Albert Auster, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of communication and media studies, published the 5th edition of his co-authored book “American Film and Society Since 1945”.

David J. Goodwin, ADM,
head of circulation and access, Maloney Library, received the J. Owen Grundy History Award from the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy for his book, Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street.

Amir Idris, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor and chair in the African American studies department, participated in the working group on “Citizenship, Class, and Inequality in the Middle East” hosted by the Center for International and Regional Studies in Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar, May 6-7, 2018.

Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
acting director and associate director of The Curran Center for American Catholic Studies, has helped secure a grant in the amount of $450,000 from The Mary Flannery O’Connor Trust. The grant will be used to fund international conferences devoted to the work of Flannery O’Connor and other prominent Catholic writers.

Alan I. Stein, GSS,
adjunct faculty member, was nominated for the Presidential Excellence in Teaching Award.

Lance Strate, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of communication and media studies, gave a keynote address entitled, “Understanding Media Ecology: Past, Present, and Future,” at the Universidad de La Sabana in Bogotá, Columbia, on May 17, 2018 in conjunction with the launch of their new doctoral program in Communication. He also gave a public lecture on “The Construction of Academic Research Networks: The Case of Media Ecology” at the Universidad de Los Hemisferios in Quito, Ecuador on May 21, 2018. Additionally he had his poem, “Sand,” published in the journal Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought, No. 6, and his essay, “On the Binding Biases of Time: An Essay on General Semantics, Media Ecology, and the Past, Present, and Future of the Human Species” reprinted in the same issue.

Nicholas Tampio, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of political science, published “A Democratic Critique of the Common Core English Language Arts (ELA) Standards” in Democracy & Education.

George Demacopoulos, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of theology, Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, has helped secure two grants, totaling $610,000, for the Orthodox Christian Studies Center. The grants will be used to fund a multiyear research project devoted toward the issue of human rights.

Girija Dubey, ARTS AND SCIENCES,
adjunct assistant professor of physics and engineering physics, recently co-authored “Dynamical properties of magnetized two-dimensional one-component plasma” which was published in Physics Letters A.

Vassilios Fessatidis,Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of physics, recently co-authored “Dynamical properties of magnetized two-dimensional one-component plasma” which was published in Physics Letters A.

Samantha Iyer, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
assistant professor of history, has been chosen to be a part of the 2018 fellowship program at The American Council of Learned Societies. Her project is Agricultural Superpower: The Politics of Food in India, Egypt, and the United States, 1870s-1970s.

Elizabeth Johnson, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
distinguished professor of theology, published an essay, “The Mighty from Their Thrones,” in Advancing Mariology: The Theotokos Lectures 2008-2017 .

Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of theology, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture, and co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, has helped secure two grants, totaling $610,000, for the Orthodox Christian Studies Center. The grants will be used to fund a multiyear research project devoted toward the issue of human rights.

Kathryn Reklis, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
assistant professor of theology, was awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Elaine Congress, DSW, GSS,
associate dean and professor co-published a book entitled Health and Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research.

Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology and director of the Fordham Center for Ethics Education, published “Attitudes Toward Fertility and Reproductive Health Among Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Adolescents”.

Janna C. Hayman, Ph.D., GSS,
professor and Henry C. Ravazzin Chair, co-published a book entitled Health and Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research.

Amir Idris, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor and chair in the African American studies, presented a lecture titled “Rethinking South Sudan’s Civil War: History, Identity, and Citizenship” at Worcester World Affairs Council in Massachusetts on March 15.

Stephen A. McGowan, ADM,
has been selected to present at the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals in New Orleans this April. He will be presenting on how to utilize current students at different stages of the admissions process.

Brenna Moore, ThD, ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of theology, presented the keynote lecture at Seton Hall’s Annual “Teacher Study Day,” a professional development day for public school teachers on the topic of the Holocaust on March 5. Her lecture was “We Carry Our Faith in a Murk of Blood: Catholic Resistance to the Holocaust in France, 1939-1945.” She also presented a paper, “‘That Great Fire of Love Between Friends’: Louis Massignon and Mary Kahil on Catholicism and Islam in the 1950s,” at the French Historical Society Annual Meeting.

