FAU Arts and Letters Fall 2012 Newsletter

Fall 2012 Newsletter

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of Arts and Letters This edition highlights some of the many activities and events of Spring | Summer 2012.

A Message from the Interim Dean I am pleased that Linda Johnson has accepted the position of Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters. She has provided strong leadership as the Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Art History for more than three years, and her new responsibilities will include enrollment management, space, facilities, student academic services, technology, and partner campuses.

Michael Horswell, Chair of the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, has accepted the additional position of Director of Comparative Studies and the responsibility to oversee research

while Patricia Kollander, Chair of the Department of History, will take on the additional responsibilities of faculty development.

Aimee K. Arias has accepted the position of Chair of the Department of Political Science and Kris Lindbeck has been appointed Director of Jewish Studies. Brian McConnell will serve as Interim Chair for the Department of Visual Arts and Art History. I am deeply grateful to all for their generous commitment to the College and their leadership. – Heather Coltman, DMA Interim Dean

Foreign Policy Award Dr. Jeffrey S. Morton, FAU Professor of Political Science , received the prestigious Foreign Policy Association Medal at the World Leadership Forum Dinner in New York City. The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) was founded in 1918 to promote a broad public understanding of American foreign policy and both the challenges and opportunities that confront the nation abroad. The FPA awards Medals annually to leading practitioners of foreign policy and to academics who research and teach in the area of U.S. foreign policy. Past recipients of the Foreign Policy Association Medal include President Bill Clinton, Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright and Secretary of Defense William Cohen. Also receiving a Foreign Policy Association Medal was Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, former Under-Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs in the George W. Bush administration.

Image: FAU President Mary Jane Saunders and Jeffrey S. Morton

FAU Researcher Part of A Team That Discovered A New Species of Monkey Kate Detwiler, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, was part of a research team that discovered a new species of monkey, the lesula, which lives in the Congolese Rain Forest. Kate was the lead investigator on the genetic analysis that confirmed the new species.

She traveled to the Congo last summer and was able to see the lesula in its natural habitat. Kate will continue her research on the lesula here at FAU and she is working with a graduate student who will travel to the Congo next summer for further research. Kate’s work was featured in National Geographic, MSNBC, the Guardian, BBC, CNN and in several other outlets. Image: John Hart, Pablo Ayali and Kate Detwiler.

PEW Band Camp The Mary and Robert Pew Public Education Fund has awarded the FAU Department of Music grants since 2004, with in-kind matching from Florida Atlantic University in facility, faculty and staff time.

This grant funds the placement of teachers-in-training into two Title One schools in Lake Worth each semester.

These music students teach both individual and group lessons to the students in the respective elementary band programs.

The same elementary students, along with students from KE Cunningham Central Point Elementary, are then supported by grant funding with a summer band camp at FAU. This camp brings 22 music education students at FAU into full immersion teaching for five days each July, as over 100 students from schools in Lake Worth and Coral Point are bussed to the FAU campus to receive comprehensive training. Kyle Prescott (department of music) is the director of both the academic-year and summer programs.

The Art of Sand Painting The Peace Studies program, under the direction of Noemi Marin, hosted 13 Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta, who constructed a mandala sand painting in the Schmidt Gallery in February 2012. To form the mandala, millions of grains of sand are painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days. Each monk held a traditional metal funnel called a chakpur while running a metal rod on its grated surface. The vibration causes the sands to flow like liquid onto the platform.

The theme of the mandala at FAU was “Compassion,” in honor of his Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet,”who visited FAU in 2010.

At the end of the week it was destroyed, in accordance with sand mandala tradition. The visit was funded by the Lynn, Wold, Schmidt Peace Studies Endowment.

Madeleine K. Albright In February 2012, the Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency hosted the first female secretary of state, Dr. Madeleine K. Albright. She delivered a lecture to a sold out audience of 3,000 at Barry Kaye auditorium entitled “Economy and Security in the 21st Century” followed by a lengthy question and answer session moderated by FAU Professor of History Steve Engle.

