Duly Noted provides information about University of Delaware faculty's and staff's recent professional activities, which include presentations, publications, public references, services, and awards.
Joel Best, Professor of Sociology, was quoted in an Oct. 30 Time Magazine article about Halloween trick-or-treating fears, as his 1985 study of media reports dating back two decades found no evidence that any child had been killed or seriously harmed by contaminated treats with most allegations most likely hoaxes. "You can't prove a negative. You can't prove that it's never, ever happened," Best told Time. "[But] if it was happening, it would make the news." Best also was cited in articles in the Memphis (Tenn.) Daily News, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, New Albany (Ind.) Tribune, the Columbia Missourian, the Austin (Minn.) Herald and the Chicago Daily Herald.
Marvin Zuckerman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, was quoted in an Oct. 30 South Coast (Mass.) Today article about why people enjoy being scared. "Novelty fear -- like horror movies or sky-diving -- triggers this center of the brain that processes both pleasure and fear. You might say the brain has a reward system. There's an intrinsic reward system for seeking thrills: We get arousal, excitement, an adrenaline rush. In many cases, there's a willingness to accept risk," Zuckerman said.
John Brunelle, Psychologist in the Center for Counseling and Student Development, was quoted in an Oct. 24 News Journal article about the correlation between sports victories and mood. "When a college team wins a national championship, it certainly affects the community," he told the newspaper. "Students tend to go to class and perform better academically."
Ralph Begleiter, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, was quoted in an Oct. 23 Washington Post article about the end of the ban on media coverage of the nation's war dead at Dover Air Force Base. Begleiter was instrumental in helping lift the ban.
Ben Yagoda, Professor of English, wrote a review of the John Freeman book The Tyranny of E-Mail in the Oct. 23 New York Times.
Philip Goldstein, Professor of English, "Gender, Genre, and Rhetoric in Sara Paretsky's Detective Fiction," Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Oct. 24, Philadelphia.
James Brophy, Professor of History, “Vormarz Karriere des Verlegers Heinrich Hoff,” international symposium on censorship, “Das literarische Leben des 19 Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der Zensur,” Oct. 23, at the Heinrich-Heine-Institute in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Rudi Matthee, Distinguished Professor of History, published "The Safavids Under Western Eyes: Seventeenth-Century European Travelers to Iran," Journal of Early Modern History 13:2-3 (2009): 137-172.
James Brophy, Professor of History, received the award Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2008 from the American Library Association for his book Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
The UD appearance by David Axelrod, senior adviser to President Barack Obama, received widespread coverage, with reporting by the News Journal, the Associated Press and Fox News. The user-generated CNN iReport site noted the presentation was available through Second Life.
Michael Gotch, actor, Sanford Robbins, Chairperson of the Department of Theatre, and UD's Resident Ensemble Players were featured in a strong review of the Doug Wright work I Am My Own Wife by Greer Firestonein the Oct. 8 Community News.
Sanford Robbins, Chairperson of the Department of Theatre, was quoted in an Oct. 4 Philadelphia Inquirer article about ensemble acting. "It's rare that an all-star team is as good as a really good regular team, even though you may pick the best players. In ensemble acting, there's a cohesion and harmony in the way the roles are played," he said, "and the sum is more powerful than the parts."
Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, was quoted in an Oct. 4 News Journal article about teaching Afghan ways to American soldiers at an Indiana National Guard training center.
Margaret Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology, was quoted in an Oct. 2 News Journal article about the late Princess Diana, subject of an exhibition at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
William Innes Homer, H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus of Art History, was featured in a Sept. 29 News Journal article about his book The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins.
Saul Hoffman, Chairperson of the Department of Economics, was quoted in a Sept. 27 News Journal article about the effects of recession on poor residents of Rehoboth Beach. “It's extremely severe. I'm not sure (minorities) are facing a depression, but their situation is much worse than other populations,” he said.
David R. Shearer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Hagley Program, Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953, Yale University Press, 2009.
David Pong, Professor of History and Director of the East Asian Studies program, editor-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Modern China, four volumes, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009.
