Faculty Publications, Presentations and Honors
Congratulations to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty for their notable publications, presentations and honors.
Associate Professor Mona Ali (Economics) wrote a post for Political Quarterly titled “The Present Crisis Demands a New International Monetary System for the Public Good, on Rethinking the International Monetary System in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond.”
Lecturer Brett Barry (Digital Media & Journalism) hosts the podcast Kaatscast which covers sustainability, history and travel in the Hudson Valley and Catskills. The show is available for free wherever podcasts are found.
Associate Professor Andrea Gatzke (History) authored “Heracles, Alexander, and Hellenistic Coinage” in Acta Classica and “The Gate Complex of Plancia Magna in Perge: A Case Study in Reading Bilingual Space” in Classical Quarterly.
Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) took part in a thinktank hosted by the Institute for Humane Studies on the topic of individualism. Geher will also receive the 2020 SUNY New Paltz Friends of the Alumni Award for his years of service in helping to make connections with alumni. Recent academic publications include the article “Hot Stuff: The Evolutionary Psychology Behind the Attractiveness of Volunteer Firefighters,” coauthored with psychology alumni Nick Primavera ‘19g, Julie Planke ‘19g and Alec Goldstein ’19 and Dan Kruger (University of Michigan), published in EvoS Journal, as well as “An Evolutionary Perspective on the Real Problem with Increased Screen Time” in This View of Life. Geher’s lab also published “Dark Parenting: Parents Who Score as High on the Dark Triad Demonstrate Non-authoritative Parenting Styles” in EvoS Journal. Additional professional work included dozens of media appearances, including a television interview on the psychology of quarantine with Russia Today International.
Professor Howie Good (Digital Media and Journalism) has a new poetry collection, The Death Row Shuffle, from Finishing Line Press. A poetry chapbook, The Trouble with Being Born, will be published later this fall by Ethel Micro-Press.
Professor Giordana Grossi (Psychology) gave an invited talk at the annual Young European Scientists (YES) Meeting on the topic of claims of “inherent” sex differences in scientific ability.
Professor Eugene Heath (Philosophy) has published three journal articles: “Sir John Davies on Custom and the Common Law,” in The Review of Politics, “Imagination, Affirmation, and Interaction: Reasons for Reading Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy,” in The Independent Review, and “Education, Commerce, and Public Spirit: Craig Smith’s Study of Adam Ferguson,” in The Journal of Scottish Philosophy.
Assistant Professor Kathleen Hunt (Communication) contributed the chapter “‘Bring Him the Blood of the Outlanders!’: Children of the Corn as Farm Crisis Horror” to the book The Politics of Horror published by Palgrave Macmillan and co-authored the article “Agribusiness Futurism and Food Atmospheres: Reimagining Corn, Pigs, and Transnational Negotiations on Khrushchev’s 1959 US tour” in the Quarterly Journal of Speech.
Assistant Professor Ethan Madarieta (English) published “Las letanías de Emilio Rojas” in Toda Línea es una Ruta, Toda Ruta lleva a un Punto and “’Marichiweu’: Performances of Memory and Mapuche Presence in Guillermo Calderón’s Villa” in the Latin American Theatre Review.
Associate Professor Lisa A. Phillips (Digital Media and Journalism), was awarded the David Abrahamson Prize for Best Article in Literary Journalism newsletter for “Against Split Personality Pedagogy: Teaching Literary Journalism Reporting Techniques Across the Journalism Curriculum.”
Distinguished Professor Louis Roper (History) participated as an invited guest author for several blogs. He published “The Spectacular Failure in the Early Modern Orient from which English Success in Asia was Snatched” in the Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) blog, “How to Run an Empire: Early Modern Style” in History: The Official Journal of the Historical Association (U.K.) and discussed the character of the early modern British Empire and the importance of slavery and the slave trade to the formation of that empire in “The Global Ambitions of the Guinea Company and the Early Modern Orient”, which appeared in the site of Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs), an Arts and Humanities blog in the U.K.
Associate Professor Hamilton M. Stapell (History) co-authored a new peer-reviewed journal article titled “Paleo Then and Now: A Five-Year Follow-up Survey of the Ancestral Health Community”, in the Journal of Evolution and Health.
Assistant Professor Lynne Telesca (Communication Disorders), published the article “The Effect of Metalinguistic Sentence Combining on Eighth-Grade Students’ Understanding and Written Expression of Comparison and Contrast in Science” in the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.
Associate Professor Michelle Woods (English) initiated the creation of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Faculty Fellows program, under the purview of faculty governance, designed to promote curriculum and program development on campus. The first cohort was welcomed and recognized in October.
Associate Professor Sarah Wyman (English) published “Reframing Nature within the Garden Walls: Feminist Ecological Citizenship in the Work of Louise Glück, Jeanne Larsen, and Anat Shiftan” in Feminist Formations.