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Colgate University Speakers Bureau

Art and Art History

Mary Ann Calo, Professor and Director of the Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts
315-228-7590

Topics Alain Locke 
  Visual Art and the Harlem Renaissance 
  Critical Reception of African American Artists Between World Wars 
John Knecht, Professor
315-228-7636
Topics Screening of a Selection of my Experimental Video Art Works with Introduction and Questions and Answers. (I can expand this to include placing the work in context of modern/post-modern art and the history of the Avant Garde Video artist working with digital animation and painter.) 
Judith Oliver , Professor
315-228-7629
Topics Women Artists in Medieval Germany
  Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts
Biology
Kenneth Belanger, Associate Professor
315-228-7870
Topics Regulation of Protein Transport between the Nucleus and Cytoplasm of Eukaryotic Cells
Frank M. Frey, Assistant Professor
315-228-7871
Topics Maintenance of Floral-Color Variation (pollinators, herbivores, and pathogens) 
  Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Flower Production 
  Evolution of Floral Symmetry 
Randy Fuller, Professor
315-228-7393
Topics Impact of frequent water releases from Abanakee Dam on the ecology of the Indian and Upper Hudson Rivers
  Stream macroinvertebrate responses to algal and bacterial manipulations
Timothy S. McCay, Associate Professor
315-228-7705
Topics Invasive, Exotic Species as a Symptom of Landscape Fragmentation
  Species Interaction and Community Assembly: North American Shrew Communities
Jason Meyers, Assistant Professor
315-228-6468
Teaching Specialties: Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, Developmental Biology
Topics Neural/Sensory System Development and Regeneration
  Sensory Physiology
  Stem Cell Biology
Biophysics
Jeff Buboltz, Assistant Professor
315-228-7210
  
Topics Role of Cholesterol in Biological Membranes
  Why all the Fuss about Interdisciplinary Science?
  Thermodynamics of Biological Membrane Formation and Stability
Chemistry
Roger S. Rowlett, Professor and Chair
315-228-7245
  
Topics Kinetics 
  Enzyme Mechanism 
  Structural Biology of Carbonic Anhydrases 
  From Spots to Molecules: A Protein X-ray Crystallography Primer
  Is Nature Stuck in a Rut? Convergent Evolution of the Carbonic Anhydrases as revealed by Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the Beta-Enzyme
  The Two Faces of E: Evidence for an Allosteric Bicarbonate Binding Site in H. influenzae beta-Carbonic Anhydrase
  Protein Engineering
  Enzyme Kinetics
  X-ray Crystallography
  Plant and Bacterial Carbonic Anhydrases
Ernie Nolen, Professor
315-228-7234
  
Topics Synthesis of Glycosyl Amino Acid Mimics 
Ephraim Woods III, Assistant Professor
315-228-7237
  
Topics Physical Chemistry of Tropospheric Aerosols 
Economics  

Piyush Chandra, Assistant Professor
315-228-7539
  
Research Interests: International Trade, Political Economy of Trade Policy.

Teaching Specialties: International Economics

Topics WTO Accession
  Trade Policy
Jay R. Mandle, W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics
315-228-7960
Research Interests: Economic Globalization, Econimics of Democracy

Teaching Specialties: Economic Development 
Topics Globalization and the Poor 
  Reforming Political Campaign Financing 
Nicole B. Simpson, Assistant Professor
315-228-7991
 
Topics Public Education Expenditures, Taxation and Growth
  A Comparison of Mexican Migrants across U.S. Regions
Chad Sparber, Assistant Professor
315-228-7967
 
Topics Racial Diversity and Macroeconomic Productivity
Educational Studies
John D. Palmer, Assistant Professor
315-228- 7291
Topics When Race and Culture Collide: Identity Lullabies, Awakenings, and Journeys of Korean Adoptees
  I Want to be Like White: Reflections of Korean American Adoptees
  Race, Racism, and White Privilege (theory)
English
Michael Coyle, Professor
315-228- 7264
Topics T.S. Eliot's Radio Broadcasts
  Jazz and Modernist tradition
Environmental Studies
Robert Figueroa, Assistant Professor
315-228-7086
Topics Environmental Justice
  Environmental Ethics
  Critical Geography
  Critical Race Theory
  Climate Affairs
  Global Environmental Justice
  Environmental Identity
Film and Media Studies
Masha Salazkina, Assistant Professor
315-228-7671
Topics Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico
  Mexican Renaissance and Soviet Avantgarde: Shared Histories and Divergent Trajectories: Socialist Realist Bollywood?
  Soviet-Indian Cinematic Co-Productions of the 1970s-1980s
  Neo-Baroque in Europe and the Americas: Comparative Genealogies
  Latin America in Soviet and European Cinema
Geology
Bruce W. Selleck, H.O. Whithall Professor
315-228-7949
Topics Climate Change in Cenozoic Alaska
  Geochronology of Ancient Fault Systems in the Adirondacks
  Cold-climate Indicators in the Permian of New South Wales, Australia
  Seismic Pumping and Original of Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs
Constance Soja, Professor
315-288-7200
Topics Microbial Contributions to Reef Evolution through Time 
  Assembling Alaska (Alaskan Paleontological Applications to Terrain Analysis)  
  Dinosaur Egg Taphonomy 
History
Antonio Barrera, Associate Professor
315-228-7549
Topics History of Science and the Spanish American Empire
R.M. Douglas, Associate Professor
315-228-7073
Topics Ervin Ross Marlin '30: Hamilton College's Hibernian Spy
  The pro-Axis Underground in Ireland, 1939-42 
  1945: Irish Fascism's High Tide 
  Racial Doctrine and Irish Immigration in Britain Between the World Wars  
Andrew J. Rotter, Professor
315-228-7513
Topics Vietnam War
  Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations
  U.S.-South Asia Relations 1945-1965
  The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mathematics
Tom Tucker, Professor
315-228-7738
Topics Principles and Elements 
  Lagrange and the Enlightenment 
Music
Marietta Cheng, Professor
315-824-2748
Topics Historical conductors
  Women conductors
  Beethoven metronome markings 
Joseph Swain, Associate Professor
315-228-7644
Topics Taking the Broadway Musical Seriously 
  Why a Music Critic Listens to Cognitive Scientists 
  An Introduction to Harmonic Rhythm 
  How is Music Like Language (and so what if it is)? 
Philosophy
Anne Ashbaugh, Professor
315-228-6675
Topics Why Invoke the Gods? (On gods and dialectic) 
  Reluctant Freedom: Socrates' Impersonation of the Laws in Crito
  Greek Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, and Skepticism 
Jonathan Jacobs, Richard J. and Jean Head Professor of Philosophy, Director of Center for the Arts and Humanities
315-228-7717
Research Interests: Responsibility for Character, Justification of Punishment, Judaism and Natural Law, Maimonides.

