David C. Wilson, senior associate dean for the social sciences and professor of political science and of psychological and brain sciences, has been appointed dean of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley. Wilson will begin his new role effective July 1. “David has been an integral part of the senior leadership team of the College of Arts and Sciences for nearly eight years, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work alongside him for the past six years,” said John A. Pelesko, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Plans for the appointment of an associate dean for the social sciences will be announced in the coming weeks.

Publications

Anne M. Boylan, professor emerita of history, has published "Delaware's African American Suffragists, Part II," Delaware History 36, no. 1 (Fall-Winter 2020-2021): 44-84.

Peter Weil, associate professor emeritus of anthropology, is the author of “Typewriter Ragtime: The Introduction the Typewriter and Early Gender Construction in the Offices of Industrial Societies as Seen in Sheet Music,” published in ETCetera, no. 131, Winter, 2020-21, pp. 2-7.

Rudi Matthee, John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History, published “The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period: Dynastic Preeminence and Urban Pride,” in  Charles Melville, ed.,The Idea of Iran, vol. 10: Safavid Persia in the Age of Empires, London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 81-103.

Honors

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor of theatre, has been re-elected as chair of the Intercultural Group of the International Society for the Study of European Identity (ISSEI) for another three years. Haus, member of the Executive Committee of ISSEI since 1994, founded  its Intercultural Group in 1996 “realizing a longing for a unifying narrative that crystallizes a future identity.” The Haifa, Israel, based academic society, known for its biannual conferences in cooperation with European universities, also publishes the multidisciplinary journal The European Legacy, devoted to the research of European intellectual and cultural history and new paradigms of thought that evolved in the making of today’s Europe.

Tracy Chapman Hamilton, who earned an honors bachelor’s degree in art history at UD,  has received the 2020 International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Annual Book Prize for Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie of Brabant (1260-1321). 

Exhibitions

Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, who earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in art history at UD, is currently curator of American art at the Georgia Museum of Art. He debuted his new exhibition, Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery, and Imagination in American Realism, on Feb. 27, 2021. The exhibition reevaluates the meaning of magic realism and surveys various American artists who worked within the genre.

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