Arts & Sciences

Eric Alterman '82 published Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 1998) and a second edition of his Sound & Fury: the Making of the Punditocracy (Cornell University Press, 1999). In addition, he also authored It Ain't No Sin to Be Glad You're Alive: the Promise of Bruce Springsteen (Little, Brown and Co., 1999). Altman is a columnist for The Nation, MSNBC.com., Intellectual Capital.com., and a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New York School University.

Jeffrey Berman, Ph.D. '71, published Surviving Literary Suicide (University of Massachusetts Press, 1999). Berman is professor of English at University at Albany.

Jeanne Cavelos, Ph.D. candidate (astronomy) in 1982, published The Shadow Within (Dell Publishing Co., 1997), a novel based on the Babylon 5 television show. Cavelos is a writer, teacher, and editor.

Daniel Cavicchi '88 published Tramps Like Us: Music and Meaning Among Springsteen Fans (Oxford University Press, 1998). Cavicchi works as a free-lance writer and is an adjunct professor of American history and culture at Rhode Island School of Design.

Jared Curtis, Ph.D. '66, published Last Poems, 1821-1850, by William Wordsworth (Cornell University Press, 1999) with associate editors Apryl Lea Denny-Ferris and Jillian Heydt-Stevenson. This eighteenth volume in The Cornell Wordsworth Series includes newly edited work from the poetÕs last three decades. Curtis is emeritus professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Faye Duchin '65 published Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment (Island Press, 1998). Duchin is dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Julie Edelson, Ph.D. '74, published Courting Disaster (Zoland Books, 1999), a comic novel about a Southern family. Edelson is the author of two previous novels, No News Is Good and Bad Housekeeping. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Leslie Feldman, Ph.D. '90, edited The Political World of George Bush: Vol. II, Domestic Politics, one of the Hofstra University series on the presidency (forthcoming from Greenwood Press, 2000). Feldman is associate professor of political science at Hofstra University.

Sonia Pressman Fuentes '50 published her memoirs Eat First-You Don't Know What They'll Give You: The Adventures of An Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter (1st Books Library, 1999). Fuentes is a retired attorney for the federal government and a founder of the Second Wave of the womenÕs movement.

Michael F. Green, Ph.D. '84, published Schizophrenia from a Neurocognitive Perspective: Probing the Impenetrable Darkness (Allyn & Bacon, 1998). Green is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA.

Robert J. Gregory '60 published Sell More Stamps: Applying psychology to philatelic dealing (Calder Publications, 1999). Gregory is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at Massey University, New Zealand.

Graham Hardie, Ph.D. '73, published The Music of Raymond Hanson. A Catalogue Raisonne (Currency Press, Sydney, 1998). Hanson (1913-76) was one of the most significant Australian musicians of his generation. Hardie teaches at the University of Sydney.

David Hassler '86 edited (with Maggie Anderson) Learning by Heart: Contemporary American Poetry about School (University of Iowa Press, 1999) and edited (with Lynn Gregor Hassler) A Place to Grow: Voices and Images of Urban Gardeners (The Pilgrim Press, 1998). Hassler is a poet-in-residence for the Ohio Arts Council and is associate artist for the Shaker Heights High School theatre program.

Brad Herzog '90 published States of Mind: A Search for Faith, Hope, Inspiration, Harmony, Unity, Friendship, Love, Pride, Wisdom, Honor, Comfort, Joy, Bliss, Freedom, Justice, Glory, Triumph and Truth or Consequences in America (John F. Blair, 1999). Herzog is a free-lance writer in California.

Sunflower University Press published the writings of the late W. Stull Holt '20: The Great War at Home and Abroad: The World War I Diaries and Letters of W. Stull Holt (1999). During World War II, Holt interrupted his career as a historian at the University of Washington to head a unit rescuing airmen from German-occupied territory through underground organizations, for which he was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire and an American medal.

Laura L. Howes '78 published Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention (University Press of Florida, 1997), a study of the confluence of several strands of literary gardens that Chaucer knew and his early audience would have understood. Howes is associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee.

Julie Kane '74 co-authored (with Kim Do) Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998).

Paula B. Kennedy '78, Ph.D. '80, co-authored Ernst & Young's Financial Planning for Women (John & Wiley Sons, 1999).

