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Sam Binkley, PhD, Sociology ’02 recently published Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s, which George Ritzer, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, and founding editor, Journal of Consumer Culture reviewed as “an important and interesting study of the discourses of the 1970s lifestyle movement. It casts a whole new light not only on that epoch but, more importantly, on its relationship to contemporary self, identity, and the economy, especially consumer culture.” Dr. Binkley is currently assistant professor of sociology at Emerson College.
Catherine Ziegler, PhD, Anthropology '04 is the author of Favored Flowers: Culture and Economy in a Global System (Duke University Press), which is an investigation of the worldwide production and distribution of fresh-cut flowers and their consumption in the New York metropolitan area. The book provides a historical overview of the development of the cut-flower industry in New York and how consumer behavior and choices have changed over time and been shaped by the media, types of available flowers, and retailing, while examining the economic and cultural trends of the global flower market.
Dennis McGrath’s, PhD, Sociology ’79 book, The Collaborative Advantage: Lessons from K-16 Educational Reform, was published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Ivan Francisco Medina, MA, Medical Anthropology ’87 has been full-time professor since 1995 at the University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo Campus where he became department director in 2000 and is involved in different departmental and institutional committees. He has done doctoral studies at the Centro de Estudios de Avanzados de Puerto Rico, Y el Caribe in San Juan, and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Interested in the organization of primitive societies, ethnomedicine, and the evolution of diseases, he is currently doing research on Harris Lines in two prehistoric populations of Puerto Rico. The research was approved by the Center of Investigation and Creation of the University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo.
Luis Clemente, MA, Political Science ’02 will present a paper titled “Reflections on Party System Stability in Latin America” in the 61st Annual Conference of the New York State Political Science Association.
Krista King, MA, Psychology ’03 was recently promoted to director of Project Path to Recovery at The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health.
Frank McCluskey, PhD, Philosophy '78 has been named provost of the American Military University. With 20,000 students in more than 100 countries, the university serves our nation's military and first responders with courses in Intelligence, Homeland Security, and Emergency Response.
Lawrence Force, MA, Psychology '78 is professor of psychology at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York. He and a colleague were responsible for securing the college's first National Institute of Health (NIH) award. The two-year award, renewable for a third year, will enable Dr. Force and his colleague to research the scope and quality of services provided by Area Agencies on Aging (AAA). They will survey 600 agencies on aging across the country. Dr. Force's ultimate goal is to learn if the levels of services provided by age appropriate agencies are meeting the needs of the nation's growing aging population today, and also to see if these agencies have plans to meet future needs.
Deniz Tekiner, PhD, Sociology '92 has published "Formalist Art Criticism and the Politics of Meaning" in Social Justice, Issue on Art, Power, and Social Change 33:2 (2006), Modern Art and the Romantic Vision (University Press of America, 2000), and other articles on sociological theory.
Andrea Campetella, MA, Sociology and Historical Studies '00 is a temporary instructor of history in Augusta State University's Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy.
Constantinos Proimos, PhD, Philosophy '01 is an adjunct assistant professor of History and
Theory of Visual Arts in the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Crete, Greece.
Celesti Colds Fechter, PhD, Psychology '03 (MA '99, BA '96) was appointed associate dean for Academic Services at The New School for General Studies where she is responsible for all aspects of student life and student academic services for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students in The New School for General Studies’ degree, certificate, and adult education programs. Originally on the staff of Lang College, she has been at The New School since 1999, first in the Bachelor’s Program and, since 2003 in the Dean’s Office as assistant dean for Academic Affairs. She teaches psychology in the Department of Social Sciences and chairs the University Diversity Committee and oversees Diversity Initiative.
Michael Weinman, PhD, Philosophy '05 is now a tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. His Pleasure in Aristotle's Ethics, a reworking of his 2005 Alfred Schutz Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award in Sociology and Philosophy, is forthcoming this spring from Continuum Press (anticipated May 2007).
Julia Spears, MA, Psychology '62 had her paintings on display in New York in "Subjective Elements/A Collective Exhibition" from September 28 to October 18, 2006. To view Julia's artwork, visit www.agoragallery.com/ArtistInvite/Julia_Spears.aspx.
Howard Seeman, PhD, Philosophy '80 is professor emeritus of education at City University of New York, Lehman College. Dr. Seeman has taught classroom management, educational psychology, and course content methods and supervised teachers and student teachers since 1970. His book, Preventing Classroom Problems: A Classroom Management Handbook, is used in over 400 school districts around the U.S. and in 30 other countries. The book is now in its 3rd edition, with its own companion training video and CD. Dr. Seeman has taught the course, "Preventing Discipline Problems and Classroom Management" for over 25 years at CUNY and he now teaches it online at www.ClassroomManagementOnline.com.
