(Published in @John Jay on March 31, 2010)
On Board
Jeffrey Butts has been named Director of the Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation
Center. Butts holds a PhD in sociology and social work from the University of Michigan.
He has been director of the Program on Youth Justice at the Urban Institute in
Washington, DC, and senior research associate at the National Center for Juvenile
Justice, among other career highlights.
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Jodie G. Roure (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) was the featured speaker on April
1 at the Color of Law Roundtable held at Western New England College School of Law.
Roure is a 1997 alumna of the school.
M. Victoria Pérez-Rios (Political Science) attended the annual convention of the
International Studies Association, held in New Orleans, LA, from February 17 – 20,
where she presented a paper on “War and Truth and/or Historical Memory,” chaired a
panel on “Are Democracy and Human Rights Compatible?” and was the discussant on a
panel exploring “Conceptualizing and Realizing Democracy.” At the annual conference
of the Southern Political Science Association, held in Atlanta, GA, in January, Pérez-Rios
presented a paper on “Accountability After 9-11: International and Domestic Implications
of the War on Terror.”
Kathleen Collins (Library) presented her paper, “Murrow and Friendly’s ‘Small World’:
The Impossible Ideal of the World's Biggest Classroom” on March 13 at a joint meeting
of the American Journalism Historians Association and the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication, History Division, at the CUNY Graduate School
of Journalism.
Marie Umeh (English) presented a paper on “(Re)Defining Masculinity: Male
Involvement in Eradicating Violence Against Women and Promoting Human Rights for
Women” at the annual conference of the United Nations Commission on the Status of
Women, held in New York on March 7.
Michael Pfeifer (History) delivered the 2010 Rondel Davidson History Lecture at the
University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, TX, on February 25. Pfeifer's lecture was
on "Texas, the Southwest, and the Origins of Lynching in the United States."
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) spoke to men at the
Forestdale Fathering Initiative in Queens on March 2. The initiative reconnects fathers
with their children, helping them to understand the roles and responsibilities of
fatherhood. All the clients were mandated by a judge to a 12-week job training and
parenting course. Kimora's presentation was titled "Conflict Resolution in the Face of
Domestic Abuse.”
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Michael Pfeifer (History) has had an article accepted for publication in The Journal of
American History. “The Northern U.S. and the Genesis of Racial Lynching: The
Lynching of African-Americans in the Era of the Civil War” will appear in the journal’s
December 2010 issue.
Paul Brenner (Audio Visual Services) worked as a research assistant on the forthcoming
book Roger Maris: Baseball's Reluctant Hero.
Abby Stein (Anthropology/Interdisciplinary Studies) has published a chapter, "Shooting
in the Spaces: Violent Crime as Dissociated Enactment" in the book Knowing, Not
Knowing, and Sort of Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty
(Karnac, 2010).
Jeremy Travis (President), Anna Crayton and Debbie Mukamal (Prisoner Reentry
Institute) have coauthored an article, “A New Era in Inmate Reentry,” that was published
in the December 2009 issue of Corrections Today.
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Angeline Butler (African American Studies) received a Freedom Flame award on March
6 From the Bridge Crossing Jubilee — Voting Rights Museum in Selma, AL. While in
Selma to receive the award, Butler spoke about her acclaimed 1987 commemorative play
“Voices of a Sit-In.”
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) has been appointed to
the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Education Curriculum Development Committee.
Miriam Ehrenberg (Psychology) was recently featured in GO magazine as one of its
“Women at the Helm,” in recognition of her work as Executive Director of the Institute
for Human Identity, a nonprofit psychotherapy and training center in Manhattan.
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Jane Katz (Health and Physical Education) conducted her annual aquatic clinic in March
at the John Jay pool for New York University physical therapy students. She introduced
over 30 students to the benefits of water exercise for future therapists. Katz also
competed in the recent United States Masters Swimming one-hour swim championship,
completing 3,600 yards. She placed second in the nation in both individual and relay
categories.
(Published in @John Jay on March 10, 2010)
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Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was a
panelist in a plenary session on “Introduction and Overview of National Academy of
Sciences Report, Strengthening Forensic Science in the US: A Path Forward” as part of a
February 11 seminar on the NAS report on forensic evidence, co-sponsored in Boston by
the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services, the Flaschner Judicial
Institute and the Suffolk University Law School Center for Advanced Legal Studies and
Macaronis Institute for Trial and Appellate Advocacy. Schwartz also addressed a
breakout session for members of the bar.
Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had a staged reading of his play
Poetry Class with Serial Killer at the Medicine Show Theatre in Manhattan on February
24. The presentation was part of the theatre’s 26th Annual Celebration of the Spoken
Word.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was the guest
speaker during the January 15 presentation of CrimCast, a monthly podcast that
highlights criminal justice issues in the news. She spoke about the importance of hospice
care for offenders in prison. Staci Strobl (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice
Administration) was one of the podcast interviewers. On February 8, Kimora presented a
paper at the Southern Rural Sociological Association annual conference in Orlando, FL.
Her paper, “The Relevance of the ‘N’ Word in Rural American Society,” was part of a
session on “Emancipatory Pedagogy: Structural and Cultural.”
Dorothy Moses Schulz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was
the keynote speaker, at the Atlantic Women In Law Enforcement conference, held in
Stellerton, Nova Scotia, on October 21.
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Edward Snajdr (Anthropology) recently published "Two Landscapes: Comparing
Ecology Movements in Slovakia and Hungary" in the journal Hungarian Studies. The
article examines the political, cultural and social differences between Hungarian and
Slovak environmental activism during and after the Communist period.
Joshua C. Wilson (Political Science) had his most recent article, “It Takes All Kinds:
Observations From an Event-Centered Approach to Cause Lawyering,” published in
Studies in Law, Politics, & Society, Vol 50 (2009), edited by Austin Sarat.
Klaus von Lampe (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had a
paper on cigarette counterfeiting in China, co-authored with Anqi Shen and Georgios
Antonopoulos of Teesside University in England, accepted for publication in the British
Journal of Criminology.
Dorothy Moses Schulz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) has
published her article “Women Special Agents in Charge: The First Generation” in
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management.
Jacques Fomerand (Political Science) is the author of “The A to Z of the United
Nations,” a reference work on the organization published by The Scarecrow Press.
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Zelma Henriques (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was
honored with the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences (ACJS). The award was presented at a ceremony and reception on February 26
during the annual ACJS conference in San Diego, CA.
Klaus von Lampe (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was
recently re-elected for a two-year term as Executive Director of the International
Association for the Study of Organized Crime. He also served as a facilitator at a work
group meeting on international organized crime convened by the National Institute of
Justice in Washington DC, on January 28 – 29.
(Published in @John Jay on November 9, 2009)
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Michael Pfeifer (History) presented a paper, "Racial and Class Frontiers: Vigilantism
and Criminal Justice in the Late Antebellum United States," at the Western History
Association Conference in Denver on October 9.
Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) co-produced “Erotik Politik
Cabaret: A Sexual and Political Romp” at The Living Theatre in Manhattan on October
25. The production was a series of readings and performance pieces written by Pflanzer
and others.
Thomas A. Kubic (Sciences) was an invited speaker at the Trace Evidence Symposium
sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and FBI in Clearwater Beach, FL, August
2-7. His lecture on “Examination of a 13-Year-Old Crime Scene for a War Crimes Trial,
or Is it Ever Too Late to Examine a Crime Scene?” dealt with murders that took place in
Rwanda in mid-1990s. Also at the symposium, John A. Reffner (Sciences) presented a
poster concerning his research, conducted with graduate students Vanessa Martinez and
Brooke Weinger, on the “Application of Diamond Internal Reflection Infrared
Microscopical Analysis of Mineral and Glass Trace Evidence.” Nicholas Petraco Jr.
(Sciences) presented a poster on “The Statistical Significance of the Aggregate Trace
Evidence Found in Dust Specimens.” Dale Purcell and Rebecca Bucht, doctoral
students in forensic science who are both laboratory instructors at John Jay, also
presented posters on their research.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) delivered a talk titled
"How Is the Criminal Justice System Impacting our Community?" at Reality House, Inc.,
on September 24. Reality House assists individuals, families, veterans and communities
in leading productive lives during the re-entry process.
