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Current Faculty Research

April-December 2005

(A partial listing)

SCIENCES

Biology


Elizabeth Braker
Associate Professor of Biology

Grants

NSF-IRES grant: U.S. - Costa Rica International Research Experience for Students, Tropical Ecology Mentorship Program of Southern California.  $49,000.

Gretchen North
Associate Professor of Biology

Publications
North, G.B. and C.A. Peterson, “Water flow in roots: structural and regulatory features,” in Vascular Transport in Plants. Academic Press/Elsevier Science, 2005 (in the Physiological Ecology series).

Grants
NSF grant IOB-0517740, 2005-2008, RUI: Contractile roots: their role in anchorage and resource acquisition in the Agavaceae, $157,175.


Presentations
Invited speaker, special symposium “Biology of Dryland Plants,” Botanical Society of America 2005 annual meeting, Austin TX.


Professional Activities
Panel member, NSF Division of Organismal Biology, 2005

Daniel Pondella
Assistant Professor of Biology

Publications

  • Froeschke, J. T., L. G. Allen, and D. J. Pondella, “The reef fish assemblage of the outer Los Angeles Federal Breakwater, 2002-2003.” Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 104(2) (2005): 63-74.
  • Pondella, D. J., B. E. Gintert, J. R. Cobb, and L. G. Allen, “Biogeography of the nearshore rocky-reef fishes at the southern and Baja California islands.” Journal of Biogeography 32 (2005): 187-201.
  • Pondella, D. J., and Z. Chinn, “Records of chameleon goby, Tridentiger Trigonocephalus, in San Diego Bay, California.” California Fish and Game 91(1) (2005): 57-59.
  • Pondella, D. J, L. G. Allen, M. T. Craig and B. Gintert, “Evaluation of eelgrass mitigation and fishery enhancement structures in San Diego Bay, California.” Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 104(2, supplement 1-67) (2005): 24 [abstract].
  • Oakes, C. T. and D. J. Pondella, “Interactions of nearshore fish assemblages and net-pen mariculture efforts on Santa Catalina Island, California.” Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 104(2, supplement 1-67) (2005): 35 [abstract].
  • Froeschke, J. T., B. M. Haggin, D. J. Pondella and L. G. Allen. “The fish assemblage of an artificial and natural reef in the Horseshoe Kelp.” Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 104(2, supplement 1-67) (2005): 23 [abstract].

 Grants

  • Fish Inventory of San Diego Bay. Unified Port of San Diego. $49,976.68
  • Fish and invertebrate surveys of rocky-reefs in the southern California bight in accord with the Marine Life Management Act. California Department of Fish and Game. $89,611.
  • Heat Treat and Impingement Surveys of the Encina Power Plant. NRG Cabrillo Power Operations Inc. $75,000.

 Presentations

  • “Evaluation of Eelgrass Mitigation and Fishery Enhancement Structures in San Diego Bay, California.” Southern California Academy of Sciences, Loyola Marymount University, May 20, 2005.
  • “The fish assemblages of an artificial and natural reef in the horseshoe kelp.” Southern California Academy of Sciences, Loyola Marymount University, May 20, 2005.
  • “Evaluation of Eelgrass Mitigation and Fishery Enhancement Structures in San Diego Bay, California.” International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Artificial Habitats. Biloxi, Miss., April 12, 2005.
  • “Can We Save the Big Fish?” Alumni Association Board of Governors, Occidental College, April 11, 2005.

Kerry Thompson
Assistant Professor of Biology

Publications
Thompson, K. “Genetically engineered cells with regulatable GABA production can affect afterdischarges and behavioral seizures after transplantation into the dentate gyrus.” Neuroscience 133(4) (2005):1029-37.

Chemistry


Donald Deardorff
Carl F. Braun Professor of Chemistry

Publications
Deardorff, D. and 11 student co-authors,  “Synthesis of E-vinylogous (R)-amino acid derivatives via metal-catalyzed allylic substitutions on enzyme-derived substrates. Asymmetry 16 (2005) 1655-1661.

