Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Dean Hassan Nejad

Paper

• "Russian and American Policies in the Middle East and North Africa," Annual Conference on "Russia and the USA Facing New Global Challenges," St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2010
• International Conference on Political Socialization. The Emerging Political Actors in the Middle East "Rage, Fear, Hope, and Transformation in the Middle East and North Africa" Krakow, Poland, May 2011

Other Activities

• Speaker, "Iran, the Middle East, and the United States at the Crossroads," Ridgwood Historical Society, Washington Township, NJ, June 16th, 2010
• Moderator and Presenter, "Challenges of a Converging Globalized World," Globalization for the Common Good Conference, "In Search of the Virtuous Economy: A Plea for Dialogue, Wisdom, and the Common Good," June 2010, California Lutheran University, Thousands Oaks, CA
• Co-chair, "Local Conflicts: Role of Russia and the USA," Annual Conference on "Russia and the USA Facing New Global Challenges," St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 2010
• Chair and Presenter, Panel on "The Concept of Nation in the Middle East," International Conference on Change and Stability: State, Religion and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, Krakow, Poland, May, 2009
• Crossroads in Cultural Study; Sorbonne University; Paris France; June 30-July 7, 2012

Professor Patricia Ard

Books

• The Jews of New Jersey: A Pictorial History, Rutgers University Press, 2002

Articles 

• "Transcendentalism for Children: Mary Peabody Mann's The Flower People." In Reinventing the Peabody Sisters, Iowa University Press, 2006
• "Garbage in the Garden State: A Trash Museum Confronts New Jersey's Image." The Public Historian Summer 2005
• "Reading into Things: Literature's Material Culture" The International Journal of the Book Volume 6 No. 4 2009

Professor Roark Atkinson

Books

• Forthcoming Book: Invisible Plantations: Religious Violence, Occult Healing, and Witchcraft in the Scottish Atlantic World, 1590-1820 

Professor Todd Landon Barnes

Books

• (Counter)Insurgent Shakespeare: Building Nation and Character in a Time of Terror (book manuscript in progress) 
• Geek Chic Shakespeare: Bookworms, Computer Nerds and Drama Queens (book manuscript in progress) 

Articles

• Hip Hop Macbeth, ‘Digitized Blackness’, and the New  Millennial Minstrel: Illegal Culture Sharing in the Virtual Classroom,” in Wayward Macbeth:  Intersections of Race and Performance, edited by Scott  Newstok and Ayanna Thompson New York: Palgrave, 2009 
• 'Hamlet on the Potomac': Anti-Intellectualism in American Political Discourse Before and After 'the Decider'." Hamlet Handbook, edited by Peter W. Marx.  Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler, 2011.
• "George W. Bush's 'Three Shakespeares': Macbeth, Macbush, and the Theater of War," Shakespeare Bulletin 26:3 (Fall 2008): 1-29
• "MacB: The Macbeth Project (review)" Shakespeare Bulletin 27:3 (Fall 2009)
• "Dreaming of Islands: The Insular and the Oceanic in The Tempest and Lost," in Shakespeare: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: A Companion to the Plays in Contemporary Culture, Ed. Paul Gleed (in progress)

Professor Lisa Cassidy

Books

• Forthcoming Book: Women Shopping/Women Sweatshopping. In Fashion and Philosophy, Jessica Wolfendale and Jeannette Kennett (Eds). London: Blackwell Press. 

Articles

• "That Many of Us Should Not Parent" Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Volume 21, Number 4, 2006
• Cassidy, Lisa. "Sharing Strategies for Success as a Feminist Philosopher" (co-author Sophia Wong) American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism. Forthcoming in Volume 8, Number 2, 2009.
• Cassidy, Lisa. "The Incorrigible Knitter Learns about Teaching" American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism: Volume 8, Number 1, 2008.

Papers/Conferences

• "What Happens When Fetal Transplantation Adoption is Possible" 11th World Congress of Bioethics Conference Rotterdam Netherlands June 26-29, 2012
• Public Philosophy Conference; Washington D.C.; October 6-8, 2011 

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Professor Eric Castellanos

Books

• Forthcoming book manuscript. Accommodating Exclusion: Political Ideologies and the Reactions to Immigration in Northern Italy. 

Articles

• "Food Fights at the EU Table: The Gastronomic Assertion of Italian Distinctiveness." In Consuming Cultures: Food, Drink and Identity in Europe, edited by Thomas M. Wilson. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers. (With Sara M. Bergstresser)
• "Migrant Mirrors: The Replication and Reinterpretation of Local and National Ideologies as Strategies of Adaptation by Foreign Immigrants in Bergamo, Italy," American Behavioral Scientist, 50(1): 27-47.
• "CORI News: Food Availability and Choices in East Harlem" Anthropology News October 2009: 65-66 (With Elizabeth Gilmour)

Papers

• "¿Mi Barrio es su Barrio? Community Relations between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in East Harlem." Paper presented at the American Ethnological Association and Society for the Anthropology of North America joint meeting, Wrightsville Beach, NC, April 2008.
• "El Barrio vs. Harlemtitlán: The Contestation of Space and Identity in East Harlem," (with Taylor Hendricks). Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC. November 2007.
• "Incorporating the Immigrant Pathogen: Mapping Deviance into Social Space in the US and Italy." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA. November 2006
• "Living off the Fat of the Land or Getting Fat in the Promised Land? Food and Intergenerational Identity among Mexican-Americans in the US." Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada. April 2006.
• Discussant for "Ethnologist, Theorist, Activist, Pioneer: Papers in Honor of the Ernesto De Martino Centennial." Session at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings, San Francisco, CA, November, 2008.
• Organizer and Chair (with Sara Bergstresser) "'Immoral Geographies': Corrupting Spaces and Mapping the Spaces of the Corrupt." Session at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA. November 2006.
• "Umberto Bossi and Italian Political Charisma" in a session I organized "Political Charisma" at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA - December 2009.
• "Corn's Multiple National and Transnational Identities: Cultural, Staple, International Commodity, political Object, and Cosmological Source of Life" American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting Montreal Quebec Canada November 15-19, 2011

Book Review

• Review of Kitty Calavita, Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 11(3): 427-30.

