Faculty and Staff

Four of Tanja Softic's prints were accepted to the International Print Triennial exhibition in Krakow that opens in July.

Daniel L. Hocutt, Web Manager & Adjunct Professor of Liberal Arts, published a co-written chapter titled “Glocalizing the Composition Classroom using Google Apps for Education” in Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet.

History professor Samantha Seeley has been awarded a Kluge Fellowship from The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for her book project, “Race and Removal in the Early American Republic.”

Photography professor Brittany Nelson's work will be featured in the new exhibition "Science Fictions " at Crush Curatorial Gallery in New York City.

Dr. Eugene Maurakis, Visiting Research Scientist, collaborated with Dr. Jeremy Hoffman of the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond, Dr. Vivek Shandas from Portland State University, and UR and VCU students to explore the city’s heat island effect.

Dr. Erik Nielson, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of Liberal Arts in SPCS, is quoted in a BuzzFeed article titled A Bad Rap as an expert on the use of rap lyrics in court cases. The article addresses accusations against a high schooler based on a rap posted to SoundCloud.

Dr. Tom Shields, Associate Professor & Chair of Graduate Education, is quoted in a Richmond Times-Dispatch column by Michael Paul Williams titled High-Stakes Standardized Testing is Cheating the Students about SOL testing “irregularities” at Carver Elementary School.

Political Science professor Jennifer Erkulwater is the recipient of the 2017 Best Paper in Identity Politics Award from the annual Northeastern Political Science Association conference for her paper titled "The Social Security Act and the Origins of Political Identity among People with Disabilities, 1935-1950."

Math professor Bill Ross published Finite Blashke Products and Their Connections.