Michael Hill
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Publications

  • "Protein-Surfactant Film Voltammetry of Wild-Type and Mutant Cytochrome P450 BM3" Andrew K. Udit, Nareen Hindoyan, Michael G. Hill, Frances H. Arnold, Harry B. Gray. Inorganic Chemistry 2005, 44, 4109.
  • "Redox Couples of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase" Andrew K. Udit, Wendy Belliston-Bittner, Edith C. Glazer, Yen Hoang Le Nguyen, James M. Gillan, Michael G. Hill, Michael A. Marletta, David B. Goodin, Harry B. Gray. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127, 11212.

Presentations

  • "Protein-Surfactant Film Voltammetry of Wild-Type and Mutant Cytochrome P450 BM3" Andrew K. Udit and Michael G. Hill, 207th International Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, May 2005, Quebec City, Canada
  • "Conformational Isomerism of a Binuclear Square-Planar Iridium Complex in Solution." Michael G. HIll, Frontiers in Inorganic Photochemistry Symposium, 229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA
  • "Electrochemistry of iNOS in Protein-Surfactant Films: Redox-Controlled Gating of Enzymatic Turnover." Andrew K. Udit and Michael G. Hill, 12th International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Ann Arbor, MI

Eileen Spain
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Grants

NSF-RUI grant: Interfacial Chemistry of the Bacterial Predator Bdellovibrio. $396,000.

Andre K. Udit
Doctoral Fellow of Chemistry

Publications

  • Udit, A.K., and H.B. Gray, “Electrochemistry of heme-thiolate proteins.” Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 338 (2005): 470-476.
  • Udit, A.K., W. Belliston-Bittner, E.C. Glazer, Y.H. Le Nguyen, J.M. Gillan, M.G. Hill, M.A. Marletta, D.B. Goodin, and H.B. Gray, “Redox Couples of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (2005): 11212-11213.

Geology


Don Prothero
Professor of Geology

Presentations
“Paleomagnetism and Neogene Clockwise Rotation of the Southern Coast Ranges, California.” 117th annual meeting, Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 16-19, 2005.

Margaret Rusmore
Professor of Geology

Publications
D.L. Shuster, T.A. Ahlers, M.E. Rusmore, K.A. Farley,  “Rapid Glacial Erosion at 1.8 Ma Revelaed by 4He/3He Thermochronometry.” Science 310 (Dec. 9, 2005) 1668-1670. Featured cover article.

Mathematics


Mickey McDonald
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Publications

  • Dubinsky, E., K. Weller, M.A. McDonald, and A. Brown. “Some historical issues and paradoxes regarding the concept of infinity: An APOS analysis: Part 2.” Educational Studies in Mathematics 60 (2) (2005): 253-266.
  • Dubinsky, E., K. Weller, M.A. McDonald, and A. Brown. “Some historical issues and paradoxes regarding the concept of infinity: An APOS analysis: Part 1.” Educational Studies in Mathematics 58(3) (2005): 335-359.
  • Edwards, B., E. Dubinsky, and M.A. McDonald. “Advanced Mathematical Thinking.” Mathematical Thinking and Learning 7(1) (2005):15-25. 

Psychology


Nancy Dess
Professor of Psychology

Publications

  • Lu, K., McDaniel, A. H., Tordoff, M. G., Li, X., Beauchamp, G. K., Bachmano, A. A., VanderWeele, D. A., Chapman, C. D., Dess, N. K., Huang, L., Wang, H., and Reed, D. R. “No relationship between sequence variation in protein coding regions of the Tas1r3 gene and saccharin preference in rats.” Chemical Senses 30 (2005): 231-240.
  • Dess, N. K., O'Neill, P., and Chapman, C. D. “Ethanol withdrawal and proclivity are inversely related in rats selectively bred for differential saccharin intake.” Alcohol, in press.

Presentations

Gorman, A. H., and Dess, N. K, “A ‘hot topics’ integrative approach to introductory sychology.” Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, June 2005, Los Angeles.

Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman
Associate Professor of Psychology

Publications

  • Schwartz, D., Gorman, A. H., Nakamoto, J., and Toblin, R. L., “Victimization in the peer group and children’s academic functioning.” Journal of Educational Psychology, in press.
  • Toblin, R. L., Schwartz, D., Hopmeyer Gorman, A., and Abou-ezzeddine, T., “Social-cognitive and behavioral attributes of aggressive victims of bullying.” Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology (2005).

Conference Papers

  • Gorman, A. H., and Dess, N. K., “A ‘hot topics’ approach to introductory to psychology.” Annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, June 2005, Los Angeles.
  • Gorman, A. H., Schwartz, D. A., McKay, T., Abou-Ezzeddine, T., Toblin, R. L., Huynh, H., Hoffman, H., and Haverns, F., “Peer-perceived popular adolescents self-perceptions,” in L. Mayeux (Chair), “Beyond behaviors:  Motivational, contextual, and adjustment issues in perceived popularity.” Paper symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2005, Atlanta, GA.
  • Schwartz, D. A., Gorman, A., and Nakamoto, J., “Peer victimization and children’s academic functioning.” Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2005, Atlanta, GA.
  • Toblin, R. L., Gorman, A. H., McKay, T., Abou-Ezzeddine, T., Tom, S. R., and Schwartz, D. A., “Aggressive victims are not aware of their reputations as victims in the peer group.” Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 2005, Atlanta, GA.

Anne Schell
Professor of Psychology

Publications

  • Rissling, A.J., Dawson, M.E., Schell, A.M., and Nuechterlein, K.N., “Manipulation of processing resource demands during two continuous performance tasks: A startle eyeblink modification analysis.” Psychophysiology 42 (2005): 440-446.
  • Schell, A.M., Dawson, M.E., Rissling, A.J., Ventura, J., Subotnik, K.L., Gitlin, M.J., & Nuechterlein, K.H., “Electrodermal predictors of functional outcome and negative symptoms in recent-onset schizophrenia patients.” Psychophysiology 42 (2005): 483-451.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

 

Art History and the Visual Arts


Amy Lyford
Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Arts

Publications

Amy Lyford, Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post World War I. University of California Press (forthcoming).

Presentations

“Landscape, Nation and Sculptural Labor in Isamu Noguchi's ‘Monument to the Plough’ (c.1933).” American Studies Association conference, Nov. 2005, Washington, D.C.

Asian Studies


Morgan Pitelka
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

Publications

  • Morgan Pitelka, Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan. University of Hawai’i Press, 2005.
  • Review of Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur E. Tiedemann, eds. Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1600 to 2000. Columbia University Press, 2005. Early Modern Japan (winter, 2005).
  • Review essay: “Representation and Power in the Visual Culture of Japan,” focusing on Melinda Takeuchi, ed. The Artist as Professional in Japan. Stanford University Press, 2004, and Joshua S. Mostow et al., eds. Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field. University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Ars Orientalis 35 (2005).
  • Review of Andrew Watsky, Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan. University of Washington Press, 2004. The Journal of Japanese Studies (2005). 

Presentations

  • Invited to give the annual Berton Lecture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dec. 4, 2005.
  • “Raku as a Metaphor for Tradition,” International Research Center for Japanese  Studies conference on traditional arts, Kyoto, Nov. 8-12, 2005.

English and Comparative Literary Studies


Eric Newhall
Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies

Presentations

  • "The Role of White Males in a Diverse Society," Labor Relations Board, Regions 21 and 31,  July 7, 2005.
  • “Living and Learning Communities,”  Southeast Collaborative (Wofford College, Agnes Scott, Converse College, and UNC-Ashville), November 18, 2005.

John Swift
Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies

Publications
“Fictions of Possession: Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House,” in Marilee Lindemann, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Presentations
“‘Kind Things’: Recessional Objects and Cather’s Materialism,” invited plenary address, Violence, the Arts, and Cather , The International Cather Seminar 2005, Lincoln/Red Cloud, NE, June 2005.

English Writing


Deborah Martinson
Associate Professor of English Writing

Publications

  • Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels. Counterpoint Press (Basic Books), November, 2005.
  • “Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman,” Tennessee Williams Annual Review: Fall, 2005.
  • “Tennessee Williams and Lillian Hellman,” Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2005.

