Current Faculty Research
Current Faculty Research & Professional Achievement
(a partial listing)
SCIENCES
Biology
Elizabeth Braker, Associate Professor of Biology
Gretchen North, Associate Professor of BiologyPresentations
“Nectary and leaf deployment variation of the exotic plant Ricinus communi (Castor Bean) across tropical and temperate landscapes.” Case Prager’08, Victor Carmona-Galindo, and Elizabeth Braker. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Milwaukee Wis. August 2008.
Publications
North, G.B., E.K. Brinton’09, and T.Y. Garrett ’08. “Contractile roots in succulent monocots: convergence, divergence and adaptation to limited rainfall.” Plant, Cell and Environment 31 (2008): 179–1189.
Bobich, E.G. and G.B. North. “Structural implications of succulence: architecture, anatomy, and mechanics of photosynthetic stem succulents, pachycauls, and leaf succulents.” In: De la Barrera, E. and Smith, W.K., eds. Perspectives in Biophysical Plant Ecophysiology (2008). Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden, UCLA. (in press).
North, G.B. and E.A. Baker ’04. “Water uptake by older roots: evidence from desert succulents.” HortScience 42 (2007): 1103-1107.
Chemistry
Andrew K. Udit, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Awards
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Faculty Start-Up Award, August 2008.
Publications
A.K. Udit, S. Brown, M.M. Baksh, M.G. Finn, Polyvalent Display of Metal-binding Hexahistidine Motifs on Bacteriophage Qß. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (forthcoming).
A.K. Udit, C. Everett, A.J. Gale, J. Reiber-Kyle, M. Ozkan, M.G. Finn. Heparin Antagonism by Polyvalent Display of Cationic Motifs on Virus-Like Particles. ChemBioChem (forthcoming)
V. Hong, A.K. Udit, M.G. Finn. Electrochemically Protected Copper(l)-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition. ChemBiochem, (2008) 9:1481-1486.
D.E. Prasuhn Jr., J. Kuzelka, A.K. Udit, E. Strable, G.C. Lander, J.D. Quispe, A. Zlotnick, C. Potter, B. Carragher, M.G. Finn. Polyvalent Display of Iron Protoporphyrin lX on Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Protein through Coordination to Hexa (Histidine) Tags. Chemistry and Biology, (2008) 15 (5):513-519.
E. Strable, D.E. Prasuhn Jr., A.K. Udit, S.D. Brown, A.J. Link, J.T. Ngo, G. Lander, J. Quispe, C.S. Potter, B. Carragher, D.A. Tirrell,, M.G. Finn. Unnatural Amino Acid Incorporation into Virus-Like Particles. Bioconjugate Chemistry (2008) 19:866-875. Featured on the cover.
Presentations
Polyvalent Display of Cationic Motifs on Bacteriophage Qß with Anti-Heparin Activity. 91st Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition. May 26, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta.
Professional Activities
Member of the American Chemical Society
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellow. The Scripps Research Institute, July 2007 – Aug. 2008.
Summer Program on Green Chemistry and Sustainability, American Chemical Society, Golden, Colorado, July 9-17, 2008.
Mathematics
Ron Buckmire, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Publications
Ron Buckmire, Ronald E. Mickens, and Karl McMurtry’06. “Numerical Studies of a Nonlinear Heat Equation with Square Root Reaction Term.” Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (online).
Ramin Naimi, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Publications
Ramin Naimi and Erica Flapan. “The Y-triangle move does not preserve intrinsic knottedness.” Osaka Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2008),107-111.
Physics
Janet Scheel, Assistant Professor of Physics
Grants
Grant: Cottrell College Science Award #7968, Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Thermal Convection: Investigations of the Large–Scale Circulation and its Reorientations, $43,684.
Psychology
Andrea Hopmeyer Gorman, Associate Professor of Psychology
Publications
Kelly, B., Schwartz, D., Hopmeyer Gorman, A., & Nakamoto, J. (2008). “Violent victimization in the community and children’s subsequent peer rejection: The mediating role of emotion dysregulation.” Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 175-185
Schwartz, D., & Hopmeyer Gorman, A., Duong, M., & Nakamoto, J. (2008). “Peer relationships and academic achievement as interacting predictors of depressive symptoms during middle childhood.” Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 289-299.