Lawrence A. Sanders Writer In Residence Program

In March Sanders Writer in Residence Eula Biss read from her creative nonfiction work, Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays, which won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. The Sanders Writer in Residence Program was established at FAU in 2001 to advance the work and memory of Lawrence A. Sanders. Sanders, a best-selling South Florida novelist who died in 1998, achieved great success with his novels The Anderson Tapes and The First Deadly Sin. The next Sanders Writer in Residence presentation will be with Nick Flynn on March 12, 2013.

This program is part of the Literary Author Series in the Department of English, organized by Associate Professor Papatya Bucak.

SURFING Florida More than 900 people attended the opening for the Surfing Florida exhibition, and by the end of its run, more than 3,000 people had seen this ground-breaking exhibition at FAU. In planning for more than three years, the exhibition chronicles the history of surfing in Florida through vintage films, photographs and other media. After two months at FAU it was shipped to the Pensacola Museum of Art. “We are hoping to close the exhibition at the University of Florida’s Museum of Natural History at the close of 2013,” said Galleries Director Rod Faulds.

Image: Surfing Florida: A Photographic History Opening Reception, Friday, March 16, 2012 in the Schmidt Center Gallery, photo courtesy of Lee Sutherland.

Michael McGlynn The Department of Music hosted Michael McGlynn as the 2011/2012 Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Arts chair. McGlynn participated in master classes, presentations and rehearsals with students in the department. His music has been recorded and performed by such internationally recognized vocal ensembles as the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, and Chanticleer. In 1987 he founded the Irish choral group Anúna, which has released 14 albums. The FAU Choral Ensembles (Patricia P. Fleitas and Stacie Lee Rossow) and University Symphony Orchestra (Laura Joella) collaborated in a concert featuring several of McGlynn’s works for chorus and orchestra “Behind the Closed Eye.” McGlynn also participated in the Michael and Madelyn Savarick HIgh School Choral Festival and solo competition.

FESTIVAL REP Theatre More than 4,000 people visited FAU this summer to see the Department of Theater and Dance’s Festival Rep productions presented by Bank of America. Jean-Louis Baldet directed Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost”; Laura Wayth directed “Showtune: A Jerry Herman Musical Revue” and Kyle Prescott was the conductor for “The Big Band Finale.”

Women’s Equality Day In August 2012, the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and other local organizations held a Women’s Equality Day Celebration to commemorate the 92nd anniversary of women’s voting rights. This event featured a reception with elected officials and exhibitors and a panel discussion. The keynote speaker for the panel was Susan Bucher, the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections. Bucher pointed out that over the last year, 160 bills that deal with women’s issues have been introduced into the U.S. Congress. She continued that it is imperative for women to make their voices heard by voting on this legislation. Other panelists included Pam Goodman, former vice president of the League of Women Voters; Josephine Beoku-Betts, director of FAU Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Candace Britt, FAU Honors Student in the Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Thomas Burns of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Image (l/r): Siobhan Adams, FAU President Mary Jane Saunders, Mihu Bisaria, UN Women E. Fl. Chap VP

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School of Communication and Multimedia Studies (SCMS) Melanie Loehwing presented a conference paper at Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Philadelphia, May 2012. Titled “Food Not Bombs: The Protest Rhetoric of Homeless Meal-Sharing Programs,” the paper presents a rhetorical analysis of the Orlando public controversy over the meal-sharing initiative carried out in Lake Eola Park by activist group Food Not Bombs. Loehwing also had an article accepted for publication, co-authored with Jeff Motter (assistant professor at Appalachian State University), titled “Cultures of Circulation: Utilizing CoCultures and Counterpublics in New Media Research.”

Stephen Charbonneau received a Fulbright research grant and is currently based in Canada this fall as the Visiting Research Chair in Humanities, Education, and Social Science at the University of Alberta, Canada.

