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Faculty Awards Hand Awards

2018 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2018 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement.

The Hand Award for Community Impact celebrates the achievements of faculty serving the needs of the Stetson community and the community beyond the campus.

Terrence Farrell, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity

Pamela Cappas-Toro, Ph.D., Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures (Spanish)
Hand Award for Community Impact

Faculty service to our neighbors not only links the University with the broader community, but serves as an example to inspire our students who, we hope, become inspired to make the world better. It therefore gives me great pleasure to acknowledge the extraordinary work of DR. PAMELA CAPPAS-TORO, assistant professor of World Languages and Cultures.  Upon joining the faculty in 2013, she immediately set out to answer the question “Who is my neighbor?” more generously than most of us ever dream. Her scholarship and service are dedicated to those marginalized by race, class, nation, and legal status.  

In 2013, Pamela founded La Casita Cultural Latina, a cultural center for our community, dedicated to providing “education and leadership development opportunities” to our under-served Hispanic neighbors. The very next year, Dr. Cappas-Toro founded the Community Engagement Project, offering classes to incarcerated populations in the high-security Tomoka Correctional Facility. She collaborates with Stetson colleagues in both endeavors, building a broad community for education, and demonstrating Stetson’s mission beyond our campuses. One nominator wrote “Her impact on the campus and local community is undeniable, and her national influence through the Community Engagement Project is now an established fact.” Professor Cappas-Toro embodies the essence and spirit of the purpose of higher education by recognizing and nurturing the cultural wealth of forgotten and minortized communities. This year, we are honored to present Professor Pamela Cappas-Toro with the Hand Award for Community Impact. 

Presented by Provost Noel Painter on May 11, 2018 at the 132rd annual Undergraduate Commencement

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Faculty Awards Sabbatical

2017-2018 Sabbatical Awards

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2017-2018 Sabbatical Awards:

Jesus Alfonzo, Associate Professor of Music: Artistic Studies and Special Exercises for Viola: Preparing for Walton, Bartok and Hindemith Viola Concertos

Jon Carrick, Associate Professor of Management, Associate Chair of Management: Global Private Equity Investment Database

Chris Colwell, Associate Professor and Chair of Education: Understanding the Role of Charisma in K-12 Leadership

Manuel de Murga, Associate Professor of Music; Composition; Director of Composition: Compositions for Soloists and Ensembles

Michelle DeMoss, Dennis C. McNamara Sr. Professor of Marketing: Investigating Sustainable Marketing in the U.S. Food Industry: A Case Method Approach

Ana Eire, Professor of Spanish: Contemporary Spanish Poetry and Poetics: Eloy Sánchez Rosillo and Carlos Marzal

Richard Medlin, Professor of Psychology: Performance Training in an Avant-Garde Style

Julia Schmitt, Professor of Theatre Arts and Chair of the Creative Arts Department: Performance Training in an Avant-Garde Style

Terry Farrell, Professor of Biology: Snake Fungal Disease in Florida Snake Populations

Leander Seah, Associate Professor of History: Conceptualizing Chinese Identity: Chine, the Nanyang, and Trans-Regionalism

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Faculty Awards McEniry Awards

2018 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2018 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Megan O’Neill, Associate Professor of English

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Faculty Awards Summer Grants

2017 Summer Grants for Faculty Research & Creative Inquiry

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Carol Azab, “So you have an accent, you must be…” – The Influence of Customers’ Accent on Service Provider Service Recovery

Cynthia Bennington, Pollinator dynamics in a human-modified landscape: a multi-year study

Pamela Cappas-Toro, Critical Approaches to Teaching Spanish and Lantin(a/o) American Studies in Prison

Dengke Chen, Preserving Miao Cultural Heritage: A Virtual Reconstruction and Retrofit of a typical Diao Jiao House

Randall Croom, Beggars Can’t Be Choosers: Effects of Mutual Attraction on Organizational and Individual Employment Choice and Other Organizational Outcomes

Roslyn Crowder, How Does the Plan-base Compound Genistein Kill Lung Cancer Cells?

