Month: April 2018

  • Greg Kaster (History)

    Greg Kaster has been awarded a place in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Slavery and the Constitution in Washington, DC, July 8-21, 2018, co-directed by Paul Finkelman and Paul Benson. The institute will be based at the Library of Congress and will include as faculty such distinguished historians as Finkelman (a…

  • Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management)

    Kathy Lund Dean has published an article with co-author Jeanie Forray entitled, “The long goodbye: Can academic citizenship sustain academic scholarship?” in the Journal of Management Inquiry. In the article they argue that the response to that rhetorical question is firmly “No” and call for academic rewards systems to “count” peer reviewing work as the…

  • Lisa Heldke (Philosophy)

    Lisa Heldke and her collaborator Cynthia Belliveau (University of Vermont) delivered the keynote address at “The Meaning of Food: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Representations of Food in the Arts and Humanities,” held in Greensboro, NC. The two also led a workshop to introduce conference attendees to the John Dewey Kitchen Institute, which Heldke and Belliveau…