Faculty Blog

Dr. Anthony J. Sebok
Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Settlement Plan Drafted for Sept. 11 Lawsuits 
The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2010

Dr. David Pelcovitz
Chair in psychology and education, Azrieli Graduate School of Education and Administration
Shul to hold Internet conference at Twitter 
Jweekly.com, Feb. 4, 2010

Dr. Joshua Nosanchuk
Associate professor of medicine and microbiology and immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Resident helps develop new way to treat bacteria 
NorthJersey.com, Feb. 4, 2010

Dr. Claire Bastie
Assistant Professor, Department of Endocrinology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Scientists find new way to lose fat 
UPI.com, Feb. 3, 2010

Dr. Daniel Laufer
Associate professor of marketing, Sy Syms School of Business
Confusion over Toyota accelerates 
CNN.com, Feb. 3, 2010

Dr. Silke Aisenbrey, assistant professor of sociology at Yeshiva College, recently published an article entitled, "Is There a Career Penalty for Mothers' Time Out? A Comparison of Germany, Sweden and the United States" in Social Forces, a leading sociology journal. The article focuses on the three countries and their distinct policies toward motherhood and work and investigates how the parental leave policies in these countries work with regard to (a) fostering mother’s labor market attachment; (b) securing mother’s status as labor market insiders during employment interruption; and (c) buffering the negative career consequences resulting from mothers’ time out. 

Dr. Lee Manion, assistant professor of English at Stern College for Women, recently published "The Loss of the Holy Land and Sir Isumbras: Literary Contributions to Fourteenth-Century Crusade Discourse," Speculum 85.1 (January 2010): 65-90. His essay "Sovereign Recognition: Contesting Political Claims in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and The Awntyrs of Arthure" will be forthcoming in January 2012 in Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Robert Sturges. Dr. Manion recently presented a paper entitled "Courts at War: Anglo-Scottish Politics and 'Maistri' in Barbour's The Bruce and Golagros and Gawane" at the Modern Language Association Conference in Philadelphia (2009), and will present a paper entitled "Chaucer and Italian Matter in Scotland: The Tale of Melibee, Humanist Rhetoric, and Political Thought in John Ireland's Meroure of Wysdome" at the Congress of the New Chaucer Society in Siena, Italy in July 2010.

Dr. Joy Ladin, the David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Stern College for Women, recently published Transmigration: Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, Fall 2009). She has also published a number of poems and other pieces, including: "The God Thing" in Prairie Schooner, 83.4 (Winter 2009): 55-7; "The Velveteen Woman" in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Vol 31, Nos. 1 & 2: 316-44; "The Other Side of the Wall" in Moment, January/February 2010; "Meeting Her Maker: Emily Dickinson’s God" reprinted in the "Sample Academic Essays" section of The Essentials of Academic Writing, Second Edition by Derek Soles, Wadsworth Cengage, 2010; "`What I Assume You Shall Assume': Democracy, Walt Whitman's First "Leaves Of Grass" and the Future of American Poetry" in The Poetry of Walt Whitman: New Critical Perspectives, Ed. Kanwar Dinesh Singh, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2009, 14-31; "Intake Interview" in AJN, American Journal of Nursing, Vol. 109, issue 7 (July 2009): 72; "Somewhere Between Male and Female," "Losing Your Breasts," "9th and 2nd," "And Sometimes the Death" and "New Year, New Body" in American Poetry Review, 38.6 (November/December 2009): 38-9; "The Poet on the Poem: `New Year, New Body’" in American Poetry Review, 38.6 (November/December 2009): 38-9; "Writing You" in Picayune Literary Review, 2009: 37; "Respiration," "And Sometimes the Death," "Hotel Room," "Feeding the Corpse," "Miss Death" and "Post Mortem" in BAP Quarterly, Vol. 4, number 10 (Winter 2009); "Build a Better Salad" in Two Hawks Quarterly, 2.2 (Winter 2009); "The Siren in the Mirror" in FutureCycle, 4 (November 2009): 40-1; "Secrets" in Fringe, July 30, 2009; "Somewhere Between Male and Female," "When You Leave Your Children" and "The Soul at 14th and 2nd" in A Bintel Blog, The Forward, October 2, 2009 and "Apotheosis" in Mima’amakim, 8 (2009): 15-16.

Orthodox Jews in America by Dr. Jeffrey S. Gurock, the Libby M. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History at Yeshiva University, has been selected as a finalist of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish Studies. The book was selected by a panel of three judges who are all authorities in their field. The National Jewish Book Awards, now in its 59th year, is the longest-running program of its kind in North America. The presentation of the National Jewish Book Awards will be held at a gala ceremony, open to the public, on Tuesday, March 9th at 7:30 p.m. at the Center for Jewish History.

Gurock's book was published by Indiana University Press. He is the author or editor of 13 books including Judaism’s Encounter with American Sports; A Modern Heretic and a Traditional Community: Mordechai M. Kaplan, Orthodoxy and American Judaism, which he co-authored with Jacob J. Schacter; American Jewish Orthodoxy in Historical Perspective, a compendium of 15 of his most important essays on the history of Orthodoxy in the United States; and American Jewish History, a 13-volume series that reproduces over 200 of the most important articles written in the field of American Jewish history, which he selected and edited.

Rev. Frederick J. Streets, the Carl and Dorothy Bennet Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, appeared on NY1's recent coverage on the counseling services offered to family members of victims of the Haiti earthquake. Rev. Streets, a former chaplain of Yale University and senior pastor of the University Church at Yale from 1992-2007, has specialized expertise in serving those affected by large-scale trauma. As a consultant to the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and in conjunction with the mental health community of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rev. Streets helped implement a model for the psychiatric and pastoral care of Bosnian citizens traumatized by war. He has also helped provide clinical education to physicians, public health, social service and religious staff dealing with those traumatized by war in  Kosovo, Cambodia and Japan.

Watch the NY1 media coverage here (Rev. Streets appears at 1:28).