David Cratis Williams co-directed and presented a paper at the 14th Biennial Wake Forest University Argumentation Conference, held in Venice, Italy. The conference was co-sponsored by Wake Forest and the International Association for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA).

Williams’ paper,“’Democracy’ According to Putin: Explorations in Definitional Argument,” was co-authored with Marilyn Young and Michael Launer. The paper represented a further step in their on-going collaborative research on Russian political rhetoric in the post-Soviet era conducted under the auspices of the International Center for the Advancement of Political Communication and Argumentation, which is based at FAU. Noemi Marin presented a conference paper at the Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference in Philadelphia titled “’The Leader Never Grows Old: Re-Framing the ‘Right’ Images as Rhetorical Arguments in Communist Romania.” The study argues that communist visual images function rhetorically as a political argument to transform audience in accordance with a pre-imposed and controlled performance of national identity.

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Anthropology Mary Cameron was in South Asia for three months on a Multi-Country Grant from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). She was in Kathmandu, Nepal; Dhaka, Bangladesh; and Colombo, Sri Lanka comparing the use, practice, manufacture, education, and politics around Ayurvedic medicine, an ancient and still very important and popular medical system in the region.

Susan Love Brown has been invited to join the advisory board of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies edited by Chris Matthew Sciabarra and published by the Pennsylvania State University Press.

Brown has published a number of articles about Ayn Rand from a cultural studies perspective, the latest being “Ayn Rand as Public Intellectual: Notes from the Margin,” published in “Studies in the Humanities.”

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English

Eric Berlatsky published The Real, The True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation (The Ohio State University Press, 2011) and edited the collection Alan Moore: Conversations (University Press of Mississippi, 2012).

Papatya Bucak’s short story “The History of Girls” was published in Witness and selected for the 2013 PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories anthology put out annually by Anchor Books. She was also named to the board of the Blue Planet Writers Room, a nonprofit writing center for children in West Palm Beach.

Raphael Dalleo published the book Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere (University of Virginia Press). He also appeared on the BBC television program “Who Do You Think You Are,” in an episode in which British soccer star John Barnes learned about his relationship to a Jamaican writer.

Becka McKay translated from Hebrew Alex Epstein’s Lunar Savings Time (Clockroot Books); “More True Superheroes” and “You Need to Take These Shoes Home” in World

English (continued)

Literature Today; “True Illusions” in Discoveries: New Writing from the Iowa Review; and “On the Power of Russian Literature,”“On Mythology,” On the Metamorphosis,”“On the Black Angel,”“On the Painter of Doors,”“On Cain and Abel,” and “On How the iPad Saved the Short Story” in The Kenyon Review.

Julieann Ulin was awarded the FAU Northern Campus Exceptional Faculty Award. Her publications include “‘Famished Ghosts’: Famine Memory in James Joyce’s Ulysses” in Joyce Studies Annual; “‘Can a wrong once done ever be undone?’ Ireland’s Helen of Troy” in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly 39: 3 & 4; and “‘The Astonishing Humanity’: Domestic Discourses in the Friendship and Fiction of Richard Wright and Carson McCullers” in Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan).

Mark Scroggins published two books of poetry, Torture Garden: Naked City Pastorelles (The Cultural Society) and Red Arcadia (Shearsman). He published an essay on the essayist-poetfiction writer Guy Davenport in “Parnassus: Poetry in Review,” another on the poet John Matthias in “The Salt Companion to John Matthias” (Salt Publishing), and another on contemporary garden poetry in “A Companion to Poetic Genres” (Blackwell). Other essays are forthcoming in The Oxford History of the Novel in English, The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Post 1945, and The Cambridge History of American Poetry. His book reviews appeared in Golden Handcuffs Review, Journal of Tourism History, and Bookforum. He published poems in Marsh Hawk Review, Notre Dame Review, Golden Handcuffs Review, and The Cultural Society, and he delivered papers at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 and the Blackfriars Conference at the American Shakespeare Center.

