Faculty Focus-January 16, 2023
Faculty members put their knowledge into action so students and others are able to benefit from it. Recently, faculty published research articles, shared expert insight as podcast guests, and presented their research at conferences.
Mindy Pitre
Associate Professor of Anthropology published a paper in the International Journal of Paleopathology describing the human skeletal remains of a young child from 19th century Heuvelton, New York who suffered from vitamin D deficiency rickets. This is one of the only archeological cases of vitamin D deficiency rickets discovered in the Americas.
Pitre is a bioarchaeologist who studies human skeletal remains from archaeological sites to explore the complex relationship between biology and culture in the past. She has excavated and studied human skeletons in Canada, the United Kingdom, Egypt, the Sudan, and Syria. Her current research involves examining the intersection of poverty and health at the St. Lawrence County Poorhouse, Canton N.Y. through an interdisciplinary approach involving historical and archaeological research.
Emanuele Citera
Assistant Professor of Economics Emanuele Citera published a co-authored article titled “The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations: A Demand-Side Approach, "which constructs a model of cyclical growth with agent-based features designed to study the network origins of aggregate fluctuations from a demand-side perspective.
Citera’s research focuses on financial, monetary economics, and macroeconomics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The New School for Social Research. He has been a Teaching Fellow at Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts as well as a Research Fellow at the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Onlus, Turin, Italy.
Yesim Bayar
Assistant Professor of Sociology Yesim Bayar published a peer-reviewed article in Ethnicities. The piece titled "Everyday Nationhood, Diversity and Talking about Canada," examines varying notions of nationhood as these are narrated by Armenian migrants from Turkey to Canada.
Bayar’s work spans a variety of interrelated issues including nationalism, ethnic and religious minorities, citizenship, constitution writing, and language policies. Her work has appeared in several journals and her book The Formation of the Turkish Nation-State, 1920-1938, was published in 2014.
Rafael Castillo Bejarano
Visiting Assistant Professor of World Languages, Cultures, and Media and Co-Coordinator of the Caribbean, Latino America, and Latino Studies program Rafael Castillo Bejarano published his article, “Su hermano, de quien tanto se temía: hacia una ética del reconocimiento en Las dos doncella,” in Anales Cervantinos, a journal on Miguel de Cervantes. The article analyzes the ethics of masculinity in the novel, “Las dos doncellas,” and underscores the pioneering pro-feminist discourse in Cervantes' works in Early Modern Spain.
Castillo Bejarano’s research focuses on medieval and early modern Iberia, early modern subjectivity and transatlantic connections, 16th and 17th Hispanic poetry, theory of the lyric, relations between poetry and music, and courtly culture.
Howard Eissenstat
Associate Professor of History Howard Eissenstat discussed the repercussion of a Turkish court's conviction of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and its implications for upcoming national elections and potential impact on U.S.–Turkish relations, as a guest on The Greek Current podcast.
Eissenstat’s recent work has focused increasingly on contemporary Turkish domestic and foreign policy, especially on issues of rule-of-law, minority rights, and the reshaping of political culture under the Justice and Development Party (AKP). At St. Lawrence, he teaches courses on Middle Eastern history and politics and in the First-Year Seminar (FYS). In addition to traditional academic work, Eissenstat served for over a decade as a Turkey Country Specialist for Amnesty International-USA. He has lectured at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. military, and the Canadian Foreign Service Institute, as well as given testimony to the Canadian Senate and offered briefings to Congressional Committees.
Robert Flahive
Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Studies Robert Flahiver presented two papers at conferences. During the multidisciplinary Western Sahara online workshop organized by the International Academic Observatory on Western Sahara (OUISO), he presented his paper comparing the settler colonial spatial production in the largest urban spaces in Morocco and Occupied Western Sahara. At the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in Denver, he presented his paper showing how the historiographies of contemporary architectural preservationists in Tel Aviv refashioned the settler colonial urban form in Tel Aviv with implications on both the historiographies of modernist architecture and justifications to add subsequent 20th-century sites to the World Heritage List.
Flahive also published an article showing how the efforts to enhance the international legitimacy of the UNESCO World Heritage List in the 1980s intensified the spatial fragmentation of Brasília and fundamentally transformed both the World Heritage List and the historiography of modernist architecture.
Flahive’s research is broadly interested in how power is produced and contested through the built environment. I use the built environment as a device to challenge the obfuscation of historical and ongoing injustices.
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