History Faculty Honored
Awards to two members in the Tulane history department for their research projects lead faculty news items.
Linda Pollock, professor of history, was awarded a grant from the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund in support of her project "Emotions and Values in Early Modern England."
Pollock's history department colleague Emily Clark, an associate professor, received a Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities by the Historic New Orleans Collection for her project "The Strange History of the American Quadroon."
Hugh W. Long, professor of health systems management and adjunct professor of law, the current president of the board of trustees of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, was recently elected to the board of directors of the League of American Orchestras. The league is a national organization with nearly 1,000 members.
Susann Lusnia, associate professor of classical studies, gave lectures Jan. 26â“29 in Nashville, Tenn., and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, as part of the Archaeological Institute of America's 2009-10 Lecture Series. She was invited to speak at "Teaching Pompeii in a Liberal Arts Setting: Contexts, Interdisciplinarity, and Collaboration," a workshop sponsored by the classics department at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., Feb. 4â“6.
At an oil drilling symposium sponsored recently at Florida State University, Mark Davis of Tulane Law School was a guest speaker. Davis is senior research fellow and director of the law school's Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy. At the symposium, which was discussing the issues surrounding offshore drilling off the coast of Florida, news media quoted Davis as saying, "Do we even know if there's any oil or gas or anything else of interest off Florida's coast? You don't know unless you look, and you can't look unless you engage exploratory activity."
