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May/June 2009
STAFF PICNIC 2009: At this year's staff picnic
and carnival, held May 20 on the Smith Campus Center south
lawn, Gail Sundberg and Debbie Wilson helped out by dishing
up cotton candy for their co-workers. This year, a Carl's
Jr. truck provided lunch, and cotton candy, popcorn and sno-cones
made up the dessert. Activities included a dessert carousel and a three-legged race,
led by Margaret Lohre, and a raffle. For many
more photos of the festive event, which was presented by
Staff Council, please click
here.
 RECENT AWARDS: We would like to recognize several staff and
faculty members who recently won awards. Frank Bedoya, senior associate dean of campus life, received
the Distinguished Staff Award at the Staff Appreciation Luncheon held in April. Staff members who hit their five-, 10-, 15-, 20- and 25-year
anniversaries were also recognized.
Seven professors were honored with the
2009 Wig Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The awards were announced at
Commencement on May 17. Recipients include Eleanor Brown (Economics),
Stephan Garcia (Mathematics), Susan McWilliams (Politics), Gilda Ochoa (Sociology, Chicano Studies), Ghassan Sarkis (Mathematics),
Tomás Summers Sandoval (History and Chicano Studies), and Jonathan Wright (Biology).
Please join us in congratulating our colleagues!
Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) was appointed to the editorial board of the interdisciplinary journal Nan
Nu: Men, Women and Gender in China. His translation of Yu Hua’s essay “China’s Forgotten Revolution” appeared on the op-ed page of the New York
Times on May 31.
Betty Bernhard’s (Theatre & Dance) latest documentary video, A Search for Dignity: Sex-Workers’ Theatre against
Injustice in India, was shown in Sangli, Pune, and Ahmedabad, India, in March. It was also screened at the 2009 Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed
Conference, held in Minneapolis in May.
Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) is chairing the Commission for External Review of the Professional School of Anthropology at
the National University of the Altiplano in Puno, Peru. He and other Commission members will prepare a report for the University based on an intensive series
of interviews with university authorities, faculty, graduates and students and on a review of the documentation assembled with respect to the functioning of
the anthropology program.
Paul Cahill (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Breaking News: Journalism, Poetics, and Media(tion) in José
-Miguel Ullán’s ‘Ficciones,’” at the 62nd Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, held at the University of Kentucky, April 16-18. The paper was part of
a panel, “Space(s) and Voice(s) in Contemporary Spanish Poetry,” that he organized and chaired.
André Cavalcanti (Biology) and Marie Adachi ’09 published “Tandem Stop Codons in Ciliates that Reassign Stop Codons” in
Journal of Molecular Evolution 68:4, pp. 424-31.
Susana Chávez-Silverman (Romance Languages & Literatures) was the subject of a paper, “Spanish as Cosmopolitan Vernacular
in Susana Chávez-Silverman’s Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories,” delivered at the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2009 annual meeting,
held at Harvard University in March. Chávez-Silverman read from her book Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories and her forthcoming Scenes from la
Cuenca de L.A. y Otros Natural Disasters at the Claremont Colleges’ Queer Resource Center on April 23.
Angelina Chin (History) presented in a panel, “Writing and Teaching Global Feminist Histories,” at the 41st Annual
Conference of the Western Association of Women Historians, held at Santa Clara University in May.
Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) presented a paper, “The Case for Hedge Fund ETFs in an Alternative Core Portfolio,” in San
Francisco on March 30 and in Los Angeles on April 1. He presented another paper, “On the Efficiency of the Weather Derivatives Market,” at Claremont McKenna
College on April 3.
Anne Dwyer (German & Russian) has an article, “Revivifying Russia: Literature, Theory and Empire in Viktor Shklovskii’s
Civil War Writings,” in Slavonica 15:1, pp. 11-31.
Steve Erickson (Philosophy) delivered a paper, “Translation, Interpretation, and Conversation between Worlds,” at the
Karl Jaspers Society of North America meetings, held in conjunction with the Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association in
Vancouver, Canada, in April.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) gave a talk, “Peer-to-Peer Review: Authority in Digital Scholarly
Networks,” at Media in Transition 6, held April 24-26 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; gave an invited talk, “The Future of Scholarly
Publishing,” at the NorthEast Regional Computing Program’s Academic Commons SIG in Norwood, MA, on May 19; and participated in a roundtable, “Peer Review of
Digital Scholarship,” at the American Literature Association meeting in Boston on May 23. She has also been named to the Program Committee of the Modern
Language Association.
Tom Flaherty (Music) was composer-in-residence for the Nevada Encounters of New Music, held April 7-11 in Las Vegas.
Compositions by Flaherty have recently been featured at a range of venues, including Eastern Michigan University, Ohio State University, the University of
Nevada at Las Vegas, and the Colburn School, as well as our own Lyman Hall and Bridges Hall of Music.
Erica Flapan (Mathematics) was keynote speaker for the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference at Union College
on April 18. Her talk was titled “When Topology Meets Chemistry.” She also delivered two lectures on “Knots, Graphs, and Chemistry” at the Advanced School
and Conference on Knot Theory and Its Applications to Physics and Biology, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, in Trieste, Italy, on
May 22.
Peter Flueckiger (Asian Languages & Literatures) has an article, “Kokugaku and the Popularization of Waka,” in New
Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies: Canon Formation, Gender, and Media, ed. Haruo Shirane (Tokyo: Bensey, 2009), pp. 31-33.
Lorn Foster (Politics) has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Seaver Foundation for his project “Eight Black First
Churches.”
Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) gave a talk, “Simultaneous Diophantine Equations with Side Constraints: An Elementary
Method,” at the Claremont Colleges Algebra/Number Theory/Combinatorics Seminar on April 7. Garcia and Warren R. Wogen published an article, “Complex
Symmetric Partial Isometries,” in the Journal of Functional Analysis 257, pp. 1251-60.
Dru Gladney (Pacific Basin Institute and Anthropology) participated in the “China Financial Crisis Game” organized by
Science Applications International Corporation’s Center for Gaming Excellence and the National Intelligence Council’s Long-Range Analysis Unit, March 24-25.
He also served as a discussant on the panel “Cultural and Linguistic Exchange in Inner Asia” at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, held in
Chicago March 26-29.
Gladney's recent lectures include “Mapping Ethnicity and Ecology in China: The Question of Environmental Racism,” at the Asian Studies Center
of Michigan State University on March 30; “Islamic Movements in China,” for an Islamic Movements course at the University of Michigan on April 1; and
“Whither Islam in China? Post-9/11 and Post-Olympics Developments,” at a conference organized by the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies and the
Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan on April 1.
Michael Green (Philosophy) is delivering a paper, “Hobbes and Human Rights,” this week at the conference Hobbes Today,
hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was also a commentator on a manuscript at the Hobbes Research Workshop held March 21-22 at McGill
University.
Research done by Fred Grieman (Chemistry) and colleagues at JPL/Caltech, “Determination of Equilibrium Constant for the
Reaction between Acetone and HO2 Using Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy (IRKS),” was presented at the 26th Informal Symposium on Kinetic and Photochemical
Processes in the Atmosphere, held at UC Riverside in March. Grieman also received a Summer Faculty Research Award to work at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory/California Institute of Technology this summer. Joining him in the laboratories of Stan Sander ’74 will be Casey Davis-Van Atta, Kira Watson, and
Adam Chaimowitz, all Class of 2010.
Completing three years of service as a Distinguished Lecturer for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Eric
Grosfils (Geology) spoke at New Zealand’s University of Canterbury on April 29, University of Otago on April 30, and University of Auckland on May
21. The title of his lecture was "Computational Science: An Emerging Tool for Undergraduate Exploration of Complex Geoscience Problems." Previous to those
engagements, he spoke on “Re-examining Magma Reservoir Failure and Exploring the Implications for Caldera Formation” at a workshop held at the University of
Auckland in April.
Jen Hofer (English) gave a reading at Pomona College on April 21, and performed in The Cinema Cabaret: Live Film
Narration at REDCAT on April 29 and in Neo-Benshi Night at Machine Project on April 30.
Eric Hurley (Psychology and Africana Studies) is a co-author of “Culture and the Interaction of Student Ethnicity with
Reward Structure in Group Learning,” in Cognition and Instruction 27:2, pp. 1-26. The article was featured in “Study Probes Cooperative Learning and
Race,” Education Weekly 38:31 (May 5).
Nancy Jugan (English) completed her first marathon, the L.A.
Marathon, on May 25.
Gizem Karaali (Mathematics), Brenda Schmit (Smith Campus Center), Carol
Thompson (Business Office) and Alma Zook (Physics & Astronomy), four members of Pomona's FSFW Walking Club, took part in the 2009
Relay for Life, a fundraising and walking event of the American Cancer Society on May 16. They were a part of the Claremont Colleges Crushes Cancer team,
organized by Debbie Cumpston of CUC.
Nina Karnovsky (Biology) is a co-author of “Flexibility in the Parental Effort of an Arctic-Breeding Seabird,” in
Mu 23, pp. 348-58. Karnovsky received a grant from the Montrose Settlements Restoration Program to conduct oceanographic research
around the Channel Islands this summer. Working with Kristen Boysen ’10 and Augie Lagemann ’10, she will assess the foraging conditions for rare seabirds.
Jade Star Lackey (Geology) delivered an invited seminar talk for the University of Southern California’s Department of
Earth Sciences on April 6. His talk was titled “Crustal Tastes and Mantle Vintages: Styles of Magmatism in the Sierran Arc.”
Genevieve Lee’s (Music) Mojave Trio gave a piano concert at Occidental College on April 2.
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) gave a talk, “A Re-Creation of Recreation: The Politics of ‘Fun’ in Post-Revolutionary
Iran,” at the University of California, Los Angeles, in April. Also in April, she spoke about her book, Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual
Revolution, to alumni in San Diego and San Francisco. She gave the talk “Questioning the Global Gay(s): Ethnography, Discursivity and Sexuality in Post-
Revolution Iran” at a conference on Islam and Sexuality, held at the University of Chicago on May 1, as well as another talk, “A Re-Creation of Recreation:
Islamism and the Politics of Fun,” at a conference on Youth and the Middle East, held at the American University of Beirut on May 29. She also has an
article, “But What If Someone Sees Me? Women, Risk and the Aftershocks of Iran’s Sexual Revolution,” in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 5:2,
pp. 1-22.
On September 25, Alma Martinez (Theatre & Dance) gave a guest lecture, “Spitfires, Bandidos and Latin Lovers: The
Evolution of Latino Images in Film,” at Alfred State College in Alfred, New York. On October 23, as part of a Luis Valdez tribute that she helped to
organize, she spoke about her 30-year artistic collaboration with Mr. Valdez. On February 7, she was guest speaker at a Pomona College Torch Bearers
luncheon and delivered director’s remarks to youth groups before a production of Zoot Suit. On March 7, she presented the keynote address, “Two Steps
Forward, One Step Back: The Status of Latinas in Higher Education,” for a meeting of the Latina Leadership Network of the California Community Colleges in
Burbank, and on March 25 she moderated a panel with the director and cast of Octavio Solis’s play Lydia at Whittier College.
In December, she performed in a staged reading of Luis Alfaro’s play Electricidad at the Red Bull Theatre in New York City and in one of Rick Najera’s
Sweet 15 (Quinceañera) at the Repertorio Español, also in New York City. In addition, she acted in a photo shoot for a Bank of America print campaign
on January 20 and performed a scene from the screenplay “The Letter” at Universal Studios on February 11. On March 25, Alma Martinez (Theatre & Dance) was
honored by the Whittier College Alumni Association as a Distinguished Alumna. In April, her short film Small Steps was distributed to community
health-care organizations nationwide.
She conducted a workshop, “Theatre as an Educational Tool for Teaching Health Care in Peruvian and Philippine Communities,” at Loma Linda University on May
1. She was was guest artist/speaker at a premiere of the documentary film Viva la Causa at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana on April 5; she gave a
lecture, “Federico García Lorca in English Translation,” after a performance of Bodas de Sangre, at the College of the Desert, Palm Springs, on April
26; and she participated in a symposium, “The State of Chicano Theatre from the 1970s to the Present and Beyond,” at the University of California, San Diego,
on May 9. She also coordinated a traveling photographic exhibit, “Beyond the Stage: LA in the Zoot Suit Era,” that was on loan to Pajaro Unified School
District, Watsonville, in April and May.
April Mayes (History) was selected as a Fulbright Scholar. She plans to spend the coming academic year in the Dominican
Republic, where she will be affiliated with the Instituto Filosófico Pedro Francisco Bonó.
Char Miller (Environmental Analysis) has recently given several presentations: “Best Laid Plans: How San Antonio Grew—and
Why,” for the San Antonio Masters Leadership Program on January 21; “What Is to Be Done? Conservation in an Age of Climate Change,” for the San Bernardino
Valley Audubon Society on February 18; and “Gifford Pinchot: Agent of Change” and “Defining a Leadership Model,” for the USDA Forest Service on April 27 and
28.
