From engineering to art history and in scores of disciplines in between, Binghamton graduate students are excelling. Below is just a sampling of recent awards won by graduate students in these two departments.

Engineering

• PhD student Alex Volynkin and coauthors, Victor Skormin, Douglas Summerville, and James Moronski, were awarded the Best Paper Award for their paper entitled "Evaluation of Run-Time Detection of Self-Replication in Binary Executable Malware" at the 7th Annual IEEE Information Assurance Workshop.

• Jozef Sofka's PhD dissertation entitled, "New Generation of Gimbals Systems for Aerospace Applications," was chosen as the winner of the Distinguished Dissertation Award at Binghamton University in the category of Engineering & Applied Science. His faculty advisor was Professor Victor Skormin.

• Ugur Cem Hasar received a Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research. His research involves the study of an accurate technique to investigate electrical permittivity over a range of water/cement ratios and its correlation to the mechanical strength of the final materials. His faculty advisor is Professor Roger Westgate.

Art History

• Becker, Natasha. Oppenheimer Memorial Trust Fellowship Award, 2007-2008.

• Fidelis, Gaudencio. Ministry of Education Scholarship (Capes/Fulbright), Brazil, 2003-2004.

• Karakas, Deniz. Junior research fellowship, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006-2007.

At Binghamton, graduate students aren't just absorbing ideas but are actively contributing to and advancing the frontiers of knowledge within their fields.

These books by graduate students in art history, English and sociology are just a sampling of many hundreds that have been written by Binghamton graduate students over the last decade.

Art History

• Batuman, Bülent (Ph.D. 2006), with Guven Arif Sargn. Ankara'nn Kamusal Yuzleri: Baskent uzerine Mekaan-Politik Tezler. Iletisim.
• Crysler, C. Greig (Ph.D. 1999). Writing Spaces: Discourses of Architecture, Urbanism, and the Built Environment, 1960-2000. New York: Routledge, 2003.
• Ergut, Elvan Altan (Ph.D. 1999) with Dana Arnold and Belgin Turan Özkaya, eds. Rethinking Architectural Historiography. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
• Freire-Medeiros, Bianca (Ph.D. 2002). O Rio de Janeiro que Hollywood Inventou. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2005.
• Hearne, K. Michelle (Ph.D. 2002), with Roger S. Wieck and William M. Voelkle. The Hours of Henry VIII: A Renaissance Masterpiece by Jean Poyet. New York: George Braziller, 2000.
• Irbouh, Hamid (Ph.D. 2000). Art in the Service of Colonialism: French Art Education in Morocco, 1912-1956. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2005.
• Ivey, Paul Eli (Ph.D. 1992). Prayers in Stone: Christian Science Architecture in the United States, 1894-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
• Kusno, Abidin (Ph.D. 1998). Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space, and Political Cultures in Indonesia. New York: Routledge, 2000.
• Newcome, Mary (Ph.D. 1975). Gregorio de Ferrari. Turin: Artema, 1998.
• Onyile, Onyile (Ph.D. 2005). Ancestral Spirits Embodied in Ekpu Figurines of the Oron People: A Study in Nigerian Traditional Art. Lewiston, N.Y. and Ceredigion, England: Mellen Press, 2007.
• Perera, Nihal (Ph.D. 1995). Society and Space: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Postcolonial Identity in Sri Lanka. Bouler, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998.
• Porter, Dean A. (Ph.D. 1974), with Teresa Hayes Ebie and Suzan Campbell. Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950. Notre Dame, Ind.: Snite Museum of Art, 1999.
• Zukowsky, John (Ph.D. 1977) and Martha Thorne, eds. Skyscrapers: The New Millennium. Munich and New York: Prestel and Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2000.

English

• Jane Alberdeston Coralin co-authored the novel Sister Chicas with Lisa Alvarado and Ann Cardinal. The novel was published by New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Books, in 2006.
• Lydia Melvin's first collection of poetry, South of Here, came out in the autumn of 2005 from New Issues Press.
• Katherine Arnoldi won the 2006 Juniper Prize for her collection of short stories, All Things Are Labor. The book has just (autumn 2007) been published by the University of Massachusetts Press.
• Jennifer Pashley has just published States, a collection of her short stories from Lewis Clark Press.
• Jeremy Schraffenberger has had his collection of poetry, St. Joe's Passion, accepted for publication by Etruscan Press.