Schwartz, D. A., Hopmeyer Gorman, A., Dodge, K. A., Pettit, G. S., & Bates, J. E. (2008). “Friendship as a moderating factor in the association between peer group victimization and academic outcomes: Mechanisms of risk or resilience?” Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 36, 719-730.
Presentations
Adams, M., Frolich, M., Sandoval, L., & Hopmeyer Gorman, A. “Goal priorities in adolescence.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, April 2008.
Jaclyn Rodriguez, Professor of Psychology
Professional Activities
Co-chair, Multi-University Intergroup Dialogue Institute (a curricular diversity effort) July 23-26, 2008, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Anne Schell, Professor of Psychology
Publications
Satterfield, J.H., & Schell, A.M. “Drug and multimodality treatments fail to prevent adult criminality in hyperactive boys.” ADHD Report. 2008.
Hazlett, E.A., Dawson, M.E., Schell, A.M., & Nuechterlein, K.N. “Probing attentional dysfunctions in schizophrenia: Startle modification during a continuous performance task.” Psychophysiology 45 (2008).
Andrew Shtulman, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Publications
Shtulman, A. (in press). “Variation in the anthropomorphization of supernatural beings and its implications for cognitive theories of religion.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Shtulman, A. & Schulz, L. (in press). “Essentialist beliefs about species and their relationship to evolutionary reasoning.” Cognitive Science.
Shtulman, A. (in press). “Rethinking the role of resubsumption in conceptual change.” Educational Psychologist.
Shtulman, A. & Carey, S. (2007). “Impossible or improbable? How children reason about the possibility of extraordinary events.” Child Development, 78, 1015-1032.
Shtulman, A. (2006). “Qualitative differences between naïve and scientific theories of evolution.” Cognitive Psychology, 52, 170-1.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
Art History and the Visual Arts
Broderick Fox , Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Arts
Conferences and presentations
Panel Organizer and Chair—Building Meaning: The Politics of Appropriation; The Ethics of Recontextualization. Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2008.
Presented: “From Early Video Activism to YouTube: Reconnecting Strategies of Appropriation to Their Politicized Origins.”
Films
Things Girls Do now on HDFEST portal
Love, Death & Cars now out on DVDBooks
Making Documentaries: A Critical and Practical Approach. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, (forthcoming) 2009.
Awards
Picture Man (an original screenplay) won the Circle of Confusion Screenwriting Competition, May 2008
Linda Lyke, Professor of Art History and Visual Arts
Presentations
Invited artist at the Belfast Print Workshop in Belfast, Ireland.
Exhibitions
“Dissent! 1968 and Now,” Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, February –March 2008.
“Eastside Printmakers,” LouWe Gallery, South Pasadena, March– April 2008.
“Contemporary ruin,” California Center for the Arts Escondido Museum, Escondido, June – September 2008.
“Drawing Now,” Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Eagle Rock, 2008.
“Purchase Award Collection: Retrospective Exhibition, “ Brand Library Galleries Glendale, June – July 2008.
“Here and Now, Brand 37,” Juror: Kim Abeles, Brand Library Galleries, Glendale, Sept 27 -- Oct 30, 2008.
Katie Mills, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Arts
Awards
The Road Story and the Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television (SIUP, 2006) won the Peter C. Rollins Award for best book from the American Cultural Association/Popular Culture Association’s Southwest Texas branch.Presentations
“Viral Mobility: Lowrider Videos on YouTube” and chair of panel. Society of Film and Media Studies. Philadelphia, March 2008.
Selected for a weeklong workshop on a new multimedia software program (called Sophie) developed by the Institute of the Future of the Book and USC and created a piece on her lowrider work.
English and Comparative Literature
Leila Neti, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Publications
“Siting Speech: The Politics of Imagining the Other in Meera Syal’s Anita and Me.” British Asian Fiction: Framing the Contemporary, Cambria Press, 2008.
“(In)human Bondage: Modernity and the Dirty Politics of Transnationalism,” in differences, with Mrinalini Chakravorty (forthcoming), Duke University Press.
