August 2012

August 2, 2012

New Books

Supriya Goswami, Adjunct Professor of English, authored her first book, Colonial India in Children’s Literature.

Victoria Grady, Adjunct Professor of Organizational Sciences, recently authored the book, The Pivot Point: Success in Organizational Change.

Gil Harris, Professor of English, wrote Marvellous Repossessions: The Tempest, Globalization, and the Waking Dream of Paradise.

 

Awards and Recognition

Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences Shelly D. Brundage and Professor of Geography Joseph P. Dymond were awarded the 2012 Writing in the Disciplines Teaching Award.

Valentina S. Harizanov, Professor of Mathematics, was awarded a grant of $133,557 from the National Science Foundation in support of her research project, “Topics in Computable Structure Theory”.

Edward Robinson, Associate Professor of Forensic Sciences, received a $175,000 grant from the Simons Foundation Collaboration Grants Mathematicians Program for his research on dynamical systems and aperiodic order.

Angelica Spanos, BA ’09, won the “Outstanding Video Journalist/One Man Band Reporter” award from the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association for her work as a video journalist.

 

Selected Published Works

Elisabeth Anker, Assistant Professor of American Studies, published two peer-reviewed articles this spring, “Heroic Identifications” in Theory and Event and “Left Melodrama” in Contemporary Political Theory.

Catherine Bailard, Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs, published “Testing the Internet’s Effect on Democratic Satisfaction: A Multi-Methodological, Cross-National Approach” in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.