Other Activities

• Project Supervisor/Research Scientist/Consultant. "Documenting Cultural Aspects of the Latino Treatment Program at Bellevue Hospital" - The NKI Center of Excellence in Cultural Competent Mental Health, The Nathan Klein Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York (PI: Gary Haugland). June 2008 to present.
• Ethnographic Consultant. Documenting the Cultural Components of The Prevention Access, Self-Empowerment & Support (P.A.S.S.) program in Upstate New York" - Consultant. "Documenting Cultural Aspects of the Latino Treatment Program at Bellevue Hospital" - The NKI Center of Excellence in Cultural Competent Mental Health, The Nathan Klein Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, New York (PI: Carole Siegel). September to December 2008.
• Society for the Anthropology of North America - Program Chair - American Anthropological Association meetings, 2009 and 2010
• Review committee for the American Anthropological Association annual meeting program, 2007 to present

Professor Rosetta D'Angelo

Books

• Resisting Bodies: Narratives of Italian Partisan Women Annali D'Italianistica 2008

Other Activities

• "The Deconstruction of Memory in the Poetic Tales of Contemporary Haitian Women's Writers" Caribbean Conference on Literature in Portugal
• "African Women Writers in Italy: The Shaping of a New Discourse," The Women Center/SUNY College at Old Westbury, March 2010
• "Resisting Bodies- Narratives of Italian Partisan Women," Bergen Regional Medical Center February 2010
• "Approaches to Teaching Conflicting Memories of World War II in Italy," International Conference at the University of Lecce/Italy May 2011
• AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian), May 25-30 2011 International conference in Erice, Sicily "The use of cultural events (at Ramapo College), to promote studies in Italian language, literature and culture."
• Conference on Romance Languages and Literature, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. March 24-26 2011. "Sexuality, Sculpture, and Literature Censored: The Evidence of Fascism and World War II in the Arts."
• EACLALS Triennial International Conference at Bogazici University, Istanbul. April 26-30 2011. " Re-memories, Herstories and Hybrid Identities in Igiaba Scego's Babilonia."
• "The Use of Cultural Events to Promote Studies in World Languages in General, in Italian, in Literature, and Culture" Global Education Conference Cypress November 20-25, 2011.
• "Resisting Bodies- Narratives of Italian Partisan Women," Emory University April 2012

Professor Paul Elovitz

Articles

• "Grief and Loss in the Bush Family," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 3 (December 2008): 115-118
• "Thinking and Laughing About Biden and Palin," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 3 (December 2008): 164-168.
• "Ralph Colp: Darwin Scholar and Psychiatrist," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 3 (December 2008): 105, 160-162.
• "A Brilliant and Playful Listener to the Unconscious," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 2 (September 2008): 80-82.
• "In Memoriam: Otto Paul Pfanze," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 2 (September 2008): 101.
• "Obama's Dreams from and of His Father," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 2 (September 2008): 70-77.
• "Race in America and the 2008 Election," Clio's Psyche: Understanding the 'Why' of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society, 15, No. 2 (September 2008): 64-68.
• "Child Abuse and Baseball: Torre and Steinbrenner," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 1 (June 2008): 19-23.
• "Fred I. Greenstein: Princeton Political Psychologist," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 1 (June 2008): 1, 33-38.
• "A Comparative Psychohistory of McCain and Obama," Journal of Psychohistory XXXVI Fall 2008, pp. 98-143.
• Editor, Appearance and Reality: The Best of the Journal Clio's Psyche (September 2008, i-x, 244 pages).
• "Presidential Responses to National Trauma: Case Studies of G. W. Bush, Carter, and Nixon," Journal of Psychohistory XXXVI Summer, 2008, pp. 36-58.
• "Psychohistorical Accomplishments and Losses," Psychohistory News 26 #3 (Spring-Summer 2008), pp. 3, 9-10

Other Activities

• Acknowledgment in Traumatic Politics by Barry M. Shapiro

Professor Niza Fabre

Articles

• "Acercamiento al simbolimo del puente en Rayuela (1963) de Julio Cortázar." Minerva, Publicación Literaria e Histórica. Volumen III, Número 1, Junio 2008  
• "Lo insólito de la transformación de la monja alférez: dechado Cultural dela mujer a principios del siglo XVII en España," (The Astounding Transformation of the Nun Ensign: Women and Culture at the turn of 17th Century in Spain." Revista Baquiana, Miami, Florida, Año X. N° 57-58

Papers

• "Obeah: The Power of Religion" 39th Annual Meeting National Conference Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 8-11, 2009
• "The Spritual Life of the Garifuna, " 16th Annual International Hispanic and Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference of Southern Arkansas University. Ocho Ríos, Jamaica, January 4th-9th, 2009
• "La vida itinerante de la monja alférez," (The Itinerant Life of The Nun Ensign,) Annual Meeting of Studies of Women in Spain and the Americas 1700s and Before. GEMELA, California State, Long Beach University, October 4-9, 2008.
• "Magic Realism in the Afro-Ecuadorian Novel: Juyungo of Adalberto Ortiz." Fourth Meeting of the Section of Ecuatorianists FLACSO, Quito, July 17-19, 2008.
• "African Caribbean Religion: Main Features of Palo Monte Mayombe or Rule of the Congo" Conference Negritude 3rd Annual Meeting San Juan Puerto Rico March 22-24, 2012

Other Activities

• "African-American Culture II: The Struggle For The Souls of Black Folks. 39th Annual Meeting National Conference Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 8-11, 2009

Book Prologue

• Poetas de hoy 2007 (Poets of Today 2007).Tampa, Florida: Publicaciones Culturales, 2007, pp. 1-3

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Professor Val Flenga

Articles

• "Αυτοσχεδια διαβαση: Θεαμα και ηχος οτο L'Impromptu d'Ohio του Beckett." (Impromptu Passage: Vision and Voice in Beckett's L'impromptu d'Ohio) Θεατρογραφιες (Theatrographies)14 (2006): 30-35.

Papers

• "To Escape the World at Last: Prisoner of Love." International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece, 18-22 July, 2006.
• "Ob-scene bodies: Guatre heures a Chatia"; American Comparative Literature Association Convention; Providence RI; March 29-April 1, 2012

Professor Monica Giacoppe

Articles

• "'Lucky to be so bilingual': Québécois and Chicano/a Literatures in a Comparative Context." Comparative American Studies 3.1 (Spring 2005): 47-61.
• "'The Task of the Translator' in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Mauve Desert." (Special issue of Bucknell Review). Ed. Katherine Faull. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell U.P., 2004: 124-38.

