Bertoletti, Isabella. FIT Teaching Institute Grant for research in Italy to create an on-going visual and Web-related project" Italy: Cultural Literacy."

Font, Lourdes. Faculty Development Grant to study the Lucille Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Font, Lourdes. Faculty development Grant to study the beginnings of Christian Dior’s career at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile Service de Documentation, Paris.

Maiorca, Joseph. Italian Club Research Award from the National Italian- American Foundation.

Maiorca, Joseph. FIT Teaching Institute Grant to develop Faculty Mentoring Program.

Martinez, Elena. PSC-SUNY Grant for research in Spanish cinema.

Rogers, Geoffrey. Co-PI of NSF Grant for "Multidisciplinary Laboratory Exercises for a Color Science Course."

Savola, Lasse. Grant from the city of Reykjavik, Iceland for video-based research of mathematics classroom practices.

Tombora, Melissa. University of Illinois University Fellowship for research on "Performance Studies and the Reinvention of `I’ in Rhetoric and Composition: Moving Beyond a Textual Model."

Urban, Virginia. Perkins Title IV Title II Grant for "FIT Career Pathways in Tech Prep."

Weinstein, Andrew. FIT Teaching Institute Grant for participation in Hamburg University Conference.

Zucker, Steven. COCID/FACT, SUNY Grant for "Small Tools / Big Ideas: New Technologies for Teaching Art and Art History." Additional funding provided by Apple Computer, Archivison, Dell, Desire2learn, Scholars resource, Tomson, and WebCT.

Zucker, Steven. COCID/FACT, SUNY Grant for "Beyond the Slide Library: Digital media in the Art and Art History Classroom." Additional funding provided by FIT, Corbis, Saskia Cultural Documents, Davis Art and Luna Insight.

The Educational Skills Department, Career Services, the Internship Center and the Office of International Student Advisors offered two workshops on resume writing and interview skills for international students. The workshops took place on March 27 and April 22. The students found the workshops very beneficial. This endeavor was piloted this academic year and the departments plan to continue this effort in 2008-09.

Brown, Charlotte and Madeline Meyerson. Participated in a CET Workshop for new faculty on the topic of teaching ESL students.

Celik, Yasemin. Invited Christina Marin, Assistant Professor of Educational Theatre, Department of Music and Performing Arts, NYU to address the FIT community on the topic of "Women Swallowed by the Border." The talk was co-coordinated by Praveen Chaudhry.

Chaudhry, Praveen. Invited Dr. Dauda Abudbakar, professor of Political Science, CUNY to address the FIT community of the topic of "Resurgence of Identity Conflict in Post-Colonial Africa: Myth and Reality." The talk was co-coordinated by Yasemin Celik.

Gokhan, Asli. Facilitator for "Variety . . . Spice of Life," a program sponsored by the Mentoring program and CET on diversity in the classroom.

Lemmon, Amy. Hosted "Poetry Month" and invited three authors to read from their works and meet with students: Kim Addonizo, Meena Alexander, and Mark Strand.

Meyerson, Madeline. Organized a workshop on diversity in the classroom entitled The Spice of Life (March 25) in which students and faculty were invited to share ideas and experiences. There was a fruitful discussion of diversity issues in the classroom. Twenty-nine students and faculty members participated in this event. Madeleine arranged for students from the Ed. Skills Student Mentoring program (part of the VTEA LEP grant) to come. Their comments added a great deal to the discussion.

Noonan, Raymond J. Chaired the HPE Department’s Annual Health and Fitness Student Art Competition.

"Elizabeth Taylor: Uber-Diva" in Diva Complex, edited by Michael Montlack. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

"`The Man That Got Away’: Brokeback Mountain as Site for Masculine Memory." Society for Cinema Studies. Philadelphia, PA March 2008.

"Color and Light / Music and Lyric: Artistic Dichotomies in Sondheim and Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George." MLA National Convention. Chicago, IL December 2007.

