CATHERINE BURROUGHS has been invited to serve as a section editor for the website, "British Women Playwrights Around 1800" (BWP1800site). The co-founders of the site wrote: "After taking stock of the past history and current needs of the BWP1800 site, we've decided that the time is ripe to invite colleagues with an interest in the site to play roles in guiding portions of its ongoing development. …We're looking for someone who would generate ideas for development of scholarly content in consultation with us, coordinate communication with those invited to contribute, and manage appropriate processes of peer review and text preparation."

Binder-in-Residence DONIA CONN had an article on the Springback Account Book Binding (co-authored with Peter Verheyen, former Binder-in-Residence) published in the most recent issue of The New Bookbinder, Journal of Designer Bookbinders, UK. She will be teaching a workshop on this topic in Austin, Texas in May.

ERIKA FEIGENBAUM has published an article entitled, "Making the Philosopher Cry," in Off Our Backs feminist journal. The essay appears in the January - February 2004 issue. Professor Feigenbaum's essay "Some of my Best Friends are Straight" was also selected for a reading at the June 2004 National Women's Studies Association conference.

SARA FRENCH was notified in February that she was named to Marquis's Who's Who Among American Women for 2004.

CYNTHIA GARRETT's essay "Sexual Consent and the Art of Love in the Early Modern English Lyric" was published in the Winter 2004 issue of Studies in English Literature.

NANCY GILBERTSON presented a solo piano recital at Wells College in Barler Hall on February 28, 2004. The program, "A Little Something for Everyone," showcased an array of styles, including jazz influenced piano rags by College of Wooster composer, Brian Dykstra; preludes based on Gregorian chant melodies by Ottorino Respighi; novelettes by Francis Poulenc; some early Spanish dances by Enrique Granados; and "Danzas Argentinas" by Alberto Ginastera.

SIOUXSIE GRADY has been asked to serve as judge for the Hangar Theatre's LAB Company New Play Festival Playwriting Competition. The Dance and Theatre faculty recently produced a series of workshops in Arts Pedagogy. Guest artists Lesley Tillotson, Jeanne Goddard, and Professor Grady spoke on subjects ranging from age appropriate theatre and dance activities to classroom dynamics to the art of play.

MICHAEL GROTH attended a meeting of the program committee for the Conference on New York State History held in Binghamton on January 29. He and others members of the committee are planning this year's conference scheduled for early June at Skidmore College."

JOSEPH HOFFMANN’s review of the Passion of the Christ (The Gospel according to Mel) for the Institute for Humanist Studies is online at http://humaniststudies.org/enews/passion.html He was a guest on Equal Time (a live radio program for the New York City metro area) to discuss the film on March 7. 

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO had an article entitled, "What is the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)?: A General Reflection on Its Objectives and Claims," published in the Journal of Comparative Education and International Relations in Africa/Revue d'Education Comparée et des Relations Internationales en Africa (JEDIRAF) Volume 5, Number 1-2 (December 2003): pp. 1-14. In the same edition, he had an extensive book review essay on Guy Martin’s World Politics: A Pan African Perspective, Trenton and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002 published, pp. 153-162. 

HEATHER MEYER coauthored a paper, entitled, "Teachers’ reasoning about school fights, contexts and gender: An expanded Cognitive Developmental Domain approach," (H.A., Astor, R.A., & Behre, W.J. 2004) published this month in Aggressive and Violent Behavior, 9, pp. 45-74. She also has had two papers accepted for publication: "School safety interventions: Best practices and programs," in Children and Schools (Astor, R.A., Meyer, H.A., Benbenishty, R., Marachi, R., & Rosemond, M.); and "Relationship violence prevention education in schools: What's working, what's getting in the way, and what are some future directions" (Meyer, H.A. & Stein, N. in press) in The American Journal of Health Education

LESLIE MILLER-BERNAL was a co-organizer of three sessions on the sociology of higher education for the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting in New York City on February 21, 2004. The three sessions were: Academic Careers and the Changing Political Economy of Higher Education, Historical and Comparative Issues in Higher Education, and Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Higher Education. Professor Miller-Bernal also served as presider for the last two of these sessions and presented her own paper, "Changing Forms of Discrimination Against Women Academics at Cambridge University, 1869-2003," in the session on Historical and Comparative Issues.

MILENE MORFEI's manuscript, "Agentic and Communal Generative Behavior in 
Four Areas of Adult Life: Implications for Psychological Well-Being," appeared in the January edition of the Journal of Adult Development.

