Professor of History Steven Harris moderated and co-organized a session for George Mason University’s “Russia’s War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective.”Sofia Dyak, Taras Nazaruk, and Natalia Otrishchenko from the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine spoken about the work of their Center documenting the war through oral history and preserving social media archives during […]
Professor of Religion Mehdi Aminrazavi received a mention in an editorial titled “Iran, India, hijabs and the fight for women” in The Free Lance-Star. “A seminar delivered Wednesday at the University of Mary Washington discussed the uprising and where it may ultimately grow,” the editorial says. “Mehdi Aminrazavi … who also spoke on Wednesday, understands […]
Associate Professor of Sociology Eric Bonds contributed to an article titled “Can ‘Blue Zones’ be a solution to environmental injustice?” in Environmental Health News.“When we say environmental racism people think about Hurricane Katrina or Cancer Alley in Louisiana,” Bonds told EHN. “However, environmental injustice and racism is all around us.” Read more.
Assistant Vice President for Gift Planning Jan Clarke was honored at Averett University’s homecoming. Clarke received this year’s Mary Jo Davis Outstanding Alumni Award. Read more in the Danville Register & Bee.
To mark the 75th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Professor of English Gary Richards led the discussion of that play in the One Book, One Festival series at the Louisiana Book Festival on Saturday, October 29, 2022, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This was his tenth time to participate in that series at […]
