Category: Faculty Awards

2016 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date May 30, 2016

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2016 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement.

Jason Evans, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Studies
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity

Dixon Sutherland, Ph.D., Professor of Religious Studies
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.
DIXON SUTHERLAND has been an important member of the Stetson community since joining the faculty as Associate Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Christian Ethics in 1991. Throughout his tenure, he has worked faithfully on committees and task forces too numerous to mention. Dr. Sutherland is especially noted for his work with the Values Council, as advisor to the Edmunds Scholars Program, one of Stetson University’s most prestigious scholarships, and the Ethics Committee of the DeLand Hospital. He worked with former President Douglas Lee to establish the Howard Thurman Center at Stetson, an office dedicated to honoring the legacy of Dr. Howard Thurman, whose life and written works inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. and many leaders of the American Civil Rights Movement. According to one reference, “Dr. Sutherland has given generously of his time, energy, and abilities to make Stetson and the surrounding community a better place for the present and the future.” For his professional commitment and deep impact on the Stetson Community, Dr. Dixon Sutherland receives the 2016 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.
Jason Evans joined the faculty at Stetson University in 2014 as Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Studies. His research focus is spatial analysis of flood risks in the southeast, sea level risk analysis, climate change impact, policy development, and stakeholder communication. Dr. Evans’ collaborations with colleagues at institutions across the country resulted in fruitful grantsmanship. Three of his four active grants are federally funded. His recent publication in Nature Climate Change, one of the top journals in science, resulted in landslide media interest including a recent interview on National Public Radio’s Science Friday. The media continues to seek his expertise on impact of climate change on sea level rise and our students have benefited greatly. The impact of his scientific and civic engagement, especially as an early career faculty, distinguishes him as a teacher-scholar who significantly contributes to the vibrancy and vitality of our Stetson community, the region, the nation, and the globe. For his professional commitment and in recognition and celebration of his distinctive achievement and leadership in research, Dr. Jason Evans receives the 2016 Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity.

Presented by Provost Noel Painter on May 11, 2016 at the 130rd annual Undergraduate Commencement

Faculty Awards Sabbatical

2015-2016 Sabbatical Awards

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date April 22, 2016

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2015-2016 Sabbatical Awards:

Bill Andrews, Associate Professor of Management: Corruption, Turnaround and Economic Growth: Recovering the SocietalInfrastructure of Entrepreneurship

Shawrence Campbell, Associate Professor of English: Untitled Scholarly Article

Joel Davis, Associate Professor of English: The Complete Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, volume 2: additions to the 1593 folio

Debbi Dinkins, Associate Dean of the Library: Henry Flagler and Florida Philanthropy: The Stetson University Connection

Hala ElAarag, Professor of Computer Science: Network Coded Internet Friendly Transport Protocol

B. Glen Epley, Professor of Education: Reaching Beyond the Schoolhouse Gate: Responsibilities and Liabilities of School Officials for Regulating Student Behavior Outside of School Involving Internet and Social Media

Melissa Gibbs, Professor of Biology; Director of the Aquatic and Marine Biology: Changing reproductive patterns of Pterygoplichthysdisjunctivus in Volusia Blue Spring

Ronald L. Hall, Professor of Philosophy: Logic A Brief Introduction

Eugene Huskey, Professor of Political Science: Untitled Scholarly Article

Scott Jones, Associate Professor of Marketing: Interpreting Cobrands

Susan Peppers-Bates, Associate Professor of Philosophy: Malebranche, Free Love &Quietism

Kathy Piechura-Couture, Associate Professor of Education: Examine students’ perception of sex roles in single-gender school environments verses coeducational school environments

Hari Pulapaka, Associate Professor of Mathematics: A Traceability Index for Food

Robert Sitler, Professor of World Languages and Cultures, Director of Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Ranjini Thaver, Professor of Economics: The impact of forced labor and high inequality on the US import and export demand functions with its trading partners

