September 4, 2007
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Beisner’s biography honored by Council on Foreign Relations
(Photo courtesy of Council on Foreign Relations)
James Hoge, right, editor of Foreign Affairs, presents Robert Beisner, professor emeritus of history, with the silver medal from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) for his 2006 book, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War. Henry Kissinger reviewed Dean Acheson for the New York Times Book Review, and the CFR award announcement described Beisner’s book as an “expertly researched biography of one of the most influential secretaries of state in U.S. history.”
Dean Acheson offers a comprehensive look at President Harry Truman’s controversial secretary of state, who was instrumental in changing America’s role in the world and setting it on a lasting course of global engagement. “[In retirement] Bob remains one of the country’s leading diplomatic historians and this book represents a signal accomplishment,” said Robert Griffith, chair of the history department, College of Arts and Sciences.
Beisner served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, is the author of several significant books, including American Foreign Relations since 1600, and served as AU history department chair from 1981 to 1990. He retired from AU in 1998.
The Council on Foreign Relations is a nonpartisan group dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. —AF
Honors/Awards/Appointments
H. Kent Baker, Kogod: was appointed to a three-year term on the Editorial Board for Finance and Accounting for the Journal of Business Research.
Robert Kramer, SPA: was appointed Senior Fellow at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, July.
Sue Marcum, Kogod: was inducted into the Greater Washington Society of CPAs (GWSCPA) Board of Governors, June.
Brian Schaffner, SPA: was named an editor of the journal Congress & the Presidency, published twice a year by AU’s Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.
Lisa Pace Vetter, SPA: was awarded the 2007–2008 Caroline D. Bain Scholar-in-Residence fellowship at Smith College to do research on her second book project, Webs of Power and Influence: Political Theory and the Origins of American Feminism, June.
Lectures/Presentations
Robert Hauswald, Kogod: presented the opening paper, “Distance and Information Asymmetries in Lending,” at the 43rd Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, the premiere research conference of the Federal Reserve System, Chicago.
Robert Marshak, SPA: “Managing the Five Hidden Dimensions of Organizational Change,” invited presentation to the Minnesota Organization Development Network, Minneapolis, May.
Gemma Puglisi, SOC: panelist on “Pitfalls in International Relations: Lessons Learned Around the World,” sponsored by the PRSA National Capital Chapters, International Committee, National Press Club, May.
Rita Simon, SPA: testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Education about Title IX, June.
Ron Sutton, emeritus, SOC: moderated three discussions following the screening of films by Robert and Anne Drew at the “Salute to Documentary Filmmakers Robert and Anne Drew,” National Archives, Washington, D.C., April.
Papers Presented
Todd Eisentadt, SPA: “Agrarian Tenure Patterns, Conflict Frames, and Communitarian Identities: The Case of Indigenous Southern Mexico,” Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, April.
Published Works
Anna Amirkhanyan, SPA: “The Smart-seller Challenge: The Determinants of Privatizing Public Nursing Homes,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (J-PART), 17 (3), 501-527.
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: chapter, “Metaphors of the Banditry in Sierra Leone: A Treatise on Ethics,” in Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies in West Africa: A Reader, Ibadan, Nigeria, Spectrum Books, 2007.
Ethan Burger, SIS: Out of the Display Case,” in Catalyst: Debating Race, Identity, Citizenship and Culture, March 16, 2007.
Jack Child, language and foreign studies, CAS: textbook for General Education course, Latin American History through Its Art and Literature, Copley (XanEdu) Custom Publishing, June 2007.
Brenda Werth, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Performing the Family Portrait in Marcelo Bertuccio’s Señora, esposa, niña y joven desde lejos,” Latin American Theatre Review, vol 40, no 2, spring 2007.
Media
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: participated in a Jewish-Muslim dialogue at the conference “Fear and Trauma: Ruptured Souls; Ruptured Cultures, Pakistan Link,” sponsored by the New York Freudian Society, Washington , D.C., Program, and AU’s School of International Service, May.
Pat Aufderheide, SOC, and director, Center for Social Media: quoted in a Time magazine article on Michael Moore’s film Sicko, June.
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal on proliferation of elaborate e-mail signature files in the business world, April.
Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: was featured in the TV documentary, Wall of Separation: The Phrase that Divided America, which was broadcast on PBS television affiliates, June.
Caren Goldberg, Kogod: her study that showed harassment training does not invite lawsuits was reported by the Insurance Journal National and also was noted in Psychology of Women Quarterly, July.
Karen O’Connor, SPA, and director, WPI: was interviewed on political spouses by the New York Times, Financial Times, and People magazine, and on women and political participation by the State Department (in a piece for Iraqi television), July.
Gemma Puglisi, SOC: quoted in an ABCNews.com report on the long-term effect on her career of Rosie O’Donnell’s bold statements and actions, June.
David Sadker, SETH, CAS: quoted in an article in the Hartford Courant on single-sex education, June.
Herman Schwartz, WCL: quoted in the ABA Journal regarding the creation by the ABA Board of Governors of the association’s fifth regional assistance project, the Middle East and North Africa Initiative, June.
James Thurber, SPA, and director, CCPS: quoted in an article in the Dallas Morning News regarding President Bush’s immigration bill and the administrations’ hope for a major domestic victory, June.
Renee von Worde, language and foreign studies, CAS: her comments on the death of Kapitän zur See Kurt Diggins were printed in the military historical magazine KTB, vol 25, issue 4, no 200, May 2007 (26).
