“Publication” Class Notes

Cameron Jefferies (Law ’11, ’14) has published Marine Mammal Conservation and the Law of the Sea (Oxford University Press, 2016). The book analyzes and critiques the state of marine mammal regulations and details threats to marine mammals including climate change and collisions with ships. It also discusses options for reform under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and existing treaties. Ms. Jefferies is an assistant professor of law at the University of Alberta. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on oceans law, shark and marine mammal conservation and environmental law.

Walter Watkins “Watt” Hamlett Jr. (Coll ’93 L/M) and Jill Olinger Vinson (Engr ’01) have published Reston A to Z (Mascot Books, 2016), a children’s book about Reston, Virginia. The book was written by Mr. Hamlett and illustrated by Ms. Vinson. A squirrel modeled after the town’s founder provides readers with a tour of the town, an early planned community.  Mr. Hamlett lives in Reston with his wife and two sons. Ms. Vinson lives in Herndon, Virginia with her husband and two sons.

Kelly Cherry (Grad ’63) has published Quartet for J. Robert Oppenheimer (Louisiana State University Press, 2017), a collection of poems about the titular physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Ms. Cherry is Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue­­­-Bascom Professor Emerita in the humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She and her husband live in Virginia.

Jennifer Van Horn (Grad ’09) has published The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (University of North Carolina Press, 2017). The book is an interdisciplinary study of the role of commodities and consumption in the development of American communities and citizenship. Ms. Van Horn is assistant professor of art history and history at the University of Delaware.

Macye Lavinder Maher (Com ’96) has published her debut novel, Fireworks and Fertility (Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2017). The book follows an embryologist through romance and a series of incidents that lead her to discover her true identity. Ms. Maher is an owner of Live Water Properties, a brokerage firm specializing in hunting, ranching, fly fishing and conservation properties in the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. She lives in Jackson, Wyoming with her husband and three children.

Michael Knight (Grad ’96) has published a new collection of short stories, Eveningland (Grove Atlantic, 2017). He is also the author of two novels, two short story collections and a book of novellas. Mr. Knight has received a number of awards, including a PEN/Hemingway Foundation Special Citation and the New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and lives in Knoxville with his family.

Paul Stroble (Grad ’91) has published a new book, Walking with Jesus through the Old Testament (Westminster John Knox Press, 2016), and two poetry chapbooks, Dreaming at the Electric Hobo (Finishing Line Press, 2015) and Little River (Finishing Line Press, 2017). He is adjunct faculty at Webster University and Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis. 

Janice Rosser Allen (Nurs ’75 L/M) has published her first book. Entitled God in the Crossroads: Signs of Hope, the book details Janice’s experience as CEO of International Cooperating Ministries (ICM), an international nonprofit founded in 1986 by Janice’s father, Dois Rosser. The organization aids Christians in developing nations by enabling them to build permanent churches, schools and orphanages, and supplying them with Bible study materials in their language.  

A successful oncology clinical specialist and nursing educator, Janice initially had no plans to take an executive role at ICM. But when her husband of 27 years passed away from ocular melanoma in 2005, her life changed direction. In 2006, she accepted the position of CEO and Executive Chair of the board at ICM. 

God in the Crossroads outlines Janice’s personal journey to ICM, along with the struggles and triumphs of Christian believers in the field. From Tanzania to Peru, from Russia to Vietnam, the book offers powerful stories of faith and hope in spite of the odds.

Co-authored by New York Times bestselling author Ellen Vaughn, God in the Crossroads: Signs of Hope can be purchased at http://icm.org/shop.

Janice graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Virginia Nursing School in 1975, then earned a Master’s in Nursing from Duke University in 1977.

Heather E. Holleman (Col ’97 L/M) has published Guarded by Christ: Knowing the God Who Rescues and Keeps Us (Moody Publishers, 2016). Her second book in the Christian Living genre, Guarded by Christ is an in-depth look at the overlooked and unusual verbs in the Bible. Ms. Holleman is a lecturer of advanced writing in the humanities at Pennsylvania State University.

Mandla Thabo Sukati Qhobosheane (Col ’93) has published Cold Flow of Moments, The Essential Book of Styles (Wild Coast Digital, 2016), a work of poetic fiction about a high school swimmer coming to grips with the responsibilities of a gift given to him by his ancestors. The main character attends UVA, and his experiences as an e-school student cover three chapters.

Michele S. Moses (Col ’90 L/M) has published Living with Moral Disagreement: The Enduring Controversy About Affirmative Action (University of Chicago Press, 2016). The book offers a new pathway for thinking about the debate surrounding educational affirmative action, one that holds up the debate itself as an important emblem of the democratic process. Ms. Moses believes that differing opinions about affirmative action result from different conceptual values and that disagreements about race-conscious policies create rich opportunities for discussions about diversity that nourish democratic thought and life.