Dear Colleagues,
Below is a listing of recent faculty accomplishments.
Ron
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Carol Rifelj’s new book in print, Coiffures: Hair in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (University of Delaware Press).
Kateri Carmola (Political Science) has published a book, Private Military Contractors in New Wars: Risk, Law & Ethics (Routledge, 2010).
Barbara Hofer (Psychology) has published a book, The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up. She also appeared on CBS television’s “The Early Show” on August 12, 2010 to discuss the book’s premise.
Peggy Nelson (Sociology/Anthropology) recently published a book, Parenting out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times (New York University Press).
Ellen Oxfeld (Sociology/Anthropology) recently published a book, Drink Water, But Remember the Source: Moral Discourse in a Chinese Village (University of California Press, 2010).
Grace Spatafora (Biology) has been awarded her second R01 research grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her work on Streptcoccus mutans, a major culprit in the development of dental cavities. This grant includes funding to support 12 undergraduate research assistants over the next four years as well as scientific equipment, travel to conferences, laboratory staff, and research supplies.
Middlebury College has received a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support additional research by Professor Timothy Billings (English & American Literatures) related to his ongoing project, “Sinological Methods of Renaissance Travel Writing.” This grant is a supplement to the New Directions Fellowship that the Foundation awarded to Middlebury in 2006 to support the ambitious program of interdisciplinary study and research by Professor Billings.
Erik Bleich (Political Science) has published a co-authored article entitled, “State responses to ‘Ethnic Riots’ in liberal democracies: evidence from Western Europe,” in the European Political Science Review (2010, vol 2, issue 2, pp. 269-95). His co-authors are Carolina Caeiro and Sarah Luehrman, both class of 2008, and the acknowledgments thank former students Liz Campbell, Ryan Hart and Ioanna Literat for research assistance, as well as Middlebury College for grants enabling the writing of this article.
Erik spent five weeks this summer as an invited scholar at the Collegium de Lyon, an Institute of Advanced Study in France. While there, he finished his book project, “The Freedom to Be Racist?,” and wrote an article on Islamophobia.
Jeff Buettner (Music) has been awarded a fellowship by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation to pursue a project titled “Teaching the Art of Unaccompanied Vocal Music of England and Germany.” He will spend four weeks during his 2010-11 leave visiting London, England and Leipzig, Germany, to study with professional musicians and attend rehearsals of vocal ensembles which specialize in the vocal music of William Byrd and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Jeff has also received a Lecture/Research grant from the Fulbright Scholar Program for the Fall of 2010. He will be based at Kharkov State University of Arts in Ukraine, and will teach American and African American Choral Music Studies (along with rehearsal and performance). He will also conduct research in contemporary Ukrainian choral literature.
Jeff Carpenter (Economics) has published an article, “Norm Enforcement: The Role of Third Parties,” with Peter Matthews, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 166(2): 239-58 (2010).
Jane Chaplin (Classics) participated in a faculty seminar at Transylvania University in Kentucky, funded by the University’s Bingham Program for Excellence in Teaching, this summer. The seminar, “Twenty-first Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept,” involved faculty from liberal arts colleges around the country. The award covered all costs of participation, including travel.
Matthew Dickerson (Computer Science) has had two peer reviewed research papers appear recently, both in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering: “Planar Voronoi Diagrams for Sums of Convex Functions, Smoothed Distance and Dilation,” 7th ISVD, June 2010, pp.13—22, coauthored with David Eppstein, and Kevin Wortman; and “Round-Trip Voronoi Diagrams and Doubling Density in Geographic Networks,” 7th ISVD, June 2010, pp. 132-141, coauthored with Michael Goodrich, and Thomas Dickerson.
Eliza Garrison (History of Art & Architecture) had her essay titled, “Otto III at Aachen,” appear recently in Peregrinations 3 (Summer 2010): 83-137. This volume is a special issue devoted entirely to the subfield of Ottonian art, and it represents the first collection of art-historical essays on these works in English.
Mario Higa (Spanish and Portuguese) had an article appear in the August 21st issue of the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo. The newspaper has the second largest circulation in São Paulo state, and the fourth largest overall in Brazil.
Kareem Khalifa (Philosophy) has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh for 2010-2011. He will be working on research that examines how explanatory understanding, the structure of scientific communities, and theories of truth interact in successful scientific practices.
Anne Knowles (Geography) has received additional funding from the National Science Foundation for her collaborative research grant titled, “Holocaust Historical GIS.” The supplement provides support for one Middlebury student to complete a research project begun during a research seminar course and for a total of four students to present their Holocaust research at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Michael Kraus (Political Science and Russian & East European Studies) has published a book chapter, “The Prague Spring Revisited,” in M. Mark Stolarik, ed., The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Forty Years Later (Chicago: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., 2010).
Michael has also published two recent op-ed articles (in Czech): “Obama’s First Year,” in MF Dnes, 20 January 2010; and “A Country that Doesn’t Trust its Own Parliament,” in Lidove noviny, 29 May 2010.
Samuel Liebhaber (Arabic) and a collaborator received a grant from the American Institute for Yemeni Studies that will fund data collection in Yemen documenting the use of the Mahri language, one of the remaining indigenous languages of the Arabian Peninsula. This research effort is scheduled for his 2011-12 leave.