Recent publications by Miller include the edited volume Water in the 21st-Century West (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2009); “The Once
and Future Forest Service: Land-Management Politics and Policy over Time,” in Journal of Policy History 21:1; “Interview: Susan Flader,” with Mark
Cioc, in Environmental History 14:1, pp. 151-63; “The Changing Climate of Global Forest Management,” in the Journal of Forestry 107:3, pp. 109
-10; a review of James D. Newland’s Cleveland National Forest in the Journal of Forestry 107:3, pp. 155-56; a review of Tom Wolf’s Arthur
Carhart: Wilderness Prophet in Forest Magazine (Winter 2009); and a review of Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks, ed. Phil Brown, in Forest
Magazine (Spring 2009). Professor Miller also published two recent entries in the online Encyclopedia of Earth: “James Eights: A Nineteenth-Century
American Naturalist” on February 23 and “South Sea Fur Company and Exploring Expedition” on May 18.
Denise Miller's (Romance Languages and Literatures) daughter Elizabeth and her horse Miss Tattletail finished on their
dressage score of 36 for 2nd place in Senior Novice Amateur at Galway Downs H.T. in Temecula on March 27-29; finished in 8th place Novice Senior at the Ram
Tap Horse Trials in Fresno, April 10-11 ; finished on their dressage score of 29.5, 2nd place in Senior Novice Amateur at Twin Rivers Spring 3-Day Event &
H.T., April 17-19; finished in first place on their dressage score of 32.5, Senior Novice Amateur division, at the Spring Event at Woodside, May 22-24, and
are in first place nationally for both rider and horse in the novice division.
Lynne Miyake (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a talk titled “Shôjo Girls/Redisu Ladies Comics’ Female Gaze: Genji,
the Rake, the Romantic Hero, or Boy Toy?” at the 2009 Association of Teachers of Japanese Seminar, held in Chicago on March 26.
Nivia Montenegro (Romance Languages & Literatures) has an essay, “Paisajes del recuerdo: La Habana de Guillermo Cabrera
Infante,” in Guillermo Cabrera Infante: el subterfugio de la palabra, ed. Humberto López Cruz (Madrid: Editorial Hispano-Cubana, 2009).
Sandeep Mukherjee (Art & Art History) gave an artist talk and seminar at California College of the Arts, San Francisco,
on April 22, and gave another artist talk at California State University, Los Angeles, on May 18.
His work was featured in the exhibition “Prescriptions” at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles, April 25-May 23; in “Lovable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard
Children,” an exhibition at the Green Gallery in Milwaukee, May 9 through June 6; and in “Los Angeles: Aspects of the Archaic Revival” at Galerie Haus
Schneider in Karlsruhe, Germany, April 24-June 5. His work is also currently showing in “Nothingness and Being,” an exhibition at the Fundacion Jumex in Mexico City, May
through August.
Beverly Wilson Palmer (Writing Program, retired) is editor, with Kathryn Kish Sklar, of The Selected Letters of
Florence Kelley, 1869-1931 (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009).
Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) presented a paper, “Aspects of Asante Twi Verbal Morphology,” at the 40th
Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Illinois on April 11, and with Elisha Nuchi ‘09, presented a paper, “An Analysis of
Metaphony in Felechosa Asturian,” at the 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting, in Manchester, United Kingdom, on May 28.
On April 24, Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) presented a paper, “Island Interiors and Coastal Interfaces on the California
Channel Islands,” at the 74th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in Atlanta.
Virginie Pouzet-Duzer (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Madame Daudet, ou l’époux fait masque,” as part of
the colloquium “Rhétoriques du masque: les femmes écrivains et le travestissement textuel (1500-1940)” at the Université de Montréal on May 15.
In April, Dara Regaignon (College Writing and English) participated by invitation in an expert panel as part of the
Haverford College Writing Program Symposium.
Linda Reinen (Geology) gave seminars on “The Role of Serpentinite in Fault Creep” at the University of Canterbury and at
the University of Otago, New Zealand, on April 29 and 30. She gave a talk, “The Role of Serpentinite in Fault Creep: Implications for the Strength and
Sliding Stability of Serpentinized Faults from Laboratory Experiments, Numerical Models, and Field Observations,” at the University of Auckland on April 23.
Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) made presentations at a synagogue in Geneva on March 23 and at the
Institut Interuniversitaire d’Etudes et Culture Juives in Aix-en-Provence on March 29. In addition, she spoke on “Women in the French Resistance” at the
Libraries of the Claremont Colleges on April 16 and to the group Hispanic and Jewish Women in Canoga Park on My 28. She was the program keynote speaker for
the Yom Shoah Holocaust Memorial Day Celebration at Temple Beth Israel on April 19, and discussed her book at the French Institute in New York on April 27.
Saigal reviewed Simone Veil’s Une vie (Paris: Stock, 2007) in Dalhousie French Studies 84 (fall 2008) and Judith Bernard’s Qui trop
embrasse (Paris: Stock 2008) in The French Review 82:6 (May 2009).
Kristina Sanchez (Career Development Office) was selected to participate in the National Association of Colleges &
Employers (NACE) Leadership Advancement Program for 2009-10. As a component of her participation, Sanchez will be assigned to a NACE standing or strategic
priority committee.
Jack Sanders (Music) performed two benefit concerts at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California, for the Inside Out
Community Arts Foundation on April 11; a benefit concert in Beverly Hills for the Alzheimer’s Foundation on April 20; and with members of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Los Angeles on May 18. He also published an essay on playing the guitar, “Segoviamania,” in
Soundboard 35:2 (2009).
Friederike Schwerin (German & Russian) presented a paper, “Blank Verse, Weimar Classicism and Transculturalism,” at the
annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association in Boston on March 28.
Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) co-organized an international conference on Combinatorics, held at the Institute for
Research in Fundamental Sciences in Tehran, May 15-21. At the conference he gave a talk, “Chain Partitions of Normalized Matching Posets.”
Slavi Slavov (Economics) is the author of two entries, “Currency Board Arrangement” and (with Ramkishen Rajan) “Fear of
Floating,” in the Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, ed. Kenneth Reinert and Ramkishen Rajan (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2009).
Patricia Smiley (Psychology), Kelly Schwartz ’10, and Grace Larson ’10 presented a poster, “Mother Beliefs in Conditional
Regard and Their 4-Year-Olds’ Imitativeness,” at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting in Denver last month.
Jason Smith (ITS) competed in the California Ironman 70.3 in Oceanside on April 4. The race included a 1.2-mile swim, a
56-mile bike race, and a 13.1-mile run. Smith finished in 6:00:44, which was more than 22 minutes faster than his 2008 race.
Margaret Waller (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “La Mode, La Mésangère and La Masculinité: Between the
Lines, Behind the Scenes and Beneath the Cassock,” at an interdisciplinary workshop on the Journal des Dames et des Modes (1797-1839), held at the
University of Michigan in April.
Samuel Yamashita (History) was invited to deliver the Grant Goodman Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies at the University of Kansas
on April 27. He gave a lecture titled "Coercion, Compliance and Resistance in Wartime Japan, 1942-45."
It was his first attempt at writing an alltagsgeschichte, or history of everyday life, on wartime Japan.
He also gave two lectures at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana in conjunction with their exhibition on "Samurai":
"An Introduction to Warriors" on April 25 and "Vendettas and the Tokugawa Order" on May 3.
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April 2009
SPEAKERS SERIES: On Wednesday, March 25, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe kicked off Pomona College’s new distinguished speaker series with a forthright and entertaining behind-the-scenes look at one of the most intriguing presidential campaigns ever won. The new Pomona College distinguished lecture series, inaugurated by Plouffe,
will bring to campus exciting, high profile speakers from
public life, who have unique, informative perspectives on
important issues. In addition to the public lectures, the speakers will engage small groups of the College community in more informal settings,
as in the photo above. To read a more detailed account of
Plouffe's speech, please
click here.
William Banks (Psychology) is editor-in-chief of the new two-volume
Encyclopedia of Consciousness (Elsevier, 2009). His preface to the work is available online at
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/brochures/consciousness.
Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) published a translation of Yu Hua’s story “Their Son” in
Another Kind of Paradise: Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific, ed. Trevor Carolan (Boston: Cheng & Tsui, 2009).
Noell Birondo (Philosophy) presented a paper, “Exercising Our Senses in Aristotle,” at the 32nd Ancient Philosophy Workshop, convened by the University of Texas, Austin, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, March 4-6 in Mexico City.
Darren Blaney (Theater and Dance) successfully defended his 383-page dissertation "Staging the Social and Cruising the Crisis: A genealogy of utopian aspiration in U.S. gay theater from the 1960s to the present" with his dissertation committee at UC Davis on February 6.
He filed the dissertation with the UCD library on February 27, thus officially completing all the requirements necessary to complete his Ph.D. in Dramatic Art
with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory.
At the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, held in Santa Fe in March, Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) presented a paper, “Embroidering Culture: An Historical Perspective on the Chijnaya Artisan Project,” in a session he organized and chaired, and he served as a panelist in a roundtable session on “Issues in Teaching Sex: Surgeries, Sex and Beauty.”
He also served on the local arrangements committee for the
meeting.
While in Santa Fe, he also spoke to alumni at the Collected Works Bookstore, owned by Mary Massey Wolf ’90, about Pomona students who participate in a volunteer program he directs in Peru. On behalf of the Society for Applied Anthropology, he gave two guided tours of the Witter Bynner
Estate.
Tony Boston (Physical Education)
gave a talk at Lathrop High School on March 19 to freshman
and sophomore athletes on the importance of goal setting
with respect to their athletic lives. Boston also reported
the following track and field news: On March 13, John Mering
'12, who is ranked third in the nation in the 1,500-meter
run, qualified to compete at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Track &
Field Championships.
Kim Bruce (Computer Science) organized and chaired a session, “Report of the 2008 SIGPLAN Programming Languages Curriculum Workshop,” at the ACM Computer Science Education Conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in March. Bruce also agreed to chair the new Education Board for SIGPLAN, the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, and he co-authored two papers, “Programming Languages in a Liberal Arts Education” and “Programming Languages as Part of Core Computer Science,” in
SIGPLAN Notices 43:11 (November 2008), pp. 45-54.
José R. Cartagena-Calderón (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a talk, “The Homoerotics of Martyrdom: Imagining Saint Sebastian in Early Modern Spain,” at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Los Angeles on March 21.
Mary Coffey (Romance Languages & Literatures) has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend for her project “Tracing the Ghost of Colonial Experience in 19th-Century Spanish Literature.”
Steve Comba (Museum of Art) moderated a panel discussion on “Collections Access Issues in College and University Museums” at the California Association of Museums conference held in San Francisco in February.
Vin de Silva (Mathematics) gave a talk, “Zigzag Persistence,” at the workshop “Data Analysis Using Computational Topology and Geometric Statistics,” held at the Banff International Research Station in Banff, Alberta, Canada, March 8-13.
Kevin Dettmar (English) edited and contributed to
The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, published by Cambridge University Press.
Holly Duncan (Alumni Relations) announces these successful
events: In February, Tomas Summers Sandoval (History) spoke to a joint CMC-Pomona group of alumni in Monterey about Barack Obama's presidency in the context of civil rights movements. Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) spoke to a packed auditorium of alumni on February 7 in Santa Barbara about the Channel Islands,
and led a walking tour of the Channel Islands the following day. Nina Karnovsky, Jonathan Wright (Biology) and some of the senior biology majors delighted about 270 alumni on March 7 during
the third annual whale watching trip out of Newport Beach. Ralph Bolton '61 (Anthropology) spoke to a group of alumni in Santa Fe at Collected Works Bookstore, owned by alumna Mary Massey Wolf '90 on March 22.
On March 2, 150 alumni gathered to see a Clippers game at the Staples Center followed by a visit and chat with Mike Budenholzer '92, who is the assistant coach to the San Antonio Spurs. Former Pomona-Pitzer
basketball coach and current Spurs Head Coach Greg Poppovich
made a brief appearance to greet the crowd as well.
Robert Gaines (Geology) and John S. Vorhies ’05 published “Microbial Dissolution of Clay Minerals as a Source of Iron and Silica in Marine Sediments,” in
Nature Geoscience 2 (1 March 2009), pp. 221-25.
Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) gave a talk, “Open Questions about Complex Symmetric Operators,” at the 25th Southeastern Analysis Meeting at the University of South Florida on March 21.
George Gorse (Art & Art History) gave a paper, “I Libri Cerimoniali and the Strada Nuova in Renaissance Genoa,” at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Los Angeles on March 19.
Jen Hofer (English) gave a reading at compactspace in Los Angeles on March 7.
