Faculty Notes Archive
Summer 2004

Jose Calderon, professor of sociology and Chicano studies, received the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education. California Campus Compact (CACC) presents the award to individuals who demonstrate excellence in building partnerships between communities and higher education. CACC is a membership organization of college and university presidents leading California institutions of higher education in building a statewide collaboration to promote service as a critical component of higher education.

Paul Faulstich was recommended for promotion to full professor of environmental studies. He recently co-edited Exploring Relationships Through Rock-Art: Colonialism, Landscape and Ecology, published by Western Academic and Specialist Press, U.K. He also contributed two essays to the volume: “An Introduction to Rock-Art and Relationships,” and “Dreaming the Country and Burning the Land: Rock-Art and Ecological Knowledge.” His article, “Geophilia: Die Eingeborene Liebe des Menschen zur Landschaft,” was released in Germany in the journal Hagia Chora. Faulstich continues to serve on the Steering Committee of Education for Sustainability and recently presented a paper, “Sustainability – Perspectives on Human Ecology,” at the Australian National University.

David Furman, professor of art, has been exhibiting artwork at a range of distinguished venues. His pieces have appeared at 21st Century Ceramics at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio; “A Feast for the Eyes,” at Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento; and “Not Teapots,” at Beame Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His works will be featured at the Arizona State University Ceramics Research Center, ASU Art Museum Ceram-A-Rama benefit auction Feb. 28, 2004, and Standing Room Only, the Scripps 60th Ceramic Annual, at Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, Jan. 24-April 4, 2004. Furman lectured on the Inca Ruins of Macchu Picchu, Sacsayhuaman and Quenco on Nov. 24, 2003, at Pomona College and will present “The Non-Secular Ceramic Object,” at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts annual conference March 19, 2004, in Indianapolis. Furman’s works are included in 21st Century Ceramics in the United States and Canada, 2003, American Ceramic Society, and World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea, International Catalog.

Judith Grabiner, Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics, will have her book, The Origins of Cauchy’s Rigorous Calculus, republished by Dover Publications. MIT Press originally published the work in 1981. Dover’s republishing of the book keeps the work available to scholars and scientists. “The book explains how, and for what mathematical, philosophical, and cultural reasons, the calculus changed in the 1820s: from a collection of powerful techniques developed by Newton and Leibniz at the end of the 17th century to a subject presented with the same rigorous structure as Euclidean geometry,” Grabiner said. Another of Grabiner’s works, “It’s All for the Best: How the Search for Optimal Principles Helped Reveal the Properties of Light,” was recently published in Pi in the Sky, an expository journal of the Pacific Mathematics Institute.

Gina Lamb, a visiting professor of media studies, presented the plenary session at the annual meeting of the Organization for Media Education and Communication Culture Nov. 21-23, 2003, at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam Babelsberg, Germany. Lamb’s session covered the role of media arts and media literacy within educational reform movements in the United States. She also conducted a poetry video workshop for educators at the meeting. Lamb has been involved with an international youth media exchange project called Video Culture since 1998. This past summer, Lamb worked with Pitzer students Dustin Tamishiro and Jorge Nava along with REACH L.A. youth artist Ana Lopez to produce a documentary, “Hear Me Out,” highlighting the stories of 12 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths and their experiences of discrimination in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The video will be used to train teachers throughout the district about Assembly Bill 537. AB 537 is the California Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000, which affects California’s education code by changing the existing nondiscrimination policy to include actual or perceived sexual orientation and gender identity. It protects students and teachers from harassment in schools receiving state money.

Lee Munroe, professor emeritus of anthropology, and Sara Nerlove of the National Science Foundation, had an article, “Homestead Size, Gender and Aggression Among Gusii Children,” published in the Summer 2003, issue of Ethos: The Journal of Psychological Anthropology.

Peter Nardi, professor of sociology, was elected president of the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA) beginning April 2005, for one year. The PSA is the nation’s oldest regional sociology society and one of the two largest associations with more than 1,200 members. The president’s primary responsibility is to organize the 2006 annual meeting in San Diego and to work with the executive director in other association matters. Nardi previously served for four years as editor of the PSA’s journal, Sociological Perspectives.

Joe Parker, professor of international and intercultural studies, had an article published and gave a presentation on interdisciplinarity at Pitzer. The article, “Institutionalizing Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Study: A Case Study from Pitzer College,” was published in the Association for Integrative Studies Newsletter, Vol. 25, No. 1, in March 2003. The presentation on the topic was in October 2003, in Detroit at the national convention of the Association for Integrative Studies, an interdisciplinary association for faculty and administrators involved in interdisciplinary teaching and curricular development.

Anita Tijerina Revilla, a visiting junior scholar, has an article, “Inmensa Fe en le Victoria/Immense Faith in Victory: The Testimonio of a Woman That seeks Social Justice Through Education,” forthcoming in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, published by Washington State University Press.

Dan Segal, professor of history and anthropology, was elected to serve as chair of the American Anthropological Association’s section assembly and as an ex-officio member of the association’s executive committee.

Rudi Volti, professor of sociology, had his article, “Reducing Automobile Emissions in Southern California: The Dance of Public Policies and Technological Fixes,” published in Inventing for the Environment, edited by Arthur Molella and Joyce Bedi (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003).

Phil Zuckerman , associate professor of sociology, assembled works by W.E.B. Du Bois for The Social Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois, published by Pine Forge Press. “For over a century, Du Bois’ seminal contributions have been overlooked,” Zuckerman said. By compiling a wide array of Du Bois’ sociological writings on the meaning of race, race relations, international relations, labor, politics, economics, religion, crime, gender and education, Zuckerman makes the case that Du Bois was one of the world’s greatest sociological pioneers, whose canonization within sociological theory is long overdue.