Fall 2010 Faculty Updates

Associate Professor of Economics Richard Ball presented a paper called“Shack Up or Pack Up: The Changing Demographics of Domestic Partnership in England” at the Annual Meetings of the Western Economic Association, June 29-July 3 in Portland, Ore.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Craig Borowiak gave a paper entitled“Conceptualizing Solidarity Economy: Mapping Its Diversity” at the Ninth International Meeting of the International Society for Third Sector Research, July 7-10 in Istanbul, Turkey. He also served as a discussant on a panel entitled“Rights and Rightlessness” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5 in Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature Roberto Castillo Sandoval's piece“Tres de Filadelfia” appeared in a volume of work by Spanish-speaking writers from Philadelphia entitled“Para español, marque 2: escritores hispanoparlantes de Filadelfia” (New York: The Latino Press), compiled by Peruvian poet Sandro Chiri.

Associate Professor of Independent College Programs Kaye Edwards and six Haverford students were part of a 10-day delegation to Nicaragua led by ProNica, whose mission is to build sustainable cross-cultural relationships between the people of Nicaragua and North America. (See blog at http://news.haverford.edu/blogs/pronica/.)

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Hank Glassman presented a paper entitled“Katami: Memory, Loss, and Redemption in the Late Medieval Buddhist Fiction,” at Theorizing Japanese Literature: Memories, Evocations, Ghosts, an international conference on Japanese literature held September 9-11 at the University of Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia.

Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics Shizhe Huang co-wrote an article entitled“Henda Guwu—More on the Type Matching Constraint on Modification,” which was published in Vol. 39 of Essays in Linguistics, a special edition in honor of Noam Chomsky.

Associate Professor of Physics Suzanne Amador Kane traveled to Cape May, N.J. wildlife refuges June 14-17 for observations and experiments on bird mobbing, in which prey animals harass and sometimes attack a predator.

Professor of Economics Vladimir Kontorovich organized a panel called“Underappreciated Aspects of the Soviet Economy,” for which he gave a talk called“TFP Growth in the Final Decades” at the VIII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, July 25-30 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Aryeh Kosman gave a talk called“Aristotle on the Virtues of Thought” at an international conference on Aristotle's ethics sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Patras, Greece, June 25-26. He was one of 10 invited speakers from around the world.

Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li gave talks on her own art and on Chinese landscape painting at a drawing workshop that took place at the Fine Art School of the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, N.Y., June 26-July 10. She was also Artist-in-Residence at the Tilting Recreation and Cultural Society on Fogo Island in Newfoundland, where she gave a lecture, conducted a workshop, and exhibited her work.

Assistant Professor of Spanish Ana Lopez-Sanchez presented a paper entitled“A Multiliteracies Pedagogy at Work: The Design of a Literacy-oriented Instructional Unit” at the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Meeting, July 10-13 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Associate Professor of Religion Anne McGuire's essay“Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism” was published in the Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought, ed. D. Jeffrey Bingham (New York and London: Routledge Press).

Assistant Professor of Political Science Barak Mendelsohn presented a paper called“Riding the Back of the Tiger: Leadership between Domestic Threats and International Conflict” as part of the panel“Decentralizing or Subcontracting State Security” at the annual conference of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5 in Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Weiwen Miao gave an invited talk called“Formal Statistical Analysis of Pass Rate Data in Disparate Impact Cases Is Superior to the U. S. Government's Four-Fifths Rule” at the Joint Statistical Meeting, July 31- August 5 in Vancouver.

Associate Professor of English Rajeswari Mohan presented a paper called“Keeping Curry British: Literary Gastropolitics and Globalization” at the Literary London Conference, July 7-9 at University College, London.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Alex Norquist and Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier were co-authors of a paper called“The role of stereoactive lone pairs in templated vanadium tellurite charge density matching,” which appeared in Inorganic Chemistry, Vol. 49 Issue 11. Kelvin Chang '10 and Desmond Hubbard '09 were also listed as co-authors.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Joshua Ramey taught in a week-long intensive seminar on the work of 20th-century French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and participated in the 3rd Annual Deleuze Studies Conference,“Connect, Continue, Create,” sponsored by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the Centre for Humanities at Utrecht University, July 3-18. Ramey gave two lectures on his forthcoming book, The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal (Duke University Press, 2011), and presented a paper called“Deleuze on Symbolic Knowledge” as part of a panel at the conference.

An article written by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier called“Helium Separation Using Porous Graphene Membranes” was published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 1 Issue 15. In addition, he was co-author with James McClain '11 of the article“Multiple Exciton Generation in Graphene Nanostructures” which appeared in The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Vol. 114 Issue 34. In late June, Schrier also gave two talks in Ireland, one at the Atlantic Centre for Atomistic Modeling at University College, Dublin and the other for the Department of Mathematical Physics at National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Both talks were titled“ ‘Sculpting' nanomaterial electronic states.”

Visiting Associate Professor of Independent College Programs Carol Solomon gave a lecture at the Philadelphia Cosmopolitan Club entitled "The Empress Josephine, Malmaison, and the Garden of the Empire" on June 2. She also delivered a lecture called "Crossings: Art and Identity in a Global Society" at Bryn Mawr College's Center for Visual Culture on September 15. In addition, she contributed the essay "Walk on the Sky, Pisces" to the book Soft Transgression: Zoulikha Bouabdellah (Paris, 2010).

Assistant Professor of Astronomy Beth Willman attended the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope All Hands Meeting August 9-13 in Dove Mountain, Ariz., where she spoke as chair of the Milky Way and Local Volume Structure Science Collaboration.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing attended the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (APSA), August 31-September 5 in Washington, D.C., where she participated as a member of the APSA Task Force on“Democracy, Economic Security and Social Justice in a Volatile World.”

Assistant Professor of Sociology Anat Yom-Tov presented a paper called“Reevaluating the Role of the Public Sector in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Earnings Inequality among Working Men in the United States” at the American Sociology Association annual meeting, August 13-17 in Atlanta, Ga.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Joel Yurdin presented a paper called“Between Perception and Scientific Knowledge: Aristotle's Account of Empeiria” at a conference entitled“Science and Intellect in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition,” June 28-30 at Marquette University in Milwaukee.

Assistant Professor of Religion Travis Zadeh presented a paper entitled“Of Mummies, Poets, and Water Nymphs: Tracing the Codicological Limits of Ibn Khurradādhbih's Geography” at the 10th annual conference of the School of Abbasid Studies, July 5-9 in Leuven, Belgium.

Associate Professor of English Christina Zwarg gave a talk entitled“The State of Crisis, the Crisis of State: Rethinking Affect in Du Bois and Douglass” at the Futures of American Studies conference, June 23-27 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.