Director of Undergraduate Admissions Melissa Yakabouski commented in 10 Financial Aid Tips for College Students | Paying For College in Article Yarn. “It can be tempting to disregard a college based on its high price tag,” Yakabouski said. “But in almost all cases, the sticker price is not what a student is actually going to pay. Read more.
Palmwood Comments on Romantic Relationships in PsyPost
Assistant Professor of Psychological Science Erin Palmwood Contributed to a PsyPost article, Having an unsupportive romantic partner is associated with neurophysiological changes in error processing. “Romantic relationships are a huge part of many people’s lives, but there is still so much that we don’t know about how they impact our day-to-day experiences,” said Palmwood, who also is a licensed clinical psychologist. Read more.
Schiffrin Shares Thoughts in Journal of Child and Family Studies
Professor of Psychological Science Holly Schiffrin contributed to an article, “A 4-year-old can run errands alone … and not just on reality TV” in the Journal of Child and Family Studies. “The biggest gift parents can give their children is the opportunity to make their own decisions,” Schiffrin said. “Parents who ‘help’ their children too much stress themselves out and leave their kids ill-prepared to be adults.” The article was picked up by WUNC, NPR and Wisconsin Public Radio.
Blevins’ Book Chapter Featured at Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association Conference
Assistant Professor of English Brenta Blevins co-authored a forthcoming book chapter, “Leveling Up with Emergent Tutoring: Exploring the Ludus and Paidia of Writing, Tutoring, and Augmented Reality.” Her co-author, Lindsay A. Sabatino, associate professor of English and director of the writing center at Wagner College, delivered the conference keynote keynote address at the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park. Read more.
Davidson Pens Articles for Leading Academic Journals and National Security Publications
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason Davidson with his book, “America’s Entangling Alliances: 1787 to the Present.”
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs Jason Davidson’s article “The 2021 G20 and Italy” (co-authored with Carla Monteleone of the University of Palermo) was just published in the academic journal Contemporary Italian Politics: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23248823.2022.2047255
An essay Dr. Davidson wrote for the national security publication War on the Rocks on NATO after the Ukraine War has also been published: https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/the-end-of-strategic-cacophony-the-russo-ukrainian-war-and-the-future-of-nato/
Sushma Subramanian Speaks About Book and Article on Podcasts
Associate Professor of Communication Sushma Subramanian
Associate Professor of Communication and Digital Studies Sushma Subramanian has appeared on several podcasts to talk about her book How to Feel: The Science and Meaning of Touch and her article, “Who Gets the Child?,” which ran in The Washington Post.
Al-Tikriti Hosts MAOW Conference
On April 1 and 2, the University of Mary Washington hosted the Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop (MAOW), organized by Professor of Middle East History Nabil Al-Tikriti. Participants were thrilled with the University’s hosting and will remember UMW fondly as they continue their research and careers. The “hybrid” format was a challenge at times (including a Zoom bomber), but the conference featured 23 presenters, four moderators, and roughly 50 individuals who also “zoomed” in remotely from around the world over two days. Presentations came in from throughout the USA, as well as from the UK, Armenia and Turkey. Virginia colleagues from UVA, William & Mary, JMU, Washington & Lee, George Mason and VCU attended, as well as regional colleagues from Salisbury, Wake Forest, SUNY Binghamton, Rutgers University-Newark (remote), Auburn, Florida (remote), Hopkins, Princeton, NYU and Chicago.For further information, including conference schedule and paper abstracts, feel free to check out the conference website: https://maow.umwblogs.org/.
Singh Publishes Article “Arguing BDS in the Undergraduate Seminar”
Department of Political Science and International Affairs Associate Professor Ranjit Singh
Political Science and International Affairs Associate Professor Ranjit Singh published a peer-reviewed article “Arguing BDS in the Undergraduate Seminar” in the Spring 2022 Review of Middle East Studies, a journal published by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Singh’s article discusses benefits and approaches to teaching students about one of the most controversial aspects of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement seeking to pressure Israel to comply with international law and end the occupation of Palestinians. The article is based in Singh’s experience teaching a 2019 UMW seminar that largely focused on debates surrounding BDS. Despite the heated controversy, Singh argues social scientists should not shy from teaching such movements because they affect political behavior, shed light on academia and the need for interdisciplinary approaches, engage issues of professorial authority, and open a portal to the ethics of dissent in the era of Black Lives Matter.
An earlier version of this paper was sponsored by MESA’s Committee for Undergraduate Middle East Studies, and presented virtually at the 2020 annual MESA conference.
Kuykendall Returns to New College, Oxford to Speak on Gilbert & Sullivan
The 2018 Gilbert & Sullivan panel at New College, Oxford: (l-r) Brooks Kuykendall (UMW); Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh); and Martyn Strachan (Edinburgh).
Brooks Kuykendall, professor and chair of the Music Department, spoke at the fourth biennial conference The London Stage and the Nineteenth Century World, hosted by New College Oxford (April 6-8, 2022). As at the previous three conferences, he was on a panel of specialists of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas. For 2022, his presentation was entitled “‘The end of my capability in that class of piece’: the Gilbert/Sullivan collaboration at its breaking point.” The panel, convened by Dr. Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh) concerned the genre developed by Gilbert & Sullivan, which is the topic of a larger project of Kuykendall’s.
Most of Kuykendall’s research has centered around British music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, extending beyond Gilbert & Sullivan to the music of Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Walton, and Britten, among others; he also writes a blog on textual issues in music, Settling Scores.
Barrenechea Presents at University of Glasgow Symposium
Professor of English Antonio Barrenechea
On April 11, 2022, Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, was an invited speaker at the University of Glasgow symposium “Fictional Maximalism and the Americas: New Voices, New Perspectives.” His presentation, “Literature of the Americas as Maximalist Discipline” discussed scholarly and historiographical encyclopedism in hemispheric American literary studies.