María Andrade (joint appointment, Modern Languages and Comparative Literature and Black and Hispanic Studies) had two articles published: "Crossing Identities in Sarduy's From Cuba with a Song" in Atenea and "The Crisis of the National Community in Los elegidos" in Hispamérica. They deal, respectively, with Cuban and Colombian literature.

Last spring and summer, History Professor Carol Berkin was one of the featured commentators in two new films: the first, a History Channel documentary on Hamilton and Burr with Richard Dreyfus as the host, and the second, a PBS documentary on Abigail and John Adams. In early May, she was awarded the Colonial Dames of America Prize for the best book of the year on American history for A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (Harcourt). In addition, she was the keynote speaker for the Rhode Island Historical Society's Annual Constitution Day Celebration in September.

Political Science Professors Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio co-authored an essay on political party polarization and the religious gap in the electorate entitled "The Politics of Partisan Neutrality," which appeared in the May 2004 issue of First Things. New York Times columnist David Brooks referred to their research in his June 22, 2004, column, "A Matter of Faith."

In May 2004, Ann Cohen Brandwein, professor of statistics and computer information systems and director of graduate studies at the Zicklin School of Business, was inducted as a faculty member into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, the honorary society for university commercial education.

T.K. Das (Management) has authored a chapter titled "Strategy and Time: Really Recognizing the Future" in the recently published book Managing the Future: Foresight in the Knowledge Economy, edited by Haridimos Tsoukas and Jill Shepherd (Blackwell).

Gayle L. DeLong, assistant professor of economics and finance, was named a fellow at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's newly established Center for Financial Research. She received a grant to research a project she is working on with Anthony Saunders of New York University. She presented their working paper entitled "Was the Introduction of Deposit Insurance Good for U.S. Banks?" at the center in June.

Julie Des Jardins, who joined the Department of History this fall, has had her book, Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945, published by the University of North Carolina Press. Des Jardins specializes in American women's history. She received her doctorate from Brown University in 2000 and since then has been teaching in Harvard University's History and Literature Program. Her next study will center on female "public intellectuals."

Elected member of the New York City Council from 1986 to 2001, Stephen DiBrienza has joined the Public Affairs faculty as a distinguished lecturer. A longtime friend of CUNY, DiBrienza chaired the General Welfare Committee and was a senior member of the Higher Education Committee. DiBrienza is teaching "Public Administration in Modern Society" and "Models of Service Delivery: Constituencies, Stakeholders, and Policy." In addition, DiBrienza heads his own consulting firm.

Dorothy Dologite (Statistics and Computer Information Systems) is the co-coordinator of the Doctoral Student Consortium at the 2004 Decision Sciences Institute Conference in Boston on Nov. 20. An article she co-authored, "IS Change Agents in Practice in a U.S.–Chinese Joint Venture," appears in the October issue of the Journal of Global Information Systems.

In 2004, Statistics Professor Hammou El Barmi was published in Annals of Statistics and Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. These two papers, respectively, were "Consistent Estimation of Distribution with Type II Bias with Applications in Competing Risks Problems" (with H. Mukerjee) and "Inference for Subsurvival Functions Under an Order Restriction" (with S. Kochar, H. Mukerjee, and F. Samaniego).

Wayne H. Finke (Modern Languages and Comparative Literature) served as a judge and presenter for the New York City Police Athletic League's 90th anniversary celebration, Youth Explores the Wonders of Our World Through Art & Poetry, on May 11, 2004, held at the McGraw Hill Publishers Building. He was in charge of 15- to 16-year-old high school students in the section titled "The Avant-Garde."

Florence Frucher joined the School of Public Affairs as a distinguished lecturer last spring. Frucher, an expert on Medicaid managed care, is teaching "Health Programs, Policy, and Performance Evaluation." She is the former COO of Ryan Community Health Network/Center Care Health Plan, Inc. She holds advanced degrees from both Columbia Teachers College and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

In August, Bert Hansen (History) discussed his research on the American Pasteur Institutes at a history of science meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In September, he traveled to England to give the keynote address at a conference entitled "Mediating Biomedicine," sponsored by the Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Manchester. His lecture was entitled "How LIFE Looked at Medicine: Magazine Photography and the American Public's Image of Medical Progress, 1936–1972."

