November 29, 2016
Faculty Notes HISTORY – At the North American Conference on British Studies in Washington D.C., Stephanie Barczewski chaired a panel on “Objectifying Empire: The Legacy of Objects and the Imperial Experience,” while Caroline Dunn was commentator for the panel “Medieval Law and the Margins of Society.” ARCHITECTURE – On Nov. 10, an exhibit of selected […]
November 1, 2016
ENGLISH – Susanna Ashton was invited to the recent premiere of “Gina’s Journey: The Search for William Grimes,” a documentary film for which she consulted and was interviewed. Ashton’s earlier published works on Grimes and his memoir of enslavement, escape and survival led to her involvement in the film. ARCHITECTURE – President Emeritus James F. […]
October 4, 2016
ART – The artwork of Todd Anderson was recently acquired by the New York Public Library Print Collection. The collection is one of the few comprehensive, national repositories of printed ephemera and artwork in the country. As such its holdings represent the historic roots of printmaking while simultaneously being a physical collection of fine art […]
August 29, 2016
Todd Anderson (art) received a grant through The Sustainable Arts Foundation to help fund the purchase of his own printmaking press. More than 1,300 individuals applied for the grant, and Anderson was one of only two visual artists to receive the award. In other work over the summer, Anderson conducted research visits to the National […]
June 2, 2016
Clemson English professors David Blakesley and Victor J. Vitanza have been named Fellows of the Rhetoric Society of America. Blakesley has also received the organization’s 2016 George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award. The awards were presented at the 17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference on May 29th in Atlanta. The society is the umbrella […]
May 4, 2016
The Marine Corps awarded Rod Andrew (history) the Legion of Merit for his work as a field historian in the Field History Branch, Marine Corps History Division, Quantico, Virginia, and for his leadership of the Field History Branch as Officer-in-Charge from January 2013 to August 2015. The Field History Branch is a small unit of […]
April 4, 2016
Several landscape architecture faculty members presented their peer-reviewed research at the annual Conference for Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) held at Salt Lake City, Utah, March 23-26th. Hyejung Chang presented “Justice as Justification for Design.” Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt presented “Cross-Cultural Participatory Design Methods and Techniques across Differing International Contexts.” Hewitt also was part […]
February 29, 2016
Stephanie Barczewski’s (history) new book Heroic Failure and the British has just been published by Yale University Press. The book, which argues that the British celebrated heroic failure as a means of mitigating the more violent and coercive aspects of their massive overseas empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries, has been widely reviewed […]
January 28, 2016
At the American Historical Association meeting in Atlanta in January, the following members of Clemson’s history faculty presented their research: Stephanie Barczewski, Vernon Burton, Tom Kuehn, Steve Marks, Maribel Morey and Michael Silvestri. Professors Kuehn and Morey also took part in panel discussions. 100 Years of Clemson Architecture: Southern Roots + Global Reach Proceedings (Clemson […]
