William Finlay, associate professor of Theater and chairman of the Theater and Dance Department, recently inaugurated a guest artist series at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn. He spent a week teaching master classes in the Theater Department.
Timothy Dunn, director of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, attended the 2007 annual meeting of the Association for Fraternity Advisors (AFA) in Cincinnati, Ohio. The AFA is an international higher education association that provides resources and support for fraternity and sorority advising professionals who are working to create experiences that positively affect students, their campuses and their communities. This year’s AFA meeting was titled, “Our Envisioned Future.”
A book by Raymond Martin, the Dwane Crichton Professor of Philosophy, and John Barresi, “The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity” (Columbia University Press, 2006), has been cited in two award competitions – the ForeWord Magazine 2006 Book of the Year Award, where it garnered a gold medal in philosophy, and the Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing in Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers 2006, where it earned an honorable mention. The book, which also has been translated into Korean and was republished in Seoul by Younglim Cardinal, Inc., in 2007, will be reissued in this country in a paperback edition in March. Martin is chair of the Philosophy department. Barresi is a professor of Psychology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Their book traces a wide range of theories concerning self and personal identity to reveal the larger intellectual trends, disputes and ideas that have revolutionized the way we think about ourselves.