In 2007-08 ninety-seven students were served in FIT’s Program for Students with Learning Disabilities. Susan Altman created a shell on MyFIT to improve communication and use as an electronic bulletin board for listing job shadowing and internships opportunities. Given that the amount of hours the Coordinator of the program has remained the same since the program’s inception many years ago in spite of the increases in the number of students served and the scope of the program, we would like to look into the possibility of increasing the Coordinator’s hours.

Mildred Rothman, founder of the Educational Skills Department and long-time chairperson, bequeathed the department $25,000 in her will, the interest of which the department is allowed to use as it sees fit. The department developed guidelines to create the Mildred Rothman Scholarship, which the department hopes to offer an ES or former ES student each year. The first scholarship will be awarded for use in 2009. Eligible students are being notified of the possibility and the deadline, which is set for October 15, 2008.

Served as a moderator at a general session at the National collegiate Honors Council annual convention in Denver, November 2007.

"Blossoms at Almondine," Photographs, Almondine, 85 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY11201, July 2-August 15.

"Now Home was Half a Dozen Other Places Across the Seas:" 1940s Travel Memoirs of the Chinese Diaspora by Teenage Authors: Mai-mai Sze, Adet Lin and Anor Lin." Travels to the West. (Forthcoming) Editors Anne R. Richards and Iraj Omidvar.

Presented at Library Event - Supporting the Curriculum: Turning Resources Into Knowledge. Spring 2008

Asian Studies Concentration Faculty Advisor. Fall 2007, Spring 2008

Volunteered to promote Asian Studies and Latin American Concentrations by visiting Foreign Language classes. Fall 2007, Spring 2008

Volunteered to be a Liberal Art Liaison for B&T advisors.

Participated in Mini Retreat, Spring 2008

Self-Nominated for two Faculty Senate Positions, Spring 2008 - PENDING

Committee of Continuing Education

Student Affairs Committee Member at Large

Self-Nominated for Graduation Committee - PENDING

"The Disciplinarity of Rhetoric Pedagogy" Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Volume 8 Issue 1, Duke University Press, Winter 2008, 199-2004.

With Dale Bauer, Rebeccah Bechtold, Mike Behrens, Nick Capell, Adam Deutsch, Zia Gluhbegovic, Marilyn Holguin, Merton Lee, Carl Lehnen, Kim O’Neill, Christy Scheuer, Jason Vredenburg, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture Volume 8 Issue 1, Duke University Press, Winter 2008, 179-193.

With James Cascaito and Andrea Casson: "Jokes and Innovative Action: For a Logic of Change" in Artforum magazine, January 2008. Translation from Italian into English of two chapters of their forthcoming publication (Spring 2008: Semiotext[e]/M.I.T. Press) of Multitude between Innovation and Negation, by the Italian political philosopher Paolo Virno.

Isabella Bertoletti attended: "Fascist Race Laws and the Manifesto della Razza," to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Italian "Leggi Razziali"; a symposium on law and science in the service of racism; The Italian Academy for Advanced Science in America, Columbia University, January, 2008.

With Isabella Bertoletti and Andrea Casson: "Jokes and Innovative Action: For a Logic of Change" in Artforum magazine, January 2008. Translation from Italian into English of two chapters of their forthcoming publication (Spring 2008: Semiotext[e]/M.I.T. Press) of Multitude between Innovation and Negation, by the Italian political philosopher Paolo Virno.

UCE of FIT Executive Committee delegate to the 29^th Annual NYSUT Community College Conference: "Sharing our Strengths, Strengthening our Locals": November 9-11; Cooperstown, NY.

Workshop leader: "Student/Faculty Research at FIT: Current and New Directions"; at the FIT Academic Retreat: "The Student of the 21^st Century: Education and Expertise": October 19-20; Palisades, NY.

Chaired: "Japanese Instructors’ Workshop" for the Japanese American Association (held in New York); special workshop to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the National Committee on Japanese Language and Education, October, 2007.

