February 19, 2008
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Teatime at SIS
(Photo by Jeff Watts)
After 40 years, the International Communication Program hasn’t just developed a national reputation. It also has its own traditions, such as a regular tea to bring together faculty members and students outside of class.
A tea party last week honored program founder Hamid Mowlana, at center, who was director of the program from 1968 to 2005. Mowlana, now professor emeritus, is a prolific author whose subjects have included Iraq, the Islamic media, civil society, and global communication.
The tea was organized by the International Communication Student Forum. Traditionally held once a semester, it’s a time for casual conversation among students in the School of International Service program and professors such as Mowlana and Nanette Levinson, right. —SA
Performances/Media Productions/Exhibitions
Daniel Dreisbach, SPA: was featured in the recently released feature-length documentary movie Article VI: Faith * Politics * America, produced by Living Biography Media and Wiley Rhodes Productions in association with Outside Eyes.
Leena Jayaswal, SOC, and Kyle Brannon, SOC: their film An Impression: Dischord Records was accepted for the juried Our City Film Festival, Washington, D.C., February.
Honors/Awards/Appointments
Bob Connelly, SOC: served as research supervisor for Eye of the Leopard, a National Geographic documentary that received the 2007 Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Award for Outstanding Nature Programming.
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Jo Radner, professor emerita, literature, CAS: elected chair of the Board of Directors of the National Storytelling Network, the national professional society for storytellers, January.
Richard Sha, literature, CAS: received a Benjamin Franklin Research Award from the American Philosophical Society to enable him to complete research for his new book, “Towards a Physiology of the Romantic Imagination,” at the Wellcome Library in London.
Lectures/Presentations
William DeLone, Kogod: “Measuring Information Systems Success,” research presentation at the Cairnes Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway, January.
Colman McCarthy, SIS: “Nonviolence in a Time of War,” University of South Florida, November.
Chris Palmer, SOC: “Ethics in Wildlife Filmmaking,” at the Realscreen Film Conference, January.
Nancy Polikoff, WCL: discussed her book, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing all Families under the Law, at Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C., February.
Susan Shepler, SIS: copresented with Lacey Gale, Tufts University, “Child Fosterage and Well-Being in Sierra Leone: A Research Proposal on Foster Care Practices and Potential for Change,” at a Wenner Gren Sponsored Workshop on Childhood and Migration, New York City, January.
Jeffrey Sosland, Kogod and WSP: “The Arab-Israeli Conflict and Water Scarcity: Challenges for U.S. Foreign Policy,” at the University of Texas at Arlington, January.
Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: chaired “Cost, Effectiveness, Benefits, and Economics,” Topic Interest Group Business Meeting, annual meeting, American Evaluation Association, Baltimore, November.
Published Works
Lynn Addington, SPA: “Hot vs. Cold Cases: Examining Time to Clearance for Homicides Using NIBRS Data,” in Justice Research and Policy, December 2007.
Ethan Burger, SIS: “Globalization, Shareholder Rights and Political Realities: Some Initial Thoughts on the Implications of the YUKOS Shareholder Case,” in the East-West Executive Guide, December.
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Stephen Cohen, SIS: “Contemporary China-U.S. Trade Frictions: Repeating the Pattern of Past Japan-U.S. Trade Frictions,” in the Tamkang Journal of International Affairs (Taiwan), November.
Nanette Levinson, SIS: coauthored the chapter “A Triple Track Approach To Maximizing Collaborative Learning In Complex, Cross-National Virtual Teams,” in Kara Orvis and Andrea Lassiter, eds., Computer-supported Collaborative Learning: Best Practices and Principles, IGI Global, 2007.
Ira Robbins, WCL: “The Importance of the Secret Ballot in Law Faculty Personnel Decisions: Promoting Candor and Collegiality in the Academy,” in the Journal of Legal Education, 57, 2007.
David Rosenbloom, SPA: “The Politics-Administration Dichotomy in U.S. Historical Context,” Public Administration Review 68, January-February 2008.
Charles S. J. White, professor emeritus, philosophy and religion, CAS: his English translation of Jayshankar Prasad’s ANSU, The Garden of Loneliness, was reviewed by Garima Srivastava of Hyderabad University in Svatantra Varta, the Hindi-language, Indian national daily newspaper, December.
Media
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: interviewed by CNBC, BBC, CNN International, CBC, Voice of America, and other outlets regarding the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, December.
Pat Aufderheide, director, Center for Social Media, and SOC, and Peter Jaszi, WCL: their report “Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video” was discussed in the New York Times article “User-Generated Content Threatened by the Zeal to Protect Copyrights,” January.
Richard Benedetto, SPA and SOC: was quoted in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette column by Jack Kelly discussing whether Americans are getting the full story in reporting from Iraq, November.
Curtis Gans, director, Center for the Study of the American Electorate, and SPA: interviewed by the Miami Herald regarding the differences between Barack Obama’s campaign theme call for change and the political movement call for change of 1968, January.
Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: interviewed by CTV regarding Hillary Clinton’s narrow win over Barack Obama in the Democratic New Hampshire that made her the first woman in American history to win a major party primary, January.
Matthew Nisbet, SOC: quoted in the article “Scientists urge speedy emission cuts: The American Geophysical Union’s warning reflects an increasingly vocal scientific community,” in the Christian Science Monitor, January.
Gemma Puglisi, SOC: was interviewed by WUSA-TV, Channel 9 regarding the writer’s strike, January.
Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: interviewed for the article “Traits like infidelity less of an issue among voters today,” in the Dallas Morning News, December.
James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: interviewed for an article in Newsday regarding whether or not there would be a push for greater scrutiny of Major League Baseball and enactment of anti-steroid laws in light of the congressional deadlocks in other areas, December.
Papers Presented
Walter Effross, WCL: “Duties Not to Disclose, Dissent, or Disgrace: Cleaning Up After Leakers, Muddiers and Stainers Under the Restatement (Third) of Agency,” presented to the Section on Agency, Partnerships, Limited Liability Companies and Unincorporated Associations at the Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting, New York City, January.