Christopher Tobler, Associate Professor of Finance: “How to Build or Rebuild an Intercollegiate Athletics Program: A Qualitative Investigation of Intercollegiate Athletic Directors and Head Coaches’ Strategies”

Faculty Awards McEniry Awards

2016 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date April 1, 2016

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2016 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Ramee Indralingam, Professor of Chemistry

Faculty Awards Summer Grants

2015 Summer Grants for Faculty Research & Creative Inquiry

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date July 20, 2015

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:

Jon Carrick, Global SME Resources Database (G-SMERD) Development

Wingyan Chung, Examining the Evolution of Twitter User Networks: The Case of U.S. Immigration Reform

Rachel Core, Institutional Change and Tuberculosis Control in Rural Shanghai, 1958-2003

Laura Crysel, Being the “Catcher in the Rye”: What is the Harm in Challenged Books

Joel B. Davis, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia at the Huntington Library

Leigh DeLorenzi, The Research and Development of Gatekeeping Software for Counselor Educators

Michelle DeMoss, Case Analysis: Environmentally Sustainable Marketing Practices

Joshua Eckroth, Self-Reflective Intelligent Software Agents: Towards a More General Approach

Mayhill C. Fowler, After Empire?: Russia, Ukraine, and the Crisis of Post-Soviet Culture

Melinda Hall, Public Health and Risk Prevention: Bodies that Matter, Bodies that Don’t

Asal Mohamadi Johnson, Treatment and Survival Disparities in Lung Cancer: The Effect of Racial Residential Segregation

Eric Kurlander, Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich, 1919-1945 (with particular emphasis on Wartime Archival Sources, Published Primary Works, and Photo Archives)

Philip C. Lucas, Shiva Temples of the Five Elements in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India: a Documentary Film

Craig W. Maddox, Voice Spectrography Application in the Teaching of Singing: A Website with Video, Audio, & Spectrographic Examples of Vocal Exercises Demonstrated by Multiple Voice Types and Multiple Levels of Development

Jason Martin, The Positive Effects of Transformational Leadership in Academic Libraries: A Qualitative Study

Emily Mieras, Nostalgia, History, and Place Marketing in National Main Street Center Communities

Nicole Mottier, Monitoring Financial Morality and Development through Debt in 1920s Mexico

William R. Nylen, Political Oppositions in Mozambique: Irrational Democratic Activism

Megan B. O’Neill, Points of Significance: Learning in a Writing Intensive Curriculum

Elisabeth Poeter, The Culture of ‘Völkerschau’ in Imperial Germany

Stephen Robinson, Arrangement and Compact Disc Recording of the Song Cycle Die schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert, for voice and guitar

Rajni Shankar-Brown, More Than Not Having a Home: Unpacking Homelessness Through the Eyes of Children

Alexis N. Walker, Solidarity’s Wedge: How America’s Federalized Labor Law Divides and Diminishes Organized Labor in the United States

Nathan Wolek , Hosting a Jamoma developers’ workshop at Stetson

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

Faculty Awards Willa Dean Lowery Grant

Willa Dean Lowery Awards 2015

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date June 16, 2015

We congratulate our winner of the 2015 Willa Dean Lowery Fund to Support Research in the Natural Sciences:

Asal Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Health

Socio-Spatial Analysis of Florida Suicide Mortality

Faculty Awards Willa Dean Lowery Grant

Willa Dean Lowery Awards 2014

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date June 16, 2015

We congratulate our winners of the 2014 Willa Dean Lowery Fund to Support Research in the Natural Sciences:

Roslyn Crowder, Associate Professor of Biology

Developing a Transfection Protocol to Improve Jurkat T Cell Transfection Efficiency

Cindy Bennington, Professor of Biology

3 Separate Project Informing the Volusia Sandhill Ecosystem Restoration
Project

Faculty Awards Hand Awards

2015 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date May 30, 2015

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2015 Hand Awards for Distinguished Faculty Achievement.