Teaching Specialties: Moral Psychology, Metaethics, History of Medieval Philosophy.
Topics Character and Criminal Liability
  Judaism, Natural Law and Moral Epistemology 
Jason Kawall, Assistant Professor
315-228-7817
Topics Defending Virtue Ethics from Recent Criticisms 
  Virtue Theory and Supererogation 
  Complacency, Apathy, and Resignation (in particular, as environmental vices
  Virtue Ethics
  Environmental Ethics
Ulrich Meyer, Assistant Professor
315-857-7136
Topics Philosophy of Time 
  Laws and Counterfactuals 
  Applied Mathematics 
Political Science
Fred Chernoff, Professor
315-228-7259
Topics International Relations Theory
  IR and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  National Security
Mai'a K. Davis Cross, Assistant Professor
315-228-7964
Topics An EU Homeland Security? Sovereignty vs. Supranational Order
  A European Epistemic Community of Diplomats
  Diplomacy in the European Union: A Foundation or Deficit for Democracy?
Michael Johnston, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science
315-228-7756
Topics Comparative Political Corruption
  Development
  Democratization
  Reform in Developing Countries
Barry Alan Shain, Associate Professor
315-228-7965
Topics Declaration of Independence
  American Understanding of rights and Liberty in 18th Century
  Federalist Papers
  Conservative Political Thought
  Liberalism vs. Democracy
  Liberal Internationalism
  Common vs. Civil Law
Psychology
Kevin Carlsmith, Assistant Professor
315-228-7399
 Topics The Psychological Motive for Punishment in Legal and Interpersonal Contexts
Religion
Eliza Kent, Associate Professor
518-482-1257
Research Interests: Religious Conversion; Gender and Religion; Environmentalism and Religion in India.
Teaching Specialties: Hinduism; Religions of India; Gender and Religion; Health and Healing and Relligion
Topics Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and environmentalism in South India 
  Politics of Relilgious Conversion in India
Romance Languages and Literatures
John A. Gallucci, Associate Professor
315-228-7285
Topics Early French Travel Narratives and the writing of NYS History: The Example of Dr. Franklin B. Hough, Union College Class of 1843 
Fernando Plata, Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair
315-228-7088
 Topics Qevedo, Calderon, Cervantes, Don Quijote
Russian Studies and Jewish Studies
Alice Nakhimovsky, Professor
(no phone number available)
Topics Babel, Grossman, Appefeld 
  20th Century Russian 
  Russian-Jewish and Jewish Literatures 
  Russian-Jewish Behaviors 
  Russian-Jewish Foodways 
  Russian-Jewish Jokes 
  The Jewish Takeover of Russian émigré newspapers (obituaries) 
Sociology and Anthropology
Christopher Henke, Assistant Professor
315-228-7076
Topics Science as Work/Profession 
  Science and the Law
  Scientists and the Environment
  The Agricultural Biotechnology Debates
  Culture and the Environment
  Emotional Labor in the Workplace
  Skill in the Workplace
  The Photo-Elicitation Interview
Carolyn Hsu, Assistant Professor
315-228-7083
Topics People's Republic of China
  Post-communist Transformation
  Rise of New Organizations and Institutions
  Entrepreneurship in China and Russia
  Market Ventures
  Rise of Charities and NGO's in Post-communist Societies
  Guanxi and Marketization
  Political Corruption
  Narrative Analysis and Qualitative Methods
Paul Lopes, Associate Professor
315-228-7553
Topics Demanding Respect: Transforming the American Comic Book
  From Low Brow to High Brow: The Modern Jazz Renaissance
Louis Prisock, Assistant Professor
315-228-7035
Topics Black Conservatism
  Trends in American Conservatism
  Race and Urban and Suburban Policies
Theatre
Adrian Giurgea, Director of Theatre Program
315-228-7631
Topics Directing on Five Continents
  Working Internationally
  Being a Russian Actor
  Theatre Directing
  Acting