Larry L. Welborn, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of theology, published the “Introduction and Notes to First Corinthians” in The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, 5th edition. He also published a new monograph, The Young Against the Old:  Generational Conflict in First Clement.

Kindra Becker-Redd, ADM,
reference and instructional services librarian, co-authored and published “Training Student Workers for Cross-Departmental Success in an Academic Library: A New Model.” in the Journal of Library Administration.

David V. Budescu, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
Anne Anastasi professor of psychometrics and quantitative psychology, was elected  Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Mark Conrad, JD, GABELLI,
associate professor of law and ethics and director of the sports business concentration, taught a masterclass, “Sport Law and Governance – The Rules that Regulate Sports Organizations,” at Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) during the month of February.

Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology and director of the Fordham Center for Ethics Education, published “Where Did This [PrEP] Come From?” African American Mother/Daughter Perceptions Related to Adolescent Preexposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Utilization and Clinical Trial Participation.

Christopher GoGwilt, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of English and comparative literatures, co-edited the book Mocking Bird Technologies: The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes, which was released January 2018 by Fordham University Press. He also published an essay “Postcolonial Philology and Nearly Reading the World-System in Print Form” in Scale and Form; or, What was Global Modernism?

Amir Idris, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor and chair in the African American studies, edited the recently published South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas.

Kirsten Lee, ADM,
library circulation support staff, co-authored and published “Training Student Workers for Cross-Departmental Success in an Academic Library: A New Model.” in the Journal of Library Administration.

Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of theology, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in orthodox theology and culture and
co-director of the orthodox Christian studies center, published “Trinity, Virtue and Violence,” in God and the Moral Life.

Robert J. Penella, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
emeritus professor of classics, was the respondent for the session “Panegyric and Encomium in Late Antiquity” at a meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Boston in early January.

Francis Petit, Ph.D., GABELLI,
associate Dean for Global Initiatives and Partnerships, BUS, was selected to participate in the Fulbright-Nehru India International Education Administrators Seminar.

Barry Rosenfeld, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of psychology, published “Implementing a Violence Risk Screening Protocol in a Civil Psychiatric Setting: Preliminary Results and Clinical Policy Implications”.

Oleksiy Roslyak, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
assistant professor of physics, published “Resonance Raman signature of intertube excitons in compositionally-defined carbon nanotube bundles” in Nature Communications.

Caroline Skelton, ADM
library support staff, co-authored and published “Training Student Workers for Cross-Departmental Success in an Academic Library: A New Model.” in the Journal of Library Administration.

Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, Ed.D., GSE,
assistant professor, edited and published a special issue for the education policy analysis archives.

Daniel Willner, ARTS AND SCIENCES,
adjunct professor of visual arts, received an Arts Alive Artist Grant from ArtsWestchester, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, for his current work-in-progress, titled “The Great Swamp”.

Maria Aponte-Gonzalez, ADM,
diversity initiatives coordinator, was a featured honoree at Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education’s exhibit “Si Se Puede!”.

Babette Babich, ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of philosophy, gave a plenary lecture in December 2017 on “The Aesthetic Edge of Art: Performance Art and the Contemporary, Agamben, Virilio, Danto” at She Yan University in Hong Kong. She also gave a lecture in January 2018 on the theme “Nietzsche und Marx. ‘Die Vernichtung der Nationen” at the Nietzsche-Archiv in Weimar, Germany.

Mark L. Botton, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of biology and co-director of the Environmental Science Program, co-authored “Effects of a Beach Nourishment Project in Jamaica Bay, New York, on Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) Spawning Activity and Egg Deposition” which was published December 2017.

David Budescu, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
Anne Anastasi professor of psychometrics and quantitative psychology, had his co-authored article,”How (Over) Confident Are Financial Analysts?” published in December 2017.

Keith Cruise, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of psychology, associate chair of undergraduate studies at Fordham College Rose Hill, and adjunct associate professor at the school of law, co-authored the article, “Using the Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol–Revised to Assess Psychopathy: A Preliminary Investigation” which appeared in Criminal Justice and Behavior.

Jeanne Flavin, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of sociology, was an invited participant at  was one of about two dozen invited participants in a Unbounded Knowledge: Envisioning a New Future for Drug Policy Research, which was sponsored by the Drug Policy Alliance.