Steven L. Kessler '78, J.D. '82, published Criminal and Civil Forfeitures (Gould Publications, 1999). Kessler practices law in New York.

Howard I. Kushner, Ph.D. '70, published A Cursing Brain? The Histories of Tourette Syndrome (Harvard University Press, 1999). Kushner is the director of the Master of Arts in Liberal and Sciences at San Diego State University.

Eleanor (Ross) Levieux '59 published Insider's French: Beyond the Dictionary (University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Ruth Mayleas '45 published Theater Artist's Resource (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999). Mayleas is a theatre professional.

Carol McAfee '78 published Walk Among Birches (Bancroft Press, 1999), a novel based on her own experiences with postpartum depression. McAfee, who lives in Baltimore, is a writer.

Kevin Mills '93 co-authored (with his mother, Nancy Mills) a cookbook, Help! My Apartment Has a Dining Room: How to Have People Over Without Stressing Out (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999).

Jeanne Mozier '66 published Way Out in West Virginia: A Must-have Guide to the Oddities and Wonders of the Mountain State (Quarrier Press, 1999). Mozier and her husband own and operate the Star Theater in West Virginia.

Sheeram Mudambi, Ph.D. '86, co-authored (with Martin Ricketts) The Organisation of the Firm: International Business Perspectives (Routledge, London, 1998) and (with Tom Baum) Economic and Management Methods in Tourism and Hospitality Research (John Wiley and Sons, 1999). Mudambi is a reader in international business, ISMA Center, England.

Jane Mushabac '65 is co-author (with Angela Wigan) of A Short and Remarkable History of New York City (Fordham University Press in conjunction with the Museum of the City of New York, 1999). Mushabac is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY.

Thomas L. Pangle '66 and Peter J. Ahrensdorf published Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace (University Press of Kansas, 1999). Pangle is professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

Flavio de Almeida Prado '52 published (in Portuguese) Prazer-A Energia dos Vencedores, a history of pleasure and an argument that deriving pleasure from one's work is crucial to success.

Robert Putis '95 published Outdogs, Undercasts, and Other Superzeroes (Maple Leaf Publishing, 1999), a collection of short stories and poems. Putis is currently living in Germany and working on his first novel.

Beth M. (Budin) Raff '84 and Jami A. Clott '90 (Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences), have written Peoplesoft Application Development Tools (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming 2000). Raff is associate director in the Information and Technology Services organization of Ernst & Young LLP.

J. Thaddeus Rutkowski '76 published the novel Roughhouse (Kaya, 1999). Rutkowski works as a newspaper copy editor.

Wayne Schneider, Ph.D. '85, published The Gershwin Style (Oxford University Press, 1999), a dozen essays by himself and others. Schneider is associate professor of music history and university organist at the University of Vermont.

Hugh Schwartz '54 published Rationality Gone Awry? Decision Making Inconsistent with Economic and Financial Theory (Praeger Publishers, 1998). Schwartz is visiting professor of economics at the Federal University of Parana, Brazil.

Peter Shalit '76 published Gay Health-Inside and Out (Alyson Publications, 1998). Shalit is a physician in Seattle.

Frederick Shelley '42 published Early American Tower Clocks (National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors, Inc., 1999). Shelley is a fellow of the NAWCC.

Linda Tatelbaum '69, Ph.D. '72, published Writer on the Rocks-Moving the Impossible (About Time Press, 2000), a meditation on ambition and despair. Tatelbaum teaches English at Colby College.

Malcolm Whyte '55 published The Underground Comix Family Album (Word-Play Publications, 1998). Whyte is founder of the Cartoon Art Museum.

Robert Zeidman '81 published Verilog Designer's Library (Prentice-Hall, 1999), a guide to designing digital circuits using the Verilog programming language. Zeidman is the founder and president of the Chalkboard Network, an Internet-based training company.

Felicia Zekauskas '84 published her second children's picture book, The Magic Hockey Stick (Penguin Putnam, 1999).

J. Stephen Zunes, Ph.D. '90, co-edited (with Lester R. Kurtz and Sarah Beth Asher) Nonviolent Social Movements: A Geographical Perspective (Blackwell Publications, 1999). Zunes is assistant professor of politics and chair of Peace and Justice Studies at the University of San Francisco.