Felmon J. Davis, associate professor of philosophy, has written a
review of Emmanuel Eze's “Race and Enlightenment: A Reader,” to appear in Constellations,
A Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (vol. 5:2 June). Davis has also published
an article on affirmative action, “Rassendiskurs, Gerechtigkeit und Demokratie in
den USA. Eine Fallstudie” (“Racial Discourse, Justice and Democracy in the
USA: A Case Study”) in Demokratischer Experimentalismus, Brunckhorst and Koch,
Essen (Germany).
Chandan DeSarkar, visiting assistant professor of management and
marketing in GMI, presented a paper titled “International Entry Barriers: A Strategic
Review” at the annual conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral
Sciences recently. He also published and presented a paper, “Barriers in Strategic
Marketing: Reviews, Propositions and Implications” in the 1998 proceedings of the
Southwestern Marketing Association's annual conference. He has been appointed track
chair for marketing research for the 1999 annual conference for the American Society for
Business and Behavioral Sciences.
Amanda Mason, capital gifts officer, has earned her Ph.D. in
English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation was titled
“Intimacy Politics and Virginia Woolf: A Queered-Feminist Analysis.”
George Gmelch, professor of anthropology, had two articles
published. “Groupies and American Baseball,” in The Journal of Sport and
Social Issues, examines the history and relationship of groupies and professional
baseball players. It shows how the groupie phenomenon plays out on a small stage the
larger gender roles played by women and men in American society. “Crossing Cultures:
Student Travel and Personal Development,” published in The Journal of
Intercultural Relations, examines what students do and learn when they travel abroad.
Martha K. Huggins, Roger Thayer Stone Professor of Sociology,
presented three papers from her research on extra-legal police violence in Brazil during
redemocratization. She presented “Brazilian Police Violence: Legacies of
Authoritarianism in Police Professionalism: A Study of Torturers and Murderers” at
the University of Wisconsin (Madison) Legacies of Authoritarianism Conference, attended by
30 national and international scholars. She delivered a paper, “Torture, Murder and
Protection Rackets: The U.S. and Latin America” at the New School for Social Research
Janey Program/Sawyer Seminar on “Coercion, Violence and Rights in the Americas.”
She delivered a paper, “Corpo e Sociedade: A Tortura” at the Federal
University of Rio de Janiero (Brazil) conference on “Que Corpo d Esse?” Huggins
is vice president of the International Sociological Association's 350-member Research
Committee on Deviance and Social Control. She is organizing the research section's
panels for the quadrennial meetings this summer in Montreal. Junior Erika Migliaccio
has been assisting with conference planning.
William M. Murphy, Thomas Lamont Professor Emeritus of Ancient
and Modern Literature, recently presented a paper titled “Learning and Love in
Schenectady in the Eighteen-Forties: The Jotting Book of Charles Lewis Beale” at the
Fortnightly Club of Schenectady. Beale (who lived from 1824 to 1900) was an 1844 graduate
of the College. A Union College senior and a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity, Beale kept
his diary for only 19 days. But during that short time, Murphy says, the writer provided
an unusually rich record of life at Union and in Schenectady.