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History

Talitha LeFlouria was featured in the PBS documentary “Slavery by Another Name.” http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/ The documentary is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by the same name, written by Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas Blackmon. The book and series challenge the generally held idea that slavery in the United States ended with the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Evan Bennett published a book co-edited with Debra Reid, Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Farm Families since Reconstruction, with University Press of Florida.

Laura Joella conducted the Broward All County Gold Honors Orchestra in Coral Springs, Florida at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts. She was also the music director/conductor for the Concert Orchestra for New England Music Camp.

Essential and Extraessential Properties of Material Species: The Reduction to the Pristine State” at the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry 2012 Symposium, held at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).

Sandra McClain and Heather Coltman performed at the Holocaust Remembrance Concert: “A Tribute to Artists of the Holocaust: Seven Decades Later, A Survivor Remembers.” The event honored the memory of Hungarian Composer Samuel Blasz.

Lester Embree’s book chapter “Objects Inside and Outside the Body according to the Papers of Dorion Cairns,” was translated into Spanish and appears in Mario Teodoro Ramirez, Merleau-Ponty vivente (Barcelonos: Anthropos). He also published his article “The Way from the Ideal of Science: The Other Motivation for the Transcendental Phenomenological Reduction in the Doctoral Dissertation of Dorion Cairns,” Human Studies, and delivered papers at conferences in New York, Boston, Montreal and Hong Kong.

Kristen Block published her first monograph, Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit (University of Georgia Press, a comparative micro historical study of Christianity in the early Spanish and British Caribbean.

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Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature (LLCL) Ilaria Serra’s article “On Men and Bears: A Forgotten Migration in NineteenthCentury Italy” was accepted by History Workshop Journal (Oxford Journal series).

Serra also finished the editing of “Southern Exposures: Locations and Relocations of Italian Culture” and selected “Proceedings of the 42nd Annual AIHA Conference” with Alan Gravano (now in print with Bordighera Press). This past summer she presented the paper “La poesia liquida di Eugenia Bulat” at the International Italian Studies Conference Echi d’oltremare in Rome and she was official presenter at the XVI Gallio Film Festival “Opere Prime” on the Asiago plateau (Vicenza, Italy). Emanuele Pettener and Ilaria Serra traveled to the province of Oristano in Sardinia to present Giovanni Corona’s novel Questo nostro fratello for which they wrote Preface and Introduction (Trento: Uniservice Editrice).

Kyle Prescott was the conductor of the Youth Orchestra of Palm Beach County; he was the Florida State Chair for the College Band Directors National Association; and conductor and Music Director of the Florida Wind Symphony.

Emanuele Pettener’s short story “L’opera omnia di Ellery Queen” was published in the literary journal “Nuova Prosa n. 58” and its English translation, “The Complete Works of Ellery Queen” is forthcoming in the literary journal”Big Pulp.” His bilingual short-stories collection A Season in Florida is forthcoming (Bordighera Press). Pettener participated in a round table on Italian writer Mario Rigoni Stern at the first Literary Blog Festival in Thiene, Italy.

Michael Zager was visiting professor at Payap University, Chaing Mai, Thailand, and published the second edition of Music Production: A Manual for Producers, Composers, Arrangers and Students (and more).

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Music Patricia P. Fleitas presented a session titled, “Select Choral Works of Latin America” with !Cantemos¡ as the demonstration ensemble at the Florida Music Educators’ In-Service Conference in Tampa, Florida.

Edward Turgeon served as a judge representing Canada and the U.S. at the Isidor Bajic International Piano Competition in Russia. He also performed with the Krasnoyarsk (Russia) Philharmonic Orchestra as a member of Duo Turgeon; at the Russian Two Piano Festival, sponsored by the Krasnoyarsk Philharmonic Society; and at multiple performances as a member of the Duo Turgeon, and with pianists Gennady Pystin and Dmitriy Karpov.

