Faculty News: August 9, 2013

Dr. Cati Coe (associate professor, CFAS-anthropology) is a coeditor of the book The Anthropology of Sibling Relations:  Shared Parentage, Experience, and Exchange (Palgrave, 2013). She also had a chapter published in Child Fosterage in West Africa: New Perspectives on Theories and Practices regarding a series of court cases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) over the … Continue reading Faculty News: August 9, 2013

New Faculty Member Dr. Chinyere Osuji Receives Honor

Dr. Chinyere Osuji, who joins the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in September as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice,  has received an Emerging Diversity Scholar citation from the University of Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID). 

Dr. Alan Tarr Named Visiting Fellow at Princeton

Dr. Alan Tarr, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for State Constitutional Studies, will be at Princeton University for the 2013-2014 academic year as the Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Read the full article at NewsNow. 

Ken Elliott Receives Great Review from NY Times for The Mystery of Irma Vep

Ken Elliot, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, received a rave review from the New York Times for his recent production of The Mystery of Irma Vep.  Click the links below to view the NY Times review and other reviews. The NY Times Review: In a Melodramatic Whodunit, Change Is Good Newsday … Continue reading Ken Elliott Receives Great Review from NY Times for The Mystery of Irma Vep

Faculty News: July 19th

Dr. Holly Blackford (professor, CFAS-English) authored an article, “Childhood and Greek Love:  Dorian Gray and Peter Pan,” that has been published in the journal Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Dr. Myra Bluebond-Langner (professor II, CFAS-anthropology) has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in England.  She currently is serving as the … Continue reading Faculty News: July 19th

Ellen Malenas Ledoux Authors Book Examining Social Reform in Gothic Writing

These days, when one thinks of Gothic literature, pop-culture phenomena such as Twilight, True Blood and Harry Potter may immediately spring to mind. But in a literary sense, the heyday of Gothic writing was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, with the works of luminaries such as Horace Walpole, Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe and William Godwin, according to … Continue reading Ellen Malenas Ledoux Authors Book Examining Social Reform in Gothic Writing

Faculty News: July 8th

Prof. Lisa Zeidner (professor, CFAS-English) has earned a prestigious MacDowell Colony Fellowship for the summer, which allows the Rutgers–Camden scholar to participate in the same artistic culture that has nurtured such authors as Alice Walker, Thornton Wilder, and Michael Chabon. The fellowship program annually presents awards to artists in seven disciplines (architecture, music composition, film … Continue reading Faculty News: July 8th