Robert Shorb, director, Student Aid and Family Finance, gave a presentation on “Tuition Benefit Programs - Another Form of Financial Aid?” at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators Conference July 23 in New Orleans. He continues to serve on the NASFAA Board of Directors for 2002-03 and is the current past president of the Eastern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

Gordon Thompson, associate professor of music, participated in the Romantic Orientalism conference sponsored by the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He read his paper, “Orientalist Rock,” on the importation of North African and Indian musical elements in 1960s British popular music, and chaired a panel on exoticisms in Western art music.

He also is the current vice president of the Society for Asian Music.

Publications & Exhibitions

Peg Boyers, executive editor of Salmagundi, has new poems appearing in the following magazines: “Playa Colorada” and “Tobacco” in The Southern Review, Summer 2002; “Family Portrait,” in New England Review, Fall 2002; “On Looking into Stoneware Chambers,” Partisan Review, Fall 2002.

Robert Boyers, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters and professor of English, is the author of the following recently published items: “Stiflings,” in The New Republic, July 29, 2002; “A Refusal to Mourn the Fate of the Muses,” Salmagundi, Summer-Fall 2002; “Why a Common Curriculum,” in Daedalus, Summer 2002; “An Essay on Evil,” in Nexus (The Netherlands), Winter 2003. He also is the author of A Book of Common Praise (Ausable Press, Summer 2002), a new book of 92 very brief essays, originally delivered as literary introductions at public reading and including such writers as Susan Sontag, Robert Pinsky, J.M. Coetzee, Tatyana Tolstaya, Cynthia Ozick, Saul Bellow, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Boyers will introduce Nadine Gordimer at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Oct. 7.

John Brueggemann, associate professor of sociology, is the author of an article, “Racial Considerations and Public Policy in the 1930s,” published in the journal Social Science History, Vol. 26. No 1, Spring 2002.

John Cunningham, Davidson Professor of Art, has an installation of large works on the campus of Texas A&M University. The university recently initiated a program called “20-20,” in which attention and resources will focus more on the institution’s liberal arts programs. Cunningham has been invited to participate in a number of initiatives connected with this project, including a show of his works at the Memorial Student Center of Texas A&M. The university’s president spoke at the Aug. 27 dedication ceremony of Cunningham’s show, which features three large outdoor works on display for a year. In an article about the installation published in The Bryan-College Station Eagle (8/29/02), Cunningham explained how science and art intersect in his work.

He also is in the process of creating a series of maquettes for a monumental sculpture for the new headquarters building of the Arts Council of Brazos Valley (Texas). His prototypes for this project will be exhibited in the upcoming faculty art exhibition at the Schick Art Gallery.

Terence Diggory, Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and chair, Department of English, is the author of “Picturesque Urban Pastoral in Post-War New York City,” published in The Built Surface, Vol. 2, Architecture and the Pictorial Arts from Romanticism to the 21st Century, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), edited by Karen Koehler. Koehler is a former member of the Skidmore art history faculty who is now a Five Colleges Associate in Amherst, Mass.

William Fox, professor of sociology, is the author of the newly released fourth edition of Social Statistics, published by Wadworth (Thompson Learning).

Catherine Golden, professor of English, reviewed Oscar Wilde’s Decorated Books by Nicolas Frankel for Victorian Studies, Autumn 2001, which has just been released.

Rob Linrothe, associate professor of art history, is the author of “inVISIBLE: Picturing Interiority in Western Himalayan Stupa Architecture,” in The Built Surface, Vol. 1, Architecture and the Pictorial Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002), edited by Christy Anderson.

Mehmet Odekon, associate professor of economics, is the author of “Financial Liberalization and Investment in Turkey,” published in Briefing Notes in Economics, No. 53, June/July 2002.

Gordon Thompson, associate professor of music, reviewed Edward O. Henry’s Women’s Songs from India for the current issue of Asian Music.

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