New Books
Husani Bastien, BA '96, MS '98, co-authored Yes We Can: Obama and Clinton Walk the Talk: How Communication and Performance Win Elections.
Gelaye Debebe, assistant professor of organizational sciences, authored Navigating Power: Cross-cultural Competence in Navajoland.
David DeGrazia, professor of philosophy, authored Creation Ethics: Reproduction, Genetics, and Quality of Life.
Marc Lynch, professor of political science and international affairs, authored The Arab Uprising.
Christina Shelton, BA ’71, MA ’72, authored Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason.
Thad Ziolkowski, BA ’83, wrote the novel Wichita.
Awards and Recognition
Dana Tai Soon Burgess, MFA ’94, chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, received a special commendation from DC Mayor Vincent Gray for his work with the city’s Asian American community.
Christine Coleman, BA ’91, and Jeremy Gosbee, BA ’98, both members of the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors, recently received Outstanding Alumni Service Awards for their volunteer commitment to GW.
Thomas Curtis, BA ’81, MS ’95, received the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Financial Planning Association.
Kavita Daiya, associate professor of English, has been named the Penn Humanities Mellon Regional Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania for the academic year 2012-2013. She also published “Visual Culture and Violence: Inventing Intimacy and Citizenship in Recent South Asian Cinema” in the journal South Asian History and Culture, and in the book South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century.
David DeGrazia, professor of philosophy, presented "Ethical Considerations in Research Involving Children," to the Presidential Commission on the Study of Bioethical Issues and served in a roundtable discussion with the commission.
Stephanie Kingsbury, MFS ’12, received this year's Lindsey Marie Ferris Crime Scene Investigation Prize from the Department of Forensic Sciences for outstanding academic achievement and exceptionally high-quality research.
John Sides, associate professor of political science, was awarded a $76,160 grant by the National Science Foundation for his project "Group-Centrism in American Public Opinion."
Ann E (Wesche) Stone, BA ’74, has been named one of 21 leaders of the 21st Century for 2012 by Women's eNews. She is the founder and chair of Republicans for Choice and one of the three original incorporators of the National Women’s History Museum.
Kathryn Vesey, MPP ’12 , received the 5th Annual American Association of Budget and Program Analysis award for graduate research for her paper on federal capital budgeting.
Selected Published Works
Jozef Przytycki, professor of mathematics, co-authored “Distributive Products and Their Homology in Communications in Algebra, and “Homology of Distributive Lattices” in the Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures.
Gregory Squires, professor of sociology and of public policy and public administration, co-authored an op-ed “Outside Investors Fuel Black Foreclosures” in the Courier-Journal.
Akos Vertes, professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology, co-authored “Laser-Nanostructure Interactions for Ion Production,” the cover article in the June 28 edition of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.