May 1998
CAMPUS NOTES Conference & Presentations | Publications | On Stage and Screen
Awards & Honors | In the News | Appointments | Grants
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses
Conference & Presentations
Psychology Prof. Ester Shapiro was invited to El Salvador to attend a conference on social violence sponsored by the United Nations Development Program and the Department of Education. She presented papers on grief and war, and on violence prevention programs for adolescents.
Assistant Vice Chancellor Anita Miller, chapter advisor to the Golden Key National Honor Society, attended the Society's International Convention in Los Angeles during August. She was accompanied by students Linda Mason, chapter president, and Brian Chandley, chapter secretary.
English Prof. Linda Dittmar was invited to participate at Tel Aviv's Second International Colloquium in Cinema Studies in June, and presented a paper, "Regimes of Longing: Staggered Narration and the Persistence of Vision."
Dr. Harlyn Halvordson, director, PCMBT, chaired a session on policy, politics and marine resources at the 18th annual meeting of Association for Politics and Life Sciences in September. He presented a paper, "The Politics of Marine Aquaculture in the United States: Finding Socially and Environmentally Acceptable Solutions," and ECOS doctoral student Jean Poitras presented "Integrated Coastal Management Partnerships."
Music Prof. Joseph Dyer presented a paper, "The Eleventh Century Epistolary of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere," at a Fordham University Symposium, The Liturgy of Rome in the Eleventh Century in September.
English graduate student Krystyna Colburn presented a paper, "Collecting: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop, and Bessie Head," at the International Virginia Woolf Conference in June.
Zehra Schneider Graham, environmental coordinator of the Environmental Health and Safety Office, gave a presentation at the 216th Annual Meeting of the American Chemical Society, "Resources Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Reform Efforts for Laboratories."
English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz taught workshops in reading aloud at the Joiner Center and at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center during the summer.
Sociology Prof. Russell Schutt was co-author of a paper, "Housing Preferences of Homeless Mentally Ill Persons: A Paradox for Mental Health Policy," presented at the August meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.
Publications
CPCS Prof. Clark Taylor's book, Return of Guatemala's Refugees: Reweaving the Torn, has been published by Temple University Press.
Music Prof. Joseph Dyer had several articles on medieval chants appear in volumes 7 and 8 of the new edition of the German music encyclopedia, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
"The Straight Goods," an essay by English Prof. Linda Dittmar, appears in The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire, published by Routledge.
CPCS Prof. Carla Johnson's 6th book, Global News Access: The Impact of New Communications Technologies, was published by Greenwood Publishing Group in July.
Kevin Bowen's second collection of poetry, Forms of Prayer at the Hotel Edison,was published by Curbstone Press in September. Bowen, director of the Joiner Center along with Joiner associate Nguyen Ba Chung and Bruce Weigl edited a bi-lingual collection of poetry, Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, published in September by University of Massachusetts Press.
English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz has had two poems published. "Grief" appeared in the Western Humanities Review, and "Who's on First?" was included in the anthology, The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow, edited by poet-laureate Robert Pinsky and published by William Morrow.
Modern Languages Prof. Edythe Haber's book, Mikhail Bulgakov: The Early Years, has been published by Harvard University Press.
English department alumnus Richard E. Miller's book, As If Learning Mattered, has been published by Cornell University Press.
Officer Richard W. Lee of the Public Safety Office wrote an article, "The Move Toward Community Policing for a Safer Campus," published in the July/August issue of Campus Law Enforcement Journal.
Psychology Prof. Elizabeth Roemer co-authored an article, "Increases in Retrospective Accounts of War-Zone Exposure Over Time," in the Journal of Traumatic Stress in July.
English Prof. Patricia Powell's third novel, The Pagoda, has been published by Alfred A. Knopf.
Psychology Prof. Ester Shapiro was coordinating editor for Nuestros Cuerpos/Nuestras Vidas, the Spanish adaptation of Our Bodies Ourselves, which will be published in June, 1999 by Ballantine/Random House.
Psychology Prof. Amy Weisman has co-authored two articles, "Evaluation of Therapist Competence and Adherence to Behavior Family Management with bipolar patients" in Family Process, and "Expressed Emotions, Attributions and schizophrenia symptom dimensions" in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Prof. Andres Torres, acting director of the Gastón Institute, has co-edited a book, The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from the Diaspora, published by Temple University Press.
