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    Presenting

    Miriam Ehrenberg (Psychology) gave an invited address at the annual conference ofGlobalisation for the Common Good, held in Melbourne, Australia. Her paper, Applying

    Psychotherapy Techniques to Religious and Ethnic Conflict, covered both western andIslamic psychotherapy approaches and the implications of each for conflict resolution.

    Jeremy Travis (President) was the keynote speaker at the Public Service Conference onthe Future of Community Justice in Wisconsin at Marquette Law School on February 20.His remarks focused on Building Communities with Justice: Overcoming the Tyranny ofthe Funnel.

    George Andreopoulos (Government) delivered a series of lectures on "The Evolution ofInternational Human Rights Norms" at the University of Bologna in January. The lectureswere part of the university's graduate program in human rights and humanitarian

    intervention.

    Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was a panelistat the New York Academy of Medicines Harm Reduction conference on January 23.He was also a featured speaker at the annual conference of Students for Sensible DrugPolicy, held in College Park, MD, on November 23.

    R. Terry Furst (Anthropology) presented A Qualitative Exploration of SuboxoneOpioid Maintenance in a Harm Reduction Setting in New York City, a paper cowrittenwith Herman Joseph, and Sharon Stancliff, at the Columbia University Seminar Series inNew York in December. Furst was also one of the authors, along with Stancliff and

    Joseph, of Low Threshold Buprenorphine, a paper presented by Stancliff at the 7thNational Harm Reduction Conference in Miami last November.

    Between the Covers

    Patrick Collins (Communication & Theatre Arts) had two books released in January bySterling Publishers, a Barnes and Noble imprint.Negotiate to Win! is a tactical guide toachieving success in negotiations, and features a unique chapter on cross-culturalnegotiation. The second book, Speak with Power and Confidence, is an updated andrevised edition of Collins comprehensive guide to maximizing public speaking skills,originally published in 1998. Both works attracted the attention of foreign publishers atthe Fall 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair.

    Joseph King (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published hisarticle "Policing after Peel: the Government Moves to Centralize in the Turkish Journalof Police Studies in 2008. His article Police Problems: Labor Relations in the EarlyPolice Service of the United Kingdom appeared in the January 2009 issue ofPoliceForum, published by the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

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    Alisse Waterston (Anthropology) has had two new edited volumes published:AnAnthropology of War: Views from the Frontline (Berghahn Books, 2009) andAnthropology off the Shelf: Anthropologists on Writing(Wiley Blackwell, 2009, Maria D.Vesperi, co-editor).An Anthropology of Warincludes Waterstons introduction, On Warand Accountability.Anthropology off the Shelfincludes a chapter by Waterston titled

    Writing Poverty, Drawing Readers: Stories inLove, Sorrow and Rage. Waterston servesas chair of the American Anthropological Associations Committee on the Future of Printand Electronic Publishing to guide the digital transition of scholarly publishing. InNovember, Waterston presented a talk at the associations annual meeting on TheAcademy, the Market-State and the Dissemination of Anthropological Knowledge in theDigital Age.

    Peter Moskos (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) had his bookreview of Hugh Holtons The Thin Black Line: True Stories by Black Law EnforcementOfficers Policing Americas Meanest Streets published in The Washington PostonJanuary 11.

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    On Board

    Ben Jorgensen (Physical Education and Athletics) was named as the Colleges new headmens tennis coach. Jorgensen, who has been a tennis instructor for more than 15 years,

    was the top singles player as a member of the mens tennis team at New York Universityin 1989 and 1990. He is also a working actor who has appeared in several films anddaytime soap operas.

    Between the Covers

    Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) will have her articletitled "The Correctional Educator: A Nontraditional Occupation" published in theMay/June 2009 issue ofOffender Programs Report, a publication from the CivicResearch Institute that is devoted to innovative programs, management strategies andlegal developments in offender rehabilitation.

    Simon Baatz (History) had his book,For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murderthat Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins), chosen as a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Awardfor Best Non-Fiction Crime Book in 2008. The award will be presented by the MysteryWriters of America on April 30.

