Faculty/staff notes

Victoria Goff, associate professor, ICS (Communication), was invited to lead a workshop on feature writing at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois, this past July.

Prof. Harvey Kaye, Social Change and Development, has been serving as historical adviser to Remix America, a nonpartisan Web project that encourages democracy. The project was launched by Norman Lear, the Hollywood producer who created “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons,” “Maude” and other memorable television programs. To learn more about Remix America, go online at http://www.remixamerica.org

UW-Green Bay Phoenix Head Coach Tod Kowalczyk will be the evening banquet keynote speaker when the Northeast Wisconsin Association of IT Professionals holds its Information Technology Conference Oct. 15 and 16 at the Radisson Hotel and Convention Center. His topic will be “Teamwork and Team Building.”

Prof. Craig Lockard (SCD/History) was in Washington, D.C. in July as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities panel screening grant proposals for research or writing projects on South and Southeast Asia. His paper, “Water frontiers, Maritime Trade, and Chinese Diasporas in the Southeast Asian Age of Commerce, 1400-1700” was also presented to the annual World History Association summer conference in July.

Kim Nielsen, professor of Social Change & Development, recently published the essay “Historical Thinking and Disability History,” Disability Studies Quarterly 28/3 (July 2008).