February 24, 2004 issue

Honors/Awards/Appointments
Robert Beisner, emeritus, history, CAS: his edited work, American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, has been named an Outstanding Academic Title as one of “the best scholarly titles” published in 2003 by Choice.

Egon Guttman, WCL: admitted to the Round Table Scholar program, December.

Haig Mardirosian

Performances/Media Productions/Exhibition
Haig Mardirosian, performing arts, CAS, and associate dean of academic affairs: soloist on a new CD of the Bach “Clavierubung, Part III,” Centaur Records, CRC 2667.

Lectures/Presentations
Daniel Bradlow, WCL: “Legal Aspects of Public Debt Management and Negotia-tions,” presentation to government officials from Central Asian republics and Azerbaijan, IMF/UNITAR workshop, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, December.

John Cerone, WCL: lectured on international criminal law, Boston, December.

Mary Clark, WCL: endowed lecture on the history of women’s advocacy before the Supreme Court, part of the Supreme Court Historical Society’s Leon Silverman Lecture Series, December. The presentation will be published in the Journal of Supreme Court History.

Claudio Grossman, dean, WCL: chaired the roundtable “Anne Frank and the Tradition of Human Rights,” Congress of Chile, December.

Hadar Harris, WCL: “Comparative Changes in National Security and Anti-terror Legislation in the Wake of the War on Terror,” Bridging Human Rights and National Security Conference, University of Ottawa, October.

Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: presentation at the Libreria La Lengua de Cervantes, Washington, D.C., December.

Papers Presented
Briana Weadock, PhD student, sociology, CAS: “Marriage and Feminism: Disci-pline, Power, and Resistance,” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, New York City, February.

Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: “Ways of Japanese Thinking: Presuppositions in a Japanese Petty Officer’s Letter to His Parents,” International Journal of Language, Society and Culture, issue 13, 2003.

Ethan Burger, SIS and WCL: “Commercial Mediation in Russia: Making the Process a Reality,” Bureau of National Affairs’ Eastern Europe Reporter, vol 13, no 11, November 2003.

Julie Mertus, SIS: “Mightier than the Sword: The Bush Administration’s Flagging Human Rights Rhetoric,” Harvard International Review, spring 2003.

David Sadker, education, CAS: chapter “Myra and Me,” in They Led by Teaching, Kappa Delta Pi.

Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: coauthored “Assessing the Costs, Benefits, Cost-effectiveness, and Cost-benefit of Psychological Assessment: We Should, We Can, and Here’s How,” Psychological Assessment, 15, 478–495.

Shyam Chidamber

Media
Shyam Chidamber, Kogod: interviewed by WMAL, Washington, D.C., regarding President Bush’s job creation plan and its im-pact on the Washington, D.C., area economy, February.

Robert Dinerstein, WCL: interviewed by WTTG Fox 5 regarding juvenile law and whether an 11-year-old boy can be held accountable for killing a one-year-old baby, February.

Robert Lerman, economics, CAS: quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer and Los Angeles Times regarding the working poor and the federal tax structure, February.

Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: quoted by Reuters and the New York Times regarding John Kerry’s war record, February.

Greg Lyons, assistant men’s basketball coach, athletics: was profiled in the Washington Post with his wife, Kristen Higy, assistant women’s basketball coach at George Mason University, February.

David Martin, Kogod: quoted in the article “Companies Weigh the Cost of Prepping Expats,” Workforce Management magazine, February.

Howard McCurdy, SPA: quoted in the New York Times and in USA Today about the space station, February.

Herman Schwartz, WCL: was quoted by the Los Angeles Times and the National Prospect regarding the appointment of Judge Silberman to the U.S. commission on intelligence gathering, February.

James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: was quoted by the Washington Post regarding commissions paid on campaign ads, February.

Robert Tobias, director, ISPPI, and SPA: interviewed on Fed Talk (federal news radio) regarding government policies, February.

Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed by Radio Centro, Radio America, and Radio Mundo, Argentina, on findings by U.S. inspectors on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; on Radio Nacional de Espana and on CNN on U.S. air travel security alerts; on TV Azteca on the Washington, D.C., area snipers trials and on Saddam Hussein’s status as a prisoner of war, February.

Joan Williams, WCL: interviewed on NPR’s Marketplace regarding a bill to be unveiled by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., titled “The Balancing Act,” February.

Paul Williams, SIS and WCL: interviewed by the Los Angeles Times about the new tripartite government in Iraq; the piece also ran on Yahoo News and in the Detroit News, February.

Mail People items to Catherine Bahl, University Publications, Tenley Campus, 8121, or e-mail cmbahl@american.edu.