Faculty Publications, Presentations and Honors
Congratulations to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty for their notable publications, presentations and honors.
Assistant Professor Christopher Albi (History) was recently awarded a fellowship for the 2016-17 academic year at the Newberry Library in Chicago, where he will work on a book project, “Francisco Xavier Gamboa and the Decline of Judicial Authority in Late Colonial Mexico.”
Instructor Wendy Bower (Communication Disorders) completed her Ph.D. in Literacy Learning and Teaching from the University at Albany on December 6, 2015. Her dissertation, entitled Talk to Text: an Application of Discourse Analysis to Text Messaging in Adolescents with Social Communication Disorders, used discourse analysis to study the text messages of six adolescents with social communication disorders. Since individuals with these types of communication issues have difficulty in interacting face-to-face, reportedly due to misinterpretation of social and linguistic cues, this investigation considered whether text messaging would afford more effective communication possibilities for this group. Texts were analyzed by coding specific communicative indices that marked communicative competencies. Findings suggested that text messages for this group afforded communicative competencies, specifically, the adolescent participants effectively used texts as a medium for maintaining social relationships. Furthermore, the adolescents used diverse language styles in different communication contexts, which bodes well for other communication events; variation in style suggests the adolescents in this study understood contexts and language use. If these participants use language flexibly and effectively across contexts, further studies may reveal similar results. Additionally, these findings suggest that the idea of communicative “incompetence” for individuals diagnosed with social communication disorders needs radical rethinking.
Assistant Professor Gregory Bray (Digital Media and Journalism) published “The Role of Parents in the Processing of Adolescent Trauma in Smallville” in the fall Journal of Popular Culture. He also screened a rough-cut for feedback of his independent feature film “Liner Notes,” which he produced and directed, and his brother John Patrick Bray (Theater Arts, ’00) co-wrote.
Three Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies affiliated faculty members, Associate Professor Karl Bryant (Sociology), Associate Professor Heather Hewett (English) and Assistant Professor Meg Devlin O’Sullivan (History), co-authored and published the article, “Unlearning Introductions: Problematizing Pedagogies of Inclusion, Diversity, and Experience in the Women’s and Gender Studies Intro Course” in the spring edition of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice. The article details the challenges of teaching the introductory Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies courses as the field has evolved. All three team teach the WGSS introductory course, WOM 220: Women: Images, and Realities.
Instructor Mette Christiansen (Sociology – Human Services) published the chapter, “A Deliberate Pedagogy: Introducing the Hidden Curriculum, Social Pedagogy, and the Common Third,” in the book Holistic Engagement: Transformative Social Work Education in the 21st Century (Oxford Press), edited by L. Pyles and G. Adams.
Lecturer Carolyn Corrado (Sociology) presented on the panel “Using Technology to Engage Undergraduate Students” on the topic of “Creating Infographics, Doing Sociology: Using Technology to Visualize Social Inequality Data” at the 2016 Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting.
Lecturer Paul Fenouillet (Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Latin American and Caribbean Studies) published the poems “Prélude de fugue,” “Contre-allées,” “Solitude partagée,” “Lueurs éphémères,” “Hors champ,” “Dispersion,” “Essences d’ineffable,” “Échancrure d’un songe” in the French literary review Filigranes (# 91, Fall 2015).
Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) published the articles “Evolutionary Mismatch and the Large-Scale Shaping of Cultural Norms” (with N.A. Wedberg) in the ASEBL Journal and “Defining and Interpreting Definitions of Emotional and Sexual Infidelity” (with A. E. Guitar, D. Kruger, J.R. Garcia, M. Fisher, and C.J. Fitzgerald) in Current Psychology. Geher’s Psychology Today blog, Darwin’s Subterranean World, has garnered significant media attention. Two of his posts were translated into other languages: “Instagram and the Development of Social Skills” appeared in Italian on OPSONline.it and “10 Things Your Psychology Professors Want You to Know” was translated into Vietnamese for the online magazine Criminal Psychology (or Tam Ly Hoc Toi Pham). Geher and psychology graduate student Nicole Wedberg will co-author the book Positive Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin’s Guide to Living a Richer Life (Oxford University Press). Geher and Wedberg received their book contract on the same day that Wedberg successfully defended her master’s thesis at New Paltz.
