Jeff Allender
Dr. Jeff Allender, a professor in the Geography Department, has been selected as one of six U.S. faculty to participate in the Association of Regional Centers for Asian Studies (ARCAS) study of the Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia. Funded by the Luce foundation, it is a six week project/grant that will look at the assimilation and/or isolation of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. The six academics from around the US and two ARCAS directors will be spending two weeks in both Indonesia and Malaysia, and a week each in Singapore and Honolulu. The intent of the project is both to better understand how Chinese communities have been so economically successful in their new host nations, yet remain rather isolated culturally, and to create curricular content to enhance and expand the global content of their classes.
Dr. Dwayne C. Coleman’s essay “Talking Heads in Hell: Dante’s Use of Severed Heads in Inferno” has been published as part of the book collection Heads will Roll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination edited by Larissa Tracy and Jeff Massey. The volume was released Feb. 10 by Brill Academic Publishing. Coleman is an assistant professor in the English Department
UCA Site of Arkansas Political Science Association Annual Meeting
The UCA Political Science Department sponsored the annual meeting of the Arkansas Political Science Association on Feb. 24 – 25. The meeting drew approximately 100 political scientists and students from Arkansas and surrounding states. Participants discussed a variety of topics including the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, the Arkansas court system and judicial decision-making, the causes of the Middle Eastern Revolutions, education policy and civic education.
Undergraduate and graduate students also presented their research in American politics and public policy, international relations, comparative politics and political theory. The Arkansas Political Science Association (ArkPSA) is a professional association of university and secondary political science educators, graduate and undergraduate students, practitioners and others interested in the scientific study of government and political behavior.