Category: Professional Notes

Fallon Presents Linguistics Research

Paul D. Fallon, Associate Professor of Linguistics, presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Minneapolis from Jan. 2-5, 2014. His talk, “The Tangled Web of Reconstructing Proto-Agaw Dorsal Consonants,” was about the historical reconstruction of the Agaw, or Central Cushitic, languages, which are spoken in the Horn […]

Farnsworth Talks Politics

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a National Security Lecture entitled, “The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government,” to foreign and military policy professionals at UMW’s Dahlgren Campus. The talk was drawn from Farnsworth’s new book examining international news coverage […]

Poska to Present Lansdowne Lecture

Allyson M. Poska, professor of history and program chair of women’s and gender studies, will give a presentation for the annual Lansdowne Lectures at the University of Victoria on Thursday, Jan. 30. The lecture, History, the Humanities, and the Promise of Possibilities, discusses the humanities as the foundation of intellectual innovation.