“Toward Collaborative Coalitions: From Internationalism to Interdisciplinarity” in Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice, ed. Joe Parker (forthcoming), SUNY Press.Presentations
“What is ‘Popular’? Minor Politics and the Protest Narrative.” Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 2007.
“Sly Servility: The Impossible Subject of Indentured Labor.” Conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Austin, Texas, March 2008.
“Imperial Inheritances: Lapses, Love, and Laws in the Case of Begum Sumroo.” Annual Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association. Long Beach, April 2008.
Jean Wyatt, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
Publications
“Love’s Time and the Reader: Ethical Effects of Nachtraglichkeit in Toni Morrison’s Love.” Narrative 16.2 (May 2008).
“Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Sexual Politics and the Genealogy of the Strong Black Woman.” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 9.1 (Winter 2008).
English Writing
Deborah Martinson, Associate Professor of English Writing
Publications
It takes a Thief to know a Thief: The Biographies of Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Review, III, (forthcoming) fall 2009.
Presentations
“When Fainting and Fanning Aren’t Enough: Southern Women’s Literacy at Sophie Newcomb College for Women in New Orleans.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2-6, 2008.
Sex and God Writ Large. Norman Mailer Society Conference. Provincetown, (forthcoming) October 2008.
Religious Studies
D. Keith Naylor, Professor of Religious Studies
Presentations
Gifford Pinchot and the Religious Contours of the Early Conservation Movement. University of North Carolina, Asheville. April 2008.
Kristi Upson-Saia, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Awards and Grants
Best First Article Prize from the North American Patristics Society (NAPS) for “Caught in a Compromising Position: The Biblical Exegesis and Characterization of Biblical Protagonists in the Syriac Dialogue Hymns.”
Wabash Center Pedagogy Grant
Presentations
“Scars, Marks, and Deformities in Augustine’s Resurrected Bodies.” American Academy of Religion (Religion and Disability Studies Group). Chicago. November 2008.
Wildcard session chair: “The Holy Child: Traditions of the Infant and Child Jesus.” American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November 2007.
“Gender Performance and Cross-Dressing in Early Christian Saints’ Lives.” XV International Conference on Patristic Studies. Oxford, UK, August 2007.
Publications“Caught in a Compromising Position: The Biblical Exegesis and Characterization of Biblical Protagonists in the Syriac Dialogue Hymns.” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 9.2 (July 2006).
Professional Activities
Co-organizer and steering committee member of American Academy of Religion “Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Pre-Modern Christianity” session. 2007-present.
Spanish and French Studies
Robert Ellis, Norman Bridge Distinguished Professor of Spanish
Publications
“Cambodia in the Writings of Diego Aduarte and Gabriel Quiroga de San Antonio.” Hispanic Research Journal 8.3 (2007): 217-231.
“La autobiografía travestida: la función del eros en Patty Diphusa y otros textos de Pedro Almodóvar.” Venus venerada II: literatura erótica y modernidad en España. Ed. Adrienne L. Martín and J. Ignacio Díez. Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 2007. 211-228.
“La imposibilidad de Ítaca: Reflexiones sobre la búsqueda de la identidad en el Retrato del artista en 1956 de Jaime Gil de Biedma.” Memoria: Revista de Estudios Biográficos 3 (2007): 16-26.
“Abel Martín y la teología negativa.” Hoy es siempre todavía. Curso internacional sobre Antonio Machado (Córdoba, 7-11 noviembre de 2005). Ed. Jordi Doménech. Córdoba: Ayuntamiento de Córdoba; Sevilla: Renacimiento, 2006. 498-513.
“The Middle Kingdom through Spanish Eyes: Depictions of China in the Writings of Juan González de Mendoza and Domingo Fernández Navarrete.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 83.6 (2006): 469-483.
“Reading the Spanish Past: Library Fantasies in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s La sombra del viento.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 83.6 (2006): 839-854.
“Detectives, Mad Bookmen, and the Devil’s Disciples: A Reading of El club Dumas, La novena puerta of Arturo Pérez-Reverte.” Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 31.1 (2006): 29-45.
