Year: 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 sketches and watercolors by Jim Barker opened in the Sheffield Wood Gallery at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, S.C. In his first show, Jim displays works completed from 2000 until the present. Jim started drawing while an architecture student and has done pen-and-ink and pencil drawings of many campus scenes as well as places he has visited around the world. Since returning to the faculty, he has done several watercolors and experimented with charcoal. The Fine Arts Center, established in 1974, provides advanced comprehensive arts instruction to students who are artistically talented and wish to take an intensive pre-professional program of study. The exhibit runs through Feb. 3, 2017 in the Sheffield Wood Gallery, 102 Pine Knoll Road in Greenville.

PERFORMING ARTS – Anthony Bernarducci had the first movement of a three-movement choral work published with GIA Publications. The piece is titled “Kyrie: Missa Brevis San Francesco d’ Assisi.”

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Joseph Burgett was awarded the “2016 Regional Excellence Teaching Award” by the Southeast Regional Associated Schools of Construction for his demonstrated excellence in teaching at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.

HISTORY – Vernon Burton’s essay, “Localism and Confederate Nationalism: The Transformation of Values from Community to Nation in Edgefield, South Carolina,” pp. 107-123, 233-39 was published in Citizen Scholar: Essays in Honor of Walter Edgar, edited by Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. (USC Press). Oct 27, he presented a lecture “A New Birth of Freedom” (chap. 2) from his book manuscript “Race and the Supreme Court” at the American History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University London. On Oct. 28, at the British American Nineteenth Century History (BRanch) 23^rd annual meeting at Madingley Hall, he spoke briefly about historian Charles Joyner. The next evening he gave the keynote, “Reconstructing Reconstruction” at Cambridge University. For their 75^th anniversary, on Oct. 8, Burton presented a lecture, “The South as Other: The Southerner as Stranger,” to the McKissick Club in Greenwood, S.C. On Nov. 26 at the Social Science History Association annual meeting in Chicago he presented a paper “Using the Social Web to Explore Online Discourse and Southern Identity and Memory of the Civil War” in a session on “Collective Memory and Public Discourse.” The next day he chaired and served as a commentator on the presidential session “Sustaining Soil Fertility in Agricultural Systems.”

HISTORY – Elizabeth Carney presented a paper titled “The Public Image of Eurydice, mother of Philip II” at the conference on Hellenistic Queenship at the University of Waterloo. 

LANGUAGES – Stephen Fitzmaurice was invited to present “High school interpreters:  What are the other duties?” at the national, biennial Conference of Interpreter Trainers held in Lexington, Kentucky.  This work was presented entirely in American Sign Language and is the result of a landmark ethnographic exploration uncovering the other functions an educational interpreter performs aside from the direct transfer of meaning in high school environments.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION – Frances Ford and Brent Fortenberry’s paper, “Hybrid Methodologies for Mortar Analysis, a View from the Carolina Lowcountry” was published in Proceedings of the 4th Historic Mortars Conference HMC2016, 673-680, edited by Ioanna Papayiannai, Maria Stefanidou and Vasiliki Pachta.

COLLEGE – Rick Goodstein has been elected as a member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the oldest and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines in the United States. Founded in 1897, Phi Kappa Phi is a charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies.

HISTORY – Roger Grant’s 32nd book, “Electric Interurbans and the American People,” has been published by Indiana University Press. Grant gave an address on Oct. 31 to the Monday Luncheon Group in Columbia, S.C. on “Railroads and the Historian.” In early November, he represented Simpson College of Iowa at the inauguration of Scott Cochran as the new president of Spartanburg Methodist College. On Nov. 13, Grant gave an address to the Old Edgefield Genealogical Society on “The Georgia & Florida Railroad and Its Greenwood, South Carolina Extension.”

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter presented a paper at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Pasadena, California called “On Togetherness: Claudia Jones’s Poetics of Black Revolutionary Feminism.” Hunter was quoted on John Clare, poetics, and dispossession in an article in The Atlantic, “The Poems That Help With Sudden Change.” Hunter’s poem “No Trees” was published in November in the print issue of Prelude magazine.

ENGLISH – Steve Katz, Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, had “The Corpus of Poems” published in Pre/Text, a special issue on “Games and Rhetorics” edited by Jan Holmevik. The poems were: “After Reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (A Pantoum);” “The Clone Comes to Consciousness;” “Neuronic;” “Mimesis Mine;” “Pinball Goes Subatomic;” “Anyon There?;” “Virtual Gloves;” and “Avatar of Love.” Steve also participated as a full committee member in a doctoral defense at NC State University, in which Elizabeth Pitts examined the ethics of genetic engineering as a new and unregulated form of writing in DIYi/hacker labs. She passed.

ARCHITECTURE – Peter Laurence’s book, “Becoming Jane Jacobs,” has won the Urban Communication Foundation’s 2016 Jane Jacobs Book Award. Also, the book is included on economist Tyler Cowen’s year-end list of the best non-fiction books of 2016. In late November, Laurence gave a keynote lecture at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, following presentations at the University of Virginia and Boston College.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION – Amalia Leifeste coordinated a PechaKucha presentation and mixer event to bring together students studying the built environment through various degree programs in Charleston, S.C. Presenters and attendees hailed from the American College of the Building Arts, Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston, the College of Charleston’s historic preservation and community planning program, the Art Institute of Charleston’s interior design program and Clemson + CofC’s graduate program in historic preservation.

PERFORMING ARTS – Andrew Levin’s musical composition, “Round Dance no. 13,” was selected a winner in the South Carolina State Performance Assessment Sight Reading Composition Competition. Orchestras across the state will perform the piece in late spring 2017.

LANGUAGES – A new collection, “Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy,” edited by Jeff Love and Jeffrey Metzger, has just been published by Northwestern University Press.

HISTORY – In November, Steven Marks delivered a keynote lecture titled  “Capitalism and the Information Nexus” at the ‘Costs of Information: Northern European Markets, 12th-18th Centuries” conference at the University of Copenhagen.  

HISTORY – Michael Meng chaired a panel at the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies meeting in Washington D.C. “One for All and All for One: Mass Responses to Soviet Political and Cultural Influences, 1920s-70s” and chaired a roundtable session on “Tolstoy and the Fiction of History.”

LANGUAGES – Tiffany Creegan Miller published a book chapter entitled, “Una sociedad fragmentada: la heterogeneidad maya durante el conflicto armado guatemalteco y la violencia de la ‘posguerra’ en ‘Insensatez’” in the edited volume “Horacio Castellanos Moya: el diablo en el espejo,” published by Ediciones Eón in Mexico and edited by María del Carmen Caña Jiménez and Vinodh Venkatesh. In other news, Miller also presented work on appropriations of Japanese cultural forms in K’iche’ Maya poetry at the Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA) at Ohio State University. She also was invited to be a guest lecturer for a medical Spanish class at Brown University to discuss health care initiatives in Guatemalan Maya communities.

HISTORY – Maribel Morey was very active at the meeting of the Association for Non-Profit Organizations and Voluntary Actions meeting in Washington D.C, presenting papers in two sessions and also participating in a mini-plenary session. 

ENGLISH – Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance  received the 2016 SAMLA Studies Award  for their multi-author volume “George Cukor: Hollywood Master,” published in 2015 by Edinburgh UP. The award is the first for an edited volume presented by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association

ENGLISH – Elizabeth Rivlin was invited by her alma mater, Vassar College, to participate in an alumni panel, as well as other events, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The panel included Shakespeare scholars and practitioners.

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert won the Atlanta Theatre Suzi Bass Award for Best Scene Design for a Musical for her design of “In The Heights” for Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit.

CITY PLANNING AND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Jim Spencer has been appointed by U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx  to serve as a subject matter expert on the new federal Advisory Committee on Transportation Equity (ACTE). According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, the committee is intended “to connect people to opportunity, strengthen and revitalize communities, and ensure that transportation systems and facilities reflect and incorporate the input of all of the people and communities they touch.” The ACTE will provide independent advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation about USDOT’s efforts to: 1) institutionalize DOT’s Opportunity Principles into the Department’s programs, policies, and activities; 2) empower communities to have a meaningful voice in local and regional transportation decisions; 3) strengthen and establish partnerships with other governmental agencies regarding opportunity issues; and 4) sharpen enforcement tools to ensure compliance with opportunity-enhancing regulations. The ACTE will consist of up to 15 voting members who will serve two-year terms and meet approximately twice per year. The committee’s first public meeting will be held December 15, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

GEOGRAPHY – Billy Terry presented a paper titled “Seasonal Guest Work and Vulnerability in Hospitality and Tourism: Challenges for J-1 and H-2B Workers” at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers.

