FYIs

Dr. Suzanne van der Feest &  Evgeniya Maryutina (GC Ling. 2021 MA), Valerie Shafer, et al. will present their work, “Perceptual and acoustic correlates of central vowels in Russian-English and Spanish-English bilingual children: The role of input frequency” at the 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development in November.

Best wishes to our September 2022 graduates!

• Elizabeth Maria Garza (CL-MA): Full-time position: Reading Comprehension Assessment Development Coordinator, MLS Project SIFE/RISLUS, housed in Dr. Gita Martohardjono's SLAL @CUNY GC. She is also a PhD student @Stonybrook Univ.
• Mariana Graterol Fuenmayor (CL MA), now a full-time Data Engineer @NVIDIA)
• John Schriner (CL MA),  E-Resources Librarian / Faculty, NYU Law School Library
• Dayle M. Towarnicky (MA), lecturer in the Theater Department at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
• Isaac Reuben Raff (CL MA)

Alumna Lindsay Caplan (Ph.D. 2017) publishes Arte Programmata: Freedom, Control, and the Computer in 1960s Italy which showcases a group of visionary artists who used emerging computer technologies in the context of the Cold War in Italy.  Now Assistant Professor at Brown University in the Department of Art and Architecture, Caplan's research and publications focus on the intersection of technology, politics and Art History. This is her first book. 

CUNY anthropology alumni Sophia Perdikaris has published a co-authored an edited volume with Becky Boger. The book is titled: Barbuda: Changing Times, Changing Tides. 

Focusing on the island of Barbuda in the West Indies, the volume shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world. It explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change, resilience, sustainability, indigeneity, cultural genocide, disaster capitalism, preservation of biodiversity, and environmental degradation.

Gillian Sneed (Ph.D. 2019) co-edits (with Marie Walsh) new book exploring the correspondence between artist, Rosemary Mayer, and poet, Bernadette Mayer.  Conceptual art, Postminimalism, and the New York School, in addition to Feminism are all explored in this volume. Sneed is Assistant Professor of Art History at The School of Art and Design at San Diego State University.  She specializes in 20th- and 21st-century feminist art histories in the Americas, especially Brazil. 

Professor Lilia Maliar (Economics) is the new president of the Society for Computational Economics. Founded in 1995, the society includes about 450 members and holds an annual conference that typically draws 300 to 400 participants a year.

In addition to computational economics, Maliar, also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specializes in macroeconomics, economic theory, economic growth and development, dynamic games, transition economies, and international economics.

Article: Shared Bodies: Social Patterns in Rural East Jersey and the Formation of an African American Community
Blog post: Archaeology at the Montclair History Center and an Early 20th-Century Women-Owned Floral Business

They will be presenting a poster titled Processing regular vs. irregular verbs in code-switching at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium in Edinburgh in October.  

Daniela is a recipient of the Diversity Travel Fellowship funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to attend the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD).

Suzanne van der Feest, Genevieve Medina, Ingrid Davidovich, Evgeniya Maryutina, Theresa Bloder, Isabelle Barrière and Valerie Shafer (Sunday November 6, 2022). Perceptual and acoustic correlates of central vowels in Russian-English and Spanish-English bilingual children: The role of input frequency. 47th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.