April 20, 2004
Kudos!
Recognition of the awards, honors, and recent publications
of the GW faculty and staff
Acknowledgements:
Harvey Feigenbaum, professor of political
science and director of the Institute for Global and International Studies,
ESIA, was invited to participate in a debate hosted by Radio Svizzera
Italiana with Ignacio Ramonet, editor-in-chief of Le Monde Diplomatique,
over European perceptions of America, March 12.
Christina Puchalski, associate professor
of medicine and director of GWish, SMHS, addressed GWs 2nd Annual
Womens Leadership Conference March 26. She co-lead the Learning
Ourselves workshop along with Roslyn Green, professor at Bowie State
University. Puchalski also presented testimony entitled The Engagement
of Spirituality as a Vital Part of Working with Patients in Health and
Healing, summarizing the forefront in spirituality and medicine,
for the National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicines
Strategic Planning Forum March 22.
Lilien F. Robinson, professor of art history,
CCAS, and retiring chair of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee, was
recognized with a Senate resolution of appreciation introduced by President
Trachtenberg and adopted by acclamation at the Senates April 9 meeting.
The resolution recognized her extraordinary contributions
as a member of the Senate for 25 years, 11 of them as executive committee
chair. She also served on four other committees and highlighted her qualities
of leadership, collegiality, diplomacy, fairness, kindness, patience and
unwavering commitment to reasoned discourse and deliberation. The
resolution also acknowledged her 40 years of dedicated service
in the Department of Fine Art and Art History, including 23 years as chair.
Kim Thachuk, visiting professor of international
affairs, ESIA, presented the paper The United States Approach to
the War on Terrorism, at the International Studies Association meeting
in Montreal, March 1720. The panel, sponsored by the Singapore Institute
of Defence and Strategic Studies for the International Security Studies
section, was called, Hegemony and Counter-Terrorism: Comparing
American and Southeast Asian Approaches. She presented the keynote
address on Transnational Threats to the US Northern Command
Joint Interagency Coordination Group March 24.
Awards:
John Hanchar, assistant professor of geology,
CCAS, was named a Mineralogical Society of America Distinguished Lecturer
for 200405 and will deliver nine lectures in North America and Europe
on his research on the effects of radiation damage in synthetic and natural
minerals.
Publications:
Jonathan Gil Harris, professor of English,
CCAS, published Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism and Disease
in Shakespeares England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 2004).
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
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