Faculty in Shenandoah University’s College of Arts & Sciences spent the summer and early fall of 2016 publishing and presenting on topics ranging from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and intergenerational work with the elderly to Medieval feasting and the significance of country/pop singer Patsy Cline, who was raised in Winchester. Assistant Professor of Religion Kevin Minister, Ph.D., (pictured above) also wrote a proposal that netted a significant grant to create a interreligious certificate program at Shenandoah University that you can read more about, below.
Here are some highlights of the CAS faculty’s recent work:
Associate Professor of Public Health Audra Gollenberg, Ph.D. and Associate Professor of Sociology Kim Fendley, Ph.D. recently co-authored two publications. Drs. Gollenberg and Fendley co-wrote, with Katrina Daoud ’14, “Correlates of Health Communication Preferences in a Multiethnic Population of Pregnant Women and Mothers of Young Children” in the Journal of Health Education Research and Development. March 2016. Gollenberg and Fendley also co-authored “Is it time for a SIDS awareness campaign? Community stakeholders’ perceptions of SIDS,” which was accepted in July 2016 for publication in Child Care in Practice.
Associate Professor of Psychology Scott P. King, Ph.D. co-authored a paper with Roberta Lauder called “Active living and learning: A multifaceted intergenerational program” that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Intergenerational Relationships. The paper is a profile and evaluation of his Adult Years (PSY 324) course’s partnership with the Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging.
Assistant Professor of Spanish Adela Borrallo-Solís, Ph.D. has finalized editing her article “Monstruosidad y márgenes: Reconsideración de ultimo capítulo de Marianela de Benito Pérez Galdós.” The article is forthcoming in Anales Galdosianos. She also presented her paper “Lo grotesco como proyecto de nación en el cine y televisión española actuales” at the VIII International Conference of the Asociación Hispánica de Humanidades, which took place in June at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain.
Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Applied Behavior Analysis Program Brandon F. Greene, Ph.D. served as subject matter expert on “Diversifying Behavior Analytic Practice” for the Behavior Analysis Certification Board.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Director of Math Enrichment Amanda Sutherland, Ph.D. had a paper, “Generalizations of the Cartan and Iwasawa Decompositions for SL(2,k),” accepted for the Journal of Lie Theory. She is the sole author on this article, which extends and cleans up a problem used for her doctoral dissertation research. The core concept was to expand the Cartan and Iwasawa decompositions, which were previously only proven for a special class called “real Lie groups” to small groups in the more general class of “algebraic groups”.
An article by Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Casey Eriksen, Ph.D., “The Aesthetics of Excess: Rococo Vestiges of Tartuffe in Isla’s Father Gerundio” was published in “The Eighteenth Centuries: an Interdisciplinary Investigation,” edited by David T. Gies and Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia Press.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Arnaldo Robles, Ph.D., successfully defended his dissertation, entitled “Modified Output Among Intermediate Learners in Face to Face and Telecollaboration Environments,” at SUNY Albany.
Assistant Professor of Sign Language Judy Johnson Bradley, MEd, EdS presented and interpreted for a panel, entitled “More Than an Introduction to American Sign Language and the World of the Deaf,” at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at James Madison University in October. She also hosted Shenandoah’s first-ever Silent Lunch at the Allen Dining Hall.
An article by Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Andrea Meador Smith, Ph.D., “Girls on the Run: The Young Female Body in Exile in South American Film,” is being published in the fall edition of the journal MIFLC Review. Her project “Unavailable, Unworthy, and Unfit: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Peruvian Cinema,” was selected as Shenandoah’s nominee for an NEH Summer Stipend Grant.
Professor of Comparative Literature (French and German) and Director of Gender and Women’s Studies Petra Schweitzer, Ph.D. was promoted to full professor in April, and in September, she had a book signing at Winchester Book Gallery for her book “Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust.”
An article by Professor of History Warren Hofstra, Ph.D., “Patsy Cline: Life and Legend,” appeared in the 2016 University of Georgia Press publication “Virginia Women: Their Lives and Times,” vol. 2, edited by Cynthia A. Kierner and Sandra Gioia Treadway. The article explores why Cline can be numbered among the great performers and musical artists within the diverse genres of the long and complex tradition of American popular music in the twentieth century. As a transformative musician, Cline rightfully belongs in the company of the notable Virginia women definitively chronicled in the Kierner and Treadway volumes.
Assistant Professor of Spanish Miguel Lechuga, Ph.D., presented “Targeting Meaningful Communication in Languages” at the annual conference of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) in Williamsburg in October.
Assistant Professor of Religion Kevin Minister, Ph.D., wrote a proposal, “Creating an Interreligious Leadership Certificate Program at Shenandoah University” from which Shenandoah University received a $10,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation and the Interfaith Youth Core. Dr. Minister will direct the grant project this academic year in cooperation with professional faculty from across the university to create an undergraduate curriculum to better prepare students to navigate religious diversity in their professional lives.
Dr. Minister also participated in a weeklong workshop for “Early Career Religion Faculty at Colleges and Universities” held by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in July. He will meet twice more this academic year with this workshop group to collaboratively develop as teachers and scholars and address emerging pedagogical issues in teaching religion in higher education.
Minister also had a chapter titled “From World Religions to Interreligious Studies: Transforming Introductory Religion Courses” accepted as part of “Toward a Field of Interfaith Studies,” a volume edited by Eboo Patel, Jennifer Peace, and Noah Silverman. In August, Minister participated in a workshop with all the contributors to the volume at the Interfaith Youth Core headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, as they worked to define a new academic field in interfaith studies.
Associate Professor of History Julie Hofmann, Ph.D., attended the Leeds International Medieval Congress, in Leeds, United Kingdom, in July, where she had organized three panels:
Feasts, Power, and Hospitality: Displays and Betrayals, I — Feasting in Medieval Narrative (and presented a paper on this panel — “Feasts as Centers of Power and Betrayal in Frankish Sources”)
Feasts, Power, and Hospitality: Displays and Betrayals, II — Representations of Medieval Feasts on the Big (and Small) Screen (also moderated)
“Are you tweeting this?”: Best Practices and Possible Guidelines for Social Media in the Academy — A Roundtable Discussion (also moderated)
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Jon Gettman, Ph.D., saw his report, “The War on Marijuana in Black and White: A Massachusetts Update,” was published by the ALCU of Massachusetts.