Arts & Sciences

Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 1999), by Matthew Evangelista (government), shows the influence international citizen activist groups and networking exerted on arms control.

In the Past Lane: Historical Perspectives on American Culture (Oxford University Press, 1997), by Michael Kammen (Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture), presents some of Kammen's essays from the last decade. They address the social role of the historian, the interplay between a historian's personal identities and the writing of history, the relationship between cultural programs and the state, the uses of tradition in American commercial culture, American historical art, memory distortion in American history, and the contested uses of history in American education.

Faithful and Fearless: Moving Feminist Protest inside the Church and Military (Princeton University Press, 1998), by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein (government and women's studies), "charts the infusion of feminist politics into American mainstream institutions" (p. ix) and women's impact on the institutions they both serve and try to change.

The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations throughout History (W. W. Norton, 1997), by Walter LaFeber (Marie Underhill Noll Professor of American History and Steven Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow), won the Bancroft Prize.

Citizens of Somewhere Else: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James (Cornell University Press, 1999), by Dan McCall (English), is novelist and critic McCall's reading of some of these authors' masterpieces, his observations about how literature is taught in colleges and universities today, and his reflections on reading in general.

Literary Theory and the Claims of History: Postmodernism, Objectivity, Multicultural Politics (Cornell University Press, 1997) by Satya P. Mohanty (English), "grapples with unacknowledged epistemological issues in the postmodern critique of universalism, objectivity, reason, and experience. Mohanty rejects relativism and particularism in the name of a commonality that grants rational agency to all human subjects and redefines objectivity as fallible and situated in outlining the need for a postpositivist realism at the turn of the twenty-first century." (Domna Stanton, former editor, PMLA.)

Mama Florencia: Life in the Andean Village of Pocona in Bolivia, South America (Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas, 1998), by Luis Morato Peña (modern languages) is a dialogue with the author's late mother in Quechua, Castellian Spanish, and English.

The Truest Pleasure (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998), by Robert Morgan (English), a Publishers Weekly Best Book, is a story of marriage and family and is set in the author's native North Carolina. Tom guards his time and money; Ginny speaks in tongues and is "saved"; despite their love, their obsessions come between them.

The Golem at Large: what you should know about technology (Cambridge University Press, 1998), by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch (science and technology studies), like the authors' first volume about the Golem and sciences, is a series of case studies that show technology as a product of social activity, not perfect applied science. The Golem is a creature from Jewish mythology, which, while not evil, is powerful and clumsy, and therefore potentially dangerous.

The Song of the Sirens: Essays on Homer (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998), by Pietro Pucci (Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics), examines Homeric linguistic and rhetorical features, especially the use of repeated formulae and intertextuality.

Winners and Losers of the Information Revolution (Praeger Press, 1998) by Bernard C. Rosen (sociology), examines the massive social change represented in moving from a manufacturing to a service economy and the psychosocial characteristics of new winners (chameleons) and losers.

Delicate Markers: Subtexts in Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading, volume 19 of Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature (Peter Lang, 1998), by Gavriel Shapiro (Russian literature), is the first book-length study of Nabokov's novel.

Gramática española: Análisis y práctica (McGraw-Hill, 1998) by Margarita Suñer (linguistics) with Larry D. King (U. of North Carolina) intends to close "the gap . . . between the unconscious knowledge that Spanish speakers have of their language and the incomplete knowledge possessed by students of Spanish as a second language" (p. xiii).

John D. Alden '43 published Salvage Man: Edward Ellsberg and the U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press, 1998), a biography of an unconventional officer. Alden retired from active duty in 1965 and has written extensively on naval affairs.

Robert Bucholz '80 and J. C. Sainty compiled Officials of the Royal Household 1660_1837, two volumes in the series Office-Holders in Modern Britain. Bucholz is associate professor of history at Loyola University, Chicago.

Jeanne Cavelos, Ph.D. candidate '82, has published The Shadow Within, a novel based on the Babylon 5 television show.

William R. Cook, Ph.D. '71, published St. Francis in America (Franciscan Press, 1998), a study of early Italian paintings of St. Francis in American collections, and Catalogue of Early Italian Paintings of St. Francis of Assisi (Leo Olschki, Florence, 1998).

Jared Curtis '66 co-edited (with Carol Landon) Early Poems and Fragments, 1785_1797, by William Wordsworth (Cornell University Press, 1997), the seventeenth volume in The Cornell Wordsworth Series. Curtis is emeritus professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Terrence Doody, Ph.D. '70, published Among Other Things: A Description of the Novel (Louisiana State University Press, 1998). Doody is professor of English at Rice University.

Henrik N. Dullea '61 published Charter Revision in the Empire State and co-edited (with Gerald Benjamin) Decision 1997 (Albany: Rockefeller Institute Press, 1997). Dullea is vice president for university relations at Cornell.

Connell Fanning, Ph.D. '80, published The General Theory of Profit Equilibrium: Keynes and the Entrepreneur Economy (Macmillan, London, 1988). Fanning is professor of economics at the National University of Ireland, Cork.

Susan Felleman '81 published Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin (Twayne, 1997). Writer-director Lewin's films include The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951).

