Faculty Notes Archives
Fall 2004
Jennifer Armstrong, assistant professor of biology, published “Genetic and Cytological Analysis of Drosophila Chromatin-remodeling Factors,” in Methods in Enzymology, 377:70-85, 2004, with D.F. Corona and J.W. Tamkun.
José Calderón, professor of sociology and Chicano studies, was selected as the inaugural holder of the newly endowed Michi and Walter Weglyn Chair in Multicultural Studies at Cal Poly Pomona for this academic year. He recently published a chapter, “Inclusion or Exclusion: One Immigrant's Experience of Cultural and Structural Barriers to Power Sharing and Unity,” in Minority Voices: Linking Personal Ethnic History and the Sociological Imagination, edited by John Myers (Allyn & Bacon, Pearson Education, 2004).
Carmen Fought, associate professor of linguistics, served as editor of Sociolinguistic Variation: Critical Reflections, published in August by Oxford University Press. The book is a collection of papers from a conference at Pitzer in honor of the retirement of Professor Ronald Macaulay.
David Furman, professor of art, delivered a slide/lecture presentation, “The Non-Secular Ceramic Object,” to more than 2000 attendees at the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts National Conference on March 18 in Indianapolis. His work was exhibited at the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, in October; the Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, in July; the Venice ArtWalk in May; the Riverside Community College Gallery of Art in April; Arizona State University Ceramics Research Center in February; Tulsa Museum of Art, Tulsa, Okla., in February; and at the Scripps College 60th Ceramics Annual January-April. His work was published in the fourth edition of “The Craft and Art of Clay,” in American Craft, February/March 2004; the catalogues from the Katsunari Toyoda Collection of Contemporary American Ceramics; and Kerameiki Techni: International Ceramic Art Review, April 2004. Furman delivered a slide/lecture presentation Oct. 9 to the Hellenistic Fulbright Association International Conference in Athens, Greece. His lecture and slides focused on his third Fulbright fellowship in Peru in 2000, where he worked on ceramic tile community mural projects with students from the National School of Fine Arts and middle-school children from the marginalized community of Montenegro on the outskirts of Lima. After his return from Athens, Furman attended the opening reception of his 39th solo exhibition at Gallery 221, on East 88th Street, on Oct. 12. The exhibit runs through Nov. 20. His new ceramic sculpture focuses on the figurative, whose content concerns issues of intimacy, connection and the psychodynamics of human interaction. He will be a visiting artist at Southern Illinois University Oct. 26-29 and at Salve Regina College in Newport, R.I., Nov. 9-12.
Judy Grabiner, Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics, will publish “Newton, Maclaurin, and the Authority of Mathematics,” in the December issue of the American Mathematical Monthly.
Brian Keeley, assistant professor of philosophy, has been awarded a Charles A. Ryskamp research fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Professor Keeley will use the grant to spend the fall semester in New York working on a book tentatively titled Making Sense of the Senses. ACLS grants recognize those whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well designed and carefully developed plans for new research.
Lee Munroe, research professor of anthropology, published “Social Structure and Sex Role Choices among Children in Four Cultures,” in the fall issue of Cross-Cultural Research. He has been named to the Board of Directors of the FrameWorks Institute, an organization dedicated to advancing the nonprofit sector's communications capacity. Munroe attended board meetings this year in Washington, D.C., and Santa Fe, N.M.
Teresa Vázquez, visiting professor of Chicano studies and sociology, published Land Privatization in Mexico: Urbanization, Formation of Regions, and Globalization in Ejidos by Routledge Press.
Rudi Volti, professor of sociology, published an article on William F. Ogburn in the “Classics Revisited” series in Technology and Culture. His new book, Cars and Culture: The Life Story of a Technology, will appear later this year. Volti completed the revisions for the fifth edition of Society and Technological Change, which will appear early next year. He spent the spring semester as a visiting scholar at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and in March was an invited participant in the annual Tensions of Europe conference in Budapest.
