Category: Professional Notes

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Rosalyn Cooperman appeared on Vietnam News to discuss COVID-19. Watch here.

Dr. Leah Cox, who served as UMW’s special assistant to the president for diversity and inclusion, was recently named vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A UMW employee for 15 years, Cox also held the roles of Title IX coordinator and ombudsman […]

UMW Reference and Humanities Librarian Emeritus Jack Bales was recently quoted in an article in The Free Lance-Star about Beheshta Nassari, a local young woman who came to Fredericksburg as a 18-year-old refugee from Afghanistan. Determined to graduate from high school before the cutoff age of 21, Nassari learned English in three years, and, in […]

James Farmer Multicultural Center Assistant Director Chris Williams, Associate Professor of History Erin Devlin and Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation Christine Henry have worked with City of Fredericksburg officials to erect a historic marker at the site of the old bus station on Princess Anne and Wolfe streets, where the Freedom Riders first stopped 60 […]

The 2021 University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize Committee is proud to announce that this year, they could not choose just one winner. There were two books that approached the discipline of historic preservation in new and groundbreaking ways: Thomas C. Hubka’s How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940 and Emily […]