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Department News
Foreign Languages Professor Linda Collins was profiled by Connect Statesboro. Internationally renowned blogger Aya Chebbi, who is at Georgia Southern's Arabic Center as part of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program, spoke about her country, Tunisia; her religion, Islam; her heritage; and her culture at Statesboro First United Methodist Church. Department Chair Dr. Eric Kartchner presented an Oral Proficiency Interview Workshop at King University in Bristol, Tenn.
Forty-five undergraduate students will take the Modern Languages Exit Exam this semester (36 in Spanish, 8 in French, 1 in German), a record for Georgia Southern.
Music Student James Morton wrote a column for The Thomaston Times, in which he spoke of his experiences playing trombone for various Georgia Southern bands and recommends other sports that might benefit from a pep band.  Four members of the Southern Pride Marching Band performed with country music singer and alumna Elizabeth Cook on The Late Show with David Letterman (the students' performance is at the last dot on the timeline, approximately 39:51).
Graduate student Brain Dyson was selected to present at the College of Graduate Studies Graduate Research Symposium. His research examines how service learning is a viable and important framework for viewing contemporary music education in public schools. Georgia Southern University's Trombone Ensemble has been selected to present a 30-minute program this summer at the 2013 International Trombone Festival. Dr. Laura Stambaugh presented workshop sessions "Making the Most of Limited Practice Time" and "The Composing Classroom," and she presented a research poster, "An Examination of a MIDI Wind Controller for use in Instrumental Research," at the South Carolina Music Educators Association In-Service Conference in Charleston, S.C. Communication Arts Professor Camille Broadway was profiled by Connect Statesboro. Art Studio major Tasha Lund was promoted to photo editor at Georgia Southern's newspaper, The George-Anne. Sophomore David Tallent has been selected to participate in the Fall 2013 Disney College Program. Student Jennifer Brubaker won the Benthic Ecology Association's logo competition, and her design will be featured on the T-shirt and materials for the organization's annual conference. Professor Derek Larson was named a finalist for the Hudgens Prize by the Hudgens Center for the Arts. The prize includes a $50,000 award and a solo exhibition at the Duluth Arts Center. Professor Leigh Thomson, a principal at LETR & Co., was named a 2013 GenerationNEXT: Rising Star of Business in Savannah. Gallery Director Professor Marc Mitchell served as a visiting artist and curator for the University of Wisconsin. In April, Mitchell will present an artist lecture and guest curate at the College of Charleston. Jewelry Professor Christina Lemon was featured in an alumni spotlight in East: The Magazine of East Carolina University for her creation of a broach presented to Madeleine Albright during the former Secretary of State's recent visit to Georgia Southern. Professors Jessica Burke, Derek Larson, and Elise Hill will present during the upcoming Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference in Savannah. Graphic Design Professor Santanu Majumdar, along with Georgia Southern's Brent Tharp and Dr. James Bigley, received a Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries award for their work on the Bulloch County Military Heritage project, on display at the the Bulloch County Tax Assessor's Office. The Department presented Daniel Dejan of Sappi Fine Paper on March 26.  | | History Chair Dr. Johnathan O'Neill welcomes attendees of Captive Warriors: The History and Archaeology of War. |
Sociology and Anthropology The Department teamed up with the Department of History and the Georgia Southern Museum to present "Captive Warriors: The History and Archaeology of POWs," a half-day conference, on March 12. Historian John Derden, one of the keynote speakers at the March 12 conference, published The World's Largest Prison: The Story of Camp Lawton. Writing and Linguistics Three students received the Roy F. Powell Awards for creative writing. Jared Sharpe won the in the poetry category, Efadul Huq won in the fiction category, and Taylor Tyson won in the creative nonfiction category. Seven faculty members from the Department were nominated for the 2013 Outstanding Advocate for First-Year Students Award. Michelle Crummey, Erin Murk, Rachel Schwartz, Susan Smith, Mallory Taylor, Leigh Ann Williams, and Charles (CJ) Yow were nominated by students who believe that these instructors offered them excellent teaching and mentoring.
Associated Professor Dr. Kathy Albertson presented "Students as Book Critics: What They Say Matters" at the Kennesaw Mt. Writing Project's Literacy Conference.
