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the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the CollegeDR. KAREN SOUL, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the College
MS. LAURON CALLAWAY, Assistant to the Provost
DR. CORY WIKAN, Associate Provost
MS. ROBIN LOGAN, Associate Provost for Institutional Research and Strategic Planning
DR. KATIE BEARDEN, Associate Provost for Institutional Research and Strategic Planning
DR. JESSICA ALEXANDER, Associate Professor of Psychology, Bill and Sarah James Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair of Psychology
DR. MOHAMMAD ALI, Assistant Professor of Economics, Edwin Charles Harbuck Board of Regents Endowed Professor in Economics
DR. ANDIA AUGUSTIN-BILLY, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, William C. Arceneaux Board of Regents Endowed Professor in Tribute to Sgt. Robin V. Fell
DR. MATTHEW BLASI, Assistant Professor of English, Dr. Ann Brewster Dobie & Mr. C. Walter Dobie Board of Regents Endowed Professor of English
DR. KATHERINE BRANDL, Associate Professor of Mathematics, John E. Goode, Jr. Eminent Scholars Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Irene Wright Math Department Endowed Professor
MR. CHRIS BROWN, Archivist of the College and Louisiana UMC and Instructor, Centenary College Archives Board of Regents Professor
DR. PRIYANKA CHAKRABORTY, Assistant Professor of Economics, Crawford Family Centennial Eminent Scholars Endowed Professor of Business
DR. SCOTT CHIRHART, Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Professor of Biology, Mary Warters Endowed Professorial Chair of Biology
DR. CHRISTOPHER CIOCCHETTI, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Charles T. Beaird Endowed Chair of Philosophy and the Dr. Charles T. Beaird Board of Regents Endowed Professor of Philosophy
DR. BARBARA DAVIS, William J. Atkins Dean of the Frost School of Business and Professor of Accounting & Finance, Samuel Guy Sample Endowed Chair of Business Administration
DR. RYAN DOHERTY, Assistant Professor of French, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Humanities
DR. AMANDA DONAHOE, Assistant Professor of Political Science, J. Hugh Watson Board of Regents Endowed Professor
DR. JAMES EAKIN, Associate Professor of Music, John Spencer & Virginia Elizabeth Doyle Hardy Board of Regents Endowed Professor
DR. AMY FRIESENHAHN, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Social Sciences
DR. CHAD FULWIDER, Professor of History, Arthur and Emily Webb Chair in International Studies and Ken and Wanda Curry Board of Regents Endowed Professor
MR. MICHAEL FUTREAL, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Social Sciences
DR. MICHELLE GLAROS, Professor of Art, R.Z. Biedenharn Eminent Scholars Chair of Communication
DR. GAY GROSZ, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Humanities
DR. JAMA GROVE, Assistant Professor of History, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Humanities
DR. AMY HAMMOND, Associate Professor of Psychology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Social Sciences
DR. BETHANY HANSEN, Assistant Professor of Biology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Natural Sciences
PROFESSOR JESSICA HAWKINS, Associate Professor of Communication, Robert Ewing, Jr. and John H. Hendrick, Jr. Eminent Scholars Distinguished Professor of Communication
DR. JEFFERSON HENDRICKS, Professor of English, George A. Wilson Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair of American Literature
DR. DAVID HOBSON, Director of Choral Activities and Lecturer, A.C. Voran Eminent Scholars Endowed Professor of Choir
DR. CHRISTOPHER HOLOMAN, President of the College, Professor of Political Science, Centenary Endowed Professor of Leadership
PROFESSOR DON HOOPER, Professor of Theatre, George D. Nelson, Sr. Board of Regents Endowed Professor
DR. RACHEL JOHNSON, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Lecturer, Centenary Endowed Professor of Leadership
DR. TERRIE JOHNSON, Assistant Professor of Education, Centenary Endowed Professor of Leadership
MS. LISA JOHNSON, Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Social Sciences
DR. BELLEE JONES-PIERCE, Assistant Professor of English, O. Delton Harrison Board of Regents Endowed Professor in Humanities
DR. DAVID KORDAHL, Assistant Professor of Physics, Gus S. Wortham Endowed Professorial Chair of Engineering and Liberal Arts
DR. DANIEL KRYWARUCZENKO, Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Atkins Family Centennial Eminent Scholars Endowed Professor of Business
DR. JOSHUA LAWRENCE, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Albert Sklar Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair of Chemistry
