Professors Present Scholarly Works

Associate Professor of English, Dr. Willie Steele, has been invited to present a paper at the 20th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in Cooperstown, New York on June 4-6, 2008. The Symposium, co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, examines the impact of baseball on American culture from inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives. This years Symposium will feature the largest number of invited presentations since the program’s inception.

Dr. Steele’s paper, titled “America’s Yankee: Bobby Murcer’s Life In and Out of Baseball”, deals with Murcer’s recent struggles with brain cancer, how he made the transition from player to announcer, and how his faith has sustained him during his life.

Dr. Darren Williamson, Associate Professor of History, will be presenting a paper at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference to be held in St. Louis, Missouri from October 23-26, 2008. The title of Dr. Williamson’s paper is “Erasmian Motifs on Religious Toleration in Hubmaier’s On Heretics and Those Who Burn Them”. The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference is a scholarly society that is interested in the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1660).