scientific organization fostering and encouraging research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people. (posted 4/7/08)

Charles Menzies (Anthropology, 1998), a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia, has founded New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry. The first issue (December 2007) will emphasize alternative development programs for indigenous people. June Nash, a distinguished professor emeritus of anthropology at the Graduate Center, has contributed an article "Development to Unite Us: Autonomy and Multicultural Coexistence in Chiapas and Guatemala" and the cover will depict a Guatemalan woman development officer in Cantgel, Guatemala, whom Dr. Nash interviewed for the article. Like many anthropology alumni, Dr. Menzies takes an activist approach to his research, addressing such issues as Native American rights to fisheries and other resources. (posted 12-07) Dr. Menzies, coauthor of BC First Nations Studies, is editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Natural Resource Management (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2006). The book examines how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is taught and practiced today among Native communities and highlights the different ways of seeing and engaging with the natural world. (posted 6-06)

Jonathan Holt Shannon (Anthropology, 2001), assistant professor at Hunter College, published Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria (Wesleyan University Press, 2006) in which he explores how music in Syria shapes debates about Arab society and culture. He was the recipient of the 2001 Malcolm H. Kerr Award for Outstanding Dissertation in the Social Sciences. (posted 6-06)

Lawrence F. Van Horn (Anthropology, 1977) was awarded, on April 28, 2007, the prestigious Omer C. Stewart Memorial Award for "exemplary achievement" by the High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology. Dr. Van Horn is the fifteenth annual recipient of this award, which recognizes his current editorship of the internationally known journal, Applied Anthropologist, his book reviews and articles in various professional anthropological journals, and his ethnographic reports over the years as a U.S. National Park Service anthropologist of American Indians, African Americans, and other groups with cultural heritage links to what are now units of the National Park System. A long-time anthropology professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Omer Stewart (1908–91) was a pioneer in applied anthropology. (posted 12-07)

David Vine (Anthropology, 2006) began as a tenure-track assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, American University, in September 2007. (posted 12-07)

Ara Wilson (Anthropology, 1997) was appointed an associate professor with tenure in women's studies at Duke University, where she is the director of Sexuality Studies, a certificate progam in women's studies. She took up this appointment in fall 2006. (posted 3-07)

Jarrett Zigon (Anthropology, 2006) has a three-year postdoctoral fellowship, Max Plank Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany until January 2009. (posted 12-07)

ART HISTORY

Benjamin Buchloh (Art History, 1994) joined Harvard’s History of Art and Architecture faculty in 2005 as Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art. He was the subject of a feature in the Harvard Gazette (October 27), titled “‘The Caesura of Civilization’: Why did visual arts ignore WWII Holocaust?” (posted 3-06)

John Cauman (Art History, 2000), Beth S. Gersh-Nesic (Art History, 1989), and Francis Naumann (Art History, 1988), collaborated on the exhibition “The Demoiselles Revisited”—twenty-four contemporary works of art by artists who were inspired by or who appropriated Picasso’s masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907). The exhibition celebrated the 100th birthday of the painting and took place at Francis Naumann Fine Art, 22 East 80 Street, New York City, from November 16 through December 21, 2007. Dr. Naumann curated the show, Dr. Gersh-Nesic wrote the catalogue essay, and Dr. Cauman edited the essay. (posted 12-07)

Susan Chevlowe (Art History, 2003) has joined the Hebrew Home at Riverdale as chief curator and museum director, effective March 3, 2008. In her role, she will manage and enhance the Home’s contemporary art collection, and curate exhibitions of new work and rotating installations of the Home’s donated works throughout its nineteen-acre facility. In addition, she will direct all operational aspects of the Judaica Museum. Chevlow will continue to teach at as an adjunct assistant professor in the Jewish Art and Visual Culture program at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. A former associate curator at the Jewish Museum, New York, Chevlowe has organized numerous exhibitions since the 1990s, including Painting a Place in America: Jewish Artists in New York, co-organized with Norman L. Kleeblatt; Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn, 1936-1962; Paris in New York: French Jewish Artists in Private Collections; Ben Katchor: Picture-Stories; and most recently The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography, featuring commissioned projects by thirteen important contemporary artists.The show traveled to the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Chevlowe has spoken on numerous panels and actively participates in conferences nationwide including the annual conference of the Association for Jewish Studies; the Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion, Center for Religion and Media, New York University; and No Direction Home: Re-imagining Jewish Geography at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.Chevlowe was awarded the 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title and the 1992 National Jewish Book Award. She serves as a member on the editorial advisory board for the Posen Library of Jewish Culture, the Association for Jewish Studies, the College Art Association, and of the gallery committee for the Synagogue of the Arts. (posted 3-08)

Margaret C. Conrads (Art History, 1999), the Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, has recently completed a major reinstallation of the Museum's American art collection as part of their acclaimed expansion project. Now, reflecting more than twenty years of research, she is the lead author and co-editor of a two-volume scholarly catalogue, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (published by the Museum and University of Washington Press, 2007). To celebrate this achievement and also to share the team’s discoveries with the scholarly community and the interested public, she organized a one-day symposium on October 20 that brought together leading experts on specific painters in the collection. (posted 12-07)

David Dearinger (Art History, 1993), a curator of paintings and sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum, spoke in February before New York’s Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America. His topic concerned American writers who contributed to art criticism in the decades prior to the Civil War. (posted 3-07)

Virginia Fabbri Butera (Art History, 2002), chairperson of the art department and associate professor of art history at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morristown, NJ, received tenure in Spring of 2006 and has been appointed the director of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery at the college. (posted 5-07)

Lisa E. Farrington (Art History, 1997), author, art historian, curator, and faculty member for over ten years at Parsons’ New School for Design, published Creating Their Own Image (Oxford University Press 2005), the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day, including the fertile period of the Harlem Renaissance, the "New Negro Movement," and the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights Movement. The book also explores more recent stylistic developments, such as abstraction, conceptualism, and post-modernism. Dr. Farrington has served on the staffs of the National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Marlborough Gallery, and has curated exhibitions on Haitian art and women’s art for the City University of New York, on fine art quilts for the U.S. State Department, and on African-American art for Parsons. In 2004 she also published a monograph on the artist Faith Ringgold (Pomegranate). (posted 3-07)

