Humanities & Behavioral Sciences Newsletter | Fall 2023

Fall 2023 Newsletter

Academic & Creative Accolades

Digital Humanities

Medieval Medicine

Worldwide Presence

GREETINGS from the DEAN The School of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences at High Point University is finishing 2023 on some very high notes.

Though merely preparation for the next act, in the year to come, one would be forgiven for celebrating this grand finale to another extraordinary year.

So let’s celebrate!

In the pages that follow, you will learn about some of the awards our stellar faculty are garnering.

Please note the breadth of specialties and experiences being represented in these awards, as well as the depth of curiosity and knowledge being expressed. It is such expertise and ability that benefit High Point University students daily.

One of the great joys of being Dean is being in frequent dialogue with our Humanities and Behavioral Sciences faculty regarding ways of engaging students, assessing and encouraging academic progress, and their work with new techniques and technologies. Our students benefit from the many ways in which our faculty remain wellinformed and cutting edge in their pedagogy. Simply, our faculty are doing so many wonderful things that, just as with technology, one has to work to stay au courant.

The intersection of rapidly advancing technologies, learning, and shaping new knowledge is a dynamic space. Interdisciplinary investigations, analysis, synthesis, and presentations represent the pulse of digital humanities. Within these pages, you will catch a glimpse of how digital humanities are blossoming in our School, while Medieval history is taking experiential root simultaneously.

Thank you for joining us. Enjoy the celebrations that follow.

Dean Ken Elston, MFA

School of Humanities & Behavioral Sciences Fall 2023 Newsletter DEAN Ken Elston, MFA ASSOCIATE DEAN Dr. Matthew Schneider DEPARTMENT CHAIRS Criminal Justice Dr. Bobby Little English Dr. Bryan Vescio History Dr. Joey Fink, Interim Political Science Dr. Martin Kifer Psychology Dr. Kirsten Li-Barber Religion & Philosophy Dr. Chris Franks Sociology & Anthropology Dr. Matthew Sayre World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures Dr. Daliang Wang OFFICE OF THE DEAN 251 Norcross Graduate School High Point University One University Parkway High Point, NC 27268 Newsletter Questions or Comments?

Send to: Tiffany Medford, HBS Admin Asst. tmedford@highpoint.edu

Contents

Fall / Winter 2023

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Digital Humanities & Technology

Drs. Rodney Reynolds and Charmaine Cadeau explore Digital Humanities inside and outside the classroom.

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Award Winning Faculty

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On the Bookshelf

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Worldwide Presence

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ON THE COVER

Photo Credit: Lee Adams, HPU

Six HBS faculty receive awards in their fields of research.

From New York to Scotland, our faculty traversed the globe, sharing their expertise on an international scale.

Seen & Heard

Drs. Allen and Lalor bring Medieval medicine to HPU’s greenhouse. Read more on page 6.

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WELCOME NEW FACULTY Our newest faculty bring expertise from diverse academic backgrounds, and are ready to inspire, challenge, and engage our classrooms.

Dr. Joshua Bartlett

Assistant Professor of English

Mr. Stephen Bowman Instructor of Spanish

Dr. Daniel Krenzer

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

Dr. Kirsten Piatak

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

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Dr. Tyler Coleman

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science

Dr. Faye McRavion Instructor of English

Dr. Kylee Runyan

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice

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Ms. Neyeska Mendez-Filipski

Instructor of Spanish

Dr. Kelsey Spinnato Assistant Professor of Religion

Mr. Anthony Jones Instructor of History

Dr. Matthew Mitchell

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion

Dr. Mellissa Wright

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology

How many minutes of your day are devoted

to TikTok, YouTube, and Netflix? If the number is higher than you’d like to admit, then you’re not alone.

According to Statista, Americans consumed an average of 470 minutes (about 8 hours) of digital media per day in 2021 while more traditional forms of media such as newspapers and magazines were consumed in just 9 minutes per day on average.* Our lives are saturated with media and the technology that delivers it.

