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September 22, 2023
For the Record provides information on the recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
Recent presentations, awards and publications include the following:
Presentations
Heinz-Uwe Housetheater professor, presented under his pseudonym Jean Bodin his first collection of poems in Greek (lulu edition, Mayenne, France) under the title Mouths of the Wind, translated by Marianna Papastephanou, on February 8, 2023 at the Diachroniki Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus. The reading, featuring prominent Greek actors Despina Bebedeli, Erika Liras, Dinos Liras, Stelios Kafkarides and Neophytos Neophytou, brought to life a political poetry of heightened awareness of the old and new scourges of humanity that invite individual change and overall thoughtful,” according to the translator. describes the fundamental objectives of the work. Philologist Kostas Hadshidimitriou commented: “Poems create an erased memory in the listener, a memory that crosses generations to become part of the human experience as a whole. » The evening ended with a standing ovation from the audience.
Lynn Ferrograduate student in Department of Health Behavioral Sciences and Nutrition, presented part of his thesis, a study entitled “Effects of an apiaceous or cruciferous vegetable on the infant gastrointestinal microbiota and microRNA expression: a randomized controlled feasibility study”, at the American Society for Nutrition’s NUTRITION 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. Under the supervision of the department director and associate professor Jillian Trabulsi, Ferro examined how carrots and broccoli, members of the apiaceous and cruciferous vegetable families respectively, alter the infant’s microbiota when introduced early into children’s diets. With a short-term feeding duration of only three days, differences in microbiota diversity and relative abundance were still observed. Ferro used this data to design a clinical trial she is currently conducting at UD, the First Foods Study, which spans a two-week period, providing additional information on the overall impact of introducing different first types of singular foods, by examining their differential microbiota signature. and the duration of signing once other foods are introduced. Ferro hopes to add to a body of literature that contributes to guidance on early food preferences and their potential programmatic effect on the gut microbiome.
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Amy Cherrycommunications specialist for College of Health Scienceswas recently recognized by the Delaware Business Hours as one of the 40 Under 40 of 2023. The DBT40 annually identifies promising and successful leaders, all under the age of 40, who are committed to reshaping Delaware with innovation and community engagement. At UD, Cherry captures the stories of groundbreaking research and achievements of CHS faculty, staff and students in publications such as UDaily, UD Magazine and the CHS News page. For more than a decade before joining UD, Cherry spent her career as deputy news director and senior business reporter for WDEL, where her investigative journalism held government officials accountable and sparked legislation that led to solutions. Outside of UD, she is working to launch Spotlight Delaware, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide public policy coverage through her role as board chair of the Local Journalism Initiative of Delaware. Cherry also contributes to other local organizations and programs, such as the Delaware Press Association, New Castle County’s Dial-a-Story program and the Delaware Burger Battle, which supports the Delaware Food Bank and Delaware ProStart.
Kisha Porcherassistant professor at English Departmentand Shamaine Bertrand, assistant professor at the College of New Jersey, received the award George Orwell Prize from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) for their Black Gaze podcast. The selection committee highlighted the exceptional contribution of the podcast to the analysis of public discourse: “Through black language, Dr. Kisha Porcher and Dr. Shamaine Bertrand highlight the black body and speak to its lived experiences in discourse audience. Exploring topics ranging from fatphobia to resting, the podcast amplifies how the black body, particularly the black female body, toils in a country structured around racism. Black Gaze’s emphasis on loving one’s body and protecting oneself first explicitly responds to harmful implicit capitalist logics.
Publications
David ShearerThomas Muncy Keith, a history professor, published a book entitled Stalin and the war, 1918-1953: models of repression, mobilization and external threat. Routledge is the publisher and the book is both hardback and paperback. This is an interpretive history of Stalin and Stalinism based on a thirty-five year career of research and synthetic reading as well as new archival material. The book explains the recurring patterns of mass repression in the Soviet Union under Stalin (1930s to 1950s) not in terms of domestic politics, the standard interpretation, but in terms of the dictator’s perceived threats of invasion. This is the first book to connect the domestic politics of terror with fears of a foreign threat.
Matthias Fleckensteinassociate professor of finance at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics, and his co-authors had their working paper, “Do Municipal Bond Investors Pay a Convenience Premium to Avoid Taxes“, quoted in the September 3 edition of The Wall Street Journal. The study was originally published in a National Bureau of Economic Research in June.
Kristen Pooleprofessor of English Ned B. Allen, is editor of Routledge Resources Online: The World of the Renaissance, a unique large-scale digital humanities project featuring engaging, digitally enhanced essays that illuminate a wide range of topics in the arts, politics, social history, religion, material culture, of the cultural geography and media of the period known as the “Renaissance”. (approximately 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.). The platform emphasizes the movement and intersections of the period, tracing the journeys and interactions of people, ideas and objects. It offers a global view and diverse voices on this period, with a geographic scope extending beyond Europe to Asia, Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the Americas. Many UD faculty and graduate students contributed to the interdisciplinary and collaborative project as editors or authors. Monica Dominguez Torresprofessor of art history, is editor-in-chief for Art; Meredith Ray, Elias Ahuja, professor of Italian in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, was co-editor of European Literature; And Julien YatesProfessor of English H. Fletcher Brown, serves on the Advisory Board for English Literature and Drama.
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