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New
Teaching Award Winners Introduced October 28
JIL
HANIFAN
of the Department of English and the HON.
ELEANOR STEIN of the Department of Women�s Studies
have been named the winners of the 2003 University at
Albany Award for Excellence in Teaching by Part-time
Faculty. These are new awards given in recognition of
outstanding contributions to undergraduate instruction.
SUSAN M. HUGHES of
the Department of Psychology and RAYMIE
WAYNE of the School of Social Welfare, two teaching
assistants, are the recipients of the President�s new
award for Excellence in Teaching by Teaching Assistants.
The four were introduced at the General Faculty Meeting
on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 3 p.m. in the Campus Center
Ballroom. More
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Dean
of Undergraduate Studies SUE
R. FAERMAN, a professor
in the Department of Public Administration and Policy
since 1989, has been awarded the National Association
of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration�s Leslie
A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award for 2003.
The award, which is to be presented at the NASPAA annual
conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., later this month, honors
faculty members at NASPAA institutions who make �outstanding
contributions to education for the public service through
excellence in teaching.� Honorees must demonstrate excellence
in public service over a sustained period of time. Faerman
was named a Collins Fellow in 1998.
RICHARD LACHMANN
of the Department of Sociology recently received the
2003 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award from
the American Sociological Association. The award was
given to recognize outstanding scholarship in his book
Capitalists in Spite
of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions
in Early Modern Europe (Oxford 2000). The award
was presented at the recent ASA meeting in Atlanta,
Ga. Lachmann has taught at the University at Albany
since 1990. He is a specialist in comparative historical
sociology and the sociology of culture. He is researching
state fiscal crises and the private appropriation of
public resources, and is writing a comparative study
of the decline of dominant economic powers in early
modern Europe and the contemporary United States.
STEVEN SEIDMAN
of the Depart ment of Sociology has been awarded the
Simon and Gagnon Award for career contributions to the
study of sexualities from the Sexualities Section of
the American Sociological Society. Seidman joined the
UAlbany faculty in 1983. He has written and taught in
the areas of social theory, sexualities, culture, and,
more recently, democratic studies. He is the author
of seven books and editor of eight, printed by Cambridge
University, University of California Press, Routledge,
Blackwell, and Norton, among others. His books have
been translated into nine languages. He has also published
more than 40 articles, many of which are in journals
such as Sociological
Theory, American
Quarterly, and the Journal
of Social History. He is co-editor of a series
on cultural sociology published by Cambridge University
Press, as well as of Twenty-first
Century Sociology. He was a co-founder and the
first chair of the sexualities section of the ASA. Seidman�s
recent book, Beyond
the Closet (2002), was widely reviewed in the
lesbian and gay press.
In August, Stanford University Press
published the final volume of Professor of History LAWRENCE
S. WITTNER�S award-winning trilogy recounting
the history of the international nuclear disarmament
movement. Toward Nuclear
Abolition, an examination of events from 1971
to the present, describes how citizen activism helped
to curb the nuclear arms race and avert nuclear war.
The first volume in the series, One
World or None, received the Society for Historians
of American Foreign Relations� Warren F. Kuehl Award
as the best book published in 1993 or 1994 on the history
of internationalism and/or peace movements. The second
volume, Resisting the
Bomb, focused on the history of the world nuclear
disarmament movement from 1954 to 1970.
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
RICHARD D. ALBA is
one of 56 honorees named Radcliffe fellows for 2003-04.
Fellowship recipients, announced by the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study at Harvard University in July, will
spend a year at Harvard working both individually and
collectively on areas of study related to immigration
and computer science. Alba will work with several other
Radcliffe fellows, and with Harvard sociologist Mary
Waters and City University of New York political scientist
John Mollenkof, in exploring the social and political
incorporation of immigrants in the 21st century. Alba,
an expert on race and ethnicity, is the founder of UAlbany�s
Center for Social and Demographic Analysis. He joined
the University faculty in 1980.
JON MANDLE,
an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy,
was among 22 speakers at a recent international conference
honoring noted philosopher and Concordia University
(Montreal) adjunct professor Kai Nielsen. Co-hosted
by Concordia and the Université de Montréal,
the conference featured talks about four themes prominent
in Nielsen�s work. Mandle, the author of What�s
Left of Liberalism? An Interpretation and Defense of
Justice as Fairness (Lexington Books, 2000),
which deals with John Rawls� theory of social justice
and communitarian and postmodern critics, spoke about
politics in a discussion titled �Rawls, Habermas, and
global justice.� Other speakers represented Princeton,
Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford,
and other universities.
Professor of Public Administration
and Policy JOHN ROHRBAUGH
has been appointed to serve as the director of the Office
of International Education for a renewable three-year
term. He brings to the position an abiding interest
in comparative research and international education,
as well as considerable expertise in strategic planning,
managerial analysis, and team building. He has served
as interim director of the office since last January.
Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty
Scholar ZVI GELLIS
was selected for the 12th annual National Institute
on Aging 2003 Summer Research Institute in Warrenton,
Va. The institute offers new researchers intensive exposure
to issues and challenges in research on aging. The program
included lectures, seminars,
and small group discussions in research design relative
to aging. Topics covered included the biology of aging;
genetics and Alzheimer�s disease; and health, behavior
and aging, methodological approaches and interventions.
He was one of 40 participants representing 20 states.
DAVID JANOWER,
professor of music and director of the classical choral
group Albany Pro Musica, has been selected outstanding
conductor of the year by the New York chapter of the
American Choral Dir ectors Association. The award was
presented August 11 at the New York State School Music
Association�s summer conference.
In addition, Albany Pro Musica�s performance
of George Bristow�s �The Oratorio of Daniel� will be
broadcast at 8 a.m. February 8, 2004, on WCPE, a classical
station in Raleigh, N.C. The show will be hosted by
Ken Hoover of Great Sacred Music. This broadcast will
be from a CD made in 1997 by Albany Pro Musica of a
work that had never been recorded and never performed
in 100 years, according to Janower.
Princeton
University Press has published a book co-edited by JULIAN
ZELIZER, associate professor
and director of the undergraduate program in public
policy at Rockefeller College. The
Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political
History is based on two
conferences at MIT, and involves 14 of the leading new
voices in American political history. There was a roundtable
about the book at the American Political Science Association,
and another is planned at the Organization of American
Historians.
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