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

Recent presentations and publications include the following:

Presentations

On Jan. 9, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, and Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, gave invited presentations at the New York Public Library for an event organized by the New York chapter of the Victorian Society of America. Their talks were held in conjunction with the exhibition Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity, co-curated by Stetz and Samuels Lasner, which is on view at the New York Public Library until Jan. 28, 2024. 

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, presented “A Debate and Discussion of The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution was Financed with Paper Money (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023),” in the American Founding Group forum at the University of Georgia, via Zoom on Jan. 12.

Elena Lynn, an undergraduate student in the Health Behavior Science Program, presented her research titled “Assessing the feasibility of implementing a storytelling-based intervention for Black adults with hypertension” at the 16th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health. The conference, which is co-hosted by the National Institutes of Health and AcademyHealth, showcased the latest innovations in diversity and inclusion science in Washington, D.C., from Dec. 10-13. Under mentor Yendelela Cuffee, assistant professor for the Epidemiology Program and associate director of the Partnership for Healthy Communities, Lynn is currently supporting the next phase of the storytelling-based intervention and assisting in recruitment of 60 participants for a six-week intervention. Participants provide feedback on program topics, their engagement with the storytelling approach, effectiveness of the storyteller, ways to enhance the intervention structure further, and the potential for stories to inspire lifestyle and behavioral change. Additionally, they are working together in creating a community advisory board to learn more from community member perspectives and organize recruitment for future interventions.

Publications

The Institute for Public Administration (IPA), a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, recently released a policy brief titled Understanding Opioid-Related Health Issues Among Older Adults. This brief, authored by Julia O’Hanlon, IPA policy scientist, and Sarah Rouff, IPA public administration fellow, focused on recurring problems including mental health, economic, at-risk populations, and over-prescription related to opioid misuse in older adults. 

The Institute for Public Administration (IPA), a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, recently released a policy brief titled Analysis of Models for Workforce Housing Villages. This brief, authored by Sean O'Neill, IPA policy scientist, and Ella Dietz, Biden School summer undergraduate fellow, evaluates some workforce housing models nationwide that have focused on providing affordable housing for local teachers. Residents and elected officials across Delaware have “expressed interest in developing workforce housing for employees in critical jobs that support their local communities.” The University of Delaware’s Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) requested this analysis to explore potential nationwide models for workforce housing villages that could be pursued in Delaware, especially for coastal Sussex County. This brief provides six examples of workforce housing locations across the country, demonstrating potential models that the state of Delaware can utilize in the future as models for development.

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, continues to use poetry as an adjunct to her scholarship and teaching in order to reach diverse, non-academic audiences. Her poem "Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 1875–1935" has been published in Review Americana: A Creative Writing Journal, vol. 18, Issue 2 (Fall 2023). (UD Library's Special Collections houses a large and important collection of the papers of Dunbar-Nelson, an African American feminist, journalist, poet, anti-lynching activist and women's suffrage advocate, who also played a major role in Stetz's fall 2023 undergraduate women and gender studies course, "The New Woman in Black and White.") In addition, Stetz's poem "Wallpaper," which was inspired by "The Yellow Wallpaper," the most famous short story of the feminist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, has just appeared in issue #15 of the Last Stanza Poetry Journal, edited by Jenny Kalahar (Stackfeed Press, 2024), a volume sold through Amazon.

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