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| Art and Art History | |
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Mary Ann Calo,
Professor and Director of the Institute for the Creative and
Performing Arts 315-228-7590 |
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| Topics | Alain Locke |
| Visual Art and the Harlem Renaissance | |
| Critical Reception of African American Artists Between World Wars | |
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John Knecht,
Professor 315-228-7636 |
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| Topics | Screening of a Selection of my Experimental Video Art Works with Introduction and Questions and Answers. (I can expand this to include placing the work in context of modern/post-modern art and the history of the Avant Garde Video artist working with digital animation and painter.) |
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Judith Oliver
, Professor 315-228-7629 |
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| Topics | Women Artists in Medieval Germany |
| Gothic Illuminated Manuscripts | |
| Biology | |
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Kenneth Belanger,
Associate Professor 315-228-7870 |
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| Topics | Regulation of Protein Transport between the Nucleus and Cytoplasm of Eukaryotic Cells |
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Frank M. Frey,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7871 |
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| Topics | Maintenance of Floral-Color Variation (pollinators, herbivores, and pathogens) |
| Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Flower Production | |
| Evolution of Floral Symmetry | |
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Randy Fuller,
Professor 315-228-7393 |
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| Topics | Impact of frequent water releases from Abanakee Dam on the ecology of the Indian and Upper Hudson Rivers |
| Stream macroinvertebrate responses to algal and bacterial manipulations | |
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Timothy S. McCay,
Associate Professor 315-228-7705 |
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| Topics | Invasive, Exotic Species as a Symptom of Landscape Fragmentation |
| Species Interaction and Community Assembly: North American Shrew Communities | |
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Jason Meyers,
Assistant Professor 315-228-6468 Teaching Specialties: Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Stem Cell Biology, Developmental Biology |
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| Topics | Neural/Sensory System Development and Regeneration |
| Sensory Physiology | |
| Stem Cell Biology | |
| Biophysics | |
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Jeff Buboltz,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7210 |
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| Topics | Role of Cholesterol in Biological Membranes |
| Why all the Fuss about Interdisciplinary Science? | |
| Thermodynamics of Biological Membrane Formation and Stability | |
| Chemistry | |
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Roger S. Rowlett,
Professor and Chair 315-228-7245 |
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| Topics | Kinetics |
| Enzyme Mechanism | |
| Structural Biology of Carbonic Anhydrases | |
| From Spots to Molecules: A Protein X-ray Crystallography Primer | |
| Is Nature Stuck in a Rut? Convergent Evolution of the Carbonic Anhydrases as revealed by Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the Beta-Enzyme | |
| The Two Faces of E: Evidence for an Allosteric Bicarbonate Binding Site in H. influenzae beta-Carbonic Anhydrase | |
| Protein Engineering | |
| Enzyme Kinetics | |
| X-ray Crystallography | |
| Plant and Bacterial Carbonic Anhydrases | |
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Ernie Nolen,
Professor 315-228-7234 |
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| Topics | Synthesis of Glycosyl Amino Acid Mimics |
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Ephraim Woods III,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7237 |
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| Topics | Physical Chemistry of Tropospheric Aerosols |
| Economics | |
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Piyush Chandra,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7539 Research Interests: International Trade, Political Economy of Trade Policy. Teaching Specialties: International Economics |
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| Topics | WTO Accession |
| Trade Policy | |
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Jay R. Mandle,
W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics 315-228-7960 Research Interests: Economic Globalization, Econimics of Democracy Teaching Specialties: Economic Development |
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| Topics | Globalization and the Poor |
| Reforming Political Campaign Financing | |
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Nicole B. Simpson,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7991 |
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| Topics | Public Education Expenditures, Taxation and Growth |
| A Comparison of Mexican Migrants across U.S. Regions | |
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Chad Sparber,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7967 |
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| Topics | Racial Diversity and Macroeconomic Productivity |