John Matteson (English) was the guest of honor and featured speaker at an October 9
fundraising luncheon at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT. Here he poses
with fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning biographers Debby Applegate (left) and Joan D.
Hedrick, who introduced Matteson at the gathering.
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Jeremy Travis (President) and Anna Crayton (Prisoner Reentry Institute) co-authored
an article “Offender Reentry” that appears in 21st Century Criminology: A Reference
Handbook, Vol.2 (Sage Publications, 2009), edited by J. Mitchell Miller.
Peter Manuel (Art & Music) recently published three books: Creolizing Contradance in
the Caribbean (an edited volume), The Reggae Scene: The People, the Image, the Music
(a co-authored children's book), and Chowtal Rang Bahar: A Treasury of Chowtal Songs
from India and the Caribbean (a co-edited anthology of Indo-Caribbean folksongs). His
1988 book Popular Musics of the Non-Western World, earlier translated into Japanese,
was recently translated and published in Korean. He is currently working on a video
documentary on Indo-Caribbean music.
Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration) published an
article, “From Amsterdam, Lessons on Controlling Drugs — If It's On the Shelves, It's
Off the Streets,” in the October 25 Washington Post Sunday Magazine. His article
“Angels in Blue: The Virtues of Foot Patrol” appeared in the September/October 2009
issue of The American Interest.
Jodie G. Roure (Latin American/Latina/o Studies) had her book chapter “The NCLB,
Race, Ethnicity, Class and Diversity: Creating a High School to Law/Graduate School
Pipeline for Underrepresented Students” published in Our Promise: Achieving
Educational Equity for America’s Children (Carolina Academic Press, 2009), edited by
Maurice Dyson.
Dorothy Moses Schulz (Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration),
working with Dr. Rita Wirrer of the Unit for International Police Cooperation in
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, has created a bibliography of items pertaining to women
in policing around the world that may be downloaded from the Police Futurists
International Web site, (www.policefuturists.org). The items include books and articles
written in English, French, German and Dutch.
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Roberta Belli (Sociology), an adjunct faculty member and a student in the John
Jay/CUNY doctoral program in criminal justice, received a National Institute of Justice
graduate research fellowship for her dissertation on “Where Terrorists, Far-Right
Extremists and Greedy Criminals Meet: A Comparative Study of Financial Crimes in the
U.S. The award was one of only six given out this year, and the first federal dissertation
award won by a criminal justice PhD student in the 45-year history of the program.
Jock Young (Sociology) has been named winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book
Award presented by the American Society of Criminology’s Division of International
Criminology. He was cited for Cultural Criminology: An Invitation (London Sage, 2008),
which he co-authored with Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward.
(Published in @John Jay on October 28, 2009)
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Ellen Sexton (Library) and Mark McBeth (English) co-presented at the Georgia
Conference on Information Literacy in Savannah, GA on September 26. Their talk,
"Justice (through Literacy) for All: Library/English Collaboration & Faculty
Development," described the John Jay Subway Series and how that college literacy
initiative subsequently promoted faculty development workshops on Writing Across the
Curriculum and information literacy.
Margaret Wallace (Sciences) gave a presentation titled “DNA New Frontiers:
Identification of Non-Human Biological Material-Botanicals, Bugs & Bacteria” on
September 23 at a DNA Symposium sponsored by the New York City Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner, Department of Forensic Biology.
Robert McCrie (Protection Management) was the presenter and seminar leader for
"Reinventing the Prison: Linking the Prison to the Community for Lower Recidivism," as
part of a conference held at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland September 2122. The event, aimed at prison governors and public policy advisors, was sponsored by
the university's School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies.
Mark McBeth (English) presented on a panel "Who's Telling the Truth? Revisiting an
Interrogation of an Accused Child Abuser" on July 7 at the International Association of
Forensic Linguists Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law. Also
in July, McBeth presented "An Alternative to the Common Reading — The Common
Denominator: Riding the Subway to Inquiry" at the Writing Program Administrators
Conference in Minneapolis, MN. He received a Special Recognition Award at the
conference for his article "Memoranda of Fragile Machinery: A Portrait of Shaughnessy
as Intellectual-Bureaucrat," which was published in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of the
Journal of Writing Program Administration.
Staci Strobl (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) recently met
with police officials in Novo Mesto, Slovenia, to discuss forthcoming research on
policing Roma (gypsy) populations there. The meeting, which has been featured on the
Slovenian police Web site, focused on research that Stroble will commence this
November in collaboration with Maki Haberfeld (Law, Police Science and Criminal
Justice Administration), along with a John Jay graduate student and a colleague at the
University of Maribor, Slovenia.
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Larry Sullivan (Library) is the editor-in-chief of the recently published The Sage
Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Sage Publications, 2009), the first such
historical and comparative study of some 2,200 concepts in nine different social and
behavioral science disciplines. Professors Karen Terry (Criminal Justice) and Cynthia
Mercado (Psychology) were among the associate editors of the volume.
Serena Nanda (Anthropology, emeritus) is the author of an anthropological murder
mystery, A Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder, published
recently by Altamira/Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. The mystery, set in an Indian
immigrant community in New York City, explores gender inequality, violence against
women and immigrant adaptation to American life.
Elise Champeil (Sciences), Gloria Proni (Sciences) and Danielle Sapse (Law, Police
Science and Criminal Justice Administration) have had their paper “Ab Initio Studies of
Receptor Interactions with AMPA and Kainic Acid” published in the September 2009
issue of the Journal of Molecular Modeling. The article discusses the possible impact on
forensic psychology of mutations in the receptors.
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Nicholas Petraco, Peter Diaczuk, Thomas Kubic, Dale Purcell and Brooke Weinger
(Sciences) and Peter Shenkin (Mathematics) have been awarded $700,000 by the
National Institute of Justice to carry out research on the application of Machine Learning
and Statistical Pattern Recognition to toolmarks. Their research is aimed at addressing
many of the issues raised in the recent National Academy of Sciences report on the
foundations of the forensic sciences.
Meghan Duffy (Center for the Advancement of Teaching) has received a $250,000 grant
from the U.S. Department of Education for her project: “Reading More and Reading
More Effectively: The Outcomes of Renting Customized Kindle E-Readers to Increase
Undergraduate Students’ Access to Course Materials.”
(Published in @John Jay on October 7, 2009)
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Katie Gentile (Counseling/Women's Center) presented a paper on "Coming to Life," an
integration of postcolonial, feminist and psychoanalytic theories in the treatment of incest
survivors, on June 26 at the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and
Psychotherapy's annual convention in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was also selected to co-chair
the association's biannual online colloquium.
Melinda Powers (English) was selected to participate in a National Endowment for the
Humanities grant titled Page and Stage: Theater, Tradition and Culture in America. The
grant unites the resources of the Aquila Theatre Company (a professional company-inresidence at New York University's Center for Ancient Studies), the Urban Libraries
Council, the American Philological Association and the NYU Center for Ancient Studies
in a new program. Through this program, 16 public libraries together with their local
performing arts centers will inspire people to come together to read, see and think about
classical literature and how it influences and invigorates American cultural life.
R. Terry Furst (Anthropology) delivered a paper on August 8 at the 59th meeting of the
Society for the Study of Social Problems in San Francisco, titled “The Transformation of
Drug Markets and Its Impact on HIV Outreach to Injection Drug Users in New York
City, 1987-2008.”
Keith A. Markus (Psychology) presented a paper titled "Bubble Plots as a Model-Free
Graphical Tool for Three Continuous Variables and a Flexible R Function to Plot Them"
co-authored by Wen Gu, a graduate student at John Jay, in June at a conference at
Fordham University. Also in June, at the 2009 International Meeting of the Psychometric
Society at Saint John's College of Cambridge University, Markus presented a paper titled
“How Can Validity Come in Degrees?” In August, Markus presented a paper titled “All
Methods Are Mixed Methods” as part of a symposium on mixing quantitative and
qualitative methods at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association
in Toronto. The paper reflected work completed as part of a larger collaborative project
with Professor Chitra Raghavan (Psychology) and Daphne Ha, a recent John Jay
graduate student.