DR. ANNA LEAL, Assistant Professor of Biology and Kinesiology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Natural Sciences
DR. CHRISTINE MARTIN, Assistant Professor of English, Delores Threlkeld Harbuck Board of Regents Endowed Professor in English
DR. SAAD MOHAMED, Assistant Professor of Geology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Natural Sciences
MR. THOMAS MORAN, Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting
MR. PATRICK MORGAN, Library Director and Lecturer, Ilona Dones Board of Regents Endowed Professor in Library Administration
DR. MAUREEN MUROV, Associate Professor of Spanish, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Humanities
DR. REBECCA MURPHY, Associate Professor of Biology, Mary Amelia Douglas-Whited Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair of Neurobiology
DR. LATOYA PIERCE, Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer, Associate Professor of Psychology
DR. DEWAN RAHMAN, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, John B. & Minnie Sue Entrikin Board of Regents Endowed Professor
DR. JAMES REID, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, John E. Goode, Jr. Eminent Scholars Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
DR. JARRET RICHARDSON, Associate Professor of Biology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Natural Sciences
DR. KYRA RIETVELD, Assistant Professor of Art History, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Humanities
DR. KYLE RISTIG, Assistant Professor of Management, John W. Atkins Centennial Eminent Scholars Endowed Professor of Business
PROFESSOR LOGAN SLEDGE, Associate Professor of Theatre, Rea J. Fox Memorial Board of Regents Endowed Professor
DR. BRIANA SOSENHEIMER, Assistant Professor of Music, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Humanities
DR. KAREN SOUL, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the College and Professor of Education, Crawford Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair of Liberal Arts
DR. THOMAS TICICH, Professor of Chemistry, Velma Davis Grayson Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair of Chemistry
DR. GEORGE TILLER, Assistant Professor of Biology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Natural Sciences
DR. JOAN TUREK, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Social Sciences
DR. SCOTT VETTER, Professor of Geology, Allen Harvey Broyles Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair of Science Education and the William C. Woolf Endowed Professorial Chair of Geology
DR. KATHRINE WEEKS, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Cornelius D. & Florence Gillard Keen Endowed Professor in Natural Science
DR. CORY WIKAN, Dean of the Hurley School of Music, Associate Provost of the College, and Associate Professor of Music, Centenary College Ed E. and Gladys Hurley Endowed Chair of Music
DR. MICHELLE WOLKOMIR, Professor of Sociology, Tracie Whitehurst Woods Board of Regents Endowed Professor
MS. CHRISTY WRENN , Director of Library Operations and Instructor, Joanna G. Magale Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Sciences
DR. XIAOXIA ZHANG, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Natural Sciences
DR. PETER ZUNICK , Associate Professor of Psychology, Board of Regents Endowed Professor in the Social Sciences
MR. ALAN BERRY, Theater Technical Director
MR. CHRIS BROWN, Archivist of the College and Louisiana United Methodist Church
MS. DEBBIE BURY, Director of Career Development and Internships
MS. AMANDA CURRIE, Assistant Registrar
MS. ASHLEY DEHART, Coordinator for Academic Support and Disability Services
DR. RACHEL JOHNSON, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning
MS. ALISSA KLAUS, Director of the Meadows Museum of Art
MR. ALI MONTAZERIGHAHJAVERESTANI, Music Librarian
MR. PATRICK MORGAN, Library Director
MR. KEVIN PORTER, Student Success Coordinator
DR. LALITA ROGERS, Registrar
MS. DEBORAH SCARLATO, Theatre Department Assistant
MS. KRISTIN SORENSEN, Meadows Collections Manager
MS. MADELYN STEWART, Administrative Assistant to Dean of Hurley School of Music
MS. KAYLIN SWOBODA, Administrative Assistant to the Education Department
MS. SALLI WHITE, Administrative Assistant to the Dean of the Frost School of Business and Director of the Center for Family Owned Business
MS. KAT WILLIAMSON, Technical Services and Interlibrary Loan Librarian
MS. CHRISTY WRENN, Director of Library Operations
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Professor Jessica Hawkins, Chair
Dr. Jarret Richardson, Chair
Dr. Barbara Davis, Dean
Dr. Kathrine Weeks, Chair
Dr. Michelle Glaros, Chair
Dr. Terrie Johnson, Chair
Dr. Jefferson Hendricks, Chair
Dr. Maureen Murov, Chair
Dr. Scott Vetter, Chair
Dr. Scott Chirhart, Dean
Dr. Chad Fulwider, Chair
Dr. Amanda Donahoe, Chair