Sociology Prof. Stephanie Hartwell was co-author of "Alcohol and Drug Abuse Among Connecticut Youth: Implications for Adolescent Medicine and Public Health," published in Connecticut Health.
University Research Prof. Spencer Di Scala of the history department has co-authored a new book, European Political Thought, 1815-1989, published by Westview Press. A second edition of his 1995 book, Italy: From Revolution to Republic, 1700 to the Present, has also been published.
On Stage and Screen
Theater Arts Prof. and UMass Boston alum Steve Sweeney currently appears in the films, There's Something About Mary and Next Stop, Wonderland, and in ads for Honey Dew Donuts.
Theater Arts Prof. John Conlon appeared as Polonius in a production of The Essential Hamlet, directed by alumnus Michael O'Halloran, at the Boston Center for the Arts on September 22.
Awards & Honors
Five scholarships from the Betty Taymor Fund for the Education of Women in Politics and Government have been awarded to the following members of the Women in Politics and Government Program: Kristen Andriola, Carline Desire, Suzanne DuMont, Maura Greaney, and Myriam Ortiz Piniero.
Nursing Prof. Kristine Alster receives the Distinguished Alumna Award for Excellence in Nursing from her alma mater, Illinois Wesleyan University, on October 10.
The New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) has been chosen by the Ford Foundation to evaluate the Foundation's major initiative to improve social science instruction and curriculum. Initiative members are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and Stanford Universities, the Universities of Chicago, Pennsylvania, California at Los Angeles and Minnesota, and Pomona, Carleton, and Bryn Mawr Colleges.
Bernadette Levasseur, staff member of the Wheatley Copy Center, won second prize for her watercolor, "Coastguard Beach," and an honorable mention for her mixed media, "Moving Sand," at a juried art show held by the Quincy Art Association.
The College of Management received an honorable mention for integrating environmentalism into the curriculum in the report, "Grey Pinstripes with Green Ties: MBA Programs Where the Environment Matters," published by the World Resources Institute.
Prof. Gerald Garrett of Sociology and the Criminal Justice Program has assumed the presidency of the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences, and has chosen the Society's theme for the year, "Confronting Alcohol/Drug -Related Crime."
Art Prof. Sam Walker has been juried into two major international print competitions, The Silvermine Print Biennial in New Canaan, Ct., and the World Print Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. A solo exhibit of his work will be held at the Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Boston, from Oct. 14 - Nov.12
CPCS Prof. Herman Hemingway was recently reappointed to the Governor's African American Advisory Commission until December, 1999. He also organized a series of workshops on the American legal system for 20 visiting judges from China, hosted by the McCormack Institute.
Kevin Bowen, director of the Joiner Center, received a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for fiction in July.
English Prof. Lloyd Schwartz received the Greater Boston Business Council's 1998 Award for Individual Excellence in June.
In the News
"It's a Field of Dreams Labor Market," an article co-authored by Political Science Prof. Barry Bluestone, appeared in The Boston Sunday Globe on September 6
Prof. Richard Hogarty, senior fellow, McCormack Institute, was interviewed by reporter Bill Shields of WBZ TV channel 4, prior to the release of the Starr Report, regarding the presidential crisis and prior impeachment attempts.
Appointments
Beth Marshall was appointed director of personnel administration for the Office of Human Resources in September. She comes to campus from UCLA, where she was director of human resources for the Department of Continuing Education. She received her Master's Degree in library science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Grants
ECOS Profs. William Robinson and Jack Archer are co-investigators on a faculty and graduate student educational exchange grant funded for 2 years by the European Community and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE). Three European institutions (the Universities of Wales, Seville, and Genoa), and three U.S. institutions (UMass Boston and the Universities of Delaware and Miami), each with graduate programs in coastal and ocean affairs are participating. The $400k grant will also fund internships for ECOS students in non-governmental organizations and international agencies.
Doctoral Dissertation Defenses
Jean M. Cummiskey, doctoral candidate in the Public Policy PhD program defended her dissertation, "Risk Perception and the Generation of Public Policy: Case Analyses of Smoking and Septic System Regulations in Massachusetts," on September 28.
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