ENGLISH – Rhondda Robinson Thomas (English) made three presentations on her project “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History” at EDUMAX in San Diego on Nov. 1; for the roundtable “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Public Memory and Commemoration of Racial Violence” at the Southern Historians Association Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Nov. 3; and “Of Slaves, Sharecroppers, and Convicts: Unsettling Clemson University’s History” at the University of Maryland for the “Democracy Then and Now Series: co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Local Americanists on Nov. 7.

LANGUAGES – Graciela Tissera presented her research on the supernatural in Hispanic films, “Spirits Trapped between Worlds: The Devil’s Backbone by Guillermo del Toro,” and chaired a panel on film and paranormal phenomena at the Film and History Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Oct. 29. Tissera’s students, Jodie Holodak and Rebecca McConnell, participated in the panel to discuss their Creative Inquiry projects related to health and business topics in film and media. Tissera also attended the Film and Literature Conference organized by the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (Nov. 8) to present her research paper entitled “Theories of Knowledge in the Fiction of Borges and Cortázar.”

LANGUAGES – Eric Touya published a book entitled “The Case for the Humanities: Pedagogy, Polity, Interdisciplinarity.” Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. The book contends that the well-being of the humanities, as a field of study, has not only academic but also cultural, political and existential ramifications.

ART – Anderson Wrangle gave an artist’s talk at the Crutchfield Gallery of the Spartanburg County Public Library on Dec. 1 in conjunction with his exhibition “Falling Water.”

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – Daniel Wueste published, “Hard Cases, Discordant Voices: Professional Ethics and ‘Ethics Plain and Simple’,” in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Volume 102, Issue 6, 1785.

Program Notes

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Student competition teams (Commercial and Design Build)  were awarded second place in the recent Southeast Regional Associated Schools of Construction Student Competitions. Thanks to Joe Burgett and Shima Clarke for all of their hard work serving as team coaches.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – The Department of Philosophy and Religion hosted a visit by Dr. Brian Butler, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at UNC-Asheville on Nov. 9.  He gave a talk on a pragmatist approach to Constitutional Law as part of the Lemon Lectures in Social, Legal and Political Thought, and met with students in Andrew Garnar’s “American Pragmatism” seminar to discuss his forthcoming book. This provided the students an exciting opportunity to engage in a lively discussion with an expert in John Dewey’s philosophy of law.

ENGLISH – On Nov. 11, graduate students in Clemson’s Master of Arts in Professional Communication program hosted a World Usability Day celebration in the Class of 1941 Studio. Students from the Human Centered Computing program and several MAPC alumni were in attendance as well. The guest speaker lineup featured Mike Wolfe of Slalom Consulting, Maggie Reilly of TSYS, Cliff Anderson of Ally Bank, and Bryce Howard of U.S. Naval Air Systems Command. Presentations covered a wide range of topics within usability including entertainment platform design parameters, software development, realistic chatbot creation and scrum project management. The celebration concluded with a round table discussion of career opportunities in the field. The MAPC students would like to thank Dr. Tharon Howard for his help in planning and all our attendees who made the event a success.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION – The Clemson University Ethics Bowl public policy debate team, led by coaches Stephen Satris, John Park, and Adam Gies, took third place at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl competition on Nov. 19. After going undefeated three rounds in a row, the team narrowly lost in the semifinal round with Wake Forest. The Clemson team earned a spot at the National Ethics Bowl Competition in Dallas in February 2017.

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. Barker, FAIA, has been named an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). Honorary membership is among the highest honors ASLA may bestow upon non-landscape architects in recognition of notable service to the profession. According to ASLA, “James Barker has always valued a sense of place and has continually promoted and valued the profession of landscape architecture due to his decades of work as an architect and as president of Clemson University from 1999 to 2013. As Clemson’s former dean of the College of Architecture, Arts and the Humanities, Barker led the creation of South Carolina’s sole bachelor of landscape architecture program with graduates now spread throughout the country. Clemson’s master of landscape architecture program also became established during Barker’s tenure as president.” The award was announced at the annual meeting and expo of ASLA in New Orleans.

HISTORY – In September, Vernon Burton was interviewed about Texas voting rights history for Reveal, a weekly public radio show from The Center for Investigative Reporting that airs on over 300 NPR stations. Their story of Texas’s voting rights history was based largely on Burton’s expert report for the NAACP/LDF in the in-person photo voter ID case. The segment aired the weekend of Oct. 1. The story, part of a whole episode on voting rights, is here, and the podcast via iTunes is here. On Oct. 19, Burton presented a lecture “Breaking Massive Resistance, 1954-1971” and participated in a seminar on digital humanities at Manchester University. On Oct. 20, Burton presented his draft chapter 3, “The Supreme Court in Reconstruction” from his in-progress book manuscript “Race and the Supreme Court” to a seminar at the University of Edinburgh. On Oct. 24, he presented a lecture on “Race and the Supreme Court” and presented a seminar on digital humanities at Chester University.  On Oct. 25, he presented draft chapter 4, “The Supreme Court and the Jim Crow Counterrevolution” of his manuscript at the Rothmire American Institute University of Oxford.

PERFORMING ARTS – Paul Buyer’s article “Teaching Jazz Drumset” was published in the Jazz Education Network newsletter.

ART – Andrea Feeser’s research on Jimmie Durham, “Traces and Shiny Evidence,” was presented at the Textile Society of America’s 15th Biennial Symposium in Savannah, Ga. The symposium was held at the Savannah College of Art and Design in late October.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION – Frances Ford was invited to sit on a panel at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She spoke to current historic preservation students about her career path after graduation and participated in a question and answer period with the students. In other news, Ford was invited to present her paper, “Hybrid methodologies for mortar analysis, a digital view from the Carolina Lowcountry at the 4th Historic Mortars Conference on October 12th.” The subject matter of her presentation came from her fall 2015 advanced conservation class. On October 15 Ford presented a paper entitled, “Ruins in a New Age: Old Sheldon Church” at the Noreen Stoner Drexel Cultural and Historic Preservation program’s annual conference at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

COLLEGE – Dean Richard Goodstein’s article “The New Performing-Arts Curriculum” appeared in the Oct. 9 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The piece was co-authored with Eric Lapin (Clemson performing arts) and Ronald C. McCurdy (University of Southern California Thornton School of Music). In other news, Goodstein has been invited to serve on the advisory board for the College of Creative Arts at Miami University, his alma mater.

HISTORY – Congratulations to Roger Grant for winning the 2016 Simpson College (Iowa) Alumni Achievement Award. The award recognizes outstanding career achievement, service to the community and service to Simpson College. Grant received the award at Simpson’s alumni recognition reception in October. In other news, Grant was recently re-elected president of the Lexington Group, Inc., an international transportation organization of academics and senior transportation executives.

HISTORIC PRESERVATION – Carter Hudgins and Amalia Leifeste recently presented “As Built: Documentation of CCC-era Buildings, Structures and Landscapes at Kings Mountain National Military Park as Planned vs. Practiced” at the symposium A Century of Design in the Park: Preserving the Built Environment in National and State Parks, sponsored by the National Center for Preservation Training and Technology in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

ENGLISH – Walt Hunter’s essay “For a Global Poetics” was published in ASAP/Journal 1.3. The essay precedes a forum on “global poetics” that Hunter edited and that includes the poets Manal Al-Sheikh, Omar Berrada, Whitney DeVos, Julie Morrissy, Katie Peterson, NourbeSe Philip, Marie de Quatrebarbes, Emma Ramadan, Keston Sutherland and Timothy Yu.

HISTORY – Thomas Kuehn published “Protecting Dowries in Law in Renaissance Florence,” in Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in Honour of F.W. Kent, ed. Peter Howard and Cecilia Hewlett (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016), 199-216.

ARCHITECTURE – Peter Laurence’s book “Becoming Jane Jacobs” was featured in the November issue of The Atlantic magazine, where reviewer Nathaniel Rich described it as “a close, vivid study of Jacobs’s intellectual development.” In September, economist Tyler Cowen wrote that it was “definitely one of the best books of the year.” In addition to press coverage, Laurence has spoken and been invited to speak about his book and participate in symposia and master classes at the Technological University of Delft; Cooper Union; UC Berkeley Center for New Media; San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association; the Eldridge Street Museum in NYC; the Boston College Carroll School of Management; University of Virginia School of Architecture; and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm; as well as academic conferences in Chicago and New Orleans. For more information visit becomingjanejacobs.com.

