Past Features

January 30, 2008 (Vol. 7, No. 1)

Quorum 2008: Recent Faculty Research

Following is Part 1 of the Quorum Series for 2008, presenting highlights of recent research and scholarship produced by Lehman College faculty.

Ricardo R. Fernández
Nathalie Bailey
Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum
Christopher Bonastia
Michael Buckley
Grace Russo Bullaro
Rosalind Carey
Claudia Case
Stuart Chen-Hayes
Terrence Cheng
Eugene M. Chudnovsky
Patricia Cockram
Forrest D. Colburn
Dominique Cyrille
Joseph W. Dauben
Mario DiGangi

Ricardo R. Fernández

Ricardo R. Fernandez

Ricardo R. Fernández

Ricardo R. Fernández (President and Professor, Languages and Literatures) authored the foreword to Latino Change Agents in Higher Education: Shaping a System That Works for All, by Leonard A. Valverde and Associates (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008).

Nathalie Bailey

Nathalie Bailey

Nathalie Bailey

Nathalie Bailey (Associate Professor, English) wrote the book chapter "Scaffolding Reading and Writing Assignments" in The Scholarship of Teaching: Faculty Development Through Cross-Campus Collaboration, ed. S.R. Polirstok and H. Shenkman, 98-101 (Bronx, NY: The Center for Teaching Excellence at Bronx Community College, 2007).

She served as an organizer of "Teaching, Language, and the CUNY Student," a conference held at John Jay College and sponsored by the English and E.S.L. Discipline Councils (March 2007). At the conference, she organized and served as a presenter on a panel entitled "Addressing Language Needs Across the Curriculum: Teachers' Top Strategies." She also served as co-chair of the E.S.L. Discipline Council from 2006-2007.

In addition, Professor Bailey was a presenter on a panel, entitled "Knowledge Making Across the Disciplines: One Strategy at a Time," at the Third Annual CUNY General Education Conference at Queens College (May 2007).

Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum

Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum

Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum

Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum (Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, and Director, Women's Studies Program) wrote the following articles for the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007): "Demography V: Africa," "Women's Human Rights," and "Umoja."

Professor Banoum was appointed Co-Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the 50th Anniversary Conference of the African Studies Association (A.S.A.) held in New York City (October 2007). Founded in 1957, A.S.A. is the largest organization of scholars and other specialists working on Africa.

Christopher Bonastia

Christopher Bonastia

Christopher Bonastia

Christopher Bonastia (Assistant Professor, Sociology and Social Work) received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on Prince Edward County, Virginia, which closed its public schools from 1959 to 1964 rather than obey a court desegregation order.

Michael Buckley

Michael Buckley (Assistant Professor, Philosophy) wrote the article "Two Principles of Broadcast Ownership for a Democratic Society" in Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming).

Grace Russo Bullaro

Grace Russo Bullaro

Grace Russo Bullaro

Grace Russo Bullaro (Associate Professor, English) is currently working on an edited volume titled From Terrone to Extra-Comunitario, the Evolution of Racism in Italian Cinema (Leicester: Troubador Publishing Ltd.), forthcoming.

The following works will be published in 2008: "Blue Collar, White Hat: The Working Class Origins of Celebrity Super-Chef Jacques Pépin," Columbia Journal of American Studies (Spring 2008) and a review of the book Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese, by Robert Casillo (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), in Forum Italicum (Spring 2008).

Professor Bullaro published the article "Grace Bullaro Interviews Lidia Bastianich on Terroir, Cuisine, Globalization and Cultural Identity," Columbia Journal of American Studies, vol. 8, 2007:174-192.

She also presented the paper "Inter-textual Autobiography, Self-Revelation, and Self-Actualization in Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere," at the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Conference in Colorado Springs, CO (May 2007).

In December 2007, Professor Bullaro appeared on the Cablevision television show "Italian American Writers," where she was interviewed by host Vito De Simone about her recent book, Beyond 'Life is Beautiful': Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni (Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2005). In January of 2008, she will be interviewed on the same program about her book, Man in Disorder: The Cinema of Lina Wertmüller in the 1970s (Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2007). She also gave invited talks about Man in Disorder at Stony Brook University (September 2007) and Fitchburg State College (October 2007). On January 6, 2008, Man in Disorder was the subject of an article in America Oggi7, the national Italian language newspaper/magazine.

In other news, Professor Bullaro was named Director of Graduate Studies in English at Lehman.

