Graduating senior Alejandra Benitez has been selected to spend the 2013-2014 academic year teaching in France through the Teaching Assistant Program in France, a cultural exchange program administered by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Benitez will be teaching at the secondary level in the Academy of Reims. Read more here.

Allison Miller, assistant professor of art history, gave an invited lecture at the San Antonio Museum of Art on April 16th titled “From Splendor to Revolt: Royal Intrigue and the Terracotta Works of Early Han China.” The talk focused on Han ceramic warrior figurines and was held in conjunction with the special exhibition, “Entombed Treasures: Funerary Art of Han Dynasty China.”

Senior Colin Berr has received an $8,000 scholarship through the Sumners Scholarship Program to participate in a program in Washington, D.C., this summer. Berr will attend an Institute on Economics and International Affairs and intern with the Department of Commerce through a program sponsored by The Fund for American Studies.

Patrick Hajovsky, assistant professor of art history, gave a talk for the Pan American Round Table of Austin Feb. 25. The talk was about his research on painting in Cusco and devotional imagery following its disastrous earthquake of 1650.

Alisa Gaunder, associate professor of political science, had a 150-entry annotated bibliography on the “Politics of Japan” accepted for publication by Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ben Bracher, a senior political science major, provided significant research assistance on the project last summer as part of a Southwestern University faculty-student research grant.