Faculty Highlights

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  Weist Awarded

  Caroline Weist, Assistant Professor of German Studies, was named one of four ASTR Research Fellowship winners this year for her book project, "Refiguring Volkskörper: Disability and Critical Corporeality on the Twentieth-Century German Stage."

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  Lookingbill Awarded for Habitat Ecology Dr. Todd Lookingbill has received the 2019 Distinguished Service Award by the U.S. Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology.
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  Skromne Publishes on Spinal Cord Development Dr. Isaac Skromne: Cdx4 regulates the progression of neural maturation in the spinal cord. Developmental Biology, 2019, vol 499, pages 132-142 Co-authors: Piyush Joshi and Andrew J. Darr.
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  Barney Awarded Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award Dr. Timothy Barney was awarded the prestigious Ecroyd Teaching Excellence Award by the Eastern Communication Association at their recent convention in Providence.
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  Winiarski awarded NEH Stipend

  Dr. Douglas Winiarski has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend of $6,000 for Shakers & the Shawnee Prophet: A Microhistory of Religious Violence on the Early American Frontier, 1805–1815.
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  Spera Wins Climate Change Fellowship

  Dr. Stephanie Spera has been awarded the Second Century Stewardship Research Fellowship at Acadia National Park for Climate Change, Fall Foliage and Leaf-Peepers: Effects of Precipitation and Temperature on Senescence and Visitation in Acadia National Park. 
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  Barney Receive Rockefeller Funding Dr. Timothy Barney has received a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center for Mapping the Foundations: US Philanthropy in a Cold War World, 1947-1991, in partnership with Dr. Nicole Sackley. This project also recently received $10,000 in start up funds from the Provost's CIE initiative.
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  Sackley Receive Rockefeller Funding

  Dr. Nicole Sackley has received a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center for Mapping the Foundations: US Philanthropy in a Cold War World, 1947-1991, in partnership with Dr. Timothy Barney. This project also recently received $10,000 in start up funds from the Provost's CIE initiative.
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  Jessica Chan Publishes First Book

  Dr. Jessica Chan has published Chinese Revolutionary Cinema: Propaganda, Aesthetics, and Internationalism, 1949–1966 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2019) and has a forthcoming article “Literature of the Oppressed: Lu Xun and Nikolai Gogol,” in Frontiers of Literary Studies in China.

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  Bohon Trains Teachers Leslie Bohon, the Interim Director of ESL, was one of only two U.S. professors to be asked to train Ukrainian English teachers and administrators in language teaching methods and school leadership at a national forum that was sponsored by the U.S. State Department and Peace Corps.