Sociology

• Arrigo, Linda Gail, Ji dang! Taiwan fan dui yun dong zong pi pan, Qian wei chu ban she, 1998.
• Ayala, César, American Sugar Kingdom: the Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934, Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1999.
• Ayala, César and Bernabe, Rafael Puerto Rico in the American Century: a History Since 1898, Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• Bahl, Vinay, History after Three Worlds, Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 (with Arif Dirlik & Peter Gran).
• Baldoz, Rick, Charles Koeber & Philip Kraft (eds.), The Critical Study of Work: Labor, Technology, and Global Production, Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2001.
• Baronov, David, The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The "Liberation" of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital, Greenwood Press, 2000.
• _____, Conceptual Foundations of Social Research Methods, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005.
• Canterbury, Dennis C., Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism, Ashgate, 2005.
• Crichlow, Michaeline, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development, Lexington Books, 2004.
• Derlugian, Georgi M. (ed.), Questioning Geopolitics: Political Projects in a Changing World-System , Praeger, 2000 (with Scott Greer).
• _____, Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005
• Dickinson, Torry, Fast Forward, Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
• _____, (ed), Community and the World: Participating in Social Change, Nova Science Publishers, 2003.
• Dickinson, Torry & Robert Schaeffer, Transformations: Feminist Pathways to Global Change, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2007.
• Dupuy, Alex, Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution, Westview Press, 1997.
• _____, The Prophet and Power: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
• Ergil, Dogu, Kirik aynada kendini arayan Turkiye, Doruk Yayimcilik, 1997.
• _____, Siyasetini arayan ulke: Deneme, Can Yayinlari, 2000.
• Fitch, Robert, Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise, PublicAffairs, 2006.
• Gulalp, Haldun, Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict: Challenging the Nation-State, Routledge, 2006.
• Hernández-León, Rubén (ed.) New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005 (with V. Zúñiga).
• Hui, Po-Keung, What Capitalism is Not (in Chinese), Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Ikeda, Satoshi, The Trifurcating Miracle: Corporations, Workers, Bureaucrats, and the Erosion of Japan's National Economy, Routledge, 2002.
• Jalata, Asafa (ed), Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy, Red Sea Press, 1998.
• _____, Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• _____, State Crises, Globalisation and National Movements in North-East Africa: The Horn's Dilemma, Routledge, 2004.
• _____, Oromia and Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868-2004, Red Sea Press, 2005.
• Kasaba, Resat, World, Empire, and Society: Essays on the Ottoman Empire Istanbul: Kitap Yayinevi , 2005 (in Turkish).
• _____, (ed.), Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1997 (with Sibel Bozdogan).
• Kilty, Keith (ed.), Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities, Haworth Press, 1998 (with Elizabeth Segal).
• _____, Rediscovering the Other America: The Continuing Crisis of Poverty and Inequality in the United States, Haworth Press, 2003.
• _____, Poverty And Inequality In The Latin American-U.S. Borderlands: Implications Of U.S. Interventions, Haworth Press, 2005.
• _____, The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political Rhetoric And the Reality of Poverty in the Twenty-first Century, Haworth Press, 2006.
• _____, (ed.), Income Security and Public Assistance for Women and Children, Haworth Press, 1997 (with Virginia Richardson & Elizabeth Segal).
• _____ (ed.), Latino Poverty in the New Century: Inequities, Challenges, and Barriers, Haworth Press, 2000 (with Maria Vidal De Haymes & Elizabeth Segal).
• Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio (ed.), Politics, Social Change, and Economic Restructuring in Latin America, North/South Center Press, University of Miami, 1997 (with William C Smith).
• Kumar, Arun, Rewriting the Language of Politics: Kisans in Colonial Bihar, Delhi: Manohar, 2001.
• Lee, Richard E, Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformation of the Structures of Knowledge, Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2003,
• _____, (ed.) Overcoming the Two Cultures: Science versus the Humanities in the Modern World-System, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004 (with I. Wallerstein).
• Levine, Rhonda, Class, Networks, and Identity, Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.
• _____, The Jewish Community of North Minneapolis, Arcadia Publishing, 2001
• _____ (ed.), Critical Sociology, Brill Academic Publishers, 2001 (with Beth Mintz).
