Professional Spotlight Winter 2015
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Dwight D. Allman, associate professor of political science, published "Intensive Introspection and Human Action: Reflections on the Work of Joseph Cropsey" in Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 43, Issue 2, p. 62-68, 2014, with co-author Dr. Mary P. Nichols, professor of political science.
Dr. A. Alexander Beaujean, associate professor of educational psychology, published "Sample size determination for regression models using Monte Carlo methods in R" in Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation, Vol. 19, Issue 2, p. 1-16, 2014; "Bifactor structure of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Fourth Edition" in School Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 29, Issue 1, p. 53-63, 2014, with co-author Dr. Marley W. Watkins, professor and department chair of educational psychology; "Parental bonds, attachment anxiety, media internalization, and body dissatisfaction: A mediation model" in Developmental Psychology, Vol. 50, Issue 8, p. 2124-2133, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Sarah Patton, graduate student, and Dr. Helen Benedict, professor of educational psychology; "An investigation of growth mixture models for studying the Flynn effect" in Journal of Intelligence, Vol. 2, Issue 4, p. 156-179, 2014, with co-author Dr. Grant Morgan, assistant professor of educational psychology.
Dr. Rochelle R. Brunson, senior lecturer in apparel merchandising, published "J.C. Penney: An Overhaul for the Overhaul" in Online Journal of International Case Analysis, Vol. 5, Issue 2, p. 40-55, September 2014, with co-author Dr. Marlene M. Reed, entrepreneur in residence.
Dr. Timothy W. Burns, professor of political science, published "Bacon's New Atlantis and the Goals of Modernity" (chapter) in Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue, Ann Ward editor, p. 74-103, August 2013; "Leo Strauss" (encyclopedia) in Congressional Quarterly's Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, p. 779-784, September 2013; "Why Do We Wear These Robes and These Hoods?" in Perspectives On Political Science, Vol. 42, Issue 4, p. 222-225, September 2013; "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" (reply to review) in The Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 14, Issue 1, p. 10-11, Feb. 7, 2014; "Cleon in Thucydides and Aristophanes" (chapter) in The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic Wisdom, Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeremy J. Mhire editors, p. 229-258, March 2014; "John Courtney Murray, Religious Liberty, and Modernity. Part One: Inalienable Natural Rights" in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Vol. 17, Issue 2, p. 13-38, March 2014; "Leo Strauss on the Origins of Hobbes's Natural Science and Its Relation to the Challenge of Divine Revelation" in Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s, Martin Yaffe and Richard S. Ruderman editors, p. 131-156, July 2014.
Dr. Marion Castleberry, professor of theatre arts, published Blessed Assurance: The Life and Art of Horton Foote, September 2014.
Dr. Sandi Cooper, professor and coordinator of mathematics education program, published "What are they asking? An analysis of the questions planned by prospective teachers when integrating literature in mathematics" in Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, Vol. 17, Issue 2, p. 1-21, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Barbara Purdum-Cassidy, clinical assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, Dr. Suzanne Nesmith, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, and Dr. Rachelle Meyer, clinical assistant professor of curriculum and instruction.
Dr. William V. Davis, professor of English and Writer-in-Residence, published "A Chance Meeting" (poem) in The New Criterion, Vol. 32, Issue 7, p. 29, March 2014; "The R.S. Thomas Centenary" in The Sewanee Review, Vol. CXXII, Issue 1, p. 153-157, Winter 2014; "Variation on a Line by Wallace Stevens" (poem) in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Vol. 38, Issue 1, p. 95, Spring 2014; "Scattering the Ashes" (poem) in The Little Balkans Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2, p. 109, Spring 2014; "Something" and "At the Castle" (poems) in Southern Poetry Review, Vol. 52, Issue 1, p. 7-8, 2014.
Dr. Julie deGraffenried, assistant professor of history, published Sacrificing Childhood: Children and the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War, Issue Modern War Studies series, University Press of Kansas, November 2014.
Dr. Kevin Dougherty, associate professor of sociology, published "Religions 2014" in Marital Naming Plans among Students at Four Evangelical Colleges, Vol. 5, Issue 2077-1444, p. 1116-1131, Nov. 21, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Melanie Hulbert, Western State Colorado University, and Ashley Palmer, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Dr. Nathan T. Elkins, assistant professor of art history, published "The Procession of Imperial Cult Images in the Colosseum" in Papers of the British School at Rome, Vol. 82, p. 73-107, 2014.