Dr. Anna Leal, Chair
Dr. Katherine Brandl, Chair
Dr. Cory Wikan, Dean
Dr. Christopher Ciocchetti, Chair
Dr. Jarret Richardson, Chair
Dr. David Kordahl, Chair
Dr. Jessica Alexander, Chair
Dr. Chris Ciocchetti, Chair
Dr. Michelle Wolkomir, Chair
Theatre Professor Logan Sledge, Chair
Alan’s Hot Tub
Professor Logan Sledge, Associate Professor of Theatre
Alpha Chi Honor Society
Professor Jessica Hawkins, Associate Professor of Communication
Alpha Epsilon Delta
Dr. Scott Chirhart, Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Professor of Biology
Beta Beta Beta (Tri Beta)
Dr. Rebecca Murphy, Associate Professor of Biology
Centenary Film Society
Dr. Jefferson Hendricks, Professor of English
Chemistry Club
Dr. Thomas Ticich, Professor of Chemistry
Disabled Students Union
Dr. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Assistant Professor of English
Hispanic Students Association
Dr. Andia Augustin-Billy, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Honor Court Advisors
Dr. Amanda Donahoe, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Dr. Joshua, Lawrence, Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Kathrine Weeks, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Cory Wikan, Associate Professor of Music
International Student Ambassadors
Dr. Cory Wikan, Associate Provost, Dean of the Hurley School of Music, Associate Professor of Music
Kappa Pi
Dr. Michelle Glaros, Professor of Art
La Legion Louisianaise
Dr. Andia Augustin-Billy, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Dr. Amanda Donahoe, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Outreach
Dr. Rachel Johnson, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Lecturer
Pre-Health Society
Dr. Scott Chirhart, Dean of the School of Health Sciences, Professor of Biology
Pandora Magazine
Dr. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Assistant Professor of English and Dr. Christine Martin, Assistant Professor of English
Phi Beta Lambda
Dr. Kyle Ristig, Assistant Professor of Management
Red River Poetry Society
Dr. Christine Martin, Assistant Professor of English
Rivertown Players Honor Society
Professor Logan Sledge, Associate Professor of Theatre
Sigma Alpha Iota
Dr. Gay Grosz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
The Conglomerate
Dr. Matthew Blasi, Assistant Professor of English
Women in STEM
Dr. Rebecca Murphy, Associate Professor of Biology
The Mattie Allen Broyles Inaugural Research Chair was established in 1994 to provide new faculty members with a reduced teaching load or funds to support research at the earliest stage of their appointment at Centenary College. In a taxing period of adjustment to a new environment, the chair assists the faculty member in establishing a research program and/or accomplishing specifically research-related tasks such as preparing a grant proposal to fund the faculty member’s research/joint research with students or to help fund the research itself.
Broyles 2023-2024 Recipient:
Dr. Christine Martin
Assistant Professor of English
Dr. Martin was awarded the 2024-2024 Mattie Allen Broyles Inaugural Research Chair to pursue the reexamination, rewriting, and reconstructing of her manuscript, “Redshift” for publication as her first collection of poetry. “Redshift” examines the construction of chronic illness and disability, specifically focusing on how pain intersects with other spaces such as popular culture, gender expression, sex, religion, and geography.
Centenary College is fortunate to have so many talented and devoted professors. Each year students and faculty members select a professor who epitomizes the “best of the best” in teaching ability, excellence in advising, College service, mentoring ability, and campus leadership.
Outstanding Teacher 2023-2024 Recipient:
Dr. Rebecca Murphy
Associate Professor of Biology, Mary Amelia DouglasWhited Eminent Scholars Endowed Chair of Neurobiology
Dr. Murphy is Associate Professor of Biology at Centenary and has taught at the College since 2012. She teaches lecture and lab courses in cell biology and genetics in addition to upper-level biology elective courses while continuing to pursue her own research in plant biology, including ongoing work as a DuPont Pioneer and as a visiting research scientist at the University of Arizona School of Plant Sciences in the summer of 2019.
Centenary College provides annual Research Awards to facilitate academic and artistic research, writing, exhibition, or performance for both individual faculty members or faculty-student teams. Each year, the Faculty Development Committee and the Provost review proposals and select recipients, with the President confirming selections.
These awards are supported by the C. M. Hutchinson Family Professorships for Outstanding Scholarship.
