Lawrence Chua, visiting assistant professor of art history, participated in several workshops recently. He presented from his ongoing research on leisure, race and nationalism in 20th-century Thai architecture at the Labour, Leisure, and Life Course from a Global Historical Perspective workshop at Humboldt University in Berlin, Feb. 13 to Feb. 15.

The Associated Press quoted Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas in an article titled “Guyana Officials stay nearly twenty years in mandates.” Westmaas discussed the country’s failure to hold municipal elections for nearly 20 years. Published on March 1, the article appeared in many news outlets including The Washington Post.

Lolita Buckner Inniss, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies, presented a lecture titled “James C. Johnson and the Princeton Fugitive Slave Case” on Feb. 25 at Princeton University.

John H. O’Neill, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English emeritus, was a contributing editor to The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy, published by Broadview Press (Peterborough, Ontario).  O’Neill contributed an edition of The Man of Mode: or, Sir Fopling Flutter (1676), by Sir George Etherege.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jenny Irons reacted quickly to a serious error made by The Daily Show's Jon Stewart last week when, in Iron’s words, he “lampooned Dick Molpus.” The white former Secretary of State and civil rights champion, Molpus was responsible for registering Mississippi’s 1995 decision to ratify the 13th amendment abolishing slavery. Irons, who had worked for Molpus in the 1990s, wrote an opinion piece in the Huffington Post titled “Civil Rights Champion Falsely Accused by Jon Stewart” in which she corrected Stewart's mischaracterization.

Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus Austin Briggs presented a paper titled “Joyce and Defoe” on Feb. 1 at the James Joyce Birthday Conference, “Miami J’yce.”

A book review by Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik appears in the most recent issue of the German Studies Review. The review discusses a new monograph by Eric Knibbs of Williams College titled Ansgar, Rimbert and the Forged Foundations of Hamburg-Bremen (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011) that offers an important reassessment of the sources, particularly papal charters, relating to the foundation of the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen in the early Middle Ages and the mission to christianize Scandinavia.

Associate Professor of English Katherine Terrell recently published an article, “‘Kyndness of blude’: Kinship, Patronage, and Politics in Gavin Douglas,” in “Northern Book Cultures in the Later Middle Ages,” a special issue of the journal Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts and Interpretation.

Assistant Professor of Government Charlotte Lee published a review of Politics and Society in Contemporary China in the January issue of The China Journal.

Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics Ann Owen has been selected to coordinate a series of faculty mentoring workshops for the American Economics Association (AEA).