FACULTY & STAFF
 

    JoAnne Feeney has joined the University as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. Department Chair Terrence Kinal recently said, “JoAnne is a major addition to our group of international economists. Her work examining the effect of asset markets on international trade is an important new direction for research in the field.” Prior to coming to UAlbany, she was on the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was a visiting scholar for the International Monetary Fund.
    Feeney, who completed her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Rochester in 1991, has many research interests, including: international risk sharing, growth and development; financial markets and the political economy; macroeconomic stabilization and exchange-rate regimes; interdependence in trade policy, capital accumulation and growth; and credit constraints for emerging market 
economies.
     She was awarded the National Science Foundation's Visiting Professorship for Women Grant to study "Risk Sharing, Market Imperfections and Endogenous Policy Formation" from 1996-98. She was a visiting assistant professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University during the 1997-98 academic year. She also received the Junior Faculty Development Award while at the University of 
Colorado.
    Among her published works is “International Risk Sharing, Learning by Doing and Growth,” which appeared in the Journal of Development Economics. Her next article, “Privatization and Endogenous Strategic Trade Policy,” was written with A. Hillman and is forthcoming in the International Economic Review. 
    Feeney has presented papers at conferences around the world. Her latest presentation was at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association annual meetings in Santiago, Chile.  Her paper, Capital Controls: Implications for Migration and Growth, highlighted the role of capital controls in explaining migration.
Feeney is affiliated with the American Economic Association and the Society for Economic Dynamics.

    Danny Goodwin has joined the University as an assistant professor of art. Department Chair Roberta Bernstein recently said,“Danny Goodwin has already made a great contribution to the Art Department and the University in successfully starting a new digital imaging program. He brings a fresh perspective, new skills, and lots of enthusiasm to the department. Students are eager to study with him, not only because of their interests in digital imaging, but because word has spread about his dedication and talent as a teacher. He has a University-wide perspective and has already made connections with other departments and programs. He takes initiative and gets things done. I could not be more pleased with the department's choice of Danny as our new colleague.” Prior to coming to Albany, Goodwin worked as an assistant professor of art and design in Purdue University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Indiana.
    In 1992, Goodwin received a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College, City University of New York. His concentration was in combined media. Before that, he completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography at the University of North Texas' School of Visual Arts. He was also given the Purdue University Incentive Grant for both November 1998 and February 1999 and held a Hunter College teaching assistantship during Fall 1991.
    Goodwin has presented a number of solo and group exhibitions. From April 19-May 17 he will exhibit Project Space #3 at Art Resources Transfer, Inc. in New York City. Previous exhibits include Digital Documentary: The Need to Know/The Urge to Show, shown in Minneapolis, Minn., and One Less Than Nine, at the Proposition Gallery in Belfast, Ireland. 

    Istvan Kecskes has joined the University as a professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice. Judith Langer, chair of the department, recently said, “Professor Kecskes is an outstanding linguist and educator who specializes in language learning. He is internationally known for his work on second and foreign language learning. We are fortunate to have him overseeing our TESOL program and expanding our Second Language Doctoral Program.” Prior to coming to Albany, Kecskes was a professor of linguistics at the University of Montana.
    In 1986, Kecskes received the Candidate Degree (the terminal degree in Hungary) in applied linguistics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Prior to that, he completed his Ph.D. in comparative linguistics at Kossuth University.
   One of Kecskes's research interest areas is second language acquisition, specifically the areas of multicompetence, conceptual development of multilinguals, and the effect of foreign language learning on the development of mother tongue skills. His latest publications on these topics include an article in the journal WORD, “The State of L1 Knowledge in Foreign Language Learners,” and a book, Foreign Language and Mother Tongue, co-written by Tunde Papp, to be published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates in March.
    Kecskes has been invited as a guest lecturer by universities in the U.S. and abroad. In March 1997 he was the featured speaker of the Chicago Linguistic Society at the University of Chicago. He has also given lectures at The Chinese University in Hong Kong, Aarhus University in Denmark, the Sorbonne, Paris, and the University of St. Louis in Senegal.
    Kecskes was awarded a Fulbright professorship at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1989 and a Charles Culpepper professorship at Duke University in Durham, N.C. in 1991.

   Professor Jeryl L. Mumpower of the Department of Public Administration and Policy has joined the Academic Affairs office as associate provost and associate vice president.
    “Jeryl comes to us with a strong background in management and risk analysis. His experience in decision analysis, policy formulation and planning will be extremely useful in advancing the University's academic program,” said Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs William Hedberg. “At this time he will focus his effort on strategic planning, graduate studies, and academic 
computing.”
    Mumpower will oversee the areas of Academic Information Systems and Technology and Graduate Studies that formerly reported to Carlos E. Santiago. Santiago will retain oversight of international education on campus as associate provost. The Office of International Education now encompasses international student services, the University's Study Abroad programs, and the Intensive English Language Program. Santiago will also work on special projects at the request of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
    “Carlos has been with the office since 1997,” Hedberg said. “Under his watch we have enrolled more international students than ever. We reaffirmed several exchange agreements, opened up new initiatives in the Far East, strengthened the exchange programs in Cyprus and Russia, and raised substantial external funds to expand opportunities for study abroad.  We have consolidated the campus's investment in international programs, and we are looking to increase the international dimension of the University's curriculum and related programs through more vigorous promotion of exchanges, visits and research collaboration, as well as through study abroad programs.”
    Mumpower, who earned a Ph.D. in social and quantitative psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1976, joined the UAlbany faculty in 1984. From 1986 to 1990, he served as associate director for research at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. He was director of the Center for Policy Research from 1987 to 1997. Mumpower has worked for the National Science Foundation twice, first as program manager and policy analyst from 1980-1984; and then as program manager in the Decision, Risk, and Management Science Program from 1998-99. He was a senior fellow for the National Center for Environmental Decision-making Research at the University of Tennessee in 1997; and was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University's School of Public Health from 1990-91.
    He has garnered some $1.5 million in research support since 1984, with grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, and the NSF, to name a few. Additionally, he has acted as a consultant to many state and federal agencies, including the New York State Department of Health, the Governor's Office of Employee Relations, and the NSF.
    Mumpower said, “The past two years away from campus on sabbatical and at NSF helped to refresh my appreciation of the great strengths of the University at Albany. I'm glad to be back home and delighted to be able to join Provost Genshaft's office during this time of rapid development and opportunity.”
    A reception acknowledging Santiago's new duties was given recently. During the reception, President Karen R. Hitchcock said Santiago brings “such vitality, creativity, and innovation to the office and therefore to the University, and I'll always be deeply grateful. It is a pleasure and a privilege working with you.” The President and other speakers commended Santiago for being a “marvelous listener” who is skilled at encouraging others to work together.
    Provost Judy Genshaft said, “We just wanted to say thanks. We appreciate all the things you've done, and are going to do.” 
    Carson Carr, associate vice president for Academic Affairs, said Santiago is “a distinguished professor in the classroom. Any student who has had Carlos for economics will tell you. When they talk about their best teacher, they are always referring to Dr. Santiago.”
    During the reception, Santiago said his job in Academic Affairs has been a great learning opportunity. He also joked about his father's reaction to the news that he was taking on different duties at the University, saying that his very traditional father had surmised incorrectly that it was the stress of working for two women that made him seek a change.
    As the husband of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Professor Azara Santiago-Rivera and the father of three daughters, Carlos Santiago said he is used to being the only man in the house. As he thought about his father's assumption, Santiago said he realized that most of his professional mentors over the years have been women.