December 13, 2022
ENGLISH – Professor Susanna Ashton’s essay, “Ablaze: The 1849 Attack on the Pendleton Post Office” appeared in the journal, Southern Spaces. This essay explores the context of an attack on the US Post Office in Pendleton, SC by a mob of white supremacists looking to seize anti-slavery mailings, and it explores the events in the context […]
November 16, 2022
ENGLISH – Professor David Blakesley published the article “The Residual Concepts of Production v. the Emergent Cultures of Distribution in Publishing” in the TeX Users Group publication, TUGboat. The TeX Users Group is a worldwide consortium founded in 1980 for anyone who uses the TeX typesetting system created by Donald Knuth and/or is interested in typography […]
October 24, 2022
LANGUAGES – Professor Yanming An published “Two Modes of Cyclicality,” in Comparative Civilization Review, a biannual official journal of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations fall issue of 2022 (19-39). Vol. 87: No. 87, Article 6. REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT – Associate Professor Stephen Buckman published a co-edited volume with John Talmage and Jeff Burton […]
September 19, 2022
HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton authored a foreword for the new paperback edition of W. J. Megginson’s, African American Life in South Carolina’s Upper Piedmont, 1780–1900 (University of South Carolina Press, 2006). On August 6, Burton spoke to the Greenwood County Democratic Party at the Morris Chapel Baptist Church on his co-authored book, Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court. On […]
August 22, 2022
ARCHITECTURE — Professor David Allison, Professor Anjali Joseph, and graduate students Swati Goel, Sara Kennedy, Monica Gripko, Devi Soman, Mina Shokrollahi Ardekani, Kassie Landvay, and Mohammad Ahmadshahi, all with the Center for Health Facilities Design and Testing, presented work at the 53rd Annual Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA53) Conference — “Health in All Design” — held June 1-4 in […]
June 21, 2022
ENGLISH – Professor David Blakesley was voted President-Elect of Clemson’s Faculty Senate. His term as President will begin in April 2023. Blakesley also presented “Teaching the Rhetorics of Film: The Case of Absent Now the Dead” and “Festschrift in Honor of RSA Founder Dr. Janice Lauer Rice” at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference in […]
May 23, 2022
ARCHITECTURE – Lecturer Bryan Beerman was elevated to Associate Principal and shareholder with his firm at LS3P. Beerman joined the firm in 2015, has been licensed since 2016, and has worked extensively in the civic, faith, education, and commercial market sectors with an emphasis on urban design, master planning, conceptual design and community-centered projects. Founded […]
April 18, 2022
HISTORY – Professor Vernon Burton and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Rhondda Robinson Thomas were appointed as commissioners to the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, whose mission is “is to identify and promote the preservation of historic sites, structures, buildings, and culture of the African American experience in South Carolina, and to assist and enhance […]
March 22, 2022
HISTORY – The Washington Post published “Biden’s pick won’t shift the Supreme Court, but here’s what might” by Professor Vernon Burton and his “Justice Deferred” co-author, Armand Derfner. On Feb. 6, Burton participated in EMBCA’s zoom discussion of “Revolution of 1821, Hellenic “Cotton Triangle” Merchants, and the American Civil War” On Feb. 7, his interview on “Justice Deferred” with Heather […]
February 21, 2022
PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Becky Becker was presented with a Kennedy Center Gold Medallion Award on February 2. The award is presented annually by the eight Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival regions to honor individuals or organizations that have made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and producing of theatre and who have significantly dedicated their time, artistry […]
