2008 Contact Improvisation conference at Juniata. Eight digital media students worked on the film over several years. Polly Walker, assistant professor of peace and conflict studies, presented “Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change” at Peace and Justice Studies Conference: Anticipating Climate Disruption: Sustaining Justice, Greening Peace, at Tufts University, in Medford, Mass in October 2012. She also was invited to speak on “En-acting Narratives: Transformative Performance in the Aftermath of Violence ” at a conference,
Engaging the Other: Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Walker also published chapters in the publications Being and Becoming Indigenous Social Researchers and Learning and Mobilising for Community Development: A Radical Tradition of Community-Based Education and Training. David Witkovsky, chaplain, was elected to the executive committee of the National Association of College and University Chaplains. He also was elected as vice chair of the board of trustees of Bethany Theological
Seminary. Witkovsky and Lauren Seganos ’12 and Lindsay Monihen, both campus ministry assistants, presented a workshop, “Youth and Young Adult Ministry in a Changing World,” at a meeting in Easton, Md. in October. Sarah Worley ’00, assistant professor of communication, and Abbey Baird ’09, director of community service and service learning,were awarded a $1,000 American Association of Colleges and Universities Bringing Theory to Practice grant.
Jack Barlow, Dana professor of politics, edited To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: Selected Writings
of Gouverneur Morris, published by the Liberty Fund. Barlow wrote the introduction and the headnotes for each chapter. Many of the writings of Morris, a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and one of the main authors of the United States Constitution, contained in this new volume have never been published before.
So What?
Q: How did this book project come about? A: I was writing an article on Cicero on property rights and I found a book on property rights that included a chapter on Morris. All the citations from Morris were from manuscripts and I looked to see if there was a published version of his papers. There wasn’t, so I pitched the idea to Liberty Press and they said yes. Q: How long did the process take from start to finish? A: The whole project took 10 years from conception to publication. In 2007-2008 I took a sabbatical to do the research at Princeton, and from October 2007 through to 2008 I worked on it full time. I think since 2009 my work has been done except for proofreading. Q: Since the papers of Gouverneur Morris was unlikely to be a best seller, did the press pay you? A: They did pay me to do it, probably more than I ever would have made through royalties. Q: What’s the most annoying question you get about Gouverneur Morris? A: How to pronounce his name is number one. Number two is “What was he governor of?”
Course from Realism to Abstraction, with Christiane H. Citron, in conjunction with the debut of a Juniata College Museum of Art exhibition on Minna Citron in September. The 64-page book gives a fascinating overview of a little-known feminist artist’s work.
So What?
Q: Does every art exhibit ask for a publication essay published in book form? A: It depends on the exhibition and the institution. Some major art exhibits use the exhibition as an opportunity to publish a book on the artist or the show and my exhibition book is meant to be used as a guide to Minna Citron’s work that can travel with the exhibition to the other museums who are showing the exhibition. Q: Did your doctoral thesis provide most of the research in this book or did you do additional research? A: Some of both. My doctorate focused only on her Social Realism work in the 1930s and this exhibit goes beyond that and follows her shift to abstraction into the 1960s and ’80s. Q: What was the most interesting thing you found in your research into her later years? A: Her work into the 1980s was even more interesting because she returned to materials and ideas she was using in her earlier work. She wasn’t copying her own work. The later art was informed by the earlier pieces. Q: You’re going on sabbatical soon, what’s your next project? A: I’m on a collaborative project with Richard Hark (professor of chemistry) to analyze the art museum’s collection of portrait miniatures.
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Jennifer Streb, associate professor of art, published with Juniata Press Minna Citron: The Uncharted