HISTORY – In late September, Steven Marks gave an invited lecture at Tulane entitled “Russia and the History of the Word ‘Capitalism.'” The lecture was sponsored by Tulane’s Jewish Studies program.

ENGLISH – Kathleen Nalley has won the Red Paint Hill Press Editor’s Prize for her full-length poetry collection “Gutterflower.” The press will publish “Gutterflower” in fall 2017. Recently, Nalley’s work has appeared in concis, Fall Lines, Slipstream, New Flash Fiction Review, and the anthology “Red Sky” from Sable Books. South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth selected Nalley’s poem “Last Man on the Moon” as winner of the Saluda River Poetry Prize. Nalley read her work, along with poet Al Black, at Viva! il Vino in Pendleton on Oct. 25.

LANGUAGES – Salvador Oropesa published the book chapter “Lonely Souls in ‘Solo Dios Sabe’ by Carlos Bolado: Pastoralism and Syncretic Spirituality in Times of Crisis” in “The Latin American Road Movie,” edited by Jorge Pérez and Verónica Garibotto. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 121-36.

ENGLISH – Mike Pulley has been named facilitator of Clemson University’s fall 2016 writing group, a program offered by the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation (OTEI). The group, which meets on alternate Tuesdays at 2 p.m. in Brackett 234, is based on the research of Dr. Robert Boice, known by many as the “guru” of scholarly writing. Boice encourages academic faculty to write 15-30 minutes a day and belong to a group that holds them accountable for their writing goals. Clemson’s Writing Group is open to all faculty and graduate students. For more information, contact Mike Pulley (wpulley@clemson.edu) or OTEI (otei@clemson.edu).

ENGLISH— Geveryl Robinson was asked by the Washington Post and American Public Media to record an episode of their eight-part Historically Black podcast series. Robinson submitted a photo of her parents on their wedding day, along with a brief description of the photo’s meaning and her thoughts about the media’s negative depictions of relationships between Black men and women. According to the podcast website: “As part of the Washington Post’s coverage of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, people submitted dozens of objects that make up their own lived experiences of black history, creating a ‘people’s museum’ of personal objects, family photos and more. The Historically Black podcast brings these objects and their stories to life through interviews, archival sound and music. The Washington Post and APM Reports are proud to collaborate in presenting these rich personal histories, along with hosts Keegan-Michael Key, Roxane Gay, Issa Rae and Another Round hosts Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Kerrie Seymour performed recently in “Women in Jeopardy” at the Aurora Theatre in Lawrenceville, Ga.

ART – Greg Shelnutt conducted a workshop at the National Association of Schools of Arts and Design (NASAD) pre-meeting workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 12, for new and aspiring art and design administrators in higher education on “Goals, Planning and Time Management” in Baltimore, Maryland.

ENGLISH – Jillian Weise presented work at an experimental film and poetry screening hosted by Public Space One (Oct 9). She gave poetry readings at Converse College (Oct 4) and Coe College (Oct 19).

PHILOSOPHY – Daniel Wueste gave a keynote lecture, “Consequences and Responsibilities,” and conducted a plenary workshop, “Tools for Integrity,” at the 4° Congreso Nacional de Iintegridad Académica at the Universidad De Monterey, Monterrey, Mexico Oct. 20-21. Wueste presented a paper, “Norm Conflict and the Telos of Practice,” at the 18th International Conference of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, “Social Justice and Bioethics: The Rich, the Poor, and the Rest of Us,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 6-8. A paper Wueste coauthored with Nicole Martinez (Department of Environmental Engineering and Earth Science, Clemson University), “Balancing theory and practicality: engaging non-ethicists in ethical decision making related to radiological protection,” has been published in Journal of Radiological Protection 36 (2016) 832–84.

ART – Valerie Zimany’s ceramic artworks are currently on view in three international exhibitions at prominent institutions across the country. Her sculpture “Chigiri-e (Bakusou)” is featured in Transference: Transfer Printing and Contemporary Ceramics, an international juried and invitational exhibition at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Transference explores how the combination of ceramics and transfer print technology enables the immediacy of printmaking to be joined with the enduring nature of fired clay. Artists use everything from traditional intaglio printing methods to modern technology to make prints that are immediate, personal, digitized, and/or imbued with historic references. The combination of historic process with contemporary ideas and design continues to result in dynamic, thoughtful works of art that resonate through the fields of art, design, history, and technology. The exhibition runs from Oct. 7  – Nov. 28, 2016.  “Chigiri-e (Moonwalker)” was selected for Points of Departure, an international juried exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin from Oct. 20, 2016 through Jan. 1, 2017. A vessel grouping of Zimany’s “Toddlers” is highlighted in A to Z: AMOCA’s Permanent Collection at the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California. Zimany’s work was accessioned into the museum collection in 2012 as a gift of Gail A. and Robert M. Brown. The exhibition runs through April 23, 2017.

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 prints that collectively constitute the field’s canon. Anderson’s artwork was also recently acquired by U.S. Library of Congress — the de facto national library for the country and  the oldest national cultural institution in the U.S. It holds the second-largest library collection in the world. Artwork acquisition by the U.S. Library of Congress is considered one of the most significant career achievements for a visual artist. Lastly, Todd Anderson’s artwork was acquired by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With over 2 million artworks in their permanent collection, the “Met” is the largest museum in the United States. The Met’s collection spans 5,000 years of art from around the globe. Artwork acquisition by the Met can be considered the pinnacle career achievement for an artist. Examples of Todd’s artwork can be seen at www.TheLastGlacier.com. 

HISTORY – A review essay by Stephanie Barczewski appeared in the Aug. 19 issue of the Times Literary Supplement. Barczewski’s article, entitled “Imperial measurement: Arguing that the British Empire was neither as dominant nor as unified as is often thought,” reviews new volumes by Bernard Porter and Antoinette Burton.

CONSTRUCTION SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT – Joe Burgett is the first recipient of the Construction Science and Management Endowed Professorship. The professorship was established at Clemson University in 2015 as a result of an endowment fund established by an anonymous donor in recognition of the contribution to the construction industry made by the department faculty through teaching, research and service. Candidates must have an outstanding reputation in the construction discipline as demonstrated by a sustained record of scholarly accomplishment, excellence in classroom teaching and service to the construction industry on a regional, national and/or international level.

HISTORY – On Sept. 14, Vernon Burton presented a paper entitled, “Proving Intent in Voting Rights Cases” at the Harvard University Center for Governmental and International Studies. He spoke at USC – Aiken on “Race and the Supreme Court” for Constitution Day on Sept. 16, and on Sept. 17, spoke on the Civil War at the Edgefield Southern Literary Showcase. Burton was interviewed and quoted in the State newspaper about the scholarship of historian Charles Joyner on Sept. 16; he also published an obituary on Joyner for the College of Charleston’s Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) website. An interview on his edited book, “Becoming Southern Writers,” was aired on Walter Edgar’s Journal on SC ETV radio. On, Sept. 29, Burton participated in the “The People Speak: Clinton v. Trump,” a Clemson TV webcast. In August, Burton was informed that he had been selected for the S. C. Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities to be awarded by the S.C. Humanities Council.

ART – In September, Andrea Feeser was asked by PBS NewsHour to comment on a recently found ancient, indgo-dyed Peruvian textile. The story, “Blue jeans have a 6,000 year-old Peruvian ancestor,” is about a scrap of indigo-dyed fabric that may “rewrite the history of clothing.” Feeser was interviewed because of her research on indigo and her book, “Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life.”

HISTORY – Roger Grant’s article, “Whatever Happened to the Little Red Caboose” appeared in September on the Smithsonian’s “What It Means to Be An American” website. In August, Grant was quoted in the New York Times article “‘A Piece of Penn Station:’ An Existing Departures Board Prompts Wistful Goodbyes.”

ENGLISH – Cynthia Haynes published a new book, “The Homesick Phone Book: Addressing Rhetorics in the Age of Perpetual Conflict, from Southern Illinois University Press.” From the catalog description: “Terrorist attacks, war, and mass shootings by individuals occur on a daily basis all over the world. In “The Homesick Phone Book,” author Cynthia Haynes examines the relationship of rhetoric to such atrocities. Aiming to disrupt conventional modes of rhetoric, logic, argument, and the teaching of writing, Haynes illuminates rhetoric’s ties to horrific acts of violence and the state of perpetual conflict around the world, both in the Holocaust era and more recently.”

