Koffi Anyinéfa, Associate Professor of French, has been awarded an NEH Summer Stipend for the 1997 year. His project is entitled, "The Field of Francophone Literature: On the Canonization of Some Authors."
Koffi Anyinéfa, Associate Professor of French, has been
awarded an NEH Summer Stipend for the 1997 year. His project is
entitled, "The Field of Francophone Literature: On the Canonization
of Some Authors."
Richard Ball, Assistant Professor of Economics, spent the 1996-97 academic year on leave from Haverford as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Recent scholarly works include: a paper in July 1996, co-authored with Laurie Pounder (HC `95) and titled, "Efficient but Poor Revisited" which appeared in the journal Economic Development and Cultural Change; a paper titled "The Institutional Foundations of Monetary Commitment: A Comparative Analysis", which was written as a background paper for the World Bank's 1997 World Development Report; and in February 1997, a paper titled, "Opposition Backlash and Platform Convergence in a Spatial Voting Model" which was accepted for publication in the journal Public Choice. Professor Ball also gave talks at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota during the fall.
Julio dePaula, Associate Professor of Chemistry, gave a lecture entitled "Resonance Light Scattering Spectroscopy: A New Probe of Light-Harvesting Systems" to the chemistry departments of Yale University and University of North Carolina. He was also an invited member of a discussion panel on "Tracking Faculty Careers" at the Program Directors Meeting of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Program.
Harvey Glickman, Professor of Political Science, served as Department Curriculum Evaluator for the Political Science Department of Washington College in Maryland, November, 1996. He performed the same service for Drury College in Springfield, MO in March, 1997. He was supported by the College in attending the Aspen Wye Faculty Seminar on Citizenship and Education in Queenstown, MD, July 1996. He gave a paper titled "Constitution-making and Ethnic Conflict in Africa?" at the bi-annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas in Utrecht, Holland, August, 1996. He will be a commentator on several papers at the Conference on African Renewal at MIT, Cambridge, MA, in March, 1997.
Lisa Jane Graham, Assistant Professor of History, contributed to and co-edited Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth Century France. The work brings together eight essays that offer innovative strategies for studying society and culture. Her essay is titled "Crimes of Opinions: Policing the Public in Eighteenth-Century Paris."
Karl Johnson, Assistant Professor of Biology, was invited to give multi-media talks on his research in cell biology to the Center for Research on Women's Health and Reproduction at the University of Pennsylvania and the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Temple University School of Medicine.
Emma Lapsansky, Professor of History and Curator of the Quaker Collection, was invited to present a synopsis of her research on the Friendship Cooperative Houses, Inc., at the Oral History Association meetings in October. In addition to reviewing a number of manuscripts for scholarly presses and journals and publishing a series of book reviews, she developed a web site for the 1996 NEH Summer Institute "Religion and Diversity in American Society". She has also begun mounting finding aids on the World Wide Web for the Quaker Collection.
Danielle Macbeth, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, gave a talk titled "Brandom on Inference and the Expressive Role of Logic" at a conference on Truth hosted by the Sociedad Filosofica Ibero Americana. The conference was held in Queretaro City, Mexico in June of 1996. That same month, she and Gary Ebbs of the University of Pennsylvania organized the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium. The consortium was hosted at Haverford and centered on the topic Language, Mind, and World. She has been awarded a1997 NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars for a project entitled "Frege's Logic."
The John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences Wyatt MacGaffey was invited to give the keynote address, "The Cultural Tradition of the African Forests," at a symposium on Art and Divination in Central and West Africa, at Amherst College in November, 1996.
Judith Owen, Professor of Biology, received additional support from the National Science Foundation for her project entitled, "RUI: Memory in the Immune Response to Fluorescein."
Bettye and Howard Marshall Professor of Natural Sciences Bruce Partridge and Visiting Assistant Professor Esther Zirbel will be using the Hubble Space Telescope and its new instruments during 1997. Partridge will conduct a project on galaxies, while Zirbel will concentrate on distant star-forming systems.
Ulrich Schönherr, Assistant Professor of German, was invited to deliver a paper at the International Symposium on Gert Jonke (October 23-25, 1996), sponsored by the Musil-Institut of the University of Klagenfurt and the Austrian Public Radio. The talk was entitled: "`I am lost to the world'-The Locus of Music in Gert Jonke's work" (in German). An expanded version of this talk will be published in a volume of essays in honor of Gert Jonke next spring.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Stephanie Frank Singer has been invited to give a series of lectures on Symplectic Geometry at the undergraduate level at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton as part of the Mentoring Program of the IAS/Park City Summer Mathematics Institute. These lectures will take place in May, 1997. Professor Singer also was awarded an American Mathematical Society Centennial Research Fellowship.
Wendy Sternberg, Assistant Professor of Psychology, spoke about her research on sex differences in pain inhibition at a meeting at NIH in Bethesda, MD, addressing the neuroendocrine aspects of fibromyalgia syndrome, a painful condition primarily afflicting women. She also spoke at a conference in Heidelberg, Germany in November, 1996, about her research to a group of German anesthesiologists, physicians, and scientists.
Jeff Tecosky-Feldman, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, co-authored a mathematics text called Multivariable Calculus. It was published in January 1997.
William Williams, Professor of Fine Arts, attended the Oracle Photography Curators' Conference held in Santa Barbara, CA in November 1996. He led discussions on the programs and governance of college and university art galleries. He also served as one of three jurors to select artists for the exhibition "Impressions: Contemporary Asian-American Artist Prints" and residency artist print fellows for the Brandywine Workshop Center for the Visual Arts in Philadelphia on November 15, 1996.