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8/14/2019 Faculty and Staff Notes - As of November-9-2009New

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(Published in @John Jay on November 9, 2009)

Presenting

Michael Pfeifer (History) presented a paper, "Racial and Class Frontiers: Vigilantism

and Criminal Justice in the Late Antebellum United States," at the Western HistoryAssociation Conference in Denver on October 9.

Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) co-produced Erotik PolitikCabaret: A Sexual and Political Romp at The Living Theatre in Manhattan on October25. The production was a series of readings and performance pieces written by Pflanzerand others.

Thomas A. Kubic (Sciences) was an invited speaker at the Trace Evidence Symposiumsponsored by the National Institute of Justice and FBI in Clearwater Beach, FL, August2-7. His lecture on Examination of a 13-Year-Old Crime Scene for a War Crimes Trial,

or Is it Ever Too Late to Examine a Crime Scene? dealt with murders that took place inRwanda in mid-1990s. Also at the symposium, John A. Reffner (Sciences) presented aposter concerning his research, conducted with graduate students Vanessa Martinez andBrooke Weinger, on the Application of Diamond Internal Reflection InfraredMicroscopical Analysis of Mineral and Glass Trace Evidence. Nicholas Petraco Jr.(Sciences) presented a poster on The Statistical Significance of the Aggregate TraceEvidence Found in Dust Specimens. Dale Purcell and Rebecca Bucht, doctoralstudents in forensic science who are both laboratory instructors at John Jay, alsopresented posters on their research.

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) delivered a talk titled

"How Is the Criminal Justice System Impacting our Community?" at Reality House, Inc.,on September 24. Reality House assists individuals, families, veterans and communitiesin leading productive lives during the re-entry process.


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John Matteson (English) was the guest of honor and featured speaker at an October 9

fundraising luncheon at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT. Here he poseswith fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers Debby Applegate (left) and Joan D.Hedrick, who introduced Matteson at the gathering.

Between the Covers

Jeremy Travis (President) and Anna Crayton (Prisoner Reentry Institute) co-authoredan article Offender Reentry that appears in 21st Century Criminology: A ReferenceHandbook, Vol.2 (Sage Publications, 2009), edited by J. Mitchell Miller.

Peter Manuel (Art & Music) recently published three books: Creolizing Contradance inthe Caribbean (an edited volume), The Reggae Scene: The People, the Image, the Music

(a co-authored children's book), and Chowtal Rang Bahar: A Treasury of Chowtal Songsfrom India and the Caribbean (a co-edited anthology of Indo-Caribbean folksongs). His1988 bookPopular Musics of the Non-Western World, earlier translated into Japanese,was recently translated and published in Korean. He is currently working on a videodocumentary on Indo-Caribbean music.

Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration) published anarticle, From Amsterdam, Lessons on Controlling Drugs If It's On the Shelves, It'sOff the Streets, in the October 25 Washington Post Sunday Magazine. His articleAngels in Blue: The Virtues of Foot Patrol appeared in the September/October 2009issue ofThe American Interest.

Jodie G. Roure (Latin American/Latina/o Studies) had her book chapter The NCLB,Race, Ethnicity, Class and Diversity: Creating a High School to Law/Graduate SchoolPipeline for Underrepresented Students published in Our Promise: AchievingEducational Equity for Americas Children (Carolina Academic Press, 2009), edited byMaurice Dyson.


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Dorothy Moses Schulz (Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration),working with Dr. Rita Wirrer of the Unit for International Police Cooperation inRhineland-Palatinate, Germany, has created a bibliography of items pertaining to womenin policing around the world that may be downloaded from the Police FuturistsInternational Web site, (www.policefuturists.org). The items include books and articles

written in English, French, German and Dutch.Peer Review

Roberta Belli (Sociology), an adjunct faculty member and a student in the JohnJay/CUNY doctoral program in criminal justice, received a National Institute of Justicegraduate research fellowship for her dissertation on Where Terrorists, Far-RightExtremists and Greedy Criminals Meet: A Comparative Study of Financial Crimes in theU.S.The award was one of only six given out this year, and the first federal dissertationaward won by a criminal justice PhD student in the 45-year history of the program.

Jock Young (Sociology) has been named winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book

Award presented by the American Society of Criminologys Division of InternationalCriminology. He was cited forCultural Criminology: An Invitation (London Sage, 2008),which he co-authored with Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward.


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(Published in @John Jay on October 28, 2009)

Presenting

Ellen Sexton (Library) and Mark McBeth (English) co-presented at the GeorgiaConference on Information Literacy in Savannah, GA on September 26. Their talk,

"Justice (through Literacy) for All: Library/English Collaboration & FacultyDevelopment," described the John Jay Subway Series and how that college literacyinitiative subsequently promoted faculty development workshops on Writing Across theCurriculum and information literacy.

Margaret Wallace (Sciences) gave a presentation titled DNA New Frontiers:Identification of Non-Human Biological Material-Botanicals, Bugs & Bacteria onSeptember 23 at a DNA Symposium sponsored by the New York City Office of the ChiefMedical Examiner, Department of Forensic Biology.

Robert McCrie (Protection Management) was the presenter and seminar leader for

"Reinventing the Prison: Linking the Prison to the Community for Lower Recidivism," aspart of a conference held at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland September 21-22. The event, aimed at prison governors and public policy advisors, was sponsored bythe university's School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies.

Mark McBeth (English) presented on a panel "Who's Telling the Truth? Revisiting anInterrogation of an Accused Child Abuser" on July 7 at the International Association ofForensic Linguists Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law. Alsoin July, McBeth presented "An Alternative to the Common Reading The CommonDenominator: Riding the Subway to Inquiry" at the Writing Program AdministratorsConference in Minneapolis, MN. He received a Special Recognition Award at theconference for his article "Memoranda of Fragile Machinery: A Portrait of Shaughnessyas Intellectual-Bureaucrat," which was published in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of theJournal of Writing Program Administration.

Staci Strobl (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) recently metwith police officials in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, to discuss forthcoming research onpolicing Roma (gypsy) populations there. The meeting, which has been featured on theSlovenian police Web site, focused on research that Stroble will commence thisNovember in collaboration with Maki Haberfeld (Law, Police Science and CriminalJustice Administration), along with a John Jay graduate student and a colleague at theUniversity of Maribor, Slovenia.

Between the Covers

Larry Sullivan (Library) is the editor-in-chief of the recently published The SageGlossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Sage Publications, 2009), the first suchhistorical and comparative study of some 2,200 concepts in nine different social andbehavioral science disciplines. Professors Karen Terry (Criminal Justice) and CynthiaMercado (Psychology) were among the associate editors of the volume.


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Serena Nanda (Anthropology, emeritus) is the author of an anthropological murdermystery,A Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder, publishedrecently by Altamira/Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. The mystery, set in an Indianimmigrant community in New York City, explores gender inequality, violence againstwomen and immigrant adaptation to American life.

Elise Champeil (Sciences), Gloria Proni (Sciences) and Danielle Sapse (Law, PoliceScience and Criminal Justice Administration) have had their paper Ab Initio Studies ofReceptor Interactions with AMPA and Kainic Acid published in the September 2009issue of theJournal of Molecular Modeling. The article discusses the possible impact onforensic psychology of mutations in the receptors.

