Faculty Highlights

Faculty Scholarship Activity

Exhibitions

Frances de La Rosa (Feb – May, 2022). 
Paintings exhibited in an exhibition at the Macon Museum of Art and Science.

Frances de La Rosa (December 2021).
Paintings exhibited in an exhibition at the Macon Museum of Art and Science for their “White Gloves” fundraiser exhibition.

Frances de La Rosa (May – July 2022).
Paintings acquired and exhibited at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama.

 

Performances

Nadine Cheek, Chenny Gan, and Michael McGhee
“Six Hands Keyboard Jam,” Convocation Performance, Wesleyan College, Macon GA (September 27, 2021)

Chenny Gan
"Classic Meets Jazz 2.0" Performance. k1 Traunreut, Germany (July 31, 2021), Canterbury Court, Atlanta GA (October 18, 2021), Lenbrook, Atlanta GA (October 29, 2021), Georgia College and University, Milledgeville GA (February 15, 2022), Music and Arts at Vineville, Macon GA (February 27, 2022)

Chenny Gan
Jazz Workshop Performances, Burghausen, Germany (August 2-7, 2021 and January 2-6, 2022).

Chenny Gan
"Homage to the Blues," Performances with Geneva Lewis, violin.  Fleet Landing, Atlantic Beach FL (November 3, 2021), Macon Concert Association, Macon GA (November 9, 2021), Georgia Southwestern University, Americus, GA (November 10, 2021), Emory University, Atlanta, GA (November 12, 2021)

Chenny Gan
“Musical Journalism,” Performances with Adam Sadberry, flute. Macon Concert Association, Macon GA (April 4, 2022), Tubman Museum, Macon GA (April 5, 2022)

Chenny Gan
“The Cameraman” Silent Film Performance. Lenbrook, Atlanta GA (January 21, 2022), Canterbury Court, Atlanta GA (March 25, 2022), k1 Traunreut, Germany (June 25, 2022)

Chenny Gan
“Méliès, Keaton, and Chaplin,” Silent Film Performance. k1 Traunreut, Germany (June 25, 2022)

Chenny Gan
“Confucius Institute Day Jazz Quartet” Performance with KMO, Marcus Reddick, Gianna Reddick and Ken Trimmins. Wesleyan College, Macon GA (October 2, 2021)

Chenny Gan
“Norman McLean Guest Artist Series” Performance with Courtney Huffman-Frye, soprano, Wesleyan College, Macon GA (March 19, 2022).

Chenny Gan
Performance, Georgia Women of Achievement Induction Ceremony, Wesleyan College, Macon GA (March 9, 2022) 3/9

Frazer Lively
"Cartography of Associations.... but when we accept ourselves" June 26-27, 2021, Beacon Dance Studio, Atlanta

Frazer Lively
"At Least Six Feet Apart: who decides.... who belongs," April 16, 2022, Atlanta Beltline, site-specific performance; May 21, 2022, Metropolitan Library, Atlanta; June 16-17, 2022, The Junction, 1292 Sylvan Rd, Atlanta, open air performance 

 

Presentations

Brooke Bennett-Day (February, 2022)
Student use and perception of a grace period policy for assignments. Paper presented virtually at the Annual Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Conference.

V. Castillo, R. Layfield, and Brooke Bennett-Day (March, 2022)
The association between bilingualism, stress levels, and social support. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association. (Selected as finalist for the student CEPO Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion award)

T. Gill, J. Card, and Brooke Bennett-Day (March, 2022)
The effect of hand dominance on the rubber hand Illusion. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association.

M. Argueta and Holly Boettger-Tong 2022
Design of sgRNA for CRISPR-Cas9 mediated ablation of the Danio rerio Flt-1 receptor. Annual Meeting of Southeastern Biologists, Little Rock Arkansas.

A. Woods and Holly Boettger-Tong 2022
Lavender Essential Oil Reduces Aggression in Male Crown-tail Betta splendens. Annual Meeting of Southeastern Biologists, Little Rock Arkansas.

E. Evans and Holly Boettger-Tong 2022. Antimicrobial characterization of Odontotaenius disjunctus frass using the Kirby Bauer assay. Annual Meeting of Southeastern Biologists, Little Rock Arkansas.

Karen Bray (2021)
“Isolation without Solitude: Mothering as a Critical Lens for Analyzing Cohesion and Collapse in the Face of Plague”,  Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion

Karen Bray (2021)
“On Unwaged Social Reproductive Labor: a response to Rieger and Choi” Invited speaker at the Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.

Karen Bray (2021)
“Women and Publishing” Invited panelist at the Annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.

