Shana Bernstein, assistant professor of history, presented a paper titled "Collaborating against Conservatism: Jewish-Mexican American Civil Rights Coalitions in Cold War Los Angeles," at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association at Stanford University Aug. 4.

Maria Lowe, associate professor of sociology, served on the advisory board for the American Sociological Association Honors Program at the annual meeting.

Elizabeth Green Musselman, associate professor of history, will present a paper on the hunting-and-gathering lifestyle of imperial-age naturalists at a workshop at Cambridge University Sept. 14-16. The participants in the workshop, which is titled "Beyond Deconstruction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge," will consider how, in the wake of postcolonial critique, we might still glean some information about colonized people from European travel narratives.

Sandi Nenga and Edward L. Kain co-edited the 4th edition of Innovative Techniques for Teaching Sociological Concepts. This was published in August and is available from the American Sociological Association. They co-led a workshop on this topic at the ASA meetings in Montreal. At the same meetings, Kain presented a plenary session in a pre-conference workshop for senior faculty, co-led a workshop on preparing for a department review, assisted with the orientation of students in the ASA Honors Program, co-led a workshop for directors of graduate studies on mentoring graduate students who want to get a job in a liberal arts institution, and co-led a training session on guidelines for successful joint sociology/anthropology programs.

Eric Selbin, professor of political science, published "Elites, Intellectuals, and Revolutionary Leadership," in James DeFronzo, ed., Revolutionary Movements in World History: From 1750 to the Present.

August 18, 2006

Maha Zewail Foote, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received a $35,000 grant from the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. The grant will enable her to initiate a research program on "The Role of Oxygen in Photoinduced DNA Damage."

Glada Munt, director of intercollegiate athletics, has been named the National NCAA Division III Athletic Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators. She will accept her award in October in Sacramento, Calif.

Barbara Boucher Owens was invited to attend the 2006 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit held at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Wa., July 17 and 18. The Summit is an opportunity for academic researchers and teachers to join with Microsoft researchers and product group engineers and architects for presentations and discussions of computing problems and research trends.