Peer Review

Nicholas Petraco, Peter Diaczuk, Thomas Kubic, Dale Purcell and Brooke Weinger(Sciences) and Peter Shenkin (Mathematics) have been awarded $700,000 by theNational Institute of Justice to carry out research on the application of Machine Learning

and Statistical Pattern Recognition to toolmarks. Their research is aimed at addressingmany of the issues raised in the recent National Academy of Sciences report on thefoundations of the forensic sciences.

Meghan Duffy (Center for the Advancement of Teaching) has received a $250,000 grantfrom the U.S. Department of Education for her project: Reading More and ReadingMore Effectively: The Outcomes of Renting Customized Kindle E-Readers to IncreaseUndergraduate Students Access to Course Materials.


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(Published in @John Jay on October 7, 2009)Presenting

Katie Gentile (Counseling/Women's Center) presented a paper on "Coming to Life," anintegration of postcolonial, feminist and psychoanalytic theories in the treatment of incestsurvivors, on June 26 at the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and

Psychotherapy's annual convention in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was also selected to co-chairthe association's biannual online colloquium.

Melinda Powers (English) was selected to participate in a National Endowment for theHumanities grant titled Page and Stage: Theater, Tradition and Culture in America. Thegrant unites the resources of the Aquila Theatre Company (a professional company-in-residence at New York University's Center for Ancient Studies), the Urban LibrariesCouncil, the American Philological Association and the NYU Center for Ancient Studiesin a new program. Through this program, 16 public libraries together with their localperforming arts centers will inspire people to come together to read, see and think aboutclassical literature and how it influences and invigorates American cultural life.

R. Terry Furst (Anthropology) delivered a paper on August 8 at the 59th meeting of theSociety for the Study of Social Problems in San Francisco, titled The TransformationofDrug Markets and Its Impact on HIV Outreach to Injection Drug Users in New YorkCity, 1987-2008.

Keith A. Markus (Psychology) presented a paper titled "Bubble Plots as a Model-FreeGraphical Tool for Three Continuous Variables and a Flexible R Function to Plot Them"co-authored by Wen Gu, a graduate student at John Jay, in June at a conference atFordham University. Also in June, at the 2009 International Meeting of the PsychometricSociety at Saint John's College of Cambridge University, Markus presented a paper titledHow Can Validity Come in Degrees? In August, Markus presented a paper titled AllMethods Are Mixed Methods as part of a symposium on mixing quantitative andqualitative methods at the annual convention of the American Psychological Associationin Toronto. The paper reflected work completed as part of a larger collaborative projectwith ProfessorChitra Raghavan (Psychology) and Daphne Ha, a recent John Jaygraduate student.

Between the Covers

Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had herarticle NAS Roundtable: How Scientific Is Forensic Science? published in the August2009 issue ofThe Champion. The article was cowritten with William C. Thompson andMichael Burt. In August, Schwartz was appointed to the Advisory Board of the OhioPublic Defender Wrongful Conviction Project.

Agnes Wieschenberg (Mathematics and Computer Science) had her bookCoffeehouseMathematics in Early Twentieth Century Europe published by Linus Publications. Thebook was released shortly after her death on August 22.


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Michael Christian (English) will have his new bookWrite Like the Masters published inOctober 2009 by Writer's Digest under his pen name, William Cane.

Jim Cohen (Public Management) recently concluded a one-year sabbatical during whichhe completed three manuscripts. Divergent Paths, United States and France: Capital

Markets, the State, and Differentiation in Transport Systems, 1840-1940 was publishedin the September 2009 issue ofEnterprise and Society: International Journal of BusinessHistory. In October, the French Ministry of Finance will publish Cohens book chapter,Une Histoire Comparative des Systmes de Transport aux tats-Unis et en France, 1830 la Grand Crise. Cohens article Private Capital, Public Credit and the Decline of Railin the United States in the Mid-20th Century was accepted for publication in 2010 bytheBritishJournal of Transport History. Cohen also presented a paper in June in Milan,Italy, at the conference of the European Association of Business History. That paper, oncultural factors affecting the elusiveness of certain French archival sources, is publishedinBusiness and Economic History Online.

Jodie G. Roure (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) had her article titled DomesticViolence in Brazil: Examining Obstacles and Approaches to Promote LegislativeReform accepted for publication in the fall 2009 issue ofColumbia Human Rights LawReview.

Peer Review

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was appointed to theBoard of Directors for Reality House Inc., a New York drug rehabilitation center. Shewill also chair the centers Academic Advising Committee.


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(Published in @John Jay on September 16, 2009)

Presenting

Patricia Tovar (Anthropology) presented a paper on The Things We Do for Love:Narratives of Women and War in Colombia at the Latin American Studies Association

meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12.Marie Umeh (English) chaired the panel, Life is Short and Wide: Memoir andBiography in the Diaspora, and presented a chapter from her biography of Flora Nwapaon July 18 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. Theprogram was televised on C-SPAN/Book TV. Umeh also presented a paper, How FloraNwakuche Eliminated Poverty, Created Wealth, and Empowered the People after theNigerian Civil War, on August 6 at the Fourth Women in Africa and the AfricanDiaspora International Conference in Abuja, Nigeria.

Nathan Lents (Sciences) presented a talk on June 18 titled, Video Lectures and Online

Office Hours: Teaching Biology through the Internet, at the Sloan-ConsortiumSymposium on Emerging Technology for Online Learning, in San Francisco, CA. OnJune 22, Lents presented a talk on Teaching the Process of Science in Evolution,Phylogenetics, and Natural Selection, at the quadrennial conference of the NationalAssociation of Paleontology in Cincinnati, OH.

Eugene ODonnell (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) appearedin the documentary, Shouting Fire: Dispatches from the Edge of Free Speech, shownon HBO in July, in which he discussed police handling of the 2004 Republican NationalConvention. The film was also shown earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.

Michael Pfeifer (History) presented a paper, Vigilantes, Criminal Justice andAntebellum Cultural Conflict, at the annual conference of the Society for Historians ofthe American Republic, held in Springfield, IL, on July 19.

Dorothy Moses Schulz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) wasthe keynote speaker at the Florida Police Chiefs Associations annual summer trainingconference in June. She was also the keynote speaker at the Women in Public SafetyCommunications Leadership Symposium, held in May by the Association of PublicSafety Communications Officials in Orlando, FL.

Effie Cochran (English) followed up on teaching a month-long study abroad coursein Thessaloniki, Greece, by moderating a panel at a conference on Human RightsLearning as Peace Education: Pursuing Democracy in a Time of Crisis, held from July26 to August 2 in Budapest, Hungary

Between the Covers

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had her article AMap through the Maze: Achieving Five Years of Arrest-Free Behavior, accepted for


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the January/February 2010 issue ofInsights, a publication of the Offender Preparation &Education Network Inc.

Daniel Pinello (Political Science) published his article, Location, Location, Location:

Same-Sex Relationship Rights by State, in the September 2009 edition of the AmericanBar Associations The Young Lawyer.

John Staines (English) had his new bookThe Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots1560-1690: Rhetoric, Passions, and Political Literature published by Ashgate Publishingin May. His essay Radical Pity: Responding to Spectacles of Violence inKing Learappeared in the volume Staging Pain, 1580-1800: Violence and Trauma in BritishTheater, also published this summer by Ashgate.