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Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had her
article “NAS Roundtable: How Scientific Is Forensic Science?” published in the August
2009 issue of The Champion. The article was cowritten with William C. Thompson and
Michael Burt. In August, Schwartz was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Ohio
Public Defender Wrongful Conviction Project.
Agnes Wieschenberg (Mathematics and Computer Science) had her book Coffeehouse
Mathematics in Early Twentieth Century Europe published by Linus Publications. The
book was released shortly after her death on August 22.
Michael Christian (English) will have his new book Write Like the Masters published in
October 2009 by Writer's Digest under his pen name, William Cane.
Jim Cohen (Public Management) recently concluded a one-year sabbatical during which
he completed three manuscripts. “Divergent Paths, United States and France: Capital
Markets, the State, and Differentiation in Transport Systems, 1840-1940” was published
in the September 2009 issue of Enterprise and Society: International Journal of Business
History. In October, the French Ministry of Finance will publish Cohen’s book chapter,
“Une Histoire Comparative des Systèmes de Transport aux États-Unis et en France, 1830
à la Grand Crise.” Cohen’s article “Private Capital, Public Credit and the Decline of Rail
in the United States in the Mid-20th Century” was accepted for publication in 2010 by
the British Journal of Transport History. Cohen also presented a paper in June in Milan,
Italy, at the conference of the European Association of Business History. That paper, on
cultural factors affecting the elusiveness of certain French archival sources, is published
in Business and Economic History Online.
Jodie G. Roure (Latin American and Latina/o Studies) had her article titled “Domestic
Violence in Brazil: Examining Obstacles and Approaches to Promote Legislative
Reform” accepted for publication in the fall 2009 issue of Columbia Human Rights Law
Review.
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Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was appointed to the
Board of Directors for Reality House Inc., a New York drug rehabilitation center. She
will also chair the center’s Academic Advising Committee.
(Published in @John Jay on September 16, 2009)
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Patricia Tovar (Anthropology) presented a paper on “The Things We Do for Love:
Narratives of Women and War in Colombia” at the Latin American Studies Association
meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12.
Marie Umeh (English) chaired the panel, “Life is Short and Wide: Memoir and
Biography in the Diaspora,” and presented a chapter from her biography of Flora Nwapa
on July 18 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. The
program was televised on C-SPAN/Book TV. Umeh also presented a paper, “How Flora
Nwakuche Eliminated Poverty, Created Wealth, and Empowered the People after the
Nigerian Civil War,” on August 6 at the Fourth Women in Africa and the African
Diaspora International Conference in Abuja, Nigeria.
Nathan Lents (Sciences) presented a talk on June 18 titled, “Video Lectures and Online
Office Hours: Teaching Biology through the Internet,” at the Sloan-Consortium
Symposium on Emerging Technology for Online Learning, in San Francisco, CA. On
June 22, Lents presented a talk on “Teaching the Process of Science in Evolution,
Phylogenetics, and Natural Selection,” at the quadrennial conference of the National
Association of Paleontology in Cincinnati, OH.
Eugene O’Donnell (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) appeared
in the documentary, “Shouting Fire: Dispatches from the Edge of Free Speech,” shown
on HBO in July, in which he discussed police handling of the 2004 Republican National
Convention. The film was also shown earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
Michael Pfeifer (History) presented a paper, “Vigilantes, Criminal Justice and
Antebellum Cultural Conflict,” at the annual conference of the Society for Historians of
the American Republic, held in Springfield, IL, on July 19.
Dorothy Moses Schulz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was
the keynote speaker at the Florida Police Chiefs Association’s annual summer training
conference in June. She was also the keynote speaker at the Women in Public Safety
Communications Leadership Symposium, held in May by the Association of Public
Safety Communications Officials in Orlando, FL.
Effie Cochran (English) followed up on teaching a month-long study abroad course
in Thessaloniki, Greece, by moderating a panel at a conference on “Human Rights
Learning as Peace Education: Pursuing Democracy in a Time of Crisis,” held from July
26 to August 2 in Budapest, Hungary
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Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had her article “A
“Map through the Maze: Achieving Five Years of Arrest-Free Behavior,” accepted for
the January/February 2010 issue of Insights, a publication of the Offender Preparation &
Education Network Inc.
Daniel Pinello (Political Science) published his article, “Location, Location, Location:
Same-Sex Relationship Rights by State,” in the September 2009 edition of the American
Bar Association’s The Young Lawyer.
John Staines (English) had his new book The Tragic Histories of Mary Queen of Scots
1560-1690: Rhetoric, Passions, and Political Literature published by Ashgate Publishing
in May. His essay “Radical Pity: Responding to Spectacles of Violence in King Lear”
appeared in the volume Staging Pain, 1580-1800: Violence and Trauma in British
Theater, also published this summer by Ashgate.
Dorothy Moses Schulz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration)
recently authored Becoming a Police Officer (New York: Learning Express), aimed at
high school and college students who are interested in police careers. She also
contributed to the Encyclopedia of Race & Crime (Sage Reference, 2009), with entries on
Lee P. Brown, Ella Bully-Cummings, The Guardians, Beverly Harvard and Benjamin
Ward.
Patrick Collins (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) has had his
book Negotiate to Win (Sterling Publishing, 2009) translated into Portuguese in Brazil by
Elsevier.
Andrew Majeske (English) published an article in the journal Law and Literature this
summer titled “Equity's Absence: The Extremity of Claudio's Prosecution and
Bernardine's Pardon in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.”
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Erin Ackerman (Political Science), Tim McCormack (English), Dara Byrne
(Communication and Theater Arts) and Ros Myers (Sociology) were selected to
participate in CUNY’s highly competitive 2009-2010 University Seminar on Teaching
and Learning in Undergraduate Education. Of 70 applications to the program, 15 faculty
members were chosen, including the four from John Jay — the most of any college.
(Published in @John Jay on August 26, 2009)
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Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) delivered a talk on
“How Addicts Can Develop Character” to patients at the Addiction Institute of New York
at Roosevelt Hospital on July 20. She addressed the importance of integrating aspects of
critical thinking as a means of positive reintegration into society after drug treatment.
Ann A. Huse (English) presented a talk on “Monmouth County Sites in Philip Freneau's
Poetry” to the Atlantic Highlands Historical Society in New Jersey on May 20.
Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) presented a lecture with video
clips, "Jerzy Grotowski, Judith Malina and The Living Theatre and Alternative Theatre in
the U.S." under the auspices of The Theatre of the 8th Day as part of the Malta
International Theatre Festival in Poznan, Poland, on June 25.
Ellen Scrivner (John Jay Leadership Academy) moderated a panel on "Information
Sharing Across Federal, State and Local Levels" at Attorney General Eric Holder's Law
Enforcement Summit in Washington, DC, on April 20.
Lorie Nicholas (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) delivered a
presentation on prisoner re-entry at the "Safe in Our Brothers' Arms": Black Male Mental
Health and Wellness Symposium held at John Jay on May 1. The event was hosted by the
New York Association of Black Psychologists.
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Michael Pfeifer (History) published an article, "The Origins of Postbellum Lynching:
Collective Violence in Reconstruction Louisiana," in the Spring 2009 issue of the journal
Louisiana History.
Andrew Majeske (English) had his new book Justice, Women, and Power in English
Renaissance Drama published in June by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. The
edited collection includes Majeske’s essay "Striking a Deal: Portia's Trial Strategy in
Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice."
Nivedita Majumdar (English) had her edited book The Other Side of Terror: Writings
on Terrorism in South Asia published by Oxford University Press earlier this year.
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David Green (Sociology) attended the British Society of Criminology conference in
Cardiff, Wales, in late June, where he received the society's 2009 Book Prize for When
Children Kill Children: Penal Populism and Political Culture.