    David Brotherton (Sociology) had his bookKeeping Out the Other: A CriticalIntroduction to Immigration Enforcement Today (Columbia University Press) cited as"Outstanding Academic Title for 2008" by Choice, the review magazine of the AmericanLibrary Association. Brotherton co-edited the book along with Philip Kretsedemas of theUniversity of Massachusetts.

    Presenting

    Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) made aContinuing Legal Education presentation on Daubert Challenges to FirearmsIdentification on January 10 at the Fifth National Seminar on Forensic Science and theLaw, sponsored by the Office of Defender Services of the Administrative Office of theU.S. Courts.

    Ellen Belcher (Library) presented a paper titled Is There a Halaf Bead and PendantTypology? A Look at the Evidence at the Bead Technology Workshop hosted by theBritish Museum in London, England, on January 12-13.

    Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) conducted one-day clinics on Swimmingfor Total Fitness and Swim Basics at the Jewish Community Center in Tucson, AZ, onJanuary 4 and The Club for Women, an all-women health club in Phoenix, on January 6.

    M. Victoria Prez-Ros (Government) presented two papers, Cooperation againstTransnational Crime: Lessons from the Balkans and International Courts and ConflictResolution: Toward a New Normative Framework, Social Justice and New Debates, atthe annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, held in New Orleans,

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    LA, in early January. She also chaired a panel on Domestic Implications of InternationalLaw and served as a discussant on a panel on Pedagogy and Research.

    Peer Review

    Staci Strobl (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) is one of the

    finalists for the Richard J. Terrill Paper of the Year Award to be presented in March by theAcademy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Strobl was nominated for her paper TheWomen's Police Directorate in Bahrain, which appeared in theInternational CriminalJustice Review Journal.

    Nishan Parlakian (Communication and Theatre Arts, emeritus) received the St. VartanAward from the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), for his lifelongachievements in the performing arts. Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of theDiocese said, It is through individuals like [Parlakian] that the future of Armeniantheater will remain vibrant among the next generation of Armenian Americans.

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    Between the Covers

    Simon Baatz (History) had his book,For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder

    that Shocked Chicago (HarperCollins) chosen by USA Today as one of its 10 Best Booksfor 2008. Jonathan Yardley, the book critic forThe Washington Post, choseFor the Thrillof Itas one of the Top 15 Books for 2008, and R.V. Scheide of The Sacramento News &Review selected Baatzs book as one of the years Best 55 Books.

    Jock Young (Sociology) had his new book, Cultural Criminology: An Invitation, writtenwith Jeff Ferrell and Keith Hayward, published by Sage. The book was launched inNovember at the American Society of Criminology meeting in St. Louis.

    Jill Stauffer (Philosophy), who is currently on fellowship in residence at the GraduateCenter, had her new book,Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God,

    published by Columbia University Press. The volume was co-edited with Bettina Bergo.

    Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) had her article Joint-Friendly WaterWorkout in the October/November 2008 issue ofArthritis Health Monitor. Her articleon The Healthy Swimmer appeared in the November/December issue ofUSMSSwimmermagazine.

    Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) publishedParts 1 and 2 of her article Challenging Firearms and Toolmark Identification in theOctober and November/December issues ofThe Champion, the journal of the NationalAssociation of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Part 1 was the cover story in the Octoberissue. The articles are also scheduled to be reprinted in The California Defender.

    Presenting

    Michael Pfeifer (History) presented a paper titled The Midwestern Making of RacialLynching: The Lynching of African-Americans in the Civil War and Reconstruction atthe American Historical Association meeting in New York City on January 3. Pfeiferpreviously presented a paper, "Lynching, Law, and Sectional Identity in the AntebellumBorder States, on October 25 in Louisville, KY, at the Filson Institute AcademicConference on Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.

