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

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, is coauthor of a new book that examines prison conditions in the United States in today’s era of mass incarceration and immigrant detention. In The Pains of Mass Imprisonment (Routledge, 2025), he and coauthor Jamie Longazel, associate professor of law at John Jay College, weave together empirical data on prisons and detention centers with stories that rely on the voices and experiences of those who have experienced them firsthand. The book also includes stories of the vital work of community organizations that provide invaluable support to incarcerated and detained people.

John G. McNutt, professor emeritus in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, is the coauthor, with Richard Hoefer, of Social Welfare Policy: Responding to a Changing World, being published in its third edition by Cognella Academic Publishing. The book is designed to help students understand the context of current social work practice and policy, as well as the trends that continue to affect life in the United States for everyone. The third edition adds a substantial amount of new and updated content from the field.

Presentations

James M. Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor of History, gave a keynote address for the German History Society's annual conference at Loughborough University (UK), Sept. 4-6, which was titled "Populism avant la lettre? Popular Protest in 19th Century Germany." 

Sebastian Cioaba, professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, taught a one-week short course on spectral graph theory and distance-regular graphs at the 12th Slovenian School of Graph Theory, which took place at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia, between Sept. 7 and 13, 2025.

Honors

James M. Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor of History, received the 2025 Barclay Book Prize from the German Studies Association for his Print Markets and Political Dissent: Publishers in Central Europe, 1800-1870 (Oxford University Press, 2024). The award recognizes the best monograph in 19th- and 20th-century German history.

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