Faculty-Staff Achievements, Oct. 12, 2009

Award

Jordana Dym, associate professor of history and director, Latin American Studies Program is the author of an article, "Citizen of Which Republic: Foreigners and the Construction of National Citizenship in Latin America, 1823-1845" published in The Americas, Vol. 64, No. 4 (April 2008), which won the New England Council of Latin American Studies "Best Article" Award for 2009.  The award was presented at NECLAS annual meeting Oct. 3, 2009, at Union College.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has won the Spring Garden Press 2009 Robert Watson Award for Poetry, judged by poet Camille Dungy. In addition to a cash award, the prize includes publication in autumn 2010 of his chapbook, Twenty Danses Macabres, in a fine letterpress edition. Founded by graduates of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Spring Garden Press is a not-for-profit independent literary press in Greensboro, whose mission is to publish poetry that, "by entering the world, wakens it."

Activities

Elzbieta Lepkowska-White, associate professor of management and business, gave two talks this summer. In August she presented the article "To Visit or Not to Visit?  Consumer Perceptions of Art Museums" (co-authored with her former thesis student Abby Goldenthal '07) at the Academy of Business Administration Conference in Paris, France.  The abstract of the paper was published in conference proceedings.  Her second presentation, an article titled  "Perceptions of Student-Centered Approaches in Transitional Economies: A Case of Client-Based Group Learning in Croatia"(co-written with Parsons Amy and Jurica Pavicic) was made at the 2009 World Marketing Congress organized by the Academy of Marketing in Oslo, Norway, in July.  The abstract of the paper will be published in the conference proceedings. 

Tom Lewis, professor of English, gave a reading Oct. 6 at the New York State Writers Institute in Albany.  He shared excerpts of his book, The Hudson: A History (2005), which informed the development of the exhibition, Lives of the Hudson, currently at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery.

Gordon Thompson, professor of music, has been elected to a three-year term on Council of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Publications

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, has published "Living Dolls: Coppélia at the New York City Ballet" in The Hopkins Review, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Fall 2009). The essay-review marks his debut as the journal's regular dance critic. 

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for "Served, Yes, But Well-Served?" in the Oct. 8 issue of Inside Higher Education.

Mike Ormsbee, visiting assistant professor of exercise science, is a guest health fitness consultant on Mondays on "News 10 at 4 p.m.," airing on WTEN-TV.

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