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic (Art History, 1989) published André Salmon on French Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2005), a translation of Salmon's La jeune peinture française and La jeune sculpture française with introduction and annotation. Dr. Gersh-Nesic and Prof. Jacqueline Gojard, of the University of Paris, Sorbonne III, provide further information on André Salmon at www.andresalmon.org. Dr Gersh-Nesic is director of the arts education service, New York Arts Exchange, and coordinator of public affairs for the Alliance Française de Westchester. She teaches art history for the School of Liberal Studies at Purchase College and for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at NYU. (posted 9-06)

Hayden Herrera (Art History, 1981) co-curated “Frida Kahlo,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Elizabeth Carpenter of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. A distillation of a Kahlo centennial in Mexico City during summer 2007, the show displays forty-two of Kahlo’s small number of surviving paintings and a slew of photographs and will be in Philadelphia through May 18, 2008, then travels to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 14 – Sept. 28, 2008. Holland Cotter’s review of the exhibition, “The People’s Artist, Herself a Work of Art,” appeared in the New York Times on February 29, 2008. (posted 3-08)

Karen Y. Lemmey (Art History, 2005) spoke in April, 2006, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, on “The First African American on a Public Monument? H.K. Brown's ‘negro ... so truthfully rendered’.”  Her talk addressed the presence of an African American man on the front panel of an 1853 monument she discovered in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, while doing research for her dissertation on the sculptor Henry Kirke Brown. One of the first cast-bronze monuments in the U.S., it honors the resting place of DeWitt Clinton, a former New York mayor and governor credited with the construction of the Erie Canal. Dr. Lemmey is an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow in the Gallery’s Department of Sculpture. Her talk was the subject of a lengthy article in New York’s The Sun on April 2, 2006. (posted 6-06)

Lowery Stokes Sims (Art History, 1995), former president of the Studio Museum in Harlem, was named one of three advisers to the $2.5 million New York City Cultural Innovation Fund to promote new directions in the arts. Grants from $50,000 to $250,000 will be awarded for new creative work in the visual, performing, and media arts that demonstrates an engagement with the issues shaping New York City’s future cultural and civic agenda. The projects will involve partnerships that connect cultural institutions with universities and the private sector, or that present new solutions for longstanding limitations on cultural expansion. (posted 8-07) She was selected by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland to curate an exhibition of art from CMA's permanent collection that will be shown in MOCA's main gallery space June 2-Aug. 20, 2006. Sims’ task demands that she select pieces to display from CMA's 40,000 artworks. (posted 3-07)

Michele White (Art History, 1999) is an assistant professor of new media studies in the department of communication at Tulane University. Her book, The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship, was published with MIT Press in 2006. (posted 9-06)

BIOCHEMISTRY

Richard Magliozzo (Biochemistry, 1981) is a full professor at Brooklyn College and is a member of the doctoral faculties in chemistry and biochemistry at the Graduate Center. He has a major grant from the National Institutes of Health ($1.7M) to study the physical biochemistry of a heme enzyme that is important in the treatment of TB infection and is critical to understanding the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. (posted 12-07)

Ira Schwartz (Biochemistry, 1975) was elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology, whose mission is to recognize scientific excellence and foster knowledge and understanding in the microbiological sciences. (posted 3-07)

Danyal B. Syed (Biochemistry, 1986) won the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) International Travel Fellowship. Dr. Syed is a consultant and laboratory director at William F. Ryan Community Health Center in New York City. A member of the AACC for the past twenty-eight years, Dr. Syed has served the New York Metro Section as chair, member of the executive board, and chair of the education committee. He has also served the Clinical Ligand Assay Society (CLAS) as president of the New York Metro Chapter and on the national board. He is a life member of the Pakistan Society of Chemical Pathologists. Dr. Syed plans to travel to his native Pakistan to visit public and private clinical laboratories in both urban and rural settings, to assess the quality of testing, and to promote the concepts of total quality management. He will also explore the possibility of starting a postdoctoral fellowship program in clinical chemistry at the University of Health Sciences in Lahore. (posted 8-07)

BIOLOGY

Maureen J. Charron (Biology, 1987), renowned in the field of diabetes research, is a professor in the Departments of Biochemistry, of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health, and of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx. (posted 12-07)

Katherine Cohen (formerly Qi Cheng) (Biology, 1992) is Vice President of Intercell AG, Vienna, a leading International biotech company. At Intercell she is responsible for Corporate Development and Intellectual Property. Her areas of competence include M&A, business development, licensing as well as strategic planning and global IP protections. Dr. Cohen is an Honorary Professor at University of Applied Sciences, Austria and also a qualified European Patent Attorney. The subject of her dissertation at CUNY was molecular genetics. (posted 12-07)

Jorge A. Garces (Biology, 1996), in April 2006, was appointed vice president of product and platform development at Third Wave Technologies Inc., Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Garces joined the company in October 2005 from Genzyme Genetics where, as director of molecular research and development, he oversaw the technology and product development activities of laboratory staff in New York, Los Angeles, and Westborough, MA. Prior to that, he worked as an associate product manager and research and development scientist at Athena Diagnostics, and served at Proteome Inc. (posted 6-06)

Jorge Morales (Biology, 2005) is manager of the Electron Microscopy Center facility at City College, CUNY. (posted 12-07)

Caihong Qiu (Biology, 2004), after postdoctoral work at Einstein College of Medicine, has a position as technical director of the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Core Laboratory at the new Yale Stem Cell Center facility, Yale School of Medicine. (posted 12-07)

Richard Sorrentino (Biology, 2002), is an instructor at the University at Guyana. Until summer 2007 he was doing postdoctoral work at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston. (posted 12-07)

Zev Stern (Biology, 1986) published a review of Not By Chance! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution by Lee M Spetner (NY: Judaica Press, 1998) in Reports of the National Council on Science Education, a group that defends teachers and teaching of evolution in U.S. public schools. Dr. Stern’s doctoral and postdoctoral research focused on alcohol metabolism. He has been teaching high school biology in the New York City public schools for seventeen years. His primary interests are biochemistry and physiology of exercise, and, because of his religious background and practice, he has developed a side interest in evolutionary theory and its teaching.(posted 12-07)

