Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Pamela Chasek, Ph.D., associate professor of government and director of the international studies program, participated in the International Relations and Climate Change conference at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University in February. In addition, her new publication “Creating Space for Consensus: High-Level Globe Trotting into the Bali Climate Change Conference” (International Negotiation 16(1) 2011: 87–108) was recently published. Click here to view the publication online.

Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Ph.D., chair of the sociology department, presented a paper entitled “Social Movements and the Struggle for Genuine Regional Integration” at the international conference Social Movement Governance, the Poor, and the New Politics of the Americas hosted by the University of South Florida in Tampa. Portions of his presentation were selected for broadcast on WMNF News 88.5FM in Tampa Bay.

Ashley Cross, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented a paper “Perdita and the Swan: Reading Disability in the Lifewriting of Mary Robinson and Anna Seward” in January at a professional conference at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. An extended version of this essay has also been accepted for a volume of essays, Disabling Romanticism, ed. Michael Bradshaw. In addition, Cross recently published “Anna Seward” (British Writers, Supplement XVII. Ed. Jay Parini. Farmington Hills, MI:  Thomson-Gale, December 2010) a critical biographical essay.

Marlene Gottlieb, Ph.D., professor and chairperson for the modern languages and literatures department, published the article “The Dramatic Monologue in the Poetry of Jorge Luis Borges,” Variaciones Borges.

Michael L. Judge's (Ph.D., associate professor of biology and acting chair of the department) paper was recently accepted for presentation at the 40th Benthic Ecology Meeting held in Mobile, Ala., (March 16-20). The paper is called “Invasion of the Western North Atlantic Shoreline by the Exotic Crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus” and was written jointly with Nancy J. O’Connor.