Presentations

  • “Williams and His Contemporaries: Lillian Hellman.” Tennessee Williams  Scholars Conference. April 1, 2005, New Orleans.
  • “Norman Mailer and Lillian Hellman: ‘Half Friendly; Half Chilled’”. Norman Mailer Society Conference, November 4, 2005, Provincetown, Mass.


German, Russian, and Classical Studies


Walter Comins-Richmond
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Russian

Presentations

  • "The Nurcu Islamic Movement in the Former Soviet Union," World Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 2005. (Chaired the "Terrorism in Chechnya" panel at the same conference).
  • "The Effects of Constructs of Islamism on Russian Policy in the North Caucasus" at the World Convention of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, Boston University, September 2005


Juergen Pelzer
Professor of German

Publications

“Mythos USA. Zwischen Amerikanismus und Antiamerikanismus.”  Sammelbesprechung zu Dan Diner, Feindbild Amerika. Beständigkeit eines Ressentiments; Ziauddin Sardar et al, Woher kommt der Hass auf Amerika?; Andrei Markovits, Amerika, Dich hasst sich’s besser; Jochen Vogt /Alexander Stephan (eds.), Das Amerika der Autoren, in: literaturkritik.de, vol. 7, 2005

Reviews

  • Ariane Martin, Die kranke Jugend. J. M. R. Lenz und Goethes Werther in der Rezeption des Sturm und Drang bis zum Naturalismus, Königshausen und Neumann, 2002, 636 p., in: literaturkritik.de, vol. 7, 2005, Nr. 3.
  • “Was wäre gewesen, wenn….” Philip Roths kontrafaktische ‘Verschwörung gegen Amerika’ [novel], München: Hanser, 2005, in: literaturkritik.de, vol. 7, Nr. 9, 2005.

Conference papers

“A ‘Liberating Effect’”? The end of the Hitler-regime in recent German film and media productions,” Atiner’s Third International Conference on European History, Athens, December 2005.  

 

Music


Jen-yen Chen
Assistant Professor of Music

Conference Papers

“Fux, Caldara, and Their Canonic Masses as Evidence of Professional Rivalry,” paper delivered at the symposium on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Fux-Gesellschaft, Schloss Seggau, Austria, 14-16 October 2005.

Jeffrey Bernstein
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music

Performances

  • The Combined Choirs of Occidental College, conducted by Bernstein, sang  Vaughan Williams's “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” with the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 10, 2005.
  • The Occidental Glee Clubs, conducted by Jeffrey Bernstein, were selected by audition to sing at the biannual Western Division convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Salt Lake City on March 2, 2006. From the five states of the western division the Glee Clubs are one of only three collegiate mixed choirs selected.

Compositions

"Pablo Neruda in Love", a work for piano and mixed choir commissioned by The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT for the opening of its $12M performing arts center. The work is scheduled to be premiered in May 2006.
 

Philosophy

Saul Traiger
Professor of Philosophy

Publications

  • Saul Traiger, ed. The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise, Blackwell Publishing Professional, 2005.
  • "Hans Reichenbach" in John R. Shook, ed., Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. Thoemmes Press, 2005.
  • "Reason Unhinged: Passion and Precipice from Montaigne to Hume," in Joyce Jenkins, Jennifer Whiting, Christopher Williams, eds., Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 100 - 116.

Presentations

  • "E-Testimony and Justification" presented at E-CAP 2005, (European Computing and Philosophy Conference), Mälardalen University (Mälardalens Högskola), Västerås, Sweden, June 2-4, 2005.
  • "Machines, Cold Porridge and the Turing Test", presented to the Global Interface Mellon Workshop, UC Riverside, March 30, 2005. (http://globalinterface.blogspot.com/2005/03/march-330-turing-talk.html#comments)

Professional Activities

  • Member, Editorial Board, Hume Studies (beginning with Vol. 31, 2005) (Hume Studies is the journal of the Hume Society)
  • Steering Committee, International Association for Computing and Philosophy, 2003 - present.
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences Associate, 2002 - present.