| Educational Studies | |
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John D. Palmer,
Assistant Professor 315-228- 7291 |
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| Topics | When Race and Culture Collide: Identity Lullabies, Awakenings, and Journeys of Korean Adoptees |
| I Want to be Like White: Reflections of Korean American Adoptees | |
| Race, Racism, and White Privilege (theory) | |
| English | |
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Michael Coyle,
Professor 315-228- 7264 |
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| Topics | T.S. Eliot's Radio Broadcasts |
| Jazz and Modernist tradition | |
| Environmental Studies | |
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Robert Figueroa,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7086 |
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| Topics | Environmental Justice |
| Environmental Ethics | |
| Critical Geography | |
| Critical Race Theory | |
| Climate Affairs | |
| Global Environmental Justice | |
| Environmental Identity | |
| Film and Media Studies | |
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Masha Salazkina,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7671 |
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| Topics | Sergei Eisenstein in Mexico |
| Mexican Renaissance and Soviet Avantgarde: Shared Histories and Divergent Trajectories: Socialist Realist Bollywood? | |
| Soviet-Indian Cinematic Co-Productions of the 1970s-1980s | |
| Neo-Baroque in Europe and the Americas: Comparative Genealogies | |
| Latin America in Soviet and European Cinema | |
| Geology | |
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Bruce W. Selleck,
H.O. Whithall Professor 315-228-7949 |
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| Topics | Climate Change in Cenozoic Alaska |
| Geochronology of Ancient Fault Systems in the Adirondacks | |
| Cold-climate Indicators in the Permian of New South Wales, Australia | |
| Seismic Pumping and Original of Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs | |
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Constance Soja,
Professor 315-288-7200 |
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| Topics | Microbial Contributions to Reef Evolution through Time |
| Assembling Alaska (Alaskan Paleontological Applications to Terrain Analysis) | |
| Dinosaur Egg Taphonomy | |
| History | |
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Antonio Barrera,
Associate Professor 315-228-7549 |
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| Topics | History of Science and the Spanish American Empire |
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R.M. Douglas,
Associate Professor 315-228-7073 |
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| Topics | Ervin Ross Marlin '30: Hamilton College's Hibernian Spy |
| The pro-Axis Underground in Ireland, 1939-42 | |
| 1945: Irish Fascism's High Tide | |
| Racial Doctrine and Irish Immigration in Britain Between the World Wars | |
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Andrew J. Rotter,
Professor 315-228-7513 |
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| Topics | Vietnam War |
| Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations | |
| U.S.-South Asia Relations 1945-1965 | |
| The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
| Mathematics | |
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Tom Tucker,
Professor 315-228-7738 |
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| Topics | Principles and Elements |
| Lagrange and the Enlightenment | |
| Music | |
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Marietta Cheng,
Professor 315-824-2748 |
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| Topics | Historical conductors |
| Women conductors | |
| Beethoven metronome markings | |
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Joseph Swain,
Associate Professor 315-228-7644 |
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| Topics | Taking the Broadway Musical Seriously |
| Why a Music Critic Listens to Cognitive Scientists | |
| An Introduction to Harmonic Rhythm | |
| How is Music Like Language (and so what if it is)? | |
| Philosophy | |
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Anne Ashbaugh,
Professor 315-228-6675 |
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| Topics | Why Invoke the Gods? (On gods and dialectic) |
| Reluctant Freedom: Socrates' Impersonation of the Laws in Crito | |
| Greek Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, and Skepticism | |
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Jonathan Jacobs,
Richard J. and Jean Head Professor of Philosophy, Director of Center
for the Arts and Humanities 315-228-7717 Research Interests: Responsibility for Character, Justification of Punishment, Judaism and Natural Law, Maimonides. Teaching Specialties: Moral Psychology, Metaethics, History of Medieval Philosophy. |
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| Topics | Character and Criminal Liability |
| Judaism, Natural Law and Moral Epistemology | |
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Jason Kawall,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7817 |
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| Topics | Defending Virtue Ethics from Recent Criticisms |
| Virtue Theory and Supererogation | |
| Complacency, Apathy, and Resignation (in particular, as environmental vices) | |
| Virtue Ethics | |
| Environmental Ethics | |
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Ulrich Meyer,