Lu Zhimin (Biology, 1998), after doing a postdoctorate with Tony Hunter at the Salk Institute, is assistant professor at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston. (posted 12-07)

BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Douglas G. Perry (Biomedical Sciences, 1991), formerly professor of informatics and associate dean for graduate studies and research in the Indiana University School of Informatics, was appointed as founding dean of the College of Informatics at Northern Kentucky University. (posted 3-07)

BUSINESS

Lewis J. Altfest (Business, 1978) President of the respected financial and investment firm L.J Altfest & Co., outlined the approach his company takes to creating highly diversified portfolios in “Dialing Down Risk,” Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2008. In addition, he was quoted in “Advisers disagree on gold’s portfolio share,” Investment News; and featured in “Another year, another set of unknowns beckons and lurks,” International Herald Tribune. He was named one of the Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors in the U.S. by Barron’s as well as by Reuters, and L.J. Altfest & Co. was named one of the top firms in the country by Wealth Manager and Financial Advisor magazines. (posted 2-08) Lewis Altfest is the recipient of the coveted 2007 Charles R. Schwab IMPACT Award. According to Schwab Institutional, this prestigious award, which is determined by a panel of distinguished judges from across the financial services industry and which is open to all eligible independent advisors in the industry, “honors an individual trailblazer whose sustained vision, outstanding leadership, client commitment, and community engagement clearly demonstrate the value of independent investment advice.” Lew started his independent financial advisory firm in 1983 because he wanted a closer relationship with clients based on putting their interests first. He quickly became a leader in the industry, championing fee-only advising not only through his own firm but through teaching, writing, and helping to develop the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors. He also developed the investment management system called TPMTM (Total Portfolio Management) and is often cited as one of the leading financial advisors in the U.S. For Lew, the IMPACT award is a testament to his passion for the business and the improvements it can bring to people’s lives. (posted 12-07) Altfest was featured on PBS's Consuelo Mack WealthTrack in July 2006, where he discussed "What Kind of Investment Portfolio is Right for These Uncertain Times." (posted 9-06) He also has received the 2006 Career Achievement Award from City College of New York. For his integral role in the development of the Financial Planning profession, The Business and Economics Alumni Society chose him as this year’s honorary award recipient. (posted 6-06)

Harvey Blumberg (Business, 1975) was honored with a Ph.D. Alumni Association 2008 Alumni Achievement Award on May 7, 2008. A professor at Montclair State University for the past thirty years, he served as chairman of the Department of Finance and Quantitative Methods. He has also served as consultant for private firms and government agencies, including New York City Fire Department, as expert witness in substantial litigation proceedings, and took part in a research study for New York State’s Division of Human Rights. Among his impressive list of publications is a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management, “Differences in Perceived Future Salary Levels by Male vs. Female Graduating Seniors.” Often quoted, it served as a wake-up call to both college administrators as well as to Human Resources personnel. (posted 4-08)

Alex Huang (Business, 2001) is CEO of Thermos, a global manufacturer of innovative insulated products, including food and beverage containers, soft coolers, and lunch kits.(posted 6-06)

Nora J. Rifon (Ph. D., Business, 1989) was promoted to professor of advertising at Michigan State University. This year she was awarded a $50,000 grant from Microsoft Research to study online privacy- and security-related behaviors in teens. The Microsoft research project is an extension of her work funded by a $400,000 CyberTrust award from the National Science Foundation, CISE division. Her recent work on Internet safety and privacy appears in the Journal of Consumer Affairs, Communications of the ACM, and Government Information Quarterly. (posted 9-06)

CHEMISTRY

Garo Armen (Chemistry, 1980), Chairman and CEO of Antigenics, was awarded the 2006 Albert B. Sabin Humanitarian Award by the Sabin Vaccine Institute. These annual awards honor individuals for their extraordinary contributions in alleviating human suffering. Antigenics is a biotechnology company working to develop treatments for cancers, infectious diseases, and autoimmune disorders. Dr. Armen cofounded Antigenics in 1994 with Pramod K. Srivastava, Ph.D. He is also the founder and chairman of the Children of Armenia Fund, a charitable organization established in 2000 that is dedicated to the positive development of the children and youth of Armenia. From mid-2002 through 2004, Dr. Armen also served as chairman of the board of directors of the pharmaceutical company Elan Corporation. (posted 9-06)

Charles J. Cante, (Chemistry, 1967) was promoted to Associate Dean and MBA Program Director for the Hagan School of Business at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. (posted 3-06)

Michael Dong (Chemistry, 1977), formerly Research Fellow/Group Leader at Purdue Pharma, is now Research Director at Synomics Pharma, Wareham, MA. He pioneered Fast LC and has over eighty publications in chromatography and analytical chemistry. He authored Modern HPLC for practicing scientists (Wiley, 2006) and co-edited Handbook of Pharmaceutical Analysis by HPLC(Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005), a concise reference guide used in the pharmaceutical industry on high-pressure liquid chromatography. (posted 3-07)

Myron Feinstein (Chemistry, 1967) has recently been appointed Director of Strategic Planning for the Motor Vehicle Commission of the State of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ. (posted 3-07)

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Fazia Aitel (Comparative Literature, 2004) began a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Montana—Missoula in 2004. She teaches courses in comparative literature, twentieth-century Francophone literature, Anglophone literature, postcolonial studies, and film studies. (posted 12-07)

Francesca Cadel (Comparative Literature, 2002) is an assistant professor of Italian at Yale University and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Italian. The author of several scholarly articles and a book La lingua dei desideri. Il dialetto secondo Pier Paolo Pasolini (Lecce: Manni Editore, 2002), she is currently teaching undergraduate courses on twentieth-century Italian literature while writing a book on the Italian cultural landscape in Ezra Pound's poetry. (posted 12-07)

Monica Calabritto (Comparative Literature, 2001) is an assistant professor in the Department of Italian Languages and Literatures, Hunter College. Her current research deals with the representation and perception of madness and deviance in early modern Italy. Her approach to madness is multidisciplinary, as she analyzes the notion of madness and its manifestations through medical and literary texts, and legal and social documents of the period. She is the review editor for H-Italy, an online journal that offers scholars a central source of information on Italian history. (posted 12-07)