Rosalind Carey

Rosalind Carey

Rosalind Carey

Rosalind Carey (Assistant Professor, Philosophy) published Russell and Wittgenstein on the Nature of Judgment (London: Continuum/Thoemmes: 2007) and is principal author (with John Ongley, co-author) of the Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy, Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements (Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press/Rowman and Littlefield), forthcoming.

In other news, Professor Carey received a grant from the Bertrand Russell Society in support of a conference on language and meaning to be held in Riga, Latvia in the fall of 2008.

Claudia Case

Claudia Case

Claudia Case

Claudia Case (Assistant Professor, Journalism, Communication, and Theatre) published "Using Archives to Reconstruct the Censored Performance of Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude," in Performing Arts Resources 26 (forthcoming, 2008)

She presented the paper "Preserving Identity: Translating Contemporary German Drama into American Theatrical Idioms," at the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference in Phoenix (November 2007). She also curated and moderated a panel on German playwright Theresia Walser at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center/CUNY Graduate Center and brought Ms. Walser to Lehman for a reading from one of her plays (November 2007).

In February 2008, Professor Case will present a paper on the Theatre Guild's aesthetic influence on Broadway audiences as part of a panel on transformations in the American theatre in the 1920s and 1930s at the Gotham Center/CUNY Graduate Center.

Stuart Chen-Hayes

Stuart Chen-Hayes

Stuart Chen-Hayes

Stuart Chen-Hayes (Associate Professor, Counseling, Leadership, Literacy, and Special Education) wrote the following articles: "The ACCESS Questionnaire: Assessing K-12 school counseling programs and interventions to ensure equity and success for every student," in Counseling and Human Development 39, no. 6 (2007):1-10; and (with M. Ratts and L. DeKruyf) "The ACA Advocacy Competencies: A social justice advocacy framework for professional school counselors," in Professional School Counseling 11, no. 2 (2007):90-97.

He also wrote the book chapter "Rainbow gay dads: Diapering was a piece of cake compared to challenging familyism, heterosexism, immigrationism, linguicism, racism, and religionism," in Queer Parenting, ed. R. Epstein (Toronto: Demeter Press), forthcoming. Professor Chen-Hayes also presented the paper (with L. T. Chen-Hayes and R. McLean) "Parenting for Social Justice: Anti-Oppression Narratives" at the Rainbow Families Conference, Montclair, NJ (Fall 2007).

Professors Chen-Hayes and Tamisha Bouknight were among twenty scholars selected nationwide to attend a College Readiness Counseling Summit sponsored by the College Board's National Office of School Counselor Advocacy (N.O.S.C.A.) in Washington, D.C., where Professor Chen-Hayes presented his college readiness counseling in two courses in the Counselor Education/School Counseling program at Lehman. Both he and Professor Bouknight were recognized at the Summit for their leadership and advocacy in college and career readiness counseling and school counselor education programs (November 2007). In addition, as a result of their proposal to assist the CUNY School Services Partnership, both he and Professor Bouknight were invited to work as consultants on the CUNY School Counselor Council to assist 13 N.Y.C. public high schools with state-of-the-art School Counseling Program and Career and College Readiness Professional Development.

In March 2008, Professor Chen-Hayes will give the invited keynote speech "Social Justice Counseling: The Art and Science of Trouble-Making for the Status Quo," at the Counselors for Social Justice 'Ohana Awards Ceremony at the American Counseling Association Conference in Honolulu. He will also present a paper, titled "Sexuality Counseling in Taiwan and the USA: International Social Justice Equity Issues for Counselors and Counselor Educators," jointly with students and faculty with whom he worked while on sabbatical in spring 2007 at the National Changhua University of Education in Changhua, Taiwan (with S. Chao, C. Chen, M. Ho, Y. Hsu, C. Huang, C. Wu, H. Chen, I. Chien, S. Chou, S. Huang, Y. Huang, T. Kang, and C. Su). In addition, he will present the paper (with J. Lewis and A. Jackson) "The ACCESS Model of School Counseling: Social Justice Equity and Success for Every Student."

Professor Chen-Hayes was recently recognized as a Leader in the Field by Microtraining Associates, Inc., a developer of training materials for multicultural counselors and therapists. An interview with Professor Chen-Hayes was published on the firm's website (a link to the interview can be found on his faculty page).

In other news, Professor Chen-Hayes is developing a proposal for an annual summer international study program for graduate counseling students and faculty exchange between Lehman and the National Changhua University of Education.

