A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Associate Professor of Linguistics Paul D. Fallon
Paul D. Fallon, Associate Professor of Linguistics, presented the paper, “A ‘Vector Analysis’ of Bender’s Proto-Cushitic” at the 45th annual meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL), held at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands, on June 11, 2017. He gave an assessment of ten of the late M. Lionel Bender’s reconstructed roots of Proto-Cushitic, an ancient, reconstructed language of the Horn of Africa.
Doug Gately performed with a parade of superstars on July 4 with the National Symphony Orchestra. The concert, A Capital Fourth, was televised live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
Woody Richardson, John Marsh and Rachel Graefe-Anderson have published “AB InBev’s Offer for SABMiller (A): Pricey or Practical?” in Business Case Journal.
Senior lecturer Kimberly Kinsley has written a chapter titled “Regulating Consumer Privacy in the United States: Big Data Pros and Cons,” in The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, published by ABC-CLIO Greenwood.
Check it out at http://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOGreenwood/product.aspx?pc=A4405C
Dave Henderson is co-author of a forthcoming article titled “Barriers and Enablers of Generalized Audit Software Used by Auditors,” to be published in the ISACA Journal.
Accounting adjunct Nick Preusch was named a Top 5 Under 35 winner by the Virginia Society of CPAs at its ceremony last month. He is an instructor for the VSCPA’s Virginia-Specific Ethics course and the co-author of the book Tax Preparer Penalties and Circular 230 Enforcement, as well as an adjunct professor of accounting at UMW. He is a graduate of Carthage College, the University of Connecticut, Case Western Reserve University and Georgetown University.
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, delivered a lecture titled “Virginia’s Candidate Selection Process: Examining Recent Primaries and Conventions” at the American Legion Boys State of Virginia at Radford University on June 21. The week-long government education program brings together nearly 700 of Virginia’s top rising high school seniors in the social sciences.
On 31 May, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti was invited to speak on the topic of migration at the international Estoril Conference, which was held on 29-31 May at the Estoril Congress Center outside of Lisbon, Portugal. The panel abstract was as follows:
“In times of migratory crises there is a higher risk of disrespecting human rights. This is particularly threatening for societies’ most vulnerable persons which include migrants, especially illegal migrants. In this context, one must recall the human rights that claim protection, namely in what regards especially vulnerable persons such as women and children.
What threats to the respect of human rights of illegal migrants may be at stake? Who are the actors in charge of enforcing such rights? How can global cooperation be enforced to tackle transnational criminal networks? Who is accountable for human rights violations under these circumstances? Are States bound to a duty to protect refugees even outside their own sovereign territory?”
The panel consisted of:
Eduardo Cabrita (Minister in the Cabinet of the Prime Minister; Portugal)
Ashwani Kumar (Former Minister of Law and Justice; India)
Maria da Conceição (Founder, Maria Cristina Foundation; Bangladesh)
Nabil Al-Tikriti (Associate Professor University of Mary Washington, Vice-President of Médecins sans Frontières; USA)
Host
Arie Kacowicz (Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Israel)
In his speech, Prof. Al-Tikriti argued that when the law itself is unjust, it is incumbent on those determined to protect human rights to take action. Leveraging his affiliation with MSF / Doctors Without Borders, Dr. Al-Tikriti helped arrange an MSF exhibit on refugees at the conference, and coordinated his speech with Michaël Neuman, Research Director at MSF’s CRASH office in Paris, France. Other featured speakers in the course of the Estoril Conference included Madeline Albright, Edward Snowden, Bernard Kouchner, Nigel Farage, and several other notable figures.
The Estoril Conference Program: http://www.estorilconferences.com/en/content/schedule.
The Estoril Conference Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/EstorilConf.
Prof. Al-Tikriti’s Estoril Biography: http://www.estorilconferences.com/en/content/nabil-al-tikriti
Following the conference, in his capacity as MSF USA’s 2016-17 Vice President, Prof. Al-Tikriti participated in MSF’s Operational Center Brussels Gathering on 2-3 June, and the Operational Center Paris General Assembly on 10-11 June.
John P. Broome, associate professor of education and program director of elementary, preK-12 and secondary education in the College of Education, co-authored “On the Matter of Black Lives: Using CRT and C3 Inquiry to Examine Current Events” in the recently published book, “Race Lessons: Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies“, from Information Age Publishing.
His chapter, written with Dr. Jason Endacott (University of Arkansas), explores the teaching of controversial race-focused current events in general, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement in particular, through the lens of Critical Race Theory and inquiry-based pedagogy in secondary social studies classrooms.
This work is an extension of his 2014-2016 research on the teaching of the events of Ferguson, Missouri and the #BlackLivesMatter movement in grades 6-12 in the United States.
Anand Rao is being featured in an encore interview titled “BFFs, Girlfriends, Besties” on With Good Reason from June 3-9.
With the evolution of social media, communication styles have changed. Anand Rao has been working with college students to develop best practices for the world of Facebook, Instagram and anonymous online platforms and will discuss those topics in the interview.
Audio files of the full program and its companion news feature will be posted the week of the show:
http://withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/bffs-girlfriends-and-besties-2/