| Honors/Awards/Appointments
Sachiko Aoshima, language and foreign studies, CAS: received the 2005 Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award, which recognizes the excellence of her research, Tucson, March. Robert Durant, SPA: is chair, Paul A. Volcker Endowment for Public Service Research and Education, American Political Science Association, 2005. Kiho Kim, biology, CAS: received a grant from the NOAA National Undersea Research Center to study the link between coral hosts, surface microbiota, and disease. Lectures/Presentations
Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: delivered the Honors Symposium lecture “Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State,” Flathead Valley Community College, Kalispell, Mont., March. Marwan Kraidy, SIS: “Can Lebanon Escape Confessional Politics?” United States Institute of Peace, February. Vladimir Kvint, Kogod: “Russian External Strategic Agenda: From Fallen Giant to Regional Superpower,” at the panel “Energy of Nationalism, and Nationalism of Energy,” Columbia University, March. Christian Maisch, WSP and SIS: “The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance as an Instrument of Peace-Keeping and Collective Security in the Western Hemisphere,” Inter-American Defense College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., March. Julie Mertus, SIS: “Balkans Scholars’ Initiative,” U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.; panelist, “Women and Peacebuilding in Rwanda,” Institute for Inclusive Security Colloquium, Washington, D.C.; trainer and workshop presenter, “Gender Analysis,” USAID training of Ethiopian parliamentarians, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January. Jamin Raskin, WCL: testified before a U.S. Senate committee on the proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage, March. Jeffrey Reiman, philosophy and religion, CAS: debated the death penalty with a Delaware state prosecutor who prosecuted three capital cases that ended in death sentences, Great Debate series, University of Delaware, April. Ira Robbins, WCL: “The Supreme Court’s Habeas Corpus Cases of the 2005–2006 Term,” Federal Judicial Center’s National Workshop for Federal Judges, San Francisco, April. David Rosenbloom, SPA: “MPA Education and Globalization,” Taiwan Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, March. Abdul Aziz Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and SIS: panelist following broadcast of Search for Common Ground’s documentary on the Middle East, The Shape of the Future, UDC-TV, Washington, D.C., April. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: testified on lobbying reform before the House Rules Committee, March. Papers Presented
Joan Gero, anthropology, CAS: “The Ethics of International Research”; discussant for the session “Gender and Archaeology”; and organized the session “The Ethics of International Research Practice”; World Archaeological Inter-congress, Osaka, Japan, January. Jennifer Oetzel, Kogod: presented a coauthored paper, “Market Liberalization and Insurance Firm Performance in Emerging Markets,” business school, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Pedras, April. Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and the Center for Global Peace: Washington, D.C.’s Challenges, Publishers Choice Press, 2006. Ethan Burger, WCL: op-ed “Shun Belarus’ illegitimate regime,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March. Brian Forst, SPA: op-ed, “The Cost of Errant Justice,” Washington Post, March. Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Poetas en la casa de la luna,” in Editorial Verdahalago de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico, 2005. Hamid Mowlana, SIS: “Una Nova Lectura de l'informe MacBride,” in Comunicacio Internacional i politiques de comunicacion, Insitut de la Comunicacio inCOM, Cataluya, Spain 2005. Vivian Vasquez, SETH, CAS: “Critical Literacy,” in Framing Literacies: Multiple Perspectives on Literacy Learning, Sage, 2005. Media
Sharon Alston, director, Admissions: interviewed on WRC NBC 4 about the increase in applications to AU and what AU’s admissions officers consider when reviewing an applicant’s file, April. George Ayittey, economics, CAS: interviewed by Bloomberg News on what conditions the World Bank should impose before considering debt relief for African countries, April. Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: quoted by the New York Times on how content is lost to future generations with electronic messages as opposed to written letters, March. Kenneth Cohen, Jewish chaplain and director, Hillel: quoted in a Reuters report that rabbis meeting in Mexico City were considering a bid to lift a ban on gay rabbis and same-sex unions, March. Christine Haight Farley, WCL: interviewed by NPR’s Marketplace on fashion piracy and high-end merchandisers suing companies who are making exact knockoffs of their products, March. Gene Fidell, and Kathleen Duignan, National Institute of Military Justice, WCL: interviewed by ABC TV News, Bloomberg News, the Financial Times, and Newsweek regarding the Hamden case, April. Richard Durand, dean, Kogod: quoted in an article on new and changing programs at Kogod, Washington Business Journal, April. Louis Goodman, dean, SIS: quoted in an Associated Press article regarding how immigration and higher birth rates are helping the United States avoid the “graying of the population” problems of Japan and Europe, April. Claudio Grossman, dean, WCL: interviewed by Televisa on the role of the university in the twenty-first century; interviewed by CNN Spanish about the attack in Tel Aviv, April. Jane Hall, SOC: interviewed by Dow Jones Newswire on the choice of Katie Couric as the CBS’s Evening News anchor; also appeared on PBS’s Newshour with Jim Lehrer to discuss Couric’s move to CBS, April. Alan Kraut, history, CAS: quoted regarding the power of American culture to assimilate new immigrants to the United States, Knight Ridder, April. William Leap, anthropology, CAS: quoted on the ability of current immigrants to be loyal to both their country of origin and their adopted country, Washington Post, April. Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: quoted on the need for a focal leader for the immigration cause, Houston Chronicle, April. Kathryn Montgomery, SOC: interviewed by the Washington Post on the ways media companies are creating a media culture directed at children, March. Korin Munsterman, WCL: interviewed by the Miami Herald regarding students who can use iPods to listen to lectures, April. Anna Nelson, history, CAS: quoted on fund raising to build a new addition to the Nixon library, Washington Post, March. Robert Pastor, vice president, international affairs: quoted on the need to reduce the gap in incomes between Mexico and the United State as part of effective immigration reform, Reuters and Newsweek International, March. Herman Schwartz, WCL: interviewed by Fox News about the Zacharias Moussaoui trial, April. Tim Trainer, WCL: interviewed on CNN International’s World Business Today regarding China’s efforts to protect and enforce copyrights and trademarks, April. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on CNN on the just released U.S. drug trafficking report identifying Nicaragua, Panama, and other Central American countries as new major points of distribution to the United States and Europe; on NBC Telemundo on the deteriorating security situation in Iraq; on Radio Union of Venezuela on the U.S.-India accord on nuclear energy proposed by President Bush, March. Richard Wilson, WCL: interviewed by CNN about detainees at Guantanamo Bay, April.
Photo by Jeff Watts
Literary center established in memory of Larissa Gerstel ’00
The life of Larissa Rozek Gerstel was cut short when she was barely 26, but she had already made a difference in the lives of young students. In her honor, AU’s School of Education, Training and Health (SETH) has established the Larissa Gerstel Literacy Center for Children in the Curriculum Materials Room of the AU Library. It formally opened Apr. 21 with an event recalling Gerstel’s life and contributions.
At AU, Gerstel ’00 worked on literacy issues with education faculty member Vivian Vasquez and was a founder of the student group Educators for Critical Literacy. Particularly drawn to working with children of migrant workers and other disadvantaged students, she taught third through fifth graders in Maryland, Florida, and Colorado.
The center, created with children in mind, will include a comfortable reading space, multicultural books, and books that deal with social issues. Among those remembering Gerstel at the event were, from left, SETH dean Sarah Irvine Belson; Vasquez; Gerstel’s grandmother, Vida Burkowitz; and Gerstel’s mother, Robin Seitz. —SA |
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