10:50 a.m., Oct. 2, 2009----For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

Books

David R. Shearer, associate professor of history and director of the Hagley Program, Policing Stalin's Socialism: Repression and Social Order in the Soviet Union, 1924-1953, Yale University Press, 2009.

David Pong, professor of history and director of the East Asian Studies program, editor-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Modern China, four volumes, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009.

Publications

J. Ritchie Garrison, professor of history and director of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, "Material Cultures," in Karen Halttunen, ed., A Companion to American Cultural History (Malden, Mass., and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing, 2008): 295-310.

Mark McLeod, associate professor of history, “The Way of the Mendicants: History, Philosophy, and Practice at the Central Vihara in Ho Chi Minh City,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, 4.2 (2009): 69-116.

Jennifer Lambe, associate professor of communication, and Myriah Lipke of Temple University, "Public Libraries: Porn Free?,"Communication Currents Journal, Volume 4, Issue 5, October 2009.

Awards

Ben Carterette, assistant professor of computer and information sciences, won the Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval for his work, "An Analysis of NP-Completeness in Novelty and Diversity Ranking," Sept. 10-12, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K.