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) authored “The Crisis Canal” for Phenomenal World.
Associate Professor Anne Balant (Communication Disorders) authored “Pitch strength and annoyance of acoustic analogues of flutter echo – a pilot study” for Proceedings of Inter-Noise and presented “Lab Kits for Remote and Socially-Distanced Instruction in a General Education Acoustics Course” and “Socially-distanced psychoacoustics: A fully-remote study of acoustic analogs of flutter echoes” at the Acoustical Society of America, and “Socially-distanced psychoacoustics: A fully-remote study of acoustic analogs of flutter echoes” at the RSCA Student research symposium.
Associate Professor Kathleen Dowley (Political Science & International Relations) co-authored “Impact of Demographic, Political and Financial Factors on Municipal Transparency: A Dynamic Panel Approach,” for International Journal of Public Sector Management.
Associate Professor Salvatore Engel-DiMauro (Geography) received a National Science Foundation grant for “Examining Atmospheric and Soil Contamination in Urban Community Gardens.” He serves as a consultant/co-organizer for a National Science Foundation research project “Our Soil/Nuestros Suelos: Improving Methods of Participatory Soil Science through Interdisciplinary and International Collaboration” out of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Engel-DiMauro authored State Socialism and Environment for Pluto Press and co-authored Urban Food Production for Ecosocialism: Cultivating the City for Routledge. He also authored “Atmospheric Sources of Trace Element Contamination in Cultivated Urban Areas: A Review” for the Journal of Environmental Quality and a book chapter “Soils, Industrialised Cities, and Contaminants: Challenges for an Agroecological Urbanism” in Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions for Routledge Earthscan.
Lecturer Paul Fenouillet (Languages, Literatures & Cultures; Latin American and Caribbean Studies) published poetry in the 2021 francophone anthology Les terroirs, les territoires, Éditions Les Dossiers d’Aquitaine; and in the French literary review Filigranes.
Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the most recent meeting of the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society and gave an invited keynote address titled “The Advent of Positive Evolutionary Psychology: How Darwin’s Big Idea Can Effect Positive Change.” Geher authored “Personality Correlates of Covid Infection Proclivity: Extraversion Kills,” for Personality and Individual Differences and an invited piece “Pandemic Teaching: Storm Clouds and Silver Linings,” for Times Higher Education.
Professor Howard Good (Digital Media & Journalism) authored three new poetry collections: Gunmetal Sky (Thirty West Publishing), The Bad News First (Kung Fu Treachery Press), and Famous Long Ago (Laughing Ronin Press).
Professor Eugene Heath (Philosophy) published a review essay, “Practical Ethics and Self-Love in Eighteenth-Century Moral Philosophy,” in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 35, delivered a (virtual) talk entitled, “Adam Gillies, Adam Smith, and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Freemasonry,” to the Robert R. Livingston Library, Masonic Hall, Grand Lodge of New York, received confirmation that the book he edited with Byron Kaldis (who taught at New Paltz from 1993-95), Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics (University of Chicago, 2017) has been translated into Chinese under the auspices of Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou.
Associate Professor Heather Hewett (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) co-edited and co-authored the introduction of #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. Hewett reviewed nine memoirs written by cis parents about raising transgender kids in the Sept./Oct. issue of Women’s Review of Books.
Professor Mary Holland (English) co-edited, authored a chapter, and co-authored the introduction of #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. Holland authored a book review: “Life Writing’s Serious Implications (on Adrienne Miller’s In the Land of Men).” American Book Review’s special issue on “Serious Fiction,” and presented an international lecture: “2017: #MeToo and Literary Studies,” for “American Literature 2: 1930-Present,” University of Glasgow, spring 2021.
Associate Dean/Professor Nancy Johnson (LA&S Dean’s Office/English) co-edited Mary Wollstonecraft in Context for Cambridge University Press, authored “Political and Legal Thought,” for Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought by Cambridge University Press, and “Legal Arts and Artifacts in Jane Austen’s Persuasion,” for Art and Artifact in Jane Austen’s Novels by University of Delaware Press.
Professor Benjamin Junge (Anthropology) edited Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil by Rutgers Univ. Press.
Associate Professor Fiona Paton (English) authored “Robert Creeley, Bebop, and the Aesthetics of Alienation” in The Beats, Black Mountain, and New Modes in American Poetry by Clemson University Press.
Associate Professor Lisa Phillips (Digital Media and Journalism) photographed and reported “Three Locals Open Up About Their Search for Housing” for the Times-Union.
Professor Jonathan Raskin (Psychology) co-authored “A primer for clinicians on alternatives to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” for Professional Psychology, and “The coronavirus in context: Guidance for psychotherapists during a pandemic” for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and presented “Using humanistic psychology to unite a divided nation” to the American Psychological Association 128th Annual Convention.
Distinguished Professor L.H. Roper (History) authored “Empire in the Early 17th-Century Indian Ocean: Sir Thomas Roe’s Embassy to the Emperor Jahangir” for MEMOs Medieval and Early Modern Orients, “English Overseas Empire” in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, “How New York (Finally) Became New York”, for New Amsterdam History Center Newsletter, podcast episode: “A New Map of the Island of Barbados, Philip Lea and John Sellars (1686)”, and participated in an invited talk “The Wider World of Early Schenectady” for the Schenectady County Historical Society.
Professor Anne R. Roschelle (Sociology) authored a book review of The Guerilla Legacy of the Cuban Revolution, by Anna Clayfield for the New West Indian Guide and participated in a radio interview about her book Struggling in the Land of Plenty: Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of Homeless Families with Joe Donahue on WAMC’s The Roundtable.
Associate Professor Rachel Somerstein (Digital Media & Journalism) authored “Can We Fix Our Family-Leave Policies?” for DAME Magazine and “Photographic Coverage of 9/11” for Journalism History.
Associate Professor Hamilton Stapell (History) was awarded the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Deputy Director, Institute for Disaster Mental Health/Associate Professor Karla Vermeulen (Psychology) authored Generation Disaster: Coming of Age Post-9/11 for Oxford University Press and published survey data on her website Generation Disaster.
Associate Professor Sarah Wyman (English) authored a volume of poetry, Fried Goldfinch for Codhill Press. Wyman coordinated a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) sustainability conversation on the global pandemic and international movements for social justice between Women in Lit (Caribbean focus) class and UNIBE students in the Dominican Republic.