Dorothy Moses Schulz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration)

recently authoredBecoming a Police Officer(New York: Learning Express), aimed athigh school and college students who are interested in police careers. She alsocontributed to theEncyclopedia of Race & Crime (Sage Reference, 2009), with entries onLee P. Brown, Ella Bully-Cummings, The Guardians, Beverly Harvard and BenjaminWard.

Patrick Collins (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) has had hisbookNegotiate to Win (Sterling Publishing, 2009) translated into Portuguese in Brazil byElsevier.

Andrew Majeske (English) published an article in the journalLaw and Literature this

summer titled Equity's Absence: The Extremity of Claudio's Prosecution andBernardine's Pardon in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

Peer Review

Erin Ackerman (Political Science), Tim McCormack(English), Dara Byrne(Communication and Theater Arts) and Ros Myers (Sociology) were selected toparticipate in CUNYs highly competitive 2009-2010 University Seminar on Teachingand Learning in Undergraduate Education. Of 70 applications to the program, 15 facultymembers were chosen, including the four from John Jay the most of any college.


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(Published in @John Jay on August 26, 2009)

Presenting

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) delivered a talk onHow Addicts Can Develop Character to patients at the Addiction Institute of New York

at Roosevelt Hospital on July 20. She addressed the importance of integrating aspects ofcritical thinking as a means of positive reintegration into society after drug treatment.

Ann A. Huse (English) presented a talk on Monmouth County Sites in Philip Freneau'sPoetry to the Atlantic Highlands Historical Society in New Jersey on May 20.

Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) presented a lecture with videoclips, "Jerzy Grotowski, Judith Malina and The Living Theatre and Alternative Theatre inthe U.S." under the auspices of The Theatre of the 8th Day as part of the MaltaInternational Theatre Festival in Poznan, Poland, on June 25.

Ellen Scrivner (John Jay Leadership Academy) moderated a panel on "InformationSharing Across Federal, State and Local Levels" at Attorney General Eric Holder's LawEnforcement Summit in Washington, DC, on April 20.Lorie Nicholas (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) delivered apresentation on prisoner re-entry at the "Safe in Our Brothers' Arms": Black Male MentalHealth and Wellness Symposium held at John Jay on May 1. The event was hosted by theNew York Association of Black Psychologists.

Between the Covers

Michael Pfeifer (History) published an article, "The Origins of Postbellum Lynching:Collective Violence in Reconstruction Louisiana," in the Spring 2009 issue of the journalLouisiana History.

Andrew Majeske (English) had his new bookJustice, Women, and Power in EnglishRenaissance Drama published in June by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Theedited collection includes Majeskes essay "Striking a Deal: Portia's Trial Strategy inShakespeare's Merchant of Venice."

Nivedita Majumdar (English) had her edited bookThe Other Side of Terror: Writingson Terrorism in South Asia published by Oxford University Press earlier this year.

Peer Review

David Green (Sociology) attended the British Society of Criminology conference inCardiff, Wales, in late June, where he received the society's 2009 Book Prize forWhenChildren Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture.

Jane Katz (Health and Physical Education) recently competed with the USA MastersSwim Team at the 18th World Maccabiah Games in Israel, wehre she won 10 first-placegold medals and three silver medals. Katz, who has participated in the Maccabiah Games


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since 1957, had the opportunity to meet Olympic gold medalist Jason Lezak, who lit thetorch at Ramat Gan Stadium to open the Maccabiah Games.

Diana Friedland (Sciences) was awarded a three-year, $415,665 National ScienceFoundation research grant for her proposal "Pokeweed Antiviral Protein selection of

mRNA; Effects of mRNA structure and initiation factors." The research, funded by theNSFs Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Genes and Genome Systems, isaimed at increasing the understanding of viral infections and how they affect proteinsynthesis, potentially leading to new anti-viral approaches.

Paul Brenner (Audiovisual Services) was elected as a member of the Online Film CriticsSociety.


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(Published in @John Jay on May 13, 2009)

Presenting

Benjamin Lapidus (Art and Music) performed his recent workHerencia Juda on March

29 at the Eldridge Street Museum in Manhattan. On April 4, he performed with his Latinjazz band Sonido Isleo at the Bronx Library Center.

Ellen Belcher (Library) was a panelist on the Feminist Archaeologist Panel at theBrooklyn Museums Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on March 14. Thepanel was presented in conjunction with theFertile Goddess in the Herstory Gallery, anexhibit that runs through May 31, for which Belcher was a consultant.

Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) spoke on theBaltimore Ghetto at the Yale University Urban Ethnography Project Mini-Conference,"The Urban Ghetto: Then and Now," during the Eastern Sociological Societys annual

meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 20.Bettina Carbonell (English) presented a paper on Bearing Witness in Twenty-FirstCentury Museum Practice at the Curating Difficult Knowledge conference held April16-18 at Concordia University in Montreal.

M. Victoria Prez-Ros (Government) presented "Back to the Future: Accountability forPast Abuses in Consolidated Democracies" at the New York State Political ScienceAssociation Conference, which took place at John Jay on April 24-25. She also chairedthe panel on Current Issues of International Relations

Martin Wallenstein (Communication and Theatre Arts) presented two papers at thecentennial meeting of the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) from April 22-26in Philadelphia. The first, titledFreedom of Speech 1909-1919: The Dark Decade, wasan invited paper. The second, The Big Chill: First Amendment and the War on Terror,was peer-reviewed and received an award as Top Paper in Communication Law andEthics.Wallenstein was also elected chairperson of the ECA Communication Law andEthics Interest Group.

John Staines (English) gave a paper on Violence and Generic Experiment in ThomasNashe's The Unfortunate Traveller at the meeting of the Renaissance Society ofAmerica in Los Angeles on March 21. He also attended the Shakespeare Society ofAmerica conference in Washington, DC, where on April 11 he presented a paper onreligious controversial prose of the 1590s, Comic Violence and Martins ReformingWord in the Marprelate Tracts."

Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had a staged reading of his playLiving with History: Camus Sartre De Beauvoirpresented May 5 and 6 at the MedicineShow Theatre in Manhattan.


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Stephen Handelman (Center on Media, Crime and Justice) delivered a talk on "How doOrganized Criminals Hijack State Activities?" at a special seminar on organized crimeand corruption hosted by the RAND Corporation in Arlington, VA, on May 1.

Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) made a

Continuing Legal Education presentation, Biting the Bullet: Challenging FirearmsEvidence, as part of the Fifth Annual Indigent Criminal Defense Seminar: AdvancedSkills for the Experienced Practitioner, sponsored by the Supreme Court of Virginia andthe Virginia State Bar, in Richmond, VA, on April 3.

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) recently spoke to agroup of female inmates who are enrolled in the Going Out by Going In prisoner reentryprogram at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles. In addition, shespoke to 35 at-risk youth in the Vital Intervention Directional Alternative program at theLennox Station campus in Watts.

Delores Jones-Brown (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) servedon a panel titled Prosecutorial Discretion: From Mistake to Misconduct, sponsored bythe Diversity Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Other invited talksinclude Police Brutality: In the 10 Years Since the Death of Amadou Diallo for theWomens City Club of New York, and a presentation at the Russell Sage Foundation forthe Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity.