Flipping the script, Dr. Rodney Reynolds, assistant professor of anthropology, teaches students how to critically engage with all forms of mass media in his SOA 2020 course. Reynolds’ mission is to empower students with tools to dissect every form of mass media - not just the traditional print, radio, and television but also the titans of the digital age: the Internet, Facebook, and YouTube.

Countess’s photography captures displaced Amhara women and children, survivors of the Tigray War who live in internment camps.

The result of the conversation brought Countess’s “Tears of Wollega” exhibition to HPU’s Sechrest Gallery, which was sponsored by a Cultural Enrichment Grant from the Cultural Programs Committee at HPU. “I see this exhibition as a way to expand visual literacy and explore ways we can be literate of the images around us,” says Reynolds. “There is a very rich theory around this and skills that can be developed to understand the intention of certain images and the impact they create in our lives.”

Enter Digital Humanities Broadly speaking, Reynolds brings students to the intersection of humanities and the digital world, a field known as Digital Humanities.

As a counterpoint to scrolling mindlessly through content, Reynolds’ class offers a journey into the complex web of social, economic, and political influences woven by the media we consume.

Students are challenged to explore how mass media shapes societal norms and, in turn, is shaped by the very systems it reflects.

Last year, while looking for resources to use in class, Reynolds reached out to Jemal Countess, an American photographer who is internationally known for his humanitarian work in Ethiopia. Giving a face to the faceless,

Dr. Reynolds welcomes attendees to a reception with Jemal Countess.

Photo credit: Ben Berninger, class of 2022

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Originally coined humanities computing in the 1980s, the field has seen several changes over the decades, most notably the change in name to Digital Humanities (DH) and a broader scope of the field’s focus and interdisciplinary work (Svensson 36).

According to Patrik Svensson, author of Digital Humanities as a Field, “The digital humanities is never about only one field or tradition changing or being challenged; rather, it is about allowing curiosity, exchange, and sharpness to drive intellectual and material development” (5).

Today, the field explores how our current digital landscape impacts humanities disciplines.

DH in Action

began by taking audio recordings during solitary walks at night. Using creative coding, she programmed a pen plotter to create abstract line drawings in response to these recordings of her neighborhood, forest, and city on paper made from regional plants. Finally, taking the robotically-generated visual poems as a source text, she translated the images into traditional lyric poems. The paired drawings and poems explore how we document our lives and account for our experiences in private and public ways.

In September, she presented her work at the Paper and Poetry: Invention Through Craft conference hosted by Cambridge University at the Paper Foundation in Cumbria, UK. As one of 14 international attendees, Cadeau enjoyed the interdisciplinary conversations and connections that were made during the conference’s working groups on topics like the nature of the archive and material culture.

Cadeau writes, “Advancements in both computational poetry and generative art offer new and exciting lines of inquiry for me, transposing my interest in collaboration and image into a digital arena through creative coding and robotics.”

DH’s Growing Footprint

A sample from Dr. Charmaine Cadeau’s latest work, Driven by Fear.

Dr. Charmaine Cadeau, associate professor of English, is actively working in the field as a poet and researcher. Her work, Driven by Fear, uses creative coding to investigate the intersection between poetry and imagery.

Funded by the North Carolina Arts Council, Driven by Fear is Cadeau’s first work that uses digital and robotic technology. Her process 4

As we continue to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of academia, the power of digital tools becomes increasingly evident.

From igniting social change to creating new works of literature, Digital Humanities means exploring technologies to better understand human culture, disseminate information, and collaborate with others. It is a testament to our faculty’s adaptability and creativity to ensure our students are prepared to think critically about the world around them. *Statista.com. “Media usage in the United States.” 2023, accessed 14 Nov. 2023, < https://www.statista.com/study/10950/media-usein-the-united-states-statista-dossier/>.

Svensson, Patrik, et al. Big Digital Humanities: Imagining a Meeting Place for the Humanities and the Digital. University of Michigan Press, 2016.