    Jock Young (Sociology) gave a series of six lectures during a recent visit to Argentina.He was the introductory plenary speaker at the international seminar on Rethinking theRole of the State in Crime Prevention, hosted by the Federal Secretariat of Public Safety.He addressed the Social Cabinet of the Province of Santa Fe on policies of socialinclusion in the field of crime control; spoke at the Universities of Buenos Aires andRosario on his recent bookThe Vertigo of Late Modernity; and presented his research onmultiagency crime prevention to the UN Development Program on local initiatives in thisarea. While there, he also had productive meetings with the National Director of Criminal

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    Policy and the director of the UN program regarding future research on crime and socialexclusion.

    Jane Katz (Physical Education and Athletics) presented a talk on Health and ExerciseThrough the Holidays on December 17 as part of the David Rogers Health Policy

    Colloquium at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center.

    Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had readings of his plays UFOStory and The Flowers Sing: Strindbergs Dream performed by the Living Theatre inManhattan on December 2.

    Peer Review

    Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was appointed to theboard of directors of OPEN Inc. (Offender Preparation & Education Network, Inc.), acorrectional service agency founded in Dallas, TX, in 1979. We are thrilled Dr. Kimorahas agreed to serve on our board, said the organizations executive director, Ned Rollo.

    She brings a national and academic perspective to us.

    Duane Green (Facilities Management) won the heavyweight title in the biennialTournament of Champions amateur boxing competition held at Nassau Coliseum inDecember. Green, who trains at the Young Boxing Association (YBA) gym in the Bronx,chalked up two technical knockouts and one decision en route to the championship. In thefirst round, he scored a TKO over the fighter who had defeated him for the title two yearsago.

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    On Board

    Michelle Rahmeh (Physical Education and Athletics) was named as the Colleges newhead athletic trainer. Rahmeh, a New Jersey native who holds bachelors and masters

    degrees from the University of Akron, brings to the position a diverse rsum in the fieldsof health, health education and physical therapy.

    Presenting

    Elizabeth Hegeman (Anthropology) spoke at the American Red Cross on November 13on "Post-Traumatic Growth: Organizational and Individual Perspectives." She addressedthe issues of compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction for mental health workersfacing disaster.

    Simon Baatz (History) gave the annual Lawrence J. Gutter Literary Lecture at NorthShore Congregation Israel in Glencoe, IL, in November.

    Anissa Hlie (History) was recently invited by the University of the Philippines, inManila, to lecture on issues of religious fundamentalism and present research undertakenby the group Women Living Under Muslim Laws. The lecture, The Great Ancestors:Women Asserting Rights in Muslim Contexts, highlighted the lives and deeds of womenthroughout history who have promoted gender equality in diverse Muslim countries andcommunities, including the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Muslim Spain, India, Pakistan,Algeria, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia, Nigeria and Indonesia.

    Stephen Handelman (Center on Media, Crime and Justice) appeared on the CUNY TVIndependent Sources program on December 3, where he discussed the New York CityPolice Departments press accreditation policies. In October, Handelman delivered a talkon U.S. media and criminal justice issues to a group of more than 100 army, police andsecurity officials from Latin America and the Caribbean this years class of the Inter-American Defense College at the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in NewYork.

    Between the Covers

    Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) authored an articletitled T he Bard Prison Initiative: Excellent Example of Empowering Education behindthe Walls that Needs to Be Replicated, which will appear in the January/February 2009issue ofOffender Programs Report, a publication from the Civic Research Institute.Kimoras bookPrison: Getting Out by Going In (Instructor's Manual)will be published inDecember 2008. She wrote the book to provide a teaching tool for correctional educatorswho work with offenders at the Century Detention Center in Lynwood, CA.

    Monica Varsanyi (Government) published a paper in the December 2008 issue of theAnnals of the Association of American Geographers, the flagship journal in the academicfield of geography. Her paper, Rescaling the Alien, Rescaling Personhood:

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    Neoliberalism, Immigration and the State, was the lead article in the journals humangeography subsection.

    Eugene ODonnell (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) publisheda commentary, Shot in the Dark: Why Was Crime Overlooked in This Campaign, in the

    November 3 issue of Newsweek magazine. The article, which appeared just before therecent presidential election, said it would be a crime for the next President not to makecriminal justice matters a priority.

    Peer Review

    Isabelle Curro (Security) was named winner of the 2009 Commitment to Justice Awardfor Outstanding Solo Practitioner by inMotion, an organization that provides low-incomewomen with free legal services in matrimonial, family and immigration law. Curro, anattorney, was cited for her commitment to pro bono legal services. The award will beformally presented at a gala in early February.

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    On Board

    Diane Ramirez (Physical Education and Athletics) was named head coach of womens

    basketball and equipment manager. Ramirez is a 2007 graduate of Baruch College, whereshe served as assistant womens basketball coach for the past two seasons, and played forthree seasons prior to that.

    Between the Covers

    Wanda Fernandopulle (Career Development) had her biography of Richard Allen, oneof the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, published in a first-time,eight-volume print edition of theAfrican American National Biography (AANB). TheAANB, published by the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University and the OxfordUniversity Press, is the largest collective biography of African Americans ever producedand is already recognized as the standard in the field.

    Howard Pflanzer (Communication and Theatre Arts) had a review/commentary,Existential Affairs, a look at Edward and Kate Fullbrooks bookSex and Philosophy:Rethinking De Beauvoir and Sartre, published in the October 2008 CUNY GraduateCenter Advocate. His review of Robert Roths bookHealth Proxy was published in thevolume Cultural Logic 2007. In addition, two of his poems recently appeared in theliterary magazineAnd Then.

    Presenting

    George Andreopoulos (Government) presented a paper on The Regulation of CorporateActivities Under Human Rights Treaties at the annual conference of the InternationalAcademy of Business and Economics in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 19-22. The paperwas co-authored with Giuliana Campanelli and Alexandros Panayides of WilliamPaterson University.

    Adina Schwartz (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) presented I Know It When I See It and Criminalistics at the annual meeting of the NortheasternAssociation of Forensic Scientists meeting on October 3, during a general session onDebating the Forensic Science in Forensic Science. On October 23, Schwartz made aContinuing Legal Education presentation on Firearms & Tool Marks at the TexasCriminal Defense Lawyers Associations annual forensics seminar in Dallas, TX.

    Roy Perham (Psychology) presented a workshop, A Two-Stage Assessment Center thatBrought ALL Employees to a Higher Level of Performance, at the 34th InternationalCongress on Assessment Center Methods in Washington, DC, on September 24.Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) addressed a group ofstudents from the High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry at the Martin LutherKing, Jr. Educational Campus about self-esteem enhancement and choosing an academiccareer over criminal activity on October 15.

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    Peer Review

    Miriam Ehrenberg (Psychology), in her role as executive director of the Institute forHuman Identity (a nonprofit psychotherapy center in Manhattan), was awarded a grantfrom the New York State Department of Health for Family Q, a five-year innovative

    program that offers free workshops to gay and lesbian parents and prospective parents onthe emotional issues involved in alternate family building. The grant also providescounseling training for selected interns on the special issues such parents face in raisingfamilies. (Students who might be interested in applying for the program should visitwww.ihi-therapycenter.org/familyq and contact Professor Ehrenberg.)

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    PresentingM. Victoria Prez-Ros (Government) presented a paper, On the Effectiveness of

    International Tribunals (ICTY and ICTR), at the American Political ScienceAssociations annual meeting in Boston, MA, August 28-31. She also presented twopapers Investing in Renewable Energies: Are Some Third-Generation Human RightsMore than Wishful Thinking? and Accountability for Disappearances: The Role ofRegional Courts at the annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology ofLaw in Milan-Como, Italy, in July.

    Rosemary Barberet (Sociology) and Andrs Rengifo, a graduate of the PhD program incriminal justice and currently an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-St.Louis, were part of a Commission of Independent Experts selected by the Colombianstatistics agency, DANE, to evaluate crime statistics produced by the National Police of

    Colombia, from September 15-19.

