Patrick Allen, director of educational studies, has been named a member of the National Council of Teachers of English's Commission on Curriculum. The council represents teachers and supervisors of English at all levels of education.
Faye Dudden, associate professor of history, has won the George Freedly Award from the Theatre Library Association for her book, Women and the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870. The award honors a noteworthy book in the field of theater and live performance. She received the honor at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York City.
John Garver, assistant professor of geology, is the author of an article in the Geological Society
of America Bulletin about a fission track dating process he has developed. The article is titled “Erosional denudation for the British Columbia Coast Ranges as determined from Fission-track ages of detrital zircon from the Tofino basin, Olympia Peninsula.”
Barbara Jones, director of Schaffer Library, presented a paper, “Should Libraries Post Theft Suspect Notices? A First Amendment Perspective” at the annual Smithsonian Institution's National Conference on Cultural Property Protection.
Pilar Moyano, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper, “Destierros y exilios en la poesia de la mujer centroamericana” at the third International Conference on Central American Literature in Guatemala City.
William Murphy, the Thomas Lamont Research Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature, has published Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives, a companion book to his Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats, which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1978.
The Washington Post said of the new book, “Murphy is an expert storyteller, keeping many threads-emotional, financial,
historical-of this complex story in hand at once. And while the family novel unfolds, in the background we see modern Ireland inventing itself.” The New York Times said, “From Mr. Murphy there has come one of the finest biographies of the Yeatses.”
Murphy is widely considered one of the foremost authorities on one of Ireland's most distinguished families. In the new book, he drew heavily on the Yeats archives, to which he has been given
almost unlimited access by the family. The book includes numerous photographs and illustrations never before published.
A.G. Davis Philip, research professor of physics, was appointed by the American Astronomical Society as director of the Shapley Visiting Lectureship Program, which organizes two-day trips by astronomers to colleges that do not offer degrees in astronomy.
Robert Sharlet, professor of political science and currently senior coordinator of the Rule of Law Consortium in Washington, D.C., read a paper and made two other presentations at the 1994 National Slavic meeting in Philadelphia. He also has created three policy seminars for specialists in Washington.
Jordan Smith, professor of English, is the author of “The Dream of Horses,” a poem in The Paris Review (summer 1994). He has recent work in Poetry and poems forthcoming in New England Review, Salmagundi, and The Yale Review.
Phillip Snow, associate professor of civil engineering, delivered a paper, “S.C.S. TR- 55 Computer Hydrology Model Revisited,” at the thirtieth annual conference of the American Water Resources Association.
Carol Weisse, associate professor of psychology, and two former students, Agnes Turbiasz '92 and
David Whitney '91, are the authors of “Behavioral training and AIDS risk reduction: Overcoming barriers to condom use” in the journal AIDS Education and Prevention. Papers she prepared with
Carl Bishop '96 and Kerry Evers '94 were presented at the annual meetings of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and the Eastern Psychological Association.
Professor of Music Hugh Allen Wilson and soprano Giselle Montanez gave a lecture and recital on “Marcella Sembrich's `Modern' Repertoire” at the annual meeting of the Marcella Sembrich Memorial Association in New York City.