Professors Louis Bolce and Gerald De Maio (Political Science) presented the paper “Secularists, Elite Media and the Anti-Christian Fundamentalist Phenomenon in the New Religious Divide” at Religion and American Political Behavior, an October 2002 conference sponsored by the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University. In addition, their essay “Our Secularist Democratic Party” was published as the lead article in the fall 2002 issue of The Public Interest.

Donal Byard (Stan Ross Department of Accountancy) was recently published in The Accounting Review: “Changes in Analysts, Information Around Earnings Announcements” (co-authored with Barron and Kim).

Suresh Canagarajah (English) had two books published in the last quarter of 2002. Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students (University of Michigan Press) presents current research and theories on academic writing, in addition to Canagarajah’s own empirical studies for teachers of composition. A Geopolitics of Academic Writing (University of Pittsburgh Press) critiques current scholarly publishing practices and principles, exposing the inequalities in the way academic knowledge is constructed and legitimized.

Political Science Professor Mitchell Cohen is spending 2002–2003 as a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Integrative Studies in the Sciences and Humanities. His article “An Empire of Cant: Hardt, Negri, and Postmodern Political Theory” led the summer 2002 issue of Dissent and was republished in Arts and Letters Daily. Cohen recently became “correspondant Americain” of Raisons Politiques, a new Parisian journal of political theory.

Professor Gayle L. DeLong (Economics and Finance) was a visiting scholar at the Kiel Institute of World Economics in Germany in June. While there, she worked with co-author Claudia Buch on research in cross-border bank mergers and presented the paper (written with Amihud and Saunders) “The Effects of Cross-Border Bank Mergers on Bank Value and Risk.”

He has won titles and coached champions. But this year Athletics Director Bill Eng celebrates a different type of achievement. This is his 30th year at Baruch College, 25 of them as athletics director. This year is also Eng’s 10th as coach of the women’s cross-country team. Prior to that, he coached women’s tennis for 10 years (he established the team in 1983). An all-around athlete and superb coach, he has also coached soccer.

Nancy Foner, the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting Professor of Equality and Justice in America in the School of Public Affairs, recently delivered a distinguished public lecture on “Immigrants Past and Present in New York” at the University of Amsterdam, where the Institute for Ethnic and Migration Studies also held a roundtable session on her book From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration. Foner heads a Russell Sage Foundation working group studying the social effects of New York City’s recovery from 9/11.

Infused with his characteristic good humor and high spirits is David Garlock’s essay “Recent Dickens Studies: 2000.” Published in Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction (volume 31), Garlock’s essay surveys the major critical studies—almost 50 books, articles, and monographs—related to Dickens’s life and work that were published in 2000. The essay reflects the current trends in Dickens and Victorian literary criticism. Garlock is the director of purchasing and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature. He is at work on a book tentatively titled Darwin, Hardy, and the Ironic Muse.

Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Equatorial African Rain Forest (University of Virginia Press, 2002), the latest book by History Professor Tamara Giles-Vernick, addresses the changing historical and environmental knowledge among peoples living in the rain forests of equatorial Africa. Her book explores the ways in which these peoples use this knowledge in their engagements with a World Wildlife Fund conservation project.

Professor Sanders Korenman (Public Affairs) is part of a group studying the economic effects on New York City of the attack on the World Trade Center. The research, to be conducted over the next three years, is supported by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation. Korenman’s paper with Professors Robert Kaestner (Public Affairs) and June O’Neill (Economics and Finance) on the effects of welfare reform on teenagers’ initial entry into the welfare system will appear in The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and was supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This year, Korenman was appointed to the Committee on Family Work Policies of the National Academy of Sciences (he has served on the academy’s Board on Children, Youth, and Families since 1998).

An excerpt from Philosophy Professor Douglas Lackey’s new play, Kaddish in East Jerusalem: An Incident in the Intifada, was staged on Sept. 30 at the Theater for the New City. Kaddish is a tragedy centered on the relationship between Salem, an Arab committed to nonviolent political action, and Irina, his Ukrainian Jewish girlfriend. Kaddish will begin its performance run on March 13.

Fine and Performing Arts Professor Gail Levin authored the article “Learning to Appreciate Judy Chicago,” which appeared in the fall 2002 issue of Women in the Arts, published by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. She also received a grant from the Hadassah International Center for Research on Jewish Women at Brandeis University.

