Professional Activities

Nona Fienberg’s (Arts and Humanities) essay, “Gazing into the Mirror of Wiesel’s Night, Together,” a review of Approaches to Teaching Wiesel’s Night, edited by Alan Rosen, appears in the Winter 2009 issue of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.

Rosemary Gianno (Sociology/Anthropology) and Klaus J. Bayr recently published “Semelai agricultural patterns: Toward an understanding of variation among indigenous cultures in southern peninsular Malaysia” in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. The paper analyzes ethnographic and historical evidence, as well as aerial photographs taken in 1948, in an attempt to understand indigenous agricultural and population patterns in Peninsular Malaysia’s southern lowlands. The paper posits that some indigenous cultures there were much more dedicated to subsistence agriculture than was previously thought and focuses specifically on the Semelai people, suggesting that they grew rice, which is a risky crop in that region, largely for symbolic reasons, while also cultivating cassava, which is much more productive and much easier to grow but of less symbolic value, as insurance.

Céline Perron (Theatre and Dance) has received an award from The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region I for her work in puppetry for the Theatre and Dance Department production of the Rolling Collection.