Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
Tom Shields, associate dean and chair of graduate education, with Emmy Ready, visiting lecturer of Latin American, Latino & Iberian studies, co-authored an A&S Next case study titled “Multilingual Student Success in Public Schools” examining issues of Latinix students’ graduation and retention rates in Richmond Public Schools. Alums Lyons Sanchezconcha, GC’23, Victoria Case Gochez, GC’22, and Jonathan Zur, ’03, collaborated on the project.
View BioPeter Kaufman, professor of leadership studies, published "Killjoy? Augustine on Pageantry" in Religions.
View BioBrandon Ng, visiting assistant professor of psychology, published "Power to Detect What? Considerations for Planning and Evaluating Sample Size" in Personality and Social Psychology Review.
View BioLauren Tilton was promoted to professor of digital humanities and was appointed the E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Liberal Arts. Tilton specializes in analyzing, developing, and applying digital and computational methods to the study of 20th and 21st century documentary expression and visual culture.
View BioDaniel L. Hocutt, SPCS web manager and adjunct professor of liberal arts, published “Composing with Generative AI on Digital Advertising Platforms” in a special issue on composing with generative AI in Computers and Composition.
View BioJoonsuk Park was awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor of computer science. Park specializes in developing natural language processing (NLP) systems to facilitate clear online communication among people, encouraging more effective discussion and debate.
View BioTaylor Arnold was promoted to professor of data science and statistics. Arnold’s research is fundamentally interdisciplinary and contributes to the fields of Digital Humanities (DH) and Cultural Analytics through his expertise as a mathematician and data scientist.
View BioTimothy Barney was promoted to professor of rhetoric and communication studies. Barney specializes in the history, politics, rhetoric, and visual culture of the Cold War era, specifically cartography as visual rhetoric, Cold War and post-Cold War presidential rhetoric, and philanthropic development with a particular focus on small business loans to women.
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