"Cause and Effect in Buddhism: The Case of the Ohara family in Kurashiki City": New York Buddhist Church, November 11, 2007.

"La imaginación erótica en Cristina Peri Rossi and Mayra Montero." La Revista del Vigía, Cuba, Número 29, Año 18. pp: 83-104.

"Masculinidad y escritura en La Habana para un Infante difunto," at the Conference of the Cuban Research Institute (Florida International University), February 21, 2008.

Reading of her original poetry: "La Vanavanguardia: Alejandro Margulis, Daniel Tevini and Madeline Millán," in the series "Lecturas en Bartolomeo: Ciclo de Poesia," Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 6, 2007.

Readings of her original poetry: invited poet for the "X" International Book Fair of Puerto Rico (partially funded by FIT School of Liberal Arts), November 13-18, 2007.

"Simone de Beauvoir: Une jeune fille rangée?"; at the Centenaire de la Naissance de Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, France, January, 2008.

"The Death of French Culture"; also interviewed by France 24 on the French publication of the Time article, "La culture franÇaise est en vie" (Synergies magazine, France), November 2008.

Interview: with Radio Canada, on French President Sarkozy’s relations with the French media, November, 2008.

Recently completed a trip to India resulting in over 400 digital images of Mughal and Buddhist architectural donated to the HA image collection.

"Il caso Cornaro," in Il collezionismo d'arte a Venezia. Il Seicento, Linda Borean and Stefania Mason, eds. (Venice: Marsilio, 2007), pp. 183-201 [nb: Il = il capitalized].

"The King's Body and the Man of Sorrows: The Coronation Book of Charles V," in session entitled Kingship and Religiosity in the Middle Ages, at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.

"The Franciscans and the Man of Sorrows: Its Probable Propagators, Its Prominent Patrons," at National Conference on the Franciscan Order and its History, Denver CO.

"Excavating a turn-of-the-century mikvah on Allen Street", The Annual Louis Blumengarten Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America, New York Society Library, Dec. 20, 2007.

"Style, Context and Chronology: Cypriot Base Ring I kraters from Alalakh", pp. 35-36, in The Lustrous Wares of Late Bronze Age Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, Proceedings of the Cyprus Project of the SCIEM 2000 Conference, November 4-7, 2004, Vienna. Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, 2007.

"Tell el Ajjul's Foreign Trade and its Cypriot Pottery Imports", pp. 80-85, in Gaza à la croisée des civilizations [Gaza at the crossroad of civilizations]. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève, 26 April – 7 October 2007. Neuchâtel: Chaman, 2007.

Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research, "Digging in New York City", November 15, 2007.

Wrote a new course, HA XXX Studies in Maya Art, for the Department of History of Art and Honors Programs.

Awarded an FIT CET grant to be a voting delegate and presenter at the 7^th International PEN Writers in Prison Conference in Glasgow, Scotland.

"Ceci n’est pas un code-barre: Jheon Soocheon’s Moving into the Barcodes and Going Beyond" in Reading Beyond Barcodes: A New Site-Specific Installation – A Site for Meditation. New York: White Box, 2008. Exhibition Date: January 22-February 23, 2008. White Box, 525 West 26^th Street, New York, NY.

Gallery Talk (December 15, 2007): Masterpieces at East Asian Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Grolier Club, New York: "Boston Collections: Celebrating the Bicentennial of the Boston Athenæum," Sep. 11–Nov. 24, 2007.

Teaching Art History course for Bard-Clemente Summer Program for High School Students (August 2007).

Invited participant, Yve-Alain Bois Art History Roundtable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.

"This Perfect River-View": The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands.

I gave a public lecture on the subject to a large audience at the Hudson Highlands Nature Museum in Cornwall-on-Hudson in October 2007.

Presented at the annual SUNY TLT conference in November 2007, "Online and Face to Face teaching—Intersections."