Laura Hoopes (Biology) is the author of several recent essays: “European Women Postdoctoral Fellows in the USA: Whys and Wherefores,” in
AWIS Magazine 37 (fall 2008), pp. 10-13; “Not Really Pizza, But Tasty,” in the
Christian Science Monitor, January 21, 2009; “Loving Computers?” in
AWIS Magazine 38 (winter 2009), pp. 11-13; and “Looking for the Tree of Lights,” in
The Writer’s Eye Magazine 8 (March-April 2009).
Arthur Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) presented a paper, “The Verges Procession: 21st-Century Catalonia Re-enacts Golden Age Religious Drama,” at the “Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium” of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre, held in El Paso on March 5.
Nina Karnovsky (Biology), André Cavalcanti (Biology), and Johanna Hardin (Mathematics) were co-authors on a poster, “Little Auks Adopt a Bimodal Foraging Strategy in Response to Poor Food Conditions, a Consequence of Warmer Waters,” presented by Zachary Brown ’07 at the Gordon Research Conference on Polar Marine Science held in Lucca, Italy, in March. Karnovsky also published an article, “Distribution and Diet of Ivory Gulls (Pagophila eburnea) in the North Water Polynya,” in the journal
Arctic 62:1 (March 2009), pp. 65-74. Zachary West Brown ’07 was a co-author.
Felix Kronenberg (Foreign Language Resource Center and German & Russian) presented a paper, “Boot Camp and Beyond: Technology Training for Language Teachers,” at CALICO (Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) 09 on March 12. His presentation “Task-Based Language Learning in the 21st Century” was nominated for the Henderson Plenary Award, offered by the International Association for Language Learning and Technology (IALLT) for the best presentation and corresponding article at its biennial conference.
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) gave a paper, “The Traffic of Persia: Labor, Migration and the Movement of Iranian Women to Dubai,” at the Society for Applied Anthropology meeting in Santa Fe on March 19. Mahdavi has also been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship for her project “Traffic Jam: Labor, Migration and Trafficking in Dubai,” and recently been named a 2009-10 Woodrow Wilson International Scholar, an Asia Society Fellow, and a Keddie-Balzan Fellow for spring 2010.
Five poems by Robert Mezey (English, Emeritus) are featured in
Dramatic Monologues: A Contemporary Anthology (Evansville, IN: University of Evansville Press, 2009).
Denise Miller (Romance Languages & Literatures) announces that her daughter Elizabeth and her pony Miss Tattletail finished in first place (12 riders) on their dressage score of 27.9 in the Novice-ONA division on March 7-8 at the Flintridge Horse Trials in Flintridge, California.
On March 14-15, the team finished in first place (16 riders) on their dressage score of 35.5 in Novice, NR division at The Antares Sellier H.T at 3 Day Ranch in Aguanga, California.
Lynne Miyaki (Asian Languages and Literatures) appeared
on the WBUR and NPR radio program "On Point" February 6 to
discuss The Tale of
Genji.
Daren Mooko (Office of Student Affairs) has been selected as a grant reviewer for the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
Sandeep Mukherjee (Art & Art History) gave an artist talk and seminar at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles on March 31. His work is
also featured in the exhibition “Dialogue in Art: South Asian American Art Festival,” running March 28 through April 4 in Santa Monica.
Shakina Nayfack (Queer Resource Center) gave a talk at the University of California, Riverside, in February as part of a colloquium on Dance as Civic Responsibility, and also has a chapter, “Butoh Ritual Mexicano: Transformative Dance and Community Redevelopment in Michoacan, Mexico,” in the anthology
Dancing across Borders, ed. Olga Nájera-Ramírez et al. (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009).
Nayfack also published a poetry chapbook, Eight Years
Running (Los Angeles: Silus Press, 2009).
Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) and Jade Comfort have an article, “Notes on Lower Jubba Maay,” in
Selected Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, ed. Masangu Matondo et al. (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2009), pp. 204-16.
Bryan Penprase (Physics & Astronomy) was a member of an international team of astronomers who were given 500 hours on NASA’s Spitzer Space telescope to study near-earth asteroids. As part of the project, Pomona received a $39,000 grant to help fund remote observations and hire Claremont Colleges students for summer research.
At the 43rd annual meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, held March 12-15 in Modesto, Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) presented a paper, “Coastal Sedentism on the Channel Islands: Processes and Events,” as part of the plenary session “’Eventful’ Archaeology: Considering the Concept in California.” In addition, she co-presented a paper, “Variability in Middle Holocene Lithic Assemblages on Santa Cruz Island,” with Molly T. Rapp ’09 and served as the invited discussant for the symposium “Southern California Coastal and Channel Islands Archaeology: Recent Research and Comparisons.”
At the Society for Photographic Education annual conference in March, Sheila Pinkel (Art & Art History) gave a talk about her art, “Site Unseen: Recent Social Works.”
Thomas Pinney (English, Emeritus) has been awarded a Beinecke Library fellowship to conduct research in the library’s Rudyard Kipling collection.
Linda Reinen (Geology) presented “Numerical Models for Exploration and Visualization of Complex Geological Phenomena in an Undergraduate Structural Geology Course” at the American Geophysical Union national meeting held in San Francisco in December. She also co-authored a presentation by Hal Wershow ’07 titled “Transpression-Induced Structural Deformation in the Southern Mecca Hills, California.”
Joti Rockwell (Music) and
Alfred Cramer (Music)
were on the program committee and did local arrangements for
the 18th annual West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis,
which was hosted at Pomona College March 6-8.
Erin Runions (Religious Studies) gave a paper, “Regulating the Polis(sexual): Babylon as Political Symbol in U.S. Culture,” at the University of North Florida on March 26.
Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a lecture at the Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Besançon, France, on March 3. In addition, she gave presentations on women in the French Resistance at the Museum of Lorris near Orléans on March 21 and at a synagogue in Geneva on March 23. She also
was interviewed for the French newspaper L'Est Republicain.
John Seery (Politics) and
Meg Worley (English) were
panelists on the discussion "Print Journalism and the Challenge of the Internet," presented on March 21 by The Claremont League of Women Voters.
Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was the invited guest on the Persian language radio KIRN 670 AM on March 8
to discuss "History
of Mathematics in Iran." The one hour live interview was part of the radio's "Frontiers of Knowledge" series.
Slavi Slavov (Economics) presented his paper “Structural Current Account Imbalances: Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Rates?” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Economics Association in Cleveland on March 21.
Robin Thompson (Financial Aid) completed the Pasadena Half-Marathon on Sunday, March 22 despite rain and unusually cold conditions for Southern California.
Kenneth Wolf (History and Dean of the College’s Office) is the author of “Convivencia in Medieval Spain: A Brief History of an Idea,” a review article in the online journal
Religion Compass 3 (2008).
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March 2009
FAMILY WEEKEND 2009: A crowd of
more than 450 parents, guardians, family members, students
and friends visited Pomona's campus to take part in Family
Weekend 2009 from February 13-15. Despite rain on Friday,
and the chilly weather that continued through the weekend,
the program thrived and proved to be a success.
Special events included open classes for students and family members on graphic novels,
financial aid, the CDO, Harry Potter and theology, and more; a Distinguished Parents Panel
on "“Why Keep the Arts in the Liberal Arts?"; and the President's Reception in Edmunds Ballroom.
Click herere to view a Family Weekend photo gallery.
Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) presented a paper, “Undergraduates as Volunteers in Peru: The Pomona College and Chijnaya Foundation Program,” in a symposium he organized for the Society for Cross-Cultural Research meeting held in Las Vegas, February 18-21. The symposium also included papers by Naohito Miura ‘11 and Jonathan Peterson ’09. Bolton also presided over the annual board meeting of The Chijnaya Foundation for two days in early January, an event attended by numerous Pomona College alumni and faculty members involved in the work of the Foundation.
Ludwig Chincarinini (Economics) presented his scholarly work to Pomona alumni in Manhattan at the Penn Club on February 19. The title of his talk was “Trading Weather: How Efficient Are Markets?” Chincarini was also interviewed about the
Presidential address to Congress on February 24 in the San Bernardino Sun.
Vin de Silva (Mathematics) gave a two-part lecture, “Topology in the 21st Century,” as part of the conference “Journées de Géométrie Algorithmique 2009” at the Rouge Gazon in Vosges, France, January 26-27.
Steve Erickson (Philosophy) was the discussion leader at “Social Justice, Property Rights, and the Limited State,” a Liberty Fund colloquium in Houston, February 12-15.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) has published two new notes: “Peer-to-Peer Review and the Future of Scholarly Authority,” in “In Focus: Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy,” Cinema Journal 48:2 (Winter 2009), pp. 124-29; and “In Memoriam,” in “In Memoriam David Foster Wallace,” Modernism/Modernity 16:1 (January 2009), pp. 5-6.
Erica Flapan (Mathematics) chaired a review panel for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Division of Mathematical Sciences, from February 5 to 7.
Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) is the author, with W. T. Ross, of “A Non-Linear Extremal Problem on the Hardy Space,”
Computational Methods and Function
Theory 9:2, pp. 485-524.
Jill Grigsby (Sociology) lectured on “Education, Work and Family: Connections and Choices” as part of Dies Mulieres, a day celebrating choices and opportunities for girls, at the Vivian Webb School on February 18.
Jen Hofer (English) recently coauthored
The Route, an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Berkeley, CA: Atelos, 2008), and translated sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, books two and three of Dolores Dorantes’ Dolores Dorantes (Chicago and Denver: Kenning Editions and Counterpath Press, 2008).
Arthur Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) directed a student-generated production of Martin McDonagh’s play The Pillowman, performed in the Harwood Court dormitory from January 28 to February 1. The play was then re-staged and performed in the Virginia Princehouse Allen Theatre as part of Family Weekend.
At the Palm Springs Art Museum’s symposium “Robert Mapplethorpe and the Modern Photographic Portrait,” held February 6-7, Kathleen Howe (Art & Art History and Museum of Art) moderated a panel addressing Mapplethorpe’s studio practice.
Malkiat Johal (Chemistry) and Paul Davies published an article, “Structural Changes in a Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Assembly Investigated by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy and Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy,” in
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 113:6, pp. 1559-68. The article grew out of work done as part of the Downing Faculty Exchange Program, and coauthors included Amanda Yang ’10 and Thomas Lane ’10.
Nina Karnovsky (Biology) recently coauthored two posters: “Is Geographical Variation in Size of the Little Auks a Response to Climatic Conditions in Their Breeding Grounds?,” presented by Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas at the International Biogeography Society meeting in Merida, Mexico, January 8-12; and “Variability of Characteristics and Structure of Water Masses Occurring on the South-west Spitsbergen Shelf and Consequences for the Ecological System,” presented by Ilona Goszczko at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromso, Norway, January 21-23.
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) gave a talk, “Women, Gender and Risk in Iran,” on February 26 as part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute series “Muslim Women: Contemporary Realities.” She also has a chapter, “Who Will Catch Me If I Fall? Health and the Infrastructure of Risk for Urban Iranians,” in
Contemporary Iran, ed. Ali Gheissari (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). And in February, she interviewed by CNN Live, as well as Radio Javan and Tango Diva.
Robert Mezey (English, Emeritus) gave a reading with poet Peter Everwine at Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles on February 20.
Denise Miller's (Romance Languages & Literatures) daughter Elizabeth and her pony Miss Tattletail finished in the top 10 of the USEA National Leader Board for the Novice level, and received the following titles: First Adult Amateur Novice Rider, Second Adult Novice Rider and Fourth Novice Horse. For USEA Area 6 (CA/HI), they received Champion-Adult Amateur Novice Rider, High Score Pony, Reserve Champion-High Score Mare, and Senior Novice Horse. More recently, Elizabeth and Miss Tattletail finished first place with a dressage score of 17.5 in the Novice Rider division at Galway Downs Winter Horse H.T. in Temecula Jan. 31-Feb. In Fresno at Ram Tap H.T. from Feb. 13-15, they finished on their dressage score of 32.5 for 4th place in the Novice Senior Rider division.
Thomas Moore (Physics & Astronomy) and Carroll Wainwright ’07 published “Observing the Positions of Spinning Binary Systems Using LISA” in
Physical Review D 79: 024022 (22 January 2009).
Clemence Ozel (Oldenborg Center), Pomona College's French language resident for the last two years, recently accepted a Graduate Teaching Fellowship and will begin MA Studies in French this fall at the University of Oregon at Eugene.
Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) gave a lecture, “The Human Prehistory of the Channel Islands: A 10,000-Year Retrospective,” to Pomona alumni at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on February 7, and led an interpretive hike on Santa Cruz Islad the following day.
Sheila Pinkel (Art & Art History) spoke about her Documentary Photography class as part of a panel, “Migration Struggles and Migratory Aesthetics,” at the College Art Association meeting in February. Pinkel also has a chapter devoted to her approach to pedagogy that she developed while at Pomona College in the recently published book Arts for Change: Teaching Outside the Frame by Beverly Naidus.