Karen Bray (2021)
Faculty collaboration and rebellious writing in the face of the neoliberalization of the academy.  Westar’s God and the Human Future seminar.

Nadine Cheek, Chenny Gan, and Michael McGhee. (October 27, 2021)  
"Exoticism in European Classical Music," Faculty Scholarship Symposium Lecture-Recital, Wesleyan College, Macon GA

Nadine Cheek, Chenny Gan, and Michael McGhee (February 2-23, 2022)
"Exploring Arrangements for 4 and 6 Hands Piano," WALL Lecture Recital Series, Macon, GA.

Saloni Rai, Tiara Robinson, Anna Marmolejo Rios, Andrea Felix, Alexis Golden, and Holly Cole (2022) 
Lying to Impress: Investigating Lying Online and Offline., Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, SC.

Anna Marmolejo Rios, Andrea Felix, Alexis Golden, Saloni Rai, Tiara Robinson, and Holy Cole (2022) 
These Lies Sicken Me- A Quantitative Study on Lying Within Health Concerns. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, SC.

Holy Cole and C.R Merrick (2022) Presentation:
Lending A Hand: Prosocial Actions During Collective Crisis. The Southeastern Psychology Association (SEPA), Hilton Head, SC

Melanie Doherty (March, 2022)
“From Campus to Community: Collaborative Dialogues on Racial Reparations,” on the work of the new Lane Center for Social and Racial Equity at the AAC&U Diversity, Equity, and Student Success National Conference in New Orleans, LA.

Barbara Donovan 
“Opposition(s) in a Fragmented Party System,” paper presented at Assessing the 2021 Bundestag Election, conference sponsored by the DAAD, BMW Center for German and European Studies, and American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Georgetown University, April 29, 2022.

Barbara Donovan 
“The German Election: An Analysis,” panel discussion, 45th Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, October 1-3, 2021.

Barbara Donovan 
“Challenger Party Politics in a Pandemic: The Case of the Alternative for Germany,” paper presented as part of the conference seminar Challenges to German Parliamentary Democracy, 45th Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, October 1-3, 2021.

Barbara Donovan 
“Comparing Populist and Nativist Parties: Exploring Typologies,” paper presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Council of European Studies, June 21-22, 2021.

Tom Ellington
“Mapping the News Deserts: A Survey-Based Approach to Understanding Local Journalism.” Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7-10, 2022

James Ferrari (2022, January)
Night Sounds: Monitoring Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Address to the Ocmulgee Audubon Society, Macon, GA.

James Ferrari (2022, January)
Night Sounds: Monitoring Nocturnal Migration of Birds.  Address to the Southern Wings Bird Club, Lawrenceville, GA.

Chenny Gan and A. Sadberry (April 5, 2022)
“Musical Journalism,” Flute and Piano Lecture-Recital. Wesleyan College Transforming the South Lecture Convocation, Macon GA.

J. Hardy, M. Wallace and James Ferrari (2022)
Game camera detection of songbird sociality at artificial water sources. Annual Meeting of Southeastern Biologists, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Steven Haberlin and A. Benito (2022)
Mindfulness movement in schools. Keynote presentation at the Mindfulness Summit, Dekalb County Schools, Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Steven Haberlin (2021)
A moment of peace: Micro-meditations in higher education classrooms. Paper presented at Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education (ACMHE) Conference, “Resourcing, reconnection, and reemergence: Centering contemplative practices in our work and in our healing.” (online).

Steven Haberlin (2021)
My contemplative journey, both personal and professional (and exploring tonglen in teacher education). Invited talk presented to the Atlanta Soto Zen Center, Atlanta, Georgia (online).

R. Burns and Steven Haberlin (2021)
Re-Conceptualizing images of Supervisors in Teacher Education. Roundtable facilitated at the Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision Annual Conference. Indiana University (online).

Steven Haberlin and I. Mette (2021)
Exploring inclusive leadership through tonglen: A contemplative framework for supervision. Roundtable facilitated at the Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision Annual Conference. Indiana University (online).

Tonya Harter and Deonna Tanner (February 2022)
Do Nursing Students Gain Satisfaction and Self-Confidence When Simulation Based Learning Is Used? Georgia Association for Nursing Education, Inc. Annual Conference, Jekyll Island, Ga

Girim Jung (July 2022)
Diasporic Pessimism: Paraontological Resistance to Racialization and Spiritual Commodification. Varieties of Political Theological Method: Political Theology Network Summer Workshop Series, virtual.

Girim Jung (April 2022)
Book Panel for Chenxing Han’s Be the Refuge. Invited panelist. Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO.

Girim Jung (April 2022)
Techno-Orientalism and the (re)production of Asian American religious subjectivities. Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO.