Assistant Professor 315-857-7136 |
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| Topics | Philosophy of Time |
| Laws and Counterfactuals | |
| Applied Mathematics | |
| Political Science | |
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Fred Chernoff,
Professor 315-228-7259 |
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| Topics | International Relations Theory |
| IR and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences | |
| National Security | |
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Mai'a K. Davis Cross,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7964 |
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| Topics | An EU Homeland Security? Sovereignty vs. Supranational Order |
| A European Epistemic Community of Diplomats | |
| Diplomacy in the European Union: A Foundation or Deficit for Democracy? | |
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Michael Johnston,
Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science 315-228-7756 |
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| Topics | Comparative Political Corruption |
| Development | |
| Democratization | |
| Reform in Developing Countries | |
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Barry Alan Shain,
Associate Professor 315-228-7965 |
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| Topics | Declaration of Independence |
| American Understanding of rights and Liberty in 18th Century | |
| Federalist Papers | |
| Conservative Political Thought | |
| Liberalism vs. Democracy | |
| Liberal Internationalism | |
| Common vs. Civil Law | |
| Psychology | |
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Kevin Carlsmith,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7399 |
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| Topics | The Psychological Motive for Punishment in Legal and Interpersonal Contexts |
| Religion | |
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Eliza Kent,
Associate Professor 518-482-1257 Research Interests: Religious Conversion; Gender and Religion; Environmentalism and Religion in India. Teaching Specialties: Hinduism; Religions of India; Gender and Religion; Health and Healing and Relligion |
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| Topics | Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and environmentalism in South India |
| Politics of Relilgious Conversion in India | |
| Romance Languages and Literatures | |
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John A. Gallucci,
Associate Professor 315-228-7285 |
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| Topics | Early French Travel Narratives and the writing of NYS History: The Example of Dr. Franklin B. Hough, Union College Class of 1843 |
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Fernando Plata,
Associate Professor of Spanish and Chair 315-228-7088 |
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| Topics | Qevedo, Calderon, Cervantes, Don Quijote |
| Russian Studies and Jewish Studies | |
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Alice Nakhimovsky,
Professor (no phone number available) |
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| Topics | Babel, Grossman, Appefeld |
| 20th Century Russian | |
| Russian-Jewish and Jewish Literatures | |
| Russian-Jewish Behaviors | |
| Russian-Jewish Foodways | |
| Russian-Jewish Jokes | |
| The Jewish Takeover of Russian émigré newspapers (obituaries) | |
| Sociology and Anthropology | |
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Janel Benson, Assistant Professor 315-228-6095 |
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| Topics | Transitions to Adulthood |
| Urban Education | |
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Christopher Henke,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7076 |
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| Topics | Science as Work/Profession |
| Science and the Law | |
| Scientists and the Environment | |
| The Agricultural Biotechnology Debates | |
| Culture and the Environment | |
| Emotional Labor in the Workplace | |
| Skill in the Workplace | |
| The Photo-Elicitation Interview | |
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Carolyn Hsu,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7083 |
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| Topics | People's Republic of China |
| Post-communist Transformation | |
| Rise of New Organizations and Institutions | |
| Entrepreneurship in China and Russia | |
| Market Ventures | |
| Rise of Charities and NGO's in Post-communist Societies | |
| Guanxi and Marketization | |
| Political Corruption | |
| Narrative Analysis and Qualitative Methods | |
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Paul Lopes,
Associate Professor 315-228-7553 |
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| Topics | Demanding Respect: Transforming the American Comic Book |
| From Low Brow to High Brow: The Modern Jazz Renaissance | |
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Louis Prisock,
Assistant Professor 315-228-7035 |
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| Topics | Black Conservatism |
| Trends in American Conservatism | |
| Race and Urban and Suburban Policies | |
| Theater | |
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Adrian Giurgea,
Director of the Theater Program 315-228-7631 |
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| Topics | Directing on Five Continents |
| Working Internationally | |
| Being a Russian Actor | |
| Theatre Directing | |
| Acting | |