For the Record, Dec. 15, 2004

Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, Mothers, Lovers and Others: The Short Stories of Julio Cort·zar, State University of New York Press Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture.

Publications

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, book review of T.H. Breen’s The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, for EH.NET [www.eh.net/bookreviews/title.php].

David M. Stone, associate professor of art history, "Pitture del Merisi per la Sacra Religione," pages 66-79, Part II of "Caravaggio in bianco e nero: arte, cavalierato e l’Ordine di Malta (1607-1608)," in Caravaggio: l’ultimo tempo (1606-1610), editor N. Spinosa, exhibition catalog, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples: Electa Napoli, 2004, pages 61-79; also catalog entries on Caravaggio’s Malta paintings (with K. Sciberras), pages 114-115, 119-121. All to appear in English in: Caravaggio, The Final Years, exhibition catalog, The National Gallery, London, 2005; "Caravaggio and International Caravaggism," in Europe 1450 to 1789, Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, six vols., New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004, vol. one, pages 382-388. Preface to La Scuola del Guercino, ed. E. Negro, Modena: Artioli, 2004.

Rudi Matthee, professor of history, “The Safavid-Ottoman Frontier: Iraq-I ’Arab as Seen by the Safavids,” in International Journal of Turkish Studies, vol. 9, no. 1-2, pages 157-173; “Anti-Ottoman Concerns and Caucasian Interests: Diplomatic Relations between Iran and Russia under Shah ’Abbas I (1587-1629),” in Safavid Iran and the World, pages 101-128, University of Utah Press; and “The Safavid Mint of Huwayza: The Numismatic Evidence,” in Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East, pages 265-291, E.J. Brill, Leiden.

Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, “Una ExtraÒa Maternidad: Madame Francinet en ‘Los Buenos Servicios,’” in Cuadernos Literarios, vol. 2, no. 3, pages 71-83.

Linda Pellecchia, associate professor of art history, “Untimely Death, Unwilling Heirs: The Early History of Giuliano da Sangallo’s Unfinished Palace for Giuliano Gondo,” in Mitteilungen des Kunsthisorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol. 47, pages 75-115, 2004.

Presentations

Linda Pellecchia, associate professor of art history, “Aesop’s Fables and Emblematic Sculpture in the Gondi Palace in Florence,” at Renaissance Sculpture Conference, Nov. 11-13, Athens, Ga.; “Places of Delight: Gardens in the Italian Renaissance,” at Fitchburg State College and the Center for Italian Culture, Oct. 7, Fitchburg, Mass.

Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, “The Tango and a French Prostitute: Cort·zar’s Ploys in his Search for Identity and Homosociability in ‘Un Got·n Para Lautrec,’” at Latin American Studies Association 2004 Congress, Oct. 7-9, Las Vegas; “Abandoned Woman/Abandoned Nation in the Stories of Julio Cort·zar: Inscribing Guilty Identity on the Female Body,” at Congreso Internacional de Estudios Transatlanticos Recargando Identidades/Recharging Identities, April 16, Brown University, Providence, R.I.

Monica Dominguez Torres, assistant professor of art history, “Negotiating Identities: Chivalry and Antiquity at San Miguel Ixmiquilpan,” at 27th International Colloquium of Art History, January, Veracruz, Mexico; “The Exotic, the Native and the Ornamental Grotesque in Renaissance Spain,” at Renaissance Society of America annual conference, October, New York City; “Arma Indorum: Heraldry and Military Display at San Miguel Ixmiquilpan (Hidalgo, Mexico),” at 16th Century Studies Conference, Toronto.

Lillian T. Wang, GIS specialist/cartographer, Delaware Geological Survey, “Application of GIS in Geologic Mapping, 1:100,000 Surficial Geologic Map of Delaware,” at GIS Night, Lake Forest High School, Felton, Del., Nov. 18, and at Delaware Valley Geographic Association annual autumn meeting, Dec. 3, West Chester, Pa.

Chandra Reedy, professor of museum studies, “Information Potential of Thin-Section Analysis of Clay Core Materials from Khmer Bronzes,” at University of California-Los Angeles and Los Angeles County Museum of Art invitation-only conference on Southeast Asian sculpture, Dec. 4, Los Angeles.

Rudi Matthee, professor of history, “Blinded by Power: The Rise and Fall of Fath ’Ali Khan Daghestani, Grand Vizier under Shah Soltan Hoseyn Safavi (1715-1730),” at fifth biennial conference on Iranian studies, May, Bethesda, Md.; “Wine in Early Modern Iran: Between Excess and Abstinence,” at Austrian Academy of Sciences, June, Vienna; and “Basra and the Persian Gulf, 1500-1800,” at Gulf 2000 Conference on the Persian Gulf, November, Limassol, Cyprus. He also presented the presidential address at second biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, April, Yerevan, Armenia; and in the same capacity as president hosted a reception for Shireen Ebadi, the Iranian 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, in May at the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C.

David M. Stone, associate professor of art history, “Caravaggio’s Self-Portraits,” at University of Malta, June 8; and “Signature Killer: Caravaggio’s Bloodiest Conceit,” in Baroque Art Open Session, College Art Association annual conference, February, Seattle.

Honors

Karl W. BÆer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics and Solar Energy, was presented the World Renewable Energy Network Pioneer Award at the World Renewable Energy Congress VIII, Sept. 1, Denver.

Service

Sheldon D. Pollack, professor of business and economics, has been appointed to the audit committee of the American Association of University Professors in Washington, D.C.

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