Research @ Pace
A newsletter highlighting faculty research & scholarship
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Michelle Chase, PhD (History, PLV) is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Red Star Over Cuba: A Global History of Anti-Castroism After the Bay of Pigs.” Most studies of exile attempts to topple Fidel Castro focus on the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Professor Chase's research will show that Cuban exiles’ transnational anti-communist activism continued for the rest of the Cold War, and involved propaganda and paramilitary activities throughout Latin America and beyond. The project has received a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship. Her first article based on this book project was published last year in the Journal of Latin American Studies.
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Lee Evans, EdD (Pace School of Performing Arts) is former chairperson of Pace's Theater & Fine Arts (1993-9) and is currently professor of music the School of Performing Arts. Prolific author/composer/arranger of over 100 published music books in the U.S. and 38 in Japan, and nearly100 published music articles, pianist Evans concertized for ten consecutive seasons on the Community Concert circuit (Lee Evans Trio/Lee Evans Orchestra & Voices); as well as having served as music director/coordinator for such luminaries as Carol Channing, Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck, Cat Stevens and Emerson Lake & Palmer; and has recorded seven albums for Capitol, Command and M.G.M. Records. Evans's music publications include such representative book titles as Jazz Piano Scales & Exercises, Crash Course in Chords, Timeless Songs of Stephen Foster Harmonized Anew, Two Waltzes for Solo Piano, Jazz Baroque: Vivaldi/Bach, Rachmaninoff Art Songs Arranged for Solo Piano, Beautiful Art Songs For Solo Piano, More Incredibly Beautiful Art Songs For Solo Piano, Essential Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues With a Touch of Jazz, and Enchanting Piano Music of Anatoly Lyadov With a Touch of Jazz. Additionally, Evans is co-author of Keyboard Fundamentals 7th Edition (Stipes Publishing). His various publishers have also included Hal Leonard, FJH Music Company and SuperScore Music App. Most recently, Professor Evans published “American Folk Composer Stephen Foster”, co-authored with George Litterst, in Piano Guild Notes (Spring 2022).
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Charles North’s, MA (Poet-in-Residence, English, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) poetry collection “Everything and Other Poems” was chosen by “Bookworm” (a KCRW radio in L.A., one of the main forums/venues for literature of all kinds) for the list of Favorite Poetry Books of the Year. Bookworm also published an interview that Professor North did with the program host, Michael Silverblatt.
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Phillip Cohen, JD, LLM, MBA (Legal Studies and Taxation, Lubin School of Business) published "Thoughts Regarding the Application of the Step Transaction Doctrine to the Section 351 Control Requirement and Complex Media,Inc v. Commissioner" in the William & Mary Business Law Review, 13.2 (2022). There is no doubt of the many inconsistencies rendered by the Service and the courts in addressing the use of the step transaction to determine whether the control test under section 351 of the Internal Revenue Code has been satisfied when there had been dispositions connected with the initial contribution. Nevertheless, there are sound policy reasons for the application of this judicial canon in certain circumstances and that the prescription for remedying the problem proposed by one professor for the complete elimination of the doctrine’s utilization in this context, is unwarranted. The Article also considers the recent Tax Court decision, Complex Media, Inc. v. Commissioner, which addresses a different facet of section 351 control. The case involved, inter alia, the taxpayer’s successful attempt to invoke the step transaction doctrine to treat as boot, payments made to one of the partners of the transferor. Professor Cohen’s earlier article, “Zarin v. Commissioner Revisited and Some Methodologies for Determining COD Income” appears in the William & Mary Business Law Review 12.3 (2021).
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Joshua Cohen, PhD (Biology, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) published an article entitled “The paleoecology of the Late Miocene mammals from the Optima Local Fauna of Oklahoma, USA” in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67. 1 (2022). The Optima Local Fauna represents an important glimpse into the ecological transition between savannah and grassland during the late Miocene (Hemphillian) of what is now the southcentral Great Plains of North America. Though dominated by horses, herbivores from the Optima are morphologically diverse, bearing adaptations for both browsing and grazing lifestyles. Likewise, the carnivorans show similar ranges of size and presumed dietary behavior. In this study, we used carbonate isotope, mesowear, and tooth breakage and wear analyses to investigate the dietary complexity of mammals from a single site collected by the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Read the press release, the abstract, and the full article.