George Friedman, J.D., SCHOOL OF LAW,
adjunct professor of law, published two blog posts, “Consumer and Employment Arbitration – Six Things to Look for in 2018” and “A Final Report Card on My 2017 Arbitration Predictions: “Pretty, Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good!”” in December 2017.

Amir Idris, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor and chair of African & African American studies, had his article “Trump has no respect for the Africans who helped shape America into a great nation” published in Newsweek.

Elizabeth A. Johnson, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
distinguished professor of theology, published the 25th anniversary edition of She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse.

Michael E. Lee, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of theology, published a book, Revolutionary Saint: The Theological Legacy of Óscar Romero.

Maura B. Mast, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of mathematics and dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill, co-edited the book Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America, published in December 2017. She also moderated the panel “Implicit Bias and its Effects in Mathematics”, held at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Diego, Jan. 10 – 13, 2018.

Rose McSween, ADM,
senior director of development, business, earned her doctoral degree in December 2017.

Elizabeth Leisy Stosich, Ed.D., GSE,
assistant professor, was published in Journal of Educational Administration and Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership in December 2017.

Dawn Lerman, Ph.D., GABELLI,
professor and associate dean of graduate studies, had her co-authored book The Language of Branding: Theories, Strategies and Tactics, published.

Reiko Matsuda Goodwin, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of anthropology, has been working to conserve the white-thighed colobus (Colobus vellerosus) in West Africa which was recently listed as a critically endangered species by The International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Dean McKay, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of psychology, published “Presidential Address: Embracing the Repulsive: The Case for Disgust as a Functionally Central Emotional State in the Theory, Practice, and Dissemination of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy” in Behavior Therapy and edited “Clinicians’ Guide to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder”.

Margaret Terry Orr, Ph.D., GSE,
associate professor of educational leadership and policy, had “The Performance Assessment for Leaders: Construct Validity and Reliability Evidence” published in the Journal of Research on Educational Leadership.

Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of theology, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in orthodox theology and culture and
co-director of the orthodox Christian studies center, had his article listed as one of the most read in 2017 on Christian Century.

Francis Petit, Ph.D., GABELLI,
associate Dean for Global Initiatives and Partnerships, BUS, had his article “What Executives Can Learn from Pete Carril – Princeton’s Hall of Fame Men’s Basketball Coach” published in The Sport Journal,  December 21, 2017.

Bryan Pilkington, Ph.D., ADM,
director of academic programs at the Center for Ethics Education, had his article “Putting Image into Practice: Imago Dei, Dignity, and Their Bioethical Import” published in Christian bioethics.

Maureen A. Tilley, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
late professor of theology, had her article, “Caesarius’s Rule for Unruly Nuns: Permitted and Prohibited Textiles in the Monastery of St. John,” published in a themed issue on Caesarius of Arles, ed. Lucy Grig, Early Modern Europe, Vol. 26/1.

Robin Andersen, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of communication and media studies, had her book “HBO’s Treme and the Stories of the Storm” published.

Keith R. Cruise, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of psychology, co-authored A Study of the Impact of Screening for Poly-Victimization in Juvenile Justice: The Rocky Road to a Successful Investigation in the Real World.

Christina Greer, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of political science, was named the 2018 McSilver Fellow In Residence at The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University Silver School of Social Work.

Michael E. Lee, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of theology, published a chapter on Gustavo Gutiérrez in Christian Theologies of Salvation: A Comparative Introduction.

Roger Panetta, ARTS AND SCIENCES,
visiting professor of history, was a panelist at the CUNY Public History Collective’s Second Annual Conference, “It’s Not What You Think: Challenging Assumptions Through Public History.” He lectured on “Confronting the Popular Image of the Prisoner: The Sing Sing Prison Museum.”

David Rufo, Ph.D., GSE
clinical assistant professor had the article, Math Hater, How One Child Overcame Her Math Anxiety Through Self-Administered Art Therapy, published in the journal Art Education.

J. Alan Clark, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of biology, co-published the article, Translocated and Resident Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene c. carolina) in New York: Movement Patterns and Habitat Use, which appeared in Northeastern Naturalist.

