Brian Forst
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Honors/Awards/Appointments
Brian Forst, SPA: his book Errors of Justice: Nature, Sources and Remedies (Cambridge University Press, 2004) received the Book of the Year Award for 2006 from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Baltimore, March. Lectures/Presentations
Walter Effross, WCL: “50 Elements of Ethical and Effective Web Sites for Law Firms,” District of Columbia Bar Continuing Legal Education Program, January. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: poetry reading, Denison University, August. Jocelyn Johnston, SPA: copresented “The Impact of School Property Tax Reductions on Neighboring Governments: A Natural Experiment in Kansas,” Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, September. David Rosenbloom, SPA: chaired the “Bureaucratic and Public Sector Politics” section of the Southern Political Science Association meeting, Atlanta, January. Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: “What Difference Does It Make If We View Mental Illness and Addiction as Behavior or Disease? Some Scientific and Clinical Considerations,” the Langton Centre, Sydney, Australia, January. Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: copresented “Patient-level Quality Adjusted Life Years in Treatment Outcome Research: A New Approach for Assessing Cost-effectiveness” in the session “Models and Methods: Costs and Benefits in Public and Private Sectors,” joint meeting of the American Evaluation Association and the Canadian Evaluation Society, Toronto, October. Papers Presented
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and the Center for Global Peace: “A Qualitative and Quantitative Test of the Islamic Economic Doctrine as a Viable Development Model for Muslim Societies,” “Pan-Africanism: African-Caribbean Linguistic Connections,” “Understanding and Fighting Corruption in Sierra Leone: A Metaphorical Linguistic Approach,” 23rd Annual Association of Third World Studies Conference, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, November. Media
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: coauthored with Judea Pearl, president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, an opinion piece, “Carving the Path for Muslim-Jewish Dialogue,” Common Ground News Service, January. Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed for an article in the Washington Post Health Section on language not to use to chase the holiday blues, December. Randall Eliason, WCL: was interviewed by the Associated Press regarding government officials accepting campaign donations in exchange for promises of official favors, December. Gene Fidell, National Institute of Military Justice, WCL: quoted in the article “CIA Role a Mystery at Court-martial,” Forbes magazine, January. Claudio Grossman, dean, WCL: interviewed regarding the election of the first woman president in Chile, Washington Hispanic, January. Lewis Grossman, WCL: published a letter to the editor about congressional authority over assisted suicide and abortion, New York Times, January.
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Laura Juliano, psychology, CAS: quoted in a Newhouse News Service article about the effects coffee and caffeine have on the body, January. Iris Krasnow, SOC: quoted regarding a women’s speakers group, Washington Post, January. Daniel Marcus, WCL: discussed the Patriot Act and the NSA’s rules for spying, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, January. Robert Pastor, VP, international affairs: quoted about U.S.-Mexican relations, Associated Press article, January. Jamin Raskin, WCL: quoted by the Associated Press regarding the Alito nomination; interviewed by WMET Radio regarding why it is double homicide to murder a pregnant woman, and yet abortion is legal; and interviewed by WAMU on a suit by the Appleseed Project about the constitutionality of a D.C. commuter tax, December. Jack Rasmussen, director and curator, AU Museum, the Katzen Center: discussed the local visual arts scene, including the Katzen’s current exhibits and his experience as a curator and gallery owner in the Washington, D.C., region, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, January. Ira Robbins, WCL: quoted in the Washington Post and interviewed by WUSA CBS 9 regarding the ramifications of the DNA test results in the case of Roger Keith Coleman, January. Herman Schwartz, WCL: quoted in an article regarding the federal judiciary, Chicago Tribune, January. Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: his new book, The Greater Generation, was reviewed by Jonathan Yardley in the Washington Post, January. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: interviewed by NBC News and quoted by the Dallas Morning News regarding ethics in Congress, December. Perry Wallace, WCL: interviewed by Sports Illustrated in a story on the new movie Glory Road and Wallace’s breaking of the color barrier in 1960’s college basketball, January. Stephen Wermiel, WCL: interviewed by NBC News in San Francisco regarding Harriet Miers’s withdrawal from consideration for the Supreme Court, October. Paul Williams, WCL: interviewed by Hearst-Argyle Television regarding Iraq’s elections, January. Published Works
Muneer Ahmad and Rick Wilson, WCL: coauthored the op-ed “Canada: The Time to Speak on Khadr Is Now,” the Toronto Star, January. Vladimir Kvint, Kogod: article on the emerging power of China was published in Forbes magazine (Russian edition), December. Barry McCarthy, psychology, CAS: coauthored with his wife, Emily McCarthy, Getting It Right This Time: How to Create a Loving and Lasting Marriage, Routledge, 2006. Julie Mertus, SIS: coauthored “When Civil Society Promotion Fails State-Building: The Inevitable Fault-lines in Post-conflict Reconstruction,” in Subcontracting Peace; The Challenge of NGO Peacemaking, Ashgate, 2005. David Sadker and Karen Zittleman, education, CAS: coauthored Teachers, Schools and Society, A Brief Introduction to Education and coedited The Teachers, Schools and Society Reader, an accompanying collection of readings and case studies, McGraw-Hill. Dana Walker, SOC: “Open Letter to My College Professors,” Inside Higher Ed, January.
Photo by Jeff Watts
‘Loverboy’ author reads, screens film
Author Victoria Redel read last week from Loverboy, her award-winning novel about an obsessive mother who creates a magical world for herself and her son that excludes everyone but themselves. As part of the Department of Literature’s Visiting Writers Series, there was also a screening of the film adapted from the novel and starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, with a discussion led by Redel afterwards. It has been shown at film festivals and is set for general release this spring. The author of a collection of stories and two collections of poems, Redel teaches in the writing programs of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University.
Authors slated to give readings later this spring as part of series are Cheryl Strayed, author of Torch, on Feb. 22, and Iraqi writer and poet Sinan Antoon, on March 22, who will also show his documentary, About Baghdad. —SA
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