About Our People
Mark David Hall (Political Science) was interviewed on Nov. 23 by Coral Ridge Ministries about the book he coedited with Daniel L. Dreisbach, The Sacred Rights of Conscience. The new book provides a collection of primary sources that illuminate the discussions and debates about religious liberty in the American founding era.
Kathy Heininge (English) attended the American Conference for Irish Studies – West meeting in Los Gatos, Calif., in October. At the end of the meeting, her term as president of the organization ended. In November, she was invited to speak at National University of Ireland in Galway at the international symposium, “Ibsen and Chekhov on the Irish Stage.†Her paper, derived from her master’s thesis, was “Ibsen and Yeats: The Use of Myth in Establishing National Drama.†The conference proceedings will be published by Carysfort Press in Dublin. Finally, Kathy’s article on playwright Gerard Stembridge appeared in Deviant Acts, a scholarly collection also published by Carysfort Press.
Peter Crackenberg (Marketing Communications) was named the Employee of the Month for November.