Endowed Position Holders

NEW & REAPPOINTED Endowed Position Holders

These academic honors recognize an individual’s attainment of the highest levels of teaching, scholarship, research, and service in their discipline or field.

TOM ARNOLD

Joseph A. Jennings Chair in Business

TOM BONFIGLIO

William Judson Gaines Chair in Modern Foreign Language

LAURA BROWDER

Tyler and Alice Haynes Professorship in American Studies

KELLING DONALD

Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences

JEFF HARRISON

W. David Robbins Chair in Strategic Management

LADELLE MCWHORTER

Stephanie Bennett-Smith Chair in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

WILLIAM ROSS

Roger Francis and Mary Saunders Richardson Chair in Mathematics

TANJA SOFTIĆ

Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Art and Art History DANIEL HOCUTT, web manager in the School of Professional & Continuing Studies, with a colleague from George Mason University, presented “Web Analytics as Complex Information Systems: Preparing Technical Communicators for Wayfinding Solutions that Use Data” at the 11th annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information at Old Dominion University. The presentation introduced a framework for incorporating data analytics into technical communication research and pedagogy. Hocutt and colleagues from the Digital Life Institute led a virtual roundtable discussion on the use of augmentation technologies in networked learning at the 13th International Conference on Networked Learning at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall, Sweden.

ANN HODGES, professor of law emerita, coauthored the fourth edition of Public Sector Employment: Cases and Materials (West Academic Publishing).

KATHRYN JACOBSEN, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair, and undergraduate students published “A Call for Loiasis to be Added to the WHO List of Neglected Tropical Diseases” in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

MILES JOHNSON, associate professor of chemistry, and undergraduate students published “Synthesis of pyrrole-based PSiP pincer ligands and their palladium, rhodium, and platinum complexes” in Dalton Transactions. The work was conducted in collaboration with the Ozerov group at Texas A&M University.

PETER KAUFMAN, George Matthews & Virginia Brinkley Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies, published “Hopefully, Augustine” in Augustinian Studies.

LAURA KUTI, assistant professor of education, co-authored “Accommodating Students with Exceptional Needs by Aligning Classroom Assessment with IEP Goals” in the International Journal of Inclusive Education.

MICHAEL LEOPOLD, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, received the 2022 Outstanding Mentorship Award from the Chemistry Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research. Leopold; Jeff Simpson, director of nuclear magnetic resonance and computational support; and undergraduate students published “Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized with Halogen Bonding Capability — An Avenue for Molecular Detection Schemes” in Langmuir. The work was the cover article for the issue.

TODD LOOKINGBILL, associate professor of biology and geography and the environment, copublished “Connectivity in the Urban Landscape (2015–2020): Who? Where? What? When? Why? and How?” in Current Landscape Ecology Reports.

JOANNA LOVE, associate professor of music, and Jessie Fillerup, associate professor of musicology, co-edited Sonic Identity at the Margins (Bloomsbury). Love also published “‘Let’s Get Loud’: Sounding Subversive Bodies at the Super Bowl” in Journal of Popular Music Studies.

ANDY MCGRAW, associate professor of music, published “Mapping Sonic and Affective Geographies in Richmond, Virginia” in Sonic Identity at the Margins (Bloomsbury).

SHANNON MILLISOR, administrative and event scheduling coordinator, earned the Certified Administrative Professional (CAP) designation through the International Association of Administrative Professionals.

MICHAEL NORRIS, assistant professor of chemistry, and Dan Pierce, assistant professor of biology, with undergraduate and former students, published “Mechanistic Analysis of the VirA Sensor Kinase in Agrobacterium tumefaciens Using Structural Models” in Frontiers in Microbiology.

DAN PIERCE, assistant professor of biology, and Michael Norris, assistant professor of chemistry, with undergraduate and former students, published “Mechanistic Analysis of the VirA Sensor Kinase in Agrobacterium tumefaciens Using Structural Models” in Frontiers in Microbiology.

TERRY PRICE, Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics, received $5,000 from the Institute for Humane Studies to support a lecture by Jonathan Rauch, “The Constitution of Knowledge.”

FRANÇOISE RAVAUX-

KIRKPATRICK, professor of French and film studies, was awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, one of the main distinctions among the four ministerial orders of France. The distinction, awarded by the Minister of Culture, rewards those who have distinguished themselves by their creations in an artistic or literary field. TOM SHIELDS, associate dean of academic and student affairs in the School of Professional & Continuing Studies, participated on the education panel of a policy symposium with current and former staffers of U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, who represents the 3rd District of Virginia and is chair of the House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee.

SAMANTHA SEELEY, associate professor of history, received the 2022 Merle Curti Social History Award from the Organization of American Historians for Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States. This award is given annually by OAH for the best book in American social history.

MIMI SELIMOVIC, custodial team leader, received University Facilities’ CHEERS (Co-workers Honoring Excellent Employees with Rewards) Award. Winners are selected from a pool of peer-submitted nominees.

JEFF SIMPSON, director of nuclear magnetic resonance and computational support; Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry; and undergraduate students published “Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoparticles Functionalized with Halogen Bonding Capability — An Avenue for Molecular Detection Schemes” in Langmuir. The work was the cover article for the issue.

BOB SPIRES, associate professor of education, was placed on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for a tenure of four years. As a candidate on the roster, Spires is eligible to be matched with projects designed by host institutions in over 150 countries globally. Spires also contributed to the report “Trust and Liberation” by Monti Datta, associate professor of political science, and Arise, an anti-slavery nongovernmental organization. The report studies the relationship between trust and the prevalence of human trafficking globally.

WALTER STEVENSON, associate professor of classical studies, published The Origins of Roman Christian Diplomacy: Constantius II and John Chrysostom as Innovators (Routledge).