Faculty Publications, Presentations and Honors
Congratulations to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty for their notable publications, presentations and honors.
Assistant Professor Mona Ali (Economics) published the articles “Dark Matter, Black Holes and Old-Fashioned Exploitation: Transnational Corporations and the US Economy” in the Cambridge Journal of Economics and “Global Imbalances and Asymmetric Returns to US Foreign Assets: Fitting the Missing Pieces of the US Balance of Payments Puzzle” in the International Review of Applied Economics.
“Liner Notes,” a film Assistant Professor Gregory Bray (Digital Media and Journalism) produced, directed, and co-wrote from a play by John Patrick Bray ’00 (Theater) is an Official Selection of the Woodstock Film Festival. Previously, the film had earned the Broadcast Education Association First Place Narrative (Faculty Category), was an Audience Award Finalist at the Hoboken Film Festival, and a Best Screenplay Finalist at the Chandler Film Festival. The film’s crew was comprised entirely of SUNY New Paltz students and alumni from the Department of Digital Media and Journalism.
Emeritus Professor Peter D. G. Brown (Languages, Literatures and Cultures) co-authored with Sergey Monakhov the articles “Oskar Panizza: A New Name for the Russian Reader,” published in Literary Relationship and “The Theme of Disease in the Literary Works of Oskar Panizza” in Current Issues in Dermatology, Cosmetology and Dermato-Oncology.
Assistant Professor Nathen Clerici (Languages, Literatures & Cultures) published the articles ‘”Subcultural Imagination,’ and the Enduring Appeal of Murakami Haruki” in The Journal of Japanese Studies and “Madness, Mystery and Abnormality in the Writing of Yumeno Kyusaku” in Japan Forum.
Assistant Professor Alexandra Cox (Sociology) published “Fetishizing the Will in Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice” in the Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics.
Professor Victor de Munck (Anthropology) coauthored, with Ilya Ermolin, Linas Svolkinas, and Simon J. Goodman, the article “The Caspian Seal By-Catch in Illegal Artisanal Small-Scale Fishery: What Connections between By-Catch and Illegal Market Can Tell Us,” published in the Social Science Research Network. He also published “Using Theory to Explain Ethnographic Descriptions of Change: Strain Stress and Identity Systems in a Sri Lankan Village” in Anthropos and “Romantic Love in the United States: Applying Cultural Models Theory and Methods,” co-authored with David Kronenfeld, in Open Sage.
“Five Arrows,” a story written by Associate Professor Heinz Insu Fenkl (English, Asian Studies), was featured in the “Other Distinguished Stories” section of the volume Best American Short Stories 2016. “Five Arrows” was published in The New Yorker.
Lecturer Paul Fenouillet (Languages, Literatures & Cultures; Latin American & Caribbean Studies) published poetry in the anthology Voyages, Voyages and in the French literary review Filigranes.
Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) co-authored the articles “Evolutionary Mismatch and the Large-Scale Shaping of Cultural Norms” (with N.A. Wedburg) in the ASEBL Journal; and “Defining and Interpreting Definitions of Emotional and Sexual Infidelity” (with D. Kruger, J. R. Garcia, M. Fisher, and C. J. Fitzgerald) in Current Psychology. A third article, coauthored with J. R. Garcia, S. Barry Kaufman, and B. B. Dawson., entitled “The Validity and Structure of Mating Intelligence, is in press with the journal Evolution, Mind and Behavior.
Professor Howie Good (Digital Media & Journalism) published a collection of poetry, BAD FOR THE HEART, with Prolific Press.
Associate Professor Judith Halasz (Sociology) presented her research on super-gentrification in Brooklyn at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting and the Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, both in Seattle, WA, in August.
Emeritus Professor James Halpern (Psychology, Institute for Disaster Mental Health) published “Maintaining Helper Wellness and Competence in a Shared Trauma Reality” in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research.
Lecturer Francisco Martinez-Hernandez (Economics) was awarded the Edith Henry Johnson Memorial Award in Economics, Civil Affairs, and Education for Ph.D. Dissertation in Economics at the New School for Social Research in NY. His article, “The Energy Reform of 2013/2014 and Industrial Development in Mexico: Contents, Implications, and Proposals,” coauthored with Angel de la Vega and Mónica Santillán, will be published in a forthcoming edition of Análisis Económico. He was also accepted as a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers and the Mexican Academy of Political Economy.
