FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND BEST PRACTICES // MAY 2022 |
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Storybook Worlds Made Real: Essays on Places Inspired by Children's Narratives, edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson and Mark I. West (UNC-Charlotte), has been published by McFarland & Company. Kathy's Introduction and chapter titled "Fairy Tales, German Heritage, and a Vision of Roadside America: See Rock City" appear in the volume. Sue Larkin and Travis Malone also submitted an essay.
Rebecca John co-authored the chapter "Activists' Use of Trauma-Informed Frameworks" in the book Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts.
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Professors Kathy Merlock-Jackson and Terry Lindvall published their Deutsche Märchenstraße (Grimm Fairy Tales Route) booklet with articles on Hoffmann, Novalis, the Grimm Brothers, naughty bits on Der Struwwelpeter and Max and Moritz, and the origins of Sneewittchen.
Victor Townsend published the paper entitled "Tropical Opilionology: Development and Challenges of an Undergraduate Research Program" in the Proceedings of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences, volume 68, pages: 80-88. This invited paper summarizes his keynote address given at the annual meeting of the Academy and includes a brief summary of the history of the undergraduate research program at VWU.
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Clay Drees' latest book entitled Henry VIII: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works was published last month by Rowman and Littlefield. This encyclopedia-style volume features 152 entries on the events, places, queens, ministers, foreign rivals, nobles, religious reforms, scholars, trends, entertainments and institutions that helped shape the early Tudor age.
President Scott D. Miller and Dr. Marylouise Fennell continue to collaborate as Executive Editors on the thought leadership series President to President. The 2021-2022 series is titled “The Vitality and Power of Higher Education,” and examines how colleges are approaching their missions with new vigor and re-examining their role in the community. In the eighth chapter of the 2021-2022 series, “Post-Pandemic: It’s Not All About Technology,” Illinois Wesleyan University president S. Georgia Nugent, Ph.D., explores some of the lasting and far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares her perspective on how issues such as access to technology and other resources, social inequity, and the need to prioritize students’ mental health will continue shaping higher education today and well into the future. President Miller's daily blog, Dialogue, can be found at prezscottmiller.blogspot.com.
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Robert Ariel chaired a symposium at the 2022 Cognitive Aging Conference in Atlanta titled "Supporting Older Adult Learning." Robert also presented a research talk during the symposium titled "Improving Memory for Medication Side Effects with a Retrieval Practice Intervention."
Kathy Merlock Jackson was a featured speaker at the annual conference of the Popular Culture Association. Her presentation, titled "Losing Sight, Finding Vision: One-Eyed Film Directors in Artistic Perspective," was based on her recent article in The Journal of American Culture. Immediate past president of the association, Kathy is a member of the PCA Governing Board and Endowment Committee.
Annette Clayton co-facilitated a workshop titled "Ethical Decision Making in School Mental Health, Part I & Part II" with Jim Raines (California State University Monterey Bay) and Tory Cox (California State University, Long Beach) at the 25th SSWAA National Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
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Michelle Albert Vachris presented a book chapter, "Sports, Culture, and the Economy: Baseball in the Dominican Republic" at the 46th Meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education in Las Vegas, NV.
Michelle Albert Vachris presented a paper, "Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Scotch Whisky Industry," at the Public Choice Society meetings in Nashville, TN.
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Michelle Albert Vachris gave a public lecture on "Entrepreneurship in Scotch Whisky" to kick off the Entrepreneurship program at Southern Connecticut State University.
Wayne Pollock presented the keynote address, "The Practicality of Ethics in Recreational Therapy," at the Slippery Rock University's Recreational Therapy Student Workshop.
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Alain Gabon was a panelist in a Georgetown University webinar on Islamophobia and the 2022 French Presidential Elections.
Elizabeth Malcolm co-presented "Virginia Heat Watch: Heat Mapping to Assess Vulnerability and Address Inequity in Virginia Communities" at the 2022 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit.
Kathy Stolley presented "The Body Beautiful: Modifying Animal Bodies to Reflect Human Beauty Standards" at the Popular Culture Association Conference (held virtually).
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GRANTS
Maynard Schaus received a grant from the Second Nature Acceleration fund to support student internships with the Elizabeth River Project that support environmental justice and climate equity.
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OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Kathy Merock Jackson was recognized as the top manuscript reviewer for The Journal of Popular Culture in 2021. The former longtime editor of The Journal of American Culture, she is a regular reviewer of manuscripts for that journal, as well as for humanities and social science submissions for the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.
Steven Emmanuel's book Philosophy’s Big Questions: Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches (Columbia 2021) was nominated for the prestigious Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhism. Sponsored by the U.C. Berkeley Center for Buddhist Studies, the "Toshi" is "awarded on an annual basis to an outstanding book in any area of Buddhist studies."
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Jason Squinobal was featured on the "Song Surfing" podcast where he performed an original composition "Twenty-Four Seven" with his quartet. "Song Surfing" features original independent music from around the world. The episode can be listened to here.
Susan Wansink was named a fellow of the Berlin Seminar on German Literary Institutions. Sponsored by the Max Kade Foundation and the University of Notre Dame in partnership with the University of Georgia, this two-week seminar brings together scholars of German literary and cultural studies with experts and leading figures of Germany's literary scene.
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Malcolm Lively's EDUC 321 students tutored struggling readers in grades 4 & 5 at Betty F. Williams Elementary School, which proved to be a valuable experience for the teacher candidates to apply what they learned in elementary reading courses.
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Kathy Ames and Turner made a guest presentation, speaking on therapy dog contributions to health care for Soc 351 the Medical Sociology class taught by Kathy Stolley and Tanya Arney.
Students in Communication 327: Children, Teens, and the Media met three times this semester with students at Tidewater Collegiate Academy to encourage media awareness and explore ways to use media to make a difference. The collaboration was coordinated by Kathy Merlock Jackson and Wendy Scott.
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Students in Soc 237 Animals and Society class, taught by Kathy Stolley, took a guided tour of the Norfolk Zoo where they had an opportunity to explore a variety of current issues with professional zoo staff.
In Kathy Merlock Jackson’s INST 351 Ethics Bowl workshop, Ethics Bowl team students Rowan Stuart, Christian Palmisano, and Casey Bennett advised and served as judges for students debating an ethics case at Tidewater Collegiate Academy. TCA director Wendy Scott prepared the students for the event.
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Rebecca John's students in EDUC 328 lead 4th graders at Centerville Elementary through exploratory lessons introducing data and graphing. Students spent 3 weeks visiting and assisting in the classroom in pairs and then planned and implemented a full lesson for the class. Students and teachers at Centerville were sad to see them go!
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