Jane Katz (Health and Physical Education) recently competed with the USA Masters
Swim Team at the 18th World Maccabiah Games in Israel, wehre she won 10 first-place
gold medals and three silver medals. Katz, who has participated in the Maccabiah Games
since 1957, had the opportunity to meet Olympic gold medalist Jason Lezak, who lit the
torch at Ramat Gan Stadium to open the Maccabiah Games.
Diana Friedland (Sciences) was awarded a three-year, $415,665 National Science
Foundation research grant for her proposal "Pokeweed Antiviral Protein selection of
mRNA; Effects of mRNA structure and initiation factors." The research, funded by the
NSF’s Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, Genes and Genome Systems, is
aimed at increasing the understanding of viral infections and how they affect protein
synthesis, potentially leading to new anti-viral approaches.
Paul Brenner (Audiovisual Services) was elected as a member of the Online Film Critics
Society.
(Published in @John Jay on May 13, 2009)
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Benjamin Lapidus (Art and Music) performed his recent work Herencia Judía on March
29 at the Eldridge Street Museum in Manhattan. On April 4, he performed with his Latin
jazz band Sonido Isleño at the Bronx Library Center.
Ellen Belcher (Library) was a panelist on the Feminist Archaeologist Panel at the
Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on March 14. The
panel was presented in conjunction with the Fertile Goddess in the Herstory Gallery, an
exhibit that runs through May 31, for which Belcher was a consultant.
Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) spoke on the
Baltimore Ghetto at the Yale University Urban Ethnography Project Mini-Conference,
"The Urban Ghetto: Then and Now," during the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual
meeting in Baltimore, MD, on March 20.
Bettina Carbonell (English) presented a paper on “Bearing Witness in Twenty-First
Century Museum Practice” at the Curating Difficult Knowledge conference held April
16-18 at Concordia University in Montreal.
M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos (Government) presented "Back to the Future: Accountability for
Past Abuses in Consolidated Democracies" at the New York State Political Science
Association Conference, which took place at John Jay on April 24-25. She also chaired
the panel on Current Issues of International Relations
Martin Wallenstein (Communication and Theatre Arts) presented two papers at the
centennial meeting of the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) from April 22-26
in Philadelphia. The first, titled “Freedom of Speech 1909-1919: The Dark Decade,” was
an invited paper. The second, “The Big Chill: First Amendment and the War on Terror,”
was peer-reviewed and received an award as Top Paper in Communication Law and
Ethics. Wallenstein was also elected chairperson of the ECA Communication Law and
Ethics Interest Group.
John Staines (English) gave a paper on “Violence and Generic Experiment in Thomas
Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller” at the meeting of the Renaissance Society of
America in Los Angeles on March 21. He also attended the Shakespeare Society of
America conference in Washington, DC, where on April 11 he presented a paper on
religious controversial prose of the 1590s, “Comic Violence” and “Martin’s Reforming
Word in the Marprelate Tracts."
Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had a staged reading of his play
Living with History: Camus Sartre De Beauvoir presented May 5 and 6 at the Medicine
Show Theatre in Manhattan.
Stephen Handelman (Center on Media, Crime and Justice) delivered a talk on "How do
Organized Criminals Hijack State Activities?" at a special seminar on organized crime
and corruption hosted by the RAND Corporation in Arlington, VA, on May 1.
Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) made a
Continuing Legal Education presentation, “Biting the Bullet: Challenging Firearms
Evidence,” as part of the Fifth Annual Indigent Criminal Defense Seminar: Advanced
Skills for the Experienced Practitioner, sponsored by the Supreme Court of Virginia and
the Virginia State Bar, in Richmond, VA, on April 3.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) recently spoke to a
group of female inmates who are enrolled in the Going Out by Going In prisoner reentry
program at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles. In addition, she
spoke to 35 at-risk youth in the Vital Intervention Directional Alternative program at the
Lennox Station campus in Watts.
Delores Jones-Brown (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) served
on a panel titled “Prosecutorial Discretion: From Mistake to Misconduct,” sponsored by
the Diversity Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Other invited talks
include “Police Brutality: In the 10 Years Since the Death of Amadou Diallo” for the
Women’s City Club of New York, and a presentation at the Russell Sage Foundation for
the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity.
Between the Covers
David Kennedy (Criminal Justice) has had his article “Drugs, Race and Common
Ground: Reflections on the High Point Intervention” published in the March 2009 issue
of NIJ Journal, a publication of the National Institute of Justice.
Kathleen Collins (Library) had her new book, Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of
Television Cooking Shows, published this month by Continuum.
Diana E. Friedland (Sciences) has published a manuscript in the February 2009 issue of
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Genes and Regulatory Mechanisms. The title of the paper
is “Characterization of pokeweed antiviral protein binding to mRNA cap analogs:
Competition with nucleotides and enhancement by translation initiation factor
iso4G.” Friedland presented this work with student researchers from John Jay and Pace
University.
Andrew Karmen (Sociology) had the seventh edition of his book Crime Victims: An
Introduction To Victimology, published recently by Wadsworth/Cengage. The original
edition, published in 1984, was the first and only comprehensive textbook in the
victimology field at that time.
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Robert McCrie (Protection Management) received the Eugene R. Fink Memorial Award
from the Associated Licensed Detectives of the State of New York at the group’s annual
banquet in New York.
Isabelle Curro (Security) received one of the New York State Bar Association’s
President’s Pro Bono Service Awards on May 1, in recognition of her work in promoting
pro bono service as a path to achieving equal access to justice.
Jane Katz (Health and Physical Education) competed in the recent Albatross Open
masters’ swim meet held in North Bethesda, MD, by the Montgomery Ancient Mariners.
She won the 50-meter, 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke events, setting a new meet
record in the 100-meter race.
Roddrick Colvin (Public Management) was recently elected as the incoming President
of the New York State Political Science Association.
(Published in @John Jay on April 1, 2009)
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John Matteson (English) is one of the judges of the 2009 Dashiell Hammett Prize,
awarded annually for literary excellence in crime writing. Matteson also accepted an
invitation to give the Class Day address at the Columbia University School of General
Studies in May.
Presenting…
Betsy Hegeman (Anthropology) presented "Culture-Bound Syndromes and Diagnosis"
to the Grand Rounds of Upstate Medical School Departments of Psychiatry and
Psychology in Syracuse, NY, on March 26. She also met with the Psychoanalytic Study
Group of Syracuse and presented "MPD and Spirit Possession: the Influence of Culture."
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) presented a paper on
"Methamphetamine Abuse and Treatment in Rural America" at the 2009 annual meeting
of the Southern Rural Sociological Association in Atlanta, GA, on January 31-February
3.
Kwando M. Kinshasa (African American Studies) was invited to Saginaw Valley State
University in Michigan from February 16-19 as their 2009 King-Chavez-Parks
Visiting Scholar. As the visiting scholar, Kinshasa gave lectures on African American
history, criminal justice, global migration policies, sociology and social policy. He
also presented a paper titled "History and One's Sociological Memory: A Contemporary
Interactive Perspective," in which he revisited and discussed the sociological and
economic implications of the 1955-1956 Montgomery, AL, Bus Boycott.
Michael Pfeifer (History) served as commentator on a panel titled "Race, the Courts, and
Public Spectacle in Louisiana" at the annual meeting of the Louisiana Historical
Association in Monroe, LA, on March 19.
Klaus von Lampe (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was an
invited speaker at the 12th European Police Congress in Berlin on February 11. He spoke
on "The European Dimensions of Organized Crime: Some Remarks from a
Criminological Perspective."
M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos (Government) presented a paper on the “UDHR and the
Millennium Developmental Goals: Making the Three Generations of Rights a Reality”
and was the discussant on a panel on Transitional Justice at the International Studies
Association annual convention in New York from February 15-18.
