Arica L. Coleman has been selected by Choice magazine for inclusion in its prestigious list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 for her book "That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia." See HONORS.

For the Record, Jan. 30, 2015

University community reports recent honors, presentations

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10:22 a.m., Jan. 30, 2015--For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent appointments, honors, presentations and service include the following:

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Appointments

Gerald W. Cloud, who earned his doctorate in English from UD in 2005, began an appointment this month as the Harry Ransom Center’s Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts. The Ransom Center is a humanities research center and museum at the University of Texas at Austin. 

In Cloud’s new position, he is responsible for overseeing the center’s extensive and invaluable holdings of early books and manuscripts, including granting access to the library’s collections and interpreting them for users. The center is known for its first and important editions of plays, poems, novels, essays, polemical writings and translations of some of the most important English writers from 1475-1700. 

Cloud formerly was head librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California Los Angeles, served as curator of literature at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library and worked as an antiquarian bookseller. 

Honors

A book by Arica L. Coleman has been selected by Choice magazine for inclusion in its prestigious list of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014. A publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Choice selects about 10 percent of the 7,000 scholarly books it has reviewed each year for this recognition.

Coleman’s book, That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia, was published by Indiana University Press in 2013, when Coleman was an assistant professor of Black American studies at the University of Delaware. In it, she examines Virginia’s history of fighting to maintain racial purity, and she looks at how race plays into the identities of Native American and African American families.

Presentations

Patricia A. DeLeon, Trustees Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences, presented a seminar titled "Genes Involved in the Maturation and Function of the Male Gamete: New Approaches to Male Infertility" on Jan. 22 in the College of Mathematics and Sciences at the University of Central Oklahoma. She also led a roundtable discussion on "Mentoring Undergraduates at the Frontiers of Discovery" with the faculty in the college.

Justin de Leon, a doctoral student in international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences, presented a TEDx talk on Oct. 17 in Dayton, Ohio, concerning experiences at his field site, a Lakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota. Drawing upon lessons learned from work with indigenous Native Americans, the talk examines concepts that lie at the foundation of imagining new ways of engaging and recreating the American Dream.

Service

L. Pamela Cook, Unidel Professor of Mathematical Sciences and associate dean of engineering, began a two-year term as president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) on Jan. 1. Cook will serve as the third female president of the prestigious international organization for applied mathematics. 

A SIAM fellow since 2009, Cook has served as the society’s vice president for publications, from 2012-13, as well as the president-elect from 2013-14. She is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an associate fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. 

The 63-year-old SIAM has over 13,000 individual members worldwide. Its diverse community of members ranges from computational mathematicians to engineers and computer scientists. The society’s institutional members include public and private corporations, government agencies and academic and consulting organizations. SIAM publishes 16 peer-reviewed research journals, about 25 books per year, and provides a platform for members to exchange knowledge while networking with colleagues in academia as well as the corporate world by hosting annual conferences. 

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Photo of Arica L. Coleman by Evan Krape

Photo of L. Pamela Cook by Kathy F. Atkinson

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