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On Board

Mark Seda (Physical Education and Athletics) has been named head women’s softball coach, succeeding Patrick Malia, who stepped down after a 17-year career that included 215 victories, three conference championships and the College’s first ever automatic bid to an NCAA Division III tournament. “Being the softball coach at John Jay has been a tremendous experience,” said Malia. “I had the privilege of coaching some of the best athletes ever to put on a John Jay uniform.” Seda is no stranger to the John Jay softball program, having been Malia’s assistant coach for the past four seasons.

Steve Fagan (Physical Education and Athletics) has joined John Jay in the dual roles of head coach of the women’s basketball team and equipment manager. Fagan comes to John Jay from Globe Institute of Technology, where he had been head women’s basketball coach for five seasons and guided the team to four regional title games of the National Junior Collegiate Athletic Association.


Between the Covers

Kimora (Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration) will have a chapter on issues in parole and probation published in the book Probation and Parole, edited by Daniel W. Phillips III, in the fall of 2007. In addition, a book review by her will be published in the book Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System, also edited by Phillips, which is due out in 2008.

Suzanne Oboler (Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies), who joined the John Jay faculty in September, has brought with her the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Latino Studies, of which she is the editor. The journal, now in its fifth year of publication, is published by Palgrave MacMillan Ltd. in England, but will operate out of John Jay.

Baz Dreisinger (English) had her review of Samuel R. Delany’s new novel Dark Reflections published in The New York Times Sunday Book Review on Sept. 9. Dreisinger’s first book, Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture, will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2008.


Presenting…

Mangai Natarajan (Sociology) spent a very busy summer, participating in the Second Istanbul Conference on Democracy and Global Security, where she chair a panel on gender and policing and presented a paper on “Gendered Policing: Benefits for Women Officers, the Police and Society.” In July, on commission from the   U.S. State Department, she gave a series of presentations in Kenya on drug treatment programs for women, drug addiction, gender-based violence, youths and community policing, domestic violence, law and culture. In August, she was an invited participant at the Fifth Australasian Council of Women and Policing conference in Melbourne on “Women Leading Change.” She conducted a workshop on “The Trafficking of Women: Dilemmas for Local Police,” chaired a panel on trafficking in women, and delivered a keynote address titled “Can Women Police Spearhead the Movement to Bring Justice for Women?”