Faculty Publications, Presentations and Honors
Congratulations to the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences faculty for their notable publications, presentations, and honors.
Associate Professor César Barros A. (Languages, Literatures & Cultures; Latin American & Caribbean Studies) authored “Frame, Value, and (In)Visibility: Vik Muniz’s Deslocamentos and the Political Economy of Images” for the journal Visual Studies. He reviewed the book Precarious Forms by Candince Amich for the journal Latin American Theatre Review. He contributed a short piece that reflects on the Chilean uprising of 2019 to a collective volume, De manifiesto. He co-created a video-essay “Para Que Nunca Más“ with video collective somoslacélula which was screened at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem and at the archives of 1968 (CUNY Center for the Humanities). He was also featured as guest speaker at CLACSO (Latin American Counsel of Social Sciences) and the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center in Chile. He moderated and presented the fall Without Limits presentation The Struggle to End the World As We Know It.
Lecturer Brett Barry (Digital Media & Journalism) produced “The President’s Microphone” for WAMC’s Midday magazine.
Assistant Professor Cruz Caridad Bueno (Black Studies) coauthored the article “Corona, the Great Exposer: How the Pandemic has Exacerbated Inequalities in American Society” for the Minority Report, American Economic Association and “Gender and the Nexus Between Preferences and Patriarchal Practices: Justifications of Intimate Partner Violence in the Dominican Republic” for Violence Against Women.
Associate Professor Kathleen Dowley (Political Science & International Relations) authored “Parties Courting Muslim Voters in Belgium’s Local Elections: Electoral Incentives and Ideological Tensions” for Local Government Studies.
Associate Professor Andrea F. Gatzke (History) edited the book People and Institutions in the Roman Empire: Essays in Memory of Garrett G. Fagan (Leiden: Brill, 2020) with Lee L. Brice (Western Illinois) and Matthew Trundle (Auckland) as her co-editors.
Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) has been recently recognized for his scholarship, as three of his books, Positive Evolutionary Psychology (#16), Evolutionary Psychology 101 (#33), and Mating Intelligence Unleashed (#66) were selected as among the 100 best books in the world on the topic of evolutionary psychology by Book Authority. He authored the article “Betrayal, Outrage, Guilt, and Forgiveness: The Four Horsemen of the Human Social-Emotional Experience” in EvoS Journal (2020) and “In Defence of Old-School Teaching During a Worldwide Crisis,” in Times Higher Education. Geher’s media appearances include: NBC News, Forbes and Sky News Australia.
Professor Howie Good (Digital Media & Journalism) published a collection of poetry, Gunmetal Sky, with Thirty West Publishing of Philadelphia.
Professor Eugene Heath (Philosophy) authored the essay “Augustine’s Confessions: An Introduction to Philosophy,” in Teaching Philosophy.
Associate Professor Heather Hewett (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) and Professor Mary Holland (English) co-edited #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture
Associate Professor Lauren Meeker (Anthropology) co-authored the article “Reaching for Texts: Evidence and Ambiguity in Narratives of Lineage History in a Northern Vietnamese Village” in History and Anthropology.
Associate Professor Jessica N. Pabón-Colón (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) authored the essays “Digital Diasporic Tactics for a Decolonized Future: Tweeting in the Wake of #HurricaneMaria” in Theatre History Studies, “‘It’s for Now, While We’re Together’: Diana Oh’s Queer Feminist of Color Bridgework at the Ancram Opera House” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, and “Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance by Sandra Ruiz (Review)” in TDR: The Drama Review. She was also appointed Secretary for the Puerto Rican Studies Association.
Instructor and Coordinator of the Supplemental Writing Workshop (SWW) Program, Rachel Rigolino (English) authored “When Papa Stopped Taking His Pills” for Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. She also coauthored a chapter in Transforming Digital Learning and Assessment: A Guide to Available and Emerging Practices and Building Institutional Consensus titled “Empowering Faculty to Design Technology-Enriched Student Learning: A Constructivist and Connectivist Hybrid Massive Open Online Course.”
SUNY Distinguished Professor L.H. Roper (History) led a virtual discussion at the South Carolina Historical Society on February 2, 2021, titled “The Wider World of Proprietary South Carolina.”
Professor Anne R. Roschelle (Sociology) published Struggling in the Land of Plenty: Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of Homeless Families, which was selected as one of Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Titles for 2020.
Associate Professor Rachel Somerstein (Journalism) authored “A Photographer’s Wife” in The Rumpus, October edition.
Associate Professor Sarah Wyman (English), along with her Women in Literature (Caribbean Focus) students collaborated with 40 students at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain on a collaborative online international learning (COIL) project. International student groups compared cultural perceptions in Spain vs. the U.S. when it comes to women’s mental health, gender non-conformity, LGBTQ+ topics, teen suicide and sex work in light of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (#3 Good Health & Well Being, #5 Gender Equality and #10 Reduced Inequalities).