John Maluccio (Economics) and colleagues from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Colorado at Boulder have received funding from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) for a project titled, “Assessing Medium-term Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfers on Children and Young Adults in Rural Nicaragua.” The goal of this 3-year project is to finalize ongoing household data collection and analyze the effect of an education scholarship program on young adult entry into the labor market.
Marta Manrique-Gomez (Spanish and Portuguese) has been awarded a fellowship by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation to visit archives in Spain related to women’s contributions to 19th-century artistic, literary, and intellectual movements there. She will use her research to develop an interdisciplinary seminar titled “Women, Media, and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Spain.”
Marta also had two peer reviewed articles appear: “José María de Carnerero y Nicolás Böhl de Faber: dos aportaciones singulares a la polémica calderoniana,” Hispanófila 159: 11-21, and “Geopolítica cultural e identidad nacional en la querella calderoniana” (with Jesús Pérez Magallón), Siglo Diecinueve (Literatura Hispánica) 15: 257-272.
Jason Mittell (Film & Media Culture; American Studies) has accepted an invitation to be a Fellow-in-Residence at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg Institute for Advanced Study at University of Göttingen in Germany, funding his leave for the 2011-12 academic year. Jason will be working with Göttingen’s American Studies department on a grant-funded research project on “Popular Seriality,” examining serial narrative forms across different media and national cultures.
Jason also wrote a chapter, “TiVoing Childhood: Time-Shifting a Generation’s Concept of Television,” in Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence, edited by Michael Kackman et al. (Routledge, 2010).
Nicholas Muller (Economics) has received funding from the Environmental Protection Agency for a four-year project titled, “Design of Policies for Pollution Control Using Market Mechanisms,” a collaborative effort with a colleague at Yale University to design efficient cap-and-trade and management strategies for multiple pollutants of water and air. The grant will fund four undergraduates and will support his 2011-12 leave.
Cynthia Packert (History of Art & Architecture) has been awarded a fellowship by the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for “In the Footsteps of the Prophet: The Power of Place in Islamic Art and Architecture” to support research travel during her 2010-11 leave to a number of places in southern Europe, the Middle East, and Asia—including the Capella Palatina (Sicily), Alhambra in Cordoba (Spain), Al-Azhar Mosque (Egypt), Topkapi Palace, various mosques and monuments in Turkey, and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem—that are important in the history and development of Islamic art and architecture.
Robert Prasch and Thierry Warin (both Economics) have received a grant from the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO), located in Montreal, to support the organization of a conference in April 2011, “Is Too Big To Fail Too Big To Succeed?” This conference will bring together academics, bank regulators, financial journalists and others to investigate the policy implications for the de facto American and European doctrines of “too big to fail” banks in light of the fact that large Canadian banks did not have a banking crisis.
James Ralph (Dean of the Faculty; History) wrote a panel, “Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968),” for the exhibit—BOBBY, MARTIN & JOHN: Once Upon An American Dream from the archives of famed photojournalist Stanley Tretick—at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, Vermont. The exhibit ran from July 3 to September 12.
Fernando Rocha (Spanish and Portuguese) recently had an article appear, “Nelson Rodrigues through the Keyhole; And What We Saw There,” in Luso-Brazilian Review [47:1 (2010): 71-88].
Ted Sasson (International Studies) recently published several articles:
“Mass Mobilization to Direct Engagement: American Jews’ Changing Relationship to Israel.” Israel Studies 15:2 (2010); “Framing Religious Conflict: The Discourses of Religious and Non-Religious Israeli Jews,” with Ephraim Tabory, Journal of Church and State 52:2 (2010; “Converging Political Cultures: How Globalization is Shaping the Discourses of American and Israeli Jews,” with Ephraim Tabory, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 16:1 (Winter 2010); “Trends in American Jewish Attachment to Israel” with Charles Kadushin and Leonard Saxe, Contemporary Jewry 30:2 (2010). (A special issue of the journal is devoted to this article including commentaries by 20 scholars); and “On Sampling, Evidence and Theory: Closing Remarks on the Distancing Debate,” with Charles Kadushin and Leonard Saxe, Contemporary Jewry 30:2 (2010).
Shawna Shapiro (Writing Program) had two articles appear recently: “Revisiting the teachers’ lounge: Reflections on emotional experience and teacher identity,” in Teaching and Teacher Education 26(3): 616-621; and “Two Birds, One Stone: Using Academic Experiences as Content for EAP Courses,” in S. Barduhn and J. Nordmeyer (Eds.) Integrating language and content [Classroom Practice Series]. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
A.J. Sherman (Scholar in Residence) and Pamela Shatzkes have published a submission titled, “Otto M. Schiff (1875-1952): Unsung Rescuer,” in the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 54 (2009): 243-271.
Yumna Siddiqi (English & American Literatures) has been awarded a grant through the Fulbright Scholar Program for the 2010-2011 academic year. She will be Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in North American Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her research project is titled, “It’s a Question of My Dignity – Narratives of Immigrant Workers in Montreal. “
Phani Wunnava (Economics) was recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the Small Business Economics Journal. He has also been named a member of the Montclair Who’s Who in Collegiate Faculty for the 2010-11 academic year.
Larry Yarbrough (Religion) has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar Program grant for the Fall of 2010 for a research project titled, “Ancient Alexandria and the Wisdom of its Sages.” He will be based at Alexandria University, which is the site of Middlebury’s School in the Middle East.