On February 25, Leonard Pronko (Theatre & Dance) gave a presentation on Kabuki and a workshop in Kabuki movement, assisted by Takao Tomono, as part of an Asian Studies symposium at California State University, San Bernardino.
Dara Regaignon (English and College Writing) published an article, “Traction: Transferring Analysis across the Curriculum,” in
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 9 (Winter 2009), pp. 121-33.
Alex Rodriguez (Physical Education) reports that three Men's Water Polo team members were named to the Division III All-Stars team: Ben Hadley '11, Ryan Balikian '11 and, as an honorable mention, Grant Cooper '09.
Erin Runions (Religious Studies) gave an invited lecture, “Regulating the Polis(sexual): Babylon as Political Symbol in U.S. Culture,” and was a guest speaker in a graduate seminar as part of a lecture series hosted by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati on February 10-11. She presented a paper, “From Disgust to Humor: Nonheteronormative Racialization and the Transvaluation of Affect in Joshua 2,” to the Feminist Studies in Religion group at the University of Chicago Divinity School on February 12.
Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) spoke about women in the French Resistance to groups at the Centre Communautaire Juif and the Centre Culturel Roger Zimmerman in France in February. She also participated in three radio interviews while traveling in France.
Jack Sanders (Music) recently gave a guest lecture at the Orange County High School for the Arts and served as judge for a Pacific Guitar Society competition. He also recently performed guitar recitals at the Vogel Institute, Claremont Presbyterian Church, Westside Philharmonic Society, and Pomona College. The Pomona concert, held on February 22, also featured his Music Department colleagues Thomas Flaherty, Karl Kohn (Emeritus), Joti Rockwell, Joshua Ranz, Rachel Rudich, and others. And "“Memoirs of a Newsboy,” part of his series “Essays on Playing the Guitar,” appeared in
Soundboard 35:1 (2009).
Cynthia Selassie (Chemistry) presented a seminar on “Monophenol and Polyphenol Toxicity: Two Sides of a Coin” in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University, Long Beach, on February 4.
Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) is the author, with Tim Hsu and Mark Logan, of “Methods for Nesting Rank 3 Normalized Matching Rank-Unimodal Posets,” in
Discrete Mathematics 309:3 (February 2009), pp. 521-31. He is also a co-editor of the journal’s
Special Issue: International Workshop on Design Theory, Graph Theory, and Computational Methods (IPM Combinatorics II) 309:3 (February 2009).
Xueting (Bridget) Wang (Oldenborg Center) recently accepted a scholarship to attend the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) to complete an M.A. in Teaching Foreign Language (Chinese). Bridget served as Pomona College's Chinese Language Resident both this and last year.
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January/February 2009
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. COMMEMORATION WEEK: In January, the Claremont Colleges celebrated
their annual
MLK Commemoration Week. Activities included
a candlelight vigil and march, student readings and spoken word, a roundtable discussion on the state of hip-hop, and the keynote address
given by Dr. Tommie Smith (above), the Olympian activist who shook up the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with his raised-fist civil-rights protest. The keynote address
took place on January 29 in the Edmunds Ballroom.
Jack Abecassis (Romance Languages & Literatures) published “La gnosis sans gnose d’Albert
Cohen” in Cahiers Albert Cohen 18 (November 2008), pp. 131-40.
William Banks (Psychology) and Eve Isham have an article, “We Infer Rather Than Perceive
the Moment We Decided to Act,” in Psychological Science 20:1, pp. 17-21.
Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave an invited lecture, “Yu Hua’s Fiction
Heads West,” at Shenyang Normal University in Shenyang, China, on December 29.
Susana Chávez-Silverman (Romance Languages & Literatures) is the author of “Arañita
Cobriza Fantasy Crónica” and “Hawk Call Crónica,”
in
SLAB ONLINE 3 (2007-08).
Ludwig Chincarini's (Economics) book, Quantitative Equity Portfolio
Management, written with Daehwan Kim, received a
favorable review by Mark S. Rzepczynski
in the CFA Institute book review in 2008. The first
paragraph states "No previous volume has combined depth and
breadth on the subject in a unified framework by a single
set of authors," and the article concludes ""Practitioners
who are serious about quantitative investing and want to
focus on the details of running the numbers should have this
book on their shelves."
Alfred Cramer (Music) gave a paper, “Back to the Grave: Accents, Intonational Phonology,
and Formal Cohesion in Telemann’s French Overtures,” at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory and the
American Musicological Society in Nashville on November 7.
Liane Dirks recently joined the Annual Giving staff as its new assistant director. Dirks is a graduate of Scripps College, where she had been working as an assistant director of annual giving since the beginning of 2007. A knowledgeable and skilled annual giving professional,
Dirks brings a strategic mindset that is welcome as we seek long-term growth for the Fund.
She will be responsible for managing multiple reunion class campaigns, coordinating our overall reunion giving strategy and assisting with aspects of the Torchbearers program.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s (English and Media Studies) web-based publishing project,
MediaCommons, relaunched on January 20. This digital scholarly network is an experiment in open access, multi-modal
publishing and is working to implement a new form of “peer-to-peer review.”
Erica Flapan (Mathematics) made an invited presentation, “Topological Symmetries of
Molecules,” as part of a special session on biomathematics at a joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the
Shanghai Mathematical Society at Fudan University, Shanghai, on December 18. In addition, she gave a colloquium talk, “An
Introduction to Topological Chirality,” at Allegheny College on January 15. Flapan also published an article, along with B. Mellor and R. Naimi, titled “Intrinsic Linking and Knotting Are Arbitrarily Complex,” in
Fundamenta Mathematicae 201 (2008), pp. 131-48.
Peter Flueckiger (Asian Languages & Literatures) published an article, “Reflections on
the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi’s Kokuikô,” in
Monumenta Nipponica 63:2, pp. 211-63.
Robin Flynn (Major
Gifts) and Monique Saigal
(Romance Languages & Literatures) announced the results of
the annual United Way Charity Giving Campaign. Sixty-seven
donors gave $19,560 to the campaign, an increase over last
year's total of $19,457 given by 57 donors.
Cathy Paolozzi (Major
Gifts) and Carol Thompson
and Karen Lamb (Business
Office) helped to administer the campaign.
Robert Gaines (Geology) and M. L. Droser have an article, “Invertebrate Fossils as
Paleoclimate Proxies,” in the Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments, ed. Vivien Gornitz (Springer Press,
2009), pp. 10-13.
Fred Grieman’s (Chemistry) research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was featured in
three presentations at the Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms Conference at the University of California, Davis, in December:
“Determination of Equilibrium Constant for the Reaction between Acetone and HO2 Using Infrared Kinetic Spectroscopy (IRKS),”
“Evidence for Photo-Induced Nucleation: Does the HO2 Radical Play a Role?” and “Measurements of the RO2 + RO2 Self Reaction
Kinetics and Radical Product Channel Branching Fraction.”
Kathleen Howe (Pomona college Museum of Art, Art History) moderated a panel addressing
Robert Mapplethorpe's studio practice at the Palm Springs Art Museum's symposium "Robert Mapplethorpe and the Modern
Photographic Portrait" on February 6-7.
Karl Johnson (Biology and Neuroscience) received an Academic Research Enhancement Award
of $216,556 from the National Institutes of Health for his project “Characterizing the Function of Syndecan during CNS
Development.”
Nancy Jugan is the new administrative assistant in the English department, hired to replace Barbara Clonts who retired last December. Prior to her arrival at Pomona, she spent more than 20 years at CGU where she was program administrator for the School of Information Systems and Technology. Jugan comes to the English department fresh from her part-time assignment in the German and Russian Department.
Nina Karnovsky (Biology) gave a paper, “Warming in the Greenland Sea: Implications for
Energy Transfer to Higher Trophic Levels,” at the Arctic Change 2008 conference in Quebec City, Canada, December 9-12.
Zachary Brown ’07, Laurel McFadden ’06, and Allison Bailey ’07 were co-authors. She also published, with D. L. Dishman and D.
M. Thomson, “Does Simple Feeding Enrichment Raise Activity Levels of Captive Ring-Tailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta)?” in
Applied
Animal Behaviour Science 116:1, pp. 88-95.
On October 2, Felix Kronenberg (German & Russian and Foreign Language Resource Center)
gave a presentation, “Language Media Centers and the Role of IALLT,” for the Network for Effective Language Learning of the
Council of Independent Colleges. On November 14, he gave an online presentation, “Best of Web 2.0 for Language Educators,”
for the SouthWest Association for Language Learning and Technology.
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) was on Bay Area CBS program "Bay Sunday" in January,
promoting her recent book Passionate Uprisings. she has also been on NPR, BBC Radio, Blogtalk Radio and Psychjourney.
The book has been written up in The Australian, History Wire, The Diversity Report and The Nation, amongst
other news outlets. She was also featured on Iranian American Radio KIRN on January 10 in a live one-hour interview.
Jade Star Lackey (Geology) gave an invited talk, “Oxygen Isotope Perspectives on Magma
Sources and Pluton Assembly in Convergent Margin Batholiths,” at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, held in
San Francisco, December 15-19.
Thomas Leabhart (Theatre & Dance) taught a workshop in Paris for the theatre troupe
PasdeDieux, January 5-16. PasdeDieux is co-directed by Won Kim ’95.
Ann Lebedeff (Physical Education) spoke on “The Realities of Collegiate Recruiting” at
the National Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches’ Association Convention in Naples, Florida, on December 13.
Lynne Miyake (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a talk, “Contemporary Japanese Culture:
Dialogic, Fluid, and Pragmatic,” as part of orientation for the 2009 Japanese American Leadership Delegation to Japan. She
gave the talk at the Japanese American National Museum on January 31. Miyake also has an article, “Graphically Speaking
Genjis: Manga Versions of The Tale of Genji,” in Monumenta Nipponica 63:2, pp. 359-92.
With Katharine Dutcher ’09, Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) published a
paper, “Contour Tone Distribution in Luganda,” in
Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, ed.
Natasha Abner and Jason Bishop (Somerville, MA: Cascadilla, 2008), pp. 123-31. Paster also presented a paper, “Phonologically
Conditioned Affix Order as an Illusory Phenomenon,” at the Workshop on the Division of Labour between Morphology and
Phonology in Amsterdam on January 16.
Jennifer Perry (Anthropology), Michael Glassow, and Peter Paige are authors of a new
book, The Punta Arena Site: Early and Middle Holocene Cultural Development on Santa Cruz Island (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa
Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2008). Perry also gave an invited lecture, “Landscapes, Seascapes, and Spiritscapes of the
Channel Islands,” to the Ventura County Archaeological Society on January 7.
Fundamentals of Japanese Dance, a translation by Leonard Pronko (Theatre & Dance) and Takao Tomono of a book by Hanayagi Chiyo, was published by Kodansha in December. This book as gone through 16 editions in Japan, and is the first of its kind published in English.
Adolfo Rumbos (Mathematics) gave a colloquium talk, “Periodic Solutions to a Piece-Wise
Linear Second Order Ordinary Differential Equation,” in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona, on January 22. He also published, with Gabriel Lopez Garcia, "Existence and Multiplicity for
a Resonance Problem for the p-Laplacian on Bounded Domains in R^N," in
Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications
70:3 (1 February 2009), pp. 1193-1208.
Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Josephine Baker,” at the
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association meeting in Claremont on November 8. She showed a DVD and spoke about her
book, Héroïnes Françaises 1940-1945: Courage, Force et Ingéniosité, to Pomona College alumni at the Skirball Center, Los
Angeles, on January 31.
Also, one of her "Héroïnes Françaises," Yvette Bernard Farnovy, recently received the highest
Legion of Honor award, the "Le Grand'Croix de la Légion
d'Honneur," and Saigal's book was subsequently mentioned in
many French newspapers, including La Monde and Le
Parisien.
Cynthia Selassie and
Malkiat Johal (Chemistry) published
“A Quartz Crystal Microbalance Study of Polycation-Supported Single and Double Stranded DNA Surfaces” in
Biomacromolecules
9:12, pp. 3416-21. The paper was co-authored by Amanda Yang ’10 and Robert Rawle ’08.
Shahriar Shahriar (Mathematics) taught a mini-course, “Beyond Formulas and Algorithms:
Teaching a Conceptual/Thematic Single Variable Calculus Course,” at the national Joint Mathematics Meetings held in January
in Washington, DC.
Slavi Slavov’s (Economics) article “Does Monetary Integration Reduce Exchange Rate
Pass-Through?” appeared in The World Economy 31:12 (December 2008), pp. 1599-1624, and his review of Lance Taylor’s book
External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe, and Brazil appeared in
Comparative Economic Studies 50:4 (December
2008), pp. 703-06.
