Elizabeth F. Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, participated in the 2014 Commandant’s National Security Program (CNSP) at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania in July 2014. Participation was by nomination only. Larus joined senior military officers as well as 60 other guests from law, business, the intelligence community, medicine and academia to participate in a series of lectures and small group discussions on pressing national security issues.
Farnsworth Recognized by APSA
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, was recognized at the recent Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association for completing two years as chair of the association’s Political Communication section. The section, one of the larger ones in APSA, includes roughly 400 political science professors and graduate students from around the world who study the intersection of media and politics. Farnsworth previously served two years as vice chair of the section and six years as a member of the section’s executive council. He is the author or co-author of five books on media and politics.
John Broome Co-Authors Op-Ed on Virginia Social Studies
John Broome, associate professor in the UMW College of Education, was among 17 Virginia professors who contributed to Testing Times: Teaching history, social science creates informed citizenry an op-ed featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Gately Performs with National Symphony Orchestra
Doug Gately, senior lecturer in the UMW Department of Music, performed with the the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Steven Reineke at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The National Symphony Orchestra celebrates the beginning of the 2014–2015 season with its annual Labor Day Capitol Concert. The program featured Emmy Award winning actress and singer Nicole Parker currently in the national tour of Wicked and Broadway and opera sensation Christopher Johnstone, in the national tour of Evita.
Helen Housley Presents Workshop at ATHE Conference
Helen Housley, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, recently presented a workshop entitled, “Renewing Shakespeare’s Structure: Lessac’s Structural NRG and the Shakespearean Actor,” at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s (ATHE) conference held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Nabil Al-Tikriti Contributes to Publications
Nabil Al-Tikriti
This past summer the International Association of Maritime Studies (IAMS), together with Piri Reis University, Denizler Kitabevi, and Kaptan Yayincilik, published the conference proceedings from the First International Congress of Eurasian Maritime Studies, which Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti participated in at Istanbul in 2012. The title of this peer-reviewed volume is Seapower, Technology, and Trade: Studies in Turkish Maritime History. Al-Tikriti‘s contribution, entitled “Ties that Bind: An Ottoman Maritime Patron from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean,” appears as the first chapter in the first part of the volume.
The abstract is as follows: “Following a brief commentary on the framing of ‘The Age of Exploration’ in U.S. Western Civilization textbooks, and a summary of the International Relations lineup in the early 16th century, I look at one particular Ottoman maritime patron who appears to have played a noticeable role in the Ottoman ‘pivot’ from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean just after the turn of the 16th century.”
In addition, on August 31, Stéphane Ipert, a France-based expert in preventative conservation, restoration, and digital libraries, presented a paper that he and Al-Tikriti jointly completed concerning the long-term effects on Iraq’s libraries and manuscript collections of the 2003 Anglo-American invasion and subsequent occupation of that country. The paper, entitled “A Survey of Iraqi Libraries Before and After the American Intervention,” was presented to the Tenth Islamic Manuscript Conference at Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge, organized by The Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA).
In Virginia, U.S. Senate race unusually low key (The Washington Post)
McAllister Publishes Scholarly Edition
Marie E. McAllister, Professor of English, has published a scholarly edition of Ann Flaxman’s An Uninteresting Detail of a Journey to Rome.
Romantic Circles Electronic Editions, with which McAllister’s book appears, publishes refereed editions of British literature from the late 18th and early 19th-centuries. In 1787 Ann Flaxman set out for France and Italy with her husband, the sculptor John Flaxman. The comically-titled journal she kept during her travels tells the story of a female Grand Tour, something quite rare, and of an extended artist’s visit to Italy, something quite common. Her perceptive and entertaining manuscript, located in the British Library, has been known to scholars but never previously published. The Journey serves as an excellent introduction to English travel writing just before the French Revolution, and to the 18th-century international arts scene. It also reveals the challenges and rewards of being an atypically poor continental traveler and an aspiring woman writer.
Romantic Circles editions include extensive scholarly introductions and appropriate scholarly apparatus for texts edited to the highest editorial standards. They are published in TEI-compliant XML. TEI renders archival quality text for better preservation and future access. Dr. Patrick Murray-John, former Instructional Technology specialist at UMW, assisted with the coding. This project was supported by a UMW faculty development grant and a 2005 sabbatical.
Farnsworth Co-Authors Research Paper
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is co-author of a research paper, “The Automated Coding of Sentiment in Political News Coverage: Examining Newspaper Coverage of the 2013 Race for Governor of Virginia,” which was presented at the American Political Science Association Pre-Conference in Political Communication in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 27.
Miriam Liss, Holly Schiffrin Co-Author Book
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- Professor of Psychological Science Miriam Liss
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- Professor of Psychological Science Holly Schiffrin
Miriam Liss, professor of psychology, and Holly Schiffrin, associate professor of psychology, are co-authors of a book “Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life.” published this month by Rowman & Littlefield.
Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of “The Myths of Happiness” and “The How of Happiness” writes about the work:
“It’s rare that I read a book and wish that I had written it. Liss and Schiffrin have penned the definitive book on work-life balance—an elegant blend of engaging stories, illuminating examples, and cutting-edge empirical evidence. If you read Lean In and want to dig deeper into the complex terrain of the pitfalls and joys of achieving work-life (or any kind of) balance, this book is for you.