For the Record, Friday, July 26, 2024

For the Record provides information about recent professional activities and honors of University of Delaware faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Recent presentations, awards, publications and appointments include the following:

Presentations

Polly Zavadivker, assistant professor of history and director of the program in Jewish studies, presented new research titled "Holocaust literature as a source of peacemaking in the present" at the multi-disciplinary conference Why Remember?: Reframing Trauma held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, July 12-15. The conference was sponsored by the London College of Communication; University of the Arts London; The Manhattan College Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center; and the Institute for the Research of War crimes at the University of Sarajevo. She presented methods of teaching texts about genocide that facilitate knowledge of evidence and enable moral and personal transformation, with examples from contemporary peace activism in Israel/Palestine.

Awards

Alexander Sulimov, professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, was honored as an "invited poet" at the inauguration of the 34th International Poetry Festival of Medellín. This event is renowned as one of the world's most selective and prestigious poetry festivals, and it received the Right Livelihood Award in 2006, often referred to as the "Alternative Nobel Prize." Selimov's participation in the festival's inauguration marked a significant opening to the week-long celebration of poetry. Following this ceremonial start, the festival brought together 80 acclaimed and award-winning poets from 40 countries. These artists presented their poetry and participated in musical performances before an audience of thousands. The event showcased a diverse range of poetic voices and cultural expressions, fostering international literary exchange and celebration.

Publications

"Freshman Essay'' and "Contracture" by Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and professor of humanities, were published recently under the title "Told and Untold: Two Poems" in Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, which is produced at St. Cloud State University. Both poems are concerned with the subject of violence against women and girls and reflect Stetz's ongoing scholarly and teaching interests in this area.

Duygu Phillips, assistant professor of entrepreneurship, has recently published "Signaling the family firm brand in recruitment materials: The role of category-based cognitive processing on applicant attraction" with co-authors Kincy Madison, Sandra Wold, Andreas Hack and Franz Kellermanns in the Journal of Business Research. In this study, Phillips and co-authors integrate signaling theory and the theory of reasoned action to explore how signaling the family firm brand in recruitment materials affects applicant attraction. They find that family firms are perceived to be more authentic and innovative but have inferior HR systems compared to non-family firms, which in turn affect job seekers' attraction to family firms differently.

Appointments

Stephanie Raible, associate professor of entrepreneurship, has been appointed as a director-at-large (DAL) board member of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), beginning her three-year term on July 1, 2024. Joining a select group of 11 board members, Raible will help guide the association's mission of fostering innovation and best practices in entrepreneurship education. Previously, she has contributed to USASBE through her work on the Conference Commission and Financial Task Force and as a leader within the Social Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group and Social Entrepreneurship Certificate program.

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