Associate Professor Judith Halasz (Sociology) gave a presentation, “The Super-Gentrification of Park Slope, Brooklyn,” at the Urban Affairs Association annual conference.
Assistant Professor Sara Hsu (Economics) published the book, Development in China, India and Japan: Three Economic Success Stories. She also published “Systemic Risk in Chinese Shadow Banking System: A Sector-level Perspective” (with Guangning Tian, Jianjun Li, and Xue Ying) in Emerging Markets Finance and Trade and “Military Expenditures and Profit Rates: Evidence from OECD Countries,” (with Adem Elveren) in Metroeconomica.
Associate Professor Benjamin Junge (Anthropology, Latin American and Caribbean Studies) gave an oral presentation of original research at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Junge’s paper was entitled “Citizens and Consumers: Emergent Subjectivities among Brazil’s ‘new’ Middle Class.”
Associate Professor Daniel Lipson (Political Science) published a book chapter titled “Should All (or Some) Multiracial Americans Benefit from Affirmative Action Programs?” in Race, Policy and Multiracial Americans.
Lecturer Francisco A. Martinez-Hernandez (Economics) published “An Alternative Theory of Real Exchange Rate Determination: Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Mexican Economy, 1970-2011” in Análisis Económico and “Macroeconomic Analysis of the Effects of Financial and Trade Liberalization on Economic Growth in Mexico, 1988-2011” in Perfiles Latinoamericanos, FLACSO. He gave a presentation entitled “Real Exchange Rate Determinants and its Effect on Economic Growth” at the National University Autonomous of Mexico. He also presented a chapter of his dissertation, titled “Real Exchange Rate, Effective Demand, and Economic Growth: Theory and Empirical Evidence for Developed and Developing Countries, 1960-2010,” at the New School University.
Associate Professor Kate McCoy (Educational Studies, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) published (with E. Tuck and M. McKenzie) the book Land Education: Rethinking Pedagogies of Place from Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Decolonizing Perspectives, as well as the chapter, “Manifesting Destinies: A Land Education Analysis of Settler Colonialism in Jamestown, Virginia, USA.”
Assistant Professor Jessica Pabón (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies) presented “All-Grrl Jams: Transforming Precarious Belonging through Collective Performance” at the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto and “Fierce Feminist Takeovers: Street Art’s Ephemeral Aesthetics and the Transformation of Precarious Belongings” at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference in Milwaukee, WI.
Professor L.H. Roper (History) edited the catalog, Andrew Lyght: Full Circle (New Paltz: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art via SUNY Press), which accompanied the exhibition shown at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art from January 20 through April 10, 2016. He contributed an essay, “Guyana: A Brief Early History,” to the volume. An article about the exhibition was published in The New York Times. Roper also participated in a panel on “Recovering the History of Underrepresented Groups,” sponsored by the Sojourner Truth Library and held on campus on March 15.
Professor James Schiffer (English) published the essay “The Sonnets Onscreen” in The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, Vol. 2, Ed. Bruce R. Smith, et al. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Assistant Professor Katherine S. Thweatt (Communication) and her co-author, Associate Professor Jason S. Wrench (Communication), published a paper titled, “Affective Learning: Evolving from Values and Planned Behaviors to Internalization and Pervasive Behavioral Change” in Communication Education, a national journal. Thweatt also published a book chapter in an edited book on case studies pertaining to sports communication. The case study is titled, “Whose Ball is it Anyway?” Thweatt presented at the Eastern Communication Association’s 2016 convention. The presentation focused on nonverbal communication scholarship and the need to reinvigorate and redefine research in this field.
Associate Professor Daniel Werner (Philosophy) published the article “Love and Death” in Immortality and the Philosophy of Death, ed. Michael Cholbi (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
Associate Professor Sarah Wyman (English) presented a paper, “Signifying Memory in the Verbal Visual Work of Georges Braque, Louise Gluck, and Robert Hayden,” at the Conversations in the Disciplines conference Translating Memory and Remembrance across the Disciplines at SUNY New Paltz on March 11. She also presented a paper, “Reflexive Gestures in Word & Image: Klee, O’Hara and Morris” at the American Comparative Literature Association conference at Harvard University on March 20. In addition, she gave a poetry reading in connection with the Next Year’s Words program in New Paltz on March 16.