Joel Davis, A Working Critical Text of the 1593 Arcadia

Michael Eskenazi, Intentional and Incidental Work Learning: The Importance of Context

Terence Farrell, The Effect of Supplemental Feeding on Pregnant Pigmy Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus miliarius)

Thomas Farrell, The Canterbury Tales Project, Phase II: Link 2, the Reeve’s Tale, Link 3, the Cook’s Tale

Song Gao, Evaluating Impact of Ship Emissions on Air Quality in Central Florida

Laura Gunn, Biostatistical Projects in Public Health Studies

Kelly Hall, Developing Leaders via Reflection: The Role of Feedback Format and Feedback Reactions

Melinda Hall, The Ethical Implications of Risk Communication in Public Health Contexts

Sharmaine Jackson, The Unmaking of a Gangbanger: The role of krump dancing in breaking cycles of violence

Grace Kaletski, The Value of Knowledge Practices in Student Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Faculty Perspectives on the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

Holley Lynch, Mechanics of Collective Cell Migration across Systems

Stuart Michelson, Assessment of Financial Planning for University Faculty

Nicole Mottier, Blood 0n the Borderlands: A History of Ciudad Juárez Organized Crime, 1920s-2010s

Mary Ellen Oslick, Developing an instrument to accurately capture in-service and preservice teacher knowledge of children’s literature

Melissa Parks, Field Trip and Literature Guide

Joshua Rust and Steven Smallpage, Political Trust and the Fate of Liberalism

Sven Smith, An Organizational Analysis of Our State Courts

Peter Smucker, Expanding CUP-Space: Combinatorial Extensions of the Complement Union Property

Benjamin Tanner, Paleoenvironmental Record of Isolated Wetlands in the Ocala National Forest

John Tichenor, Benefit Corporations: A New Way of Doing Good Business?

Nancy Vosburg, Murder in Minorca: Detecting an Unusual Hybrid Series in Spanish Crime Fiction

Jamison Walker, Heldentenor training project in Germany and Austria

John York, Understanding the Binding of Gold Compounds to Sulfur: Applications to Pharmaceuticals and Pollution Reduction

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Faculty Awards Willa Dean Lowery Grant

Willa Dean Lowery Awards 2017

We congratulate our winners of the 2017 Willa Dean Lowery Fund to Support Research in the Natural Sciences:

Ben Tanner & Jason Evans, Associate Professors of Environmental Science

Determination of Past Shifts of the Salt Marsh/Mangrove Ecotone

Roslyn Crowder

Roslyn Crowder, Associate Professor of Biology

Examination of Genistein-induced Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis in
Lung Cancer Cells

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Faculty Awards Hand Awards

2017 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2017 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement.

Mary Pollock, Ph.D., Professor of English
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity

Bonnie Holloway, MB.A, Visiting Lecturer in Accounting
Hand Award for Community Impact

Through the generosity of Homer and Dolly Hand of Belle Glade, Florida, the University has established honorary monetary awards to recognize outstanding faculty work. This year, we recognize the professional achievements of two outstanding members in two categories.

The Hand Award for Community Impact celebrates the achievements of faculty serving the needs of the community, both the Stetson community and the community beyond the campus. It, therefore, gives me great pleasure to present this award to one individual for distinctive faculty leadership and achievement.


BONNIE HOLLOWAY
is a double hatter, earning both her Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Master of Business Administration in Accounting from Stetson University. She is a certified public accountant in Florida, practicing part-time to allow her to pursue her passion for teaching and community engagement. Her academic career includes teaching accounting as an adjunct professor for over 30 years, serving as department chair, federal grant writer, and Title III project director. At Stetson, Holloway currently oversees the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, or VITA, Program, which provides tax assistance to low-income individuals free of charge and trains students as Certified Advanced Preparers.


Under her leadership, the Stetson VITA program has completed nearly 1,300 tax returns that have resulted in refunds totaling well over 1.3 million dollars. A quotation from her nomination reads, “Bonnie is responsible for recruiting student volunteers, organizing and conducting their formal training, scheduling tax preparation sessions, identifying and selecting site coordinators and quality reviewers, handling administrative matter with partners and clients, and overseeing the actual tax prepationg sessions….Bonnie has a great attitude, a tremendous work ethic, and is devoted to the students and to those in the community whom VITA serves. She is very deserving of this award.”


For her professional commitment and deep impact on the Stetson and DeLand communities, Ms. Bonnie Holloway receives the 2017 Hand Award for Community Impact.

The Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity celebrates faculty achievement, accomplishment, leadership, and contribution to the intellectual vibrancy and vitality of our campus. This Hand Award recognizes that excellence is to be found in innovative as well as traditional forms of scholarship that demonstrate substantive disciplinary or interdisciplinary knowledge. It, therefore, gives me great pleasure to present this award to one individual for distinctive achievement and leadership.

Mary Sanders Pollock joined the Department of English in 1985, teaching British literature, green studies, and gender studies. In addition to peer-reviewed articles and book reviews, she is the author of two books,
Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning: A Creative Partnership and Storytelling Apes: Primatology Narrative Past and Future. Her most recent project aligns with her continuing interest in English literature, environmental issues, and nature writing. She also co-edited the anthology Figuring Animals, and the anthology Victorial Literature and Fil Adaptation. Dr. Pollock is a leading voice in Victorian literature, making impressive contributions to the field. A quotation from her nomination reads, “I want to nominate Mary Pollock…not only because of the quality and the scope of her current projects, but also for the relevance of past scholarly projects that got confirmed this past year.”