Jon-Christian Suggs (English, emeritus) gave the keynote lecture, "Imperium in
Imperio: Double Consciousness, Double Citizenship and the Promise of the Obama
Presidency," for African-American History Month at Salisbury University in Salisbury,
MD, on February 10. In April he will present a paper on race and "love" in Melville's
"Billy Budd" at the American Society for Law, Culture, and the Humanities in Boston; in
May he will present two chapters of his novel-in-progress, "After Jubilee," at the
Working Group on Law and Slavery at the Gilder-Lehrman Center at Yale, and in June
he will present a paper on Hannah Elias and the murder of the man who invented New
York at the annual conference on New York State history.
Gloria Proni and Elise Champeil (Sciences) presented a paper titled “Assessment of
Students' Likeability of the ‘Clicker’ and ‘Wiley Plus’ Technologies in Organic
Chemistry at the CUNY IT Conference on December 5, 2008.
Between the Covers
Gloria Proni (Sciences) will have her articles "CD-sensitive Zn-porphyrin tweezer hostguest complexes. Part 1: MC/OPLS-2005 computational approach for predicting
preferred interporphyrin helicity" and "CD-sensitive Zn-porphyrin tweezer host-guest
complexes. Part 2: cis- and trans-3-hydroxy-4-aryl/alkyl-beta-lactams. A case study"
published in a forthcoming issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Chirality.
Simon Baatz (History) is the author of the foreword to a new edition of Clarence
Darrow’s Crime: Its Cause and Treatment published in the Kaplan Classics of Law
series.
(Published in @John Jay on March 11, 2009)
Presenting
Miriam Ehrenberg (Psychology) gave an invited address at the annual conference of
Globalisation for the Common Good, held in Melbourne, Australia. Her paper, “Applying
Psychotherapy Techniques to Religious and Ethnic Conflict,” covered both western and
Islamic psychotherapy approaches and the implications of each for conflict resolution.
Jeremy Travis (President) was the keynote speaker at the Public Service Conference on
the Future of Community Justice in Wisconsin at Marquette Law School on February 20.
His remarks focused on “Building Communities with Justice: Overcoming the Tyranny
of the Funnel.”
George Andreopoulos (Government) delivered a series of lectures on "The Evolution of
International Human Rights Norms" at the University of Bologna in January. The lectures
were part of the university's graduate program in human rights and humanitarian
intervention.
Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was a panelist
at the New York Academy of Medicine’s “Harm Reduction” conference on January 23.
He was also a featured speaker at the annual conference of Students for Sensible Drug
Policy, held in College Park, MD, on November 23.
R. Terry Furst (Anthropology) presented “A Qualitative Exploration of Suboxone
Opioid Maintenance in a Harm Reduction Setting in New York City,” a paper cowritten
with Herman Joseph, and Sharon Stancliff, at the Columbia University Seminar Series in
New York in December. Furst was also one of the authors, along with Stancliff and
Joseph, of “Low Threshold Buprenorphine,” a paper presented by Stancliff at the 7th
National Harm Reduction Conference in Miami last November.
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Patrick Collins (Communication & Theatre Arts) had two books released in January by
Sterling Publishers, a Barnes and Noble imprint. Negotiate to Win! is a tactical guide to
achieving success in negotiations, and features a unique chapter on cross-cultural
negotiation. The second book, Speak with Power and Confidence, is an updated and
revised edition of Collins’ comprehensive guide to maximizing public speaking skills,
originally published in 1998. Both works attracted the attention of foreign publishers at
the Fall 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Joseph King (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published his
article "Policing after Peel: the Government Moves to Centralize” in the Turkish Journal
of Police Studies in 2008. His article “Police Problems: Labor Relations in the Early
Police Service of the United Kingdom” appeared in the January 2009 issue of Police
Forum, published by the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Alisse Waterston (Anthropology) has had two new edited volumes published: An
Anthropology of War: Views from the Frontline (Berghahn Books, 2009) and
Anthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing (Wiley Blackwell, 2009, Maria D.
Vesperi, co-editor). An Anthropology of War includes Waterston’s introduction, “On War
and Accountability.” Anthropology off the Shelf includes a chapter by Waterston titled
“Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories in Love, Sorrow and Rage.” Waterston
serves as chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Committee on the Future
of Print and Electronic Publishing to guide the digital transition of scholarly publishing.
In November, Waterston presented a talk at the association’s annual meeting on “The
Academy, the Market-State and the Dissemination of Anthropological Knowledge in the
Digital Age.”
Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had his book
review of Hugh Holton’s The Thin Black Line: True Stories by Black Law Enforcement
Officers Policing America’s Meanest Streets published in The Washington Post on
January 11.
(Published in @John Jay on February 18, 2009)
On Board
Ben Jorgensen (Physical Education and Athletics) was named as the College’s new head
men’s tennis coach. Jorgensen, who has been a tennis instructor for more than 15 years,
was the top singles player as a member of the men’s tennis team at New York University
in 1989 and 1990. He is also a working actor who has appeared in several films and
daytime soap operas.
Between the Covers
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) will have her article
titled "The Correctional Educator: A Nontraditional Occupation" published in the
May/June 2009 issue of Offender Programs Report, a publication from the Civic
Research Institute that is devoted to “innovative programs, management strategies and
legal developments in offender rehabilitation.”
Simon Baatz (History) had his book, For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder
that Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins), chosen as a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe
Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime Book in 2008. The award will be presented by the
Mystery Writers of America on April 30.
David Brotherton (Sociology) had his book Keeping Out the Other: A Critical
Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today (Columbia University Press) cited as
"Outstanding Academic Title for 2008" by Choice, the review magazine of the American
Library Association. Brotherton co-edited the book along with Philip Kretsedemas of the
University of Massachusetts.
Presenting…
Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) made a
Continuing Legal Education presentation on “Daubert Challenges to Firearms
Identification” on January 10 at the Fifth National Seminar on Forensic Science and the
Law, sponsored by the Office of Defender Services of the Administrative Office of the
U.S. Courts.
Ellen Belcher (Library) presented a paper titled “Is There a Halaf Bead and Pendant
Typology? A Look at the Evidence” at the Bead Technology Workshop hosted by the
British Museum in London, England, on January 12-13.
Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) conducted one-day clinics on “Swimming
for Total Fitness and Swim Basics” at the Jewish Community Center in Tucson, AZ, on
January 4 and The Club for Women, an all-women health club in Phoenix, on January 6.
M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos (Government) presented two papers, “Cooperation against
Transnational Crime: Lessons from the Balkans” and “International Courts and Conflict
Resolution: Toward a New Normative Framework, Social Justice and New Debates,” at
the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, held in New Orleans,
LA, in early January. She also chaired a panel on Domestic Implications of International
Law and served as a discussant on a panel on Pedagogy and Research.
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Staci Strobl (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) is one of the
finalists for the Richard J. Terrill Paper of the Year Award to be presented in March by
the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Strobl was nominated for her paper “The
Women's Police Directorate in Bahrain,” which appeared in the International Criminal
Justice Review Journal.
Nishan Parlakian (Communication and Theatre Arts, emeritus) received the St. Vartan
Award from the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), for his lifelong
achievements in the performing arts. Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the
Diocese said, “It is through individuals like [Parlakian] that the future of Armenian
theater will remain vibrant among the next generation of Armenian Americans.”
(Published in @John Jay on January 28, 2009)
Between the Covers
Simon Baatz (History) had his book, For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder
that Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins) chosen by USA Today as one of its 10 Best Books
for 2008. Jonathan Yardley, the book critic for The Washington Post, chose For the Thrill
of It as one of the Top 15 Books for 2008, and R.V. Scheide of The Sacramento News &
Review selected Baatz’s book as one of the year’s Best 55 Books.
Jock Young (Sociology) had his new book, Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, written
with Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward, published by Sage. The book was launched in
November at the American Society of Criminology meeting in St. Louis.
Jill Stauffer (Philosophy), who is currently on fellowship in residence at the Graduate
Center, had her new book, Nietzsche and Levinas: “After the Death of a Certain God,”
published by Columbia University Press. The volume was co-edited with Bettina Bergo.
Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) had her article “Joint-Friendly Water
Workout” in the October/November 2008 issue of Arthritis Health Monitor. Her article
on “The Healthy Swimmer” appeared in the November/December issue of USMS
Swimmer magazine.
Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published
Parts 1 and 2 of her article “Challenging Firearms and Toolmark Identification” in the
October and November/December issues of The Champion, the journal of the National
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Part 1 was the cover story in the October
issue. The articles are also scheduled to be reprinted in The California Defender.
Presenting…
Michael Pfeifer (History) presented a paper titled “The Midwestern Making of Racial
Lynching: The Lynching of African-Americans in the Civil War and Reconstruction” at
the American Historical Association meeting in New York City on January 3. Pfeifer
previously presented a paper, "Lynching, Law, and Sectional Identity in the Antebellum
Border States,” on October 25 in Louisville, KY, at the Filson Institute Academic
Conference on Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
Jock Young (Sociology) gave a series of six lectures during a recent visit to Argentina.
He was the introductory plenary speaker at the international seminar on “Rethinking the
Role of the State in Crime Prevention,” hosted by the Federal Secretariat of Public
Safety. He addressed the Social Cabinet of the Province of Santa Fe on policies of social
inclusion in the field of crime control; spoke at the Universities of Buenos Aires and
Rosario on his recent book The Vertigo of Late Modernity; and presented his research on
multiagency crime prevention to the UN Development Program on local initiatives in this
area. While there, he also had productive meetings with the National Director of Criminal
Policy and the director of the UN program regarding future research on crime and social
exclusion.
Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) presented a talk on “Health and Exercise
Through the Holidays” on December 17 as part of the David Rogers Health Policy
Colloquium at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had readings of his plays UFO
Story and The Flowers Sing: Strindberg’s Dream performed by the Living Theatre in
Manhattan on December 2.
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Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was appointed to the
board of directors of OPEN Inc. (Offender Preparation & Education Network, Inc.), a
correctional service agency founded in Dallas, TX, in 1979. “We are thrilled Dr. Kimora
has agreed to serve on our board,” said the organization’s executive director, Ned Rollo.
“She brings a national and academic perspective to us.”
Duane Green (Facilities Management) won the heavyweight title in the biennial
Tournament of Champions amateur boxing competition held at Nassau Coliseum in
December. Green, who trains at the Young Boxing Association (YBA) gym in the Bronx,
chalked up two technical knockouts and one decision en route to the championship. In the
first round, he scored a TKO over the fighter who had defeated him for the title two years
ago.
(Published in @John Jay on December 10, 2008)
On Board
Michelle Rahmeh (Physical Education and Athletics) was named as the College’s new
head athletic trainer. Rahmeh, a New Jersey native who holds bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from the University of Akron, brings to the position a diverse résumé in the fields
of health, health education and physical therapy.
Presenting…
Elizabeth Hegeman (Anthropology) spoke at the American Red Cross on November 13
on "Post-Traumatic Growth: Organizational and Individual Perspectives." She addressed
the issues of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction for mental health workers
facing disaster.
Simon Baatz (History) gave the annual Lawrence J. Gutter Literary Lecture at North
Shore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, IL, in November.
Anissa Hélie (History) was recently invited by the University of the Philippines, in
Manila, to lecture on issues of religious fundamentalism and present research undertaken
by the group Women Living Under Muslim Laws. The lecture, “The Great Ancestors:
Women Asserting Rights in Muslim Contexts,” highlighted the lives and deeds of women
throughout history who have promoted gender equality in diverse Muslim countries and
communities, including the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Muslim Spain, India, Pakistan,
Algeria, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia, Nigeria and Indonesia.
Stephen Handelman (Center on Media, Crime and Justice) appeared on the CUNY TV
“Independent Sources” program on December 3, where he discussed the New York City
Police Department’s press accreditation policies. In October, Handelman delivered a talk
on U.S. media and criminal justice issues to a group of more than 100 army, police and
security officials from Latin America and the Caribbean — this year’s class of the InterAmerican Defense College — at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in New
York.
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Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) authored an article
titled “T he Bard Prison Initiative: Excellent Example of Empowering Education behind
the Walls that Needs to Be Replicated,” which will appear in the January/February 2009
issue of Offender Programs Report, a publication from the Civic Research Institute.
Kimora’s book Prison: Getting Out by Going In (Instructor's Manual) will be published
in December 2008. She wrote the book to provide a teaching tool for correctional
educators who work with offenders at the Century Detention Center in Lynwood, CA.
Monica Varsanyi (Government) published a paper in the December 2008 issue of the
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, the flagship journal in the academic
field of geography. Her paper, “Rescaling the ‘Alien,’ Rescaling Personhood:
Neoliberalism, Immigration and the State,” was the lead article in the journal’s human
geography subsection.
Eugene O’Donnell (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published
a commentary, “Shot in the Dark: Why Was Crime Overlooked in This Campaign,” in
the November 3 issue of Newsweek magazine. The article, which appeared just before
the recent presidential election, said “it would be a crime” for the next President not to
make criminal justice matters a priority.
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Isabelle Curro (Security) was named winner of the 2009 Commitment to Justice Award
for Outstanding Solo Practitioner by inMotion, an organization that provides low-income
women with free legal services in matrimonial, family and immigration law. Curro, an
attorney, was cited for her “commitment to pro bono legal services.” The award will be
formally presented at a gala in early February.
(Published in @John Jay on November 19, 2008)
On Board
Diane Ramirez (Physical Education and Athletics) was named head coach of women’s
basketball and equipment manager. Ramirez is a 2007 graduate of Baruch College, where
she served as assistant women’s basketball coach for the past two seasons, and played for
three seasons prior to that.
Between the Covers
Wanda Fernandopulle (Career Development) had her biography of Richard Allen, one
of the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, published in a first-time,
eight-volume print edition of the African American National Biography (AANB). The
AANB, published by the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and the Oxford
University Press, is the largest collective biography of African Americans ever produced
and is already recognized as the standard in the field.
Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had a review/commentary,
“Existential Affairs,” a look at Edward and Kate Fullbrook’s book Sex and Philosophy:
Rethinking De Beauvoir and Sartre, published in the October 2008 CUNY Graduate
Center Advocate. His review of Robert Roth’s book Health Proxy was published in the
volume Cultural Logic 2007. In addition, two of his poems recently appeared in the
literary magazine And Then.
Presenting…
George Andreopoulos (Government) presented a paper on “The Regulation of Corporate
Activities Under Human Rights Treaties” at the annual conference of the International
Academy of Business and Economics in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 19-22. The paper
was co-authored with Giuliana Campanelli and Alexandros Panayides of William
Paterson University.
Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) presented “
‘I Know It When I See It’ and Criminalistics” at the annual meeting of the Northeastern
Association of Forensic Scientists meeting on October 3, during a general session on
“Debating the Forensic Science in Forensic Science.” On October 23, Schwartz made a
Continuing Legal Education presentation on “Firearms & Tool Marks” at the Texas
Criminal Defense Lawyers Association’s annual forensics seminar in Dallas, TX.
Roy Perham (Psychology) presented a workshop, “A Two-Stage Assessment Center that
Brought ALL Employees to a Higher Level of Performance,” at the 34th International
Congress on Assessment Center Methods in Washington, DC, on September 24.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) addressed a group of
students from the High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry at the Martin Luther
King, Jr. Educational Campus about self-esteem enhancement and choosing an academic
career over criminal activity on October 15.
Peer Review
Miriam Ehrenberg (Psychology), in her role as executive director of the Institute for
Human Identity (a nonprofit psychotherapy center in Manhattan), was awarded a grant
from the New York State Department of Health for Family Q, a five-year innovative
program that offers free workshops to gay and lesbian parents and prospective parents on
the emotional issues involved in alternate family building. The grant also provides
counseling training for selected interns on the special issues such parents face in raising
families. (Students who might be interested in applying for the program should visit
www.ihi-therapycenter.org/familyq and contact Professor Ehrenberg.)
