Sunset Over Mountains

Spring/Summer 2021 Issue

The Well

The Union

Apple Valley Farm by S. Robert Latham Jr., M.D. 鈥59 (2019, Wings Publishers LLC). The history of a Glenville, North Carolina farm with origins in 1854.

My San Francisco by Gordon Ball 鈥66 (2020, Richard W. Couper Press). Part memoir, part prose and part poem, Ball offers a revenant鈥檚 journey to the city that left an indelible imprint upon his mind. 

Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film: Rant Against the Regime by Kirk Combe 鈥76 (2021, Routledge). Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged鈥the Rant.

Elder Fraud Wars: Case Histories from an Enforcement Attorney by David Neil Kirkman 鈥76 (2020, Exposit). By recounting actual court cases, Kirkman examines the multi-billion-dollar elder fraud industry and reveals successful strategies for combating that industry.

SPIN by Patricia Cornwell 鈥79 (2021, Thomas & Mercer). The second in Cornwell鈥檚 new series continuing the story of Captain Calli Chase, a NASA test pilot, quantum physicist, and cybercrime investigator.

The Learn-to-Read Bible and Coloring Book by Rev. Nelle McCorkle Bordeaux 鈥87 (2020, printed by Penmor Lithographers). A book for new readers of all ages, with simple, clear text and lovely illustrations. Each story ends with a Bible memory verse. 

Your Business Ventures: The Prep. The Pitch. The Funding. by Linsey Mills 鈥92 (2020, Independently Published). Mills, an entrepreneur and financial professional, offers the secrets to pitching your venture and raising funds for your idea.

Teach Your Child About Money Through Play: 110+ Games/Activities, Tips and Resources to Teach Kids Financial Literacy at an Early Age by Andrea Stephenson 鈥02 with Linsey Mills 鈥92 (2019, Independently Published). With more than 30 years of combined experience teaching youth financial literacy, Stephenson and Mills make conversation around money fun and engaging for young children.

Preparing Science Teachers Through Practice-Based Teacher Education by David Stroupe 鈥02, Karen Hammerness and Scott McDonald (2020, Harvard Education Press). This comprehensive volume examines the compelling ways teacher educators across the country are using core practices to prepare preservice teachers for ambitious and equitable science teaching.

A Blaze in the Northern Sky by Ross Hagan 鈥01 (2020, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing). This book explores Darkthrone鈥檚 鈥淎 Blaze in the Northern Sky鈥 (1992), a foundational keystone of the musical and aesthetic vision of the notorious Norwegian black metal scene and one of the most beloved albums of the genre.

The Last Resort: A Novella in Voices by Allie Coker 鈥10 (2021, Warren Publishing, Inc.). Told from various perspectives, The Last Resort reveals the vulnerable side of humanity and forces readers to stop and ask, 鈥What is normal?


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Africana Studies

Takiyah Harper-Shipman received the American Philosophical Society鈥檚 Franklin Research Grant to continue fieldwork on her second book project. Harper-Shipman also co-authored an op-ed titled 鈥溾 with Kim Bako 鈥21. The article was published in Africa Is a Country

Anthropology

Laurian Bowles published, 鈥淏lack Feminist Ethnography and the Racial Politics of Porter Labor in Ghana鈥 in Feminist Anthropology. Bowles and Beth Uzwiak published 鈥溾 in The Senses and Society.

Arab Studies

Rebecca Joubin, AJ Naddaff 鈥19 and Nick Lobo 鈥20 translated Threshold of Pain, a Syrian novel by Hasan Sami Yusuf.

Art

Tyler Starr participated in the exhibit 鈥溾 at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art from 1/8-3/19. This group exhibition, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., is part of BIMA鈥檚 Untold Stories series. Works focus on social justice and human rights, addressing diverse and connected issues. His solo exhibit 鈥溾 was held at the gallery Antenna in New Orleans this spring.

Biology

A. Malcolm Campbell was awarded a 2022 U.S. Fulbright Scholarship for New Zealand. He was one of three faculty chosen from a national pool. His project blends teaching introductory biology with research on student engagement and retention. 

Karen Hales served as co-organizer for the 62nd Annual Drosophila Research Conference, sponsored by the Genetics Society of America. During the conference she chaired two plenary sessions, moderated a careers panel discussion, and spoke in a workshop on inclusive language frameworks for teaching genetics. 

Mark Stanback, David Millican 鈥11, and others co-published a paper, 鈥,鈥 in Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology.

Dave Wessner and Siena Senn 鈥22 published an article titled, 鈥淢aintaining Student Engagement During an Abrupt Instructional Transition: Lessons Learned from COVID-19,鈥 in the Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education.