Computer Information Systems Professor Richard Holowczak (director, Bert W. and Sandra Wasserman Trading Floor) presented the paper "Identification and Visualization of Corporate Structure" at the 2004 Americas Conference on Computer Information Systems, held in New York City in August 2004. Holowczak and his first-year doctoral student co-authors, Charlie (Qian) Peng and Sheridan Yeates, have developed software tools to extract and aggregate information on corporate subsidiary relationships as a means to identify conflicts of interest and other areas of potential corporate malfeasance.

Richard E. Kopelman (Management) and David J. Prottas (PhD student) have co-authored the paper "The Cube One Framework: An Examination of Validity Evidence," which was presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association last summer. The Cube One Framework posits that organizations must simultaneously enact practices that increase product/ service quality and customer satisfaction; employee satisfaction and loyalty; and productivity. Organizations that, empirically, are high in all three sets of practices are demonstrably more successful (and are found in Cube One). Kopelman also coauthored a paper with PhD student Anne L. Davis entitled "Measuring Theory X and Theory Y: A Construct Validation Study," also presented at the 2004 APA meeting. The paper posits that, although McGregor's Theory X/Y has been widely cited, the absence of a psychometrically sound, construct-valid measure precludes a rigorous test of his theoretical propositions.

Public Affairs Professor Sanders Korenman presented the paper "What Did the 'Illegitimacy Bonus' Reward?" at the 2004 meeting of the Population Association of America in Boston in April (that paper was jointly authored with Ted Joyce [Economics and Finance], Robert Kaestner of the University of Illinois, and Jennifer Walper [Baruch MPA '05]). Korenman also presented two papers from his project on the socioeconomic effects of the attack on the World Trade Center at a workshop at the Russell Sage Foundation in May. In addition, Korenman co-wrote "Child Poverty and Welfare Reform: Stay the Course" with June O'Neill (Economics and Finance), which was published in a Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Center for Civic Innovation monograph series in September. Forthcoming is Korenman and Kaestner's paper "Economic Perspective on Family/Work Mismatch," which will be part of the book Workforce/Workplace Mismatch: Work, Family, Health and Well-Being, edited by S. Bianchi and L. Casper for the publisher Lawrence Erlbaum. Also forthcoming, in a special issue of Population Research and Policy Review, is Korenman's article "Family Cap Provisions and Changes in Births and Abortions" (with T. Joyce, R. Kaestner, and S. Henshaw).

Marios Koufaris (Statistics and Computer Information Systems) co-authored a paper titled "Online Mass Customization and the Customer Experience" with Arnold Kamis (Bentley College) and Baruch CIS PhD student Tziporah Stern ('07). He presented this paper in August 2004 at the 2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems in New York (the paper was nominated for the best paper award). Koufaris also contributed a chapter titled "Customer Trust in Online Commerce" to the forthcoming book Web Systems Design and Online Consumer Behavior, edited by Yuan Gao (PhD '02) and published by Idea Group Publishing.

Last spring, the School of Public Affairs welcomed James Krauskopf, director of social services for the 9/11 United Services Group, as a distinguished lecturer. Krauskopf, a former commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration, dean of the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School, and senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, will teach "Selected Topics in Child Welfare."

Psychology Professor Joel Lefkowitz ('61) recently had a book published, Ethics and Values in Industrial-Organizational Psychology (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). The book won Baruch's Abraham J. Briloff Prize in Ethics for 2003–2004.

The exhibition and book review "Mr. and Mrs. Hopper," written by Gail Levin (Art/Fine and Performing Arts), was published in the London Review of Books in June. Levin gave a guest lecture entitled "Edward Hopper and the Cinema" at the Munk Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Toronto in April 2004.

Eugene Marlow (English/ Business Journalism Program) recently received the Parents Association Award for his three years of service as president of the Parent Association of the High School of Art and Design, one of New York City's several specialized high schools. He had also served for three years as chair of the School Leadership Team.

Josh Mills, director of the Master's Program in Business Journalism, was named chair of the education committee of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Mills also serves as a governor of the society.