Fall 2023:
Dr. Michelle Wolkomir and student Nyla Pierce for their proposal on the “Racialized Work Experience on the Blue Line: Exploring the Emotional Labor of Policing in Communities.”
Spring 2024:
Dr. David Kordahl and student Emma Foster for their proposal on experimental and theoretical explorations of the physics of acoustic metamaterials.
Spring 2024:
Dr. George Tiller and students Tuyen Chau and Jacob Nguyen for their proposal on assessing the local Shreveport community environmental micro–biome and its impact on community health.
The Charlton H. Lyons Research Award is gifted annually to a scholar in the entire range of academic or artistic fields to engage in research, writing, exhibition, or performance. Each year, faculty members are eligible to submit competitive proposals that hold the reasonable promise of publication or presentation at a scholarly conference, production of an original work of art, or significant enhancement of the applicant’s knowledge or teaching skills.
Dr. Chad Fulwider Professor of History, Chair of the History and Political Science Department
Dr. Fulwider was awarded the 2024 Charlton Lyons Faculty Research Award to research the lived experiences of World War I European soldiers along the Western Front through a new database of trench journals and unit magazines as well as at the National Archives II Branch in College Park, Maryland.
Mr. Chris Brown, Archivist of the College and Louisiana UMC, curated the exhibits “Football at Centenary, 18942023” (August-December 2023) and “Gymnastics at Centenary, 1964-2024” (January-May 2024) for the Whited Room lobby.
Dr. Ryan Doherty, Assistant Professor of French, organized an on-campus production of the play La Cantatrice chauve by Eugène Ionesco, April 23, 2024.
Dr. James Eakin, Associate Professor of Music, composed an original score for a live-action western film titled “Elmer” for director Steve Anderson. Eakin also composed the choral work “Calling From Afar” in honor of the James Webb Space Telescope that is now published and available through Walton Music Publishing, and will premiere a new work, “La Délaissée: Songs of Love and Heartbreak from Cajun Louisiana,” this summer at the National Conference of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) in Nashville, Tennessee.
Professor Jessica Hawkins, Associate Professor of Communication, presented an exhibition, Simulacrum, at Centenary’s Meadows Museum of Art in October 2023. The exhibition stemmed from her Fall 2022 sabbatical project, which focused on establishing a screen-printing studio within the Turner Arts Center.
Professor Hawkins also exhibited in the 2024 Bloom! Exhibition at the Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, one of 60 works accepted from 435 submissions.
Centenary music students and faculty who attended the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) are Mr. Ken Chan, Ree Randolph, Dr. Briana Sosenheimer, Nina Guerrero, Destry Martignetti.
Dr. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Assistant Professor of English, served as a dramaturgical consultant for the Centenary Theatre Program’s performance of King Lear in February 2024.
Dr. Christine Martin, Assistant Professor of English, organized the exhibition “Collage Poetry” at the Meadows Museum in April 2024, showcasing collage poetry by students enrolled in her spring 2023 courses Introduction to Creative Writing and Pop Culture Poetics.
Dr. Briana Sosenheimer, Assistant Professor of Music, performed in the Members Recital at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) conference held March 8 and 9, 2024. Sosenheimer performed a recital on music of Anne of Cleves and Anne Boleyn by Libby Larsen.
Blasi Matthew, Sweet Muffin Ranch: A Novel, Willow River Press, 2023.
Doherty, Ryan, Assistant Professor of French, “Prince d’enfances et de décadences: Narcisse comme dandy dans les contes de fées de Jean Lorrain” in the edited volume Artiste de la vie moderne : le dandy entre littérature et histoire
Blasi, Matthew, Assistant Professor of English, “Just Noise,” published in Music Gigs Gone Wrong, Paycock Press, 2023.
Blasi. “The Many Seasons of Furbiss,” published in Drunken Boat no. 25, 2024.
Blasi. “The Thief so Quiet: Grotesque Desire in Barry Hannah’s ‘Get Some Young,’” The Southern Quarterly no 58.4, 2024.
Chakraborty, Priyanka, Assistant Professor of Economics, “Gender and Leadership in Organisations: The Threat of Backlash,” The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, December 2023.