J. Ritchie Garrison, Professor of History and Director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, "Material Cultures," in Karen Halttunen, ed., A Companion to American Cultural History (Malden, Mass., and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing, 2008): 295-310.
Mark McLeod, Associate Professor of History, “The Way of the Mendicants: History, Philosophy, and Practice at the Central Vihara in Ho Chi Minh City,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 4.2 (2009): 69-116.
Jennifer Lambe, Associate Professor of Communication, and Myriah Lipke of Temple University, "Public Libraries: Porn Free?,"Communication Currents Journal, Volume 4, Issue 5, October 2009.
Ben Carterette, Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, won the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval for his work, "An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking," Sept. 10-12, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K.
Jean Pfaelzer, Professor of English, was quoted in a Sept. 14 Riverside (Calif.) Press Enterprise article about the recent California state legislature apology to Chinese-Americans for past discriminatory laws. Pfaelzer is the author of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, which highlights resistance among 19th century Chinese immigrants.
Ralph Begleiter, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, wrote a Sept. 14 Delaware Voice opinion piece in the Sept. 14 News Journal questioning whether modern Americans are interested in the news.
David Suisman, Assistant Professor of History, was featured in the Aug. 23 issue of The New York Times for his book Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music.
An Aug. 23 article in The New York Times concerning the New Jersey governor's race cited two politicos from the University of Delaware, Democratic strategist David Plouffe and Republican gubernatorial candidate Christopher J. Christie.
Jennifer Mass, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art Conservation and a senior scientist at Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, was featured in a Sept. 2 Voice of America story about her role in uncovering an N.C. Wyeth painting using an X-ray technique.
Tammy Anderson, Associate Professor of Sociology, was quoted in a Sept. 1 Dover Post story about the influence of television shows, particularly on young people.
Russell Dynes, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Founding Director of UD's Disaster Research Center, was quoted in an Aug. 28 Christian Science Monitor story on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Suzanne Burton, Associate Professor of Music Education, presented a research paper on music literacy entitled “Making Musical Meaning” at the Gordon Institute for Music Learning Conference, Aug. 13, 2009, in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Rudi Matthee, Distinguished Professor of History, spoke on “Facing a Rude and Barbarous Nation: Nineteenth-Century Iranian Perceptions of Russia and the Russians,” Free University, Berlin, Germany, July 15, 2009.
Suzanne Burton, Associate Professor of Music Education, and Alison Reynolds, Associate Professor of Music Education at Temple University, published “Transforming Music Teacher Education Through Service-Learning” in the spring 2009 issue of the Journal of Music Teacher Education.
Ann Ardis, Interim Deputy Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English, “T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism,” A Companion to T. S. Eliot, ed. David Chinitz (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 311-22.
Jennifer L. Lambe, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, with Jason B. Reineke, “Public Attitudes About Government Involvement in Expressive Controversies,” Journal of Communication 59 (2009) pp. 225. Also, “The Structure of Censorship Attitudes,” Communication Law and Policy, 13:4, pp. 485
Scott Caplan, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, was published in the Computers in Human Behavior Journal with the article "Problematic Internet Use and Psychosocial Well-Being Among MMO Players," by Caplan, Dmitri Williams of the University of Southern California and Nick Yee of the Palo Alto Research Center.
Rudi Matthee, Distinguished Professor of History, served as a discussant at a conference, The Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History, held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, March 17-19, 2009.
Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, was cited in an Aug. 21 News Journal story about the Muslim community in Delaware.
Jennifer Mass, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art Conservation and a Senior Scientist at Winterthur Museum and Gardens, was featured in Aug. 20 Philadelphia Inquirer, Telegraph (U.K.), LiveScience and MSNBC Cosmic Log stories about her role in uncovering an N.C. Wyeth painting using an X-ray technique. Mass also was featured on the Aug. 21 National Public Radio Science Friday program.
Joseph Pika, James R. Soles Professor of Political Science and International Relations, was quoted in an Aug. 19 USA Today story about sports betting in Delaware and the possible political fallout for Gov. Jack Markell. "If the federal courts come in and say sports betting isn't allowed, that's an automatic excuse. If this thing goes through and the revenue falls short, that'd be a much bigger issue for the governor," Pika said.
