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

Recent new appointments, publications and honors include the following:

New appointments

Amanda Steiner has been named head of the Dining Services operations at UD. In this role, she will lead the Dining Services department with Aramark at the University. Her higher education experience will bring a solution-driven, collaborative strategy to the University with a focus on leading people, elevating student value and engagement, and delivering on UD and Aramark’s uncompromising values. Steiner will lead UD’s Dining Services by championing innovative solutions and continuing to drive best-in-class culinary experiences for the University community. She joined Aramark in August 2017 as district manager in the mid-Atlantic region of higher education, overseeing the Bullis School, Coppin State University, Delaware State University, Hood College, LaSalle University, Mount Saint Mary’s University, St. Joseph’s University, Wesley College and Widener University. Her tenure at Aramark follows more than 15 years’ leadership experience in the higher education food industry, spending 2005-17 with Sodexo and 2003-05 with Brown University. Steiner earned her bachelor’s of science degree in hotel management from Johnson and Wales University. She can be reached at asteiner@udel.edu or 302-831-8280.

Publications

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, has published an essay in the current issue of the peer-reviewed electronic journal Humanities Bulletin (2:1, 2019). Her article, titled "Fabricating Girls: Clothes and Coming-of-Age Fiction by Women of Color," explores the relationship between dress and issues of identity in a range of late-20th- and early 21st-century texts, including Randa Abdel-Fattah's novel, Does My Head Look Big in This?; Simi Bedford's novel, Yoruba Girl Dancing; and Sandra Cisneros's short story, "Eleven."

Honors

Mark J. Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations, is listed among the top 100 most-cited scholars in political science, published earlier this year in PS: Political Science and Politics, a journal of the American Political Science Association. In the article, Miller is ranked 36th among the most cited political scientists in the nation and 11^th in the category of comparative politics. The article also lists rankings categorized by age as defined by the author’s Ph.D. date. In that cohort (1975-79), Miller is ranked fifth. Two additional faculty members are ranked in the cohort of authors who received Ph.D.s from 2010-2014: Jennifer K. Lobasz, assistant professor of political science and international relations and of women and gender studies, is ranked first, and Daniel Kinderman, associate professor of political science and international relations, is ranked fifth. For the article, the authors created a database of 4,089 tenured or tenure-track faculty, along with emeritus faculty, at 133 U.S. Ph.D.-granting departments in 2017-18.

Pratyush Sharma, assistant professor of management information systems (MIS), has received the William R. Darden Best Research Methodology Paper Award at the prestigious Academy of Marketing Science annual conference held in Vancouver. Sharma and his coauthors were honored for their conference paper, "Model Selection Uncertainty and Multimodel Averaging in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM)."

Shimshon Gottesfeld, an adjunct professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a member of the Center for Catalytic Science and Technology, was the honoree at an invited symposium on advances and perspectives on modern polymer electrolyte fuel cells at the 235^th Electrochemical Society Meeting, held May 26-30, 2019, in Dallas. More than 60 former and current colleagues, collaborators and friends from around the globe -- including the current and former officials of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Fuel Cell Technologies Office -- came to recognize and celebrate the pioneering contributions that Gottesfeld has made during the past 35 years. The Journal of the Electrochemical Society also published a special issue in his honor. Among those who co-organized the symposium and co-edited the special issue was UD’s Yushan Yan, Henry B. du Pont Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Yan and Gottesfeld co-developed the Electrochemical Energy Engineering course (CHEG 632) at UD in 2015. They have been collaborators on an Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Refuel Project on direct ammonia fuel cells and recently received another ARPA-E grant of nearly $2 million to build a hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell system that will be CO2 tolerant and cheaper than existing fuel cell systems.

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