Doherty, Ryan, Assistant Professor of French, “The Devil’s Marriage: Folk Horror and the Merveilleux Louisianais” in the special issue “Severed Limbs and Monstrous Appetites: (Re)Defining FairyTale Horror from the Seventeenth Century to the Present” of the journal Literature
Doherty. “Contrefaçons de la privation : l’opulence comme ascétisme chez Huysmans et Mercier” in the series Formes et figures de l’ascétisme (XIXe et XXe siècles) published by l’Université de Lorraine (2024).
Doherty. “Faneries et famineries : l’inanition et la beauté ultimes dans Monsieur de Phocas de Jean Lorrain” in the special issue Les spectres de la faim dans la littérature et la langue (Moyen Âge-XXIe siècle) of the series Travaux de littérature, published by l’Université de Rennes II (forthcoming).
Doherty. “The Spoils of Venus: The Material Prison in Rachilde and Henry James” for the critical volume Decadent Bodies, edited by Jessica Gosling, Goldsmiths, University of London (2024).
Doherty. “Le Louisianais perpétue la tradition journalistique française en Louisiane” in Le Louisianais, December 4, 2023.
Doherty. “Les Éditions Tintamarre : perpétuer la tradition littéraire française de la Louisiane” in Le Louisianais, February 26, 2024.
Doherty. “‘Une impression posthume des sensations d’autrefois’: jeux de nostalgie et de mysticisme dans La Décadence latine de Joséphin Péladan” in the journal Quêtes littéraires
Doherty. “Fanaux du vieil espoir: The Aesthetics of Reversion in Joris-Karl Huysmans’ Roman de Durtal” in the special edition “Matters of Taste/ Questions de goût” of the journal Essays in French Literature and Culture
Doherty. “Rag Time: Decadent Textiles in the Louisiana Gothic of the Fin de Siècle” in the special edition “Decadence and Fashion” of the journal Volupté.
English, Ashley, Regina Branton, and Amy Friesenhahn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, “Still Outside of the Old Boys Club? Gender Differences in Outside Groups’ Advertising Support for U.S. Senate Candidates.” Political Research Quarterly, 2023.
English, Ashley, Regina Branton, and Amy Friesenhahn. “Outsiders Among Outside Groups? Campaign Advertising and the Electability of Female House Candidates.” Politics, Groups, and Identities 12 (1): 85-106, 2023.
Friesenhahn. “At the Intersection of Gender and Party: Legislative Freedom.”
Political Research Quarterly 77 (1): 59-75, 2023.
Jones-Pierce, Bellee, Assistant Professor of English, Review of Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, by Eric Weiskott. Sixteenth Century Journal 53.4: 1150-1152, Winter 2022.
Jones-Pierce. “‘What happens if you touch the hind?’: Transformation and Touch in Richie Hofmann’s ‘Blue Anther.’” Annulet: A Journal of Poetics 5, Spring 2023.
Jones-Pierce. “When Your Ex-Fiancé Calls.” Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art 52.2, Spring 2023.
Jones-Pierce. “Sepia Spring.” The Doubleback Review 5.2, October 2023.
Jones-Pierce. “Annulet’s Year in Reading: 2023.” Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, December 2023.
Kordahl, David, Assistant Professor of Physics, “Complementarity and entanglement in a simple model of inelastic scattering,” American Journal of Physics, DOI: 10.1119/5.0141389, October 2023.
Haotian Wen, David Kordahl, Inga C. Kuschnerus, Philipp Reineck, Alexander Macmillan, Huan-Cheng Chang, Christian Dwyer, and Shery L. Y. Chang, “Correlative Fluorescence
and Transmission Electron Microscopy Assisted by 3D Machine Learning Reveals Thin Nanodiamonds Fluoresce Brighter,” ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c00857, August 2023.
Martin, Christine, Assistant Professor of English, “When Mary From Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Told Jen She Smelled Like Hospital.” Defunct Mag, May 2023.
Martin. “Kaleidoscopic.” Defunct Mag, May 2023.
Martin. “Undreaming in Autumn.” Allegory Ridge, October 2023.
Martin. “Self-Love with Wildfire.” Allegory Ridge, October 2023.
Martin. “After Another Doctor Has Given Up.” Storm Cellar, vol XI, no. 1., November 2023.
Martin. “Tethered.” Cream City Review, vol. 27, no. 2, 2024.
Martin. “Nail Harmony.” Gulf Coast Journal, April 2024.
Brahms, Johannes, trans., Robert Shaw, ed., Cory D. Wikan, Associate Professor of Music, A German Requiem. Chicago: GIA Publications, Inc., 2024.