Papers

• "Zachary Richard and the Continuity of Acadian/Cadien Culture." Canadian Association for American Studies. Montreal: November, 2007.
• S. Corinna Bille. The Transparent Girl and Other Stories. Trans. Monika Giacoppe and Christiane Makward. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006.
• "History as Elegy; An Elegy for History: Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard"; ACLA Conference Brown University; Providence RI; March 29-April1. 2012

Presentations

• "_Moi, Jeanne Castille de Louisiane_, and the Other Within," at the Northeastern Modern Language Association Convention in Montreal
• "_Moi, Jeanne Castille_: L'histoire de qui?" at the American Comparative Literature Association in New Orleans.

Professor John Gronbeck-Tedesco

Books

• “Memories of Che: Forging a Postmodern Radicalism in Cultural Studies?” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Vol. 29 (2011): 24-39. 
• Exceptional Nations:  Cuba,the United States, and Revolutionary Culture (book manuscript in progress) 
• “Diaspora in the Americas: Transnational American Studies in Practice” Journal of American Studies, Vol. 45 (2011): 371-379.  

Articles

• The Left in Transition:The Cuban Revolution in U.S. Third World Politics,” Journal of Latin American Studies (Nov. 2008) 

Professor Susan Hangen

Books

• The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal: Democracy in the Margins. London: Routledge Press.

Papers

• 2008 The Changing Forms and Strategies of Nepal's Indigenous Nationalities Movement. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference on South Asia, October 16-19, 2008, Madison, WI.
• 2008 Global Gurungs: Ethnic Organizing Abroad. Paper presented at seminar on Belonging and Globalization in the Himalayas, September 18-20, 2008, CNRS, Frejus, France
• "The Concept of the Himalayas in an Era of Globalization" ANHIS Himalayan Studies Conference St. Paul Minnesota October 27-30, 2011

Other Activities
 

• Symposium on Ethnicity and Federalization, organized by the Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, on 22-24 April, 2011, in Kathmandu.
   

Professor Ron Hayashida

Books

• Forthcoming: A manuscript dealing with the Government and Politics of Papua New Guinea and an even broader work on the Comparative Politics of the Pacific Islands (Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia).

Articles

• Forthcoming: "And What of Bougainville?" dealing with the Bougainville rebellion against the Government of Papua New Guinea, a rebellion that resulted in over 10,000 lives lost from 1990-the early 2000s and that was successfully resolved by UN mediation and the granting of autonomy.

Professor Keisha Haywood

Papers

• "Why Members Rebel: Separatist Group Fractionalization in Senegal and Southern Sudan"; International Studies Association Annual Conference; San Diego CA; April 1-4, 2012
   

Professor James Hoch

Books

• A Parade of Hands (Silverfish Review Press, 2003)
• Miscreants (WW Norton, 2007)

Other Activities

• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment conference in Victoria, BC, Canada. June 3-6 2009.
• Annual Conference for Creative Writing; Chicago IL; October 27-30, 2011. 

Professor Pinar Kayaalp

Articles

• "Bosphorus Strait." Seas and Waterways of the World: An Encyclopedia of History, Uses and Issues, Eds. John Zumerchik and Steven L. Danver (2008).
• "The Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of Üsküdar." Chapter in Albrecht Classen (ed.), de Gruyter Handbook of Medieval Studies: Concepts, Methods, Historical Developments, and Current Trends in Medieval Studies, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter Press (2009).
• "The Role of Imperial Mosque Complexes (1543-1583) in the Urbanization of Üsküdar" Part 4 of the De Gruyter Series, Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture: Urban Space in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, edited by Albrecht Classen
• “The Use of Islamic Court Records in the Study of the Status of Women in Ottoman Society,” American International Journal of Contemporary Research, Vol. 2 No. 1 (February 2012), pp. 157-162.

Professor Yvette Kisor

Books

• "Making the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." Tolkien in Film and Fiction, ed. Janice Bogstad, McFarland Press, forthcoming.
• "The Aesthetics of Beowulf: Structure, Perception, and Desire." On the Aesthetics of Beowulf and Other Old English Poetry, ed. John Hill, University of Toronto Press.
• "There's Magic in the Web of It: Desdemona's Handkerchief and the 'Magic' Cloths of Emaré and Le Fresne." Translating the Past: Essays on Medieval Literature in Honor of Marijane Osborn, ed. Jane Beal. Tempe, Arizona: ACMRS Press.
• "A Fourteenth-Century Romance," "Genesis," "Gordon, Ida," "Leechbook and Herbarium," "Riddles: Sources," "Ring-giving." The J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, ed. Michael Drout. New York: Routledge, 2006, 570-1.

Articles

• "“Narrative Layering and ‘High Culture’ Romance in the Twilight  Series.” The Twilight Mystique: Critical Essays on the Novels and Films, ed. Amy M. Clarke and Marijane Osborn. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 25. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. 35-59. Making the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." Tolkien in Film and Fiction, ed. Janice Bogstad, McFarland Press, forthcoming."Harthgrepa." ANQ 20, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 63-5.
• Kisor, Yvette. “Making the Connection on Page and Screen in Tolkien’s and Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings.” Picturing Tolkien: Essays on the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings Trilogy, ed. Janice Bogstad and Philip E. Kaveny. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 102-15.
• “Totemic Reflexes in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.” Mythlore 109/110 (Spring/Summer 2010): 129-40.
• "'Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She': Some Notes on a Note in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." Tolkien Studies 4 (2007): 214-24.
• "Numerical Composition and Beowulf: A Reconsideration." Anglo-Saxon England 38.
• "Moments of Silence, Acts of Speech: Uncovering the Incest Motif in the Man of Law's Tale." The Chaucer Review 40, no. 2 (2005): 141-62
• TMR 08.05.01 Hopkins, Amanda and Cory James Rushton, eds. The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain, 5 May 2008
• "Pope's The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated." The Explicator 61, no. 3 (Spring 2003): 137-40.

