From Oct. 6-13, Dr. Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of Middle Eastern history, served as an election monitor for the Belarus presidential election. Joining more than 30 other Americans in the U.S. delegation, Al-Tikriti worked as an OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) and STO (Short Term Observer) in the capital city, Minsk. His […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, and Ellen O’Brien, a senior political science major at UMW and a research associate at the center, are coauthors of an article reviewing the 2015 campaigns for the Senate of Virginia. The article appeared in the October 2015 […]
Suzanne Huffman, digital resources librarian, and Katherine Perdue, assistant systems librarian, presented at the recent Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) in Roanoke. Their session, The Interactive Experience: Exploring Technologies for Creating Touchscreen Exhibits, focused on their experiences in creating and managing interactive exhibits, describing useful tools, open-source products, implementation strategies and assessment techniques. Carolyn Parsons, […]
Cassandra Good, associate editor of the Papers of James Monroe, presented a paper at the Society for United States Intellectual History in Washington D.C. on Oct. 17. The paper was titled “Making the Historical Personal: The Founding Fathers, Gender, and the Cultural Turn.”
Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science, wrote an analysis of the Oct. 13 Democratic presidential nominees’ debate for the U.S. News and World Report’s Debate Club. Professor Cooperman’s piece may be accessed here:http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/who-won-the-first-democratic-debate
