“Breaking News: Cutting-Edge Research and Honors Unveiled on October 3, 2023” – Great

Publications 

Janice Jayes, HIS, published “Getting Past the Nation State” for Responsible Statecraft.

Christine Varga-Harris, HIS, published “Socialist Internationalism Writ Small: Friendship and Sisterhood in Correspondence between Women in the Soviet Union and the Decolonizing World, 1950s-1960s,” in Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War.

Diane Dean, EAF, was featured in WalletHub’s recent article about Best States for Teachers.

Linda Clemmons, HIS, published, Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville and the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876 (South Dakota Historical Society Press, 2023).

John Freed, HIS emeritus, published, The Falkensteins: Losers and Winners in Medieval Bavaria (Hiersemann, 2023).

Stephen Mujeye,TEC, published “An analysis of differences in behaviors and practices of security-conscious users and regular users on mobile devices,” in Information and Computer Security.

Eric Kramer, KNR, published “Analyzing College Choice Amongst NCAA Division II Transfer and Non-Transfer Athletes,” in the Journal of Athlete Development and Experience.

Presentations

David Lane, CJS, presented “Constructing Heroes, Villains, and Victims: An analysis of news stories about natural hazards and crime control,” at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Brent Teasdale, CJS, presented “Transgender Experiences with Law Enforcement,” at a meeting of the European Society of Criminology.

Stewart Winger, HIS, delivered the paper, “Lincoln, the Wealth Tax, and American Revolutionary Republicanism” to the Civil War Study Group of the Midwest at the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, and participated in Virginia Military Institute’s Constitution Day discussion on the Constitution in Wartime.

Ali Riaz, POL, has been quoted in a news report in Aljazeera English. The report is about ongoing “harassment” of Bangladesh’s only Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.  

Anna Zabinski, MGT, was interviewed for an article about understanding workplace boredom in TeenVogue.

Honors 

Somnath Lahiri, MGT, received the 2022 Best Reviewer Award of the Journal of World Business (JWB), a premier journal in the field of international business. Lahiri has also been named the research director of the College of Business. 

Avimanyu Datta, COB, received the Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal for the Best Sci-Fi Novel for his book The Movement, the second volume in his Time Corrector series.  

Judith Briggs, ART, has been named the 2023 Art Educator of the Year by the Illinois Art Education Association (IAEA). Each year the IAEA recognizes the top art, design, and media educators for their excellence and service to the field.