Chemistry

Nicole L. Snyder has been elected as a council representative on the Council on Undergraduate Research executive board. The CUR is a national organization that advocates for promotes, and supports high impact, collaborative undergraduate research, scholarly and creative activities. Snyder recently published an article in Royal Society of Chemistry Advances with Ana Nottingham 鈥20, Logan Russell 鈥19, J. Alexander Sizemore 鈥20 and Domi Babin 鈥23, titled 鈥.鈥 The work was supported in part by the NIH and the NSF.

Classics

Michael Toumazou co-authored an article entitled 鈥淭he Directional Occurrence of the Levantine Geomagnetic Field Anomaly: New Data from Cyprus and Abrupt Directional Changes鈥 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Dance

Alison Bory co-authored an article with Gretchen Alterowitz (UNCC) and Amanda Hamp (UNM) as AGA COLLABORATIVE, titled 鈥淐ollaborative Ethics: Choreographing Within the System and Beyond;鈥 published in PERFORMING ETHOS: International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance.

Educational Studies

Hilton Kelly was invited to serve as a 2021-2022 ACE Fellow on the American Council on Education.

Chris Marsicano was named an Emerging Education Policy Scholar (EEPS) by the Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute for the 2021-2022 academic year. The prestigious program connects early career education scholars with policymakers to support the goal of data-driven and evidence-based policymaking around education issues in Washington. Marsicano will be the second liberal arts college faculty member ever to receive the honor. Marsicano, Emily Rounds 鈥21 and a colleague at the CDC Foundation recently published a brief written in the peer-reviewed CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The article shows the distribution of COVID-19 testing protocols on college campuses in the United States.

Brittany Murray co-authored two articles: 鈥溾 In Socius, and 鈥溾 in Educational Administration Quarterly.

English

,鈥 a collaborative work of digital scholarship co-created by Suzanne Churchill and others, has been awarded an honorable mention for the from the American Studies Association.

Ann Fox and Jessica Cooley 鈥05 launched Chapter 3: FRONTLINES OF ALL KIND for the online component of their Ford Foundation Gallery exhibition, 鈥淚ndisposable: Structures of Support after the ADA.鈥 The new video commission documents work by the artist collective Black Power Naps under the strain of a global pandemic that exacerbates social inequity for many. Fox delivered a Zoom talk at the University of Notre Dame entitled 鈥.鈥 The talk was sponsored by the Reilly Center for Medicine and the Liberal Arts at Notre Dame as part of their 鈥淓ducating the Whole Physician鈥 series.

Alan Michael Parker served as a judge for the 2021 National Book Awards in fiction. He also published, 鈥溾 in Fiction Kitchen Berlin and had six poems published in the spring 2021 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review. His latest book of poems is .

Environmental Studies

Brad Johnson, Liam Stiefel 鈥20 and Susannah Cooley 鈥18 published an article entitled, 鈥淚ncreased Colluvial Hollow Discharge and Subsequent Recovery After a Low Intensity Wildfire in the Blue Ridge Mountains, USA鈥 in the journal Hydrological Processes. The study examines how wildfires in the southeast may be unique compared with more widely studied fires in the western United States.

French and Francophone Studies

Caroline Fache co-authored an article in the International Journal of Francophone Studies titled 鈥淔rench Dis-integration: New Identity Formation Processes in 30掳 Couleur.鈥 In March, Fache was invited to present a paper in a panel entitled: 鈥淢ariannes 脿 la crois茅e des Identit茅s鈥 for the 20th and 21st French and Francophone Studies Colloquium. In April, she chaired the 鈥淚mmigration Comedy: Beyond the Tragic Immigrant鈥 seminar at the ACLA conference and presented a paper entitled 鈥淔rance Immigration Comedy: Confined to the Margins.鈥

Sandrine Hope has received the .

Shanaaz Mohammed published, 鈥淩eimagining the Aapravasi Ghat: Khal Torabully鈥檚 Poetry and the Indentured Diaspora,鈥 in the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies.

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Yurika Tamura, Jared Lindo 鈥21 and Nade Bai 鈥22, together with State Senator Mujtaba Mohammed and Tricia Sisson, Town of Cornelius Commissioner, were invited to speak at the 鈥淪top Asian Hate鈥 rally organized by Unity in Community North Mecklenburg. 

History

Diego Luis has been awarded a Huntington Library Travel Grant for a month of archival study abroad at the Archivo General de las Indias in Seville, Spain. Luis published, 鈥 in Ethnohistory. He also published a photography portfolio on the humanitarian crisis at the U.S./Mexican border, 鈥,鈥 in Chiric煤 Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures.

Jane Mangan was part of a collective of Latin American historians awarded the Rocky Mountain Council of Latin American Studies 2021 Edwin Leiuwen Teaching Award. 

Rose Stremlau has been awarded a George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation fellowship of $35,000 toward completion of her project, Barbara Longknife: A Cherokee Life in the Age of American Empire.

Sarah Waheed serves as ongoing advisor to Hyderabad Urban Labs, one of India鈥檚 more innovative academic Urban Studies Research organizations. Waheed presented the paper, 鈥淗yderabad鈥檚 1948 鈥橮olice Action鈥: Muslim Belonging, Memory, and the Hidden Histories of Partition鈥 for the recent symposium and conference 鈥淐itizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India,鈥 sponsored by the Royal Society for Asian Affairs and the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, University of Virginia. Waheed also presented at 桃瘾社区 History Forum with her students, Ashley Ip 鈥22 and Yashita Kandhari 鈥22, on their project 鈥淎rchival Matters: The History of Asians and Asian Studies at 桃瘾社区鈥 as part of the Stories Yet To Be Told: Race, Racism, and Accountability on Campus series. 

Remembering Willie Earle, a documentary film about South Carolina鈥檚 last reported lynching, was named best documentary for 2021 in the 鈥淗istory-Plus鈥 category of North Carolina鈥檚 Longleaf Film Festival. Co-directors and former history majors Frank Carroll 鈥19, Cassie Harding 鈥20 and Stevie Jefferis 鈥19 accepted the award on behalf of the filmmaking team, a team that also includes executive producer John Wertheimer. The film began as a project in Wertheimer鈥檚 鈥淔ilming Southern History鈥 class in 2018. 

Mathematics & Computer Science

Tabitha Peck and Jessica Good (Psychology), with student author Katharina Seitz 鈥20 published the paper, 鈥溾 in the IEEE VR special issues of Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Physics

Michelle Kuchera recently co-authored two articles: 鈥,鈥 in The European Physical Journal A, and 鈥,鈥 in 19th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. Kuchera, Braden Kronheim 鈥21 and Alexander Karbo 鈥19 recently published an article, 鈥,鈥 in Physics Letters B.

Kristen Thompson, Michelle Kuchera and Sam Frederick 鈥19 recently published an article entitled 鈥淢odelling Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium in Magnetars with Applications to Continuous Gravitational Wave Production鈥 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Political Science

Peter Ahrensdorf published an essay, 鈥淪ocrates鈥 Critique of Homer鈥檚 Education in the Republic,鈥 in a book entitled, Liberty, Democracy, and the Temptations to Tyranny in the Dialogues of Plato.

Britta Crandall and Emma Lynn 鈥21 co-authored an article on COVID-related fiscal responses in Latin America titled, 鈥?,鈥 published in Global Americans.

Psychology

Phia Salter鈥檚 co-authored article, 鈥淐UE-ing Student Success: Evaluating Academic Support Space in Residential Communities鈥 (2020), was recently awarded the from the Association of College and University Housing-international.

Religious Studies

Andrew Lustig won first prize in the  for his poem 鈥淚nvitation.鈥

Rachel Pang presented a paper entitled, 鈥淰isualizing Avalokite艣vara鈥檚 Pureland: Shabkar鈥檚 (1781-1851) Autobiography and the Rise of a Geographic Consciousness in Nineteenth Century Tibet鈥 at the ASIANetwork annual conference.

Karl Plank has published a book concerning the American writer David Foster Wallace and the ethics of fiction. explores the religious dimensions of Wallace鈥檚 masterpiece and the significance of reading fiction. 

Sociology

Gayle Kaufman and Molly Bair 鈥19 published an article, 鈥淎ttitudes Toward Working Mothers and Work-Oriented Fathers in the U.S.,鈥 in Journal of Family Issues

Gerardo Mart铆 accepted an invitation to join a highly select group of nationally renowned scholars on the , a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to conducting independent research at the intersection of religion, culture and public policy. PRRI鈥檚 mission is to help journalists, scholars, pundits, thought leaders, clergy and the general public better understand debates on public policy issues.

Theatre

Sharon Green recently co-designed and co-facilitated a six-week, practice-based research project with an international team of Theatre of the Oppressed practitioners, investigating methods for translating Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal鈥檚 Theatre of the Oppressed techniques and methodologies for Zoom and other online platforms. 

Writing

Andrew Rippeon published an article in the minnesota review titled, 鈥溾檒ighght鈥 and 鈥檆ovfefe鈥: reading media and misspellings from mimeo to twitterverse.鈥 In it, he examines how technologies of inscription, from the typewriter to Twitter, intersect with poetics and politics. Rippeon also published a chapter in the edited collection, . 

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