Robin Thompson (Financial Aid) completed her Master in Business Administration (MBA) at
the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in December 2008. The foci of
her
MBA was leadership and strategy.
Nancy Treser-Osgood (Alumni Relations) spoke at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District VII Conference in San Francisco on December 6. She addressed the New Advancement Professionals Workshop participants on the importance of alumni and parent relations programs. Nancy is the newly appointed Awards Chair for CASE District VII. She has served on the Board of Directors for 10 years. Treser-Osgood also traveled to Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in November to review their alumni relations program.
Margaret Waller (Romance Languages & Literatures) is author of “The Emperor’s New
Clothes: Display, Cover-up and Exposure in Modern Masculinity,” in
Entre hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in
Culture and Theory, ed. Todd Reeser and Lewis Seifert (Dover: University of Delaware Press, 2008), pp. 115-42.
Marilynn Waters (English) received a bronze award for a photograph from Black and White Magazine.
Jessica Wimbley (Museum of Art) gave a talk, “Sub-Urban: Visual Vernacular, Cultural
Experience, and Shared History in an Integrating Suburb,” at the 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities,
held in Honolulu, January 9-12.
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December 2008
SAGEHENS IN ACTION: Following a fall season that found both Kevin Kelly ’09 and Jake Caron PI ’10 being recognized as SCIAC Male Athletes of the Week, six Pomona-Pitzer football players have been named to the SCIAC All-Conference team.
Wide receiver Kelley and quarterback Caron have been named to the first team, while defensive back Tyler Barbour ’09, offensive lineman Augie Lagemann ’10, wide receiver RJ Maki ’11 and defensive lineman Steve Collisson PI ’12 have been named to the second team.
Jack Abecassis (Romance Languages & Literatures) is the author of “Syracuse, ou le retour du philosophe tyran” in
Modern Language Notes 123(4), pp. 315-31.
Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a talk, “Literati Storytelling in the Early Qing: New Sidelights on Two Liaozhai Tales,” at the University of Toronto on November 7.
Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) chaired and introduced a Presidential Invited Symposium, “After Fieldwork: On the Duty of Anthropologists to Collaborate, Engage and Reciprocate with Their Host Communities,” at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, held in San Francisco in November. He was also a panelist in the session “Sex in the Syllabus: Open Forum on Teaching the Anthropology of Sex.”
 Susan Brown (Dance Program), author of Singing and the Imagination of Devotion: Vocal Aesthetics in the Early English Protestant Culture (United Kingdom: Authentic Media, 2007), has been awarded a Fulbright to teach in Lithuania in winter/spring 2009. She will focus on Tin Pan Alley Song (Berlin, Porter, Gershwin, Kern, etc.) at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius.
Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) presented “A
Case Study on Risk Management: Lessons from the Collapse of
Amaranth Advisors LLC” at the Southern Finance Association
annual conference, held in Key West, Florida, November
18-22. He was also a discussant of the paper “Measuring
Mutual Fund Performance with Portfolio Characteristics,”
delivered by Fabio Moneta of Boston College, and was quoted
in the
San Gabriel Valley Tribune on October 14 on the bank
bail-out.
Christopher Chinn (Classics) gave a paper, “Vulcan’s Poetic Temple in Statius’ Thebaid,” at the 2008 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, held November 7-8 here at Pomona. Also in November, he lectured on "The Face of the Hero: Intertext and Visuality in Statius' Description of Achilles” as part of an invited lecture series at the College of Charleston.
Toni Clark (English) and Robert Potter ’56 presented “Innovation under Fire: Curricular Change in Revolutionary Times” on November 23 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Black Studies Conference, “1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change.”
 Virginia Crosby (Romance Languages & Literatures, Emerita) has published a new novel,
Murder Afoot: A Paris Mystery (Frederick, MD: PublishAmerica, 2008).
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) was a plenary speaker at the 10th annual meeting of the Modernist Studies Association, held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, November 13-16. Her talk focused on her book project, “Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy.”
 Richard Hazlett (Geology) is the author, with Howard G. Wilshire and Jane E. Nielson, of
The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and the Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Amazon.com recently selected the book as one of its 2008 Top 10 Books in the “Outdoors and Nature” category.
Malkiat Johal (Chemistry) has published an article, “Controlling Layer Thickness and Photostability of Water-Soluble Cationic Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) in Multilayer Thin Films by Surfactant Complexation,” in
Langmuir 24(22), pp. 13127-31. His coauthors include Jeremy Treger ’09 and Vincent Ma ’08.
Karl Johnson (Biology and Neuroscience) presented a poster at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, D.C., on November 18. The poster, entitled “The Identification of Novel Syndecan Binding Proteins in Drosophila,” was based on research conducted in his laboratory in collaboration with Vivek Charu ’09 and Julia Chang ’08.
Together with Robert Baker, a mathematics teacher at University Senior High School in Santa Monica, Gizem Karaali (Mathematics) led a workshop titled “Math Digital Library – A New Storehouse of Information” at the 49th annual meeting of the California Mathematics Council – South, held in Palm Springs November 7-8. The participants were K-12 mathematics teachers from southern California.
Nina Karnovsky (Biology) was a co-author of “How Effective Are Cassin’s Auklets as Environmental Monitors in Central California?,” which won the award for best poster at the 17th annual meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization in Dalian, China, October 24-November 2. The poster was also presented at the 2008 California Cooperative Fisheries Investigations conference held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, November 17-19.
Karnovsky is also co-author of the paper "Does simple feeding enrichment raise activity levels of captive ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta)?" in
Applied Animal Behavior Science. This paper was based on a senior thesis project by Diana Dishman'06 from Scripps College. Karnovsky and Diane Thomson from Joint Sciences co-mentored Dishman.
Felix Kronenberg (Foreign Language Resource Center and German & Russian) gave a paper, “Teaching Language, Culture and Literature through Multimedia Projects,” as part of the panel “Teaching with the Internet and Technology” at the 2008 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, held November 7-8 here at Pomona. He also led a SWALLT Presentation on the "Best of of Web 2.0 for Language Educators" on November 14.
Kyoko Kurita (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Romance in Midair: The Future of Women in 19th Century Japan,” as part of the panel “Romanticism and Social Change” at the 2008 International Conference on Romanticism, held at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, October 16-19.
 Thomas Leabhart’s (Theatre & Dance) book The Decroux Sourcebook, co-edited with Franc Chamberlain, was published by Routledge in November. On November 7, Leabhart gave a presentation about François Delsarte for the NEA Arts Journalism Institute at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication.
Sherry Linnell (Theatre & Dance) designed costumes for The Syzygy Theatre’s production of William Saroyan’s
Love’s Old Sweet Song, October 17-November 23. The production was a
Los Angeles Times Critic’s Pick.
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) has recently given several talks. On October 30 she discussed her book,
Passionate Uprisings, at the World Affairs Council, and on November 12 she gave an invited keynote lecture, “Traffic Jam: Gender, Sexuality, Labor and Migration in Dubai,” at UC San Francisco. In mid-November, having been chosen by the Asia Society as one of 21 “Young Leaders of Asia,” she visited Japan, where she spoke about her work on Iran and on trafficking in Dubai, and on November 19 she gave an invited keynote lecture, “Changing Identities in the Wake of Iran’s Sexual Revolution,” at UCLA.
Mahdavi has also been quoted or her book cited in venues recently including The Chronicle of Higher Education, Gozaar and
Publishers Weekly.
Denise Miller's (Romance Languages and Literatures) daughter Elizabeth Miller and her pony Miss Tattletail finished in
first place at the 10th Annual Galway Downs Three-Day Event and Horse Trials in Temecula, October 30-November 2, on a dressage score of 27.9 Senior Novice Amateur Rider division. The final horse trial of the year was in Fresno, November 14-16, at
the Ram Tap Pony Club Benefit. Liz and Tattle finished in Third Place on a dressage score of 32.0, Novice Rider Championship division.
Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) accepted an invitation from the Society for California Archaeology to become an inaugural member of the editorial board of a new journal,
California Archaeology. Perry also gave a presentation, “Gendering the Past,” at the Women’s Union on November 13.
Joti Rockwell (Music) presented a paper, “Funk Drumming, Pulse Neutrality, and the ‘Rhythm of the One,’” at the 31st annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, which was held jointly with the 74th annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Nashville on November 6-9.
Alex Rodriguez (Physical Education) reported that the Pomona-Pitzer Men's Water Polo team won the SCIAC Conference Championship for the second year in a row.
On October 28, Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was the outside honors examiner and seminar speaker at Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College. His talk was titled “Matchings and Marriage, Chains and Dominance.”
Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave an invited presentation about her book,
Héroïnes Françaises 1940-1945: Courage, Force et Ingéniosité, at the Foundation of the Resistance in Paris on November 15 and at the Women’s International Zionist Organization in Marseilles on November 16.
Jack Sanders (Music) performed 16 concerts on baroque and classic guitars in Wyoming, Louisiana, and California from October 23 to November 23. The performances in Wyoming were sponsored by the state’s Arts Council, while those in Louisiana were under the auspices of the Piatigorsky Foundation of New York. Sanders is also the author of “Essay on Playing the Guitar,” in
Soundboard 34(4), the quarterly journal of the Guitar Foundation of America.
On October 28, Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was the outside honors examiner and seminar speaker at Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College. His talk was titled “Matchings and Marriage, Chains and Dominance.”
Richard Sheirich’s (German & Russian, Emeritus) article “Arthur Schnitzler’s Challenge to the Government Radio Monopoly, September 1927-February 1928” appeared in
Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, Bd. 33 (2008), 1. Heft, pp. 199-226.
Margaret Waller (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Domestic Orientalism: The One-Woman Harem at Home,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies conference at Vanderbilt University, October 16-18.
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November 2008
ELECTION 2008: Students gathered on November 4 in the Carnegie Building to watch the election returns roll in as part of an event sponsored by the Pomona Student Union.
Mark Allen (Art & Art History) has accepted an invitation to join the Board of Directors
of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) served as discussant for a panel, “Engaging
with Canons: Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, and Yu Hua,” at the American Association for Chinese Studies Annual Conference, held
at California State University, Fullerton, on October 19.
David Becker (Biology) gave a research talk, titled “A Possible Role in Photosynthetic Thermotolerance for Polyphenol Oxidase, an Enigmatic Chloroplast Enzyme,” to the Graduate Botany Program (CGU) at Rancho
Santa Botanic Garden on September 26.
Graydon Beeks’s (Music) new edition of G. F. Handel’s anthem “O Praise the Lord with One
Consent” has been published by Novello Publishing Limited of London, as part of the Novello Handel Edition.
Pianist Gayle Blankenburg (Music) recently recorded a CD with her Los Angeles-based
chamber music ensemble, “inauthentica.” The CD (MSR Classics label, MS1208) features the music of Arnold Schoenberg,
including his masterwork “Pierrot lunaire.” Grammaphone magazine wrote of the CD, "the California-based ensemble present
'Pierrot' as if they had played it night after night in a theatre. It's a charged performance, with all the musicians acting
like characters themselves in the twisted tale." And the American Record Guide reviewer wrote "I don't know a better
performance of this piece and would be content to have this as the only one in my library."
Eleanor Brown (Economics) was invited to the White House to attend the President’s
September 8 speech on volunteering.
Paul Cahill (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “ ‘And the Premio Nadal
Goes to . . .’: Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes as a Rewriting of Nada,” at the 34th Annual Hispanic Literature Conference,
hosted by Indiana University of Pennsylvania, October 17-18.
Laurie Cameron’s (Theatre & Dance) troupe, Laurie Cameron and Company, was in residence
at the Dragon’s Egg, a rehearsal/performance facility in Ledyard, CT, October 24-26 preparing for New York and Los Angeles
performances of a new work, “Hieroglyphics,” in January.
José R. Cartagena-Calderón (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “ ‘No soy
hermoso’: El Quijote y la historia de la fealdad,” at the 20th Annual Cervantes Symposium of California, “Cervantes and
Romance,” held at the University of California, Berkeley, on October 17.
Tzu-Yi Chen (Computer Science) was part of a group of six professors who were awarded a
$150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for their collaborative research project “Commonsense Computing: What
Students Know before We Teach.”
Angelina Chin (History) was a panelist in a symposium, “Art and the New Culture City:
Hong Kong, China and the World Art System,” at the University of Southern California, October 2-3.
In October, Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) presented a paper, “A Case Study on Risk
Management: Lessons from the Collapse of Amaranth Advisors, LLC,” at a Financial Management Association (FMA) conference held
in Dallas. He was also part of a panel to discuss career advice for financial engineers at CGU for the International
Association of Financial Engineers and the Fischer Black Memorial Foundation.
Chincarini was also interviewed about the global financial crisis on KFWB radio on September 19 and 29, and has been
frequently quoted on the subject in the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune newspapers. He also wrote “Natural
Gas Futures and Spread Position Risk: Lessons from the Collapse of Amaranth Advisors, L.L.C.,” in
Journal of Applied Finance
(spring/summer 2008).