Between the Covers

David Kennedy (Criminal Justice) has had his article Drugs, Race and CommonGround: Reflections on the High Point Intervention published in the March 2009issue ofNIJ Journal, a publication of the National Institute of Justice.

Kathleen Collins (Library) had her new book, Watching What We Eat: The Evolution ofTelevision Cooking Shows, published this month by Continuum.

Diana E. Friedland (Sciences) has published a manuscript in the February 2009 issue ofBiochimica et Biophysica Acta: Genes and Regulatory Mechanisms. The title of the paperis Characterization of pokeweed antiviral protein binding to mRNA cap analogs:Competition with nucleotides and enhancement by translation initiation factoriso4G. Friedland presented this work with student researchers from John Jay and PaceUniversity.

Andrew Karmen (Sociology) had the seventh edition of his bookCrime Victims: AnIntroduction To Victimology, published recently by Wadsworth/Cengage. The originaledition, published in 1984, was the first and only comprehensive textbook in thevictimology field at that time.

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Robert McCrie (Protection Management) received the Eugene R. Fink Memorial Awardfrom the Associated Licensed Detectives of the State of New York at the groups annualbanquet in New York.

Isabelle Curro (Security) received one of the New York State Bar Associations

Presidents Pro Bono Service Awards on May 1, in recognition of her work in promotingpro bono service as a path to achieving equal access to justice.

Jane Katz (Health and Physical Education) competed in the recent Albatross Openmasters swim meet held in North Bethesda, MD, by the Montgomery Ancient Mariners.She won the 50-meter, 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke events, setting a new meetrecord in the 100-meter race.

Roddrick Colvin (Public Management) was recently elected as the incoming Presidentof the New York State Political Science Association.


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(Published in @John Jay on April 1, 2009)

Peer Review

John Matteson (English) is one of the judges of the 2009 Dashiell Hammett Prize,awarded annually for literary excellence in crime writing. Matteson also accepted an

invitation to give the Class Day address at the Columbia University School of GeneralStudies in May.

Presenting

Betsy Hegeman (Anthropology) presented "Culture-Bound Syndromes and Diagnosis"to the Grand Rounds of Upstate Medical School Departments of Psychiatry andPsychology in Syracuse, NY, on March 26. She also met with the Psychoanalytic StudyGroup of Syracuse and presented "MPD and Spirit Possession: the Influence of Culture."

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) presented a paper on"Methamphetamine Abuse and Treatment in Rural America" at the 2009 annual meeting

of the Southern Rural Sociological Association in Atlanta, GA, on January 31-February3.

Kwando M. Kinshasa (African American Studies) was invited to Saginaw Valley StateUniversity in Michigan from February 16-19 as their 2009King-Chavez-ParksVisitingScholar. As the visiting scholar, Kinshasa gave lectures on African Americanhistory, criminal justice, global migration policies, sociology and social policy. Healso presented a paper titled "History and One's Sociological Memory: A ContemporaryInteractive Perspective," in which he revisited and discussed the sociological andeconomic implications of the 1955-1956 Montgomery, AL, Bus Boycott.

Michael Pfeifer (History) served as commentator on a panel titled "Race, the Courts, andPublic Spectacle in Louisiana" at the annual meeting of the Louisiana HistoricalAssociation in Monroe, LA, on March 19.

Klaus von Lampe (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was aninvited speaker at the 12th European Police Congress in Berlin on February 11. He spokeon "The European Dimensions of Organized Crime: Some Remarks from aCriminological Perspective."

M. Victoria Prez-Ros (Government) presented a paper on the UDHR and theMillennium Developmental Goals: Making the Three Generations of Rights a Realityand was the discussant on a panel on Transitional Justice at the International StudiesAssociation annual convention in New York from February 15-18.

Jon-Christian Suggs (English, emeritus) gave the keynote lecture, "Imperium inImperio: Double Consciousness, Double Citizenship and the Promise of the ObamaPresidency," for African-American History Month at Salisbury University in Salisbury,MD, on February 10. In April he will present a paper on race and "love" in Melville's"Billy Budd" at the American Society for Law, Culture, and the Humanities in Boston; in


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May he will present two chapters of his novel-in-progress, "After Jubilee," at theWorking Group on Law and Slavery at the Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale, and in Junehe will present a paper on Hannah Elias and the murder of the man who invented NewYork at the annual conference on New York State history.

Gloria Proni and Elise Champeil (Sciences) presented a paper titled Assessment ofStudents' Likeability of the Clicker and Wiley Plus Technologies in OrganicChemistry at the CUNY IT Conference on December 5, 2008.

Between the Covers

Gloria Proni (Sciences) will have her articles "CD-sensitive Zn-porphyrin tweezer host-guest complexes. Part 1: MC/OPLS-2005 computational approach for predictingpreferred interporphyrin helicity" and "CD-sensitive Zn-porphyrin tweezer host-guestcomplexes. Part 2: cis- and trans-3-hydroxy-4-aryl/alkyl-beta-lactams. A case study"published in a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Chirality.

Simon Baatz (History) is the author of the foreword to a new edition of ClarenceDarrows Crime: Its Cause and Treatmentpublished in the Kaplan Classics of Lawseries.
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(Published in @John Jay on March 11, 2009)

Presenting

Miriam Ehrenberg (Psychology) gave an invited address at the annual conference ofGlobalisation for the Common Good, held in Melbourne, Australia. Her paper, Applying

Psychotherapy Techniques to Religious and Ethnic Conflict, covered both western andIslamic psychotherapy approaches and the implications of each for conflict resolution.

Jeremy Travis (President) was the keynote speaker at the Public Service Conference onthe Future of Community Justice in Wisconsin at Marquette Law School on February 20.His remarks focused on Building Communities with Justice: Overcoming the Tyrannyof the Funnel.

George Andreopoulos (Government) delivered a series of lectures on "The Evolution ofInternational Human Rights Norms" at the University of Bologna in January. The lectureswere part of the university's graduate program in human rights and humanitarian

intervention.Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was a panelistat the New York Academy of Medicines Harm Reduction conference on January 23.He was also a featured speaker at the annual conference of Students for Sensible DrugPolicy, held in College Park, MD, on November 23.

R. Terry Furst (Anthropology) presented A Qualitative Exploration of SuboxoneOpioid Maintenance in a Harm Reduction Setting in New York City, a paper cowrittenwith Herman Joseph, and Sharon Stancliff, at the Columbia University Seminar Series inNew York in December. Furst was also one of the authors, along with Stancliff andJoseph, of Low Threshold Buprenorphine, a paper presented by Stancliff at the 7thNational Harm Reduction Conference in Miami last November.

Between the Covers

Patrick Collins (Communication & Theatre Arts) had two books released in January bySterling Publishers, a Barnes and Noble imprint.Negotiate to Win! is a tactical guide toachieving success in negotiations, and features a unique chapter on cross-culturalnegotiation. The second book, Speak with Power and Confidence, is an updated andrevised edition of Collins comprehensive guide to maximizing public speaking skills,originally published in 1998. Both works attracted the attention of foreign publishers atthe Fall 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair.