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Dr. Daliang Wang Appointed to Fulbright National Screening Committee selecting students for Dr. Daliang Wang, World the English Language Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department Chair and associate professor of Chinese, has been selected by the Institute of International Education (IIE) to serve on the National Screening Committee (NSC) for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. In this role, Dr. Wang will advise in the selection of future Fulbright scholars who will embark on transformative experiences abroad and make meaningful contributions to society.

Dr. Wang has been actively engaged with the Fulbright Student Program since 2006.

During his three-year term, Wang’s responsibilities include

Teaching Assistantships in Taiwan, beginning with this year’s competition. The process involves reading and rating approximately 50-60 applications prior to a half-day virtual meeting with his fellow committee members to recommend semi-finalist Dr. Wang with students Miranda Keith and Naomi Ordonez. candidates for further consideration.

English in other countries.”

Speaking about his involvement, Dr. Wang The Fulbright U.S. Student expressed, “It is a great honor Program partners with over to be entrusted with the 140 countries to create crossresponsibility of selecting the cultural dialogue and global best U.S. students to teach professional development.

Dean Elston co-leads Wellbeing Conference Ken Elston, Dean, co-facilitated the World

Higher Education Network (WHEN) conference in Montreux, Switzerland on Lake Geneva.

As part of the leadership team for this Network and part of the global Wellbeing Project, Elston led four days of imagining a future for Global Higher Education centering wellbeing, and he devised creative spaces that wrapped the conference and provided outlets for collaboration. The gathering included daily workshops, and Dean Elston led one of these, as well. This focused on utilizing Values Mapping to help define relationships within organizations.

Rethinking higher education, with the belief that wellbeing leads to well doing, WHEN promotes student, faculty and staff flourishing through interest-group projects, peer mentorship, research, workshops, and works to develop frameworks for nurturing organizational wellbeing and contemplative pedagogies.

To learn more, visit: wellbeing-project.org/hen-gathering-2023/

Dean Elston, found far right, with WHEN conference attendees.

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Announcing Award

Winning Faculty

Reflecting the spirit of academic innovation

that defines High Point University, we invite you to join us in applauding the latest achievements of some of our beloved professors.

History is about to bloom in HPU’s greenhouse next spring since Drs. Amanda Allen and Shannan Lalor, pictured top left, received a North Carolina Humanities’ Community Engagement Grant to create a medieval and early modern physics garden. Bringing new life to the Couch Greenhouse, students will use collaborative research and grow plants once used by monks, barber-surgeons, and physicians, which were indicative of medieval and early modern medicinal gardens. The space will also house public history displays showing their archival research regarding the 6

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various plants and the medical uses.

In April there will be a special lecture and reception to open the space to visitors. This grant will allow for great experiential learning opportunities for our students while creating a unique educational program for the community.

Dr. Amy MacArthur, assistant professor of religion and philosophy, pictured bottom of opposite page, was selected to participate in the New Currents in Teaching Philosophy Institute this summer. In its third and final year, the institute was developed by the Council of Independent Colleges with a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation to strengthen the study of philosophy at small liberal arts colleges and emphasize the development of innovative teaching practices.

her proposal, Deliberative Dialogue: Shaping Our Future Together. This prestigious accolade will support a three-part Deliberative Dialogue Series to be hosted on our campus in the spring semester. The award is part of Project Pericles, which is funded by a $900,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation with additional support from The Eugene M. Lang Foundation. Project Pericles works with faculty from more than 50 colleges and universities with initiatives that support faculty to integrate voter education and social justice issues into humanities curricula through deliberative dialogue and communityinitiated projects.

As one of thirty passionate philosophy instructors chosen for the experience, MacArthur spent four days learning from leading experts who shared new, original course content that they designed at their own universities.

MacArthur says her favorite course was Philosophy and The Good Life hosted by Meghan Sullivan from the University of Notre Dame.

“The whole curriculum had practical

notions about getting students to reflect on their lives and how philosophy is really useful in everyday life,” says MacArthur. “What’s more important than to think about how to live a good life?”