In September, the city of Spoleto (Umbria) invited Judson Emerick (Art & Art History) to
help it apply to UNESCO to put two of its
most prized monuments on the U. N.’s World Heritage List. Professor Emerick has
long studied both buildings, the Tempietto del Clitunno and the basilica of San Salvatore, and has published a book on the
Tempietto. Both monuments date to the eighth century and can be presented as precious survivals of a Lombard barbarian
culture in early medieval Italy.
Steve Erickson (Philosophy) was an invited participant in a 14-person Liberty Fund
seminar, “Liberty, Responsibility, and Self-Perfection in Confucian Thought,” in Edinburgh, October 9-12.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (English and Media Studies) spoke on her book in progress, “Planned
Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy,” at the University of Southern California on October 7,
as part of the Annenberg Research Park Colloquium Series, and again at the University of Maryland on October 21, as part of
the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities Digital Dialogue Series. In addition, she participated in a
roundtable discussion on Narrative Franchises at the Flow Conference, held at the University of Texas at Austin, October
9-11.
Art Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) is serving as dramaturg on a production of French
contemporary playwright Valère Novarina’s Adramelech’s Monologue, currently in performance at the Bootleg Theater in Los
Angeles.
Malkiat Johal (Chemistry) presented a seminar, “Dual-Beam Polarization Interferometry
Studies of Nanoassemblies at the Solid-Aqueous Interface,” at the 42nd Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical
Society, held in Las Vegas in September. He was accompanied by Thomas Lane '10, Jeremy Treger, Jenny Linn and Will Flethcer
'11, who all presented work based on their research at Pomona.
Also, Johal has published “Quartz Resonator-Based Approach to Ultrasonic Rheology of a Mixed-Phase Micellar System,” in
Analytical Chemistry 80(20), pp. 7840-45, with Thomas Lane ’10, Connie Cheng ’09, and others, and “Dual-Beam Polarization Interferometry Resolves Mechanistic Aspects of Polyelectrolyte Adsorption,” in
Langmuir 24(19), pp. 10633-36, with Thomas
Lane ’10, Will Fletcher ‘11, and Michael Gormally ‘11.
Meg Jolley (Theatre & Dance) attended the International Association for Dance Medicine
and Science annual conference, held in Cleveland, Ohio, October 24-26.
On October 2, Nina Karnovsky (Biology) lectured to the Pomona Valley Audubon Society on “Gulls, Gullemots and Great White Sharks—The Farallon Islands.” She was also co-author on a poster, “How Effective Are Cassin’s Auklets as Environmental Monitors in Central California?,” which was presented at the 17th Annual Meeting of PICES (North Pacific Marine Science Organization) in Dalian, China, October 24-November 2.
Genevieve Lee (Music) performed as a member of the Mojave Trio on the “Sundays Live”
series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 7. The trio performed works of Haydn and Schumann.
Lee McDonald (Government, Emeritus) has three chapters in
Resistance: The New Role of
Progressive Christians, ed. John B. Cobb, Jr. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). The three chapters deal with
global warming, the church and politics, and forgiveness and reconciliation in politics.
David Menefee-Libey’s (Politics) book Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in
American Public Education, coauthored with Charles Taylor Kerchner (CGU), Laura Steen Mulfinger (CGU), and Stephanie E.
Clayton, was published by Harvard Education Press in October.
Lynne Miyake (Asian Languages & Literatures) gave a talk, “The Six Faces of Genji: Manga
Versions of The Tale of Genji,” sponsored by the Japan Society of Northern California, the Mechanics Institute, and the
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, on September 25.
Gilda Ochoa (Sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies) and Daniela Pineda ’02 have an
article, “Deconstructing Power, Privilege, and Silence in the Classroom,” in Radical History Review 102 (fall 2008), pp.
45-62.
Mary Paster (Linguistics & Cognitive Science) gave an invited lecture, “Phonologically
Conditioned Affix Order as a Post-Morphological Phenomenon,” at the University of California, San Diego, Linguistics
Department colloquium on October 6.
On October 16,
Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) gave a lecture at Cal Poly Pomona on “The Chumash: Complex
Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Santa Barbara Channel.” She also organized and moderated the annual Southern Data Sharing
Meeting for the Society for California Archaeology, held at CSU Channel Islands on October 25.
Virginie Pouzet-Duzer (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “Mallarmé’s
Orient, or the Silken Self,” at the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium “Empire, Identity, Exoticism,” held at
Vanderbilt University, October 16-18.
On October 20, Dara Rossman Regaignon (College Writing and English) met with the Department of English faculty and several members of the administration at Amherst College to advise them on implementing a writing-intensive first-year seminar, as well as on developing a college-wide culture of writing. The conversations focused on the importance of ongoing faculty development, and how a writing studies scholar-administrator housed in English could help foster an interdisciplinary commitment to writing across the college.
Larissa Rudova (German & Russian) is the author, with Marina Balina, of “Reflections on
the School Uniform,” Teoriia mody (Fashion Theory) 8 (September 2008), pp. 25-46. She is also the author of “Grigorii Oster:
From Harmful Advice to the Internet,” Neprikosnovennyi zapas (Emergency Supplies) 2 (2008), pp. 192-202..
Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave an invited talk for the Honors
Program at the University of La Verne on October 22. She spoke about the situation of women in France during the German
occupation as well as about women in the French Resistance.
Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was a plenary speaker at the second Polish Combinatorial Conference, October 17-23, in Bedlewo, Poland. His talk was titled “Chain Partitions of Normalized Matching Posets.”
James Taylor (Theatre & Dance) designed the set and lighting for a production of N.
Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker at A Noise Within Theatre in Glendale. The production has been selected as a Critic's Pick by
both the Los Angeles Times and Backstage West.
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October 2008
AT THE MUSEUM: Two new exhibits are on display at the Pomona College Museum of Art. A faculty show features professors Sheila Pinkel, Mercedes Teixido,
Mark Allen and Sandeep Mukherjee, and Project Series 36: Predock_Frane
offers an installation, Inland Empire, from the award-winning architecture firm. The shows' opening reception was held on September 6. The last day to view the exhibitions is October 19.
Allan Barr (Asian Languages & Literatures) presented a paper, “Translating Yu Hua,” at
the New York Conference on Asian Studies, held at Hamilton College, September 26-27.
Angelina Chin (History) gave a paper, “From Contagious Diseases to Madness: The
Construction of ‘Deviant’ Women in 1930s Colonial Hong Kong,” at the Society for the Social History of Medicine 2008 Annual
Conference, held in Glasgow, Scotland, September 3-5.
Edward Copeland (English, Emeritus) received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Emeritus
Fellowship to continue his research on the “silver fork” novelists of mid-19th-century England.
Last month Stephen Erickson (Philosophy) was the discussion leader at the Liberty Fund
colloquium “Machiavelli, Lear, and Measure for Measure,” held in San Diego, and a discussant at the Liberty Fund colloquium
“Hayek and von Mises on Liberty, Socialism, and Interventionism,” held in Indianapolis.
Robert Gaines (Geology), Derek E. G. Briggs, and Zhao Yuanlong are the authors of
“Cambrian Burgess Shale-Type Deposits Share a Common Mode of Fossilization,” in Geology 36:10, pp. 755-58.
The research that Fred Grieman (Chemistry) is carrying out at JPL/Caltech on the reaction
of acetone with the peroxy radical (H02) and its probable importance in the troposphere was presented at the American
Chemical Society National Meeting in Philadelphia in August.
Art Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) presented a paper, “The Dance of Death in Verges: The
Community as Agent of Public and Religious Observance,” as part of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Holidays, Ritual,
Festival, Celebration and Public Display at Bowling Green State University on September 27.
Glenn Hueckel (Economics) presented a paper, “Malthus’s ‘Crotchet of Mind’: Labor Command
as Invariable Standard—the ‘Doctrine of Proportions’ Gone Awry,” to the U.K. History of Economic Thought Conference at the
University of Edinburgh on September 3.
Nina Karnovsky (Biology) and Zachary Brown ‘07 were among several coauthors of a poster,
“Cassin’s Auklet Foraging Behavior at Southeast Farallon Island, CA,” presented at the Third International Biologging Science
Symposium, held at Asilomar, September 1-5. Bradley, J. Jahncke from PRBO Conservation Science were also coauthors of the
poster.
Peter Kung (Philosophy) gave his paper “What Makes a Good Skeptical Thought Experiment?”
at the Central State Philosophy Association meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota, September 26-27.
Genevieve Lee (Music) performed Dvorak’s Piano Quintet with Los Angeles musicians on the
“Sundays Live” series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 7. The series can be heard live via LACMA’s
streaming audio on Sundays at 6:00 p.m. or on delayed broadcast on Wednesdays at 12:00 noon over KCSN 88.5 FM.
 Pardis Mahdavi’s (Anthropology) book,
Passionate Uprisings: The Intersection of Sexuality
and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran, has been published by Stanford University Press.
She also gave a keynote lecture, “The Status of Iranian Women,” at the San Francisco Iranian Professionals forum on September
5; a talk, “Iranian Women in Iran’s Sexual Revolution,” at the Sacramento Public Library on September 6; and a paper,
“Changing Sexual Identities and the Body Politic,” at the Rockefeller “Theorising the Sexual” conference in Bellagio, Italy,
on September 16. She also organized a Mellon-sponsored conference entitled “The Trade and Traffic of Persia,” held at Pomona
September 19-20, at which she gave a paper, “The Trade and Traffic of Persians in Dubai.”
She was also recently featured on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” where she discussed her new book, and on BBC World News,
where she discussed the children of Iran’s revolution.
Daniel Martinez (Biology) was an organizer of and invited speaker at the 3rd Cnidarian
Tree of Life Meeting, held in La Pax, Mexico, in July. His talk, coauthored with Abril Iñiguez ’08, was titled “The
Symbioses of Hydra.” He was also an invited speaker at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, Japan, in September,
and his talk there was titled “Phylogeny and Biogeography of Green and Brown Hydra.”
Denise Miller's (Romance Languages & Literatures) daughter Elizabeth Miller and her horse Miss Tattletail traveled to Ramona,
California,
for the Copper Meadows Horse Trials September 12 to 14, and finished third with a score of 34.7 in Novice Rider Senior Division.
They also just returned from Twin Rivers Horse Trials in Paso Robles, California, with a first place finish in Senior Novice
Amateur Rider with a score of 30.8.0.
Gilda Ochoa (Sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies) spoke on “Schooling for Justice:
Challenging Power, Privilege, and Exclusion” to Columbia Basin Community College faculty and staff in Washington State during
their orientation week in September.
Sheila Pinkel (Art & Art History) helped plan and curate an exhibition and symposium, “In
Transition Russia 2008,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Her work is featured there and in
several other exhibitions this month: “Just How Does a Patriot Act?” at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art,
“Change America” at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, and “My Father’s Party Is Busted” at BC Space in Laguna Beach.
Leonard Pronko (Theatre & Dance) gave a talk about Jean Anouilh and his play The
Rehearsal at A Noise Within on September 17.
Monique Saigal (Romance Languages & Literatures) spoke about her book, Héroïnes
françaises 1940-1945, to Pomona alumni in San Francisco on September 14 and to Google employees in Mountain View on September
15 (YouTube link), and she gave a talk about “Women in the French Resistance” to the Alliance française in Los Angeles on September 23.
 Commissioned by Joti Rockwell (Music), who will use it in his teaching, Jack Sanders (Music) built a monochord, a type of single-stringed instrument said to have been invented by
Pythagoras. Historically, the monochord was used to explore different tuning systems and demonstrate connections between
musical harmony and celestial order.
The Phi Beta Kappa Society Senate has chosen John Seery (Politics) to receive the 2009
Sidney Hook Memorial Award, a triennial award recognizing “national distinction by a single scholar in each of three
endeavors—scholarship, undergraduate teaching and leadership in the cause of liberal arts education.” The award
will be presented
at a banquet in Austin, Texas, on October 3, 2009, at which Seery will be the keynote speaker.
Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was the Mathematics Colloquium speaker at Occidental
College on September 18. His talk was entitled “Matchings and Marriage, Chains and Dominance.”
Slavi Slavov (Economics) has published a paper, “Measuring and Modeling the Effects of
G-3 Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Small Open Economies: A Natural Experiment,” in Economic Systems 32:3 (September 2008), pp.
253-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2008.02.002
Charles Taylor (Chemistry) received a $90,000 research grant from the National Institute
of Standards and Technology for sensors material research. He also presented research at the Western Regional Meeting of the
American Chemical Society in Las Vegas on September 25. The title of his presentation was “Using Precursor-Controlled
Microstructures for Preparing Selective Gas Microsensors by Chemical Vapor Deposition.” Adam Chaimowitz '10 also presented a
poster at the meeting.