Joseph King (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published hisarticle "Policing after Peel: the Government Moves to Centralize in the Turkish Journalof Police Studies in 2008. His article Police Problems: Labor Relations in the EarlyPolice Service of the United Kingdom appeared in the January 2009 issue ofPoliceForum, published by the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.


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Alisse Waterston (Anthropology) has had two new edited volumes published:AnAnthropology of War: Views from the Frontline (Berghahn Books, 2009) andAnthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing(Wiley Blackwell, 2009, Maria D.Vesperi, co-editor).An Anthropology of Warincludes Waterstons introduction, On Warand Accountability.Anthropology off the Shelfincludes a chapter by Waterston titled

Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories inLove, Sorrow and Rage. Waterstonserves as chair of the American Anthropological Associations Committee on the Futureof Print and Electronic Publishing to guide the digital transition of scholarly publishing.In November, Waterston presented a talk at the associations annual meeting on TheAcademy, the Market-State and the Dissemination of Anthropological Knowledge in theDigital Age.

Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had his bookreview of Hugh Holtons The Thin Black Line: True Stories by Black Law EnforcementOfficers Policing Americas Meanest Streets published in The Washington PostonJanuary 11.


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(Published in @John Jay on February 18, 2009)

On Board

Ben Jorgensen (Physical Education and Athletics) was named as the Colleges new headmens tennis coach. Jorgensen, who has been a tennis instructor for more than 15 years,

was the top singles player as a member of the mens tennis team at New York Universityin 1989 and 1990. He is also a working actor who has appeared in several films anddaytime soap operas.

Between the Covers

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) will have her articletitled "The Correctional Educator: A Nontraditional Occupation" published in theMay/June 2009 issue ofOffender Programs Report, a publication from the CivicResearch Institute that is devoted to innovative programs, management strategies andlegal developments in offender rehabilitation.

Simon Baatz (History) had his book,For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murderthat Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins), chosen as a finalist for the Edgar Allen PoeAward for Best Non-Fiction Crime Book in 2008. The award will be presented by theMystery Writers of America on April 30.

David Brotherton (Sociology) had his bookKeeping Out the Other: A CriticalIntroduction to Immigration Enforcement Today (Columbia University Press) cited as"Outstanding Academic Title for 2008" by Choice, the review magazine of the AmericanLibrary Association. Brotherton co-edited the book along with Philip Kretsedemas of theUniversity of Massachusetts.

Presenting

Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) made aContinuing Legal Education presentation on Daubert Challenges to FirearmsIdentification on January 10 at the Fifth National Seminar on Forensic Science and theLaw, sponsored by the Office of Defender Services of the Administrative Office of theU.S. Courts.

Ellen Belcher (Library) presented a paper titled Is There a Halaf Bead and PendantTypology? A Look at the Evidence at the Bead Technology Workshop hosted by theBritish Museum in London, England, on January 12-13.

Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) conducted one-day clinics on Swimmingfor Total Fitness and Swim Basics at the Jewish Community Center in Tucson, AZ, onJanuary 4 and The Club for Women, an all-women health club in Phoenix, on January 6.

M. Victoria Prez-Ros (Government) presented two papers, Cooperation againstTransnational Crime: Lessons from the Balkans and International Courts and ConflictResolution: Toward a New Normative Framework, Social Justice and New Debates, atthe annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, held in New Orleans,


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LA, in early January. She also chaired a panel on Domestic Implications of InternationalLaw and served as a discussant on a panel on Pedagogy and Research.

Peer Review

Staci Strobl (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) is one of the

finalists for the Richard J. Terrill Paper of the Year Award to be presented in March bythe Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Strobl was nominated for her paper TheWomen's Police Directorate in Bahrain, which appeared in the International CriminalJustice Review Journal.

Nishan Parlakian (Communication and Theatre Arts, emeritus) received the St. VartanAward from the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), for his lifelongachievements in the performing arts. Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of theDiocese said, It is through individuals like [Parlakian] that the future of Armeniantheater will remain vibrant among the next generation of Armenian Americans.


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(Published in @John Jay on January 28, 2009)

Between the Covers

Simon Baatz (History) had his book,For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder

that Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins) chosen by USA Today as one of its 10 Best Booksfor 2008. Jonathan Yardley, the book critic forThe Washington Post, choseFor theThrill of Itas one of the Top 15 Books for 2008, and R.V. Scheide of The SacramentoNews & Review selected Baatzs book as one of the years Best 55 Books.

Jock Young (Sociology) had his new book, Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, writtenwith Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward, published by Sage. The book was launched inNovember at the American Society of Criminology meeting in St. Louis.

Jill Stauffer (Philosophy), who is currently on fellowship in residence at the GraduateCenter, had her new book,Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God,

published by Columbia University Press. The volume was co-edited with Bettina Bergo.Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) had her article Joint-Friendly WaterWorkout in the October/November 2008 issue ofArthritis Health Monitor. Her articleon The Healthy Swimmer appeared in the November/December issue ofUSMSSwimmermagazine.

Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) publishedParts 1 and 2 of her article Challenging Firearms and Toolmark Identification in theOctober and November/December issues ofThe Champion, the journal of the NationalAssociation of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Part 1 was the cover story in the Octoberissue. The articles are also scheduled to be reprinted in The California Defender.

Presenting

Michael Pfeifer (History) presented a paper titled The Midwestern Making of RacialLynching: The Lynching of African-Americans in the Civil War and Reconstruction atthe American Historical Association meeting in New York City on January 3. Pfeiferpreviously presented a paper, "Lynching, Law, and Sectional Identity in the AntebellumBorder States, on October 25 in Louisville, KY, at the Filson Institute AcademicConference on Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.

Jock Young (Sociology) gave a series of six lectures during a recent visit to Argentina.He was the introductory plenary speaker at the international seminar on Rethinking theRole of the State in Crime Prevention, hosted by the Federal Secretariat of PublicSafety. He addressed the Social Cabinet of the Province of Santa Fe on policies of socialinclusion in the field of crime control; spoke at the Universities of Buenos Aires andRosario on his recent bookThe Vertigo of Late Modernity; and presented his research onmultiagency crime prevention to the UN Development Program on local initiatives in thisarea. While there, he also had productive meetings with the National Director of Criminal


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Policy and the director of the UN program regarding future research on crime and socialexclusion.

Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) presented a talk on Health and ExerciseThrough the Holidays on December 17 as part of the David Rogers Health Policy

Colloquium at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center.Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had readings of his plays UFOStory and The Flowers Sing: Strindbergs Dream performed by the Living Theatre inManhattan on December 2.

Peer Review

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was appointed to theboard of directors of OPEN Inc. (Offender Preparation & Education Network, Inc.), acorrectional service agency founded in Dallas, TX, in 1979. We are thrilled Dr. Kimorahas agreed to serve on our board, said the organizations executive director, Ned Rollo.

She brings a national and academic perspective to us.Duane Green (Facilities Management) won the heavyweight title in the biennialTournament of Champions amateur boxing competition held at Nassau Coliseum inDecember. Green, who trains at the Young Boxing Association (YBA) gym in the Bronx,chalked up two technical knockouts and one decision en route to the championship. In thefirst round, he scored a TKO over the fighter who had defeated him for the title two yearsago.


