Mark Clodfelter has been appointed interim director of the School of Music, beginning Sept. 1, 2020. Professor of trumpet, Clodfelter is a versatile performer of international acclaim, a Grammy-nominated recording artist and a dedicated educator. He has been described by Classical Voice North Carolina as “…a stellar world-class trumpeter, whose dazzling playing wowed the audience.” As a soloist, he has appeared in many of the finest performing venues throughout the world. He was a founding member of the Giannini Brass and has held positions with the Greensboro Symphony, Orchestra Kentucky, the North Charleston Pops, the Western Piedmont Symphony, the Salisbury Symphony, the Greenville (SC) Symphony and the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also appeared with such headliners as Josh Groban, The Steep Canyon Rangers, The O' Jays, Gladys Knight, Mannheim Steam Roller, the Moody Blues, the Lettermen, Doc Severinson, Bob Mintzer, Frank Mantooth, Lou Rawls, Glen Campbell and Ray Charles. Clodfelter is an S.E. Shires Performing Artist. Before joining the UD faculty as full professor in 2019, he served as professor of trumpet at both the University of North Carolina - Greensboro and the University of Kentucky. He was a member of the faculty of the prestigious Eastern Music Festival and has taught the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps.

Publications

Leslie Goldstein, Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor Emerita of Political Science, recently published the review essay “What We Did Not Know About Judicial Review; On Keith Whittington’s Repugnant Laws,” in the June 2020 edition of Constitutional Commentary, volume 35, pages 23-30.  

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, had his edited book, Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia (2011, edited with Jorge Flores ) translated into Persian: Keshvar-e Portugal, Khalij-e Fars va Iran-e Safavi, trans. Hamidreza Ziba’i (Tehran: Bonyad-e Iranshenasi, 2020).

Honors

Suzanne L. Burton, interim associate dean for the arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been elected chair of the Early Childhood Music Education Commission of the International Society for Music Education for a two-year term.

Sarah Bruch, associate professor and director of the doctoral program in urban affairs and public policy, has been honored with the William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award. Presented by the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology, the award is given to those with significant contributions to sociological practice and public sociology. Bruch is recognized for her contributions as an applied sociologist engaged in community-based, participatory research on educational equity, social policy and racial inequality, which has yielded sustained benefits at community and school levels. Excerpts from the nomination letters may be found here.

Lindsay Naylor’s book, Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas, received the Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award from the Association of American Geographers’ Political Geography Specialty Group. Fair Trade Rebels shifts the focus from the abstract concept of fair trade to the perspectives of small farmers. The book examines the everyday experiences of resistance and agricultural practice among the campesinos/as of Chiapas, Mexico, who struggle for dignified livelihoods in self-declared autonomous communities, confronting inequalities locally in what is really a global corporate agricultural chain. Naylor is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences in the  College of Earth, Ocean and Environment.

Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change, co-authored by Earl Smith, professor in the Associate in Arts Program and research scholar in the Department of Women and Gender Studies, and Angela Hattery, professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and co-director of the Center for Study and Prevention of Gender-Based Violence, was selected by Furman University's Department of Sociology as the 2020-21 Common Read book. All students enrolled in “Introduction to Sociology” at Furman University during the fall 2020 or spring 2021 semesters will be required to read Smith and Hattery's book. Smith and Hattery also will travel to Furman (in person or via zoom) in the spring of 2021 to meet with sociology students to discuss the book.

Sayako Earle, assistant professor in the Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders, has been recognized by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association with the Award for Early Career Contributions in Research. The national award acknowledges significant scientific accomplishments by those who have completed their doctoral degree within the past five years. Earle joined UD in 2016 after earning a doctoral degree at the University of Connecticut. In nominating Earle for the award, Aquiles Iglesias, founding director of UD’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, noted that her interdisciplinary approach to research has led to important scientific advances in communication sciences, as well as education, psychology and linguistics. Earle’s research focuses on three complementary areas: memory consolidation of speech, domain-general memory substrates of speech and language, and language-based learning disorders in adulthood. She aims to understand the barriers to intervention for developmental disorders of language learning while also implementing new strategies to overcome those barriers. Earle said that while many tests can identify language disorders in childhood, they don’t capture the kinds of problems individuals continue to have as adults. Part of her research is looking at the learning processes of adults with a history of language disorders with the goal of showing that core deficits can remain even after the learning disabilities have seemingly resolved. In his nominating letter to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Iglesias noted there is currently a lack of academic or vocational support for adults with developmental language-based learning disabilities. Earle’s work in this area will have substantial impact, he said.

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