Dr. Sarah Ford, associate professor of English, published "'Serious Daring' in Eudora Welty's 'Powerhouse' and 'Where is the Voice Coming From?'" in Southern Quarterly, Spring 2014; "Of Trains and Relativity: Einstein and Perspective in Eudora Welty's 'Delta Wedding'" in Studies in the Novel, Fall 2014.
Dr. Paul Froese, associate professor of sociology, published "Religious Pluralism and the Individual: The Effect and Meaning of Inter-religious Contact" in Journal of Social Science Studies, Vol. 2, Issue 1, p. 234-249, Dec. 3, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Scott Draper, College of Idaho, and Dr. Buster Smith, Catawba College.
Dr. Kevin Gardner, professor of English, published "Peter Scupham's 'Die Ahnherren'" in The Explicator, forthcoming.
Dr. Greg Garrett, professor of English, published "Death and Resurrection" (essay) in Cancer & Theology, Summer 2014; "Forgiveness" (entry) in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Summer 2014; "The Men Who Knew Too Much: The Unmade Films of Hitchcock and Lehman" in Alfred Hitchcock, Summer 2014.
Dr. Shelby L. Garner, assistant professor of nursing, published "Photovoice as a teaching and learning strategy for undergraduate nursing students" in Nurse Education Today, online ahead of print, May 2014; "Perceived challenges of nursing by student nurses in India" in International Nursing Review, online ahead of print, article ID 1332197, July 2014, with co-authors Dr. Lyn S. Prater, senior lecturer of nursing, and Leena Raj and Meena Putturaj, Rebekah Ann Naylor School of Nursing.
Arna Hemenway, assistant professor of English, published Elegy on Kinderklavier, July 15, 2014.
Kathy Hillman, associate professor and director of Baptist collections and library advancement, published "A Secret Star" (book review) in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 126, Issue 33, Aug. 18, 2014; "The Merciful Scar by Rebecca St. James and Nancy Rue (Thomas Nelson, 2013)" (book review) in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 126, Issue 34, Aug. 25, 2014; "Secrets to Surrender: Living Wholeheartedly" (book review) in Baptist Standard Digital Edition, Vol. 126, Issue 45, Nov. 10, 2014.
Dr. Julie Holcomb, assistant professor of museum studies, published "Blood-Stained Sugar: Gender, Commerce, and the British Slave-Trade Debates" in Slavery & Abolition, December 2014.
Dr. Heidi J. Hornik, professor of art history, published "Figure femminili dell'Antico Testament in alcuni pittori italiani (1500-1650)" (chapter) in Donne e Bibbia nella Crisi dell'Europa Cattolica (Secoli XVI-XVII), p. 141-158, 2014; "The Invention and Development of the 'Secular' Mary Magdalene in Late Renaissance Florentine Painting" (chapter) in Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture. Conflicted Roles, p. 75-97, 2014.
Dr. Kyle Irwin, assistant professor of sociology, published "The Detrimental Effects of Sanctions on Intra-group Trust: A Comparison Between Punishment and Rewards" in Social Psychology Quarterly 2014, Vol. 77, Issue 3, p. 253-272, Aug. 28, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Laetitia Mulder, University of Groningen, and Dr. Brent Simpson, University of South Carolina.
Dr. Thomas Kidd, professor of History and associate director of the Institute for Studies of Religion, published George Whitefield: America's Spiritual Founding Father, 2014.
Dr. Mark Long, associate professor, The Honors College, published "Delegitimizing al-Qaida: Defeating an 'Army Whose Men Love Death'" in International Security, Vol. 39, Issue 1, p. 126-164, summer 2014, with co-author Dr. Alex Wilner, University of Toronto.
Dr. David W. Music, professor of church music, published Church Music in the United States 1760-1901, 2014, with co-author Dr. Paul Westermeyer, Luther Seminary.
Dr. Marlene S. Neill, assistant professor of journalism, public relations and new media, published "Who is responsible for what? Examining strategic roles in social media management" in Public Relations Review, Nov. 17, 2014, with co-author Dr. Mia Moody Ramirez, associate professor of journalism, public relations and new media.
Dr. Mary P. Nichols, professor of political science, published "Shakespeare's Christian Vision in Henry VIII" in Review of Politics, Vol. 76, Issue 4, p. 537-557, Fall 2014.
Dr. Marlene M. Reed, entrepreneur in residence, published The Global Booklet, Vol. II, p. 65-68, September 2014, with co-author Dr. William Worthington, clinical professor of family business; "Cliftex Theatre: Balancing Technology and Sustainability" in Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Vol. 40, Issue 2, p. 1-17, September 2014, with co-author Rochelle R. Brunson, senior lecturer in apparel merchandising.
