Dr. Lorien Foote, associate professor of history, is the author of a newly published book, The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood in the Union Army. Based on extensive research at the National Archives in seldom-used court martial records, Dr. Foote examines how upper-class officers in the Union army exerted control over working-class enlisted men and how class-bound attitudes regarding honor and manhood were central to this control. The book was published by New York University Press. Dr. Foote, the 2010 winner of UCA’s Teaching Excellence Award, is also the author of Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform, published in 2003 by Ohio University Press.
Dr. Michael Yoder and Dr. Jeff Allender presented papers at the annual meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers (SWAAG) in Tahlequah, Oklahoma on Oct. 15- Oct. 16. Dr. Yoder presented the paper titled “Entrepreneurial Governance and Economic Development in Micropolitan Cities of Arkansas.” The paper addressed the challenges that confront standalone small cities of Arkansas with populations of at least 10,000 but less than 50,000, and not part of any metropolitan area, as they attempt to bring about economic development. The research is based on extensive interviews of public officials, economic developers, and commercial real estate brokers. Dr. Yoder is an associate professor of geography and drector of the Master of Science in Community and Economic Development (MSCED). Dr. Allender’s paper was “Vernacular Rock & Brick Construction in the Southern Ozarks.” Dr. Allender is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography.
Language Learning Center Assistantship For Spring 2011
The Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures is offering two scholarships to native speakers of Chinese, and French for Spring 2011. The department is inviting native speakers of these languages on campus to apply to work in the Language Learning Center to tutor and to provide cultural enrichment activities for students. Applicants must be full-time undergraduate students and will be expected to work eight hours a week. Deadline for applications is Nov.5. Please call 450-3256 or come by Irby 209 for more information and an application. Applications may be found at www.uca.edu/wlan