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(Published in @John Jay on December 10, 2008)

On Board

Michelle Rahmeh (Physical Education and Athletics) was named as the Colleges newhead athletic trainer. Rahmeh, a New Jersey native who holds bachelors and masters

degrees from the University of Akron, brings to the position a diverse rsum in the fieldsof health, health education and physical therapy.

Presenting

Elizabeth Hegeman (Anthropology) spoke at the American Red Cross on November 13on "Post-Traumatic Growth: Organizational and Individual Perspectives." She addressedthe issues of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction for mental health workersfacing disaster.

Simon Baatz (History) gave the annual Lawrence J. Gutter Literary Lecture at NorthShore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, IL, in November.

Anissa Hlie (History) was recently invited by the University of the Philippines, inManila, to lecture on issues of religious fundamentalism and present research undertakenby the group Women Living Under Muslim Laws. The lecture, The Great Ancestors:Women Asserting Rights in Muslim Contexts, highlighted the lives and deeds of womenthroughout history who have promoted gender equality in diverse Muslim countries andcommunities, including the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Muslim Spain, India, Pakistan,Algeria, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia, Nigeria and Indonesia.

Stephen Handelman (Center on Media, Crime and Justice) appeared on the CUNY TVIndependent Sources program on December 3, where he discussed the New York CityPolice Departments press accreditation policies. In October, Handelman delivered a talkon U.S. media and criminal justice issues to a group of more than 100 army, police andsecurity officials from Latin America and the Caribbean this years class of the Inter-American Defense College at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in NewYork.

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Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) authored an articletitled T he Bard Prison Initiative: Excellent Example of Empowering Education behindthe Walls that Needs to Be Replicated, which will appear in the January/February 2009issue ofOffender Programs Report, a publication from the Civic Research Institute.Kimoras bookPrison: Getting Out by Going In (Instructor's Manual)will be publishedin December 2008. She wrote the book to provide a teaching tool for correctionaleducators who work with offenders at the Century Detention Center in Lynwood, CA.

Monica Varsanyi (Government) published a paper in the December 2008 issue of theAnnals of the Association of American Geographers, the flagship journal in the academicfield of geography. Her paper, Rescaling the Alien, Rescaling Personhood:


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Neoliberalism, Immigration and the State, was the lead article in the journals humangeography subsection.

Eugene ODonnell (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) publisheda commentary, Shot in the Dark: Why Was Crime Overlooked in This Campaign, in

the November 3 issue of Newsweek magazine. The article, which appeared just beforethe recent presidential election, said it would be a crime for the next President not tomake criminal justice matters a priority.

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Isabelle Curro (Security) was named winner of the 2009 Commitment to Justice Awardfor Outstanding Solo Practitioner by inMotion, an organization that provides low-incomewomen with free legal services in matrimonial, family and immigration law. Curro, anattorney, was cited for her commitment to pro bono legal services. The award will beformally presented at a gala in early February.


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(Published in @John Jay on November 19, 2008)

On Board

Diane Ramirez (Physical Education and Athletics) was named head coach of womens

basketball and equipment manager. Ramirez is a 2007 graduate of Baruch College, whereshe served as assistant womens basketball coach for the past two seasons, and played forthree seasons prior to that.

Between the Covers

Wanda Fernandopulle (Career Development) had her biography of Richard Allen, oneof the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, published in a first-time,eight-volume print edition of theAfrican American National Biography (AANB). TheAANB, published by the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and the OxfordUniversity Press, is the largest collective biography of African Americans ever producedand is already recognized as the standard in the field.

Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had a review/commentary,Existential Affairs, a look at Edward and Kate Fullbrooks bookSex and Philosophy:Rethinking De Beauvoir and Sartre, published in the October 2008 CUNY GraduateCenter Advocate. His review of Robert Roths bookHealth Proxy was published in thevolume Cultural Logic 2007. In addition, two of his poems recently appeared in theliterary magazineAnd Then.

Presenting

George Andreopoulos (Government) presented a paper on The Regulation of CorporateActivities Under Human Rights Treaties at the annual conference of the InternationalAcademy of Business and Economics in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 19-22. The paperwas co-authored with Giuliana Campanelli and Alexandros Panayides of WilliamPaterson University.

Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) presented I Know It When I See It and Criminalistics at the annual meeting of the NortheasternAssociation of Forensic Scientists meeting on October 3, during a general session onDebating the Forensic Science in Forensic Science. On October 23, Schwartz made aContinuing Legal Education presentation on Firearms & Tool Marks at the TexasCriminal Defense Lawyers Associations annual forensics seminar in Dallas, TX.

Roy Perham (Psychology) presented a workshop, A Two-Stage Assessment Center thatBrought ALL Employees to a Higher Level of Performance, at the 34th InternationalCongress on Assessment Center Methods in Washington, DC, on September 24.Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) addressed a group ofstudents from the High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry at the Martin LutherKing, Jr. Educational Campus about self-esteem enhancement and choosing an academiccareer over criminal activity on October 15.


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Peer Review

Miriam Ehrenberg (Psychology), in her role as executive director of the Institute forHuman Identity (a nonprofit psychotherapy center in Manhattan), was awarded a grantfrom the New York State Department of Health for Family Q, a five-year innovative

program that offers free workshops to gay and lesbian parents and prospective parents onthe emotional issues involved in alternate family building. The grant also providescounseling training for selected interns on the special issues such parents face in raisingfamilies. (Students who might be interested in applying for the program should visitwww.ihi-therapycenter.org/familyq and contact Professor Ehrenberg.)


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PresentingM. Victoria Prez-Ros (Government) presented a paper, On the Effectiveness of

International Tribunals (ICTY and ICTR), at the American Political ScienceAssociations annual meeting in Boston, MA, August 28-31. She also presented twopapers Investing in Renewable Energies: Are Some Third-Generation Human RightsMore than Wishful Thinking? and Accountability for Disappearances: The Role ofRegional Courts at the annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology ofLaw in Milan-Como, Italy, in July.

Rosemary Barberet (Sociology) and Andrs Rengifo, a graduate of the PhD program incriminal justice and currently an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-St.Louis, were part of a Commission of Independent Experts selected by the Colombianstatistics agency, DANE, to evaluate crime statistics produced by the National Police of

Colombia, from September 15-19.

Between the CoversSimon Baatz (History) wrote Criminal Minds for the August 2008 issue ofSmithsonian magazine. The article is an excerpt of his bookFor the Thrill of It: Leopold,Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago.

Mangai Natarajan (Sociology) had her newest book, Women Police in a ChangingSociety: Back Door to Equality, published by Ashgate Publishing in September 2008.The book focuses on a unique and highly successful experiment begun in Tamil Nadu,India, in 1992, in which all-female police units were established as a way of enhancing

the confidence and professionalism of woman officers.

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was namedcontributing editor of Getting Out by Going In (GOGI), a monthly newsletter publishedby a nonprofit organization of the same name. GOGI educates federal, state and juvenileoffenders in California and Arizona. In addition, Professor Kimora wrote the forewordfor Mara Leigh Taylor's bookWomen in Prison: Women Finding Freedom. In May,Kimora visited female inmates at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood,CA, where she spoke about the importance of the GOGI program.