Thomas J. Carabas (Comparative Literature, 1978), who uses the pen name E. D. Karampetsos, has published extensively on Greek subject matter. Forthcoming are On the Way to Ithaca (Pella Publishing) and a translation of "God's Dog" by Nanos Valaoritis in The Charioteer. His recent articles, essays, and fiction include "The Greeks" (with Stavros Anthony), in The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces (2005); and "Preface" and "Kyra Irini" in The Charioteer 43 (2005). In 2005 and summer 2006 he made presentations at the International Symposium of Philosophy, the joint conference of the National Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, and the Far West Popular and American Culture Associations. (posted 11-06)

Paolo Dal Ben (Comparative Literature, 2001), an adjunct professor on the faculty of arts and philosophy at the University of Verona, is teaching a class on the theory and techniques of multimedia journalism. (posted 12-07)

Giovanna DeLuca (Comparative Literature, 2002) has had a tenure-track appointment as an assistant professor of Italian at the College of Charleston (South Carolina) since 2004. Her focus is modern and contemporary Italian literature, Italian and French cinema after World War 2, comparative literature, literary and film theory, and cultural studies. Her articles have appeared in Filmcritica, Film Comment, Quaderni d'Italianistica, and Italica. She also authored four encyclopedia entries for the Encyclopedia of Italian Studies (Routledge) and is currently working on a book, Il punto di vista infantile nel cinema italiano e francese: nuove prospettive, which considers the role of the child in Italian and French cinema (Liguori Editore, 2008). Since her appointment in 2004, she has organized two festivals of Italian film, edited five editions of the Italian students’ magazine Giornalino Italiano, and taught intermediate- and advanced-level courses of Italian language, Italian cinema (New Italian Cinema, Southern Italian Cinema) and literature (Italian Novella). (posted 12-07)

Earl E. Fitz (Comparative Literature, 1977), a recipient of a 2006 Alumni Achievement Award and a professor at Vanderbilt University, is co-author of Translation and the Rise of Inter-American Literature (University Press of Florida, 2007).The book is dedicated to and includes a chapter about CUNY Distinguished Professor Gregory Rabassa. Dr. Fitz's co-author is Dr. Elizabeth Lowe, also a graduate of the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature. (posted 1-08) Dr. Fitz was named a 2006 Alumni Fellow by the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. (posted 9-06)

Soledad Fox (Comparative Literature, 2001) is an associate professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. Recent publications include Constancia de la Mora in War and Exile: International Voice for the Spanish Republic, (Sussex Academic Press, 2006); “Análisis de Para una crítica de la violencia de Walter Benjamin,” Cultura Moderna. (Editorial Doble J, Sevilla) N.3. (2006); and “Flaubert, Don Quijote, and the Art of Imitation,” The New England Review 27:4 (2006). (posted 12-07)

David Goldfarb (Comparative Literature, 1999) has given many papers in the United States and Europe on Russian and Polish literature. He has also published widely on the subject, including most recently the introduction to Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (Penguin Classics, 2008); introduction and notes to Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (Barnes and Noble Classics, 2007); introduction and notes to Leo Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych” and Other Stories (Barnes and Noble Classics, 2004); “Gogol’s Cornucopia: Dead Souls and Arcimboldo,” American Contributions to the International Congress of Slavists, in Slavica (2003); “Gombrowicz’s Binoculars: The View from Abroad,” Framing the Polish Home (Ohio University Press, 2001); and “Expressionism and the Visual in Józef Wittlin’s Hymn of Hatred,” Between Lvov, New York, and Ulysses’ Ithaca. Józef Wittlin—Poet, Essayist, Novelist (Nicholas Copernicus University and Columbia University, 2001). Dr. Goldfarb began teaching in 1992 at Queens College, Hunter College, and New York University. From 1998-2007 he was an assistant professor in the Slavic Department at Barnard College, Columbia University. At the present time, he is teaching courses in Russian and East European culture at the Freie Universität Berlin. (posted 12-07)

Anja Grothe (Comparative Literature, 2000) is a project manager at Tivola Publishing, Munich, Germany. The German-based company has offices in New York, London, and Berlin. They produce a wide range of innovative interactive CD Roms that stimulate a child's curiosity, while encouraging smart play. The company has developed six distinct categories of software: Play and Learn, The World Around Us, Quest for Knowledge, Stories and Adventures, Crimes and Clues, and Games for Fun. (posted 12-07)

Max Henninger (Comparative Literature, 2004) has been living in Berlin since 2005, where he works as a translator. He has published in journals such as Pli, Italica, Annali d'italianistica, Italian Culture, and in edited volumes such as Stato di eccezione: Cultural Responses to the Rhetoric of Fear (edited by Elena Bellina and Paola Bonifazio, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle 2006) and Letteratura italiana degli Sessanta e Settanta (edited by Gillian Ania and John Butcher, Dante & Descartes, Naples 2007). He has also translated Nanni Balestrini's most recent novel Sandokan. Storia di Camorra into German (Assoziation A, Berlin 2007) and co-edited (with Giuseppina Mecchia and Timothy S. Murphy) a special issue of the journal Substance on contemporary French and Italian theory (#112). He is currently involved in several book projects: one on 1980s Italian cinema, one on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s throughout the world, and one on current debates in labor history. (posted 12-07)

Phyllida K. Link (Comparative Literature, M.A., 1987) has been a professor at St. Peter’s College, Jersey City, since 1986. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women 2006-07, 2007-08, Who’s Who in American Art (2007-08), Who’s Who in America, 2007, and Who’s Who in the World 2007. (posted 5-07)

Federico Luisetti (Comparative Literature, 2001) is an assistant professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He offers courses on literary and cultural theory, film studies, Italian prose, and the avant-garde. He has written on modern encyclopedism, visual and cultural studies, literary theory, aesthetics, and modern Italian literature. Dr. Luisetti is currently writing a book on Henri Bergson’s epistemology, exploring the background of machine aesthetics and post-structuralism. (posted 12-07)

Nicola Minott-Ahl (Comparative Literature, 2003) joined the faculty of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, as an assistant professor of English in 2004. (posted 12-07)

María Cristina Rodríguez (Comparative Literature, 1979), Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico—Río Piedras, published What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers (Peter Lang, 2005). (posted 3-07)

