10:14 a.m., Aug. 24, 2009----For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Presentations

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, "The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem of Geographic Balance," at the 15th World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Aug. 3, 2009.

Suzanne Burton, associate professor of music education, presented a research paper on music literacy entitled “Making Musical Meaning” at the Gordon Institute for Music Learning Conference, Aug. 13, 2009, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Rudi Matthee, Distinguished Professor of History, spoke on “Facing a Rude and Barbarous Nation: Nineteenth-Century Iranian Perceptions of Russia and the Russians,” Free University, Berlin, Germany, July 15, 2009.

Publications

Suzanne Burton, associate professor of music education, and Alison Reynolds, associate professor of music education at Temple University, published “Transforming Music Teacher Education Through Service-Learning” in the spring 2009 issue of the Journal of Music Teacher Education.

Ann Ardis, interim deputy dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of English, “T. S. Eliot and Something Called Modernism,” A Companion to T. S. Eliot, ed. David Chinitz (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 311-22.

Jennifer L. Lambe, associate professor in the Department of Communication, with Jason B. Reineke, “Public Attitudes About Government Involvement in Expressive Controversies,” Journal of Communication 59 (2009) pp. 225. Also, “The Structure of Censorship Attitudes,” Communication Law and Policy, 13:4, pp. 485

Scott Caplan, associate professor in the Department of Communication, was published in the Computers in Human Behavior Journal with the article "Problematic Internet Use and Psychosocial Well-Being Among MMO Players," by Caplan, Dmitri Williams of the University of Southern California and Nick Yee of the Palo Alto Research Center.

Service

Rudi Matthee, Distinguished Professor of History, served as a discussant at a conference, The Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History, held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, March 17-19, 2009.