Faculty Highlights

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  Grayson Awarded

  Kristine Grayson, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Richmond, has been awarded just over $100,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture for her research on invasive species. Read more.

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  Roof Awarded

  Tracy Roof, associate professor of political science, has been awarded $5,250 from Virginia Humanities and $1,220 from the Princeton University Library for her new book project exploring the history of food stamps in America. Read more.

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  Bukach Awarded

  Cindy Bukach, associate professor of psychology, has been awarded a $719,895 grant from the NSF as part of a $2m project entitled, Collaborative Research: Level II Preparing Undergraduates for Research in STEM-related fields Using Electrophysiology.

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  Datta Receives Grant

  Monti Narayan Datta, associate professor of political science, has received a $33,000 grant from The Achelis & Bodman Foundation to further his research on modern slavery. 

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  Towns Publishes Two New Articles

  Armond Towns, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies, published “The (Black) Elephant in the Room: McLuhan and the Racial,” in The Canadian Journal of Communication and "Plastic Empowerment: Financial Literacy and Black Economic Life,” in American Quarterly.

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  Joireman and Stubblefield Published

  Sandra F. Joireman, Associate Provost for Faculty, Weinstein Chair of International Studies, and Professor of Political Science, and Emily Stubblefield '19 recently published “Law, Violence and Property Expropriation in Syria: Impediments to Restitution and Return, Land.”

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  Denny to Present in Czech Republic

  Jory Denny, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, will present his paper, “Topology-based Group Routing in Partially Known Environments,” at the 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing in the Czech Republic.

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  Hobgood Awarded

  Linda Hobgood, Director of the Speech Center, is the recipient of the 2019 Turner Award—“for advancement of communication centers within the discipline and within academe”—by the National Communication Association’s Communication Centers Section.

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  Schlatter elected president of CAA

  Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director and Curator of Exhibitions, was elected new President of the College Art Association of America Board of Directors. She will serve a two-year term beginning May 1, 2020.

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  Sweis Published

  Rania Kassab Sweis, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, published DOCTORS WITH BORDERS: HIERARCHIES OF HUMANITARIANS AND THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.