Presentations
“Christianity, Colonialism, and Race in the Philippine Writings of Gaspar de San Agustín and Juan José Delgado.” Modern Language Association. Division: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature. Session: Race in the Hispanic World, Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries. Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 2007.
“Vallejo’s Secret Fire.” Modern Language Association. Special Session: Fernando Vallejo and Colombia’s Globalization. Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2006.
Professional Activities
PMLA (the journal of the Modern Language Association of America) Advisory Committee. Appointed by the MLA Executive Council for a three-year editorial term from July 1, 2008 – June 30, 2011 in the area of post-1800 Spanish literature.
Annabella Rea, Professor of French Emerita
Publications
Un Habit de lumière:Vêtement et désir chez Anne Hébert. Cahiers Anne Hébert 7 (2007):163-79.
Chacun son diable: Anne Hébert’s Lucifer. Anne Hébert. Ed. Lee Skallerup. Toronto:
Guernica, fall 2008 (forthcoming).From ‘Le Torrent’ to La Cage: Laughter in Anne Hébert’s Works. Women in French
Studies, special issue, summer 2008.Entries for Dictionnaire George Sand (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2009): Horace, Isidora,
La Filleule, réception dans le monde anglophone, féminisme.Reviews
Schwerdtner, Karin. La Femme errante. Legas, 2005. French Review 81.3 (February 2008): 592.
Queneau, Raymond. Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays 1928-1970. Trans. Jordan Stump.
University of Illinois Press, 2007. Choice. April 2008.Kelly, Dorothy. Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth
Century French Novel. Penn State University Press, 2007. Choice. (forthcoming).Presentations
“Anne Hébert et les autres: la première décennie,” American Council for Quebec Studies, Quebec City, November 2008.
Committees
Eighteenth International George Sand conference, UC Santa Barbara, September 2008.
Theater
Alan Freeman, Professor of Theater
Screenplays
Freeman and writing partner Frank Denson ’65 have now completed two feature-length screenplays: Buffalo Nickel (a high-energy romantic comedy) and Over the Rainbow (a digital fantasy inspired in part by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the theatrical worlds of Thornton Wilder and Luigi Pirandello).
Susan Gratch, Professor of Theater
Design
Designed the scenery for the Theatre at Boston Court’s co-production (with the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company) of Shakespeare’s Othello. Directed by Lisa Wolpe, Pasadena, Feb. 23 - March 23, 2008
Laural Meade, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theater
Professional Activities
Induction into a national playwright development organization, the Minneapolis Playwrights’ Center, as a “core writer,” 2008-2011.
Grants
Recipient of one of 38 MAP grants from the Multi-Arts Production Fund, a program of Creative Capital funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, supports artists who are “exploring the dynamics of live-performance within our changing society, thus reflecting our culture's innovation and growing diversity.” The award will support the production of a new play, Rock Paper Scissors, with Childsplay Theater in Arizona.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Economics
Robert Moore, Elbridge Amos Stuart Professor of Economics
Presentations
The Effect of Team Composition on Student Learning in Introductory Economics: An Empirical Investigation, was accepted for presentation at the Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association in San Francisco, on January 3 - 5, 2009.
Giorgio Secondi, Associate Professor of Economics
Books
Giorgio Secondi (ed.), The Development Economics Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).
Kirsten Wandschneider, Assistant Professor of Economics
Publications
“The Stability of the Inter-war Gold Exchange Standard – Did Politics Matter?" The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 68(01), pp. 151-181, February 2008.
History
Wellington Chan, National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Professor of History
Publications
Chapter on Chinese Entrepreneurship Since Late Imperial Period, in The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times, Princeton University Press. Eds. David Landes, Joel Mokyr, and Will Baumol. Forthcoming.
The Sincere Company and The Wing On Company, in Encyclopedia of Modern China. Ed. David Pong, et al. Charles Scribner & Sons, forthcoming.
Hong Merchants published in the five-volume Encyclopedia of World History, edited by William H. McNeil, et al,published by the Berkshire Publishing Group in Great Barrington, Mass. in 2005, is being reprinted in a forthcoming five-volume Encyclopedia of China, published by Berkshire Publishing Group.