ARCHITECTURE – Ulrike Heine was appointed by S.C. Governor Nikki Haley to the Energy Independence and Sustainable Construction Advisory Committee. The purpose of this committee is to assist the state engineer and State Fiscal Accountability Authority (SFAA) by reviewing and analyzing current rating systems referred to the committee by the SFAA board, monitoring the development of new ratings systems as well as updates to current systems, making direct recommendations to the state engineer concerning regulations of rating systems and reporting to the SFAA board concerning the effectiveness of current rating systems.

LANGUAGES – Joseph Mai published an article on how a contemporary French novelist uses literary experimentation to explore ways in which humans and animals are defined in relation to one another: ‘“Un tissu de mots”: Writing Human and Animal Life in Olivia Rosenthal’s Que font les rennes après Noël ?’ appeared in Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal: 49, 3. He also participated in the scientific committee and was an invited speaker at the World Cinema and Television in French Conference, held in September at the University of Cincinnati.

CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING – Eric A. Morris, won a major paper award for “Negotiating a Financial Package for Freeways: How California’s Collier-Burns Act Helped Pave the Way for the American Interstate Highway Era.” The paper was co-authored with Jeffrey Brown (Florida State) and Brian Taylor (UCLA); Dr. Morris was first author. It won the Wootan Award for best paper in transportation policy and operations from the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, one of the seven awards given in 2016 from among the roughly 5,400 manuscripts submitted. The paper examines legislation in California that pioneered a method for paying for a massive freeway system, arguing that 1) the inclusion of urban routes at a time when highway systems were thought to be meant to serve rural areas, 2) a trust fund that sequestered driving-related revenues for use exclusively on roads, and 3) under-taxation of trucking relative to the road damage trucks cause were essential for funding our highway system both in California and later at the national level. The paper will be published in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY – Tom Oberdan was invited to deliver the 24th Vienna Circle Lecture at the University of Vienna on September 16. The topic of his presentation was “‘Our Common Method’ in Logik, Sprache, Philosophie.”

PERFORMING ARTS – Shannon Robert was nominated for a Suzi Bass Award award (an Atlanta-area theatre award) for her scenic design of “In The Heights,” a co-production of the Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

ARCHITECTURE – The photography of Rob Silance was included in a national exhibition of photography titled “Man in the Landscape” at the Photo Place Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont. The opening call for the exhibit states, “The hand of man may lie lightly or heavily  on the landscape but few places on Earth are completely untouched; the visible presence of humans on the planet is almost unavoidable. Here we seek images that demonstrate human impact in ways ranging from the subtle to grotesque.” Silance is currently showing a portion of an ongoing photographic project titled “Dirt for Sale: Constructing the Landscape of the New American South” at the Spartanburg Museum of Art in the group exhibition “(Un)common Space(s).” This national exhibition “broadly examines the relationship between natural, deconstructed, and decaying space. As the health well-being of our planet continues to decline, viewers are challenged to consider such themes as the loss of natural resources, the lack of interaction between humanity and nature, and the decay of urban landscapes.”

ART – Kathleen Thum presented her paper “Depicting Carrying Capacity: Imagined Petroscapes,” at the Petrocultures Conference at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, Aug. 31- Sept 3. This international conference brought together scholars, policy makers, industry employees, artists and public advocacy groups to discuss the social and cultural dimensions of oil and energy. Her solo exhibition, “Carrying Capacity,” was on view at the Wiseman Gallery at Rogue Community College in Grant Pass, Oregon until Aug. 25.

ENGLISH – Inside Higher Ed profiled Jillian Weise’s video art “How to Rush the Academic Job Market.” Weise was an invited speaker at Ohio State University (Sept. 16-17) and the University of Toledo (Sept. 19). At OSU, she led a graduate workshop on academic and creative personae. She also gave a master class on digital production, disability activism and public writing.

RELIGIOUS STUDIES – Benjamin White’s book, “Remembering Paul: Ancient and Modern Contests over the Image of the Apostle” (2014, Oxford University Press) will appear in paperback later this fall.

ART, LEE GALLERY – Denise Woodward-Detrich has a ceramic work titled “Mechanical Alveoli” included in an exhibition titled 10x10x10xTieton. The exhibit is hosted at the Mighty Tieton Warehouse Gallery in Tieton, Washington, and was juried by Adam Gildar of Gildar Gallery in Denver, Colorado. The work is on view through October 9th.

ART – Falling Water, an exhibition of video and photography by Anderson Wrangle is on display through December 8 at the Crutchfield Gallery in the Spartanburg County Public Library. Wrangle describes this body of work as “an exploration of the power and wonder of falling water and the dichotomy between winter and summer. He says, “The fountain has always been a rich metaphor for inspiration, and for a rich inner life, and I see these waterfalls as playing a part in that mode. The contemplation is restorative and rich, even as the subject is powerful and inexorable.”

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 Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, as well as the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The purpose of his visits was to collect data about the glaciers of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado as well as those on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In related research, Anderson and co-PI Bruce Crownover (University of Wisconsin-Madison) conducted fieldwork at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, hiking to the park’s remaining eight glaciers. This project, “Rocky Mountain National Park: The Last Glacier,” is being funded in part by a Clemson University Project Initiation Grant. Finally, a two-person exhibition, “The Last Glacier: Todd Anderson and Bruce Crownover,” opened at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin on June 14th.

Anthony Bernarducci (performing arts) had a feature article published in the Florida Music Director journal. It was titled “The Neutral Syllable: Sending a Soundscape of Subliminal Messages,” focusing on pedagogy in the choral rehearsal. 

Caroline Dunn (history) presented the paper “‘If there be any goodly young woman’: Female Servants in Aristocratic Households” at the annual Harlaxton Medieval Symposium in England. This year’s conference theme was “The Great Household, 1000-1500.”

Linda Dzuris (performing arts) was commissioned to write a piece for carillon by Yale University in celebration of their student guild’s 50th anniversary. It was premiered in June in New Haven on Yale’s 43-ton instrument during a congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. Also premiered by Dzuris were newly released arrangements from her second volume of Yiddish Carillon Music, published by American Carillon Music Editions, and Gershwin’s famous Rhapsody in Blue, published by the guild. Other summer concerts were performed in Michigan: Grand Valley State University, Cook Carillon, Allendale; Grand Valley State University, Beckering Family Carillon, Grand Rapids; Kirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church, Bloomfield Hills; St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic Church, Bloomfield Hills; and Oakland University, Elliott Carillon, Rochester.

Andrea Feeser (art) worked with student artists over the summer to study and represent how colonial and early republican white South Carolinians displaced Cherokees from their town Esseneca, the land Clemson University sits upon. The primary outcomes of this project consists of two major, collaborative artworks. The first is a large-scale print and drawing by recent BFA graduate Kevin Pohle, in a handcrafted frame created by recent BFA graduate Chip Sox, which addresses native and colonist use of the Cherokee medicinal plant Indian root. The second is a photograph by MFA candidate Haley Floyd of historical Esseneca lands, which are currently under development to expand the university’s athletic district. Both of these artworks will be displayed on campus at sites that will encourage reflection on the university’s past uses of its lands. Feeser’s project was supported in part by a College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities faculty research development grant.

On June 11th C-Span showed H. Roger Grant’s lecture, “Electric Interurbans,” from his History of American Transportation class. C-Span has archived this presentation, and it can be viewed at any time. Grant is the Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History

In July Professor Steven Grosby (philosophy and religion) published the following:

• Steven Grosby, “National Identity, Nationalism, and the Catholic Church,” Oxford Handbooks (Oxford University Press), pp. 1-26, and
  
• Steven Grosby, “Religion and Liberty in Neglected Great Works of the Ancient Near East,” in Will Jordan & Charlotte Thomas, eds., The Most Sacred Freedom: Religious Liberty in the History of Philosophy and America’s Founding (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2016), pp. 9-33.

Walt Hunter (English) was named the 2017 South Carolina Arts Commission Poetry Fellow. The $5,000 fellowship was awarded to four South Carolina artists in the categories of prose, poetry, dance choreography and dance performance.

Thomas J. Kuehn (history) published “Property of Spouses in Law in Renaissance Florence,” in Family Law and Society in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era, ed. Maria Gigliola di Renzo Villata (New York: Springer, 2016), 109-134.

Joey Manson’s (art) sculpture, Slip, was installed in the Chicago Sculpture Exhibit in Chicago Illinois, in June, and will be on display for one year.