Associate Professor Emma Bolden had poems accepted in the American Literary Review, Toad, The Boiler Journal, and The Lilliput Review. Also, a micro-essay she wrote was accepted and published in Inch's micro-memoir issue.
Dr. Sarah Domet's essay "The Culture of 'More': Fifty Shades of Grey and Conservative Feminism in the New Economy" accepted for the edited collection Bust Culture: The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television. This collection is due out late this year by Rowman and Littlefield. Literature and Philosophy Professor Lyndsey Brown presented "'Deeply and Dangerously Inside': Representations of Home in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' My Heart and My Flesh at the ALA symposium Fear and Form: Aspects of the Gothic in American Culture. Institute for Public and Nonprofit Studies Assistant Professor Dr. P. Cary Christian contributed one of six articles comprising the Association for Budgeting & Financial Management's February/March special edition of the Line Item newsletter dedicated to the subject of "State Tax Reform: Options, Challenges & Creativity." Christian addressed the issue of increased compliance costs under consumption tax systems and was also one of four participants in the March 13 follow-up webinar presented jointly by ABFM and the American Association for Budget and Program Analysis. Criminal Justice and Criminology The Justice Studies Club held its annual Internship and Career Fair on March 13. Federal, state, and local agencies from Georgia attended to recruit potential interns and future employees. Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the Justice Studies Club, the fair was an enormous success. The Department sponsored lunch for the agencies and the student workers. Students had the opportunity to meet representatives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; United States Marshals Services; Department of Natural Resources; Georgia Bureau of Investigation; Georgia Department of Corrections; Statesboro Police Department; Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department; Department of Public Safety; and Georgia Southern Public Safety. Additionally, students had the opportunity to discuss graduate school with representatives from the Master of Arts in the Social Sciences and Master of Public Administration programs.
 The Department held its first guest lecture March 6 in the Russell Union Ballroom. Dr. Thomas Holt,associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University and a nationally recognized scholar on computer hackers, malware, and various forms of cybercrime, presented "The Social Structure of the Market for Stolen Data." Using data from a sample of threads from publicly accessible Russian and English language web forums where individuals buy and sell financial information, his findings highlighted the value of group participation and feedback in building a seller's reputation, and the mutual associations and complex relationships necessary in order to generate the various services offered. An interesting question and answer session among faculty, students, and law enforcement concluded the event.
Women's and Gender Studies The Program presented Joan C. Browning to deliver the University's Keynote Address for Women's History Month, "From Telfair to Toulouse: Travels Outside the Cage of Race." Psychology Senior honors student Nadim Khatib was accepted into Georgia State's Ph.D. program in Community Psychology and will enroll in August. Graduate students Christine Foxwell and Jennifer Chau won second place for CLASS at the College of Graduate Studies' research symposium. Professors Karen Naufel and Janie Wilson co-edited, with two others, "Controversy in the Psychology Classroom: Using Hot Topics to Foster Critical Thinking," published by the American Psychological Association.
Professors Brad Sturz, Zach Kilday, and Kent Bodily have an article in-press with the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. Sturz and several coauthors also presented three papers and posters at the Comparative Cognition Society, in Melbourne, Fla. Professor Amy Hackney had a paper accepted by Law and Human Behavior.
Five psychology faculty and 23 students presented a total of 22 papers and posters at the Southeastern Psychological Association meeting in Atlanta. Presenters included Amanda Pellegrino, Beth Martin, Brad Sturz, Carolin Gibson, Christine Foxwell, Christopher Snyder, Dorian Lamis, Dr. Amy Hackney, Dr. Bryant Smalley, Dr. Janice Steirn, Dr. Jeff Klibert, Dr. Michael Nielsen, Erin Lawson, Grady Rose, Heather Lambros, Jennifer Chau, Jeremy Gay, Johnathan Martin, Joseph Garcia, Joseph Todd, Joy Losee, Karen Naufel, Kayla LeLeux-LaBarge, Kylie Barefoot, Laura Miller, Lisa Watson-Johnson, Sean Fowler, Stephanie Chastang, and Tasia Pinkston.
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