May 22, 2026

EagleEye

A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff

Doug Sanford Publishes Article and Presents Conference Paper

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Douglas Sanford, professor within the Department of Historic Preservation, recently published an article entitled “Investigating the Slave Building at Walnut Valley Plantation, Surry County, Virginia” in the Archeological Society of Virginia’s Quarterly Bulletin. In addition, Sanford recently presented a paper entitled “Antebellum Urban Slavery in Virginia: A Comparative Perspective” at the 2012 Virginia Forum in Harrisonburg.

Elizabeth Lewis Presents at American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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Elizabeth Franklin Lewis

Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, professor of Spanish, presented a paper–“One Woman’s Vision of the Enlightenment: Frasquita Larrea’s Fernando en Zaragoza, Una visión”–at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held in San Antonio, Texas, from March 22 to 24.

While there she  participated in the first ever ASECS THATCamp held March 21, and organized and chaired a session on “Best Practices in Digital Pedagogy” during the ASECS convention.  She was also elected president of the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for the upcoming year.

Zach Whalen Gives Scholarly Presentations at Two Conferences

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Zach Whalen, assistant professor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Communication, recently gave presentations at major conferences. First, at the 2012 convention of the Modern Language Association, Whalen contributed his paper to a session on “Close Playing: Literary Methods and Video Game Studies.” Whalen’s paper, “Close Enough,” adopts the literary model of close reading toward understanding the physical technology of videogame screens.

And at the 2012 conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Whalen chaired a session on “Code Studies and Videogames” and presented his own paper, “‘//create magnetic children’: Videogame Code as Critical Paratext,” a comparative analysis of the source code of two art games.

Faleh Alshameri Granted Patent

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On Tuesday, March 27, Faleh Jassem Alshameri, professor of computer and information systems, was granted a patent for “Automated Generation of Metadata for Mining Image and Text Data” from the U.S. Patent Trademark Office.

The patent, first filed in March 2008, is a tangible, computer-readable medium that is encoded with instructions for automatically generating metadata. It is an automated metadata system using digital objects to reduce the volume of the dataset and allowing users to perform a search easier and quicker.

Debra Hockenberry to Present Research in England and France

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Debra Hockenberry, visiting instructor of management and marketing, will present “The Ontological Phenomenon of the Unseen and the Unheard that Predicts the Propensity of Futuring™ within Creative Deviance, Intrapreneurship and Entrepreneurship” at the 21st Annual Conference of SC’MOI (The Standing Conference on Management and Organizational Inquiry) from Thursday, April 12 through Saturday, April 14.

Also, she will present “A Co-Posited Approach to Time, Space and Matter within Intrapreneurship” at the fourth International Conference of the Academy of Management and ISEOR Research Center on Organization Development and Change in Lyon, France in June.

In August, Hockenberry will present “Mother, Must I Start My Own Business? A Qualitative Socio-Economic View of Single Mothers in the United States” at the 2012 Ethnography Symposium at the University of Liverpool’s Management School in Liverpool, England.

Daniel Preston Presents at Monticello Symposium

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Daniel Preston, editor of the Papers of James Monroe, presented a paper entitled “Sounds in the Neighborhood: Music in the Lives of James Monroe and His Family” jointly with Katherine Preston of the College of William & Mary at the symposium Soundscapes of Jefferson’s America, sponsored by the University of Virginia and Monticello, on Friday, March 30.