Faculty Highlights

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  Grollman Book

  Sociology professor Eric Grollman recently published the book Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics.

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  Richards Book

  Sociology professor Bedelia Richards coedited the new book, Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students.

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  Rankine Article

  Classics professor and A&S Dean Patrice Rankine published “Epic Performance through Invencão de Orfeu and ‘An Iliad:’ Two Instantiations of Epic as Embodiment in the Americas,” in Epic Performances, from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century, published by Oxford University Press.

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  Roof Fellowship

  Political Science professor Tracy Roof is the 2018 recipient of the Robert & Elizabeth Dole Archive and Special Collections Research Fellowship.

• Browder, Byrum receive grant from Valentine Museum

  Laura Browder, Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American Studies, and Alexandra Byrum, assistant director of communications for the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and UR Downtown, received a $1,000 grant from the Valentine Museum for work on HIV 17: Voices of Richmond’s Hidden Epidemic, a book featuring oral history text panels and photographic portraits of those affected by the AIDS epidemic.

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  Harrison Moenich awarded artist residency

  Harrison Moenich, digital/media arts technician in the Department of Art and Art History, has been awarded an artist residency in January 2019 to attend the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.

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  Seeley Fellowship

  History professor Samantha Seeley has been awarded a Kluge Fellowship from The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for her book project, “Race and Removal in the Early American Republic.”

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  Johnson Grant

  Chemistry professor Miles Johnson has received a grant from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for his research project, “An Integrated Synthetic-Computational Approach to Developing a Quantitative Model for Proazaphosphatrane-Enabled Cross-Coupling.”

• Summers Article

  History professor Carol Summers published "Scandal and Mass Politics: Buganda's 1941 Nnamasole Crisis" in the International Journal of African Historical Studies.
  

• Grayson and Lookingbill Grant

  Biology professor Kristine Grayson and geography professor Todd Lookingbill have received a grant from the National Science Foundation  to research and understand species diversity in rock pool communities in the James River.