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Franklin Proaño, Comparative Studies-Marion, and Heather Webb, French and Italian, have received the 2007 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. This is the second time that Professor Proaño has won this award.

Mansel G. Blackford, History: Pathways to the Present: U.S. Development and Its Consequences in the Pacific (University of Hawaii Press, 2007).

Kevin Boyle, History, is the guest columnist for the March issue of Inc. Magazine; his column is titled, "The Root Causes of Immigration."

David A. Brewer, English: "A Drawing on the Blank Page," The Shandean 17 (2006): 158-61.

Timothy Gregory, History: "The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape," with Thomas F. Tartaron et al., Hesperia 75 (2006): 453-524; "Fortifications of Mount Oneion, Corinthia," with William R. Caraher, Hesperia 75 (2006): 327-56; "Narrative of the Byzantine Landscape," in Byzantine Narrative. Papers in Honour of Roger Scott, ed. John Burke, Byzantina Australiensia 16 (Melbourne 2006); and "The Corinth Centennial: 100 (+10) Years of Work in the Roman City," Journal of Roman Archaeology, 19 (2006): 632-36.

Graduate student Priya Ananth, East Asian Languages and Literatures, has won the Hamako Ito Chaplin Memorial Award. Administered through the Association of Asian Studies, this is a national award that recognizes a graduate student or a full-time instructor who has recently completed graduate study for excellence in Japanese language teaching. Priya is an ABD in Japanese language pedagogy. Originally from India, she has studied Russian, Japanese, and Korean. The Chaplin Award recognizes her superb teaching of Japanese as a GTA in DEALL. She hopes to teach in a U.S. university upon completion of her dissertation later this year.

Katherine Burkman, English, was awarded the Roy Bowen Award for Lifetime Achievement by The Central Ohio Theatre Critics Circle at the Theatre Roundtable's annual Theater Awards Night at the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center. The award was for co-founding and leading WOMEN AT PLAY throughout its 12-year run, and for her world-renowned scholarship, books, and International Conference on playwright Harold Pinter.

Valerie Lee, English, was elected the 2007 chair of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) at the 2006 Modern Language Association Convention. ADE serves as a central source of information and support for chairs of college and university English departments throughout the United States and Canada. Membership is institutional, and chairs represent their departments in ADE activities.

Kevin Boyle, History, was quoted in an article about the possibility that the automaker Chrysler might be sold by its corporate parent, DaimlerChrysler (New York Times, February 25).

Samuel Chu, History, was quoted in an article about how people in rural China are not getting the same economic and educational opportunities as those who live in the big cities (Houston Chronicle, February 4).

The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, edited by Chris Zacher, English; Richard Sisson; and Andrew Cayton, was featured in "Boring? Not Us" (The Columbus Dispatch, March 4).

Carole Fink, History, presented "Willy Brandt: The Enigmatic Chancellor and Diplomat 1969-1974" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, sponsored by the Department of International Relations and the Davis Institute of International Relations. She has been reappointed to a three-year term on the board of the journal, Contemporary European History.

Jared Gardner, English, presented "A Conversation with Harvey Pekar," an inaugural event for the Year of Graphic Storytelling, sponsored by the Cartoon Research Library, Ohio State University, February 28; and "Golddiggers of 1933 and the Making of the Modern Studio," Society for Cinema and Media Study Conference, Chicago, March 11.

Graduate student Ryan Judkins, English, presented "Hunting and Hawking: Aristocratic Metaphors as Religious Themes in Pearl," Vagantes 2007, Loyola University, Chicago, March 1.

Lee Martin, English, presented "Lewis Nordan's Song of the South" and "More Than One Way to Tell a Story," Associated Writing Programs Conference, Atlanta, March 3.

Erin McGraw, English, presented "Sheep in Wolves' Clothing: The Problem of Contemporary Christian Fiction," in a panel presentation, Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Atlanta, March 3.

Christopher Reed, History, presented "Advancing China's Gutenberg Revolution: Chinese Print Communism, 1921-1966" as part of the Asian Studies Program's China Seminar Series at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, February 22.

Students in Lewis Ulman’s section of English 883C will host an open house, 1:45-3:15 pm, March 13, 343 Denney Hall, during which they will unveil their electronic textual edition of Samuel Sullivan Cox’s "Journal of a Tour to Europe" (1851), which Cox later expanded and published as A Buckeye Abroad: or, Wanderings in Europe and in the Orient (1852). The previously unpublished manuscript journal was recently acquired by Ohio State’s Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. Cox was a native of Zanesville, Ohio, who lived in Columbus in the mid-1850s and published the Ohio Statesman, then served for many years in the U.S. House of Representatives, first from Ohio and later from New York. He also wrote extensively, including a half-dozen travel books, beginning with A Buckeye Abroad. The edition follows the guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and incorporates media other than text, including high-resolution scans of the manuscript. The edition should interest students of American social history, American literature, nineteenth-century transatlantic encounters, journal writing, textual editing, digital libraries, and multimodal composing. Feel free to drop by anytime during the open house. Contact: ulman.1@osu.edu.

John McMorrough, Knowlton School of Architecture, will present "Flat is the New Deep," 7:00 pm, March 15, Columbus Museum of Art, in the Big Picture Series, in conjunction with "Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960's" exhibition. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Howard Sacks (Kenyon College) will present "Food for Thought: Preserving Family Farming in Changing Time," during dinner at 6:30 pm, April 11, Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue, as part of the dinner lecture series sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies. Space for dinner is limited, RSVP to Sheila Bock (smbock99@yahoo.com) by Monday, April 2.