Lori L. Martin (African-American Studies) had several publications in 2008 including

an article titled Cashing in on the American Dream, which examined racial differencesin housing values over the past few decades. The article appeared in the journalHousing,Theory and Society. Martin also co-authored an article with Hayward Derrick Horton,Critical Demography and the Measurement of Racism, as well as a book, Non-MarriedWomen and Asset Ownership that explores differences in the types and levels of assetsowned by non-married black and white women.


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Margaret Wallace (Sciences) recently published Forensic Science: The Interfacebetween Science and the Lawin theKoreanJournal of Scientific CriminalInvestigation. The article discussed the role of molecular biology on forensic science andemphasized DNA-based methods of identification in human, botanical and entomologicalsamples.

Edward Snajdr (Anthropology) had his book,Nature Protests: The End of Ecology inSlovakia published by Washington University Press. The ethnographic study investigateswhy Slovakias ecology movement, so strong under socialism, fell apart so rapidlydespite the persistence of serious environmental problems in the region.

James Cauthen (Government) and Barry Latzer (Government) co-authored an article,"Why so Long? Explaining Processing Time in Capital Appeals," which appeared inJustice System Journal, a publication of the National Center for State Courts. Theirresearch was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice.

Barry Luby (Emeritus, Foreign Languages & Literatures) recently published a newbook, The Uncertainties in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Analytic Thought:Miguel de Unamuno the Precursor. The work was published in September by Juan de laCuesta-Hispanic Monographs.

Peer ReviewSusan Opotow (Sociology) was presented with the Morton Deutsch Conflict ResolutionAward at the 2008 American Psychological Association Convention in Boston this pastAugust. The award, presented by the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict andViolence (Division 48 of the APA) recognizes Opotow for her outstanding contributionsas a scholar, teacher, and mentor.


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Peer Review

Jeremy Travis (President) was named chair of the New York State Juvenile Justice TaskForce by the Hon. David Paterson, Governor of New York State. Over the coming year,

the newly constituted task force is charged with developing strategies for transformingthe states juvenile justice system and developing what Travis hopes will be a morecomprehensive and less punitive approach to handling juvenile offenders.

Maria Volpe (Sociology) won the 2008 Lawrence Cooke Peace Innovator Award,presented by the New York State Dispute Resolution Association in collaboration withthe New York State Unified Court System Office of ADR and Court ImprovementPrograms. Volpe will also be the honoree at the Network for Peace Through Dialoguerecognition night on October 30 in New York City.

Wanda Fernandopulle (Student Development) was selected as an Association for

Institutional Research Fellow for the upcoming National Conference on First-YearAssessment, to be held October 12-14 in San Antonio, Texas.

Joseph King (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) won the 2008Roberta Thornton Award, presented by the CUNY Graduate Centers PhD AlumniAssociation in recognition of his outstanding achievement as a criminal justicepractitioner and scholar.

Presenting

Keith A. Markus (Psychology) spent five weeks visiting the University of Canterbury inChristchurch, New Zealand, on an Erskine Fellowship to work with Professor Brian Haigon a joint methodological research project. While there, he presented a colloquium on"Construct Validity and Causal Modeling." Closer to home, at the annual convention ofthe American Psychological Association in Boston, Markus presented a poster titledAbductive Inferences to Psychological Variables: Weighting Competing Criteriacoauthored by Samuel W. Hawes, a John Jay alumnus, and Rula J. Thasites, a currentJohn Jay student.

Janice Bockmeyer (Government) presented her paper, The Politics of Supra-localNonprofits: Do Good Practices Reset the Community Metacenter? on a paneldiscussing Local Networks, Race, Immigration and Identity at the annual meeting of theAmerican Political Science Association in August.

Larry Sullivan (Library) taught a four-day seminar on elite deviance to governmentofficials at St. Johns College in Belize City, Belize, in March. He also gave a lecture oncommunity justice at the National Police Academy in Belmopan, Belize, on March 12.He presented the paper, Family Values and Domestic Violence: The Polish Paradigm,at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Cincinnati inMarch. This paper was based on research he did at Warsaw University on a KosciuszkoFoundation grant.


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Between the Covers

Elise Langan (Government) published an article on Assimilation and AffirmativeAction in French Education Systems in the fall 2008 issue ofEuropean Education. Shewas named a visiting scholar at New York University's Center for European Studies.

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published an articletitled The Punishment Potlach: A Way Out in the fall 2008 issue ofInsights, apublication of the Offender Preparation and Education Network Inc. In the article,Kimora and her coauthor, attorney Mark Hazelbaker, contend that this punishmentpotlach in the United States has ignored the cost of criminal justice, and they advocate anaggressive program of intervention for incarcerated individuals.

Larry Sullivan (Library) had his article Prison is Dull Today: Prison Libraries and theIrony of Pious Reading published in the May 2008 issue ofPMLA, the journal of theModern Language Association. His review essay ofThe Encyclopedia of the Library of

Congressappeared in the April 2008 issue ofLibrary Quarterly.

Keith A. Markus (Psychology) recently published an article contrasting alternativecausal interpretations of statistical models, titled Hypothesis Formulation, ModelInterpretation and Model Equivalence: Implications of a Mereological CausalInterpretation of Structural Equation Models in the summer 2008 issue of the journalMultivariate Behavioral Research. A recent issue of the journal Measurementincludedhis article Constructs, Concepts and the Worlds of Possibility: Connecting theMeasurement, Manipulation, and Meaning of Variables, as well as his rejoinder PuttingConcepts and Constructs into Practice: A Reply to Cervone and Caldwell, Haig, Kane,Mislevy, and Rupp. Markus also published a critique titled Abductive Inferences toPsychological Variables: Steigers Question and Best Explanations of Psychopathy, inthe summer 2008 issue of theJournal of Clinical Psychology. The critique wascoauthored by John Jay alumnus Samuel W. Hawes and current student Rula J. Thasites.


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(Published in @John Jay on September 17, 2008)

PRESENTING

Gloria Proni (Sciences) presented a paper entitled "Chiral Recognition by a CD-

sensitive dimeric porphyrin host: Recent Advances in the assignment of absoluteconfiguration" at the 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition,April 6-10, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The work was done in collaboration withthe laboratory of Dr. Nina Berova in the Chemistry Department of Columbia University.Later in the spring, Dr. Proni presented a research talk, Detection of Opioids in Urine byNMR Spectroscopy: Preliminary Studies at the 40th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting(MARM), May 1721 in Bayside, Queens. Donna Wilson, a forensic science graduatestudent, worked on this project as a fulfillment of her thesis requirement. The work wasconducted jointly with Elise Champeil (Sciences). In late August, Proni presented aposter titled Synthesis and Chiral Recognition of a Fish Pheromone by CD-SensitiveDimeric Zinc Porphyrin Host at the American Chemical Society National Meeting and

Exposition in Philadelphia. Ekaterina Chadwick, an undergraduate forensic sciencestudent, coauthored the presentation.

Effie Papatzikou Cochran (English) was the lead discussant on a panel titled FourInterrogating Concepts and Cases: Family, Law, and Language at the Law and SocietyAnnual Conference in Montreal, Canada, on May 31.