    Between the CoversSimon Baatz (History) wrote Criminal Minds for the August 2008 issue ofSmithsonian magazine. The article is an excerpt of his bookFor the Thrill of It: Leopold,Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago.

    Mangai Natarajan (Sociology) had her newest book, Women Police in a ChangingSociety: Back Door to Equality, published by Ashgate Publishing in September 2008. Thebook focuses on a unique and highly successful experiment begun in Tamil Nadu, India,in 1992, in which all-female police units were established as a way of enhancing the

    confidence and professionalism of woman officers.

    Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) was namedcontributing editor of Getting Out by Going In (GOGI), a monthly newsletter publishedby a nonprofit organization of the same name. GOGI educates federal, state and juvenileoffenders in California and Arizona. In addition, Professor Kimora wrote the foreword forMara Leigh Taylor's bookWomen in Prison: Women Finding Freedom. In May, Kimoravisited female inmates at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, CA, whereshe spoke about the importance of the GOGI program.

    Lori L. Martin (African-American Studies) had several publications in 2008 including

    an article titled Cashing in on the American Dream, which examined racial differencesin housing values over the past few decades. The article appeared in the journalHousing,Theory and Society. Martin also co-authored an article with Hayward Derrick Horton,Critical Demography and the Measurement of Racism, as well as a book,Non-MarriedWomen and Asset Ownership that explores differences in the types and levels of assetsowned by non-married black and white women.

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    Margaret Wallace (Sciences) recently published Forensic Science: The Interfacebetween Science and the Lawin theKoreanJournal of Scientific Criminal Investigation.The article discussed the role of molecular biology on forensic science and emphasizedDNA-based methods of identification in human, botanical and entomological samples.

    Edward Snajdr (Anthropology) had his book,Nature Protests: The End of Ecology inSlovakia published by Washington University Press. The ethnographic study investigateswhy Slovakias ecology movement, so strong under socialism, fell apart so rapidlydespite the persistence of serious environmental problems in the region.

    James Cauthen (Government) and Barry Latzer (Government) co-authored an article,"Why so Long? Explaining Processing Time in Capital Appeals," which appeared inJustice System Journal, a publication of the National Center for State Courts. Theirresearch was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice.

    Barry Luby (Emeritus, Foreign Languages & Literatures) recently published a new

    book, The Uncertainties in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Analytic Thought:Miguel de Unamuno the Precursor. The work was published in September by Juan de laCuesta-Hispanic Monographs.

    Peer ReviewSusan Opotow (Sociology) was presented with the Morton Deutsch Conflict ResolutionAward at the 2008 American Psychological Association Convention in Boston this pastAugust. The award, presented by the Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict andViolence (Division 48 of the APA) recognizes Opotow for her outstanding contributionsas a scholar, teacher, and mentor.

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    Peer Review

    Jeremy Travis (President) was named chair of the New York State Juvenile Justice TaskForce by the Hon. David Paterson, Governor of New York State. Over the coming year,

    the newly constituted task force is charged with developing strategies for transformingthe states juvenile justice system and developing what Travis hopes will be a morecomprehensive and less punitive approach to handling juvenile offenders.

    Maria Volpe (Sociology) won the 2008 Lawrence Cooke Peace Innovator Award,presented by the New York State Dispute Resolution Association in collaboration withthe New York State Unified Court System Office of ADR and Court ImprovementPrograms. Volpe will also be the honoree at the Network for Peace Through Dialoguerecognition night on October 30 in New York City.

    Wanda Fernandopulle (Student Development) was selected as an Association for

    Institutional Research Fellow for the upcoming National Conference on First-YearAssessment, to be held October 12-14 in San Antonio, Texas.

    Joseph King (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) won the 2008Roberta Thornton Award, presented by the CUNY Graduate Centers PhD AlumniAssociation in recognition of his outstanding achievement as a criminal justicepractitioner and scholar.

