April faculty and staff features 2015

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Etti Baraboff, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, School of Business

Etti Baranoff, Ph.D.
Etti Baranoff, Ph.D.

As part of a Thales Grant to study risk assessment and stress testing on European banks, Baranoff will co-write a paper on stress testing for Greece banks with colleague Papadopoulos Savas of the Democritus University of Thrace. Baranoff will work in Greece from June 1 to 14 and travel to Munich for the World Insurance Congress from Aug. 2 to 7. 

The THALES Programme, co-financed by the European Union and Greek national funds, is about “reinforcement of the interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional research and innovation with the possibility of attracting high standard researchers from abroad through the implementation of basic and applied excellence research.”

 

 

 

Adam Ewing, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of African American Studies, College of Humanities and Sciences

Adam Ewing, Ph.D.
Adam Ewing, Ph.D.

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations recently awarded Ewing the Bernath Book Prize for his first book, “The Age of Garvey.”

Ewing’s book examines the history of Garveyism, the movement started by Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey in the early 20th century. Offering a “cinematic account of the thinking and acts of millions,” Ewing connects multinational sources to expand on the age of Garvey.

The society will present Ewing with a monetary prize and honor him at its conference this June in Arlington.

For an interview with Ewing about his book, visit http://news.vcu.edu/article/Professors_new_book_explores_rise_of_postWWI_black_political.