Spotlights
Faculty & Staff Successes, November 2015
November 09, 2015
Craig Benjamin, professor of History, Honors, and director of Big History, gave presentations, “Educating for Global Engagement” and “Big History and Liberal Education,” at the Globalistics 2015 Conference at Moscow State University, convened to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Benjamin was also inducted as an honorary member of the faculty of the Department of Global Studies at Moscow State University.
Diane Maodush-Pitzer, affiliate professor of Liberal Studies and Religious Studies, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on Monday, November 9, 2015. Diane's dissertation is titled: Voices of Persistence: Stories of Success from One Urban Public Charter High School.
Louis Moore, associate professor of History and Coordinator of African/African American Studies, was interviewed by the Huffington Post for a story about the University of Missouri football team protest over racial incidents.
Mark Schaub, Chief International Officer of the Padnos International
Center, was interviewed by WOOD-AM, WZZM-TV, and WGVU
Public Media for stories about study abroad trends and student participation.
Patrick Fuliang Shan, East Asian
Studies coordinator and associate professor of history,
served as co-editor of a book, Ethnic China: Identity,
Assimilation, and Resistance, published by Lexington and Rowman
& Littlefield.
David Stark, professor of History and Latin American Studies, gave a presentation, "Moving from the Sugar Plantation to the Hato Economy: A New Look at Slavery and Slave Life in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean," at the Fourth Conference on Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean in Richmond, Virginia.
Jonathan White, professor of Honors and executive director of the Homeland Defense Initiative, was interviewed by several media outlets about the terrorist attacks in Paris.
Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino, department chair and associate professor of Liberal Studies, published a book, TV Female Foursomes and Their Fans: Featuring The Golden Girls, Designing Women, Living Single, Sex and the City, Girlfriends, Cashmere Mafia and Hot in Cleveland. Published by McFarland & Company, Inc.
Lindsay M. Ellis, associate professor of English and director of Writing Across the Curriculum and Faculty Writing Support, published an article, "A critique of the ubiquity of the Toulmin model in argumentative writing instruction in the U.S.A." in Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.