He toured in California, performing at the Village Concerts in Riverside; the Community Concerts Series in Hemet; the Oakmont Concert in Santa Rosa; and the Rancho Bernardo Community Presbyterian Church Concert Series in San Diego.

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Philosophy Marina Banchetti recently published “Black Orpheus and Aesthetic Historicism: On Vico and Negritude” in The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, “Ontological Tensions in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Chemistry: Between Mechanism and Vitalism in Foundations of Chemistry, and “The Ontological Function of First-Order and Second-Order Corpuscles in the Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle” in Foundations of Chemistry. Banchetti also presented a paper titled “Boyle on

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Political Science Robert Rabil was the keynote speaker for the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) 113th commencement in May 2012. Rabil, who is a 1987 graduate of MCLA, also received an honorary doctorate of humanities degree at the ceremony.

Kevin Wagner has been a regular analyst for CBS 12 news and has appeared nationally on PBS Newshour, the Today Show and MSNBC. He’s also been interviewed by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, the New York Post and several others.

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Sociology Ann Branaman published: “Emotions and Human Rights,” forthcoming in The Handbook of Human Rights (edited by David Brunsma), Routledge.

Mark Harvey’s article “Inside the ‘SmokeFilled Room’: Devolution and the Politics of Workfare in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas,” appeared in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Patricia Widener’s book Oil Injustice: Resisting and Conceding a Pipeline in Ecuador (Rowan and Littlefield) appeared in print. University of Minnesota’s David Naguib Pellow writes, “ In this nuanced and highly insightful book, Patricia Widener demonstrates the critical value of bringing a multi-scalar approach to the study of environmental justice conflicts.”

Faculty focus Visual Arts and Art History (VAAH) Carol Prusa: a large collection of her work was exhibited at the Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, from April through August, 2012. In July, she gave a lecture on her work at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Juana Valdes was a resident artist at the European Ceramic Work Center in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. There she was able to experiment with screen printing on clay and a new series of black and white inlay drawing in bone china.

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Sabbatical awards The following faculty have Sabbatical awards during 2012-13

Faculty awards The following awards were conveyed at the 2012 Honors Convocation Awards Ceremony:

The Lifelong Learning Society Distinguished Professorship in Current Affairs 2012/13: Robert Rabil (Political Science)

Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award: Amy Broderick (Visual Arts and Art History)

The Lifelong Learning Society (Jupiter) Faculty Research and Travel Award: Raphael Dalleo (English), Mehmet Gurses (Political Science), Eric Hanne (History), Mirya Holman (Political Science), Juana Valdes (Visual Arts and Art History)

Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award: Steve Engle (History) Excellence in Undergraduate Advising: Maryann Gosser Esquilin (Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature) Scholar of the Year at the Assistant Professor Level: Ilaria Serra (Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature) Scholar of the Year at the Professor Level: Jane Caputi (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies) The Lifelong Learning Society Distinguished Professorship in Arts and Humanities 2012/13: Mark Rose (History)

The following faculty were tenured and promoted to associate professor in spring 2012: Aimee Kanter Arias, Political Science Raphael Dalleo, English Laura Joella, Music Douglas Kanter, History Kristen Lindbeck, Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature Sean Murray, Music Kevin Wagner, Political science Patricia Widener, Sociology

Tom Atkins, Theater/Dance Eric Berlatsky, English Jane Caputi, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Patricia Darlington, Communications and Multimedia Studies Martha Mendoza, Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature Susan Mitchell, English Ryan Moore, Sociology Nora Erro Peralta, Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature Carol Prusa, Visual Arts and Art History Naihua Zhang, Sociology

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Eminent Scholar spotlight Richard Shusterman, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and the Director of the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture, had a busy year.

