Category: Professional Notes

Hanna’s Slavery Research Featured in FLS

An article recently published in The Free Lance-Star featured the research of geography professor Steve Hanna.In 2013, Hanna and his students mapped all of the city’s historical markers and monuments in Fredericksburg. They wanted to find out what these told — or omitted — about the history of slavery here. They updated the map this year. Hanna […]

Richardson’s Weekly Column Featured in FLS

Lynne Richardson’s latest column, Understanding Your Benefits, recently appeared in The Free Lance-Star.She explains: “I was asked by one of my students—a recent immigrant from another country—to help her understand the benefits package offered by a company.”You can read her column here:http://www.fredericksburg.com/business/columns/richardson-understanding-your-benefits/article_c347678c-c2f3-5f61-98b3-b75c3f1fa64e.html

Bessette Publishes Review of Comics Collection

Lee Skallerup Bessette, Instructional Technology Specialist in DTLT and adjunct instructor in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently had her review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults published in The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.Read it here:https://www.comicsgrid.com/articles/10.16995/cg.124/.

Gupta delivers talk at the University of Pittsburgh

Surupa Gupta, associate professor of Political Science and International Affairs, delivered a lecture titled “Food Fights at the WTO: Political Economy of India’s Focus on Food Security in International Trade Negotiations” on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, as part of a speaker series at the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

Smith and Burtis Publish on Tools for Preservation

In January, Andréa Livi Smith and Martha Burtis had their article, “A Practical Cultural Resource Survey Tool for Preservation,” published in a special issue of the Association for Preservation Technology Bulletin. The piece shares a project Smith and Burtis have collaborated on since fall 2013 when they decided to develop an online tool to facilitate […]