Jennie Miskec co-edits new collection

The Early Reader in Children’s Literature and Culture: Theorizing Books for Beginning Readers is a new collection of essays co-edited by Jennie Miskec, Associate Professor of Children’s Literature.  Published by Routledge, the volume includes fifteen interdisciplinary articles that draw upon and synthesize scholarship in education, child psychology, sociology, cultural studies, and children’s literature.

Steven Isaac in roundtable on terrorism; featured on AHA blog and C-Span

As a result of a chapter contributed to the recent Routledge History of Terrorism, history professor Steven Isaac was invited to participate in a roundtable on “The History of Terrorism: New Avenues of Research”  at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, held in Atlanta at the start of January. The panel drew […]

Chemistry faculty publish in Journal of Chemical Education

Four members of the Longwood chemistry faculty, Dr. Sarah Porter, Dr. Melissa Rhoten, Dr. Benjamin Topham, and Dr. Andrew Yeagley, have recently had a paper accepted to appear in a special issue of the Journal of Chemical Education. Launched in 1924, the Journal of Chemical Education is the world’s premier chemical education journal. The topic of the […]

Mike Lund helps vets tell their stories

When Michael Lund put a notice in the local newspaper about a writing workshop he was starting for military veterans and their families, he didn’t have any idea who might show up.  Then Thomas Bragg walked through the door of the Blackstone Conference and Retreat Center with that newspaper tucked under his arm and a […]