Business as (un)usual

Iraq’s interim president welcomed back to AU

WCL students take hands-on role during U.N. Committee Against Torture meeting

From Kogod to Bolivia to Middle Earth, honors program sparks excitement

Nonprofit Fridays unites future nonprofit leaders

U.S.-Japanese relations appear to be strong

Speaker of Polish Senate shares views

Spirit of Santa endures

Washington Semester attracts largest, most diverse class yet

Honors/Awards/Appointments
David Stemper, Center for North American Studies: appointed a member of the Applied Policy Studies Advisory Committee of Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, November.

James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: has accepted a term as a member of the Board of Trustees of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, November.

Lectures/Presentations
Brock Brady, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Teaching Language and Literacy for Sudanese ‘Lost Boys,’” Washington Area TESOL Association Fall Convention, Annandale, Va., October.

Mary Garrard, professor emerita, art, CAS: “Here’s Looking at Me: Sofonisba Anguissola and the Problem of the Woman Artist,” 24th Annual Theodore L. Low Lecture, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, October.

Consuelo Hernandez, language and foreign studies, CAS: “La Casa De Las Dos Palmas de Manuel Mejía Vallejo: Documento de una época de una región y su cultura,” 25th International Congress. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Las Vegas, October.

Rick Rockwell, SOC: “Finding the Power of Hidden Radio Audiences in the Fields of Guatemala,” 25th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, October.

David Rosenbloom, SPA: “Outsourcing the Constitution and Administrative Law Norms,” School of Public Affairs, University of Baltimore, October.

Media
Akbar Ahmed, SIS: featured in the Toronto Globe and Mail and quoted by Knight Ridder regarding Islam, September.

Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS: panelist on Voice of America’s Africa Journal Worldwide television show titled “The Special Court for Sierra Leone”; interviewed by Voice of America Africa English radio on Zimbabwe, August.

Robert Dinerstein, WCL: interviewed by the Associated Press regarding the application of precedent in prosecuting mentally ill suspects, October.

Louis Goodman, dean, SIS: discussed the cost of the war in Iraq, C-SPAN, October.

Hadar Harris, WCL: interviewed regarding the genocide in Sudan and the U.S. obligation to intervene, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, October.

Peter Lewis, SIS: interviewed by Radio Netherlands on Islamic radicalism in Nigeria, September.

Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: the 13 keys were featured in an article in Common Dreams, and he was interviewed by CNBC, September.

Pamela Nadell, Jewish studies, CAS: quoted by the Washington Post regarding an exhibit at the Library of Congress, October.

Rob Orttung, TraCCC, SPA: wrote an op-ed for the International Herald Tribune regarding elections in Russia, October.

Jamin Raskin, WCL: interviewed by the Associated Press and WTTG Fox 5 about the election of Marion Berry in the D.C. Ward 8 primary, September.

Leigh Riddick, Kogod: appeared on Washington, D.C.’s ABC affiliate, WUSA, discussing the stock market crash of 1929, October.

Rick Rockwell, SOC: interviewed by CNN Spanish about the effects of the presidential debates, October.

Abdul Aziz Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and SIS: appeared on the Woodrow Wilson Center’s television program Dialogue, “A Conver-sation with Dr. Abdul Aziz Said,” July.

Judith Shapiro, SIS: debated the candidates’ performance in the first presidential debate, Voice of America (television) in Mandarin, October.

James Thurber, director, CCPS, and SPA: quoted by the Washington Post, USA Today, and NPR regarding Congress, October.

Emilio Viano, SPA: interviewed on the Mexican Radio Institute and Antena Radio, Mexico City; AM2 TV and Radio Diez, Argentina; Studio 95, Uruguay; Emisora de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Radio Union, Venezuela; Rede Globo, SBT and Rede Amazonica de Radio e Televisao, Voice of America, BBC, Radio Netherlands, and NBC on the presidential campaign and terrorism, August-September.

Howard Wachtel, economics, CAS: interviewed on NPR’s Marketplace on credit card charges and bank regulations, October.

Joan Williams, WCL: interviewed by the Chronicle of Higher Education on why, even though more than 50 percent of PhD earners are female, the number of women being hired by major research universities remains low, October.

Lewis Wolfson, SOC: interviewed by Fox, CBC, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, VOA, Knight Ridder, and several foreign press regarding the election, voter registration polling, and religion in politics, October.Papers Presented

H. Kent Baker, Kogod: “Merger Motives and Target Valuation: A Survey of Evidence from CFOs” and “Share Price Reactions to Equity Rights Offerings under Different Economic Conditions,” annual meeting of the Financial Management Association (FMA), New Orleans, October.

Robert Goler, performing arts, CAS: “A Collective Vision of Artistry: The MacDowell Colony and the Emergence of New Systems of Patronage,” 30th Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference, October.

Robert Lerman, economics, CAS: “Is the Low-Income Marriage Initiative a Good Idea: A Prospective Cost-Benefit Analysis,” 26th Annual Association for Public Policy and Management Research Conference, Atlanta, October.

Jeffrey Reiman, philosophy and religion, CAS: “The Value of Voting Rights: Classical Liberal and Republican Arguments Against the Disenfranchisement of Felons,” at the colloquium “Realizing Equal Citizenship,” University of Colorado at Boulder, October.

Published Works
Betty Bennett, literature, CAS: an essay on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and an essay on Mary Cowden Clark, Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), Oxford University Press, October 2004.

Barbara Gottlieb, SOC: “Digital Civics,” Threshold—Exploring the Future of Education, October.
Abdul Aziz Said, director, Center for Global Peace, and SIS: op-ed “The Trial of Saddam: Don’t Grieve over His Fate, Look to the Future,” Al-Hayat (Arabic), July.

Louise Shelley, director, TraCCC, and SPA: “The Price of Sex,” Moscow Times, September, and St. Petersburg (Russia) Times, October.

Photo courtesy of Career Center

Karen DiGiovanni, left, and Clemencia Alvarez share a commitment to community service. They also share something else: recognition as November’s Internship Faculty of the Month. DiGiovanni, School of Education, is active with internship supervision of students minoring in education. She emphasizes journal writing and group meetings, noting that, “It’s important for students to hear the experience of their classmates. It helps them to give strategies to each other . . . [and] is powerful for them to hear positive experiences.” Alvarez, language and foreign studies, began as a Spanish language and literature adjunct and became the coordinator for Projecto Amistad, a Spanish-language internship program. Students strengthen their language skills, become better acquainted with Hispanic culture, and gain practical work experience. Her advice for internship faculty: “Stay in touch with students, be aware of cross-cultural issues, and let the students know that you are there for them.”