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 “Entre tragédie et techno-optimisme: la nouvelle Realpolitik climatique,” in Géopolitique, Réseau, Énergie, Environnement, Nature; “Regime Change,” (April 2022) and “Acute Dollar Dominance” in Phenomenal World and presented at “The Future of the Economic Weapon” panel at Remarque Institute, New York University with Jamie Martin (Harvard) and Nicholas Mulder (Cornell). She also presented “Bretton Woods III” at the Intersections of Finance and Society conference in London; “The future of sustainable finance in an unstable world” at the E3G Experts Panel Discussion for London Climate Action Week, Third Generation Environmentalism, and “The IMF and the Legacy of Bretton Woods” with Richard Kozul-Wright (UNCTAD), Jain Family Institute, New York.
Lecturer Brett Barry (Digital Media & Journalism) received Best Regional Podcast award in the 2022 Chronogrammies Readers’ Choice Awards for his podcast Kaatscast.
Assistant Professor Adolfo Bejar Lara (Languages, Literatures & Cultures) published “Narrating Cross-Border Migration, Writing Subjects without History: On Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway and Francisco Cantú’s The Line Becomes a River” in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS). He also gave two presentations: “Life on the Borders: Forging Community at the US-Mexico Border” at the Northeast Modern Language Association annual convention and “Sobrevivientes: Haitian Migration, Testimonial Literature, and Blackness in Mexico” at the Latin American Studies Association annual convention.
Professor Lee Bernstein (History) published “From Sintsincks to Sing Sing: Empire, War, and Prison Creation in Early New York State” in Early American Studies. Lee was also appointed to the academic advisory board of the Sing Sing Prison Museum in Ossining, NY.
Assistant Professor David Bright (Counselor Education) published a K-12 Career Development textbook titled K-12 Career Development: An Integrative Social Justice Approach for Cognella Academic Publishing. He also published a research article with a former graduate student Talor Heilman titled “The Relationship Between Sexual Abuse and Disordered Eating: Applications of Narrative Therapy in the Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision” in the Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision.
Lecturer Laura Ebert (Economics) authored “Complementary Currencies for Humanitarian Aid” in the Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14, no. 11.
Lecturer Paul Fenouillet (Languages, Literatures & Cultures; Latin American and Caribbean Studies) published poetry in the 2022 Francophone anthology Le rêve, la vie, l’aventure, Éditions Les Dossiers d’Aquitaine; and in the French literary review Filigranes.
Professor Thomas Festa (English) won the Milton Society of America’s annual Irene Samuel Memorial Award for his essay collection, Locating Milton: Places and Perspectives, co-edited with David Ainsworth of University of Alabama and published in December of 2021 by Clemson University Press in conjunction with Liverpool University Press. He also authored six poems published in Connecticut River Review, The Haibun Journal (Ireland), Drifting Sands, and Stone Poetry Journal, and a short scholarly article: “Issa and Ryokan in James Merrill’s The Book of Ephraim” (ANQ), and was a featured reader at the Woodstock Poetry Society’s October poetry event.
Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) has recently received multiple awards for his work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NorthEastern Evolutionary Psychology Society in Pittsburgh. He also recently received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.
Glenn co-authored “To Ghost or to be Ghosted: An examination of the social and psychological correlates of ghosting” In EvoS Journal: The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium. Additionally, Positive Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin’s Guide to Living a Richer Life (co-authored with Nicole Delaney, MA 2016; Oxford University Press) was published in softcover format in July.
Also, along with two alumni (Julie Planke, MA, 2019) and Jacqueline Di Santo (MA, 2020), Glenn co-authored the chapter “Emotional and Sexual Infidelity: Evolutionary origins and large-scale implications” for The Handbook of Infidelity for Oxford University Press. Glenn also is co-author of “Cross-cultural comparison of nudging effects for environmental protection: A case-study of risk-averse attitudes toward disposable plastics” in the new publication by Public Library of Science (PLOS) ON.
Professor Giordana Grossi (Psychology) published “Objects with motor valence affect the visual processing of human body parts: Evidence from behavioural and ERP studies” in the journal Cortex. The paper is a collaboration with colleagues at University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, and Goldsmiths University of London, in the UK. In addition, she gave the talk “Changes in Posterior N1 Lateralization With Reading Experience” at the Center for Language Science at Pennsylvania State University.
Associate Professor Kristine Harris (History) published “Trespassing, Transforming, Translating,” in the bilingual edited volume, Les sons de l’exotisme au cinema / The Sounds of Exoticism in Cinema (Éditions Mimésis, 2022). Additionally, she presented two research papers: “Ten Thousand Waves Revisited” (for the Modern China Seminar, Columbia University, April 2022) and “Circuits of Mobility in Love and Duty” for the international conference Women and the Silent Screen XI held at Columbia University. At the latter conference, she also introduced a screening of the restored print of the silent film “Love and Duty” (China, 1931) and was elected to the Steering Committee of Women and Film History International (WFHI), an organization that functions as an umbrella for research on women’s film history across all decades.
Associate Professor Kristopher Jansma (English) authored the novel Les Idéalistes and published “Am I a Jewish Writer Now?” in Tablet Magazine.
Professor Benjamin Junge (Anthropology) co-edited and contributed to Democracia Precária: Etnografias de Esperança, Desespero e Resistencia no Brasil by Porto Alegre: Zouk. He authored “What Happened to the ‘New Middle Class’? The 2016 BORP (Brazil’s Once-Rising Poor) Survey” in Latin American Research Review 57, no. 3. Junge also presented “Political Subjectivities and Care in Brazil’s Urban Periphery” at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting; “Family Made Strange: The Impact of Social Media on Family Dynamics, as a Classe Popular Family from Recife Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections” at the Latin American & Iberian Institute; and “Precarious Families: Generational Tensions as a Working- Class Household from Recife, Brazil Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections” at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual meeting.
Assistant Professor Timothy Liu (English) authored poems in Amsterdam Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail, Gulf Coast and North American Review. His next book of poems, Down Low and Lowdown: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues, is forthcoming from Barrow Street Press in Spring 2023. He recently gave a reading for the Poets House Hard Hat Series as well as an in-depth interview for the Green Space Podcast.
Adjunct faculty member Said Malki (Economics) authored “Determinants of United States Foreign Direct Investment in India” in the Journal of Policy and Development Studies.
Assistant Professor Megan Sperry (Digital Media & Journalism) presented her documentary film “Beyond Shelter” at the annual University Film and Video Association Conference. Sperry directed the 5th annual Woodstock Film Festival Youth Film Lab and moderated the Teen Film screening and Q&A.
Assistant Professor Lauren Mark (Communication) co-authored “Storycircling the Virtual: Creating Space in a Pandemic with Storyscope” in Storytelling, Self, Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Storytelling Studies.
Associate Professor Lauren Meeker (Anthropology) co-directed an ethnographic film “Mother Witness for Me” with Dr. Phan Phuong (Vietnam National University), which was accepted to the 2022 SVA Film and Media Festival.
Distinguished Professor Lou Roper (History) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (U.K.) by the Society’s Council in July. Fellowships are awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship.
Associate Professor Sarah Wyman (English) gave a solo reading from her books Sighted Stones (FLP 2018) and Fried Goldfinch (2021) at York College, CUNY in celebration of National Poetry Month.