Category: Professional Notes

Marcel Rotter, associate professor of German, presented his paper “Are you 100 percent American? German-Americans as target of U.S. propaganda in World War I” at the annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del.

Cate Brewer, visiting assistant professor in Theatre and Dance, will perform in the Edward Albee Festival at Arena Stage on the 15th and 16th of April.

Jeff McClurken, chair and associate professor of history and American studies, had the article “Teaching and Learning with Omeka: Discomfort, Play, and Creating Public, Online, Digital Collections” published in the collection “Learning through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy.”

The essay was released in electronic form at http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net. In addition, it was issued in published form by The New School as part of Mobility Shifts, a project supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

The article, which discusses the value of discomfort and open-source tools in teaching digital history, features a number of digital history projects by UMW students.

Read the article in its entirety.

Psychology professor Chris Kilmartin was a panelist at the NCAA’s first violence prevention summit recently in Indianapolis. View links to articles on ESPN and in nwi.com.

Chad Murphy, assistant professor of political science and faculty sponsor for the UMW district mapping team, will speak to the Fredericksburg PC Users Group on April 14 about the Virginia Redistricting Competition that helps educate students about the process of redistricting. He will speak about the importance of institutions and redistricting on the quality of competition, the history of computers and redistricting, and student participation in the Virginia redistricting competition. Read more at http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/042011/04112011/618339.