Steven G. Marks’ book The Information Nexus: Global Capitalism from the Renaissance to the Present was published this summer by Cambridge University Press. Marks is Clemson University Alumni Distinguished Professor of History.

Professors Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt (landscape architecture) were invited by Huazhong Agricultural University’s department of landscape architecture in Wuhan, China to teach an urban design studio during June and July. The invitation was due in large part to Nassar and Hewitt’s international award from the 10th Annual China Garden Design Competition where they received third prize. The “vertical” studio course taught in China consisted of 30 students at undergraduate, masters and doctoral levels, and addressed a site known as Fang Island on the Yangtze River. The city of Wuhan experienced overwhelming flooding twice while Professors Nassar and Hewitt where on campus in China. Turning the devastating events into teaching opportunity, their urban design studio addressed the challenging conditions by incorporating resilient city and sustainable urban design concepts in their design approaches. At the conclusion of the studio, the University President Xiuxin Deng and Vice President Professor GAO Shi bestowed Huazhong Agricultural University’s highest level of accolade granted to a foreign professor by appointing Nassar and Hewitt guest professors (2016-2019) – the first foreign professors to receive this honor.

Elizabeth Rivlin (English) presented a paper at the World Shakespeare Congress in Stratford upon Avon in the UK, which took place August 1-6. Her paper was titled “‘Everyday Shakespeare’ in the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle” and was part of a seminar titled “Everyday Shakespeare.”

Greg Shelnutt (art) participated in ThinkTank9: Citizen/Artist: Education and Agency at Montana State University in Bozeman in June. Hosted by the Montana State University School of Art, TT9 brought together art and design master and emerging teachers and administrators to address thematic issues of higher education. The workshop employed a mix of facilitated discussions, workshops and presentations, interspersed with informal meals and social interaction.

Eric Touya (languages) presented “Fluid Selves in Isabelle Eberhardt’s ‘In the Shadow of Islam’: Gender, Cross-Cultural, and Nomadic Identities” at the Women in French Conference at Gettysburg College in June. He was also scholar-in-residence at the University of Virginia while participating in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.

Rhondda Robinson Thomas (English) was selected as a fellow for the “Hearing the Inarticulate: Ethics and Epistemology in the Archives” Seminar and Writing Retreat at the Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, June 20-29, 2016, where she gave a public talk and wrote biographical essays about African American convict laborers who helped to build Clemson University.

Kathleen Thum (art) was awarded a quarterly support grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission to help cover the cost of travel and supplies for her Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming in May and June.

This fall Jillian Weise (English) is guest editor-in-residence at The Iowa Review.

Benjamin L. White (religious studies) co-authored an article with Alexander Batson, an undergraduate student majoring in religious studies, that was accepted into the blind, double-peer reviewed journal The Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters. The article, entitled, “Paul’s Collection through the Saints: Romans 15:31 in Papyrus 46” explores a little known textual variant in the earliest manuscript of Paul’s letters and stems from research in a course on early Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. In June White delivered an invited paper entitled “Paul and Justin” at an international gathering of scholars in Rome, Italy. The 30-person seminar was the 7th Nangeroni Meeting of the Enoch Seminar and was partially subsidized by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies.

Valerie Zimany (art) was promoted to associate professor. During the month of July, she received a competitive South Carolina State Arts Commission quarterly project grant for artists to conduct research on ceramic imagery and three-dimensional printing as a resident artist at Medalta International Artists in Residence, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. Zimany was awarded the artist residency as the grand prize recipient of Medalta’s 2015 International Juried Exhibition, in which her artwork was acquired into Medalta’s permanent museum collection. During the residency, Zimany held a master class, “COLOUR @Medalta,” on Japanese Kutani enamels and their contemporary application from July 23-24, 2016. The residency was also made possible through a  faculty research award from the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.

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 organization for scholars and teachers in every academic discipline who are interested in rhetoric. In its recognition of Blakesley, the Rhetoric Society of America praised his “distinguished research and publication record, and also his outstanding and formative contributions to the profession, including Parlor Press, his editing of KB Journal and the Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory series at Southern Illinois University Press. In honoring Victor Vitanza, the society writes, “Professor Vitanza is recognized for his singular and trailblazing scholarship, for his founding and decades-long editorship of the journal PRE/TEXT, and for the truly innovative and thoroughly rhetorical Ph.D. programs he has designed at two different institutions.”

Landscape architecture faculty members and instructors presented their peer-reviewed research at the annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) conference held in Raleigh, N.C. May 18^th-21^st. Hyejung Chang gave two presentations: “Sacredness as a Public Value: Home, Habitat, Heaven, and Healing” and “Transformative Forces in Democratic Design: Emancipation, Representation, and Participation.” Matt Powers gave a presentation entitled “Self-Regulated Design Learning: A Framework for Design Teaching and Learning” and was second author to principal investigator, Yang Song who presented “Landscape Manipulatives: A Study of Mathematics Gardens and Learning Outcomes. Jessica Fernandez presented “The Pedestrian-Oriented Campus: A Study of the Effectiveness of Design Transformations on Safety and Aesthetics.” Song and Fernandez are PDBE Ph.D. students who are also instructors of record for the BLA and MLA programs.

Abel Bartley’s (Pan African Studies) book In No Ways Tired: The NAACP’s Struggle to Integrate the Duval County Public School System has received the Stetson Kennedy Award from the Florida Historical Society. The award is given for a book based on investigative research that casts light on historic Florida events in a manner supportive of human rights, traditional cultures or the natural environment. Bartley received the award in May at the 2016 Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting and Symposium in Orlando.

The United States Army Soldiers Chorus performed an original composition by Anthony Bernarducci (performing arts) titled “Veni Creator Spiritus” in Gettysburg, Pa. on May 15th. It was an all-American composer program.

Lucian Ghita (English) presented the paper “Marionette Shakespeare: A Modern Perspective” at the 2016 American Comparative Literature Annual Meeting at Harvard University. He was also invited to Romania to speak on “Gothic Macbeth: The Avant-Garde Return of the Elizabethan Repressed” at the Shakespeare in the World – Shakespeare in Romania International Symposium in Bucharest. Along with Richard St. Peter (performing arts), he participated in the International Shakespeare Festival held in Craiova, Romania, where he gave a talk about the influence of the French theater-maker Antonin Artaud on Andrei Serban’s early stage productions at the La Mamma Experimental Theatre in New York.

Elizabeth Jemison (philosophy and religion) was an invited speaker at a symposium “Memories of a Massacre: Memphis in 1866” hosted by the University of Memphis on the 150th anniversary of one of the most violent events to follow the Civil War. Jemison spoke on the role of African American and white Christianity in the massacre, where a rioting white mob killed dozens of African Americans.

Hala Nassar (landscape architecture) was promoted to full professor this spring. She and Robert Hewitt (landscape architecture) have a chapter titled “The sovereign global city: Omani post-traditional landscape urbanism” in the book “Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East: Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design.”

Mary G. Padua, ASLA, (landscape architecture) along with Sara Griffin (public health sciences) participated in a workshop on May 12-13 that kicked off a pilot research project for five daycare facilities in Spartanburg County. This new research initiative, in collaboration with N.C. State’s Natural Learning Initiative, is sponsored by a grant from South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control. Researchers are searching for ways to improve the quality of South Carolina’s childcare outdoor environments to support children’s physical activity and healthy eating through the design and management of outdoor learning environments.

Kate Schwennsen (architecture) spoke at the Leadership Forum on Design Education sponsored by the Design Futures Council in Philadelphia on May 18th. She spoke on “Establishing the Business Case for Women in Architecture” at the annual convention of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in Philadelphia on May 19th. Her mentoring and teaching were recognized with two Clemson University awards this spring. She was recognized as the Outstanding Woman Distinguished Contributor by the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and she received an Award of Distinction from Clemson’s National Scholars Program for commitment to the intellectual, professional and personal development of Clemson’s National Scholars.

Kerrie Seymour (performing arts) is appearing as Phyllida in The Explorers Club by Nell Benjamin at CentreStage in Greenville, S.C. The production runs until July 2.

Michael Silvestri (history) was interviewed for a short documentary on New Orleans’ connection to the 1916 Irish Rebellion with a focus on the visit by Eamon de Valera to the city in 1920. The feature, funded by the Emigrant Support Programme of Ireland, will be shown at the Irish Cultural Museum of New Orleans as part of the worldwide commemoration marking the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising.