    Presenting

    Keith A. Markus (Psychology) spent five weeks visiting the University of Canterbury inChristchurch, New Zealand, on an Erskine Fellowship to work with Professor Brian Haigon a joint methodological research project. While there, he presented a colloquium on"Construct Validity and Causal Modeling." Closer to home, at the annual convention ofthe American Psychological Association in Boston, Markus presented a poster titledAbductive Inferences to Psychological Variables: Weighting Competing Criteriacoauthored by Samuel W. Hawes, a John Jay alumnus, and Rula J. Thasites, a currentJohn Jay student.

    Janice Bockmeyer (Government) presented her paper, The Politics of Supra-localNonprofits: Do Good Practices Reset the Community Metacenter? on a paneldiscussing Local Networks, Race, Immigration and Identity at the annual meeting of theAmerican Political Science Association in August.

    Larry Sullivan (Library) taught a four-day seminar on elite deviance to governmentofficials at St. Johns College in Belize City, Belize, in March. He also gave a lecture oncommunity justice at the National Police Academy in Belmopan, Belize, on March 12.He presented the paper, Family Values and Domestic Violence: The Polish Paradigm, atthe annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Cincinnati in March.This paper was based on research he did at Warsaw University on a KosciuszkoFoundation grant.

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    Between the Covers

    Elise Langan (Government) published an article on Assimilation and AffirmativeAction in French Education Systems in the fall 2008 issue ofEuropean Education. Shewas named a visiting scholar at New York University's Center for European Studies.

    Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) published an articletitled The Punishment Potlach: A Way Out in the fall 2008 issue ofInsights, apublication of the Offender Preparation and Education Network Inc. In the article,Kimora and her coauthor, attorney Mark Hazelbaker, contend that this punishmentpotlach in the United States has ignored the cost of criminal justice, and they advocate anaggressive program of intervention for incarcerated individuals.

    Larry Sullivan (Library) had his article Prison is Dull Today: Prison Libraries and theIrony of Pious Reading published in the May 2008 issue ofPMLA, the journal of theModern Language Association. His review essay ofThe Encyclopedia of the Library of

    Congressappeared in the April 2008 issue ofLibrary Quarterly.

    Keith A. Markus (Psychology) recently published an article contrasting alternativecausal interpretations of statistical models, titled Hypothesis Formulation, ModelInterpretation and Model Equivalence: Implications of a Mereological CausalInterpretation of Structural Equation Models in the summer 2008 issue of the journalMultivariate Behavioral Research. A recent issue of the journal Measurementincludedhis article Constructs, Concepts and the Worlds of Possibility: Connecting theMeasurement, Manipulation, and Meaning of Variables, as well as his rejoinder PuttingConcepts and Constructs into Practice: A Reply to Cervone and Caldwell, Haig, Kane,Mislevy, and Rupp. Markus also published a critique titled Abductive Inferences toPsychological Variables: Steigers Question and Best Explanations of Psychopathy, inthe summer 2008 issue of theJournal of Clinical Psychology. The critique wascoauthored by John Jay alumnus Samuel W. Hawes and current student Rula J. Thasites.

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    PRESENTING

    Gloria Proni (Sciences) presented a paper entitled "Chiral Recognition by a CD-

    sensitive dimeric porphyrin host: Recent Advances in the assignment of absoluteconfiguration" at the 235th American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition,April 6-10, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The work was done in collaboration withthe laboratory of Dr. Nina Berova in the Chemistry Department of Columbia University.Later in the spring, Dr. Proni presented a research talk, Detection of Opioids in Urine byNMR Spectroscopy: Preliminary Studies at the 40th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting(MARM), May 1721 in Bayside, Queens. Donna Wilson, a forensic science graduatestudent, worked on this project as a fulfillment of her thesis requirement. The work wasconducted jointly with Elise Champeil (Sciences). In late August, Proni presented aposter titled Synthesis and Chiral Recognition of a Fish Pheromone by CD-SensitiveDimeric Zinc Porphyrin Host at the American Chemical Society National Meeting and

    Exposition in Philadelphia. Ekaterina Chadwick, an undergraduate forensic sciencestudent, coauthored the presentation.