Stan Ross Department of Accountancy Professor Hugo Nurnberg was published in the June 2004 issue of Accounting Horizons, a quarterly journal of the American Accounting Association. His article was entitled "Accounting for Company-Owned Life Insurance."

Michael Plekon (Sociology and Anthropology, Program in Religion and Culture) published articles in two European journals: "Theologian of Liturgy and Life: Alexander Schmemann (1921–1983)" in Credere Oggi and "Le Sacrement du Frére/Soeur chez Paul Evdokimov et Mère Marie Skobtsov" in Contacts. Plekon also presented the paper "Witnesses and Voices: Images of the Church from Tikhon Bellavin, Nicolas Afanasiev, Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff at the conference on Orthodox Christianity in American Public Life: Challenges and Opportunities of Religious Pluralism in the 21st Century, held at Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs. Another paper, "The Liturgical Meaning of the Jesus Prayer: Insights from Paul Evdokimov, Maria Skobtsova, Alexander Men," was presented in September at the 12th International Conference on Orthodox Spirituality, held at the Monastery of Bose, Italy. Plekon's most recent book, Living Icons: Persons of Faith in the Eastern Church, was published in a revised paperback edition.

Management PhD student David Prottas presented his paper "Independent Contractors: Dispositional and Attitudinal Characteristics" at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in New Orleans in August. The study surveyed 165 adults in the translation industry working under three different arrangements: organizational employment, small business ownership, and independent contracting. The study tested and supported the hypotheses that certain dispositional traits would be differentially associated with the work arrangements and that attitudinal outcomes would vary by work arrangement. The data also suggested that self-employment did not represent a tactic that reduced work-family conflict or increased family satisfaction.

Charles A. Riley II (English/ Journalism) is celebrating the publication of The Jazz Age in France (Abrams). Covering the literary, artistic, and musical personalities of the Twenties, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Sergei Diaghilev, Picasso, Léger, and many others, it includes previously unpublished photographs, paintings, and literary texts. One of the most important discoveries in the book is a group of African-American paintings made in Paris in the Twenties. Riley will be lecturing extensively nationwide in connection with the book's publication, including tour stops in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Chicago; and Los Angeles.

Burton Rothberg (Stan Ross Department of Accountancy) is the faculty advisor for Beta Alpha Psi, the honor society for accounting, finance, and CIS majors. The national headquarters of Beta Alpha Psi recently awarded the Baruch chapter "superior" status ("superior" status is the highest achievement and honor that any active chapter can attain). To obtain this status, the chapter met stringent benchmarks for attendance, growth in members, community service activities, and number of large educational and professional events. In addition, the chapter also earned one of several "most improved chapter" designations. Their executive board consists of President Mohan "Moh" Menon ('05), Secretary Liz Shaustyuk ('04), Treasurer Remellee Oquendo ('05), and Executive VP Sanja Baric ('05).

Ora Frishberg Saloman, professor of music in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, authored "Literary and Musical Aspects of the Hero's 'Romance' in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini" in the summer 2003 issue of The Opera Quarterly. Saloman was selected for inclusion in the 2004 edition of Who's Who in America.

In April 2004, Deborah Saivetz (Theatre/Fine and Performing Arts) directed a staged reading of Caridad Svich's play Tropic of X at New York's Rattlestick Playwrights' Theater. In June, her translation of Mexican playwright Maria Morett's Muerte received a professional workshop production at the Bernie West Theatre in the Baruch Performing Arts Center. Muerte was also performed at El Taller Latinoamericano (The Latin American Workshop), a cultural center and language school on New York's Upper West Side.

The U.S. State Department recently held a video teleconference between E.S. Savas (Public Affairs) at Baruch's TV studio and an audience gathered at the U.S. consulate in Calcutta. Discussed was Savas's recent book, Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships. The audience consisted of about 30 Indian public officials, business leaders, journalists, and academics who had received and read copies of the book. The discussion focused on the Indian government's plans to accelerate its privatization program. Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships has been widely read internationally. It was just released in Lithuanian and can be read in 17 other languages.

