A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, was recognized at the recent Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association for completing two years as chair of the association’s Political Communication section. The section, one of the larger ones in APSA, includes roughly 400 political […]
John Broome, associate professor in the UMW College of Education, was among 17 Virginia professors who contributed to Testing Times: Teaching history, social science creates informed citizenry an op-ed featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Doug Gately, senior lecturer in the UMW Department of Music, performed with the the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Steven Reineke at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the beginning of the 2014–2015 season with its annual Labor Day Capitol Concert. The program featured Emmy Award winning actress and […]
Helen Housley, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, recently presented a workshop entitled, “Renewing Shakespeare’s Structure: Lessac’s Structural NRG and the Shakespearean Actor,” at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s (ATHE) conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Cate Brewer, faculty member in the department of Theatre and Dance, played the role of the Red Queen in Monique LaForce’s latest play, Virago, for the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival this past weekend.
This past summer the International Association of Maritime Studies (IAMS), together with Piri Reis University, Denizler Kitabevi, and Kaptan Yayincilik, published the conference proceedings from the First International Congress of Eurasian Maritime Studies, which Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti participated in at Istanbul in 2012. The title of this peer-reviewed volume is […]
Marie E. McAllister, Professor of English, has published a scholarly edition of Ann Flaxman’s An Uninteresting Detail of a Journey to Rome.Romantic Circles Electronic Editions, with which McAllister’s book appears, publishes refereed editions of British literature from the late 18th and early 19th-centuries. In 1787 Ann Flaxman set out for France and Italy with her […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of a research paper, “The Automated Coding of Sentiment in Political News Coverage: Examining Newspaper Coverage of the 2013 Race for Governor of Virginia,” which was presented at the American Political Science Association Pre-Conference in Political […]
Miriam Liss, professor of psychology, and Holly Schiffrin, associate professor of psychology, are co-authors of a book “Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life.” published this month by Rowman & Littlefield.Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of “The Myths of Happiness” and “The How of Happiness” writes about the work:“It’s rare that I read […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a Washington lecture entitled, “U.S. Foreign Policy Formulation: Public Opinion and News Coverage of International Events,” to visiting journalists from Africa who were part of a recent U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program. The talk […]