For the Record provides information about recent professional activities of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent presentations, publications and service include the following:

Books

Patricia Sloane-White, chair of women and gender studies and associate professor of anthropology, is the author of a new book, Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace, published by Cambridge University Press. The publisher calls it “essential reading for anyone with an interest in Islamic politics and culture in modern life.”

Honors

Anne M. Boylan, professor emerita of history and women and gender studies, has been elected to the Society of American Historians (SAH).

James M. Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor of History, was elected president of the Central European History Society.  This is a four-year term that begins in 2017 as vice president-elect. CEHS is North America's leading association for historians of Central Europe and publishes the quarterly journal Central European History.

Publications

The March 2017 issue of Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Volume 21, number 1), an online database published by Alexander Street Press, includes eight biographical sketches of Delaware Militant Suffrage Activists, edited by Anne M. Boylan, professor emerita of history and women and gender studies.  The biographical sketches were researched and written by students from Padua Academy during spring semester 2016, under the guidance of their teacher, Colleen Rafferty Hall, who earned her Ph.D. at UD in 2012. Boylan wrote one of the sketches and provided additional research and editing for the others. Boylan is also working this semester with student volunteers in a   course on African American Women's History taught by Carl Suddler, assistant professor of Black American studies. The students are researching and writing biographical sketches of Delaware's African American woman suffrage leaders. When completed, the sketches will be published in Women and Social Movements. It is the goal of the website's editors to post biographical sketches of all state suffrage leaders in advance of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Presentations

Philip Goldstein, professor emeritus of English, University of Delaware-Wilmington, presented a paper titled "Reading Mark Twain's Detective Fiction: Parody, Realism and Response" at the American Literature Symposium "Criminal America: Reading, Studying and Teaching American Crime Fiction," March 3 in Chicago, Illinois.