Mark Spede (performing arts) was recently elected Vice President of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA). The organization, which is “devoted to teaching, performance, study, and cultivation of music,” is made up of college band directors from around the country. Spede will assist the organization’s president in administering membership activities before eventually assuming the presidency himself in four years. As president, he will appoint committee chairs and members, establish task force committees, and organize and run the national conference in 2021.

Rhondda Robinson Thomas (English) was invited to present “Recovering Jane Edna Hunter Digitally” for the Teaching Recovered Women Writers: Digital Options Roundtable at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco on May 27^th.

Kathleen Thum (art) received a quarterly support grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission. She will attend Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming, May 15-June 13. This residency is competitive and awarded on professional and creative merit.

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 just over a dozen officers and senior NCO’s (all Reservists) who play a large role in the collection, preservation and writing of Marine Corps history.  The citation credits Andrew with finding creative ways for his team to collect oral histories in the face of new budgetary constraints, leading the unit in providing the research and the text for 72 display panels in the soon-to-be-opened new wing of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, and in authoring four monographs published or soon to be published by Marine Corps History Division. The Legion of Merit is typically awarded only to generals and colonels for “exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services and achievements,” and must be approved by a three-star general or higher.

Vernon Burton (history) spoke on “Reconstructing our History,” as the speaker for the University of South Carolina Society’s 80th annual meeting.  The talk will be published and made available at the annual meeting next year.  He participated in the panel on “Enslaved Lives Matter” at Clemson University on April 5.  On April 14 he appeared on Gus Hutchinson’s The Cow Talk Radio (Until Justice) to discuss race relations. On April 16, Burton was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. On April 18 he spoke at Midwestern State University on Lincoln’s Civil War. On April 21-22 he participated in the University of South Carolina’s “The Reconstruction Era: History and Public Memory Symposium on Reconstruction. On April 24, he spoke on Governor Benjamin Ryan “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman and the Constitution of 1895 at the Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights. The talk was sponsored by the S.C. Progressive Network.

Paul Buyer (performing arts) held a clinic called “Percussion from the Podium” for the South Carolina Percussive Arts Society Day of Percussion in Lexington, S.C. on April 9. On March 21, he was guest speaker at the University of South Carolina, lecturing on his book, Working Toward Excellence.

Elizabeth Carney and Caroline Dunn (history) hosted an international conference on the theme of “Dynastic Loyalties” in April at the Clemson ONE building in downtown Greenville. This was the first North American setting for the Royal Studies Network’s annual “Kings and Queens” conference series – the first four gatherings were all in Europe. The conference showcased 57 papers on topics spanning monarchies from the Ancient World of Greece and Rome to Twentieth-Century Britain. Geographically, conference papers covered Nepal in the East to Revolutionary America in the West, although most focused on European dynasties.  Speakers traveled from across the U.S. and Canada. Panels included European delegates from Britain, Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain and speakers from as far away as Australia and New Zealand. Creative Inquiry students and history graduate students helped organize and run the conference. Several Clemson University faculty members (Stephanie Barczewski, Kelly Peebles, Lee Wilson) presented their research at the gathering and many others kindly chaired conference sessions.

Wayne Chapman (English) has published a critical edition of Yeats’s one-act play The Hour-Glass, which was substantially rewritten from 1903 and 1913. Initial typesetting of the book, with instruction on the whys and wherefores of documentary editing, was undertaken as a collaborative project in Chapman’s literary editing course in spring 2015. Larissa Barkley, one of 18 students in the class, continued as an intern in the fall and assisted in the completion of the edition by locating materials for two appendices. As a consequence: W. B. Yeats, Rewriting The Hour-Glass: A Play Written in Prose and Verse Versions, ed. with an introduction by Wayne K. Chapman (Clemson University Press, 2016), xxiv, 113 pp. was vetted by CUP’s overseas partner, Liverpool University Press, and was printed in hardcover in Poland by BookFactory.co.uk in April 2016. The book is Chapman’s tenth since joining the English Department in 1991. Both of his ongoing book projects on Yeats contributed to the making of The Hour-Glass edition.

Kim Dunn (languages) co-authored the peer-reviewed article “Early Reading for Young Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children: Alternative Frameworks” which was published last month in the online journal Psychology.

Christopher Grau (philosophy and religion) published his essay “A Sensible Speciesism?” in the Italian journal Philosophical Inquiries (v.4, n.1). The essay appears as part of a special issue dedicated to the work of the philosopher Bernard Williams. In addition, his co-edited collection Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (2014, Oxford University Press) was recently reviewed in both the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and Philosophy in Review.

Steve Katz (Pearce Professor of Professional Communication) organized and conducted the 8^th Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Initiative Workshop on April 7 (with Lesly Temesvari, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Biology).  As a Fellow of the Rutland Institute for Ethics, Steve also served as one of three judges for the J.T. Barton Jr. Ethics Essay Scholarship Competition, with winners announced on April 22. Finally, Steve concluded the year of co-teaching (also with Lesly Temesvari) the Creative Inquiry course in the Department of Biological Sciences in “Popular Science Journalism,” which publishes the Tigra scientifica articles in The Tiger, and a hardcopy and digitalized journal at the end of each semester.

Alex Kudera’s (English) book, Auggie’s Revenge, was published on March 29 by Beating Windward Press. In addition, Fight for Your Long Day was reprinted as a Classroom Edition by Hard Ball Press and now includes essays on the academic novel, contract labor and more.

Eric Lapin presented the paper, “Music and Politics: Using Blues, Jazz, and Rock to Teach Complexity, Context, and Humanity” at the 2016 Humanities Education and Research Association conference in New Orleans in March. He also presented “Music and Politics: Entertainment and Integration at Clemson College” as part of the Greater Clemson Music Festival on April 20 at the Catbus Headquarters in Central, S.C.

Roger Liska (construction science and management) received the Construction Education Recognition National Award from the National Center for Construction Education and Research in Charleston, S.C. last month. This award is given to industry professionals with at least 10 years of service to NCCER who have made significant contributions to construction education and workforce development efforts. One of NCCER’s major initiatives, since its inception, is the development and delivery of one-week construction management academies for field supervisors, project managers, estimators, safety directors and executive managers. The majority of those academies were conducted at Clemson University and, since the beginning, more than 3000 construction industry professionals have attained the academy credential. Liska, working with industry representatives, was instrumental in the design of the academies and taught in most of them, along with other construction educators, consultants and practicing professionals from across the U.S.

Joe Mazer (communication studies) presented “The Validity of the Parental Academic Support Scale: Association’s Among Relational and Family Involvement Outcomes” at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association. His paper has received the Top Paper Award from the association’s communication education interest group. Mazer was also recently elected to the resolutions committee of the National Communication Association.

Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Maribel Morey (history) a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for her research on the role of elite philanthropy in the lives of black Americans. She is one of 33 individuals across the country selected for this honor.

Barton Palmer (Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature) published “Period of Adjustment and Hack Writing.” Tennessee Williams Annual Review 15 (2016): 87-104.

Shannon Robert (performing arts) is working with Tamilla Woodward (director from the Lark New Play Development Center) to design scenery for the world premiere of Harbur Gate by Kathleen Cahill at the Salt Lake City Acting Company in Utah. She is working with Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit (at The Rialto) for the Atlanta production of Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights (directed by Justin Anderson). She is currently in production with Atlanta’s Actor’s Express for the southeastern premiere of Josh Harmon’s Significant Other (directed by Jessica Holt from The Alliance). Robert will be a guest artist responder at the Hollins New Play Development Festival at Mill Mountain Theatre and will be conducting final graduate portfolio review sessions at Virginia Commonwealth University. She will be the Wildwind Performance Lab’s Faculty Scene Designer this summer at Texas Tech University and will be working with a new initiative in development of new works (created by Mark Charney at TTU) with Gary Garrison and Rich Brown in Marfa, Texas.

Johannes Schmidt (languages) was lead editor for a co-edited volume Herder and Religion. Contributions from the 2010 Conference of the International Herder Society at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (Synchron 2016). The volume includes his own contribution “Light of Nature/Light of Reason. Herder’s and Kant’s Religion Essays.” He is also included in another Herder publication with an article entitled  “Johann Gottfried Herder’s Adrastea: History in Relation” (Beate Allert (ed.): Herder: From Cognition to Cultural Science. Synchron 2016).