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Kristen di Gennaro, EdD (English, NYC, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences) presented a poster created with former student, Allison Fisher, at the American Association for Applied Linguistics annual conference. Their study, titled "Sorry, that's mauve, isn't it?: Current associations between language and gender," contributes to the robust body of research in the field of language and gender. Their results confirmed some gender-based linguistic associations (such as the use of tag questions and specific color terms) but challenged others (such as the use of "sorry"). They conclude that linguistic stereotypes work in concert with non-language stereotypes to potentially reinforce one another.
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Celebration of the Book and Performance Completion Award winners
April 27 at 3:30 p.m. - 5:00p.m.
On Wednesday, April 27, Pace University will honor the winners of the Book and Performance Completion Award with an event that features presentations by the faculty award winners and a panel discussion on book publishing. The award is sponsored by the Office of Research.
Welcoming Remarks
Avrom Caplan, Associate Provost for Research
Presentations by 2021- 2022 Book and Performance Completion Award Winners
Ana Amaya, Health Sciences
Michelle Chase, Economics, History, and Political Science
Kimberly Collica-Cox, Criminal Justice and Security
Andriy Danylenko, Modern languages and cultures
Amy Freedman, Political Science
Jennifer Hofmann, Physician Assistant Studies
Seong Jae Min, Communication Studies
Aditi Paul, Communication Studies
Gina Scutelnicu-Todoran, Public Administration
Ying Wang, Modern Languages and Cultures
Panel Discussion on book publishing
Jaya Chatterjee, Acquiring Editor, Yale University Press
Pamela Fuentes, Women’s and Gender Studies, Pace University
Fredric Nachbaur, Director, Fordham University Press
Eric Nelson, Vice President and Editorial Director, Broadside Books
Nancy Reagin, Professor of European History and Gender Studies, Pace University
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Faculty Recognition Ceremony
The Faculty Recognition Ceremony will take place on Zoom during the faculty council presentations of May 6 (PLV) and May 11 (NYC). The annual ceremony celebrates faculty who received tenure, scholarly and teaching awards as well as external and internal grants. Additional details to follow.
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Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) |
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As of April 4, 2022, Federal grant applicants who are registered with the System for Award Management (SAM) were assigned a Unique Entity Identifier (UEI) that will phase out the nine-character Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) Number on April 4, 2022. Learn how to find an applicant’s UEI within Grants.gov.
Pace's institutional information is available here.
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Support Spring 2022 Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Days!
The Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Days on May 5 (NYC) and PLV (May 6) will showcase undergraduates from across the schools and colleges who have engaged in faculty-mentored research and creative inquiry. Students will be presenting their scholarly and artistic work that resulted from a course-based research (or creative inquiry) assignment, a co-curricular project, an award program, or the fulfillment of the Senior Capstone or Honors College thesis requirement.
Join us for these in-person recognition events as part of an appreciative audience!
Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Day/NYC – Thursday, May 5, 2022
In-person 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry Day/PLV – Friday, May 6, 2022
In-person 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Prestigious Awards and Fellowships |
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The application for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is now open! The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Grant lengths and dates vary by country.
To be eligible for a Fulbright:
- Applicants must be citizens or nationals of the United States of America at the time of application. Permanent residents are not eligible.
- Applicants must have a conferred bachelor's degree or equivalent before the start of the grant.
- Applicants must meet the language requirements of the award to which they are applying and demonstrate sufficient competency to complete their project and adjust to life in the host country.
If you know of one or more students (current juniors, seniors, and alumni) who would be great candidates for the Fulbright, please reach out to Jenny Irwin, at jirwin@pace.edu by or before Friday, July 15, 2022.
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