New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium

New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium

Colgate University • Hamilton College • Hobart and William Smith Colleges • St. Lawrence University • Skidmore College • Union College

Upstate-Global Collective
RFP 2016-2017: List of Interested Faculty & Proposed Projects (as of 10/30/15)

~This is a list of faculty who have expressed interest in pursuing a project as part of the second round of the Upstate-Global Collective initiative, either through attending an information session or reaching out to express interest directly. Sharing this list is the second step in identifying interested faculty. ~

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Colgate University:
NavineMurshid, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Political Science ()
Areas of interest:Developing countries, international relations, international political economies, methods, military intervention, protest behavior, quantitative approaches, regurees, South Asia.
Proposed project topic:Gender and HR in South Asia

Colgate University:
AprilBaptiste, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Environmental Studies ()
Areas of interest:Environmental justice, environmental pychology, Caribbean environmental issues, climate change, climate refugees.
Proposed project topic:Climate Refugees

Colgate University:
PeterRogers, Associate Professor and Data Librarian, Library ()
Areas of interest:
Proposed project topic:

Hamilton College:
LisaTrivedi, Professor of History, History ()
Areas of interest:Cultural and social history of modern South Asia, history of nationalism, colonialism and women.
Proposed project topic:Pulling together a project with Vikash Yadav and a half dozen faculty from Hamilton, HWS, Colgate, and St. Lawrence. Description to come.

Hamilton College:
ErolBalkan, Professor of Economics, Economics ()
Areas of interest:Formation of middle classes in developing countries, effects of short-term capital flows on the Turkish economy and economic development, international finance and political economy of the Middle East
Proposed project topic:Global Refugee Crisis

Hamilton College:
ChaseLaDousa, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology ()
Areas of interest:Language and culture, particularly the ways in which institutions serve as loci for cultural production.
Proposed project topic:Global Refugee Crisis

Hamilton College:
JohnBartle, Associate Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures, Russian ()
Areas of interest:Translation studies, refugee studies, 19th century Russian literature, Russian film, English as a second language outreach programs, especially in Utica, NY.
Proposed project topic:Global Refugee Crisis

Hamilton College:
DoranLarson, Professor of Ethics and Christian Evidences, Jurisprudence, Law, and Justice Studies ()
Areas of interest:20th century American literature, the history of the Anglo-American novel, fiction writing, nonfiction writing and prison writing of the U.S., South Africa and Ireland.
Proposed project topic:Comparative prisons

Hobart and William Smith Colleges:
EtinAnwar, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Religious Studies, Women's Studies and Asian Studies ()
Areas of interest:Youth religious radicalism and activism, sufi healing in the Qadiriyyah-Naqshabandiyyah Sufi order in Indonesia, genealogies of Islamic feminism, dating Muslims, and community resilience.
Proposed project topic:Is proposing a project with Jennifer Matsue at Union (in Indonesia). Details TBD. Sustainability. Combine interest in art, religion and passion. How cultural fabric are able to adapt and change in Indonesia through pressures of globalization. Sustain

Hobart and William Smith Colleges:
TomDrennen, Professor of Economics, Economics and Environmental Studies ()
Areas of interest:Energy, environmental economics, natural resources and energy economics, climate change.
Proposed project topic:Interdisciplinary group and proposing activities to examine climate change from different angles.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges:
BradCosentino, Assistant Professor of Biology, Biology ()
Areas of interest:Ecology, evoluationary biology, and conservation biology.
Proposed project topic:Interdisciplinary group and proposing activities to examine climate change from different angles.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges:
JinghaoZhou, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Asian Studies ()
Areas of interest:Chinese politics and ideology, Chinese religion and Christianity in China, Chinese feminism, US-China relations.
Proposed project topic:Confucianism and HR in China; religion, gender, education, employment & policial rights.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges:
JamieBodenlos, Associate Professor, Pyschology ()
Areas of interest:Improving health outcomes for under served population, especially those with pschological conditions, ethnic minorities, and low-income adults.
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
EricWilliams-Bergen, Director of Digital Initiatives, Library ()
Areas of interest:Director of Digital Initiatives, Crossing Boundaries
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
Mary JaneSmith, Associate Professor of History, Coordinator of African American Studies, History, African American Studies ()
Areas of interest:U.S. southern race relations, US history since Reconstruction, African American history. Race, culture and identity.
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
MerylMotika, Assistant Professor of Economics, Economics ()
Areas of interest:Behavioral economics.
Proposed project topic:• Research question: How do communities with active public goods projects differ from those without such projects in their willingness to contribute to public goods (+ a sociology piece I don't understand yet).

