Faculty Highlights

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  Barracks Interviewed

  Chaz Antoine Barracks, a dissertation fellow in rhetoric and communication studies, recently discussed his podcast "Black Matter" wth RVA Mag. Read the interview here.

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  Barracks Interviewed

  Chaz Antoine Barracks, a dissertation fellow in rhetoric and communication studies, recently discussed his podcast "Black Matter" wth RVA Mag. Read the interview here.

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  Lundberg Published

  Kristjen B. Lundberg, an assistant professor of social psychology, along with colleagues at the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has published an article in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, titled "A Privileged Point of View: Effects of Subjective Socioeconomic Status on Naïve Realism and Political Division." The article and more information is available here.

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  Gunkel Awarded

  Dieter Gunkel, assistant professor of historical linguistics, has received an $18,000 fellowship from the Center for Hellenic Studies. Gunkel plans to explore modern studies of languages similar to Greek, ancient descriptions of the Greek language, and fragments of ancient Greek music.

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  Kvam Awarded

  Paul Kvam, a professor of statistics, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award for travel to Hong Kong to further his research in nonparametric statistics. Kvam plans to visit City University of Hong Kong from Jan. to early May 2021.

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  de Sá Awarded

  Rafael de Sá, professor of biology, has been awarded more than $400,000 from the National Science Foundation for his research on the diversity and evolution of a frog species found in South America.

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  Marketing Professor Named a Favorite Business Professor by Poets&Quants

  Bill Bergman, instructor in marketing, was named as a favorite business professor by the class of 2020 in Poets&Quants' annual survey. Bergman's humor, insight, and conversational class format were noted as hallmarks of his unique teaching style.

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  Mew published in Information Systems journal

  Dr. Lionel Mew, assistant professor and program chair of information systems, recently published Designing and Implementing an Undergraduate Data Analytics Program for Non-Traditional Students in the Information Systems Education Journal.

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  Sackley Awarded

  Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and american studies, was awarded a $2,000 VFIC Mednick Memorial Fellowship for her project, Co-op Capitalism: Cooperatives, International Development, and American Visions of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century.

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  O'Neal Published

  Will O'Neal, director of organic chemistry laboratories, published his book Exercises for the General, Organic, & Biochemistry Laboratory, 2nd Edition, with Morton Publishing.