Faculty/Staff Activities

Lisa Aronson, associate professor of art history, delivered an invited lecture titled "Ewe (Ghana) Ceramics as the Visualization of Vodun" Feb. 4 at a symposium titled "For Hearth and Altar:  Artistry and Action in African Ceramics," sponsored by the Art Institute of Chicago.

Robert Boyers, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters, gave public readings at the following locations between October 2005 and February 2006:  Columbia University; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Bennington College; Queens College, City University of New York; Blacksmith House, Cambridge, Mass.; The New School University; Lemoyne College; and at bookstores in Washington, D.C.; Miami, Fla.; and Buffalo.

Mary DiSanto-Rose, associate professor and chair, Dance Department, returned to Greece June 4-11, 2005, after taking 10 Skidmore dancers there in 2004 for a performance/workshop tour with Jeanne Bresciani '73.  During her more recent visit DiSanto-Rose performed and taught as part of Festival of the Delphic Games, a collaborative and interdisciplinary symposium involving the Isadora Duncan International Institute, Inc. and the Town of Delphi.      

She participated in seven days of workshops, lectures, and discussions and performances on the relationship of myth to dance, art, drama, poetry and music. The conference was inspired by the ancient tradition of the Delphic Games, and convened at the sacred sites of Delphi. Instead of competition between artists, this symposium offered a supportive environment that fostered learning, creation, and participation in the expression of art. She taught a workshop titled "Elements of Performance," and performed the works of Isadora Duncan and Jeanne Bresciani under the stars, with a crescent moon lighting the stage where Duncan herself had performed at the Theater of Sikelianos, as well as at the ancient Delphi Apollo Stadium. The spirit of Delphi's past was evident through a unique collaboration between international artists, philosophers and writers.

Giuseppe Faustini, professor of Italian, has been appointed book review editor for the Pirandello Studies Annual. In addition, he chaired a session titled "Power and the Grotesque in Pirandellian Narrative, Theater, and Film" at the Modern Language Association and Priandello Society of America meeting Dec. 27-30 in Washington, D.C.

Jeff Segrave, professor of exercise science, was interviewed on the Turin Olympics Feb. 13 on The Roundtable, broadcast on WAMC-FM.

Denise Smith, professor and chair, Department of Exercise Science, had research that she conducted with the UI Fire Service Institute featured in story on the Discovery Channel Jan. 25.  The story is available at the Daily Planet archives

Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology and Courtney and Steven Ross Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, gave a talk titled "Fatal Attraction: Fear of Death and Political Preferences" Feb. 28 at the Clarke Center and Department of Philosophy at Dickinson College.

Publications & Exhibitions

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for the following stories: "New Math for College Costs," Newsweek, March 13; "How to Retire on Time: Pay Off Debts, Start Saving," Pittsburg Post-Gazette, March 8; "Concerns Mount Over Higher Rates on Student Loans," San Francisco Chronicle, March 6; "Report Finds Flaws in Debt Policies," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 24; "Who Gets In? Gender Can Be Bless or Curse in College Admission," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 15; and "The Campus Crusade for Guys," salon.com, Feb. 15.

Robert Boyers, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters, is the author of the following publications:  "Impudence & Subversion:  On Witold Gombrowicz," in Harper's, March 2006; "A Friend of Dr. Reis," fiction published in Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2005; and "Populism & Politics" in Salmagundi, Spring 2006.

Mary DiSanto-Rose, associate professor and chair, Dance Department, performed Jan. 27 along with 10 Skidmore dancers and alumna Sasha Lehrer '05 at the Harkness Dance Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City as part of  "Isadora Duncan and the Roots of Modernism" with alumna Jeanne Bresciani '73 and the Isadora Duncan International Institute Dancers.

DiSanto-Rose also received an honorary degree from the Isadora Duncan International Institute.

Kenneth Dunbar, assistant director, Office of Admissions, was interviewed for a feature article titled "Using Your Degree:  College is for Learning, Not Training," published in the Feb. 16 issue of The Post-Star (Glens Falls).

Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, associate professor of anthropology, is the author of the book A Precious Liquid:  Drinking Water and Culture in the Valley of Mexico (Wadsworth Thompson Learning, 2006), part of a series of Case Studies on Contemporary Social Issues, edited by John A. Young.

Karen Kellogg, assistant professor and director, Environmental Studies, has had a paper, Photopigment sensitivities of several Lake Malawi cichlids" accepted by the Journal of Fish Biology.Co-authors are Rebecca Jordan (Rutgers University), Ellis Loew (Cornell University) and Jay Stauffer Jr. (Pennsylvania State University).

Susan Kress, professor of English, is the author of Carolyn G. Heilbrun: Feminist in a Tenured Position, which will be reissued in paperback this spring by the University of Virginia Press.  The biography's new edition features an epilogue that reflects on Heilbrun's suicide.

Roy J. Rotheim, Quadracci Professor of Social Responsibility, has had two pieces accepted for publication: "Persuasive Devices," in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, and "Credit Rationing," in Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics, P. Arestis and M. Sawyer, eds., Routledge Press.

Jeff Segrave, professor of exercise science, was a source for a Feb. 5 story, "Winter Games Getting Cooler," in the Albany Times Union.  He also was interviewed on the Olympics for a story titled "Brash Snowboarders Ride Into Mainstream" in the Feb. 14 edition of The Baltimore Sun.  The story was reprinted in The Chicago Tribune. In addition, Segrave wrote the following opinion essays for The Saratogian: "Expression of Sport and Life," Feb. 10; "Generation X Makes Its Mark on Olympic Games," Feb. 16; "Emergence of Women in the Olympics Has Been Gradual," Feb. 22; and "Winter Olympic Television Juggernaut Continues to Trundle On," Feb. 24.

Robert Shorb, director, Student Aid and Family Finance, was interviewed for two recent stories:  "Ask the Biz Brain," a Q&A column published in the March 1 edition of the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger; and "College Aid Stratagems," in Forbes, March 13, 2006.

Mary Zeiss Stange, associate professor, women's studies and religion, is the author of an essay titled "Living with the Ghosts of the Indian Wars" published in the Feb. 6 edition of High Country News, Vol. 38, No. 2.

Richard Upton, professor emeritus of art, recently had a solo exhibition titled "Contemplation and Action:  The Drawings and Paintings of Richard Upton" at the Selby Gallery of Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla.

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