Aaron Kupchik, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice, was quoted in an Aug. 5 News Journal story about ways to prevent violence among young people, saying that mentoring programs are key.
Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, wrote an op-ed piece in the Aug. 4 News Journal concerning a rise of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Europe.
Kenneth Haas, Professor of Criminal Justice, was quoted in an Aug. 3 News Journal story on the murder conviction of James Cooke, which was overturned recently by the Delaware Supreme Court. Haas told the newspaper the Supreme Court should have taken action on concerns expressed before the trial opened. Cooke is charged in the murder of a UD student, Lindsay Bonistall.
Katherine Grier, Professor of History and author of the book Pets in America: A History, was quoted in an Aug. 2 Christian Science Monitor story about the pet industry, which now includes not only major retailers but an airline. She discussed pet food marketing, saying companies have “gotten very good at tapping into peoples' anxieties about the quality of their own diet, and then getting them to apply that anxiety to their pets' diets. First, of course, the industry had to convince people that the traditional way they fed pets -- cooking them meat or feeding scraps -- was unhealthy."
Debra Hess Norris, Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts, chairperson of the Department of Art Conservation and Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education, presented a talk entitled Stewardship of America, at the Institute of Museum and Library Services Conference.
Ann Ardis, Professor of English and Interim Deputy Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, presented the keynote address, "Making the Middlebrow: Emerging Literacies and the Materiality of Print Culture," at the Middlebrow Cultures Symposium, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, July 14, 2009.
Ann Ardis, Professor of English and Interim Deputy Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences, "Democracy and Modernism: The New Age Under A. R. Orage (1907-1922)," The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 205-225.
Deborah H. Powell, research associate II at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), won first place for her image of a cryo-SEM image of snow crystals at the 2009 Microscopy & Microanalysis Meeting, held July 26-30, 2009, in Richmond, Va.
Rebekah R. Helton, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biological Sciences, won second place for her confocal image of flower pigment cells and pollen grains at the 2009 Microscopy & Microanalysis Meeting, held July 26-30, 2009, in Richmond, Va.
Krzysztof Szalewicz, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was featured in a July 9 News Journal story about the “kolos” supercomputer on campus.
David Suisman, Assistant Professor of History, was featured in a July 7 Forbes magazine story about his book Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music.
Jill Biden, a UD alumna and wife of Vice President Joe Biden, was featured in a July 7 story in The New York Times concerning community colleges, which she said are an important American export.
Heather Lehman, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and the new Miss Delaware, was the subject of a feature story in the July 4 News Journal.
Ashley John Pigford, Assistant Professor of Art, and William Deering, Assistant Professor of Art, presented an illustrated talk on June 30 at the St Bride Library in London concerning the value of the letterpress in contemporary design education. Specifically, they discussed the University's Raven Press as a place of experimentation and education.
Theodore E. D. Braun, Professor Emeritus of Foreign Languages and Literatures, “A New Genre: l'Opéra moral / Moral Opera in 18th Century France,” in E. Joe Johnson and Byron R. Wells, eds., An American Voltaire: Studies in Memory of J. Patrick Lee (Newcastle-ypon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), pp. 20-35
Nancy Signorielli, Professor of Communication, received the Eastern Communication Association (ECA) 2009 Centennial Scholar Media Communication Award at the 2009 ECA Convention.
Tom Apple, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences soon to become provost, was featured in an interview June 24 on WHYY-TV's Delaware Tonight. The interview focused on the University's strategic plan and Apple's plans as provost.
Todor Stanev, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was quoted in a June 23 Science News story about cosmic rays, as new research suggests that many of the highest-energy particles are iron nuclei rather than protons.
Michela Taufer, Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, was quoted in a June 22 Scientific American story about UD's Docking@Home project, through which you can donate your computer's idle time for use in leading-edge research. “Even without large resources of supercomputers, we can do meaningful research with the help of volunteers across the Internet,” Taufer said.
Lance Winn, Assistant Professor of Art, was featured in a Philadelphia The Artblog posting of June 17, in which he discussed the University's presence in the city's Crane Arts Building through the UD@Crane program.