Dr. Richard Russell, professor of English, graduate program director and director of the Beall Poetry Festival, published "The Black and Green Atlantic: Violence, History, and Memory in Natasha Trethewey's 'South' and Seamus Heaney's 'North'" in Southern Literary Journal, Vol. 46, Issue 2, p. 155-172, Spring 2014; published Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014; published "Parabolic Plots in Bernard MacLaverty's 'Lamb'" in Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings, p. 27-44, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014; Seamus Heaney's Regions, Notre Dame University Press, 2014; "A Syngean Litany of the Dead in Walcott's 'Omeros'" (note) in Notes on Contemporary Literature, Vol. 44, Issue 3, p. 7-9, May 2014; "The Yeatsian Intertexts of J.M. Coetzee's 'Disgrace'" in Journal of Postcolonial and Commonwealth Literature, December 2014; "Down in the Delta: Tallahatchie County and Langston Hughes's Blues Poetry about Emmett Till" (essay) in Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, 2014; "W.H. Auden, Michael Longley, and Poetry in Northern Ireland" (essay) in The Cresset: A Review of Literature, Arts, and Public Affairs, Vol. Trinity, p. 6-16, 2014; "'There lives the deepest freshness deep down things': The Intertextual Relationship of George Mackay Brown's 'Greenvoe' and Hopkins's 'God Grandeur'" in Renascence, Vol. 66, Issue 1, p. 57-76, Winter 2014; "Wilfred Owen's 'Asleep' and Michael Longley's 'Wounds'" (note) in Notes and Queries, Vol. 61, Issue 1, p. 120, 2014; "Auden's Allusions to Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan' in 'For the Time Being'" (note) in The Explicator, forthcoming.
Dr. Rishi Sriram, assistant professor of educational administration, published "The Development, Validity, and Reliability of Psychometric Instrument Measuring Competencies in Student Affairs" in Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, Vol. 51, Issue 4, p. 349-363, November 2014.
Dr. Charles Tolbert, chair, professor of Sociology, published "Bringing the Congregations Back in: Religious Markets, Congregational Density, and American Religious Participation" in Religions, Vol. 2014, Issue 5, p. 929-947, Sept. 25, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Troy Blanchard and Dr. Samuel Stroope, Louisiana State University.
Dr. Bennie Leon Ward, distinguished professor of physics, published "Phenomenological Study of the Interplay between IR-Improved DGLAP-CS Theory and the Precision of an NLO ME Matched Parton Shower MC" in Annals of Physics, Vol. 350, p. 485, Aug. 25, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Swapan K Majhi, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Aditi Mukhopadhyay, graduate student, and Dr. Scott Alan Yost, The Citadel; "Current Status of LHC Physics: Precision Theory View" in Acta Physica Polonica B, Vol. 45, Issue 7, p. 1629, July 1, 2014.
Dr. Marley Watkins, professor and department chair of educational psychology, published "Structural and convergent validity of the Homework Performance Questionnaire" in Educational Psychology, Vol. 34, Issue 3, p. 291-304, 2014, with co-authors Dr. L.L. Pendergast, Temple University, and Dr. G.L. Canivez, Eastern Illinois University; "Longitudinal factorial invariance of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition in a referral sample" in Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, Vol. 32, p. 597-609, 2014, with co-authors Dr. L. P. Richerson, Arizona State University, and Dr. A. Alex Beaujean, associate professor of educational psychology; "Discriminant validity of the WISC-IV culture-language interpretive matrix" in Contemporary School Psychology, Vol. 18, p. 168-177, 2014, with co-author Dr. K.M. Styck, University of Texas at San Antonio; "From central guidance unit to student support services unit: The outcome of a consultation process in Trinidad and Tobago" in Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, Vol. 24, p. 283-306, 2014, with co-authors Dr. T.E. Hall, Center for Applied Special Technology, and Dr. F.C. Worrell, University of California, Berkeley; "Incremental validity of WISC-IV(UK) factor index scores with a referred Irish sample: Predicting performance on the WIAT-II(UK)" in British Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 84, p. 667-684, 2014, with co-authors Dr. G.L. Canivez, Eastern Illinois University, Dr. T. James, Éirim: The National Assessment Agency, Ltd., Dr. R. Good, Éirim: The National Assessment Agency, Ltd., and Dr. K. James, Éirim: The National Assessment Agency, Ltd.
