For the Record
April 05, 2019
University community reports recent publications, presentations, new assignments
For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and achievements of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent new assignments, publications and presentations include the following:
New assignments
Ravi Ammigan has been named associate deputy provost for international programs effective April 1. In his new role, Ammigan will report to Lynn Okagaki, deputy provost for academic affairs, and will provide executive leadership to the Institute for Global Studies, Office for International Students and Scholars and the Confucius Institute. In addition to this new role, Ammigan will continue in his position as executive director of the Office for International Students and Scholars. Ammigan will advance the institution’s comprehensive internationalization strategies, expand UD’s international brand and strengthen interoffice collaborations towards these goals. He has more than 18 years of experience in the field of international higher education and has held leadership positions in the areas of international student and scholars services, education abroad, global outreach and admissions and recruitment. In addition, Ammigan holds a secondary faculty appointment as assistant professor in the School of Education, where his research focuses on the international student experience. Originally from the island of Mauritius, Ammigan first arrived to the United States as an international student himself and stayed to work as an expatriate. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Kendall College, a master’s degree in communication from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in higher education internationalization from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Publications
Anne M. Boylan, professor emerita of history, is serving as Delaware editor and coordinator for the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States, the first installment of which has just been published. The dictionary is freely accessible online. With the help of volunteer students and local scholars who research and write entries, the Delaware portion of the dictionary will eventually include around 60 short biographies of suffrage leaders.
Philip Goldstein, professor emeritus of English, Wilmington, published an essay, "Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Cultural History," in the collection Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History. edited by James Rovira and published by Rowman and Littlefield (2019). The essay criticizes the aesthetics of Theodor Adorno, who argued that art could have realist insight and still be autonomous. The essay draws on the work of Michele Foucault to show that criticism reveals its institutional contexts.
Presentations
Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, presented “The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period: Dynastic Preeminence and Urban Pride” at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University, March 29.
Jennifer Margaret Barker, professor of music, recently delivered a speech at the memorial service for internationally renowned conductor and composer Joseph Vella of Malta. Barker and her husband, John Palmer, support “The Joseph Vella Award in Composition” at the University of Delaware in honor of Maestro Vella.
Jesse Erickson, coordinator of Special Collections and Digital Humanities for the UD Library, Museums and Press, assistant professor in the Department of English and associate director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, presented the 2019 Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts on March 28 at Penn State’s University Park Campus. His talk, “A Different Kind of Reading: Victorian Popular Afterlives,” featured an in-depth ethnobibliographic examination of the works of Victorian author Ouida.
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