Girim Jung (November 2021)
The Religious Orientations of Minari and the Undoing of the Ethnic Bildungsroman. Annual Meeting of the American Academy Religion. San Antonio, TX.

Girim Jung (August 2021)
Diasporic Pessimism: A Paraontological Resistance to Racialization and Spiritual Commodification. International Conference on Religion and Education, virtual.

Girim Jung (June 2021)
Comparative Religion and Justice. Renewal Conference, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, CO.

Girim Jung (April 2021)
Black Lives Matter, Black Buddhists, and the Unsettling of Asian American Religious Studies. Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, virtual.

Laura Lease and Joe Lease (2022)
Buy-in and build-up: Developing mastery mindset in writing centered courses through equitable design and grading practices. National Organization for Student Success (NOSS) national conference, Atlanta, GA.

M. Dereshiwsky (Author & Presenter), Suzanne Minarcine (Author & Presenter), D. Babb (Author & Presenter)
Making Waves: Innovations in Learning, "We’ve got trouble in CyberCity: A quantitative analysis of online faculty stressors and implications for the post-COVID-19 classroom," Teaching, Colleges, and Community 2022 Worldwide Conference, Honolulu, HI. (April 14, 2022).

Suzanne Minarcine (Author & Presenter), Fuson, J. (Author & Presenter)
“Online Students as Unique Humans with Unique Needs.” Conference on Meaningful Living and Learning in a Digital World 2022, Savannah, GA. (February 28, 2022).

Suzanne Minarcine (Author & Presenter), J. Fuson (Author & Presenter), D. Blanton 
Teaching Excellence Series 2021, "Liberatory Course Design: Promoting Equity in the Classroom," (November 16, 2021).

Suzanne Minarcine, D. Babb, M. Dereshiwsky
Professional Development, "When the medium mangles the message: Challenges of communication between online adjunct faculty and their supervisors.," National American University. (August 26, 2021).

M. Dereshiwsky (Author & Presenter), Suzanne Minarcine (Author), D. Babb (Author)
Ubiquitous Learning Conference, "Effective Cybercommunication with Online Adjunct Faculty," International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership, Virtual. (August 5, 2021).

Suzanne Minarcine, M. Dereshiwsky (Author), D. Babb,
Distance Learning Administration Conference, "Stress Factors Related to Communication between Online Adjunct Faculty and their Supervisors," Distance Learning Administration - University of West Georgia, Jekyll Island, GA. (July 27, 2021).

M. Dereshiwsky (Author & Presenter), Suzanne Minarcine, D. Babb
TCC 2021 Conference: Building Our Future - Moving On, "When the Medium Mangles the Message: Challenges of Communication between Online Adjunct Faculty and their Supervisors," Teaching, Colleges & Community, Hawaii. (April 13, 2021).

James Donald Rowan, M. Allen, E. Stump, M. Howard, R. Layfield, M. Mullins, A. Sauls, D. Tate, M. Sanders, and Holly Boettger-Tong (2022, March)
Socially enriched environment effect on double alternation learning in CF1 mice. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, SC.

B.E. Rowan and James Donald Rowan (2022, March)
Did the global pandemic affect measures of quantitative literacy? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Assoc., Hilton Head, SC.

Ke'Aysha Willis and Wanda Schroeder
Two Species of Aquatic Snails, Physella acuta and Lymnaea auricularia Differ in Their Susceptibility to Ammonium Phosphate. Presented at the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting in Little Rock, AR in March, 2022.

Savannah Pollock and Wanda Schroeder
In vitro Antimicrobial Effectiveness of Essential Oils on Streptococcus mutans, Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis. Presented at the Association of Southeastern Biologists meeting in Little Rock, AR in March 2022.

Brandi Simpson Miller 
‘Ghanaian Food In 2021: New Normal and Shifting Habits In Historical Context,’  SEAN/SERSAS Annual Meeting, Beyond Borders: Securing Africa's Future, Center for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL,  25 March 2022.

Brandi Simpson Miller 
‘Capitalist Economy & Social Promiscuity: The Historical Role of the Chop Bar in Ghana,’ SOAS Food Forum Talk, SOAS, University of London, 29 October 2021.

Brandi Simpson Miller
‘Gold Coast Food and Identity in the Atlantic World,’ Georgia College Global Foodways Studies Program, Milledgeville, GA, 16 March 2021.

Brandi Simpson Miller
‘Colonialism and Local Foodways of the Gold Coast in the Nineteenth Century,’ Institute of Historical Research, London, 29 April 2021.

Nick Steneck (May 2021)
“Handling the Exodus: The Challenge of Mass Evacuation in early-Cold War West German Civil Defense Planning, 1948-1963. Society of Military History.

