Faculty and Staff Accomplishments
Joan Cammarata, Ph.D., professor of Spanish, chaired a session and delivered the paper “Cardenio, a través de las culturas, a través de los siglos” at the Central Texas Cervantes Symposium held at the University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 19-20, 2010. As a member of the Executive Council of The Cervantes Society of America, Cammarata participated in the Annual Business Meeting.
Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the sociology department, published an article entitled “Latin America and the Collapsing Ideological Supports of Neoliberalism,” in the journal Critical Sociology (January, 2011). In November, his review of The Immigrant Divide: How Cuban Americans Changed the US and their Homeland (by Susan Eckstein) appeared in Contemporary Sociology.
Jennifer C. Edwards, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, presented her paper “Female Power and Monastic Reform: Fifteenth-Century Abbesses of Fontevraud and Sainte-Croix” at the American Historical Association's meeting in Boston, Mass., (Jan. 6-9, 2011). She will also present her paper “My Sister for Abbess: Election Disputes at Sainte-Croix in Fifteenth-Century Poitiers” at the Society for French Historical Studies meeting in Charleston, S.C. (Feb. 10-12, 2011).
Michael Grabowski, Ph.D., associate professor of communications, was published in ABC-CLIO’s Pop Culture Universe: Enduring Questions. His article, “Books 1.0: The Enduring Legacy of the Printed Word,” explains how printed books will survive among the emergence of digital texts.
Shawn Ladda, Ed.M. and Ed.D., physical education and human performance professor at Manhattan College, was honored by the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance (NYSAHPERD) as a 2010 Higher Education Amazing Person Award winner. In addition, Craig Bergquist ’11 and Kaitlin Rodriguez ’11, both Manhattan physical education teaching majors, received departmental major of the year awards from the NYSAHPERD.
Claudia Setzer, Ph.D., professor of religious studies, presented the inaugural lecture, “Jeus the Jew and Paul the ‘Christian’: Jewish Scholarship on Christianity's Heroes” for the Christianity in Antiquity program at Fordham University in December.
Judith M. Slisz, M.A., M.B.A., director of assessment, was appointed to the Board of Editors of The Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness.