Catherine Cameron, Ph.D., Professor of Legal Skills
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity

Lance Long, Ph.D., Professor of Legal Skills
Hand Award for Research, Creative and Professional Activity

Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology
Hand Award for Community Impact

Stuart Michelson, Ph.D., Professor of Finance
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 of our faculty for the Hand Award for Community Impact. 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 two individuals – one in the School of Business Administration, to be awarded this afternoon, and the other in the College of Arts and Sciences.
KIMBERLY FLINT-HAMILTONhas been a member of the Stetson community since 1999 when she joined the faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, a department she currently chairs. She has served on numerous University and College committees and task forces including the Faculty Senate, and Tenure and Promotion Policy Committee. Over the course of her tenure, Her deep commitment to Stetson has manifested itself in notable and extensive mentoring of faculty, particularly pre-tenure and visiting faculty across all disciplines and through myriad formal and informal venues. A quote from her nomination packet reads “Whereas many of us discuss and deliberate over our core values and of the practical application of social justice, we see in Kimberly one who actually lives social justice and promotes inclusive excellence among students, staff, and faculty”. For her professional commitment and deep impact on the Stetson Community, Kimberly Flint-Hamilton receives the 2015 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 of our faculty for the Hand Award for Community Impact. 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 two individuals – one in the College of Arts and Sciences, which was awarded this morning to Kimberly Flint-Hamilton. The other to a faculty member in the School of Business Administration.

STUART MICHELSONhas been a member of the Stetson community since 2001, when he became the Roland & Sarah George Professor of Finance. Over the course of his tenure, Stuart has served as director of the Executive MBA Program, dean of the School of Business Administration, and on over a dozen University and School of Business Administration Committees and Task forces. He is a model teacher-scholar and University citizen. At Stetson, everyone is a leader of the University’s future vibrancy – Stuart exemplifies this commitment, contributing significantly to advancing the mission and excellence of the University. For his professional commitment and deep impact on the Stetson Community, Stuart Michelson receives the 2015 Hand Award for Community Impact.

Presented by Provost Noel Painter on May 11, 2015 at the 129rd annual Undergraduate Commencement

Faculty Awards Faculty Mini-Grants

Education Professor Wins Education And Culture Grant

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date May 11, 2015

Education Associate Professor and Jessie Ball duPont Chair of Social Justice Education, Rajni Shankar-Brown, Ph.D., pictured in the classroom, has been awarded an Education and Culture grant by the U.S. Department of State and the Partners of the Americas. This competitive grant will allow Shankar-Brown to travel to Brasilia, Brasil and Bogota, Colombia to facilitate intercultural exchange and work to develop programing to connect public schools in Central Florida and around the nation with schools abroad.

“I am humbled and honored,” Shankar-Brown said after receiving her award. “As a social justice educator, I am committed to promoting global citizenship and passionate about advancing educational equity. Encouraging cultural understanding and building relationships is indispensable to social justice.”

Shankar-Brown has high expectations of what she will accomplish during her trip and she looks forward to keeping a full schedule. “I will work on developing K-12 programming focused on EcoJustice education,” she said. “In particular, I will focus on increasing students’ understanding of ecological and social issues, as well as their entwined cultural roots, and providing opportunities to explore collaborative pathways to a sustainable, equitable future.” Shankar-Brown will also be researching human rights issues, including family homelessness and poverty while she is overseas.

The people Shankar-Brown will be interacting with in South America are not the only ones who will benefit from her work. Once Shankar-Brown returns to Stetson, she plans on sharing everything she has learned with her students. “This journey will actively support Stetson University’s values of personal growth, intellectual development and global citizenship and support my work as a social justice teacher-scholar. I look forward to bringing back experiences and knowledge to share with my students and our community.”

