Two new named professors appointed

Susan Goodman, H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities

1:58 p.m., June 1, 2004--Susan Goodman has been named H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities, and Mark J. Miller has been named Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Provost Dan Rich has announced. Both appointments are effective Sept. 1.

Susan Goodman joined the UD faculty in 1994 from California State University in Fresno. Her appointment as H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities recognizes her achievements as a scholar and teacher, including her international reputation in the field of late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature and her outstanding service to the University, Rich said.

She is especially known for her work on Edith Wharton and is the author of “Edith Wharton’s Inner Circle,” and “Edith Wharton’s Women: Friends and Rivals” and coeditor of “Edith Wharton: A Forward Glance.” She also wrote “Ellen Glasgow: A Biography” and edited “Femmes de Conscience.” “Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940” was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2003. Goodman’s biography of William Dean Howells, written with Carl Dawson, professor of English, is scheduled for publication in the near future.

Among her honors, Goodman has received the Guggenheim Fellowship for Biography for 2002-03; the William Dean Howells Memorial Fellowship in American Literature, given by the Houghton Library at Harvard University; and the Dorothy M. Healy Visiting Professorship at the University of New England in 2000. She also was a resident fellow at the Virginia Center for the Humanities in 1994.

Goodman received her bachelor of arts, master of education, master of arts and doctoral degrees from the University of New Hampshire.

H. Fletcher Brown (1867-1944), a chemist, business executive and University trustee, was a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard University. After retirement, he became a major figure in improving education in Delaware and donated both time and funds to the University, public schools, the YMCA and other groups. Brown Laboratory is named in his honor.

Mark J. Miller whose field is international and comparative politics with a focus on migration issues, joined the UD faculty in 1978. His appointment as Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations is in recognition of his distinguished record as a scholar and a teacher and his outstanding service to the University of Delaware, Rich said.

He received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin and also received a French government scholarship for dissertation research on immigrant political participation in Western Europe at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Sciences Scociales in Paris.

Mark J. Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations

Since 1981, Miller has testified on developments in European migration policies before Congress and several U.S. commissions and has written two commissioned monographs for the Commission on Immigration Reform. He also has lectured on European migration developments at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute and contributed to the proceedings of the National Intelligence Council.

Miller has served as a consultant to the U.S. departments of State, Labor and Justice, the International Labor Organization and the United Nations. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Future of Migration conference in Paris in 1986 and the Fourth World Congress on Migration, sponsored by the Vatican, and the U.N. Technical Symposium on International Migration at the Hague, both held in 1998.

He also lectured on migration questions in Mexico on a grant from the Department of State in 2001, and he participated in the Germany Today program, sponsored by Germany and Migration Dialogue, sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

From 1983-89, Miller served as U.S. correspondent to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s group of migration experts.

The author of more than 100 articles, chapters or monographs on immigration, Miller serves as editor of the International Migration Review. He has written six books, including “Foreign Workers in Western Europe: An Emerging Political Force,” “The Unavoidable Issue: United States Immigration Policy in the 1980s”and “Administrating Foreign Worker Programs: Lessons from Europe” and three editions of “The Age of Migration.” He is currently working on book manuscripts concerning Western European efforts to curb illegal migration, immigrants in Georgetown, Del. and migration, terrorism and security.

Miller has participated in many migration conferences in the U.S. and abroad and served as codirector of Fulbright Institutes in January 2003 and 2004 on U.S. foreign and national security policy in an era of globalization.

Emma Smith Morris was a generous benefactor to the University and the wife of Judge Hugh M. Morris, after whom the library is named.

Article by Sue Moncure
Photos by Kathy Atkinson

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