John Bugg, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of English, received a 2011-2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for his project “Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism.”
Edward Cahill, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of English, received a 2011-2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia for his project “Colonial Rising: Narratives of Upward Mobility in British America.”
John Carey, Ph.D., BUS,
professor of communications and media management, delivered a presentation this past summer on the future of cable television and new media in the Dominican Republic and Mexico. This fall, he delivered “The Past and Future of Interactive Television” to the MPG Collaborative Alliance.
Robert Chazin, D.S.W., GSS,
professor of social work and chair of the GSS International Committee, taught a course on disaster relief in Hong Kong at the invitation of the Centre on Behavioral Health at the University of Hong Kong.
John A. Fortunato, Ph.D., BUS,
associate professor of communication and media management, published “The Influence of Fantasy Football on NFL Television Ratings” in the Journal of Sports Administration & Supervision.
Elizabeth Frost, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of English, had her poem “Happiness” from her book All of Us (White Pine Press, 2011) featured on Oct. 8 by Poetry Daily.
Ahir Gopaldas, Ph.D., BUS,
visiting professor of marketing, won the annual Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Doctoral Competition sponsored by the Marketing Management Association.
Sophie Mitra, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of economics, presented “Sen’s Capability Approach, Disability and Justice” on Sept. 27 at the UNICEF Regional Conference on Inclusive Education in Moscow.
Philip M. Napoli, Ph.D., BUS,
professor of communications and media management and director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center, published “Diminished, Enduring and Emergent Diversity Policy Concerns in an Evolving Media Environment,” in the International Journal of Communication in September. In October, he published “Exposure Diversity Reconsidered” in the Journal of Information Policy.
Olena Nikolayenko, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of political science, delivered “Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States” on Oct. 11 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Travis L. Russ, Ph.D., BUS,
assistant professor of communication and media management, published two articles this fall: “An Exploratory Study of an Experiential Change Program’s Impact on Participants’ Affective Outcomes” in the Leadership & Organization Development Journal and “Theory X/Y Assumptions as Predictors of Managers’ Propensity for Participative Decision Making” in Management Decision.
Lyn K. Slater, Ph.D., GSS,
clinical associate professor of social work, published Social Work Practice and the Law (Springer, 2011).
Larry Stempel, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of music, received the Kurt Weill Book Prize for Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater (W.W. Norton, 2010).
Lance Strate, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of communication and media studies, was named a Disney Forum Fellow at Saint Mary’s College of California, and delivered “On the Binding Biases of Time” on Oct. 18.
Harold Takooshian, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of psychology, gave the welcoming address at a conversation hour saluting Olivia J. Hooker, Ph.D., on Oct. 20 at Manhattanville College.
Nicholas Tampio, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of political science, published “Constructing the Space of Testimony: Tariq Ramadan’s Copernican Revolution” in the October 2011 issue of Political Theory.
H.D. Vinod, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of economics, gave a talk titled “Stimulate America, Japan and Europe With IMF’s SDR Bullets” on Oct. 16 to the general body meeting of the Society of Indian Academics in America.