Michael Silvestri (history) was invited to write a short article for Racecard, the online journal and blog site of the Runnymede Trust, entitled “The Easter Rising was an Inspiration for Anti-colonial Nationalists.” The Runnymede Trust is the leading racial equality think tank in the United Kingdom. Silvestri also presented a paper at the American Conference for Irish Studies Southern Regional Meeting in Atlanta on April 16th.  The paper was titled, “‘Those Dead Heroes Did Not Regret the Sacrifices They Made’: Responses to the Russian Revolution in Revolutionary Ireland, 1917-1921.”

Eric Touya (languages) was invited to give a lecture entitled “The Future of the Humanities: Theory, Praxis, Interdisciplinarity” at the Romance Languages and Literatures Department’s Spring Colloquium Series at University of Georgia in Athens. He also made a conference presentation entitled “‘Un instant de l’autre sans fin’: seuils et passages dans ‘Les Arbres’ d’Yves Bonnefoy” at the Colloque International des Études Françaises et Francophones des XXème et XXIème siècles in Saint Louis.

Jillian Weise (English) protested the Association of Writers and Writing Programs on a panel at the AWP conference in Los Angeles by reading a poem titled “Envoy.” The poem is available here. Millersville University invited Weise to Lancaster, Pennsylvania for National Poetry Month. She read poems and screened videos from her satirical series on YouTube.

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 of a Design Education and Pedagogy panel “Four Years or Five Years? Discussions on the recent movement of Several Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Programs from Five to Four Years in the United States.” Martin Holland presented his research on the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum as part of the panel on the conference theme: ” Dilemma: Debate.” He also presented his collaborative work, “Coming to Terms with a Troubled Past: Charting the Spatial Legacies of Segregation.” Matt Powers presented “The Role of Self-Regulated Learning in Design Pedagogy,” a preview of his Routledge book publication. Mary Padua delivered two separate history and theory presentations, “Mosaic Modernity: the Public Park in 20th century China,” and “Vernacular Minimalism: a 21st century Design Approach.” Nassar was re-elected as CELA Second Vice President. Thomas Schurch was awarded the 2016 CELA Excellence in Service Learning Award, Senior Level.

Robert Benedict (real estate development) was an invited speaker at the 7th National Forum for Historic Preservation Practice at Goucher College in Towson, Md. in mid-March. He spoke on ‘The Next 50 Years of Economics and Preservation.” Robert also moderated a panel discussion on emerging trends in economics and planning for the next 50 years. The annual conference draws academics and practitioners in historic preservation and related fields from across the country.

On March 8th, C-Span filmed Roger Grant’s (Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History) History of American Transportation class in Hardin Hall, which will be shown nationally at a later date. The Anderson Independent-Mail published a feature story on the Grant on March 7th which was subsequently picked up by the Associated Press. The story has been reprinted in scores of newspapers, including the Charleston Post and Courier, Greenville News and The State.

Steven Grosby (philosophy and religion) published two articles:

• A review essay of Serge Frolov, Judges. The Forms of the Old Testament Literature (Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 2013) in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 136.1 (2016)
• “Nationality and Constructivism,” Studies on National Movements (2): 2-13.

Cynthia Haynes (English) gave four invited lectures at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, during the week of March 11th-18th. She delivered two lectures to 160 M.A. students in “Digital Rhetorics” as the creator of the course at ITU ten years ago in 2005-06. Following these lectures, she gave a talk about her forthcoming book, The Homesick Phone Book: Addressing Rhetorics in the Age of Perpetual Conflict (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), to a group of faculty in their Digital Culture and Communication Research group. Finally, she gave a talk to the Games Research faculty and Ph.D. students called “Toasters, Phone Books and the Secrets of Game Criticism.”

Carter Hudgins (historic preservation) was a keynote speaker for The Bahamas Hurricane Restoration Fund at the Jacaranda House in Nassau, Bahamas on March 18th, launching the “Island Arcs” restoration project. The fund addresses the devastation of islands affected by Hurricane Joaquin and their subsequent empowerment and rebuilding.

Steve Katz (R. Roy and Marnie Pearce Professor of Professional Communication and Fellow of the Rutland Institute for Ethics) with co-founder Lesly Temesvari (biological sciences), David Blakesley (Campbell Chair of Technical Communication), and Lea Anna Caldwell (M.A. in professional communication), on February 25th conducted the second in a series of three new Writing In the Disciplines (WID) Initiative Workshops.  The workshops focused on constructing and presenting effective and persuasive visual and verbal arguments in the sciences, technology and industry. Katz also traveled with his wife to Santa Barbara, California, to participate in the marriage ceremony on March 19th of his former doctoral student, Patricia Fancher, for which he composed and delivered a poem.

Alexander Kudera’s (English) second novel, Auggie’s Revenge, was published in March by Beating Windward Press. Also in March, Fight for Your Long Day was reprinted as a Classroom Edition by Hard Ball Press. This new edition includes essays on the academic novel, contract labor and more.

Thomas Kuehn (history) presented “Estate Inventories as Legal Instruments of Credit in Renaissance Italy” to the History and Religious Studies Workshop at Washington University, St Louis, on March 18th.

Megan MacAlystre (English) organized and chaired a roundtable of four Clemson University English students and alumni on the fairy tale adaptations of Southern author Ursula Vernon at the 37th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts: “Wonder Tales.” Beth Buchanan (B.A., 2015), Laura Wells (B.A., 2015), Chelsea Clarey (M.A., 2015), and Matt Duncan (M.A., 2017) engaged in a rigorous discussion on the intersections of disability, posthumanism and feminist criticism in Vernon’s works.

Tom Oberdan (science and technology in society) has completed “The Vienna Circle,” forthcoming in Oxford Bibliographies, published by Oxford University Press (2016).

An excerpt from the introduction of Barton Palmer’s (Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature) recent book, Multiplicities in Film and Television, co-edited with Amanda Ann Klein, was published recently in The Atlantic magazine.

Christine Piper (construction science and management) received the 2016 “Modular Building Fellow” award from the Modular Building Institute at World of Modular on March 20, 2016 held in San Diego, Calif. Annually the Modular Building Institute recognizes the efforts of an individual in promoting and advancing modular and offsite construction in an academic or institutional setting. Piper worked with MBI for the past three years on the Introduction to Commercial Modular Construction book (published March 2015). Currently, Piper is developing an online course with Michael Griffin, curriculum coordinator with Clemson Online, based on the book. The online course will be available to anyone interested in learning about commercial modular construction. The Modular Building Fellow Award is awarded for dedication, thoroughness, professionalism and interest in the modular building industry.

On March 24th,  Elizabeth Rivlin (English) presented a paper titled “Blood Memory in Ron Rash’s Serena” in a seminar on “Shakespeare and the South” at the annual Shakespeare Association of America Meeting in New Orleans.

Richard St. Peter (performing arts) was notified on February 25 that he had been selected as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. He will spend the 2016-17 school year teaching at the University of Craiova in Romania.

Kate Schwennsen (architecture) and Lori Pindar (communication studies) were chosen as recipients of the Outstanding Women Award this year. The President’s Commission on the Status of Women annually honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to improve the status of women.

Gabriela Stoicea (languages) participated in the Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association in Hartford, Conn. in mid-March, where she presented a paper entitled “Narrating Dis-Order: Psychiatry, the Law and Literature in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften.”

William Terry (geography) has published an article in the geography journal Area titled “Solving seasonality in tourism? Labour shortages and guest worker programmes in the USA.” This work is timely as it focuses on the extensive use of migrant guest workers in tourism and hospitality to deal with seasonal demands. This issue has recently been used as a political chip in the GOP presidential debates and will be an ongoing portion of discussions concerning immigration reform in the United States.

Jillian Weise (English) is making a satirical series on YouTube called “AWP Tips for Writers by Tipsy Tullivan.” This is in response to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference’s rejection of all panels proposed by disabled writers on the topic of disability aesthetic. Publishers Weekly reported on the controversy in “HuffPo Article Stokes Claims of Discrimination Leveled Against AWP.”

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 in the British press, including the Times, the Sunday Times and the Guardian, where it was the “book of the day,” and has stirred a lively debate.

Anthony Bernarducci (performing arts) had two music publications released this January for the 2016 catalog of choral music through Hinshaw Music Publishing. The first, titled Dies Sanctificatus, uses a traditional Latin text. It was performed by the Illinois All-State Choir in January. The second piece, titled Winter Roses, utilizes portions of a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier and is scored for three-part women’s voices and piano accompaniment.

In an interview about the South Carolina presidential primaries, Vernon Burton (history) was featured in NPR’s Feb. 18th “Here & Now” segment titled “How South Carolina’s Primaries Became ‘First in the South.'”