In addition to her participation at the institute, MacArthur was awarded a grant to facilitate the development of a new course in philosophy and neuroscience. She envisions the course as an upper-level integration course and is excited to bring this new addition to HPU’s curriculum.

Mrs. Allison Walker, Director of Service

Learning and instructor of English, pictured center on opposite page, received a Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship Award for

Dr. Michael Kennedy, instructor of history, is

known nationally for his knowledge of baseball.

Being inspired by the release of the film “42,” a biography of Jackie Robinson, Kennedy set out to document why it took 12 years for all of the major league franchises to finally integrate. He was curious as to the reasons for each team’s delay in following the path to integration, beyond ‘simple’ racism. The culmination of his research was published in his article, “After Jackie Robinson: The Strategy of Procrastination: Delays to the Integration of Major League Baseball, 1947-1959,” which he presented at the 2023 North Carolina Association of Historians.

In August, Kennedy was notified that his article won the Lawrence Brewster Award for best paper delivered to and published in the September edition of The Journal of the Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Drs. Amanda Allen and Shannan Lalor in front of Couch Greenhouse; Keonna Elliott, Avery Miles, and Mrs. Allison Walker at the NC Campus Engagement conference; Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family Collegiate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, presents her innovative course on God and the Good Life at the New Currents in Teaching Philosophy Institute.

Above: From left to right, Maeve O’Dae, Jayne Eaves, Dr. Michael Kennedy, Bonnie Showfety, and Kenan Althoff present at the 2023 NCAH Conference.

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North Carolina Association of Historians (Vol. 31). This article also featured help from Jayne Eaves (class of ’23) who served as a research assistant for Dr. Kennedy in her senior year. Eaves is now pursuing an MA at Queen’s University in Belfast.

Ms. Autumn Grosser, instructor of English, is winning awards

for her short script Infinity Care: a sci-fi animated love letter to Grosser’s special needs daughter Hermione, who passed away suddenly from epilepsy at age three in 2015. Inspired by a recurring dream, the short screenplay tells the story of a mother and daughter who connect in tender, ordinary moments through an extraordinary futuristic service that defies corporeal limitations.

This year, it won the Grand Jury Prize at BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival, Best Screenplay at the Art Experimental Screenings Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, and made the Second Round at the Austin Film Festival, along with a half dozen other placements across the country. Grosser’s production company, 3AM Stories, continues to shop the script for development.

Poster for Infinity Care by Ms. Autumn Grosser.

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

-Maya Angelou Presenting the latest book publications from our esteemed faculty.

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Dr. Hayden Carron,

Director of Spanish Program & Associate Professor of Spanish

Dr. Carron’s second novel, El vino y la Sal, is about how powerful men can change the destiny of their nations in different historical periods. The novel mixes fiction and history to tell the story of the first vineyard established in the New World by the Spanish colonizers in what is today the Dominican Republic.

Dr. Michael Flatt, Assistant Professor of English I Can Focus If I Try is a book-length poem in four sections, investigating the effects of the digital culture on the way we see ourselves and others. The book asks whether we rely too much on vision at the expense of a more varied sensory understanding of being human. Each section also treats the received forms that constitute the body of the book—the text box, the page—in a different way, seeking to create an embodied reading experience, culminating in a final section that asks the reader to turn the book to read the poems. The way that we experience the world through digital devices and software features prominently in the manuscript, as does the way we use our bodies to perceive the world. The interplay between bodily and digital mediation and between traumatic and healing events gives the book an energy that is at times frenetic, at times meditative.

Dr. Scott Ingram, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice The seeds for this book were planted more than 20 years ago when Dr. Ingram began reading about the history of the United States Department of Justice. Amassing information about federal criminal prosecutions at different points in United States history, he collected archival records relating to prosecutions as research resources. The book tells the story of how prosecutorial power was discovered and then used by presidents and Cabinet members to enforce policy agendas. It traces our nation’s first three presidents over a span of 20 years, paying particular attention to the relationship between the president, the president’s cabinet, and the appointed federal prosecutors. It reveals that federal prosecutors originated as a practical necessity and were, by no means, pre-ordained.