Reviews
Review of the book by Elisabeth Koll, From Cotton Mill to Business Empire: The Emergence of Regional Enterprises in Modern China (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Asia Center, 2003), in the Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 66 (2007), No. 2, 540-543.
Maryanne Horowitz, Professor of History
Publications
“Fontainebleau,” “Courtly Love,” “Montmorency Family,” Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Presentations“The Rare Book Room as Classroom” in a Pedagogy Session, Renaissance Conference of Southern California, Huntington Library, Feb. 2, 2008
“Sifting for Truth With Montaigne” in one of two sessions on “Montaigne: Skepticism, Rhetoric, and the Reading of the Classics,” at Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, April 2-4, 2008
Professional Activities
Board of Editors of the Journal of the History of IdeasEditorial Advisory Board of Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Associate of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Editor-in-Chief, New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, six volumes (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005)
Alexandra Puerto, Assistant Professor of History
Presentations
“Race, Place and Labor: Maya Culture, Medical Discourse and Rural Development in Post-revolutionary Yucatán,” First Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean, UC San Diego, May 2008.
“Medical Brigades, Maya Culture and Rural Development in Postrevolutionary Yucatán,” European Social Science History Conference VII, Lisbon, March 2008.
“The Medicalization of the Maya: Campesino Welfare and Rational Families in 1940s Yucatán,” Conference on Latin American History/American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2008.
Marla Stone, Professor of History
Books
The Fascist Revolution: Politics, Culture and Society in Fascist Italy, Bedford/St.Martin's, (forthcoming) 2009.
Publications
"The Changing Face of the Enemy, Constellations, Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2008.
Book review: Roger Griffin, Fascism and Modernism, Modernism and Modernity, Volume 14, No. 4, September 2008.Professional Activities
Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, September 2007 to January 2008.
Jury Member for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History for 2008.
Grant reviewer for the American Council of Learned Society.
Politics
Roger Boesche, Arthur G. Coons Professor in the History of Ideas
Publications
“Kautilya’s Arthashastra and the Legalism of Lord Shang,” Journal of Asian History, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2008, pp. 64-90.
“Tocqueville’s Life and Some of His Thought,” Review of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 1, 2008, pp. 314-318.
Peter Dreier, E.P.Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics
Publications
Banned in Red Scare Boston: The Forgotten Story of Charlie and the MTA, Dissent, spring 2008.
Baseball’s Biggest Scandal, The Nation, July 23, 2008.
Was ‘The Wire’Too Cynical? Dissent, summer 2008
Will Obama Inspire a New Generation of Organizers? Dissent, spring 2008
What Is a Housing Crisis? Rooflines, June 27, 2008
Does Obama Really Have a Race Problem? American Prospect, March 20, 2008
The History of Hope, The Nation, Feb. 19, 2008
The Year of the Organizer, American Prospect, Feb. 1, 2008.Professional Activities
Board of Directors, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Board of Directors, National Housing Institute
Board of Directors, Pasadena Education FoundationBoard of Directors, Southern California Assn. for Non-Profit Housing
Presentations
Legal Strategies to Promote Affordable Housing, Western Summit on Housing, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Los Angeles, Aug. 26, 2008.
Lessons From Los Angeles: Building a Sustainable and Progressive City, conference sponsored by the Horizon Institute and L.A. County Federation of Labor, Los Angeles, Aug. 18, 2008.
What is Leadership? Camp Obama training session, L.A. Trade Tech, Aug. 17, 2008.
Academics and Political Campaigns, American Sociological Assn. and the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, July 31, 2008.
Is Pasadena Becoming a Tale of Two Cities? Pasadena Rotary Club, July 9, 2008.
Careers with a Conscience, Progressive Jewish Alliance, July 9, 2008.
Affordable Housing: Dream or Reality? Occidental College Alumni Association, April 26, 2008.
Strategies for Addressing Economic and Racial Segregation, conference on Multidisciplinary Scholarship and Civil Rights, sponsored by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School, Jan. 17, 2008.
DocumentariesDreier was interviewed at length on Bill Moyer’s Journal on PBS on June 13, 2008 as part of a documentary on The New Gilded Age. The focus was changes in the American economy and the U.S. labor movement.