Terrence Cheng

Terrence Cheng

Terrence Cheng

Terrence Cheng (Assistant Professor, English) published his second novel, Deep in the Mountains: An Encounter with Zhu Qizhan (New York: Watson-Guptill, 2007). His short story, "Gold Mountain," also appeared in Bronx Noir, ed. S.J. Rozan (New York: Akashic Books, 2007).

Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Eugene M. Chudnovsky

Eugene M. Chudnovsky (Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy) co-authored (with Javier Tejada and Eduardo Punset) El Templo de la Ciencia (Planeta, 2008).

He wrote the following articles: (with C. Calero) "Rabi Spin Oscillations Generated by Ultrasound in Solids," Physical Review Letters 99, 047201 (July 2007); (with D.A. Garanin) "Theory of magnetic deflagration in crystals of molecular magnets," Physical Review B 76, 054410 (August 2007); (with C. Calero and D.A. Garanin) "Magneto-elastic waves in crystals of magnetic molecules," Physical Review B 76, 094419 (September 2007); "Theory of Spin Hall Effect: Extension of the Drude Model," Physical Review Letters 99, 206601 (November 2007); and (with A. Hernández-Minguez, C. Carbonell-Cortés, R. Amigó, J.M. Hernandez, and J. Tejada) "Pumping spin states of molecular magnets by strong rotating magnetic field," Applied Physics Letters 91, 202502 (November 2007).

Professor Chudnovsky was also awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to research the "Theory of Nanomagnets" (December 2007).

Patricia Cockram

Patricia Cockram

Patricia Cockram

Patricia Cockram (Associate Professor, English) published the article "Tard, Très Tard: Ezra Pound and France," in Paideuma (forthcoming). She also presented the paper "Ezra Pound and DADA: Beginning Again, Again," at the 22nd Ezra Pound International Conference, titled "Ends and Beginnings," in Venice, Italy (June 2007). In addition, Professor Cockram has written reviews of two books about Pound that are forthcoming in Paideuma.

Forrest D. Colburn

Forrest D. Colburn

Forrest D. Colburn

Forrest D. Colburn(Professor, Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies) wrote (with Arturo Cruz, Nicaragua's ambassador to the United States) Varieties of Liberalism in Central America: Nation-States as Works in Progress (University of Texas Press, 2007).

He wrote the following articles: "Rethinking the ‘Third World': Talking with Lakhdar Brahimi," World Policy Journal, Summer 2007; and "The Museo del Banco Central de Reserva del Perú," Tribal Art, Autumn 2007.

In 2007, Professor Colburn gave invited lectures in Venezuela, Peru, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.

Dominique Cyrille

Dominique Cyrille (Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies) wrote Alarepriz, Quadrilles créoles de Guadeloupe (Pointe a Pitre, Guadeloupe: Editions Jasor), forthcoming.

She also wrote the liner notes for two CDs: "Notes on Guadeloupe's Quadrilles Danican et Sidanbarom," Kadri Gwadloup, CMDT-Guadeloupe (2007); and "The Quadrilles of Guadeloupe Néoce et Signature, Le quadrille au commandement de la Guadeloupe," Paris, France: OCORA, Radio France (Spring 2007). OCORA-Radio France awarded the latter recording "Best World Music CD" (Spring 2007).

She published the following articles: "The Politics of Quadrille Performance in Nineteenth-Century Martinique," Dance Research Journal 38, nos. 1/2 (2006): 43-60; "Imagining an Afro-Creole Nation: Eugène Mona's Music in Martinique of the 1980s," Latin American Music Review 27 (2) (Fall/Winter 2006): 148-170.

She presented the following papers: "Unité et Diversitédes Quadrilles de Guadeloupe," at the Centre de Musiques et Danses Traditionnelles de Guadeloupe, Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe (January 2007); "Léwoz a Fanm, Women's léwoz Notions of Gender and Sexuality in a Guadeloupean Dance Form," at the annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Columbus, OH (October 2007); and "Living Sources of Guadeloupe Traditional Music," at Assises Nationales de Musique Traditionnelles, Nantes, France (November 2007).

Professor Cyrille was awarded a grant from the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CMDT Guadeloupe) for carrying out fieldwork in rural Guadeloupe and recording traditional work songs (Summer 2007).