Dr. Sadie Leder Elder, Associate Professor of Psychology The Adventures of Boopers the Bad Cat is the first in what Dr. Leder Elder anticipates to be a long-running children’s book series. The main character, Boopers, is based on her actual, longtime pet and much of what is shared in the book details the actual mischievous behavior of the real Boopers. Not only does she hope that this book brings a smile to the faces of those who purchase a copy, but she also hopes to promote literacy in the community through donation campaigns. Within three weeks of the book’s release, Leder Elder, along with illustrator Kathryn Cushwa Gerace, reached their first donation goal of one copy at each of the 50 Title 1 elementary schools in Guilford County, NC.

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Literary Scotland Maymester The Literary Scotland program, led by Dr. Matthew Carlson and Dr. Bryan Vescio of the English Department, was based in Edinburgh, the first UNESCO City of Literature and the home of many world-famous writers, including Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and J. K. Rowling.

In addition to learning in the classroom, students led walking tours through the city that brought these authors and their works to life. They also took day trips to historic and cultural sites throughout Scotland, including the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Walter Scott’s Abbotsford, Moat Brae: “The Birthplace of Peter Pan,” and several castles.

One of the highlights of the program was the three-night excursion into the wild and wonderful Scottish Highlands, where the group enjoyed a Loch Ness cruise and hiked the Old Man of Storr for stunning views on the Isle of Skye.

Left: Students soak in the beatiful scenery of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Guest Lecturer in Madrid Dr. Sara De Nicolas, associate professor of Spanish, gave two lectures at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain this July. The topic of the lectures was: “Linguistic and socio-cultural aspects in the interaction of health care providers with migrant patients in Spain.” The attendees were faculty and students from the School of Medicine.

The feedback from both students and faculty proved the lectures were an outstanding success. They expressed the importance and the need for this topic to be covered in the health care field, stating that learning about the patients’ culture, language, and background could have an impact not only in the relationship with the patients but even in the diagnosis and treatments.

Dr. De Nicolas will be imparting a series of workshops and seminars related to this important issue next year at the Rey Juan Carlos University.

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Dr. De Nicolas lecturing at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain.

Dr. Rick Schneid Reporting for Duty Writing to us from his office in New York, Dr.

Rick Schneid, Herman and Louise Smith Professor of History, reports back on his opportunity to serve as the ‘23-’24 Charles Boal Ewing Chair of Military History at West Point.

“It is an honor to serve as the Charles Boal Ewing Chair of Military History at the United States Military Academy at West Point, for the 2023-2024 Academic Year. I arrived at the end of June and spent a wonderful summer in the History Department Arriving Faculty Workshop (AFW). The summer was extremely valuable in building relationships with the new faculty and learning the preferred classroom pedagogy and adjusting from my 30 years at HPU to the mission of the USMA. During this Fall semester, I am teaching two sections of HI 301 History of the Military Art to 1900. The cadets are responsible, serious and participate actively in discussions. They have a clear and common sense of purpose. Cadets benefit from the smaller numbers in each section, no more than 16 per class. This seminar style is designed to engender discussion and deeper analysis, based upon the expectation that cadets have done the reading for the day.

The focus is on the why and how, not the what, as that is found in the daily reading. Cadets have well-defined expectations and are held to them. This is an extremely rewarding classroom experience, and I am giving serious thought about how to graft this type of instruction to my HPU classroom when I return next year.

In January I will give a lecture to 400+ cadets on the evolution of war and warfare from Napoleon to the First World War. It is the inaugural lecture of the core class, HI 302 History of the Military Art from 1900 to the Present. I look forward to that opportunity.

These months at West Point have already yielded a great deal for me, in the classroom, in research and in newfound relationships with truly impressive cadets and faculty at the USMA.”

Above: Dr. Schneid running a simulation with cadets on the War of Spanish Succession; A group photo with other new faculty in the History Department during the Staff Ride to Gettysburg in July.

