Ben Pettis, assistant professor of rhetoric and communication studies, presented "Standardizing and Optimizing Education: Constructing the Neoliberal User in Learning Management Systems" at the 76th Annual International Communication Association (ICA) Conference.
Ben Pettis published "Subscribe, Follow, Save: Podcast Preservation in the Platform Era" in the Journal of Radio and Audio Media. The article discusses the PodcastRE project and the ongoing changes in the podcasting industry and audio distribution platforms which create challenges for digital archiving projects.
“Z” by Harrison Moenich, manager of photography arts and media equipment, was selected from their photograph series Q.M.C. for inclusion in Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art's Made in VA Biennial 2026.
Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh, professor of theatre and dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, published “Reclaiming Narrative Authority: Gendered Violence and Feminist Reauthorship in Sharon Pollock's Saucy Jack” in Frame, Journal of Literary Studies.
Sandy Williams IV, assistant professor of art, is exhibiting 00:10:00 (The Declaration of Independence) as part of the City of Alexandria’s Time and Place 2026 project that commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Michelle Kahn, associate professor of history, won the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize for her book Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History.
Jorge A. Wong Medina, assistant professor of classical studies, published "Sappho’s flowers: Lyric ἄνθεσιν and the Aeolic dative” in Glotta.
Linda Fairtile, head of Parsons Music Library and adjunct lecturer of music, published a critical edition of Giacomo Puccini's opera Edgar. The edition reconstructs the orchestral score from historical sources since the original complete score did not survive.
Caitlin Giustiniano, visiting assistant professor of Russian studies, was awarded a fellowship by the American Councils for International Education for a four-week immersive program that combines language and cultural study in Kazakhstan.
Rania Kassab Sweis, associate professor of anthropology, presented "The Politics of Medicine in the Middle East" at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago in honor of National Arab American Heritage Month.
Kurt Beals, visiting associate professor of German studies, received an honorable mention for the Stephen Mitchell Prize for Excellence in Translation for So the Day Begins: Grief Refrain, a translation of Anja Utler’s book of poetry.
Dean Simpson, professor of classical studies, received the 2026 Lurlene W. Todd Teacher of the Year Award from the Classical Association of Virginia. The award recognizes an outstanding Latin teacher or professor of Latin, Greek, classics, or archaeology on any instructional level in Virginia.