Religious Studies


Keith Naylor
Professor of Religious Studies

Publications

“Pinchot on Church and Country” in Bron R. Taylor, ed., The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature Thoemmes Contiuum, 2005.

Professional Activities

One of four senior faculty leaders of a two-year series of workshops at the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion at Wabash College in Indiana. These mentoring workshops, which met in Indiana and on the Alabama Gulf Coast, aimed to strengthen the teaching of untenured faculty in religion from colleges across the country.

Spanish and French Literary Studies


Robert Ellis
Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish

Honors

Named Occidental’s Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish (2005).

Publications

“Memory, Masculinity, and Mourning in Javier Cercas’s Soldados de Salamina.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39 (2005): 515-535.

Presentations

“Abel Martín y la teología negativa.” Invited paper. Curso internacional sobre Antonio Machado. Córdoba, Spain, Nov. 7-11, 2005.


Arthur F. Saint-Aubin
Professor of French

Publications

"A Grammar of Black Masculinity: A Body of Science,” in Lahoucine Ouzane and Robert Morrell, eds., African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press/Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Theater


Brian Fitzmorris
Associate Professor of Theater

Productions

  • Production manager, Fulfillment Fund's Achievement Awards at the Kodak Theater, June 2005.
  • Line producer,  Jewish National Fund's Tree of Life Awards, September 2005.
  • Line producer, People For the American Way's Spirit of Liberty Awards at the Beverly Hilton, September 2005.
  • Line Producer, Jewish Image Awards, October 2005.
  • Line Producer,  Operation Smile's Los Angeles Gala, October 2005.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

 American Studies


Xiao-huang Yin
Professor of American Studies

Publications

“Writing a Place in American Life: The Sensibilities of American-born Chinese as Reflected in Life Stories from the Exclusion Era,” in Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America, ed. Sucheng Chan. Temple University Press, 2005, pp.211-238.

Conference Papers/Panels

  • Paper, “Immigrants from China: A Diverse Population and a Transnational Community,” Immigration and Urban History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, October 27, 2005.
  • Chair, “Cold War Language(s) and Asia/America,” American Studies Association Convention, Washington, D.C., November 3-6, 2005.
  • Co-Chair and Co-Commentator, “New Developments in Chinese Immigrant Communities,” Association for Asian American Studies Convention, Los Angeles, April 20-24, 2005.
 

Economics


John Karayan
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics

Publications

  • “Leading People and Communities through Change: The Case for Unlearning,” The Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 18: 121-129 (Fall 2005)
  • "U.S. Microcomputer Product Imports into China and its Accession to the World Trade Organization", Global Trends 50-54 (May 2005).
  • “Accounting Education Change Assessment Over Ten Years”, Proceedings of the American Accounting Association’s Annual Southeast Regional Conference [Abstract], p. 33 (April 2005). 

  Presentations

  • ”Using the Cognitive Styles of Students to Build More Effective Teams”, Best Practices Session, Ninth Annual Colloquium on Change in Accounting Education (October, 2005).
  • ”Teaching Students How to Find and Use Their Own Cognitive Styles to Help Build More Effective Teams”, Effective Learning Strategies Forum, American Accounting Association 2005 Annual Meeting (August 2005).
  • “Trends in Taxation:  Implications of Technical Advice Memorandum 200512020”  Golden Gate University School of Taxation (March 2005).

Woody Studenmund
Richard W. Millar Professor of Economics

Books

A.H. Studenmund, Using Econometrics. Boston: Addison Wesley, 2006 (5th edition).

History


Nicole Anderson
Irvine Fellow

Publications

  • “College Dropout—Not Quite: Hip Hop Culture As A Growth Industry in American Academia,” Center for Black Business History 20005 Conference on New Black Entrepreneurs, University of Texas—Austin, October 2005 (forthcoming).
  • Editor, Raising Our Voices: Thinking Through The Katrina Disaster (anthology, forthcoming)
  • “Hip Hop Images and Black Female Obesity: One Woman’s Attempt to Come Clean,” in We Don’t Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists (forthcoming).
  • “Debating the ‘Essence’ of African American Hip Hop:  An African American Cybercommunity Venting Black Rage Online,” Cybercultures 3rd Global Conference: Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues, CERGI-E, Prague, Czech Republic August 11-13, 2005 (e-book and hard-bound publications forthcoming).

