Faculty and Staff

Dr. Daniel Hocutt, web manager and adjunct professor of liberal arts, has been named program co-chair for SIGDOC 2020, the annual conference of the Association for Computing & Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group for Design of Communication (SIGDOC) to be held at the University of North Texas October 3-4, 2020.

Mavis Brown, associate professor of education and interim chair of the Department of Education, has published "Preparing trauma-sensitive teachers: Strategies for teacher educators" in The Teacher Educators' Journal with Adjunct Assistant Education Professor Connie Honsinger. 

Leadership studies professor Donelson "Don" Forsyth published his most recent book, "Making Moral Judgments: Psychological Perspectives on Morality, Ethics, and Decision-Making," with Routledge in October 2019.

Sharon G. Feldman, Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies, received a grant from the Fundación SGAE to translate and adapt into English Un conte de Nadal (A Christmas Carol) and another from the Sala Beckett to translate Fairfly, an award-winning contemporary Catalan play by Joan Yago.

Professor of Spanish and Catalan Studies, Sharon G. Feldman, was one of only six theatre translators from several countries invited to attend the Segona Missió de Traductors de Teatre Català Contemporani, hosted by the Sala Beckett and the Institut Ramon Llull in Barcelona.

Nicole Maurantonio, Associate Professor in the Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies, published Confederate Exceptionalism: Civil War Myth and Memory in the Twenty-First Century through the University Press of Kansas.

Jennifer Bowie has published “Understanding the Determinants of Opinion Language Borrowing in State Courts in the United States,” In Research Handbook on Law and Courts, edited by Lee Walker and Susan Sterett. (co-authored with Elisha Carol Savchak).

Stephanie Cobb, Program Coordinator, Jewish Studies, recently published Suicide by Gladiator? The Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas in its North African Context by Cambridge University Press.

Jane Geaney, Professor of Religious Studies, published Language as Bodily Practice in Early China. Geaney offers new insights into three key themes: the notion of speakers’ intentions, the physical process of emulating exemplary people, and Confucius’s proposal to rectify names.

Dr. Douglas L. Winiarski, Chair and Professor of Religious Studies and Professor of American Studies, recently won an essay award from the Communal Studies Association for his article, "Seized by the Jerks."

Dan Chen has published “Bread and Circuses: Sports and Public Opinion in China” in Journal of Experimental Political Science (with Andrew MacDonald).

Dr. Erik Laursen, adjunct associate professor of education, has co-authored with alum Kirsten Logan, GC’18, the article Does Mindfulness Strengthen Self-efficacy in First Grade Students? in the Journal of Teacher Action Research.