(Published in @John Jay on October 29, 2008)
Presenting…
M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos (Government) presented a paper, “On the Effectiveness of
International Tribunals (ICTY and ICTR),” at the American Political Science
Association’s annual meeting in Boston, MA, August 28-31. She also presented two
papers — “Investing in Renewable Energies: Are Some Third-Generation Human Rights
More than Wishful Thinking?” and “Accountability for Disappearances: The Role of
Regional Courts” — at the annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of
Law in Milan-Como, Italy, in July.
Rosemary Barberet (Sociology) and Andrés Rengifo, a graduate of the PhD program in
criminal justice and currently an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-St.
Louis, were part of a Commission of Independent Experts selected by the Colombian
statistics agency, DANE, to evaluate crime statistics produced by the National Police of
Colombia, from September 15-19.
Between the Covers
Simon Baatz (History) wrote “Criminal Minds” for the August 2008 issue of
Smithsonian magazine. The article is an excerpt of his book For the Thrill of It: Leopold,
Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago.
Mangai Natarajan (Sociology) had her newest book, Women Police in a Changing
Society: Back Door to Equality, published by Ashgate Publishing in September 2008.
The book focuses on a unique and highly successful experiment begun in Tamil Nadu,
India, in 1992, in which all-female police units were established as a way of enhancing
the confidence and professionalism of woman officers.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was named
contributing editor of Getting Out by Going In (GOGI), a monthly newsletter published
by a nonprofit organization of the same name. GOGI educates federal, state and juvenile
offenders in California and Arizona. In addition, Professor Kimora wrote the foreword
for Mara Leigh Taylor's book Women in Prison: Women Finding Freedom. In May,
Kimora visited female inmates at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood,
CA, where she spoke about the importance of the GOGI program.
Lori L. Martin (African-American Studies) had several publications in 2008 including
an article titled “Cashing in on the American Dream,” which examined racial differences
in housing values over the past few decades. The article appeared in the journal Housing,
Theory and Society. Martin also co-authored an article with Hayward Derrick Horton,
“Critical Demography and the Measurement of Racism,” as well as a book, Non-Married
Women and Asset Ownership that explores differences in the types and levels of assets
owned by non-married black and white women.
Margaret Wallace (Sciences) recently published “Forensic Science: The Interface
between Science and the Law” in the Korean Journal of Scientific Criminal
Investigation. The article discussed the role of molecular biology on forensic science and
emphasized DNA-based methods of identification in human, botanical and entomological
samples.
Edward Snajdr (Anthropology) had his book, Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in
Slovakia published by Washington University Press. The ethnographic study investigates
why Slovakia’s ecology movement, so strong under socialism, fell apart so rapidly
despite the persistence of serious environmental problems in the region.
James Cauthen (Government) and Barry Latzer (Government) co-authored an article,
"Why so Long? Explaining Processing Time in Capital Appeals," which appeared in
Justice System Journal, a publication of the National Center for State Courts. Their
research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice.
Barry Luby (Emeritus, Foreign Languages & Literatures) recently published a new
book, The Uncertainties in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Analytic Thought:
Miguel de Unamuno the Precursor. The work was published in September by Juan de la
Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs.
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Susan Opotow (Sociology) was presented with the Morton Deutsch Conflict Resolution
Award at the 2008 American Psychological Association Convention in Boston this past
August. The award, presented by the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and
Violence (Division 48 of the APA) recognizes Opotow “for her outstanding contributions
as a scholar, teacher, and mentor.”
(Published in @John Jay on October 8, 2008)
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Jeremy Travis (President) was named chair of the New York State Juvenile Justice Task
Force by the Hon. David Paterson, Governor of New York State. Over the coming year,
the newly constituted task force is charged with developing strategies for transforming
the state’s juvenile justice system and developing what Travis hopes will be “a more
comprehensive and less punitive approach” to handling juvenile offenders.
Maria Volpe (Sociology) won the 2008 Lawrence Cooke Peace Innovator Award,
presented by the New York State Dispute Resolution Association in collaboration with
the New York State Unified Court System Office of ADR and Court Improvement
Programs. Volpe will also be the honoree at the Network for Peace Through Dialogue
recognition night on October 30 in New York City.
Wanda Fernandopulle (Student Development) was selected as an Association for
Institutional Research Fellow for the upcoming National Conference on First-Year
Assessment, to be held October 12-14 in San Antonio, Texas.
Joseph King (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) won the 2008
Roberta Thornton Award, presented by the CUNY Graduate Center’s PhD Alumni
Association in recognition of his outstanding achievement as a criminal justice
practitioner and scholar.
Presenting…
Keith A. Markus (Psychology) spent five weeks visiting the University of Canterbury in
Christchurch, New Zealand, on an Erskine Fellowship to work with Professor Brian Haig
on a joint methodological research project. While there, he presented a colloquium on
"Construct Validity and Causal Modeling." Closer to home, at the annual convention of
the American Psychological Association in Boston, Markus presented a poster titled
“Abductive Inferences to Psychological Variables: Weighting Competing Criteria”
coauthored by Samuel W. Hawes, a John Jay alumnus, and Rula J. Thasites, a current
John Jay student.
Janice Bockmeyer (Government) presented her paper, “The Politics of Supra-local
Nonprofits: Do ‘Good Practices’ Reset the Community Metacenter?” on a panel
discussing Local Networks, Race, Immigration and Identity at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association in August.
Larry Sullivan (Library) taught a four-day seminar on elite deviance to government
officials at St. John’s College in Belize City, Belize, in March. He also gave a lecture on
community justice at the National Police Academy in Belmopan, Belize, on March 12.
He presented the paper, “Family Values and Domestic Violence: The Polish Paradigm,”
at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Cincinnati in
March. This paper was based on research he did at Warsaw University on a Kosciuszko
Foundation grant.
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Elise Langan (Government) published an article on “Assimilation and Affirmative
Action in French Education Systems” in the fall 2008 issue of European Education. She
was named a visiting scholar at New York University's Center for European Studies.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published an article
titled “The Punishment Potlach: A Way Out” in the fall 2008 issue of Insights, a
publication of the Offender Preparation and Education Network Inc. In the article,
Kimora and her coauthor, attorney Mark Hazelbaker, contend that this punishment
potlach in the United States has ignored the cost of criminal justice, and they advocate an
aggressive program of intervention for incarcerated individuals.
Larry Sullivan (Library) had his article “Prison is Dull Today: Prison Libraries and the
Irony of Pious Reading” published in the May 2008 issue of PMLA, the journal of the
Modern Language Association. His review essay of The Encyclopedia of the Library of
Congress appeared in the April 2008 issue of Library Quarterly.
Keith A. Markus (Psychology) recently published an article contrasting alternative
causal interpretations of statistical models, titled “Hypothesis Formulation, Model
Interpretation and Model Equivalence: Implications of a Mereological Causal
Interpretation of Structural Equation Models” in the summer 2008 issue of the journal
Multivariate Behavioral Research. A recent issue of the journal Measurement included
his article “Constructs, Concepts and the Worlds of Possibility: Connecting the
Measurement, Manipulation, and Meaning of Variables,” as well as his rejoinder “Putting
Concepts and Constructs into Practice: A Reply to Cervone and Caldwell, Haig, Kane,
Mislevy, and Rupp.” Markus also published a critique titled “Abductive Inferences to
Psychological Variables: Steiger’s Question and Best Explanations of Psychopathy,” in
the summer 2008 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology. The critique was
coauthored by John Jay alumnus Samuel W. Hawes and current student Rula J. Thasites.
(Published in @John Jay on September 17, 2008)
PRESENTING…
Gloria Proni (Sciences) presented a paper entitled "Chiral Recognition by a CDsensitive dimeric porphyrin host: Recent Advances in the assignment of absolute
configuration" at the 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition,
April 6-10, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The work was done in collaboration with
the laboratory of Dr. Nina Berova in the Chemistry Department of Columbia University.