Presentations

  • “College Dropout—Not Quite: Hip Hop Culture As A Growth Industry in American Academia,” Center for Black Business History 20005 Conference on New Black Entrepreneurs Edited Volume, University of Texas—Austin, October 2005.
  • “Connecting Hotel Rwanda and Hurricane Katrina? Perspectives on Local Concerns, National Crisis and Global Efforts,” Victory Bible Full Gospel Baptist Church, Sept. 9, 2005, Pasadena, Calif.
  • “Debating the ‘Essence’ of African American Hip Hop:  An African American Cybercommunity Venting Black Rage Online,” Cybercultures 3rd Global Conference: Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues, CERGI, Czech Republic August 11-13, 2005.

Professional Activities

Faculty Liaison for Occidental College Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, 2005 University of New Mexico Summer Seminar on Buddhism at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center in Jemez, New Mexico, June 5-18, 2005.

Wellington Chan
Professor of History

Honors

Appointed by Occidental President Ted Mitchell as the first National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Humanities, April 2005.

Publications

  • "Western Imperialism in Asia," in The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, M.C. Horowitz, et al, eds. New York: Charles Scribner's, 2005.
  • "[Chinese] Hong Merchants," in Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History,  W. H. McNeill, et al, eds. Great Barrington, Mass.: Berkshire Publishing, 2005

Presentations

  • "Hong Kong and its Business Culture: Why it is losing its Entrepreneurial Spirit?"  Nanjing University School of Business, Nanjing, China.
  • "Hong Kong's Resources and Opportunities to do Research on Chinese Culture and History," 2005 annual ASIANetwork Conference, Whittier, Calif.

Professional Activities

Traveled to South China to participate in a faculty workshop funded by the Fulbright-Hays program of the U.S. Department of Education to explore the region’s rapid economic development since the late 1980s and study its economic, cultural, political and environmental impacts,  June-July 2005.

Sharla Fett
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History

Publications

"Consciousness and Calling: African American Midwives at Work in the Antebellum South," in Stephanie Camp and Edward Baptist, eds. New Studies in the History of American Slavery, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005.

Presentations

“You Just Had to Depend on Yourself”: Self-Reliance and the Healing Work of Enslaved Women,” Slave Women’s Lives Conference: Twenty Years of Ar’n’t I a Woman? and More, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., May 20, 2005.


Maryanne Horowitz
Professor of History

Professional Activities

  • Chaired “The Meaning of the Miraculous in Seventeenth-Century Convents,” Western Society for French History, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Oct 27-30, 2005.
  • Appointed editorial consultant, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Summer 2005.
  • Serves on the board of editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
  • Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America 2005.
 

Politics


Roger Boesche
Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas

Publications

  • “The Dark Side of Tocqueville: On War and Empire,” Review of Politics 67 (Fall 2005): 575-590.
  • “Han Feizi’s Legalism Versus Kautilya’s Arthashastra,” Asian Philosophy, 15 (July 2005): 157-172.

Tsung Chi
Associate Professor of Politics

Publications

  • East Asian Americans and Political Participation, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, May 2005.
  • “A Never Ending Struggle: Historical Overview of Chinese Americans’ Political Participation”, Chinese Daily News (World Journal), August 14, 2005, B3 (7,000 words in Chinese).

 Presentations

  • “Chinese Americans and Political Participation,” Graduate School and Department of Political Science, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 11, 2005.
  • “Chinese Americans and Political Participation” (keynote speaker), Lubbock Chinese American Association, Lubbock, Texas, September 18, 2005.
  • “Cross-Strait (China-Taiwan) Relations,” Asian Studies Program, Texas Tech University, September 19, 2005.
  • “East Asian Americans and Political Participation” (keynote speaker), Annual Meeting of the Chinese American Council of Colorado, Denver Colorado, November 18, 2005.

