Faculty Notes Archives
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.