Grant Drumheller, professor of art, will have a one-man show in New York at the Prince Street Gallery on 530 West 25th Street May 21 through June 15.
"Grant Drumheller: New Paintings" centers around figures seen from above in public spaces, museums, squares, piazzas, and beaches. This is Drumheller’s third New York show.
“The ELL Writer, Moving Beyond Basics in the Secondary Classroom” by Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, assistant professor of English, was released in April 2013.
This resource for secondary school ELA and ELL teachers brings together compelling insights into student experiences, current research, and strategies for building an inclusive writing curriculum. The ELL Writer expands the current conversation on the literacy needs of adolescent English learners by focusing on their writing approaches, their texts, and their needs as student writers.
“Margaret Fuller and Her Circles” co-edited by Brigitte Bailey, associate professor of English, was released earlier this year.
From publisher: These essays mark the maturation of scholarship on Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), one of the most important public intellectuals of the 19th century and a writer whose works have been much revived in recent decades. The authors—leading scholars of Fuller, Transcendentalism, and the antebellum period—consider anew Fuller the critic, the journalist, the reformer, the traveler, and the social and cultural observer, and make fresh contributions to the study of her life and work.
“Diversity in Diaspora: Hmong Americans in the Twenty-First Century” edited by Monica Chiu, UNH associate professor of English, Mark Edward Pfeifer, Kou Yang was recently released.
This anthology wrestles with Hmong Americans’ inclusion into and contributions to Asian American studies, as well as to American history and culture and refugee, immigrant, and diasporic trajectories. It negotiates both Hmong American political and cultural citizenship, meticulously rewriting the established view of the Hmong as “new” Asian neighbors—an approach articulated, Hollywood style, in Clint Eastwood’s film “Gran Torino.” The collection boldly moves Hmong American studies away from its usual groove of refugee recapitulation that entrenches Hmong Americans points-of-origin and acculturation studies rather than propelling the field into other exciting academic avenues.
“Prophetic Critique and Popular Media: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications”, edited by Kevin Healey, assistant professor of communication, and Robert H. Woods Jr., was recently released.
From editor's website: This book positions the "prophetic" as an organizing concept that can bridge religious and secular criticism of popular media. Drawing from philosophical ethics and moral psychology, the book argues that prophetic critique engages a complex set of universal human capabilities. Whether religious or secular in origin, prophetic critique requires developmentally complex modes of critical reflection, imagination, empathy, and communication. Although this book is diverse in perspective, each author seeks to expose how the content, institutions, and technologies of popular media alternately support – or undermine – the basic values of equality, human dignity, and social justice.
Ann Dillon, Institute on Disability staff member and coordinator of the New Hampshire Leadership Series, has been named to Gov. Maggie Hassan’s Commission on Disability. A registered and licensed occupational therapist, Dillon brings her expertise to the commission as a parent of a daughter who had disabilities and chronic health conditions and experienced many of the state’s educational and care systems.
David Richman, professor of theatre and dance, has been selected by the provost to receive the Class of 1938 Professorship Award, which recognizes a UNH faculty member for excellence in teaching and provides a discretionary allowance for professional expenses for a three-year term.
With the help of the University of New Hampshire Foundation, UNH initiated the Professorships program in 1990 to help support faculty members in their teaching, public service, and research. The purpose of the program is to help the University be more competitive in hiring new faculty members, reward outstanding academic accomplishments, and enhance the faculty’s opportunities for superior scholarship, innovative teaching, and meaningful service.
Professorships are awarded by the provost based on nominations by deans.
Brendan Prusik, a UNH Cooperative Extension natural resources field specialist in Coos County, is one of the participants in the inaugural class of the Community Practitioners Network (CPN).
The network is funded by the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. CPN is a two-year leadership program offered at no charge to participants designed to build and strengthen leadership skills among community and economic development professionals from Coos County and surrounding communities in the United States and Canada.
Participants will engage in a mix of face-to-face and virtual meetings with the first year devoted to building participants' leadership skills and capacity, and the second year to strengthening social, professional and community networks across the region and implementation of participant-led community project(s). Participants were selected through a competitive application process.
The Neil and Louise Tillotson...
David Bachrach, associate professor of history, recently had two books published: “Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany” (Boydell & Brewer, 2012), and “Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany, ca. 1000 On the Variety of Our Times” by Alpert of Metz, which he translated.
From the cover of “Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany”: This book shows how Henry I and Otto I, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, recreated the empire of Charlemagne, and established themselves as the hegemonic rulers in Western Europe. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the organization, training, morale, tactics, and strategy of Ottonian armies over a long half century."
From “Warfare and Politics in Medieval Germany”: Written in the early eleventh century, the De diversitate temporum by Alpert of Metz is an...
Meghan C. L. Howey, assistant professor of anthropology/archaeology recently published “Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600” (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).
From publisher's website:
Rising above the northern Michigan landscape, prehistoric burial mounds and impressive circular earthen enclosures bear witness to the deep history of the region’s ancient indigenous peoples. These mounds and earthworks have long been treated as isolated finds and have never been connected to the social dynamics of the time in which they were constructed, a period called Late Prehistory.
In “Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600” Howey uses archaeology to make this connection. She shows how indigenous communities of the northern Great Lakes used earthen structures as gathering places for ritual and social interaction, which maintained connected egalitarian societies in the process...
Kathy Mandsager, program coordinator for the Coastal Response Research Center, will receive a Volunteer Service Award from Volunteer NH on Thursday, Oct. 18, during the annual Spirit of New Hampshire Awards celebration.
Mandsager is being recognized for her work as a volunteer puppy raiser with Canine Companions for Independence, a non-profit organization that trains and provides assistance dogs. Spirit of New Hampshire awards honor outstanding contributions to volunteerism throughout the state.
The award ceremony will take place Oct. 18 from 7-9 p.m. at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord.
John Aber, University Professor and Provost, will receive the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale University Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. The Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal is Yale’s highest graduate alumni honor.
Erik Swartz, associate professor of athletic training in the kinesiology department, has been named to the medical and science advisory board of the Korey Stringer Institute. The KSI, housed at the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education, provides first-rate information, resources, assistance and advocacy for the prevention of sudden death in sport.
On the advisory board, Swartz joins a group of internationally recognized experts on topics related to preventing sudden death in sport and physical activity, including physicians, athletic trainers, exercise physiologists, and strength and conditioning specialists.
Professor Ben Harris's article on Arnold Gesell, published in the refereed journal, History of Psychology, has been selected "Best Article" in the 2011 volume by the journal's publisher, The Society for the History of Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association.
The winning article is entitled "Arnold Gesell's progressive vision: Child hygiene, socialism, and eugenics." The president of the Society, Andrew Winston, points out in his award letter that this award is the most important one given by the society. "It is a direct reflection of the value placed on your [Harris's] scholarship," Winston adds.
Read more about the research that led to this article.
Laura Piazza, a graphic designer at UNH Manchester, along with her mother Gail Piazza, has been awarded a bronze medal in the fourth annual Living Now Book Awards in the Cooking/Natural category for their book “Recipes for Repair: A Lyme Disease Cookbook.” The awards are designed to honor outstanding books that help readers attain healthier, more fulfilling, and productive lives.
Piazza is co-author and designer of the book. For more information visit www.recipesforrepair.com.
The Living Now Book Awards are presented by Jenkins Group of Traverse City, Michigan, which has been involved in book packaging, marketing and distribution since 1988.
