Jeffrey Cohen, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of political science, has been awarded a Visiting Senior Research Scholar Fellowship from the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton for the academic year 2008-2009.

Mary Beth Combs, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of economics, received a grant to attend the Folger Faculty Weekend Seminar on “Connections, Trust, and Causation in Economic History” on March 7 and 8 in Washington, D.C.

Yvette Christiansë, Ph.D., A&S,
associate professor of English, has been nominated for the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her novel Unconfessed (Other Press, 2006).

Lewis Freeman, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of communication and media studies, has received a grant from the ECA Urban Communication Foundation for Translational Research for his project, “Communicating ‘Urban’ in an Environmental Magnet Elementary School.”

Elizabeth A. Johnson, Ph.D., A&S,
distinguished professor of theology, received an honorary doctoral degree on April 13 from Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada.

Sonia Katyal, LAW,
associate professor of law, received a grant by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for her upcoming book, Anti-Branding, to be published in 2009. Katyal is the first law professor to receive a grant through The Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Kathleen P. King, Ed.D., GSE,
professor of education, gave an address at the American Educational Research Association Symposium on March 27 in New York. The speech, “Empowerment and Development of Voice: Learner and Workplace Transformation Through Professional Development and Democratic Processes,” was given with Steven D’Agustino, Ph.D., director of Fordham’s Regional Educational Technology Center. King also was the keynote speaker and presenter on March 15 at Oakland University in Rochester, Minn. for its instructional technology faculty development conference.

Joseph Lawton, A&S,
clinical associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts, shot a photograph of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger that became the cover image for Cardinal Lustiger’s book, The Promise (Eerdmans, 2007).

James R. Lothian, Ph.D. BUS,
distinguished professor of finance and director of the Frank J. Petrilli Center for Research in International Finance, delivered his paper “The Behavior of Money, Prices and Exchange Rates across Exchange-Rate Regimes and Purchasing Power Parity: Three Natural Experiments,” at the XVI International Tor Vergata Conference on Banking and Finance in Rome in December, at University College Cork in February and at the CUNY Graduate Center in March.

Mark Naison, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of African and African American Studies and history, and principal investigator of the Bronx African American History Project (BAAHP), delivered introductory remarks, “What Makes the Bronx African American History Project Unique” for a BAAHP panel at the Organization of American Historians’ annual convention on March 28 in New York City.

Francis Petit, Ed.D., GSE,
assistant dean and director of executive programs for the Graduate School of Education, and Patrick Montana, Ph.D., visiting professor of management systems, published “Motivating Generation X and Y on the Job and Preparing Z,” in the March 2008 issue of NACE Journal from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Brian Purnell, Ph.D., A&S,
assistant professor of African American studies, delivered a paper, “The Bronx is a Bomb and it’s Ready to Explode: Racial Tensions, Changing Neighborhoods, and Violent Reactions Toward Civil Rights Activism During the Summer of 1963,” at the Organization of American Historians’ annual convention on March 28 in New York City.

Christopher Rodgers, ADM,
dean of students at Fordham College at Rose Hill, presented “Student Success and Retention in College” as part of a panel at the March 13 meeting of the College Access Consortium of New York.

Brian Rose, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of communication and media studies, has written “All the World’s an Electronic Stage: The Metropolitan Opera Ventures into the Media Future,” which appears in the Winter 2008 issue of Television Quarterly.

Harold Takooshian, Ph.D., A&S,
professor of psychology, was part of a March 27 symposium that saluted the contributions of Fordham psychology professor Anne Anastasi (1908-2001). The symposium, which took place at the 2008 meeting of the American Educational Research Association, also included Vincent Alfonso, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs for the Graduate School of Education, and Howard Everson, Ph.D., professor of psychometrics.