In late January, Paul Buyer (performing arts), presented his workshop  “Working Toward Excellence” to music majors at the University of Central Florida.

Caroline Dunn (history) published “All the Queen’s Ladies: Philippa of Hainault’s Female Attendants,” Journal of Medieval Prosopography 31 (2016).

Andrea Feeser (art history) was a member of the committee that rewrote the AP Art History exam. Feeser’s committee was specifically mentioned in The Atlantic magazine article “Rewriting Art History.”

A new book by Keith Green (architecture), Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology, has just been released from M.I.T. Press (2016). The subject matter looks toward interactive, partly intelligent and meticulously designed physical environments and how robotic systems will support and augment us at work, school and home over time. Green also received an invitation to present the new book as a featured speaker at Border Sessions in June 2016 (The Hague, Netherlands), for the fifth international technology conference exploring how emerging technologies shape our future society.

Steven Grosby (philosophy and religion) has been accepted to publish under “Nationalism and the Catholic Church” in Oxford Handbooks in Religion, New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming). Along with that, the following were very recently published:

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 University Press), was published in December 2015. Edited by Ufuk Ersoy, Dana Anderson and Kate Schwennsen (all architecture), the book documents most of the events held in 2013 to celebrate the first hundred years of Clemson University’s architectural program.

Todd Anderson, Clemson University’s new printmaker, had work included in two international exhibitions in New York and Atlanta.

In January, President Emeritus James F. Barker, FAIA, presented “The Architecture of Leadership” at the Design Futures Council Leadership Summit of Design Innovation and Technology in La Jolla, Calif. The presentation focused on leading and implementing innovation using new collaborative technologies, as well as fostering dynamic change to drive success in professional practices and organizations. Barker also presented “The Architecture of Leadership” in Charleston, S.C in January as a  continuing education opportunity offered through Clemson’s Rutland Institute for Ethics.

Vernon Burton (history) has made several appearances and presentations recently:

• His article “Tempering Society’s Looking Glass:  Correcting Misconceptions About the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Securing American Democracy,” was published as the lead article of the Louisiana Law Review vol. 76 (2015), pp. 1-42.
• At the end of 2015, Burton briefed Congress about the factors that led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and challenges to voter’s rights after the Supreme Court invalidated part of the act in 2013.
• On Jan. 18th, he gave the Ellwood F. Curtis Family Lectureship in Public Affairs keynote for Augustana College’s Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration.
• On Jan. 24th, Burton presented a paper on Abraham Lincoln and the meaning of the 14^th Amendment at the HistoryMiami Museum.
• And on Jan. 25th, he participated as vice-chair of a meeting of the Congressional Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Foundation.

Recently, Hyejung Chang (landscape architecture) published the article, “An Aesthetic and Ethical Account of Genius Loci.” in Architecture, Culture and Spirituality, edited by Tom Barrie, Julio Bermudez, and Phill Tabb, 71-82 UK: Ashgate, 2015.

The Boston Architectural College presents Architecture + Mathematics, a solo exhibition by Joseph Choma (architecture), founder of the Design Topology Lab. Fifty linear feet of walls are filled with line drawings. Through a morphing process, cylinders and spheres are transformed into four existing buildings. The exhibition directly builds on the work established in his recent book: Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers (Laurence King Publishing). The exhibition is ongoing through February 14th.         

In December, Cliff Ellis (city and regional planning) published the article “Changing Lanes” in the fall issue of Access magazine. The article, based on the book by the same name, explores the controversy, racism, and legal battles associated with some of America’s urban highways. As several cities plan to demolish their urban highways for other creative developments, authors Joseph F. C. DiMento and Ellis examine possible opportunities for them, including a chance for more public transit.

Jan. 14th, Roger Grant (Lemon Professor of History) presented a public lecture at the Upstate History Museum in Greenville on “L. Frank Baum,The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the American Populist Movement.” Grant’s recent book, Railroaders without Borders (Indiana University Press, 2015) has been named as one of five notable books for 2015 by Trains magazine (Kalmbach Publishing Co.).

Appearing now in print is the Arabic translation of Steven Grosby’s (philosophy and religion) book Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford) with Hindawi Publishing (Cairo, Egypt).

Steve Katz (Pearce Professor of Professional Communication and Fellow of the Rutland Institute for Ethics) was cited and quoted in Al-Jazeera on Jan. 25^th in relation to the Flint, Michigan water crisis in the article titled “What voters can learn from Flint water crisis.”

Katz also, with David Blakesley (Campbell Chair of Technical Communication) and Leslie Temesvari (biological sciences), is hosting a series of three new workshops for the Writing In the Disciplines (WID) initiative this semester, the most recent held on Jan. 28^th.

At the American Historical Association Meeting in Atlanta, Thomas Kuehn (history) presented critical comments on a paper presented in the two different panels “Exploring Empires from Below: New Perspectives on the Early Modern Mediterranean” and “Brutality, Due Process, and Peace Accords: Criminal Justice in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.”

Along with colleagues from Texas Christian University and Cornell University, Joseph P. Mazer (communication studies) published “Enjoyment Fosters Media Use Frequency and Determines its Relational Outcomes: Toward a Synthesis of Uses and Gratifications Theory and Media Multiplexity Theory” in the latest volume of Computers in Human Behavior.

Tiffany Creegan Miller’s (languages) published the article, “‘Xib’e pa el Norte’: Ethnographic Encounters with Kaqchikel Maya Transnational Migration from Lake Atitlán, Guatemala to Brooklyn, New York” in “Ni sombras, ni proscritos: Indigenous Presence in the U.S. Latina/o Community,” a special edition of the peer-reviewed, online journal Label Me Latina/o. Miller’s essay examines the points of contention that complicate the construction of a unified Latino identity, including geographic regions of origin, socio-economic backgrounds, generational differences, language use, and, more generally, cultural milieu—before exploring the relationship between indigeneity and Latino Studies in the context of an ethnographic case study.

With the publication in January of his new novel, Travelers Rest (Little, Brown and Co.), Keith Lee Morris (English) has multiple notable reviews, interviews and reading/signings happening:

• Reviews include at least 13 publications, including The Independent (UK) The New York Times Book Review and Newfoundland Journal.
• Interviews in print, web, radio and podcast include 9 so far, including The Chicago Tribune, Stay Thirsty Magazine (online) and KBOO Portland, and Morris has done 6 signings and readings between Spartanburg, S.C. to Portland, Ore.
• He’s also had several articles published in The Independent (UK), The Quivering Pen (blog) and elsewhere, along with excerpts of Travelers Rest published in Literary Hub (online).

New work by Joey Manson (art) was unveiled in December as the first piece of Mauldin S.C.’s new public art trail.

Salvador Oropesa (chair of languages) recently published two articles,  “Hauntology of the Revolution in Neoliberal Times: Roberto Bolaño‘s Amuleto and Elena Poniatowska’s Paseo de la Reforma.” Critical Insights. Roberto Bolaño. Ed. Ignacio López-Calvo. Ipswich, MA: Salem P, 2015. 77-93; and  “El cine según David Bordwell: Neoformalismo y el concepto de totalidad.” Hispania 98.3 (2015): 583-93.

Barton Palmer (Lemon Professor of Literature) has published the book Shot on Location: Postwar American Cinema and the Exploration of Real Place (Rutgers UP) and the article “Love Hurts, But Not Too Much: Julia Roberts’s Scenes of Suffering” in the Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media series by editors Rebecca Bell-Metereau and Colleen Glenn, Star Bodies and the Erotics of Suffering (Wayne State UP): 288-308. Palmer has also accepted the post of editor for The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, sponsored by the Historic New Orleans Collection.

In January, Elizabeth Rivlin (English) organized and presented a special session at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention. The session was titled, “Shakespeare and Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Reading Publics,” and her paper, “Shakespeare, Women Readers, and the Contemporary Novel.”

Shannon Robert (performing arts) worked on scene design for the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s production of As You Like It, which ran through Dec. 12.

Mashal Saif (philosophy and religion) recently published “Beyond Text: Fluid Fatwas and Embodied Muftis,” in Fieldwork in Religion 10/1 (2015): 115-132. Saif has also just published a book review of Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt also in Fieldwork in Religion 10/1 (2015).

Kerrie Seymour (performing arts) has recently released a number of  audiobook productions, including K.T. Tomb’s A is for Amethyst, David Pandolfe’s The Dragonfly Season and, performing as Piper Brown in Claire Ashby’s New York Times bestseller, When You Make it Home. Her audiobook productions are available on Audible.com, iTunes and Amazon.