• _____, (ed.), Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005.
• _____, Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
• Lu, Aiguo, China and the Global Economy Since 1840, Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
• _____ (ed.), Poverty, Income Distribution and Well-Being in Asia During the Transition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 (with M. Montes)
• Martin, William G., (ed.), Out of One, Many Africas, Champaign, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999 (with M. West).
• _____, (ed.), Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1760-2005, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2007.
• McMichael, Philip D., Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, Pine Forge Press, 2003.
• Mielants, Eric, The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West, Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2007.
• Morley, Morris, Washington, Somoza and the
• Sandinistas: State and Regime in US Policy toward Nicaragua 1969-1981, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002.
• _____, Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989-2001, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002 (with Chris McGillion).
• ______ (ed.), Cuba, The United States, And The Post-Cold War World: The International Dimensions Of The Washington-Havana Relationship, Univ. Press of Florida, 2005.
• Moscoso, Francisco, Lucha Agraria En Puerto Rico, 1541-1545: Un Ensayo de Historia, Ediciones Puerto, 1997.
• _____, Juicio al gobernador: Episodios coloniales de Puerto Rico, 1550, Publicaciones Puertorriquenas Editores, 1998.
• Ozveren, Eyup (ed.), Transnational Social Spaces: Agents, Networks and Institutions, Ashgate, 2004 (with Thomas Faist).
• Palat, Ravi Arvind, Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim, London: Routledge, 2004.
• Pangsapa,Piya, Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance Among Garment Workers in Thailand, ILR Press, 2007.
• Ray, Krishnendu, The Migrant's Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households, Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2004
• Reifer, Thomas (ed.), Globalization, Hegemony & Power: Antisystemic Movements and the Global System, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004.
• _____ (ed), Transforming Globalization: Challenges And Opportunities in the Post 9/11 Era, Brill Academic Publishers, 2005 (with Bruce Podobnik).
• Roy, Anupama, Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual Explanations, Orient Longman, 2005.
• _____ (ed), Poverty, Gender, and Migration, Sage, 2006 (with Sadhna Arya).
• Samman, Khaldoun, Cities of God and Nationalism: Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as Contested World Cities, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2007.
• Schaeffer, Robert K, Power to the People: Democratization Around the World, Westview, 1997.
• _____, Severed States: Dilemmas of Democracy in a Divided World, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
• _____, Understanding Globalization: The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
• Silver, Beverly (ed.), Chaos and Governance in the Modern World-System, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999 (with Giovanni Arrighi, et. al).
• _____, Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870, New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.
• Sirianni, Carmen, Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy and the Movement for Civic Renewal, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2001 (with Lewis Friedland).
• Stark, Evan, Everything You Need to Know about Street Gangs, Rosen Publishing Group, 2001.
• _____, Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
• Sundaram, Ravi, Pirate Culture and Urban Life in Delhi: After Media, Routledge, 2007.
• Tabak, Faruk, (ed). , Allies as Rivals: The U.S, Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System, Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005.
• _____. The Waning of the Mediterranean: A Geohistorical Approach, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007.
• Tabak, F. & M. Crichlow (eds.) Informalization: Process and Structure, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2000.
• Yeatman, Anna (ed.), Activism and the Policy Process, Allen & Unwin, 1999.
• _____, Individualization and the Delivery of Welfare Services: Contestation and Complexity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (with Gary Wayne Dowsett & Diane Gursansky).
• Yükseker, Deniz. Coming to Terms with Forced Migration: Post-Displacement Restitution of Citizenship Rights in Turkey, 2007, Istanbul: TESEV (Dilek Kurban, Deniz Yükseker, A. Betül Çelik, Turgay Ünalan and A. Tamer Aker)
• --------------, Laleli-Moskova Mekigi: Kayitdisi Ticaret ve Cinsiyet Iliskileri [The Laleli-Moscow Shuttle: Informal Trade and Gender Relations]. 2003. Istanbul: Iletisim Publishers.

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