Dr. Frederick C. Schneid Charles Boal Ewing Chair of Military History 2023-2024, United States Military Academy at West Point Herman and Louise Smith Professor of History, High Point University

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Intersecting Academics Dr. Ali Yanus visits App State for the year.

Dr. Alixandra B. Yanus, associate professor of political science, is spending the 2023-24 academic year as the Daniel German Visiting Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. Her research focuses on American politics, generally, and the historical and contemporary civic engagement, participation, and representation of marginalized groups, specifically.

As the German professor, Dr. Yanus has been able to embark on a new research project focused on women as candidates and elected officials prior to the ratification of the Nineteenth (Suffrage) Amendment. To aid this endeavor, she recently traveled to Evanston, Illinois to work in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Archives; while in Chicago, she reconnected with 2023 HPU Outstanding Political Science graduate Tessa Webb, who is pursuing an M.A. in International Relations at the University of Chicago. The opportunity has broadened her horizons as a teacher, colleague, and mentor.

SEEN & HEARD: School of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences Dean Ken Elston, MFA, delivered a

lecture and participated in a panel, virtually, at Facens University in Brazil to discuss creative arts and wellbeing as part of The Wellbeing Summit Sao Paulo on September 20, 2023.

Criminal Justice Dr. Kirsten Piatak, assistant professor,

along with Dr. Tim Perkins (Adjunct, Department of Chemistry) welcomed their third child, a baby boy on November 7th. Mom, dad, baby, and older siblings are doing well.

English Dr. Timothy O’Keefe, visiting assistant

professor, taught the poetry master class, “Writing by Ear (Beyond Rhyme)” at the spring conference of the NC Writers’ Network on Saturday, April 22nd at UNC-Greensboro.

Dr. Donna Scheidt, associate professor,

participated in “Prophecy and Politics” as part of Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute in May. In October, she presented “A Warrant by Any Other Name? The Role of Religious Discourse in Recent U.S. Supreme Court Constitutional Advocacy” at the 2023 Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Conference at the University of Memphis.

Dr. Bryan Vescio, Department Chair and

professor, presented “What Good Is Philosophy to Democracy? Rorty on the Political Responsibility of Intellectuals” at The Richard Rorty Society conference, held at Universidad de Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico on December 1, 2023.

Dr. Beth Ann Way, assistant professor,

presented “Travel Liberties in Elizabeth Isabella Spence’s Letters from the North Highlands During the Summer of 1816” at the 31st annual British Women Writers Conference: “Liberties” on May 25-27, 2023 at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Yanus is caught in her favorite spot, the archives.

History Dr. Amanda Allen, assistant professor,

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Presentations, Publications, & Special Announcements served as panel chair for “Catholicism, Conformity, and Power” at the Southern Conference on British Studies in Charlotte, N.C. on November 10, 2023.

Dr. Joey Fink, Interim Chair and

assistant professor, presented “Warrior Jesus, the Christian Soldier, and the Working Man: Evangelical Christianity in the Industrialized Regions of the United States and Canada since the 1970s” at the Research Center for the History of Transformations’ conference in Vienna, Austria on Friday, June 2.

Political Science Dr. Tyler Coleman, visiting

assistant professor will publish “Antidumping Protectionism and Globalized Economies,” in a forthcoming edition of Business and Politics.

Dr. Sam Whitt, associate professor,

along with Drs. Ali Yanus, Mark Setzler, Brian McDonald, John Graeber, Gordon Ballingrud, and Martin Kifer coauthored “Explaining Partisan Gaps in Satisfaction with Democracy after Contentious Elections: Evidence from a US 2020 Election Panel Survey” in PS: Political Science & Politics online by Cambridge University Press in July 2023.

Psychology Dr. Joanne Altman, Director of

Undergraduate Research and Creative Works and professor, presented “Research Rookies: Recruiting and Preparing Freshman for Research - A Five-Year Retrospective” as one of three presentations at the Council on Undergraduate Research’s ConnectUR Conference in Pittsburgh, PA in June 2023. On Nov. 11, Altman chaperoned 29 students at the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium (SNCURCS) hosted at Wingate University.

