Jennifer Barry, Assistant Professor of Religion, presented her paper “Remembering Exile: Ecclesiastical Historians and Christian Flight” at Yale University on April 23, 2018. This paper stems out of a chapter from her forthcoming book with the University of California Press titled Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity.
Jesse Stommel Tweet Featured in Chronicle of Higher Ed
Professors Are Talking About Students’ Dead Grandparents Again (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
But other professors were quick to denounce the tweet, and the trend of student shaming that they say it stands in for, as mean-spirited and missing the larger point. Jesse Stommel, executive director of teaching and learning technology at the University of Mary Washington, posted on Twitter that this kind of treatment causes more students to lie because “teachers turn the complexity of their lives into a punchline.”
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professors-Are-Talking-About/243353
Chiang Publishes Article in Manuscripta Mathematica
Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics, had a research article “Exponentially Harmonic Maps between Finsler Manifolds” published in Manuscripta Mathematica by Springer in Europe.
Kevin Bartram Featured on With Good Reason
Kevin Bartram will be heard on the upcoming With Good Reason show on May 12th to 18th.
Broadcast times are posted at: http://www.withgoodreasonradio.org/when-to-listen/
Get Rhythm (May 12, 2018)
A musical Indiana Jones is pursuing the Holy Grail of American symphonic music: long-lost works by master composers that are housed in the Library of Congress. Kevin Bartram (University of Mary Washington) is finding gems that are not only unknown to the public, but have possibly never been heard. And: One Turn Around the Sun is an anthology of poems by Virginia Poet Laureate Tim Seibles (Old Dominion University). The collection includes a tribute and farewell to his elderly parents and attempts to define the first appearances of the twilight of life.
Rosalyn Cooperman Featured in Gender Watch
Getting Women Elected is Just the First Step (Gender Watch 2018)
What a difference a year makes.
https://www.genderwatch2018.org/getting-women-elected-just-first-step/
Miriam Liss Featured on Bravotv.com
For a Happy Life, Love Your Spouse More Than Your Kids, Says One Marriage Counselor (Bravo.com)
Miriam Liss, a psychologist at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia, wrote a study published in the Journal of Child and Family Studies on “intensive parenting” and found that “women who believed that parenting should be child-centered had reduced life satisfaction
http://www.bravotv.com/personal-space/love-your-spouse-more-than-your-kids
Stephen Farnsworth Featured on CTV News
Stephen Farnsworth was recently featured on CTV News, where he shared his thoughts about questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Donald Trump.
You can check out Farnsworth’s interview here:
Richardson’s Weekly Column Published in FLS
Thinking beyond the initial outcome (The Free Lance-Star)
I may not have many abilities in life, but one I do have is thinking about what happens after a decision is made and implemented.
Poska Wins Research Grants For Book Project
Professor of History Allyson M. Poska has been awarded three research grants for her new book project Contested Equality: Smallpox Vaccination in the Spanish Empire (1803-1810).
The grants include: a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society and a Council of American Overseas Research Centers’ National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship. Poska was also named an inaugural recipient of Project Development Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. She will be conducting research in Spain and Mexico during her upcoming sabbatical.
Nabil Al-Tikriti Lectures at Virginia Tech – SPIA
On 19 April, Associate Professor of History Nabil Al-Tikriti spoke at Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), in Alexandria, VA. The topic presented was the global humanitarian system and its impact in the Middle East and other zones of crisis. Attendees included both Virginia Tech SPIA graduate students and undergraduate students associated with both Prof. Ariel Ahram‘s class on Global Security (GIA 5514), and the Washington Semester program.
Prof. Al-Tikriti has worked since 1988 in field development and humanitarian relief programs for Africare, Plan International, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders in over a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East. He also served on the MSF / Doctors Without Borders USA Board of Directors in 2011-17, and as Vice President in 2016-17.