Dr. Chris Wynveen, assistant professor of health, human performance and recreation, published "Environmental worldview, placement attachment, and awareness of environmental impacts in a marine environment" in Environment & Behavior, Vol. 46, Issue 8, p. 993-1017, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Gerald Kyle, Texas A&M University, and Dr. Steve Sutton, James Cook University.
Dr. Jay Yoo, assistant professor of family and consumer sciences, published "Developing 21st Century process skills through project design" in Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences, Vol. 106, Issue 3, p. 22-27, October 2014.
Dr. Tao Zhu, research assistant professor of CASPER, published "Inflationary cosmology with nonlinear dispersion relations" in Physical Review D, Vol. 89, p. 043507, Feb. 10, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Anzhong Wang, professor of physics, Dr. Gerald Cleaver, professor of physics and graduate program director, Dr. Klaus Kirsten, professor of mathematics, and Dr. Qin Sheng, professor of mathematics; "Gravitational quantum effects on power spectra and spectral indices with high-order corrections" in Physical Review D, Vol. 90, p. 063503, Sept. 3, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Anzhong Wang, Dr. Gerald Cleaver, Dr. Klaus Kirsten and Dr. Qin Sheng; "Constructing analytical solutions of linear perturbations of inflation with modified dispersion relations" in International Journal of Modern Physics A, Vol. 29, p. 1450142, Nov. 20, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Anzhong Wang, Dr. Gerald Cleaver, Dr. Klaus Kirsten and Dr. Qin Sheng; "Power spectra and spectral indices of k-inflation: high-order corrections" in Physical Review D, Vol. 90, p. 103517, Nov. 13, 2014, with co-authors Dr. Anzhong Wang, Dr. Gerald Cleaver, Dr. Klaus Kirsten and Dr. Qin Sheng.
PRESENTATIONS
Susan Gerding Bader, nursing learning resource center director, presented "Flash Drives for Student In-House Use: Decreasing Photocopying Costs/Labor, Increasing User-Friendly Service" at Quint Essential joint chapter meeting Medical Library Association, held Oct. 14, 2014, in Denver, Colo.
Dr. Timothy Burns, professor of political science, presented "Author Meets Critics: Roundtable on Timothy W. Burns' Shakespeare's Political Wisdom" at Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, held Nov. 12, 2013, in Philadelphia; "What's Wrong With a World State" at Garfield Institute, held Feb. 28, 2014, at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio; "A New Look at the Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry in Plato's Republic, Book Ten" at Southwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, held April 18, 2014, in San Antonio; "Cleon in Thucydides and Aristophanes" at American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, held Aug. 28-31, 2014, in Washington, D.C.; "King Lear: The Question of Divine Justice" (keynote address) at Nothing Will Come of Nothing: The Wisdom of King Lear, held Oct. 24, 2014, at the University of Dallas Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts.
Dr. Shelley F. Conroy, dean and professor of nursing, moderated "Promotion and Lived Experiences of Breastfeeding Mothers" and presented "Evidence-Based Practices Affecting Global Women's Health: Implementing the Promotion of Ambulation and Upright Positioning During the First Stage of Labor," co-authored by Dr. Laura H. Curtis, DNP Graduate, at Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing's 25th International Research Congress, held July 24-25, 2014, in Hong Kong.
Dr. William V. Davis, professor of English and Writer-in-Residence, presented "R.S. Thomas's Pilgrimages" at First Global Conference on Sacred Journeys: "Pilgrimage and Beyond," held July 11, 2014, at Oxford University in England; "In this Country of Failure: R.S. Thomas's Love-Hate Relationships with Wales" at International Conference on Welsh Studies, held July 23, 2014, at Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario.
Dr. David Kahle, assistant professor of statistical science, presented "Algebraic Statistics in R: Markov Bases," co-authored by Dr. Luis Garcia-Puente, Sam Houston State University, at 2014 NIMS Thematic Program on Applied Algebraic Geometry, held July 16, 2014, at National Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Daejeon, South Korea.
Dr. Thomas Kidd, professor of history and Institute for Studies of Religion associate director, presented "Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots" at Crader Endowed Lecture, held September 2014 at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Dr. Julia Kisacky, senior lecturer of Italian, presented "Rage, Outrage, and Family Ties in Moderata Fonte's Floridoro" at Short Fuse Interdisciplinary Conference, held Oct. 10, 2014, at the University of Pittsburgh.
Cathy Miller, lecturer of nursing, presented "Child Sex Trafficking in the Health Care Setting - Recommendations of Practice" at Sigma Theta Tau International 25th Annual International Research Congress, held July 26, 2014, in Hong Kong.