Later in the spring, Dr. Proni presented a research talk, “Detection of Opioids in Urine by
NMR Spectroscopy: Preliminary Studies” at the 40th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting
(MARM), May 17–21 in Bayside, Queens. Donna Wilson, a forensic science graduate
student, worked on this project as a fulfillment of her thesis requirement. The work was
conducted jointly with Elise Champeil (Sciences). In late August, Proni presented a
poster titled “Synthesis and Chiral Recognition of a Fish Pheromone by CD-Sensitive
Dimeric Zinc Porphyrin Host” at the American Chemical Society National Meeting and
Exposition in Philadelphia. Ekaterina Chadwick, an undergraduate forensic science
student, coauthored the presentation.
Effie Papatzikou Cochran (English) was the lead discussant on a panel titled “Four
Interrogating Concepts and Cases: Family, Law, and Language” at the Law and Society
Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada, on May 31.
Abby Stein (Interdisciplinary Studies) spoke at the International Psychohistorical
Association on June 4 at Fordham University. Her presentation was titled, “From His
Cradle to Your Grave: How Child Abuse Drives Violent Crime.” Stein also served as the
invited “Critical Issues” columnist for the spring issue of ISSTD News, published by the
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's publication. Her column
focused on “First Defense: Dissociated States and Criminal Violence.”
R. Terry Furst (Anthropology) presented a paper, “A Qualitative Exploration of an
Office-Based Buprenorphine Demonstration Program in New York City,” at the Society
for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in Boston. He also presented “A Harm
Reduction Approach to the Provision of Bupernorphine” at the conference for the
Developments in the Treatment of Dependence on Opiate: Practices and Perspectives, in
France, and co-authored “Low Threshold Buprenorphine Prescribing,” a paper presented
at the International Harm Reduction Conference in Barcelona, Spain.
Elise Champeil and Gloria Proni (Sciences) co-authored the lecture “Use of NMR
Spectroscopy for the Detection of Opioids in Human Fluids” that was presented at the
American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Philadelphia in late
August. Donna Wilson, a recent graduate of the master’s degree program in forensic
science, worked on this project as a fulfillment of her thesis requirement.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
Benjamin Lapidus (Art and Music) will have his new book, Origins of Cuban Music
and Dance: Changüí, published by The Scarecrow Press on October 28. The book is the
first in-depth study of changüí, a style of music and dance in Guantánamo, Cuba, that
contributed to the development of salsa.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) and Michael
Aman (Communication and Theatre Arts) co-authored an article, “No Country for Old
Men: Psychopathic Elements in an Academy-Award-Winning Film,” in which they stress
the importance of criminal justice professionals learning elements of psychopathy from
the film. The article appeared in the July/August issue of Community Corrections Report
on Law and Corrections Practice.
PEER REVIEW
Robert Garot (Sociology) has won a faculty fellowship for the spring 2009 semester at
the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College. The fellowship will
help facilitate Garot’s research project on “Immigrants and the Law in Contemporary
Tuscany.”
Allison Kavey (History) has been awarded a $15,000 faculty development grant by the
City University of New York to fund her proposal, “Teaching Portfolios: An Analysis of
their Uses for History Pedagogy.”
(Published in @John Jay on August 27, 2008)
ON BOARD
Laura Drazdowski (Physical Education and Athletics) was appointed head coach of the
John Jay women’s softball team. Drazdowski, the College’s Assistant Director of
Athletics for Marketing and Promotion, served as interim softball coach for the 2008
season, leading the team to a 12-23 record and a fourth place finish in conference play.
“After the hard work the team and I put in last season, I am thrilled to be continuing on
the path of success that started last February,” she said. Over the summer, John Jay added
two other new head coaches. Carl Nedell was named head women’s tennis coach,
succeeding Amy Rowland, who resigned earlier this year. Nedell had previously coached
the John Jay men’s tennis team during the 2000 season, and has also coached for Hunter
College, James Monroe High School and Forest Hills High School. Jessica Kolackovsky
will serve as interim head coach of the women’s swimming team for the 2008-09 season,
filling in for Jane Katz, who will be on sabbatical. Kolackovsky served as a volunteer
assistant coach under Katz last season, and also serves as the College’s head lifeguard.
She was a Big East Conference Academic All-Star as an undergraduate swimmer at
Seton Hall University.
BETWEEN THE COVERS
Andrew Sidman (Government) has an article, “Forecasting Non-Incumbent Presidential
Elections: Lessons Learned from the 2000 Election,” due out in a forthcoming issue of
the International Journal of Forecasting. Sidman also has 12 entries in the recently
published Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Election, and Electoral Behavior (Sage,
2008).
Mary Gibson (History) received a Senior Fulbright Research Grant and a National
Endowment for the Humanities' Fellowship to finish a book on the history of prisons in
modern Italy. Her article “Ai margini della cittadinanza: le detenute dopo l’Unità italiana
(1860-1915) [At the Margins of Citizenship: Women Prisoners after Italian Unification]”
was recently published in the journal Storia delle Donne [Women’s History].
Nathan Lents (Sciences) had his manuscript “Identification and Characterization of a
Novel Mdm2 Splice Variant Acutely Induced by the Chemotherapeutic Agents
Adriamycin and Actinomycin D” published in the journal Cell Cycle in June.
Danielle Sapse (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration), Elise
Champeil and Anne-Marie Sapse (Sciences), working in collaboration with two
professors from the University of Rouen, France, had their paper "Interaction of DNA
Fragments with Methyl Lithium" accepted for publication in the journal Comptes Rendus
des Seances de L' Academie Francaise. The paper applies theoretical methods to the
study of DNA fragments interaction with methyl lithium and its possible use for criminal
investigation.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) and Michael
Aman (Speech, Theatre and Media Studies) co-authored an article, “No Country for Old
Men: Psychopathic Elements in an Academy-Award-Winning Film,” in which they
stress the importance of criminal justice professionals learning elements of psychopathy
from the film. The article appeared in the July/August issue of Community Corrections
Report on Law and Corrections Practice.
PRESENTING…
Margaret Wallace (Sciences) was an invited speaker at the Fourth Annual Conference
of the Korean Academy of Scientific Criminal Investigation. Wallace’s presentation on
“Forensic Science: the Interface between Scientific and the Law” discussed the role of
forensic biology in human identification and genotyping of botanical and entomological
samples. Wallace was also appointed Foreign Editor of the Journal of the Korean
Academy of Scientific Criminal Investigation by the president of the academy.
Janice Bockmeyer (Government) moderated the roundtable “Maximum Feasible
Misunderstanding at 40: The Midlife Crisis of Community Participation?” at the annual
meeting of the Urban Affairs Association in Philadelphia in late April. The roundtable
explored the impacts of federal community development policies in the 40 years since the
War on Poverty urban initiatives.
Edgardo Diaz Diaz (Foreign Languages) addressed a full house of doctoral students and
faculty members at the University of Padova, Italy, on April 22. Diaz, an
ethnomusicologist, spoke about the meaning and influence of Italian opera in the
Caribbean.
Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) spoke to members of
the Correctional Services Division of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on
May 23, about the educational needs of adult offenders and the programs funded by the
National Institute of Corrections.
M. Victoria Pérez-Ríos (Government) presented a paper on “Western Bias in
International Law: Francisco de Vitoria’s Writings and the Third World School” at the
International Studies Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA, in late
March.
Abby Stein (Interdisciplinary Studies) spoke at the International Psychohistorical
Association conference on June 4 at Fordham University. Her presentation was titled
“From His Cradle to Your Grave: How Child Abuse Drives Violent Crime.” Stein also
served as the invited “Critical Issues” columnist for the spring issue of ISSTD News,
published by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Her
column focused on “First Defense: Dissociated States and Criminal Violence.”
PEER REVIEW
Maria Hartwig (Psychology) received the "Early Career Award" from the European
Association of Psychology & Law, for "her excellent track-record in peer reviewed
papers in international journals and chapters in national and international volumes, and
for being an inspiring example showing how a young researcher from a small place can
find her way to a top position in the international arena.”
Peter Dodenhoff (Institutional Advancement) recently completed the requirements for
his U.S. Coast Guard merchant captain’s certification. The entry-level license, awarded
on the basis of experience, test scores, fitness, character references and other criteria,
allows the for-hire operation of merchant and recreational vessels in U.S. coastal waters,
including charters and yacht deliveries.