HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS 2015-2016 AFRICANA ...

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HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS

2015-2016

AFRICANA-WORLD STUDIES

Djanna Hill, Chair

BOOK CHAPTERS

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.

JURIED PRESENTATIONS
DANIELLE WALLACE. “Interracial Relationships: Attitudes among Heterosexual College-Educated
African American Women,” National Council for Black Studies Annual Meeting (March, 2016).
“Black Student Unions at 50: Black Student Activism, The New Civil Rights Movement and the
Continuing Politicization of Black Students,” New Political Science Conference at University of
Havana, Havana, Cuba (November, 2015).
DJANNA HILL. “Fighting for Justice in Classrooms & Communities: The Intersections of
Globalization, Youth action and Teacher Preparation.” New Political Science Conference at
University of Havana, Havana, Cuba (November, 2015).

NONJURIED PRESENTATIONS
DANIELLE WALLACE. “Black Lives Matter: The New Civil Rights Movement,” Department of
Africana-World Studies/Black History Month, WPUNJ, February 16 2016.
“Social Justice Pedagogy,” The Social Justice Project, WPUNJ, May 24-25 2016.
DJANNA HILL. “The Black Woman Experience: Power & Equality,” The Feminist Collective, WPUNJ.
February 17 2016.

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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 ‘Sexualization’: Beyond Spectacle and Sensationalism, edited by
E. Renold, J. Ringrose and R.D. Egan. London: Palgrave. 2015.

REFEREED ARTICLES

BALMURLI NATRAJAN. Suraj Jacob, and Indira Patil. “Explaining Village-level Development
Trajectories through Schooling in Karnataka." Economic & Political Weekly 50.52 (2015): 54-64.

GEOFFREY POPE. Wei Qi. Pei Shuwen and “New Evidence of Human Occupation in the East Before
1.8 Ma.” Journal of Hebei North University 31.5 (2016): 28-32.

JURIED PRESENTATIONS

THOMAS GUNDLING. “The Trans* Experience: A Biocultural Dialectic,” Moving Trans History
Forward Conference, University of Victoria (BC), March 17-20 2016.

ANNA WEST. “The Village in the Music Video,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association,
San Diego, 20 November 2015.
Prescription, Pragmatism, and Politics: Envisioning and Enacting Community Participation in PHC
[Primary Health Care],” Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver,
Canada, 2 April 2016.
“Microcephaly, Mosquitoes, and Motherhood: Picturing Zika,” Annual Meeting of the Northeast
Anthropological Association, Saratoga Springs, NY, 23 April 2016.

NONJURIED PRESENTATIONS

THOMAS GUNDLING. “Teaching About ‘Touchy’ subjects,” Center for Teaching Excellence, WPUNJ, 8
October 2015.

MARIA KROMIDAS. “Challenging the embodiments & intersections of ‘smartness’ in school,” Faculty
Research Forum of the College of Humanities and Social Science, WPUNJ, November 2015.

“Exploring possibilities of engagement,” UCC Community and Civic Engagement Roundtable, WPUNJ,
November 2015.

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GEOFFREY POPE. “Evolutionary Psychology”, Cognitive Science Honors Track, WPUNJ, Fall 2015 and
Spring 2016.

BALMURLI NATRAJAN. “Caste, Universities, Inequality, Suicides,” at panel on Caste Discrimination
and Higher Education in India, University of Michigan, April 2016.
“Caste and Higher Education in India”, at panel on Caste, Exclusion and the University in India, Yale
University, March 2016.
MARIA VILLAR. “Problem-Based Learning Workshop,” Center for Teaching Excellence, WPUNJ,
March 2016.

ANNA WEST. “Putting Global Health Norms in Place: Police Translation and Community Participation
in Malawi,” Africa at Noon Series, Program in African Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 24
February 2016.

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ENGLISH

Ian Marshall, Chair

BOOKS PUBLISHED

DAVID BORKOWSKI. A Shot Story: From Juvie to PhD. New York: Fordham UP, August 2015.

BRAD GOOCH. Paperback publication of Smash Cut. Harper Perennial. April 19, 2016.

BARBARA KRASNER. Legendary Locals of Kearny, New Jersey (Arcadia, December 2015).

Presidential Elections Timeline (Capstone, 2016).

The Mystery of Area 51 (ABDO, 2016).

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (ABDO, 2016).

Native Nations of the Great Basin and Plateau (Child’s World, 2015).

Native Nations of the Southwest (Child’s World, 2015).

Native Nations of the Northeast (Child’s World, 2015).

Biographies of War: Iraq and Afghanistan (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015).

CHARLOTTE NEKOLA. Della Who: Collected Poems, Princeton: Ragged Sky Press, 2016.

