Category: Professional Notes

Richards Leads Discussion of Kate Chopin Stories at Literary Festival

Professor of English Gary Richards led a discussion of six of Kate Chopin’s representative short stories at the sold-out special event “Books and Beignets with Gary Richards” at the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 25. Richards has presented in this series 15 times since 2007, lecturing on authors that include […]

Larus Comments on Possibility of China-U.S. War on Saudi News

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs, explained to the Saudi Al Sharq news service that comments by the U.S. military and government officials indicating possible dates for the outbreak of hostilities between the US and China are not predictions. Rather, they are designed to strengthen the ability of the U.S. […]

Farnsworth Selected for Fulbright in Poland

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of Political Science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has been selected as the Spring 2024 Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Humanities and Social Sciences at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw in Poland. Dr. Farnsworth has previously served as Canada-U.S. Fulbright Research Chair in […]

Psychology Textbook by Liss and Erchull a Bestseller

Miriam Liss, Mindy Erchull, and their co-author Kate Richmond (of Muhlenberg College) recently learned that their textbook, Psychology of Women and Gender, published in 2019 by Norton has become the best-selling textbook in the market for psychology of women and gender courses. This is an impressive feat for a book in its first edition in a […]

Davidson Publishes Commentary on European Defense Spending

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason Davidson‘s commentary was published in the Atlantic Council’s publication The New Atlanticist. The piece, “No ‘free-riding’ here: European defense spending defies US critics,” begins: “Barack Obama and Donald Trump agreed on very little. Yet both former U.S. presidents critiqued NATO allies for “free riding” off of U.S. […]