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Westminster College Associate Professor of History to Present at Faculty Forum

Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. Timothy Cuff, Westminster College associate professor of history, will present at the Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.

Cuff's talk is titled "Ladies from Hell, Men from West Point, and Hummus: A Sabbatical Tale" and will reflect on two anthropometric history projects he advanced during his Spring 2012 sabbatical semester, as well as month-long, college-sponsored visit to Western Galilee College in Akko, Israel. Anthropometric history is a research strategy which uses mean body size to explore biological well-being among historical populations.

Cuff, a Westminster graduate who joined the faculty in 2000, earned a master's degree from Bowling Green State University and a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

The Faculty Forum was established in 1990 by Dr. Barbara Faires, Westminster professor of mathematics emerita, during her term as dean of the college and vice president for academic affairs.  Faculty members from all disciplines volunteer to present lectures on their current research, artistic productions, and scholarship of teaching and learning.  Each forum presents new ideas with innovative lecture techniques.

Podcasts of the forums are available here.

Contact Cuff at (724) 946-6152 or email for additional information. 

Contact Charlene Klassen Endrizzi, faculty development officer, at (724) 946-7189 for more information on the Faires Faculty Forum or view http://www.westminster.edu/acad/faculty_dev/faires_faculty_forum.cfm.

Dr. Timothy Cuff, associate professor of history