MARTHA WITT. Luigi Pirandello's plays Henry IV and The License translated by Martha Witt
& Mary Ann Frese Witt, were published in a single volume by Italica Press in January 2016.

BOOK CHAPTERS

PHIL CIOFFARI. "Motel Movies," reprinted in Korean Expatriate Literature, Cross Cultural
Communications (Merrick, NY: 2016) (poem)

BRAD GOOCH. Short story “Spring” reprinted in The Soho Press Book of 80s Short Fiction, edited by
Dale Peck (Soho Press, 2016).

ANDREW KALAIDJIAN. "The Black Sheep: Djuna Barnes's Dark Pastoral." In Creatural Fictions. Ed.
David Herman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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LIANE ROBERTSON. Downs, Douglas and Liane Robertson. “Threshold Concepts in First-Year
Composition.” In Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts in Writing Studies. Eds. Linda Adler-
Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. Logan: Utah State Press, July 2015.

with Kara Taczak, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. “Notes Toward A Theory of Prior Knowledge and Its
Role in College Composers’ Transfer of Knowledge and Practice.” The Best of the Independent
Rhetoric & Composition Journals. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press. (2015). Reprint of original article
published in Composition Forum, 2012.

ROSA SOTO. Soto, Rosa E. and Pixy Ferris. “An Ethnographic Analysis of US Culture and Caribbean
Food Practices”. What’s Cooking Mom: Narratives about Food and Family. Eds. Tanya Cassidy and
Florence Pasche Guignard. Demeter Press. October 2015.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (INCLUDING PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS)

MARINA BUDHOS. “Hooking Teens with the Real World,” Talkingwriting.com (Oct 5, 2015)

“YA Meets the Real,” The Horn Book (Sept/Oct, 2015) 61-65.

“Using Nonfiction to Form Partnerships: A Collaborative Conversation,” with Marc Aronson, Jim
Ottiviani & Laurie Ann Thompson, The ALAN Review (Fall, 2015) 6-11.

PHIL CIOFFARI. "A Borough with Noir in its Soul" (article) Mystery Readers' Journal (Vol. 32:1).

RAJENDER KAUR. “Lamenting a Lost Cultural Imaginary: Lahore and Amritsar in Manju
Kapur’s Difficult Daughters” in Postcolonial Text, Vol 10, No 3 & 4 (2015).

BARBARA KRASNER. "Destruction of the Ghetto," Poetica Magazine, Fall 2015 (poem).

“Rhetoric,” Uppagus, December 2015 (poem).

“The Exception,” Ishka Bibble, Fall 2015 (poem).

“A New Life,” Ishka Bibble, Fall 2015 (poem).

"The Hands That Bind Us," Jewish Literary Journal, May 1, 2016 (creative nonfiction).

TIMOTHY LIU. “Poem.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, v 28 n 4, Winter 2015.

“Three Poems.” In/Filtration: An Anthology, Station Hill of Barrytown, NY, 2016.

“Poem.” Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion, n 8, 2015.

“Poem.” Michigan Quarterly Review, v 54 n 4, Fall 2015.

“Poem.” New England Review, v 36 n 3, 2015.

“Poem.” Plume Poetry. Mad Hat Press, Asheville, NC, 2016.

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“Five Poems.” Poets on Growth: An Anthology. Math Paper Press, Singapore, 2015.

“Two Poems.” Political Punch: Contemporary Poems. Sundress, Knoxville,TN, 2016.

“Poem.” Rabbit Ears: TV Poems. NYQ Books, New York, NY, 2015.

“Two Poems.” Seneca Review, v 45 n 2, Fall 2015.

“Twenty-Four Poems.” Verse, v 32 n 1-3, 2015.

WEST MOSS. “Writers, Let Your Freak Flag Fly.” Brevity, 2016. (creative nonfiction)

“The Class You Want,” Whale Road Review, 2016. (creative nonfiction)

“Introduction, 2016 Best Stories from the SEP, 2016. (creative nonfiction)

“Abroad,” Citron, 2015. (creative nonfiction)

“My Father’s Medical Mystery,”Salon , June 2016. (creative nonfiction)

“Into the Henhouse,” The Basil O’Flaherty , 2016 (fiction)

STEVE NEWTON. “Lost and Found in New Jersey,” Coldnoon: Travel Poetics (International & Peer-
Reviewed Literary Journal of Travel Writing) March 2016 (New Delhi, India). (memoir/creative
nonfiction).

“In Dreams Unbidden,” The Unseen,” “Elvis Poetica,” “Kindling,” Downtown Brooklyn: A Journal of
Writing #24, 2015. (poems).