Alvina Quintana, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, was featured in a May 18 Hispanic Outlook story that focused on Latina writers and American literature.
Muqtedar Khan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Islamic Studies Program, wrote an opinion piece June 5 for Middle East Online concerning President Barack Obama's address from Cairo. “Never has an American president spoken with such eloquence, compassion, understanding and empathy to the Muslim World,” Khan wrote.
Harry Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Astronomy, and Judi Provencal, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UD and Director of the Delaware Asteroseismic Research Center, were quoted in a June 3 News Journal story about the Whole Earth Telescope project. “You're part of this worldwide consortium that's doing exciting stuff," Shipman said. Provencal also was featured in a May 31 WHYY Health and Science story about the Whole Earth Telescope project.
Christopher Christie, a UD political science alumnus, was featured widely in regional media, including The New York Times, the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger and the Philadelphia Inquirer, after he won the Republican Party's primary election and will now run for governor of New Jersey.
James Butkiewicz, Professor of Economics, was quoted in a May 20 Newsday story about legislation to legalize sports betting in Delaware. "The thing we do know from Nevada," Butkiewicz said, "is there are 184 locations where you can bet on sports, and the total revenue generated by sports betting is only 1.2 percent of their gaming revenue."_He added, “There's this myth that if you get sports gamblers to come to Delaware to bet, they'll bet more on the slots. The academic literature on this says that crossover effect is practically zero."
Leslie F.Goldstein, Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor of Political Science, appeared May 8 on WHYY-TV's Delaware Tonight as a member of a Friday Forum panel on Supreme Court appointments. Among other remarks, she correctly predicted the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor by President Barack Obama.
Lisa Chieffo, Associate Director of the Center for International Studies, was featured in a June 1 Inside Higher Ed story about research on short-term study abroad presented at an NSFSA: Association of International Educators conference held in Los Angeles.
Ralph Begleiter, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence, was quoted in a May 22 News Journal story about a documentary on the Chrysler Assembly Plant in Newark prepared by students in his broadcast news documentary class. The documentary, “Left Behind: Chrysler's Newark Assembly Plant, Past, Present and Future,” was screened Thursday on campus.
Judith Provencal, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, was quoted in a May 19 Discovery News story on the Whole Earth Telescope observations.
Joel Best, Professor of Sociology, was cited in a May 18 Irish Times story for his book Damned Lies and Statistics. The story concerned the difficulty in determining the number of nurses in that nation.
Summer Beretsky, a 2008 graduate, wrote an article on cognitive distortion on May 18 on Psych Central.
Farley Grubb, Professor of Economics, "Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print, and Markets," at the annual conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Richmond, Va., March 28.
Debra Hess Norris, Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education, Chairperson of the Department of Art Conservation and Henry F. du Pont Chair in Fine Arts, "I've Just Seen a Face: Learning From the Magical History Tour of Photographic Materials," at the Learning and Teaching with Objects Conference at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, March 14.
Thomas M. Powers, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Science, Ethics and Public Policy Program and Faculty Research Fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute, “Ethics and Biofuels: Distributive and Intergenerational Justice,” Society of Toxicology annual meeting, Baltimore, March.
Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies, was an invited speaker in a program titled “Blood, Absinthe and Aphorisms: New Currents in Aestheticism and Decadence” at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, April 30.
Rudi Matthee, Distinguished Professor of History, presented "An Imaginary Realm: The Enlightenment Construction of Iran and its Contemporary Echoes," at a one-day symposium titled Modern Iran: The Future of the Past, held at the University of Washington, Seattle, April 2.
Priscilla Smith, Associate Professor of Art, is featured in the 12th International Open juried group exhibition on view at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.
Julio Carrion, Acting Chairperson of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, was quoted in an April 8 Wall Street Journal story about the sentencing of former president Alberto Fujimori by the Supreme Court of Peru. "It solidifies institutions and shows that the justice system works for big fish," Carrion said of the decision.
Alvina E. Quintana, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, was quoted in a recent El Tiempo Hispano story about the UD Women's Studies Program capstone, which focused on Afro-Latina oral history.