Williamson, Kat, Technical Services and Interlibrary Loan Librarian, “Library Renovations: Lessons, Challenges, and Improvements.” LOUIS Lagniappe, August 2023.
Williamson, Reilly, M., & Thompson, S. Creating a Structured Narrative Literature Review Template: A Case Study. Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL, 6(4), 108-132, 2023.
Alexander, Jessica, Associate Professor of Psychology, Irons, S. T., & Williams, M. G. “Men are more careful than women? Listener perception of final words in sentences with semantically surprising and typical endings.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in San Francisco, California, November 2023.
Augustin-Billy, Andia, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, “The Black Man as Object of Desire in Creole Louisiana.” 73rd Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, October 2023.
Blasi, Matthew, Assistant Professor of English, “Exploring Black Expression” at BSU Writing Workshop, 2023.
Blasi. English Department Colloquy, 2023.
Blasi. “Wary of Themselves: Strange Masculinities in Padgett Powell’s Fiction” and “Perfo Benoit and Anderson Chuck in the Attitude Of” at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, 2024.
Brown, Chris, Archivist of the College and Louisiana UMC. Organized and moderated panel discussion for Trek 351: Japanese and American Culture featuring Gretchen Elston Benner ‘48, Methodist educational missionary to Japan in the 1950s, and Wallace Robertson ’83, August 2023.
Brown. Organized and moderated “Race, Health, and Medicine” panel discussion featuring LSU Health Shreveport faculty and residents at Centenary, February 2024.
Brown. “Louisiana Haywire: Chris Brown,” interview about Shreveport music history on KDAQ Red River Radio, February 2024.
Doherty, Ryan, Assistant Professor of French, “Lapé vini, li Grand Zombi: Comedy, Color, and Social Critique in 19th-Century Louisiana Voodoo Tales” for the conference
Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition, June 2023.
Doherty. “The Inveterate Confederate: The Strange Life and Literature of Armand Lanusse” for the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference, November 2023.
Doherty. “’En d’autres temps, en d’autres lieux’ : l’in(ter)dépendance dans le Sud de Julien Green” for the annual 20th- and 21st-Century French Studies Conference, February 2024.
Doherty. “Antouène et Françoése: Parody and Language in Reconstruction-Era New Orleans” at the biennial conference of The Society for the Study of Southern Literature in Gulfport, Mississippi, June 2024.
Friesenhahn, Amy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Michelle Wolkomir, Professor of Sociology, Jama Grove, Assistant Professor of History, Amanda Donahoe, Assistant Professor of Political Science, and Michael Futreal, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, “Developing Pedagogical Approaches to Understanding Power Relations: Using Subjective Lived Experience as a Way of Knowing.” presented at the Annual Southwestern Social Science Association (SSSA): Fort Worth, TX, March 31, 2023.
Hawkins, Jessica, Associate Professor of Communication, “Engineering Moments that Matter.” Paper presentation at the University & College Designers Association Design Education Summit, Bowling Green, Ohio, May 2023.
Johnson, Lisa, Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting. Presentation on money management, budgeting, debt, and investing for the Caddo Parish School Board professional development series “Plant, Grow, Bloom in Caddo,” 2023.
Johnson, Terrie, Assistant Professor of Education, “Where is the Gap?: Opportunity
Gaps in Literacy Instruction for Pre-Service Teachers” and “Inquiry Initiative Research in Progress: Opportunity Gaps in Literacy Instruction.” Presented at the Association of Teacher Educators summer conference in Washington DC, July 2023.
Johnson, T. “Where’s the Gap: A Literature Review of Gaps in Literacy from Teacher Prep Providers Point of View,” “Closing the Gap: Understanding Literacy Beliefs and Expectations in Teacher Preparation,” and “Professional Induction for Education Professors: Multiple Career Phase Perspectives.” Presented at the Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference in Anaheim, California, March 2024.
Johnson, T. “Relationship Based Coaching and Difficult Conversations,” a training for Mentor Teachers of Caddo Parish Schools, October 2023.
Jones-Pierce, Bellee, Assistant Professor of English, “Forming Beauty in Shakespeares Sonnets.” Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, January 2024.
Jones-Pierce. Roundtable Organizer and Participant. “Disability and Intimacy in Early Modern England.” Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, January 2024.
Jones-Pierce. “Science and Story: A Panel Discussion” with David Kordahl and Kaleb Atkinson, Full STEAM Ahead Educator Symposium, Centenary College of Louisiana, February 2024.