Completed two collaborations with sound artist Tianna Kennedy: a video work that's screening as part of the BYOTV show at the New American Art Union in Portland, Oregon (http://free103point9.org/events/1870/), and a sound work that will be part of the Sonic Fragments symposium at Princeton (http://sonicfragments.artdocuments.org/index.html).

I've been in Madrid since September thanks to a Theodore Rousseau Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I will be here, and in Florence, for one year, completing primary research for my dissertation, "Bartolome Carducho (1560-1608) and Italian Art at the Spanish Court" for the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. I will be giving a lecture based on my project at the Met as part of their Fellows' Colloquia on April 15, 2008.

"Roy Lichtenstein" (Interview on 23 January 1997), Fernand Léger and America, Beyeler Museum, Basel. February 2008

"Text to Image: Genesis in Art, Art Education, Religion and the Spiritual", School of Visual Arts National Conference. October 2007.

Exhibition at the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, "A Cameroon World: Art and Artifacts from the Marshall and Caroline Mount Collection" and the accompanying 202-page catalogue; these constitute a significant contribution to the study of Cameroon art.

In connection with the exhibit, I gave gallery lectures for QCC students, faculty and the general public on November 7th and December 8th; for the Newark Museum's Friends of African Art on November 17th; and for the Finch College Alumnae Association on November 28th; as well as a lecture and private tour for the new U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon, Jane Garvey, on October 22^nd.

Has been contributing to The New York Times, the New Yorker, and Artforum and will serve as a Critic for the Pratt MFA Seminars in the spring and Critic in Residence at Art Omi this summer.

"Origins of American Art Quilts: Politics and Technology," Proceedings of the Textile History Forum, 2007.

Pattern and Decoration: An Ideal Vision in American Art, 1975-1985, http://www.artcritical.com/sider/SSPatternDecoration.htm.

Organized and chaired session at the College Art Association annual conference, February 2008: The Evolution of Contemporary Quilt Art, and presented paper on "Some Political Aspects of Quilt Art, 1960-1980;" "Nativity Scenes in Venetian Quattrocento Painting," Columbia Renaissance Seminar, September 2007.

Stir Crazy cyanotype quilt acquired for the permanent collection of the International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Penumbra #1: Summer Dance cyanotype quilt in juried Members’ Exhibition: Visions Art Quilt Gallery, San Diego, fall 2007.

Panel presentation for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's symposium on Public Art, "Privatization of Public Art," August 2007

Segment on the third NY Avant-garde Festival (1965), part of neurotransmitter's FM Ferry program, and interview with Jud Yalkut on FM Ferry radio, September 2007

I have been selected into a core group of the Night School, a year-long project by the artist Anton Vidokle and the New Museum, starting December 2007.

"Siren, Nymph, Milkmaid and Crone: Richard Turnbull Interviews Tanyth Berkeley," MUSEO no. 8, February 2008.

"Orientalism Revisited," New York State Sociological Association annual conference, New York, NY, October 2007.

"What Cézanne Saw: Geometry and the Birth of Modern Painting," MoMA Brown Bag Lunch Lecture, New York, January 2008.

"The Dawn of American Modernism," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 2007.

"Jackson Pollock and the New York School," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November-December 2007.

"Hans Coper and Lucie Rie," The Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, November 2007.

"Jewish Artists and Modern Painting: Three Case Studies," Jewish Museum, New York, October 2007.

"Introduction to the Metropolitan Museum of Art," "Introduction to the Museum of Modern Art," "Introduction to the Frick Collection," Explore New York Elderhostel groups (monthly).

"The Social Life of West African Photographers in New York City" for the panel: (Re) claiming Africa in the African Diaspora. College Art Association Conference, Dallas, TX, February 21, 2008.

The La Salle Art Museum’s Collection of African Masks. The La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA, November 16, 2007.