Ethel Moreinos-Mostrel, MA, Psychology '91 earned an MA in Family Therapy from California Graduate Institute in Los Angeles. She also has two licenses in Family Therapy from the States of California and New Jersey. She now lives in Palo Alto, California were she has a successful private practice and works at Health Net as a clinician. As a second career, she writes books for children. Her stories are about psychosocial issues that affect youth today. Ethel is the proud mother of a 15-year old son and a 12-year old daughter, who wants to be a psychiatrist when she grows up. hter says she wants to become a psychiatrist when she grows up.
Danielle Barry, MA, Psychology '98 recently began a research fellowship at the University of Connecticut Health Center where she will be studying treatments for drug and alcohol addictions. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from Rutgers University in 2004 and completed a fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at Geisinger Medical Center.
John Krummel, PhD, Philosophy '99 is currently pursuing a second PhD in Religion at Temple University and is currently ABD. He says, "My purpose was to study Asian philosophy, but especially Buddhism, the thought of Nishida Kitaro and Kyoto school philosophy. My dissertation here will be on Nishida and his relation to Hegel and Mahayana." His most recent publications include: "Representation and Poiesis: the Imagination in the Later Heidegger", Philosophy Today, in-print, due out sometime in 2007; "Kukai" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kukai/), just published October, 2006; "Praxis of the Middle: Self and No-Self in Earlly Buddhism" in International Philosophical Quarterly, December 2005; Yuasa Yasuo, Overcoming Modernity: Synchronicity and Image-Thinking (NYC: SUNY Press, in-print), a co-translation from Japanese; and a special issue on "Natural Law and Asian Philosophy" in Vera Lex, winter 2006 (in-print), for which he was the guest-editor. He is currently working on Nishida and translating his works, but is also continuously working on Heidegger. Dr. Krummel says, "Anybody who remembers me from the philosophy department and wants to chat or contact me, feel free to do so." (His fellow alumni are welcome to contact the alumni office for his email address.)
J. Daniel Videla, PhD, Philosophy '01 returned to his home country of Argentina after graduation and now teaches political science, legal and political philosophy, philosophy of science, and epistemology. In 2006 he was given tenure as assistant professor at the University of Buenos Aires Law School. He also remains affiliated with philosophy departments on a part-time basis. In 2004 he published his first book, an introduction to political theory, Comunidad, Poder, Ciudadanía (isbn 950-605-378-2). He is currently working on three more publications, the first of which is an essay on the demonization of the enlightenment from Rousseau to our days, to be published in 2007.
Miguel Antunes, MA, Sociology '05 has a new job at the nonprofit, iMentor, which is an electronically-based, volunteer mentoring program for underserved high school students throughout New York City. He has also presented at three academic conference over the past year, including one in Amsterdam entitled "Art & the City."
Robert Latham, PhD, Political Science '94 will be joining the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS) at York University in Toronto, Canada in January 2007 as director. Currently, he is a visiting fellow at the Transnationalism Project at the University of Chicago and previously he was program director and officer at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) for over 11 years.
Henk-Jan Brinkman, PhD, Economics '98 has a new position as Chief Economic Analysis and Development Policy Service at the World Food Programme in Rome, Italy as of September 1. He previously spent 17 years at the United Nations Secretariat as a senior economic affairs officer.
Elizabeth Nielson, MA, Psychology '05 is the individual volunteer coordinator at Habitat for Humanity in Santiago, Chile. She also does freelance work and volunteers as a translator for other NGOs. Previously she lived in Brazil for over a year. Elizabeth has completed a certificate in English-Portuguese Translation from the University of Toronto and is currently working on one for Spanish-English.
Seth Graham, MA, Philosophy '04 is currently attending Stanford Law School, scheduled to graduate in spring 2007. He is focusing on legal work on behalf of artists and musicians, having performed volunteer work for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York. Seth is also looking to start a music management business focused on utilizing digital media for publicity and distribution while respecting the legal rights of musicians, upon graduation.