David Lichtenthal (Marketing) has been appointed the editor of a new book series, The Foundations Series in Business Marketing, which will carry leading-edge business research and managerial practices for the business-to-business marketing community. Lichtenthal is also the editor of The Journal of Business to Business Marketing (http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/jbbm), which features research addressing topics of mutual interest to the business and academic communities. Lichtenthal conducts research on organizational buying behavior, industrial sales force management, and implementation of a market orientation and is also a research associate with the Institute for the Study of Business Markets at Penn State.

Stan Ross Department of Accountancy Professor Steven Melnik was much in demand by the media last April, when he appeared on NBC-TV’s national news program, The Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, in a segment entitled “Putting the Tax Experts Under the Test.” In this program, he was asked to evaluate the quality of tax returns prepared by four different parties/experts. A few days later, he appeared on WCBS-TV and discussed a variety of tax law issues and answered last-minute tax queries from viewers. In August, he was interviewed by Bloomberg News about Arthur Andersen’s Enron-related problems. His article “The Upcoming Changes in Accountants’ Anti-Money Laundering Responsibilities” was published in The Practicing CPA.

Oxford University Press just published Professor of History Veena Talwar Oldenburg’s latest book, Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime. In India for the current academic year, Oldenburg is the Senior National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies. There, she is working on a new project tentatively titled “The Making of the Oriental Debauch: Stratagems for Imperial Expansion.” Oldenburg presented papers on her original interpretations of the “dowry problem” in international conferences in New Delhi and Dhaka, Bangladesh, in December and January.

Chair Glenn Petersen (Sociology and Anthropology) traveled to the opposite ends of the earth to deliver papers in 2002. In February, he spoke on “Property Rights and Political Process in Micronesia” at New Zealand’s University of Auckland. In July, he was in St. Petersburg, where he participated in the Russian Academy of Sciences International Conference on Power and Hierarchy in the History of Civilizations, presenting his work on “Chieftainship and Classical Republican Theory.”

Sociology and Anthropology Professor Michael Plekon (coordinator of Baruch’s Religion and Culture Program) delivered a paper on “The ‘Sacrament of the Brother/Sister’ in the Lives and Thought of Paul Evdokimov and Mother Maria Skobtsova” at St. Vladimir Seminary’s October symposium on Russian Theological Traditions, Yesterday and Today. This paper will also appear in St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly. Additionally, last May, Plekon was a consultant at the first planning session for the Boston University Institute on Religion and World Affairs research project “Orthodox Christianity in America: Challenges and Opportunities of Religious Pluralism in the 21st Century.”

Charles A. Riley II (English) is celebrating the publication of several new books, including The Art of Peter Max (Abrams), Ben Schonzeit: Paintings (Abrams), Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination (University Press of New England), and High-Access Home (Rizzoli). As an art curator, he spent much of the summer working closely with Robert Wilson on Sacred Sister, an exhibition of photographs that began a world tour in December, and also created an exhibition of watercolors in response to 9/11 that was shown at Long Island University’s C.W. Post campus last fall. As a disability advocate, Riley was honored by former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the anniversary of the ADA and will attend one of the White House’s annual Renaissance Weekends as a speaker on disability policy.

In July 2002, Deborah Saivetz (Fine and Performing Arts) directed a production of Caridad Svich’s Twelve Ophelias for Powerhouse Theater/New York Stage and Film at Vassar College. In October, she directed a staged reading of a new translation of Lorca’s Blood Wedding at New Dramatists in New York City. In November, Saivetz directed José Rivera’s Marisol, the inaugural production in the new Rose Nagelberg Theatre of the Baruch Performing Arts Center.

Professor Donald H. Schepers (Management) was interviewed by ARD, the German television station, on the subject of teaching business ethics in the United States. Interviewed in his Baruch office, he was also taped teaching a class. The interview and class aired in July on Tagesthemen, the German equivalent of Nightline, as part of a commentary on AOL Time Warner’s situation.

Robert Schwartz, Marvin M. Speiser Professor of Finance and University Distinguished Professor, was published in the September 2002 edition of Traders Magazine. Schwartz wrote “Disaster Recovery for the NYSE,” which offers a plan to create an off-site trading floor through the use of electronic call auctions in the case of an emergency at 11 Wall Street.