María Cristina Rodríguez (Comparative Literature, 1979) is currently coordinator of graduate programs in the Collage of Humanities at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. In April 2006 she was visiting lecturer in the Toluca Campus of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEM) and the Taller de Teoría y Crítica Diana Morán in Mexico. (posted 5-07)

Michael Rothberg (Comparative Literature, 1995) is an associate professor of English and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign. In this position, he has been active in Teachers for Peace and Justice and co-organized the Working Group on Globalization and Empire. His teaching and research interests include critical theory and cultural studies, Holocaust studies, postcolonial studies, and contemporary American literature. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (University of Minnesota Press, 2000) and co-editor, with Neil Levi, of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (Rutgers University Press and Edinburgh University Press, 2003). He has contributed essays to Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community (University of Illinois Press, 2002), Trauma at Home: After 9/11 (University of Nebraska Press, 2003), and On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization, (SUNY Press, 2005). His articles in such journals as History and Memory, Cultural Critique, African American Review, and American Literary History range in subject matter from the writings of Toni Morrison and W.E.B. Du Bois to Holocaust video testimony and the sexual politics of fascism. He is currently completing a book entitled Multidirectional Memory: The Holocaust, Decolonization, and the Legacies of Violence. Selections from this book have appeared in The Yale Journal of Criticism, PMLA, and Critical Inquiry. (12-07)

Remy Roussetzki (Comparative Literature, 1999) is an associate professor of English at Hostos Community College and is on the doctoral faculty of the Ph.D. Program in French at the Graduate Center. His primary concentrations are 19th-century literature, comparative English and French Romanticism, aesthetics, and philosophy. His publications include articles in Criticism, A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts; Prose Studies, A Frank Cass Journal; Zeitsprunge, Early Modern Studies Journal; and Kritikos: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text, and Image. He presented a paper on Milton's Paradise Lost at the Jornadas da Escola de Causa Analitica (Rio De Janeiro) in summer 2001 and an essay on Rabelais at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference (Cleveland 2001). He is currently working on three books: a memoir in French and two novels in English. (posted 12-07)

Caroline Rupprecht (Comparative Literature, 1999), an associate professor of comparative literature at Queens College, published Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (Northwestern U. P., 2006). She taught a course at the Graduate Center in Spring 2007. (posted 3-07)

Caroline Rupprecht (Comparative Literature, 1998), an associate professor of comparative literature at Queens College, published Subject To Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (Northwestern University Press, 2005). She is the author of articles on Djuna Barnes, Henriette Hardenberg, and Unica Zürn; the English translation of Zürn’s novella, Dark Spring; and a short story. She is currently pursuing research for her second book, on “The Figure of the Itinerant Pregnant Woman in Post-War Western European Avantgarde Literature and Film.” Dr. Rupprecht is the recipient of the Carolyn G. Heilbrun Prize for Best Dissertation in Women’s Studies; and of the South Central Modern Language Association’s Prize for Best Paper in Gender Studies. She teaches avant-garde literature and drama; translation; gender studies; and the history of psychoanalysis. And, she has been nominated twice for the Queens College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. (posted 12-07)

CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Mary Cuadrado (Criminal Justice 1997) founded and is the new director of the Hispanic Addictions Studies Program, University of South Florida Sarasota/Manatee. This program was created with Louis Lieberman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. (posted 3-07)

Joseph King (Criminal Justice, 1999) was awarded an Academic Fellowship from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. The fellowship covers all costs for travel and related expenses to Israel and provides access to police and military and intelligence professionals in that country. Dr. King worked in a variety of undercover assignments and served as Special Agent, U.S. Customs Service, in numerous command capacities, until his retirement in 2003. He has received thirty-nine citations for bravery and meritorious conduct. (posted 11-06)

Joseph F. King (Criminal Justice, 1999), an associate professor at John Jay College, has been honored with the 2006 Adele Mellen Prize “for distinguished contribution to scholarship” for his book, The Development of Modern Police History in the United Kingdom and the United States (Mellen Press, 2004). Mellen Press, a subsidiary of the Mellen Foundation, awards this prize annually for academic scholarship in the United Kingdom and the USA. (posted 3-07)

Abby Stein (Criminal Justice, 2000), who teaches in the interdisciplinary studies program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, published Prologue to Violence: Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime (The Analytic Press, Inc., an imprint of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). Her article, "An octopus in the bathtub: The slippery nature of female sex offending," appears in the sixth issue of Sex Offender Law Report, volume 7. On November 16, 2006, she will present a paper entitled "Maximum Perversion" to the Sexual Abuse Service of the White Clinic. In addition to teaching at John Jay, Dr. Stein is currently a postdoctoral fellow, seeing patients at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. (posted 11-06)

EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Sue Catherine Grady (Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2005) assumed a position as assistant professor of geography at Michigan State University in August 2006. (posted 3-07)

Sue Grady (Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2005) is an assistant professor of geography at Michigan State University. (posted 12-07)

David J. Verardo (Earth and Environmental Sciences, 1992) is Paleoclimate Program Director, Lower Atmosphere Research Section, Directorate for Geosciences, National Science Foundation and an Environmental Scientist for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II Technical Support Unit, Washington, D.C. (posted 12-07)

ECONOMICS

Frank Braconi (Economics, 2001), chief economist for the New York City's Comptroller's Office and formerly executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, was quoted several times in the New York Times with regard to NYC's housing and transportation policies. (See alumnus profile.) (posted 9-06)

John Bridges (Economics, 2002), Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany, recently received the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Bernie O’Brien New Investigator Award. As of July 1, 2006, he will assume a position as Assistant Professor of Health Economics at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. (posted 6-06)

Frank J. Fabozzi (Economics, 1972) has been appointed Professor in the Practice of Finance in the School of Management at Yale University and will be the recipient of the 2007 C. Stewart Sheppard Award given by the CFA Institute. His recently published books include Financial Econometrics: From Basics to Advanced Modeling Techniques (Wiley 2007), Financial Modeling of the Equity Market: From CAPM to Cointegration (Wiley, 2006), Introduction to Structured Finance (Wiley, 2006), Collateralized Debt Obligations: Structures and Analysis (Wiley 2006), and Trends in Quantitative Finance (Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, 2006). His book Robust Portfolio Optimization and Management will be published by Wiley in May 2007. He is a member of the Princeton University Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. (See alumnus profile.) (posted 3-07)

