October 1, 2012
Wilkinson Chairs h
ard at work discussing a variety of issues. We are moving towards establishing a range of guidelines for tenure and promotion; for developing strategic plans at the Department and College level. You may also note how the Chairs are sinking in their seats as I proposed yet another committee!
Professor Steven Pfaff, one of the Sociology Department’s newest faculty members, considers himself an eclectic scholar who gets to study all the “interesting things” – politics, religions, conflict, and social change. In his most recent book, The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance and Mutiny in the Age of Sail (Cambridge University Press) Pfaff and co-author
The experimental art and literary journal, The Underground, has officially launched its first issue. The Underground is a student-run all-digital space (under the supervision of faculty advisor Rebecca Goodman (English)) for creative minds to exist in one collaborative space. It is a platform for digitally accessible narratives, including video, visual, interactive, and trans-genre compositions. “I