We celebrate the accomplishments of UR’s talented faculty and staff. See more accomplishments and submit your own grant, publication, or honor at richmond.edu/ faculty-staff.
ASHLEY AUSTIN, assistant
professor of accounting, received a grant from the Center for Audit Quality for her research “Detecting Fraud: A Proactive Approach to Improving Auditors’ Attention to Fraud During Audit Testing.” TIM BARNEY, associate professor of rhetoric and
communication studies, was named a Distinguished Research Fellow by the Eastern Communication Association. BILL BERGMAN, instructor
in marketing, was named a Favorite Business Professor of the Class of 2020 in a Poets&Quants annual survey.
KRISTIN BEZIO, associate professor of leadership
studies, and George Goethals, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Leadership Studies, edited Leadership, Populism, and Resistance (Edward Elgar). JENNIFER BOWIE, associate professor of political
science, received the Teaching and Mentoring Award from the American Political Science Association, Law and Courts Section, in recognition of innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in the field of law and courts. Bowie published “Flowers v. Mississippi on Race in Jury Selection” in SCOTUS 2019 Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court (Palgrave Macmillan). SUNNI BROWN, director of
media and public relations; Lindsey Campbell, media relations specialist; and Cynthia Price, associate vice president of media and public relations, won first place in the Virginia Professional Communicators’ annual communications contest in the Communications Programs and Campaigns – Community, Institutional, or Internal Relations category and second place in the Web and Social Media – Website Edited or Managed by Entrant – Nonprofit, Government, or Educational category. The two awards recognized the team’s strategic approach to elevate UR faculty-authored pieces with The Conversation as well as their work on developing UR’s Newsroom website as a destination for reporters in order to secure national media opportunities. Brown won second place in the Virginia Professional Communicators’ annual communications con-
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test in the Public Relations Materials – Reports category for The Conversation First-Year Report highlighting the Media and Public Relations team’s partnership with The Conversation. Brown and Campbell presented “Digitally Designed Pitching: Maximizing Digital Platforms for Media Relations” at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District III annual conference in Orlando, Florida.
JORY DENNY, assistant
professor of computer science, presented his paper “Topology-Based Group Routing in Partially Known Environments” at the 35th Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Applied Computing Symposium on Applied Computing in Brno, Czech Republic.
ELENA CALVILLO, associ-
ate professor of art history, received a Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art for her book Rome in Translation: Cultural Brokerage in Sixteenth-century Italy. LINDSEY CAMPBELL, media relations specialist;
Sunni Brown, director of media and public relations; and Cynthia Price, associate vice president of media and public relations, won first place in the Virginia Professional Communicators’ annual communications contest in the Communications Programs and Campaigns – Community, Institutional, or Internal Relations category and second place in the Web and Social Media – Website Edited or Managed by Entrant – Nonprofit, Government, or Educational category. The two awards recognized the team’s strategic approach to elevate UR faculty-authored pieces with The Conversation as well as their work on developing UR’s Newsroom website as a destination for reporters in order to secure national media opportunities. Campbell and Brown presented “Digitally Designed Pitching: Maximizing Digital Platforms for Media Relations” at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District III annual conference in Orlando, Florida. JEFFREY CARLSON, assis-
tant professor of marketing, and Joel Mier, lecturer of marketing, published “Business buyers are people too: exploring how geodemographics affects business-to-business selling effectiveness” in the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing.
DELLA DUMBAUGH, professor of mathematics,
presented “Prospering through Mathematics” at the Joint Mathematics Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America in Denver. RAFAEL DE SÁ, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in
Natural Sciences, received a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his research on the diversity and evolution of a frog species found in South America.
to the 2020 Distinguished Educator and Distinguished Scholarship Awards recipients, who were honored at Colloquy in August. Distinguished Educator Awards
In recognition of outstanding contributions to excellence in education JENNIFER BOWIE
Associate Professor of Political Science
JESSICA FLANIGAN, Richard L. Morrill Chair in
PAUL CLIKEMAN
Ethics and Democratic Values, received a grant from the Institute of Humane Studies to develop the “Open Inquiry Toolkit” to promote free speech on college campuses.
Associate Professor of Accounting JESSICA FLANIGAN
GEORGE GOETHALS, E. Claiborne Robins Distin-
LAURA KNOUSE
guished Chair in Leadership Studies, and Kristin Bezio, associate professor of leadership studies, edited Leadership, Populism, and Resistance (Edward Elgar).
JULIE POLLOCK
DIETER GUNKEL, assistant
professor of historical linguistics, received an $18,000 fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies to explore modern studies of languages similar to Greek, ancient descriptions of the Greek language, and fragments of ancient Greek music. MICHELLE HAMM, Clarence E. Denoon Professor
of Science; Eugene Wu, associate professor of biology and biochemistry; and students published “The Importance of Ile716 toward the Mutagenicity of 8-Oxo-2’-deoxyguanosine with Bacillus Fragment DNA Polymerase” in DNA Repair.
MICHELE COX, director of study abroad, and
JAMIE LYNN HASKINS,
Brianne Meagher, transfer and curriculum analyst in the registrar’s office, presented “Study Abroad for Registrars” at the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers annual meeting in Alexandria, Virginia.
chaplain for spiritual life, co-published Acting on Faith: Stories of Courage, Activism, and Hope Across Religions (Chalice Press).
MONTI DATTA, associate professor of political
science, and Bob Spires, associate professor of education, published “Encompass Southeast Asia” in Education about Asia.
Congratulations
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OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values Associate Professor of Psychology Associate Professor of Chemistry EMMELINE REEVES
Professor of Law for Academic Success CARRIE WU
Associate Professor of Biology
Distinguished Scholarship Awards In recognition of a consistent record of outstanding contributions in scholarship as documented through published research, scholarship, or creative expression DAVID BRANDENBERGER
Professor of History and Global Studies JAMES DAVIS
Professor of Mathematics RAFAEL DE SÁ
Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in Natural Sciences JESSICA ERICKSON
Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Law GEORGE GOETHALS
E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Leadership Studies JEFFREY HARRISON
PATRICIA HERRERA, associate professor of the-
atre, published Nuyorican Feminist Performance: From The Café to Hip Hop Theater (University of Michigan Press). Herrera and Mariela Méndez, associate professor of Latin American and Iberian studies and women, gender, and sexuality stud-
W. David Robbins Chair in Strategic Management DOUGLAS WINIARSKI
Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies
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