Al Wachtel, professor of English, presented/published the following works: “Letting Go: The Limits of Magic in Shakespeare's Tempest” and “Gyres of History: Yeats on the Utility of Art,” at Landau University, Germany, July 27, 2004; “Ur-Namma,” Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, 2004; “Epiphanies: From Gods to Truth,” The Aha! Moment: Discovery, Breakthrough, Epiphany, Pomona College Symposium, April 30, 2004; “City Boy,” Masterplots II: Short Stories, Salem Press, 2004; “Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers,” Masterplots II: Short Stories, Salem Press, 2004; “Electra [of Euripides],” Cyclopedia of Literary Places, 2003; “Ajax,” Cyclopedia of Literary Places, 2003; “Beyond Fancy Indulgences: Shakespeare and the Beauty of Truth,” L.I.F.E. Society, UC Riverside, November 2002; “Adam's Curse,” Masterplots: Poetry, Salem Press, 2002; “Modernist Disjunction: Joyce's Use of Parody Where Speech Fails,” International Conference on Parody and Imitation, Atlanta, November 2001; “From Cross to Swastika: The Theology of Hate,” Midstream, May/June 2000; “Irish Identity in Motion,” The Irish City, Claremont, March 24, 2000; “Shakespeare: Real Time in a World of Hype, Speed, and Millennia,” Unbounded Thinkers Symposium, Claremont, March 13, 2000; “It's Evolutionary and It's in the Bible,” Los Angeles Times, Syndicated, September 1999.
Phil Zuckerman, assistant professor of sociology, published Sex and Religion through Wadsworth Press this year. This volume explores what various religious traditions “say” about sex by providing a comprehensive and illuminating anthology of scholarly essays on a variety of religious viewpoints. Each chapter is written by a distinguished scholar of a particular religion. Zuckerman wrote the introduction and, along with Christel Manning of Sacred Heart University, solicited, assembled, and edited the various chapters. Topics include examinations of foundational scriptures, historical developments and internal debates, various perspectives on homosexuality, abortion, gender equality, adultery, marriage, etc. Zuckerman also published “Secularization: Europe—Yes, United States—No,” in Skeptical Inquirer, March/April 2004. The article analyzes and discusses recent survey data that shows much of Europe is becoming more and more secular, while the United States remains strongly religious.
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.
Winter 2004
Nigel Boyle, Jack Sullivan and Tom Ilgen, professors of political studies, contributed articles to Reconfigured Sovereignty: Multi-Layered Governance in the Global Age, which will be published in December by Ashgate Publishing. Ilgen also served as editor of the volume.
David Furman’s artwork is featured in the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale 2003 in Icheon, Korea. His exhibited erotic teapot, “The Gardener,” won a special award given by the World Ceramic Exposition Foundation. His work also has been included in an exhibition titled “Subject: Object” at OK Harris gallery in New York City, which ran May 31 through July 15; at the Sculptural Objects Functional Art Expo in June at the Armory in New York City; at the Museum Art Complex in Duxbury, Massachusetts, May 15 through Sept. 7; the Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin, May 1-21, and the Ibaraki Prefectural Museum in Ibaraki, Japan, March 3 through May 10. Another of his pieces, “The Lascivious Libertine II,” is featured in the book, SEXPOTS: Eroticism in Ceramics, published by Rutgers University Press. Furman is listed in the new, 25th edition of Who’s Who in American Art, and images of his work are published in The International Art Teapot Exhibition Catalog from the Yingko Ceramics Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, and Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990 catalog published by the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan. He was recently awarded the Peter and Gloria Gold Professorship 2003-2008 at Pitzer College.
Brian Keeley (Philosophy) had his article, “Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition! More Thoughts on Conspiracy Theories,” published in the Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 34, Pages 104-110. He also served as Program Chair for the 2003 Society for Philosophy and Psychology annual meeting held in June at Caltech. Keeley, who is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh, also gave a paper, “Deciphering the Ocular Dialect: How to Use Eyes to Read Minds,” at the Joint International Conference on Cognitive Science in July in Sydney, Australia.
