Sabrina Johnson was featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education for her appointment as vice president for equity and access and chief diversity officer.
http://diverseeducation.com/article/111821/
Kilmartin Talks About Male Sexual Harassment Victims in Buzzfeed Article
Chris Kilmartin, professor emeritus of psychology, recently spoke to Buzzfeed for an article called “Why Didn’t you Fight Back?” And Other Questions That Keep Male Sexual Harassment Victims Silent.
“We have a culture that does not really want to deal with the victimizations of men,” said Chris Kilmartin, a psychologist who consults workplaces on preventing sexual harassment.
Dasgupta Publishes Essay, Delivers Talk at Columbia University
Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, recently published an article and gave an invited talk. The article, “‘His Blood Was Pure English’: Border Anxiety, Race, and Mimicry in Post-Imperial Mutiny Fiction,” appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 2016, pp. 85-100. The invited talk, “From the Other Side of Silence: Indian Women Write the Partition,” was given at the South Asian Millennials Conference, organized by the South Asian Students’ Chapter at Columbia and Yale Universities February 3-4, 2018, at Columbia University in New York.
Christine Henry Featured in Urban History Association blog
Christine Henry, assistant professor of historic preservation, was recently featured as the member of the month on the Urban History Association blog.
Read more here: https://themetropole.blog/2018/02/27/member-of-the-week-christine-henry/.
Al-Tikriti Joins Middle East Studies Book Prize Committee
On Feb. 19, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History Nabil Al-Tikriti agreed to join the 2018 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Book Prize Committee. For this service, the five committee members must review a total of approximately 125 books for three prizes:
The Albert Hourani Book Award was established in 1991 to recognize outstanding publishing in Middle East studies. The award was named for Albert Hourani to recognize his long and distinguished career as teacher and mentor. The winning book recognizes the very best in Middle East studies scholarship.
The Nikki Keddie Book Award was established in 2017 to recognize an outstanding contribution on religion, revolution, and history/society. The annual award was named for Nikki Keddie to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and teacher.
The Fatima Mernissi Book Award was established in 2017 to recognize an outstanding contribution to studies of gender, sexuality, and women’s lived experience. The annual award was named for Fatima Mernissi to recognize her long and distinguished career as a scholar and as a public intellectual.
Book submissions are due April 1, and the committee will be continuing reviews throughout the summer months. The remaining members of the 2018 MESA Book Committee include: Professor Heather Sharkey (Chair, University of Pennsylvania), Professor Laleh Khalili (School of African and Oriental Studies), Professor Yaseen Norani (University of Arizona), and Professor Nayareh Tohidi (California State University, Northridge). MESA’s Sara L. Palmer will serve as the Book Awards Coordinator.
For more information about the MESA Book Prize contests, see: http://mesana.org/awards/book-awards.html.
Rettinger to Head Academic Integrity Center
David Rettinger, Associate Professor of Psychology, was recently named President of the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI). He was formerly a member of the ICAI Advisory Board. He is a both a scholar and practitioner within the field of academic integrity, having published research in Ethics and Behavior, Theory into Practice, and other journals and serving as Procedural Advisor to UMW’s student-run Honor System.
ICAI was founded to combat cheating, plagiarism, and academic dishonesty in higher education. Its mission has since expanded to include the cultivation of cultures of integrity in academic communities throughout the world. ICAI offers assessment services, resources, and consultations to its member institutions, and facilitates conversations on academic integrity topics each year at its annual conference.
The Center has operated for 25 years as an independent organization, with past affiliations with Clemson and Duke Universities.
Lynne Richardson’s Weekly Column Published in FLS
Lynn Richardson’s weekly column, Ask for What you Want, recently appeared in The Free Lance Star.
“A young friend of mine recently asked me a great question regarding career progression,” Richardson writes. Read the whole column here:
Robert Rycroft Publishes Economics Book
Professor of Economics Professor Robert Rycroft recently had a book published: The Economics of Inequality, Discrimination, Poverty and Mobility, 2nd Edition, Routledge.
Read more about the book here:
Professor of Economics
Bessette Publishes in Chronicle of Higher Education
Lee Skallerup Bessette recently published a blog post on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s website.
You can find it here:
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/author/lbessette
Emile Lester Featured in Dallas Examiner
Political science professor Emile Lester was recently featured in an article in The Dallas Examiner: Ideology tops facts in Texas history curriculum, experts say.
“The quibble over wording here could not be more misleading,” said Emile Lester, a report co-author and political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.
Read more here:
http://dallasexaminer.com/news/2018/mar/05/ideology-tops-facts-texas-history-curriculum-exper/