Tag Archives | Faculty and Staff Kudos

Sarah Espinosa (Residency Librarian for Diversity and Innovation) was named as a named 2015 Movers & Shakers by Library Journal. To learn more about the program and people that were selected, read more here.

AcademyHealth announced that Jameta Barlow, Ph.D., M.P.H., (Department of Women and Gender Studies) was one of five persons selected for the AcademyHealth/Aetna Foundation Scholars in Residence Fellowship Program. Housed within the AcademyHealth Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Minority Engagement in HSR Research, the AcademyHealth/Aetna Foundation Scholars in Residence Fellowship is designed to encourage underrepresented racial/ethnic […]

Dr. Bethany Brand of the Department of Psychology has been selected as the third Martha A. Mitten professor in the College of Liberal Arts. The Mitten Professor may come from any discipline in the College and holds the appointment for three years. During the appointment, the Mitten Professor carries out a project supported by the […]

Two members of the Towson History Department presented research papers at the recent conference of the American Historical Association in New York City. Professor Emeritus Edwin Hirschmann spoke on “The Right Kind of Native,” and Assistant Professor Oluwatoyin B. Oduntan on “Changing Tides: The Exclusion of Educated Africans from Colonial Service in Lagos, Nigeria, 1890-1930.” […]

Kimberly Katz (History) and Laila Shereen-Sakr (University of Southern California) co-presented a paper titled, “On Developing a Teaching Module on Arab Social Media” on a panel addressing “Social Media and Pedagogy of Middle East Studies” at the annual Middle East Studies Association conference, November 21-24, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

Dana Phillips (English) presented a paper, “Causal Cascades, Feedback Loops, Knock-On Effects, and Narrating Climate Change,” at a colloquium on ecocriticism at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. Diane Scharper (English) reviewed Robert Blair Kaiser’s Inside the Jesuits: How Pope Francis Is Changing the World and the Church in the Nov. 7-20 National Catholic Reporter. […]

Dr. Colleen Ebacher, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, (FORL) has been awarded the Maryland-DC Campus Compact’s Alan G. Penczek Service- Learning Faculty Award. The award honors a faculty member for excellence in the integration of service-learning into the curriculum and impact to students and community.

Chris Cain’s (English) invited presentation to the “Imagining Medieval English” event of the Medieval Institute of Notre Dame in September was titled “’þaet is on englisc’:  Languages and Linguistic Awareness in Anglo-Saxon England.” Joe Capista’s (English) poems, “Thaw,” “Ninety-Six,” and “The Choice,” were published in Measure:  A Review of Formal Poetry. Sarah Gunning (English) presented […]

Steven Phillips (History) published “Why Taiwan? ROC Leaders Explain Taiwan’s Strategic Value.” In American’s Strategic Pivot to Asia and Cross-Strait Relations: Economic and Security Dynamics, edited by Peter Chow, 159-177. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2014. Dorothy “Dee Dee” Race (Office of Institutional Research) earned a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Database Management Systems from Towson University. The certificate […]

Christian J. Koot (History) published, “Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, 1621-1733,” in Gert Oostindie & Jessica Roitman, ed., Dutch Atlantic Connections,1680-1800: Networks and Nodal Points (Leiden: Brill, 2014). Kim Merriken (Electronic Media and Film)completed the Workplace Professional Certificate, one of five noncredit certificates offered by the Office of Human Resources. This certificate […]