Ming-Yuen S. Ma (Media Studies) contributed a short essay to the book Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung, (Images Festival of Independent Film & Video, Toronto, 2002), edited by Helen Lee and Kerri Sakamoto, and published in conjunction with a retrospective of Fung's work. In the same book, film scholar Jose Muñoz discussed Ming-Yuen Ma’s work in relation to Richard Fung's in his essay Revisiting The Autoethnographic Performance: Richard Fung’s Theory/Praxis as Queer Performativity. He completed Movements: East-West in spring of 2003 and premiered it at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival in May. In January of 2003, his video Sniff was shown in the video window of Stux Gallery in New York City, in an exhibition curated by Koan-Jeff Baysa. This October, he is invited to speak at the Vancouver Art Gallery as a participant in the Symposium for their exhibition Home and Away: Crossing Cultures on the Pacific Rim.
Ntongela Masilela (English and World Literature), along with Isabel Balseiro, has edited To Change Reels: Film and Film Culture in South Africa, a comprehensive survey of South African film. The book was published by Wayne State University Press, which says the collection offers an unprecedented look at a film industry that has excluded its country’s black majority, in both representation and production.
Don McFarlane (Biology) will give a presentation to the Geological Society of America in November. “Speleogenesis of the Mount Elgon ‘Elephant Caves,’ Kenya,” is a product of his work this summer at Mt. Elgon in Kenya. McFarlane and his colleague, Joyce Lundberg of Carleton University, will report on the first serious mapping and geomorphological study of the caves.
David Moore (Psychology) and his student, Laura Cocas, will be presenting data in November at the meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology in New Orleans. Cocas is listed as the first author, as the data were collected in connection with her senior honors thesis last year. Cocas is currently working in a one-year position in Torrance conducting psychological counseling with troubled youth. She is applying to graduate schools for Fall 2004.
Irene Tang (Biology) has published four peer-reviewed scientific articles in the past two years, some of which have been aided by undergraduate students through the Joint Science Department at the Keck Joint Science Center. The projects, related to her work in cell biology, appeared in such journals as Biochemical Journal, Experimental Cell Research and Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. The projects also have been presented at international and national conferences in Japan, Wisconsin and New York.
Loli Tsan (French) gave two papers at UCLA this fall. The first, “Spazio negativo nella Ragazza Carla di Elio Pagliarani,” was given in the Italian Department. The second, “Le Jeu du je et du miroir dans la Délie de Maurice Scève,” was given at the French Department conference.
Phil Zuckerman (Sociology) gave a talk at University of Mass, Amherst, on May 1, 2003 commemorating the 100th anniversary of W.E.B. Due Bois' publication of The Souls of Black Folk, for which he penned the introduction.
2002
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Nigel Boyle (political studies) will be presenting the paper, "Feeding the Tiger: National, Subnational and Supranational Governance of the Irish Labor Market 1987-99" at the American Conference for Irish Studies Conference at Santa Clara University on Oct. 11. While in China this summer, he had two articles published in Beijing Today: "China: Naïve Team but a Real 'Soccer Nation,'" and "Why Did Chinese People Not Chant 'Dahanminguo?'" He also appeared on CCTV (singing the chorus to the Chinese World Cup soccer anthem) and had his picture and "reactions interviews" on the front page of the Beijing Youth Daily sports section twice. Boyle also will become acting director of the European Union Center of California this academic. In July, Boyle gave two talks at a Summer Institute for 30 area high school social studies teachers, organized by the Claremont International Studies Education Project. On July 22, he spoke about "Jihad versus McWorld Globalization and the Owl of Minerva" and on July 26 "Xenophobic Nationalism in Europe."
On Aug. 1, Kebokile Dengu-Zvobgo (external studies) gave a talk on "Globalization and Women's Rights," as part of the Summer Institute for 30 area high school social studies teachers, organized by the Claremont International Studies Education Project.
