Distinguished Educator & Scholarship Awards

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.

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.

JESSICA FLANIGAN, Richard L. Morrill Chair in 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.

GEORGE GOETHALS, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in Leadership Studies, and Kristin Bezio, associate professor of leadership studies, edited Leadership, Populism, and Resistance (Edward Elgar).

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.

JAMIE LYNN HASKINS, chaplain for spiritual life, co-published Acting on Faith: Stories of Courage, Activism, and Hope Across Religions (Chalice Press).

PATRICIA HERRERA, associate professor of theatre, 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

Congratulations 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

PAUL CLIKEMAN

Associate Professor of Accounting

JESSICA FLANIGAN

Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values

LAURA KNOUSE

Associate Professor of Psychology

JULIE POLLOCK

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

W. David Robbins Chair in Strategic Management

DOUGLAS WINIARSKI

Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies

PEOPLE

ies, published “Performando un activismo feminista: El trabajo de Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez en La Marca” in Conjunto.

GILL ROBINSON HICKMAN, leadership studies professor emerita, and Laura Knouse, associate professor of psychology, published When Leaders Face Personal Crisis (Routledge).

DANIEL HOCUTT, web manager in the School of Professional and Continuing studies, presented “Expanding Usability Studies of Complex Websites to Include Posthuman Users” at the ninth annual Symposium for Communicating Complex Information in Norfolk, Virginia.

ATIYA HUSAIN, assistant professor of sociology, published “Deracialization, Dissent, and Terrorism in the FBI’s Most Wanted Program” in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

THOMAS KAPSIDELIS, visiting assistant professor of journalism, was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame by the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture and the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.

WILL KELLY, visiting assistant professor of religious studies, published How Prophecy Works: A Study of the Semantic Field of Nabi and a Close Reading of Jeremiah 1:4–19, 23:9–40 and 27:1–28:17 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).

LAURA KNOUSE, associate professor of psychology, and Gill Robinson Hickman, leadership studies professor emerita, published When Leaders Face Personal Crisis (Routledge).

PAUL KVAM, professor of statistics, received a Fulbright Scholar Award for travel to Hong Kong to further his research in nonparametric statistics.

LAURANETT LEE, visiting lecturer in history, was appointed by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to the Citizens’ Advisory Council on Furnishing and Interpreting the Executive Mansion.

ANGELA LEEPER, director of the curriculum materials center in Boatwright Memorial Library, was awarded the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2020 National Library Legislative Day Travel Stipend to attend NLLD in Washington, D.C.

KRISTJEN LUNDBERG, assistant professor of social psychology, co-published “A Privileged Point of View: Effects of Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Naïve Realism and Political Division” in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

BRIANNE MEAGHER, transfer and curriculum analyst in the registrar’s office, and Michele Cox, director of study abroad, presented “Study Abroad for Registrars” at the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers annual meeting in Alexandria, Virginia.

LEIGH MELTON, adjunct professor of law, and former student coauthors received the 2020 John J. Regan Writing Award from the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys for their article “Observing the NOTICE Act” in the Spring 2019 NAELA Journal.

MARIELA MÉNDEZ, associate professor of Latin American and Iberian studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies, received a Fulbright Scholar Award to support three months in Rio de Janeiro to advance her research on understanding representations of genders and sexualities in Latin American newspapers and magazines. Méndez published “Operación Araña: Reflections on How a Performative Intervention in Buenos Aires’s Subway System can Help Rethink Feminist Activism” in Estudos Históricos. Méndez and Patricia Herrera, associate professor of theatre, published “Performando un activismo feminista: El trabajo de Debora Kuetzpal Vasquez en La Marca” in Conjunto.

LIONEL MEW, assistant professor of information systems, published “Designing and Implementing an Undergraduate Data Analytics Program for Non-Traditional Students” in the Information Systems Education Journal.

JOEL MIER, lecturer of marketing, and Jeffrey Carlson, assistant professor of marketing, published “Business buyers are people too: exploring how geodemographics affects business-to-business selling effectiveness” in the Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing.

SHAHAN MUFTI, associate professor of journalism, received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Book Award for his forthcoming book American Caliph: The True Story of the Hanafi Siege, America’s First Homegrown Islamic Terror Attack (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).