Yda Schreuder, Associate Professor of Geography, was quoted in an April 13 Forbes story about the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Convention, specifically proposals for a cap and trade system to limit emissions. "If the U.S. does not come on board it would seem almost impossible that the European Union would steam forward with its own cap-and-trade system," she said.
Susan Strasser, Professor of History and author of Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash, was quoted in an April 12 Washington Post story about the “greening” of a Northern Virginia moving and storage company that has stopped using cardboard boxes and found homes for items left behind. With the coming of consumerism, Strasser told the Post, "Cleanliness. Newness. Convenience. Those were attributes that got sold along with products in the new consumer culture. They all said, 'Use it and just throw it away.' They made throwing something away into not just something that you might do but into a virtue."
UD President Patrick Harker, Provost Dan Rich and Tom Apple, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, were quoted in a March 11 News Journal story about plans by Rich to step down. He will be replaced by Apple. "Dan's extraordinary leadership has been instrumental in enhancing the University's academic programs and the caliber of its faculty and students," Harker said, adding, "His service to the University is dedicated and distinguished, and I cannot overstate his role in UD's rising academic reputation."
Martin Swany, Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Sciences, was quoted in a March 9 Network Computing story about Internet 2.
The University of Delaware PTTP/REP production of the famed play Of Mice and Men received a strong review from theatre critic Howard Shapiro in the March 2 Philadelphia Inquirer. “Of Mice and Men has new resonance now, in our current depressed economy. But the reason to see this well-considered production has less to do with relevance than with revelation,” Shapiro wrote. The production will conclude its run with shows at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 14, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 15, in the Thompson Theatre of the Roselle Center for the Arts.
Peter P. McLaughlin Jr., Delaware Geological Survey, and Ronald E. Martin, Department of Geological Sciences, served as technical program chairs of the international conference "Geological Problem Solving with Microfossils," held March 14-19, 2009, at the University of Houston in Texas.
Mark Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations, has had the fourth edition of the Age of Migration, which he co-authored with Stephen Castles, published by Palgrave-Macmillan internationally and by Guilford in North America and the Philippines.
Gary Ferguson, Professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, was elected in January to the Executive Council and subsequently as Vice President of the French Society for 16th Century Studies.
Christy Visher, Professor of Criminal Justice, testified March 11 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and State about an evaluation of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative.
Debra Hess Norris, Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education and Henry Francis du Pont Chair in Fine Arts, "Beyond Plants and Animals: Caring for Photographic and Archival Collections," at the Institute of Museum and Library Services meeting entitled, “It's Alive! Petals to Primates: Preservation Challenges of Living Collections,” San Diego, Feb. 19.
Suzanne Burton, Associate Professor of Music Education, and Brian Bersh, senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, have been chosen to present their research paper, “The professional development of music teachers: Is it time to go with the flow?” at the international Research in Music Education conference to be held in Exeter, U.K., in April.
Christine Hadfield and Chelsea McFarland, music education majors and Collegiate Music Educators National Conference officers, have been selected to represent the state of Delaware at the Music Educators National Conference Leadership Breakfast, to be held at the Eastern Division Conference, Providence, R.I., March 14.
Alice D. Ba, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, presented an invited paper, "Legitimating Constraints: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations," at a workshop on "Legitimacy and International Organizations" sponsored by University of Reading, U.K., Jan. 30-31.
William S. Schenck, of the Delaware Geological Survey, attended the National States Geographic Information Council (NSGIC) Mid-Year meeting in Annapolis, Md., Feb. 22-25.
Lynn Snyder-Mackler, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Physical Therapy, was quoted in a Feb. 3 story in The New York Times about research on knee surgery recovery.
Richard Sylves, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, was quoted in a widely distributed Feb. 2 Associated Press story about the federal response to a deadly ice storm that struck in Kentucky. "If it's perceived not to be handled very well, or if there's a sense that there's insensitivity at the federal level to the plight of people suffering, I imagine the people President Obama has appointed to senior positions in FEMA will be grilled in their confirmation hearings," Sylves told the AP.