Nick Steneck (December 2021)
“Mobilizing Midwestern Motherhood: Louise Hall, Humanitarian Work, and the Great War, 1914-1925.” Women, Gender Roles, and Humanitarian Aid in the Greater War, 1912-1925, University of Brussels, Belgium.

Laura Strausberg
Using modeling and metacognitive approaches to build student understanding of foundational reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry, Pacifichem 2021, virtual, December 20, 2021.

Laura Strausberg
Using molecular modelling software in tandem with physical modeling to illustrate concepts in organic chemistry, Pacifichem 2021, virtual, December 20, 2021.

Deonna Tanner and Tonya Harter (February 2022)
Do Nursing Students Gain Satisfaction and Self-Confidence When Simulation Based Learning Is Used? Georgia Association for Nursing Education, Inc. Annual Conference, Jekyll Island, Ga

Lateshia Warren (2022)
Today’s Reader Becoming Tomorrow’s Leader: Building Pre-Service Students’ Self-Efficacy through engaging Literacy Instruction & Culturally Responsive Practices. Critical Questions in Education Symposium. Charleston, SC.

Ying Zhen
The Economics of Gender Disparities: A Focus on The Labor Market & Immigration, The Association for Social Economics Webinar Series, September 24, 2021

Ying Zhen
The 17th Annual Economics Teaching Conference (Virtual), October 28-29, 2021

Ying Zhen
The 134th American Economics Association/Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting (Virtual), January 2022

Ying Zhen
Learning and Growing 2022 Webinar Series, Hawkes Learning, March 2022

Ying Zhen
The 97th Western Economics Association International (WEAI) Annual Meeting (Virtual), June 29-July 4, 2022

 

Publications

Karen Bray (2021)
“Neither Single, nor Coupled, but Friended: Biblical and Theological Sources for Friendship as the Central Relationship,” which will be included in a forthcoming volume on friendship and religion to be published by Lexington/Fortress Press.

Karen Bray (2021)
Commissioned to write a chapter on the Black theologies of J. Kameron Carter and Keri Day for a book on the varieties of post-theism, to be published by Cascade Press of Wipf and Stock.

Frances de La Rosa (2022)
Italy: A Portfolio of Photographs by Fernando La Rosa, 2002-2003. Blurb Books.

Barbara Donovan
The political exploitation of Covid-19: The AfD as challenger party and the impact on parliament. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, Heft 4/2021, S. 798 – 818. https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2021-4

James Ferrari (2022)
Early spring detection of Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus) by an autonomous recording unit. The Oriole, 86, 14-17.

Steven Haberlin (2021)
A serene segue: Examining college students’ perceptions of starting classes with micro-Meditations. College Teaching. 10.1080/87567555.2021.1987181

J. Jacobs and Steven Haberlin (2021)
Transformative learning within an international teaching experience: Developing as emerging culturally responsive teachers Action in Teacher Education. 10.1080/01626620.2021.1955774

Girim Jung
“Techno-Orientalism.” Critical Theory 2.0 for Political Theology, March 29, 2022. https://politicaltheology.com/techno-orientalism

Girim Jung
“Han Byung Chul and Political Theology,” Critical Theory 2.0 for Political Theology, July 13, 2021. https://politicaltheology.com/han-byung-chul

James Donald Rowan, M.A. Kundey Shannon, Holly Boettger-Tong, Stephen B. Fountain, Aahana Bajracharya, Eve K. Stump. 2021.
Strain differences in performance of alternation patterns between C57BL/6 and CF1 mice. Learning and Motivation, 76, 101761.

James Donald Rowan, S. B. F. Fountain, and S.M.A. Kundey
Rats’ use of Hierarchical Organization in Serial Pattern Learning. (2021). Behavioural Processes, 192. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104490

Brandi Simpson Miller (2022)
Food and Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana: Food, Fights, and Regionalism. Cham,. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Alex Ward Roberts (2022)
Contracted to write seven chapters in a new textbook, Pathopharmacology for Nurses: An Integrative Approach, published  by Wolters Kluwer.

Ying Zhen
Gender and Racial Discrimination that Musicians Face in the United States. The American Economist (2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/05694345221092958

Ying Zhen
Career challenges facing musicians in the United States. Journal of Cultural Economics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-022-09442-x Free access: https://rdcu.be/cIEeR

Ying Zhen
Book Review, Peter Tschmuck,The Economics of Music (Second Edition), Agenda Publishing, 2021. agendapub.com The Journal of the Music & Entertainment Industry Educators Association, Volume 21, No.1 (2021), pages 151-154 DOI: MEIEA_Journal_2021_Reviews.pdf (wildapricot.org)

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