In other news, she served as Ethnomusicology Symposium Organizer of the "4eme Séminaire d'ethnosmusicologie Caribéenne; Sauvergader le Patrimoine Immatériel/Préserver la Diversité Culturelle" ("Safeguarding Intangible Heritage/Preserving Cultural Diversity"), at La Médiathèque Caraïbe (LAMECA)/Festival de Gwoka, Ste. Anne, Guadeloupe (July 2007).

Joseph W. Dauben

Joseph W. Dauben

Joseph W. Dauben

Joseph W. Dauben (Distinguished Professor, History) wrote the following book chapters: "Chinese Mathematics," pp. 187-384 in The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook, Victor Katz, ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007); "算數書 Suan Shu Shu (A Book on Numbers and Computation): What is the Proper Figure of a 鄆都 yun du? Problemgeschichte der Chinesischen Mathematik. Two Problems on the Computation of Volumes from the Most Ancient Mathematical Text Yet Known from Ancient China," in Festschrift in Honor of Menso Folkerts (in press); "朱世杰 ZHU Shijie's 四元玉鑑 Siyuan yujian (Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns): Solutions of Simultaneous Equations in as many as Four Unknowns in Yuan Dynasty China," in Festschrift in Honor of Eberhard Knobloch (in press).

He has written the following articles: (with Karen Hunger Parshall) "Dal Liberal Arts College alla Research University: Harvard, Yale e Princeton," pp. 477-504, and (with Karen Hunger Parshall) "L'evoluzione della ricerca universitaria: Johns Hopkins, Chicago e Berkeley," pp. 505-529, both in La matematica, Claudio Bartocci and Piergiorgio Odifreddi, eds., vol. 1, I luoghi e I tempi, (Torino: Giulio Einudi, 2007); "算數書 Suan shu shu (A Book on Numbers and Computations). English Translation with Commentary," in Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 62, pp. 1-88 (2008); and "Marx, Mao, and Mathematics—The Politics of Calculus, Infinitesimals, and Nonstandard Analysis During the Cultural Revolution," Acta Historica Leopoldina, 48 (in press, 2008).

He has also presented the following papers: "The Jade Mirror of the Celestial Element: Solving Simultaneous Equations in Multiple Unknowns in Yuan-dynasty China," International Symposium on History of Mathematics, University of Lhasa, Tibet (July 2007); "Some Remarks on the Study of Infinitesimal Calculus in China During the Cultural Revolution," Technológico de Monterrey (September 2007); "Marxism in Chinese Mathematics, Economics, and Industry During the Cultural Revolution," London School of Economics, London, England (November 2007); and "Marx, Mao, and Mathematics: The Politics of Calculus, Infinitesimals, and Nonstandard Analysis During the Cultural Revolution," California Institute of Technology (January 2008).

In addition, Professor Dauben gave the invited lecture "Peirce and Sherlock Holmes: The Abductive Scientific Method and Creative Genius," for a symposium on "The Peirces of Boston: Snapshots of Science in Nineteenth-Century America," presented at the annual meeting of the History of Science Society, Arlington, VA (November 2007).

Professor Dauben appeared in the BBC Four television documentary, "Dangerous Knowledge," a program devoted to the controversial ideas of mathematicians Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel, and Alan Turing, which was written, filmed, and directed by David Malone. Subsequently, he has appeared in interviews in another series, "History of Maths," currently in production at BBC Four, the first an interview with Robin Dashwood devoted to the history of mathematics in ancient China. He later appeared in another program in the same series with the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford University, filmed on-site in Halle, Germany, and devoted to the controversial theories of the mathematician Georg Cantor, creator of transfinite set theory. The entire series is scheduled to air in Britain over BBC Four during the summer of 2008.

His program for Science Television, The Art of Renaissance Science, is available on DVD from the American Mathematical Society. The program is devoted to Galileo and the influence of the discovery of mathematical perspective on his analysis of projectile motion.

In 2007, Professor Dauben spent part of the summer in Beijing working on a project to translate the Ten Classics of ancient Chinese mathematics into English (partially funded by a PSC-CUNY Research Foundation grant). He was also invited to give a lecture at the University of Lhasa, as part of an international conference cosponsored by the International Commission on History of Mathematics, which also provided an opportunity to spend a week visiting the monasteries and monuments of Tibet.

Mario DiGangi

Mario DiGangi

Mario DiGangi

Mario DiGangi (Associate Professor, English) edited Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2007) and The Winter's Tale: Texts and Contexts (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007).

Professor DiGangi was also a panelist on “Marlowe and Gender” at The Marlowe Symposium at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. (November 2007).