Susan Garavaglia (Economics, 1993) was appointed Senior Director of Outcomes Research, part of the Medical Affairs organization at Medco Health Solutions. (posted 9-06)

Sara Markowitz (Economics, 1998) was the author of "The Effectiveness of Cigarette Regulations in Reducing Cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome" (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12527). (posted 6-07)

H. Naci Mocan (Economics, 1989), an economist at Louisiana State University, was quoted in “Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate,” a front page article by Adam Liptak in the New York Times. (posted 12-07)

Nick Poulios (Economics, 1987) is now Vice President of Pricing and Reimbursement Strategy and Outcomes Research for Elan Pharmaceuticals in La Jolla, California. He also heads a musical-artistic production company in Los Angeles with two CDs published under his indie label Niko. (posted 3-07)

Richard J. Torz (Economics, 1993) an associate professor of economics at St. Joseph’s College, New York, participated in the 2007 Northeast Business and Economics Association (NBEA) Conference. At this conference, he organized, chaired, and along with various member of the EU-EMU Working Group, participated in two panel sessions on current issues and concerns regarding the recent and potential future expansion of the European Union (EU), the recent and potential future expansion of the economic and monetary union (EMU) with the EU, and the potential effects on the euro of the recent and any potential future expansion of both the EU and the EMU. (posted 4-08) As a result of his interest in European Union (EU) and European Monetary Union (EMU) issues, he recently organized the EU-EMU Working Group, which is comprised of academics from various colleges, universities, and organizations who all seek to engage in research on the EU and EMU. The group presents panel sessions on EU and EMU issues and concerns at a number of conferences during the year. (posted 12-07)

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Timothy Cleary (Educational Psychology, 2001) was awarded an Early Career Award of $9,051 from the Society for the Study of School Psychology (SSSP) for the period of July 1, 2007-June 30, 2008 to conduct a study entitled "Improving the Motivation and Academic Success of Urban Minority Youth: An Initial Investigation of the Efficacy of the Self-Regulation Empowerment Program (SREP).” (posted 6-07)

Amy Schmidt (Educational Psychology, 2000), as Executive Director of Higher Education Research, NYC College Board, oversees all the research efforts that involve the SAT Reasoning Test, the SAT Subject Tests, and the PSAT/NMSQT. She has served as a member of the board of directors of the Association of Test Publishers; and is an active member of the American Educational Research Association, the National Council on Measurement in Education, and the American Psychological Association. Her publications include journal articles and research reports on test score validity and score comparability, and book chapters on statistics used for college admission testing and on subgroup differences in test scores. (posted 3-07)

Irvin Schonfeld (Educational Psychology, 1980), a professor of Education and Psychology at City College, recently published a chapter in Handbook of Workplace Violence (Sage, 2006), covering the epidemiology, theories, and prevention of school violence. (posted 3-07)

Shiela Strauss (Educational Psychology, 1996) has been awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to conduct a series of workshops and seminars in Israel regarding the institutional response to the hepatitis C virus (HCV) among drug users. (posted 3-07)

Greta Winograd (Educational Psychology, 2005) received a 2007–08 Postdoctoral Research Grant from the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (Division 53 of the American Psychological Association) for $5,000 to study, "Childhood Emotional, Behavioral, & Learning Challenges and Adult Role Function/Attainment: I. Mental Health & School Service Use II. Home & School Environment." (posted 6-07)

ENGINEERING

Mewburn H. Humphrey (Engineering, 1977) was recently promoted to the senior executive position of Assistant Director in the new Project Management Department of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. (posted 11-06)

ENGLISH

Svetlena Bochman (English, 2005) accepted a position as Assistant Director, Writing Center, Stern College/Yeshiva University; she is also adjunct assistant professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. (posted 3-06)

Svetlana Bochman (English, 2005) is director of her own business, Bochman Tutoring, which does admissions consulting and provides help with graduate school exams (GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT). (posted 3-07)

Jonathan Burton (English, 1999), an associate professor of English at West Virginia University, published Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579-1624 (U. of Delaware Press, 2005) and co-edited a collection entitled Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion (Palgrave, August 2007). (posted 3-07)

Margaret Cezair-Thompson (English, 1990) won the first annual Essence Literary Award in Fiction for her novel The Pirate's Daughter (Unbridled Books, 2007), a sleeper hit of the fall season. The award is the latest in a string of kudos for this independent press title. The Pirate's Daughter was the number one Book Sense Pick for October 2007 and earned rave reviews from national publications such as People, The Washington Post, and USA Today, as well as from booksellers across the country. The paperback rights for the novel have been sold to Random House. Inspired by Hollywood star Errol Flynn’s accidental arrival in Jamaica in 1946, this lively novel spans two generations of women whose destinies become inextricably linked with the star. Cezair-Thompson tells the story of a vanished era, of uncommon kinships, forbidden passions, betrayal, and atonement in a paradisiacal, tropical setting as a mother and daughter find their way in a colonial nation that is struggling to rise to the challenge of independence. Margaret Cezair-Thompson is the author of an acclaimed previous novel, The True History of Paradise. Born in Jamaica, West Indies, she teaches literature and creative writing at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. (posted 2-08)

Robert M. Dowling (English, 2001), assistant professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, will publish a book based on his dissertation: Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem (University of Illinois Press, fall 2006). His Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work will be published in the fall of 2007. (posted 3-07)

Cheryl J. Fish (English, 1996), associate professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research in the area of environmental justice and North American studies at University of Tampere in Finland during the 2006–07 academic year. The focus of Fish's lectures abroad will be on eco-criticism and environmental policies through the examination of American novels and films that deal with environmental issues. Fish is one of approximately 800 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad to some 150 countries for the 2006–07 academic year through the Fulbright Scholar Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries. (posted 11-06)

Barbara Milberg Fisher (English, 1980), professor emeritus of English at the City College of New York, will have her memoir In Balanchine's Company: A Dancer's Memoir published (Wesleyan University Press, October 2006). Dr. Fisher draws on her 1946-58 years as a dancer with George Balanchine in whose company she rose from corps de ballet to soloist and lead dancer (Swan Lake, Illuminations). Upon retiring from dance at age thirty-one, she embarked on a career in English literature. (posted 9-06)