"Symposium: It's been over twenty years since Gore Vidal observed that 'the young no longer read novels.' How fair a statement is that in today's world? How fair was it then? What is your view of the status of the literary world among writers, critics, editors and readers under 35?" Boulevard, forthcoming.

"Symposium: Now that ten years have passed since the Internet has become a force in our lives, what effect do you think it has had on contemporary literature: beneficial, deleterious, or mixed?" Boulevard, Fall 2007: 44-45.

University of Hamburg, Germany. Conference: The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo – Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation.

"Rocks, Bones, Feathers and Fur: Making Natural History at the American Museum of Natural History."

Organizer and presenter, "Writing about Art: Writing in HA 112 Workshops" in conjunction with the English Department.

Instructed a seminar entitled "Energy Healing" at the 12^th annual convention of the national Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists.

Choreographed Carmen under the direction of David Knuess in Tokyo, with the support of the Metropolitan Opera, where Mr. Knuess is an Executive Stage Manager.

Completed the html-coding of the Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality for posting at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.

"Outer Space and Antarctic: Sexuality Factors in Extreme Environments" in the Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality.

"Filling the Knowledge Gaps: Lessons from the Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality" at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality Conference in Indianapolis, IN.

Doctoral advisor for two students writing dissertations on sexuality at Union Institute and University and at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology.

Co-author for new statistics course (Data Analysis for Business Applications) to be run Fall 2008; major liaison between Science and Math Department and text publisher concerning abridging of textbook to be used for course.

Advisor for students in Asian Concentration (assess DARS audits and ensure students are on track for securing minor in Asian Concentration).

Assumed responsibilities as Secretary of the Hiring Committee for the Science and Math Department as it seeks to hire a candidate for the full-time line.

Assumed responsibilities as Liberal Arts advisor for select students at the College (answered general first-year questions concerning student math load, general course planning, avoiding first-year pitfalls, and math course sequence).

Taught special Department course (Developmental Math for FMM – MA 005) in service to the FMM Department.

Marine Mammals of NY, lecture at Nassau Science Explorations, Hofstra University: May 22, 2007 and March 18, 2008.

Marine Mammals of NY Research Opportunities: lecture at Sayville High School: September 28, 2007.

Naturalist and research director for CRESLI Great South Channel whale and pelagic bird observation trip (August 15-17, 2007).

President, CRESLI, Inc (The Coastal research and Education Society of Long Island), a non-profit research and education group dedicated to fostering stewardship of coastal ecosystems through research and education.

Marine Mammal Distribution specialist, for LI Sensitivity Index mapping NYS-DEC marine protected species program.

With R.S. Coe, 2007. Mono Lake Excursion Reviewed: Trans. Am. Geophy. Union (EOS), Acapulco, Mexico.

With R.S. Coe, 2007. Paleomagnetic Data Applicable to Models of Earth’s Deep Interior and Their Utility for Dating Lacustrine and Paleoclimatic Records in the Great Basin: Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 120, Geol. Soc. Am. 2007 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

With Bower, P.M., 2007. Brownfield Action: Virtual Instruction in Environmental Forensics: Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 39, No. 6, p. 458, Geol. Soc. Am. 2007 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

With Knott, J.R., M.N. Machette, R.E. Klinger, A.M. Sarna-Wojcicki, and J.C. Tinsley, 2008. Reconstructing Late Pliocene to Middle Pleistocene Death Valley Lakes and River Systems as a Test of Pupfish (Cyprinodontidae) Dispersal Hypotheses: Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 40, No. 1, p. 49, Geol. Soc. Am. 2008 Cordilleran and Rocky Mt. Sections Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.

With R.Coe, 2008. Mono Lake Excursion in the U.S. Great Basin: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.

With B. Cai, Z. Shaohua, and Z. Qiu, 2008, Palaeomagnetic and Palaeoanthropological Investigations in the Nihewan Basin, China: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.

With Bower, P. 2008, Earth Science Instruction Using Brownfields in the Virtual Classroom: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.