Debra Hess Norris, Henry F. du Pont Chair in Fine Arts, Chairperson of the Department of Art Conservation and Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education, "Preservation Challenges: Historic and Contemporary Photographic Print and Negative Materials," at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance meeting, Oct. 26, in Charlotte, N.C.
Jae Gutierrez, Assistant Professor of Art Conservation, "Selecting Safe Storage Enclosures for Photographic Materials," at the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance, Oct. 26, in Charlotte, N.C.
Scott Caplan, Associate Professor of Communication, “Who Plays, How Much and Why? A Behavioral Player Census of a Virtual World,” at the National Communication Association Conference, Nov. 21-24, in San Diego.
Juliet Dee, Associate Professor of Communication, "Taking It To The Streets: A Protest Against The Loss Of Free Expression In America," "Getting Published in NCA Journals and Annuals," "Fingerprints, Grace Notes and YouTube: The Problematic Relationship between Convergence and Copyright Law" and "Shedding Light or Casting Shadows: The 'Penumbra' -- Metaphor, Privacy and Privileged Communication," at the National Communication Association Conference, Nov. 21-24, in San Diego. Dee also held "Office hours for Editors," and participated in a "Scholar to Scholar Session."
Steven Mortenson, Assistant Professor of Communication, "What Counts as Skilled Support? Self-Efficacy and Evaluations of Social Support across Cultures," at the National Communication Association Conference, Nov. 21-24, in San Diego.
Nancy Signorielli, Professor of Communication, "Children's Programs in 2007: Basic Demography and Violence," at the National Communication Association Conference, Nov. 21-24, in San Diego.
Danna Young, Assistant Professor of Communication, participated as a respondent in the forum titled "Mediated Elections" at the National Communication Association Conference, Nov. 21-24, in San Diego.
Bernard Herman, Chairperson of the Department of Art History and Edward and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Art History, "The Adultery of Mary West and Richard Jones: Writing Material Culture in the Absence of Objects," as part of the Seminar in New York and American Material Culture, Dec. 3, at the Bard Graduate Center, New York.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Associate Professor of History, Black American Studies and Women's Studies, panel chair, "New Directions in American Marriage -- Bringing in Religion,"14th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 12-15, University of Minnesota. Also, panel chair, "African American Reflections on Africa and the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century," 74th Southern Historical Association Conference Oct. 9-12, New Orleans, and, "Historical Reflections on the Anti-Slavery Struggle: Race and Resistance 1858-2008," Nov. 7-8, Oberlin College.
Daniel F. Callahan, Professor of History, “Al-Hakim, Charlemagne and the Destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in the Writings of Ademar of Chabannes,” in The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade, eds. Matthew Gabriele and Jace Stuckey, Palgrave Macmillan.
Cathy Matson, Professor of History, “Accounting for War and Revolution. Philadelphia Merchants and Commercial Risk, 1774-1811,” in The Self-Perception of Early Modern Capitalists, eds. Margaret C. Jacob and Catherine Secretan, Palgrave Macmillan.
Gary May, Professor of History, John Tyler, New York: Henry Holt.
Steven Sidebotham, Professor of History, with Martin Hense and Hendrikje Nouwens, The Red Land: The Illustrated Archaeology of Egypt's Eastern Desert, Cairo and New York: American University in Cairo Press.
Susan Strasser, Professor of History, “Sponsorship and Snake Oil: Medicine Shows and Contemporary Public Culture,” in Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy and Community in the United States, Marguerite S. Shaffer, ed.
Mark J. Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations, has become a member of the Migration Council, advising the World Economic Forum, which organizes the annual meetings for world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, every January. In this capacity, he attended the preparatory summit, Nov. 7-9, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Joann Browning, Professor of Theatre and Associate Chairperson of the Department of Theatre, has been appointed to the Delaware State Arts Council by Gov. Ruth Ann Minner.
University alumni U.S. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. and wife Jill Jacobs-Biden have been featured widely in the media following the announcement that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had selected the senator as his running mate. Since the announcement, Sen. Biden has been the subject of print and broadcast stories around the world and his speech to the Democratic National Convention aired Aug. 27. Jill was the subject of a feature story in the Aug. 25 issue of The New York Times and the Aug. 27 Philadelphia Inquirer.