Faculty Publications, Presentations and Honors
Faculty Publications, Presentations and Honors
Congratulations to our dedicated faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for all of their noteworthy publications, presentations, honors, and achievements! Have an accomplishment of your own that you’d like to share? Please send it to Dave Aderson.
Associate Professor Mona Ali (Economics) coedited Radical Political Economics: Principles, Perspectives, and Post-Capitalist Futures (Routledge, 2025). Last year, in 2024, she was also invited to present her research on the global dollar system at the Federal Association of German Banks, Berlin, at Johns Hopkins University, at the University of Michigan Law School, at the University of Zurich, at the University of Sydney, and at University of New South Wales. This past June, Ali taught at Brown University’s inaugural Political Economy of Finance Summer School for graduate students.
Associate Professor César Barros A. (Latin American, Caribbean & Latinx Studies) received a competitive grant from the National Book Fund in Chile to complete his next manuscript. He also published the article, “Without ghosts there is no future” in the collective volume, Specters of the dictatorship 50 years after the coup (Santiago: Alma Negra), and wrote a review of The Home as Laboratory (Chicago, Common Notions) for the latest issue of Women Studies Quarterly. Barros will be stepping down from his role as the Director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies program, a role that he has served for the past six years, to dedicate more time to teaching.
Professor Lee Bernstein (History) participated in an event commemorating the 200th anniversary of the construction of Sing Sing Prison titled “Incarceration and Religion: An Event on the Bicentenary of Sing Sing” at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities. In 2024, Lee appeared in the History Channel documentary “Prison Chronicles: Sing Sing,” as part of the documentary was based on his 2019 article, “The Sing Sing Revolt: The Incarceration Crisis and Criminal Justice Liberalism in the 1980s” (New York History Vol. 100, No. 1 – Summer 2019).
Adjunct Professor Riley DeBacker (Communication Disorders) was recently awarded the Early-Career Audiologist Award from the American Academy of Audiology. DeBacker, a researcher at the National Center for Auditory Rehabilitative Research, advocates for diversity and inclusion in audiology and has authored 15 peer-reviewed articles on the auditory deficits in HIV+ individuals.
Writing & Rhetoric Program Assistant Joann Deiudicibus, a part-time instructor within the English department, published Lost and Found (Finishing Line Press, 2025), a poetry chapbook with primary themes including family, grief, loss, relationships, adoption, personal histories and identity.
Associate Professor Andy Evans (History) published an article titled “Real National Work: The Politics of Nazi Race Science in Upper Silesia, 1934-1942” in German History: The Journal of the German History Society (Oxford University Press, 2024). Evans was also the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts & Science’s 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Lecturer Paul Fenouillet (Languages, Literatures & Cultures) published poetry in francophone anthology, Ces amis qui nous aident à vivre and in both issues of Filigranes, a French literary review.
Associate Professor Andrea Gatzke (History) received a fellowship from the American Research Institute in Turkey, funded through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. This past summer, the fellowship allowed her to spend three months in Turkey to conduct research focused on ancient Anatolia and to visit archaeological sites that are part of her book project, The Inscribed City: Bilingualism, Space, and Group Membership in Roman Anatolia.
Professor Glenn Geher (Psychology) amassed nine academic publications in 2023-2024. They include co-authored pieces in journals including Public Library of Science One (PLoS One), Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, and Personality and Individual Differences, among others. He also first-authored a book, Introduction to Positive Evolutionary Psychology, published by Cambridge University Press and co-authored with five current alumni. During this time, Geher’s work has appeared in several national and international media outlets, including Nature, QQ News (China), Parents (French version), MSN, Bored Panda, and Times Higher Education, among others. He also gave several talks related to his research, including the Science and Society keynote address at the 2024 meeting of the New England Psychological Association.
Associate Professor Kristine Harris (History) published two articles including “Staging Shanghai in Love and Duty (1923, 1931)” in The Journal of Chinese Film Studies (December 2023), and “Circuits of Mobility in Love and Duty” in The Journal of Chinese Cinemas (July 2024). Additionally, as Invited Professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, France, Harris delivered four research lectures including “Revolutionary China and Sources for The Red Detachment of Women“, “Legacies and Afterlives of Cultural Revolution Culture: The Red Detachment of Women“, “Language, Writing, Translation, and Film in Modern China: The Life and Work of S. Rosen Hoa, a.k.a. Hua Luochen or Horose”, and “Lost and Found: The case of Love and Duty (1931).” Harris also chairs the Steering Committee of Women and Film History International (WFHI).
Distinguished Professor Eugene Heath (Philosophy) authored “Alexander Gillies and Adam Smith: Freemasonry and the Resonance of Self-Love” in The Scottish Historical Review (August 2024). In early April, he delivered a paper, “Adam Smith on Social Interaction and the Impartial Spectator,” at the meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Toronto. Lastly, in late May, he presented “Adam Smith and the Scottish Clergy on Self-Love and Self-Denial,” at the annual gathering of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Assistant Professor Damian Kelty-Stephen (Psychology) co-authored 10 peer reviewed articles, published a co-edited book, The Modern Legacy of Gibson’s Affordances for the Sciences of Organisms (Routledge 2024), and co-authored one of its chapters, “Scaling Up: Lawfulness of Affordances Requires Independence from Any Single ‘Scale of Behavior’”. He also co-authored a chapter in the 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook on Embodied Cognition titled “The Embodied Dynamics of Problem Solving: New Structure from Multiscale Interaction”. Kelty-Stephen was also featured on the neuroscience-AI podcast, Brain Inspired, and gave a presentation, “Fractal Structure in Exploratory Behaviors Puts Us in Touch with Our World”, at Leuphana University’s workshop, Nonlinear Methods for Psychological and Social Sciences. He also presented at the Human Movement Variability Conference, the American Society for Biomechanics, and the meeting of the Psychonomic Society in New York City and joined the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Adjunct Instructor John D. Lin (Communication) delivered a TEDx talk, “A Struggle in Silence to Societal Success”. A newly certified presenter with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Lin has delivered presentations at New York City medical institutions including Weill Cornell Medical Center – NewYork-Presbyterian, the Payne Whitney Clinic, Northwell Lenox Hill, and Montefiore Einstein, to inspire individuals and families navigating their own mental health challenges.
Assistant Professor Lauren Mark (Communication) published research on using the body as a pedagogical tool in the study “Transmitting awareness from the body into writing: bringing the Feldenkrais method into the university classroom” in Teaching in Higher Education (May 2024). Mark also published work on kinship and kin-making through intentionality and relational dynamics in Chinese philosophy in the article “Creating kinship through the animating potential of qi”, which appeared in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (March 2024). She also shared embodied strategies for building intercultural understanding at the Society for Intercultural Education Training and Research’s 24th European Congress, during a session titled “Mobilizing movement practices for embodied intercultural re/understanding and relating: tapping into potent/ial ecosystems.”
Associate Professor Lisa Phillips (Digital Media & Journalism) authored her newest book, First Love: Guiding Teens Through Relationships and Heartbreak (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025), which details the complex hardships that teenagers encounter when navigating crushes, dating, and breakups, and the challenges that adults confront as they attempt to give their advice and support.
Instructor Katherine Raynor (Sociology) joined Professor Anne R. Roschelle (Sociology) for a virtual appearance at Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, for International Teaching Day. The two spoke to nearly 40 young people from countries including Hungary, Poland, Croatia and Germany regarding the need for social pedagogy in the U.S. education system, the importance of understanding how social structure and inequality impact disenfranchised populations, and the issue of burnout in the U.S. social work profession.
Roschelle was also the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts & Science’s 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activities.