Morgan, Patrick, Lecturer. “Embrace the quirk, and embrace the human: Information literacy in the age of AI” and “Discovery and the ideal structure of search queries: Advance search as antidote to the ‘black box’ search strategy” at the NOLA Information Literacy Collective, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 2023.
Morgan and Kat Williamson, Technical Services and Interlibrary Loan Librarian. “Vibe-checking the Library” at the LOUIS Users’ Group Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 2023.
Morgan. “Academic Library Management” Sharing Session at the LOUIS Users’ Group Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 2023.
Morgan. “Listen with LOUIS: Magale Fest at Centenary College of Louisiana” podcast, April 2024.
Klaus, Kellan, Lecturer of Religious Studies, “Religion on the Move” Graduate Student Conference, Religious Studies Department, Stanford University.
Kordahl, David, Assistant Professor of Physics, “Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment as a Smartphone Lab?” 2024 AAPT Winter Meeting, January 2024.
Rahman, Dewan, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, “Synthesis of layered hydroxides or hydroxides of late 3d transition metals using propylene oxide.” Oral presentation at the 2024 Spring American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2024.
Ticich, Thomas, Professor of Chemistry, and Kathrine Weeks, Associate Professor of Chemistry. Poster presentation on “Great Events in STEM in Paris: An international course for first-year students” at the 2024 Spring American Chemical Society Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2024.
Zunick, Peter, Associate Professor of Psychology, Leal, Anna, Assistant Professor of Biology, Brown, I. T., & Swize, C. (2024, March). Using anatomical models with diverse skin-tones as belonging cues in STEM. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, TX.
Matthew Blasi, Assistant Professor of English, was awarded a Centenary Muses grant for the English Department to purchase, install, and maintain a letterpress machine for student and faculty use. ($5,000).
Chris Brown, Archivist of the College and Louisiana UMC, was awarded two grants from the Centenary Muses. One grant funded the purchase of a Network Attached Storage Device ($4,000) and the other allowed for the digitization of records of the Francophone literary society L’Athenee Louisianais and the Centenary Athletic Department ($1,800).
Kellan Klaus, Lecturer in Religious Studies, was awarded the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute 2024 Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Swiny Fellowship to fund dissertation field research in Cyprus.
Rebecca Murphy, Associate Professor of Biology, is one of four scientists leading an ongoing project to identify RNA modifications in plant cells that may enable the development of crops better able to withstand the stress of climate change. She and her collaborators received a $2 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in 2020 to support their research and to focus on building undergraduate curricula teaching biology as a data-driven science.
Augustin-Billy, Andia, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, “Black Bodies Mattered: Defiance and Desire in Creole Louisiana Fiction.” Guest lecture at the Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences, Prairie View A&M University, April 2024.
Friesenhahn, Amy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, “Representation in Congress.” Invited talk at Texas A&M University – Texarkana, March 7, 2024.
Jones-Pierce, Bellee, Assistant Professor of English, “Critical Analysis.” Lang Craft Talks Series. Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, November 2023.
Dr. Andia Augustin-Billy, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, William C. Arceneaux Board of Regents Endowed Professorship in Tribute to Sgt. Robin Fell, will serve as a scholarly mentor for a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Augustin-Billy has also been selected for a second year as a mentor for the Faculty of Color Cross-Institutional Mentoring Program to support early-career faculty of color within the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS).
Centenary’s Archives and Special Collections, which serves as the archives for the Louisiana Conference of the United Methodist Church, has been selected as a test participant for the Virtual Circuit Rider Project. Coordinated by the General Commission on Archives and History, the project seeks to create a centralized digital repository for United Methodist Conference Archives.
Dr. Amy Friesenhahn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, was selected as a 40 Under 40 University of Texas at Tyler Alumni Honoree, March 2024.
Dr. Christine Martin, Assistant Professor of English, had a poem, “Centerfolds,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best creative writing published in a small press for the year.
Centenary’s Éditions Tintamarre was selected as the featured publishing house by the Book Festival of Montréal, held November 22 -27, 2023. Centenary was represented at the festival by Dr. Dana Kress, Executive Director of the Centenary College of Louisiana Press and Professor Emeritus of French, Dr. Andia AugustinBilly, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, and Dr. Ryan Doherty, Assistant Professor of French. It is the second largest French-language book festival in the world with nearly 700 major publishing house booths.