JOHN PARRAS. This Is a Film about Falling,” Empty Sink Fiction, Issue 14. Fall 2015. (fiction)

“Marouflage,” The Flexible Persona, Issue 213. July 2015. (fiction)

LIANE ROBERTSON. Yancey, Kathleen Blake, Liane Robertson, and Kara Taczak. “Response to
Inviting Metagenres.” Composition Forum 31.2, 2015.

ROBERT ROSEN. “Teaching About Climate Change,” special issue of Radical Teacher #102 (July
2015), co-edited with James Davis.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

JUDITH BROOME. "'Anlish hot for men and bost': British Encounters in Eighteenth-Century
Portugal," West Coast Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California-Riverside,
February 2016.

PHIL CIOFFARI. Lecture delivered at the Killer Nashville Writers' Conference, November 2015.

Panelist at the Stamford Library Writers' Conference, January 2016.

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PHOEBE JACKSON. “What Students Fail to Learn from Peer Review and Why Online Classes Can
Help Them to Finally Learn It.” International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Ann Arbor,
MI, June 2016.

“Most of them did the best they could”: Narrating the Lives of Working-Class Women in Elizabeth
Strout’s Amy and Isabelle.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA,
November 2015.

RAJENDER KAUR. “Indostan” in American Print Culture of the Early Republic: Counter-Reading the
Imperial Public Sphere” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, March 17-20, 2016.

“Of Nabobs, Mercenaries, and Supercargo Captains: “Anglo-Indians” and the Making of the Early
Republic” at the MLA , Austin, Texas. January 2016.

MATTHEW KENDRICK. “The Politics of Reduction in the Henriad,” at the Shakespeare Association
of America Meeting, New Orleans, LA. March 2016.

CHARLOTTTE NEKOLA. Workshop on the Long Poem, WPU Writer's Conference, Spring 2016.

LIANE ROBERTSON. “Responding to Writers: A Professional Development Protocol.” Council of
Writing Program Administrators Conference, Boise, ID, July 2015.

“The Transfer of Transfer Project: Extending a Transfer Curriculum into Multiple Sites and
Contexts.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, Boise, ID, July 2015.

“Transfer of Transfer: Cross-Institutional Research Study Results around a Transfer-Based
Curricular Model." South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November,
2015.

“Investigating the Teaching of Writing as a High-Quality High-Impact Practice.” International
Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Melbourne, Australia, October 2015.

“The Transfer of Transfer Project: Analysis of Preliminary Results and their Implications for
Student Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Houston, TX, April
2016.

“The Role of Difference in Studies of Transfer: Learnings from a Four-Campus Study.” International
Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC), Ann Arbor, MI, June 2016.

Keynote Speaker and Full-Day Workshop Presenter: “Writing in Multiple Contexts: Research on
Transfer and its Implications for Writing Across the University.” University of Minnesota WEC
Symposium. Provided keynote address and additional workshop leadership for faculty from various
disciplines teaching writing-enriched courses, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, May 2016.

Keynote Speaker: “Teaching for Transfer in First-Year Writing.” Featured presentation to English
Department Faculty, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, February 2016.
Workshop Leader: “Teaching for Transfer: Multiple Institutional Contexts.” Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL, February 2016.

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MARQUITA SMITH. “Negative Affect in Sister Souljah’s The Coldest Winter Ever.” Hip Hop
Literacies Conference. Columbus, Ohio. March 30-31, 2016.

“How Many Licks Does it Take?: Viewing Lil' Kim as an Anti-icon of Black Womanhood.”
Northeast Modern Languages Association Conference. Hartford, CT. March 17-20,
2016.

BARBARA SUESS. “Frances Power Cobbe and the Trans-Corporeality of Working Class Bodies.”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies National (INCS) Conference, Asheville, NC. March
2016.

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES/PRESENTATIONS

MARINA BUDHOS. “Writing Politics Across Genres,” SAWCC Literary Festival, May 21st, 2016.

Keynote Speaker, “Indian Arrival Then and Now,” GOPIO, April 30th, 2016.

Moderator, “Over-Exposed & Invisible: Writing about the South Asian Muslim Experience,” IAAC
Literary Festival, Oct. 25th, 2015.

PHIL CIOFFARI. A talk and screening of my movie, Love in the Age of Dion, for the East Bronx
Historical Society at the Huntington Library, Bronx, NY, May 2016.

BRAD GOOCH. Provincetown Arts Work Center; Decatur Book Festival; Miami Book Fair;
Dolly’s Bookstore, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah; Highline Reading Series with
Yusef Komunyakaa, Susie Ibarra and Paolo Javier, New York City.

Participant in Maundy Thursday Reading by poets of Dante’s “Inferno,” The Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, New York City.

