Promotions

Promotions were approved for the following faculty members effective July 1, 2007:

Dr. In-Mee Baek to Professor of Economics

Dr. Jonathan Haughton to Professor of Economics

Dr. David Gansler to Associate Professor of Psychology

Prof. Wallace Marosek to Associate Professor of the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University

Tenure

Tenures were approved for the following faculty members effective July 1, 2007:

Dr. Craig Christensen, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Prof. Wallace Marosek, Associate Professor of the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University

Dr. Richard Miller, Associate Professor of English

Dr. Susan Orsillo, Associate Professor of Psychology

Prof. Wesley Savick, Associate Professor of Theater

Dr. Thomas Trott, Associate Professor of Biology

Dr. Dmitry Zinoviev, Associate Professor of Math and Computer Science

Sabbaticals

Sabbatical Leaves were approved for the following faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences for 2007-2008:

Professor Amy Agigian of the Sociology Department will research and publish a paper on the relationships, overlaps, and differences among and between two approaches to the psychosocial and emotional well-being of breast cancer patients.

Professor In-Mee Baek of the Economics Department will focus on the effects on emerging economies of financial developments in the markets of “dominant” economies such as the U.S.

Professor Darlene Chisholm of the Economics Department will focus on a project entitled “A Duration Analysis of Product Re-Design in the U.S. Motion Pictures Industry.” The purpose is to model the strategic interaction among motion-picture exhibitors in a major U.S. metropolitan market using state-of-the-art econometric techniques.

Professor Jennifer Fuchel of the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University plans to create a documentary film/video combining animation and live footage. She intends to explore the latest methods of digital creation.

Professor Lydia Martin of the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University plans to complete a series of fifteen to sixteen paintings entitled Loteria, based on a card game played by Mexican children.

Professor Quentin Miller of the English Department intends to concentrate on three projects. 1) Conduct a book-length study of James Baldwin in the context of law. 2) Author a reference volume article on Baldwin for The Companion to Twentieth Century U.S. Fiction. 3) Complete a novel in progress entitled Whiskey Flats.

Professor Dennis Outwater of the Philosophy Department will conduct research, interviews and expand further on “Grand Canyon Panology.” The research will produce a book of the same topic.

Professor Gerald Peary of the Communication and Journalism Department will put together a substantive collection of his best writings from 35 years as a film critic, tentatively entitled Judgment in the Dark.

Professor Gerald Richman of the English Department plans to work on the Annotated Bibliography of Fiction Set in Boston he has been compiling for the past twenty years.

Professor Jay Rosellini of the Humanities and Modern Languages Department will begin work on a fifth book tentatively entitled The Populist vs. the Poets: Haider, Jelinek, and the Austrian Cultural Wars. He will examine the conflicts between the Austrian extreme right and the left wing intellectuals.

Professor Wesley Savick of the Theater Department has three projects. 1) Direct a world premiere of Spring Forward/Fall Back by Robert Brustein. 2) Complete a stage adaptation of Donald Richie’s memoir, The Inland Sea. 3) Edit and submit five of his own works for publication, including two of his own adaptations, Rhinoceros and The Suicide, along with three of his original playscripts, Loss of Breath: The Unfinished Life and Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Shouting Theatre in a Crowded Fire and Waters Rising.

Professor Robert Webb of the Psychology Department plans to complete a book on “core affect.” The book is an attempt to pull together various sources where the nature of “core affect” has been studied and to make a comprehensive integration of them.