Katherine S. Egan, ADM,
executive director of organizational effectiveness, had her debut book Genetics Isn’t Everything: How to Make Your G-e-n-e-s Fit You, published in September 2017.

Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
Marie Ward Doty Professor of Psychology and director of the Fordham Center for Ethics Education, co-wrote Addressing prevention among HIV-uninfected women in PMTCT programs in South India, in November 2017.

Hugh Hansen, SCHOOL OF LAW,
professor of law and director of the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute, participated in the inaugural Roundtable established by The John Marshall Law School’s Center for Intellectual Property, Information & Privacy Law.

Brenna Moore, Th.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of theology, published the article ‘Keep Your Money, I Got My Own’: Reading the Utopian Margins of Religion With Beyonce,” for the 10th Anniversary of the Immanent Frame.

Barry Rosenfeld, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of psychology, published, Why Is Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP) Effective? Enhanced Sense of Meaning as the Mechanism of Change for Advanced Cancer Patients, in November 2017.

Sarah Grey, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics and language program director recently had a journal paper accepted that shows bilinguals have brain advantages in learning another language, as compared to monolinguals. 

Lawrence Kramer, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of English and music, was awarded the 2017 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism in the concert music field for his book “The Thought of Music”.

Sophie Mitra, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of economics, had her book Disability, Health and Human Development published in September 2017.

Olena Nikolayenko, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of political science, published the book, Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe, which traces state-movement interactions during national elections in five post-communist societies.

Jacqueline Reich, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of communication and media studies, was a featured speaker at the Annual Forum of the scholars of Cinema and Audiovisual.

Harold Takooshian, Ph.D.,  ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of psychology and urban studies and director of the Organizational Leadership Program, edited Internationalizing the Teaching of Psychology, which was published in September 2017.

Karen Trovato, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of computer science, received the Eleanor Roosevelt Medal of Honor in October 2017.

Larry L. Welborn, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of theology, published an article, Paul’s Place in a First-Century Revival of the Discourse of ‘Equality’ in Harvard Theological Review, volume110, issue 4.

Elissa Aminoff, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
assistant professor of psychology was named a Young Scientist by the World Economic Forum for her commitment to public service and to integrating scientific knowledge into society for the public good.

Eric Chen, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
associate professor of psychological and educational services was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association for outstanding contributions in the field of Psychology.

Peter Corfield. Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of chemistry, was selected to be a Fellow of the American Chemical Society for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and the Society.

Jane K. Edward, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
clinical assistant professor of African and African American studies, was honored at the Third Annual African Heritage Celebration in a statement entered into the Congressional Record by New York Congressman Jose Serrano for her contribution and work with the African Diaspora in the Bronx.

John Feerick, SCHOOL OF LAW,
was named the recipient of the 2017 ABA Medal, the highest honor awarded by the American Bar Association.

Sarit Kattan Gribetz, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
assistant professor of theology published an essay, “The View From the Balcony: Student Perspectives In and Beyond Class,” in Ancient Jew Review.

Tina Maschi, Ph.D., GSS,
associate professor of social work, was named a Fellow Ambassador of The New York Academy of Medicine.

Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D, ARTS AND SCIENCES,
Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture, gave the keynote address, “From Sophia to Personhood: The Development of 20th-Century Orthodox Trinitarian Theology,” for the Theology Symposium, “The Mystery of the Trinity:  Implications for Everyday Living” at St. Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College in Sydney, Australia. He also published an article, “The Hermeneutical and Existential Contextuality of Orthodox Theologies of Personhood,” Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 69(1-4).

Francis Petit, Ph.D., GABELLI,
associate Dean for Global Initiatives and Partnerships, BUS, recently published (with Chris Lowney and Stephen Porth) “Leadership Development Along el Camino Ignaciano” in the Journal of Jesuit Business Education, Volume 8, 2017.

Larry L. Welborn, Ph.D., ARTS AND SCIENCES,
professor of theology, presented a paper, “Early Christianity in Corinth: From Paul to First Clement,” at the conference on “The Rise of Christianity in Greece and the Southern Balkans” at the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin on June 26, 2017.