Spring 2002 - Haverford College

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Bill Davidon, emeritus professor of
mathematics, co-authored the article “A
characterization of convexity-preserving
maps from a subset of a vector space into
another vector space,” which appeared in
Vol. 64 of the Journal of the London
Mathematical Society.
Four professors have been awarded
Mellon New Directions fellowships: Doug
Davis, professor of psychology; Richard
Freedman, professor of music; Deborah
Roberts, Barbara Riley Levin Professor of
Classics and Comparative Literature; and
Robert Scarrow, associate professor of
chemistry. Mellon New Directions fellowships
allow these faculty members to take
one-semester leaves to explore new directions
in teaching, research or other forms
of engagement deemed critically important
to institutional goals.
Professor of Religion John David
Dawson’s book, Christian Figural Reading
and the Fashioning of Identity, was published
by University of California Press. The book
analyzes the practice and theory of “figural”
reading in the Christian tradition of
Biblical interpretation. Dawson is also a
contributor to Cambridge University Press’
Cambridge History of Early Christian
Literature; his chapter explores Christian
literature in the third century.
Assistant Professor of Religion Kenneth
Koltun-Fromm’s book, Moses Hess and
Modern Jewish Identity, is a co-winner of
the Koret Foundation Jewish Book Award
in Jewish Philosophy and Thought. The
Koret Foundation awards a prize in four
categories (Fiction, Biography and
Autobiography, History, and Philosophy
and Thought) to heighten visibility of the
best new Jewish books and authors. Also,
Koltun-Fromm’s article “Imagining Moses:
The Burden and Blessing of Reading
Freud’s Moses and Monotheism,” was published
in the most recent edition of Jewish
Book World.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Danielle Macbeth wrote the chapter “Frege
and Early Wittengenstein on Logic and
Language” for the book From Frege to
Wittgenstein: Perspectives on Early Analytic
Philosophy, published by Oxford University
Press. In March, Macbeth also chaired an
Invited Paper Session on the Philosophy
of Language on “Demonstrating Necessity”
at the American Philosophical Association’s
Pacific Meeting in Seattle.
Wyatt MacGaffey, Emeritus John R.
Coleman Professor of Social Sciences, contributed
a chapter entitled “Twins, Simbi
Spirits and Iwas in Kongo and Haiti” for
the book Central Africans and Cultural
Transformations in the American Diaspora,
published by Cambridge University Press.
Associate Professor of English Rajeswan
Mohan presented “Modernist Literary
Landscapes and the Imperial Unconscious”
at the 20th Century Literature Conference
in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 22-24.
Judith Owen, Elizabeth Ufford Green
Professor in the Natural Sciences, has
received a National Science Foundation
RUI grant for her research, “m-survivin
Expression in Differentiating Lymphocytes.”
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Mathematics Keith Pardue attended the
Annual National Meeting of the American
Mathematical Society, Jan. 6 through 9 in
San Diego and presented two invited papers:
“Syzygies of Semi-Regular Sequences” and
“Generic Sequences of Polynomials.”
Deborah Roberts, Barbara Riley Levin
Professor of Classics and Comparative
Literature, gave a contributed paper on
translations of Petronius as part of a seminar
on translation at the American
Philogical Association’s annual convention
in Philadelphia, Jan. 3-6.
Walter F. Smith, associate professor of
physics, presented his paper “Shadow
Mask Evaporation and its Application in
Nano-electronics” at the March meeting
of the American Physical Society in
Indianapolis. The paper, of which Smith
is co-author, describes a method for making
clean electrical contacts to such macromolecules
as DNA and carbon nanotubes.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Wendy Sternberg was awarded a National
Institutes of Health grant for her work in
“Analgesia Induced by Athletic
Competition.”
Martha Wintner, senior lecturer in
English, will retire this spring after more
than 30 years at Haverford. The College
will celebrate the careers of both Wintner
and her husband, Claude, adjunct professor
of chemistry who retired several years
ago, with a reception and the commemorative
planting of two willow trees by the
duck pond.
Associate Professor of English Christina
Zwarg published two articles in two leading
academic journals. “Du Bois on
Trauma: Psychoanalysis and the Would-
Be Black Savant” appeared in Cultural
Critique, Vol. 51. “Work of Trauma: Fuller
and Emerson on the Border of Ridicule”
was included in Vol. 41, Issue 1 of Studies
in Romanticism.
McBride Joins IA Staff
Brenna McBride joined the Institutional
Advancement staff on January 21. As the
chief writer for the Marketing and
Communications department, she is
responsible for generating stories for this
magazine, as well as press releases, newsletter
copy, and items for the College’s website.
She also develops stories for media
placement and works with reporters on
general College publicity, including student
and faculty achievements.
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McBride, a native of Philadelphia,
comes to Haverford from the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
in Washington, D.C., where she was assistant
manager of publications. Prior to the
Kennedy Center, she was a writer and editor
for University Publications at the
University of Maryland, College Park.
McBride is a 1996 graduate of Loyola
College. She earned her B.A. in Writing
and English and was a Dean’s List student.
Errata
Due to an editing error, a class note
from Alan Armstrong ’61 on page 38 of
the Winter 2002 issue contained a misspelling
of the name of the late Haverford
librarian Michael Freeman. It appeared in
the note as Friedman.
A class note on the same page referred
to Douglas Bennett ’68 as president of
Wesleyan College. He is president of
Earlham College.