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Jan Hathorn, director of athletics, was inducted into the C-Club Hall of Fame at her alma mater, SUNY Cortland, for her athletic and professional achievements. And Chris McHugh ’09, a four-year letter winner in basketball as a student, returned to the court as the new head men’s basketball coach.
A PRIZE FOR ROD SMITH
R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review, and W&L writer in residence, won the 2017 William Peden Fiction Prize from The Missouri Review for the best short story published in the last year: “The Satans.”
9. THEIR WORD IS LAW Christopher Seaman, associate professor of law, is the new director of the Frances Lewis Law Center. And David Thompson ’19L and Michael StinnettKassoff ’19L have been named co-directors for law admissions for Service 2 School, a nonprofit that provides educational guidance and networking for members and veterans of the U.S. military.
7. SUSTAINABLE ACHIEVEMENTS W&L received a $21,800 grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund to help fund a new sub-metering project in the Village upper-division housing. It will allow students to see, track and compare their electricity use through an interface they can access on their phones. In related news, the university increased its sustainability rating from a bronze to a silver in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS).
10 FACULTY BOOKS
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WELCOME TO THE COLLEGE
The College welcomed two new associate deans: Gwyn E. Campbell, W&L professor of Spanish, and Meredith McCoy, former director of student affairs and adjunct professor for the department of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Gordon Ball, visiting associate professor of English: “On Tokyo’s Edge: Gaijin Tales from Postwar Japan” (Red Mountain Press, 2017), 23 short stories set in 1950s Japan — where Ball grew up. Joshua A.T. Fairfield, the William Donald Bain Family Professor of Law: “Owned: Property, Privacy, and the New Digital Serfdom” (Cambridge University Press, 2017) examines the intersection of smart technology and the law. If you’ve got a smartphone, you’ll want to read this. Chris Gavaler, assistant professor of English: “Superhero Comics” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), a complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre. Gavaler blogs about the multiverse of comics, pop culture and politics at “The Patron Saint of Superheroes.” Seth Michelson, assistant professor of Spanish, editor: “Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention” (Settlement House, 2017), a bilingual collection of prose and poetry gathered and translated by Michelson and some of his students, who visited the facility as part of a course. Barton Myers, associate professor of history, co-editor with Brian D. McKnight: “The Guerrilla Hunters: Irregular Conflicts during the Civil War” (LSU Press, 2017), which gathers the current work of top experts in this area of Civil War studies.