David Furman (art) is one of 68 artists whose artwork was exhibited at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in Aichi (April 13-June 30), and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan (July 30-Sept. 1) in an exhibition titled "Contemporary American Ceramics 1950-1990." Furman is one of only 35 artists worldwide invited to exhibit at the Yingko Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (Sept. 21-Dec. 22), in an exhibition titled, "The Art of Teapots." His artwork has recently been exhibited at the Sullivan/Genovese Gallery (June 20-Sept. 30) in Boston and Gallery Materia (Dec. 3-30) in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Judith Grabiner's (mathematics) continuing research program is on the history of mathematics in Britain. Her most recent publication is: Judith V. Grabiner, "Maclaurin and Newton: The Newtonian Style and the Authority of Mathematics," in C W J Withers and P B Wood, eds., Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment (Tuckwell Press: East Linton, Scotland, 2002), pp 143-171. She has also recently published two book reviews: Review of Ken Houston, ed., Creators of Mathematics: The Irish Connection (UniversityCollege Dublin Press: Dublin, 2000), published in the Irish Mathematical Society Bulletin, Summer 2002, pp 65-68. and Review of John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, and Robin Wilson, eds, Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2000), published in the American Mathematical Monthly, March, 2002, pp. 306-309.
In August, Ronald Macaulay (emeritus/linguistics) presented the paper "Can We Find More Variety in Variation?" at the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology in Joensuu, Finland.
Kathryn Miller (art) had her work exhibited in ECOVENTION at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio during the summer of 2002. This exhibition included artists who have been working in the environment for the past 40 years and served as a major retrospective of ecological artists. A catalog titled ECOVENTION was published with the exhibition and is available at Amazon.com. She also received a National Endowment for the Arts grant this year to be an artist-in-residence with the National Park Service, Rivers and Trails Division in Los Angeles. Projects will be completed by June 2003. These projects involve site-based art that will act as a catalyst for increased environmental awareness and action at the community level. In October, 2002, Kathryn Miller participated in the Environmental Affairs Symposium at Lewis and Clark College as a keynote speaker on Creativity, Art and the Environment. In Spring 2003 she will be participating in an exhibition in Italy at the Palazzo della Trienale in Milan titled "Asphalt: The Soil of the City"."Echo Park," a photo essay by Gregg Segal (PACE), was featured in the Nov. 3 issue of Los Angeles Times Magazine. The piece features photos from one of L.A.'s oldest and diverse neighborhoods. Long a stronghold of Mexican, Guatemalan and other Hispanic immigrants, the neighborhood is being infiltrated by artists with a knack for making the crummy and exotic, the charmingly ruined - aesthetic, palatable, trendy. Already, rents and property values are rising as downtown attorneys and film industry types follow the pioneering artists' lead.
This summer Ann Stromberg (sociology) worked on her research project on Costa Rica banana plantation workers who were sterilized in the 1970s in the course of their work withthe nematicide, DBCP. The qualitative research project is based on in-depth interviews with 17 men and l8 women related to the affected workers, with questions regarding the long-term social, psychological, and economic effects of this tragedy. She plans to publish the findings with a Costa Rica colleague, Hernan Hermosilla.
Jack Sullivan (political studies) has been involved in the League of Women Voters and currently serves as natural resource person for the League of Women Voters of the Claremont Area and the League of Women Voters of Los Angeles County. He also serves the League of Women Voters of California as a water consultant. He is one of two League of Women Voters representatives to the California Department of Water Resources Advisory Committee on the California Water Plan Update (Bulletin 160-03). The California WaterPlan Update assesses water supplies and demands for the State and identifies and evaluates strategies to meet future demands. He is also completing a paper in which he examines the effects of globalization on water resource issues in Wales and in Southern California.
On July 22, Lako Tongun (international and intercultural studies) gave a talk about "Globalization and the Third World," as part of the Summer Institute for 30 area high school social studies teachers, organized by the Claremont International Studies Education Project.
Dan Ward (political studies) gave an invited address "Can We Resist Using the Internet? Do we have a choice?" at UNESCO, Paris, February 28-March 4, 2002, Post-Development Conference.
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