Lori Marso, assistant
professor of political science, has been awarded a National Endowment for
the Humanities grant for 2000-01. She will be working on a book titled Dilemmas
of Feminine Desire, examining the feminist challenge to political
philosophy exemplified by four women activists. Marso is also the author
of (Un)Manly Citizens: J.J. Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's
Subversive Women (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
She will be on leave from Union next year, living in Spain.
Kenneth G. DeBono, Livingston
Professor of the Behavioral Sciences (psychology), recently presented two
papers at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association
meeting. This first, co-authored with Kerry Librandi '00 was titled
“Attributions for success and failure in gender-consistent and
gender-inconsistent sports.” The second, co-authored with Ryan
Campbell '00, Taryn Samol '99 and Sarah Wilbur '98, was titled
“You are what you play: Perceptions of masculinity and femininity as
a function of sport played.”