11:10 a.m., Oct. 30, 2009----For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty and staff.

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Presentations

Philip Goldstein, professor of English, "Gender, Genre, and Rhetoric in Sara Paretsky's Detective Fiction," Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Oct. 24, Philadelphia.

James Brophy, professor of history, “Vormarz Karriere des Verlegers Heinrich Hoff,” international symposium on censorship, “Das literarische Leben des 19 Jahrhunderts im Spiegel der Zensur,” Oct. 23, at the Heinrich-Heine-Institute in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Fred J. DeMicco, ARAMARK Chair of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management, invited talk, “Hotel and Travel Developments in Asia,” seventh annual International Hotel Conference, Oct. 23, Venice, Italy. DeMicco and two other speakers reviewed hotel and travel projects, trends and brands gaining market share throughout the region and explored strategies that will help hotel portfolios sustain continued growth and prosperity across all sectors in Asia, especially China and India. Leaders from Starwood, Marriott, Hilton, Choice and Langham Hotels of Hong Kong and many other hotel leaders attended the conference at the Hilton Molino, Venice.

Publications

Rudi Matthee, Distinguished Professor of History, published "The Safavids Under Western Eyes: Seventeenth-Century European Travelers to Iran," Journal of Early Modern History 13:2-3 (2009): 137-172.

A paper by the University of Delaware-Xiamen University Joint Institute for Coastal Research and Management, WenZhou Zhang, visiting scholar in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment; H.-Seung Mook Hong; S.-P. Shang; Xiao-Hai Yan, Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment; and F. Chai, “Strong Southward Transport Events Due to 17 Typhoons in the Taiwan Strait,” Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, doi:10.1029/2009JC005372.

Awards

Stephan Lindsey, postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded an individual National Institutes of Health postdoctoral Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA). Lindsey is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Eleftherios Papoutsakis, Eugene du Pont Chair of Chemical Engineering and faculty fellow at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute.

James Brophy, professor of history, received the award Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2008 from the American Library Association for his book Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2007).