Papers/Conferences

• "Totemic Reflexes in Tolkien's Middle-earth." Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Stephen O. Glosecki. Forty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2008.
• "Teaching Tolkien: A Roundtable." Forty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2008.
• "Gollum as Exile." Forty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2007.
• International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Biennial Conference; University of Wisconsin-Madison; July 31-August 6, 2011

Presentations

• "She Makes Hungry Where Most She Satisfies': Cleopatra as Cougar." Forty-first Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), McGill University, April 2010.

Professor Tae Yang Kwak

Articles

• “The clash of civilizations: Obfuscating race, history, and culture in ‘300.’” In The Americanization of history: Conflation of time and culture in film and television, ed. Kathleen McDonald.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 192-211.
• “The Republic of Korea in Southeast Asia: Expanding influences and relations.” In Korea’s changing roles in Southeast Asia, ed. David I. Steinberg, 304-324. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
• Forthcoming. Korean-Vietnamese relations since the Vietnam War.
• Korea's changing roles in Southeast Asia: Expanding Influence and Relations, ed. David I. Steinberg. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
• The Nixon Doctrine and the Yusin Reforms: American Foreign Policy, the Vietnam War, and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Korea, 1968-1973. Journal of American-East Asian Relations.
• Koreagate and the Vietnam War.Center for Korean Studies, Kyushu National University (Japan).
• Belief and Betrayal: Koreagate and Korean-American Relations in the 1970s.

Book Reviews

• Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, politics, and public opinion, 1950-1953 by S. Casey. Journal of world history 20(3): 558-560.
• Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s Democratic Unionism under Park Chung Hee by H. Nam. Journal of Korean studies 15(1): 123-125.
• The war for Korea, 1950-1951: They came from the North by A.R. Miller. Journal of Asian studies.
• Select Papers of the Korean Studies Graduate Student Conference 2001, v. 1, ed. Tae Yang Kwak. North Andover, MA: Flagship Press.
• 2008. Chang Chŏng-il's "A Meditation on Hamburgers," "Hiding in an Underpass," "The Cook and the Anorexic," "Love in Germany," and "Catching a Taxi in Kiran."
• Azalea: A journal of Korean literature and culture, v. 2, ed. Young-Jun Lee. Cambridge, MA: Korea Institute, Harvard University.
• 2004. Kang Ŭn-gyo's "Love's Way," "A Poem's Visit," "Azalea," "Sleet," and "Sound 8."The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean poetry, ed. David R. McCann, 225-230. New York: Columbia University Press.
• 2008-Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Makings of Democracy by G. Brazinsky. Pacific Affairs.
• 2007-A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas by C.J. Lee. Political Science Quarterly 122(2): 338-340.
• 2005. Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture by Y.W. Kihl. Pacific Affairs 78(2): 315-317.
• 2003. Toward Normalizing U.S.-Korea relations: In Due Course? by E.A. Olsen. Pacific Affairs 76(4): 663-665.

Other Activities

• Dissertation: 2006. The Anvil of War: The Legacies of Korean Participation in the Vietnam War. PhD diss., Harvard University.
• Chapter Entry "The Republic of Korea in Southeast Asia: Expanding Influences and Relations" Korea's Changing Roles in Southeast Asia

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Professor Iraida López

Books

•  Cien botellas en una pared (One Hundred Bottles on the Wall, Stockcero, 2010), a critical edition of Ena Lucía Portela's novel. Introduction, "En torno a la novela negra: Poética y política en Cien botellas en una pared", by López. Notes written in collaboration with Portela.
• "El Viejo, el asesino, yo y otros cuentos (The Old Man, the Assassin, I, and Other Stories)", 2009, Stockcero publisher 

Articles

• "Daring to Go Back: Cuban Exile Narratives or Diasporic Memoirs?" Contested Contours: Essays on Latino Autobiography. Eds. Silvio Torres-Saillant and Inmaculada Lara Bonilla. New York: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
• "Reading Lives in Installments: Autobiographical Essays by Women of the Cuban Diaspora." Negotiating Identities in Art, Literature and Philosophy: Cuban Americans and American Culture. Eds. Isabel Alvarez-Borland and Lynette Bosch. New York: SUNY Press. 2009.
• "'That's My Theme: The Human Adventure.' An Interview with Ena Lucía Portela." The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World. Eds. Ruth Behar and Lucía Suárez. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 85-91.
• "Hogar, ¿dulce hogar?: Asedios a casas de La Habana en la narrativa femenina de hoy." A Living Legacy: CCNY Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Undergraduate Alumni Conference. Eds. Bettina R. Lerner and Juan Carlos Mercado. New York: Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2006. 83-94.
• "Strange Times That Weep With Laughing: Benign Humor in the Literature and Film of the 'Special Period'." Proceedings of the Symposium on Cuba Today: Continuity and Change since the 'Período Especial', Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, 2005. Ed. Mauricio A.Font.
• "Reflections on Immigration from Guatemala [based on a pilot, student service learning trip to Guatemala]." NACLA (June 2008).
• "Mi generación es tan diversa como cualquier otra: Conversación con Ena Lucía Portela" (Part of this interview was translated into English and published in The Portable Island; see above). Forthcoming in Revista Iberoamericana.

Papers

• "'Soy la Violeta Parra': el difícil arte de cruzar fronteras." Part of a panel, "On Troublemakers: Re(a)dressing Marginalization in Latin/o American Literature and Popular Culture" I organized and will chair at the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, April 2009.
• "Secretos, diarios y diáspora: Madres e hijas en Loving Che . XVIII Congreso Anual de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femeninas Hispánicas, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia, October 16-18, 2008.
• "Vicarious Returns and Delegated History in Cuban American Fiction." "Virtual Caribbeans: A Conference on Representation, Diaspora, and Performance in and on the Caribbean," Tulane University, New Orleans, February 27-March 1, 2008.
• "Footprints in the Sand: Homeland and Family in Tony Mendoza's Photographic Essays." Part of a panel, "Variations on a Theme: Narratives of Return in the Cuban and Dominican Diasporas," that I organized and chaired. XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, September 5-8, 2007.
• "'Recuerdos del porvenir': el texto autobiográfico femenino cubano americano como manifiesto." XVI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femeninas Hispánicas, Ogden, Utah, October 5-7, 2006.
• "Hogar, ¿dulce hogar?: Asedios a casas de La Habana en la narrativa femenina de hoy." XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006, as well as the Alumni Reunion and Conference sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages, The City College (CUNY), May 5-6, 2006.
• "La vida por entregas: la narrativa autobiográfica femenina." Sixth International Conference of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, Miami, February 6-8, 2006.
• "Cuban American Autobiography: Space, Place, and Identity," June 27, 2006. In "Negotiating Cuban-American Identity", a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, SUNY-Buffalo, June 11-30, 2006.

