Recent Faculty Publications

Dedicated teachers and mentors, Lafayette faculty also produce new knowledge in a broad range of fields.

Publications coauthored with students:

Yvonne M. Gindt, assistant professor of chemistry

(coauthors Katie Thoren ’06[B.S.chemistry], Katelyn Connell ’04 [B.S. biochemistry], Taylor Robinson ’06[B.S. biochemistry], David Shellhamer ’07[chemistry], and Margaret Tammaro ’08 [biochemistry]). “The Free Energy of Dissociation of Oligomeric Structure in Phycocyanin Is Not Linear with Denaturant.” Biochemistry 45 (2006): 12050-59.

Other recent publications:

Justin Corvino, assistant professor of mathematics

“Some Recent Results on the Einstein Constraint Equations.” Oberwolfach Reports 3.1 (2006): 83-87

Anthony M. Cummings, Provost

“The Motet.” In Studies in Renaissance Musical Culture, ed. James Haar. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, Ltd., 2006: pp. 130-56.

Lisa DeTora, assistant professor of English

(coauthors Harry L. Keyserling, Andrew J. Pollard, and Gregory P. Gilmet). “Experience with MCV-4, a Meningococcal, Diphtheria Toxoid Conjugate Vaccine Against Serogroups A, C, Y and W-135.” Expert Reviews of Vaccines 5.4 (2006): 445-59.

“Coming of Age in Suburbia: Sexual Violence, Consumer Goods and Identity Formation in Recent Young Adult Novels.” Modern Language Studies: Native Speaker 36.1 (2006): 24-35.

Bianca Falbo, associate professor of English

(coauthor William Carpenter). “Literacy, Identity and the ‘Successful’ Student Writer.” In Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education, ed. Bronwyn T. Williams. Logan: Utah State UP, 2006: pp. 92-108.

Bernard Fried, Kreider Professor Emeritus of Biology

(coauthors Rafael Toledo and José-Guillermo Esteban). “Immunology and Pathology of Intestinal Trematodes in Their Definitive Hosts.” Advances in Parasitology 63 (2006): 285-365.

Donald C. Jackson, professor of history

(coauthor David P. Billington). Big Dams of the New Deal Era: A Confluence of Engineering and Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006: Pp. 369.

Donald L. Miller, MacCracken Professor of History

Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006: Pp. 671.

John Kincaid, Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service

Rev. of Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution: Harmonizing Earth with Heaven, by Barbara Allen. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 36.4 (2006): 599-601.

Roxanne Lalande, professor of foreign languages and literatures

“L’École des femmes: Matrimony and the Laws of Chance.” In The Cambridge Companion to Moliére, ed. David Bradby and Andrew Calder. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006: pp. 165-76.

Steven Mylon, assistant professor of chemistry

(coauthors Haiying Hu and Gaboury Benoit). “Distribution of the Thiols Glutathione and 3-Mercaptopropionic Acid in Connecticut Lakes.” Limnology and Oceanography 51.6 (2006): 2763-74.

George Panichas, Hogg Professor and head of philosophy

“Simple Rape and the Risks of Sex.” Law and Philosophy 25 (2006): 613-61.

Robin Rinehart, associate professor of religious studies

“The Vedanta Society.” In Introduction to New and Alternative Religions in America, Volume 4: Asian Traditions, ed. Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2006: pp. 1-20.

Joshua Sanborn, associate professor of history

“Portsmouth, Treaty of.” In Europe, 1789 to 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, Volume 4, ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons (2006): pp.1837-38.

Diane Shaw, special collections librarian and College archivist

(coauthors Christine H. Messing, John B. Rudder). A Son and His Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette and George Washington. Mount Vernon: Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 2006: Pp. 139.

Joseph Sherma, Larkin Professor Emeritus of Chemistry

“A Field Guide to Instrumentation: pH Meters and Melting Point Apparatus.” Journal of AOAC International 89.4 (2006): 80A-84A.

Helena Silverstein, associate professor of government and law

“The Ground Game: Dismantling Rule of Law Ideology.” AMICI, Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association 13.1 (2006): 4-6.

(coauthor Wayne Fishman). “Justice Bypassed.” The American Prospect, Online Edition, 2006

Lorenzo Traldi, Metzgar Professor and head of mathematics

Rev. of Monotonicity of Degrees of Generalizde Alexander Polynomials of Groups and 3-Manifolds, by Shelly L. Harvey. Zentralblatt MATH Database 1931-2006: Zbl 1097-57002.

Rev. of Circular Chromatic Number and Mycielski Graphs, by Hongmei Liu. Zentralblatt MATH Database 1931-2006: Zbl 1096-05022.

Rev. of Studying the Multivariable Alexander Polynomial by Means of Seifert Surfaces, by David Cimasoni. . Zentralblatt MATH Database 1931-2006: Zbl 1097-57008.

(coauthor Joanna A. Ellis-Monaghan). “Parametrized Tutte Polynomials of Graphs and Matroids” Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 15 (2006): 835-54.

Lee Upton, professor of English and writer-in-residence

“100 Ways to Say ‘You’re Not Taking This as Well as I Hoped.” Nimrod International Journal 50.1 (2006): 85-87 [poem].

“And Maidens Call it Love-in-Idleness.” Poetry (July/August 2006): 331 [poem].

“The Moss Forest.” Ward 6 Review 1.1 (2006) [poem].

Andrew Vinchur, associate professor and head of psychology

(co-assoc. eds. Paul W. Thayer and Edwardo Salas). Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, ed. Laura L. Koppes. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007: Pp. 524

“A History of Psychology Applied to Employee Selection.” In Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007: pp.193-218.

(coauthor Laura L. Koppes). “Early Contributors to the Science and Practice of Industrial Psychology.” Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007: pp.37-58.

For previous publication listings, go to the Faculty Publications page.