Faculty-Staff Achievements, April 29, 2012
Activities
Ian Berry, Malloy Curator at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, selected the 2012 recipients of the Neddy at Cornish art awards: Stacey Rozich (painting) and Eirik Johnson (open medium). The artists each received a $25,000 unrestricted grant and will be featured in the Neddy at Cornish exhibition opening June 6 at the Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Wash.
David Karp, professor of sociology and associate dean of student affairs, facilitated a panel discussion on the challenges and efficacy of arts programming in a prison context as part of the April 25 "Inside-Out: An Evening of Artistic Expression from the Experience of Incarceration," which took place at Caffe Lena. In addition to the panel, the program included poetry and music created through arts programming at Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility.
Margaret Pearson, professor emerita of history, will travel to England to give a lecture May 2 titled "Ancient Divination Text: Useful for a Modern Scholar?" at the University of Cambridge, as part of its Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Publications
Jordana Dym has co-authored an article with Karl Offen, her fellow editor of Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader (Chicago, 2011). Their article, titled "Maps and the Teaching of Latin American History," appears in Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, 2012. She also contributed an essay titled "Twelve for the Price of One: The Constitution of C diz & Guatemala" to the John Carter Brown Library's "I Found it at the JCB" blog series.
