Faculty and Staff

Wendy Stout, Spatial Analysis Laboratory Director and GIS Lecturer, co-hosted a webinar for NASA’s Langley Research Center’s Office of STEM Engagement explaining how NASA subject matter experts are using GIS and remote sensing to build the future. Watch here.

Shahan Mufti, associate professor of journalism, has won a $25,000 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).

Agnieszka Szymanska, assistant professor of art history, has been awarded $70k in support for her new book, Sacred Spectating: Monastic Architecture and Spirituality in Late Antique Egypt, from the American Council for Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society.

Dan Chen, assistant professor of political science, published a column in The Washington Post titled, "China's Coronavirus Response Could Build Public Support for its Government."

Thomas P. Kapsidelis, Visiting Assistant Professor of Journalism, was among eight media professionals inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall. Read more.

Dr. Dan Roberts, chair of the liberal arts program and host of A Moment in Time, discusses the coronavirus outbreak in the context of historical plagues in an interview on Richmond’s Morning News with John Reid on Newsradio 1140 WRVA.

Elena Calvillo, Associate Professor of Art History, has 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 project, Rome in Translation: Cultural Brokerage in Sixteenth-century Italy.

Christopher von Rueden, associate professor of leadership studies, co-authored "From genes to minds to cultures: Evolutionary approaches to leadership" published in The Leadership Quarterly. 

Jeppe von Platz, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, has published Theories of Distributive Justice: Who Gets What and Why through Routledge.

Christopher von Rueden, associate professor of leadership studies, co-authored "Mother's social status is associated with child health in a horticulturalist population," published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.  

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.

Charlynn Small, licensed clinical psychologist in CAPS, published Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician's Guide (Routledge).