Category: Professional Notes

Dawn Bowen, professor of geography, has co-authored an article, “Deforestation of Montane Cloud Forest in the Central Highlands of Guatemala: Proximate Causes, Underlying Drivers, and Implications for Sustainability in Q’eqchi’ Maya Communities,” with Ian Pope, UMW 2011, in the International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology.  The article draws from Ian’s research with contributions from other […]

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently had a research paper published. “Spinner-in-chief: How presidents shape the news” appeared in the April 2015 issue of Limes, the Italian Journal of Geopolitics. (The paper was translated into Italian and published under the title “Spinner-in-chief: come […]

Journal of American Studies, the preeminent journal of the field, recently published Associate Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea’s review of Colleen C. O’Brien’s Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century (University of Virginia Press, 2013). Professor Barrenechea’s review appears in Volume 49, Number 2.

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and international affairs, was quoted in the article “Low Turnout Expected In Virginia’s June Primary,” published by the WAMU.org Friday, May 15. Read the full article at http://wamu.org/news/15/05/15/low_turnout_expected_in_virginia_general_assembly_primaries.

For the second year in a row, Antonio Barrenechea, Associate Professor of English, has been selected to participate in one of the two Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminars sponsored by the National Humanities Center. His seminar, “Sound Studies in the Humanities and Beyond,” will meet May 31 to June 19 in Chapel Hill, N.C. His application was approved in conjunction […]

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and international affairs, was quoted in the article “Dance faces Preston in 16th Senate District showdown,” published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch Saturday, May 9. Read the full article at http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_a5b3480c-8d56-5cfd-803d-bb511938afda.html.

Ranjit Singh published an article titled “The Lyrics Don’t Matter: Addressing Language Barriers and Social Media in the Middle East Studies Classroom” in the April 2015 edition of Issues in Middle East Studies, the professional newsletter of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). This article describes a social media-based exercise Dr. Singh developed to exploit […]

Mehdi Aminrazavi co-lectured on the “Anthology of Philosophy in Persia” at George Washington University on Saturday, April 18. Aminrazavi spoke on various philosophical schools in the Persianate world as discussed in his five volumes of An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia.

Associate Professor Helen Housley, Theatre and Dance, was recognized as an outstanding volunteer by the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital on April 25, 2015. Housley was presented with the Honor Pin for her work in organizing, under the sponsorship of the Department of Theatre and Dance, a series of Theatre Arts Week-ends for […]

Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, offered a lecture “US Rebalancing to Asia and the China Challenge,” at the International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University in Taipei on April 24.