Faculty-Staff Achievements, Oct. 19, 2015
Activities
Sarah DiPasquale, lecturer in dance, accompanied students from the dance department to Pittsburgh Oct.
9-11 to present their research at the (IADMS) conference. Nicole Becker ’17 presented a poster of her work titled “Self-reported
injury and management in a liberal arts college dance department” while Meaghan Wood
’18 and Madeline Morser ’17 gave a 20-minute platform presentation titled “The effect
of classical dance training on balance, agility, flexibility, and strength in college-aged
students.”
Catherine J. Golden, professor of English, presented a paper titled “Toppling the ‘Cookstove Throne’ in
Gilman's ‘The Cottagette’: Cooking Up Equal Gender Dynamics in the Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century
Kitchen” at the sixth International Charlotte Perkins Gilman Conference June 13-15
at the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Golden noted, "I had the good fortune to work again with two former members of the
ϳԹ English Department, both of whom are currently teaching at the University
of Massachusetts-Boston. Sari Edelstein was the conference organizer and Holly Jackson
was the chair of my session on 'Gilman and Material Culture.'"
Reg Lilly, professor of philosophy, participated in an Oct. 8 panel, Psychoanalysis and Traumatology,
at the Atlanta meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
where he gave an expanded version of his paper “Heidegger and Traumatology.”
Mary Solomons, senior director of donor relations and campaign events, received “stellar speaker”
recognition for her service on the faculty of the annual donor relations conference
June 3-5 in Providence, R.I., sponsored by CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support
of Education. It was her fourth time participating in the conference and fourth faculty
star. In addition, Solomons had two guest blogs (Oct. 7 and Sept. 27) featured this
fall on the , which has a readership of 100,000.
Amber N. Wiley, assistant professor of American studies, spoke at the Oct. 9 inaugural Black in Design
conference at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The conference, organized
by the African American Student Union, intended to take the initial steps toward addressing
social injustice through design by reclaiming the histories of underrepresented groups
in design pedagogy and to implicate designers as having a role in repairing our broken
built environment. Wiley spoke on her research and teaching, and described various
ways that the National Architectural Accrediting Board shaped the pedagogy and focus
of design schools. A summary of the pedagogy panel can be found on the Harvard Graduate
School of Design.
Publications
Janet G. Casey, professor of English and director, First-Year Experience, contributed an invited
essay titled “American Literary Realism: Popularity and Politics in a Modernist Frame” to
edited by Gregory Castle and published by Cambridge UP, 2015.
Gordon R. Thompson, professor of music, is the author of "A Session Life for Me: Studio Musicians and
London's Popular Music Industry in the 1960s," which appeared Oct. 13 on the .
In the News
Robin Nelson, assistant professor of anthropology, and her research on sexual harassment and assault
at science field sites was cited in published Oct. 15 on insidehighered.com. She also spoke on the subject of Geoff Marcy’s
resignation for an Oct. 17 story in the Contra Costa Times titled
Research by Corinne Moss-Racusin, assistant professor of psychology, was cited in published Oct. 13 on insiderhighered.com.
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