Associate Professor Mary Holland (English) published the articles “David Foster Wallace’s ‘Octet’ and the ‘Atthakavagga’” in The Explicator and the essay “‘Your Head Gets in the Way’: Reflecting (on) Realism from John Barth to David Foster Wallace” in John Barth: A Body of Words (Dalkey Archive Press).
Associate Professor Isidoro Janeiro (Languages, Literatures & Cultures) published “Leocadia’s Paradox: Moral and Ethical Demands in ‘La fuerza de la sangre’” in eHumanista and “‘La dramaturgia del espectador’ en el Quijote” in Edad de Oro: Revista de Filología Hispánica.
“Chumship,” a story written by Assistant Professor Kristopher Jansma (English), was featured in the “Other Distinguished Stories” section of the volume Best American Short Stories 2016. “Chumship” was published in the journal ZYZZYVA.
Assistant Professor Scott Le Vine (Geography) wrote the commissioned “Conference Rationale” for the Nucleus 2016 by-invitation conference of academics and automotive and technology-sector executives, which took place on the Goodwood Estate in South East England on June 24. Le Vine’s theme for the Conference Rationale was: “The Car is Dead, Long Live the Car.” Nucleus 2016 was held on the fringes of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which attracts 250,000 spectators annually. Le Vine was interviewed later in the summer for articles appearing in Britain’s Independent and The Times newspapers about self-driving cars and car-sharing.
Professor Douglas Maynard (Psychology) and his research assistant Joanna Herron ‘16 (Psychology, Math) published the article “The Allure of Struggle and Failure in Cooperative Board Games” in the online journal Analog Game Studies.
Associate Professor Kenneth Nystrom (Anthropology) edited the book The Bioarcheology of Dissection and Autopsy in the United States (Springer). Nystrom was also selected to travel to the American University in Cairo to be part of a workshop sponsored by SUNY COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) through an award from the Stevens Initiative. The focus is on establishing collaborative teaching opportunities with colleagues in Middle East countries in order to bring students together.
Assistant Professor Jessica Pabón (Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies) published the book chapter “No Somos ‘Mariposas’, Somos ‘MariPUSSY’: An Interview with Graffiti Art Activist MISS163 aka Sharon Lee De La Cruz” in Identity & Anonymity: An Artful Anthology. She also presented “’It Was No Change the World Bullshit’”: Chicana Graffitera JERK’s Excessive Feminist Masculinity” at the Latin American Studies Association in New York City in May.
Associate Professor Fiona Paton (English) published the essay “Angel Tendencies and Gratuitous Acts: Kill Your Darlings and the Legacy of Lucien Carr” in the anthology Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the ‘Howl’ Generation (Bloomsbury Metheun).
Professor Jonathan Raskin (Psychology) and Associate Professor Michael Gayle (Psychology) coauthored the article “DSM-5: Do Psychologists Really Want an Alternative?” in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Raskin also published “Personal Construct Psychology in Relation to an Integrative Constructivism in The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology (Wiley Blackwell).
Professor Louis Roper (History) coedited with Lauric Henneton Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies (Brill Academic Pub), a new collection of essays arguing the relationship between fear and policy in 17th and 18th century America. Roper also contributed an essay titled “Fear and the Genesis of the English Empire in America.”
Professor Jonathan Schwartz (Political Science, Asian Studies) delivered the keynote address “Improving Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Lessons from Taiwan” at the Global Initiatives Conference Taiwan. He also co-authored with Muh-Yong Yen the article “Towards a collaborative model of pandemic preparedness and response: Taiwan’s changing approach to pandemics” to be published in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection.
Assistant Professor Annie Swafford (English – Digital Humanities) published the articles “Teaching Literature through Technology: Sherlock Holmes and Digital Humanities” in The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy and “Messy Data and Faulty Tools” in Debates in the Digital Humanities. Ed Tech Magazine’s piece on using digital technology in literature classes quoted extensively from an article that Swafford recently published in the Journal of Interactive Teaching and Pedagogy on her introduction to digital humanities course, “Digital Tools for the 21st Century: Sherlock Holmes’s London” (DHM293).