Professor of Political Science and Director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, Stephen Farnsworth, recently presented an online lecture, “The Politics of Not Voting,” at the None of the Above Voter Mobilization Conference in Arlington, VA. In addition, recent media mentions for Farnsworth include: Second-wave Population Shifts Carry Vindman in Seventh (FXBG […]
Rosalyn Cooperman, professor and chair of the department of political science and international affairs, was highlighted in an article for the Center for American Woman and Politics titled, “What will 2025 bring for women’s representation in the Commonwealth of Virginia?” Reflecting on upcoming shifts, Cooperman notes, “In 2024, Virginia had four of its 11 congressional […]
Gary Richards, professor of english, led the One Book, One Festival talk on Eudora Welty’s 1972 novel The Optimist’s Daughter at the twentieth Louisiana Book Festival held on the capitol grounds in Baton Rouge on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024.Richards has led this annual event over a dozen times since it was created fifteen years ago, […]
Professor of History and American Studies, Krystyn Moon was featured in an Annandale Today article titled “Racial covenants – widespread in Mason District – can be removed.” Moon commented on the impact of these restrictive covenants, noting, “Those deeds rolled back any momentum for Black residents to become renters or homeowners in Fairfax County.”Moon’s research […]
Douglas W. Sanford, professor emeritus of historic preservation, presented “Interpreting the Evidence for African American History: Virginia’s Slave Quarters and Free Blacks on the Middle Peninsula in 1860,” at a virtual meeting of the Middle Peninsula African American Genealogical and Historical Society. Read the article.Other recent media mentions for Sanford include:Talk to explore lives of […]
