April 1, 2008
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Intondi’s paper wins award at Florida conference
Vincent Intondi’s primary research interest was African American history when he came to AU in 2004 to begin his PhD study under history professor Peter Kuznick. Then that first year, Intondi accompanied Kuznick, director of the Nuclear Studies Institute, to atomic bomb sites in Japan.
“I was really influenced and moved by what I was learning,” Intondi said of the trip. “I started doing some research for a paper before [starting] my dissertation, and I saw that scholars hadn’t talked too much about the bomb and the African American response.”
Intondi dove into the topic, and the resulting paper, “From Harlem to Hiroshima: The African American Response to the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” both served as the basis for his dissertation and won a prestigious award.
“To my surprise, there was an overwhelming response to the bomb in the African American community,” Intondi said. “I argue in this paper that African Americans tied nuclear weapons and the decision to drop the bomb with racism and colonialism. They were saying why was it not dropped on Germany? Why was it dropped on people of color? Why did the French test in Africa? They were looking through a different lens.”
Intondi garnered attention when he presented the paper at the 2007 Florida Conference of Historians. Busy working on his dissertation, which he hopes to defend in the fall, Intondi wasn’t planning on returning to the conference this year until he learned his work had won the Thomas M. Campbell Award. He received the honor, given to the top paper published in the Selected Annual Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, at a banquet last month in Jacksonville.
“I was eager to get some feedback on it, and it was very well received,” he said of his work. “There were a lot of papers presented. I was honored to win.” —Mike Unger
Lectures/Presentations
Charles Call, SIS: “Public Security after Intervention: The Case of Haiti, 1994,” at the seminar “Establishing Public Security in Stability Operations,” National Defense University, Washington, D.C., March.
Gemma Puglisi, SOC: “Promoting Your Artwork: How You Can Use Media to Publicize Your Art,” Studio Arts Centers International (SACI), Florence, Italy, March.
Robert Marshak, SPA: “Covert Processes at Work,” keynote presentation at the 2008 UniServ Managers National Conference, National Education Association, Point Clear, Ala., March.
Beryl Radin, SPA: panelist at the session “Beyond Reporting Requirements: What Difference Does Performance Management Make?” the second session in the Georgetown Public Policy Institute Dialogue Series jointly sponsored by the consulting company Accenture, March.
Anthony Wanis-St. John, SIS: “Peace Conference on Jerusalem,” presentation and interactive exercise, Castilleja School, Palo Alto, Calif., January.
Papers Presented
Michel Robe, Kogod: coauthored with M. Haigh, J. Harris, and J. Overdahl, on the maturity and pricing structures of energy derivative markets, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December.
Published Works
Gordon Adams, SIS: column “Greater discipline required on defence spending,” in the Financial Times, March.
Robert Beisner, professor emeritus, history, CAS: his review of Elisabeth Bumiller’s Condoleezza Rice: An American Life was published in the Washington Post, February.
Carolyn Gallaher, SIS: After the Peace: Loyalist Paramilitaries in Post-accord Northern Ireland, Cornell University Press, November.
Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Addio all’aereoporto,” “Adios en el aeropuerto,” in Revista de poesía La fuente de las 7 vìrgenes, no 9, Sivia Favaretto, translator.
Colman McCarthy, SIS: op-ed, “Washington’s Father of the Homeless,” a column on Fr. Horace McKenna, S.J., Washington Post, May.
Ira Robbins, WCL: Habeas Corpus, sixteenth edition, Thomson/West, 2008.
Rachel Sullivan Robinson, SIS: coauthored with Ronald Lee, and Karen Kramer, “Counting Women’s Labour: a reanalysis of children’s net production using Cain’s data from a Bangladeshi village,” Population Studies, 62(1), 2008.
Media
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: interviewed for the article “U.S. and Pakistan: With Musharraf Fading, What Comes Next?” Kiplinger Reports, February.
Richard Benedetto, SOC/SPA: interviewed on XM Radio’s presidential politics channel regarding the 2008 primaries, February.
Caroline Cooper, director, U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Drug Court Clearinghouse and Technical Assistance Project, and SPA: guest on WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show as part of a radio segment on the validity of drug courts as Virginia moves to abolish their division for economic reasons, February.
Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: interviewed for the article “McCain dodges bullet, faces fiscal bombshell,” in the San Francisco Chronicle, February.
Robert Losey, Kogod: interviewed by the Washington Post regarding Hillary Clinton’s real estate plan and noted that Clinton’s proposed subprime five-year moratorium could mean higher rates for other borrowers if mortgage providers reduce their lending to avoid government intervention, February.
Barry McCarthy, psychology, CAS: interviewed for the article “Honesty, commitment help mend marriage after an affair,” in Florida Today, February.
Howard McCurdy, SPA: interviewed for an Associated Press article on the problems and rising costs of NASA’s flagship mission to land a modernized, nuclear-powered rover on Mars, February.
Melissa McFerrin, women’s basketball coach, Athletics: interviewed for the article “High-flying: American U men and women first place in Patriot League,” Associated Press, February.
Kathryn Montgomery, SOC: appeared on WAMU’s The Kojo Nnamdi Show to discuss adolescents and technology of today, February.
Matthew Nisbet, SOC: interviewed for the article “Can a Film Change the World,” Time magazine, March.
Karen O’Connor, director, Women and Politics Institute, and SPA: interviewed by Gannett News Service for the article “Fewer women in state houses,” February.
Lenny Steinhorn, SOC: quoted in the article “Mitt aides, Timing’s everything: Say scandal story would have altered Repub race,” in the Boston Herald, February.
James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: analyzed the results of the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia primaries on WAMU’s Diane Rehm Show, and interviewed by WUSA-CBS 9 on the prospects for passing a universal health care system, February.
Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on Radio Todelar Basica, RCN, and Emisora de la Universidad Nacional (Colombia); Radio Voz del Tropico and Radio La Mega (Ecuador); Radio Global (Venezuela); Voice of America TV on the crisis between Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador; also interviewed on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on developments on the death penalty in the United States, March; on PBS Ch. 13 New York on a six-hour program of analysis and commentary on Super Tuesday primaries, February.
