Surupa Gupta, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, presented two articles titled “Democracy-enhancing Multilateralism: Developing Country Perspectives” and “Strategic thinking and a new foreign economic policy in India” at the recently concluded annual meeting of the International Studies Association. This international conference was held in San Diego, Calif., from Sunday, April 1 through Wednesday, April 4.
In an interview on 1140 WRVA, Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies, discusses the controversy surrounding Eric Cantor’s political contributions. The interview originally aired on Tuesday, April 10.
Elizabeth Larus, professor of political science and international affairs, was interviewed
recently on Voice of Russia 
radio about “Politics and and Society in Contemporary China,”
the subject of her recently released book.
Douglas Sanford, professor within the Department of Historic Preservation, recently published an article entitled “Investigating the Slave Building at Walnut Valley Plantation, Surry County, Virginia” in the Archeological Society of Virginia’s Quarterly Bulletin. In addition, Sanford recently presented a paper entitled “Antebellum Urban Slavery in Virginia: A Comparative Perspective” at the 2012 Virginia Forum in Harrisonburg.
Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, professor of Spanish, presented a paper–“One Woman’s Vision of the Enlightenment: Frasquita Larrea’s Fernando en Zaragoza, Una visión”–at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies held in San Antonio, Texas, from March 22 to 24.
While there she participated in the first ever ASECS THATCamp held March 21, and organized and chaired a session on “Best Practices in Digital Pedagogy” during the ASECS convention. She was also elected president of the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for the upcoming year.