Book Reviews

• "Trading Sea(wo)men and Tillers of the Soil: A Review of Three Anthologies on Short Fiction from Cuba" [on Havana Noir (New York: Akashic Books, 2007), ed. Achy Obejas; New Short Fiction from Cuba (Northwestern University Place, 2007), eds. Jacqueline Loss and Esther Whitfield; and Cuba on the Edge: Short Stories from the Island (Nottingham, GB: CCC Press, 2007), eds. Mary G. Berg, Pamela Carmell, and Anne Fountain)]. Forthcoming in Caribe.
• Una isla con cara de mujer: Prominentes mujeres de la cultura en Cuba. Ed. María del Mar López-Cabrales. New Jersey: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2007. Forthcoming in Letras femeninas.
• On Entre Mundos/Among Worlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldúa. Ed. by AnaLouise Keating. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. MELUS 31.2 (Summer 2006): 281-284.
• On Discursos desde la diáspora (2005), by Eliana Rivero. Cádiz: Editorial Aduana Vieja, 2005. Letras femeninas 31.2 (Winter 2005): 200-203.

Other Activities

• "Violeta Parra" and "Ena Lucía Portela." Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia. Eds. María Claudia André and Eva Bueno. New York: Routledge, 2008.
• "Puerto Rican American Autobiography" and "Cuban American Autobiography." Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. 1801-1805, 519-521.
• "Cuban American Writers," "Cristina García," and "Félix Varela." The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States. Eds. Deena J. González and Suzanne Oboler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Evaluation of a candidate for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2008
• Evaluation of candidates for the Fulbright-Hays Teaching Assistant Scholarship Program, 2006
• Evaluation of a candidate for the MacArthur Fellows Program, 2005
• Latin American Studies Association, Treasurer of the Task Force on Scholarly Relations with Cuba, 2007-2010
• Latin American Studies Association, Member of the Public Intellectual Award Committee of the Latino Studies Section, 2005
• "De manifiestos y regresos: las memorias de una generación de cubano-americanos." (On Manifestoes and Returns: The Memoirs of a Generation of Cuban Americans). Eighth International Conference of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University, Miami, February 4-6, 2010.
• "Las marcas lingüísticas de la frontera en Violeta Parra." (The Linguistic Marks of the Border in Violeta Parra). XIX Congreso Anual de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femeninas Hispánicas, FLACSO, Quito, Ecuador, October 1-3, 2009.

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Professor Jennefer Mazza

Articles

• "Incorporating Information Literacy into the Political Science Curriculum", paper presented at The Twelfth International Conferenced on Learning, University of Granada, Spain (July 2005)
• "Psychological Explorations of the 2004 Election", presented at the Psychohistory Forum, New York (October 2004).

Professor Carter Meyer

Books

• "Art Authenticity and Identity at Santa Fe Indian Market" in Elizabeth Delaney Hoffman, ed., _ American Indians and Popular Culture_ Praeger Publishers (Feb. 2012 expected publication).
• Forthcoming book manuscript on Edgar L. Hewett, archaeologist, educator, founder of the Museum of New Mexico and School of American Research, and a major influence in the development of Southwestern identity in the early twentieth century

Articles

• "'A Battle Between Art and Progress': Edgar Hewett and the Politics of Region in the Early Twentieth Century Southwest," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 56:3 (fall 2006): 47-59.

Papers

• "Assessing Diversity: A Transnational Exchange," American Studies Association, Oakland CA (2006).
• "'A Battle Between Art and Progress': Edgar Hewett and the Politics of Region in the Early Twentieth Century Southwest," Western History Association, Las Vegas NV (2004).

Book Reviews

• Jerold S. Auerbach, Explorers in Eden: Pueblo Indians and the Promised Land (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006) in Journal of American History 93:4 (March 2007).
• Florence Lister, Troweling Through Time: The First Century of Mesa Verdean Archaeology (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004) in Montana: The Magazine of Western History 55:4 (Fall 2005).

Other Activities

• "What's in an Expectation? Some Thoughts on Indians in American Culture," Keynote Address, Emil Gumpert Teachers' Workshop on Native Americans, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey (2008).
• "Edgar Hewett and the Promotion of Place in the Southwest," Fray Angelico Chavez History Library Lecture Series, Palace of the Governors, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe NM (2004).
• John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Fellowship Award, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University (2004)
• 100th anniversary of the Museum of New Mexico symposium in Santa Fe NM

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Professor Sam Mustafa

Books

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  GERMANY IN THE MODERN WORLD:  A NEW HISTORY  (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011).

   
• The Long Ride of Major Von Schill (Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
• Merchants and Migrations: Germans and the Americans in Connection 1776-1835 Ashgate Publishing 2001
• A CONCISE HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANY (Rowman & Littlefield, Spring 2010) 

Papers

 

• "Liberating Leviathan: Rethinking the Role of the State in a Napoleonic Satellite Kingdom" Annual Meeting: Consortium on the Revolutionary Era; Baton Rouge Louisiana; February 23-26, 2012

Articles

• "Loyal Rebels and Unruly Prussians: Two Centuries of the Napoleonic Wars in German School History Texts." Internationale Schulbuchforschung (The Journal of International Textbook Research), Vol. 30 (Spring 2008).
• "The Politics of Memory: Rededicating Two Historical Monuments in Postwar Germany." Central European History, Vol. 41, No.2 (June 2008).

Professor Stephen Rice

Books

• Michael Sappol and Stephen P. Rice, editors, A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire, (Berg/Palgrave, 2010).
• Forthcoming book manuscript. "Picture Nation: Commercial Wood Engraving in Nineteenth-Century America."

Articles

• "Photography in Engraving on Wood: On the Road to the Halftone Revolution," Common-Place 7 (April 2007).
• Forthcoming. "Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century," in Michael Sappol and Stephen P. Rice, editors, A History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire (Berg/Palgrave, 2009).