Dr. Marlene S. Neill, assistant professor of journalism, public relations and media arts, and Dr. Mia Moody-Ramirez, associate professor of journalism, public relations and media arts, presented "Who is Responsible for What? Examining Strategic Roles in Social Media Management," co-authored by Moody-Ramirez, at Association for the Education of Journalism and Mass Communication annual convention, held Aug. 8, 2014, in Montreal; "Emerging Issues in Internal Communications: Generational Shifts, Internal Social Media, Supervisor Communication & Engagement" at PRSA Educators Academy Super Saturday Conference, held Oct. 11, 2014, in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Cheryl Ann Riley, clinical assistant professor and NNP program coordinator, Dr. Mary Ann Faucher, associate professor and coordinator of the midwifery program, and Dr. Lyn Prater, clinical coordinator, presented "Helping Babies Breathe" at Building Nurse Capacity in India, held Oct. 27-29, 2014, in Hyderabad, India.
Dr. Rishi Sriram, assistant professor of educational administration, presented "Developing, Analyzing, and Using Surveys" (invited lecture) at the University of Texas at Tyler, held Sept. 17, 2014; "A Discussion Panel on Doctoral Education" with Ah Ra Cho, Hope Garcia and Jessica Johnson, University of North Texas, Brandon Griggs, Texas A&M Central Texas, and Dr. Thomas Moorman, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Texas Association of College and University Student Personnel Administrators (TACUSPA) Annual Conference, held Oct. 13, 2014, in Arlington; "Ductus Exemplo (Leadership by Example): Faculty Must Model Service First" at Virginia Tech Aspirations for Student Learning Symposium, held Nov. 3, 2014, in Blacksburg, Va.; "A tale of three campuses: How linking living and learning can lead to transformational education" at invited lecture at Bethel University, held Nov. 21, 2014, in Minneapolis.
Dr. Bennie Franklin Leon Ward, distinguished professor of physics, presented "Exact Amplitude-Based Resummation Confronts Experiment: Present and Future," co-authored by Dr. Stanislaw Jadach, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraköw, Poland, Dr. Swapan K Majhi, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India, Aditi Mukhopadhyay, graduate student, Dr. Zbigniew Andrzej Was, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kraköw, Poland, and Dr. Scott Alan Yost, The Citadel, at LoopFest XIII, held June 19, 2014, at New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, N.Y.; "Exact Amplitude-Based Resummation QCD Predictions and LHC Data," co-authored by Dr. Swapan K Majhi, Aditi Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Scott Alan Yost, at QCD 2014, held June 30, 2014, in Montpellier, France; "Resummed Quantum Gravity Prediction for the Cosmological Constant and Constraints on SUSY GUTS" at 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics, held July 5, 2014, in Valencia, Spain; "Resummed Quantum Gravity: Implications for Lambda and SUSY GUTS" at Oberwölz Symposium on New Physics Within and Beyond the Standard Model, held Sept. 11, 2014, in Oberwölz, Austria.
Dr. Chris Wynveen, assistant professor of health, human performance and recreation, presented "Institutional trust, climate change, and antecedents to pro-environmental behavior in the Great Barrier Reef region," co-authored by Dr. Steve Sutton, James Cook University, Australia, at Pathways to Success 2014, held Oct. 7, 2014, in Estes Park, Colo.
Dr. Jay Yoo, assistant professor of family and consumer sciences, presented "A sociocultural cognitive model of body-training behaviors among college students" with Dr. Aaron Blashill, Harvard Medical School; "The role of body image investment in adolescents' appearance management behaviors" with Dr. Hye-Young Kim, University of Minnesota; "Adolescents' body satisfaction and risky appearance management: Sports, extracurricular activities, and media exposure" at International Textiles and Apparel Association, held Nov. 12-15, 2014, in Charlotte, N.C.
HONORS
Arne Hemenway, assistant professor of English, received the 2014 D.H. Lawrence Fellow in Fiction Writing from the University of New Mexico and the D.H. Lawrence estate, June 2014; the Fletcher Pratt Fellow of Fiction Writing from The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2014.
Dr. Bennie Franklin Leon Ward, distinguished professor of physics, received 4000 CHF Short-Term Visitor Travel Award from TH(Theory) Unit, CERN (European Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics), Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 22, 2014, to support local expenses in Geneva during three 10-day visits to the CERN TH Unit to do research on precision theory for Large Hadron Collider (LHC) physics during 2015.