Faculty/Staff Activities

Barbara Black, associate professor of English, presented a paper titled "The Privileges of Membership" at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference last spring at the University of Virginia. She also served as a moderator at the Northeast Victorian Studies Association annual meeting at Drew University.

Tom Denny, professor and chair, Department of Music, discussed "Beethoven and Wagner: German Music as Ethnic Music" July 28 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) as part of its series of talks preceding performances of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Cathy Domozych, senior research associate, Department of Biology, was co-author of a paper titled "How symmetrical are desmids? Cell wall chemistry and development in Penium margaritaceum," presented at the 60th annual Phycological Society meetings July 5-12 in Juneau, Alaska. Co-authors included David Domozych and Michael Gretz (Michigan Technological University). David Domozych, professor of biology, was co-author of two papers presented at the Phycological Society meetings. The papers were titled "The exopolymers of desmids (Conjugatophyceae, Streptophyta): chemistry, structural analyses and implications in wetland biofilms" and "A fresh look at an invasive species, Didymospheia geminata: chemical and structural analysis of extracellular polymers." Co-authors included Michael Gretz (Michigan Technological University) and Sarah Spaulding (US Geological Survey, EPA).

In addition, David Domozych presented an invited paper titled "A different view of the protistan extracellular matrix: Its role in biofilms" at the 13th meeting of the East Coast Section of the International Society of Protistologists July 6-8 in Troy. He also accepted an invitation to present a talk titled "Desmids: The story of biofilm eukaryotes of northern wetlands" at the "Biofilm-Life on a Surface Symposium" that was part of the 45th annual Northeast Algal Symposium April 23-25 at Marist College, Poughkeepsie. At that same event, he was co-author of six poster presentations with Cathy Domozych, and with Michael Gretz and Sarah Kiemle, both of Michigan Technological University; and the following members of Skidmore's Class of 2006: Leah Elliott, Ashley Serfis, Richard Wilson, Sam Hocine, Anne Thomae, Christine Chang, and Rachel Lay.

David Domozych has been appointed an adjunct professor on the graduate faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences at Michigan Technological University.

Catherine Golden, professor of English, presented a paper entitled "Marking Her Territory: Feline Behavior in The Yellow Wall-Paper" at the fourth International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference June 16 in Portland, Maine. Nicole Zuckerman, Skidmore Class of 2004 (Masters University of Liverpool, 2005), gave a paper titled "Silence in The Yellow Wall-Paper" on the same panel titled "Gilman's Short Fiction: Then and Now." Her paper was awarded honorable mention for the best graduate student paper at the conference. Stefanie Vischansky, Skidmore Class of 2006 (Ph.D. student at University of Rochester) chaired the panel. In addition, Golden accepted an invitation to give the June 18 plenary address at the conference; her speech was titled "Her Story and Our Story: Rereading Gilman in the 21st Century."

In addition, Golden presented "Victorian American Women Writers Making a Change" April 10 at the Academy for Learning in Retirement. Her co-presenter was Melissa Rampelli, Skidmore Class of 2006, an English major who completed an honors thesis on the topic of woman and space in 19th-century American literature, which won the E. Beverly Fields Award in Women's Studies this year.

Bill Jones, sports information manager, participated in a panel titled "Is Everybody Happy? Handling Criticism of the SID" during the College Sports Information Directors of America Workshop July 2-5 in Nashville. Sports information directors from the University of Rochester, Boise State, Washington University in St. Louis, and West Virginia joined Jones for the panel, which focused on the challenges of working with media, coaches, parents, administrators, and other SIDs.

Charles M. Joseph, professor of music, gave a talk on Stravinsky and Balanchine Aug. 16 at the Sembrich Museum in Bolton Landing, N.Y. In addition, he did a pre-performance lecture at SPAC Aug. 9, prior to the Philadelphia Orchestra's concert featuring Yo Yo Ma, and two pre-performance events in connection with the New York City Ballet at SPAC: a lecture titled "A Delicate Balance" prior to the July 15 presentation on Stravinsky and Balanchine, and "A Conversation with Ballerina Maria Kowroski" July 8.

Lenora de La Luna, assistant professor of education, presented a keynote talk titled "Latino/as' Motivations for Migrating" at the Looking at Language: Summer Professional Development Institute, in August in Washington, D.C. This presentation was co-written with Julia Raufman (Skidmore '06) and was based on their 20006 collaborative research grant. At the same institute, de La Luna gave a presentation titled "Building Relationships between Parents and Schools." In May she presented a paper, "Assessing the English Language Learner" at the 55th annual New York Association for Continuing/Community Education Conference in Albany. During the same conference, she ran a roundtable discussion titled "Assessment, Not Testing." Finally, with Julia Raufman, she gave a paper titled "Hearing Immigrants' Voices."

