Alex Counts '88 published Give Us Credit: How Muhammad Yunus's Micro-Lending Revolution is Empowering Women from Bangladesh to Chicago (Times Books/Random House, 1996). The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, founded by Yunus, has lent more than one billion dollars to some of the poorest people on Earth over the last twenty years, has a near perfect repayment record, and has become a model for economic developers. A former Fulbright scholar in Bangladesh, Counts has worked for nonprofit organizations, including RESULTS and CARE.
John Davis '83 published The Landscape of Belief: Encountering the Holy Land in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Princeton University Press, 1996). Nineteenth-century Americans - artists, evangelists, scholars, and tourists - visited the biblical Holy Land and saw the landscape as a metaphor for an American and Protestant national identity. Davis is assistant professor of art at Smith College.
Kevin Egan '74 published under the pen name Conor Daly Buried Lies (Kensington, 1996), the second (and, according to reviews, second very successful) mystery novel set in the world of golf.
Virginia W. Furtwangler, Ph.D. '71, under the name of Ann Copeland, published The ABC's of Writing Fiction (Story Press, 1996), culled from fifteen years of writing and teaching writers. Season of Apples (Goose Lane Editions, 1996) is her sixth collection of short fiction. Furtwangler has been named to the newly endowed Hallie Brown Ford Chair of Writing at Willamette University and will also serve as their writer in residence.
Peter Goldenthal, A.M. '80, published Doing Contextual Therapy: An Integrated Model for Working with Individuals, Couples, and Families (Norton Professional Books, 1996). Goldenthal is clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Jefferson Medical College and director of Valley Forge Contextual Therapy Institute.
Kenneth S. Greenberg '68 published Honor and Slavery (Princeton University Press, 1996). He shows how Southern language of honor - a language that included gestures, behaviors, and phrases - was less concerned with empirical truth than with asserting authority and maintaining respect. Greenberg is professor of history at Suffolk University.
Jill-Elyse Grossvogel, Ph.D. '74, published Emile Schuffenecker, 1851-1934, (Musee de Pont-Aven/Musee Departemental Maurice Denis 'Le Prieure,' 1996), an illustrated companion to the international retrospective of this colleague of, among others, van Gogh and Gauguin, that she curated at the Musee de Pont-Aven in Brittany and that opened at the Musee Maurice Denis du Prieure in Saint-Germain-en Laye in Paris this October. The compilation is the result of fifteen years' work by Grossvogel to resurrect the art of Schuffenecker from public and private collections around the world. Her efforts on the project began when she was asked to do some catalog entries for the Johnson Museum at Cornell.
Edward Hoffman '71 published Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow (Sage Publications, 1996). Hoffman is a clinical psychologist in Smithtown, New York. Hoffman is the winner of the 1996 Gradiva Award (National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis) for The Drive for Self, a biography of Alfred Adler (Addison-Wesley, 1995).
Rita Kissen '64, M.A. '65, published The Last Closet: The Real Lives of Lesbian and Gay Teachers (Heinemann, 1996). Kissen is associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Southern Maine.
Nancy Klein, Ph.D. '90, published Selected Writings of Madame de Villedieu, a popular author and prominent player in the literary scene during the reign of Louis XIV (Lang Highlights, 1995).
James Magruder '82 published Three French Comedies: Turcaret, The Triumph of Love, and Eating Crow (Yale University Press, 1996), translations and introductions that extend the English-language repertory of French eighteenth- and nineteenth-century comedies. Magruder is resident dramaturg at CenterStage in Baltimore.
Joseph R. Masci '72 has published Outpatient Management of HIV Infection (Mosby-Year Book, 1996). Dr. Masci is director of AIDS Services and associate director of medicine at Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York City and associate professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Keath L. Marx '75, B.S.N. '78, published The Exotic Animal Drug Compendium: An International Formulary (Veterinary Learning Systems, Trenton, 1996), a book for caretakers of exotic animals. Marx dedicated the book to two Cornell professors who influenced her life: Arch T. Dotson (government) and William B. Provine (history).
Anthony Milner, Ph.D. '77, published The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya (Cambridge, 1995) and edited Australia in Asia: Comparing Cultures and Australia in Asia: Communities of Thought (Oxford, 1996). Among other contributors to these volumes were Cornell faculty member Oliver Wolters (history), and alumni Anthony Day, Herb Feith, Rey Ileto, and Craig Reynolds. Milner is dean of Asian Studies at the Australian National University.
Allan R. Phillips '36, Ph.D. '46, has published four books about birds: The Birds of Arizona with Joe Marshall and Gale Monson (University of Arizona Press, 1964); Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Arizona. Second Edition/Revised and Expanded with Gale Monson (University of Arizona Press, 1981); The Known Birds of North and Middle America/Distributions and Variation, Migrations, Changes, Hybrids, etc./Part I with the cooperation of Robert W. Dickerman, Amadeo M. Rea, and J. Dan Webster (Denver, Colorado: privately published, 1986); and Part II, with the cooperation of Daniel D. Gibson, Kenneth C. Parkes, Mario A. Ramos, and Amadeo M. Rea (Denver, Colorado: privately published, 1991).
Louise I. Shelley '72 published Policing Soviet Society: The Evolution of State Control (Routledge, 1996), a history and analysis of the militia from its inception immediately after the Russian revolution to the demise of the Soviet state. Shelley is professor at the Department of Justice, Law and Society and the School of International Service at the American University, Washington, D.C.
Irene Smalls '71 published another African American children's book: Beginning School (hardcover, Simon and Schuster, 1996; paperback, Silver Burdett Press, 1996).
Paula Vogel '77 published The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays (Theatre Communications Group, 1996). Vogel is professor of creative writing at Brown University.
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