Albert Furtwangler, Ph.D. '68, published Answering Chief Seattle (University of Washington Press, 1997). Presenting the text of Chief Seattle's famous speech and tracing its later distortions, Furtwangler elucidates the Indian-white encounter during the 19th century.

Deborah Geis '82 co-edited (with Steven F. Kruger) Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America (University of Michigan Press, 1997) and is author of Postmodern Theatric(k)s: Monologue in Contemporary American Drama (Michigan, 1993). Geis is associate professor of English at Queens College.

Jay Goldspinner (Joan Dudley) '52 illustrated and published The Goddess Comes in Living Color: A coloring book for all ages (Rootwomen Press, 1995). She also co-edited a collection of stories, Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope: Stories of Peace, Justice and the Environment (New Society Publishers, 1992). Her chapter on storytelling and ritual appears in The Goddess Celebrates: an Anthology of Women's Rituals, edited by Diane Stein (Crossing Press, 1991).

Robert A. Herendeen, Ph.D. '70, based Ecological Numeracy: Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Issues (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) on a course he teaches at the University of Illinois.

Margaret J. Woodell and David J. Hess, Ph.D. '87, published Women Confront Cancer: Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies (New York University Press, 1998). Hess is professor of anthropology in science and technology studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Keith Higgins '72 published Adolescent Self-Esteem and Educational Practice: Theory, Research, and Applications (The Center for Adolescent Self-Esteem, 1997). Higgins is a school psychologist.

Margot Poritsky Jerrard '47 co-authored (with her husband and professor of mathematics Richard Jerrard) The Grad School Handbook (Perigee Books, 1998). Jerrard worked as writer and editor in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois.

Michael Kreyling, Ph.D. '75, was awarded the 1997 Eudora Welty Prize for his manuscript "Inventing Southern Literature: 1930_1985" (University Press of Mississippi). He teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Iris Figarsky Litt '61 published Women's Health (Stanford University Press, 1997). Litt is professor of pediatrics, director of adolescent medicine, and immediate past director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, all at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Chandra Louise '88 published Jump Start Your Career in BioScience (Peer Productions, 1998). Louise works at Quintiles, Inc.

Toni Lydecker, M.A.T. '72, published her first cookbook, Serves One: Super meals for solo cooks (Lake Isle Press, 1998). Lydecker is a food writer and editor.

Walter C. McCrone '38, Ph.D. '42, published Judgement Day for the Turin Shroud (McCrone Research Institute, 1996), the results of scientific analysis of thirty-two samples of the Shroud's linen fibers. McCrone has analyzed more than 100 master paintings and old textiles and documents.

Patrick Maynard '70 published The Engine of Visualization: Thinking through Photography (Cornell University Press, 1997) and co-edited (with Susan Feagin) the anthology Aesthetics Reader (Oxford University Press, 1997). Maynard is professor of philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

Shreeram Mudambi, M.A. '84, Ph.D. '86, co-edited (with Martin Ricketts) The Organisation of the Firm: International Business Perspectives (Routledge, 1998). Mudambi is a reader in international business at the University of Reading, England.

Irene Smalls '71 published two children's books: A Strawbeater's Thanksgiving and Kevin and His Dad (Little Brown, 1998 and 1999). Smalls was invited to perform at the White House Annual Easter Egg Hunt this April.

Sharon Solwitz '68 published Blood and Milk (Sarabande Books, 1997), a collection of short stories, many of which have won prestigious prizes. Solwitz teaches creative writing at Loyola University, Chicago, and in the public schools.

Adam Sorkin '64, M.A. '65, co- translated (with Tess Gallagher and Liviu Bleoca, respectively) two books of contemporary Romanian poetry: The Sky Behind the Forest: Selected Poems by Liliana Ursu (Bloodaxe Books, 1997) and Transylvanian Voices: An Anthology of Contemporary Poets of Cluj-Napoca (Center for Romanian Studies, Iasi, Romania, 1997). Sorkin is professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County.

Robert W. Speel, Ph.D. '94, published Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States: Electoral Realignment, 1952_1996 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998). Speel is assistant professor of political science at Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University, Erie.

David Stocker '79 published a music compact disc Moondog Anthology (Dijeridoo Productions, 1997), a praise-winning and varied collection of original poems/songs written, arranged and performed by Stocker et al. and produced by Stuart W. Cordell '78.

Anthony L. Suchman '75, M.D. '79, edited (with the collaboration of Richard J. Botelho and Patricia Hinton-Walker) Partnerships in Health Care: Transforming Relational Process (University of Rochester Press, 1998). Suchman is associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of Rochester.

Jacob Sullum '87 published For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (The Free Press, 1998). Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine.

Eric Torgersen '64 published Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker (Northwestern University Press, 1998), a study of the relationship between the poet and the woman painter who occasioned "Requiem for a Friend" in 1908. Torgersen is professor of English and creative writing at Central Michigan University. His most recent book of poems is Good True Stories (Lynx House Press, 1994).

Elizabeth W. Trahan, M.A. '53, published Walking with Ghosts: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Vienna (Peter Lang Publishing, 1998).

Wendy Lesko and Emanuel Tsourounis II '00 have published Youth! The 26% Solution (an Activism 2000 Project), which shows youth how to succeed in addressing social problems.

Carol Hirschon Weiss '46 published Evaluation: Methods for Studying Programs and Policies (Prentice Hall, 1998).