UALR professors from the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences will scatter across the world this summer, studying and presenting – experiences that will enhance their classrooms and laboratories.

Here are a few:

• Dr. Krista Lewis is excavating ruins in Yemen, with student Elizabeth Saunders of Hot Springs.
• Dr. Laura Amrhein, who this spring participated in an environmental art project in Nepal, will be in Peru this summer on a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute grant.
• Michael Warrick is in the process of preparing an outdoor sculpture to represent Little Rock in its sister city in China.
• Dr. Pam Pike will present her paper exploring the use of portable keyboards to enhance the musical experiences of retirees at the International Society for Music Education in Bologna, Italy.
• Dr. Clea Bunch, who recently conducted historical research in Jordanian-American relations, is one of six speakers invited to present at the conference at the University of Norwegian Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
• Dr. Laura Smoller will give a paper at a small, invitation-only day-long symposium “The Saint between Manuscript and Print” at the American Academy in Rome and will present another paper at the “International Medieval Congress” in Leeds, England, where she will also chair a session on the plague. She recently was named editor of the medieval Europe section of the journal “History Compass.”
• Moira Maguire, assistant professor of history, will begin preliminary research in Dublin on 20th century bigamy in Ireland.
• Dr. Thomas Kaiser will be researching the career of an 18th century French minister in the archives of the French Foreign Ministry and the Biblioteque National.
• Associate Professor Kristin Dutcher Mann will be researching Spanish military expeditions in current-day northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S.
• Rhetoric and writing instructors Marcia Smith, Frankie Chadwick, and Suzann Barr are presenting at a First Year Experience course in Ireland.
• Dr. James Parins is attending a conference on American Indian Literature in Montpelier, France, in May.
• Dr. Steve Anderson will be presenting at the 8th Annual Borders and Crossings Conference in Sidney, Australia, in July.
• Dr. Earl Ramsey, professor of English and director of the Donaghey Scholars Program, will be conducting research in France in June and July.
• Dr. Russell Murphy, chair of the English Department, will be conducting research in Cambridge, England.
• Dr. Alan Lytle, director, Intensive English Language program, will present “The Lyrics of Writing and Speaking” at the International Congress for English Coordinators and Directors of Studies in Buenos Aires, Argentina.