As the director of Education Graduate Programs and the co-coordinator for the M.Ed. in Elementary Education: Educating for Social Justice program, she is especially excited about involving Stetson’s graduate students in global justice work. Shankar-Brown conveys deep gratitude to be part of a university that encourages social responsibility and interdisciplinary partnerships.

Until her departure at the end of this month, Shankar-Brown has other important events to keep her busy. Shankar-Brown is currently working on planning the second annual Poverty and Homelessness Conference, which will take place at Stetson in October. She is also the Co-PI for the Volusia Center for Excellence in Education, a $1.1. million grant recently awarded by the Florida Department for Education. Shankar-Brown has been invited to serve as a keynote speaker as a member of the steering committee for the first annual Educational Justice Conference hosted by Bethune-Cookman University on July 12-14. The theme of the conference is “Connecting with the Diverse and Underrepresented Youth of Today,” and the goal is to provide inspiring discourse for educators that will empower leadership skills. Shankar-Brown’s title for her presentation is “Collective Impact: Advancing Social Justice Education.” Shankar-Brown insisted, “We must work together to address persistent social inequities and build a brighter world for our children.”

For more information about the upcoming Educational Justice Conference, visit http://www.cookman.edu/ejconf/.

by Nicole Melchionda

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Faculty Awards McEniry Awards

2015 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date April 1, 2015

Congratulations to the recipient of the 2015 William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Elisabeth Poeter, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

Faculty Awards Summer Grants

2014 Summer Grants for Faculty Research & Creative Inquiry

Post author By Shadia Munoz-Najar
Post date July 20, 2014

Christopher Bell, “The Ritual Evolution of the Tibetan Buddhist Protector Deity Dorje Shugden.”

Gary Bolding, “Vaselina Springs and the Arkie DeLeons: A Southern Gothic Rock Soap Opera.”

Rosalyn Crowder, “Developing a Transfection Protocol to Improve Jurkat T Cell Transfection Efficiency.”

Kimberly Flint-Hamilton, “Sankofa: Go Back and Fetch It. Part III.”

Mayhill Fowler, “Beau Monde: State and Stage on Empire’s Edge, Russian and Soviet Ukraine, 1916-1941.”

Melissa Gibbs, “Have Reproductive Patterns Changed in an Invasive Armored Catfish Inhabiting Volusia Blue Spring.”

Alan Green, “Contracts, Property Rights, and Economic Development: a Theoretical and Empirical Investigation.”

Laura Gunn, “Public Health Research Projects for Completion.”

Melinda Hall, “Uses of Disability in Horror Film and Fiction.”

Jamil Khader, “The Part of No Part: (Re)Theorizing the Palestinian Subject.”

Michael King, “Behavioral Effects of Gustatory Cortex Microstimulation in Conscious Rats.”

Katya Kudryavtseva, “The Afterlife of Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism.”

Jason Martin, “Academic Librarians’ Perceptions of Transformational and Transactional Leadership in Academic Library Leaders.”

Leander Seah, “Conceptualizing Chinese Identity: China, the Nanyang, and Trans-Regionalism.”

Rajni Shankar-Brown, “Using Bioecological Systems Theory to Understand Family Homelessness: Critical Perspectives for Educators.”

Paul Sibbald, “Development of A Synthetic Pathway to Novel 3-Substituted Indolizines.”

Margaret Venzke, “Essays on Ottoman Land Administration in the 16th Century: A View from the Older Islamic Provinces, Eastern Anatolia and Syria.”

Nancy Vosburg, “(Re)Collecting the Past: Historical Memory in Spanish Literature and Culture.”

Rebecca Watts, “Personhood on the Plantation: Interpreting Slaves and Slavery at Public Plantation Sites.”

Matt Wilson, “NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Coaching Contracts: A Comparative Analysis of Incentives for Athletic and Academic Team Performance.”

John York, “Removal of Sulfer Impurities from Petroleum Fuels Using metal Complexes.”