Accomplishments

PUBLICATIONS AND PRODUCTIONS

Ellen K. Feder (philosophy and religion) published FamilyBonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender (Oxford, 2007).

Caren Grown (economics) coedited The Feminist Economics ofTrade (Routledge, 2007).

Consuelo Hernández (language and foreign studies) contributed to Cut Loose the Body: An Anthology of Poems on Torture and Fernando Botero’s Abu Ghraib Paintings.

David Keplinger (literature) published a new poetry collection, The World Cut Out with Crooked Scissors (Western Michigan, 2007).

Younghee Sheen (language and foreign studies) published Conversational Interaction in Second Language Acquisition (Oxford, 2007).

David Vine (anthropology) published “Enabling the Kill Chain,” Chronicle of Higher Education 54 (November 30, 2007).

SPEAKER’S CORNER

In October, Naomi Baron (language and foreign studies) delivered two papers at the international meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers in Vancouver. One compared cell-phone text messaging with instant messaging; the second explored the presentation of self on Facebook and in IM “away” messages.

In October, Brock Brady (language and foreign studies) presented “ESL and Foreign Language Instruction in the U.S.” and “New Approaches to Teacher Education” at the State Department’s International Visitor Project for Latvia in Washington, D.C.

Nadia Harris (language and foreign studies) moderated a seminar, Maupassant and Impressionism, at Washington’s Phillips Collection in December. The seminar examined the influence of the French Impressionists on writer Guy de Maupassant.

In October, Consuelo Hernández (language and foreign studies) presented her poetry at Sharing Stories of Immigration, an event sponsored by the National Museum of American History. She also participated in the Conference of Hispanic and Spanish American Poetry, hosted by the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia in November.

In October, Brian Yates (psychology) presented “Costs Are All That Matter: Three Quantitative Studies Show That Costs Are Important to Evaluate, and That Outcomes Often Are Not” to the Government Accounting Office.

IN THE MEDIA

Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators—an American University Museum exhibit cocurated by art history professors Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard—was featured in the Washington Post (November 18, 2007).

In October, the Southeast European Times interviewed Allan Lichtman (history) about the passage of a nonbinding resolution defining mass killing of Armenians in Turkey during the early 1900s as genocide.

In November, Claire Roby (BA environmental studies ’08) was featured in a New York Times article—“Jolly and Green, with an Agenda”—about environmentally friendly gift alternatives. The piece highlighted the clocks that Roby makes out of old compact discs.

APPOINTMENTS AND HONORS

In December, D. B. “Sagar” Bishwakarma (MA sociology ’09) was awarded the 2007 United Nations Association’s Community Human Rights Award for his activism against caste-based discrimination in Nepal.

In December, Nicholas Boggs (MFA creative writing ’09) received an Individual Arts Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts.

David Keplinger (literature) received the 2007 Colorado Book Award for his book The Prayers of Others.

Patricia Saura McClory (BS biology 2008) has been accepted to Harvard dental school. She will begin her studies in August 2008.

In November, Chemi Montes-Armenteros (graphic design) received seven American Graphic Design Awards—five for work produced for AU’s Department of Performing Arts. He also won two silver 2007 Creativity Awards and a national juried design competition. His poster entry was selected for Communication Arts’ 2007 November Design Annual 48.

In September, Catherine Resnik (graphic design) received an American Graphic Design Award for the poster she designed for AU’s production of I Hate Hamlet. Two of her pieces are featured in the upcoming Graphics Logo Book (February 2008).