The legacy of Naseer H. Aruri

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-419
Author(s):  
Hani A. Faris
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Research Award ◽  
Middle East Politics ◽  
Distinguished Research ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

Naseer H. Aruri (7 January 1934–10 February 2015) was an internationally recognized and renowned scholar, activist and expert on Middle East politics, US foreign policy in the Middle East and human rights. He was Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science, having served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) – Dartmouth from 1965 to 1998. In 1993, he received the College of Arts and Sciences ‘Distinguished Research Award'. His papers have been preserved and are on display at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at UMASS-Dartmouth. This text is based on an earlier version of a speech delivered by the author at the Memorial for Naseer Aruri held on 12 April 2015 at UMASS-Dartmouth.

In Honor of Naseer H. Aruri (1934–2015)

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Author(s):  
Fouad Moughrabi ◽  
Elaine Hagopian
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
College Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

In the remembrance that follows, we pay tribute to the late Naseer H. Aruri, who passed away on 10 February 2015. After serving on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth for over three decades, Aruri retired as chancellor professor (emeritus) of political science in 1998. Aruri, who was born in Palestine in 1934, came to the United States as a twenty-year-old to pursue his college education and he devoted the rest of his life to the study and advancement of Middle Eastern, and particularly Palestinian, politics, as well as U.S. Middle East foreign policy, and human rights. His stature both as a scholar and unswerving advocate of justice and equality for all in the land of his birth and further afield earned him the unconditional admiration and love of his many students, colleagues, and fellow intellectuals.

Privacy and Access in the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Records

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Jessica Holden ◽  
Ana Roeschley
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
University Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

Archival collections that include records about victims and survivors of child abuse present unique challenges regarding privacy, access, and representation. With a long tenure of collecting on the history of social welfare, University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston had to address these challenges before processing and making available the historic inactive records of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC). UASC and the MSPCC took steps to ensure that the MSPCC collection would be accessible to the survivors represented in the records and to their descendants, while also providing appropriate access to the collection for the wider public. To protect the privacy of any former MSPCC clients who may still be living, the MSPCC and UASC collaborated to establish a set of policies that can be adapted by archives working with similar collections.

Iraq

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Penrose
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
International Firm ◽  
University College ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Economics Department ◽  
The University

After a brief return to the USA during which Edith completed The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, in 1957 she and Penrose took up positions at the University College of Arts and Sciences of Baghdad, in Iraq, where they taught for two years, establishing the Economics Department. This experience triggered Edith’s lifelong interest in the Middle East, the oil industry, and the international firm. She grasped the opportunity of researching the international oil companies, convinced few economists had done this satisfactorily. She also demonstrated the commitment to her students which she was always to show, believing she had a responsibility to mentor them as, in her view, trained economists were as essential to the development of the state as doctors, agriculturalists, or engineers. E. F. Penrose studied the dynamic politics of Iraq, including the revolution of 1958. On leaving Iraq, Edith drove to Cambridge for an interview.

Corals in the Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Irus Braverman
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Reef Fish ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Fish Ecology ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of New Hampshire

Peter F. Sale is a marine ecologist. He has been a faculty member at the University of Sydney, Australia; the University of New Hampshire, USA; and the University of Windsor, Canada, where he is currently professor emeritus. His research in Hawai‘i, Australia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East has focused primarily on reef fish ecology and on the management of coral reefs. In his 2011 book ...

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION TO “THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON” By W. E. B. DU BOIS

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-366
Author(s):  
Robert Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Significance ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Archives ◽  
The Face ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

AbstractThe Du Bois Review is pleased to publish, for the first time, this significant reflection on “the meaning of Booker T. Washington to America,” and in so doing highlight Du Bois's desire to see courage, rather than sacrifice, prevail in the face of injustice. This previously unpublished essay is among the W. E. B. Du Bois Papers housed in the Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. It was brought to our attention by Robert Brown, who provides an introductory essay including an analysis of the likely date the essay was penned. We present it to our readers with the permission of The David Graham Du Bois Trust.

The Life and Work of Bill Heronemus, Wind Engineering Pioneer

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 335-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woody Stoddard
Keyword(s):  
Wind Power ◽  
Wind Farms ◽  
Offshore Wind ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
Offshore Wind Farms ◽  
The Us ◽  
Oil Crisis ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University ◽  
Wind Power Development

William Edward Heronemus, Captain, USN (Ret.), Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, born April 16, 1920, died November 2, 2002. This is a memorial record and obituary of a remarkable wind power engineer, Bill Heronemus of the University of Massachusetts and, previously, of the US Navy. The author, a previous student and close colleague, writes personally, with much input and support from other colleagues and previous students. The aim is not only to record research, development and commitment at the early stages of modern wind power, but also to honour an admirable pioneer. Bill Heronemus is credited with foreseeing the 1973 Oil Crisis and thereafter wind power developments that have since been realised, including offshore wind farms. He is also credited with teaching and motivating many students who later became professional of modern wind power development and commerce. The obituary Note has been written from personal knowledge and from many written and verbal communications from colleagues and friends of Bill Heronemus who worked with him at different stages of his life. Details are referenced, with other records kept with the author.

scholarly journals PROFESSOR EMERITUS ALBERT ADU BOAHEN (1932–2006)

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-361
Keyword(s):  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
African History ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Culture Of Silence ◽  
Publishing Career ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Ghana

On 24 May 2006, Professor Emeritus of History Albert Adu Boahen passed away on the evening of his 74th birthday. The first Ghanaian to receive a Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1959, and the first African to chair the Department of History at the University of Ghana in 1967, Adu Boahen was without a doubt Ghana's foremost historian and a distinguished statesman. His publishing career spanned some forty years, his works ranging from standard textbooks in use in Africa and the West to major interpretations of African history such as African Perspectives on Colonialism (1987), Mfantsipim and the Making of Ghana: A Centenary History, 1876–1976 (1996) and Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante–British War of 1900–1 (2003). A scholar–activist, he demonstrated a consistent opposition to dictatorial rule and military regimes that earned him stints in prison. In February 1988, on the platform of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he was a fellow, he delivered three lectures under the title of ‘The Ghanaian Sphinx: Reflections on the Contemporary History of Ghana, 1972–1987’ that broke the ‘Culture of Silence’ of the oppressive Rawlings regime and inaugurated what has been termed the ‘second independence of Ghana’. Posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Ghana on 30 June 2006 for distinguishing himself in academia and statesmanship, Boahen was given a grand state burial in July 2006. He served on the editorial board of the Journal of African History.

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