Scholarly Activities

• Dr. Frank L. Rusciano, professor of Political Science, presented a paper entitled “Consciousness Beyond Nations: The Emergence of the ‘Imagined International Community’” at the Workshop on Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge in a Global Age.  The invitation-only workshop, attended by international scholars, was held on June 17 and 18, 2007, at The Centre for the Study of Global Governance the London School of Economics in England. 
  
  Dr. Rusciano also presented a speech entitled “Towards a Notion of Global Community,” by invitation, at the Instituto de Relacao Internacionais at the Pontificia Univesidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 3, 2007.
  
  
• Dr. Ilhan Meric, professor of Finance; Sion Kim, assistant professor of Business Policy and Environment; and Joe H. Kim, associate professor of Marketing, had a paper entitled "Co-Movements of U.S., U.K., and Asian Stock Markets Before and After September 11, 2001" accepted for publication in the Journal of Money, Investment and Banking. Meric also had a second paper, co-authored with Charles W. McCall, associate professor of Economics, entitled "U.S. and Japanese Electronic and Electrical Equipment manufacturing Firms: A Comparison" accepted for publication in the International Bulletin of Business Administration. Both papers were co-authored with Gulser Meric, a professor of Finance at Rowan University.
  
  
• Dr. Richard Butsch, professor of Sociology, has authored a new book. In The Citizen Audience: Crowds, Publics, and Individuals, Butsch presents a study of audiences in the United States from the 19th century to the present. He illustrates that even as attitudes toward audiences have shifted over time, Americans have always judged audiences against standards of good citizenship. Through cultural criticism and media history, Butsch explores how audiences, media and entertainment function in the American cultural and political imagination. The Citizen Audience: Crowds, Publics, and Individuals is published by Routledge.
  
  Butsch also contributed to and edited Media and Public Spheres, a look at how media structure the public sphere, as well as how people participate through the media. Cases are presented through studies of print, recorded music movies, radio, television and the Internet. Media and Public Spheres is published by Palgrave Macmillan. 
  
  In addition, Butsch also had a previous work, Making of American Audiences, republished in Chinese in late 2007.

February

 

• Dr. Hernan Fontanet, assistant professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, had his book, Letras en fuga: el desexilio transatlántico imposible, published by the The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, N.Y.
  

• Dr. Stefan Dombrowski, professor of graduate education, and Karen Gischlar ’02, an alumna of Rider’s graduate School Psychology program, published the article, “Toward the establishment of a school district policy on child maltreatment,” in Education, Vol. 127 (2), pages 234-243, 2007. Gischlar is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in School Psychology at Lehigh University.
  
• Dr. Mary Poteau-Tralie, professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, had a chapter published in a collection of essays, Land and Landscapes in Francographic Literature:  Remapping Uncertain Territories.  The chapter title is:  "Landscape, Identity, and Sexuality:  Tituba as Candide in ‘Moi, Tituba, Sorcière....Noire de Salem.’”  In addition, her review of the first English translation of Balzac's The Centenarian: Or, The Two Beringhelds was published in the Fall-Winter issue of Nineteenth Century French Studies.
  
• Dorothy Warner, professor-librarian, and J. Drew Procaccino, associate professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems, published in the Journal of Health Communication, Volume 12, Issue 8 December 2007, pages 787 – 814. Given the advantages of using the Web for health-information-seeking and a survey result that says women are more likely to use the Web as a channel to locate health information, the authors explored the health-information-seeking process and behavior of women who use the Web to seek such information. Although based on previously collected data, this paper represents an extension of the earlier analysis, with its focus on women, who at least to some extent, seek healthcare information via the Web (Web user), a topic not thoroughly addressed in the earlier study. However, Web users did not report that finding health information from any channel was noticeably easier.