Peter Dreier
E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics

Publications

  • "Katrina and Power in America," Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, March 2006, pages 1-21.
  • "Federal Housing Subsidies: Who Benefits and Why?" in Rachel Bratt, Chester Hartman, and Michael Stone, eds., Housing: Foundation of a New Social Agenda. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005.
  • "Pulling Apart: Economic Segregation Among Suburbs and Central Cities in Major Metropolitan Areas, 1980-2000," in Alan Berube, Bruce Katz, and Robert E. Lang, eds, Redefining Urban and Suburban America, Vol. 3. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press,  2006 (Co-author with Todd Swanstrom, Colleen Casey, and Robert Flack).
  • "How the Media Compound Urban Problems,” Journal of Urban Affairs 27 (2005): 193-201.
  • "Los Angeles: Region by Design," in Janet Rothenberg Pack, ed.,  Sunbelt/Frostbelt: Public Policies and Market Forces in Metropolitan Development. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2005. (Co-author with Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor, and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli).
  • "Regionalisms Old and New," in Richard A. Clucas, ed., Readings and Cases in State and Local Politics. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005 (coauthor with John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom).

 Journalism

  • "Students Confront Sweatshops," The Nation, Nov. 28, 2005 (coauthor with Richard Appelbaum).
  • "The Mansion Subsidy," TomPaine.com, Oct. 18, 2005.
  • "Katrina in Perspective," Dissent, Fall 2005 (online edition).
  • “Rosa Parks: Angry, Not Tired," Dissent, (Winter 2006): 88-92.
  • “Bush Supports Disaster Profiteers," AlterNet, Sept. 14, 2005.
  • "Builders Clucking Like Chicken Little," Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2005.
  • “Living Wage Study Exposes Empty Threats By Business," Ventura Star, June 16, 2005.  
  • "Can a City Be Progressive?" The Nation, June 15, 2005 (online).
  • "Lynching Lessons," Tikkun, June 15, 2005 (online).
  • "LA Forces Are Present in the Garden State," Paterson (NJ) Herald News, June 12, 2005 (coauthor with John Atlas).
  • "Florida Gets it Right: Raising the Minimum Wage," Commonweal, June 3, 2005 (coauthor with Kelly Candaele).
  • "Villaraigosa's Challenge: Governing Los Angeles in the Bush and Schwarzenegger Era," Common Dreams, May 28, 2005 (online).
  • "Miguel Contreras: Labor Warrior," AlterNet, May 13, 2005 (coauthor with Kelly Candaele).
  • "Hahn's Failed Promise on L.A. Housing," Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2005.

 Presentations

  • "Community Organizing and Progressive Politics in America," University of Connecticut School of Social Work, December 6, 2005.
  • "The Future of Los Angeles," Willie Velasquez Institute Annual Conference, Los Angeles, November 12, 2005.
  • "How Students Can Help Change the World," Whittier College, November 10, 2005.
  • "The Struggle for Justice in Los Angeles," Progressive Jewish Alliance, Los Angeles, October 20, 2005.
  • "Civic Engagement, Community Organizing, and the Changing American City," American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 1, 2005 (discussant).
  • "Social Equity and Smart Growth: Practical Lessons about Policy and Politics," conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Santa Monica, June 6, 2005.
  • "The Inside/Outside Game: How Grassroots Groups Hold Progressive Officials Accountable," Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, May 31, 2005.
  • "The Struggle for Justice in Los Angeles," Cal Tech, May 19, 2005.
  • "Building an Effective Movement for Social Justice," Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee of California conference, Pasadena, May 14, 2005.
  • "Winning a Housing Trust Fund," Housing California conference, Sacramento, April 25, 2005 (panel moderator and speaker).
  • "Gentrification: Friend or Foe?" forum sponsored by Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, Los Angeles, April 14, 2005.
  • "Building an Effective National Movement for Social Justice," Jewish Council on Urban Affairs conference, Chicago, May 11, 2005.
  • "How Social Justice Movements are Reshaping Los Angeles,"  Social Workers for Social and Economic Justice, UCLA, April 7, 2005.
  • "The Future of American Cities," Will and Nan Clarkson Annual Lecture, University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, March 30, 2005.
  • “Students Against Sweatshops: Understanding the Campus-based Movement," The Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, March 15, 2005.
 

