Brian Baker, executive director of the University of Mary Washington Center for Economic Development, was elected president of the Virginia Business Incubation Association (VBIA) at the July 10 Board of Director’s meeting. In that role he will work with the board to improve member engagement and value.VBIA enters its 14th year as an education and […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, published an opinion column in the June 30 issue of the Washington Post relating the more conservative shift in the Virginia Republican Party’s candidates for state office.
Chris Foss, professor of English, presented a paper entitled “Erin Go Bharat: Political Affiliations with Ireland in Fin-de-Siècle Indian English-Language Poetry” at the historic first-ever supernumerary joint meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association, the British Association of Victorian Studies, and the Australasian Victorian Studies Association. The conference took place during the first week of […]
Will Mackintosh has just completed a residential research fellowship at the American Geographical Society Library at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, where he was working with their collection of nineteenth-century American tourist guidebooks. This fellowship was part of his ongoing research project on the origins of domestic tourism in the early United States.
Andréa Livi Smith, assistant professor and director of the Center for Historic Preservation, organized and hosted the second Undergraduate Historic Preservation Education Symposium (UHPES) on the UMW campus on June 20-22. Dr. Smith analyzed findings from the first symposium, held in 2010, culminating in an article published in the current edition of Preservation Education and […]