• Method: The economics part

St. Lawrence University:
GraceHuang, Associate Professor of Government, Government ()
Areas of interest:Political leadership, political uses of shame in Chinese leadership, and rural and urban migration in China. Comparative politics, democratization, rise of India and China.
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
WendiHaugh, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Anthropology and African Studies ()
Areas of interest:Cultural and linguistic anthropologist interested in national identity constructs, birding and ecotourism, and environmental conservation in Africa.
Proposed project topic:Ecotourism.

St. Lawrence University:
JudithDeGroat, Associate Professor of History, History ()
Areas of interest:Race, gender and colonialism, cultural history, European studies and gender studies. Transnational civic engagement and African studies. Director of Crossing Boundaries program.
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
XiaoshuoHou, Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology ()
Areas of interest:Sociology of development, economic sociology, sociology of organizations (focusing on China and Asia). Green techno
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
LorraineOlendzenski, Associate Professor of Biology, Biology ()
Areas of interest:
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St. Lawrence University:
CathyShrady, Director of Outdoor Studies & Associate Professor of Geology, Outdoor Studies ()
Areas of interest:Director of Outdoor Studies/Adirondack Semester/Sustainability Semester; Development and sustainability, esp. in upstate NY.
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
EvelynJennings, Professor of History and Associate Dean for Academic Advising Programs, History ()
Areas of interest:Spanish colonialism in Cuba, state enslavement and forced labor, Atlantic history.
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
LeilaWalker, Assistant Coordinator Mellon Crossing Boundaries, Dean's Office ()
Areas of interest:"Crossing Boundaries: Re-envisioning Humanities for the 21st Century"
Proposed project topic:

St. Lawrence University:
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Areas of interest:
Proposed project topic:Rural health care - Nell needs to reach out to Carol Weisse (palliative care), Tim Stablein (Union-Sociology), Younghwan Song (Union-Economics),

Skidmore College:
KarenKellogg, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Environmental Studies ()
Areas of interest:
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Skidmore College:
JordanaDym, Professor of History, History ()
Areas of interest:Latin America, history of cartography and public history. History of travel, travel writing, war and peace. Directs the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS).
Proposed project topic:

Skidmore College:
SandraGoff, Assistant Professor of Economics, Economics ()
Areas of interest:Relationships between markets, moral reasoning and pro-social attitudes and behaviors, esp. sustainability. Evoluationary economics. Social-ecological systems.
Proposed project topic:My interest is in studying economic production by monasteries. I am particularly interested in how monasteries have altered the way they produce, market themselves, etc. in response to buy-local and glocal (think global, act local) movements. I study re

Skidmore College:
RosarioGranados-Salinas, Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History, Art History ()
Areas of interest:Intersection of religion and material culture in Spanish America, esp. identity formation. Heritage studies. Women's history and cultural heritage.
Proposed project topic:

Skidmore College:
VivianaRangil, Professor of Spanish, Director of Latin American Studies Program, Director of Self Instructional Language Program, World Languages and Literatures ()
Areas of interest:Role of food in daily lives, esp. culture and identity. Study of food in Mexico, Puerto Rico and New York and impacts on Latino and US cultures.
Proposed project topic:Food, religion and culture/identity.

Skidmore College:
ElizabethMacy, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Music ()
Areas of interest:
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Union College:
JenniferMatsue, Associate Professor of Music, Music ()
Areas of interest:Ethnomusicologist specializing in modern Japanese music and culture; women's roles in music making. Plans trip to Indonesia.
Proposed project topic:

Union College:
CarolWeisse, Director of Health Professions, Medicine ()
Areas of interest:Medical phychologist interested in end of life care, especially "homes for the dying" developed in Rochester area.
Proposed project topic:Palliative care models and community-based learning. I think my initial approach may have been too narrow (community based learning in comfort care homes) but now realize that palliative care/end of life care can be approached from many disciplines. The

Union College:
ZhenZhang, Assistant Professor of Chinese, Modern Languages and Literature ()
Areas of interest:Chinese language and literature, film and cultural studies. Consumer culture, contemporary China and globalization.
Proposed project topic:Impact of rapid urban development on China's people; sustainability of economic development.

Union College:
MeganFerry, Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies, Modern Languages and Literature ()
Areas of interest:
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