For her professional commitment and in recognition and celebration of her substantial scholarly contributions, Dr. Mary Sanders Pollock receives the 2017 Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity.

Presented by Provost Noel Painter on May 11, 2017 at the 131rd annual Undergraduate Commencement

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Faculty Awards Sabbatical

2016-2017 Sabbatical Awards

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2016-2017 Sabbatical Awards:

Gary Bolding, Professor of Art

Paul Croce, Professor of History

Michael Denner, Professor of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

Tandy Grubbs, Professor and Chair of Chemistry

Peter May, Professor of Biology

Elisabeth Poeter

Elizabeth Poeter, Associate Professor of German, Director of Gender Studies

Matthew Roberts

Matthew Roberts, Associate Professor of Digital Arts

Matthew Schrager

Matthew Schrager, Associate Professor of Health Sciences

Tara Schuwerk, Associate Professor and Department Chair

John Tichenor

John Tichenor, Associate Professor of Management; Chair of Management

Mercedes Tichenor, Professor of Education

Rusty Witek, Professor of Creative Arts

Terri Witek

Terri Witek, Professor of English, Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing

Kirsten Work, Professor of Biology

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Faculty Awards McEniry Awards

2017 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2017 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Daniel Plante, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

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Faculty Awards Summer Grants

2016 Summer Grants for Faculty Research & Creative Inquiry

The Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs is pleased to congratulate our Stetson teacher-scholar faculty on the submission of proposals for innovative scholarship, research and creative inquiry. The following Summer Grants Program projects were recommended by the Professional Development Committee to the Provost for their outstanding potential and dedication to Stetson’s mission of teaching, research, and artistic development:

Cynthia Bennington and Peter May, Pollinator dynamics in a human-modified landscape

Jon Carrick, Global SME Case Series

Valrie Chambers, Potential Tax Implications of Family Travel Allowances on NCAA

Rachel Core, The Tuberculosis Clinic at Three Critical Junctures

Paul Croce, William James’s Theory of Attention and his Psychology of Philosophizing

Roslyn Crowder, Killing Lung Cancer: An Examination of Naturally Occuring Plant-Based Compound Genistein

Christopher de Bodisco, Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change: A Case Study Approach

Ana Eire, An Anthology of Contemporary Galician Poetry

Mayhill C. Fowler, The Military-Entertainment Complex in the USSR

Alan Green, Stages of Growth and Economic Development: Providing a Framework for Analysis

Asal Mohamadi Johnson, The Effects of Racial Segregation on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis, Treatment and Survival Among Black Women

Grace Kaletski, The Value of Knowledge Practices in Student Learning: Faculty Perceptions of ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education at Stetson University

Eric Kurlander, Modern Germany: A Global History, 1500-present

Danielle Lindner, Deconstructing Body Image Disturbance

Dejan Magoc, The 5-2-1-0 Childhood Program in the DeLand Community

Richard Medlin, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Children and Adolescents

Stuart Michelson, The Behavioral Relationship Between Personality Type and Investor Risk Preferences

Nicole Mottier, The Persistence of Moneylending in Mexico

Lynn Musco, Dark Matter

Mary Ellen Oslick, Literacy Across the Content Areas with the 2016 Orbis Pictus Award

Jelena Petrovic, Safe Border Crossers, Proper Citizens, and Eastern Others: Serbian News Coverage of refuge Crisis in Europe

Douglas Phillips, A Coda – Repertoire, Commissions, and Premieres: Gary Green and the Frost Wind Ensemble’s Last Years Together (2012-2015)

Mary Pollock, Gerald Durrell’s Animal Tales: A New Biography

Joshua Rust, Traditional Authority, Loyalty, and Social Ontology

Matt Wilson, 2015 NCAA Division I Power 5 Conference Men’s and Women’s Basketball Coaching Contracts: A Comparative Analysis of Incentives for Athletic and Academic Team Performance

Joseph Woodside, Transforming Healthcare Provider and Patient Power Dynamics-Exploring the Impact of Mobile Healthcare

Daniil Zavlunov , Opera in Russia during the Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1855): A Cultural History (Phase II)

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Faculty Awards Willa Dean Lowery Grant

Willa Dean Lowery Awards 2016

We congratulate our winners of the 2016 Willa Dean Lowery Fund to Support Research in the Natural Sciences:

Roslyn Crowder, Associate Professor of Biology

Examination of Genistein-mediated Lung Cancer Cell Death