Category: Professional Notes

Lynne Richardson’s Weekly Column Appears in FLS

Lynne Richardson’s weekly column recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.“Twenty-something years ago I remember hearing an aphorism along the lines of: ‘The higher you go up in an organization, the lonelier you get.’ While I thought then that I knew what that phrase meant, now that I’m living it, I truly understand,” Richardson writes in […]

Michael Spencer’s Virtual Reality Work Featured in FLS

Michael Spencer, an associate professor in the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Mary Washington, along with students in his computer application class, have created virtual tours at museums in Fredericksburg.The projects include the attic in the Mary Washington House; the tunnels below Caroline Street; and a virtual exhibit for the James Monroe […]

Rosalyn Cooperman Featured in Yahoo News Story

Crashing the boys’ club: Women candidates find winning elections is only half the battle (Yahoo.com)“The attention has been on the record numbers who are running and to the message being sent by those sheer numbers,” says Rosalyn Cooperman, associate professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va. “But what kind […]

Subrmananian Chosen as Livingston Awards Finalist

Sushma Subramanian, assistant professor of English with a focus on journalism, is a finalist for the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists​. The award honors the best reporting and storytelling by journalists under 35 and is popularly known as the Pulitzer for the Young. The work for which she is being recognized is a cover story for Slate on […]

Barry Presents at Yale University

Jennifer Barry, Assistant Professor of Religion, presented her paper “Remembering Exile: Ecclesiastical Historians and Christian Flight” at Yale University on April 23, 2018. This paper stems out of a chapter from her forthcoming book with the University of California Press titled Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity.