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Faculty-Staff Achievements

September 1, 2021

Yelena BibermanYelena Biberman, associate professor of political science, published “The Technologies and International Politics of Genetic Warfare,” as a feature article in Strategic Studies Quarterly.  

Peggy Boyers

Peg Boyers, lecturer of English and executive editor of Salmagundi, has published her fourth book of poems, “The Album.” 

 

Kris CoveyKristofer Covey, assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, was interviewed for an article in the French outlet Uzbek & Rica about the counterintuitive effects trees can have on climate. 

Charlotte D'EvelynCharlotte D’Evelyn, assistant professor of music, served as guest editor and contributing author for a special issue of the journal Asian Music on "Transregional Politics of Throat-Singing as Cultural Heritage in Inner and Central Asia.” She also published the article "Khöömii, Chooryn Duu, and Dissonant Heritage in Inner Mongolia, China.” This special issue brings together specialists from the U.S., U.K., France, and the Republic of Tyva in the Russian Federation, and contributes to the study of transregional heritage politics in Inner/Central Asia.

Ron SeybRon Seyb, associate professor of political science, was interviewed by NBC5 Plattsburgh about New York's new lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin.

 

Denise SmithDenise Smith, professor of health and human physiological sciences, has been awarded a $602,088  Fire Prevention & Safety (FPS) grant from the Department of Homeland Security. The project, “Continuing Fight Against COVID Together (C-FACT),” addresses an urgent fire service vulnerability – the need to understand and provide guidance on the long-term health risks posed by COVID-19.  

Saleema WaraichSaleema Waraich, associate professor of art history, published “Concealing and Revealing the Female Body in European Prints and Mughal Paintings,” in “Prints as Agents of Global Exchange 1500-1800,” edited by Heather Madar (Amsterdam University Press, 2021). 

Tim WientzenTimothy Wientzen, associate professor of English, has published his first book, “Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex,” with Johns Hopkins University Press. The book is a study of how behavioral science shaped 20h-century politics and the modernist literary period. 

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