the SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
 SUNY College at Old Westbury

 

Faculty Scholarship

 

On April 17, Prof. Blackstone will present his paper, "The Aggressive Spider: Webs of Meaning and the Return of Italian Tarentism," as part of the spring 2008 Faculty Brown Bag Research Colloquium Series.

 

On March 18, Prof. Barrett presented her research on youths tried as adults at the Common Study Programme on Criminal Justice and Critical Criminology at Middlesex University's London campus; Prof. Barrett also recently published a book review in Punishment & Society.

 

Four of the Sociology Department's faculty presented their research at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in New York: 

 
On Saturday, Feb 23, Prof. Blackstone presented "Arachne’s Children: The Metamorphosis of the Culture of Tarantism in the South of Italy and the Role of Music in Modern Exorcism," Rachel Kalish presented, " Social Context and the Effect of Adult Male Sexual Victimization, " and Diana Papademas presented "Global Empowerment of Children and Women Framed by the UN." On Friday, Feb 22, Jacob Heller presented "Narratives of Distrust: African Americans, HIV‐AIDS and Vaccines."

 

 

Click on a name or scroll down for details of individual research activity and scholarship.

Barrett | Blackstone | Heller | Milton | Papademas | Snedeker | Vaid | Zwerman | Caputo | Kalish
 

 

 

Carla Barrett,
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., City University of New York, 2007)
 Phone: (516) 876-3993
E-mail: barrettc@oldwestbury.edu
 

Conference Presentations:

Carla Barrett. “If You So Much as Spit on the Sidewalk: Constructing Juvenile Offenders in a NYC Criminal Court,” International Critical Criminology Conference, New York; May, 2007.

Carla Barrett. “Contradictions in Terms and Treatment: Trying Youths as Adults in a Criminal Court,” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA; August 2006.

 

Publications:

Barrett, Carla. 2008. Review of  Judging Juveniles: Prosecuting adolescents in adult and juvenile courts, by Aaron Kupchik, in Punishment & Society Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 81-83.

Lee Blackstone,
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2002)
 Phone: (516) 876-3992
E-mail: blackstonel@oldwestbury.edu
 

Conference Presentations:

Lee Blackstone. “Arachne’s Children: The Metamorphosis of the Culture of Tarantism in the South of Italy, and the
Role of Music in Modern Exorcism,” Eastern Sociological Society Conference, New York; February, 2008.

 

Publications:

Blackstone, Lee. 2005. “A New Kind of English: Cultural Variance, Citizenship and DiY Politics amongst the Exodus Collective in England,” Social Forces, Vol. 84, No. 2.

 

Jacob Heller,
Assistant Professor & Chair
(Ph.D., Sociology SUNY at Stony Brook, 2001)
 Building: AV , Room: C320
Phone: (516) 876-3336
E-mail: hellerj@oldwestbury.edu
websites: http://triton.oldwestbury.edu/~hellerj/,

 

Conference Presentations:

"Using ‘Path Dependency’ as a Method in Historical Research," Qualitative Methodology Panel, 101st American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada; August 2006.

"Learning to Think Critically: Debating as a full-class teaching activity," Teaching and Learning Roundtable, 100th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia; August 2005.


Publications:

Heller, Jacob. (forthcoming, 2008)  The Vaccine Narrative. Nashville TN: Vanderbilt University Press.

Heller, Jacob. 2005.  “Mobilizing Against Vaccination Mandates: The case of NY Assembly Bill 9988-A,” National Social Science Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 77-84.

 

Trevor Milton,
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. New School University, 2007 )
 Phone: (516) 876-3992
E-mail: miltont@oldwestbury.edu
 

Conference Presentations:

Milton, Trevor. (2007) “The Social Survival Kit: Alternative to Incarceration Programs for Juveniles in New York City,” American Sociological Association 102nd Annual Meeting, New York.

