Category: Professional Notes

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.”

Serving on an international panel of jurors for the Society of American Mosaic Artists, UMW professor of art history Jean Ann Dabb selected works on display at the Mosaic Arts International exhibit in Austin, Tex. Mosaic art, one of the world’s oldest art forms, is experiencing a global revitalization. “This exhibition provides a unique opportunity to highlight outstanding examples of contemporary mosaic art from around the world in one venue, to allow viewers to experience the exciting new ways that artists are taking this art form to another level,” said Shug Jones, president of the SAMA Board of Trustees. “These artists, building on traditional and ancient art, are using both traditional and non-traditional materials to really push the art to a degree unseen in recent history.”

Former secretary to two Mary Washington presidents, Anne Avery Moyse, passed away February 13. Her obituary is at:  http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/022011/02152011/607212

Join the UMW Bookstore team as they send their best wishes with Lucy Snyder in her retirement after 24 years of servicee in the UMW commmunity. Stop in the store between 2 pm and 4 pm on Thursday, February 24 to visit and say farewell!