For the Record
October 23, 2020
University community reports recent publications, presentations and honors
For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Recent publications, presentations and honors include the following:
Publications
Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, is the author of an article in the 2020 special issue (with the theme of "Home") of Fwd: Museums Journal, a publication affiliated with the Museum and Exhibition Studies Graduate Program, University of Illinois at Chicago. Her essay, titled "Laying Out a Case and Feeling at Home: Exhibitions in Undergraduate Education," emphasizes the importance of teaching with and through material objects (including works of print culture) and doing so especially within the context of galleries and public exhibition spaces in university libraries. In making this argument, she refers to her own experiences as a self-taught curator of more than a dozen exhibitions and encourages other faculty members in diverse disciplines to feel "at home," too, in the world of display cases.
In observance of the centenary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Anne M. Boylan, professor emerita of history, has published a "viewpoint" column in the Cape Gazette, highlighting the activism of an African American suffragist from Sussex County.
Presentations
On Oct. 24, Helen L. Brown-Liburd and Jennifer R. Joe, Whitney Family Professor of Accounting, Cohen Family Lerner Director of Diversity and chief diversity advocate at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics will present their forthcoming Issues in Accounting Education paper, “Towards a More Inclusive Accounting Academy” as part of the American Accounting Association's Virtual 2020 Diversity Section Meeting.
Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, served as a discussant for a panel on Social, Economic, and Political Histories of Recreational Drugs in the Middle East and North Africa, held online on Oct. 14 as part of the annual Middle East Studies Association Conference.
Laura Lessard, assistant professor of behavioral health and nutrition, presented at the New Jersey Healthy Kids Initiative's annual symposium on "Systems Approaches to Child Health & Well- Being," held Oct. 16, 2020. The topic of her presentation was "Opportunities to improve child health and well-being in early care and education settings," and she discussed opportunities for advocates and researchers to help improve the health of children, families and providers in early care and education settings.
Honors
Lerner College alumnus Dana Herbert, Class of 1998, has been named to the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame by the Leadership Council of Junior Achievement of Delaware. Founded in 1990, the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame honors business and community leaders whose work has had a positive impact on Workforce and Economic Development in the region. Herbert, the executive pastry chef of Desserts By Dana and winner of TLC Cake Boss: The Next Great Baker and Rachel Ray’s Celebrity Cake-off, is the first African American to be inducted into the Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame in its 30-year history.
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