Marjorie Och, Professor of Art History, chaired the session “Technology and Collaboration in the Art History Classroom” at the annual meeting of the College Art Association in New York City in February; the session was sponsored by the CAA-affiliated society Art Historians Interested in Pedagogy and Technology.
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason W. Davidson’s book chapter, “Italy and the US: Prestige, Peace, and the Transatlantic Balance,” was recently published by Lexington Books in a volume edited by Maurizio Carbone titled Italy in the Post-Cold War Order: Adaptation, Bipartisanship, Visibility.
UMW’s assistant provost for institutional analysis and effectiveness recently traveled to Nigeria to speak to education professionals in Ogun state about “Academic Leadership Strategies and Administration Challenges in Contemporary Higher Education Institutions.” http://www.indstate.edu/news/news.php?newsid=2655
Douglas W. Sanford, professor and chair of the Department of Historic Preservation, contributed the article “Slave Housing” to the two-volume World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States, edited by Martha B. Katz-Hyman and Kym S. Rice (Greenwood, 2011).
Much of the information for Sanford’s article developed out of a National Endowment for the Humanities grant project headed by Sanford and Dennis Pogue, of George Washington’s Mt. Vernon, on the variety of housing arrangements for slaves in Virginia, based on archaeological, architectural, and documentary evidence.
Esther Yook, director of the UMW Speaking Center, presented “Communication Centers Spanning the Continent: Visual Ideations and Models” and “Communication Centers as the Golden Gate of Oral Communication: Great Ideas for the Center” at the annual convention of the National Communication Association in San Francisco, Calif., in November. At the same conference, Yook also served as a poster session judge and as chair of the paper session “If You Build It, They May Come: Empirically Identifying Motivations Surrounding the Use of Communication Centers.”