Accomplishments - October, 2024
Tony Williams, professor of English within the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities, was the invited keynote speaker at the 2024 International Cine-Excess Conference, Oct. 23, in Birmingham City University in the United Kingdom. Williams’ virtual presentation, “Family Horror: Beyond the Masterpiece,” was about the importance of family representations within a range of horror films, including “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.”
“The Education of a Statesman: How Global Leaders Can Repair a Fractured World,” by John Shaw, director, Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, was published earlier this month. The book examines former Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson’s career, which included serving as U.N. General Assembly president and U.N. deputy secretary-general. Shaw offers insights into diplomacy and international politics, highlighting lessons to renew the global order in this period of what he describes as “maximum danger.”
Abd-el-Kader Cheref, assistant professor of Africana studies, will present “Meeting Other Wretched of the Earth: Baldwin and the Algerian Revolution,” during the seventh annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference at Morgan State University, today through Saturday, Oct. 24-26. Cheref will discuss how Baldwin and other African American expatriates in Paris, including Richard Wright, William Gardner Smith, Chester Himes and later Angela Davis, witnessed the mistreatment of Algerian migrants in metropolitan France and how these African American authors tried to bridge the Algerian War of Independence, the decolonization movement in Africa and the civil rights movement in the U.S.
Sarah Kroenlein, the director of the Office of Research Compliance, will be honored by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) during its conference, Oct. 29-Nov. 1, in Reno, Nevada. Kroenlein will accept AAACE’s Workforce Commission’s Practitioner of the Year Award and will give a presentation Oct. 30 on occupational stress mitigators for higher education professionals.
Qian Huang, associate professor, architectural studies, recently received a $75,000 U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Susan Harwood Safety Training Grant program. The competitive grant is awarded to nonprofit organizations to provide training and education programs for employers and workers on the recognition, avoidance and prevention of safety and health hazards in their workplaces and to inform workers of their rights. This is the seventh year Huang has received the grant with total funding at $525,000.
Omid Kamran-Disfani, assistant professor, marketing, School of Management and Marketing, recently provided information on WalletHub.com on airline credit cards.
