Newsbriefs, AY 2007-2008

February 2008

  • PROFESSOR'S WORK FEATURED IN NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY'S "BOOKS THAT MATTER" CAMPAIGN
    (02.10.08) Tigers, Rice, Silk and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China by Robert Marks is reviewed by fellow historian Elizabeth Blackmar, in a series presented by the N-YHS and published monthly in the New York Times' Book Review section. The series relates "what historians are reading now"; Marks' book was included in the February 10, 2008, edition of the Times.
  • PRESIDENT RESPONDS TO NY TIMES ARTICLE RE: ENDOWMENTS
    (02.10.08) In a letter to the editor published in a Sunday edition of the New York Times, President Sharon Herzberger makes the case that size of endowment does not necessarily equate quality education.


January 2008

  • LEVELLE, LOZANO, COOK AT CARNEGIE HALL
    (01.10.08) A concert featuring original works by composer and associate professor of music Teresa LeVelle, with performances by two of her Whittier colleagues, Grammy-winning flautist Danny Lozano and pianist Stephen Cook, was given at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York.
  • PROFESSOR'S LATEST TEXT DRAWS ENDORSEMENT FROM TWO LEADING SCHOLARS
    (01.05.08) Published by Lexington Press and co-authored with Kristen Williams of Clark University, Joyce Kaufman's most recent work, "Women, the State and War: A Comparative Perspective of Citizenship and Nationalism," looks at the intersection of gender, citizenship, and nationalism; marriage, intermarriage, and how states gender that relationship; and the ways in which women are used a symbols to reinforce or further nationalistic goals. Following the book's release, Cynthia Enloe and V. Spike Peterson, two of the biggest names in the field of feminist international politics, each offered their endorsement, calling the comparative study a "superb combination of IR theory and careful case studies" and noting it "demonstrates the political salience of feminist inquiry."


December 2007

  • WHITTIER AT THE WORLD UNIVERSITIES FORUM
    (12.21.07) Whittier College will be heading for international noteriety when Advancement Vice President Elizabeth Robison joins colleagues from around the globe at the inaugural World Universities Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in late January 2008, following the World Economic Forum. At the conference, Robison will present the workshop, "Serving the Under-Served: The Challenges and Opportunities of Whittier College’s Commitment to Under-Represented Students," focusing on the challenges and opportunities of building—and preserving—a diverse campus and ensuring access, with an interactive participant discussion to identify areas of common experience and best practices from various higher education contexts.
  • NORWEIGIAN MINISTRY INVITES MARKS FOR SALON
    (12.07.07) Robert Marks, Richard & Billie Diehl Distinguished Professor of History, was invited by the Norweigian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to present a "salon" centered around ideas expressed in his book, The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century—a text used in more than 600 American colleges and universities and printed in several languages, including Norweigian. Marks' November 26 presentation was to be part of a broad public discussion in Norway of their relationship to the forces of "globalization." This is the second international broadcast interview of late Marks has been invited to give; the first was with Swedish public television, for a six-part series on globalization.
          While in Oslo, Marks was also interviewed by two news organizations, one a weekly like Newsweek and the other a daily literary paper.  He also presented two lectures at the University of Bergen, one based on Origins, and the other on another of his books, Tigers, Rice, Silk and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China.