Faculty News

A book in which Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Xavier Tubau contributed a chapter has been published by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. It is titled Las razones del censor. Control ideológico y censura de libros en la primera Edad Moderna (Understanding the censor. Ideological control and book censorship in the Early Modern Period).

Stephen Harper Kirner Professor of Computer Science Stuart Hirshfield, along with seven students, attended the Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) of Women in Computing Conference Oct. 2 – 5 in Minneapolis.

Assistant Professors of Mathematics Courtney Gibbons and Andrew Dykstra presented invited research talks at the fall southeastern sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society.

Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology, was featured in a New York Times editorial, “Monarchs Fight for Their Lives,” published on Sunday, Oct. 13. Written by Verlyn Klinkenborg, the essay addressed the threats to the long-term survival of the butterfly.

Assistant Professor of Economics Emily Conover, together with colleagues from Amherst, Colgate, Wesleyan and Vassar, co-organized the inaugural Liberal Arts Colleges Development Economic Conference (LAC-DEV).

A group of students traveled to Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Mass., and to Mount Lebanon, N.Y., on Sept. 29 as members of the Religious Communal Societies in America, 1620-1950, course.

Heidi Ravven, professor of religious studies, gave an invited lecture, “The Self Beyond Itself Rethinking How Individuals Can Become Morally More Courageous and Societies More Humane,” on Sept. 23 at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.

The work of Katharine Kuharic, the Kevin W. Kennedy Professor of Art, is on display through Oct. 13 in “Texas Contemporary” at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate made presentations at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Iliff School of Theology/University of Denver. He presented a synopsis of his forthcoming book, A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects, at both places.

A book review by Assistant Professor of History John Eldevik was recently published by The Medieval Review, a leading online archive of scholarly reviews in medieval studies. Eldevik reviewed David Bachrach's new translation of a chronicle by the early 11th century cleric Alpert of Metz, titled "On the Variety of our Times" (De diversitate temporum).