Abby Stein (Interdisciplinary Studies) spoke at the International PsychohistoricalAssociation on June 4 at Fordham University. Her presentation was titled, From HisCradle to Your Grave: How Child Abuse Drives Violent Crime. Stein also served as theinvited Critical Issues columnist for the spring issue ofISSTD News, published by theInternational Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's publication. Her columnfocused on First Defense: Dissociated States and Criminal Violence.

R. Terry Furst (Anthropology) presented a paper, A Qualitative Exploration of anOffice-Based Buprenorphine Demonstration Program in New York City, at the Societyfor the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in Boston. He also presented A HarmReduction Approach to the Provision of Bupernorphine at the conference for theDevelopments in the Treatment of Dependence on Opiate: Practices and Perspectives, inFrance, and co-authored Low Threshold Buprenorphine Prescribing, a paper presentedat the International Harm Reduction Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

Elise Champeil and Gloria Proni (Sciences) co-authored the lecture Use of NMRSpectroscopy for the Detection of Opioids in Human Fluids that was presented at theAmerican Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Philadelphia in lateAugust. Donna Wilson, a recent graduate of the masters degree program in forensicscience, worked on this project as a fulfillment of her thesis requirement.


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BETWEEN THE COVERS

Benjamin Lapidus (Art and Music) will have his new book, Origins of Cuban Musicand Dance: Chang, published by The Scarecrow Press on October 28. The book is the

first in-depth study of chang, a style of music and dance in Guantnamo, Cuba, thatcontributed to the development of salsa.

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) and MichaelAman (Communication and Theatre Arts) co-authored an article, No Country for OldMen: Psychopathic Elements in an Academy-Award-Winning Film, in which they stressthe importance of criminal justice professionals learning elements of psychopathy fromthe film. The article appeared in the July/August issue ofCommunity Corrections Reporton Law and Corrections Practice.

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Robert Garot (Sociology) has won a faculty fellowship for the spring 2009 semester atthe John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College. The fellowship willhelp facilitate Garots research project on Immigrants and the Law in ContemporaryTuscany.

Allison Kavey (History) has been awarded a $15,000 faculty development grant by theCity University of New York to fund her proposal, Teaching Portfolios: An Analysis oftheir Uses for History Pedagogy.


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(Published in @John Jay on August 27, 2008)

ON BOARD

Laura Drazdowski (Physical Education and Athletics) was appointed head coach of the

John Jay womens softball team. Drazdowski, the Colleges Assistant Director ofAthletics for Marketing and Promotion, served as interim softball coach for the 2008season, leading the team to a 12-23 record and a fourth place finish in conference play.After the hard work the team and I put in last season, I am thrilled to be continuing onthe path of success that started last February, she said. Over the summer, John Jay addedtwo other new head coaches. Carl Nedell was named head womens tennis coach,succeeding Amy Rowland, who resigned earlier this year. Nedell had previously coachedthe John Jay mens tennis team during the 2000 season, and has also coached for HunterCollege, James Monroe High School and Forest Hills High School. Jessica Kolackovskywill serve as interim head coach of the womens swimming team for the 2008-09 season,filling in for Jane Katz, who will be on sabbatical. Kolackovsky served as a volunteer

assistant coach under Katz last season, and also serves as the Colleges head lifeguard.She was a Big East Conference Academic All-Star as an undergraduate swimmer atSeton Hall University.BETWEEN THE COVERS

Andrew Sidman (Government) has an article, Forecasting Non-Incumbent PresidentialElections: Lessons Learned from the 2000 Election, due out in a forthcoming issue oftheInternational Journal of Forecasting. Sidman also has 12 entries in the recentlypublishedEncyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Election, and Electoral Behavior(Sage,2008).

Mary Gibson (History) received a Senior Fulbright Research Grant and a NationalEndowment for the Humanities' Fellowship to finish a book on the history of prisons inmodern Italy. Her article Ai margini della cittadinanza: le detenute dopo lUnit italiana(1860-1915) [At the Margins of Citizenship: Women Prisoners after Italian Unification]was recently published in the journal Storia delle Donne [Womens History].Nathan Lents (Sciences) had his manuscript Identification and Characterization of aNovel Mdm2 Splice Variant Acutely Induced by the Chemotherapeutic AgentsAdriamycin and Actinomycin D published in the journal Cell Cycle in June.

Danielle Sapse (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration), EliseChampeil and Anne-Marie Sapse (Sciences), working in collaboration with twoprofessors from the University of Rouen, France, had their paper "Interaction of DNAFragments with Methyl Lithium" accepted for publication in the journal Comptes Rendusdes Seances de L' Academie Francaise. The paper applies theoretical methods to thestudy of DNA fragments interaction with methyl lithium and its possible use for criminalinvestigation.


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Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) and MichaelAman (Speech, Theatre and Media Studies) co-authored an article, No Country for OldMen: Psychopathic Elements in an Academy-Award-Winning Film, in which theystress the importance of criminal justice professionals learning elements of psychopathyfrom the film. The article appeared in the July/August issue ofCommunity Corrections

Report on Law and Corrections Practice.PRESENTING

Margaret Wallace (Sciences) was an invited speaker at the Fourth Annual Conferenceof the Korean Academy of Scientific Criminal Investigation. Wallaces presentation onForensic Science: the Interface between Scientific and the Law discussed the role offorensic biology in human identification and genotyping of botanical and entomologicalsamples. Wallace was also appointed Foreign Editor of theJournal of the KoreanAcademy of Scientific Criminal Investigationby the president of the academy.

Janice Bockmeyer (Government) moderated the roundtable Maximum FeasibleMisunderstanding at 40: The Midlife Crisis of Community Participation? at the annualmeeting of the Urban Affairs Association in Philadelphia in late April. The roundtableexplored the impacts of federal community development policies in the 40 years since theWar on Poverty urban initiatives.

Edgardo Diaz Diaz (Foreign Languages) addressed a full house of doctoral students andfaculty members at the University of Padova, Italy, on April 22. Diaz, anethnomusicologist, spoke about the meaning and influence of Italian opera in theCaribbean.

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) spoke to members ofthe Correctional Services Division of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department onMay 23, about the educational needs of adult offenders and the programs funded by theNational Institute of Corrections.

M. Victoria Prez-Ros (Government) presented a paper on Western Bias inInternational Law: Francisco de Vitorias Writings and the Third World School at theInternational Studies Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA, in lateMarch.

Abby Stein (Interdisciplinary Studies) spoke at the International PsychohistoricalAssociation conference on June 4 at Fordham University. Her presentation was titledFrom His Cradle to Your Grave: How Child Abuse Drives Violent Crime. Stein alsoserved as the invited Critical Issues columnist for the spring issue ofISSTD News,published by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Hercolumn focused on First Defense: Dissociated States and Criminal Violence.


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PEER REVIEW

Maria Hartwig (Psychology) received the "Early Career Award" from the European

Association of Psychology & Law, for "her excellent track-record in peer reviewedpapers in international journals and chapters in national and international volumes, andfor being an inspiring example showing how a young researcher from a small place canfind her way to a top position in the international arena.

Peter Dodenhoff(Institutional Advancement) recently completed the requirements forhis U.S. Coast Guard merchant captains certification. The entry-level license, awardedon the basis of experience, test scores, fitness, character references and other criteria,allows the for-hire operation of merchant and recreational vessels in U.S. coastal waters,including charters and yacht deliveries.

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