This is the 20th anniversary of Shusterman’s path-breaking book Pragmatist Aesthetics, which was simultaneously published in French (as L’art à l’état vif), and is now published in 15 different languages. To celebrate this anniversary, the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne hosted an international conference in May on the book’s import that was also accompanied by an art show at the Sorbonne’s Michel Journiac Gallery. Shusterman was invited to curate the show, which included artists with whom he has collaborated.

More recently Shusterman keynoted the three-day conference, “Rethinking Pragmatist Aesthetics,” in Wroclaw, Poland; inaugurated a somaesthetics unit at the University of Krakow; and in June he gave somaesthetic workshops to robotic designers in South

Korea; and lectured in Tokyo and at the Seoul Museum of Art. Shusterman’s Pragmatism: From Literature to Somaesthetics was published; it is the second book in English devoted to interpreting his philosophical ideas.

Grants & awards

Vocal Scholarship Fund The department of music recently received a donation of $25,000 to establish the Georgina Dieter Dennis Vocal Scholarship Fund. Photo: (left to right) Elias Porras, trustee for

the Georgina Dieter Dennis Fund; Richard Schwartz, trustee for the Georgina Dieter Dennis Fund; Rebecca Lautar, chair of FAU’s department of music; Ronald Schagrin, trustee for the Georgina Dieter Dennis Fund.

Wells Fargo to Support Scholarships in the Department of Music The department’s greatest challenge is inadequate scholarship funding for the music students. To build such support, the music faculty decided last year to commit all monetary donations collected at concert events to student scholarships.

Last year, donations totaled over $26,000.

This coming year, Wells Fargo has generously offered to support this effort by matching all donations made at all Department of Music concerts during the 2012-2013 performance season. As Frank Newman, Regional President of Wells Fargo observes, “Wells Fargo’s support of programs that promote academic achievement of Florida’s students is a key priority. We are pleased to support FAU’s Department of Music and its students through this scholarship fund.”

Asian Studies The Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature received an extension of the Expanding Asian Studies Grant from the Department of Education.

This $35,000 grant for 2012-13, which will be directed by Michael Horswell (languages, linguistics and comparative literature), will cover instruction and program building.

Study abroad Exploring Ancient Sicily at Palike Brian E. McConnell, visual arts and art history, directed a five-week archaeological excavation at the site of Rocchicella di Mineo in the course of an FAU study abroad program in Sicily. Students made discoveries in the area of an Archaic temple, a sixth century B.C. canal, and a possible roadway that connected areas of monumental construction. Experience in techniques of archaeological excavation, documentation and the restoration of recovered art and other finds was supplemented by lectures on aspects of Mediterranean history and cultural resource management.

Student news

Diplomacy Program The Diplomacy Program had its most successful year to date. Thirty-two students competed in diplomacy simulations in Indianapolis (Model EU), Washington, DC (Model OAS) and New York City (Model UN). The three delegations won four individual ‘Best Delegate’ awards and three ‘Delegation Awards,’ including an Outstanding Delegation Award in New York City. This is the sixth consecutive year bringing home a national award. Image (above): Diplomacy program students at the Model United Nations opening ceremonies in New York.

Image (above): Students in the Summer Study Abroad program along the diazoma, or the central walkway of the ancient Greek theater at Syracuse.

This building was in operation as a theater at least as early as 238 B.C., and it or prior structures were used for Greek plays as early as the Fifth century B.C.

National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society FAU’s chapter of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society has been named an “Honor Chapter” for its outstanding activities in 2011-12. This is the 2nd consecutive year that FAU has received this award. Nancy Poulson(languages, linguistics and comparative literature) FAU’s chapter adviser, was instrumental in earning this honor that was awarded to only 14 chapters nationwide in 2012.

Alumni spotlight Judith Ortiz Cofer was selected as the 2012 Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Distinguished Alumna.

Cofer, who graduated from FAU in 1977, is a contemporary writer, known for her fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She is the Regents’ and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. Her works include A Love Story Beginning in Spanish: Poems (2005); Call Me Maria (2006); a young adult novel titled The Meaning of Consuelo (2003); and many more.

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