Sandra Guerrero, PhD, Sociology '06 has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship in the Sociology Department of Hamilton College in Clinton, New York as part of the Consortium for Strong Minority Presence in Liberal Arts Colleges. She will begin her fellowship in late August as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
Michael Eigen, PhD, Psychology '74 has written a new book called Lust, which will be published on March 28 by Wesleyan University Press. Lust is a "comprehensive and accessible account of a still-taboo subject," which includes "lust's inescapable ties to reproduction and its ultimate resolution in death." Dr. Eigen is in private practice in New York. A noted psychologist and psychoanalyst and author of numerous books, he is also an associate clinical professor of psychology at New York University and a senior member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.
Matthew Giobbi, MA, Psychology '04 is teaching the history of psychology at Rutgers University while working toward a PhD at the European Graduate School under Wolfgang Schirmacher.
Christopher Poor, PhD, Sociology '05 has taken up a one-year postdoctoral fellowship with the Political Communication, Policy and Participation research cluster at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Chris is working with the Political Studies and Communication Studies departments and is assisting Ingrid Volkmer in organizing a UNESCO supported series of conferences on Satellite Cultures. The series begins in May this year in Copenhagen and continues in January 2007 in Auckland. Chris is also presenting a paper at the Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago in April and at the European Group of Organization Studies colloquium, in Bergen, Norway in July.
Maribeth Durst, PhD, Anthropology '77 has been appointed vice president for academic affairs at Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, Florida. Dr. Durst was selected for the position after an extensive nationwide search. Having served as interim vice president since May 2005, she will continue to lead Saint Leo's School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business, and the School of Education and Social Services, along with Cannon Memorial Library and the Office of Assessment and Institutional Research. Dr. Durst is a past president of the Florida Academy of Sciences and currently serves as social science section chair. She is also the moderator for the Delta Nu chapter of the Delta Epsilon Sigma national collegiate honor society.
Eduardo Goldszal, PhD, Economics '92 is currently heading KPMG's transfer pricing practice in Portugal. In 2001 he was promoted to partner at KPMG and moved to Lisbon. Previously he worked at KPMG in Miami and Atlanta. Prior to that, he worked at the law firm, Shearman & Sterling in Washington, DC as an associate economist performing transfer pricing and valuation analyses, and before that, in a United Nations sponsored project on international trade in Brazil.
Patrick Hossay, PhD, Political Science '99 has recently published Unsustainable: A Primer for Global Environmental and Social Justice (Zed Books). The book, which is aimed at budding social activists and young people studying the environment and international development, explains an escalating environmental crisis and a human and social crisis of poverty and inequality that is also growing worse. Over the next year, Dr. Hossay is visiting environmental organizations and student groups around the country to talk about environmental justice and social change.
H.P. McDonald, PhD, Philosophy ’00 teaches philosophy at New York City College of Technology. He recently published two books, Radical Axiology, a First Philosophy of Values (Rodopi, Value Inquiry Book Series, 2004) and John Dewey and Environmental Ethics (SUNY Press, 2004). Previous publications include Political Philosophy and Ideology (University Press of America, 1996) and journal articles in environmental ethics, value theory, pragmatism, and the history of philosophy.
Carlos Figueroa, MA, Political Science '02 was elected to the board of directors of the New Jersey Division of United Nations Association-USA at its September 2005 annual meeting. Through the work of its community-based chapters and over 100 affiliated national organizations, UNA-USA creates a powerful national constituency for a United Nations that advances American interests in a global system. Individual members participate in a variety of grassroots initiatives focusing on U.N. issues, including human rights, poverty, the environment, and global health.
In his short time on the N.J. Division Board Mr. Figueroa was named Co-Chair of the Divison's newly formed Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance Committee. In that role he has been instrumental in developing and implementing the Division's advocacy in the successful passage in the New Jersey Legislature of the one-year moratorium on the death penalty during which its fairness will be studied by a 13-member commission. This is the first time in our nation's history where a state legislature has passed a moratorium.
In addition, during his brief term as Co-Chair, the N.J. Division has conducted advocacy in the U.S. Congress to promote legislation on torture and other inhuman conduct, to include seeking procedural rights for detainees at Guantanamo.
Josh Hayes, PhD, Philosophy '05 is a lecturer in the philosophy department at Santa Clara University.
Vera Karam de Chueiri, PhD, Philosophy '05 is a law professor teaching Constitutional Law at the Federal University of Parana in Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil. She recently published an article on Shakespeare in the Law School Journal (Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFPR).
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Dr. Robert Zaslavsky, PhD, Political Science ’78 recently published a book entitled The First Latin Course: An Introductory Latin Grammar for Middle School, High School, and College. He is a retired teacher of Latin, English, and Philosophy and currently writes a weekly op-ed column for the Atlanta, Georgia weekly, The Sunday Paper. His book is available