Papers

• "Picturing the Machine in Nineteenth-Century America," Print Culture/STEM Conference, 2008.
• "The New School at Home and Abroad: Commercial Wood Engraving at Century's End," Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, 2007.
• "Timothy Cole and the Transformation of Wood Engraving in America," Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, 2006.

Book Review

• Review of Robert Ferguson, Reading the Early Republic, in Journal of the Early Republic 25 (Summer 2005): 304-307.

Other Activities

• "Imagining the 'Highlands of the Hudson' in Nineteenth-Century America," Hudson Highlands Nature Museum Evening Speakers Series, 2008
• "Beyond the Craft Shop: Illustration and Wood Engraving in Nineteenth-Century America," Research Seminar Series, Anisfield School of Business, Ramapo College of New Jersey, 2007
• "The Business of Making Pictures: Commercial Wood Engraving in America, 1830 to 1900," Hagley Research Seminar, 2007
• "The Life and Works of Elbridge Kingsley" (edited and annotated volume) (works in progress)
• "'Educators of the Eye': Wood Engraving in Nineteenth-Century America," History of Education Society, 2009
• "'One of the best means ever devised for the introduction of inventions': Wood Engraving and Popular Mechanical Illustration in Nineteenth-Century America," Society for the History of Technology, 2009
• "Matters of Style: Art and Fidelity in Wood Engraving in Postbellum America," Newberry Library Seminar in American Art and Visual Culture, 2010
• "Imagining the 'Highlands of the Hudson' in Nineteenth-Century America," SUNY Orange, 2010

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Professor Bernard Roy

Other Activities

• Northeast Regional Honors Conference in Annapolis MD March 27-28, 2009

Professor Rebecca Root

Books
 

• Forthcoming book manuscript: Human Rights in Peru: A Decade of Transitional Justice After Terrorism.
   

Articles

•  Through the Window of Opportunity: The Transitional Justice Network in Peru.” Human Rights Quarterly, May 2009.
• "The Fujimori Effect." Journal of Human Rights. Forthcoming in 2012.

Papers

• “The Fujimori Effect.” Paper presented at the Mid Altantic Council on Latin American Studies conference in Baltimore, MD, March 2010.
• “Lies, Damn Lies and Comparative Public Opinion Polling Data in South America.” Paper co-presented with undergraduate Research Assistant at the Northeastern Political Science Association conference in Boston, MA, November 2008.
• “Outsiders In: Transitional Justice Networks and State Transformation.” Paper presented at the International Studies Association conference in Chicago, IL, March 2007.
   
• “The Sticking Point: Human Rights and Civil-Military Relations in Latin America.” Paper presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association conference in Boston, MA, November 2006.
• “Human Rights Accountability in Transitioning Democracies: Negotiating Transitional Justice in Peru.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association conference in Washington DC, September 2005.
• “Negotiating Truth: Transitional Justice in Peru.” Paper presented at the New England Political Science Association conference in Portland, ME, April 2005.
   

Other Activities

• Encyclopedia Entries on “Peru” and “Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.” In Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, eds. Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice. 2 vol. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming. 
• “Book Note: Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy and Human Security.” Human Rights and Human Welfare, 2009.
• “Book Review: Fujimori’s Peru: Deception in the Public Sphere.” Comparative Political Studies, 2006.
•  Encyclopedia Entries on The Grapes of Wrath, How the Other Half Lives, The Jungle, Vocational Education, Indentured Servitude, Agency for International Development, AmeriCorps, Operation Breadbasket, Vista, Dillingham Commission Report, Teacher Corps. In Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor, eds.  Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
  
   

Professor Natalia Santamaria-Laorden

Articles

• “Regenerative Decadence or a Decadent Regeneration: Responses to Positivism in Fin-de-siècle Europe" in Decadence, Degeneration and the End: Studies in the European Fin-de- siècle. (Forthcoming)
•  “El papel de la ‘Aristocracia Intelectual’ en Joaquín Costa y José Enrique Rodó.” Letras Hispanas.   6 (2). Fall 2009.
• “Debates finiseculares entre autores españoles y latinoamericanos sobre el regeneracionismo español.” Cuadernos Americanos. 132. 2010/2. 159-179.
•  "Modernismo y regeneracionismo como discursos permeables: Darío, Rodó y Unamuno".  Decimonónica. 8.1. Winter 2011. 

Papers

• 17th Conference of German Hispanists, March 2009. La Circulación Transatlántica de la Lengua Finisecular: Un Caso de Degeneracionismo Regeneracionista. Tübingen  University, Germany.
• Transatlantic Project, April 2008. Choque entre Carabelas: El Regeneracionismo Finisecular a través del Debate Transatlántico. Brown University, USA
• Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures, November 2006. El ideal en el cambio de siglo: Discursos teóricos sobre la regeneración de sociedades. University of Missouri- Columbia. USA.
• Thesis Defense, September, 2007. "El Retorno de las Carabelas": Debates Finiseculares entre Autores Españoles y Latinoamericanos sobre el Regeneracionismo Español. Harvard University, USA.
• "Decentralizing Castille: The Role of the Indiano in Fin-De-Siecle Literature"; Transatlantic Studies Conference; Bryant University; Providence RI; April 9-15, 2012

Presentations

• "El Retorno de las Carabelas": Debates Finiseculares entre Autores Españoles y Latinoamericanos sobre el Regeneracionismo Español. Thesis Defense, September, 2007. Harvard University, USA.

Professor Peter Scheckner

Books

• "Roth's Falstaff: Transgressive Humor in Sabbath's Theater" in Playful and Serious: Philip Roth as a Comic Writer. Jay Halio, editor. An anthology of critical essays to be published by the University of Delaware Press, 2010.
• "Renegades in the Literature of War: From Homer to Heller." War, Literature and the Arts. Department of English and Fine Arts, US Air Force Academy. Publishing date, 2009.
• The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace (a 302- page anthology of poetry, short stories, and narratives on work). Edited along with Mary C. Boyes: Nashville: Vanderbilt United Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8265-1609-1

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Professor Ed Shannon

Books

• "The Pocket Guide to Writing about Literature.  Prentice Hall Publishers. 2001.