With Iorio, M, F. Budillon, R. Coe, and E. Marsella, 2008, Climatic and Sea Level Control on Late Neogene Sedimentation Inferred from Palaeomagnetic Secular Variation Dating. An example from the Eastern Tyrrhenian Margin: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 10, European Geosciences Union, Vienna, Austria.

With R.S. Coe, 2008, Mono Lake Excursion as a Chronologic Marker in the U.S. Great Basin: Am. Geophys. Union, May 2008.

With Bower, P.M., 2008, Earth Science Instruction Using Brownfields in the Virtual Classroom: Am. Geophys. Union, May 2008.

With Iorio, M., 2008, Application of Paleomagnetic Secular Variation in the Tyrrhenian Sea Since the Late Pleistocene (40,000-Present) in Cored Sediment for Dating Paleoclimate: Am. Geophys. Union, May 2008.

At the FIT for the 2008-09 Academic Year, I am a candidate as the adjunct member of the Technology and Teaching Committee of the Faculty Senate.

I made a presentation at FIT’s Technology Day on April 25. My presentation was "Virtual Astronomy for Hybrid Courses."

I was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship to the Paleomagnetism and Geomagnetism Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China.

"Multiple path analysis of reflectance from turbid media" accepted by the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, publication date not yet scheduled.

Video-based research of mathematics classroom practice: Examples from Finland and Iceland, Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, May 2008.

"Mathematics, Design and Architecture in Istanbul", a series of lectures for the Iceland Academy for the Arts, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2008.

"Mathematics Education in Finland," Comparative Mathematics Education Seminar at Teachers College, Columbia University, 02/07/2008.

With Karen Pearson. Having Technical Discussions Online, Roundtable Discussion, Technology Day Conference, FIT, April 25, 2008

Angel Migration Lead, Fall07/Spring08. Organized and directed transition to Angel LMS for fully online and enhanced courses

"Teaching and Learning" panel entitled "Class Projects and Assignments Using a Global Perspective: a Comparison of Two Disciplines: Sociology & Economics" October 5, 2007 Organizer: Carol Poll, Professor of Sociology.

Panelists: Carol Poll, Professor of Sociology; Yuniya Kawamura Assistant Professor of Sociology: Emre Ozsoz, Instructor of Economics In-Class Assignment in an Economics Class" and Paul Clement, Assistant Professor of Economics.

Organizer: Joseph Maiorca, Associate Professor of Psychology Panelists; Daniel Benkendorf, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Praveen Chaudhry, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ernest Poole, Assistant Professor of Economics, Mina Doyran, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science.

The third FIT panel was" Using Sociology in an Applied Setting," including Diane Philips and Jacqueline Corrigan.

Sommer, K.L., & Benkendorf, D.L. (2008). Effects of rejection on attachment security, concern for others, and prosocial behavior. In: Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. Monica J. Harris (Ed.) Springer Publishing Company.

Innovations in Mentoring (panelist). Presentation at the 22^nd Annual Teaching of Psychology Conference, March 7-8, 2008, SUNY/Farmingdale.

Harnessing the Power of the Web to Teach Psychology (panelist). Presentation at the 22^nd Annual Teaching of Psychology Conference, March 7-8, 2008, SUNY/Farmingdale.

Mentoring: Implications for Teacher Transitioning. Presentation at The New York State Sociological Association (NYSSA) 55^th Annual Meeting, October 5-6, 2007, St. Francis College.

Member of committee, assisting Prof. Joseph Maiorca with the development/execution of a faculty mentoring program. Serving as mentor to new adjunct faculty beginning Spring 2008.

Co-Advisor (with Prof. Emre Ozsoz) of the International Trade Student Association (ITSA) in Fall 2007; Assumed Sole Advisor responsibility in Spring 2008.

Secretary for the Social Sciences Department (recording and distributing minutes of department meetings)

Treatment of Gay Men for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Resulting from Social Ostracism and Ridicule:  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Approaches.  Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37 (2), Springer, New York.