Regina Freer, Associate Professor of Politics
Publications
Freer, R., Abdullah, M., “Towards a Womanist Leadership Praxis: The History and Promise of Black Grassroots/Electoral Partnerships in California.” Chapter in Ethnic and Racial Politics in California, Vol. 3. Berkeley Public Policy Press, Institute for Government Relations, University of California.
Presentations
“The Role of Linked Fate in Black-Brown Relations.” The State of Black-Latino Relations Conference sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Labor and Employment Research Fund, and The Ford Foundation. Los Angeles, April 2008.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL MAJORS
Asian Studies
Motoko Ezaki, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Japanese
Presentations
Literary Creations on the Road, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Cal State Long Beach, April 25, 2008.
Morgan Pitelka, Associate Professor of Asian Studies
Grants and Honors
2007-2008, National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship
2008-2009, Associate-in-Research, East Asian Studies Center, USC
Edited Books
With Jan Mrazek. What’s the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context. University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
Publications
“A Raku Wastewater Container and the Problem of Monolithic Sincerity.” Impressions 30 (2008).
“Wrapping and Unwrapping Art.” What’s the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context. University of Hawai’i Press, 2007
“Back to the Fundamentals: ‘Reproducing’ Rikyû and Chôjirô in Japanese Tea Culture.” In Rupert Cox, ed. The Culture of Copying in Japan: Critical and Historical Perspectives. Routledge, 2007.Reviews
Review of Elizabeth Lillehoj, ed. Acquisition: Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan. Floating World Editions, 2007. For CAA Reviews (2008, online).
Review of Kim Brandt. Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan. Duke University Press, 2007. For The Journal of Japanese
Studies (2008).Review of William Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur E. Tiedemann, eds. Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1600 to 2000. For Early Modern Japan (fall 2007).
Presentations
“Tokugawa Ieyasu: Thoughts on Biography, Material Culture, and Japan’s Long Sixteenth Century,” April 29, 2008, USC History Department.
“Acquiring and Possessing Korean Things: Material Culture and National Identity in Japan” March 4, 2008, UCLA Center for Korean Studies.
Symposium: The Early Modern in East Asia: The Challenges of Periodization, January 30, 2008, USC-Huntington Early Modern Institute.
Diplomacy and World Affairs
Anthony Chase, Associate Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs
Publications
Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices, Chase, A. and Hamzawy, A., co-editors. University of Pennsylvania Press, March 2008 (paperback publication).
Presentations
“Human Rights, Iran, and Cultural Relativism.” Iranian Society for Human Rights Conference, San Jose, June 2008.
“Human Rights Foundations and Re-Articulations: A Pluralist Accounting,” as part of the History and Historiography of Human Rights Panel. International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 2008.
Education
LaMont Terry, Instructor of Education
Presentations
“Teaching Math for Racial Justice: Reforming Race in Math Education.” Paper presented at the 2008 American Educational Research Association's (AERA) national conference in New York, NY.
Ronald Solórzano, Professor of Education
Publications
"High Stakes Testing: Issues, Implications, and Remedies for English Language Learners." Review of Educational Research 78 (June 2008): 260-329
Urban and Environmental Policy
Robert Gottlieb, Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban Environmental Studies
Presentations
“Reinventing Los Angeles: Immigration, Globalization, and the Goods Movement,” UCLA School of Public Policy, Department of Urban Planning, Los Angeles, June 2, 2008.
“Reinventing Los Angeles: the L.A. River, Cars and Freeways, and Immigrants,” Cal State Northridge, April 25, 2008.
“Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City,” the Goal Five Conference, Harvey Mudd College, California, March 28, 2008.
“Community-Based Participatory Research: The UEPI Model,” College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, March 12, 2008.
“Food Justice Research and Policy,” research seminar, Robert Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York, March 10, 2008.Awards
Book Award, “Californiana” category, for Reinventing Los Angeles, Commonwealth Club, June 5, 2008.Grants
The Bohnet Foundation, 2008-2009, “Bike Summit,” $10,000
The California Endowment, 2008-2010, “Growing Farm to Institution,” $400,000