Dr. Sadie Leder Elder, associate

professor, attended the Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT Conference) in Portland, OR, which was hosted by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP). She chaired a symposium, titled “Lessons Learned from Two Years of STP Mid-Career Mentoring Reading Groups” and was appointed as the inaugural chair of STP’s national Mid-Career Psychology Committee.

Religion & Philosophy Dr. Carl Helsing, instructor,

presented excerpts of his publication, “Zhuangzi’s Moral Psychology of Humor” at the International Society for Chinese Philosophy at the University of California at Riverside. He also presented “Dao and Data: Algorithmic Limitations in Language and Machine Intelligence” at the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, hosted by the University of San Francisco.

Dr. Beth Hupfer, assistant professor,

presented “From Bednets to Rocket Ships: Efficiency in the Long-Term and Neglect for the Present” at a workshop hosted by McGill University in Montreal, Canada on October 28, 2023.

Sociology & Anthropology Dr. Mark Plume, associate professor, mentored HPU student Jade Stewart to present “The Why Factors Involved in Students’ Post-High School Pathway Decisions,” which they presented at SNCURCS at Wingate University on November 11, 2023.

World Languages, Literatures, & Cultures Dr. Denis Depinoy, assistant

professor of French, published “Tu te trompes, Fantasio’: Yves Chaland’s Decoding and Recoding of Spirou” in Studies in Comics, Vol. 13, Issue 1-2 (2023).

Dr. Anna Love, assistant professor

of Italian, presented “A Contact Zone from Past to Present: A Case Study of Immersing Students in Mediterranean Culture” at the Il Convegno Internazionale su Letterature, Arte, Cinema, Gastronomia, Conflitti, Misteri e Filosofia Mediterranee conference presented by the Associazione Studi Mediterranei.

Ms. Carmen Salama, instructor

Dr. Matthew Mitchell, visiting

of Spanish, participated in the XV International Congress of General Linguistics held in Madrid, Spain in June 2023.

Dr. Robert Moses, associate

Dr. Daliang Wang, Department Chair and associate professor, presented “Harnessing the Power of ChatGPT in Foreign Language Education” to faculty members in the Foreign Language College of Shanghai Dianji University in June 2023.

assistant professor, published “Opening the Curtains on Popular Practice: Kaicho in the Meiji and Taisho Periods” in the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1 (2023). professor, presented, “Made of Money: Currency in Matthew’s Gospel and the Community’s Socio-Economic Status” at the Society of New Testament Studies Conference in Vienna, Austria on July 27, 2023. Additionally, he published “Mark’s Jesus on Wealth and Poverty: A Response to C. Clifton Black and Margaret M. Mitchell,” in Currents in Theology and Mission, Vol. 50 No. 4 (2023).

Dr. Adam Winkel, associate

professor of Spanish, presented “Province against Capital in La eliminatoria (The Playoff), by Ramon Solis” at the Sport Literature Association (SLA) 40th annual conference in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada on June 24, 2023.

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highpoint.edu/humanities-behavioral-sciences/ @hpu_hbs High Point University School of Humanities & Behavioral Sciences HPU School of Humanities & Behavioral Sciences: Student and Alumni Network

School of Humanities & Behavioral Sciences MISSION STATEMENT Together, Humanities and Behavioral Sciences faculty and students work to bring practicality, imagination, and depth to how we think, feel, and act. The faculty of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences unites diverse disciplines that generate new research, scholarship, and creative expression concerned with how and why shared human experiences matter. That work forms the basis of our innovative teaching and mentorship and of our commitment to discovering durable, practical ways to create and share knowledge about ourselves and others. Our methods instill curiosity, awareness, and resilience as core habits. These habits are foundational to the creative problem-solving, logical reasoning, and clear communication necessary for finding significance and success within a strong ethical framework, now and in a dynamic future.

Think. Feel. Act. Create experiences that matter.