Dodge-Reyome, N. & Carbone, D. (2008).  Gender differences in parental emotional maltreatment:  Implications for working with fathers.  Presented at the Prevent Child Abuse-America 2008 National Conference, Milwaukee, WI, May 2008.

Presenter, "A Global Perspective:  Class Projects and Assignments:  A Comparison of Two Disciplines – Sociology and Political Science", Eastern Sociological Society, New York, NY, February 2008.

Academic Retreat, Panelist on Global Perspectives / International Experience: Exploring New Options, "The Global Classroom," October 2007.

Power and Politics, Keynote Address, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Induction Ceremony, October 2007.  Selected by students in the Honor Society.

Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, India. Was selected as Visiting Scholar to participate in two-week long round table discussions on the forthcoming election in the United States and its impact on India US relations starting January 2, 2008.

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), London. August 2007 and January 2008, Radio interviews. Influence of You tube and other technology in American Elections (August 2007), What does the primary indicate about the next Presidential Elections? (January 2008).

Narrating the mute: Racializing and racism in a neoliberal moment. In Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society. Vol. 9, (4): 346-360.

In Press - Non-violent survival strategies in the face of intimate partner violence and economic discrimination. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma, Volume 15, (3/4). Simultaneously published as the book, Backs Against the Wall: Battered: Women's Resistance Strategies.

"Wesley Snipes" Encyclopedia of African American History (1896-Present). Oxford University Press.

Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics Panel for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

Accrued Toxicity: Mapping Neoliberalism in Higher Education. University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA, April.

Annual Oxford Business and Economics Conference, St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK (Confirmed: in June 22-25).

Attendance to the Workshop on Institutional Economics, University of Hertfordshire, UK (Confirmed: in 17-18 June).

Presentation of the paper "A Brief Contribution to the Debate of the Impact of HIV on Economic Growth" at the Unite For Sight Fifth Annual International Health Conference, Building Global Health For Today and Tomorrow, April 12-13, 2008 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (Upcoming).

Researcher of the Joint Project "The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Investment in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil", sponsored by the Research and Technological Innovation Support Program of the National Autonomous of Mexico University (in progress).

Presentation of the paper "A Brief Contribution to the Debate of the Impact of HIV on Economic Growth" at the New School – UMass Workshop, New York, NY, in November 3-4, 2007.

Presentation of the paper "An Estimation of the Impact of HIV on Economic Growth Using Instrumental Variables" at the 7^th Conference on Business and Economics, Rome, Italy in October 13-14, 2007.

Annual Meeting of Oxford University Business & Economics Conference, Oxford, London, U.K., "The Economics of the Garment Industry in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis" (joint paper).

Presentation, "The Use of Technology in Mentoring: Cross-Cultural Perspectives," The New York State Sociological Association (NYSSA) 55th Annual

Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).

Annual Meeting of the New York State Political Science Association, Panel on American Defense and Foreign Policy, April 2007, Poughkeepsie, NY. "Hegemonic Power and G-7 Cooperation in Financial Crisis Response."

Organized panel presentation. "Innovations in Mentoring." Presented at 22^nd Annual Teaching of Psychology Conference. SUNY/Farmingdale. White Plains New York

"It’s your First Day of class! Presentation on effective teaching tips for new faculty. CET – College –Wide.

Students Evaluations: A Qualitative Analysis. Proposal was accepted for presentation at the National Institute in Teaching Psychology.

Presentation. Innovations in Mentoring. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. NYS Sociological Association. St. Frances College.

Participating in the GTI Graphic Technology, inc. field study on improving color measurement and presentation for consumer use. (November 2007 to present).

Consulted with MEN’S HEALTH  magazine on the color associations and preferences in modern society. (November 2007).

Participated in a one-day workshop on costume design and using color to convey character/personality given through the Center for Professional Studies at FIT. (November 2007).

The Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES) Annual Meeting Topic – "U.S. 50 States Real Estate Cycle Analysis"Shanghai, China.

The American Real Estate Society (ARES) Annual Meeting Topic – "Are U.S. States Economic and Real Estate cycles are related?" Captiva Island, FL (FIT/SUNY funded).

The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (poster Session) Topic – Are U.S. States Economic and Real Estate cycles are related? New Orleans, LA.

October 1, 2008 Ph.D. Degree in Economics Awarded. Dissertation title: "Regional Business Cycle and Real Estate Cycle Analysis and the Role of Federal Governments in Regional Stability".

"Evaluating the Effects of Deposit Dollarization in Financial Intermediation in Transition Economies", 34^th Annual Eastern Economic Association Conference, Boston.

"Bank Performance in Dollarized Economies", the 7th Global Conference on Business and Economics in Rome, Italy.

"Global Wardrobe: An Analytical In-Class Assignment in an Economics Class", presentation in panel on Class projects & Assignments Using a Global Perspective: A Comparison of Disciplines- Sociology and Economics", the NYSSA 55th Annual Meeting, St Francis College, NY.

Ph. D. Degree in Economics Awarded. Fordham University. Dissertation title: "Bank Profitability in Dollarized Economies."

TV Interview, "Coming to the US for undergraduate study" shot on FIT campus aired on "Yeni Ufuklar" program, TRT-International.

Debated Prof. Chaudhry of Social Sciences Dept , colloquium on "Globalization" for Presidential Scholars Program, FIT.

With Daniel Benkendorf & Joseph Moskowitz. Advancing Classroom Instruction in the Social Sciences through Interactive Technology. Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, 22nd Annual Conference on Undergraduate Psychology, March 8, 2008, White Plains, NY.

"Assessment in the Classroom and the College. Evaluating Student Work and Providing Effective Feedback." New Faculty Workshop, Center for Excellence in Teaching, FIT Boardroom, March 28, 2008.

Review of DVD, " No Bigger Than a Minute" 2007 Director: Steven Delano. Bullfrog Films" The film is about Steven Delano, a "dwarf" and faces firsthand his experiences with "dwarfism" and "sizism." Teaching Sociology(TS) is a refereed journal of the American Sociological Association.

Two book reviews published in the Jewish Book World (a triennial publication of the Jewish Book Council.): The books reviewed were: Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in German and Austria by Robert S. Kremer (Berg Publishers:2007); in Jewish Book World (Fall:2007) and At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side: 1880-1920 by Lawrence J. Epstein (Jossey-Bass: 2007) published in Jewish Book World (Winter:2007).

Organizer/Presenter of "Refereed Roundtable" "A Global Perspective: Class Projects and Assignments: A Comparison of Two Disciplines: Sociology and Political Science" Roundtable included four FIT faculty members; Yasemin Celik, (political science), Praveen Chaudhry (political science), Rachel Schwartz (sociology) and myself. 78^th Annual Meeting: Eastern Sociological Society: February 22, 2008: Roosevelt Hotel, NYC.

Organizer/Presenter of ‘Teaching and Learning" panel entitled "Class Projects and Assignments Using a Global Perspective: a Comparison of Two Disciplines: Sociology & Economics" at the New York State Sociological Association (NYSSA)55^ST Annual 2007 Meeting,: October 5, 2007 St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY " Title of my presentation "Global Diversity and its Influence on Term Paper Projects for a Sociology of Marriage and Family Course."

"Ethnographic Features of the Landscape along the Greek-Albanian Border: Agricultural Artifacts as Anthropological Data." in Balkan Border Crossings - Proceedings of the 2nd Konitsa Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans. Berlin: LIT Verlag. 2008.

"Contemporary European Regionalisms and Social Ties: Recent Immigration, Neo-Rurality, and Opportunities for Ethnography in the Greek Countryside". In Journal of Mediterranean Studies. University of Malta. Vol. 17. No. 2. 2007.