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HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

2014-2015

AFRICANA-WORLD STUDIES

Djanna Hill, Chair

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

DJANNA HILL. Experiences and Perspectives of Latino and African-American male
teachers. Paper presentation at the American Association for Colleges of Teacher
Education Annual Conference. Atlanta, GA. March 2015.
“I did this and so can you!” Exploring the experiences and perspectives of male teachers of
color in a grow your own teacher preparation program for urban schools. Paper
presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual
Conference. Chicago, IL. April 2015.

DANIELLE WALLACE. The Role of Perceived Marriage Market Conditions on College-
Educated Blacks’ Views of Interracial Relationships. Paper presentation at the National
Council for Black Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
The Missing Ones: The Effects of Mass Incarceration on Black Marriages and Families. Paper
presentation at the Fourth Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race at Monmouth
University, West Long Branch, NJ.

INTERVIEWS

DJANNA HILL & Watson, A. (2014). Public Radio Interview on Race and Teachers of
Color. Colorado Public Radio. http://www.cpr.org/news/story/why-race-matters-classrooms-
teaching-colorados-students-color. 2014.

FORTHCOMING WORKS

DANIELLE WALLACE with Paterson-Lewis, S. "Attitudes about Entering Interracial
Relationships among Heterosexual African American Women: The Effects of Education, Age
and Past Relationships.” In V. Berry, A. Fleming-Rife & A. Dayo (Eds.) Black culture and
experience: Contemporary issues. New York: Peter Lang.

GRANTS

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Danielle Wallace, HSS Summer Research Grant

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ANTHROPOLOGY

Maria Villar, Chair

BOOK CHAPTERS

MARIA KROMIDAS, “‘He’s cute for her’: Kids entangled pedagogies of sexuality and race in
New York City” in Children, Sexuality and ‘Sexualisation’: Beyond Spectacle and
Sensationalism, edited by E. Renold, J. Ringrose and D. Egan. London: Palgrave.
Forthcoming, 2015.

REFEREED ARTICLES

MARIA KROMIDAS, “The savage child and the nature of race: Lessons from the post-
human.” Anthropological Theory 14(4): 422-441. 2014.

JURIED PRESENTATIONS

MARIA KROMIDAS, “Free time all the time! Rethinking schooling through dealienation.”
Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington
DC, December 2014.
“Dealienated learning in schools: Producing an anthropology for education” Panel
organized for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC,
December 2014.

NONJURIED PRESENTATIONS

MARIA KROMIDAS, “Defying race with the posthuman child.” NY Posthuman Research
Group meeting. New York Institute of Technology, New York NY, November 2014..
“Building civic capacity through anthropological engagement” Civic Engagement Day,
William Paterson University, Wayne NJ, October 2014.

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ENGLISH

Ian Marshall, Chair

BOOKS

PHILIP CIOFFARI. Dark Road, Dead End. Livingston Press/University Of West Alabama,
November 2014. [novel].

BRAD GOOCH. Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the 70s and the 80s. Harper. April
2015.

TIMOTHY LIU. Don’t Go Back To Sleep: Poems. Saturnalia Books. November 2014.

KENDRICK, MATTHEW. At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor.
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. June 2015.

BOOK CHAPTERS

EDWARD BURNS. “Élie Lascaux and the Pleasure of Renewed Discovery.” In the Language
of Barbarians, I Would Tell You Stories. Ed. & Intro. Richard Milazzo. New York: Edgewise
Press, 2015 (pp. 111-120, with 8 color illustrations).

PHOEBE JACKSON. “Cultural Geography and Local Economies: The Lesson from Egypt,
Maine.” In Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature.” Ed. Michelle
Tokarczky. Reprint in paperback. Routledge Press, Nov. 2014. [reprint]

TIMOTHY LIU. “On Anne Carson’s Short Talks.” Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre. University of
Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2015. 42-49.
“Why We Do That Thing We Do.” The Force of What’s Possible. Nightboat Books, Callicoon,
January 2015.

MAUREEN MARTIN. “The Lad With the Silver Button: Kidnapped and the Dilemma of
Lowland Manhood.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale-
Cengage Learning, 2014. [Anthology.]

BRIAN Ó BROIN. "Ord sealbhaithe deilbhíochta agus comhréire Gaeilge i naíonáin" [The
order of acquisition of Irish (Gaelic) morphology and syntax in children]. Teangeolaíocht
na Gaeilge XIII. Ed. Ailbhe Ó Corráin and Malachy Ó Néill. Uppsala University Press, 2014.
pp.65-85.

