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Martha Bárcenas-Mooradian, visiting
instructor of Spanish, gave a presentation
titled “Current Theories of Adult Second
Language Acquisition” for the American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and
Portuguese. She also published an article
titled “The Church, Immigrants and a
Program in Pomona” in the August 10 issue
of The Tidings. |
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Carol Brandt, vice president
for international
programs, gave a presentation
titled “Sharing the
Pain: Conflict Resolution
Toward Intercultural
Education” for the
Council on International
Educational Exchange in Toronto, Canada. |
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José Calderón, professor
of sociology and Chicano
Studies, gave a presentation
titled “Immigration:
Influences on Family,
Individuals and
Education” at Pepperdine
University's Graduate
School of Education and Psychology
Diversity Council's speaker series on
Multicultural Issues Impacting Community.
He gave another presentation titled
“Engaged Scholarship and Faculty
Development” at the Conference on
Connecting Communities: The University
and Multi-Ethnic Civic Engagement, A
Southern California Regional Symposium
at the University of California, Irvine.
Calderón also discussed the political analysis
of 2007 issues and the Latino vote for
the radio show Despierta Ya Campesino. |
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Emily Chao, associate professor of anthropology,
presented a paper titled “Reinventions of
the Past: Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Development in Lijiang” as part of a panel
on development in China's interior at the
American Anthropological Association
Meeting held in Washington DC. |
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Paul Faulstich, professor
of Environmental
Studies, gave an invited
keynote lecture titled
“Campus Sustainability:
Crafting a Green
Strategic Plan” at
Otterbein College in Ohio. He gave another
presentation at the Australian Fulbright
Scholar Seminar at the University of
California, San Diego. Faulstich was also
appointed to the Board of Directors of the
California Wilderness Coalition. |
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Carmen Fought, associate
professor of linguistics,
presented a paper titled
“I'd Better Schedule an
MRI: The Linguistic
Construction of ‘White’
Ethnicity” at the New
Ways of Analyzing
Variation conference in Philadelphia. |
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Judith V. Grabiner, Flora
Sanborn Professor of
Mathematics, presented a
paper titled “It's All for
the Best: Optimization in
Eighteenth-Century
Science” at the national
annual joint meeting of the
Mathematical Association of America and the
American Mathematical Society in San Diego. |
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Brian L. Keeley, associate
professor of philosophy,
was interviewed by Steve
Karesh '97 in December
on the topic of conspiracy
for XM Radio 130 -
POTUS '08. He also
organized a weeklong
series of talks, tutorials and discussions on
“Neurophilosophy, Neuroethology and the
Senses” for the CF Neuroscience
Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de
Ciência in Lisbon, Portugal. |
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Jim Lehman, professor of
economics, participated in
the panel focusing on
increasing FTA leverage
particularly in South Korea
and Southeast Asia for the
Competitive Regionalism
Conference held at USC. |
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David Leland, adjunct
assistant professor of psychology,
published an
article titled “Anterior
Cingulate Cortex and
Benefit of Predictive
Cueing on Response Inhibition in
Stimulant Dependent Individuals” in the
January 15 issue of Biological Psychiatry. |
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Lee Munroe, research professor of anthropology,
published an article titled
“Response to Ember and Ember's ‘Climate,
Econiche, and Sexuality: Influences on
Sonority in Language’” in the December
issue of American Anthropologist. |
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Jackie Levering-Sullivan,
founder and director of
Pitzer's Writing Center,
presented a workshop
titled “Young Writers
Writing” at the Charlotte
S. Huck Children's
Literature Festival at the
University of Redlands. She will also be
part of the faculty at a writers retreat sponsored
by the Southern California Society of
Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. |
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Laura Skandera Trombley, president, published
an article titled “Mark Twain's Annus
Horribilis of 1908-1909” in the winter 2008
issue of American Literary Realism. She
delivered an invited lecture, “Mark Twain's
Annus Horribilis of 1908-1909,” at the
Center for Mark Twain Studies in Elmira,
New York, on September 19, 2007. |
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Dana Ward, professor of
Political Studies, published
a chapter on Elisée
Reclus and Piotr
Kropotkin and the origins
of anarchocommunism in
the edited volume, New
Perspectives on Anarchism (Lexington Books, 2008). He also gave a
presentation on the Anarchy Archives online
resource at the “Scholarly Collaboration and
Small Colleges in the Digital Age” meeting
held at Pomona College. |
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Phil Zuckerman, associate
professor of sociology, gave
a presentation titled
“Secularity in Scandinavia”
at the Religion in the
Twenty-First Century conference
in Copenhagen,
Denmark. |
