Professional Activities
“Young Professionals in the Post-Industry Millyard: Using History to Build Symbolic Career Boundaries” by Emily Porschitz, Management, has been awarded this year’s Michael J. Driver Best Regional Paper Award for the most outstanding careers-related paper scheduled for presentation at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Academy of Management in May in Baltimore. The paper will be submitted to the Academy of Management’s Career Division to compete against the other regional award winners for this year’s overall award.
Dr. Katherine Tirabassi, English, presented her paper “Student Voices in the Extracurricular Writing Life of the University of New Hampshire, 1920-1950” as part of a panel entitled “Creative Publics: Constructing Institutional Histories through Student Voices in the Archives” at the national Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Las Vegas in March 2013. This paper focused on discussing the role of three extracurricular writing initiatives in influencing the formal curriculum over time, generating positive attitudes toward student writing, and supporting the belief that the active production of student writing was a means of contributing to the emergent American literary tradition. Also at the CCCC 2013 conference, Dr. Tirabassi coordinated, co-chaired, and presented at the National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric’s pre-conference workshop entitled, “The Private and Public Work of Archival Research: Considering Physical and Digital Archival Spaces.”
Rafael Ponce-Cordero, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages, presented a paper entitled “Bandidos heroicos/héroes proscritos: el regreso del bandidaje social a las pantallas latinoamericanas en Talento de barrio y Rudo y Cursi” at the annual convention of NeMLA in Boston on March 24. He also presented the paper “Daddy Yankee’s Talento de Barrio, or, The Return of the Social Bandit in the Era of Globalization—Reggaeton Style” at the yearly national conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in Washington, DC on March 29. Drawing on works by Hobsbawm, Benjamin, and Agamben, both papers examined the reemergence of a certain notion of social banditry, connected to drug trafficking and its inherent violence but ultimately portrayed as a force for good, in the current cinematic imaginary of Latin America.
Based on her work while she was a visiting professor at the National Institute of Education in Singapore, Professor Beverly J. Ferrucci, Mathematics, had her latest article, “Enhancing the Learning Of Fractions Through The Use Of Virtual Manipulatives” published in the Research Journal of Mathematics and Technology. Her article describes the methodology and thinking processes used by Singaporean children as they worked through mathematical problems with the use of virtual three-dimensional objects.
Prof. Rodney Obien (Mason Library) and Prof. Rosemary Gianno (Sociology/Anthropology) attended the 2013 Association of Asian Studies Conference in San Diego, California. Obien presented “Building A Memory House: The Orang Asli Archives” and Gianno was discussant for the panel Malaysia’s “Original People”: Recent Research on the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia, organized in honor of Geoffrey Benjamin and Robert K. Dentan.
Professors Kathleen Johnson (Management) and Karen Couture (Psychology) co-presented a paper entitled “Approaches to Conceptualizing and Removing Barriers Facing Disabled Workers” at the Academy of Business Research in New Orleans in March. A version of this paper will also appear in their upcoming anthology entitled Disability Discrimination at Work, scheduled for publication this summer.
Michael Antonucci was invited to present at a symposium on the poetry and career of Michael S. Harper held at the University of Missouri in March. He read from his essay “Taproot of the MichaelTree: Michael S. Harper, Black Poets and New England (1746-2012).” Antonucci also delivered a version of the paper as a talk at the 2013 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in March as part of the seminar session that he organized on Harper’s poetry.
