Performances/Media Productions/Exhibitions
Caleen Sinnette Jennings, performing arts, CAS: wrote and directed a new children’s play, Wish Eye New, December.
Brian Forst |
Honors/Awards/Appointments
Brian Forst, SPA: accepted a three-year appointment as one of the 13 voting members of the District of Columbia Sentencing Commission, December. Vladimir Kvint, Kogod: received an honorary doctor’s degree for his contribution to the development of theory in emerging markets as well as his contributions
to the Albanian economy, Vlora Technological University, Albania, November. Henry Taylor, professor emeritus, literature, CAS: designated the Aiken Taylor poet for modern American poetry by the Sewanee Review, December. Lectures/Presentations
Ethan Berger, SIS and WCL:
“A Cynic’s View of the Impact of the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on Government Relations: Reflections and Speculations,” Institute of Internal Auditors, Washington, D.C., December. Erran Carmel, Kogod: panelist, “Crisis in American Information Systems Education: Innovations to Address the Threat of Offshoring,” International Conference on Information Systems, Washington, D.C., December. Julie Mertus, SIS: “Women’s Role in International Tribunals,” University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of International and Public Relations, November. Media
Kenneth Anderson, WCL: quoted by the New York Times regarding human rights, December. Laird Anderson, professor emeritus SOC: interviewed by WUSA-TV Channel 9 (CBS) concerning Dan Rather’s pending resignation at CBS; interviewed by WHUR Radio about Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s response to a reserve soldier’s comment about the poor state of armored vehicles in Iraq, December. Leslie Gill, anthropology, CAS: her book, The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, was mentioned in Flagpole magazine, November. Claudio Grossman, dean, WCL: interviewed by CNN regarding the Iraqi elections scheduled for January, December. Jane Hall, SOC: provided commentary on her pick as the biggest political gaffe of the year, FoxNews.com, December. Thomas Hertz, economics, CAS: cited in the article “Meritocracy in America: Ever higher society, ever harder to ascend,” the Economist, December. Traci Mundy Jenkins, director, Career Services, WCL: interviewed by the National Jurist on the top associate salaries, December. Laura Juliano, psychology, CAS: quoted by the Associated Press regarding caffeine withdrawal, November. Peter Kuznick, history, CAS: quoted by the Associated Press regarding the Nanjing massacre, December. Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: quoted by the Associated Press regarding Bush’s cabinet and appeared on CNN as an analyst during the opening ceremonies of the Clinton Presidential Center, November. James Lynch, SPA: quoted by the Associated Press regarding the murder rate decline, December. Kinuthia Macharia, sociology, CAS: interviewed by the Voice of America on the current situation in Zimbabwe, especially with African countries saying they want to take a more key role in solving Zimbabweans’ problems, December. Howard McCurdy, SPA: quoted in a Louisiana Times Picayune article about the former NASA chief’s application to be LSU’s chancellor, December. Diane Orentlicher, WCL: interviewed by NBC Nightly News about the Chemical Ali trial, December. Matthew Pascocello, Career Services, WCL: interviewed by the Legal Times regarding what you should do after you make partner, December. Ira Robbins, WCL: interviewed by the Washington Post concerning eyewitness identification issues and pretrial motions in the sexual assault prosecution of Darrell Rice in Virginia; interviewed by the Houston Chronicle concerning the naming of unindicted co-conspirators in the Enron prosecution, December. Rick Rockwell, SOC: interviewed
by the Maryland Daily Record for the article “Radio’s Renaissance,” December. Robinder Sachdev, SIS: in-studio commentator on the impact and analysis of the U.S. presidential election as the results came in, Sahara TV (India), November. Alicia Shepard, SOC: interviewed by the Voice of America on Dan Rather’s retirement, December. Leonard Steinhorn, SOC: quoted in the Baltimore Sun regarding Reagan’s legacy, December. James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: quoted in the New York Times regarding politics, December. Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed by CNN and Telemundo on the aftermath of the recent presidential elections in Ukraine, November. Steven Wermiel, WCL: quoted by the Associated Press regarding Chief Justice Rehnquist’s health and his impact on the court, December. Carl Whitman, e-operations: he was quoted and AU was featured in Telecommunications magazine, regarding a wireless campus, December. Paul Williams, SIS and WCL: interviewed by Fox News Channel regarding the Iraqi elections and interviewed by CNN regarding the prosecution of Saddam Hussein, December. Papers Presented
Monica Jacobe, literature, CAS: “Transcending a Legacy: Sex, History, and Self in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora,” panel on southern women writers at the conference “Conflict in Southern Writing,” Troy State University, Montgomery, Ala., September. Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: copresented “Collecting valid program activity and service utilization data in a multisite study of mental health services,” annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Atlanta, November. Published Works
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: “African Immigration and Naturalization in the United States from 1960 to 2002: A Quantitative Determination of the Morris or the Takougang Hypothesis,” Irinkerindo: A Journal of African Migration, issue 3, September 2004. Richard McCann, literature, CAS: “My Brother in the Basement,” a portion of his forthcoming novel Mother of Sorrows (Pantheon Books, April 2005) was published in Blackbird: an Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, November. Abdul Aziz Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and SIS: “Losing the Cold War, One Election at a Time,” the Daily Star, November.
Photo by Jeff Watts
Singer autographs second release
P.W. Singer, author of Children at War, which Publishers Weekly called “groundbreaking and comprehensive,” signed copies of the book last Wednesday at the campus store.
The book, which hit the shelves in January, explores the rise and expansion of child slavery, noting that more than six million child combatants were killed or injured in the past decade.
Children at War is the second book from Singer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former advisor to the U.S. military. He also penned Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry. |
| Mail People items to Catherine Bahl, University Publications, Tenley Campus, 8121, or e-mail cmbahl@american.edu. |
|