Hung Cam Thai (Sociology and Asian American Studies) has been awarded a Senior Scholar Fellowship at
the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. He also recently delivered lectures at Vietnam National
University, the University of Arizona, Brandeis University, and the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association.
Samuel Yamashita (History) has been invited to deliver the Grant Goodman Distinguished
Lecture in Japanese Studies at the University of Kansas in spring 2009. The lecture will be his first attempt at writing a
history of everyday life in wartime Japan.
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September 2008
ORIENTATION DAY:
On Sunday, August 24, the residence halls opened for the Class of 2012. New students arrived on campus, registered for their Orientation Adventures, met their sponsors and began to get to know one another. In addition to helping with move-in chores, their parents took part in Parents Orientation, which introduced them to the Claremont community and life on campus for their new student.
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Jack Abecassis (Romance Languages & Literatures) presented a Dahlem Humanities Center
Lecture entitled “L’Homme Machine: Pascal/Bourdieu” at the Freie Universität Berlin on June 3.
At the 51st International Federation of Theatre Conference, held at Chang-Ang University in Seoul in July, Betty Bernhard (Theatre & Dance) gave a talk, “Using Asian Theatre Conventions in Hamlet
Production,” as part of a panel entitled “Reinvention of Shakespeare in Asia and Cultural Encounters.” She also chaired a
panel, “Asian-ness: Introspection & Cross-Cultural Convergence,” with speakers from Israel, Poland and Iran.
Mary Booker (Financial Aid) has been announced as the new Director of Financial Aid,
taking over for Pat Coye who is retiring after 31 years at Pomona. Mary Booker, currently director of financial aid at
Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where she earned her BA, will begin work at Pomona on October 1. She
previously served as associate director of financial aid at Dartmouth College and also at Oberlin College before returning to
Gustavus Adolphus two years ago. Mary also has an MA in Ethnic Studies and Education Administration from Minnesota State
University, and is working toward an MA in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College.
Pam Bromley (Writing Center) is the new assistant director of college writing.Pam taught in the Writing
Program at Scripps last fall and in the Politics department at Pitzer in the spring. She has just completed her PhD in
Politics (International Relations) at Princeton, and was a double major in Political Science and Biology at Williams College.
While at Princeton, she worked in the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, training undergraduate tutors to help their
peers with general academic skills, and running academic skills workshops for students.
During August, Laurie Cameron's (Theatre & Dance) troupe, Laurie Cameron & Company, was
in residence at the Dragon’s Egg, a performance facility in Mystic, Connecticut.
Ludwig Chincarini (Economics) is the author of “Flexible Insurance for Separate
Accounts,” in The ICFAI University Journal of Risk and Insurance 5:3 (July 2008), pp. 7-30.
Grace Dávila-López (Romance Languages & Literatures) gave a paper, “Donde el viento hace
buñuelos: lugares de encuentro en los exilios de la globalización,” in the XVI Jornadas de Teatro Latinoamericano in Puebla,
México, July 7-10. She also participated in a discussion panel, “Perspectives on Spanish Dramaturgy,” at the Educational
Programs Conference of the XXIII International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami on July 26.
Vin de Silva (Mathematics) has an article, “A Weak Characterisation of the Delaunay
Triangulation,” in Geometriae Dedicata 135:1 (August 2008), pp. 39-64.
He also gave a plenary lecture, “Zig-Zag Persistence,” at the Computational Algebraic Topology workshop held at the
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach in Oberwolfach, Germany, June 29 to July 5. During July he gave four lectures
at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley as part of a workshop on “Geometry and Representation Theory of
Tensors for Computer Science, Statistics, and Other Areas.”
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s (English and Media Studies) article “Obsolescence” has appeared in
PMLA 123:3 (May 2008), pp. 718-22.
Peter Flueckiger (Asian Languages & Literatures) has published an article, “The Shijing
in Tokugawa Ancient Learning,” in Monumenta Serica 55 (2007), pp. 195-225.
Oldenborg welcomes the following new staff members: Luz Forero is the new assistant
director of Oldenborg and Tammi Rendon is the new administrative assistant. Hilary Gay has a one-year internship at the new Foreign Language Resource Center in Mason.
Erika Gamst (Donor Relations) has completed her MBA with concentrations in Strategy and
Leadership at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at CGU.
Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) and Mihai Putinar have an article, “Interpolation and
Complex Symmetry,” in Tohoku Mathematical Journal 60:3 (second series).
Roberto Garza-López (Chemistry) gave a talk about his translation of the autobiography of
scientist Ahmed Zewail, “Viaje a través del tiempo: vida del Dr. Ahmed Zewail, Premio Nobel de Química," at the Centro
Cultural de Samurra, Mataquescuintla, Guatemala, on August 8.
He's also the author, with Aaron Kaufman ‘10, Reena Patel ‘10, Joseph Chang ’10 et al., of “Reaction Efficiency of
Diffusion-Controlled Processes on Finite, Aperiodic Planar Arrays,” in Chemical Physics Letters 459 (June 2008), pp. 137-40.
Jenifer Gilio (Major Gifts) is the new regional director of advancement, Eastern United
States and Europe. She will telecommute while basing her Pomona operations from an office in Pennsylvania. Jenifer joins
Major Gifts as a highly experienced and successful development professional and community volunteer. She began her
development career as a student Annual Fund volunteer for her alma mater, Muhlenberg College, then joined the staff after
graduation and quickly rose to be the director of the Muhlenberg Fund.
Paula Goldsmid (Graduate Fellowships & Health Sciences) made presentations on “Advising
Faculty on Effective Letters of Recommendation” and “Compelling Personal Statements” at a workshop sponsored by the National
Association of Fellowships Advisors, held at the University of Arkansas in July.
Jill Grigsby (Sociology) presented her research on “Residential Segregation in Large
Multiethnic Metropolitan Areas” at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Boston on August 3.
Laura L. Mays Hoopes (Biology) is the author of “Great Ecology Tour,”
North Carolina
Literary Review 17 (2008), pp. 163-66.
Arthur Horowitz (Theatre & Dance) sat on a dramaturgy panel entitled “Difficult
Dialogues: Dramaturgy and the Rules of Engagement,” presenting a paper, “Attempts on a Dramaturg’s Life: A Journey through
Co-Production Miasma and Artistic MacGuffin-ism,” at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s national conference,
held in Denver in early August.
Kamran Javadizadeh (English) received his PhD in English from Yale University in May.
Meg Jolley (Theatre & Dance) attended the 8th International Congress of the Alexander
Technique, held in Lugano, Switzerland.
Gizem Karaali (Mathematics) gave a talk, “An Unreasonable Reading Component for a
Reasonable Course: Readings for a Transitional Class,” at the contributed paper session “Incorporating Humanities and the
Arts into the Mathematics Classroom (and Vice Versa)” at MathFEST 2008, the annual meeting of the Mathematical Association of
America, held in Madison, Wisconsin, July 31-August 2.
Jade Star Lackey (Geology) co-authored the article “Ti-in-Zircon Thermometry:
Applications and Limitations” in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 156 (August 2008), pp. 197-215.
Thomas Leabhart (Theatre & Dance) taught a workshop at the National Theatre School of
Estonia in Tallinna, May 26-30. He also taught for Arts en Scène in Lyon, June 2-13; for Association Hippocampe in Paris,
June 16-27; for La Montade in Aurillac, France, July 7-18; and for the Nottle Theatre in Korea, July 31-August 10.
In August, Genevieve Lee (Music) performed solo and chamber music works by Beethoven,
Mozart, and Gernot Wolfgang, as well as pieces by film composer Nino Rota and jazz pianist Billy Childs, in the Fifth Annual
Beverly Hills International Music Festival concert series.
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) gave a lecture, “Using Medical Anthropology to Meet the
Unmet Needs of Iranian Women Today,” and was a discussant on two roundtables at the Mehregan International Conference in San
Diego in late August.
April Mayes (History) has published an article, “Why Dominican Feminism Moved to the
Right: Class, Colour and Women’s Activism in the Dominican Republic, 1880s-1940s” in
Gender & History 20:2 (August 2008),
pp. 349-71.
Denise Miller's (Romance Languages and Literature) daughter Elizabeth Miller and horse
Miss Tattletail competed at the Shepherd Ranch Horse Trials in Santa Ynez on August 22-24, securing a first place win in the
Novice division. Their next horse trials is on September 12-14 at Copper Meadows in Ramona.
Catalin Mitescu (Physics & Astronomy), John P. Koulakis ’06, Francoise Brochard-Wyart, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and Etienne Guyon have an article, “The Viscous Catenary Revisited: Experiments and Theory,” in the
Journal of Fluid Mechanics 609 (August 2008), pp. 87-110. The paper is a significantly expanded version of Koulakis' 2006 undergraduate senior thesis. It was written at the urging of Professor de Gennes (1991 Nobel Laureate in Physics), and is the last published paper bearing de Gennes' name, as he passed away as the paper was being prepared in May 2007.
Catherine Okereke (Major Gifts) is the new regional director of advancement for the
Greater San Diego Region, and will also maintain a portfolio of donors in the San Francisco Bay area. Catherine joined the
Advancement Staff as an Associate Director of Annual Giving in 2007 and has led Pomona alumni in achieving numerous records
for class giving in reunion years.
Cathy Paolozzi (Major Gifts) is the new administrative assistant in the Office of
Major Gifts. Cathy comes to us from the private sector where she most recently was self employed as a professional organizer.
She has extensive experience working for Bates Advertising, one of the nation’s leading advertising firms. Cathy holds a BA
in Religion from Vanguard University of Southern California and has completed her coursework for an MA in Religion at
Vanguard.
Sheila Pinkel’s (Art & Art History) work is featured in the three-person exhibition “Art
and Advocacy,” running from August 17 through November 23 at the Platt and Borstein Galleries of American Jewish University
in Bel Air.
Bruce Poch (Admissions) is author of “The Process: Keep It Honest, Keep It Real,” a
chapter in the 2009 Newsweek-Kaplan How to Get into College Guide, published last month.
Jaquelin Pollock (Major Gifts) will serve as John Norton’s Administrative Assistant and
also provide support for the Office of Major Gifts. Jaque has been working in this capacity on a temporary basis since
mid-July. Jaque is a 2001 graduate of California State Polytechnic University and holds a BS in Business Administration and
Marketing. She has extensive experience in customer relations and marketing, and has worked in real estate, insurance and
automotive industries.
Leonard Pronko (Theatre & Dance) has an essay, “Closed and Open Societies: The Revenge
Dramas of Japan, Spain and England,” in Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre, ed. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He also gave a lecture and led a discussion of Ibsen’s
Ghosts for the Scholars Circle
at A Noise Within on September 3.
Lynn Rapaport (Sociology) organized a session on “Sociology of the Holocaust” and
presented a paper, “Superman Fights the Nazis,” in that session at the International Sociological Association’s Annual
Conference, held in Budapest in June.
Slavi Slavov (Economics) gave his paper “Do Common Currencies Facilitate the Net Flow of
Capital among Countries?” at the 15th World Congress of the International Economic Association in Istanbul on June 28. He
gave his paper “Structural Current Account Imbalances: Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Rates?” at the Bulgarian National Bank
in Sofia on July 31.
Nancy Treser-Osgood (Alumni Relations) spoke on "Partnering to Offer Alumni Career
Services" at the national Small College Alumni Directors conference at Whitman College in July. Nancy also moderated a
workshop on "Best Practices in Alumni Relations" on Campus on September 3 for the Council for Advancement and Support of
Education (CASE) District VII. The workshop included independent schools, colleges and universities from throughout
California and Arizona.
Jessica Wimbley (Pomona College Museum of Art) is joining the Museum as Museum
Coordinator. Jessica holds a BFA from RISD, an MFA from UC-Davis, and is currently enrolled in CGU's MACAM and Executive MBA
programs. Her broad experience in the arts includes teaching undergraduate classes in art appreciation and drawing,
organizing undergraduate and graduate symposia, serving as Assistant Director of Tinlark Gallery, and exhibiting her own work
as an artist.
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August 2008
CLAREMONT SCHOOL OF THEATRE ART: Every summer, there’s a bit more drama on campus than usual. From the end of June through July, 50 local children ages 11 to 14 attend the
five-week Claremont School of Theatre Art (CSTA) program,
which is located on the Pomona College campus. This year,
the program culminated with a performance of Tales of Canterbury
at the Virginia Princehouse Allen Theatre at Pomona’s Seaver Theatre Complex.
The program, which is in its 15th year, is produced by Cathy
Seaman, program director for the Department of Theatre and
Dance, and oftentimes lures Theatre Department alumni
back to campus as instructors.
