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The Office of Public Safety announces two promotions and a new hire. Tony Bostick, formerly a captain, was promoted to associate director of Public Safety on Oct. 1. Bostick has 21 years of service at Wesleyan. He's worked as an officer, supervisor, investigator and as a patrol captain for the past five years. In his new role, Bostick will continue to direct the patrol division and will also oversee investigations, assist with budget management, and maintain relationship with outside agencies. "I like the campus environment - the students, the administrators," Bostic says. "I enjoy working to keep everyone comfortable and secure,…
Q: Gianya, what is your class year and major? A: I am class of 2014 and I am most likely majoring in psychology. Q: What is your favorite class this semester? A: My favorite class this semester is social psychology because of the professor, Scott Plous. And of course, as a psychology major, I love anything psych related. Professor Plous uses examples that we deal with in everyday life to help us understand different studies that were done in the ’50s and ’60s. One specific example that he used was advertisements in magazines to demonstrate a concept called "the Pygmalion effect,"…
Cheryl-Ann Hagner, formerly director of university events and scheduling, became the director of graduate student services on Sept. 12. Hagner came to Wesleyan in 2001, and has served as director of events and scheduling since 2006. Over the past five years, Hagner and her team have played a critical role in implementing the online Event Management System (EMS), which now serves as the central scheduling software for spaces and events across campus. Hagner has led the effort to streamline the room scheduling process during a time when event bookings at Wesleyan have more than doubled to more than 18,000 events per…
James McGuire's recent book Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010) was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010 and won the 2011 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. McGuire is professor and chair in the Department of Government and a member of the Latin American Studies Program at Wesleyan. The Stein Rokkan Prize is awarded annually by the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and the University of Bergen (Norway), in memory of Professor Stein Rokkan, who was an eminent social scientist at the…
Richard Grossman, professor of economics, served as program chair of the annual meetings of the Economic History Association Sept. 9-11 in Boston, Mass. Grossman was responsible for coordinating the work of the four member selection panel in choosing 45 papers. He also organized these into 15 sessions, selected and recruited discussants, session chairs, plenary speakers and graduate student poster presenters. More information of the annual meeting is online here.
Pam Tatge, director of the Center for the Arts, received a $600 grant from the Middletown Commission on the Arts (MCA) to support the Arts Walk at Riverview Plaza this summer. Arts Walk was a pilot program of the Middletown Commission on the Arts to host arts activities at Riverview Plaza as a way to attract people to visit downtown Middletown on weekends in the summer. The Center for the Arts and Center for Creative Youth used the funds to provide performances/activities for people who passed by the plaza.
Leah Wright wrote a chapter titled "The Black Cabinet: Economic Civil Rights in the Nixon Administration," which appears on pages 240-290 in the book, Painting Dixie Red: When, Where, Why, and How the South Became Republican. More information on the book is online here. Wright is assistant professor of African American studies, assistant professor of history. Wright also spent part of the summer as one of four Frederick B. Artz Scholars at Oberlin College. She examined the papers of Jewel LaFontant MANkarious – a prominent civil rights activist, lawyer and presidential appointee.
Margot Weiss, assistant professor of anthropology, assistant professor of American Studies, is the author of Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality, published in January 2012 by Duke University Press. Techniques of Pleasure is a vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area’s pansexual BDSM (SM) community. Margot Weiss conducted ethnographic research at dungeon play parties and at workshops on bondage, role play, and flogging, and she interviewed more than sixty SM practitioners. She describes a scene devoted to a form of erotic play organized around technique, rules and regulations, consumerism, and self-mastery. Challenging the notion that SM…
Sarah Croucher co-edited the book, The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts, published in 2011. Croucher is assistant professor of anthropology, assistant professor of archeology, assistant professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies. The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts: Postcolonial Historical Archaeologies explores the complex interplay of colonial and capital formations throughout the modern world. The authors present a critical approach to this topic, trying to shift discourses in the theoretical framework of historical archaeology of capitalism and colonialism through the use of postcolonial theory. This work does not suggest a new theoretical framework as such, but rather suggests…
Natasha Korda, professor of English, professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, is the author of Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in September 2011. Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Korda reveals that the purportedly all-male professional stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women of all stripes, including ordinary crafts- and tradeswomen who supplied costumes, props and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and widows who provided much-needed capital and credit; wives,…