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LIANE ROBERTSON, With co-author Doug Downs. “Threshold Concepts in First-Year
Composition.” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts in Writing Studies. Ed. Elizabeth
Wardle and Linda Adler-Kassner. Utah State Press. June 2015.

REFEREED ARTICLES

PHILIP CIOFFARI. “A Prayer at 68th Street.” Windhover: A Journal of Christian Literature.
U of Mary Hardin Baylor), Spring 2015. [creative nonfiction]
“Life, Insured.” Italian Americana . U Of Rhode Island, Winter 2015. [creative nonfiction]

TIMOTHY LIU. Poem. The Awl, August 15, 2014. theawl.com.
Two Poems. Clade Song 4, Fall 2014. cladesong.com.
Two Poems. Cobalt Review 3, Fall 2014. cobaltreview.com.
Poem. Structo 12, London, Autumn & Winter, 2014. structomagazine.co.uk.
Two Poems. American Poetry Review, Philadelphia, Nov/Dec 2014.
Five Poems. Ampersand Review, Nov 2014-Jan 2015. ampersandreview.com.
Poem. Good Men Project, November 24, 2014. goodmenproject.com.
Poem. Good Men Project, February 27, 2015. goodmenproject.com.
Poem. Devouring the Green. Jaded Ibis Press, Seattle, 2015.
Poem. Field 92, Oberlin, Spring 2015. oberlin.edu/ocpress.
Two Poems. Loose Change 5.1, 2015. loosechangemagazine.org.
Poem. Pouch 2, 2015. pouchmag.com.
Five Poems. Rattle 47, Los Angeles, Spring 2015. rattle.com.
Poem. Bear Review, 2015. bearreview.com.

MATTHEW KENDRICK. “Imagetext in The Winter’s Tale,” Textual Practice, February 2015
(online; forthcoming in print edition).
“Neostoicism and the Economics of Revenge in Cyril Tourneur’s The Atheist’s Tragedy,”
College Literature 41.3 (2014): 7-26.

STEVE NEWTON. “In Dreams Unbidden.” Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing #24.
2015.
“The Unseen.” Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing #24. 2015.
“Elvis Poetica.” Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing #24. 2015.
“Kindling.” Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of Writing #24. 2015.

JOHN PARRAS. “Beyond.” Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. March 2015.
www.hermeneuticchaosjournal.com. [prose poem]
“At Monte Rotaro.” Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction: Whispers Issue. February
2015. www.flash-frontier.com. [flash fiction]

CHRISTOPHER SALERNO. “Is It Better Where You Are?” Academy of American Poets
(Poem-A-Day). May 2015. [poem]
“Cowboying.” The Awl. February 2015. [poem]
“Jury.” Pen America. February 2015.[poem]

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“If I Know What Days Are.” Pen America. February 2015. [poem]
“Wild Lemons.” Green Mountains Review. Spring 2015. [poem]

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

JUDITH BROOME. "Gender, Class, and Creolization in the British West Indies." Western
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, California Polytechnic University,
February 2015.
"'Barbadosed': White Servitude in Colonial Barbados," American Society for Eighteenth-
Century Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2015
MARINA BUDHOS. “Libraries: A Home for Everyone,” NYLA/SSL 2015 Spring Conference,
Tarrytown, NY, May 2015.
“Race & YA,” Panel, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, April 2015.
“YA Takes on the Real,” Panel, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, April 2015.
PHOEBE JACKSON. “Think Global, Act Local: Deconstructing Borders in Héctor Tobar’s
The Barbarian Nurseries, Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States Conference (MELUS).
Athens, Georgia. April 2015.
MATTHEW KENDRICK. “Hamlet’s Postmodern Condition: The Ninth Configuration and
Hamlet 2.” Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Conference, Baltimore,
MD. November 2014..
“Why Helena’s Cure Works in All’s Well That Ends Well.” Shakespeare Association of
America Meeting, Vancouver, BC. April 2015.
BRIAN Ó BROIN. “Using aggregative statistical techniques to analyze Irish Saints' Lives.”
Joint Conference of GSIHS and ASIMS, All Hallows College, Dublin, March 2015.
"Changing Government Policies towards the Teaching of Irish (Gaelic)." Conference of the
International Linguistics Association, Columbia University, April 2015.
“Mapping the Desert: Using the Toponymy of díseart and cill to map the Early Medieval
Irish Monasteries.” International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, May 2015.
DONNA PERRY. “Making the First World War Relevant: Pat Barker’s Regeneration.”
Perspectives on the Great War: World War One International Conference, Queen Mary
University of London, August 2014.
LIANE ROBERTSON. “Rhetorical Productivity and a Transfer Curriculum: Student Success
in Writing Across Contexts.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Normal,
IL. July 2014.
“Sustainable Transfer: A Conceptual Framework for Writing Knowledge and Practice."
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA. November 2014.
“Fulfilling the Promise of a Liberal and Liberating Education: Revising General Education
for High-Impact Writing-Intensive Courses Across the University.” American Association of
Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Washington, DC. January 2015 .
“Teaching for Transfer: Opportunities for Student Success in Writing across Contexts.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Tampa, FL. March 2015.
ROSA SOTO. “A Mother’s Love? Food, Health and Stories in the Caribbean and in the United
States.” Puerto Rican Studies Association 11th Biennial Conference. Denver, CO. October
2014.

