Ginsberg Named to Teaching
Post at Belgian University
Professor of Government Roy H. Ginsberg
has been appointed the 2002-03
Glaverbel Chair in European Politics at the Catholic University of
Louvain in Belgium.
During the coming academic year, Ginsberg will present a series of
lectures on U.S.-European relations to graduate students at the university's
Institute for European Studies. He will cover U.S.-European relations
with regard to trans-Atlantic security and economic issues, as well
as the war on terrorism, the Middle East crisis, proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction, the new round of world trade talks, Russian
and Chinese integration into the world economy, and the eastern and
southern enlargement of the European Union.
Ginsberg has been a visiting professor or research fellow at New York
University, Johns Hopkins University, the European Commission, and
the Center for European Policy Studies, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
He has submitted testimony on trans-Atlantic relations to Congressional
committees; consulted for the federal departments of State, Education,
and Defense; and co-founded and chaired the European Union Studies
Association.
The author of numerous works on the EU's foreign policies, Ginsberg
most recently wrote The European Union in International Politics:
Baptism by Fire (Roman and Littlefield, 2001).
Hallenbeck Named Associate AD
Women's field hockey and lacrosse coach
Beth Hallenbeck has been appointed associate athletic director by
Jeff Segrave, interim athletic director. Hallenbeck will step down
as head women's lacrosse coach but remain with the lacrosse program
as assistant coach. She will continue to serve as head field hockey
coach and senior women's administrator for the athletic program.
Mark McCormick will take over the position of head women's lacrosse
coach and continue as assistant field hockey coach.
Hallenbeck has been in charge of Skidmore's field hockey and women's
lacrosse programs since 2001, following a decade as the head field
hockey and women's lacrosse coach at Rensselaer. She guided the
Skidmore field hockey team to the 2001 National Collegiate Athletic
Association Division III national semifinals.
McCormick is in his second year at Skidmore. Last year he served
as assistant field hockey coach, assistant women's lacrosse coach,
and administrative intern. He previously was an assistant women's
lacrosse and field hockey coach at Rensselaer.
Award-Winning Poet to Give Reading on Campus
Saul Bennett, a national award-winning
poet and father of a Skidmore graduate who died suddenly at age
24, will read from his work at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, at Emerson
Auditorium in Palamountain Hall on campus.
As an undergraduate, Sara Bennett ’92 was on the staff of
The Skidmore News, was a sports columnist and reporter for The
Saratogian, and was a campus stringer for The New York
Times. She was a feature writer at TV Data in Queensbury when
she died. Sara’s death in 1994 from a brain aneurysm propelled
her father into poetry from his position as president of a Madison
Avenue public relations group. Bennett’s first poems were published
in a variety of journals and his first collection, New Fields
and Other Stones/On a Child’s Death, a chronology of poems
addressing life following Sara’s death, was selected to begin
a new publishing imprint, Archer Books, in 1998, and subsequently
won the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award.
In one periodical the reviewer wrote of New Fields and Other
Stones: “Bennett creates a unique idiom. And yet also shows
the fingerprints of a tradition -- the work of e.e. cummings, Gerard
Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams -- even John Donne. Like
all great poetry, these poems connect with something larger.”
Bennett’s second collection, Harpo Marx at Prayer (Archer
Books, 2000) was the subject of a major article in The New York
Times, and the fabled 92nd Street Y in New York City invited
Bennett to conduct walking tours, under its aegis, to his “growing-up”
neighborhood in the borough of Queens, to the sites of a number
of the poems in Harpo.
Bennett’s poems have been posted on various websites, and he
has been invited to read his poems for public radio, television,
colleges, libraries, cultural centers, coffee houses, bookstores,
places of worship, and at meetings of bereavement organizations.
He has been a host and featured reader at the annual Woodstock Poetry
Festival.
Bennett and his wife, Joan, live in Woodstock.
In the News
Members of the Skidmore community have recently shared their expertise
with readers of a number of mainstream publications, including the
following:
Sandy Baum,
professor of economics, was included in an August 2002 article published
in Kiplinger's Personal Finance on Tennessee's new prepaid
tuition plan.
Peg Boyers,
executive editor of Salmagundi, was a guest on "Bard's
Eye View," a program on WAMC-FM, a National Public Radio affiliate
in Albany. She shared poems from her new book, Hard Bread,
and was interviewed by program host Paul Elisha.
Robert Boyers,
Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters and professor of English, had
a letter to the editor responding to an essay by Amartya Sen published
in the July 29, 2002 edition of The New Republic. In that
same issue, Boyers reviewed The Melancholy of Resistance
by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (translated by George Szirtes and published
this year by New Directions).
Versailles, the new novel by Professor of English Kathryn
Davis, is an "elegant, idiosyncratic
novel," according to The New Yorker in its Aug. 19,
2002, issue. The book also received a favorable review in the Aug.
4 edition of The
New York Times Book Review.
Roy Ginsberg
and Steven Hoffmann,
professors of government, each were interviewed on "Roundtable,"
a program airing on WAMC-FM. Ginsberg discussed right-wing politics
in Europe in a May 23 appearance during which he fielded calls from
listeners; Hoffmann spoke on the continuing discord between India
and Pakistan in a June 27 interview.
Charles M. Joseph,
interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty,
and professor of music, saw his new book, Stravinsky & Balanchine:
A Journey of Invention, receive positive critiques in The
New York Times Book Review (Aug. 4, 2002), and in The
Boston Globe (Aug. 25, 2002).
Flip Phillips,
assistant professor of psychology, was quoted in an article in Salon.com
(May 15, 2002) on Stephen Wolfram, who developed the computer program
Mathematica. Phillips is editor of the Mathematica Journal.
Sheldon Solomon,
professor of psychology, was a guest July 31 on National Public
Radio's "Talk of the Nation." Solomon was one of several
guests interviewed by host Neal Conan on the subject of the coal
miners trapped in Pennsylvania and the group dynamics that enable
people to work together under pressure in disastrous situations.
All guests on the program took calls from public.
Mary Zeiss Stange,
associate professor of women's studies and religion, contributed
an opinion essay titled "Abductions highlight another security
threat," Aug. 26 to USA Today. She appeared Aug. 26
on Wisconsin Public Radio and on the Michael Medved Show.
Stange also had an essay titled "The Political Intolerance
of Academic Feminism" published in the June 21, 2002, issue
of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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