Faculty-Staff Achievements, Sept. 26, 2011

Awards

Jackie Murray, assistant professor of classics, is the winner of the Andrew Heiskell/National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Rome Prize, awarded by the American Academy in Rome. The prize is a fellowship which will support Murray's research in Rome for approximately one year, beginning this month. (She is on sabbatical leave for the current academic year.)

Her research is titled "Apollonius' Argonautica: Anchored in Time." Explained Murray, "I will use this fellowship to complete my book project on Apollonius' Argonautica. The date of this unique and influential epic has been a source of controversy for over a century. My research, however, introduces a new and more objective approach to the question. Read more.

Murray traveled to Rome from Berlin, where since June she had been doing research at Humboldt University and the Berlin State Library.

Jorg Bibow, associate professor of economics, was named a "Featured Scholar" for September by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

Activities

Janet Galligani Casey, professor of English, gave a talk titled "Pulp Fiction and the Modern Reader" Sept. 15 at Union College's Mandeville Gallery. The talk was in connection with the gallery's exhibition Pulp Fiction Paintings: Selections from the Robert Lesser Collection. 

Three members of the Skidmore community participated in a panel discussion titled "Four Ways of Looking at a Chimp" Sept. 25, hosted by the Saratoga Film Forum. The event was held in conjunction with the film forum's screening of the movie Project Nim. Participants included Christina Grassi, visiting assistant professor of anthropology; Bernard Possidente, professor of biology; and Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology.  Also participating was Rabbi Jonathan Rubenstein of Temple Sinai.

Reginald Lilly, professor of philosophy, attended the International Phenomenological Symposium in July in Perugia, Italy, where he gave a paper titled "Traumatic Time, Phenomenological Time."

Publications & Exhibitions

Ginger Ertz, museum educator, Tang Teaching Museum, is one of six internationally acclaimed artists participating in Under the Sea at Mass MoCA's Kidspace, an exhibition scheduled to open Oct. 1. The show features work by artists who explore the ocean as habitat, myth, and a necessary element of life on earth. A self-proclaimed "river-gazer" since childhood, sculptor Ertz works with chenille stems to depict the movement of waves and ripples in the water.  Her work, which also includes an oil spill, invites the consideration of the effect of our pollution on the ocean.  Because each sculpture evolves during her artistic process, she views it as a metaphor for how life changes over time, a metaphor also reflected by the movement of water. 

Flagg Taylor, assistant professor of government, is the editor of The Great Lie, released in August by Intercollegiate Studies Institute (Wilmington, Del.)

In the News

Jill Belding Greenleaf, aquatics director and swim coach, was featured in a "Who? What? When? Where? Why?" profile Sept. 21 in The Saratogian.

Zack Vogel, lecturer, Department of Management and Business, was a source for a story titled "Advisers keep investors informed as market slides," published Sept. 24 in The Daily Gazette.