Category: Professional Notes

During an interview on the “With Good Reason” public radio program, Chris Kilmartin, professor of psychology, examines how anti-feminine taunts reinforce the fiction that men are sexually indiscriminate. The interview originally aired in July 2011 on public radio stations across Virginia.

The interview will be re-aired beginning Saturday, August 18 on several Virginia public radio stations, as well as stations across the U.S. The segment, “Real Men,” also is available online at http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2012/08/real-men-2/.

This summer, Cate Brewer, visiting assistant professor in the department of Theatre and Dance, directed Into The Woods for The City of Fairfax Theatre Company, taught Shakespeare intensives at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, Md., and was The Director of Acting for ClearSpace Theatre Company in Rehoboth, Del.

Mehdi Aminrazavi, professor of philosophy and religion, gave the lecture “Reading Omar Khayyam’s Ruba’iyyat within Their Historical Context” at the Library of Congress on Thursday, July 19.

Cassandra Good, assistant editor of the Papers of James Monroe, presented “‘You Would Exert Your Friendship for Us’: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early Republic” at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic annual conference in Baltimore, Md.

Michelle Crow-Dolby, education and communications manager for Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont, has been appointed by the Fredericksburg City Council to serve on the Fredericksburg Arts Commission. The 11-member commission provides leadership and guidance to the Fredericksburg City Council about arts and cultural issues.