Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented a research paper,“Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: Analyzing PolitiFact.com and Washington Post “Fact-Checker” Assessments of 2012 Presidential Campaign Content,” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco, CA.
Professor of History Jeffrey McClurken’s interview with radio program “With Good Reason” will be featured a second time from Saturday, Sept. 12 to Friday, Sept. 18. The interview, called “Gone With the Wind, The Patriot, Born on the Fourth of July,” discusses what viewers can learn about history through how popular historical films are produced, even when the films themselves are often historically inaccurate. The interview […]
Jeffrey McClurken, professor of history and American studies and special assistant to the provost, has been named as Co-Chair of the American Historical Association’s newly created Digital History Working Group. The group, created to help history departments and faculty navigate the tenure and promotion process with regard to digital scholarship, “will be available to advise departments […]
Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion, published the article “Religious Tolerance” in The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion (279-287), edited by Graham Oppy and released April 2015.
Colin Rafferty, associate professor of English, recently published the essay “Washington Bullets” in Enter Your Initials for Record Keeping, an anthology of essays about the video game “NBA Jam.” The collection was issued by Cobalt Books. Rafferty also read the essay at a book release event in Baltimore in July.