Papers/Conferences

• "Proposal for a World Literature Major at Ramapo College: Aspirations and Challenges"; Emerging Pedagogies for a New Millenium; San Juan Puerto Rico; November 17-19, 2011

Articles

• “Something Black in the American Psyche: Formal Innovation and Freudian Imagery in the Comics of Winsor McCay and Robert Crumb.”  The Canadian Review of American Studies. July 2010.   
• Our Clothes are a Lie Disguise and Christian Typology in Pudd'nhead Wilson" 2009 Mark Twain Annual.
• “Tom Ripley.” Student’s Companion to American Literary Characters, Facts on File. 2007.
• "Talkin' World Revolution: Woody Guthrie's Seeds of Man as Socialist Parable." Intersecting Paths: Continuing Legacy of Old Southwestern Humor. Ed. Ed Piacentino, High Point University, High Point, NC. Louisiana State UP. 2006"
• Where was the sex?': Fetishism and Dirty Minds in Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley." Modern Language Studies. Vol. 34 Number1, Spring 2005

• "Vulgar Words of Language for Mister Jesus: The Sacred and Profane Hero of Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory." Western Autobiography. (editorial review) Ed. Katherine Boardman and Gioia Woods. Utah State UP. 2004.
• “Bad Politics”:  Old Southwestern Humor and the Southern Gothic in Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory.”   Southernspaces.org.  June, 2004

Professor Ira Spar

Books

• Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume II: Literary and Scholastic Texts of the Second and First Millennia B.C., (ed./author) with W. G. Lambert, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005
• Marduk, King of the Gods- A Children's Story with Salle Vaughn, illustrator. Forthcoming web publication (Winter 2008) at Met Museum.

Articles

• Articles on ancient Near East History and Literature in J. Sherman (ed.), Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2008: "Abzu," "Adad," "Adapa," "An/Anu," "Anzu," "Bull of Heaven," "Creation Stories," "Dilmun," "Dumuzi," "Enki," "Enkidu," "Enlil," "Enmerkar," "Erra," "Etana," "Gilgamesh," "Lugalbanda," "Nanna-Suen," "Nergal," "Ninurta/Ningirsu," "Utu/Shamash"
• Articles on "The Amarna Letters," "Cedars of Lebanon," "An Old Assyrian Trial Deposition," in J. Aruz (ed.), Before Babylon, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2008
• Articles on: "The Origins of Writing," "The Flood Story," "Gilgamesh," "Divine Kingship in Mesopotamia," "Gods and Goddesses of Canaan," "Enuma Elish" in The Timeline of History Met Museum (forthcoming, December 2008)
• "A Sumerian Inscription of Amar-Sin," in L. Bonfante (ed.), Ancient Art in the Collections of New York University, L'Erma di Bretschneider, Publications of the Center for Ancient Studies, New York University vol 1, 2006
• "Egyptians at Sippar," with T. Logan and J. Allen in A. Guinan et al (eds.), If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty, E. J. Brill 2006
• "Philosophy, Law, & Religion," in R. Wallenfels (ed.), Ancient Mesopotamia 3300-3100, World Eras 8, Thomson Gale, 2005
• "Politics & the Military," in R. Wallenfels (ed.), Ancient Mesopotamia 3300-3100, World Eras 8, Thomson Gale, 2005

Papers

• "Two Models of Ancient Trade: the Levant and India," proposed paper the World History Association, Salem, Mass., June 2009
• "Uruk and the Beginnings of Civilization in Mesopotamia," Mid-Atlantic World History Association. Bel-Aire, Maryland, October 2008
• "The Origins of Writing," World History Association, London, England, June 2008
• "Divine Kingship in the Ancient World: A Comparative View," World History Association, Milwaukee, Wisc., June 2007
• "The Hammurabi Tradition: A Visual Approach," World History Association, Long Beach, California, June 2006
• "Warrior Nomads and Royal Attire"; Mid Atlantic World History Conference; Rutgers University; November 4-5, 2011
• "Chinese Qing and Persian Qajar Imperial Portraits"; Beijing China; July 3-19, 2011

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Professor Paula Straile-Costa

Articles

• "Redeeming Acts: Religious Performance and Indigenismo in Cherríe Moraga's Feminist Revision of Chicano Activist Theater." American Vol. III, Issue 1 The Anticapitalist Struggle of Native Peoples in America. Fall 2005.
• "The Pillory/Pelourinho in Open Air Museums in the U. S. and Brazil: A Site of Racism and Racial Reconciliation." Erasing Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas (Voices of the African Diaspora). Eds. Joe Young and Jana Braziel. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007.
• "Psychological Insights into the Life of Saint Rose of Lima." Rev. of Frank Graziano, Wounds of Love: The Mystical Marriage of Saint Rose of Lima. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Clio's Psyche: Understanding the "Why" of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society. II.3 (December 2004): 108-110.
• "Cherríe Moraga," Luz Elena Ramirez, ed. "Hispanic American Literature," vol. 1, "Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature," Facts on File Online Database, (Forthcoming)
• "Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe" Luz Elena Ramirez, ed. "Hispanic American Literature," vol. 1, "Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature," Facts on File Online Database, (Forthcoming)
• "Myth and Ritual in The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea: Cherríe Moraga's Xicana Indígena Interpretation of the Medea." Medea: Mutations and Permutations of a Myth. Anne Simon and Heike Bartel, Eds. (Forthcoming - contract with Oxford's Legenda Publishing.)
• "Indigenous Ecology and Chicanada Coalition Building in the dramatic works of Cherríe Moraga: "Living Models" for a Sustainable Future." 
• “Ceremonia and Social Justice in Cherríe Moraga’s Digging Up the Dirt:  An Old Story of Loving to Death” (Association of Death Education and Counseling) ADEC Forum. June 2011 issue on Social Justice and International Issues.  

Papers

• "Decolonizing the Brown and Female Earth": Indigenous Ecology in the Dramatic Works of Cherríe Moraga" National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies - University of Texas at Austin, March 19-22, 2008.
• "Stories 'too big for easy consumption': Student immersion in Mexican indigenous communities" presented at the Canadian Association for American Studies conference in November, 2007
• "Women and the 'Cosmic Race' in Brazilian Literature" presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting in Puebla, Mexico, April 2007.
• "Exiled from Aztlán: Cherríe Moraga's Chicana Lesbian Translation of the Medea," presented at the international conference entitled, Medea Mutations and Permutations of a Myth, held in Bristol, UK, Universities of Bristol and Nottingham, July 17-19, 2006.
• "Marketing Afro-Brazilian Culture in the 'Racial Democracy': Brazil's Restored Colonial Capital, Old Salvador or the Pelourinho." AIS Colloquium, Ramapo College of New Jersey, October 26, 2005
• "Acts of Remembering: Cherríe Moraga's Ritualistic Revision of Chicano Activist Theatre." Presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting in State College, Pennsylvania, March 2005
• Chairperson and Respondent of three-day seminar entitled Post Colonial Literature and Religion: Decolonizing Spirit at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting in State College, Pennsylvania, March 2005
• "'...to be seen as the Earth is seen...': Environmental Crisis in the Autobiographical Writings of Cherríe Moraga" XXIX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA),"Crisis, Response, and Recovery" in Toronto, Canada, October, 2010.
• "Guerilla Webfare and Oppositional Identity in the Films of Alex Rivera"; ACLA Conference; Brown University; Providence RI; March 29-April 1, 2012
•  “Violent Death and Xicana Indígena Healing: Cherríe Moraga’s Digging Up the Dirt:  An Old Story of Loving to Death” NeMLA conference, April 7-11, 2011, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.  

Professor Stacie Taranto

Books

• Ph.D. Dissertation, "Defending 'Family Values': Women's Grassroots Politics and the Republican Right, 1970-1980" (Brown University, 2010)
• Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in the Seventies, ongoing book manuscript project.

Papers

• "Conservative Intellectual Thought, Suburban Housewives and Family Values" 4th Annual US Intellectual History Conference; CUNY New York; November 18, 2011

Articles

• "Ellen McCormack for President: Politics and an Improbable Path to Passing Anti-Abortion Policy," Journal of Policy History 24, No. 2, Spring 2012 (forthcoming).
• “The Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act and Its Reception in Rhode Island,” Rhode Island History 66, No. 1, Winter/Spring2008 Issue. 

Professor Jeremy Teigen

Articles

• "Barack Obama's 'American' Problem: Unhyphenated Americans in the 2008 Elections," (with Brian Arbour). 2011. Social Science Quarterly. 92(3): 563-587.
• "Orphan Counties and the Effect of Irrelevant Information on Turnout in Statewide Races," (with Keena Lipsitz). 2010. Political Communication. 27(2): 178-198.
• "Probing the Reds and Blues: Sectionalism and Voter Location in the 2000 and 2004 U.S Presidential Elections," (with Seth McKee). 2009. Political Geography. 28(8): 484-49
• "Invoking Military Credentials in Congressional Elections, 2000-2006." 2008. In Reveron, D.S. and J. Stiehm (eds.), Inside Defense: Current Controversies in U.S. Civil-Military Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• "Conscription vs. Security?: Georgian Military Institution Building and NATO Enlargement, 1991-2008" (with Julie A. George). 2008. European Security 17(2 &3): 339-366.
• "Veterans' Party Identification, Candidate Affect, and Vote Choice in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election." 2007. Armed Forces & Society 33(3): 414-437.
• "Enduring Effects of the Uniform: Previous Military Experience and Voting Turnout." 2006. Political Research Quarterly 59(4): 601-607.
• "The Partisan Impact of Congressional Redistricting: The Case of Texas, 2001-2003" (with Seth McKee and Mathieu Turgeon). 2006. Social Science Quarterly 87(2): 308-317.

Book Reviews

• "Debt of a Nation: Understanding the Treatment of Military Veterans in the United States (review essay)." 2007. Armed Forces & Society 33(3): 438-444.

Papers

• "The Mobilizing Effect of Political Ads in Senate Elections," with Prof. Keena Lipsitz (Queens College, CUNY). Presentation at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, MA, August 2008.
• "Congressional Candidate Background, Party, and Perceptions of Issue Competence." Presentation at the Southern Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 2009

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Professor Michael Unger

Articles

• “After the Supreme Word: The Effect Van Orden v. Perry and of McCreary v. ACLU on Support for Public Displays of theTen Commandments,” American Politics Research 36: 750 – 776.
• “‘New Style’ Campaigning, Citizen Knowledge and Sources of Legitimacy for State Courts: A Case Study in Texas,” (with Mark McKenzie). 2011. Politics and Policy 39 (5): 813-834. 

Book Review

• Rethinking American Electoral Democracy by Matthew Streb (New York, Routledge, 2008. 226 pp. Cloth, $125.00; paper, $25.95) for Political Science Quarterly, 2009.
• Legacy and Legitimacy: Black Americans and the Supreme Court (Temple, 2009) by Rosalee Clawson and Eric Waltenburg for The Journal of Politics, 2010.

Professor Lisa Williams

Books and Poems

• Mount Fuji” and “April in Japan” (Poems), Sunrise from Blue Thunder, Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami, March 2011, an A Pirene Fountain Anthology, Ed. Ami Kaye, Pirene Fountain Publishing, December 2011
• “For Sam,” Cradle Songs: An Anthology of Poems About Motherhood., Quill and Parchment Press,  May 2012
• “Sestina,” and “Uterus” translated into French, Dans Le Ventre Des Femmes  (The Image of Women), Ed, Maia Brami, BSC Publishing, France, March 2012 
• Poem” The Motherhood Anthology, Quill and Parchment Press, Forthcoming  
• Two Poems,  The Image of Women, BSC Publishing, France, March 2012 
• “Song," "Birth", and "1925", an except from Forget Russia in The Mom Egg, 2011. Vol. 9, and The Mom Egg 2009 
• “Poem,”  Washington Square,  (Summer/Fall) Vol. 10, 2010 
• “Miscarriage,” (Poem),  Mamas and Papas, City Works Press, San Diego, 2010, and published in Letters to Virginia Woolf, Hamilton Books, 2005 
• Poem, Mamas and Papas, Eds., Masek and Mayhew. San Diego: City Works Press, 2010 
• Letters to Virginia Woolf. (Lanham: Hamilton Books, June 2005)
• The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf. (Westport: Greenwood Press, August 2000)

Other Activities

• Chairing the International Virginia Woolf Conference at Fordham University in June 2009