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Center for Historic Preservation Awards Annual Book Prize

The 2021 University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize Committee is proud to announce that this year, they could not choose just one winner. There were two books that approached the discipline of historic preservation in new and groundbreaking ways: Thomas C. Hubka’s How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940 and Emily […]

Harris publishes article on Aeroflot and Pan Am

Dr. Steven E. Harris (HIST) recently published “The World’s Largest Airline: How Aeroflot Learned to Stop Worrying and Became a Corporation” in Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. The article explores Aeroflot’s unlikely success in besting Pan Am on their shared route between New York and Moscow (1968-1991), and how the Soviet airline learned to […]

Underground utilities advisory

Campus-wide steam outage May 27-31 & June 3-7Athena Construction Group will be performing steam line work between Melchers and Woodard halls over the next two weekends, May 28-31 and June 4-7, 2021. This work will require campus-wide shutdown of steam service during the period.Please direct questions and concerns to Capital Outlay Project Manager Les Johnson, […]

Farnsworth Publishes Chapter on Presidential Communication

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently had a chapter published in The International Handbook of Strategic Communication, (Wiley Blackwell, publishers). The chapter, “President Obama, the Affordable Care Act and the Challenges of Strategic Political Communication,” was drawn from a research paper presented at […]