Daniel Gabriel (English, 1986), a member of PEN American Center and a part-time lecturer in the Livingston College Honors Program at Rutgers University, published Hart Crane and the Modernist Epic: Canon and Genre Formation in Crane, Pound, Eliot, and Williams (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007). Other published works include Sacco and Vanzetti and Columbus, both book-length poems on historical subjects. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry New York, Gnosis, and Gnosis Anthology, among others. Theatrical productions of his work include Sacco and Vanzetti, and the plays The Four Seasons of Salt, Exits, Snowbound, and The Fortunate Instant, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” He also contributed to “How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet?”: The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser (Palgrave, 2001). (posted 3-07)

Josh Gosciak (English, 2002) published his dissertation as a book, The Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians, (Rutgers University Press, 2006) in which he discusses the life and works of this complex poet, novelist, journalist, and short story writer who became one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance. (posted 3-07)

Lisa Green (English, 2002), an English teacher at the Masters School, a private secondary school in Dobbs Ferry, New York, published an essay in Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing, and Region (University of New Hampshire Press, 2007). (posted 12-07)

Brian Keener (English, 1995), professor and chair of the English Department, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, published John Updike's Human Comedy: Comic Morality in The Centaur and the Rabbit Novels (Peter Lang, 2005). Mr. Updike read the book and wrote Professor Keener a gracious letter describing it as "one of the best" critical works on him. (posted 3-07)

Amy Levin (English, 1989) is a professor of English at Northern Illinois University, where she also is director of Women's Studies and coordinator of Museum Studies. Although her academic homes—English and Women's Studies—are in the building directly behind the one where the shooting occurred during the week of February 11, 2008, she was not hurt. (posted 3-08)

Bennett Lovett-Graff (English, 1995) begins a new appointment as Publisher of Digital Initiatives at the National Archive Publishing Company, a business formed in November 2005 that helps major research institutions build digital libraries of their own. (posted 3-07)

Ian S. Maloney (English, 2004) was appointed assistant academic dean at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, New York. He continues to serve as an assistant professor of English. Dr. Maloney’s first book Melville’s Monumental Imagination was published by Routledge in 2006. He has contributed introductions to two new volumes for Barnes and Noble’s Library of Essential Reading: Herman Melville’s Israel Potter and Walt Whitman’s Specimen Days. (posted 12-07)

Michael Mandelkern (English, 1996) is dean of the Literature and Languages Division at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. (posted 6-06)

Douglas A. Martin (English, 2007), poet and novelist, is publishing a new collection of poetry, In the Time of Assignments (Soft Skull Press, March 15, 2008). Dr. Martin teaches writing in the MFA Writing Program at Goddard College and at the New School for Social Research. He has published two novels, Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother (2006) and Outline of My Lover (2000); a book of stories, They Change the Subject; and two earlier collections of poetry. His writing has been anthologized in SLAM; Bend, Don't Shatter; Dangerous Families: Queer Writing On Surviving; Best Gay Erotica (2000, 2002, 2003); and Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative. It has also been adapted in part by the Forsythe Company for their multimedia ballet and live film Kammer/Kammer, performed worldwide. Martin was interviewed by Lena Dunham, a filmmaker and creative writing student at Oberlin College, for Bookslut 69 (Feb 2008), an online literary journal. His dissertation, “When She Does What She Does: Intertextual Desire and Influence in Kathy Acker’s Narratives,” won the Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture. (posted 2-08)

D.H. Melhem (English, 1976) writer, activist, and educator, will be featured in four new poetry anthologies this year: Inclined to Speak (Univ. of Arkansas Press), Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton), Long Island Island Sounds (NSPS Press), and another forthcoming from Norton later this year. She has had poetry acceptances from And Then, Asbestos, and Big City Lit, with whom she celebrated the publication in a reading at Cornelia Street Cafe on March 19. Late last year her poetry appeared in Banipal and Offshoots, both published abroad. Her review-essay of Poems from Guantanamo, poetry written by detainees, appeared in the March issue of Socialism and Democracy, an internationally oriented scholarly journal. Her short novels, Stigma & The Cave (Syracuse University Press, 2007) will receive a review in the magazine's July 2008 issue. Other reviews appear in Home Planet News and American Book Review. (posted 4-08) D.H. Melhem had a number of activities in October: she read from her new book, Stigma & The Cave (two short novels) (Syracuse University Press, 2007) at Barnes & Noble, Long Beach, CA; spoke about writing and publishing the book at Scandinavia House as part of the IWWG Big Apple Conference; and gave a reading at a symposium on “The Status of the Artist and Writer in New York,” cosponsored by Pen & Brush, Inc. and the International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG). (posted 12-07)

Maggie Nelson (English, 2004), who is on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Valencia, California, published Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). The book covers collaborations between poets and painters in the 1950s and 1960s; the complex role played by the “true abstraction” of the feminine in the work of John Ashberry, Frank O’Hara, and James Schuyler; the intricate weave of verbal and visual arts throughout the postwar period, from Abstract Expressionism to Pop to Conceptualism to feminist and queer performance art; and the unfolding, diverse careers of women of the New York School—Bernadette Mayer, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles—from the 1970s to the present. Dr. Nelson has published several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes, and two nonfiction books. (posted 12-07)

Dr. Ruth Prigozy (English, 1969) and Jeanne Thomas Fuchs (French, 1977) co-edited Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend (University of Rochester Press, May 2007). (posted 4-08)

Diane Simmons (English, 1994), a professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, published The Narcissism of Empire:Loss, Rage and Revenge in the Works of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and Isak Dinesen (Sussex Academic Press, 2007). (posted 12-07)

Anya Taylor (English, 1970), professor emerita of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, recently published her fifth book, Erotic Coleridge: Women, Love, and the Law against Divorce (Palgrave, 2005). (posted 3-07)

Sylvia Tomasch (English, 1985), professor of English, Hunter College, completed a three-year term as Chair of the Hunter College English Department (2002-05) and has begun an appointment as Director of Academic Affairs of the CUNY Honors College. She is also 2006 Chair of the Executive Committee of the Chaucer Division of the Modern Language Association. (posted 3-07)

