Scott Harris, director of the James Monroe Museum, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG). You can find more information at http://aamg-us.org/wp/aamg-appoints-three-new-board-members/.
UMW Music Well Represented at Root Signals Electronic Music Festival
The University of Mary Washington was represented by Department of Music faculty, students and alumni at the 2015 Root Signals Electronic Music Festival at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville Florida. Root Signals is sponsored by the Division of Music at Jacksonville University, and the Department of Music at Georgia Southern University and featured guest percussionist Tony Steve for the three-day festival of electronic music and media art.
Mark Snyder, Assistant Professor of Music, performed his song cycle Facets of Love to close the festival on Saturday, September 12th. The performance featured Paige Naylor ’14: soprano, Becky Brown ’15: harp, Mark Snyder ’97: guitar, piano, synthesizer & electronics. The poems for Facets of Love were penned by Jeanine Casler, a faculty fellow at Hobart, Northwestern’s Women’s Residential College and the video was created by Anna Weisling, the Music Technology Specialist at The Juilliard School in New York. The first movement can be viewed below:
Junior Music major Austin O’Rourke performed his composition Hazel Colored Nebula during the Emerging Composers Concert on Thursday night, September 10th. His performance of this piece on UMW’s 2015 Undergraduate Research and Creativity Day can be viewed below:
Becky Brown (UMW Music graduate 2015) performed her multimedia self-portrait composed during her spring 2015 independent study, Hold Still for pencil, copper, and Arduino on paper, poetry and video in Max/MSP/Jitter on the Saturday September 12th afternoon concert. Her performance of this piece on UMW’s 2015 Undergraduate Research and Creativity Day can be viewed below:
Stephen Hennessey (UMW Music graduate 2014) performed his work for processed guitar and electronics composed during his spring 2014 independent study, Ausgang during the Emerging Composers Concert. His performance of this piece on September 9,2014 can be heard below:
Business Faculty Publish Article in Management Decision
Rachel Graefe-Anderson and John Marsh, both assistant professors in the College of Business, have published the article “Cashing-In: Understanding Post-Acquisition CEO Stock Option Exercise” in the journal Management Decision.
Dr. Graefe-Anderson
Dr. Marsh
Baker Conducts Association Strategic Planning
UMW Executive Director of Economic Development Brian Baker conducted strategic planning with Board Members of the Virginia Business Incubation Association. Baker is a practitioner of the actionable balanced scorecard approach to strategic planning. The session was hosted at the Waynesboro Office of Economic Development. The Virginia Business Incubation Association is an education and networking association for professionals who support entrepreneurship, small business development, and the advancement of incubation throughout the Commonwealth.
Goehring Presents Paper at International Conference
Jim Goehring, professor of classics, philosophy and religion, presented a paper on “’Talking Back’ in Pachomian Hagiography: Theodore’s Catechesis and the Letter of Ammon” at the XVII International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford, August 10-14, 2015.
Farnsworth Delivers Research Paper at APSA
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a research paper,“Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: Analyzing PolitiFact.com and Washington Post “Fact-Checker” Assessments of 2012 Presidential Campaign Content,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco, CA.
McClurken’s Interview with “Good Reason” to Re-Air Sept. 12
Professor of History Jeffrey McClurken’s interview with radio program “With Good Reason” will be featured a second time from Saturday, Sept. 12 to Friday, Sept. 18. The interview, called “Gone With the Wind, The Patriot, Born on the Fourth of July,” discusses what viewers can learn about history through how popular historical films are produced, even when the films themselves are often historically inaccurate. The interview first aired Dec. 13-19. Broadcast times can be found here.
McClurken to Co-Chair AHA Digital History Working Group
Jeffrey McClurken, professor of history and American studies and special assistant to the provost, has been named as Co-Chair of the American Historical Association’s newly created Digital History Working Group. The group, created to help history departments and faculty navigate the tenure and promotion process with regard to digital scholarship, “will be available to advise departments considering these issues, help them define their own guidelines, and recommend external reviewers.” In addition, the group “will also develop materials to provide further guidance for departments, such as…a curated gallery of ongoing digital scholarship so that historians can learn directly from one another as they conceive, build, and interpret new forms of scholarship.” For more detail, including the rest of the Working Group and the AHA’s new guidelines on Evaluating Digital Projects, see here.
Aminrazavi Publishes Article on Religious Tolerance
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion, published the article “Religious Tolerance” in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (279-287), edited by Graham Oppy and released April 2015.
Rafferty Publishes Essay in Anthology Devoted to Video Game
Colin Rafferty, associate professor of English, recently published the essay “Washington Bullets” in Enter Your Initials for Record Keeping, an anthology of essays about the video game “NBA Jam.” The collection was issued by Cobalt Books. Rafferty also read the essay at a book release event in Baltimore in July.