    Effie Papatzikou Cochran (English) was the lead discussant on a panel titled FourInterrogating Concepts and Cases: Family, Law, and Language at the Law and SocietyAnnual Conference in Montreal, Canada, on May 31.

    Abby Stein (Interdisciplinary Studies) spoke at the International PsychohistoricalAssociation on June 4 at Fordham University. Her presentation was titled, From HisCradle to Your Grave: How Child Abuse Drives Violent Crime. Stein also served as theinvited Critical Issues columnist for the spring issue ofISSTD News, published by theInternational Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation's publication. Her columnfocused on First Defense: Dissociated States and Criminal Violence.

    R. Terry Furst (Anthropology) presented a paper, A Qualitative Exploration of anOffice-Based Buprenorphine Demonstration Program in New York City, at the Societyfor the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in Boston. He also presented A HarmReduction Approach to the Provision of Bupernorphine at the conference for theDevelopments in the Treatment of Dependence on Opiate: Practices and Perspectives, inFrance, and co-authored Low Threshold Buprenorphine Prescribing, a paper presentedat the International Harm Reduction Conference in Barcelona, Spain.

    Elise Champeil and Gloria Proni (Sciences) co-authored the lecture Use of NMRSpectroscopy for the Detection of Opioids in Human Fluids that was presented at theAmerican Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in Philadelphia in lateAugust. Donna Wilson, a recent graduate of the masters degree program in forensicscience, worked on this project as a fulfillment of her thesis requirement.

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    BETWEEN THE COVERS

    Benjamin Lapidus (Art and Music) will have his new book, Origins of Cuban Musicand Dance: Chang, published by The Scarecrow Press on October 28. The book is the

    first in-depth study of chang, a style of music and dance in Guantnamo, Cuba, thatcontributed to the development of salsa.

    Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) and MichaelAman (Communication and Theatre Arts) co-authored an article, No Country for OldMen: Psychopathic Elements in an Academy-Award-Winning Film, in which they stressthe importance of criminal justice professionals learning elements of psychopathy fromthe film. The article appeared in the July/August issue ofCommunity Corrections Reporton Law and Corrections Practice.

    PEER REVIEW

    Robert Garot (Sociology) has won a faculty fellowship for the spring 2009 semester atthe John D. Calandra Italian American Institute at Queens College. The fellowship willhelp facilitate Garots research project on Immigrants and the Law in ContemporaryTuscany.

    Allison Kavey (History) has been awarded a $15,000 faculty development grant by theCity University of New York to fund her proposal, Teaching Portfolios: An Analysis oftheir Uses for History Pedagogy.

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    ON BOARD

    Laura Drazdowski (Physical Education and Athletics) was appointed head coach of the

    John Jay womens softball team. Drazdowski, the Colleges Assistant Director ofAthletics for Marketing and Promotion, served as interim softball coach for the 2008season, leading the team to a 12-23 record and a fourth place finish in conference play.After the hard work the team and I put in last season, I am thrilled to be continuing onthe path of success that started last February, she said. Over the summer, John Jay addedtwo other new head coaches. Carl Nedell was named head womens tennis coach,succeeding Amy Rowland, who resigned earlier this year. Nedell had previously coachedthe John Jay mens tennis team during the 2000 season, and has also coached for HunterCollege, James Monroe High School and Forest Hills High School. Jessica Kolackovskywill serve as interim head coach of the womens swimming team for the 2008-09 season,filling in for Jane Katz, who will be on sabbatical. Kolackovsky served as a volunteer

    assistant coach under Katz last season, and also serves as the Colleges head lifeguard.She was a Big East Conference Academic All-Star as an undergraduate swimmer at SetonHall University.BETWEEN THE COVERS

    Andrew Sidman (Government) has an article, Forecasting Non-Incumbent PresidentialElections: Lessons Learned from the 2000 Election, due out in a forthcoming issue oftheInternational Journal of Forecasting. Sidman also has 12 entries in the recentlypublishedEncyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Election, and Electoral Behavior(Sage,2008).