Professor Tansen Sen, Baruch’s specialist in Asian history and religions, has an article and a forthcoming book: “The Revival and Failure of Buddhist Translations During the Song Dynasty” in T’oung Pao (2002) and Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600–1400 (University of Hawaii Press, 2003). He has also translated, in collaboration with Victor H. Mair of the University of Pennsylvania, a 10th-century Chinese Buddhist manuscript entitled “The Tale of Master Yuan of Mount Lu.” The work will appear in The Reader of Traditional Chinese Culture (University of Hawaii Press, 2003).

S. Prakash Sethi, University Distinguished Professor of Management and academic director of Zicklin’s Executive Programs, completed his latest book Setting Global Standards: Guidelines for Creating Codes of Conduct in Multinational Corporations (John Wiley & Sons, 2003). Setting Global Standards takes the pulse of the business environment today and shows why multinationals need to change their business practices. His book demonstrates how large multinationals can make real improvements in their standard business practices without significant cost and without jeopardizing competitiveness or flexibility in the global marketplace.

In September 2002, Shoshanna Sofaer, the Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy of the School of Public Affairs, participated in the release of a new Institute of Medicine report called Health Is a Family Matter. This report makes it clear that even when only one member of a family is uninsured the entire family is at increased risk for negative health, psychological, and financial consequences. While over 40 million Americans were uninsured in 2000, 58 million lived in a family where at least one other member had been uninsured for a year.

Mark Spergel, director, Student Orientation and Freshman Year Incentive, Center for Advisement and Orientation, spent two weeks in China on a concert tour in October with 40 other singers from the New York Choral Society. The group performed Mahler’s 8th Symphony for the opening night of the 9th Annual Beijing Music Festival. The group also performed three other concerts in Beijing and Shanghai. Both programs were broadcast on television throughout China. Spergel is a baritone who sings regularly with the New York Choral Society. He said that the combination of traveling to China as a performing artist and bonding with the ensemble made for one of the great experiences of his life. “I found China to be freer, cleaner, friendlier, and more upbeat than expected. While both cities are undergoing rapid development, one can still experience the ‘old’ China at the street level,” said Spergel.

In September 2002, Neal Stolleman (Economics and Finance) presented his paper “A Stochastic Theory of the Regulatory Constraint” at the International Telecommunications Society’s 13th European Regional Conference in Madrid, hosted by the Universidad Carlos III and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. The paper was also presented at a Columbia University Graduate Business School conference on investment volatility in the telecommunications industry and will be published as part of the conference proceedings.

Anne Swartz (Fine and Performing Arts) presented a paper this past summer on representations of nation in early 19th-century Polish opera at the annual meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University and conducted research on operas set to texts written by Catherine the Great at the Russian National Library. Her most recent publications include “Technological Muses: Piano Builders in Russia, 1810–1881,” in Cahiers du Monde Russe; “Elsner and the Flourishing of Opera in Poland before 1830,” in The Polish Review; “The Romanov Family’s Patronage of Music, 1820–1880,” a chapter in Encomium Musicae: Essays in Memory of Robert J. Snow; and review-essays in Romantic Russia and Russian History.

In October, the Continuing Education Association of New York State named Baruch’s acting associate dean/director of Continuing and Professional Studies (CAPS), Abe Tawil, the Outstanding Continuing Education Instructor of the year. The award recognizes continuing education faculty who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and a dedication to lifelong learning.

Jay Weiser (Law) presented his paper “Real Estate Covenants as Incomplete Contracts: Remedies Over Time” to the Canadian Law and Economics Association in Toronto in September. He and Leslie Rubin co-authored “Same-Sex Marriage: Law Needs to Catch Up,” which appeared in The National Law Journal.

Dan Williams (Public Affairs) has been working on the history of performance measurement. His recent article “Before Performance Measurement” (Administrative Theory and Praxis, 2002) discusses the intellectual and social conditions that led to the late-19th-century origin of this now ubiquitous practice. His forthcoming article, “Performance Measurement in the Early 20th Century” (Public Administration Review), shows the central role of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research in developing these practices.

Lilia Ziamou (Marketing) was recently published in The Journal of Product Innovation Management: “Commercializing New Technologies: Consumers’ Response to a New Interface.” In July, her article “Innovations in Product Functionalities: When and Why Are Explicit Comparisons Effective?” (co-authored with Ratti Ratneshwar) appeared in The Journal of Marketing.