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“Losing Latinidad: The ‘Immigrant’ narrative and a fight for citizenship in Television and
Popular Discourse.” Latin American Studies Association. San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 2015).
BARBARA SUESS. “Henry Clermont Cobbe: Accidental Abolitionist?” American Conference
for Irish Studies National Meeting. Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 2015.
CHRISTOPHER WEAVER. “Video Culture: Using the Horror Genre to Teach Composing
and Editing in a First Year Writing Class.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association National Conference, New Orleans. April 2015.

LECTURES and WORKSHOPS
PHILIP CIOFFARI. Writing Workshop: Killer Nashville Conference, August 2014.
Writing Workshop. Sleuthfest, Florida, February 2015.
Writing Workshop. William Paterson University Writers’ Conference, April 2015.
BRAD GOOCH. Faculty member and public lecturer. National Endowment for the
Humanities 2014 Summer Institute on “Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor.” Georgia
College, Milledgeville, Georgia. July 20-25, 2014.
LIANE ROBERTSON. Keynote Speaker: “Teaching for Transfer in First-Year Writing.”
Address to English Department Faculty, West Chester University, West Chester, PA. August
2014.
Keynote Speaker and Half-Day Workshop Leader: “Writing Transfer Across Disciplines.”
Address and workshop for faculty from various disciplines teaching writing-intensive
courses, West Chester University, West Chester, PA. August 2014.
Keynote Speaker: “Teaching for Transfer: Integrating Theory and Practice in the FYW
Classroom.” Address to English Department Graduate Teaching Assistants, University of
Idaho, Moscow, ID. April 2015.
Workshop Leader: “Teaching for Transfer: Shifting Program Perspectives.” Workshop for
writing program faculty, Seton Hall University, West Orange, NJ. May 2015.
Keynote Speaker and Full-Day Workshop Leader: “High-Impact Writing-Intensive Courses:
A Teaching for Transfer Approach.” Address and workshop for faculty across disciplines
teaching writing-intensive courses, Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, MS. June
2015.
CHRISTOPHER SALERNO. Writing Workshop. William Paterson University Writers’
Conference, April 2015.
ROSA SOTO. “An Ethnographic Analysis of U.S. Culture and Caribbean Food Practices.”
Rosa E. Soto and Pixy Ferris. Mini-Conference: Food and Inequality, William Paterson
University. March 2015.

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES (RECITALS, EXHIBITS, SCREENINGS, SHOWINGS, ETC.)

MARINA BUDHOS. Speaker, Screening of “Jahaji-bhai,”a film by Suresh Pillai, Institute for
Public Knowledge, NYU, April 2015.
Reading. “Totally WIPped: Children & YA Authors Read from Works-in-Progress,”
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MN, April 2015. [book reading]
Appearance in Korean TV Documentary. With co-author Marc Aronson, featured on a
Korean TV documentary about the history of sugar. 2015.
EDWARD BURNS. Reprint: part of his essay, “Élie Lascaux and the Pleasure of Renewed