    Mary Gibson (History) received a Senior Fulbright Research Grant and a NationalEndowment for the Humanities' Fellowship to finish a book on the history of prisons inmodern Italy. Her article Ai margini della cittadinanza: le detenute dopo lUnit italiana(1860-1915) [At the Margins of Citizenship: Women Prisoners after Italian Unification]was recently published in the journal Storia delle Donne [Womens History].Nathan Lents (Sciences) had his manuscript Identification and Characterization of aNovel Mdm2 Splice Variant Acutely Induced by the Chemotherapeutic AgentsAdriamycin and Actinomycin D published in the journal Cell Cycle in June.

    Danielle Sapse (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration), EliseChampeil and Anne-Marie Sapse (Sciences), working in collaboration with twoprofessors from the University of Rouen, France, had their paper "Interaction of DNAFragments with Methyl Lithium" accepted for publication in the journal Comptes Rendusdes Seances de L' Academie Francaise. The paper applies theoretical methods to thestudy of DNA fragments interaction with methyl lithium and its possible use for criminalinvestigation.

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    Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) and MichaelAman (Speech, Theatre and Media Studies) co-authored an article, No Country for OldMen: Psychopathic Elements in an Academy-Award-Winning Film, in which they stressthe importance of criminal justice professionals learning elements of psychopathy fromthe film. The article appeared in the July/August issue ofCommunity Corrections Report

    on Law and Corrections Practice.

    PRESENTING

    Margaret Wallace (Sciences) was an invited speaker at the Fourth Annual Conference ofthe Korean Academy of Scientific Criminal Investigation. Wallaces presentation onForensic Science: the Interface between Scientific and the Law discussed the role offorensic biology in human identification and genotyping of botanical and entomologicalsamples. Wallace was also appointed Foreign Editor of theJournal of the KoreanAcademy of Scientific Criminal Investigationby the president of the academy.

    Janice Bockmeyer (Government) moderated the roundtable Maximum FeasibleMisunderstanding at 40: The Midlife Crisis of Community Participation? at the annualmeeting of the Urban Affairs Association in Philadelphia in late April. The roundtableexplored the impacts of federal community development policies in the 40 years since theWar on Poverty urban initiatives.

    Edgardo Diaz Diaz (Foreign Languages) addressed a full house of doctoral students andfaculty members at the University of Padova, Italy, on April 22. Diaz, anethnomusicologist, spoke about the meaning and influence of Italian opera in theCaribbean.

    Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) spoke to members ofthe Correctional Services Division of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department onMay 23, about the educational needs of adult offenders and the programs funded by theNational Institute of Corrections.

    M. Victoria Prez-Ros (Government) presented a paper on Western Bias inInternational Law: Francisco de Vitorias Writings and the Third World School at theInternational Studies Association Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA, in lateMarch.

    Abby Stein (Interdisciplinary Studies) spoke at the International PsychohistoricalAssociation conference on June 4 at Fordham University. Her presentation was titledFrom His Cradle to Your Grave: How Child Abuse Drives Violent Crime. Stein alsoserved as the invited Critical Issues columnist for the spring issue ofISSTD News,published by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Hercolumn focused on First Defense: Dissociated States and Criminal Violence.

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    PEER REVIEW

    Maria Hartwig (Psychology) received the "Early Career Award" from the European

    Association of Psychology & Law, for "her excellent track-record in peer reviewedpapers in international journals and chapters in national and international volumes, andfor being an inspiring example showing how a young researcher from a small place canfind her way to a top position in the international arena.

    Peter Dodenhoff(Institutional Advancement) recently completed the requirements forhis U.S. Coast Guard merchant captains certification. The entry-level license, awardedon the basis of experience, test scores, fitness, character references and other criteria,allows the for-hire operation of merchant and recreational vessels in U.S. coastal waters,including charters and yacht deliveries.