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, led a "Conversation with a New York City Ballet Dancer" July 20 as part of the SPAC series of pre-performance talks during the NYCB season. In addition, he discussed "Finding Ourselves: An Introduction to The Tempest" July 17 at the Saratoga Springs Public Library, as a prelude to the Saratoga Shakespeare Company's production of The Tempest in Congress Park.

Robert D. Shorb, director of student aid and family finance and associate dean, is the 2006 recipient of the Mansfield University Elsie Burke Service Award. Established in 1983, the award recognizes outstanding loyalty and service to Mansfield University. Shorb, a 1976 Mansfield graduate, has been an active advocate and liaison for the university for many years. He was a class agent for the annual fund campaigns from 1991 to 1995, and a member of the alumni board from 1997 to 2003 (serving as president in 1998-2000 and as alumni board representative to the University Foundation Board). From 2000 to 2001, he was the non-voting alumni representative to the council of trustees. During Shorb's board tenure, he was instrumental in increasing alumni involvement in the admissions process, representing alumni during the initial discussion of Mansfield's first comprehensive capital campaign, and contributing alumni perspectives to the strategic goals of The Mansfield Plan. Shorb received the MU Young Alumni Award in 1992 and was the MU commencement speaker in 1993. After earning his B.S. in secondary education/social studies in 1976, Shorb completed an M.S. in education (college student development services) at Alfred University.

Publications & Performances

Yacub Addy, lecturer in music, premiered his Congo Square (co-written with Wynton Marsalis) May 23 in Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans. Portions of the two-hour piece were featured on Nick Apitzer's American Routes series airing on Public Radio International Aug. 23-30. In addition, brief audio and video footage of the final rehearsal in New Orleans was included in Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, which aired in late August on HBO.

Peg Boyers, executive editor, Salmagundi, is the author of a poem titled "Before Losing You at the Market, Finding You in the Temple" published in Raritan, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Spring 2006).

Robert Boyers, professor of English and editor, Salmagundi, is the author of "A Fanatical Mind: The novelist and the terrorist," published in Harper's Magazine, July 2006.

Joel Brown, senior artist-in-residence, Department of Music, was a guest artist at a July 3 concert marking the opening of the 26th season of the Luzerne Chamber Music Festival. The program featured music by Spanish composers performed by Brown and the following artists: LeAnne Wistrom of the Erie Philharmonic; Rico McNeela, University of Toledo; Megan Tipton, Boulder and Greely Philharmonic orchestras; Bert Phillips, Philadelphia Orchestra; and Toby Blumenthal, Steinway artist.

John Bruggemann, associate professor of sociology, is co-author of Racial Competition and Class Solidarity (2006, State University of New York Press), an examination of union organization efforts and strikes from the American Civil War to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, focusing on how cooperation or competition between races affected the outcomes.

Caroline D'Abate, assistant professor, Department of Management and Business, is co-author of an article titled "Key Characteristics of Effective and Ineffective Developmental Interactions" published in Human Resource Development Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring 2006. Her co-authors are E.R. Eddy, S.I. Tannenbaum, S. Givens-Skeaton, and G. Robinson.

Corey Freeman-Galant, associate professor and chair, Department of Biology, is lead author of "Genetic similarity, extra-pair paternity, and offspring quality in Savannah sparrows," to be published in the journal Behavioral Ecology next month. Co-authors include Katie Meiklejohn (Skidmore '03), Nathaniel Wheelwright (Bowdoin College), and Suzanne Sollecito. In addition, he is a co-author of "Attractive males provide less parental care in two populations of the common yellowthroat," to be published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Dan Mitchell, Peter Dunn, and Linda Whittingham (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) are co-authors.

Catherine Golden, professor of English, published "The Yellow Wall-Paper and Joseph Henry Hatfield's Original Magazine Illustrations," in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring 2005). She also published a review of "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries," eds. Cynthia J. Davis and Denise D. Knight, in American Literary Realism, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Fall 2005). Most recently, her article titled "The Pictures on the Paper: The Yellow Wall-Paper and Its Original Magazine Illustrations" was published in "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wall-Paper: A Dual-Text Critical Edition," ed. Shawn St. Jean, Ohio University Press, 2006. In addition, with Margie Herman (chair of the English Department at Maple Avenue Middle School), she published "Reading and Learning: A Community-Wide Initiative" in Community Works Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Summer 2006), based on their work with Saratoga Reads!

Steven Millhauser, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters, is the author of a story titled "A Change in Fashion" published in the May 2006 issue of Harper's Magazine.

Kyle Nichols, assistant professor of geology, is a co-author of "Dates and rates of arid region geomorphic processes" in GSA Today, Vol. 16, No. 8, August 2006, published by the Geological Society of America.

Mehmet Odekon, associate professor of economics, is the author of an article on Globalization and Labor included in Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 2006, published by Routledge.

Martha Wiseman, lecturer in English, is the author of a review of Going Sane: Maps of Happiness by Adam Phillips, in Eclectica, Vol. 10, No. 3, July/August 2006, or at www. eclectica.org

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