Professional Activities

  • Will and Nan Clarkson Visiting Chair in Urban and Regional Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Buffalo, March 28-April 1, 2005. 
  • Co-convenor, Task Force on Best Practices in Housing, co-sponsored by Los Angeles Mayor's Office and United Way of Greater Los Angeles 
  • Member, Task Force on Institutionalizing Public Sociology, American Sociological Assn. 
  • Board of Directors, Pasadena Education Foundation   
  • Community Investment Task Force, United Way of Greater Los Angeles.


Sociology


Jan Lin
Associate Professor of Sociology

 Publications

  • Jan Lin and Christopher Mele, eds. The Urban Sociology Reader. London: Routledge, September 2005.
  • Jan Lin and Paul Robinson. "Spatial Disparities in the Expansion of the Chinese Ethnoburb of Los Angeles," GeoJournal. Accepted for publication.
  • "Ethnic Enclaves," a chapter in the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. Accepted for publication.

Urban and Environmental Science


Robert Gottlieb
Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies

Publications

  • Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (revised edition). Island Press, June 2005.
  • “Reconstructing Place in the Capitol of Sprawl,” in Land of Sunshine, William Deverell and Greg Hise, eds. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
  • “Re-Envisioning the Los Angeles River: An NGO and Academic Institute Influence the Policy Discourse,” Golden Gate Law Review 35 (Spring 2005) (Andrea Azuma)
  • “A Road as a Route and Place: The Evolution and Transformation of the Arroyo Seco Parkway,” California History, Summer 2005 (with Anastasia Loukatiou-Sideris)

 Journalism

  • "Let a thousand habaneros bloom," Los Angeles Times, October 2, 2005.
  • “Tree Huggers Finally Branch Out,” Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2005 (with Janice Mazurek).

 Presentations

  • “Re-Envisioning the Los Angeles River,”  City Rivers – The Urban Bankside Restored conference, Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, November 18, 2005.
  • “Rethinking Smart Growth: Los Angeles at the Cutting Edge,” Panel Moderator, Congress for the New Urbanism, 13th Annual Meeting, Pasadena, Calif., June 10, 2005.
  • “The Next Planning Director for Los Angeles,” Panelist, Westside Urban Forum, May 20, 2005.
  • “Farm to Institution: A New Model,” Innovative City and Neighborhood Food Planning panel, American Planning Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 21, 2005.
  • “The Next Los Angeles – Rethinking the City and the Region,” California State University at Long Beach, April 21, 2005.

 Grants

  • Marisla Foundation,  2005-06, “Professional Wet Cleaning Pollution Prevention Project,” $25,000.
  • Panta Rhea Foundation, 2005-06, “California Professional Wet Cleaning Pollution Prevention Project,” $70,000
  • Kellogg Foundation, 2005-06, “Exploring the Establishment of a National Farm to School Initiative,” $195,294.
  • Compton Unified School District, 2005, “CUSD Local Incentive Award Evaluation: School Breakfast Program,” $27,610.
  • Southern California Gas Co., 2005-06  “Energy Efficiency in the Garment Care Industry: Comparative Analysis of Cleaning Technologies,” $39,507.
  • City of Los Angeles, 2005-07, “Business Outreach & Training/Wet Cleaning,” Phase I, $15,000.
  • City of Los Angeles, 2005-07, “Business Outreach & Training/Wet Cleaning Phase II,” $15,000.
  • Health Care Without Harm, “Farm to Hospital Program,” $10,000.
  • San Diego Gas & Electric, 2005-06, “San Diego Energy Efficiency Garment Care Demonstration Project,” $50,000.
  • Bay Area Air Quality Management District, 2005-07, “Bay Area Environmental Garment Care Demonstration Project,” $95,000.
  • Southern California Edison, 2005-07, “Energy Efficiency in the Garment Care Industry: Comparative Analysis of Cleaning Technologies,” $39,507.
    Ford Foundation, 2005-06, “Sustainable Metropolitan Communities,” $100,000.