IU Fort Wayne faculty and staff tributes and appointments

Linda Ruffolo, director of development, is a recent recipient of Indiana Gov. Frank O’Bannon’s Sagamore of the Wabash designation, the highest honor the governor of Indiana can bestow on a citizen, recognizing a lifetime of community and civic service.

Lynett Felber and Lidan Lin, English and linguistics, attended the 20th-Century Literature Conference in Louisville in February and made presentations. Felber’s subject was “Unfinished Business and Self-Memorialization: Rebecca West’s Aborted Novel, ‘Mild, Silver, Furuious Gold.’” Lin’s subject was “The Legacy of Eastern Wisdom in Beckett’s Nondramatic Writing.” Lin interviews 20th-century literary icon John Updike in this archived HP “Conversation online”:
http://homepages.indiana.edu/021502/text/conversations.html

Lawrence Kuznar, sociology and anthropology, is co-author of “Deferred Harvests: The Transition from Hunting to Animal Husbandry” appearing in American Anthropologist, Vol 103. “Risk Sensitivity and Value Among Andean Pastoralists: Measures, Models and Empirical Tests” appears in Current Anthropology, Vol. 42, and “Ecological Mutualism in Navajo Corrals: Implications for Navajo Environmental Perceptions and Human/Plant Coevolution” appears in the Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 57.