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Department News
History
The Department's Public History program, in partnership with several on- and off-campus entities will present a Visual History Summer Institute at the University on May 12-23. Historians, professors, and doctoral candidates are invited to apply by February 1.
 Dr. Robert Batchelor published London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City with The University of Chicago Press. In 2008, (while researching maps in Oxford University's Bodleian Library) Batchelor discovered centuries-old Chinese trade routes that had been hidden for nearly 400 years. His research led him to write the book, which provides a closer look at London and its rise to a global city in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Psychology
Graduate students Jeremy Gay, Kayla Lelux-LaBarge, Kara Johnson, and Anna Leggett presented "Helping Supervisors Identify and Support Distressed Employees," an introductory training-course for managers, supervisors, and/or administrators about depression, on January 9.
Dr. Janie Wilson coedited "Doing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Measuring Systematic Changes in Teaching and Improvements in Learning" for New Directions for Teaching and Learning. The edited book offers teacher-scholars a resource for conducting and publishing research on teaching and learning. Wilson also copublished "Instructor touch enhanced college students' evaluations" in Social Psychology of Education. The article examined the use of instrumental touch's effect on motivation, attitudes toward the instructor and lecture, and quiz grades.
Communication Arts
The Theatre & Performance program has selected six student-written plays for its annual 10-Minute Play Festival. "A Terrible Nice Night" by Matthew Dean, "Hand Me Downs" and "I Don't Share My Toys" by Dani McGee, "Pushing Daisies" by Armond Snowden, "True Love Revisited" by Parrish Turner, and "Onions" by Nathaniel Robinson will be workshopped during the Spring semester and and presented as a concert-reading for the public on April 24.
The Department relaunched its Leadership, Experience in Communication, Academics, and Professionalism (L.E.A.P.) certification program for public relations majors on January 30.
Dr. Rebecca Kennerly copublished "Service-learning, Intercultural Communication, and Video Production Praxis: Developing a Sustainable Program of Community Activism with/in a Latino/a Migrant Community" in Teaching Communication Activism: Communication Education for Social Justice.
Michelle Groover, lecturer, published "Twilight and Twitter: An Ethnographic Study" in The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Global Phenomenon.
Art
Bachelor of Fine Art student Lois Harvey's solo exhibition is on display at Middle Georgia State College's Cochran campus January 27-February 1. Harvey gave an artist talk at the college on January 27.
Professor Don Armel and Rebekah Thompson and Timothy Davis, graphic communications management students, presented their research on the effectiveness of using a laser engraver to make flexographic plates at the Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference in Columbus.
Professor of Ceramics Jeff Schmuki's exhibition Foodture: PlantBot Genetics is on display from January 31 through April 11 at Wayne State University in Michigan. PlatBot Genetics is a venture between Schmuki and colleague Wendy DesChene that couple interdisciplinary art practices with scientific knowledge of the environmental and social costs of bioengineered crops.
Graphic Design Professor Santanu Majumdar presented "The State of Design Education: Twenty-First Century Design Education" at the eighth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices - Design as Collective Intelligence on January 16-18 in Vancouver, Canada. Majumdar is also part of Statesboro's South Main Revitalization Teams, which aims to restore culture to the southern area of downtown Statesboro.
Artists Sam Messer and Sam Snead visited the University in January in conjunction with their exhibitions Hanging Correspondence and Means of Production. While on campus, the artists visited students' studios and presented lectures. The exhibitions are on display through February 21.
Literature & Philosophy
Dr. Tim Whelan published The Letters of Henry Crabb Robinson and Mary Wordsworth, Wordsworth Library, Grasmere, a book-length transcription - with notes and appendices - of previously unpublished letters between Robinson and Wordsworth (1770-1859), the wife of Romantic poet William Wordsworth. Whelan also published "Nonconformity and Culture, 1650-1850" and "Daniel Defoe" in Companion to Nonconformity, the first encyclopedic study of British religious nonconformity.
Dr. Caren Town has completed her book, tentatively titled Dangerous Words: Censorship and Young Adult Fiction, and sent the manuscript to McFarland Press, where it has been accepted for publication. Town also delivered a paper on Jean Craighead George's Julie of the Wolves at the International Conference for Arts and Sciences in Hawaii.
Dr. Richard Flynn was a respondent on the Randall Jarrell at One Hundred panel at the Modern Language Association convention.
Dr. Nicole Karapanagiotis' paper "New Media Rituals in Hinduism: Exploring Some Textual Models" was accepted by the South Asia Studies Association's annual conference, which will be April 11-13 in Salt Lake City.
Sociology & Anthropology
The archaeology team's work at the Cluskey Embankment Stores in downtown Savannah was featured by the Savannah Morning News.
Professor April Schueths' project with two colleagues from the College of Public Health, A Qualitative Examination of the Transition Experiences of Rural Sickle Cell Disease Patients, received a $10,000 seed grant from the University's Rural Health Research Institute. The team will start collecting data this semester.
Writing & Linguistics
Christopher Smith's new flash-fiction piece, "Color Coded for Your Protection and Well-Being," appears in Paragraph Line.
Dr. Lori Amy was in Albania on an American Councils for the International Exchange of Scholars Advanced Research Fellowship from August until January. While there, Amy conducted focus groups with cohorts aged 22-32 and 33-43 about the effects of trauma and identity in Albania under Soviet Communism and gave an interview in conjunction with the premiere of a documentary on the subject at the Tirana International Film Festival.
Dr. Tim Giles' poem "Sick Child" was requested for republication in The Well-Versed Patient.
Peggy Lindsey, lecturer, presented "Changing Northern Irish Identity Markers in the Fiction of Colin Bateman" and organized the linguistics session at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference.
Professor Eric Nelson's poems "Better Angels" and "Our Wars" were published by The Sun and the McNeese Review, and the rights to his poem "Inside Weather," which originally appeared in Apple Valley Review, were acquired by Accelerated Education for use in its curriculum.
Michele Rozga, visiting assistant professor, was a semifinalist for the University of Wisconsin's 2013 Brittingham and Felix Pollack poetry prizes for her manuscript "What Need for That Throat."
Lecturer Sarah Domet's "The Man Who Painted the Night" appeared in Hobart.
Janet Dale was a runner-up in the inaugural Dog-Ear Poetry Contest by The Found Poetry Review for "That Night." Her flash-fiction piece "Ab initio" was featured in Germ Magazine.
Assistant Professor Emma Bolden's second full-length poetry/nonfiction collection, "Medi(t)ations," was accepted by Noctuary Press. One of Bolden's essays was a runner-up for Harpur Palate's Creative Nonfiction prize, and her poem "Of Blue Morning" was accepted by Rhino. Two of Bolden's poems were published in Noon, and two more were accepted by Printer's Devil Review.
Dr. Thomas Kiein's article "Typology of Creole Phonology: Phoneme Inventories and Syllable Templates" was reprinted in Languages and Linguistic Typology.
Professor Jared Sexton was awarded the Inkslinger Prize for Excellence in Fiction by Buffalo Almanack for his story "The Hook and the Haymaker," nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net by Split Lip for his story "Behold, I Come As A Thief," and had his stories "Punch-for-Punch" and "The Moment Before the Earth was Destroyed" accepted for publication by PANK and Cheap Pop.
Assistant Professor Christian Olson's poems "Punk Rock Poem Grows Up" and "Somebody's Grandmother" appeared in Rhino and Atticus Review.
Political Science
Honors student James Farmer has been selected to serve as a junior public diplomacy officer with the U.S. State Department in Barcelona, Spain, this year.
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