Academics & Research

Michael Matthews presented his paper "La historia cultural del auge de los ferrocarriles en la época porfiriana: patrimonio intangible del cambio tecnológico en México" ( The Cultural History of the Porfirian Railway Boom: An Intangible Patrimony of Technological Change in Mexico) at the Semanario Internacional: Paisajes Culturales y Patrimonio en San Luis Potosí, México.

Kirstin Ringelberg speaks on her most recent scholarship into gender and contemporary art at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Toronto.

Kirstin Ringelberg, Associate Professor of Art History, presented her current work on the Japanese video installation artist Tabaimo at the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) conference at Rikkyo University in Tokyo on June 30, 2012.

Communications associate professor George Padgett and assistant professors Naeemah Clark and Julie Lellis presented at the Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations Conference June 11-13 in Vancouver.

Teresa LePors, coordinator of library public services, and Derek Rodriguez, program officer with the Triangle Research Libraries Network in Chapel Hill, presented a session at the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities 8th Annual Assessment Conference at Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C., on May 31, 2012.

As an entrepreneur, Michelle Ferrier has experienced startup pains and joys with her local food news site LocallyGrownNews.com. But as a researcher, she was puzzled as to why few people of color seem to make up the ranks of media entrepreneurs.

Thomas Erdmann, professor of music, had two 6,000-word articles featured on the front cover of the July/August 2012 issue of Saxophone Journal.

Catherine J. Wasson, Elon’s Director of Legal Method & Communication (LMC), and professors Robert Parrish, Tom Noble, Patricia Perkins, John Flynn and Jackie Connors traveled to California to participate in the 15th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute, held May 29 through June 1.