Diana Papademas,
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Sociology Syracuse University, 1979)
 Building: AV , Room: C311
Phone: (516) 876-3129
E-mail: papademasd@Oldwestbury.Edu


Conference Presentations:

Papademas, Diana. 2007. “United Nations NGO Challenges,” Sociologists for Women in Society, Summer 2007 Meeting, New York, New York, August 11.

Papademas, Diana. 2007. “Ethics in Visual Research,” Public Views of the Private/Private Views of the Public, Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association, New York University, August  10-12.

 

Publications:

Papademas, Diana, ed. (forthcoming) Human Rights and Media/Studies in Communication, volume 6,  UK: Elsevier.

Papademas, Diana, ed. 2002. Visual Sociology, 5th Edition, Washington DC: American Sociological Association.

 

George Snedeker,
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Sociology City University of New York, 1981)
 Building: AV , Room: C211
Phone: (516) 876-3993
E-mail: snedekerg@oldwestbury.edu

 

Conference Presentations:

Snedeker, George. 2004. “Literature as Critique: The Case of William S. Burroughs,” 74th Annual Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, New York, NY.


Publications:

Snedeker, George. 2004. The Politics of Critical Theory: Language/Discourse/Society. University Press of America.

Snedeker, George. 2001. “Defending the Enlightenment: Jürgen Habermas and the theory of communicative reason,” Dialectical Anthropology. Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4.

Naintara Vaid,
Assoc. Professor
(Ph.D. University of Southern California)
 Building: AV , Room: C322
Phone: (516) 876-3336
E-mail: vaidn@oldwestbury.edu

Conference Presentations:

Vaid, Naintara & Harvey Catchen. 2001. “An Evaluation of Supportive Housing Programs for Chronically Mentally Ill,” SUNY Farmingdale Conference - Diversity in Research in Society.

Vaid, Naintara. 1996. “Preferences of Urban Leaders for Agents of Social Change: The Case of Bihar?” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting and Silver Anniversary Conference, South Orange, NJ.

Gilda Zwerman,
Professor
(Ph.D., Sociology, New York University, 1982)
 Building: AV , Room: C312
Phone: (516) 876-3129
E-mail: zwermang@oldwestbury.edu
website: http://www.oldwestbury.edu/faculty_pages/zwerman/

 

Conference Presentations:

Zwerman, Gilda. 2006. “Black Power Comes to Brooklyn: Independent Organizations and Ideological Shift in the Ghetto, 1954-1968” 101st Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, Montreal, PQ, Canada.

Zwerman, Gilda & Patricia Steinhoff. 2001. “When Activists Ask for Trouble: State-dissident interactions and the new left cycle of resistance in the United States and Japan.” Mobilization and Repression: What We Know and Where We Should Go from Here Conference, College Park, MD.


Publications:

Zwerman, Gilda, Patricia G. Steinhoff & Donnatella della Porta. 2000. “Disappearing Social Movements: Clandestinity in the cycle of new left protest in the U.S., Japan, Germany, and Italy,” Mobilization: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 85-104.

Zwerman, Gilda. 1994. "Mothering on the Lam: Gender Fantasies and Maternal Thinking in Women Associated with Armed, Clandestine Organizations in the United States," Feminist Review, No. 47, pp. 33-56.

Maryann Caputo,
  Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Human Services Walden University, 1992)
Building: AV , Room: C323
Phone: (516) 876-3991
E-mail: caputom@oldwestbury.edu

Conference Presentations:

Caputo, Maryann. 2003. “Feminist Theory and Suburban Women: A story of betrayal?” 73rd Annual Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

 

Rachel Kalish,
  Visiting Instructor
(Ph.D. candidate, Sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook)
Building: AV , Room: C323
Phone: (516) 876-3991
E-mail: kalishr@oldwestbury.edu

Conference Presentations:

Kalish, Rachel. 2007. “Sexual Scripts and Hook Ups Among College Students: Evidence from the College Social Life Survey.” 102nd Annual American Sociological Association Meeting, New York, NY.

Kalish, Rachel.  2006. “From Workhorses to Sex Machines: A Review of the Literature on Race-Based Treatment of Migrant Women.” Sociologists for Women in Society Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico.