C. Ashley Ellefson
C. Ashley Ellefson, professor emeritus of history, had his recent writings placed on the Web in mid-January as Volume 847 of the Archives of Maryland Online. His manuscript is titled “Fortune’s Orphan: The Troubled Career of Thomas Macnemara in Maryland, 1703-1719.” According to Ellefson, Macnemara was probably the best lawyer of his time in Maryland, but he was constantly in trouble because he was not afraid to challenge a corrupt political system and a haphazard system of justice. At the same time, he was popular enough with the voters of Annapolis that he became a member of the city council. From there he became an alderman, then mayor of the city and finally an alderman again. Historians have condemned him because they have believed everything his enemies said about him without looking further. In his manuscript, Ellefson has tried to present a more realistic view of Macnemara.
Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel, Center for Gender and Intercultural Studies and Philosophy Department, co-edited “The End of Prisons: Reflections from the Decarceration Movement,” published in Philosophy Department chair Andrew Fitz-Gibbon’s social philosophy series of Rodopi.
Caroline Kaltefleiter and undergraduate student Karmelisha Alexander
Caroline Kaltefleiter, Communication Studies Department, and Karmelisha Alexander, communication studies undergraduate student who served as first author, had their paper “(Self)Care and Community: Black Girls Saving Themselves” accepted for publication in the forthcoming edited collection titled, Black Girls and Black Girlhood. The collection is edited by Aria Halliday, University of New Hampshire, and will be published by Canadian Scholars’/Women’s Press in Toronto.
Jerome O’Callaghan
Jerome O’Callaghan, School of Arts and Sciences, co-authored with Paula O’Callaghan, University of Maryland, a paper on the free speech aspect of using Facebook in the context of public employment. The paper, titled “Facebook’s ‘Like’ – The First Amendment and Free Speech in the Workplace,” was published this summer in volume 15 of the ALSB Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
Margaret Gichuru, Lin Lin, Rhiannon Maton and Mechthild Nagel
Margaret Gichuru and Lin Lin, Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department, Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, and Mechthild Nagel, Philosophy and Africana Studies departments, had an article, “Engaging children in philosophical inquiry through picturebooks,” published in the Athens Journal of Education. The authors discuss how philosophical inquiry can promote critical thinking in children, considerations in the use of culturally responsive and abolitionist feminist curriculum and pedagogy in teaching philosophy, and highlights the utility of multiple stakeholder collaboration for successful philosophical inquiry projects in schools. The article closes by discussing key recommendations for the implementation of philosophical inquiry programs in preschool and elementary schools.
Dan Harms
Dan Harms, Memorial Library, presented at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, held virtually May 10 to 15. He presented “Scrying with the Saints: Holy Personalities and Their Marginality in Early Modern Magic” on May 12.
David Kilpatrick
David Kilpatrick, Psychology Department, presented a paper on Feb. 24 at annual convention of the National Association of School Psychologists in Philadelphia, Pa. Approximately 35 school psychologists, school psychology graduate students and professors of school psychology attended his 50-minute presentation titled, “Supercharge your Reading Evaluations with the ‘Simple View’ of Reading.”
Charles Yaple
Charles Yaple, professor emeritus of recreation, parks and leisure studies, has a new book titled The 'Tree' of Us: Richford Boys Who Changed the World and What They Left Behind, a deeply personal narrative mixing biography, history and memoir to encourage the furtherance of a land ethic as envisioned by famed ecologist Aldo Leopold. Available on Amazon, the story follows the lives of three men, from the steeply forested hills of Richford, N.Y., who changed the world. Retired after 46 years teaching environmental and outdoor education courses, Yaple also is a co-founder, first board president and long-time director of the Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture in Cortland.
Janet Duncan
Janet Duncan, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently attended Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania as an Erasmus Plus Scholar for the Public Administration Department and the Social Work Department. During her week-long appointment in May she gave two graduate lectures on Human Rights for Persons with Disabilities and met with three leaders of national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for Romania. The Erasmus Plus Project is funded through the European Union.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, is the author of a chapter titled, “The Unitary Executive and the Bush Presidency” appearing in the new book, The George W. Bush Presidency, published by Nova Publishers.