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

Recent presentations, publications, honors and service include the following:

Presentations

As part of her ongoing commitment to public engagement and scholarship, including in material culture studies, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, gave a lecture at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington on Nov. 14, 2024. Her talk, "I890s London: Fearless Art in Yellow Books," used the collections of the museum's Helen Farr Sloan Library and Archives to illustrate some of the the links between the history of print culture and advertising history in the innovative British periodical The Yellow Book (1894-1897), while focusing particularly on the roles of women as both the subjects and the creators of art.

Muqtedar Khan, professor of political science and international behavior,  expressed his reaction to the recently held elections on his YouTube channel called Khanversations. In “Is Liberal Democracy Failing Americans? Is America now an Illiberal Oligarchy?,” he asks: Has liberal democracy failed Americans? By rejecting the democratic party so soundly are Americans also rejecting the liberal ideas that underpin their philosophy? If so, why? Or has America become an illiberal oligarchy run by billionaires with special interests? Is there hope for a comeback for democracy, or is Donald Trump now America’s Xi Jinping? 

A recent writing project by Chisa Hutchinson, associate professor of English, is now available to watch on Starz. Hutchinson wrote Three Women along with series creator Lisa Taddeo. The 10-episode series follows the lives of three women as they take radical steps to explore their desires and expectations.

Publications

"In August," by Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, was the featured poem of the day on the website of Written Tales Magazine on Oct. 29, 2024. Another poem, "A Tasting," appeared in the fall/winter issue of Magnets and Ladders. This poem also won second prize in the journal's poetry competition. 

Honors

UD Police Chief Patrick Ogden received the Egon Bittner Award at the fall conference of the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. (CALEA) in Jacksonville, Florida, earlier this month. The award is presented to chief executive officers who have commanded a CALEA-accredited agency for 15 or more continuous years. It was created to recognize these leaders for their significant contributions to the public safety profession and to CALEA. The award is named in honor of Professor Bittner of Brandeis University who greatly contributed to CALEA’s early development in 1979-80 and was a CALEA commissioner from 1981, during the critical developmental stage of the organization, through 1988. A professor of sociology, he was a national expert on law enforcement issues. 

Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, has been asked to join the Advisory Board of the project to edit the letters of May Morris (1862-1938), an important figure in the British Arts and Crafts movement and an innovator in the art of embroidery, as well as the daughter of William Morris. This project has been initiated by Margaretta Frederick, curator emerita of the Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection, Delaware Art Museum, along with two British scholars of Pre-Raphaelite studies. In addition, Stetz has been invited to join a newly created Neo-Victorian Research Network, an international scholarly project that will be based at Brock University in Ontario, Canada, under the supervision of Professor Martin Danahay.

UD alumna Rachel Curry was among a team of writers who received first place in the 2024 Keystone Media Award Contest in the Excellence in Reporting on Diversity-Equity and Inclusion category. The AAP graduate received a bachelor of arts in English in 2017 and has written for CNBC, Binance and Lancaster Online, as well as The Burg, which published the award-winning article “Owning It: Diverse businesses are setting up shop in downtown Harrisburg, highlighting the city’s culture, expertise.”

Service

Heinz-Uwe Haus, professor of theatre, has been re-elected to a four-year term as chairman of the Intercultural Group of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Fürstenberg, Germany. Haus also remains a member of the executive committee of ISSEI, based in Haifa, Israel. Founded in 1984 as an international intellectual forum by the late Ezra and Sasha Talmor, who were founding members of Kibbutz Nachshonim in Israel and the founding editors of the interdisciplinary journal The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms (published by Routledge, UK), ISSEI holds together a large group of scholars from all over the world who look at Europe and its rich past from a variety of disciplines and points of view. Over 40 years the journal along with ISSEI’s conferences have created a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary tradition for the exchange of ideas between practicing academics, artists and public figures actively engaged in local and global political projects. Often held at smaller universities on the “margins” of Europe and attended by intellectuals who have a history of “yearning” for Europe, these conferences have given rise to a continuous discourse of its own kind. "ISSEI conferences pay particular attention to the meaning of global and intercultural aspects of Europe and the West and to the self-positioning of intellectuals in times of turmoil," Haus said.

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