The English Department presented its eclectic Colloquy Series, organized by English faculty, the second Thursday of each month from 11:10 - 12 p.m. in the Centenary Room in Bynum Commons. The lunchtime gatherings feature 1520 minutes of presentation followed by lively discussion. Colloquia in 2023-2024 included presentations by Dr. Jefferson Hendricks, Professor of English; Dr. Matthew Blasi, Assistant Professor of English; Dr. Bellee Jones-Pierce, Assistant Professor of English; Dr. Rachel Johnson, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and Lecturer, along with several students.
Dr. Terrie Johnson and Dr. Rachel Johnson organized the inaugural Full STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) Ahead Educator Symposium for local K-12 educators on February 8 and 9, 2024. The two-day event included workshops, interactive collaborative sessions, individual presentations, panel discussions, and poster presentations that explored the power of connection in shaping progress and understanding. The symposium was designed to facilitate connections between STEAM content area educators, between experienced educators and new educators, between K-12 and higher education educators,
and between community partners and educators. The inaugural event included 16 presentations and three featured speakers and attracted 68 registered participants.
Centenary’s Magale Library hosted a new community event, Magale Fest, on March 9, 2024. With live music, carnival-style games and activities, and food and beverages, the event featured contributions from Magale Library, the Biology Department, the Frost School of Business, and student organizations such as Chi Omega and Outreach. New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Sarah Quintana performed in the Shell along with Centenary music students. Centenary alumna A.J. Haynes, frontwoman for the band Seratones, headlined the live musical performances and also made a series of talks and class visits while on campus in the week prior to Magale Fest. Magale Fest was organized by Mr. Patrick Morgan, Library Director; Dr. Rachel Johnson, Ms. Debbie Bury, Director of Career Services and Internships; Ms. Kat Williamson, Technical Services and Interlibrary Loan Librarian; Ms. Christy Wrenn, Director of Library Services; Mr. Kevin Porter, Student Success Coordinator; and Ms. Ashley Dehart, Academic Support and Disability Services Coordinator.
Centenary’s spring Masculinity Series (three events over three months) was the first interdisciplinary multi-part event of its kind in Centenary’s history and featured guest speakers from Shreveport’s community, alumni participation, student discussion groups and exercises, along with keynote activities and a culminating presentation by Dr. Jocelyn Lehrer, founder of The Men’s Story Project. The event was organized, coordinated, and run by Dr. Michelle Wolkomir, Dr. Amy Friesenhahn, Dr. Amy Hammond, Dr. Matthew Blasi, Dr. Rachel Johnson, Dr. Rebecca Murphy, and Dr. Christine Martin.
The mission of Centenary’s Center for Family-Owned Business (CFOB) is to develop programming to support the continuity and health of multi-generational, family businesses within our region of the south. The Center’s seminars and workshops focus on strategic planning, growth strategies, succession planning, communication, as well as legal, management, and financial issues unique to family-owned, closely-held companies.
The Center for Family Owned Business is led by Dr. Barbara Davis, Dean of the Frost School of Business and Ms. Salli White, Director of the Center for Family Owned Business.
• CFOB 2023 End of Summer Family Business Forum – Anatomy of a Deal Gone Bad, August 15, 2023, Petroleum Club
• CFOB 2023 End of Summer Family Business Forum – Why is a Business Succession/Exit Plan so Important? August 16, 2023, Whited Room, Centenary College
• CFOB 2023 Fall Family Business Forum – Marketing and Branding – Strategic Messaging, October 3, 2023, Petroleum Club
• CFOB 2023 Fall Family Business Forum – Marketing and Branding – Strategic Messaging, October 4, 2023, Whited Room, Centenary College
• CFOB 2023 Fall Family Lagniappe – Beginning, Middle, and End – Hiring, Firing, and the Between, November 15, 2023, Petroleum Club
• Center for Family Owned Business CFOB After 5 Holiday Mixer, December 7, 2023, Andress Art Center
• CFOB 2024 Winter Family Business Forum – “Louisiana Famous Families” Private Tour and Tasting Event with Lindsay and Andrew Nations, February 8, 2024, Great Raft Brewing
Dean Scott Chirhart coordinated an early admission deicison agreement with Centenary College and LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans School of Nursing. The signing was held in Februrary 2024. Under the agreement, Centenary students applying to LSUHSC-NO SON’s off-campus instructional site in Shreveport will have an opportunity to secure an early admission decision to the BSN CARE program.
Celebrating 40 Years at Centenary College
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