October 8, 1999

Faculty/Staff Footnotes

Clinical Professor of Law Evangeline G. Abriel is on leave for the 1999­2000 academic year to serve as a visiting associate professor at Murdoch University Law School in Perth, Australia. Abriel will be included in the forthcoming issue of the publication Who's Who in American Law. Abriel recently submitted a report and recommendations to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Washington Regional Office, on the detention of asylum seekers in the United States.

Peter Bernardi, S.J., assistant professor of systematic theology, presented a paper titled "The Papal Condemnation of Action Francaise" at the conference, Christian Life and Thought: Responses to Totalitarianism/Authoritarianism in the Twentieth Century held at Boston College in September. Action Francaise was an ultranationalist, proto-fascist movement that was a factor in French political life and the life of the Catholic church between the world wars.

Kurt R. Birdwhistell, associate professor and chair of chemistry, published a paper with two alumni, Joanna Lanza, A'94, and Julianne Pasos, A'96, in the Journal of Organometallic Chemistry titled "Car-bodiimide metathesis catalyzed by vanadium oxo and imido complexes via imido transfer." Birdwhistell also presented a paper with two alumni coauthors, Rebecca Martinez, A'99, and Mike Lynch, A'99, titled "A comparison of the catalytic properties of V (NR)Cl [R=tBu, PhMe] for the metathesis of carodiimides" at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in New Orleans.

Dane Ciolino, associate professor of law, will publish the article "Why Copyrights Are Not Community Property" in the Louisiana Law Review (Volume 60, Issue 1). Ciolino also has been selected as a member of the Louisiana Supreme Court Committee on Prevention of Lawyer Misconduct.

Aza Downs joined the Division of Institutional Advancement as a development officer for the College of Arts and Sciences. Downs is a graduate of Newcomb College.

Nancy McKenzie Du-pont, assistant professor of communications, presented a paper, "Passion and Reason: Mississippi Newspaper Writings of the Secession Crisis, 1860­1861," in the History Division of the 1999 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference which met in New Orleans in August.

Stephen Duffy, professor of religious studies, is the author of "Interreligious Dialogue: the Theological and Comparative Components" in Ecumenical Trends and "A Theology of the Religions and/or a Comparative Theology" in Horizons.

Mary Ellen Fleury joined the Division of Institutional Advancement as a research analyst in the Office of Advancement Research. Fleury holds a bachelor's degree in sociology from Newcomb College and a master's degree in library, media, and information studies from the University of South Florida.

Sherrie Gammage, site coordinator for the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice New Orleans Resolving Conflict Creatively Project, participated in staff development at Givat Haviva, Tel Aviv, Israel, that focused on teaching and learning between Israeli Jewish, Palestinian Israeli, and Arab educators and youth. The workshop was funded by a United States Tourist Information grant. This fall, in a joint agreement between the Twomey Center and Lesley College, Gammage is serving as adjunct faculty/visiting scholar in the Lesley Peaceable Schools Masters Program. Students enrolled in this track earn a M.Ed. in curriculum and instruction with a focus on Conflict Resolution and Peaceable Schools.

Dee Harper, professor in City College, participated in the sixth annual National Institute of Justice Data Resources Program workshop on women and crime at the University of Michigan in June. He was awarded a stipend of $1000 for participation.

Harper received the Anthony Waters Distinguished Teaching Award. The recipient is chosen from nominations by City College graduates who select a faculty member who made an indelible mark on their educational experience.

Craig S. Hood, associate professor of biological sciences, served as a grant review panelist on a National Science Foundation program in the Division of Undergraduate Education. Hood reviewed and recommended grant proposals for funding in the CCLI program which supports innovative course and curricular proposals to enhance undergraduate science education.

Stamos Karamouzis, associate professor of computer science in City College, edited the first two issues of The Journal of Information Technology Impact. In July, he attended the annual conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in Orlando, Florida.

Suzanne Koerner joined the Division of Institutional Advancement as the senior development officer for the College of Business Administration. Koerner previously served as the director of development for Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College in Saint Benedict, Louisiana.

Andrew Macdonald, associate professor of English, and Gina Macdonald, visiting professor of English, are staff reviewers for Creative Screenwriting and have recently published script and novel/script reviews of Affliction, Summer of Sam, Stigmata, and The Astronaut's Wife. Reviews and articles on Bringing Out the Dead, Clueless/Emma, and Spartacus are scheduled for publication in future issues. Several of these reviews include interviews with the scriptwriters. The Macdonalds' "Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans" in Recent Popular Fiction (with Mary Ann Sheridan) has been accepted for publication by Greenwood Press.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Alex Reichl's book, Reconstructing Times Square: Politics and Culture in Urban Development, was published in May by the University Press of Kansas and has been nominated for the Lewis Mumford Prize. Reichl's article, "Learning from St. Thomas: Community, Capital, and the Redevelopment of Public Housing in New Orleans," appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs, which consisted of the top five papers from the 1998 annual meeting of the Urban Affairs Association. Over the summer, Reichl refereed articles for the Journal of Urban Affairs and the Southeastern Political Review.

Associate Professor of Visual Arts Steve Rucker's "Fish Farm Blues" was recently exhibited at the Ohio University Art Gallery in Athens, Ohio.

Brian T. Smith, visiting assistant professor of sociology, co-presented a paper titled "Gendered processes: Re-employment of displaced workers in the new economy" at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Smith also took part in a roundtable discussion on "Political Economy within Academia and Beyond" at this meeting where he presented his research on the question: Are permanent, full-time, tenured faculty disappearing in sociology?

Jim Wee, professor in and chair of the Department of Biology, chaired the organizing committee for the fifth annual International Chrysophyte Symposium (ICS) held in July on the campus of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE). About 30 representatives from 11 countries on four continents attended the meeting. In addition to having the major organizing responsibility for the meeting, Wee organized an afternoon paper session titled "Microalgae: species level relationships and processes" and presented a research paper in that session.

The XVIth International Botanical Congress (IBC) is a much larger meeting with about 4,400 representatives in attendance and took place in St. Louis in August immediately after the 5th International Chrysophyte Symposium ended. The fifth ICS and the IBC provided both a small and large international meeting atmosphere for those who chose to attend both meetings. Wee organized an afternoon general symposium at the 16th IBC titled "New Paradigms in Chrysophyte Biology." Seven scientists from Japan, Finland, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States, including Wee, spoke in this symposium which was supported in part by a grant to Wee from the Phycological Society of America.