Molefi Kete Asante, professor in the Department of African American Studies at the College of Liberal Arts, has been selected chairman of the United States Committee for the Third Festival of World Black Arts. The festival will be held in Dakar, Senegal from December 1-14, 2009. Fellow Temple African American studies professor Ama Mazama is also on the committee.
William Hitchcock, professor in the Department of History at the College of Liberal Arts, was recently selected as a finalist for the 93rd annual Pulitzer Prize in the general non-fiction category for The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Free Press, 2008). In the announcement, Hitchcock’s book is described as “a heavily documented exploration of the overlooked suffering of noncombatants in the victory over Nazi Germany, written with the dash of a novelist and the authority of a scholar.”
Maria Raha, editor of the Temple Review, has been awarded the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Emily Toth Award for the Best Single Work in Women's Studies in Popular and American Culture in 2008. Raha's book, Hellions: Pop Culture’s Rebel Women (Seal Press, October 2008), analyzes what our iconography reveals about how pop culture informs and limits our definitions of female rebellion. The award was presented at the PCA/ACA Conference in New Orleans, which was held April 8–11.
Bob Rovner, Temple trustee, has been reappointed as a member of the Pennsylvania Lawyers Fund for Client Security Board for a second term by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. His appointment will last three years and began on April 1. The board was established 25 years ago to reimburse victims of attorney dishonesty in the practice of law.
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