Speaker, World AIDS Day, Princeton University Art Museum; Guest Speaker, New School
“Queer NYC” class assigned “Smash Cut” for Spring semester, instructor Ricardo Montez;
Speaker, Nonfiction Forum. The New School. Moderated by Honor Moore, sponsored by the
Creative Writing Program.

TIMOTHY LIU. Poetry reading. Brooklyn Poets, Brooklyn, NY. July 2015.

Poetry reading. Poet’s House, New York, NY. July 8, 2015.

Poetry reading. New York Poetry Festival, Governor’s Island, NY. July 26, 2015.

Poetry reading. Cave Canem. The New School, New York, NY. September 16, 2015.

Poetry reading. Stockton University, Galloway, NJ. September 24, 2015.

Poetry reading. Tribute to Ai, CUNY Grad Center, New York, NY. October 19, 2015.

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Poetry reading. Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA. November 12, 2015.

Poetry reading. Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA. November 20, 2015.

Poetry reading. KGB Bar, New York, NY. March 5, 2016.

Poetry reading. Ritual & Bit Book Launch, 61 Local, Brooklyn, NY. March 11, 2016.

Poetry reading. Dutchess County Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY. March 24, 2016.

Poetry reading. Public Pool, Highland Park, CA. April 1, 2016.

Poetry reading. Seligmann Center, Chester, NY. April 10, 2016.

CHARLOTTE NEKOLA. College of Humanities and Social Sciences Senior Faculty Research and
Creative Expression Forum, WPU.

Reading from poetry collection Della Who, May 2016.

Poetry Reading from Della Who, National Poetry Week, Princeton Public Library, April 2016.

MEDIA

BRAD GOOCH. Profiled in Columbia College Today, “Brad Gooch ’73 Revisits a Time Gone By
in Smash Cut,” by Anne-Ryan Heatwole, Fall 2015; “The Outlaw Builds A House: An Interview
with Brad Gooch” by Andre Bishop and John Guare, Lincoln Center Theater Review, Fall 2015.

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS RECEIVED

WEST MOSS. The Subway Stops at Bryant Park. Leapfrog Press. Short story collection. Contracted
2016; expected publication date May 2017.

JOHN PARRAS. Awarded an "Individual Artist Fellowship Award" ($8000) by the New Jersey State
Council on the Arts. February 2016.

LIANE ROBERTSON. Council of Writing Program Administrators Research Grant ($4,000), July
2015.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS & BOOK REVIEWS

RAJENDER KAUR. Review of Nyla Ali Khan’s Life of a Kashmiri Woman: Dialectic of Resistance and
Accommodation (Palgrave, 2014) in South Asian Review, 36. 2. 2015.

AWARDS RECEIVED

LIANE ROBERTSON. Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award for co-authored
book, Writing Across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing (Utah State University
Press, May 2014), April 2016.

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GEOGRAPHY AND URBAN STUDIES

Monica Nyamwange, Chair

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

BEN LIU. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based Spatial Analysis of Taiwanese Americans
between 2000 and 2010 Census: North American Taiwanese Studies Association Annual Conference,
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada June 10-11, 2016.
Christianity and Transnational Justice: A case study in Taiwan and Timor-Leste, North American
Taiwan Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, June 10-11,
2016.
MONICA NYAMWANGE. Socioeconomic Effects of Climate Change on Kenya’s economy” Paper
presented at the National Social Science Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana October 4-
6, 2015.

LECTURES
BEN LIU. “Introduction to Geographic Information Sciences and Application, Geography Day,
Sponsored by the Department of Geography and Urban Studies, William Paterson University of New
Jersey, March 30, 2016.
The application of GIS and Geospatial Techniques in Urban and Environment related fields. Presented
during the Geography Awareness Week, Sponsored by the Department of Geography and Urban
Studies, William Paterson University of New Jersey, November 18, 2015.
GIS workshop in Land use course offered by Environmental Science.
GIS Demonstration, Atrium 125 William Paterson University, Wayne New Jersey November 19, 2015.
MONICA NYAMWANGE. “Geography Perspectives” Presented during the Geography Day, Sponsored
by the Department of Geography and Urban Studies, William Paterson University of New Jersey,
March 30, 2016.
Geography Perspectives. Presented during the Geography Awareness Week. Sponsored by the
Department of Geography and Urban Studies, William Paterson University of New Jersey, November
18, 2015.
THOMAS OWUSU. Careers in Geography. Presented during the Geography Awareness Week,
Sponsored by the Department of Geography and Urban Studies, William Paterson University of New
Jersey, November 18, 2015.
Highlights of Urban Geography” Presented during the Geography Day, Sponsored by the Department
of Geography and Urban Studies, William Paterson University of New Jersey, March 30, 2016.

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