For the Record

Pilar Moyano, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled "Violencia y género en la literatura centroamericana contemporánea" recently at the V Congresso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana organized by the Ministry of Culture and the National University of San José in Costa Rica.

John Sowa, professor of chemistry, is a member of the Town of Glenville's Municipal Services Committee, which is weighing the issue of consolidating town and city functions as Schenectady Mayor Albert Jurczynski has proposed. He also is a member of the county Local Emergency Planning Committee with an assignment on the Hazardous Materials subcommittee. Sowa also was a source in a recent article in the Albany Times-Union about the effects of traumatic brain injury. Also, he is co-author, with Jan Tucci, of Therapist Training Manual for Del Giacco's Art Therapy.

Lee Rose, adjunct assistant professor of theatre, will perform in David Mamet's radio play, The Water Engine, as part of Theatre Voices of Albany's 1996-97 season. It will be broadcast on Wednesday, April 30, at 9 p.m. on WAMC - FM 90.3 FM.

Robert Sharlet, Chauncey Winters Professor of Political Science, recently published "Transitional Constitutionalism: Politics and Law in the Second Russian Republic," the lead article of a special issue of Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1996); and "Russia as an Emerging Democracy — Five Years After the Fall of the USSR," as a featured essay in The Americana Annual (Grolier, 1997). Recent papers include, "Russian Constitutional Development Since the Elections," at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Boston; "Russian Constitutional Dialogues," the keynote address at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, SUNY-Albany; and "Conceptual Approaches to Russian Constitutionalism" at the University of California at Berkeley. He has also been invited to join the editorial board of Demokratizatsiya.- The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, jointly published by American University and Moscow State University.