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

Recent presentations, publications and honors include the following:

Presentations

Media group EITB featured UD percussion faculty Tim Broscious and Gene Koshinksi in a video about the txalaparta, a Basque percussion instrument played with thick sticks. Broscious and Koshinski, who perform together as the Quey Percussion Duo, applied for an arts and humanities Go! Grant to study with Hutsun, a percussion duo from Pamplona, Spain, and learn the history and rhythms associated with txalaparta.

Karen Asenavage Loptes, director of the University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) program for learners age 50-plus, presented U.S. Sen. Tom Carper with a first-ever honorary lifetime OLLI membership on Sept. 30 at UD’s Arsht Hall in Wilmington, Delaware. “We at OLLI were honored to participate in this tribute to Sen. Carper on the occasion of his upcoming retirement from official government service and to present him with an invitation to join us at OLLI. We strive to enhance the lives of one of our state’s most valuable resources, those age 50 to 100, and that’s a goal we take very seriously,” said Asenavage Loptes. The presentation was part of a tribute to Carper’s state and national public service, which since 1977 has also included terms as Delaware state treasurer, U.S. representative and Delaware governor. Hosted by the We Work for Health advocacy group, the event celebrated Carper’s contributions and initiatives relating to healthcare and older adults. Carper, who moved to Delaware in 1973 to pursue his MBA at UD, completed his master’s in 1975 and was elected state treasurer the following year. Along with Asenavage Loptes, UD’s Graduate College was represented at the event by Mark Clodfelter, associate dean for Professional and Continuing Studies, and Lou Rossi, dean of the Graduate College. Visit the OLLI website to view photos from the event.

On Sept. 30, 2024, Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, gave an invited lecture at the Surrey History Centre in the U.K., a research institution supported by the Surrey County Council. Her talk, "'Michael Field' in Reigate: Queer Women Writers and Surrey in the 1890s," focused on an important decade in the lives of two Victorian poets and dramatists (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper) who used a joint pseudonym and considered themselves married to one another--a decade when authors such as Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater were among their associates. The lecture was recorded and will be available online for approximately two weeks (use the Access Passcode: WEv1TG$& ). Throughout this talk, many of the images shown were drawn from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at UD Library, which has a major archive of photographs, first editions and manuscripts related to "Michael Field."

On Oct. 3, 2024, Mark Samuels Lasner, senior research fellow, UD Library, Museums and Press, and Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, were invited guests at Blackie House Library and Museum, a research center and exhibition space in Edinburgh, Scotland. There, they gave informal presentations to the director and to visiting researchers about their individual projects in late-Victorian aestheticism and decadence studies, as well as about the resources of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at UD Library, with a view to future collaboration with Blackie House. 

London McGill, a second-year doctoral student in the Medical Sciences Ph.D. program, presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (ACCR) Special Conference in Boston on Sept. 17, 2024. McGill presented research on a patient-first approach using CRISPR-directed gene editing as an augmentative therapy for the treatment of pancreatic ductile adenocarcinoma. McGill has worked closely on this research with mentor Eric Kmiec, founder and executive director of the Gene Editing Institute at ChristianaCare.

Publications

James M. Brophy, Francis H. Squire Professor of History, is the author of Print Markets and Political Dissent: Publishers in Central Europe, 1800-1870 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024).

Tomé Salgueiro, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, recently published “Reconstructing Professional Role Identities: (Un)learning and Hybridization in a Business School Program”, in the Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal. His research focuses on hybrid organizations, social and eco-entrepreneurship, and pedagogy. 

Duygu Phillips, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, has recently published a study (now available online) titled “Legitimating language and emotional tone in antenarratives: A cultural entrepreneurship perspective” in Journal of Business Research. In this study, Phillips and her coauthors Curt Moore and Matt Rutherford set out to investigate how new ventures can use storytelling on social media to be perceived as legitimate. They theorize and empirically assess the role of legitimating language and emotional tone in increasing stakeholder engagement on social media. Importantly, they developed dictionaries to measure different types of legitimating language which are now available for future research.

Honors

Jessica Sowa, professor in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration and senior fellow in the Institute for Public Administration (IPA) at the Biden School, was recently selected as a 2024 fellow with the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). An induction ceremony for the class of 2024 will take place next month in Washington, D.C.

The Partnership for Healthy Communities HEALTH (Health Engagement Access Learning Teaching Humanity) for All program was awarded a 2024 I Partner with My Public Library Award in recognition of the program’s collaboration with the Route 9 Library and Innovation Center in New Castle, Delaware. Program Manager Christine G. Sowinski and Heather M. Milea, clinical lead, have worked with the Route 9 Library and the New Castle County (Delaware) Government Library to develop programming that improves access to holistic care and addresses health disparities in the community.

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