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Discovery,” was reprinted in the catalogue exhibition: Élie Lascaux: 1888-1968 held at the
Galerie Ziegler, Zürich, Switzerland, 29 April to 22 May 2015.
PHILIP CIOFFARI. Reading. The Mysterious Bookshop, New York City, November 2014.
[book reading]
Reading. Well Read Books, Hawthorne, NJ. December 2014. [book reading]
BRAD GOOCH. Featured in a New York Times article, “In the Gritty New York of the ’70s
and ’80s, Not Exactly a Model Life.” April 8, 2015.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/fashion/brad-gooch-smash-cut-memoir.html?_r=0
Reading/Signing. Three Lives Bookstore, New York. April 28, 2015. [book reading]
Appearance on Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live.” Bravo TV. May 4, 2015.
TIMOTHY LIU. Poetry Reading. Bryant Park Poetry Reading Room, New York, NY.
September 2014.
Poetry Reading. The New School, New York, NY. October 2014.
Poetry Reading. The Sanctuary, Newark, NJ. October 2014.
Poetry Reading. Two Moon Café, Brooklyn, NY. November 2014.
Poetry Reading. Book Court, Brooklyn, NY. February 2015.
Poetry Reading. Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. March 2015.
Poetry Reading. Fulton Transportation Center, New York, NY. April 2015.
Poetry Reading. Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. May 2015.
Poetry Reading. Flintridge Books, Flintridge-La Cañada, CA. May 2015.
Ó BROIN, BRIAN. Multiple radio interviews on Raidió na Gaeltachta (Ireland) and the BBC
(Northern Ireland).
Expert speaker on documentary television series "GAA-USA”: aired in March 2015 on Irish
television station TG4.
DONNA PERRY. Reading from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou Tribute,
WGSD Fall Colloquium Lecture Series, Cheng Library Auditorium, September 2014.
CHRISTOPHER SALERNO. Poetry Reading. Boog City, New York City. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. KGB Bar New York City. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Couplet Series New York City. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Triptych Series, New York City. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Montclair State University. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Worms Series, Baltimore, MD. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Barn Owl Review Reading. Associated Writing Programs Conference,
Seattle, WA. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Poor Claudia Reading. Associated Writing Programs Conference, Seattle,
WA. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Barrelhouse Presents. Washington, DC. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Berl’s Poetry Shop, New York City. Fall 2014.
Poetry Reading. Cornelia Street Café, New York City. Fall 2014.

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED

LIANE ROBERTSON. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Research Grant: With four co-researchers, she won the 2015 Conference on College
Composition and Communication Research Grant in the amount of $10,000 to help fund

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research on “The Transfer of Transfer Project: Extending a Curricular Model to Multiple
Institutions and Courses” over 2015-2016.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS AND BOOK REVIEWS

BRIAN Ó BROIN. "Hilary Clinton: An nDéanfar Uachtarán di?" ["Hillary Clinton: Will She be
President?"], Comhar, April 2015, 33-38. [article]
"Na Toghcháin i Meiriceá - Céard a d'Athraigh; Céard a Athróidh?" ["The Mid-Term
Elections in America: What changed; What Will Change?] Comhar, November 2014. 25-29.
[article]
Review of Saints' Cults in the Celtic World. Ed. Steve Boardman, John Reuben Davies and Eila
Williamson. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009, in Eolas 8 (1015), 145-147. [review]
JOHN PARRAS. “Girl Gone Haywire: Reb Livingston’s ‘Bombyonder’ and the State of the
Novel,” Rain Taxi Review of Books. Spring 2015 (online
edition). http://www.raintaxi.com/bombyonder. [Critical review]

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GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN STUDIES

Monica Nyamwange, Chair

REFEREED ARTICLES

MONICA NYAMWANGE. “Implications of Nomadic Pastoralism, Cultivation, and Tourism
on Desertification in the Sudano-Sahelian Region of Africa.” Journal of Social Science
Research, 2014
“Contributions of Remittances to Africa’s Development: The Case of Kenya.” Middle States
Geographer, Vol. 46 2014
THOMAS OWUSU. “Economic Transition in the City of Paterson, New Jersey: Causes,
Impacts, and Urban Policy Implications.” Urban Research, 2014
REFEREED ARTICLE REVIEW
MONICA NYAMWANGE. “Pedagogies of Spatial Perception: Collaborative Insights from
Rural Food Systems.” Reviewed for Journal of Space and Communications, February 2015.
“Earth Construction between Tradition and Modernity: Case Studies from Algeria” City,
Culture, and Architecture, December 2014.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

MONICA NYAMWANGE and BEN LIU. “The Impacts of Climate Changes on Tourism in
Kenya” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of American
Geographers, Middle States Division, York, PA. October 2014
THOMAS OWUSU. “Rethinking the African Experience in North America: Some preliminary
observations from the Ghanaians Community” presented at the Annual Conference of the
New York Association of African Studies, Albany. April 2015

LECTURES

BEN LIU. The Application of GIS and Geo-Spatial Techniques in Physical Geography and
Environmental fields.” Geography Careers Day, Sponsored by the Department of Geography
and Urban Studies, March 2015.
“Introduction to Geographic Information Sciences and Techniques” Geography Awareness
Week, November 2014
MONICA NYAMWANGE. “Geography Perspectives” Presented during the Geography
Awareness Week, November 2014.

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