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

Recent presentations, awards and publications include the following:

Presentations

Farley Grubb, professor of economics, presented “The Origins of the Continental Dollar, 1775-1777: Explaining the Choices that Congress had to Make when Creating a New Money” to the American Revolution Roundtable of Philadelphia in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, Oct. 24.

Sheng Lu, associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies, presented his study on the global apparel trade and sourcing patterns at the 38th World Fashion Convention in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Oct. 24. Co-hosted by the International Apparel Federation and Sewn Products Equipment & Suppliers of the Americas, the convention was held in the United States for the first time in over 20 years. More than 200 executives and scholars from leading fashion companies, trade associations, international trade organizations, academia and U.S. government agencies attended the event.

The American Trust for the British Library (ATBL) requested a tour for its members of Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity at the New York Public Library's Wachenheim Gallery and a presentation by the curators. The exhibition, which has been curated by 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, opened on Oct. 20, 2023, and runs until Jan. 28, 2024. Stetz and Samuels Lasner gave the tour and the presentations to ATBL members on Thursday, Oct. 26. The New York Public Library has made available an online version of the exhibition, with images of most of the 73 items and the complete accompanying text, which was written by Stetz with Samuels Lasner.

Awards

Ye Shen, a recent graduate of the College of Education and Human Development’s Ph.D. in Education program, has won ACTFL’s Emma Marie Birkmaier Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research in World Language Education. ACTFL is an organization that aims to improve and expand the teaching and learning of all languages at all levels of instruction. This award honors an author of doctoral dissertation research in world language education that contributes significantly to the advancement of the profession. Shen’s dissertation, titled “Bilingual but not Biliterate: The Literacy of Heritage Language Learners,” studied the literacy development of heritage language learners, or individuals who grew up in a home where a non-dominant language was spoken, but received formal education in the dominant societal language. Shen is now a Dean’s Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.

Publications

Chloe Rogers, a nutrition and dietetics major who graduated in May, and Carly Pacanowski, associate professor of health behavior and nutrition sciences in the College of Health Sciences, recently published a scoping review, “The Relationship Between Cannabis and Anorexia Nervosa,” in the Journal of Eating Disorders. Their review of studies involving human participants explored the endocannabinoid system (ECS), the effects of cannabinoid treatment, and the harms of cannabis use in Anorexia Nervosa (AN). While the evidence is limited, their review found that due to abnormalities in the ECS in individuals with AN, cannabis could be a potential treatment for weight restoration and associated symptoms. Rogers and Pacanowski recommended future research examine individualized dosing approaches of cannabis in individuals with AN to maximize benefits and minimize harm.    

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor of theater, published two articles in Alternante revista de cultura, "On identity politics" and "Need for the 'westernization' of the West," which focus on Europe's cultural heritage as a shared source of remembrance, understanding, identity, dialogue, cohesion and creativity. The author underlines how Europe's specific vocation dictates its identity and vice-versa: "This identity involves finding a middle road between the global and the local, between dilution and self-withdrawal, to avoid, as much as possible, a brutal confrontation between world interdependence and blind, xenophobic, sterile isolation."

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