Faculty-Staff Achievements, May 12, 2015

Activity

Regina Janes, professor of English, was a panelist at a May 1 symposium on The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke at the Center for Representative Institutions, Yale University. The title of her talk was “Sic eat, o superi! How can I defend the present order of things?”

Publications

Jay Rogoff, visiting assistant professor of English, has a poem, "Eating People Is Wrong," in The Cumberland River Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2015). "Essential Eccentrics," his essay-review of works by the Mark Morris Dance Group and Chalk and Soot, an evening-long collaborative piece by Dance Heginbotham, string quartet Brooklyn Rider, and vocalist Shara Worden, has appeared in The Hopkins Review, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2015). His review of Jenifer Ringer's memoir, Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet, has been published in Ballet Review, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Spring 2015). In addition, two of his poems have been newly reprinted: "Jane Austen, Inventor of Baseball," in Vol. 1 of The Best of Salmagundi 50th Anniversary issue, nos. 185-186 (Winter-Spring 2015), and "Tempera" in Seminary Ridge Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 2015).

Rik Scarce, associate professor of sociology, is the author of Creating Sustainable Communities:  Lessons from the Hudson River Region, just released by SUNY Press. The book explores efforts aimed at creating sustainable communities throughout the Hudson River region. Famed environmentalist Bill McKibben cited the book’s “powerful, massively inspiring stories from one of the loveliest spots on the planet:  this is the new Hudson River School, and we all should be taking notes! More information is available at the publisher’s web site.

Sonia Silva, associate professor of anthropology, is the author of a chapter titled “Mobility and Immobility in the Life of an Amputee,” included in What is Existential Anthropology? Eds. Michael Jackson and Albert Piette, 2015, New York: Berghahn Books.

In the News

Andrew M. Lindner, assistant professor of sociology, is the author of an opinion essay titled “Television news could benefit from additional context,” published April 30 in the Albany Times Union.

Bob Turner, associate professor of government, was a source for “Experts:  Amedore made shrewd call on Skelos,” published May 10 in The Sunday Gazette. The story features comments from a number of political experts on a call by area first-term Sen. George Amedore for embattled Sen. Dean Skelos, majority leader of the state senate, to step down as he fights federal corruption charges.

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