Read more about the program
Jon Bailey's (Music) EPIPHANIES, a 30-minute work for chorus, boy soprano, baritone and four percussionists composed for the 125th
Anniversary of All Saints Church Pasadena, had its world premiere on June 1. The work was composed by Jon Bailey and utilized
Biblical texts as well as contemporary sources. The work was greeted by a long-lasting standing ovation.
Allan Barr's (Asian Languages and Literatures) translation of Yu Hua's story "Friends" was published in Asian Literary Review (June 2008), pp. 143-53. He also gave an invited talk on "Remarkable Women in Liaozhai Zhiyi" at Zhejiang Library in Hangzhou, China, on July 25.
Graydon Beeks (Music) presented a paper in June on "The Performance of Handel's Cannons Anthems at the Concerts of Ancient Music" at the Scholarly Conference held in conjunction with the annual Handel Festival in Halle, Germany. In July, he presented a paper on "Sir George Smart's Performances of Handel's Messiah" at the 13th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, held at the University of Leeds in England.
Noell Birondo (Philosophy) published "Review of Allen W. Wood, Kantian Ethics" in the
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
Ralph Bolton (Anthropology) delivered a lecture on June 14 on the history of applied anthropology in southern Peru at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, National University of the Altiplano, Puno, Peru.
Bolton also served as a judge for a projects competition involving Andean communities that was sponsored by SID-Peru, an NGO working on economic development in villages on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
During the same month, the Mayor and City Council of the District of Pucara in the Province of Lampa honored
Bolton with a commemorative plaque in recognition of contributions to the people of the district: "En reconocimiento al Dr. Rafael Bolton, Fundacion Chijnaya, por su apoyo incondicional a nuestro Distrito."
Also, the Associated Press cited Bolton's work in an article distributed by that news agency, based on an interview originally published by the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Kim Bruce (Computer Science) served on the steering committee for the first SIGPLAN workshop on Programming Language Curricula at Harvard University on May 29 and 30, where he presented a talk on prior Computer Science Curricula from the
1960s until today. He also served on the program committee of the Computing Research Association conference at Snowbird, Utah, on July 13 to 15.
He chaired a panel on Graduate School Immigration and
Emigration at the conference.
Laurie Cameron (Dance) performed the 1915 Denishawn solo "Floor Plastique" as part of the "Spirit of Denishawn" lecture/performance (with Robin Rice) at the International Sacred Dance Festival
at Connecticut College on July 22.
Andre Cavalcanti (Biology) published "The pathway to detangle a scrambled gene" in PLoS One 3(6), pp. e2330, with co-authors M. Möllenbeck, Y. Zhou, F. Jönsson, B.P. Higgins, W.J. Chang, S. Juranek, T.G. Doak, G. Rozenberg, H.J. Lipps and L.F. HJ, Landweber.
Angelina Chin (History) published an article, "Loving Disability: 'Patriotism' in Postcolonial Hong Kong," in
Asian Cultural Studies (2008), Vol. 34, (International Christian University, Tokyo). She also presented a paper titled "Women's Sexual Disorders, Colonial Medicine and Urban Citizenship in Early 20th-century Hong Kong" at the 12th International Conference of the History of Science in East Asia at Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore (July 14-18).
Richard Chute (Trusts & Estates) joined Trusts & Estates on June 9 as Associate Director. Richard is a graduate of Pitzer College and has an M.A. from UCLA. He has worked in development at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Pitzer College and, most recently, UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering. Richard will lead marketing efforts as well work as one of the field fundraising staff.
Alfred Cramer (Music) presented "Accents in Speech and Music: Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology and the Baroque French Overture" at the
Music, Language & the Mind
conference held at Tufts University from July 10 to 13.
Donna M. Di Grazia (Music) conducted six performances as director of the Pomona College Glee Club during the course of their successful concert tour (May 19 to 29) in Portland, Oregon; Eugene, Oregon; Vancouver, British Columbia; Bainbridge Island, Washington; and Seattle. Highlights included a shared concert with the top auditioned choirs from the University of Oregon's School of Music, and an appearance as the featured choir for the main Sunday service at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver.
Di Grazia was also one of three alumni invited to speak at UC Davis on May 12 about career possibilities for students who major in music. The panel was part of UC Davis's College of Letters and Sciences Dean's Speaker Series.
Holly Duncan (Alumni Relations) reports that Professor of Politics
Betsy Crighton delighted Seattle area alumni and parents with her talk "Is Peace Possible in
Israel and Palestine?" on Sunday, June 22. A group of
30-plus people showed up to hear the lecture and ask
questions.
 And on June 10,
President Oxtoby joined about 170 alumni, parents and friends at the Griffith Observatory. The group was treated to remarks from Observatory Director and Pomona alumnus Ed Krupp '66 prior to a film and visit to the planetarium.
Judson Emerick (Art and Art History) gave a paper titled, "Building
'more romano' in Francia during the Third Quarter of the Eighth Century: The Abbey Chruch of Saint-Denis and Its Model," in the session, "Imitating Rome in Carolingian Francia"
at the conference "Ex Changes, Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and Reception of Ideas (c. 400-1400),"
which took place from July 3 to 5 at the
Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
Erica Flapan (Mathematics) published, along with R. Naimi, "The Y-Triangle move does not preserve intrinsic knottedness," in the
Osaka Journal of Mathematics 45 (2008), pp. 107-111.
Stephan Ramon Garcia (Mathematics) gave an invited lecture at IWOTA (International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications) on July 22 at the College of William & Mary. The title of the lecture was "Unitary equivalence to a complex symmetric matrix."
Laura Hoopes (Biology) published two articles: "Phoebe Lostroh," an Educator Highlight Feature in
CBE-LSE (Summer 2008), and "The Elegance of Protein Structures" in
AWIS Magazine 37 (Summer 2008), pp.11-13.
Beth Hubbard (Trusts & Estates) joined Trusts & Estates on July 21 as Trusts and Estates Specialist. Beth comes to Trusts & Estates from Major Gifts where she has made an outstanding contribution to Pomona's advancement efforts, and many know her from her earlier work in the Admissions Office.
Kamran Javadizadeh (English) was selected to participate in a week-long seminar on Emily Dickinson, led by Sharon Cameron, at the National Humanities Center. In May, Javadizadeh received his Ph.D. in English from Yale University. And, in April, he presented a paper to a seminar at the annual conference of the American Comparative Literature Association.
Gizem Karaali (Math) published an article, "Word Problems: Reflections on Embedding Quantitative Literacy in a Calculus Course," in
Numeracy
1:2, Article 6.
 Nina Karnovsky (Biology) and Zachary Brown '07 are co-authors of the book chapter, "High Latitude Changes in Ice Dynamics and Their Impact on Polar Marine Ecosystems" in the
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1134
(2008), pp. 267-319.
Karnovsky is currently in the
Norwegian Arctic studying the impact of climate change
on the marine food web with alumna Laurel McFadden '06 and
students Julia Gleichman '10 and Derek Young '09.
Jade Star Lackey (Geology) is the author, with J.W. Valley, J.H. Chen and D. Stockli, of "Dynamic Magma Systems, Crustal Recycling, and Alteration in the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith: The Oxygen Isotope Record" in the
Journal of Petrology 49 (2008), pp. 1397–1426. Lackey
reports that the article is a definitive study of the origin of many of the granitic rocks that make Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks.
Ann Lebedeff (Tennis) was a featured speaker at the 13th Annual World Team Tennis Junior Nationals, sponsored by Billie Jean King and World Team Tennis, in San Diego on August 15. Her speech topic was "The Right Stuff for Competitive Play." Lebedeff was also the guest speaker at the United States Tennis Association National Tennis Teachers' Conference, held during the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York City on August 24. Her topic was "What Makes a Great Coach?"
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) chaired two panels and presented a paper titled "The Politics of Pornography in the Islamic Republic of Iran" at the Visual Representations of Iran conference at St. Andrews University in Scotland from June 12
to 16. She also gave a talk titled "The Unmet Needs of Iranian Women Today" on July 5 at the Iranian Women's Studies Foundation annual conference held at UC Berkeley, and was interviewed interviewed on KPFA on July 2 at 7 p.m. The subject of
the interview was her research in Iran and forthcoming book,
Passionate Uprisings: Iran's Sexual Revolution.
Carl Martellino (Career Development Office) served as a member of the Future Directions in Career Services Committee for the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). In his role as a futurist, he co-presented on the topic of seismic shifts in career services and recruitment at the NACE Annual Conference in New Orleans.
Martellino also reports that the Career Development Office hosted the Career Services Institute (CSI),
attended by more than 100 professionals in career services. The CSI is a
two-day one-of-a-kind professional development conference
for career center staff allowing for exposure to innovative
new services and programs, benchmarking with colleagues, and
networking.
Kerry Martin (Career Development Office), assistant director for alumni career services, led the efforts for programming and hosting
Best Practices in Alumni Career Services: A Collaborative Discussion,
a one-day conference in the Smith Campus Center. The
conference attendees included professionals from college and
university career services and alumni relations sharing best
practices, hearing a keynote from the University of Georgia,
and participating in roundtable discussions and meetings
with exhibitors and vendors. More than 50 professionals from
the Western U.S. attended.
Robert Mezey (English) has accepted an invitation to teach at Kenyon College for a semester or two as the Richard Thomas Visiting Professor of Writing, beginning January 2010. Robert has an honorary degree from Kenyon.
Denise Miller (Romance Languages & Literatures) reports that her daughter Elizabeth and her pony Miss Tattletail have competed at the following eventing shows in the novice division; Galway Downs in Temecula on May 3 and 4, finishing first; The Meadows of Moorpark on May 31 and June 1; and Copper Meadows in Ramona
with a fourth-place finish. Elizabeth graduated on June 13 from Cal Poly Pomona with a bachelor's degree in Animal Science with an emphasis in Equine and a minor in Agricultural Management.
Nivia Montenegro's (Romance Languages and
Literatures) article, "Cuba in Black and White: Two Views of
the Republic," has appeared in the book Caribbean Thought: XIX and XX Centuries
(Charles University, Prague), based on the Latin American Studies Symposium held at the university in September 2007.
Mary Paster (Linguistics and Cognitive Science) gave an invited lecture, "The Journey from Linguistics Major to Linguistics Professor," at the Summer Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
at Ohio State University on July 11.
Jennifer Perry (Anthropology) was interviewed about the impacts of feral pigs and erosion on cultural resources as part of a documentary,
Restoring Balance: Santa Cruz Island, produced by The Ocean Channel on behalf of Channel Islands National Park and The Nature Conservancy.
Perry also presented a paper on the "Landscapes, Seascapes, and Spiritscapes of the California Channel Islands"
in July at the Sixth World Archaeological Congress in Dublin, Ireland.
Dara Rossman Regaignon (English) presented
"Learning Through the Collective: WPAs at Small Liberal Arts
Colleges" with Jill Gladstein of Swarthmore College and Lisa Lebduska
of Wheaton College at the annual meeting of the Council of Writing Program Administrators in Denver, Colorado. This presentation discussed the findings from a survey of the writing program administrators at 55 elite small liberal colleges, conducted as part of founding a national organization.
Joti Rockwell (Music) was a fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. This year's institute was dedicated to the study of jazz and popular music, and was held from June 15
to 18 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
Monique Saigal (Romance Languages and Literatures) participated in a conference organized by the Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF) in Limoges, France, on July 4, giving a paper titled, " Retour à Lüe: lecture d'une écriture."
Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was an invited speaker at the 2008 International Conference on Discrete Mathematics, June 6-10, at Mysore, India. He gave a talk titled "Normalized Matching Posets and Chain Partitions." Also, on June 13, Shahriari gave an invited expository talk in Persian titled "Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Distribution of Primes" at the Ibn Sina Cultural Center in Tehran, Iran.
Slavi Slavov (Economics) published a paper, "Should
Small Open Economies in East Asia Keep All Their Eggs in One
Basket: The Role of Balance Sheet Effects" in The Journal of the Korean Economy 9:1
(April 2008), pp. 1-43.
Jason Smith (ITS) gave a talk, "Fair Use and other Issues Surrounding a V-Brick System," at the NITLE (National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education) Instructional Technologists' Conference at DePauw University, June 2
to 4, in Indiana. Smith was also a member of the planning committee for the event.
David Tanenbaum (Physics and Astronomy) presented a
poster, "Mechanical Properties of Suspended Graphene Sheets," at the Gordon Research Conference on Nanostructure Fabrication held at Tilton School in New Hampshire on July 17, 2008. The poster includes work by Scott Berkley '09 and Ian Frank '08, performed in collaboration with researchers from Cornell University.
Dwight Whitaker (Physics and Astronomy)
received an award from Laser Focus World for
"Commendation for Excellence in Technical Writing" for his
recently submitted article, "High-speed images capture
processes in botanical systems."
Deborah Wilson (Museum of Art) has joined the Pomona College Museum of Art
as Administrative Assistant. Wilson joins the Museum after serving two years at Oldenborg Center.
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