VICTORIA MUÑOZ was an invited speaker at Syracuse University for the "Transgender Teach In" where she and Stephanie Cyganovich discussed the GISO Study. In collaboration with Tiffany Silliman, Will Liberi, Alice Lo, Lily Cavanaugh, Professors Burroughs and Garrison, and Dean Morales, Muñoz planned and implemented a residency with Bear Bergman to raise awareness and educate about transgender issues on campus. Please send feedback to bear@wells.edu

Several of CRAWFORD THOBURN’s published choral compositions and arrangements have been selected for performance in various graduate-conducting recitals around the country. Most recently he has learned that his setting for unaccompanied mixed voices of the African-American spiritual "Steal Away to Jesus," published by Tetra-Continuo Music, will be performed in a graduate-conducting recital in March at the Louisiana State University School of Music in Baton Rouge.

BARBARA WEJNERT was recently nominated by her former students from her Gender & Society class at Cornell to receive a special recognition for the Advancement of Women Locally and Internationally (awarded on March 9, at A.D. White House). 

International Accomplishments:

Kyrgyzstan, Senegal and Mali: collection of data on effect of democratization on women’s well-being

Invited presentation at SASE, 15th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics LEST, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26 - 28, 2003

Paper presentation: VII International Women’s Policy Research Conference at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, June 2003, in Washington, D.C

Research Grant: Soros Open Society (with Alma Djumabajeva) Summer 2003

Selected Presentations since summer 2003:

An Interactive Model of World Democratization: A Multilevel Analysis. Invited Presentation at the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 15th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics LEST (Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail) Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26 - 28, 2003 

Health Status of Women in Democratizing Post-Communist Countries: Ukraine, Poland and Kyrgyzstan. VII International Women’s Policy Research Conference at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research in June 2003, in Washington, D.C. (with Andrea Parrot)
An Interactive Model of World and Regional Democratization: A Multilevel Analysis. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003

Presider and Discussant of a session on Diffusion and Institutionalization and Social Movements. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003

Presentation: Wells College, Social Science Colloquium: "Muslim Women at the Time of Global Development and Democratization" (October 2003)
Wells College, Social Science Colloquium: "Politics of Arts and Arts of Politics" (May 2003)

University of Toronto: Faculty of Social Science Colloquium: "Relative Predictive Power of socioeconomic and diffusion variables in world and regional democratization: 1800-1999, November 2003

University of Texas, Faculty of Behavior Science Colloquium: "The Effect of World Democratization on the Well-being of Women: Multilevel Regression Models," January 2004

Cornell University, Sociology Colloquium: "Will Democratization of Iraq Democratize 
the Middle East? Socioeconomic vs. Diffusion Predictors of Democratization," Feb. 2004

Publications since summer 2003 - journal articles - included only refereed journals 
Wejnert, B. (2003) Effects of Growth of Democracy and Transition to Market-Based Economies on Women’s Well-Being. Journal of Consumer Policy, 26: 465-493.

Wachowiak A., Wejnert B. (2003) Wspomnienia poswiecone pamieci wybitnego Familiologa, Profesora Zbigniewa Tyszki (Marriage and the Family) (in Polish), No. 4(8): 38-45.

Wejnert, Spring 2004. Democratization and the Transition to a Market-Based Economy and Women’s Health in The Post-Communist Countries: Poland, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan in: World Health Organization, 2004. The Globalization, Gender & Health. Research Monograph (publication in Spring 2004) 

Wejnert, B., Djumabaeva A. Spring 2004. From Patriarchy to Egalitarianism? Parental Roles in Democratizing Poland and Kyrgyzstan. Marriage and Family Review

In press forthcoming summer 2004:

Wejnert, B. (Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, forthcoming 2004). Entry on Jacob Bronowski.

Wejnert, B. (American Sociological Review) Socioeconomic and Diffusion Predictors of World and Regional Democratization: 1800 -- 1999. 

Upcoming

May 2004 - traveling with series of lectures to Kyrgyzstan, followed by a lecture at Warsaw University, in Warsaw, Poland.

June 2004 – Presenting a talk at the Society of Advancement of Socio-Economics, Washington DC, International Congress. 

August 2004 - Presenting at the American Sociological Association meeting in San Francisco.
 

Earlier Announcements of Faculty Accomplishments