Associate Professor of Communication Matthew Buzzell presents the research he did while writing a screenplay titled Occupied.
wife of a U.S. Army officer and a radical
Japanese painter in occupied Japan during
World War II. Buzzell’s work required two
trips to Japan.
“I met with the painter’s widow, looked at
archives, and photo albums to help with my
research,” Buzzell said.
The Pamplin research grants supported this
travel.
Dr. Mary-Kate Lizotte, Associate Professor
of Political Science, received Pamplin funding
for her research on the gender gap in political
behavior. She presented her findings at one
of the Life of the Mind events in the fall 2017
semester.
For this project, Lizotte investigated why
American women are more supportive of
government regulations and spending to
protect the environment than are men. Her
research indicates that women’s greater
concern for other people helps to explain some
of these public policy positions.
This project is part of a larger book
manuscript on gender differences in public
“We were successful in the
first year. We feel this is an
important opportunity to
highlight the contributions
our faculty are making to
their respective fields and
to start meaningful conver-
sations about collaborative
opportunities.”
– Dr. Martha Ginn,
Associate Dean
opinion, which Lizotte happily reports is
under contract to be published.
Dr. Robert Foster’s research funded by the
College led him across the pond. The Professor
of Music presented his work on the artist
Mark Rothko at the European Conference of
Arts and Humanities in Brighton, England.
His work explored the relationship between
Rothko’s paintings and the sound of silence (in
Japanese, the concept of Ma, a balance between
silence and sound.)
Foster said, “My research draws an analogy
between something that looks simple and
something that sounds simple.”
Dean Elna Green tries to attend every
presentation and said, “Our faculty are
tremendously gifted and creative. For me,
these sessions are so energizing – opportunities
to see new things, hear new ideas, and look at
old ideas in new ways. It’s one of the joys of
being in a College with such a diverse range of
disciplines.”
The series also helps to further her goal of
increasing the College’s research productivity
and raising our national profile.
The Life of the Mind series continues
this year, with new scholarship and creative
activity to be shared across the College.
Read more about the Life of Mind in Jagwire
at https://jagwire.augusta.edu/archives/47363.
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