Faculty-Staff Achievements, Sept. 13, 2010

Award

Catherine Golden, professor of English, received the George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) for her Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing. The prize was announced at SHARP's annual conference in Helsinki in late August. Read more here.

Crystal Dea Moore, associate professor and director, Social Work Program, has been selected to be a Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) fellow for spring 2011. Her three-month fellowship will begin March 1 in the Department of Social Medicine at Gothenburg University. The Department of Social Medicine is a multidisciplinary group (physicians, nurses, social workers, physical therapists, nutritionists) who seek to understand how social and economic conditions affect health and the practice of medicine and to promote conditions and develop interventions that lead to a healthier society. While in Sweden, Moore will deliver lectures in the department and work on various funded research projects that involve the promotion of health and well being of older adults. This fall, she is collecting data on older American adults regarding quality-of-life issues and alcohol consumption. This data will then be compared with the same data collected on older Swedes.

While Skidmore routinely hosts STINT fellows from Sweden, Moore is the first Skidmore faculty member to go to Sweden with support from the STINT Foundation. Annika Jakobsson, a nurse from the Department of Social Medicine at Gothenburg University, was a STINT fellow in Social Work during fall 2008. She and Moore had many common interests and as a result, she wrote a grant to STINT inviting Moore for the fellowship.

Activities

David Domozych, professor of biology, and Mary Crone Odekon, associate professor and chair, Department of Physics, each had an "Academic Minute" on WAMC-FM recently. Odekon's aired Aug. 27 and Domozych's was broadcast Sept. 6.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, conducted three public pre-performance interviews during the summer New York City Ballet season at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. On July 13 he interviewed NYCB soloist Ellen Bar about the film she and fellow soloist Sean Suozzi recently co-produced of Jerome Robbins's ballet N. Y. Export: Opus Jazz, which aired on PBS in March. On July 14 he spoke with NYCB principal Ashley Bouder about her career with the company, and on July 15 he interviewed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon about his new ballet, Estancia. On July 16, Rogoff discussed Jerome Robbins's ballets with a group of Skidmore alumni and donors in a pre-performance event at the Tang Teaching Museum.

Denise Smith, Class of 1961 Term Professor, Department of Health and Exercise Science, is an organizer and will be a featured speaker at the Firefighter Cardiovascular Health and Safety Research Summit 2010, scheduled Sept. 16 and 17 at the Illinois Fire Service Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The event will bring together research groups focused on firefighter cardiovascular health and safety issues with directors of state training academies and national leadership in the fire service. Support for the event is provided in part by a grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security. Smith is an expert on firefighter cardiovascular health; her work has been supported by several recent federal grants and was the subject of her Moseley Faculty Research Lecture in 2009. 

Publications

Catherine J. Golden, professor of English, has created a new section for the Victorian Web ( created and managed by George Landow of Brown University) titled " The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing."  In addition to her introduction to the subject, she has contributed essays on such topics as " Sir Rowland Hill," " The Portable Writing desk - the Victorian laptop," and " Postal Products: Postage stamps, Stationery, Letter Racks, Paper Clips, Ink Wells, Desk Sets, Portable Writing Desks," and  The General Post Office, One Minute to Six.

In addition, she has a review of a book called Heretical Hellinism: Women Writers, Ancient Greece, and the Victorian Popular Imagination by Shanyn Fiske published in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 2009.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has published a chapbook of poems, Twenty Danses Macabre, in a letterpress edition from Spring Garden Press. The chapbook won the press's Robert Watson Poetry Award in 2009. In addition, Rogoffhas published several poems recently:"Raining Empire," "A Debate About Realism,"and"Weapons of Mass Destruction"inPrairie Schooner,Vol.84, No. 3, Fall 2010;"Death Contemplates the Resurrection of Capital Punishment" in The Southern Review, Vol. 46, No. 3, Summer 2010; "Redon Pulls Sentry Duty" in Literary Imagination, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2010; "Death's Animation" in Hotel Amerika, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2010; and "Swanilda Meets Her Twin" in Ploughshares, Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring 2010. His dance essay-review, "Farrell, Morris, Masters, and Masterpieces," on performances of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and the Mark Morris Dance Group, appeared in The Hopkins Review, where serves as dance critic, Vol. 3, No. 3 Summer 2010, and he also reviewed the July New York City Ballet season and the August Bill T. Jones Company performance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center for The Saratogian.

Mary Zeiss Stange, professor of women's studies and religion, is the author of a new book, Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch (University of New Mexico Press, 2010). Read more here.

Daniel Swift, assistant professor of English, is the author of a new book, Bomber County - The Poetry of a Lost Pilot's War (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010). Click here to read more.

Gordon Thompson, professor of music, has a new entry titled "George Martin Goes Independent" to his blog, hosted on the Oxford University Press web site.

In the News

T.H. Reynolds, assistant professor of exercise science, was quoted in a story titled "Rules aim to keep kids cool" published Sept. 2 in The Daily Gazette.

Gordon Thompson, professor of music, was a source for a story on the denial of parole for Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon. The story aired Sept. 7 on WAMC-FM.