Steven Torres (English, 2002), an instructor of English at Manchester Community College, has published his fourth novel, Missing in Precinct Puerto Rico (St. Martins Press, 2006). (posted 9-06)

Barbara Ungar (English, 1995), an associate professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, won the Gival Press Poetry Award for her second full-length collection, The Origin of the Milky Way (Gival Press, 2007), which will be published in November 2007. (posted 12-07)

FRENCH

Davida Brautman (French, 1975) was honored with a Ph.D. Alumni Association 2008 Alumni Achievement Award on May 7, 2008. She has been teaching French literature at the Milburn High School of New Jersey. To her teaching duties involving teenagers, she has added adults at the Middlesex County College and other centers for adult education. After obtaining her degree, she was the recipient of several scholarships, one on French Africa and the other on Pierre Laval, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Vichy Government in France during World War II who was executed for treason. Earlier she had a scholarship at the University of Montreal and began an additional career, which has lasted until today, as a literary critic. She has published sixty book reviews, three movie reviews, and for ten years served an as assistant pedagogical editor for the French Review. In addition, she was the McGill French Children’s Book Critic, won the best teacher’s award from Tufts University and the University of Chicago, presented papers, such as “Women in French Literature,” in Quebec, Canada, “Sembène” in Lyons, France, and at several local conferences. To the literature she has added French Film Studies, and was in charge of “Les Cabotins,” a French theatre troupe she created. She was instrumental in bringing the National French Contest into the State of New Jersey and administered it for two decades. On the French AP Literature website, she is featured with fifteen movie and book critiques, as well as five articles on French literature. (posted 4-08)

Jeanne Thomas Fuchs (French, 1977) and Dr. Ruth Prigozy (English, 1969) co-edited Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend (University of Rochester Press, May 2007). Dr. Fuchs also presented a paper at the Graduate Center Symposium held on October 23, 2007, in honor of the late Professor Alex Szogyi: "Haute Cuisine and High Drama: Vatel, the Man and the Movie." (posted 4-08) Dr. Fuchs had an article on George Sand in the Lincoln Center Theater Review’s Fall/Winter, 2006, issue which was devoted to Tom Stoppard's trilogy The Coast of Utopia. (posted 3-07)

Alison Baird Lovell (French, 2005) held a two-year position as a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Stanford University and took an assistant professorship in the Department of Humanities and Classics at Ohio Wesleyan beginning Fall 2007. (posted 12-07)

Rosa Alvarez Perez (French, 2005), before she graduated, began working at Bryant University in the English and Cultural Studies Department, which includes all the modern foreign languages. She is lecturer and coordinator of the Language Program and has been in charge of developing language and culture courses across the languages. (posted 12-07)

Animesh Rai (French, 2007) was a visiting assistant professor of French at the Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania, during the 2006–07 academic year and is currently teaching in the Department of Foreign Languages at the College of Saint Rose in Albany. (posted 12-07)

Sami Repishti (French, 1977) delivered a lecture on "Jews in Albania, A Story of Survival" on February 21, 2007. The lecture is part of the Spring 2007 Holocaust Studies Program, organized jointly by the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Graduate Center. The author stressed the holocaust years and explained why, during WW II, every Jew in Albania was saved by the local population." (posted 8-07)

Adelia Williams (French, 1989) is a professor of modern languages and cultures, and associate dean for academic affairs at Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, NY. She has been teaching French, Italian, and interdisciplinary humanities courses at Pace since 1989. Her publications are in cross-disciplinary topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century studies, and in undergraduate general education and its assessment. Her most recent publication is “NSSE and the Pace University Sophomore-Experience Survey,” E-Source for College Transitions, National Resource Center on the First Year Experience and College Transitions, University of South Carolina 4:1 (September 2006): 1-3. (posted 5-07)

Dean Wilson (French, 2007) for the last few years has been working to set up a film studies program at the invitation of the Vietnamese government. He expects to continue there another two years. His title is Consultant to the Film Studies Program, Faculty of Literature, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi, Vietnam. (posted 12-07)

HISPANIC AND LUSO-BRAZILIAN LITERATURES AND LANGUAGES

Hilario Barrero (Hispanic and Luso-Brasilian Literatures and Languages, 2000) an associate professor at Borough of Manhattan Community College and the recipient of a 2005 Feliks Gross Endowment Award, is the editor and translator of Otherwise (Pre-textos, Valencia, Spain), a bilingual anthology with poems by Jane Kenyon. His is the first translation of Kenyon into Spanish. (posted 6-07)

Jésus S. Bottaro (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 2005), an assistant professor of literature and foreign languages at Medgar Evers College, published El Teatro Politico de Protesta Social en Venezuela, 1969–1979 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2008). The book examines the social and cultural causes of the decline in political theatre in Venezuela during the second half of the twentieth century. Bottaro focuses primarily on four representative plays: La trampa de los demonios (1977) by César Rengifo, La guerrita de Rosendo (1976) by Gilberto Pinto, La farra (1974) and La empresa perdona un momento de locura (1978) both by Rodolfo Santana. The forward was written by Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, distinguished professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at City College and the Graduate Center. (posted 3-08)

Susan Byrne (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages, 2004) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, beginning July 1, 2008. Currently an assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, her publications include: El Corpus Hermeticum y tres poetas españoles: Francisco de Aldana, fray Luis de León y San Juan de la Cruz (Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2007), as well as articles in a number of journals. She’s now working on legal and historical elements in the works of Miguel de Cervantes. (posted 3-08)

Carmen Fernández Klohe (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures, 1999), associate professor at St. John's University, has published a book, Rosa Chacel y las artes plásticas (Lewiston and Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006). (posted 6-06)

Dolores M. Koch (Spanish, 1986) is an independent scholar and literary translator. She has co-written, with the composer Jorge Martin, the libretto of Before Night Falls, an opera based on the memoirs of the same title by the novelist Reinaldo Arenas, which she translated into English (Viking 1993) and which was filmed by Julian Schnabel (2000). Her translation into English of Luis Miguel Rocha’s novel La muerte del Papa (Madrid: Santillana 1986) will be published in the U.S. as "The Last Pope" (Putnam 2008).