Carroll Seron (Public Affairs) co-wrote, with Joe Pereira and Jean Kovath, "'Street-level' Versus Professional Policing: The Views of the Public," forthcoming in Law & Society Review. Seron also received two supplemental grants from the National Science Foundation, one to augment work on police-civilian relations and a second to augment study of women and minorities in engineering. The total amount of the supplement is approximately $200,000.

Anne Swartz (Music/Fine and Performing Arts) delivered the paper "Kurpinski's Wyklad systematyczny zasad muzyki na klawikord (1818) and Its Democratization" at the annual meeting of the Polish Institute of the Arts and Sciences in Boston in June. In July she traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, where she conducted research in the Russian National Library on 18th-century music. She has been recently published in The Proceedings in Culture Kultura: Russian Influences on American Performing Arts and Sports, The Polish Review, and The Russian Review.

Aida Sy, adjunct professor in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy and director of the Baruch Accounting Internship Program, graduated from the internationally renowned Sorbonne (Paris 1) in 2002, with first class honors, which means that her thesis—The Concept of Development in the History of Economic Thought from Jean Bodin to Adam Smith (16th, 17th and 18th Centuries) and Its Implications for the Problem of Development in Sub-Saharian Africa—will be registered in the four leading research centers in France. Sy has since learned that the French minister of education has advised the Sorbonne that the thesis will now be registered with an additional list of research centers, a recognition given to only the top 2 percent of doctorates awarded in all France, and that the thesis will be commercially published. Sy is also special editor of Critical Perspectives on European and African Studies.

Cynthia Thompson (Management) and David J. Prottas (PhD student) have co-authored a paper entitled "Organizational Family Support, Job Autonomy, and Employee Well-Being," which was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association in Honolulu in August. Also in August, Thompson and Prottas presented a paper entitled "Antecedents of a Family-Unfriendly Culture" at the National Academy of Management Conference in New Orleans. This presentation was part of a Showcase Symposium and was nominated for Best Symposium by the Careers Division. In addition, Thompson, with co-authors Jeanine Andreassi (PhD student) and David Prottas, wrote a chapter entitled "Work-Family Culture: Key to Reducing Workforce-Workplace Mismatch" for inclusion in the upcoming Workforce/ Workplace Mismatch: Work, Family, Health and Well-Being.

Jay Weiser (Law) was lead counsel for the amicus brief filed by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the New York State Women's Bar Association, and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers–New York Chapter in Langan v. St. Vincent's Hospital, a case on appeal in the New York Supreme Court, Second Department, which deals with New York recognition of a Vermont civil union when a surviving spouse sues for wrongful death. Weiser also spoke on legal recognition of same-sex marriages to the Columbian Lawyers (an Italian-American lawyers' group) and gave almost a dozen media interviews as the Association of the Bar's spokesperson on same-sex marriage issues.

Harold Wenglinsky (Public Affairs) examined the controversial federal No Child Left Behind Act in three recent articles: "Making Adequate Yearly Progress: Lessons from NAEP for the School Administrator" in Phi Delta Kappan; "Closing the Racial Achievement Gap: The Role of Reforming Instructional Practices" in Educational Policy Analysis Archives; and "The Link Between Instructional Practice and the Racial Achievement Gap in Middle Schools" in Research on Middle Level Education. In addition, The Encyclopedia of Urban Education will be publishing a chapter written by Wenglinsky and his research assistant Alwyn Gilkes on urban teacher quality entitled "Towards a New Sociology of Teaching in the Urban School." In March 2005, Wenglinsky's book Effective Computing: The Role of Constructivist Teaching Practice in Making Educational Technology Work is being published by Teachers College Press.

History Chair Cynthia Hyla Whittaker won Baruch's 2004 Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Research for her two books Russian Monarchy: Eighteenth-Century Rulers and Writers in Political Dialogue (Northern Illinois University Press, 2003) and Russia Engages the World, 1453–1825 (Harvard University Press, 2003).

Lilia Ziamou (Marketing) and Robert W. Veryzer co-wrote "The Influence of Temporal Distance on Consumer Preferences for Technologically Innovative Products," an article scheduled to appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Product Innovation Management. She will also co-chair the International Conference on Marketing and Development in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2005.